Chapter 222: Win?
General Schindler's eyes were blank, his face was pale, and he had fallen into despair.
Stepping into the ranks of the top powerhouses in the mainland, his powerful strength greatly weakened the influence of the Five Elements Great Array on him, allowing him to vaguely perceive the current situation of his army.
But General Schindler preferred not to feel anything himself.
What's the use of knowing? You can't do anything, you can't change anything!
Capturing Anthony's orders and the sound of long locust-like arrows in the air, General Schindler realized that he had completely lost control of his troops and could no longer bring his soldiers back from the chaos.
And the outcome of this battle has completely lost its suspense so far.
Did you lose yourself? Did you fail?
General Schindler muttered to himself, as if he had fallen into a madness.
The commander of the Riga army had given up on his last attempts and efforts, and the top brass of the Glorious Empire were stunned as they watched the dying enemy fall into a state of stupor.
Is this a win? We won so easily!?
The other side is the Riga army!
More than 15,000 Riga troops who can fight well and are extremely fierce!
Marquis Marco's eyes and mouth were wide open, and his face was a mixture of excitement, ecstasy, and disbelief, and the grace and aristocratic demeanor that he had always taken great care to maintain were long gone.
At this time, who cares about what kind of demeanor and demeanor!
The Marquis only felt that there was a commotion in his head, and he was already a little silly happy. Among all the excited and inexplicable thoughts, there is one thought that is the strongest.
This thought was not an admiration for Anthony's genius ability and another miracle, but an irrepressible admiration for his father.
His father, the Grand Duke of Smois, and the entire province of Hanover, have once again bet on the right treasure!
How significant the significance of this victory, and how far-reaching and wide-ranging the impact, even if Marquis Marco was not the general who led the army, he could roughly estimate an outline.
It can be said that this is the most decisive victory since the outbreak of the all-out conflict between the two empires, the most critical turning point of the entire war situation, and the signal and opportunity for the glorious empire to rebound strongly from the downward trend!
It was Anthony, a talented boy who made the Marquis Marco family stake his life on the line.
When he first saw the whole picture of this plan in the palace of the Grand Dukes of Mateus, in the province of Burgundy, the Marquis was deeply struck by the bravado of the young general.
The plan is simple to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than to temporarily abandon the care of other battlefields, mobilize all forces, set up an ambush circle, and encircle and annihilate the most powerful and difficult number one enemy in the empire in one fell swoop: Schindler's Riga army!
But everything in the world is easier said than done, not to mention the hidden danger of drawing out troops to other battlefields, just dealing with the 20,000 thousand plus army is not something that the glorious empire can do whatever it wants.
Who can guarantee that they will be able to lead the enemy into a trap? Who will take on the dangerous task of decoting the enemy? Even if you succeed in making the enemy fall into an ambush, how can you guarantee that you will be able to annihilate the opponent?
You must know that it is not a large herd of sheep, but 20,000 fierce wolves, even if they fall into a trap, they will not be slaughtered without the ability to resist. Considering the strength of the enemy and us, the forces gathered by the Brilliant Empire do not have an overwhelming advantage, so it is not necessary to fight an early Armageddon at that time.
In this way, Jean is also worried about supporting Marquis Anthony Marco according to his father's instructions. Although his mouth was very quick at that time, his heart was already full of gods and Buddhas who prayed for it.
But Anthony just had the courage and the faith. He not only unswervingly carried out the plan, but also took over the two most important and crucial tasks, luring the enemy and arranging the battlefield.
And as a result, he succeeded.
A brilliant victory!
The shock in the heart of General Muller was no less than that of Marquis Marco. As a pure army general, he focused more on the war itself.
At the end of the counterinsurgency campaign in Taranto, General Muller was ordered to lead the army to support the Aberdeen army, which was already in absolute crisis. It was also at that time that he first met this talented boy who was in the limelight.
From the descriptions of the middle and high-ranking generals in Aberdeen, combined with General Muller's own observations, he can roughly restore the situation of the two armies at that time.
From any point of view, Aberdeen's side is a death-defying situation. And if it's not good, it's the kind that will die immediately.
If General Müller had been in command himself, he would at most have seen through the enemy's plot and ordered the army to seize a group of enemies and attack fiercely. He did not seek to break through the formation, let alone dare to hope that defeat would turn into victory, but at least he would drag an enemy unit to back, and he would not let Frankie's plan succeed.
But Anthony, who had hastily closed the command at that time, made a completely different choice.
He held his ground, fought and retreated. Although he could not get out of danger, he also maintained the situation and did not fall into the abyss.
Even when the enemy knew that his Tiger Cavalry Regiment was about to arrive on the scene, he was able to maintain a delicate balance between the two sides, so that the enemy would not be desperate and inflict too much damage on the exhausted Aberdeen army.
With such a means of unifying the army, General Muller could only be amazed and willing to bow down. I just hated not being able to stand by Anthony's side and witness the young man's amazing command talent.
Today, he finally had the honor to personally participate in such a big battle that can be described as the world's attention. But what was seen was another terrifying ability beyond Anthony's means of command.
Today, when the magic culture is highly developed and the fighting spirit forms the two pillars of the Ostronian continent's professional system, the use and defense of magical abilities in the army has become a compulsory course for all generals.
If two armies of equal strength join in with a large amount of magical power, the stalemate between attack and defense will immediately become a one-sided situation.
As the core high-ranking member of the Brilliant Emperor, General Muller was clear about Anthony's spending countless magic materials to arrange such a huge magic array. Although he didn't say anything, he had a different opinion in his heart. If the two didn't have the opportunity to meet directly, he would have asked Anthony for his advice.
Schindler has a considerable amount of sorcerer power under his command, unless all of them are deaf and blind. Otherwise, who could this large-scale magic array hide from?
As it turned out, Anthony had thought of everything he could think of. And what Anthony wanted to do, even if it was clearly there, he Mueller still couldn't figure it out anyway.
Isn't the idea and idea of genius really measurable by ordinary people?
Just hiding and covering tens of thousands of troops and avoiding the detection of enemy magicians is already a priceless treasure.
Think about it, in the unsheltered and endless plains, the leader is marching in a relaxed and relaxed mood. Suddenly, there was a trumpet, and countless enemy troops appeared out of thin air around them, smashing into the unsuspecting loose formation......
Such a scenario is a nightmare for any general who leads troops, and he has to fight a cold war when he thinks about it.
What is even worse is that this kind of undetectable and unguardable ambush has kept the enemy's officers and men in a state of extreme tension. Whether you are marching, camping, or eating and resting, you must always be on guard against attacks that are coming at any time. After a long time, who can withstand it? Without the enemy coming closer, the soldiers themselves were tortured to the point of collapse.
As for the magic array called the "Five Elements Great Array", which was surrounded by the army of the Glorious Empire and made the Riga army kill each other, it made General Muller take a few breaths.
The fundamental difference between a well-trained army and a ragtag army is precisely because all the soldiers are coordinated and move in unison, so as to exert powerful attack power. This five-element array forcibly separated the soldiers, not only could not form a joint force, but also fell into infighting because they couldn't see each other.
The so-called bloodless soldiers, I'm afraid it refers to the situation in front of you. Even without the archers ordered by Anthony, the fifteen thousand Riga troops in the formation would have lost most of them to fratricidal fighting.
As for the soldiers who were lucky enough to save their lives, I am afraid that they have also completely lost their combat capability. Do they have any other way to survive than surrender?
Mueller never imagined that the battle could be won so easily, so easily.
Tang Feng's ideas were different from those of Marquis Marco and General Mueller.
Although he was also amazed by the brilliant results of this battle, the focus of his attention was not on the encirclement and annihilation battle itself, which had already doomed the result.
It can be said that the main reason for the defeat of the Riga army was the magic array arranged by Anthony that subverted everyone's cognition.
But that was the work of the magicians, Tang Feng was a general with troops, and this aspect was not something he should consider and pay attention to.
A series of actions to lure the enemy before this final battle were the focus of Tang Feng's research and study.
At this point, it was clear to everyone, both friend and foe, that the 3,300 men led by Anthony and Tang Feng were decoys for the purpose of luring the Riga army into this flat land.
This mountainous area is so large that it is not easy to lead the enemy army to a fixed place. General Schindler was not a mediocre man, and if Anthony had retreated all the way to this side, he would have been suspicious of where he would have followed, as they had hoped.
According to Anthony, he wanted Schindler to voluntarily drive to this flat land, and he refused to let him go.
This was a bit of a joke, but it turned out to be a reality. General Schindler really took great pains to maintain the direction of the movement of the enemy and our armies, and strode all the way to this death trap that buried the entire army.
On the way, Anthony commanded the squad in charge of "pestering and harassment", and deliberately deviated from the direction several times. General Schindler, like a conscientious sheepdog, labored to drive the "naughty little lamb" back to the right path.
Anthony's performance is very realistic, as if he is not willing to go this way. Tang Feng, who clearly understood the inside story and his own purpose, secretly sweated, for fear that the boss would overdo it.
You know, in order to "lead Anthony into the right path", the Riga military territory has suffered a lot. If Schindler can't stand it anymore and gives up the drive, Anthony, who is responsible for seducing but playing with fire, will be embarrassed.
Tang Feng didn't know how he was able to grasp Schindler's psychological changes in detail, so as to make the most targeted countermeasures - this is where he wants to learn and explore.
Different people have different understandings and opinions about this big battle, but the same thing is that no one will think that the Riga army still has any hope of turning the tables.
Especially the teenagers who made them all start to be a little in awe of their own people once again gave a new order.
"Wizard troops, prepare ......"