Chapter 60 II Forward, Forward, Backward

While Vulture's troops were constantly being ambushed by the Dils army, the Bius division on the Western Front had a similar encounter.

Bius has become much more cautious since the fight with Li Tianhao, so he was not as eager to expand the results as Vulture in this pursuit, and after defeating the enemy's alternate cover, he held the main force of his troops together and advanced steadily, sending only a few rangers to confirm the enemy's retreat route, and then trailing forward. Along the way, he encountered a number of blocking troops, but they were not large, and Bius believed that this was a sacrifice to slow down his pursuit and buy time. Therefore, Bius did not like to fight, but only dispersed these troops with a part of his strength, and did not pursue these worthless targets, but aimed at the main force of the Dils army. It was precisely because of his judgment that he encountered a nightmare experience.

By the time Bius sensed that something was wrong, he and his troops were in a desperate situation. Located in the northern part of Aftans, which was originally a plain suitable for farming, according to intelligence, the main enemy army was fleeing north along the banks of the Nara, and Pius judged that the enemy might try to escape by boat, so he immediately commanded his troops to march overnight. By all indications, he was approaching the enemy, and seeing that the prey he was pursuing was in front of him, Bius himself could not hide his excitement. However, in the second half of the night, fog arose on the banks of the Nara River, which made Vius's troops a little confused, and Bius suddenly felt a hint of foreboding in his heart, in such a fog, it was difficult for his troops to support each other, and it would not be easy for the enemy to use this opportunity to launch a counterattack.

Bius's prediction was close to the truth, except that the Dils army did not launch a counterattack because of the fog, but prepared to attack here early in the morning. It's just that luckily this fog has done them a great favor.

As three arrows pierced the pre-dawn silence, the Dilcs army began a counteroffensive. Directly south was Cenas and his mercenary group; to the west is Hector; to the east is Pokel; To the northwest was Chikirda's army; To the southeast is Eglius; To the southwest is Wei Song's main team. The six-way army launched a centripetal assault on Vius's army at the same time!

The ratio of the strength of the two sides was 55,000 men of Bius to 31,500 men of the army of Dils.

If it is more numerical than Us, if it is under a clear night sky. With the experience of Pius, he was able to quickly perceive this, and then launched a counterattack against the enemy's weak link, but this fog helped the Dils army a lot, the assaulted Yaki army could not distinguish the specific number of enemy troops in the fog, and the situation of being attacked on all sides exacerbated the panic of the people's hearts, and there was no experience in encountering the enemy army in the field, the Yaqi soldiers felt overwhelmed in the face of the enemy's overwhelming attack, and seeing that there was no enemy attack only in the north, people naturally wanted to retreat to the north. Bius could have prevented this from happening. Unfortunately, due to the fog, he was unable to grasp the overall situation, and more than half of the heralds sent out went the wrong way in the fog. On the other hand, the Dilcs army, because of its small number and its division into six units, each general led no more than 5,000 soldiers, and formed a dense attack formation, so it commanded freely, and the generals of each department rushed to the front line to open the way, and at the same time pointed out the direction of their own soldiers. Advance in full force in the array of the sub-base army.

As more and more soldiers retreated north, the formation of the Yaqui Army became more and more thin. Seeing that his command was ineffective, Bius could only control his men and horses and began to fight and walk north along the Namra River. In the melee, Bius encountered the forces of Aiglius, and the two sides fought fiercely, and Bius himself fought with Aiglius for more than thirty rounds before being scattered by the men and horses of both sides. It was then that Bius saw a familiar figure. That was Xenas, the most courageous warrior in the Tiers army.

The two had faced each other in previous fights, and Bius knew that he was no match for him, and he was still in such a bad situation. Not far away, there was Eglius eyeing him, and if he was entangled by these two people, he would not want to get out. Therefore, Bius had no intention of going forward to engage at all, but instead commanded his troops to block Xenas's attack. At this time, the situation became a little chaotic after the convergence of the Senas and the Eglius Division. It took some time to regroup the battle, and Bius took advantage of the opportunity to get out in time.

It was at this time that the troops retreating to the north came under real attack. And it was the sporadic troops that had been spared by Bius some time earlier who launched this attack. The general who commanded this army was Jamo, the head of intelligence.

Wei Song's plan had already been arranged, and he deliberately left the north side open, just to make the Yaji army feel the hope of escape, and then cause the people's hearts to be scattered, but in fact, Yamo was waiting for them on the road. The only person who can use several small scattered units properly and then gather them in time to rush to the battlefield is only Yamo, the intelligence chief, who can do it.

At this time, the Yaji army was crowded together and scattered, and there was no combat array at all, and at this time, it was intercepted by the enemy army, and it suddenly became chaotic. Yamo was even more ruthless, leading the troops to kill, Wei Song and others also led their troops to start chasing and defeating the retreating Yaji army, the array of the Yaji army was constantly compressed, divided, and annihilated, and many Yaji soldiers who had accumulated experience in the previous defensive battles lost the opportunity to become veterans here forever. By the time the morning sun had lifted the fog, more than 10,000 Yaki soldiers had fallen in pools of blood.

However, the matter did not end here, the Yaqui army, which was already in overall defeat, was divided into several groups by the Dirs army, and due to the all-out pursuit of the Dirs army, several of them were even closer to the south than the Diers' army, Wei Song, who was aware of this, immediately adjusted his deployment, and ordered Aeglius and Xenas to cooperate with Jamo to pursue the front of the Yaqui army that had fled, and the rest of the generals turned back to annihilate the remnants of the Yaqui army that had been cut off, so as to prevent them from regrouping.

After the night raid, the Yaki army fell into hell again, and the already scattered troops were cut into more pieces, which were then eaten by the enemy in one bite, and the entire plain was filled with fleeing Yaqui troops. Just the night before, the pursuers turned into fugitives, the Dils army chased and fought fiercely, the Yaqui army had no way to enter the sky, and could only become corpses except to abandon their weapons and surrender, and the pursuit lasted until sunset the next day, and the Yaji army left nearly 30,000 corpses, and more than 10,000 had to surrender, and those who escaped by luck left all their weapons and armor and fled to the Aswanda defense line.

The only one who survived was Bius's own team, although he lost nearly forty percent of his troops, but Bius had both ability and luck, after escaping in the combined attack of Eglius and Xenas, he was very lucky to avoid the pincer attack of Xenus and Jamo, under the effective command of Bius, the team galloped at an astonishing speed for a day and a night and successfully escaped the pursuit of the Dils army.

But when he and his men dragged back to the Aswanda Defence, an even greater tragedy awaited him: the Aswanda Defence was lost! (To be continued......)