Chapter 356: Night Attack
"Dangdang!"
After two successive loud clashing of blades, Harvey jumped out of the warband.
Five minutes ago, Elvis led several magicians to launch a large-scale magical attack near the camp gate, almost slaughtering the unprepared mercenaries guarding the camp gate, and followed Harvey and his people over the fence to climb in.
As soon as Harvey came in, he instructed Morey to take the people inside and outside to start cleaning up the deer and horses blocking the camp gate, and when the camp gate was cleared, he could open the camp gate and enlarge the team to enter. However, less than half of the clean-up work was carried out, and it was discovered that the enemy mercenaries were grouped and killed towards the camp gate under the leadership of a wing commander, preparing to regain control of the camp gate.
Seeing this, Harvey immediately rushed forward with a few of his entourage, and he had to block the enemy before opening the camp gates.
The strength of the enemy's co-captain is not weak, he is a high-level swordsman like Harvey, and he has a lot of combat experience, and the two of them immediately fought fiercely as soon as they met, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner from defeat.
The people of the Spirit Snake Mercenary Group gathered more and more, and soon formed a local numerical advantage at the camp gate, and the archers in the distance had already gathered into a formation and began to rain arrows towards the Youth League outside the camp gate. Fortunately, several water magicians gathered outside the door and teamed up to release the water barrier magic to block it.
"It is necessary to deal with the enemy in front of you and buy time for the brothers in the back. ”
Harvey forced back the opposite high-level swordsman with two consecutive swords, jumped out of the battle group, touched the magic mechanism on the hilt of the sword, and gritted his teeth to activate the eight-sided fire magic. Although this would cause serious damage to the mercenaries on the other side, Harvey couldn't care more than he could let his brothers bleed because of his mercy.
"Come again!"
Thinking of this, Harvey let out a loud shout, raised his fighting spirit to the extreme, and turned around and rushed towards his opponent again.
"Whoosh!"
A strange scream sounded in Harvey's ears, and three blue rays of light swept by, and the second shot came first to hit the opponent's high-level swordsman.
The high-level swordsman didn't have time to dodge, so he could only swing his sword to slash the ice crystals down. As soon as the ice crystals shattered, they immediately turned into a cloud of blue ice mist attached to the long sword, and at the same time, a strange cold spread along the sword body, and the senior swordsman suddenly felt that the hands holding the sword were numb. Before he could react further, Harvey had already rushed in front of him, sword in both hands and slashing at him.
The long sword cracked through the air, and the yellow fighting energy was like a lightning bolt connecting the heavens and the earth, about to smash everything in front of him.
The high-ranking swordsman could only take this sword head-on.
"Bang!"
The mercenaries around were staggered by the impact of the collision.
A huge force struck, the numb hands of the senior swordsman shook, and the long sword had been shaken away, but Harvey's sword qi was not exhausted, and he could only resist with his body protection fighting qi.
"Wow!"
A mouthful of blood spurted out of the high-level swordsman, and his body flew back more than a dozen steps before he was caught by his subordinates, and his face became pale as paper.
"Kill!"
Seeing Harvey seriously wounded the leader of the enemy, the morale of the Cadet Commando was greatly shaken, and they took advantage of the enemy's confusion, shouted slogans, and bravely moved forward to kill.
"Buzz!"
Elvis was mixed in the team, and the ice spike containing the extremely cold magic just now was released by him, and at this moment, he followed the team and rushed forward while releasing two ice burst magic, which immediately exacerbated the chaos of the Spirit Snake Mercenary Group.
"Boom!"
Behind the Boys' Regiment commandos, the barriers on both sides of the camp gate were cleared, the camp gate was also knocked down, and the reinforcements outside immediately rushed in and joined the melee. The tide of the battle was reversed in an instant, and the boys' regiment, with Harvey as the arrow, began to advance rapidly into the depth of the camp.
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In the central tent of the Snake Mercenary Group's camp, Carter was sitting upright on a handsome chair, constantly receiving battle reports from the front and making new arrangements.
"Report to the regiment commander, the North Camp Gate was breached by the enemy, and the commander of the first wing was seriously wounded, and he was simply unable to resist the enemy's offensive. ”
A bloodied mercenary rushed in, reporting to Carter on one knee with a panicked expression.
"Don't be afraid! Everyone follow me to support the First Wing, and I'll see how strong this militia is. ”
After listening to the report, Carter did not panic, he picked up the big sword on the table next to him, and walked out with his own soldiers.
"Boom!"
As soon as Carter arrived outside the tent, there was a loud bang in the west, and a huge fireball rose from the ground, accompanied by broken wood thrown in the sky, and the huge explosion made the earth tremble a few times. Carter was startled, and hurriedly followed the prestige, and then gasped, if there was no mistake in judgment, the place where the fireball rose was Xiying Gate.
"Report! The West Camp Gate was broken by the enemy with magic, and now the enemy has broken through the camp gate and is coming towards this side. ”
As Carter expected, the West Camp Gate had fallen, and the Second Wing, which was responsible for defending the West Camp Gate, had been completely plunged into chaos by the power of magic.
The fact that the enemy attacked from both camps at the same time, and both of them succeeded, seemed to have underestimated the strength of the militia.
"Report to the head of the group, traces of enemy activity have been found at the mouth of the canyon in the southeast, and there are magicians casting spells on both sides of the canyon, it seems that they want to block the canyon. ”
Just as Carter was about to re-issue the order and divide his troops into two places to rescue the two camp gates, another bad news came. The canyon behind them was the only way for them to retreat to the ancient city of Aogu, in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, after passing through the canyon yesterday, Kanter had already left a brigade stationed at the mouth of the canyon, if the battle situation was unfavorable, this team must ensure the smooth flow of the canyon, so that they can retreat calmly.
Kanter remembered the scene of the previous day's battle with the militia at the makeshift fortress at the mouth of the canyon, when he naively thought that the militia was vulnerable, but now looking back, all this was a conspiracy of the militia, deliberately showing weakness to the enemy, allowing himself to underestimate the enemy, in order to seize the lone army into their territory.
"It looks like the enemy is trying to block the mouth of the canyon and annihilate themselves here. ”
Thinking of this, Carter suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He would never allow this to happen, the Spirit Snake Mercenary Regiment was the guarantee of his power in the ancient city of Aogu, if this legion was completely annihilated, the power of himself and his family would plummet, and he might even be severely punished by the furious Horanst.
"How's the situation at the mouth of the canyon now?"
Carter asked anxiously.
"Our men have pushed the other mages back, but we believe they will soon gather their men to fight back. ”
After listening to the report of the communications soldier, Carter finally made up his mind:
"Pass my orders. The 1st and 2nd Wings, no matter what the cost, had to keep the enemy forces to the north and west firmly in check, and the 3rd and 4th Wings followed me in the direction of the gorge, and were bound to control the mouth of the canyon in our hands. ”
Carter's words sounded good, but the subordinates understood: the regiment commander was preparing to run away.
The order was passed down, and the 3rd Wing, the 4th Wing, plus Carter's personal guards immediately retreated in the direction of the canyon, oh no, it was a march. By the time they reached the mouth of the canyon, a battle had just ended, and the guard brigade had managed to repel a force of enemies harassing them. Carter hurriedly praised them, and then led the team to leave through the valley without stopping for a moment.
"Brothers, stop the enemy!"
"Catch the head of the regiment Carter, the bounty is thousand!"
Soon after the team entered the canyon, shouts of killing came from the top of the mountain on both sides. Fireballs, rolling logs, and falling rocks fell from the hillsides on both sides.
"Run!"
Carter was like a frightened bird in the lead, and the guards were on the right and left. The rest of the officers and soldiers of the Spirit Snake Mercenary Regiment followed behind and rushed out of the canyon without even daring to turn back.
After leaving the canyon and running forward for a full ten miles, it was already dark, and there was no shouting from behind, before Carter stopped and began to order his soldiers to count the numbers. Carter couldn't help but secretly complain about this count, the full army of 15,000 people at the time of departure now has less than 2,000 people left, and these people are all cavalry, so they followed his footsteps to flee for his life.
Now that he had entered the territory of Aogucheng, the enemy in the rear did not follow, Kante did not dare to return to Aogucheng like this, and he was so defeated that he could not explain to Hollanster. He ordered the exhausted mercenaries to rest on the spot, and sent out a message to scout the enemy in the rear. By noon, Tanma finally brought back some good news:
The enemy had all withdrawn to the other side of the canyon. Although our side was completely defeated in last night's battle, the enemy did not rush to kill them after looting the supplies in the general's camp, and a large number of defeated troops were retreating along the canyon to this side.
Carter didn't understand why the enemy was so kind and willing to let his brother go, but it wasn't a bad thing after all, and he immediately arranged to accept the rout. In the evening, the Spirit Snake Mercenary Regiment received a total of about 10,000 defeated soldiers, including some wounded, and the others were either killed in the battle last night or scattered.
Looking at the defeat of his group of remnants who had lost their armor, Carter felt frustrated, but he secretly wondered how to report the situation to Horancest.
"It's snowing. ”
Someone suddenly shouted loudly.
Carter looked up when he heard the sound, and in the twilight, countless tiny white dots were falling from the sky.
"God help me!"
Carter was overjoyed and hurriedly called the signal corps.
"You quickly go back to the ancient city of Aogu to report to the lord, just say that last night our barracks were raided, we had a fierce battle with the mob's team, the mob's will to fight is very tenacious, the battle lasted until dawn and we repelled the mob, but because the weather suddenly began to snow, we were worried that the logistics supply would be cut off, so we retreated back to the outside of the canyon, and waited until the snow cleared before going deep into Iron Pine Town to fight the mob to the death. ”
Carter's handwritten report was presented to Hollander's desk the next afternoon, and Hollander's face was gloomy when he read it, and after a long time he ordered:
"Order the Spirit Snake Mercenary Group to be stationed on the spot, and don't act rashly without the next order. ”
After the Messenger went down with the order, Hollanster took out another envelope from the drawer and slammed it on the table, this letter also reported about the battle that had just taken place outside of Iron Pine, but the process and outcome were completely different.
Of course, Hollanster knew which of the two reports was true and which was false, and although he was extremely angry at Carter's deception, the powerful fighting power of the mob in this battle made him have to calm down, and now is not the time to liquidate his own people.
If you make peace, what will be your face as Lord Ogu? If you continue to fight, how should this battle be fought? You can't let the entire ancient city of Oku-gu be hurt in order to quell the refugee rebellion, right?
"Report to your lordship, the leader of the Wolf Warrior Mercenary Regiment, Walker, and the deputy head Cecil are outside asking to see you. ”
Just when Hollanster was a little worried, the butler came in and said.
"Let them in. ”
Hollanster waved his hand, the two of them had arrived just in time, and now they needed someone to advise them.
Thinking of the need for someone to advise him, Hollanster saw Allen's figure, and if he was still around, none of this would have happened.
So was your decision right or wrong?