The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 226 Fighting in the early morning

At five o'clock in the morning on the third day, Ikert and his first army arrived at the forest king's capital, Ayjafala, on time.

Thanks to the Gnoll's defensive policy, the trees near the capital were cut down. This was originally a strategy to prevent the enemy from attacking the city, but it provided Ickert with a large ideal open space.

This is exactly what is needed for long-range firepower.

The emerging jackal kingdom didn't even have a city wall, and the confident high priest Saqqara took 5000 conscripted slaves and 2000 king guards to the outside of the city.

The clearing in the forest was like an isolated island, where the troops from both sides gathered by coincidence.

Ickert's stragglers arrived at the battlefield first, and the hunters took the lead in pulling the cordon in front of the formation.

Immediately afterwards, 700 line infantrymen also began to walk out of the jungle under the leadership of their respective officers. The second battalion began to maneuver to the left, while the first battalion stood directly in the middle.

The Grenadiers of the Guards finally appeared on the right flank. Due to the shortage of troops, the reserve team only had a small number of internal affairs troops and cavalry, and half of them were not sent to the front line to carry guns.

All the light artillery companies are deployed on the right wing, and the heavy artillery companies are deployed on the junction of the left and right wings and the central army due to weight limitations and range advantages (it is not only located in the protection of the military array, but also can form a cross in the middle Firepower, but also can form flanks on the wings).

A "Firework" rocket launcher was also put into battle. Four of these weapons have been produced, but because paper rockets are difficult to adapt to the humid climate of the jungle, the troops can only guarantee one artillery and its ammunition.

At about 6 o'clock in the morning, the entire army of the First Army had finished forming. At this time, the sun had just risen from the horizon, and the jackals could already see the neat army formation in the distance.

Ickert rode his horse through the front of the formation, and every time he passed a company, the officers of the Stormrat would make the mice under them shout "Long live the clan leader!" in a rather doggy manner.

The First Group Army had a total combat force of nearly 800 rats, and each company lined up in two horizontal lines to widen the formation, forming a wide front of about [-] meters.

The reason why we try our best to increase the width of the front is to prevent the enemy from forming an effective detour to the troops. After all, they are the places with fewer numbers.

However, this also requires sufficient firepower density. The British army was defeated by Uncle Black in the Boer War. The rifles in their hands at that time were Martini Henry.

If it weren't for Ickert's complete firepower system, he would never dare to play like this.

The [-]nd Battalion and [-]st Battalion have already deployed mobile thorn nets in front of the formation and on the left flank, with a total of two layers, while the Guards on the right did not.

Because of Ickert's formation, it was obvious that he was here to defend and counterattack. The powerful right wing also assembled all the high-mobility artillery and nearly half of the Ratmen's flamethrowers.

The guards will punch up when the time is right, instead of passively defending in place, which can be regarded as a preview of the underground battle.

The artillerymen are also preparing their respective positions intensively. They use baskets made of bamboo sticks, fill them with soil, and then build them around the artillery. This may not be useful to the jackals in front of them, but they need to practice.

At 06:30 in the morning, Ickert's defense facilities were basically deployed, and the artillery also completed its position construction.

And Sakala was still cursing and commanding the formation of his troops. Obviously, not every priest knew how to form troops, and they didn't have any war plans.

"There are more rats on the left flank! Strengthen our boar riders! Who will command? Of course I will order them! I am the High Priest!"

"Let our elite fighters go to the right wing! I will go too! They only have 2000 people! The great fighters will ruthlessly crush their right wing!"

"Forward! Brave Gnoll warriors! Let those slave labor hold back their center and right wing!"

Sakala kept instilling words of encouragement to the troops. In fact, although the opponent's troops were only holding strange burning sticks, they were already overwhelmed by the quality alone.

Can the 2000 human elite defeat the seven thousand wolves?

Of course it is possible.

The same goes for a Ratman with such excellent equipment.

Sakala was actually panicking, not to mention that it would take at least two hours for him to set up the army formation. Now he is like a teacher who is taking care of elementary school students on a spring outing. Don't talk about Wude, take the lead in attacking.

However, Saqqara's wish is likely to fail. Affected by the Ratman, Ickert never knew what Wude was.

The order for the artillery to fire was quickly conveyed, and now the solid bullets and shotgun shells in the territory had piled up like a mountain, and he didn't mind spending more ammunition on the wolf man at all.

It can be recycled anyway.

"Brothers Artillery! Time to test us! Fire the clan!"

The artillerymen began to operate six 75mm guns to calibrate the targets, and the 120mm mortars were all loaded with grenades. The ranging officers of each battery group gave a thumbs up to the jackals, and the gunners immediately began to adjust the artillery positions.

"Load the shells!"

After the operation steps were completed, the artillery officer ordered the loader to drive the shells in.

Then the artillery groups began to fire freely.

Rumbling--

If the firing of a cannon is like lightning, the firing of a group of cannons is a continuous thunderstorm.

The jackals who were still in the army only saw a few small black spots flying from the sky.

Then, and then no more.

Six 75mm cannons form a cross-firing force, and the solid shells are rampant in the wolf man's traditional large vertical deep cold weapon phalanx, with many rushing troops mixed in the middle.

Coupled with the extremely high level of artillery skills of the Ratman artillery, more than 300 gnolls were killed in the first round of salvo.

"God of the Sun is above!"

If it weren't for the support of gods and beliefs, the jackals almost collapsed on the spot.

But this is not the end, only after the first round of solid bullets, the mortar shells with a longer flight distance also followed.

Mortar shells using wooden time-delayed fuses cannot explode accurately on the ground. Due to calculation errors and the fact that the Ratman prefers to let the shells explode in the air, the six 120mm mortar shells that exploded in the air sent fire to the surrounding jackals. Man poured down a deadly rain of death shrapnel.

Every time a grenade explodes, countless dust pillars will be stirred up around it, mixed with the blood of jackals.

A centurion was scrapped on the spot, and less than 30 people died directly, but as many as fifty were pierced to the ground by shrapnel and howling. They begged their allies to save their lives, but they were used by the priests who controlled discipline. Spell kills.

"Hellfire! This is the terrible fire from hell! The kingdom is over! I want to go home!"

The wolf man's morale was shaken in an instant. No matter how powerful the iron army was, more than 500 people would be dismissed after a single shelling.

The priest managed to stabilize the situation, but the chaotic wolf man army still had no formation at all.

What was even more frightening was that they hadn't eased up for less than 30 seconds before the Ratman opened fire again.

"By the Chief of the Clan! Fire! Keep firing! Blast them all!"

Enthusiasm among the Skaven Artillery was high with good feedback.

(End of this chapter)