Chapter 400: A Tragic Ending
The guards of the Chinese army led by Elva joined the battle group, thinking that with their own new force, the original basic battle situation has shifted in strength, but there are enough people on the battlefield now, and the addition of these 10,000 people can only make the battlefield more chaotic.
Outside the entire east gate became a sea of blood, no one knew where they were, they were fighting everywhere, and there were enemies everywhere.
Although Mevo's Bagua Array was broken, the Chinese Guards Battalion quickly broke into pieces, and reorganized the formation nearby, with a group of ten people, five shield soldiers on the periphery, and spearmen in the middle, dealing with the cavalry that had lost its speed, and did not fall behind, and still surrounded the enemy's cavalry. The enemy's cavalry, which had suffered heavy losses under the blows of the baggage troops, had suffered heavy losses and suffered more than 10,000 casualties, but now it was gradually unable to support itself under the combined blows of the Chinese Guards Battalion, the baggage guards and the crossbow chariots of Mevo, and the defeat was revealed.
This battle is fought to the death, and the final competition is not who has the stronger combat power and who has more people, but the desire to win and survive has become the decisive factor. Mevo, Blue Fairy, and Noah all made military orders for the revival of the city, and there was no way out, only victory, no matter how big the price, they had to win. In fact, they did not leave a way for themselves to retreat, it was impossible for the baggage soldiers to escape, there was a river behind them, and they had already made the determination to fight against the water before the war!
On the other hand, Elva's army can have another choice, they still have their own city defense, and everyone in the soldier's heart thinks that even if they can't win, they can retreat into the city and hold on.
The enemy's strongest 30,000 cavalry, they were never able to cross the eight-meter-wide horse rejection stake to reach the crossbow chariot formation, so that the crossbow chariot was shooting them from beginning to end, and there was no hope at all, even if they were in a melee, the crossbow chariot still risked shooting them, and the strength of the 30,000 cavalry was consumed little by little in the center.
"Retreat south, regroup!" General Qiyu, who led the team, first gave the order to retreat, and then took the lead in retreating south. His original intention was to let the Miracle cavalry retreat to the outskirts of the battlefield first, so as to get rid of the threat of the repeater chariots, so that they could reorganize the offensive charge and keep their battlefield away from the repeater chariots, and they would rather deal with the 20,000 cavalry of Ulin.
But the battlefield is so stale, any loosening will lead to the collapse of will. The general's withdrawal from the battlefield made all the cavalry think that they were going to retreat, and immediately rushed out of Mevo's infantry formation and retreated to the south.
"The enemy is defeated, the enemy is defeated!" Mavo shouted loudly at the eye of the formation, and those who followed him also shouted, "The enemy is defeated, we are victorious, we are victorious!" ”
Although the battle continued, all the Chinese Guards battalions in the Mevo formation had already cheered, as if they had really won, and confused those who were still fighting, but the soldiers on both sides showed two extreme performances, and all the soldiers of the Fifth Army were greatly inspired, and the Elva Department of the Third Theater of Operations, seeing that their cavalry was leaving the battlefield to the south, had no morale at all, and had no intention of fighting, and finally retreated towards the gate of the rear, retreating while fighting, and then quickly turned into a rout under the pressure of the Fifth Army.
No matter how Elva shouted, or even killed a few soldiers who escaped, it was to no avail, and countless people had already begun to rush towards the east gate of the gate, and in desperation, they had to retreat.
Seeing this, Maiwo and Blue Fairy also waved their troops to cover the past.
The staff officer of the Chinese army commanding on the city wall, seeing that his deputy marshal had withdrawn to the east gate, could only reluctantly order the city gate to be opened to receive the defeated army.
The east gate, which is six or seven meters wide, even if it is fully opened, how can it accommodate the rout of the war horses? Countless people can't squeeze into the suspension bridge at all, some squeeze onto the suspension bridge, and they are also squeezed into the moat.
Seeing that they couldn't squeeze into the east gate, more people ran along the city wall to both sides, hoping to enter the city through the north gate of the south gate, but how could the infantry crossbowmen outrun the cavalry of Ulin?
When the enemy's cavalry commander turned his horse's head and wanted to reassemble his cavalry to charge again, he was frightened by the scene in front of him, and his cavalry, seeing this scene, was willing to regroup, and went directly to the south gate to rout.
The army was really defeated, out of control, and all everyone thought about was how to enter the city and how to escape.
For the Fifth Legion, the rest is much simpler, just clean up the mess. Ulin didn't seem to be interested in the cavalry of the other side at all, so he just chased the infantry and crossbowmen who ran along the city wall and killed them, while Mevo and Lan Xian'er squeezed towards the east gate, and the arrows shot down from the city gate tower, to block the advance of Mevo's army, Mevo's Chinese guard battalion was almost unmoved, and it was about to reach the drawbridge, and the Chinese army staff officer on the city gate had to order loudly, "Lift the drawbridge, close the city gate, quickly!" ”
Then the suspension bridge, along with the people on the suspension bridge, slowly rose with the sound of iron chains, and more than a dozen were thrown into the moat under the bridge. The soldiers of the Third War Zone outside the city, in addition to the cavalry, at least more than 10,000 people, still resisted desperately outside the city, or ran for their lives, and finally under the joint encirclement and suppression of the cavalry of Ullin and the Chinese Guards Battalion of Mevo, they had to throw down their weapons and surrender.
It was not until an hour later, when the sky began to darken, that Mevo called in and withdrew, and the vanguard of 10,000 cavalry, reinforced by Amman City, also arrived on the battlefield and saw the terrible scene.
It is estimated that less than half of the enemy's 30,000 cavalry were defeated, and only about 13,000 of the 40,000 infantry and crossbowmen who went out of the city with Elva withdrew to the city, more than 6,000 were captured, and 3,400 of those who fled, and all the others were killed.
More than 5,000 men were killed and more than 2,000 were seriously wounded, and half of the 20,000 cavalry of Ulin were killed or wounded, more than 150 crossbow chariots were lost, and more than 2,000 heavy guards and baggage soldiers were killed or wounded. The Fifth Army, with a total strength of more than 50,000 men, suffered more than 20,000 casualties.
Fortunately, everyone was as tired as a dog, but they were cheering and celebrating the rest of their lives.
"Where's General Wicks?" Blue Fairy was not happy and asked Mevo.
"He led a hundred of his men into the city!" Maevo frowned and said, "His heroic mage regiment killed more than twenty people in the battle and wounded more than thirty people!" Madam, thanks to them, we did support it, although we won, but it was not the result we wanted, these are the elite of the Fifth Legion, veterans! ”
"Hehe, it's indeed a bit big, how can you be a general person who can guard the base camp of Lobit City?" Lan Xian'er smiled instead, "We have done what we did, we have destroyed more than 40,000 enemies, and there are still more than 50,000 left to defend the city, and by the way, we have planted the flag of Wex in the city, and when Higg's main force returns, we can take Lobit City in one fell swoop!" General Mevo, how can there be immortals in war? Some meaningless battles, even if a soldier dies, we don't think it's worth it, but some battles, battles related to the overall strategic situation, even if we pay a big price, we have to fight! If we don't destroy so many people today and lock them all up in the city, then we will have to forcibly attack the city, and the people who will die are not only today, but maybe double, triple, or even more! ”
Mevo said with a smile: "Madam, Lobit City is now a turtle in an urn, as long as the main force of the Marshal returns, he can join forces with General Wicks and take the city, so that there are only more than 200,000 Sampu in Al-Andalu Province left in the third war zone."
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"Noah, what's wrong?" Lan Xian'er looked at Noah with a frightened look on her face and asked with concern.
"Too many people have died!" Noah said numbly, "Many people died because of me, I ordered them to be killed, and I built the chariot of crossbows, killing so many people!" ”
Lan Xian'er looked at the corpses in the firelight everywhere, the blood flowing everywhere, it was indeed miserable, Noah himself was very disgusted with war, but because of the military order, he had to be driven to the shelf, and he personally ordered his soldiers to use the repeater chariot he built himself to kill so many people, which was indeed difficult for him to accept at once.
"Sister, when Teacher Higg comes back with the main force, we will still attack the city, and more people will die, right?" Noah asked, "Are all of you so patient to see life after life die and watch families fall apart?" Who of these people, whether they are our own or our enemies, do not have parents, wives and children, brothers and sisters? Is it worth it for us to surround Fuxing City and do this? Although Fuxing City is nominally designed to prevent war, I can't see it at all, I only see the bloody scene now, and the beautiful things you told me are too far away! Do we have to stop the war with war, and we have to give so many lives to achieve that so-called beautiful world? I'm one of the refugees who hate war, and so do I! ”
"How many refugees has Fuxing City taken in?" Lan Xian'er sighed, "There are at least tens of millions of refugees in Alasia, and how many refugees are there in the world?" How much did Fuxing City take? Just over a million! How many refugees can be saved by a single peace foundation? How many refugees are expecting a savior to save them, yet how many die in despair every day? Breaking the old order and establishing a new order is not something that can be done by shouting a few slogans and saying a few beautiful words! War is not up to us, unless we are willing to become slaves, willing to become refugees ourselves, willing to give up the glimmer of light we have already seen! General Noah, be strong, you're twenty years old! ”
Noah lowered his head and was silent, he knew these big truths, and he didn't need to repeat them with him every day, but he was really a little disgusted when he faced such a bloody reality scene!
"I'll try to persuade Lobit City to surrender!" Blue Fairy said, "Since you don't want to see bloodshed! ”
"Really?" Noah jerked his head up and asked, "Are they willing to surrender?" ”
"All I can say is, give it a try!" "Just like before the war, no one knows if we can win or not!" ”
"What are you going to do?" Noah asked.
Lan Xian'er said: "I want to negotiate with Evado, as long as he is willing to surrender and the conditions are not too excessive, I can agree!" I don't want to see soldiers shed so much blood and sacrifice again! ”
"You're going to negotiate with Evado?" Noah was surprised, "How's that going to work?" They want to kill us now, won't you go to die in vain? ”
"In order for more people to survive, I am willing to take a risk!"
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