"My lord, what shall we do now? The group of troops using new muskets on the opposite side has already driven to the flank of the Chinese battlefield, and if they are allowed to set up a firing formation, our reserves will soon be overwhelmed......"

The Rostov commander looked at the erosive battle situation with twitching corners of his eyes, and sighed helplessly: "Prepare to withdraw the army, let those disgraceful mercenaries serve as the rear troops, these people are not worth the price they quoted at all!" ”

With the sound of a muffled horn, the Rostov reserves, which were fighting in the middle, began to slowly retreat, while the first wave of regrouped mercenaries rushed up and began to take their place.

Being able to do this on the battlefield, the main forces of Rostov are worthy of being the elite of the army of this era.

However, the fact that the main force of Rostov can be handed over in such an orderly manner also has a lot to do with the fact that Shu Zifeng's troops are too small, the complete collapse of the cannon fodder in the first camp, coupled with the loss of the previous fight, the Warrior Battalion and the Leader Musket Team combined to attack only more than 1,000 troops, and the main force of Rostov against them has more than 3,000 infantry troops on the battlefield!

If it weren't for the fact that the combat morale of Shu Zifeng's troops has always maintained a high posture, and the attack will not be fatal, the superior strength of the Rostov army would have been pushed back long ago.

It's just that the rout of the aristocratic cavalry has deprived the main force of Rostov the last reliance, and the generals and commanders of the Rostov army have fully seen the sharpness of the flintlock pistol unit, and they can think with their butts how bad the impact this flintlock pistol unit will have on their main battlefield in the middle after joining the war group.

In addition, the deepest impression of the commander of Rostov on Shu Zifeng's army is their will to fight, this group of rebels is not the imaginary peasant army at all, but the real elite, and the will to fight to the death is not inferior to the most loyal knights, and even slightly higher!

In particular, the group of ironclad soldiers who put down their arquebuses and replaced them with long-handled two-handed tomahawks made a breakthrough in battle, and it was the spirit of these musket teams that greatly infected the warrior battalion soldiers with a land base, and always fought bravely in the face of an enemy army outnumbered them.

"After this battle, I think Moscow needs to reassess the strength of the rebels of Grand Duke Yaroslav, by the way, what is the name of the leader of this group of rebels?" Before the commander of Rostov mounted his war horse and was about to run away, he asked the noble generals beside him.

"He was originally just a serf under the command of Grand Duke Yaroslav, but according to speculation, he should have been sent by a foreign enemy, and he himself had a very high military force, and once broke into the castle of Grand Duke Yaroslav alone and said that he raised the flag to rebel, but none of our surrounding countries came out to respond to the rebellion of Grand Duke Yaroslav, and did not find any traces of contact between the enemy country and Grand Duke Yaroroslav.

It seems that all things are called Kaba. Torovsky's serfs single-handedly promoted, oh yes, now this kaba . Torovsky gave himself the title Shu Zifeng, completely abandoning his original name and surname. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that his parents were executed by Grand Duke Yaroslav.

This Shu Zifeng is also a ruthless and despicable person, all his relatives except for a sister, all were executed by Grand Duke Yaroslav, and he was even willing to assist Grand Duke Yaroslav in his rebellion for power, and it is rumored that he treated prisoners of war extremely harshly, after each battle, all prisoners of war were required to enter the death camp called 'Xiandeng', and all prisoners of war who did not want to enter disappeared. ”

"Hmph, ridiculous rumors, how can a mere serf pull out such a brave warrior? In my opinion, everything is an excuse spread by Grand Duke Yaroslav, the so-called Shu Zifeng is just a rebel force secretly raised by Grand Duke Yaroslav, he is not a rebellion on a whim, but premeditated, the real hole card of Grand Duke Yaroslav is not in Yaroslavl City, but the army led by this Shu Zifeng and that new musket! ”

The Rostov commander quickly overturned the information and made what seemed logical.

The surrounding aristocratic generals also felt that the rise of Shu Zifeng was too 'unscientific', and after hearing the remarks of the commander of Rostov-on-Don, they all agreed, after all, even if a serf could pull out a rebel army, it was impossible for him to invent and create a new type of musket and train it into an army, and only a great nobleman like Grand Duke Yaroslav had this ability!

In any case, Grand Duke Yaroslav secretly developed a new musket and trained it into an army, which was much more reliable than a serf suddenly pulling out an elite musket with a new musket out of thin air.

As for the other details, they can be completely 'illusions' made by Grand Duke Yaroslav for outsiders to see.

At least, this reasoning is in line with the logic of the development of this era.

After Shu Zifeng saw the intention of the main force of Rostov-on-Don to withdraw, he immediately issued an order for the whole army to attack and chase and kill, and then took his 100-man personal guard heavy armored musketeer cavalry and rushed towards the retreating main infantry of Rostov-on-Don without stopping!

He wouldn't allow his upcoming mission rewards to run away like that!

The system elf made it very clear that the condition for the completion of the mission was to annihilate the main forces of Rostov, not defeat!

Shu Zifeng once asked the system elf about the consequences of not meeting the conditions of the annihilation task, the conquest system is still more humane, and it will only reduce the task reward, instead of announcing the mission failure, but the reduction will definitely make Shu Zifeng's heart ache......

If you can't beat it, forget it, since victory is in sight, Shu Zifeng will naturally not let the main force of Rostov save its strength and withdraw from the battlefield!

The criterion of annihilation is not to kill and capture all the soldiers of the main forces of Rostov, and the war of annihilation has always been to destroy all the formations of the enemy army, not to kill everyone, the battlefield is so big, how can it be guaranteed that no one escapes?

The aristocratic cavalry had already been routed and ran without a trace, but the main infantry army of Rostov was still retreating in formation, how could he let it go?

In fact, according to the proportion of the number of foot riders, the infantry army was the main force of the Rostov regiment, but the infantry sergeants had no status, and the people on horseback were superior.

Therefore, the criterion for calculating annihilation in the conquest system is to defeat the noble cavalry and break up all the infantry formations to completely render them ineffective.

Soon, the commander of Rostov, who was moving forward with the retreating infantry of the brigade, found Shu Zifeng's hundred-man heavy armored cavalry, and he rubbed his eyes in disbelief: "Is the person on the other side crazy?" How dare they storm the army with a mere hundred horsemen? ”

After the surprise emotion, the Rostov commander was suddenly filled with anger in his heart, and the other party's behavior was simply treating them as scum!