"Chapter 22: The Battle of Leel"

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During the rise of the Eastern Alliance, those few tribes that were not strong could naturally work together to deal with the enemy, but after these years of rapid expansion, it is almost impossible for the current Eastern Alliance to be unanimous with the outside world.

The internal strife and covert struggle have completely turned the Eastern Alliance into a chaotic organization; if it weren't for the three powerful tribes suppressing the other tribes, the so-called Eastern Alliance would have dissolved long ago and become a historical term.

Even if the three tribes are suppressed, it cannot fundamentally change the status quo of the Eastern Alliance's internal struggle, because the three tribes also have deep-rooted contradictions with each other, so their suppression is only to suppress the supporting tribes of the other party.

The reason why the Eastern Alliance was able to gather the armies of all eighteen tribes to jointly deal with the Luxi tribe of Viriacius was purely because the entire Eastern Alliance was afraid of the Luxi tribe, after all, the strength of the Luxi tribe was well known.

Unfortunately, the word unity can never be used in the Eastern Confederate tribes, such as the Walkley tribe, who sat back and watched the Dart tribe being attacked on both sides, and they chose to watch the Dart tribe be besieged by standing still.

In the opinion of the leader of the Walkley tribe, the Eastern Alliance, which is juxtaposed by two powers, is always much better than the Eastern Alliance, which is divided by three powers; as for the Luxi tribe, is it true that the 400,000 troops of the Eastern Alliance cannot defeat the 150,000 or so Luxi tribe troops?

Even if all the 50,000 elites of the Dat tribe were annihilated by the Luxi tribe, and even the 100,000 soldiers of the entire middle lane army were wiped out, the remaining 300,000 troops of the Eastern Alliance would be enough to defeat the army of the Luxi tribe, this is what the leader of the Walkley tribe thought.

What's more, the 50,000 elites of the Dat tribe are not a vulnerable garbage army, even if they can't escape the fate of annihilation, they can definitely inflict heavy casualties on the army of the Luxi tribe, which can reduce the pressure on the Eastern Alliance army behind.

But is it really as rosy as the leader of the Walkley tribe imagined? The answer must be no! After Gregory's 40,000 elite troops attacked the chaotic Malen army from the flank, Roderick's frontal attack became more and more violent.

The elite of the Dart tribe, who were in a dilemma, suffered heavy casualties but did not fall into a crumble, and under the command of their leader Mullen, they withstood the onslaught of the two armies of the Luxi tribe to the death, and gave the friendly forces in the rear time to regroup.

After more than two hours of fierce fighting, the mid-lane army commanded by Mullen finally re-stabilized the formation, the elite Dart tribe warriors were still fighting at the front of the battlefield, and the soldiers of the other three tribes behind also took on the heavy responsibility of engaging the enemy forces on the flank.

However, all of this comes at a price, and at this time there are less than 100,000 soldiers left of the 120,000 elites of Roderick and Grigory, and the 100,000 troops under the command of Mullen are less than 50,000, and the number of the elite of the Dart tribe has dropped to less than 20,000!

Compared with more than half of the casualties of the army in the center, the right flank army of the Eastern Alliance was much luckier; Hall's 40,000 elite divisions and the 100,000 troops of the Eastern Alliance fought for nearly three hours, and the two sides were still fighting hard in a scorching battle.

On this earth-shattering battlefield, the Eastern Alliance, which had an absolute advantage in strength, still had 200,000 troops that had not been put into battle, and in addition to the left flank army of the Walkley tribe, the 100,000 troops of the seven tribes that served as reserve reinforcements also did not participate in the battle.

The leaders of the Eastern Alliance mistakenly thought that the entire army of the Luxi tribe had been thrown into battle, but what they didn't know was that the 40,000 elite cavalry led by Viriacius himself had slowly surrounded the rear of the Eastern Alliance army from outside the battlefield!

All the attention of the Eastern Confederate tribes who had fought the decisive battle against Luxi did not notice the 40,000 cavalry under Viriacius's command, and they did not discover it until Viriasius slowly approached the cavalry within a thousand meters of the Eastern Alliance reserves.

But by this time it was too late, and after sensing that the traces of his cavalry were exposed, Viriacius immediately gave the order for the whole army to charge, and a distance of one thousand meters was just the distance of acceleration for the cavalry charging with all their might.

When the huge movement of the earth came from the rear, the Eastern Alliance tribes, who realized that something was wrong, had no time to react, and the 100,000 troops in the reserve of the Eastern Alliance hurriedly turned back and prepared to meet the enemy, and the army of the Walkley tribe also urgently turned around to reinforce the reserve army.

The elite cavalry of the Luxi tribe rushed into the weakest army of the Eastern Alliance with extraordinary ferocity, and the weak reserve army could not stop the cavalry torrent led by Viriacius himself, and the already unstable formation was also quickly crushed.

The reserve army, which had lost its formation to rely on, soon collapsed under the ravages of the Luxi cavalry, which trampled the lives of the Eastern Alliance soldiers with their iron hooves.

In the bloody battlefield, the cavalry of the Luxi tribe is the only protagonist, and the scattered and fleeing Eastern Alliance soldiers are like ants struggling under the iron hooves of the enemy, and at this time, the numerical superiority of the Eastern Alliance army finally comes into play.

The reserve army of the Eastern Alliance, which was almost collapsed, only held out for about twenty minutes, and the 100,000 left flank army with the 50,000 elite divisions of the Walkley tribe as the main force finally rushed back and launched a counterattack against the cavalry of the Luxi tribe!

The 100,000 well-recharged infantry attacked less than 40,000 cavalry, the former could not defeat the latter, but it was enough to halt the latter's offensive momentum and relieve the friendly troops who were frantically fleeing under the iron hooves of the enemy cavalry.

The astonishing victories of Viriacius organized four successive charges against the main army of the Eastern Alliance, but they were unable to break through the defenses organized by the Walkley tribes, and Viriacius, who had lost nearly half of the cavalry, decisively gave up the attack and led the army directly out of the battlefield.

After all, the barbarian cavalry is only light cavalry with no heavy armor, and their role on the battlefield is extremely limited, and even Viriacius himself has to admit that it is almost a miracle that his 40,000 cavalry can achieve such a feat!

The 200,000 troops of the Eastern Alliance were attracted by these 40,000 cavalry, and paid the price of nearly 80,000 men and men to repel this cavalry, and from this point of view, Viriacius's strategy was an unprecedented success.

If it weren't for the selfishness of the Walkley tribe that caused the left flank army of the Eastern Alliance to not enter the battle, Viriasius was confident that he could annihilate the reserve army of the Eastern Alliance with the worst combat effectiveness of 100,000 in one fell swoop, and then cooperate with the other three armies to defeat the three armies of the Eastern Alliance one by one.