The 100th Episode of IQ Crazy
The people in the hall, upon learning of my command, also erupted into a fit of curses. Especially those few nobles from aristocratic families, who kept saying that I wasn't worthy of being a true knight. A few were even shameless enough to declare that if it weren't for my youth, they would definitely duel me! Please! As if they could take pity on me? Ha! Who's afraid of whom in a duel?! Just look at the outcome of Shi Genjiro! And another thing! I don't get it, I'm an alchemist! When did I ever say I wanted to change professions and become a knight?!
I'm quite misunderstood, didn't I just order to kill the horses? If we don't kill them, are we waiting for Nicholas to capture them and then turn our infantry into cavalry to deal with me? I don't have such a noble style! It's safer to kill them, since they're all dead, it doesn't matter if we make use of their corpses. Using their bodies to form a simple fortification as a temporary defense is not unreasonable, is it? Is it worth getting so agitated about this?
The current battlefield is a great advantage for Nicholas! He successfully completed the siege of the 30,000 cavalry of the Poor Way, and after receiving support from the reinforcements, he did not actively attack the people in the encirclement, but instead surrounded them for a day! The Poor Way naturally understood his plan, wasn't it "surrounding and attacking the reinforcements"? Chairman Mao's tactics are useless against me! I'm not going to fall for it! With my current 10,000 cavalry, can I rescue them? As for the infantry, in this open terrain, no matter how many come out, they will die under Nicholas' cavalry charge! Coming out is just looking for death!
Nicholas waited for me for a whole day, and when I didn't fall into his trap, he immediately ordered a strong attack. The decisiveness of the action made me admire him greatly! If only he had waited a little longer, how good it would have been! My defense could have been even more solid! Unfortunately, the 30,000-strong army delayed him for only three days.
After the encirclement and annihilation battle, the referee determined that Nicholas lost 10,000 people. What a small number! Moreover, only 5,000 were cavalry, and another 5,000 had horses and could be replaced with infantry! This way, Nicholas still has cavalry and infantry. The most hateful thing is that they also gave Nicholas three days of rations - horse meat!
It's all over! I asked the umpire, "Do you ask Nicholas if he eats human flesh? In that case, his ration is more or less!"
He turned around and vomited!
Cut! With such poor mental quality, you still have the face to be a soldier? I despise you!
No matter what, Nicholas arrived at my great camp on the sixth day. Seeing that I was well-prepared and not grasping for a single victory, he first set up camp ten miles away from my camp.
It was another day after a night's rest, and when he led his troops back to the gate of the poor Taoist temple, everything had changed!
After six days of construction, the 100,000-strong army worked day and night to dig trenches. Now, outside my military camp, there are five connected trap zones. Each trench is 5 meters deep, 20 meters long, and 3 meters wide. A good horse can jump over it, but if it fails to stop within a distance of 5 meters, it will fall into the second trench. The distance between each pair of trenches is about 4-5 meters. There are large numbers of anti-cavalry obstacles at the entrance, and behind them are trenches. If you want to come in, you can only take a zigzag path; otherwise, you'll have to fill in the trenches! Inside the trenches, I haven't set up anything like sharpened wooden stakes - it's not necessary. A horse falling from 5 meters high will either die or be seriously injured. In short, it's impossible to climb up!
Nicholas would naturally not be deterred by such a small trick, although in the wars he had experienced before, no one had ever used traps, but he still quickly found a way and made sufficient preparations!
Nicholas actually knew that winning me might not be easy, but drawing was too simple. As long as he didn't attack and paid attention to dodging, I couldn't win his 80,000 cavalry in this terrain. But Nicholas had the pride of a famous general, and such a draw was something he couldn't do with dignity, so he could only attack. And when he really won for a while, he was surprised to find that he seemed to be at a disadvantage! More than 30,000 horses were worth three days' rations, because the army couldn't have too much salted meat, let alone dried meat, which wasn't allowed by the weather. In this way, I saved one month's food for 30,000 people, enough for 100,000 people to eat for ten days, more than Nicholas' stored grain. In the end, he would definitely starve to death first!
Nicholas could only wryly accept this fact! Fortunately, he still had confidence. Using the advantage of cavalry to charge into the infantry camp was Nicholas' specialty. In Nicholas' eyes, less than 50 meters behind the trap was the tent of my camp. As long as they broke through this trapped area, under the impact of 75,000 cavalry, Nicholas was confident that he could annihilate these tens of thousands of infantrymen!
At Nicholas' command, thirty thousand infantrymen charged forward with shields and sacks filled with earth to fill the trenches. The soldiers filled the large trench with mud and corpses under a hail of arrows.
Pits were all over the camp, and it was too long. Nicholas only chose a section of about 200 meters to launch the main attack. Calculating that more than 40 pits needed to be added, he worked hard until afternoon before barely finishing. This time, I took a breath and called up 20,000 archers to shoot wildly. If the depth weren't too small, I would have liked to call up all of them to take advantage of this opportunity. An opponent who only takes hits without fighting back is really hard to find.
Finally, the judge ruled that Nicholas infantry lost 2W combat effectiveness, even counting the wounded, I'm not very satisfied!
Nicholas couldn't wait any longer, he was afraid that I would dig the pit open at night, so he launched a surprise attack. Of course, I had this intention, but unfortunately Nicholas didn't give me the chance! A fierce battle began.
Nicholas's sudden attack, to be honest, killed me off guard. He didn't even order the last infantry to retreat and instead sent out the cavalry, trampling his own infantry into minced meat along with them. I had planned to wait for him to withdraw his infantry and then take the opportunity to withdraw those 200,000 archers to the second line of defense. Now it's too late, none of that was possible.
Judge Nicholas' infantry lost 3000, the poor archer unit was gone with 10,000 and lost the first line of trap defense. As for Nicholas' cavalry, they only lost 500! Faint, Nicholas is really ruthless!
But I'm not a vegetarian either. He didn't think about it, where did all the soil I dug go? Didn't they all become a wall built by me in the inner courtyard?
This wall is two meters high, with a trapezoidal cross-section, 1.5 meters wide at the top, where soldiers can stand and fight. The front side is very steep, almost 70 degrees, all made of large wooden beams, cavalry can't even think about charging up. Infantry can easily climb up with some help, while the back side is much gentler, only around 40 degrees, my infantry can move up and down easily, convenient for blocking enemy cavalry.
To confuse Nicholas, I specially set up many tents outside the wall to block his line of sight. So when Nicholas's herald officer told him, "Your cavalry crashed into a wall during the attack and suffered heavy casualties, unable to advance!" Nicholas's face turned green.
"Are you saying he built a wall in the camp? Or one that can completely block my cavalry attack?" Nicholas roared incredulously.
"Yes, Your Excellency! This is what the enemy's earth wall looks like!" After describing it once, the officer turned to Nicholas and said: "We have determined that your cavalry cannot charge up now. Your knights have already lost the speed on which they rely for survival, and are crowded at the bottom of the wall, being ruthlessly slaughtered by the soldiers on the wall. Please make a decision quickly, Your Excellency!"
"Damn it; is there no way out of this wall?" Nicholas asked reluctantly.
"There is an exit, but it's not in the section you've chosen to break through. If you want to take a detour, I'm afraid you'll have to face the threat of the outer traps again!" The officer said helplessly!
"And besides, even if I arrive, I'm afraid what's waiting for me is a bunch of cavalry, right? Using 10,000 cavalry to block a single gap is just too easy!" Nicholas said helplessly: "Fine, I'll choose a frontal assault. Even if it's only two meters high, I'll fill it with corpses and climb up!"
"Alright, sir, we've discussed it and expected you to do this, so we've already determined that your breakthrough of the earth wall will cost 5000 cavalry. Moreover, in the future, your knights passing through here will have to slow down by 50%!" The umpire officer said: "Do you have any objections?"
"No, very normal, I still have 70,000 knights, enough to trample his camp flat. Now tell me, the world behind the wall, can I fully display my cavalry's charging power?" Nicholas asked with a hint of unease in his heart. Normally, who would ask such a stupid question? Usually, military camps are intentionally built on wide open spaces, most suitable for cavalry charges. As long as they break through the outer defenses, inside is just unobstructed beauty, at your mercy. But against this weird opponent, Poor Dao, Nicholas wasn't so sure anymore.
As expected, the military tribunal did not disappoint Nicholas. With a helpless tone, he said to Nicholas, "We have determined that your charge after crossing the wall was a failure, with extremely heavy casualties!"
"Why?" Nicholas asked breathlessly, "Is there another wall inside? Could he have had time to build traps and walls like this? I protest, it's cheating!"
