Chapter Eighty-Eight: Take the Initiative
At this time, the strength of Chen Jian's hand, including the guards and the temporarily armed militia, did not exceed 1,000 people, and most of them were poorly trained.
And among the several capable generals under his command, the more powerful ones are only the female magician and the half-elf guard captain, and the rest, although they have their own specialties, it is a bit reluctant to let them go to the battlefield to fight the enemy.
In the last battle, Polly and Robert were almost killed. Although Orison's martial arts skills are good, he is not as good as a half-elf, and he has just joined, so he doesn't know how he will perform in the face of such a strong enemy.
With such a little possessions, even with the legendary hero High Priest Ryan and the four angel warriors he carried, Jian Chen didn't think that he could block ten dragons and hundreds of elven Pegasus knights, not to mention that the other party was also a hero-level magician.
Although the empress said in this order that the reinforcements sent by the empire had already departed, she did not say when it would arrive, in case the elven army arrived first, Chen Jian believed that he would be dead even if he had three heads and six arms.
What can I do?
The anxious lord immediately summoned a few of his right-hand men to discuss countermeasures.
The sudden bad news stunned everyone.
Even High Priest Ryan was a little apprehensive at this time, because the enemy was a fast-moving air force.
The archery skills of the Elven Pegasus Knight have always been a headache for magicians, let alone facing hundreds of them at a time. And even if they hide themselves and use powerful magic with a wide range of damage to carry out a sneak attack, with their speed, they can definitely disperse in time after discovering something wrong, because the other party also has a magician, and it is impossible to hide the fluctuation of magic elements when casting spells.
Not to mention the golden dragon and the green dragon, these powerful creatures are born with extremely high resistance to magic, except for a few high-power magic, ordinary magic attacks are no different from tickling for them.
Although the angel warriors are powerful, the four angels under their command are not elite archangels, and it is a bit reluctant for them to have a one-on-one confrontation with the green dragon, and if it is four against ten, it will definitely be defeated, not to mention that there is also the most powerful golden dragon in the three-headed forest dragon clan.
And the combat power on Lord Chen's side at this time, except for a female magician, was automatically excluded from his consideration by High Priest Ryan, because these guys were not on the stage at all in the eyes of his hero.
Not to mention the nearly a thousand soldiers who were temporarily summoned, in the face of hundreds of elven Pegasus knights, they had no power to fight back at all, and could only be shot down by those elves in the air with a rain of arrows.
Ryan didn't expect any help from the lord this time, he came to ask the lord to secondment a female magician to help him.
In his opinion, although the lord has a bit of a brain, in the face of the absolute strength of the enemy, any kind of tactics are superfluous.
He even hoped that the lord would hide for the time being, not to drag himself back, so that he could play guerrilla warfare with the enemy with peace of mind, and if he was lucky, he might be able to hold out until the moment reinforcements arrived.
However, the lord's reaction was completely beyond his expectations, although the lord was angry, he gathered his men to discuss how to deal with the enemy, and had no intention of running away.
What made him make such a decision? Is it reluctant to give up this territory that is not worth mentioning in the eyes of other nobles? Or is it because of absolute loyalty to the empire and the empress? Or was he already dazed with anger, completely unaware that he was doing this as an act of seeking death?
High Priest Ryan was puzzled.
In fact, Jian Chen also wanted to leave at this time, with the silver Pegasus, he could completely leave before the enemy killed Hammondal.
He had already won a great battle before, and being able to defeat the invading elven army with such a small force, and kill a heroic figure of the opposing side, was enough for him to give an account to the empire and the empress.
Even if he escaped at this time, with his merits, the empress would not necessarily punish him, after all, the enemy he had to face was too strong to speak of.
Defeating the strong with the weak is not always successful.
But Chen Jian still chose to stay.
After the last battle, his mind changed a bit.
During the battle, he witnessed the fall of his guards more than once, and some of them died honorably in order to cover him, the lord.
Seeing the soldiers fighting desperately in the face of a strong enemy under their own leadership without regrets, knowing that they might fail but chose to follow him, and even did not hesitate to die for him, the lord, it would be absolutely a lie to say that Jian Chen was not moved at all.
In the final analysis, Chen Jian is just an ordinary person who has crossed over, although he is a little selfish, he is also afraid of death, and he will kill people in order to save himself, but it does not mean that he can treat the lives of his companions as if they were grass.
Otherwise, he would not have shed tears after the battle, when the people claimed the remains of their relatives.
Originally, he had always thought that he was just using these people to survive, but now, he found that he had developed feelings for these people.
It was the comrade-in-arms who lived and died together.
There was no way he could leave these loyal men alone, unless he could flee with them, but that was not something he could do now.
Moreover, Chen Jian did not want to give up the territory of Hammondal.
If you have a territory, you will have a people, you will have income, you will have a source of soldiers, and you will be able to have your own armed forces.
In this world of constant war, strong force represents strong strength, and only with strength can we ensure our own security.
If he escaped now, it would all be over, and while the Empress might not blame him, he would not want to have another realm.
Without these, do you want to go back to the precarious days of the past? Chen Jian, who has already tasted the wonderful taste of power, is unwilling.
During this time, Jian Chen often remembered a sentence he had heard when he was on Earth before.
Wake up to the power of the world, drunk and lying on the knees of beauties.
Chen Jian used to have no special feelings about this sentence, but now it is different.
Many times, people's ambitions will always gradually expand with the change of the environment, although Chen Jian does not think that he can achieve the level of power in the world, but he feels that it is not impossible for him to be a lord with strong force and become a great nobleman who is high above and occupies one side.
As long as she can successfully keep her territory this time, I believe that Queen Catherine will also be impressed by her.
So he gave up the opportunity to escape and chose to stay and fight, but there is a huge disparity between the strength of the enemy and us, and how to fight this battle must be summed up well.
Like High Priest Ryan's thoughts, Lord Lord chose guerrilla warfare, but his idea was more radical, not only to guerrilla, but also to take the initiative.
"We can't wait for the enemy to come down to the city, we have to take the initiative! Fight the enemy in the wild! Take a bite of your enemies when you get the chance! The flames of war must not be allowed to reach Hammondal! Otherwise, the lords will be affected by the battle! War is a matter for soldiers and aristocrats, and ordinary civilians should not be involved! ”
The lord said this very righteously and awe-inspiringly.
No matter what decision he makes, the lord never forgets to say some scenes, which he has developed when he is on earth, because he used to help the leaders of the company draft some speeches, and he knows that there are only good and no harm in saying these scenes.