"Chapter 85: The Wolf Rider Strikes"

A person who is not interested in others will encounter the most difficulties in his life and will hurt others the most. All human failures come from such people.

โ€“ Alfred Adler (Austrian psychologist)

No matter what purpose the orc army gave up the pursuit and entanglement of the breakout army, it could not change the fact that the breakout army successfully broke out of the encirclement of the orc army, and the success of the breakout plan allowed Bai Feng's personal prestige to be greatly improved in the army.

In the past, when the officers and soldiers of all armies saw Bai Feng, their expressions were almost always grateful, and this gratitude came from Hua Mu, a field doctor under Bai Feng's command, and it was Hua Mu's miraculous healing technique that won Bai Feng the gratitude of countless soldiers.

Now, when the officers and men of the various armies saw Bai Feng, their expressions were extremely awe-inspiring and respectful, and Bai Feng used his own efforts to win the recognition of the city defense army and the Flame Legion, and became the supreme commander of the breakthrough army in the true sense.

In addition to the city defense army and the iron-blooded guards personally cultivated by the Marquis of Longdsteadt, in the minds of the other three troops in the battle cluster, the 39th Legion, the 40th Legion, the Fire Legion and other army officers, Bai Feng's prestige was significantly higher than that of the Marquis of Longdstead.

The Iron Guard is a personal guard unit formed by the Marquis of Rundstead over a period of nearly twenty years, and its officers at all levels were taught by the Marquis Rundstead, and such a unit has long regarded the Marquis of Rundstead as a god.

Formed from the city defense units of the various provinces of the Empire, the city defense army should theoretically be the most liberal and disobedient force in the imperial army, but in practice this is not the case, and their loyalty to the Marquis of Rundstead is second only to the Iron Guard.

Of all the provincial city defense units, the most elite were undoubtedly the thousands of city defense troops personally trained by the Marquis de Rundstead in the province of Perpignan, and the status of the city defense forces in the province of Perpignan gradually increased after the arrival of the city defense troops in the other provinces gradually increased their status.

In order to improve the strength of the other city defense armies, the Marquis of Rundstead also disbanded the city defense army of Perpignan Province, and let the elite soldiers of this city defense army serve as middle and low-level officers in other city defense armies.

In other words, among the tens of thousands of city defense troops that broke through the siege, almost all the middle and low-ranking officers were loyal followers of the Marquis of Rundstead, so that the prestige of the Marquis of Rundstead in the city defense army would not be shaken by anyone at all.

Among the breakout army with nearly 160,000 soldiers, Bai Feng can control about three-fifths of the army, and the remaining two-fifths are controlled by the Marquis of Rundstead.

After deploying the front army, the Marquis of Rundstead came to Bai Feng's rear army non-stop, and as soon as they met, he asked Bai Feng straight to the point: "The orc army has retreated in a hurry, shall we continue to retreat westward, or will we go north to rescue the other armies?"

"Personally, I think it's more appropriate to retreat to the west than to rescue to the north. Bai Feng, who also didn't want to waste time, opened his mouth and said, "Retreat west to safety, we can get reinforcements from the empire, this is more important to us than anything else." โ€

"It is indeed difficult for our 160,000 tired army to rescue the other trapped armies, but the orc army is not so easy to defend against, and I am afraid that by the time we replenish and rest, I am afraid that the other three main fortresses will have fallen for a long time. โ€

The words of the Marquis of Rundstede reminded Bai Feng of the siege towers and battering rams built by the orc army, and the other three main fortresses that had lost reinforcements in the rear could withstand the ferocious attack of the orc army? This question does not seem to be difficult to answer.

Ignoring Bai Feng, who was deep in thought, the serious Marquis of Rundstead continued to talk about the matter: "Sunset Fortress is the eastern barrier of the empire to defend the orcs, once the Sunset Fortress is completely lost, what can the empire use to resist the attack of the orcs in the future?"

"Yes, without the Sunset Fortress as a barrier, what else can the declining empire rely on to resist the attack of the orcs?" Bai Feng, who laughed bitterly, had to ask helplessly: "Marquis, how do you think we should deal with the current situation?"

Bai Feng, who had only been in the Heavenly Dragon Empire for a few months, thought that his understanding of the Heavenly Dragon Empire was definitely not as good as that of Marquis Longdstead, who had lived in the empire all his life;

"Judging by the present situation, we ......," said the Marquis of Rundstede, whose brow was furrowed, before he could say what he thought, when several Parthian archers galloped in from shouting the slogan 'The enemy is coming'.

After silently glancing at each other, the Marquis of Rundstead, who was sitting on his horse, immediately patted his horse and galloped back to his front army;

The wolf cavalry of the Orc Empire is one of the most powerful cavalry in the continent, and among the human forces, it seems that only the Holy See's Knights of Light and the Knights Templar can confront the wolf cavalry head-on, and the other human cavalry is no match for the wolf cavalry at all.

Cavalry vs. infantry, the winning side is often the cavalry, because the cavalry has always been the king of the battlefield in the era of cold weapons, and the wolf cavalry, a powerful cavalry, is almost invincible in the field, and their strength is far better than that of ordinary cavalry.

As early as when formulating the breakthrough plan, Bai Feng had considered the wolf cavalry factor in the orc army, but he didn't expect that the scale of the orc wolf cavalry would be so large, even so large that it was beyond the scope that Bai Feng's response plan could bear.

Judging from the smoke and dust swept up by the wolf cavalry, their number was no less than 50,000, and the Spartan heavy infantry and royal pikemen of the Baifeng personal guard, all of which added up to more than 1,000 people, how could they resist the charge of 50,000 wolf cavalry?

The unexpected change made Bai Feng feel extremely tricky in an instant, with the current strength of the breakthrough army, relying only on his own strength to resist the charge of 50,000 wolf cavalry was tantamount to asking for his own death, and there was not even a glimmer of hope.

The only way to save the breakout army was for Bai Feng to seize the time and immediately use the teleportation array in the White Spirit Ring to teleport the phalanx legion in the Roman city, and use the Macedonian phalanx legion, which specializes in dealing with cavalry, to deal with the wolf cavalry of the orc army.

The crux of the matter was that if Bai Feng used the teleportation array to summon the phalanx legion in public, it would mean that the connection between him and the city of Rome would be exposed in front of those who wished to do so, and in this way, Bai Feng's plan to break into the interior of the Celestial Dragon Empire would most likely fail.

The galloping sound of the wolf cavalry in the distance was already loud and clear, and the front army of the Marquis of Rundstead had also made a timely gesture of preparing for battle to meet the enemy, and the connecting army composed of the reserve troops, the 39th Army Corps, and the 40th Army Corps, was actively reinforcing the forward army in front of them.

Bai Feng, who was struggling, finally began to issue new orders one after another under the expectant gaze of the soldiers beside him: Hans's Seventh Wing and Lรณpez's Assault Wing were ordered to go to the left and right flanks of the front army, and defend the two flanks of the front army with a shield wall defense line.

Bonella's 1st Reserve and Carroll's 2nd Reserve followed behind the 7th and Assault Wings, respectively, to help them strengthen the shield wall, and even Cabitus's personal guards were under Bai Feng's orders to build a spear defense line behind the front army.

Bai Yi led four Flame Sword Saints to guard Bai Feng's side, surrounded by Ivan and dozens of shadow killers under his command, and on the battlefield full of blood and corpses, the white spirit ring worn by Bai Feng's right hand began to glow with white teleportation light!