Once people are willing to sink because they can't see the future, they are prone to be full of nostalgia and melancholy. It is easy for the parties to ignore the opportunities that do exist in reality and that can be used.

—Victor Frank (Professor of Psychosology and Psychoanalysis)

"Your Excellency the Governor, the battered Fire Legion will not give us a chance to explain at all, and instead of capturing the middle and senior officers of our Doge's palace army at this time, it is better to encourage our officers to hold the capital and stay up until dawn. ”

"I'm sure that Eder and the other three generals of the Fire Legion don't want to see the situation develop to the point where they are now, as long as we sincerely explain everything to them tomorrow, they will definitely accept our apologies and settle this matter with us. ”

"Abraham, are you sure Eder will accept our apologies?" The Marquis of Bedouin, who had just thought of immediately sending someone to explain to Eder and the other generals of the Fire Legion, began to hesitate again after calming down a little.

Count Abraham, who sighed secretly in his heart, was once again glad for his choice, compared with Bai Feng, who commanded the army to regain lost territory one after another, the Marquis of Bedouin, who was panicked in the face of chaos, was as pathetic as a clown.

"Governor, is it a felony for our army to attack the Legion of Fire, and isn't it also a felony for the Legion of Fire to attack our army? ”

"You mean, if this matter goes to His Majesty the Emperor, we will be punished by His Majesty the Emperor, and the Flame Legion will not have a good time, so Eder and they will definitely not refuse our apology, and this matter can be completely trivialized!"

The more he talked, the more excited the Marquis of Bedouin seemed to have seen the scene of the Fire Legion shaking hands with him, and Count Abraham, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but pour cold water and said: "The premise is that we will do our best to hold the capital until dawn." ”

"Why?" The Marquis of Bedouin, who didn't know why, was very puzzled: "Since you are so sure that Eder will accept our apology, why do we have to work thanklessly to defend it and send someone to apologize to Eder and them directly?"

"I ......" Count Abraham, who has always been known for his self-cultivation, had the urge to curse people to his face for the first time, and if it weren't for the special status of the governor of the Marquis of Bedouin, perhaps Count Abraham would really have scolded him.

After finally suppressing his urge to curse, the helpless Earl Abraham said patiently: "Your Excellency the Governor, now the outside of the city is full of red-eyed Fire Legion soldiers, even if we send people out, we will not have a chance to meet Edel and them. ”

"In that case, we can only sit and wait for dawn. The Marquis of Bedouin, who was a little uneasy, sighed slightly and said: "Abraham, I don't know much about military affairs, you can lead Woodlaw and them to the city wall instead of me, and you must guard until dawn!"

"No!" Count Abraham, who was expressionless, bowed down to answer the order, and then turned around and left with Woodlaw and the others.

At this time, the soldiers of the Fire Legion outside the city of Brojansson had already set up a makeshift ladder to launch a siege battle against the army of the Governor's Palace, which was not as good as the ladder, but it was still sufficient for climbing the wall.

The soldiers who had only been transformed from aristocratic guards to the army of the Governor's Palace for a short time had the sophisticated weapons and equipment of the Fire Legion, but they did not have the combat effectiveness of the Fire Legion, and it was unknown how long the defenders on the city walls could hold on in the face of the fierce attack of the Fire Legion.

The barracks of the city defense army was in the city of Bronjansson, only more than 1,500 meters away from the fierce battle wall, and the commander of the battle armor, Win K, stood on the watchtower of the barracks with a long sword at his waist, staring at the battle-torn city wall ahead.

Led by four soldiers of the city defense army, Count Abraham, who had left the governor's palace, came to the watchtower where Wink was;

"Commander Wink, the Marquis of Bedouin asked me to lead Woodlow and other knights to the city wall for him, and command the army of the Doge's Palace to defend the city wall; ”

Breathing in the blood-soaked air, the thoughtful Wink pointed to the battlefield in front of him and asked Count Abraham, "Your Excellency Abraham, how many troops do you think the Governor's Palace can defeat in a frontal battle with these 3,000 city defense soldiers under my command?"

"This ......," Count Abraham, who didn't know much about the city defense army, replied stubbornly: "Judging from the mental state of the officers and men of the two armies, the combat effectiveness of your army should be far superior to that of the Governor's Palace, but I really don't know how many of the Governor's Palace's troops can be defeated. ”

"Really?" Wink, whose tone did not change in the slightest, suddenly turned around and smiled slightly: "Your Excellency Abraham, you can stay here with me for a while, and in half an hour, you will know how many troops of the Governor's Palace my three thousand soldiers can defeat." ”

After speaking, without waiting for Count Abraham to speak, Wink, who suddenly became more powerful on his body, shouted an order to the three co-captains and six captains who were waiting under the watchtower: "Launch the red ** signal flare and officially launch the puppet plan!"

"No!" After the nine main officers of the city defense army responded in unison, three red magic signal flares instantly appeared in the sky above the city defense army.

Even on the battlefield where there was fire everywhere, the three red ** signal flares that suddenly lit up in the sky were still enough for everyone within ten miles to see clearly, especially the three division commanders of the Fire Legion, their faces changed even more after seeing the magic signal flares.

Ospina, who was directing his soldiers to climb the city wall, immediately ordered a wing commander beside him as soon as he saw the three red ** signal flares appearing in the sky: "Immediately blow the horn of retreat, and all the officers and men of the Third Division immediately withdraw to ten miles away!"

"General, we are about to attack the city wall, and we will retreat at this time......" Before the unwilling wing captain could finish speaking, Ospina, who was full of anxiety, interrupted rudely: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and give orders, violators will be killed!"

"No!" The co-captain with a grim look, after noticing the abnormality of his division commander, quickly turned around and gave an order.

"Woooooooooo......oo "This is the sound of a horn coming from the direction ......of the 2nd Division.

"Woooooooooo......oo Woo woo woo ...... "This is the sound of a horn coming from the direction of the 5th Division.

Before Ospina's 3rd Division had sounded the horn of retreat, Eder's 2nd Division and Sarnia's 5th Division had sounded the horn of the whole army to retreat, and the officers and men of the Fire Legion, who had not completely lost their minds, quickly retreated to the sound of the horns of their respective divisions.

While the soldiers of the Fire Legion retreated like a tidal wave outside the city, the 3,000 soldiers of the city defense under the command of Wink, under the command of their three wings, fought towards the city wall and the governor's palace respectively, leaving only Wink and Earl Abraham still on the watchtower.

The Governor's Palace's army, which was caught off guard, did not expect an enemy to suddenly appear behind them, and after a brief confusion, the generals of the defenders on the city walls realized that the enemy attacking them from behind was a city defense army of only 2,500 soldiers.

The general of the garrison of the city wall, who believed that he still had 20,000 soldiers under his command, did not hesitate to give the order to counterattack the army of the governor's palace on the city wall, and as a result, the army of the governor's palace who was ordered to launch a counterattack was only about 14,000 soldiers.

Needless to say, the remaining 6,000 soldiers who did not move were the army under the control of the officers of the city defense army, and after the 14,000 soldiers who were truly loyal to the Marquis of Bedouin left the city wall, the 6,000 soldiers who did not move quickly occupied the city wall under the command of the city defense officer.

Wenke, who was determined to create an opportunity for the 3,000 elites under his command to hone his training, did not use the 6,000 soldiers under the control of the officers of the city defense army to launch a two-sided attack on the 14,000 troops of the governor's palace, but handed over the task of defeating them to the 2,500 soldiers of the city defense army.

The well-trained officers and men of the city defense army lined up in a battle formation to meet the enemy before they engaged the enemy; the basic formation of a group of three or a team of ten people was the most suitable battle formation for fighting on narrow streets, and it was also the battle formation that the officers and men of the city defense army practiced the most in peacetime.

The officers and men of the city defense army who cooperated with each other advanced in an orderly manner, while the oncoming army of the governor's palace was in a chaotic group, treating the soldiers of the city defense army who were advancing at a uniform pace as lambs to be slaughtered.

"The first five rows of shield soldiers, royal!"

The distance between the two armies grew closer and closer, and it was not until the captain of the city defense army could see the enemy's face that they began to give a new battle order, and with this order, several groups of soldiers of the city defense army at the front immediately stopped and raised their shields.

"All javelinmen, prepare!"

Ten men were in a row, and behind the shield wall were constructed with shields that could be connected to each other, and the infantrymen behind the five shield walls, under the orders of their respective squadron leaders, took off the javelins they were carrying behind their backs, held them tightly in their hands, and held them high above their heads.

One hundred, seventy, fifty, thirty meters, when the swarming Governor's Palace troops approached thirty meters from their own shield wall, the squadron leaders, who also held heavy javelins in their hands, gave the order again:

"Throw!"

Hundreds of javelinmen threw their javelins with all their might, instantly nailing dozens of enemy soldiers who were charging to the ground; before the enemy soldiers who had been attacked suddenly reacted, the second and third rounds of javelins were thrown out one after another.

"Shield soldiers, enter!"

After three rounds of javelin throwing, the captain in front immediately ordered the shield men who formed the shield wall to advance forward in a well-defended shield wall posture, and the javelinmen who had just finished throwing the javelins quickly drew their long swords at their waists and transformed from javelinmen into light infantry.

The shield guards slowly advanced, oppressing the somewhat frightened Doge's palace army and retreating a few steps, and seeing that their own army retreated with only one or two hundred casualties, the generals of the Doge's palace army forced their troops to attack again.

The Doge's Army, which had lost its strength before the battle, looked so weak in their attack, and the shieldmen who formed the shield wall effortlessly pushed their shield wall forward about fifty meters, making the enemy forces crushed together even more crowded.

"Shield soldier, receive!"

As soon as the new order of the captain was issued, the shield soldiers who formed the five shield walls quickly reorganized their formation, adjusting the original five shield walls in front and back to two shield walls on the left and right, and a passage about twenty meters long was immediately formed between the army of the governor's palace and the light infantry behind the shield soldiers.

"Light infantry, sortie!"

The squadron leaders, who shouted loudly, gave the order to attack the light infantry under their command, and they themselves took the lead in rushing down the passage to the enemy group in front of them, followed by the light infantry who shouted the slogan of the charge.

The army of the Governor's Palace, which was fooled by its daily training, was not an army of the same grade as the officers and men of the city defense army, who trained hard every day; once the two sides fought, the overcrowded army of the Governor's Palace was defeated and retreated by the soldiers of the city defense army who rushed and killed quickly.

After more than ten minutes of crushing fighting, the army of the Governor's Palace, which had a high number of casualties, could barely hold back the attack of the light infantry of the city defense army;

"Light infantry, withdraw!"

"Shield, Royal!"

The lightly armed infantry, who had fought and retreated, had just retreated along the passage from the bloody battlefield ahead, and the shield soldiers who had previously formed the left and right shield walls changed their shield wall phalanx back to the front and rear five shield walls under the order of the captain.

The 200 lightly armed infantrymen who took the initiative to attack for ten minutes killed more than 200 enemy troops at the cost of more than a dozen soldiers killed by themselves, such a feat was clearly seen by Winck and Earl Abraham, who stood side by side on the watchtower.

"Shield soldier, receive!"

"Hoplites, sortie!"

After the light infantry carried out the first round of strikes against the enemy, the captain of the warm-up began to put into battle the two hundred most elite hoplites under his command.

The hoplites, dressed in full heavy armor, slaughtered the enemy along the passage like wolves into a flock of sheep, and the Governor's Palace's army, which had an absolute superiority in numbers, was no match for the hoplites, and the battle between the two sides was simply a one-sided slaughter.

After half an hour of this battle, which was very different in strength, less than 1,500 of the 3,000 troops of the Governor's Palace had been put into this street, and less than 50 soldiers were killed in the city defense army.

In the end, the full formation of this city defense army almost crushed the Governor's Palace's army, which was six times their size, and at the same time, the other four city defense brigades of the same size also suffered heavy losses and lost all their fighting spirit to the Governor's Palace's army.

In less than an hour's battle, 2,500 soldiers of the city defense army defeated the army of the Governor's Palace, which numbered as high as 14,000 at the cost of more than 300 soldiers.

The situation in which the 'rebels' intercepted in front and pursued by the 'tigers' in the rear caused the morale of the Governor's Mansion to drop to a freezing point and the army quickly collapsed; except for the more than 5,000 officers and soldiers who were killed in battle, the other 8,000 or so officers and men of the Governor's Mansion all chose to surrender, and none of them stubbornly resisted to the end.

The condescending Wenk waited for the soldiers of the city defense army to win the victory cleanly before he spoke: "Your Excellency Abraham, this is the answer given by my three thousand soldiers, what do you think of their performance?"

Count Abraham, who had never been to the battlefield before, never imagined that Winck's city defense army would be able to defeat the 14,000 troops of the Doge's Palace head-on with an army of 2,500, so that Count Abraham, who was still in shock, did not even answer Winck's question.

After a long time, Count Abraham, who reacted, said slowly: "Commander Wink, the performance of your soldiers has made me understand how correct my choice is, and from now on, I, Abraham, will be the most staunch follower of the Marquis of Baifeng!"