The veteran Moto Iben had already fallen asleep, but was woken up by the noise outside, and walked out of the room wearing a coat, the light in front of him suddenly burst into a daze, the old man opened his blurred eyes, and tried to let go of the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes to see the scene in front of him, "This is?"

The red light shone on the old man's stunned face, the old man held on to the balcony fence, and looked at most of the town in horror, just like this, it burned in front of him, the fire lit up the red sky, and the noise of chaos came from a distance, and in the distance, there were countless red points of light like brilliant fireworks, pouring down from the direction of the high Baluta Fortress to the top of the town, this was the light of death, it was the enemy's rocket cluster,

The flames first started in the area closest to the direction of the Baruta Fortress, and quickly spread to the rest of the town, and by the time the town patrol shouted, the flames were already like a huge fiery red beast, opening its bloody mouth to the entire town.

The town below the fortress of Baruta was already located on the tuyere of a canyon, and it was the season of spring and summer, and the howling night wind made the fire unstoppable, and the rows of wooden houses were almost instantaneous, and the houses that were engulfed in flames collapsed in pieces as if they were pushed by a big red hand, "Ah, help!"

There was a terrible scream in the distance,

The veteran Motoi's eyebrows frowned slightly, there was a camp for wounded soldiers at the intersection of the street in front of him, and now it had been ignited by fire, although he couldn't see anything, but his nose could already feel the scorching heat on his face, and an unbearable scorching smell, thinking that there were more than a thousand wounded soldiers in that camp, the old man's fingers tightly grasped the railing of the balcony, "Is this a night attack?" The old man muttered to himself, at this time, the adjutant stumbled over, with the ashes falling along the way, and his face was very pale. It seemed that he was also frightened, and he panted and said to the old man, "My lord, the fire is too fierce to be controlled, and the base camp orders everyone to evacuate the city immediately!"

"Everyone, evacuate, what about the wounded soldiers?" the veteran Motoi turned around and walked into the room, picked up a piece of clothing casually, and asked casually as he walked towards the door, "Is that what the base camp says? Those wounded soldiers are injured but they can't see the road, and now everyone is running." Who will help them evacuate, such a big fire, it is still difficult for normal people to evacuate, is the base camp to let the wounded soldiers fend for themselves here!"

"Lord Leopold has ordered the troops outside the city to enter the city immediately to carry the wounded, but the fire is spreading too fast, and I am afraid that it will ...... The attack broke out too suddenly, and it was full coverage from the beginning, and we have a decent situation here, the area that was first attacked has completely burned up. Not to mention the wounded soldiers, even the officers are hardly spared! According to the news, there have already been casualties among the generals!

The adjutant hesitated, his face complicated. Don't worry, as long as the rescue is timely, most of the wounded soldiers should be rescued!"

"Lord Leopold has ordered all the armies outside the city to enter the city to rescue the wounded?" The veteran Motoi nodded with satisfaction, in terms of disposal measures, Leopold did something very appropriately. But the rich experience of the battle formation for a long time made the veteran faintly feel that something was wrong in his heart.

As he walked down the steps, the veteran looked at the rockets drawn over the town in confusion, and his pale eyebrows were twisted together, and he found his confusion.

No! The Falcon Arrows were launched at the wrong time.

Although it can be used to catch the coalition forces off guard, it is inevitable to achieve some results,

However, the other side carried out an attack of this scale on the second night, it seemed too impatient! If it is an experienced commander, he will definitely choose to wait for two more days, and wait until the coalition forces storm the fortress and the city is full of wounded soldiers, then it is the best opportunity to launch such an arrow attack, and it is also possible to get the greatest results, but now, the other party is so impatient to play this very strong counterattack hole card, at most it is just to play the role of attack.

After all, the coalition army has less than 50,000 troops in towns, of which nearly 20,000 are wounded who have lost their combat effectiveness, and the main force of nearly 100,000 people is still outside the city. If the opposing commander is a shallow rookie, it is still understandable, but it can be seen from the offensive and defensive battles during the day that the opposing commander is a very ruthless and cunning guy, obviously has a very powerful hole card, and he was stunned until the coalition army almost attacked the city wall before playing, how could such a person be so impatient? "Can the city gate pass now?" The veteran Motoi took the reins of the war horse from the guard's hand, turned over on the horse, and suddenly asked in a loud voice" I don't know, when I came just now, I saw that the city gate was full of people, there were generals and horse teams who were evacuated from outside the city, there were also people who were ordered to enter the city to transfer the wounded soldiers, and a large number of wounded soldiers who escaped from the city were also blocked there, anyway, it was completely messed up" The adjutant who followed behind smiled awkwardly at the corner of his mouth, "Such a fire, everyone can only take care of each other and do their best" "Do your best!"

The veteran Motoi's hands holding the horsewhip were clenched together, but the uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, could this arrow attack of the Falcon Army really be a wrong attack launched by the opposing commander at the wrong time? If not, what is the real intention of the other party?

Suddenly, there was a tidal sound of fighting from outside the city

"This is!" the veteran Motoi pricked up his ears to listen, and seemed to have found the answer, and his face changed,

The other side actually took advantage of the chaos and launched an active counterattack with inferior forces to everyone's expectations! Is this the answer of the other side tonight! According to intelligence, the total number of troops of the Falcon Army in the direction of Baruta is 60,000, plus the battle losses of the last two consecutive battles, there is at least 50,000 combat strength, and if the whole line is pressed at this time, it will definitely be a disaster for the coalition forces whose entire command system is almost paralyzed.

On the outskirts of Baruta, Salton's 20,000 elite Southern Second Army assault force slammed into the defensive line outside the coalition camp with unstoppable force from the high mountain passes

Most of the coalition soldiers were attracted by the direction of the burning town, and when they found the three thousand Nord Hurricane Tomahawk cavalry speeding down from the heights, the opponent took advantage of the speed of the mountain to rush into a range of fifty meters in the blink of an eye, these Nord Hurricane Tomahawk cavalry wore light chain mail, held cavalry round shields and battle axes in their hands, and the standard armor of the Falcon Imperial Army was the same color as the night. rushed out of the dense mountain bushes, and a whole large area was like a dark cloud, blocking the view of the coalition sentinels.

"Enemy Attack"

The mournful voice of the sentry sounded at the same time as the sound of horses' hooves, which was already clearly audible, and there was no time!

"Bang, bang, bang!" The wooden platoon flew sideways, but in a few seconds, the hooves of the Nord Tomahawk cavalry had already smashed through the unstable wooden fence of the camp, and the coalition camp was completely open.

The sentinels above looked down in a daze, in the violent trembling of the earth. Like a black torrent of enemy cavalry, he sat on the ground with his butt slumped, and the alarm bells hanging on the wooden shelves swayed from side to side, making a low sound

"Kill!"

A coalition patrol rushed in head-on by the intruding cavalry,

Like a sharp knife, along a visible incision, the skin of the target was cut open with a brush, and the Nord Tomahawk cavalry rolled the killing tomahawk and mercilessly stomped the horse at full speed from the head of the coalition soldier who was blocking in front of him. forcibly crashed into the half-fanned coalition camp in front of him,

"Forward, rush in" The overwhelming shouts of killing sounded in the back at the same time, followed by the three thousand sharp knives that impacted. It was followed by thousands of Nord infantry, black-armoured Nord men with long-handled battle axes in their hands and grim metal coverings on their faces. Like a flood that has broken a dam and poured in violently,

Seeing the scattered infantry of the other side is to be hacked to death with an axe. The Second Army in the South of the Empire was originally a collection of Nord's elite troops, and most of the soldiers in it were veterans who had experienced real bloody battles, so their cluster advance was so rapid and unstoppable, and the coalition soldiers were killed and ran wildly

Someone shouted "Retreat!" The soldiers turned and fled, the coalition infantry rushed into each other, and on their flanks, the Nord cavalry kept running back and forth and sprinting, and everywhere there were routed and broken soldiers in a chaotic formation,

"Boom" The heavy tomahawks of the Nord warriors smashed through the entire shield wall in front of them, and in an exclamation, the defensive shield wall of the coalition squadron was instantly cut in half, these soldiers who were awakened in the second half of the night, exhaustion and fear were still written on their pale faces, and the blazing fire in the direction of the rear base camp illuminated the sky was enough to confuse them, and the fierce black-armored strong man in front of him frantically brandished a big axe that made people feel even their souls and slashed fiercely, plopping, the sharp battle axe split the bones, and the bright red blood touched the bodies of the other coalition soldiers around him as if it was squeezed,

"Woo woo" hurriedly received the battle cry, one after another outside the city, "Immediately give an order, each army will fight separately!"

Leopold, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces who commanded the evacuation in the city, received a report of an attack on the troops outside the city, and when he hastily issued this order, the generals of the coalition forces were still blocked in the city, and a large number of wounded people needed to be transported out, and the gates of the small town were so big that even if the two gates were all used, they would not be able to get out in a short time, and the command of the coalition forces was completely blocked in the city.

Leopold could only give the order to send the generals of the main army from the city wall to the outside of the city with hanging baskets, after such a toss, the best time for defense has been lost, the teams outside the city have not been fighting, they have long been dispersed, the chaos has spread to the right side of the entire coalition camp, and about 60,000 troops have been swept in,

The two lines of defense in front were broken, the dead were one by one, and the scattered troops were everywhere,

The hastily assembled troops were killed by the Nord infantry and collapsed one after another, under the strong impact pressure of the Nord infantry, the coalition forces that could not know the number of opponents chose to retreat on the whole line, and the huge camp covering an area of ten square miles had a large range of more than half of the range, like dominoes that had been pushed down,

The Nord army that broke through set fire to all the tents with torches, the city was blazing, and the outside of the city was also blazing, the coalition forces were already stunned, the generals who came out of the city could not find their troops at all, the troops were all intended, the officers could not find the soldiers, and the screams and screams of the wounded soldiers were even more chilling in the chaos,

The corpses all over the ground, the bright red blood stained the ground under their feet, and the large and small pits on the ground were stained into pools of blood, and everyone moved closer to me!" The generals of the coalition army could only take their guards to reassemble their troops, wearing the red cloak of the representative general, waving the command sword in their hands and running between the routs, looking for their own soldiers.

Salton was in front of a coalition corpse, violently reined in the war horse, the horse's hooves stepped heavily into the pool of blood below, his eyes looked at the distant horizon that had turned white, it was almost dawn, he looked nearby again, the corners of his mouth grinned slightly, yes, the harvest was quite rich, the coalition camp got at least half of the tents burned by himself. The town burned for a night, it is estimated that there is nothing left, the logistics materials of the coalition army are all hoarded in the city, and it is a miracle that the next achievement can be preserved now, the rainy season is coming, and more than 100,000 troops will fall into a mud and hunger in the continuous rainy season, which is an invisible and cruel blow to any army. "Blow the trumpet. Tell the whole army to withdraw from the battlefield!" Toldon waved his hand to the herald cavalry behind him, and after a night of fierce fighting, his general's armor was covered with blood and shredded flesh, and the knight's sword in his hand drooped slightly. There are red blood beads dripping from above, although Salton is a famous Nord general, but he is not the kind of fierce general who has a violent force value, and he has completed the combat mission. There is no need to continue to entangle,

With one-third of the troops, it is impossible to forcibly swallow up the coalition forces.

But it is entirely possible to defeat the other side by constantly attacking and weakening, this is the strategic deployment explained in the Falcon Majesty's order, introducing the coalition forces into small towns, the towns are so big, the opponent's command system and logistics will inevitably be in the city, using the opportunity to paralyze the opponent's command system to severely damage the opponent's logistics and morale, waiting for the other party to be exhausted, is the best opportunity to give the coalition army this giant beast a fatal blow, he received the order of the Falcon Majesty, and it is only a request to destroy the opponent's logistics, not to destroy the coalition army's order,

What he excels at is clear judgment and sharp intuition, as well as the ability to predict battle damage before the battle, which is why he has earned the nickname "Remnant Lion", and the battle is fought on this, and Salton knows it very well. Temporary advantages are lost at dawn,

Once the sky is clear, the coalition forces find that the raid on their camp is only 20,000 people, and they will definitely press it up with all their strength in shame and anger, if it is cavalry, you can use the advantage of mobility to turn around and leave, but most of the infantry you bring are infantry, so you can only evacuate before the other party fully reacts,

In the rumbling battle horn, the assault Nord soldiers began to withdraw from the mountain road, and the coalition army sent light cavalry to pursue, but as soon as they ran up the mountain road, they were shot over a lot by the flickering arrow clusters from the fog from the heights, and the 10,000 crossbowmen had already completely blocked the mountain road, and the heavy ballista was pressing, unless the other party sent a legion-level attack, it was a dead end,

The light cavalry of the coalition army was pressed back several times, and finally left with the corpses of thousands of men and horses

When the morning came, the noise of the fierce battle completely calmed down,

Leopold, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, came to the logistics warehouse after the fire, his eyes were full of charred and black ruins, only a pile of black and unrecognizable residues remained, his face was ugly like a dead wife, and the logistics rations of more than 100,000 troops were burned three-quarters, but fortunately, last night the logistics officer desperately organized people to fight the fire, and finally saved two of the ten granaries,

And last night's losses in troops were also quite heavy,

Just the fire, there were more than 3,000 deaths of the coalition army in the city, including thirty captain-level officers and the general from the Kuluo Kingdom, Marquis Si Donghua, the general of the coalition army was drunk that night, and was burned alive, fortunately, the Kuluo Kingdom is only a small country in Central Europe and Barrow, so it is not a too strict incident,

The losses outside the city were even greater, more than 100,000 troops were caught off guard by the other side, plus the command system was completely out of control, and the various armies fought separately, but when the other side withdrew, they found that the number of the other side was not much, at most the scale of 20,000 people, but the battle losses suffered by this side in this raid reached 7,000 killed, 13,000 wounded, and more than 300 missing.

One of the first troops to be attacked, very unfortunately, was the troops of the Marquis of Fitt of the Kingdom of Rayla.

This time, in order to show its will to become a real first-line power after the Gangfei Empire, the elite troops of 10,000 people specially sent by the Rela Kingdom have not really shown their strength, so they have been completely reimbursed. The Marquis of Fit, who led the army, had a face like ashes, and after reorganizing the last remaining 700 remnants of the army, he committed suicide by swallowing poison in his tent to apologize

Panic spread among the coalition forces, the Baluta Fortress is still as stable as a mountain, and the coalition forces have pushed the battle damage to the red line of 40,000 people in only the third day, most of the camp has been burned, the military food supply is in a stagnation, and the morale and military morale are low to the freezing point, and now the coalition generals are pulling their heads one by one, and they no longer feel that Leopold said at the meeting that it was a joke to leave 70,000 people in the Baruta Fortress, and even felt that such an estimate was a bit too conservative, 70,000 people, what are you kidding, if you want to capture the Baluta Fortress, you need at least 100,000 corpses！

The nature of the great river will never change because of human willpower, and on the fifth day of the attack and defense of the Baruta Fortress, the rainy season of spring and summer communication has finally arrived, (to be continued......