Vol 5 Chapter 71: Battle of the 3 Danubes (10)

With a little hot air wave blowing from the opposite side, Pannoni licked some dry lips hard, and there was a salty taste on his lips, which was the breath from the corner of his cracked mouth.
Pannoni was opposite a team of Ottomans. At this time, their enemies were struggling over a block of corpses and scattered gravel, broken low walls and collapsed trenches.
Pannoni turned his head and looked around. He found that many of his familiar companions had disappeared, and almost all the people who had survived were injured.
"We have listened to the order of Lord Earl?"
Pannoni asked himself, as if he wanted to know something, next to his companion, who was panting while tying his short arm wound with a ripped dress.
"At least we have done what the master has commanded," the Balkan man said violently, with an abnormal blush appearing on his pale face due to excessive bleeding. "Then the Earl cannot stop us. It's on the tree. "
Panoni's naughty words made Pannoni want to laugh, but as soon as his lips ripped, a pain of pain came from the broken chin, which made Pannoni only hum.
According to Alexander ’s order, the punishment for the Balkan regiment was given to the whole army before dark yesterday.
Although the almost fatal gap was finally closed, and the Balkans seized the opportunity before the withdrawal of their positions, they slammed the new Ottoman Musketeers, but Alexander still severely punished the Balkans.
As a team officer of the Balkan regiment, Pannoni was whipped, and the entire Balkan regiment was placed in the most dangerous place on the entire front line in accordance with the practice on the battlefield of punishing troops who committed joint crimes-the central connection of the front line The junction of the north and south wings.
According to Alexander ’s speculation, the Ottomans would launch a violent attack in this area, with a view to cutting off the north-south connection of the Montina army.
More importantly, once this junction is broken, the Ottomans can calmly attack the two ends of the front.
Because of this, according to Alexander ’s order, the Balkan regiment was placed on this most dangerous and most pressured position.
Alexander ’s judgment was correct, or at this time, any commander with a little common sense would make such a decision.
Xi Sugu decided to destroy the current enemy with the safest and most direct and effective method.
He chose the Montina army as a breakthrough direction from the curved junction facing the northwestern front. With the cooperation of the Anatolian light cavalry, the Ottoman tribal army and Musselim infantry faced the opposite Mongolia like the tide. Tina's position launched an attack.
Xi Sugu is very confident in his army. If he was caught in a fight like the last day, it was more that he was testing the strength of this army from Western Europe. Now he believes that he has mastered the enemy's weakness.
Obviously, this enemy army that relied on its tenacious resistance was indeed brave, but Xi Sugu also discovered the enemy's problem.
These European troops seem to have a very strong battle, or this is too strong to get a blind destination step, which makes Xi Sugu believe that as long as he launches the most violent attack on one part of the enemy, then he can definitely take other places. The enemy is attracted.
Just like the Balkans who attacked blindly the other day and almost overwhelmed the whole army, Sisu Valley decided to use the central connection of the Montina army as a bait. In a huge trap carefully arranged by myself.
The Ottoman army's offensive was launched when the sun had just risen above the bushes.
First of all, Musselim infantry, these army of mainly prisoners of war became the vanguard of this attack.
With the cooperation of the Anatolian Light Cavalry, the Muselim infantry opened a long front and launched an offensive towards the Montina position.
Fighting with the Balkan regiment is the most elite Agri Grange phalanx team among the Agri Musketeers.
This weird name was not named by Alexander, but Rosa.
Many people think that the reason why the Countess of Cosenza gave the phalanx team such a name as Grange was only because these earliest people who followed Alexander out of Agrig were the grange from the territory.
But only Alexander knew that the reason why Rusha took the name was actually to commemorate their ambiguous start in the Agri Grange.
The Musketeers of the Fangzhuang Formation were the first veterans to follow Alexander. Almost all of them had participated in Alexander ’s first battle in the Bruini Valley and also participated in the difficult ascetic march.
As for the battle of Pisa, which established Alexander's position in Tuscany and Romagna, the battle of Oral-Chimone, and the battle of Livorno, where he first played against Caesar, these soldiers have all experienced it for themselves.
Because of this, Alexander had absolute confidence in them. He even believed that even if other troops were repelled, his Agry Musketeers would definitely stand on the battlefield last.
So when selecting the troops to guard the central junction with the Balkan regiment, Alexander did not hesitate to arrange the first phalanx here.
And he soon discovered that his arrangement was undoubtedly correct.
From the beginning, the Ottomans launched the most violent attack on the junction of the North and South Fronts. The Muslemim infantry as a vanguard rushed towards the position of the Musketeers.
Although a deafening roar from the opposite volleyball, there will be a lot of bullets hitting his face with thick smoke, but the Musselim infantry rushed forward crazy.
Many people jumped on the twitching body immediately after being shot, and the living Musselim infantry did not look at the fallen companion at all, only their eyes were not far in front of them. Just repeating the steps of clearing, reloading, aiming, and firing the enemy with the strange drum beat rhythm.
Because just before the war they got the promise of Xi Sugu, as long as they can successfully defeat the Montina army guarding the junction, they can be free!
For Muselim infantry, there is no more important than freedom, they can give everything to achieve freedom, whether it is their own life or the life of their companions.
The result of this desperate charge is that after paying the price of huge casualties, the Muselim infantry broke through the obstacles that the Montina army had dug in front of the front in a short time.
For the first time, Muselim infantry screamed with joy. They had seen the enemy's muskets receding in panic. They seemed to want to increase the distance from them, but this was completely useless. In the eyes of the Selimu infantry, these armies, with the exception of muskets, carrying only sabers, and even most soldiers without armor, have become their stepping stones towards freedom.
But the sudden roar broke the imagination of Musselim infantry.
When they saw the wielding of various weapons, among them the Balkans, who were predominantly local and terrible with their powerful axe, rushed towards them from the gap between the musketeer teams, the Muselim infantry were just A little surprised, and then responded with the same fierce roar while rushing towards the enemy!
The two sides collided in front of the position of the Montina Army. The cold weapons became hot and hot instantly. The sparks and the plasma from the collision of the blades ripping open the human skin were mixed together. A brutal melee The war has begun.
The fierceness of Muselim's infantry surprised the Balkans. Although they had long seen the brutality of the Ottomans, such enemies surprised them.
And for Muselim infantry, the Balkans' sturdiness also surprised and shocked them.
As captives and remnants of the conquered, Muselim infantry can understand the bravery of the Ottoman army more deeply than anyone else, and when they become part of this army, whether it is because of the Training is still because of the tremendous desire for freedom. They have become one of the most elite and cruelest troops in this brave army.
But now these soldiers who are so frightened by Europe find that they cannot break through the formation that these local farmers have hurriedly formed.
They could only watch the musketeers in the dark red military uniforms retreat from the gap left by the Balkans, and then they reorganized the queue a little higher in the back.
The Muselim infantry tried desperately to break through the Balkans' defense, but they found that what stood in front of them was like an unstoppable reef on the coast. Even the tribal army behind it had already surged, but the Balkans were still stubborn. Blocked in front of them.
Although they were at the cost of astonishing casualties as the battle went on, the Balkans refused to take a step back.
The sun has slowly risen, and the ground is refreshing in the morning, but a terrible scene of killing is staged on the battlefield.
Si Sugu has been paying attention to the direction of the Montina Army's north-south integration from the beginning. According to his previous plan, he knows that if he wins, he must start by defeating the enemies here.
I don't know why, there is a voice in Xi Sugu's heart constantly reminding him that if he will fail, the key position must be here.
This strange thought did not make Xi Sugu feel ridiculous, but made him vigilant.
Xi Sugu never believed that something impossible would happen on the battlefield, so when this thought came to his mind, he felt that there should be something he hadn't thought of.
So he has been paying attention to what happened on that position.
The fierce firepower of the Agri Musketeers surprised Xi Sugu at the beginning. In his impression, apart from the new Sudanese Musketeers, he had never seen an army with such violent firepower, although in number Perhaps the scale of this army ’s Musketeers is not comparable to that of the New Army, but Xi Sugu has noticed that the enemy is clearly a neat and concentrated firing method that has been trained after countless hard trainings, but it is the New Army Musketeers. What we don't have.
The kind of shooting can be said to be terrifying, especially when the enemy on the other side is attacking the musketeers in a very dense formation, the dense barrage formed by the rows of bullets in an instant, even without deliberate aiming A gap ripped through the enemy's ranks.
Xi Sugu's heart first breathed out immediately, he realized that the enemy should also guess his intention, so he should arrange the most elite troops on this position.
Xi Sugu feels relieved. His plan is to attract the enemy to this position as much as possible, then the more intense the fight, the easier his plan will be.
The Muslemim infantry's offensive was fierce and could not be resisted. They even broke through the Balkans' front line. The Muslimim infantry who rushed to the front had already seen the clothes that had caused them a lot of casualties. Strange musketeers in crimson uniforms.
But they didn't succeed in the end. The Balkans poured in from all directions, which made Muselim infantry even doubt that all the local farmers were working hard with them.
The attack of Muselim infantry finally stopped in the Balkans' madman counterattack. When they began to retreat, Muselim infantry exhibition revealed their cunning and experienced side.
Their formation looks chaotic, but it actually rolls back in a huge hollow circle, so that if the enemy pursues, they only need any part of the pursued force to appear broken, and they can use the opportunity to introduce the enemy into the hollow. In the trap, and then waiting for chasing soldiers is a complete slaughter.
When Muselim's infantry retreated, some Balkans could not bear the temptation to catch up.
When they discovered the actions of those people, Pannoni was equally moved. Those Ottomans who seemed to panic and fled to the distance were simply a large group of fat hares. It seemed that as long as they caught up, they gave the last one. The feet can catch them.
This thought made Pannoni almost ordered to pursue, but in the end he calmed down. He remembered what Alexander said to him after he was hit with a whip and dropped it from the tree. "If I could, I would rather let Genoa or The Pizza went to defend that position because they would not give up their position in pursuit of victory, but I still decided that you go to defend there, because I knew that for them the battle was just an order, and for you it was to prove their bravery , So do n’t let me down, remember that the only thing that proves your bravery is to hold your position. "
Pannoni finally did not order an offensive. He even shouted to try to bring back the companions who had chased out of position. When he saw them unfortunately falling into the enemy trap and surrounded by all sides, Pannoni turned back, his ear There was a constant roar from the distant companions until the death of the battle, and then he gave orders to the Balkans looking in the direction of the enemy formation.
"Guard the position! Lord Earl wants us to guard the position!"
The whole offensive process of Muselim's infantry was clearly seen by Xi Sugu. He also noticed that the Balkans reacted very differently from the previous day. This made Xi Sugu interested in the Earl of Montina. Think about Sudan He was ordered to catch the count as much as possible, and Xi Sugu turned back and whispered to the people around him, asking them to convey Sudan's orders to the various troops.
The first attack of the Ottomans against the Montina army to retreat, but the calm only lasted for a short moment, as a dense hoof came, and a flash of figures flashed from the direction of the Ottoman position.
At about 8 am, after the trial attack by Muselim infantry and the tribal army, the Anatolian light cavalry finally played.
Watching the smoke rising in the distance ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Alexander also issued an order to the waiting entourage "Order the left wing of the west to move closer to the center and prepare to defend against cavalry attacks."
"Sir, should the right wing on the north side also shrink?" A Genoese officer asked with some uneasiness. The Genoa's bad fighting in the previous day made them a little afraid of the Ottomans.
"No, the right wing must stand firm."
Alexander glanced at the officer, and at this moment he suddenly felt that if he had two Aufrei or two gompatis under his hands, he might not be so handicapped.
Will Pannoni become the next Aufrei or Compati? Alexander did not have much hope for this, but Pannoni could resist the temptation to pursue, which made him somewhat expectant.
The roar of horseshoes in the distance is more rapid, and it seems that it is about to strike into the heart of the person, which also reminds Alexander that the battle in front of him is still going on.
"The hardest time is coming." Alexander whispered softly.
At 8 am, the Anatolian light cavalry of the Ottoman army launched an attack on the position of the Montina army. The most brutal and bloodiest scene in the Battle of the Alger River was staged.
At this moment, in Bucharest, after finally persuading the last influential figure, the Patriarch of Bucharest, Zepes conveyed Princess Sophia Alexandra Valleo ’s name in the name of the Grand Duke of Wallachia command.
"With the power given to me by the Greek princess, I ordered to send troops to the Alje River!"