Chapter 338: Liancheng Collapses

After that day Galen and Prince Mackay fought in the middle tent, the Hidden King inadvertently told the latter's plan, and the prince favored Galen. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Here, when the overall situation is settled, the King of Hidden Faces is called. He was given a thousand soldiers, and he didn't say anything, and he was left to play as he pleases on the battlefield and acted cheaply.

The King of Concealment had not led troops before, but a bunch of younger brothers in the underworld Ulala had brought them, but compared with leading soldiers, there were things in common, and more were indeed strange and novel. When I'm on the Genma side, there are partners, or temporary cooperation with elite mercenaries. But compared to this time, it is a different feeling.

Fortunately, a person like the King of Concealment has achieved a certain level of achievement, and he will naturally have an accumulation of knowledge. It may not be possible to let him lead troops to fight, but he is more or less good at bringing a thousand elite soldiers to make trouble on the battlefield.

Therefore, when the Fourth Division, which His Highness used to break off, met the army that surrounded and suppressed him, the battle array was suddenly rushed to a precarious position.

Carrying a long stick of mixed copper weighing hundreds of kilograms, Galen was quick to see the weak points of the Imperial army's defenses and collapse them, and then led his troops to charge. A few back and forths will divide the battlefield.

"It's ...... you"

His Royal Highness James, who had formed an old enmity with Galen, was stunned, and he rushed over with his sword and sword, but the Hidden King used the long stick in his hand to swing away, and even the army that had just rushed behind him was torn apart.

However, these are only the tip of the iceberg, and the Imperial army is being flooded and dyed red by the army of red armor.

Countless red, human heads and angry roaring soldiers rushed from the mountains and forests, on the official roads, and from the hillsides. The team used by the Fourth Division to break off was scattered in a chaotic formation......

Soon after, His Royal Highness James, who was carried on his shoulders by Iwasa and carried south in the chaos of the army, woke up in the bumpy. Looking at the soldier who followed Iwasa all the way away, with the horror of the Imperial soldier written on his face, his resolute and indifferent face was buried deep in the back of the galloping general.

After this battle, the Imperial army was completely disbanded.

Iwasa overcame all the way, single-handedly broke through the encirclement, stabbed several times deeply, and finally sent His Highness to the imperial army.

The army here is the one that was divided after the defeat of the Chinese army before. Warriors from the Far East sent His Highness James here, where he fell from his horse and died of his wounds and bleeding.

The left flank of the Four-City Alliance, because it was the weakest, took a defensive position from the beginning of the campaign. On the contrary, the loss is not large.

But as the large forces on both sides tore their faces, the besieging Red Armor Army abandoned the city and retreated. Some of them turned back to encircle and suppress the Chinese army where His Royal Highness James was located, while the other part was to detour to the right flank of the four-city coalition army, and cooperate with the original right wing of the Red Armor Army to annihilate the allied forces of Venice, Faerun, and Crescent in one fell swoop.

At this point, most of the remaining combat strength on the side of the Imperial Army has been reduced by half, and only the central army of His Royal Highness James, which has been divided and swallowed up and is deeply besieged, and the allied army composed of Bolang City and General Pike, who is in the right flank position, does not know how the battle will be, has been defeated.

The defensive line of the five cities was under the tactics of Prince McGee to lure the enemy deep and encircle the point to send reinforcements.

Declare a crash.

Fortunately, on the battlefield in the northwest direction, Prince Anta brought the coalition army on that side to collapse, and the situation was just opposite to that of His Royal Highness the Prince.

According to reliable sources, Prince Anta was well aware of the battle situation of the Five Cities Alliance, and immediately decided to divide his troops to help when the battle situation was unfavorable. On His Royal Highness James's side, he only needs to support it for another four to five days before the siege can be lifted.

This uplifting news can be described as timely rain, and His Highness, whose head is bandaged and 'reinvigorated', stands on the battlefield after the smoke of gunpowder, and often tells his soldiers such things. Everyone no longer expects victory at this time, the successive defeats have depressed the morale to the limit, and His Highness said this only to give everyone a hope, so that the pair will not really disperse - we have reinforcements, just a few days later.

However, as far as the current situation is concerned, Prince McGee's offensive is ferocious, and the period of four or five days for reinforcements to arrive is obviously a bit long.

Of course, among the soldiers, there are many talented people, veterans of a hundred battles who have a sharp eye and are good at grasping the overall situation from the details, and there is no one who cannot see through these things - they are defeated and in a mess, but only no one speaks - this kind of snowballing mess, what can the reinforcements do!

But many times, it's better to have hope than nothing.

It's just us...... Is there really hope......

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In the early morning of the next day, Tianguang went north for thousands of miles.

The weather was obscure and drizzled.

His Royal Highness James led a team of about 42,000 people and slowly squirmed in the mud towards the upper reaches of the mountain slopes.

The team fell silent, and the voices of the speakers became quieter. The autumn rain came down rustling, like countless caterpillars, crawling over the quiet and cold dry grass sprinkled with fallen leaves.

Two hours earlier, the demoralized team had been bitten in the tail by Prince McGee's own soldiers, and after some entanglement, it was only after some losses that it was thrown off.

This time, the one in charge of the broken queen is a colonel named Grewa, he is a member of His Royal Highness James's personal army, and he is a very gentle person, because of this, he has a good relationship with His Highness and the staff and generals around him.

This time, he was defeated by the Red Armor Army, and was chased behind his ass like a lost dog. His Highness James was still injured, and Greva stepped forward, and to be honest, he was stunned and saddened.

Those who are cut off will have the will to die, and to put it bluntly, they will be sent to death.

His Royal Highness's lips were squirming, shriveled and pale, and after a long time, he did not utter a word. For a long time, this middle-aged general with a national character face waved his sleeves to let people go down, and his heart was heavy and depressed - but at this time, someone must stand up and break off......

After that, Colonel Greva led his troops to stop the enemy tide, fought for two hours, and was beheaded. Galen Fawkes's 1,000 elite soldiers were lost more than half of their men here, and he did not seek to be a high-ranking official, nor did he want to be too showy, so he rode alone and returned.

At the same time, under the desperate resistance of Colonel Greva, His Royal Highness James led the people to escape from the mouth of the enemy, like a wounded fat sheep, and walked in all directions in a panic.

It's just that after this battle, the army of 60,000 people has shrunk by nearly 20,000 people, and only 42,000 remain. And the defeat is like this, how to talk about being brave and diligent, and what to talk about going into battle to kill the enemy.

Since ancient times, the army has been defeated like a mountain, and the morale is difficult to maintain and easy to leak, which elite soldier has not experienced a hundred battles on the battlefield before training to be iron-clad? !

However, if one team is broken and scattered by another team one after another, regardless of the previous morale, after this incident, the defeated team is considered to have collapsed veritably, and it cannot fight. Even in extreme cases, it is not uncommon for tens of thousands of people to chase hundreds of thousands of routs and kill and cut them.

His Royal Highness knows the art of war, so he feels even more powerless. He knew that his morale had been drained from top to bottom, and that he could not fight at this time, and he would lose the battle.

Therefore, His Highness could only swallow his anger and lead the rest of his army through the mountains and mountains, trying his best to avoid frontal contact with the enemy. After the defeat, he wanted to isolate himself, but the defeated army needed generals and backbones, so he survived to this point.

But the pocket formation directed by Prince McGee himself has been laid out, and the army wants to break through, and it is not willing to give up half of its flesh, which is not a chance at all.

His Royal Highness James is also fierce and resolute, and he is ready to sacrifice some people to attract and delay the pace of the place. He planned to let the rest of the team return to Braun the same way and resist the city until reinforcements arrived.

It's a pity that the left flank of the four-city coalition was surrounded by the right flank of the coalition and the siege army, and it was annihilated shortly after. The right flank of the Red Armor Army went all the way south, circled James and his line of the middle army, and set up an ambush.

Fortunately, His Royal Highness has a keen sense of battle, and there are some insightful strategists gathered around him, so he was aware of the enemy's conspiracy in advance. The Imperial Army made a sharp turn, crossed the mountains and forests at a 45-degree angle, and played a sideball with the ambushed Red Armor Army.

The other party's generals realized it and hurriedly waved the army to chase away. James led the charge of the team, and the whole team made a detour of three stages, and with the help of the geographical advantage, he finally temporarily escaped the risk of being caught between the front and back.

Subsequently, the Chinese army and the right wing of the Red Armor Army were assembled, and Prince McGee marched south.

His Highness James was forced to collide with it several times, but it was crushed, and the whole team was driven away from its original trajectory......

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"Phew! Bah!! What the hell, is it for people to eat! ”

Ragged Imperial soldiers crouched under a tree, holding a dark green cake in their hands and spitting fiercely on the ground. In the autumn rain, soaked soldiers sat under the trunks of large and small trees, some leaning against the rocks, silently eating the cakes issued by the cooking camp that they didn't know what materials were made.

The atmosphere in the barracks was cold, most of the people were silent, and some were hiding in the corners, holding something in their hands, shivering......

At this time, the person who still had the strength to roar was a very lifeless scene in the entire lifeless barracks.

For fear of revealing their whereabouts, fires were not allowed in the camps of the empire's defeated army here, and most of what everyone ate was made of wild vegetables and fruits dug along the way mixed with dry food that they carried with them. Although the tracks of tens of thousands of people are not easy to hide in the rout, time is more expensive than gold at this time, and it can be delayed for a while, it is a moment.

Every once in a while, the positive dialogue from the top would convey such things as 'how many kilometers the enemy was successfully thrown', 'how many enemies were decapitated', and 'who and whose regiment they were broken', and 'where Prince McGee's coalition army arrived, and the generals and the flag would be captured soon'. In terms of morale and military discipline......

Somewhat effective.

It's just two major decision-making mistakes in a row, which made His Highness in his early thirties suffer two heavy blows head-on on the frontal battlefield. The weight of this crushed the morale and prestige of the Imperial Army's faith and the accumulated strength of many battles, real and fake.

Look at it now. In the army, there are a considerable number of people who only wear cloth clothes, and they are numb to sit or stand. Some of their light armor was cut off during the battle. Some of them took off themselves, lost their weapons, and held only a wooden stick that they had picked up out of nowhere, so that they could run faster and with less effort when they escaped.

His Royal Highness James saw these things in his eyes, and he made people straighten out, and I heard that the heads of several people were cut off, but in such a big environment, the effect was not satisfactory......

In general, the army of this side ...... It's collapsed.

On that day, in the continuous autumn rain, the defeated army of the empire marched 30 kilometers over the mountains and mountains. The Red Armor kept the progress and hung behind. His Highness tried to change direction several times, but was beaten back, killing a group of people, and had to continue running.

Rolling black-red torrents soaked through the mountains and forests, boundless smoke and rain polished these solemn scenes, and in the leaden sky where no one was watching, a goshawk hovered over the ground......