Chapter 560 The zigzag gray line (Part 2)

Rhine River.

This river is not exactly the same as the mother river of Western Europe on the earth, but it has nothing to do with it.

Only the Teutonic Knights who controlled this place named this river the Rhine River according to their own cultural traditions, and hoped that this river could play the role of the mother river of Western Europe to help Europe.

Let the area controlled by the Teutonic Knights become the most densely populated and economically developed area, and promote the improvement of the trade level of the entire West.

Let them become the "center".

Of course, this central symbol has now become their only barrier to rely on. On one side of the river, they built a bastion defense line.

On the other side, the coalition forces are temporarily building fortifications.

Without this moat, the Eastern Alliance, which has five times as many soldiers as them, would have used their own soldiers to fill this meat grinder for rapid consumption until their reinforcements could not keep up with the increasing casualties.

The Teutonic Knights stationed in the middle of this river named the Rhine did not receive any military assistance from other knights. They relied entirely on their own territory to form a two-kilometer-long fortified defense line, of which the deep fortified area was only one kilometer.

Other knights were quite cautious in providing assistance to the Teutonic Knights, and the Teutonic Knights were very cautious in accepting assistance from other knights in danger.

This is a debt, and if they are not going to turn against each other, the debt will be repaid.

Each of them is calculating the interests of their own knights, and each of the great knights in the knights is arguing for these interests. They are eager to hope that the Teutonic Knights, who control the middle section of the Rhine, can give up some of their interests.

The gains after the victory of the war have nothing to do with how much you have contributed in the battle, but only with how much strength you have left after the war.

For the remaining two knights and one chieftain, the best result for the Teutonic Knights is that they will fight the Eastern Allied Forces to a loss, and then they can let the Teutonic Knights hold the Rhine front line and fight a war of attrition with the Allied Forces without a deadline.

In this way, they can offset two major threats at the same time and operate their own territory with peace of mind.

Moreover, they did not see any possibility that the Teutonic Knights, who relied on the trenches to defend, would be conquered in the short term, and the situation was developing in the best direction they thought.

They knew that the Crusaders were organizing an offensive... so as long as the Crusaders launched an attack on the Eastern Defense Line, everything would be fine.

The two Knights and a chieftain in the rear were counting the days and waiting for the Holy See to launch an attack, and they kept sending out scout cavalry to see how the Holy See's army was prepared and when they could launch an attack.

One small look, three big looks, even if the Hound Sister killed the scouts, they would not run over to scout.

This made the Holy See a little nervous, fearing another round of bombardment, fearing that these troops would attack the scout advance team, and that the army coming behind would take advantage of their weakness after the bombardment to give them a hard blow.

Both sides were very nervous.

But this had nothing to do with the Eastern Alliance and the Teutonic Knights who were confronting each other on the river bank.

German looked at the other side of the Rhine, and there were black-haired and black-eyed people on the other side of the river.

This was originally a commercial city of the Teutonic Knights. After the war broke out, sandbags were laid out to turn it into a trench. The musketeers stationed here made the defense line even stronger.

So far, the Eastern Allied Forces have only launched a large-scale offensive against the Teutonic Knights in the third area of ​​the fortification, which directly smashed half of the No. 3 fortress.

The soldiers in armor started close combat in the stone fortress in an extremely bloody way. You shot through your chainmail, and you cut through your plate armor with a knife. When the runes on the knife were worn out, you would find a new weapon to continue to kill the enemy in front of you.

The casualties of ordinary troops in the first encounter between the two sides reached a staggering 5,000.

There was no room for both sides to retreat in the narrow alleys. Either you swing your knife forward or you die.

The river prevented the coalition forces from immediately deploying their overwhelming military superiority. The coalition forces did not have an overwhelming military superiority, which allowed the Teutonic Knights to win in close combat. After realizing that they were at a disadvantage in hand-to-hand combat, the coalition forces quickly retreated like the ebb tide.

They waited for the next opportunity to attack.

"This turtle shell is really hard to knock."

Gao Yu put down the telescope in his hand and spat.