"Chapter 116: Sweeping a Thousand Armies"
I can't change the world by myself, but if I throw a stone at the surface of the water, it can cause many ripples.
- Mother Teresa (world-renowned Catholic charity worker, founder of the Missionary Society of Charity)
Although in today's siege war, the army of the Eastern Alliance did not actually use the Lucy people as a meat shield, but used their own army of old and weak women and children to disguise themselves as meat shields, but this does not mean that they do not have enough Lucy people in their hands to serve as meat shields and cannon fodder.
The Eastern Alliance army, which wiped out several Lucy settlements in a row, slaughtered at least 70,000 or 80,000 captives, and only half of these captives that were difficult to assimilate to them in a short period of time were actually consumed by them as meat shields.
When the 150,000 reinforcements of Luxi were about to enter the battlefield, the leaders of the Eastern Alliance, who decisively chose to retreat, on the one hand, personally led the troops of their respective tribes that did not participate in the battle to retreat as soon as possible, and on the other hand, handed over the remaining 40,000 Lusi civilians to the soldiers after the break.
In order to prevent Lucy's reinforcements from catching up with their own army, which was eager to retreat, and in order for their own army to evacuate this place of right and wrong as soon as possible, the selfish leaders of the Eastern Alliance decided to leave behind the tens of thousands of soldiers who were caught in the fierce battle in the barracks and serve as a broken rear force.
It sounds good to say that the troops who have been cut off are actually cannon fodder troops sent to death; this is also a matter of no choice, who let those unlucky soldiers take their turn to attack the barracks today, this is their fate.
With or without prisoners in hand, it is impossible for the troops after the break to change their fate of being completely annihilated, but having 40,000 prisoners in hand and destiny 40,000 prisoners in hand plays a crucial role in the length of time they can hold out.
The Eastern Alliance, which left more than 20,000 soldiers to continue to fight with the defenders of the barracks, used 30,000 soldiers to control the 40,000 prisoners left behind by the retreat of the main army, and prepared to use them as hostages to threaten the 150,000 Lucy army that was about to enter the battlefield.
The crux of the question is, is Viriacius, the leader of the Luxi tribe, the kind of person who will be held hostage with 40,000 people? The answer is naturally no, as the leader of the Luxi tribe, Viriacius has never been a good man and a woman.
The total annihilation of the 300,000 border garrisons of his own tribe was definitely a more serious loss than a broken bone for the Luxi tribe, which had a small number of troops, and this was a result that Viriacius could not accept no matter what, but it was also a reality that could not be changed in front of his eyes.
Only he knows what kind of monstrous anger burned in the heart of the sunken Vriacius, and perhaps, the closest guards around him also knew, but how could the loyal guards say it?
Looking at the enemy soldiers on the periphery of the military camp in front of him, he actually tried to block the attack of his own army by holding his own people hostage; Viriacius, whose face was about to disappear with disdain, turned his head and gave the order for the whole army to attack to his henchmen and generals.
Of the 150,000 imposing Lucy warriors, 50,000 rushed straight to the overwhelmed Eastern Alliance Broken Rear Army, and the other 100,000 were divided into two, directly bypassing the main battlefield and pursuing the main force of the enemy that was rapidly retreating.
The Eastern Alliance's broken troops couldn't believe that the reinforcements of the Luxi tribe didn't even save the people of their own tribe, so they killed them without any scruples, after all, the performance of the soldiers defending the barracks had made them realize the importance of captivity.
But what they didn't know was that Viriacius was not Roderick and Hall, and as the supreme ruler of the Lucy tribe, he had the right to give orders of any nature to his warriors, even if it was to point their swords at their loved ones!
Of course, it is one thing what kind of order Viriacius gave and another matter whether the warriors below were willing to carry it out, and there is no doubt that the Lucy warriors who were ordered to attack were not opposed to this order given by Viriacius.
The surging 50,000 Lucy warriors used the simplest, most direct and extremely brutal way to make the Eastern Alliance soldiers who thought they had something to rely on realize what reality was, and the mere 40,000 captured civilians did not have the slightest influence on Viriasius's decision.
For the captured civilians who can be saved from the enemy, the Lucy warriors who rush into the enemy group will try their best to rescue them, and for the captured civilians who cannot be saved, the Lucy warriors are no softer than the enemy.
The 30,000 Eastern Alliance soldiers who held 40,000 prisoners hostage, together with the more than 20,000 friendly troops who were still fighting fiercely in the barracks, could not stop the 50,000 Lucy soldiers for two hours, and the brave Lucy soldiers easily routed the more than 50,000 enemy troops who were trying to resist stubbornly.
At the same time, the 100,000 Lucy soldiers who pursued the retreating main force of the Eastern Alliance in two directions failed to catch up with the main force of the Eastern Alliance that retreated in a hurry;
Since he couldn't catch up, he would chase him later, and Viriacius, whose anger had just been vented in his heart, did not care about the successful withdrawal of the enemy's main force; in his opinion, the enemy's immediate escape was nothing more than self-deception and self-paralysis.
The current situation is different from the past, and it is determined that Viriacius will not be able to waste an opportunity to completely destroy the Eastern Alliance in vain like last time, and how many of the Eastern Alliance, which lost more than 600,000 troops in World War I, can be called the youth and strength of the warriors?
Viriacius, who knows the battle situation well, is confident that with his 150,000 army under his command, he can conquer the Eastern Alliance in one fell swoop, and when the time comes, it only takes twenty years of recuperation and recuperation, and a brand-new Luxi tribe will become the strongest tribe in the eastern region!
From one of the overlord tribes in the eastern region to the strongest tribe in the eastern region, such a leap is not insignificant, and the ambitious Veriacius is thrilled and eager to conquer and annex the eastern alliance.
The 50,000 Lucy soldiers, who had successfully defeated more than 50,000 Eastern Alliance soldiers, were unable to leave behind the enemy troops who had broken down and fled because they had to take care of rescuing their own captured civilians.
On the way back, the 100,000 Lucy soldiers, who were chasing the enemy's retreating main force, formed an encirclement from behind the fleeing enemy, and the defeated soldiers, who had no fighting spirit, became prisoners of the Lucy soldiers after a little resistance.
Viriacius, who personally led his guards into the barracks, saw the mountains of corpses and blood in the barracks, and after leaving the camp, he issued an order to immediately execute more than 30,000 enemy prisoners.
With the sound of screams, more than 30,000 captured soldiers of the Eastern Alliance were soon turned into headless corpses; the punishment of beheading was already the most cruel death penalty for barbarians who believed in the reincarnation of their souls after death.