"Chapter 115: Reinforcements Finally Arrive"
If you are reserved and calculating in your love, you are not in love.
- Mother Teresa (world-renowned Catholic charity worker, founder of the Missionary Society of Charity)
Strategically, the Eastern Alliance, which had almost completely won the victory, was strategically defeated; in comparison, the border garrison of the western Luxi tribe, which was already on the verge of total annihilation, single-handedly defeated the 550,000 troops of the Eastern Alliance, which was really shocking.
When the war has reached such an extent, it is meaningless for the Eastern Alliance to continue fighting, but it is not easy for the remnants of the Lucy garrison, who are stubbornly defending the barracks, to maintain their strong fighting spirit and bloody battle to this day on the premise of knowing their final outcome.
On the last day of the siege, when the first rays of the morning sun poured on the earth, the army of the Eastern Alliance once again sounded the horn of attack, and 50,000 soldiers of the Eastern Alliance, escorting more than 20,000 Lucy people, launched a new round of attack on the military camp.
The Lucy garrison, with a total strength of less than 20,000 men, had been fighting for days without rest, and they were reluctant to waste even the strength to roar in order to save every cent of their physical strength.
It was very uncomfortable for the defenders to see their hometown fathers and elders being held to their necks by the enemy, and what made them even more unbearable was that they themselves had to raise their weapons and aim them at those who were being held hostage by the enemy.
A fierce battle broke out at the moment when the soldiers of the Eastern Alliance entered the barracks along the gap in the dilapidated barracks, and the defenders who did not sit idly by bypassed the hometown fathers who were walking in the front and killed the enemy soldiers who rushed up behind.
According to Roderick and Hall's estimates, today's battle will be a final battle of life and death, so they are ready to fight until the last minute, but reality plays a big joke on them.
As soon as the Lucy defenders rushed forward, the Eastern Alliance soldiers who were supposed to rush forward desperately began to retreat slowly without even symbolic resistance.
However, there is no room for distraction on the battlefield where every second counts, because the end of distraction is often a different place, and even if they feel abnormal, the defenders who have no time to think still instinctively catch up.
The soldiers of the Eastern Alliance, who had fought and retreated, were mixed up with the soldiers of the Lucy defenders who were blindly chasing, and in fact, the soldiers of the Eastern Alliance, who were still recuperating, had the upper hand; the physical strength was obviously inferior to that of the previous defenders, and it was difficult to exert their full combat power even in pursuit.
Seeing that the 50,000 soldiers of the Eastern Alliance who had entered the barracks were about to all leave the barracks, suddenly, among the more than 20,000 frightened 'Lucy people', pulled out all kinds of daggers from their clothes and pounced on the unsuspecting defenders.
The defenders, who never thought that the 'hometown fathers' behind them would transform into the enemy, were suddenly subjected to the fierce attack that came to them, and the formation was chaotic and the casualties were extremely heavy, and the number of defenders who were already small plummeted by a quarter.
At the same time, the main force of the Eastern Alliance, which was slowly retreating, also stopped its retreat in an instant, and in turn launched a counterattack against the defenders who were still chasing them.
Rodrik and Hall, who witnessed all this, did not rant at anything or maintain their composure, knowing that the last moment was coming, they each drew their swords and led their guards to kill the enemy.
Every barbarian general, whether it is a brave warrior of a small tribe or a famous general and hero of a large tribe, has the belligerent blood of barbarian warriors in his bones, and in the final stage of the battle, Roderick and Hall made the choice that a true warrior should have.
When Roderick and Hall led their guards to kill the enemy, they saw that the defenders who were at the forefront of the battle in person suddenly burst out with extremely strong combat effectiveness, and the imposing defenders even suppressed the offensive of the Eastern Alliance army for a time.
Unfortunately, this outburst, which resembled a flashback, did not last long, and after about twenty minutes passed, the Eastern Alliance soldiers, who had recovered from the surprise, gradually stabilized their position.
The defenders, who did not even play a role in the final outbreak, had no chance of turning the tide, and how long it would take for the Eastern Alliance's army to destroy the stubborn Lucy defenders would depend on the mood of the leaders of the Eastern Alliance.
If the leaders of the Eastern Alliance do not continue to send more troops to attack the barracks, and besiege the defenders in the barracks with the current 70,000 soldiers, then the troops of the Eastern Alliance will not be able to complete the liquidation of Luxi's defenders at least in the afternoon.
If the leaders of the Eastern Alliance want to end this battle quickly, then they only need to send about 30,000 more soldiers to completely annihilate the remnants of the Lucy border garrison before lunch begins!
Needless to say, the leaders of the Eastern Alliance, who had already wasted too much time here, did not mind delaying here for another two or three hours, but it was precisely because of their delay that they gave Lucy's remnants a precious respite.
The bloody and brutal battle continued until nearly noon, and the hungry soldiers of both armies, obviously exhausted, had to continue the battle between them, and the battle of life and death always won the victory.
After a whole morning of fighting, only 55,000 of the more than 70,000 officers and men of the Eastern Alliance who had stormed the barracks were left, and the result was that the number of defenders in the barracks dropped from 19,000 to more than 8,000, and almost all of them were wounded.
This battle was destined to be unsuspenseful, and it seemed that it was about to end, but Roderick and Hall, as well as the remnants of the soldiers under their command, heard a familiar sound of military trumpets in their ears;
The defenders of the barracks with a look of surprise knew that their long-awaited leader reinforcements had finally arrived, and today's battle was no longer their last battle, but the first battle of Lucy's army's counterattack against the Eastern Alliance!
The morale of the defenders who had instantly risen to a new peak once again burst out with combat effectiveness that surpassed the enemy soldiers, and the soldiers of the Eastern Alliance, who were in stark contrast to the defenders, were frightened and subconsciously retreated.
The 300,000 Luxi border garrisons can stubbornly defeat the nearly 600,000 troops of the Eastern Alliance, and the Eastern Alliance, which has only more than 100,000 soldiers left, can use it to block the reinforcements of the Luxi Border with as many as 150,000 troops?
Yes, this reinforcement force led by the leader of the Luxi tribe, Viriacius, was the last 150,000 troops left in the north by the Luxi tribe, and such a powerful army was simply not comparable to the Eastern Alliance army after a great loss of strength.
Looking at the Lucy army that appeared in the sky, the leaders of the Eastern Alliance, who were looking at each other, decided to retreat without much hesitation and thinking, and ended the war between the two tribes in an inglorious way.