Chapter 462: The Great War Is Imminent
But Cecil directly rejected Sandru's suggestion, using all necromancers would make him very likely to fall into a full passivity, and it was also an absolute blow to the morale of his soldiers, so Cecil gave up all the southern defense areas to Sandru, and his two knights all retreated to the northern defense area. Cecil saw that Ryker was bloodied and Avella were handing out food to the soldiers of the Knights of the Oracle. After days of fierce fighting and several times the number of troops in the pursuit and interception, the Knights of the Oracle lost almost more than half of their soldiers and horses. It can be said that Cecil's troops have gone through a lot of battles, but this is the first time that such a big loss has been suffered, and Rekel's eyes have turned red, obviously he has not closed his eyes for several days and nights. The battle in the past few days has made him really feel the cruelty of war, watching the soldiers who train on weekdays die one after another in front of his eyes, and now his sadness can no longer be described with expressions, and the tears of a dignified man have dried up.
Thankfully, Kratos' training scrolls were still useful, and although the rest of the fighters were extremely tired, Cecil knew from the glint in their eyes that they had all made great progress. The level has increased by at least 20 or more, and the most important thing is that his own attributes have probably improved a lot compared to other ordinary soldiers on the basis of his own attribute potions, and the rest of the people are enough to organize into a very elite army, it seems that Kratos's method is still very effective, but this way of training troops with war is too cruel, and it takes constant sacrifice and blood sacrifice to be able to do it.
The Blood Eagle Knights are more slippery this time, and the Grand Knight of Bartlet, after many changes, is at a loss for the changes in the upper echelons, whether it is King Rex or King Lucas, who is loyal to him, he is more inclined to protect himself. In this battle, almost all the fierce battles were fought by Cecil's Oracle Knights, and the Blood Eagle Knights were in the forefront with the idea of preserving their strength, and they could dodge and hide in the heat of battle. So the losses are not heavy, but the blow to the morale of the troops is also very amazing, if a unit always wants to avoid the battle on the battlefield, then it will become cowardly and incompetent, and even become a veteran on the battlefield. This is an absolute blow to a knight order that values honor from the psychological and momentum, when the two knights were together in the past, the battle-hardened Blood Eagle Knights looked down on the Oracle Knights as a newcomer, but after this war has been completely reversed, the Oracle Knights can finally hold their heads high in front of the other party, and the other party does not dare to look at them squarely.
Cecil saw the current situation of these two knights, and hurriedly began to divide the defense of the two knights, the attack surface in the north of the border city is much narrower than in the south, that is to say, the enemy's battle line here is not wide enough, and the strong forces cannot be extended, so a small number of troops can only be invested in attacking and fighting here, so the defending side can avoid the absolute disadvantage caused by insufficient troops to the greatest extent. Cecil assigned all the strategic points to his Oracle Knights, and Ryker and Corion led the warriors of these knights into these strategic places to defend the battle, while the Blood Eagle Knights could only arrange for them to defend on the periphery because of their low morale.
On the south side, there is a very wide battle line, which is just enough for the enemy to carry out a large army attack, and the elite troops of the Iruk Empire on the opposite side are also unrelenting, and immediately send a small number of troops with only about one of the forces of each knight order to make a feint in the north, and the rest of the nine knights are all thrown into the attack in the south. For the Duke of Sartoras, who commanded the attack, there is no suspense in winning the battle, the only thing that makes people feel troublesome is that the opponent's commander Cecil is strong, if he decides to give up the troops and escape, then it is really difficult to catch, judging from the available information, the opponent's commander is a super strong man with super combat ability, maybe he can defeat the other party with the superior number of the army, but if the opponent's commander wants to get out of the battlefield, let alone ten cavalry regiments, Even a hundred and a thousand cavalry regiments might not be able to stop him, and if he succeeds in catching him, he can only count on those frightening fellows, and even a battle-hardened veteran like Duke Sartoraz shuddered at the thought of them.
Nine cavalry regiments advanced rapidly towards the battlefield, in front of which was the charging regiment, Duke Sartoras was a legendary knight who was proficient in the art of war, he did not allocate the strong men of each cavalry regiment to each cavalry regiment separately, but gathered all these strong men together to form an assault force in the battlefield. Forming a huge assault regiment, this assault regiment has nearly 100 people, almost all the deputy commanders of the holy rank of the cavalry regiment are in it, and the lowest level also has professionals above 80 levels, it is simply a huge blade in the battlefield, where the enemy has almost no chance to fight back, and a formed cavalry regiment will be crippled in almost an hour as long as it dares to resist. Most of the men lost by the Oracle Knights were lost in the hands of this stormtrooper, and if it weren't for Ryker's decisive retreat when he saw that the situation was not good, I am afraid that the entire Oracle Knights would have been surrounded and wiped out by the infantry that followed behind.
But the advance of the stormtrooper regiment this time was not met with any resistance, because there was almost no one in front, after receiving this news, the Duke of Sartoas was surprised, the battle in the north had already started at this time, and the legion that was sent to infiltrate and attack in the north was unexpectedly met with fierce resistance from the other knights, and from the report from the front, the enemy army invested no less troops in the north of the border city than in the army of Iruk. But the Duke of Sartores was well aware that there were now only two knightly orders in this direction, and that half of them had already been lost. If the enemy invests less than his own forces in the north, isn't that the same as a defense in the south? No wonder the assault regiment advanced so quickly, it turned out that there were no troops on the other side, what was the other party trying to do? Break through and escape from a place where the forces are weak?