The enemy arrived at the intended battlefield a little later than Higg had expected, in the middle of the night. It's no wonder that from Horqin City to here, nearly a hundred kilometers, even if the army with a complete structure and high morale marches rapidly, it will take more than a day, not to mention this kind of remnant defeat!

Stephen's army is equivalent to two days and two nights without a complete rest, except for eating, the general rest is one or two hours. But man is not a tired machine, nor is he a hard-working animal, and when the cow and horse are tired, they still have a temper, let alone a man? So even if there was no order to rest, many soldiers and even officers privately stopped procrastinating for various reasons, resulting in the inefficiency of the entire army, although day and night.

The centaurs, who had suffered the slightest losses in the siege of Korqin, became the main force in the vanguard, and the dwarves and elven archers were left behind because of the huge losses and wounded soldiers. Stephen had already learned of the destruction of the wounded barracks during the day, and despite his own request for secrecy from the officers, the news had spread, and the whole army was even more panicked.

Higg asked Marisa's Pegasus troops to hide between Danube and Stephen's army, and specially intercepted the Danube heralds and heralds, so that the news that Danube was safe and sound would not be known to Stephen as much as possible, or later.

Woo~~ The sound of the horn of the attack broke the silence of the night, and Stephen found that in the depths of the dense forest on both sides, there were piles of firelight, and then, like a meteor shower in the sky, countless arrows fell one after another, accompanied by bursts of screams, and I don't know how many people fell to the ground after being hit by arrows.

Some arrows with fire landed in the dry pyre pre-piled in the grass and poured with fire oil, and immediately set the dry pyres on fire, and in the blink of an eye, they burst into flames, illuminating the surroundings, exposing Stephen's men and horses to the firelight, becoming a living target for the elven archers and phantom shooters.

At the same time, countless huge rocks rolled down the hillside towards Stephen's army, and the soldiers who were hit by the stones immediately turned on their backs. Stephen's army of 30,000 suddenly panicked and became a mess.

"Don't panic! Don't panic! Stephen hurriedly shouted, "Organize a counterattack immediately!" Capture the high ground on both sides! ”

A sky feather arrow flew towards Stephen silently from a distance, as if he had a sense of it, and Stephen, who realized the danger, hurriedly pulled the two dwarf guards on the side to block in front of him, and dodged to the left, the sky feather arrow penetrated the thick armor and body of the dwarf guard, and then inserted into Stephen's right shoulder, fortunately, the shoulder armor was thicker and failed to penetrate the past, which scared Stephen into a cold sweat and hurriedly mixed into the chaos.

Although the officers shouted loudly for their subordinates and wanted to organize a centralized breakthrough, the army that had already panicked in the darkness was already making a pot of porridge, where did they recognize which one was their boss?

One by one, their comrades-in-arms fell beside them, and the desire to survive suddenly woke up the tired and messy soldiers, alternately covering in twos and threes, and scattered towards the highland and dense forests on both sides. They know very well in their hearts that if they stay where they are, they will become a living target, and sooner or later they will be shot by the opponent's bow and arrow, and only by hiding in the darkness and in the jungle can they have a glimmer of hope for survival.

Stephen no longer knew where to go, and left his army free to break through......

On the front of several thousand meters, the 30,000-strong army could not organize any form of resistance at all, and all of them only cared about fleeing for their lives towards the jungle on both sides, but they were soon blocked back by rocks and bows and arrows, so they had to quickly find cover, and even fell directly to the ground, covering themselves with the corpses of their comrades......

For a moment, there were shouts of killing, screams, angry scolding, wailing, swords and axes, and the whistling of arrows...... It's like a symphony, but the listeners on both sides of this piece have very different situations and moods.

The rout of the enemy made Higg feel too sudden, in his mind, tens of thousands of troops, how can they also have a fierce battle to distinguish the winner, centaurs, battle dwarves, elven archers, all of them are better than the various arms of Erathia, however, the strong combat effectiveness of the individual does not mean that the formation of an army, the formation of an organization is also strong, the army of Erathia whether it is the quality of officers or soldiers, whether it is organization and discipline or adaptation to the enemy, whether it is marching or coordinated combat and tactical cooperation, Whether it is the strategic deployment or the execution of military orders, etc., all of them are better than the forest countries and druids, and even better than many countries in the countries of Middle-earth, which means that although Erathia is the weakest, it is the most powerful country in the past thousand years, whether it is military, economic and political.

Three or five dwarves cover two or three elven archers or phantom archers, forming a small formation that combines attack and defense, shooting and fighting freely, and more than 200 Pegasus warriors are flying in the air, waiting for the opportunity to capture the officers and druids alive.

The enemy's resistance was too weak, and the only thing that was difficult was the Deadwood Warriors, but they were too few in number, moved slowly, and only struggled a few more times in the chaos.

The signal flare of the rescue was only shining in the air for a long time, and those enemies who were chaotic at the beginning began to gradually wake up and extinguish the fires one by one, and the battlefield gradually returned to darkness, but this was to no avail, the darkness could only increase their hope of breaking through and escaping, and it had no effect on the victory or defeat of the battle.

Higg didn't mean to wipe out the enemy, and in fact his army didn't have the ability to do so, with only a dozen arrows per elven archer and phantom archer, and after they were done, they had to rely on battle dwarves and Pegasus warriors to fight the enemy hand-to-hand. Higg's current strength is not much, the entire expeditionary force is only 28,000 people, and it is divided into three parts: himself, Kolincha, and Thomas, since the expedition entered the country, the total number of casualties and battle losses has exceeded 10,000, he can not fight with the enemy hand-to-hand, he will not rush to do this kind of thing, even if he has a clear advantage, can have a one-to-four, one-to-five advantage, he is not willing to do this, he can no longer afford to lose.

Originally thought to be a tragic battle, it ended in two hours, the enemy's main general Stephen disappeared, captured alive more than 20 enemy officers and more than 50 druids, the number of enemy casualties and escapes could not be counted, and there was no statistical significance. In short, this army is finished, and even if it can be rebuilt, this battle will become a nightmare for this army, not to mention, except for those soldiers who are desperate to follow the druids, elves and dwarves These warriors, who were originally enslaved by the druids, could not be rebuilt at all.

"Young marshal, young marshal...... Young Marshal...... Young marshal! ”

The whole mountain forest was thunderous, and the mood of this army, which had been depressed for many days, was finally released. In particular, the failure of the siege the night before had greatly reduced Higg's prestige in the army. Now, this elite army that survived the catastrophe has regained their souls and found their commander......

Although the battle ended quickly, the cleaning of the battlefield continued until dawn, capturing more than 3,000 battle dwarves, more than 1,000 elven marksmen, and no surrendered centaurs!

When Thomas's 3,000 marksmen and Lufasi's battalion of wounded soldiers arrived at the battlefield almost at the same time, they couldn't believe their eyes, the corpses were strewn all over the ground, blood stained several hills, and the morale of the army was unprecedentedly high.

Lu Fasi smiled: "General Thomas, you cheap general is late, hahaha!" ”

Thomas smiled embarrassedly: "Where did I pick up the cheap, I am leading the team to welcome the main force back to the camp, and by the way, the soldiers are here!" ”

"Treat?" Lu Fasi smiled, "Empty-handed to treat? ”

Thomas smiled and said, "General Maria is personally escorting twenty truckloads of supplies to come, and it is estimated that it will arrive at ten o'clock at noon!" ”

Lu Fasi was surprised and said, "You let the princess escort you?" In the event of an accident with the remnants of the enemy's rogue soldiers, will you be responsible? ”

Thomas said: "She had to be escorted herself, and she also volunteered to receive a military warrant!" Hehe, this woman is not simple! ”

"There's no responsibility to bear!" "This is the battlefield, and it's Maria herself who should be responsible, and every soldier is taking his own responsibility, so why can't she do that?" Higg said. If you can't even deal with those remnants of the army, as the prince, it will be really the sorrow of Erathia! ”

"Young marshal!" Marisa, riding a silver Pegasus, flew up from the sky and said, "What about these captives? ”

Higg asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

Marissa said: "My mother Josephine originally went to the druid territory to organize the elves and dwarves to rebel against the druids, most of these captives were enslaved by the druids and forced to join the army, I ask the young marshal, give these captives to me, let me adapt them, I promise, I will return you an elite army!" ”

Higg smiled: "Your calculation idea is good, not to give it back to me, but to Benjamin!" But it doesn't matter, I was originally here to help him recover the elves, so I'll take charge of the army for him for the time being! Unexpectedly, he wanted me to be his marshal of soldiers and horses, I didn't agree at the time, but now it's okay, I got into the whole sleeve by myself, not a marshal but also a marshal! General Marisa, sometimes I really admire your majesty's blessings, there are people who do everything for him, and I can always sit back and enjoy it! ”

"Thank you, young marshal!" Marissa replied with a smile, not seemingly caring much about what Higg said later.

"Summons, rest on the spot!" Higg said, "Lufasi, let the dwarves bury these corpses."

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At ten o'clock in the afternoon, Mary led the army to the battlefield with twenty carts of supplies, and the thirty princess guards, including Maria, were all painted on their battle armors, and it could be seen that the road was not peaceful.

The rations, medicines, and arrows were replenished in time, and the resting team immediately cheered, they could finally stop eating the rough and unpalatable pack horse meat!

Sieg stood on top of a hill and looked in the direction of Danube, although he could not see the city more than twenty kilometers away, he was still excited, and shouted loudly: "Danube, it won't be long before I will come back!" Wait for me, and with the blood of your druids, I will pay tribute to my brother who has remained there forever! ”

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