Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Battle of the Elmod River
What scared Traagher was that the Paz army had crossed the border between the two countries, but their whereabouts were unknown, what did that mean? Could it be that the purpose of the Paz army was not to support themselves, but to attack the royal capital? Thinking like this, Trag couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly gathered intelligence everywhere to find out the specific direction of the Paz army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It was at this time that the news of a second blow came to him, this time with the Mifra army on the south bank of the Ermod River.
The first to notice something strange were the Sindra soldiers patrolling along the Elmod River, and early that morning, they were shocked to find that the water level of the Elmod River had dropped considerably! This is absolutely impossible in a non-dry season, and the Sindra soldiers immediately reported it to their commanders. However, before the Sindra army could report the situation to their king, something even bigger happened - the Mifra army began to force their way across the Ermod River!
Traag underestimated his brother Mifora, who was stupid enough to force his way across the Ermod River in front of the enemy, and he went to great lengths to build ships in order to confuse Trag and cover up his damming of the upper Ermod River.
Mifra didn't need to hold back the Elmod for too long, as long as he could get his troops to cross it. Leading the way was his proudest troop of elephants, who sat on elephants' backs and crossed the Ermod River across the water deep in the belly of the elephant.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! The Syndra soldier shouted in horror. Then came the arrows fired by the soldiers on the back of the elephants.
The Sindra soldiers were so frightened that they missed their only chance to counterattack, and when the first elephant on the shore began to roar towards the Sindra camp, the Sindra soldiers almost immediately broke up - the camp's defenses were completely vulnerable to the onslaught of the elephants.
King Traag ordered the elephants to be dispatched as soon as he heard the news, but it would take time for the elephants to cross the river from the place where they were stationed, and the only thing that could be relied on before the Sindra army could rely on was their own courage, which was what the newly formed army lacked most.
The vanguard elephant corps successfully captured a landing ground, and the follow-up troops of the Mifra army began to cross the river, and by the time Traag's elephant troops arrived at the battlefield, more than 10,000 Mifola troops had crossed the Ermod River.
At this time, Traag knew that if he did not stop the Mifra army, more and more people would cross the river, so he personally commanded the elephant army to launch an attack on the mifra army's elephant troops.
Due to the opening of the landing ground for the follow-up troops, Mifurah's elephant troops were in a state of dispersion, so they suffered a loss when they started fighting, and were beaten back again and again by the Sindra elephant formation. However, they had the advantage in numbers, and they completed the formation of the formation while being beaten, and finally reversed the defeat.
At this time, the 10,000 men of the Mifra army had formed a formation to cover and kill, all of them were mercenaries, and the fanaticism for money made them red-eyed from the beginning, Traag immediately organized forces to defend, but it was still difficult to stop the advance of this group of crazy warriors.
Now both sides were fighting for time, but Mifra had to seize every minute to cross the Ermod River, while Traag was trying to delay as long as possible for the rest of the troops to come and encircle and annihilate the enemy force that had rushed across the river.
Mifura had the upper hand in this battle, and it was too late for Traag to regret it, but Mifora would not show mercy to Traag's men, who had fallen into passivity, and seeing that Traag's army was mobilized, he ordered the whole army to start crossing the river. An army of 200,000 began to cross the Ermod River on all fronts, which was a disaster for the Sindra army on the north bank. Originally, they did not have an advantage in numbers, and their morale was low after being seized by the enemy, but now seeing the scene of the enemy crossing the river along the entire line of the Elmod River, many recruits have trembling legs and stomachs, where is there still the will to fight? By the end of the night, 140,000 of the 140,000-meter Fora army had successfully crossed the Ermod River under the rain of arrows from the Sindra army, and gained a firm foothold on the north bank.
After a day of fierce fighting, both sides suffered heavy losses. The 10,000 horses and horses that crossed the river first lost nearly seventy percent, and the elephant soldiers also suffered more than half of the casualties, but the losses on Trag's side were even more serious, his elephant troops were almost completely wiped out, and what was worse was that he lost nearly 10,000 elite troops in order to prevent the Mifola army from landing.
After nightfall, the two sides continued to fight bitterly, but Tragg knew that the situation was not good, and at this rate all the Mifra army would cross the river at dawn, and then he would be defeated, and the news of the defeat of the king's army would soon spread throughout Sindra, and it was unknown whose side the princes would be on by that time.
Just as Traag pondered how to retreat, a fire suddenly erupted on the south bank of the Elmod River. Traag hurriedly climbed aboard his war elephant and straightened up to look south. It's a pity that the distance is too far to see clearly, and when a sun, moon and bright flag vaguely appeared in the firelight, he realized that it was the Paz Army!
Why did Dadaran's 50,000 Paz army appear on the south bank of the Ermod River? Tragg couldn't figure it out anyway. In fact, the reason behind this is very simple, because the Paz army had already reached the south bank of the Ermod River before Traag and Mifora arrived.
When it comes to Sindra's terrain, Dadalan is more familiar than many of the Sindra natives, and his wandering life as a child has allowed him to travel many places. Soon after Dadaran led the Paz army into Sindra's territory, he received news of Traag's army, and now as the commander-in-chief of the Paz army, he could see at a glance that the best meeting point for the two armies was the Elmod River. Immediately after receiving supplies from Sindra, he ordered his whole army to march day and night, and to march as fast as possible, reaching the lower Elmod region eleven days before Traag's army reached the river. He knew that there were many fishermen who lived by fishing, and that it took them eighteen full days to cross the Ermod River in their boats. Later, in order to keep it secret, Dadaran killed all the fishermen and the people he met along the way, and unwittingly lurked in the hilly terrain less than fifty miles south of the Mifra army's garrison.
Of course, it was extremely risky for Dadaran to do this, because if Traag did not arrive in time for the Ermod River to stop the Duke of Mifora from continuing north, then he would be in a desperate situation. Dadaran, however, was not worried, for if Trag could not even see through the strategic importance of the Ermod River, he could not be expected to be King Sindra. In the event that happens, Dadaran is ready to join Mifra to win his trust, and in the end, he will kill Mifra anyway, and simply messing up the entire Sindra can be regarded as completing the strategic intention of Basbahn. (To be continued.) )