Chapter 4 Five Battles
Darla's worries grew heavier. The atmosphere during the last five days of the march had been very unsettling to him. In order to allow General Chidel to arrive in time to meet in the city of Assrath, he advised Irenzar to march slowly and step by step. It was supposed to take three days to march to reach Assras, but it took five days. But the problem is that during the five-day journey, the thief army is like evaporating from the world, and there is not even a shadow of a ghost. There were a few dangerous places to get to Essrath City from the main road, but these places were completely abandoned by the bandits.
Perplexed by the enemy's movements, Dara sent scouts to scout the surrounding area, but to no avail. In the face of Irenzar's inquiry, Dara couldn't say why, looking at Irenzar's face, Dara understood that this person's distrust of him was gradually escalating. And the boss's original vigilance against the thief army is gradually decreasing, which makes the uneasiness in Darra's heart even more widespread.
At this moment, the scout in front came back to report that the main force of the thief army had been arrayed outside the city of Essrath. Dara and Irenzar glanced at each other, and the same thought arose in their hearts: the thieves were going to fight to the death outside the city.
Dara thought to himself: This may be something in the middle of the matter, originally our army's equipment quality was relatively superior, and now the thief army has abandoned the fortified city of Essras and turned to field warfare, which is really an unexpected luck. It's just that all this is going too well, isn't there any conspiracy behind it?
I only heard Irenzar laugh a few times and said, "The thief army dares to go out of the city to line up? That's just right! Order the entire army to rush to Essrath City at full speed and send these thieves to Hell! ”
Dara hurriedly said: "My lord, our army has come from a long journey, and the other party is waiting for work. Why don't you camp and rest for the time being・・・・・・"
Irenzar waved his hand to block Darla's words: "Needless to say, our army has been moving slowly in the past few days, and there is no fatigue in the first place!" The plan for now is to join up with Lord Chidel's forces as soon as possible, and if Lord Chidel sends troops, they should be nearby at this moment. Send scouts to contact Lord Chidel, Lord Darrah. ”
Dara sighed inwardly, Irenzar lacked the necessary composure, and there was nowhere to vent his enthusiasm for days without a fight. Unfortunately, he really couldn't come up with a better way at the moment, so he could only carry out Irenzar's orders.
Unfortunately, by the time they arrived at the battlefield, the returning scouts reported finding no trace of Chidel's troops. Unbeknownst to Darla, of course, Chidel was being troubled by the suspicious soldiers sent by Rolances, and in order to ensure the safety of the Vera Fortress, Keddle decided to stay where he was. In response to Irenzar's letter for help, Chiddle judged that the thieves were deliberately trying to divert the tiger from the mountain, and instead beheaded the messenger. Now, the Yaki Army has entered the battlefield and has to enter the Assrath Valley to fight a decisive battle with the thief army.
Li Tianhao succeeded in convincing Chail to engage in a head-to-head battle with the Yaki Army. In this battle, the elite of the Dils Alliance Army was exhausted, leaving only the old and weak to defend the city. The central army was 3,000 men led by Chail, 2,000 men by Hadham on the left flank, and 2,000 men led by Li Tianhao on the right flank. Faced with the 8,500 Yaki troops who had hurried to the battlefield and had not yet finished plating, the Dils coalition army took the lead in attacking. Li Tianhao on the right flank rushed to the forefront first - the number of bows and arrows and armor of the Dils coalition army was insufficient, and it would be very disadvantageous if he entered the bow and arrow battle, so Li Tianhao had to enter hand-to-hand combat as soon as possible.
After successfully dodging a wave of arrow rain, Li Tianhao, who had leapt into the enemy formation, quickly swung out his sword, and suddenly a rain of blood dispersed, and before the victim could scream, a second victim was born. Facing Li Tianhao's swift sword as swift as a poisonous snake, Yajijun quickly moved out of the way to both sides, no one wanted to stand in front of such an opponent, it was tantamount to pushing himself to the gate of hell. The retreat of this point was immediately expanded by Li Tianhao's troops, and the left flank of the Yaji Army cracked like a cut cheese.
The slave owner who commanded the left flank, Abhajel, hurriedly led his team to stop the enemy's advance, but unfortunately, he only walked in front of Li Tianhao for one round and became a headless corpse, and the left flank of the Yaji army was even more chaotic. Seeing that the battle situation on the left flank was unfavorable, Irenzar hurriedly mobilized troops to the rescue. At this time, the Yaji army array was finally formed under the command of Dara, and the center and right flank had successfully resisted the attack of the Dils coalition army. After carefully observing the battle situation, Dara rode back to Irenzar and said, "My lord, the junction between the middle and the left flank of the thief army is a weak link, and my subordinates have requested that the main army be used to assault there, as long as the connection between the two thief armies is severed, we can flank the central part of the thief army!" ”
"Okay, there you go."
The tide of battle has changed. Drum's troops, due to their slow progress, had to put their main forces on the front line, so that the connection with the Chinese army became weak. At this time, Darla's assault made the situation even worse, and Chail, aware of the danger, hurriedly mobilized his troops to try to close the gap, but in this way, the attack in the center weakened. Seeing this, the Yaki army in the middle hurriedly pressed up, making the situation even more critical. At the same time, the flank of Li Tianhao's army, which was progressing too well, had lost the cover of friendly forces, but at this time, Ilenzar did not send troops to attack Li's flank, because he had already seen that as long as Li Tianhao's assault was delayed, Dara could take the lead in breaking through the enemy formation and launching a flanking attack on the enemy commander in the center, so he ordered the reserve troops to be put into this direction. However, this was part of Li Tianhao's plan, just when the main force of the Yaji Army was pressed and the Diles coalition army was about to show defeat, a force was killed in the mountains behind the Yaji Army. It was a thousand special forces led by Müller and Woolly - a force that had been completely silent for several days and lurked in the mountains, and finally managed to avoid the scouts of the Yaki Army and sneak behind the Yaki Army to attack.
Receiving news of the presence of troops in the rear, Irenzar at first thought that Chidel's troops had finally arrived. When he learned that this unit was the Dils coalition, his whole face froze, and a chill pierced from the base of his spine to the back of his head. Most of the Yaqui troops who heard the news felt much the same way as Irenzar, and before the people could recover from the bad news, Muller's troops had set off a feast of blood and corpses in the rear of the Yaqui army!
At this time, the Yaji army did not cooperate well, and the disadvantages of the uneven quality were fully revealed, the fleeing soldiers blocked the soldiers who were in the middle of the battle, and some slave owners hurriedly regrouped the queue, only to be overwhelmed again by the fleeing friendly forces around the array. In such a chaotic situation, ten people can't even exert the strength of one person, and they have to face the most elite and powerful troops in the Dils coalition army! Muller and Woolley each wielded their weapons to forge their way through the Yaki army, while Alam, Jimda, and Tatar, who followed behind, showed no signs of weakness, proving their bravery with the blood of the Yagi army.
Irenzar was completely overwhelmed by this sudden situation, and seeing the expectant eyes of his subordinates, Irenzar's mind was in a state of confusion, and he could not give a single order, but only pulled the reins backwards (in fact, in the direction of the middle attack of the Dils coalition army) and kept retreating.
Darla, who learned that the rear had been attacked in the chaotic battle, was full of remorse: sure enough, the enemy army had played a conspiracy! Just one step away, in just a few moments, he will be able to cut off the connection between the left flank of the thief army and the middle lane! But all this is meaningless now, even if the enemy army can be cut off, the Yaji army's main formation will be defeated by the enemy army, so the tactics of the flanking attack still cannot be completed, he has to admit that the Yaji army has no chance of winning this battle. At this moment, he can only give up everything that is about to be in hand, and evacuate the front line at the risk of being caught between the two armies to relieve the crisis of the commander.
Almost at the same moment, Li Tianhao also sensed that the position of the enemy's main general was too protruding, and he had already led his troops to start a centripetal assault on the middle route army of the Yaji army. The ferocity of his momentum terrified all the Yaki troops who stood in his way - this enemy general in gray armor had turned his sword into a white sword and flew up and down in the air! And this Bai Lian is using blood as ink, composing a poem of death on the battlefield!
And Li Tianhao's assault and Muller's assault are like pincers straight to the heart of the Yaki Army - coach Irenzar! At this time, the chaos of the Yaji Army began to fall into an uncontrollable situation.