Chapter 783: The Lion and the Cunning Fox

Another month passed, and the tide of the war in the Kingdom of Française had changed again.

As a result of Louis's defeat and death, the remaining forces of the Kingdom of France were faced with two diametrically opposed choices, the Empire of Spinny or the Empire of Jimny.

Most of the noble ministers of the Kingdom of France chose to side with the Sbani Empire, while a few sided with the Jimny Empire.

When the game is over, a major battle between two empires, a powerful kingdom, and a top power (the Church of Light) begins.

On the fifth day after sending a surprise army to capture the city of Paris, the commander of the Spani side, Duke Lean, finally rushed to the city of Paris with his main force of nearly 200,000 rebel coalition troops, and in the city of Tuke, which was only three days away from the city of Paris, the army of Jimny was also waiting for a long time under the leadership of Marshal Rommel.

The very wide and vast plain between the cities of Tuk and Paris became the battlefield of the two armies.

Duke Leanne declared his policy of battle early on: "That fellow Rommel has always been known for his cunning, but his cunning will only suffer a shameful defeat in the face of the sheer strength of the coalition army, and this time the coalition army will drive this group of Jimny back to the east bank of the Inle River with a dignified army." ”

Field Marshal Rommel also responded: "I was told that the guy with the word Lion in front of his name has always been invincible, and I want to tell you that it is a fart at all!" If his Golden Lion Family and the Spany Empire were really so outstanding, then the entire Big 6 would have been prostrate at their feet! Brave and warlike Jimny warriors, join me to put an end to this boring lie of invincibility! ”

Before the armies officially engaged, it was the scout cavalry of both sides that fought first.

It seems that due to the influence of their respective marshals, the Scout Cavalry of the Spany Empire and the Jimney Empire displayed diametrically opposed styles in battle.

The Scout Cavalry of the Spanne Empire preferred to hedge head-on and shoot at each other, wanting to defeat the opposing side with their strict discipline and good coordination. The Jimny Cavalry, on the other hand, swings its agility to the extreme, and is completely in the style of hitting you in one wave and running, and then coming out from another angle and hitting you again in a wave and running again.

As a result, the scout cavalry on both sides had new nicknames. The cavalry of the Spanne Empire contemptuously referred to each other as "Jimny Rabbits", which was intended to satirize the guerrilla style of the Jimnys. The cavalry of the Jimny Empire, on the other hand, referred to their enemies as "Spinny Tortoises", mocking the fact that the Jimnis could not keep up with their fast horses.

The supreme commanders on both sides showed great composure and restraint, so that the "tortoise-hare race" between the scouting cavalry lasted for two weeks.

During these two weeks, the cavalry of both sides clashed countless times, and the overall record was one of victory and defeat.

But as time passed, both sides began to fight, and the size of the fighting cavalry continued to expand.

First it was a fight between several cavalry, then it slowly turned into a confrontation between two cavalry squads, then it became two cavalry squadrons, then a brigade, and when the cavalry generals on both sides were completely red-eyed and ready to dispatch the entire cavalry regiment and the opposite side to fight to the death, the real battle broke out at this time.

On 9 October, the 200,000 rebel coalition troops in Paris poured out, and opposite them, the 180,000 Jimny army had been waiting for a long time.

The two sides broke out in a classic battle on this great plain, which was later called the "battle between the lion and the cunning fox".

With a better overall strength and a spirit of victory, Spanny's army took the lead in launching a large-scale frontal assault on the Jimny camp on 11 October.

Countless arrows and magic rained down on the camp of the Jimny army, and it took less than an hour to destroy the camp completely.

But Marshal Rommel was very clever enough to withdraw most of the main force from the camp before the Spani attacked, and waited for the right moment about five miles behind the camp, leaving only about 10,000 troops to hold on to the camp as a means of confusing the Spani's army.

Under the cover of the phalanx of archers and the mage's regiment, Spanne's 30,000-strong forward army rushed into the camp with great difficulty, only to find that the camp looked dilapidated on the outside was nothing more than an empty shell.

Just when the forward team seemed a little confused because they had lost their goal, Rommel's counterattack arrived.

After a fierce battle, not only drove Spanny's vanguard out of the camp, but also wiped out a full 20,000 Spanny soldiers, at a slight cost of 3,000 men, plus 7,000 casualties in the previous camp, the Jimny people played a one-to-two ratio on the first day with the strategy of Marshal Rommel.

This result also made the Duke of Leanne on Spanne's side thunder, and beheaded the general who was ineffective in commanding the forward army on the spot.

The next day, the Sbanny army attacked again, this time again with bows and arrows and magic to open the way, and the stormtroopers then burst forward.

The next day, however, the resistance in the camp was even weaker, and the entire camp of Jimny looked like an empty camp.

Duke Leanne did not make yesterday's mistake this time, and after the vanguard army rushed into the camp, the entire Spanne army pressed on it, providing enough backup for the forward army.

However, to the surprise of Duke Leanne, this time Marshal Rommel simply abandoned the camp and led the army to retreat.

Duke Lean decided to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but after less than five kilometers of pursuit, the Duke dismissed this decision.

In front of the Spane army, another well-laid out, heavily defended battalion with more than 100,000 Jimny troops sitting on the defensive.

The Duke of Leanne wanted to attack, but since the archers' phalanx and the mage's regiment needed to rest, the Sbonney army chose to withdraw to the camp and temporarily abandoned today's offensive operation.

That night, 30,000 Gimny cavalry, under the command of Field Marshal Rommel, launched a night attack on the Sbonney camp at midnight.

But this time it was Marshal Rommel who miscalculated, and Duke Leanne had already judged the possibility of a night attack by the Jimnys, and the 30,000 Gimny cavalry were almost dumpled by the Spanne army, and they were able to retreat back to the camp after paying a heavy price of 20,000 cavalry.

After this defeat, Field Marshal Rommel refused to fight again in any case, but began a protracted defensive war with strong tents.

(End of chapter)