Chapter 837: A Brilliant Victory
In the face of Sophia's army with a mixture of hot and cold weapons, even the well-preserved Hai Ridong Department would not be able to attack them for a long time, let alone when they were in chaos.
The whole process is a one-sided slaughter.
Rivers of blood.
Mountains of corpses piled up.
The massacre lasted three days and three nights.
The Odin orcs in the Sea and Winter were completely killed, and many would rather burrow back into the misty area and walk north like headless flies than hit Sophia's iron plate.
Although the canopy of the dead has a certain psychedelic effect on ordinary people, it will make the person in it lose their sense of direction.
However, the base of the sea and winter department is large enough, and there are always some lucky ones who go in the right direction by mistake and rush out from the north.
Limited by his own strength, the Eternal Night Commander has no ability to lay heavy troops here, so he can only let this opening open, so that these lucky people, like lost dogs, fled all the way back to the Odin steppe.
They are like fish back in the sea, plunged headlong into the savannah, and never to be seen again.
According to the statistics after the fact, from their pocket array, the Odin orcs who escaped by luck were definitely less than 10,000.
The total number of dead in the battle exceeded 120,000, more than 30,000 were captured, more than 80,000 fine war horses, and more than 4 million cattle and sheep.
Hai Ridong's number one general, Chief Greg, is confirmed dead, and Chief Hai Ridong is missing, and his life and death are unknown.
In addition, there are more than 50,000 elite horsemen in the Hai Ridong Department, 30,000 are used to resist the right army of the broken blood cavalry, and 20,000 are to block the supply of resources in Sophia's back road, and they are not in the trap carefully designed by Sean and Sophia.
Among them, Terrence, the general of the 20,000 elite cavalry, is a smart man who is one by one, and has made the choice that smart people are accustomed to.
When he found that he couldn't do anything, he didn't rush forward with a tendon, but turned his head and gave a false order, and the 30,000 elite horsemen were also incorporated into his command.
Swinging the army south, all the way to conquer the city, at the right time, never stay in the same place for more than three days, the wolf guerrilla tactics to the extreme, unless it is a fortress fortress with tall walls and geography, ordinary towns can not resist their invasion at all.
In just two weeks, no less than 20 small and medium-sized towns were plundered by them.
Most of them are towns under the rule of the Grand Duke of Patelem.
After the war broke out in full swing and Sophia erected the banner of reorganization in the east, Archduke Patlem did not dare to return to the territory from the royal capital Valesta, lest he accidentally be directly annexed by Sophia, but he only commanded the defense affairs in the territory remotely.
Even if he is a military leader of the Eternal Night with relatively developed communications, Sean does not dare to command by remote control casually, and he does it himself through several clones.
The remote command of the Grand Duke of Patlem is a joke, and the entire territory is in a state of scattered sand.
And this Odin orc, under the leadership of Terrence, is like mercury in the ground, turning to drill where there are gaps, as the weakest territory of the Grand Duke of Patlem, it is naturally the most unlucky.
This is still the result of the right army of the Broken Pulse Blood Cavalry, closely following their butts, making them a little unable to let go of their hands and feet.
The territory of the Grand Duke of Patlem was invaded, and the people who suffered below naturally could not put the blame on Sophia, who had just won a brilliant victory, after all, she had no duty to protect them.
Instead, they complained to the head of Archduke Patlem, who had not appeared from beginning to end.
All of a sudden, the reputation of the Grand Duke of Patlem fell to the freezing point in his own territory.
Many local nobles, in order to protect themselves, begged Sophia to send a large army to help them, and did not hesitate to turn their backs on the Grand Duke of Patlem and unilaterally swore allegiance to Princess Sophia.
Archduke Patleme, who was far away in the royal capital Valesta, heard the news, and jumped to his feet in a hurry, but he was helpless.
Because along with this news, there was also the news that Sophia led a group of patchwork coalition forces to achieve a brilliant victory.
In front of the incredible news of the annihilation of 150,000 elite Odin orcs.
Everyone couldn't help but ignore the turmoil caused by these 50,000 fish that slipped through the net.
The first reaction of everyone who heard the news was impossible.
It is impossible to compare troops, and it is impossible to analyze the types of troops.
If this result is reversed, it is easier to believe.
In terms of troops, there are 200,000 brave and warlike Odin orcs on one side, and less than 100,000 on the other.
What will the latter take to defeat and annihilate the former?
In terms of troops, one side is a cavalry that grows up on horseback, the other side has no more than 30,000 cavalry, and the rest are infantry running on two legs.
Making full use of tactics, the examples of infantry annihilating cavalry are rare in historical records, but they are not without them at all.
However, these examples of warfare often have a very difficult to replicate the time and place, and even make full use of the enemy's mistakes, before they succeed, most of them still occur in the case of several times the infantry of the cavalry, to the extent that the strength of the two sides is also equal, and the infantry is less than the cavalry, which is really unheard of.
In particular, Sophia's side was still in no danger to defend, and it was in the plains where the cavalry was most likely to give full play to their mobile advantages.
Even if they are lucky enough to defeat the Hairi Winter Division, the other party can still scatter in a hurry, and it is impossible to annihilate them all!
Can the Hai Ridong chief be stupid enough to make his own people a live target, waiting for the other party to fail?
If the other party was stupid, he would not have come to his current position under the strong suppression of Ulaanbari and led the army alone.
Before the specific information was in hand, everyone wanted to break their heads, and they couldn't figure out how Sophia did it.
It wasn't until they knew that the camp of the Sea and Winter was shrouded in the fog of the Broken Blood Fortress that it dawned on them.
The Odin orcs in the winter department of the sea and the winter have really become a live target.
Since the sudden loss of contact with the Broken Blood Fortress, the entire Broken Vein defense line has collapsed.
All the forces have paid great attention to this place and the fog here, and have invested a lot of manpower and material resources in research.
Although he has little to gain from the specific operating principle, he has a full understanding and cognition of the strangeness of this unnatural magical phenomenon.
This is definitely not a force that normal people can deal with.
The only thing they could hope for before this power dawned was to wait for it to dissipate on its own.
Two weeks ago, when the mist spread out in streaks, it had already caused great panic among many people, especially the new royal court.
If it is allowed to spread, the threat and harm it will cause will be far greater than that of the Odin orcs this time.
It's just that before this, except for Ulaanba Ri, who more or less guessed, this has an inseparable relationship with the Sean Lord of the Eternal Night Army.
Most people only think that this is the means and conspiracy of the undead empire, and as for cutting off things and blocking the connection between the two armies of Odin, it is just a coincidence.
If the fog directly shrouded the military camp of the Sea and Winter Division, it would not be such a simple coincidence.
What does this mean?
This shows that it is not only the Undead Empire that has mastered the use of the mist, but also Sophia, more precisely, the Eternal Night Leader standing behind Sophia.
This shows that the fog that separated things before was not a means of the Undead Empire, but was concocted by the Eternal Night Leader.
This speculation directly made the new royal court headed by King Laurie a little unable to sit still.
Because Sophia's identity is really sensitive.
When she erected the banner of reorganizing the defense line in the east, it made many forces below smell the breath of opportunity and were ready to move.
The interior of the new royal court is not monolithic now, and in the process of reorganization, they are bound to move the cake of those old forces.
It's just that the main forces of the new royal court are too strong, and these old forces have no leader, so they can only swallow their anger.
If the appearance of Princess Sophia is just an opportunity for them to see, then this brilliant victory gives them hope.
For them, the iron-fisted methods of Princess Sophia's regency are more nostalgic than King Laurie, who does not play his cards according to common sense.
In view of the current complicated situation of the Byron Alliance, it is obviously unrealistic to invite Sophia back and regain control of the royal family, but it is still what many people are willing to see for her to draw a line and rule, control half of the royal family, and compete with King Laurie's new royal court.
Only when there is pressure from the outside, King Laurie will not whimsically mess around.
Sophia didn't move such thoughts, and no one knew for the time being.
But the new royal court has taken precautions against this matter, and the world knows it.
As soon as the news of Sophia's brilliant victory reached the royal capital Valesta, the new royal court reacted by drafting a public letter of thanks in the name of King Laurie, thanking Princess Sophia for her outstanding service to the Lancelot royal family.
And made it clear that Princess Sophia had completed the extra tasks, and that the rest of the work would be left to the royal court, and that they would send a general to take over the eastern front of the Broken Pulse Line.
Ignoring the huge pressure caused to them by the Odin orcs led by Ulaanbari, the new royal court forcibly dispatched five new army legions of the royal court and went to the eastern front of the Broken Pulse Defense Line with great fanfare, preparing to accept the fortifications here.
The implication is very obvious, it is the responsibility of their new royal court to defend the Byron Alliance, what you Sophia has done, now you can pack up your things and continue to return to the Eternal Night Army Leader to be your lord's wife.
This blatant act of stealing the fruits of victory has aroused the anger of countless people.
What are you doing early?
When the 200,000 elite Orcs led by the Sea Ri Winter Department were arrogant, and the right line of the entire Broken Vein Defense Line fell apart, I didn't see you come out to declare ownership, nor did I see that what you did to reprimand Sophia had already crossed the line.
Now that the 200,000 troops of the Hai Ri Winter Department have been wiped out, and only 50,000 fish are left, you can remember.
But the question is, what are you doing with just sending 25,000 new troops from the royal court?
I'm afraid that I can't even eat the 50,000 Odin orcs who rushed into the hinterland, right?
Could it be that you are still ready to take over the coalition army that Sophia has single-handedly formed?
This kind of shameless behavior, even if it stands for legitimate righteousness, makes people despised.
Sophia's attitude this time was unexpectedly tough, and she directly replied to the request of the new royal court with practical actions.
A week after eating the sea and winter divisions, the coalition forces split in two.
They used the war horses captured from the Hai Ri Winter Division, selected the veterans of the armed broken veins, and let them form a cavalry of 20,000 people.
This cavalry was not cavalry in the traditional sense, but a musketeer cavalry who redistributed the 20,000 muskets to them.
After all, being able to ride a horse and fighting on a horse are two different concepts, especially when they are facing a group of enemies who have grown up on horseback, and it is even more unrealistic to compete with them for the ability to fight on horseback.
This musketeer is more suitable than a cavalryman, but a musketeer on horseback.
The battle plan drawn up for them by the military staff, riding on horseback, after catching up with the enemy, dismounted and shot into battle.
Of course, shooting on horseback is also a general trend for them.
They obviously didn't have time to train, and they didn't have a clear rule to follow, so they could only train on the spot while pursuing.
In addition, the Iron Rose Knights took the original knights as the core, and pulled up 10,000 traditional cavalry, plus the 10,000 broken blood cavalry right army that had been biting behind Odin's orc.
40,000 cavalry was enough to suppress the 50,000 Odin orcs who had already lost their hearts.
And so it is.
What kind of general, what kind of soldiers.
Under the leadership of Terrence, this Odin orc is more cunning than brave.
Even in the face of the 10,000 bloody cavalry right army, they did not have the courage to fight to the death.
Not to mention the large number of reinforcements, 20,000 of which still consisted of musketeers that terrified them.
They just caught up, and a burst of gunfire smashed their few courages and fled.
Terrence's purpose was obvious, and after plundering enough to support their most basic survival, he immediately retreated north and returned to the Odin steppe.
With an elite army of 200,000, they may still have the ability to stir up trouble here.
There are only 50,000 left, and the longer they stay here, the greater the danger of being eaten.
As for the method of retreating north, there is no doubt about it.
Compared to Sophia, who has many strange methods, he would rather take a long way, bypassing the fog barrier, and joining up with the western army led by Ulaanbari.
In all fairness.
The 50,000 Odin orcs led by Terrence collided with the three new royal court legions sent by the new court to harvest the fruits of Sophia's victory.
The results can be imagined.
When Sophia's 40,000 cavalry arrived.
The 20,000 new army of the royal court has been directly defeated and scattered by the Odin orcs with three wild charges, and the mountains and fields are full of the figures of the new army of the royal court fleeing.
The new army of the royal court is not enough to fully compensate for the numerical disadvantage and the restraint of the troops.
This kind of battle situation in front of him is the correct way for the Odin orc cavalry to face the Byronic infantry.
This undoubtedly greatly inspired the courage of this Odin orc.