Chapter 409 I have a special secret technique that can predict the weather

Under the gloomy sky, the war horses were spitting and paddling the ground with their hooves anxiously.

Riding on horseback, Horn held up a telescope and looked towards the Alman army not far away.

On the other side of the village full of barns, to be precise, to the north of Horn, there stood clusters of colorful lights and shadows.

Unlike the uniforms of the Salvation Army, these guards wore colorful clothes and even pajamas under their chain mail and armor, looking like mosaic paintings on church windows.

They formed long lines and firmly defended a raised area running east-west.

On both sides of the Lacey, hussars and knights of Kush galloped with the squires of Alman's army.

The molten iron composed of war horses and swords flowed rapidly on the yellow and green grass. Occasionally, when they crossed each other, blood foam mixed with sparks splashed in the air.

The dust and fine sand raised by the horse's hooves fell on the surface of the stream, polishing the originally smooth river surface into a frosted color that no longer reflected the blue sky.

Perhaps it was because the stream could not reflect its own brilliant appearance that the sun hid behind the clouds.

During the one-hour standoff between the Salvation Army and the Church Army, the originally clear sky was quickly dyed dark blue by white and dark clouds.

When Horn's telescope was slightly raised, it was as if he were gazing upwards at the bottom of the ocean.

"Will it rain?" Putting down the telescope, Horn asked Pasrick beside him.

Pasrick claims to have developed a special secret technique that, although painful, allows him to feel whether it will rain.

After hearing what Horn said, Paslick rubbed his knees and closed his eyes to feel it: "I didn't feel much pain in my knees and ankles. I guess it's just a cloudy day."

Horn sighed with regret. He had thought that if it rained, Jeanna would be able to fight at her best.

The Salvation Army is currently located on King's Avenue in Bicester-Rapidsburg, five kilometers away from the church military camp and eight kilometers away from Rapids.

Although Horn was careful enough, he still failed to achieve the expected surprise attack effect.

His original plan was to advance to the small town near Grand Rapids after capturing Bicester.

In this way, on the one hand, buildings and positions can reduce the combat effectiveness of the knights, and on the other hand, it can reduce the pressure on the defenders of Rapid City.

The plan was going very smoothly. On July 7, he captured Bicester and was only 21 kilometers away from Rapid City.

But as expected, the accident happened again.

Earlier in the town of Tissen, Jeanne killed a minor nobleman who called himself "Chief Knight of Countess Marika".

She originally thought that, as in most cases, this knight was just using his title to scare people.

At first, no one paid attention to the nonsense knight until dozens of reconnaissance cavalry arrived.

That rude knight was indeed the chief knight of Countess Marika's family.

He was originally sent by the Countess to Xiaochi City to investigate the situation, and was only temporarily staying in Tissen Town.

Because it was too ornately decorated and came with its own emblem and flag, which was a mocking object, Jeanne sent it to see the Holy Lord without any explanation.

When her men failed to report the news on time, the countess sent cavalry to investigate.

The investigation revealed that an army of more than 10,000 people had appeared near Bichon Ferguson at some point.

Then there is the situation Horn is facing today.

When they reached the vicinity of Vercingetorix's estate, they were blocked on the road by an enemy force that was estimated to be twice their number.

Unlike the wheat fields in Langsander County, Lower River County and Hotam County are similar in that they have continuous earth slopes of four or five meters high and flow through a network of streams.

But unlike Hotham County, Lower River County is mostly streams. After the scouts of both sides encountered the enemy, Horn took the lead in marching.

The infantry and cavalry of both sides determined their current positions and formations through mutual tug-of-war and reconnaissance.

Horn failed to seize advantageous terrain and could only face the church army from afar across a Y-shaped stream.

This time, he still adopted the modified diamond-type positional warfare mode, with two legions in a group.

The front-line troops are composed of two groups of four Black Hat Legions, namely the Black Hat First to Fourth Legions, with a total of 4 people.

The second line of troops was composed of two Black Cap Corps on the left wing and two New Guard Corps on the right wing. They were 2 meters away from the first line and stood on both sides of the two groups of corps in the first line.

On the right side of the second line was a large square formation consisting of two new Black Caps soldiers who were all spearmen, and all 2 troops from the Kochi City Army. They didn't have time to practice the Galar formation, and since they were only spearmen, they were arranged in the most familiar Dunjar square formation.

This pure spear Black Hat Corps was newly expanded half a month ago. The ratio of veterans to new recruits is about one to four, and only the senior officers have been replaced.

Most of these recruits were former guards. They had only received simple political education and discipline training, and after being interned with some veterans, they were sent directly to the battlefield.

Horn has only one expectation for them, and that is to become a group of qualified line-filling babies and stabilize the front line. He does not expect them to make any counterattack.

Besides, they really couldn't launch any counterattack if the heavy and light armor were distinguished based on whether they were wearing armor or not.

The Black Caps have about half heavy-armored Pikemen and one-third heavy-armored Holy Gunners, while the Guards have all heavy-armored Pikemen and half heavy-armored Holy Gunners.

There were only about a hundred sets of armor distributed to the two new recruits in the Black Hat Legion of more than a thousand people, and it was estimated that only the soldiers in the front row could wear them.

How to develop more Holy Gunners is really a difficult problem.

The third line was located directly behind the two groups of legions in the first line, and consisted of two Guards Legions led by Horn.

They were about 120 meters behind, sandwiched between them were 80 wizards led by Mormont and 20 fireball crossbows.

As for the remaining cavalry units, the Holy Gun Cavalry were located on the left wing of the first line, the Kush Knights were located on the right wing of the second line, and the Norse Knights were responsible for the rear guard and served as the reserve beside Di Sanxian Horn.

The 2000 Crusaders guarded the baggage and carriages on the right wing of the third line, and the 120 conscripted cavalry from Xiaochi City were responsible for guarding the baggage together with the Crusaders.

Neither side has taken any action so far. The church army sends out light cavalry to harass from time to time, while Horn is only making fine adjustments at the brigade level.

Both sides seemed to be waiting for something.

"Your Majesty, the scouts we sent to Rapid City have returned."

Sissi's neutral voice sounded from behind Horn. Horn turned around, pulling the reins, and saw Sissi, dressed lightly in cloth, trotting towards him.

Sissi always wore men's clothes on the battlefield. He opened her collar a little, and from Horn's height, he could just see the crystal beads of sweat sliding down her white collarbone.

Horn asked helplessly, "What did Rapid City say?"

According to the principle of relative avoidance, Sissi, as part of the decision-making level, should not be involved in the front line.

Horn originally intended to leave Sissi behind in Bicester, and then let her come over after they arrived in Rapid City and stabilized.

Although Sissi worked under Horn on secondment, her position was with Catherine after all, so she missed her family.

When he learned that Rapid City was under siege, he was much more anxious than Horn.

After discovering that the entire church army had come out in full force, Horn came to the simplest conclusion: the enemy, after losing hope of attacking the city, decided to deal with the reinforcements first.

After all, there is the precedent of the Xiaochi City coalition. If it were Horn himself, he would also make a similar decision.

Then the church army came out in full force = the rear was empty + the main generals were not there = they could not capture Rapid City.

But Xixi was still worried, so she took the scouts to Rapid City and insisted on confirming the situation in person.

"Lady Catherine said," Sissi wiped the sweat off her forehead with a handkerchief, "that the enemy's offensive has been very weak in the past two days, so we should take our time, not be too hasty, and not divide our forces, or we might be ambushed by them."

"See, it's almost what I said. Are you relieved now?" Horn spread his hands and said with a smile.

Xixi's face flushed with embarrassment: "I was too nervous."

"It's okay. It's just a safety precaution." Horn picked up the telescope again and observed, "The scout you left behind is over there. If anything unexpected happens, he can come and report."

After making sure that Rapid City had not been breached, Horn had more time, because when it came to more time, it was time to enter the familiar rhythm of positional warfare.

The Battle of Pavia and the Battle of Montenegro were both like this.

Originally, we did not have much geographical advantage today, and we could not use the terrain to force the enemy to attack like we did in Pavia and Montenegro.

In the end, neither side dared to take any action and could only sit there quietly for an hour.

But after defeating Nedsal and rescuing Xiaochi City, the situation was different.

"Have Mormont push out the fireball crossbow." Horn gave the order to Hakuto, "Please let the church army eat 20 fireballs and 10 red dragon breath fireballs first, and see if they will sit still."

(End of this chapter)