Chapter Eighty-Nine: Chaotic Life
Josephine's order didn't seem wrong. Tactically speaking, it is more important to expel the ice dragons in the formation first than to fight against the coalition forces from outside. If you can't kill these saboteurs hidden inside the formation, and the formation of the Demon King Army can't be integrated, then there is only one way to lose.
But Josephine, who seriously lacked battlefield experience, actually made a great mistake: that is, when the ice dragon suddenly came and entered the hinterland of the Demon King Army, the Demon King Army had no chance of victory, and the only thing they could do was to kill and injure as many coalition soldiers as possible, and strive for as many advantages as possible for the Demon King Army's next battle!
No army in the world can turn defeat into victory when its own position is disrupted, and there are opponents of equal strength on the opposite side charging in formation, this is the so-called inevitable defeat, even if Sun Wu is alive and Han Xin is resurrected, in the face of this situation, he can only sigh, admit defeat, and then see if he can take as many people back as possible.
However, even if these two people are here, they are destined to not be able to lead this demon army back - you know, in order to chase and kill the "remnants of the defeated generals" of the coalition army, this demon army has been running for five days in a row, running from outside the city of Celal to the Chilia Mountains, and at this moment it is already a veteran of the division, and in the face of the pursuit of the coalition army with high morale, plus the attack of the ice dragons, it is impossible to run this road again.
As for to the east, that, of course, is even more unlikely. The Demon King Army has been on the offensive on the Western Front, unlike the coalition forces that have put a lot of effort into the defensive line, so the Demon King Army does not even have a city on the Western Front that can be used to defend to the death, if you run back, it will take at least two hundred miles to encounter a city, or the kind of small city that can only accommodate a city with low walls.
Therefore, the destruction of this demon king army can be said to be doomed when the ice dragon is killed. So for them, the only right choice is to drag as many coalition soldiers as possible before they finish the game, so that they can play a little less in the future war.
The ice dragon couldn't leave the Qilia Mountain Range, even if Lin Yuedong ordered it with the Ice Godhead, which was why the coalition army had retreated all the way to this before he took out this hole card. Therefore, even if the coalition forces fight against the Demon King Army again in the future, the ice dragon will not appear again, and the Demon King Army will not be stupid to fight near the Qilia Mountain Range again, so killing and injuring the ice dragon is meaningless for the Demon King Army at all!
They weren't meant to play a role in the next war!
Lin Yuedong knew this, Li Qinglan knew it, the high-level members of the coalition army who had been popularized by them knew it, and Barnaby on the side of the Demon King Army also knew it. He had handled the Demon King's army's efforts to win Lauren Frost's assistance before, and he was quite familiar with Lauren Frost's situation, and knew that the ice dragon could not do without the Kiria Mountains - but Josephine, who had just arrived on the Western Front a few days ago, didn't know!
Therefore, the order given by Josephine was to kill and injure the ice dragon, while Barnaby, who was familiar with the inside story and had a strategic vision, gave the order at the same time to abandon the formation and go all out to smash the coalition army.
So in such a situation, the Demon King Army was sad again. At the critical juncture, they exposed the biggest problem of this army - that is, the inconsistencies!
The original Western Front Demon King's Army naturally received Barnaby's orders, but the Demon King's Guards were logically subordinate to the Demon King himself, and Josephine was able to temporarily command this army because of his close relationship with the Demon King, but Barnaby did not have this qualification. Therefore, the warriors who formed this demon king army that was chasing for thousands of miles were actually different, and they were not armies commanded by a single commander.
Barnaby and Josephine had always negotiated together, covering up this problem, which could be said to be fatal to the average army, but now at a critical juncture, this problem finally broke out: the original Western Front army that received Barnaby's order rushed to the coalition army, while the guards in the position of the central army reflexively went to kill the ice dragon, so that the original team of the Demon King Army completely turned into stragglers.
What's even more troublesome is that the battle between the Guards and the Ice Dragon hindered the pace of their own army's attack, making the attack of those former Western Front Demon King Army even slower and longer, from a suicide attack to a suicide attack completely.
The worst thing is that after Josephine gave the order, he immediately rushed back to the formation to find trouble with the ice dragon. She is a powerful elven envoy, she kills back in one lunge, and crosses hundreds of meters of the battlefield in minutes, but Barnaby, who plans to ask Josephine to take back his chaotic life, does not have the ability, and when he finally finds Josephine in a chaotic battlefield, and painfully explains the pros and cons, so that Josephine, who has killed dozens of ice dragons, finally comes to his senses and begins to command the Guards to attack the coalition forces, it is already too late.
In the face of the coalition army's long shield in the lead, the spear in the back, the cavalry on both sides, the bow and crossbow first, the elves made the first time to bless the strict formation of various elf magic, the decisive counterattack of the demon king army seemed to be a torrent surging down a truckload of sacks - although the sacks worked hard, but in front of the torrent was not worth mentioning at all.
easily crushed the counterattack of the Demon King Army, and the coalition soldiers who killed it were so excited that they were like a strong man who had been held back for half a year in the face of a beautiful girl who had not yet worn clothes, and he was up and down against the remnants of the Demon King Army.
The remaining soldiers of the Demon King Army were like a charming girl who had not yet dressed in the face of a strong man who had been suffocated for half a year, pressing on the ground and rubbing desperately, without the momentum of chasing and killing thousands of miles before, and died one after another at the hands of the coalition soldiers and elf envoys.
Especially those forest people, the forest spirit envoys who are more familiar than anyone else with how to fight with the ice dragon cooperate with the ice dragon under Lin Yuedong's control, and when they see where the demon king army has signs of integration, they will swarm and kill it, killing the demon king army is bitter and helpless - the strength of the ice dragon is not strong, and the advantage of falling from the sky is too great!
In just half a day of fighting, the Demon King Army suffered heavy casualties, corpses were everywhere, and even the original leading general Barnabi died tragically in the chaos. After Barnaby's death, the remaining demon kings were no longer in trouble, and could only obey Josephine's orders. Josephine, who was on the battlefield for the first time, was in a panic, and finally gave up the plan that Barnaby insisted on ending up with the coalition forces, joined forces with Seven and Bloody Knife, and forcibly united a group of troops with strong personal strength, and began to retreat south.
In the face of Josephine's actions, Lin Yuedong and Li Qinglan persuaded the holy woman who wanted to make a move, and let these demon king armies gather and retreat.
"Do you want to let the tiger go back to the mountains?" The saint asked puzzled.
"Josephine, Number Seven and Blood Knife are strong individually, and the rest of the Demon King Army is working together, if they are forcibly destroyed here, the coalition will lose a lot more. Therefore, it is better to let them return to the south, and then we will chase and kill them all the way, so that they will unknowingly exhaust their strength and reduce the loss of our army's troops. Lin Yuedong said.
"Why not take them here? Letting the ice dragons, who will no longer play a role in the future, resist their attacks can also have the effect of reducing losses. Duke Ehrstein asked, puzzled. [.]