Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Fish That Slipped Through the Net

"All the members outside the car, get inside the car!" Looking around the heavens, there was no living thing left in the sky that could be moved. "Prepare for the cavalry onslaught!"

"Deal with you mallet!" There was a laugh in the channel. The Wyverns have already been defeated, and who will take the cavalry that is gathering seriously?

Sitting on a galloping armored unicorn, the magician who had just taken the lead in shouting waved his staff while reminiscing about his past as if he had been in a movie. From being born into a failed family in the political arena, to apprenticeship, to obtaining the title of Bachelor of Magic, in order to escape the continuous repression and crusade wars, he lost his family wealth from the army to the Inquisition, and has his own small family...... How could I have expected that the Inquisition would also be involved in this fierce war? He raised his left hand and glanced at the ring, his wife was months pregnant when he set off...... It would be nice to be able to defeat those monsters and return to Lancas with the medals in glory. He comforted himself like this, and concentrated a little.

However, both sides knew that this was impossible.

The round inverted bowls began to turn slowly, and machine-gun bullets poured out from everywhere. The aimless strafing did not defeat most of the enemies, and many riders were still able to penetrate the range of various magical weapons.

"It's so exciting...... Frank peeked out through the crack in the cockpit. Countless riders charge down the small slopes, as if those hooves of various forms will step on their heads at any moment.

In the dust, fireballs, icicles, and arrows wrapped in the wind whistled, but unfortunately they were still completely ineffective against the steel armor plates. In many places on the ground, vines quickly grew that could entangle the military formation, and instantly lifted the tank to try to entangle the vehicle, but unfortunately the vines had been crushed by the tracks before they could take shape, and it was hit by the fireball, and it still headed straight towards the scattered cavalry with the burning vines.

"Invincible, fast and fast...... Those fortresses that fly close to the ground are the real cavalry. The Western Expeditionary Army ...... this time It's going to be a repeat of the defeat of the Red Dragon Country......" The heretical inquisition mage, who had just been fantasizing about successfully leading the charge, was still conscious, and his body fell to the ground uncontrollably with his mount. "Unborn child, dad is sorry for you......" The hand that had been holding the wand gradually loosened, and although it had not stopped breathing, life was gradually draining from the body of this father-to-be.

The sun has leapt all over the horizon, radiating a ray of despair and confidence to the earth. The battle was over, and the sabers of the riders had already fallen heavily on the plain along with their wrists before they had even slashed the correction device at the tip of the barrel.

"Repeat and repeat, continue the pursuit! Drive them into the encirclement of the fraternal forces! The battalion commander also leaned out of the hatch, holding the microphone in his hand and looking around with satisfaction at the battlefield where there was no enemy combat power, "The infantry got off the car and cleaned up the battlefield!" The anti-chemical warfare troops are ready to deal with the aftermath! โ€

The charge of less than a thousand horsemen just now seemed to be magnificent, but in fact, most of the enemy troops had already abandoned their positions and fled, preparing to quickly hide under the cover of the Rucha camp along the road they came, and at the same time, it was not ruled out that they would continue to carry the defeated soldiers directly to the dust and go straight to Xierqi to get on the ship and run away. The scene just now was so shocking that they didn't even have time to see how their comrades in the charge were disintegrated. From the brain to the brain stem, the movements of the whole body are condensed into one word, run!

"Battalion commander! The bastards of the one, two, and third companies have all plowed the ground, how many more living people can we pick up? Look, this wand is broken! The commander of the fifth company held a wand that had been crushed, and complained to the battalion commander angrily.

"What's the hurry, won't you get some carpentry glue on some electrical tape?" The battalion commander, sitting in the command car with the engine turned off, replied leisurely. "But they may have crushed some of the ones who are still alive...... Forget it, military orders come first. Whether the mantis arm is a car or escapes, that is fate. โ€

"Lao Chen, you fool those mantis arms as cars and tanks, people are still serious. I think you're going to be responsible! The commander of the fifth company still looked distressed.

The infantry next to him had also put on their masks and cleaned up the battlefield for a while. And the breath and the pulse, thrown into the ambulance - sweatminers, begging for ransom, it's all excellent. If you don't help, you should also practice for first-aid novices. Oh, and since there was no plasma, the captives who had lost a lot of blood had to raise their heads and ask if their faces were white or black. Others should have their limbs amputated, electric shocks that should be electrified, no problem.

The deceased's jewelry, identity tags, pocket watches and other distinctive personal belongings were all bagged, and the slightly intact deceased was taken by the squad leaders and platoon leaders with a card machine to take a stub, and the camera photo number was written on the label and pasted with a plastic bag. Wands, magic powder, and the like are deliberately singled out and stored separately along with coins.

The intact corpse can still be dragged into the pit and burned, and the incomplete one has to be solved on the spot by the anti-chemical warfare soldiers carrying flamethrowers on their backs. Although this is a sparsely populated grassland that was originally used for grazing, the necessary epidemic prevention work is still indispensable.

For the fourth and fifth companies, the battle is over. And the 123rd Company was still racing in the wilderness, driving the enemy to the chopping board. If these 50,000 enemy troops can be successfully eaten, then the entire front will be greatly changed. The Northern Route Army has collapsed, the Southern Route Army has not yet arrived, if it is now able to concentrate on the main attack of the Central Route Army to deliver a fatal blow, if the battle goes well, this clay-footed giant will completely collapse at the western gateway. At that time, the mechanized infantry will drive straight in, and the foot infantry will break through and sweep at the same time, and complete victory will not be a problem.

However, on April 24, at seven o'clock in the morning (tentative) time of Duncheng, at the same time as the good news of the special battalion of the First Infantry Corps, the first information that the battle situation had deviated from the predetermined direction was transmitted.

"Here are the third battalion, the second company, the first platoon, the third and fourth squads of the 2nd Infantry Regiment! Encounter a large number of enemy troops at the observation post on the ferry passage! Repeat! The Mountain Infantry Observation Post encounters a large number of enemy troops! โ€

The regimental headquarters was the first to fall down. It is no wonder that the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft only found more than half of the routs on the way back that were less than half of the predetermined number...... However, on the south side of the valley, the direction leading to the population concentration area is a dangerous road with extremely dense contours, and fortunately, the regimental headquarters has scattered the mountain infantry units as observation posts in various passes, and below the passes are several cities that are still functioning normally...... Otherwise, if the enemy's conservative estimate of 40,000 hungry tigers pounced directly on the population area south of the Minerva River without warning, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Most of the regiments on the other side of the mountain range did not have the ability to rescue in the line of fire, and this urgent report was immediately transferred to the front finger intact, and the phone of the air force unit in Elta was the first to be called. However, the answer was that it would take at least an hour and a half for the fighters to drop bombs on the heads of the 40,000 tigers and wolves. And although the ship unit can reach the vicinity in an hour, no matter how powerful the gunboats are, can they go ashore?

At this point, can we only sacrifice the observation post to achieve the success of the battle...... The regimental commander picked up the phone heavily.

"At all costs! Do whatever it takes! Drag the enemy in the pass! Behind you are tens of thousands of civilians! Hold the watch post until the last man! Reinforcements and ammunition arriving by ambulance helicopters will arrive in half an hour, and air reinforcements will arrive in an hour, pay attention to the air approach and directions! Complete! โ€

Forty thousand men marched overnight on the mountain road that connected the populated southern areas with the Minerva River, and the weary army that crossed the river had already sacked two small villages for hunting and repairing boats, but the stimulation and supplies were still a small deal. The only thing that motivated the group was the agricultural area and the cluster of towns behind the mountains. The land irrigated by the tributaries of the Minerva River and the wealth on it fluttered in the air like fat, as if it had been squeaked and bubbling in the hands of the Northern Route Army. In order to maintain the rapid advance of the infantry, General Fayers, who regarded honor as his own life, had to give orders to the whole army:

"If you can enter the town below the mountain at noon today, I will allow you to plunder and rest for a whole day!" In fact, he had just learned from the old boat people who had surrendered that there was a small group of infantry of less than a size stationed at the pass, and it stands to reason that a force of hundreds of men could not withstand the 40,000-strong marching force in his hands, so what was his thigh trembling?

The twenty-four people in the observation post are also facing the dilemma of insufficient manpower. There are actually four roads through the pass, three mountain paths and the front of the checkpoint that goes directly through the saddle. The order given to them by their superiors was to hold back the enemy, not to kill or injure, let alone to keep the road. It means that the guards of the five roads must be watertight.

The firepower of the observation posts is also not strong. Thanks to the well-thought-out plan at the beginning, they even had a Type 77 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun, and with this abrupt tripod monster, they had already laid down a dozen Wyvern scouts who were trying to raid the front of the observation post. Not one of the scouts who dared to approach the front of the observation post was not swept away from the air by the whip, which is why General Fayes trembled in his femur.

At this time, Fayรจs also had to choose between four routes of march. The route leading from the pass, which is the closest distance known as the Armor Line by the Observation Post, is bound to face the enemy's most ferocious magic, and the road is wide enough to be slaughtered by the enemy with ranged magic...... The second line, which was bypassed from the foot of the mountain, could easily have been ambushed directly by the enemy troops halfway up the mountain. Lines C and D climb up the mountainside and detour from the dense forest road on the flat mountainside to the back of the pass.

The Wyvern Scouts' attempts to scout the D-Line and A-Line failed repeatedly, and the ground scouts' reconnaissance was still inconclusive, which made Fayes hesitate. It only needs to face less than a small squad of enemy troops, and the most precious thing for the Northern Route Army, which seems to have a chance of winning but in fact needs to break out of the encirclement in time, is the same thing as the new army of Elta, which is the passage of time.