Chapter 679 The Battle of Avalon Fortress begins
The surprise attack on the Sheeran Army's vanguard troops was a great success.
With the strong combat power of the cavalry, more than 10,000 enemies were killed. Among the more than 10,000 people who died or injured, a large part of them died in trampling, while only 202 casualties were killed or killed on the Knights.
A great victory, a refreshing victory.
The entire Sheeran army did not expect that the Michael Knights, whose troops were at an absolute disadvantage, would take the initiative to go out to attack them.
After learning that the vanguard troops were attacked and were severely damaged, the entire Xilan army was extremely shocked.
Dominic ordered the vanguard troops to retreat first and rest.
Seeing the successful surprise attack, the morale of all the soldiers from top to bottom of the Michael Knights was greatly boosted, and the haze brought by the 300,000 army was swept away. Everyone was filled with the belief of winning, and the morale and fighting spirit of the Sheeran army were also hit to a certain extent.
It’s a pity that this kind of surprise attack can only be carried out once. Since this surprise attack, the Xilan army will definitely be on guard against it. It will not be so easy to launch a surprise attack on them.
Knowing that such a surprise attack would not happen again, Su Cheng ordered to close the door of the fortress after Raymond returned, sealed the northern gate of the fortress, and waited for the arrival of Xilan's army. Relying on the fortress's territory, defended to the end until the Xilan army could not continue to fight.
Therefore—after this surprise attack, the Eighar Corridor fell into a strange silence.
The Xilan Army stepped up the assembly progress of the troops and silently waited for the assembly of all combat troops to be completed.
The Knights of Michael stayed obediently in the Avalon Fortress, quietly waiting for the Sheeran army to attack.
Finally - the combat troops of the Sheeran army were assembled and headed to the Avalon Fortress in a mighty manner...
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The Imperial Calendar of the Britannian Empire May 13, 292.
Britannian Empire, Northern Territory, Avalon Fortress.
It's early morning now.
The rising sun slowly rose behind the mountains to the east, and the golden dawn lit the sky, dyed the mountains yellow, and illuminated the earth.
Under the blue sky, the black Sheeran military formations were neatly arranged on the extremely open and verdant fields outside the Avalon Fortress.
Long spears pierced straight into the sky, armor, shields and weapons shone with thousands of cold lights in the dawn, and large flags whirling in the morning breeze.
In the dark Xilan army formation, there were siege crossbows, catapults, and siege cars standing... layer by layer, making people shudder.
In terms of momentum, Avalon Fortress was not in favor.
The inner and outer walls of the northern wall of the Avalon Fortress were filled with the flags of the Knights of Michael and the flags of the Britannian Empire Army, and were striking in the wind.
The inner and outer walls were already full of soldiers waiting for battle.
The infantry climbed the outer wall and prepared to fight the enemy troops who climbed up the wall.
The archers climbed the inner city wall to prepare for the enemy troops inside the outer city wall.
The inner city wall was also covered with siege crossbows and catapults, responsible for long-range attacks on the enemy army formations.
The northern wall of Avalon Fortress is more than 4,000 meters long. Su Cheng divided the huge northern wall into four war zones, namely the 1st War Zone, the 2nd War Zone, the 3rd War Zone and the 4th War Zone.
These four war zones are led by the 1st Army, the 2nd Army, the 3rd Army and the 4th Army, led by Raymond, Samuel, Gary, and Deer.
On average, Raymond and the others were responsible for the defense of the city walls of about 1,000 meters.
Because the 5th Army and the 6th Army were basically new recruits, their combat power was weak and they were not even equipped with the commander, so they were left behind by Su Cheng and used as reserve forces.
When it was just dawn, Su Cheng, who was wearing armor, held the knight's sword at his waist and climbed the inner wall of the fortress. Looking at the dense Sheeran army in the wilderness outside the fortress. Willy, as the deputy commander of the Knights, naturally followed Su Cheng closely.
Looking at the endless army, Su Cheng murmured:
"The size of this army is amazing."
"After all, it's an army of 300,000." Willie behind Su Cheng answered.
"Is it 120,000 to fight 300,000?" Su Cheng continued, "This is the first time I have fought such a huge battle with such a huge difference in military strength... I really hope this will be my first and the last time I have fought this kind of battle."
At this moment, Su Cheng's pupils shrank slightly.
Because he noticed that the Xilan army had abnormal movements in the wilderness.
"Is it going to start..." Su Cheng said in a deep voice, "Willie, go and tell the entire army - the attack of the Sheeran army is about to begin, be prepared for the battle."
"yes!"
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Outside the Avalon Fortress, there was a military formation of the Sheeran army.
"No matter how many times you see it, the Avalon Fortress is so scary..." Dominic looked at the Avalon Fortress with flags in the distance and whispered, "This kind of fortress designed with double walls is simply an attacker's nightmare..."
The northern wall of Avalon Fortress is a structure of two walls, with two walls on the inner and outer walls.
After capturing the outer city wall, there is a higher inner city wall.
In the large-scale offensive against the Britannian Empire four years ago, the "288 defense battle against the North" mentioned by the Britannian population, under the command of Dominic, the Sheeran army once captured the outer city wall, but the last inner city wall could not be captured, and in the end they had no choice but to withdraw their troops.
But a large part of the reason why the outer wall was able to occupy the outer city wall at that time was because the leader of the Knights of Michael at that time was incompetent.
Although the troops on hand are more and the total strength of the Michael Knights is smaller, the commander of the Michael Knights has been changed.
Dominic had never fought with Su Cheng before, and only heard of Su Cheng's reputation and deeds.
Although he had never fought with Su Cheng, Dominic had carefully studied Su Cheng's information.
Although Su Cheng has not participated in many battles, Dominic can see from these battles that Su Cheng has participated in that - in terms of military use, Su Cheng and his former commander of the Michael Knights' Regiment are simply a different story!
Dominic is a staunch opponent of this "Hark Battle", and firmly opposes the use of troops against the Britannian Empire when Su Cheng was still the leader of the Knights of Michael and was also in charge of the Avalon Fortress.
But helpless - Your Majesty has decided and insists on launching this offensive.
Now even the army has arrived at the Fortress of Avalon. No matter how unhappy Dominic is, it will be useless no matter how upset Dominic is.
Dominic was at a loss whether 300,000 people could be used to capture the Avalon Fortress headed by Su Cheng.
Dominic can only do his best.
After taking a deep breath and adjusting his state and emotions, Dominic raised the flag in his hand with a serious expression and waved it heavily.
"The whole army attacks! Take down the Avalon Fortress!"
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292 years of the Imperial Calendar of the Britannia Empire/214 years of the Imperial Calendar of the Holy Hillan Empire.
May 13.
300,000 Sheeran Army vs. 120,000 Knights of Michael.
Chapter completed!