Chronicles of Ryan the Wizard

Loud horns were heard one after another, and Edward, the commander-in-chief of the Seremis family legion, rode on his beloved "Black Beauty", looking forward to the front of the Saranal family army, which was slowly walking out of the Crimson Castle. It was the battle flag embroidered with the Saranal family's coat of arms. Judging from the pattern on the battle flag, Edward understood that today's opponent is the sickly Lord Adams.

"Hmph, the order goes on, and the ministries speed up to enter the position." Edward turned his head and gave the order to the messengers around him, and these messengers immediately passed the order on in pairs, riding fast horses, and got the coach's help. After the order, the Thuremis family's army accelerated their march. Under the leadership of the officer, they trot all the way to the place Edward gave them in advance, formed a formation and waited quietly.

In the Cassano Plain with a population of less than 300,000, today’s battle for the Crimson Rose Castle can be regarded as a large-scale battle. The two warring parties have invested more than 17,000 troops, of which the attacking side Theremis family has a combined army. With 11,000 people, Saranal and Emilio’s combined forces are less than 7,000. It can be said that the gap in military strength is still very large.

Of course, the combat effectiveness of these troops is far inferior to the garrisons of Thor Fortress. The real elite among them is roughly the same as the second-line army of Thor Fortress back then. Most of them are farmers who have just dropped their farm tools and picked up weapons not long ago. With long-term military-trained soldiers as basic-level officers, these farmers quickly learned combat skills and experience. If they had the opportunity to go through many difficult battles and persist to the end, these farmers could also become well-deserved veterans, but unfortunately Before that, most people would die in battle or lay down their weapons and go home to farm again.

Commander Edward set out to preemptively complete the layout of the military formation. As a moderate commander, Edward will certainly not take risks when he has an advantage. He still adopted the most commonly used methods in battles to maximize his strength. The strongest and most impactful 2000 soldiers were placed on the right flank of their position, and the weaker 3000 troops were placed on the left flank. Edward, as the commander-in-chief, led a 6,000-strong army in the center.

The biggest advantage of this arrangement is that it can give full play to the advantages of troops, especially in the vast battlefield, when the two sides cannot use the terrain to sneak attack the opponent, so that the well-formed formation can be slowly consumed with the opponent, and thwarted through a series of means. The opponent’s morale, and then launched a penetration attack on the enemy’s weakest left wing with the strongest right wing, causing the opponent's position to become chaotic and winning the battle.

Under this arrangement, if the two wings are tight, Edward can choose to divide his troops for rescue, or directly attack the opponent’s position with the Chinese army. Even if the two wings are somewhat lost, Edward’s force is still equal to the opponent’s maximum force. With a little arrangement, Edward can counterattack when the opponent's physical strength drops after a bitter battle, and can also achieve the final victory.

"Unless a miracle strikes, our army will win!" Edward said secretly after deducing his own flaws several times.

Just when Edward was complacent, the positions of Saranal and Emilio's coalition forces were basically arranged. On the surface, it seemed that Lord Adams was in charge of the command, but in fact his daughter Adela was the coalition forces. The actual commander.In order to conceal people's eyes, Adela's whole body was shrouded in a black cloak, her rose battle flag was not played, and even Adela himself was not in the Chinese army at all.

According to Adela's arrangement, her father Adams personally led a 4000 army to garrison the Chinese army. Adams' only task was to stay firmly in place.And Vivian personally took the remaining 700 soldiers of the Emilio family and placed them on the left wing, pretending to be miscellaneous soldiers, and Adela also carefully selected the elite of the Saranal family to enrich Vivian’s direct reports. 1000 people.In order to conceal their identity, Vivienne and her soldiers wore a raincoat of the kind worn by farmers when plowing in the rain. Fortunately, these soldiers were equipped with thin-skinned chain armor. It looks a little bloated in appearance, but it also shows the rusticity that can only be found in farmland for a lifetime.

As for Adela himself, he brought less than 2,000 people to the right wing, pretending to be elites. In order to fool Edward, Adela deployed the family's materials, equipped these men with leather armor, and even adjusted them. The guards who came to Vivian’s men wearing steel armors were originally selected. The armors on their bodies were also blessed by Ryan himself. It can be said that the squad composed of dozens of people was effective in the entire battle. The strongest team, when they removed the Emilio family crest from their bodies and replaced them with the Saranal family crest and stood in the front row on the right wing, it was indeed eye-catching.

"Well, it seems that you have formed exactly the same formation as mine." Edward whispered after carefully observing the opponent's position. "Adams, if you were not weak and sick since childhood, your intelligence is the same among our three families. The strongest, if you are replaced by me and you in a different place, you can only use this method to delay and pray for a miracle to come. It’s just a pity that your strength and combat power are far inferior to me. If you consume it like this, you will definitely lose. Although you lose a little bit slower, maybe you think this is not a shame, right?"

After watching the formation of troops on both sides, the soldiers on both sides stood about 500 meters apart and stood silently. There was a depressive silence on the battlefield. Edward looked up at the sun and found that he started to adjust. Almost two hours have passed since the soldiers left the camp.

Of course it is impossible for Edward to stay with the opponent like this, because it will not benefit him at all. However, although Edward’s strength is superior, if he acts rashly, it will still cause a series of unpredictable consequences. Therefore, Edward can only use various methods to slowly. The weakening of the opponent’s strength and morale in order to enable him to find and seize the moment when the whole army attacks.

"The third and fourth squadrons stepped forward and prepared to shoot, and the seventh and eighth squadrons raised their shields for protection." Edward gave the order softly.

Under his order, the 200 sword and shield warriors who were in charge of protecting raised their bucklers and walked toward the front for almost 50 meters. They were close together and arranged in a dense formation for the bows and arrows behind. The hands formed a safe shield wall, and the only two archer teams of Thuremis also stepped forward slowly, came to stand behind the sword and shield warriors, and under the command of the officer, these archers swept them together. Draw out the feather arrow, made an attack preparation.