Chapter 109 Euphrates' line of defense

As the news gradually spread, Etius's heart gradually became cold. //**//Even other Crusaders wanted to rescue, they were powerless. Their main forces had left the Near East and returned to their own country. The only Normans who were able to rescue themselves were quite cold. The scouts reported that they were building defense lines in the Euphrates generation, and seemed to be ready to take a defensive state, rather than attacking.

"Leave it to fate." Etius sighed to the sky, feeling quite powerless. If the other party was a civilized man from a known country, he would have ordered his surrender at this moment. After that, he would pay a ransom and he could go back to Rome to live. However, now his opponent is those fierce pagans. Etius really couldn't imagine what he would be like if he fell into their hands...

Fortunately, the "Persians" seemed to have no intention of siege. Although they surrounded Baghdad, collected wood and useful materials, and ordered craftsmen to build siege machinery day and night. These siege machinery seemed very simple to Etius, who had seen the craftsmanship of the Norman Empire. However, for more than ten days, they were still just besieging and had no intention of continuing to attack.

"In about another month, Dahan's order will arrive. Let's talk about it then."

At the same time, the qin Buhua fought this calculation - in a fierce battle with Etius, the Mongolian vanguard army lost nearly 10,000 troops. Those slave infantry died and those who forced prisoners of war and civilians could be supplemented. However, the losses of more than 500 Mongolian heavy-armed lancers and nearly 3,000 light cavalrymen made the qin Buhua painful. Capturing slaves and training slave infantry was also a task. In recent times, the qin Buhua was ready to pause for a moment.

This gave Egil a very good opportunity. It allowed him to calmly use one to two months to lay out a solid line of defense.

In Egil's plan, this line of defense includes the upper reaches of the Euphrates River - a natural line of defense with rapid water flow and abundant water sources. It is basically unlikely that large troops will be provided here to cross. So Egil only arranged a small number of secondary Hussar patrols in this generation to prevent small groups of opponents from smuggling and attacking.

In the lower reaches of the Euphrates River, due to the hot weather in the Middle East, the river water evaporated a lot and penetrated below the surface. //**//The Euphrates River can cross it - in fact, Egil did not expect this section of the river to provide him with any help. Norman's defense line only took advantage of the upper reaches of the Euphrates River, and then turned a corner and turned towards the border between Babylon and Syria.

This is a flat, dry plain area. It is the direction that the Mongolian cavalry is most likely to march in Egil's prediction - of course, it would be better if the other party changed the way and ran to Anatolia to fight the Turks to the death.

In this plain area, Egil launched a baggage force, and the engineers transformed the terrain extensively, digging a large amount of soft land, creating large areas of trapped horse pits. At the same time, they ordered the craftsmen in the army to make a large number of caltrops. Although this simple and convenient weapon is expensive, it can play a very good role when facing cavalry and even infantry. As long as the four evenly arranged iron thorns are thrown to the ground, there will always be a spike up and the other three are supported by tripods. It will be miserable to step on the war horses or people on it... Although death will not be dead, it will definitely hurt.

A total of more than 200,000 caltrops, as well as a large number of simple horse-repelling wooden stakes, horse-repelling fences, and horse-repelling pits. A defense line was formed specifically for the cavalry in the border areas between Syria and Babylon. The main forces of the three newly formed defense corps were also deployed in the barracks behind this line of defense - a small, temporary wooden fort.

This line of defense, about 350 miles long, was set up every fifty miles to provide alarms. The quasi-hussars also patrolled here day and night on the scale of a hundred-man team. At the same time, in some key locations, some solid and stone-building artillery were also slowly being built. Large artillery that could not be pulled away, and gunners were arranged here. Emperor Egil ordered the orders. When the soldiers discovered that these artillery was about to fall, they had to blow up the artillery to prevent these sharp new weapons from falling into the hands of the Mongols.

In this way, the rough defense system, named Euphrates' defense line, was built in one month. It was defended by nearly 20,000 troops. Egil believed that although such a defense system was not as solid as a solid one, the Mongols had to prepare for heavy losses if they wanted to break it.

However, here, the problem arises - a 20,000 army, coupled with such an important line of defense. Can there be no one who can trust and have enough ability to garrison?

The most suitable candidate for this person is naturally Joan of Arc. Whether in terms of ability, Egil's trust, or status, she is the most suitable person - after all, she is the Grand Duke of Syria who was appointed by Egil herself. She has the responsibility to defend her territory...

However, Egil couldn't bear to bear it.

Although in recent times, more and more cute girls have greatly enriched the emperor's harem, the emperor is still a nostalgic person. Joan of Arc still occupies an unshakable important position in his heart. On the other hand, because of Joan of Arc's physical condition, Egil is very pity for her and is reluctant to let her work more.

This time, Joan of Arc went to Syria and Babylon. Although they were all working to wipe out the remnants, Egil felt very distressed. Especially in the war, the crazi crusades of the craze when facing pagans made Joan of Arc unable to sleep and eat and sleep at night. Egil felt even more distressed. He said that he didn't want Joan of Arc to take on such a job anymore. Therefore, even though he knew that Joan of Arc was the most suitable candidate, Egil didn't want her to do this job.

Apart from Joan of Arc, Norman Queen Artoria was almost for the same reason, and Egil didn't want to - or dare not let her take this position.

Neither female marshals of the Norman Empire could be used. Then, Egil counted: Alpha——the one who wiped his tears long ago said that this guy was just the squad leader’s weapon. Giving him this task would definitely compensate the entire Syria.

Robin Hood... Well, this guy has no ability to command alone at all. He is quite competent to be a longbow commander. If he is just standing alone...

Bamami...Egil couldn't help but get to Shi Geng after thinking of this sweet female general... so he no longer considered it.

Therefore, Emperor Egil sadly discovered that he, the most powerful emperor in the entire continent, did not even have the third talent to stand alone. This has to be said to be a kind of sadness...

Or, recruit one again from the system, or exchange it for one with a point coupon? Egil thought about it this way, and then felt that although this was a solution, it was not a good solution. Before this, the Norman Empire had never had a commander of a garrison army, and had command of more than 20,000 troops - even those garrison army commanders on the border defense line, they had no more than 10,000 regular troops. As Deliver, Egil gave them the right to recruit local reserves during wartime.

"If I hand over the 20,000 troops to one person at once, the emperor will be far away, and there will be no accident."

Egil, who was very suspicious, thought so, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

"Or, recruit several generals separately and let them take charge of these three legions?"

So Egil soon came up with this idea again.

"But in this case...will there be problems without unified command?"

So Egil hesitated again.

"It seems like before, the Hussars were divided into two parts and used as the ** mobile force, parallel to the level of the garrison army?" Egil considered it for a while, and it was indeed the most appropriate method. Although this way, unified command would not be possible...

"Or-by the way, isn't that guy still there? Use the waste."

Finally, after some thought, Egil finally came up with the most suitable method - to recruit a commander of the garrison and quasi-hussars, and then set up a commander in charge of three legions. Egil also had a choice for the commander-in-chief. He called the "useable waste" of waste he used. The former Egyptian general shrank his eggs at the last moment of the siege in Jerusalem, which made Egil hate him, and was eventually assigned to a small piece of barren territory to live in Zhaohair.

"Use this person as the commander-in-chief. Then send the mercenaries to him to manage. Use his own people to command the garrison and Hussar Legion to control it, and supervise this person... I am indeed a genius!"

Ignoring what his cheap sister Aurora said: "Will this cause internal friction?" Such questioning. Egil immediately sent someone to ask Zhaohaier to arrive at the Euphrates defense line as soon as possible. At the same time, he also used the system to recruit two generals to control his new legion, General Harry. He thought that the Syrians who were born and converted to Catholicism were a little disappointed, but they were very proficient in defensive warfare and arranged the army into defensive arrays. He was the commander of the new garrison legion.

As for the quasi-hussar legion, Egil recruited a man named Khalid, a native Arab as the commander of this army. Like Harry, Khalid was also a converted Catholic. At the same time, he was also an excellent master of light cavalry. He was a tough warrior and cunning commander from Arab tribes...
Chapter completed!