OBS Chapter 311 Military Fraud
Chapter 311 Military Fraud
A few days later, a Lana scout rode back to the Lana camp from the north and brought the news that the Midlan army was setting off.
As the commander-in-chief, General Schneider immediately called a meeting of all the generals and began by saying:
"This time, all troops must obey my command. Without my order, even if the enemy retreats, you cannot pursue them."
At this time a general asked him:
"Sir, do you want to notify the armies of those nobles?"
General Schneider then remembered those nobles and immediately sent someone to notify them. Schneider had no control over whether they listened or not.
Soon, the fully armed Lana regular army left the camp under the command of the generals, but following them were groups of noble troops dressed in colorful clothes, as well as convoys of carriages loaded with various items of the nobles.
After marching north for twenty miles out of the camp, General Schneider received a letter from the scouts, saying that the Midland army was only about five miles away from them.
General Schneider looked at the surrounding formations and gave the order after discovering that there was an endless plain all around without any obstructing hills or woods.
"All parties should line up according to the original plan, with the standing army in front and the nobles in the back. All other irrelevant people should leave this place!"
As the messengers on horseback delivered the order to each phalanx, the standing army arrived at their positions amid the shouts of the generals. The formation was just a very common defensive formation, with sword and shield soldiers and spearmen arranged in a trapezoidal shape in the front, archers in the middle, artillery at the back, Schneider and the generals' guards and messengers of various arms at the back, and on both sides were cavalry archers for harassment and shock cavalry for destroying the formation.
The standing army was ready. Schneider looked at the nobles in the rear. Their troops stopped a hundred meters behind the standing army. Schneider even saw a man who looked like a butler directing several servants to carry parasols, tables, chairs and other camping supplies, as if they were here for a tea party in the wild.
Looking at the soldiers again, they were all colorful, with neither uniform clothing nor formation. Looking at them, Schneider even recalled his childhood when he often played among the wild flowers.
But he quickly stopped reminiscing, called a scout and ordered:
"Tell those nobles that the Mitlan army will arrive soon. Have their soldiers line up quickly."
An hour later, the Midland army finally arrived. Schneider took out a telescope and pointed it at the Midland army, and found that they had already formed a battle formation and were marching towards Lana's army.
When the two armies were about 500 meters apart, the infantry of the Midland army made way for a path, from which came out a team of cavalrymen holding trumpets and wearing cloaks with the Midland national emblem. They were seen riding horses and blowing trumpets to the center of the two armies, and behind them were dozens of fully armed knights, some of whom were wearing various gorgeous armors, and they were obviously generals of this army.
"Are you here to negotiate?"
Schneider was confused about what the other party was going to do, but he still ordered:
"The other party is here to negotiate. You guys follow me and my general guards."
Soon, Schneider, wearing a full set of armor, led dozens of knights to the center of the two armies. After both sides arrived, the trumpeters lined up and played their trumpets. After expressing their welcome to General Schneider, they turned around and returned to their own team.
At this time, a fat knight on the opposite side said:
"I am Hoss, the commander of the Midland army. These are John, the governor of the southwest of Midland, and Warren, who is directly under the White Lion Knights."
"I am Schneider, the commander of the Lana army. May I ask what your purpose is in coming here?"
Schneider asked after briefly introducing himself.
This time it was not Hoss who answered, but John, who was wearing a silver wolf-head helmet behind him, who said:
"The purpose of our visit this time is to reach a ceasefire agreement with you. Our king has now focused on the war with Lana. Now every day, the Mitlan army is heading south to join the battle against the Lana Kingdom."
"But I hope your king can stop the fighting to reduce unnecessary casualties. You should know that with your current capabilities, you can no longer fight back to the border mountains. It is better to stop the fighting right now with the areas you each occupy as the border and choose a time to draw a new border. I hope you can seriously consider this."
General Schneider thought for a moment and then shook his head and said:
"I'm sorry, Your Excellency the Governor, we cannot accept your proposal. If you want to cease fire, your army must return to the border mountains. But I will convey your proposal to our King, and you can go back and wait for His Majesty's envoy."
"Really? Looks like we still have to fight. I'll take my leave then. I hope you can hold on until the day of the ceasefire."
"I hope you can live to see the day when the war ends."
Just as Schneider turned around and was about to return to his team, he saw some nobles on the opposite side riding horses towards him.
"What are you doing here?"
Schneider asked after ordering his men to stop him.
"What can I do? Of course I'll take a look at what the nobles of Midland look like. I haven't seen what the nobles of Midland look like yet. But they seem to have such low taste that they don't even decorate their armor. Wouldn't they feel embarrassed in front of other nobles?"
A Lana noble asked after looking at John's leaving back opposite.
"You'll know when you get slapped in the face by the other side."
General Schneider said in his heart, and then ordered his men to drive back these nobles who were not even wearing armor.
More than ten minutes later, the soldiers in the front row of Rana were hitting their shields with their swords while shouting and cursing at the Midlan army. This was the first round of attack by the Rana army. They used shouting to make their own army appear larger in number to intimidate the enemy or boost the morale of their own army.
boom!
However, the Midlan army responded by firing artillery shells from the sky. Several shells directly hit the phalanx of the Rana army and took away more than a dozen lives.
"Keep the formation! Don't move!"
Under the continuous bombardment of the enemy's artillery, the generals rode to their own troops on horseback and ordered the soldiers to maintain formation while carrying away the bodies.
General Schneider in the rear immediately found his artillery team and asked:
"Can you hit the enemy army at this distance?"
The artillery officer looked at the distance, shook his head and said:
"Even if our artillery fires at its maximum range, it can only reach the edge of the enemy and cannot cause effective damage to the enemy's formation."
Hearing this, Schneider ordered:
"All troops attack! Close the distance with the enemy phalanx! At the same time, order the cavalry to make a detour, attack Midlan's rear, and stop the enemy cavalry."
As flags of various colors were waving, the entire Rana army moved and began to march forward.
But at this moment, with a horn sounded in the Midland army, the Midland army on the opposite side retreated while Schneider was puzzled.
"No, there must be something wrong!"
Schneider, who had suffered a loss once, immediately ordered the march to stop. However, as the sound of horse hooves came from behind him, the Lana nobles, along with their guards and soldiers, rushed to the opposite side from both sides of the standing army.