People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;

- Mother Teresa (world-renowned Catholic charity worker, founder of the Missionary Society of Charity)

The 2,000 southern cavalry, which had fallen into a frenzy, successfully disrupted the formation of the other 8,000 northern cavalry, and broke the northern cavalry's encirclement of the northern cavalry at the north and south exits of the Kirkwall camp; the northern cavalry, which was caught off guard, decisively chose to retreat after losing more than 1,000 cavalry.

It was not that the northern cavalry, which had absolute superiority, did not want to suppress the rebellion of the southern cavalry on the spot, but that they were wearing the same armor as the southern cavalry, and they could not distinguish who was the southern cavalry and who was the northern cavalry;

Those southern cavalry who were carried away by hatred did not need to, they had no concept of mercy on their subordinates, and they did not care whether the other party was also a robe of the southern cavalry, or a northern cavalry innocently lying on the gun, so they directly stabbed the spear in their hands into the opponent's chest.

It is undeniable that this almost frenzied attack did cause a lot of accidental injuries to the southern cavalry themselves, but it was the northern cavalry, which was four times more numerous than the southern cavalry, and their number determined that they were more likely to be attacked.

The rapid retreat of less than 7,000 northern cavalry created an opportunity for revenge for the remaining 1,500-odd southern cavalry, and these red-eyed cavalrymen, after a short pause, went straight to the counterinsurgency army of the Eastern Route Army, which was besieging the eastern exit of the camp.

More than 27,000 southern infantry and more than 1,500 southern cavalry came one after another, inflicting extremely heavy casualties on the Eastern Route Army, which was not ready for defense.

On the one hand, they felt guilty that they had killed the family of their comrade-in-arms, Paoze, and understood the anger of the southern warriors, and on the other hand, because their own combat effectiveness was indeed not as strong as the southern warriors in a state of madness.

The elite soldiers of the Eastern Route Army, when resisting the attack of the southern warriors, were still able to rely on their own strong strength to barely block the offensive of the southern warriors, and as for the ordinary soldiers who were slightly inferior in combat strength, they were killed without even having a chance to escape.

The unusually brutal and bloody battle lasted for a whole day, and the defenders of Camp Kirkwall, who had been reduced from protagonists to bystanders, were completely confused, and they really couldn't understand why the fierce enemy would kill each other.

In the barbarian world of the barbarian land, every time night falls, the fierce battle will come to an end, and the same is true of the melee within the counterinsurgency army, and the northern and southern soldiers of the counterinsurgency army who have fought for a day retreat backwards after exhaustion.

The Eastern Route Army, a counterinsurgency army with more than 6,000 casualties, naturally retreated to the direction where Gregory was located, while the southern soldiers, who were only 22,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry, withdrew to the gate of the Kirkwall camp with the gates closed.

Yamashita Yoshiki, who had long been prepared to receive this group of southern warriors, handed over the heavy task of collecting more than 23,000 southern warriors to Xia Chuan Heigong, who commanded the army stationed on the outer defense line of the camp, because only Xia Chuan Heigong had enough strength to control this group of soldiers.

Natsukawa Heigong, who ordered the camp gate to be opened to greet the southern warriors, did not allow the southern warriors to enter the camp directly, but left the open space between the two wooden walls of the camp as a temporary settlement point for the southern warriors who entered the camp.

At the same time, in order to prevent the more than 23,000 southern fighters who had defected to him, Yamashita also granted permission for these southern warriors to enter the camp to search for their families after handing over their weapons, and stay overnight in their families' accommodations.

Of course, these powerful southern warriors had to spend the night back in their temporary settlements and take up their weapons to defend the camp, which was not an order given to them by Yamashita Yoki, but what they were supposed to do to defend their homeland.

In fact, Yamashita Yoki's disposition in this regard was purely unfounded, for after the daylight of the day, Gregory's 100,000-strong army had been decimated, and the number of defenders in the Kirkwall camp had increased once again.

Gregory, who had not finished gathering his warriors until midnight, found that the number of warriors under his command had been sharply reduced from the previous 100,000 to 52,000, and the defection of 32,000 southern warriors and the death of 18,000 northern warriors dealt a heavy blow to Gregory.

Although less than 12,000 of the 18,000 northern soldiers killed were actually killed on the outskirts of Kirkwall's camp, and the other 6,000 were casualties of the Eastern Route Army yesterday, the reality before Gregory was that his remaining forces were no longer capable of capturing the rebel camp.

To this day, Gregory is still in a state of speculation about the size of the rebels' army and the combat strength of its soldiers, and of course, even if there is not enough intelligence to support it, Gregory, as a famous general of Lucy, can still roughly estimate the size of the rebels' army.

According to Gregory's estimation, the number of available soldiers of a rebel army with a population of no more than 700,000 in the camp would not exceed 100,000, and even these 100,000 rebel soldiers, excluding the old and weak women and children with poor combat effectiveness, would not have more than 40,000 young soldiers.

Judging from this comparative figure, Gregory's 52,000 soldiers may not be without the possibility of capturing the rebel camp, but the crux of the matter is that today's events, while weakening the strength of the counterinsurgency army, have also added more than 20,000 elite fighters to the rebel army.

In this way, the number of rebels defending the camp would reach 7 to 80,000, not counting the immeasurable army of old and weak women and children who could be used to assist in the defense of the city walls;

Gregory, who had no hope of attacking, was in no hurry to retreat with his army or send messengers to the leader for help, for Gregory still had an elite cavalry of 7,000 at his disposal, while the rebels trapped in the camp did not have a cavalry force of comparable size.

This means that if the rebels trapped in the camp want to break through, then the elite cavalry units of the counterinsurgency army will become a decisive force to inflict heavy damage on the rebels, and as long as the main force of the rebels suffers heavy losses, it will be possible for the counterinsurgency army to capture the rebel camp again.

In view of this, Gregory, who did not intend to continue the attack, led his army to stay on the outskirts of the Kirkwall camp, relying on the superior cavalry units under his command to block the rebels who lacked cavalry strength in the camp.

In Gregory's view, the total population of nearly 700,000 will inevitably be depleted of the food looted by the rebels in a short time, and the rebels will have to leave the camp voluntarily in order to survive.

The rebels who were stubbornly defending the camp had no intention of taking the initiative to attack, and the counterinsurgency army surrounding the camp wanted to wait for the rebels to leave the camp.