"Chapter Twenty-Three: The Battle of Rael: The End"

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- Niccolò Machiavelli (Italian political thinker and historian)

Just when Viriacius led the cavalry to confront the 200,000-strong army of the Eastern Alliance, the other two armies of the Eastern Alliance, which were affected by the battle in the rear, were also wavering, and the situation on the battlefield once gave the army of the Luxi tribe the upper hand.

In particular, the army in the middle under the command of Maren was another battlefield behind them, and the charge of cavalry and the cries of friendly troops made all the warriors, including the elite of the Dart tribe, feel worried.

The Eastern Alliance's will to fight plummeted, and it was a golden opportunity for the attacking Luxi tribe army, and Gregory and Roderick teamed up to seize this rare opportunity and desperately attack the enemy forces in front.

The soldiers of Hall's troops, who were still at a disadvantage, also launched a counterattack against the frightened enemy army with great morale, and the situation on the entire battlefield was shifting towards the western Luxi Territory, and the Eastern Alliance, which was superior in numbers, completely lost the initiative on the battlefield.

Even if Viriasius led 20,000 cavalry out of the battlefield, the Walkley tribesmen's army, which had not yet gathered the defeated friendly soldiers, did not dare to easily turn to the battlefield to reinforce the rear, and they had to guard against the enemy cavalry cruising around the battlefield.

After nearly five hours of fighting, the 200,000 troops of the Luxi tribe paid the price of nearly 60,000 casualties, but their efforts were worth it, and of the 400,000 troops of the Eastern Alliance, there were less than 250,000 left to fight at this time.

Of course, this does not mean that the number of soldiers killed in the Eastern Alliance is as high as 150,000, and a large number of wounded soldiers who quit the battle account for more than two-thirds of the casualties of the Eastern Alliance, and they actually die on the battlefield Less than 50,000 soldiers.

Correspondingly, not all of the 60,000 soldiers killed or wounded in the Luxi tribe were killed in battle, and more than half of them were wounded; the Luxi tribe still had 140,000 troops that could continue to fight, and the Eastern Alliance's combatable army was as high as 250,000!

The battle to decide who was stronger and who was weak between the Luxi tribe and the Eastern Alliance was far from over, and the soldiers of the two armies, who had not yet exhausted, were still engaged in a life-and-death struggle under the sun.

Viriasius led his cavalry troops to roam the periphery of the battlefield all the time, recovering the strength of the cavalry and horses, while looking for fighters to enter the battlefield again, and the soldiers of the Eastern Alliance were also vigilant enough to watch out for them.

After the leader of the Walkley tribe had regrouped all the defeated allies, he immediately sent 50,000 allied troops to reinforce the Maren army, which could no longer be supported, and personally led the remaining warriors to guard against Viriasius's cavalry.

As the battle is now, the leader of the Walkley tribe will no longer be able to play any petty tricks as long as he is not a fool, and once Male's army in the middle is annihilated, the entire army of the Eastern Alliance will be at risk of rout, which no one wants to see.

With 50,000 friendly reinforcements in the rear, Mullen once again stabilized his precarious position and reorganized the counterattack against the Luxi tribe army, and in this existential moment, the fragmented Eastern Alliance finally united closely.

The warriors from the eighteen tribes, instead of fighting openly and covertly, once again joined forces to resist the powerful attack of the Lusai tribe on this battlefield that was at their disadvantage, and the enemy army would be united in a way that Viriacius probably did not expect.

However, it was too late to think about unity at such a time, and Viriacius did not think that there was any big deal about the united Eastern Alliance, no matter how the enemy army struggled, they could not win this battle at all!

The confident Viriacius was not wrong in his grasp of the battle, but his army of the Lucian tribe was not able to win the battle either, and the battle, which began in the morning and continued until nightfall, ended in a scoreless manner.

In the ensuing battle, Viriacius did not find a suitable opportunity to lead the cavalry into the battle, and the Eastern Alliance army, mainly composed of the Walkley tribe, did not join the battle because they were wary of the cavalry of the Lucian tribe.

By the end of the battle, Viriasius, who had led his army back to the camp, had brought back only 80,000 intact soldiers and more than 60,000 wounded, and the Luxi tribe, in which 200,000 soldiers had participated in the battle, finally paid the price of more than 50,000 dead and more than 60,000 wounded.

If the casualties of the Luxi tribe can be described as heavy, then the casualties of the Eastern Alliance are simply beyond words: only 270,000 of the 400,000 soldiers who marched out with high spirits finally withdrew to the barracks!

Among the 270,000 soldiers who withdrew, more than 100,000 soldiers were wounded who could not fight again for the time being, and less than 150,000 soldiers could really continue fighting.

Even if the Eastern Alliance's combatable strength exceeds that of the Luxi tribe, it is impossible to change the balance of forces between the two sides; after all, the Luxi tribe has a much deeper background than the Eastern Alliance, and everyone knows that today's 200,000 troops are not all the troops of the Luxi tribe.

It may only take about half a month for the Luxi tribe to once again dispatch 200,000 troops to the border areas; can the Eastern Alliance, which has no strength to follow, continue to fight? Without the slightest hesitation, all the tribal leaders of the Eastern Alliance unanimously decided to withdraw their troops!

In order to prevent the troops of the Luxi tribe from pursuing their own retreat, the 270,000-strong army of the Eastern Alliance withdrew from the camp of Leel overnight, and all the warriors quickly returned to their respective tribes' camps as tribes.

The next morning, Viriacius discovered the deserted camp of Rael, and when Roderick and Hale offered to pursue them, the thoughtful Veriacius rejected their offer and returned to the heart of the Lucian tribe.

The war between the Luxi tribe and the Eastern Alliance ended because of the defeat of both sides in this battle, and the Luxi tribe, which had no damaged foundation, did not pursue the Eastern Alliance, and the Eastern Alliance, which had suffered a great loss of strength, returned to the lair to lick its wounds.

In this battle of Leer, the Dat tribe was one of the Eastern Alliance tribes with the heaviest losses, and the 50,000 most elite warriors of the entire Dat tribe were almost wiped out, and less than 5,000 soldiers returned to the Dat tribe.

Other ordinary warriors also suffered heavy losses, and in the next few years, the Dart tribe did not have the strength to go to trouble the city of Rome, and Maren could not avenge his beloved son, how to let the Dart tribe survive, this became Maren's top priority.

The tribes of the Eastern Alliance, which were still fighting the same enemy on the battlefield before, without the threat of the Luxi tribe, will soon embark on the road of annexation to each other in order to restore their own strength.