"Chapter Eighty-Eight: Red Defeat and Retreat"
You have love in your heart, let love work for itself, and it will bring the right action, because love never pursues achievement, and it never falls into imitation.
- Krishnamurti (the greatest spiritual teacher of the twentieth century)
Just when the dead soldiers of the death battalion and the Red Banner cavalry were inseparable, Steve returned to Bai Feng with less than two hundred of his own soldiers, and in order to protect the safe retreat of Gatus, Bai Feng's personal troops paid a very heavy price.
Steve, who was covered in blood, reported to Bai Feng, who had been watching the battle situation ahead: "General, only the Archer Wing and the Crossbowmen Wing have retreated to the rear with the full formation of the Spear Regiment, and the other eight Wings combined, only 1,500 soldiers escaped. ”
"The Wing of Archers and Crossbowmen was able to withdraw intact, and it is your credit. How could Bai Feng, who was always paying attention to the battle situation, not know the efforts of Steve's own soldiers, but the losses of the Spear Legion were still beyond his expectations after all.
"General, it's me who is incompetent and has failed to live up to your expectations. In the face of Bai Feng's praise, Steve was ashamed.
"The rout of the Lancers was something I expected, after all, they were just a newly formed legion. Bai Feng, who had clear rewards and punishments, looked back at Steve and waved his hand: "As for you, whether it is merit or demerit, I know it in my heart." ”
"General......" Steve wanted to say something, but Bai Feng directly interrupted him: "Now that the war has begun, everything is based on the annihilation of the main force of the Eight Banners; ”
"No!" Hearing Bai Feng say this in an unquestionable tone, Steve, who was ashamed in his heart, had no choice but to accept it.
Beside Rodriguez, a wing commander of the 1st Division of the Agni Legion, suggested to him: "General, the Death Battalion has successfully contained the enemy's charge and disrupted the enemy's cavalry charge, should we rush forward immediately?"
"There's no hurry. Rodriguez, who became calm and idle as the red flag attack was blocked, said in a relaxed tone: "The death battalion is our cannon fodder troops, let them fight the enemy's sharpness first, and then we will go up to clean up the enemy troops who have lost their sharpness." ”
"The general is wise!" Hearing Rodriguez say this, the captain of the wing, who was born in a small aristocracy, hurriedly sent a sycophant.
Rodriguez, who felt very comfortable, although he did not directly praise this interesting wing commander, his smiling eyes still flattered the other party; after all, Rodriguez is not only the division commander of the first division, he is also a high-powered army commander!
From the moment they took the initiative to attack, the soldiers of the Death Battalion, who knew that they were cannon fodder, never thought that the Fire Legion, as the main force, would come to their aid.
Lister and Fury, who cooperated tacitly, killed more than a dozen enemy cavalrymen who tried to kill them one after another, but more and more cavalry made them tired to deal with, and even Fury was accidentally shot in the left arm by an experienced red flag cavalryman.
The Red Banner Cavalry, who were proficient in cavalry and archery, had always been their forte at shooting unsuspecting infantry with arrows in the course of a fight, and Fury was shot in the left arm by another cavalryman ten meters away when he was killing an enemy cavalryman who had fallen off his horse.
At the moment of the calcium carbide spark, if it weren't for the quick-eyed Lister who raised his leg and kicked Fury away, maybe the arrow shot by the Red Banner cavalry would have pierced Fury's heart, not his left arm, which was only five centimeters away from his heart!
Fury, who was in severe pain in his left arm, was furious, pulled out the arrow stuck in his left arm, and then jumped at the archery cavalry, plunging the arrow into the opponent's throat.
Fury, whose combat strength was greatly reduced due to a wound in his left arm, gradually could not keep up with the rhythm of Lister's attack, and the other dead soldiers in the death battalion could not keep up with the brave Lister at all; Lister, who was almost alone, seemed to be becoming more and more difficult to kill the enemy cavalry.
Even the two commanders of the Death Battalion, Lister and Fury, fought so hard, and the other Death Battalion soldiers fought extremely hard; in just about half an hour, more than 3,000 soldiers of the Death Battalion were killed on the spot.
Seeing that Bai Feng, who had suffered heavy casualties in the death battalion, he did not give the order to attack Rodriguez, who was still on his feet; just as Rodriguez thought, the death battalion was just a cannon fodder unit in the end, and the value of their existence was to create a better opportunity for the main force to attack.
"General, the Death Battalion has already killed nearly half of the dead soldiers, and they can't hold out for long. The commander of the Danilo Division of the Fourth Division ran to Rodriguez's side and asked: "Instead of waiting for the enemy cavalry to regroup after defeating the death battalion, it is better to attack now!"
"General Danilo, if I let you lead the soldiers of the Fourth Division to attack first, do you have the confidence to comprehensively suppress the offensive of the enemy cavalry?" In front of the soldiers behind him, Rodriguez and Danilo, who had close personal friends, talked like they were businesslike.
"If I can add General Sania's Fifth Division, I am confident that I will repel the enemy in one fell swoop!" Danilo said confidently.
"Good!" Rodriguez's trust in Danilo was unquestionable, so he immediately ordered: "General Danilo, you immediately lead your Fourth Division and General Sania's Fifth Division to attack the enemy!"
"No!" Danilo, who had received the order, quickly turned his horse and galloped in the direction of the Fifth Division.
Three minutes after Rodriguez's order was given, the 4th and 5th Divisions of the Fire Legion, which had been in action, launched a vigorous attack on the enemy's cavalry, and at this time, there were less than 10,000 cavalry left in the attacking Red Banner Army.
The total number of dead soldiers of the pikemen regiment and the death battalion was as high as 18,000, and they fought with the Red Banner cavalry for the same two and a half hours.
The 20,000 elite of the Fire Legion, the 10,000 Red Banner Cavalry who were almost exhausted after a long battle, and the Red Banner Cavalry, who were still entangled and fighting with the dead soldiers of the death battalion, could they withstand the ferocious attacks of Danilo and Sania?
The fiery red uniforms of the Flame Legion are very different from the white uniforms of the soldiers of the Standing Legion of the Empire, and Urgudai, who knows something about the Imperial Army, naturally does not know the famous Flame Legion, which is the Royal Legion of the Celestial Dragon Empire!
A staff leader who had been fighting bloodily for a long time saw the army of the Fire Legion that was overwhelmingly overwhelming, and hurriedly returned to Urgudai's side and reported to him: "Master, the Heavenly Dragon army that is about to rush up on the opposite side seems to be their most elite royal legion!"
"I'm not blind!" After scolding quite angrily, Urgudai, who knew that if he continued to fight, his red flag would be destroyed by this, and he directly ordered with hatred: "You go and give the order immediately, the whole army will get rid of the entanglement with the Tianlong army and retreat back!"
The purpose of the report was to retreat the commander, shrunk his neck, and then decisively rode down to convey the order; you know, there are more than 1,300 cavalry under his command, and now there are less than 600 left, as a commander, he is distressed!