Chapter 799: Gru Who Can't Help Himself
Compared to the deep hatred between the elven kingdom and the necromancers, it seems a bit unreasonable to invest only 200,000 troops in a war that has the potential to completely wipe out the necromancer's power.
But the elven king Parson also has no way, the current elven kingdom is not as good as before, in order to defend against the attack of the Entagri Empire that may come from the direction of Turalea, in order to defend the Elimir, the last place of residence of the elves, Parson has to use most of his troops for the defense of Eri, although he also wants to send more troops to Diya to participate in the war, but he is now powerless.
After that, the Entagri army intervened in the battle, and the elven kingdom increased its troops by tens of thousands again at the request of the Bracada Kingdom, so at this time, the elven kingdom's army in the Dia region actually totaled about 230,000, but this number was almost half less than the 400,000 people that the Bracada army had gathered in the Saseo region, not to mention that the Bracada army still had scattered troops in various parts of Dia, but the elven kingdom did not.
However, with the excellent commander of Gru, the army of more than 200,000 elves also exerted quite amazing power, plus the necromancers were so messed up by the big-eared monsters and the academic necromancers, the main force was lost in the Tetaria swamp, and because of this, the army was defeated, and even the three giants lost two, and the elven army joined forces with the Bracada army, but it was also smooth sailing all the way, and there were no major casualties and attacked the Sasio region.
But today, the elves' good fortune has finally come to an end, and they have begun to suffer a staggering number of casualties under the onslaught of the Entagri army.
At this time, there were actually only more than 100,000 elves in the camp of the elven army - because Gru had realized the importance of the air battlefield, more than 200,000 troops sent by the elf kingdom, more than half of them were flying troops, and before, most of these flying troops were with Gru, together with the flying troops of the Bracada army, to meet the invading Ntagrean army, and completely dispersed, at this time, those who fled all over the field, killed in battle, I don't know how many, but those who could return to the camp as Gru expected were less than half of the original.
Just now, the harpies of the Entagri army threw javelins wildly, killing and injuring some elves, and now, these elves scattered in the camp of Nuoda began to be violently attacked by tens of thousands of poisonous dragon flies that moved in groups.
Under the command of those animal trainers of the Entagre Army, these poisonous dragon flies can often form an absolute numerical advantage in local areas, which makes them invincible in the elves' camp, without good command, and by the enemy's unprecedented javelin rain disrupted their formation, the elves' morale has plummeted, and now they are more and more anxious in the face of these poisonous dragon flies that are extremely difficult to deal with, and can even rely on their small size to fly directly into the building to attack them.
It was because they didn't find out in time that the main target of the poisonous dragon flies was actually their air mount, the silver pegasus, and their attention was mostly attracted by the elven magicians who called for help again and again.
The elven mages suffered heavy casualties because of the focused attacks of the dragon flies, although their range attack magic is a sharp weapon against the dragon flies, which are won by numbers, but their own defense is not enough to mention, but it takes time for them to cast magic, and the dragon flies are endless, because they are not well protected in the chaos, these elven mages often only have time to destroy a batch of dragon flies, and when they are preparing for the next magic, they are besieged to death by another group of dragon flies.
When the elves, under the command of some elven officers, protected the remaining elven mages and began to launch an organized counterattack, they realized that their silver pegasus had been killed by those poisonous dragon flies at some point.
The furious elves angrily attacked the poisonous dragon flies that were still killing their precious mounts, but at this time, the rain of javelins in the sky once again descended on the earth.
Discovering that the elves had exposed themselves to attack the dragon flies, Adrider, who had been carefully observing the battle, did not hesitate to order the harpys to attack again.
Anyway, those dragon flies were originally put on the battlefield as a one-time use daredevils this time, so Adrihad to worry that the harpy banshee's attack would accidentally injure the dragon flies, besides, the dragon flies are fast, and they are much smaller than the elves, and the probability of being hit by these javelins is much lower than that of the elves.
Unexpectedly, the enemy would attack in such a way, and the elves once again paid a heavy price, and a large number of elves were nailed to the ground because of the rain of javelins of the harpys, and died miserably.
At this time, in the camp of the Bracada army, in the improvised fortress where Trossa was the headquarters, Trosa, as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, was engaged in a dispute with Gru.
At this critical moment, the two commanders, who had cooperated fairly well, finally clashed over how to deal with the current unfavorable situation.
Gru believes that the Entagrean army is coming with a fierce momentum, and it seems that it has been prepared for a long time, and now that it has seized air supremacy, the coalition forces should try to avoid entanglement with the Entagri army and avoid its sharpness for the time being.
"The enemy wants a decisive battle! They want to annihilate us completely! Looking at Trosa, who was unmoved, even if Gru had a good temper, he was on the verge of exploding at this time, and he really couldn't understand how he couldn't understand such a simple truth with the ability that Trosa showed.
"We were caught off guard, and now we have no hope of winning, but we may still be able to keep the enemy's strategic intentions from succeeding! There's no need to fight with them! Abandon this battalion and combine the forces of the two armies, and we can break through! At most, it is to sacrifice some troops to buy time after the break, but not to wipe out the whole army! You also saw that the enemy has no more ground forces than us! The fastest of them were only a handful of cavalry! It is impossible to destroy so many of our forces by the attack of air forces alone! ”
Gru's tone at this time, because of the anger in his heart, has changed from his usual mildness and toughness.
"And we have some flying units on hand, if you can help me buy me a little time, I might be able to try to put them together again! And then manage to drag the enemy's flying units and buy time for the withdrawal of the main forces on the ground! ”
However, Gru's words did not change Trosa's resolve.
Trossa also understands that there is some truth to Gru's suggestion, and the end result may be as Gru said, but he still does not intend to do what Gru says, he has his own ideas.
As a rare military genius among Bracada magicians, Trotha was well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the Bracada army, so he felt that Gru's suggestion was actually a selfish attempt to preserve the strength of the elven army as much as possible.
For if Gru had suggested it, the whole army of Bracada would have to assemble at once, take with them a small amount of dry rations, abandon the bulky supplies of the army, and engage the enemy in the field while marching hard.
Aside from the outrageous physicality of the Bracada Mage Legion, the movement speed of the Bracada Army's ground forces alone made it more difficult to make this operation more of a defeat than a breakthrough.
In such a rather unfavorable situation, Trotha will certainly not be willing to use the tactics that his side is not good at to fight the enemy, and the so-called broken rear is, of course, to use the weaker mobile troops to cover the departure of the more mobile troops, so although it will not break the Bracada Mage Legion, this task will naturally fall on the slow-moving stone and iron men of the Bracada Army, as well as the Naga warriors, rather than the more mobile elf troops.
Therefore, Trossa decided that Gru had ulterior motives and put forward a proposal to break through, although this suggestion is a bit reasonable and seems to be correct, but in fact, it is the other party's selfishness that is doing the blame.
He didn't want to let himself be used as a spear by Gru, and he didn't want the Bracada army to become a substitute for the elven army to preserve its strength.
On the other hand, Trossa didn't think that Gru had a chance to regroup the coalition's flying forces, and the Ntagrean army was clearly prepared, would they give the coalition such a chance?
So Trosa's idea was to hold on and wait for help.
In Trosa's opinion, although the enemy's strength has surpassed that of the coalition forces, there are many low-level undead creatures among them, and the combat effectiveness is not high.
The coalition is different, although the magic of the mage legion has been greatly limited due to the existence of the enemy's magic immunity space, but the main force of the ground forces of the Bracada army is composed of stone men, iron men, and Naga warriors, all of them are good at hand-to-hand combat, and their combat effectiveness is far from being comparable to those low-level undead creatures, so in terms of ground forces alone, the coalition forces actually did not suffer, and even had a certain advantage, and the large camp of the Bracada army after this period of operation is not only amazing, all kinds of defense facilities are also complete, and the terrain is also relatively dangerous.
In this case, even if the Entagrean army had air supremacy and could continue to launch a suppressive attack on the Bracada army camp, Trosa did not think that the enemy would be able to capture the large camp he had spent a lot of effort on in a short period of time.
"Grew-sama, are you too nervous!" Trotha looked at Gru coldly, secretly angry, he found that this half-elf was a little too arrogant this time, and dared to point fingers at him.
"The enemy is just beginning to attack! We haven't lost yet, and you're even thinking about abandoning the camp and running away? I really can't understand your thoughts! ”
Trossa said this, his tone full of disdain: "The enemy is prepared, and we are indeed caught off guard, I understand this without you saying it, but why should we retreat without a fight!" You can see it too, the enemy has sent a large number of ground troops! What does this mean? It shows that they do not have the confidence to defeat us with only flying units on the premise of occupying air supremacy! They are planning to have a decisive battle with us, and they may also want to annihilate us, but this decisive battle will still be decided by the battle on the ground! ”
Speaking of this, Trossa smiled: "And now, we have a big advantage on the ground battlefield, don't we?" As long as we can manage to defeat the enemy's ground forces, although a complete victory is unlikely, it is still possible to defeat the enemy's strategic intentions and let the enemy secretly plan for an unknown amount of time fail. ”
"There is absolutely no need for us to abandon the camps that can be used, and there is no need at all to act with the goal of preserving strength, it is too risky to abandon a fortified camp and run into the wild without air superiority! Don't forget, they can use Doomsday magic to attack us! In the field, our ground forces will have nothing to hide! There is nothing to hide! Although it may seem that the tide of battle is not in our favor right now, as long as we survive this hardest time and be prepared, we can give the enemy a head-on blow when the ground offensive is launched! And, as long as we hold on for a few days, even if we can't get support with the magic portal, we'll be able to get support from other troops on the ground! I've already reported the battle here to China, and maybe by this time, reinforcements are already starting to get ready to hit the road! ”
"So, I suggest that you let your army join me in my barracks to fight the enemy side by side, with your bows and arrows, you can make up for the lack of physical ranged attacks of the Bracada army, so that even if the enemy has magical immunity space protection, he will no longer be able to launch magical attacks on my barracks so unscrupulously! At the same time, your army will benefit greatly from the magical power of the Bracada Army! ”
Gru listened silently to Trosa's rebuttal, his heart full of helplessness.
He admits that what Trossa said is reasonable and seems to be correct, and that it really seems unlikely that the Entagrean army will be able to break through the Bracada army camp that the two armies are defending with all their might in a short time.
If it were another opponent, maybe Gru would have made the same decision as Trosa, but now it was different, because the current opponent of the coalition was the Entagrean army.
The Entagrean Army is an army that never follows common sense, and what is even more terrifying is that every time they do so, they always succeed.
And this time the commander of the Entagri army is the famous dragon queen Moriel, who once ruled Negan, and even almost succeeded in annexing the elven kingdom and the Erathian Empire, the legendary dragon queen Moriel.
Gru didn't think that Trotha and the situations that he could think of and analyze, Morriel the Dragon Queen would not have thought of.
But it was in this situation that she still commanded the Ntagrean Army to launch this military operation on a staggering scale.
With such a big move, will the other party have nothing to rely on?
What worries Gru even more is that the current rhythm of the battle has been firmly controlled by the Entagrean army, and the coalition forces can only respond passively, neither he nor Trossa know what the Entagree army will do next, and they have also lost important air supremacy.
Gru doesn't like this situation very much, he doesn't want to be led by the nose by the opponent, so he would rather choose a seemingly risky breakthrough, although this may not make the situation favorable to the coalition side, but this can at least disrupt the enemy's immediate arrangement, and can also disrupt the enemy's battle rhythm, so that even if he loses, it should not be too miserable, and maybe he can destroy the opponent's plan - for the current coalition army, it can destroy the opponent's plan, it is already a victory.
"The enemy will not use Doomsday Judgment, and it is impossible for their magic immunity space to protect such a large army!" Sighing, Gru tried again to convince the other party to agree to his plan, "And we can move in the direction of reinforcements so we can get reinforcements faster!" We can also try to confuse enemies in the wild, and then manage to open magic portals while they don't even notice! We can also ......"
But before he could finish speaking, Trotha had already interrupted him: "If we stay here, we can also try to open the portal!" Aren't the Elven Kingdom's Jungle Guardian troops adept at conducting covert operations? You can send them to escort the Bracada mages to sneak out and open the portal farther away! ”
Trossa waved his hand a little impatiently: "Enough, Lord Gru, I have already decided, the Bracada army will never run away without a fight!" We will be here, with our geographical advantage to meet the enemy, no matter what plans the Entagrean army has, and what kind of careful preparations, our Bracada army is confident that the enemy will not succeed! I sincerely hope that you and your army will fully assist the Bracada Army in its operations! ”
He looked at Gru with blazing eyes, "I believe this will be the right choice for both the Elven Kingdom and you, Lord Gru!" ”
Gru was silent again.
Although reluctant, he also understood that now he had no choice, the current situation of the elven kingdom determined that this joint action between the two sides was mainly based on the Bracada Kingdom, and Trossa was the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, he was just a helper, although he could not obey Trosa's current arrangement, but it would be at the cost of the two countries' bad relations.
And Trossa has already given him a clear hint as well.
If he still wants to get the support he wants from the Bracada Kingdom, then he must stay at this moment, according to Trosa's wishes, to assist Trosa in the battle.
"It seems that the original decision was really wrong! I even made myself subject to others at such a time! ”
Regretting this in his heart, Gru nodded helplessly.