Chapter 983: Issel's Defeat
The Armored Holy Cavalry is a heavy cavalry unit, and the Holy Armored Soldiers is a heavy infantry unit. The cost of these two units is extremely expensive.
Not only is it expensive to build, but it is also extremely slow to replenish battle damage.
In the "Tempest" battle 6 years ago (that is, the rescue battle of the Kingdom of Lund by the Britannian Empire), the Frankish Empire lost a total of 4,000 armored holy cavalry.
It took the Frank Empire many years to bring the number of armored holy cavalry back to 20,000, because it was too difficult to find suitable soldiers and suitable horses.
The armored holy cavalry are all heavily armored - one can imagine how elite soldiers and excellent horses this requires.
In this battle of the Rhineland, the armored holy cavalry lost half of its combat strength, and the holy armored soldiers also suffered heavy losses, which had to make Walter feel heartbroken.
After suffering such huge losses, it was unknown how long it would take for the armored holy cavalry and holy soldiers to regain their original combat effectiveness.
However, judging from the current results, the losses of the armored holy cavalry, holy armored soldiers, and other troops are all worth it!
They successfully completed the planned goals of the Nibelung Plan! Iser and his army were heavily surrounded!
When cleaning the battlefield and counting casualties, although the bodies of many knights were found, the bodies of Iser and Albert were not found.
It seemed that Iser and Albert were not killed on the spot, but were trapped in the basin of the Rhineland Plain with the other defeated troops.
Although Walter and others felt a little regretful that Isel and Albert could not be killed on the spot, they did not feel too sad.
Because——Iser and his defeated army have been heavily besieged in the basin, and their complete destruction is now only a matter of time.
Before the Battle of the Rhineland began, the Frankish army had learned through scouts and spies the total strength and composition of the army brought by Iser - 240,000 generals of the Knights of Gabriel, plus 60,000 Rachel A general of the Knights of Er.
Now, half of the 300,000-strong army has been annihilated by the Franks, and the remaining half have been driven into the basin that had been selected by the Franks, preparing to wait for the remaining half of the Britannia army to be cut off from supplies. Then, launch a general attack.
At present, it seems that everything is developing as planned by the Nibelungen Plan - after Iser's army was defeated,
was driven into this basin in the Rhineland Plain.
The next thing the Frank army has to do is to wait for the supply of Iser's remaining army to be cut off, and then it can be wiped out without any effort.
The total strength of the four major knights of the Britannia Empire is only 770,000.
If Iser's 300,000 troops were successfully annihilated in the Rhineland Plain, the Britannia Empire would lose nearly half of its total military strength.
It is self-evident what this means for the Britannian Empire and the Frankish Empire.
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The Britannia Empire, the Rhineland Plain, the Frankish Army's main line.
After completing the encirclement of Iser's 150,000 remnant troops, Walter and Bazel finally met the commander-in-chief of the Royal Fleet, Otto von Hollweg.
This was the first meeting between the three people after the start of the Nibelungen Plan.
The Frank Army won a great victory this time, and the three people at the highest command level of the Nibelungen Plan should have met once and celebrated this great victory together.
As soon as the three generals met, Otto said to Walter and Bazel in an arrogant tone:
"General Zimmermann, General Ludendorff. This battle was well fought!"
Although Otto's sentence was a complimentary sentence, his tone did not sound happy at all.
Bazel's face suddenly turned ugly.
Fortunately, Walter was more experienced and hurriedly chuckled a few times and smoothed things over with a gentle tone.
"General Holweg also fought well. He came in time. If you had been slower for a few days, Iser might have guessed the true intention of our army."
As soon as Walter finished speaking, Otto snorted and laughed, showing a disdainful smile:
"Haha, I don't believe that Iser is so capable that he can guess the true intentions of our army."
"General Holweg." Walter said in a helpless tone, "You have never fought against Iser, so you know Iser's strength."
"Iser and I had a life-and-death battle, so I have experienced Iser's power. With Iser's ability, it is not impossible to deduce the true intention of our army in this battle."
The "desperate battle" in Walter's words refers to the Britannia Empire's "Four Square Star" offensive 11 years ago.
In that battle, Iser, who was at an absolute disadvantage, miraculously defeated Walter.
Otto didn't take Walter's words seriously, and after shrugging frivolously, Otto continued to ask Walter:
"General Zimmerman, what should we do next?"
After Walter pondered for a while, he said:
"Judging from the current battle situation, there is no need for us to change the plan now. Let's continue to act according to the original plan."
After saying that, Walter pouted in the direction of the basin:
"First besiege Iser and Albert's remnant army until their supplies are completely cut off, then launch a general attack to annihilate them all, and then move westward to attack Pendragon!"
"General Holweg, I need to borrow your landing force for the next period of time. I need your landing force to help strengthen the encirclement of Iser's 150,000 remnant troops."
"Please."
At this moment, Bazel, who had been silent since just now, suddenly expressed his views on the current battle situation:
"Walter, although this Battle of the Rhineland was a great victory for our Frankish army, the Britannian Empire has not completely lost its power to resist."
"The Britannia Empire has a 120,000-strong army of the Knights of Michael in the north, a 150,000-strong army of the Knights of Uriel in the center, a 100,000-strong army of the Knights of Rachel in the south, and the remaining strongholds on the Rhine Front. There are still a lot of troops left.”
"Besides, the Britannia Empire also has that Su Cheng."
"That Su Cheng is best at using less to defeat more. In all of his famous battles, he used less to defeat more."
"If Ilsa of the Britannia Empire tricks Su Cheng to deal with us, even if we can win, it won't be easy."
"Although we won this battle, we also paid a lot of price. We lost a total of 100,000 land troops."
400,000 land troops (including 100,000 landing troops) plus 100,000 fleet sailors - this is the combat power invested by the Frank Empire in this Nibelungen plan.
Now, of the 500,000 Frankish troops, after the Battle of the Rhineland, there were only 400,000 left.
"I think -" Bazel said his suggestion loudly, "we should ask the central government for help and ask His Majesty to send more reinforcements."
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