Chapter 254: Reduced to a Horse Bandit
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Due to Stephen's resolute attitude, General Camp finally had to compromise and transfer the cavalry of the legion to pursue the enemy to the southeast, while the remaining infantry recaptured the city of Lua.
The plan of split annihilation was indeed successful, and under the attack of superior cavalry, it took only six days for the rout in the southeast to be annihilated, and then they turned around and pursued the rout in the south, but by this time the rout in the south and southwest had already ruined the lives and sorrows in the eastern part of the empire.
Refugees who have been devastated by the war abound, most of them have suffered the misfortune of having their families ruined, and the loss of family property is no longer the most important thing, what they need most is the comfort of their scarred hearts, so that they have the courage to continue living.
This kind of opportunity is exactly what the Holy See needs, and the hundreds of priests who accompanied the army began to play a role, and they went deep into every town and village in the eastern part of the empire with the army, treating the wounded, praying for the dead, and comforting the living, and the seeds of faith began to germinate in the eastern part of the Higg Empire, and the light of God began to shine in the eastern part of the Higg Empire, and gradually spread, and finally became the prestige of the Holy See in the eastern part of the Higg people, which is what Tis Hepburn wanted to see the most.
However, the war was not over, and the Bols cavalry, having been resupplied, turned their horses around and pounced again, and began to storm the eastern part of the empire.
After a month, the Higg cavalry finally completed the elimination of the three-way rout, and then turned their horses and headed north to meet the cavalry of Bolth, but fortunately, the town of Lua City was still in the hands of the Empire, so that the rebels had no maximum reliance on the danger.
With the Templars and Priests joining the Higg army, Bols did not dare to take it lightly, so he had to play hide and seek with his opponents and then capture the fighters, so he staged a cat-and-mouse game in the eastern wilderness of the Higg Empire.
It was only then that General Camp realized how wise the tactics of the Trorens father and son were at the beginning, taking the lead and then the inside. Because the feeling of following behind a group of cavalry to eat ashes could not help but be frustrating, and it was even more frustrating, and the imperial army had to regain its old skills, taking advantage of the abundant soldiers, and gradually consolidating its strength city by town.
The Higg infantry also surrounded the rebels step by step, and the chassis that could give the rebels an active force was getting smaller and smaller. In the end, Bols had to go forward and use a ravine to launch a surprise attack on the Imperial army, the raid plan was successful, but Bols still miscalculated the role of the priest in the Higg army, under the effect of the priest's prayer, the Imperial heavy infantry at the mouth of the canyon withstood the impact of the rebel cavalry, was not cut off horizontally, and quickly established a position in front of the canyon, giving the rear troops a chance to kill, this raid finally turned into a head-on battle, and the combination of the Templars and the priest gave Bols, who had experienced the Battle of Baden, a new understanding, and the five hundred elite cavalry of the Knights Templar, led by the great swordsman Stephen, bit the cavalry of Bols to the death, preventing its main force from leaving the battlefield.
Knowing that defeat was assured, the rebels finally escaped under the cover of the magic of the great magician Emaar, and after counting the number of people, the number of remaining cavalry was less than 1,000, and they completely lost the ability to continue to confront the empire head-on.
Under the further encirclement and suppression of the imperial army, Bols was originally going to go north to enter the Yuss Empire for refuge, but the route to the north has been completely blocked, and the current residual combat power is simply not enough to break through the blockade, even if it can break through the blockade, the remaining strength is of little use value to the Yuss Empire, and it will even fall into the mouth that is unfavorable to him, so Bols had to continue to the east, and finally plunged headlong into the Demon Dragon Rift in a desperate state.
The Great Rift Valley is located at the junction of the three major forces of the Yus Empire, the Hig Empire and the Elven Forest. Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, two powerful dragons fought in this valley, and the flames spewed out by the dragons not only wiped out all the creatures in the canyon, but even scorched the stones in it, hence the name Dragon Rift.
The rift valley runs north-south, stretching for nearly 100 miles, with a maximum width of 5 miles, a narrowest point of only 200 paces, and an average depth of more than 200 steps. If you look down at the ground from a high altitude, the whole rift valley is like a deep scar on the surface of the continent, the entrance of the rift valley is in the shape of a pocket, the more you go inside, the narrower the space, the more intricate the terrain, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, the tunnels are like nets, like a labyrinth, if you are not familiar with the terrain, it is easy to get lost in it.
The terrain of the Grand Rift Valley is very suitable for small forces to hide their whereabouts, but for hundreds of years, the name of the Grand Rift Valley has been unlucky, and few humans have been active here.
Bols and his subordinates are also the largest group of guests welcomed by the Great Dragon Rift Valley in hundreds of years, the valley is wide and deep, there are many forks, there is no problem with hiding thousands of people, the only problem is that the resources in the valley are not rich, if you want to hold it for a long time, you must get supplies from the outside world.
The Higg army, which was tracked down, was originally going to completely wipe out the opponent in the rift, but the first army entered the rift, not only did not even find the shadow of Bols, but the team of thousands of people almost lost its way, and almost did not come out because of lack of supplies. Later, General Camp sent infantry deep into the country several more times, but not only did they find nothing, but they lost a lot of people to the Bols design.
Faced with this situation, General Camp consulted with Stephen, the representative of the Holy See, and decided that there was no need to continue wasting time on the defense of hundreds of people. So the two teamed up to draft a final report on the bandits, which was presented to their respective leaders.
At this point, the vigorous civil strife in the Higg Empire, which lasted from the spring of 318 to the winter of that year, finally came to an end.
The war, which lasted more than a year and affected most of the eastern part of the Hig Empire, caused the economy in the eastern part of the empire to be severely destroyed, millions of people were involved in the war, and about 150,000 soldiers and civilians were killed in the war, of which more than two-thirds were civilians. Many villages and towns that had been looted by the rebels were empty, and the people were displaced to escape the war.
The rebel army led by Pols grew from the initial 5,000 soldiers to the strongest, with nearly 50,000 commanders, but the battle of Marin City alone lost 30,000 elite soldiers, and since then it has been in a slump, and finally reduced to a group of horse bandits with the Great Dragon Rift Valley as its lair.
To deal with this bandit, the Hig Empire was not allowed to station a cavalry wing of 3,000 men near the Great Rift Valley of the Dragon, in order to ensure the suppression of the Bols bandits, and even if it could not be completely eliminated, it was necessary to prevent it from regaining its strength and making a comeback.
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