Chapter 43 II Night Battle
How is this possible? Vandharu couldn't believe his eyes. The number of enemy troops far exceeded his estimate, originally he thought that the enemy army was just a small group of cavalry attack tactics, but in fact, the number of enemy troops must have exceeded 3,000, or even more! Isn't Viscount Libera attacking Epsommiton City? How could the thieves still have the strength to attack themselves?!
Vandalu reminded himself that this was not the time to think about other issues, and that rescuing his soldiers was the top priority. I saw that the cavalry who had entered the Yaqui camp were setting fire to the chaos everywhere, and at the same time cutting down the terrified Yaki soldiers who had just escaped from the camp to the ground. The surging flames reflected the faces red, and the blood splatters everywhere dotted the flames more and more bright red.
Knowing that only 200 of his guards had not yet been disarmed and rested, Vandalu immediately drew his sword and commanded his guards to form an array to counterattack the enemy's cavalry - the camp ahead was already in disarray, and in such a situation he had to buy time for the soldiers in the rear camp to regroup.
Compared to Vandallu's weak lineup, the torrent of cavalry seemed as thick as a wall, and to use the little force at hand to contain the charge of the cavalry group was tantamount to using the mantis arm as a chariot.
"Calm down! Follow me! Form a phalanx! ”
Vandharu led his team forward and shouted at the scattered fleeing soldiers. Some of the soldiers calmed down when they heard the general's voice, and stood in the ranks of Vandallu, although they had not yet had time to put on their armor and basically had no weapons in their hands, but at least a certain scale would be more conducive to the stability of people's hearts, and Vandalu also had to prevent those brave soldiers with too much blood from launching a unplanned attack on the enemy cavalry out of desperation. That would be no different from sending you to death.
Before the enemy cavalry made direct contact, Vandalu managed to gather a thousand men. The front, dominated by the Guards, blocked the cavalry charge, and Vandalu himself stood at the forefront and slashed three cavalrymen. This is a morale boost. However, the second wave of the enemy cavalry attack broke the defense on the right flank, but fortunately, the follow-up soldiers saw hope and fought hard to stop it, and finally did not let the formation collapse, and Vandalu immediately instructed thirty men of the Guards to go and fill the gap.
At this moment, Vandharu heard a broken shout: "Enemy general, look at the gun!" When he looked back, he saw an enemy general stabbing at him with a gun. Wang Dalu hurriedly opened the tip of the opponent's spear with the knife in his hand, only to feel a soreness in his hand. Taking advantage of the momentum, he shook off the horse's head and jumped to the side.
After the opponent's blow missed, he didn't make a move, but turned the horse's head and shouted: "Down is Captain Hector of Palchwanf!" The enemy will leave his name, don't be a man who dies in vain! ”
Wang Darlu felt a pang in his heart: Li Tianhao really asked for Palci's assistance, legend has it that Palchi has three captains, that is the best in the entire Palchi, today's move, the other party's strength is really good, so he replied: "Under is the Yaqi general Wang Darlu." Luckily! ”
Hector gave a standard Palci military salute with his gun: "Your Excellency Vandalu is invited, we are each our own master, even if we die at the hands of the other, do not resent each other!" ”
"I really didn't know that there was such a polite man in the thief army, let the horse come!" Vandharu said, urging the horse to swing his sword forward.
He knew that he would not be able to get out of the unfavorable situation tonight without winning the battle against the fierce opponent in front of him. Therefore, as soon as I came up, I did my best. Seeing that he was coming fiercely, Hector did not dare to slack off, and the two sides fought back and forth.
After a dozen rounds. Vandallu began to feel overwhelmed. Hector is worthy of being the captain of Parchwan, and even with his own best efforts, he still cannot achieve a balance of power. The opponent outperforms him in terms of speed, strength and skill. Faced with this invincible opponent, Vandallu could not retreat. Because as soon as he retreats, the already precarious morale will collapse, and these sub-unit soldiers will become pitiful existences that are free to mermaids. The only hope now is that the troops in the rear barracks will come as soon as they get the news, and perhaps there will be a possibility of salvaging the situation. Therefore, Wan Daru gritted his teeth and insisted on not taking a step back. At this time, the troops around him could no longer withstand the onslaught of the cavalry, and they began to retreat.
At this critical moment, Vandharu heard a commotion in the camp behind, apparently with a large group of men and horses coming. I couldn't help but feel a little relieved in my heart - if the friendly forces didn't come again, I was afraid that I would not be able to support myself.
However, reality dealt a heavy blow to Vandalus, because it was not the Yaki army that came to support, but the Dils cavalry. The two generals at the head were Senus, who had fiery red hair and was as strong as a bull, and the other was Muller, who was as handsome as a prince in a white robe.
The rear team was also attacked by the enemy at the same time! And they have already lost one step ahead of themselves! While confirming this inwardly, Hector's spear pierced through Vandallu's abdomen!
"Your Excellency is defeated, do you have any last words?" Seeing that the other party was mortally wounded, Hector did not strike again, but asked with courtesy.
"It's okay, thanks to Lord Hector, thanks to your help, I was able to obtain the qualification to go to the underworld to meet with many deceased predecessors, may your martial arts luck be long, I will wait for you in the underworld." With that, Vandalru stretched out his hand and pulled out Hector's spear, blood pouring out like a fountain. Vandalu looked at the wound in his abdomen, then looked at Hector with a shallow smile before falling off his horse.
"The enemy general Vandallu has been defeated in the lower Haktor! Yaki soldiers, abandon your weapons and surrender! Hector shouted with his gun raised. The voice resounded through the sky and reached the ears of every sub-unit soldier present. The courage of the Yaqui soldiers also vanished with this shout, these soldiers did not expect that the cavalry of the Dils army would be so strong, and their own side would lose the battle so completely, in the face of such a strong enemy and such a situation, surrender and flight were the only options. After a moment of hesitation, a small number of soldiers threw down their weapons, and most of them did not even have weapons to put down, but simply raised their empty hands in surrender. At this point, this night raid ended with the complete rout of the Yaji army. Of the nearly 10,000 men of the Yaji Army, 2,200 were killed, more than 6,000 were wounded and surrendered, about 1,500 were fugitive and missing, and the commander Vandharu was killed in battle. Li Tianhao won the first battle after capturing Epsommiton. (To be continued......)