Chapter 30: Give Up, Retreat, No, There's No Way Back!

(Shadow Wizards traveling to a world is as difficult as surviving in an otherwise unfamiliar world for the rest of their lives...... It's no wonder that Spy Wizards are often the backbone of the wizarding world, and Gandalf even offered this mission as a reward for me. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

By constantly traveling through the otherworld, superimposing long life experiences, and accumulating knowledge over time, these will undoubtedly give wizard professionals great benefits. But...... )

Rubbing his eyebrows, Zhu Peng forced himself to open his eyes and look at the military map laid out in front of him, and focused his attention.

The situation in front of us is difficult to fight to the death.

If you want to be easy, it's very easy, draw the sword and wipe your neck, Rod Custer hangs up, and Zhu Peng returns directly to the main world.

Because of the killing of the spirit 'shogi' Chris, there is still 62% essentia energy left, and there will be no wear and tear on the soul and not much memory loss during the return...... However, in front of the eyes of the Divine Chess Banquet, especially in front of Gandalf, the dean of the Department of Plastic Energy, he chose to weakly abstain from voting, and a mentally fragile and embarrassing comment was indispensable.

Whether it is for the Zhu family, for the Chinese Warriors Association, or for himself, he can't give up, no matter how difficult things are in front of him, Zhu Peng gritted his teeth and planned to carry it hard.

Faced with the Knights of Živa and Bruga, a total of about one hundred and thirty men, Old John considered it and suggested retreating, because it was almost impossible to win the situation in front of him.

"Retreat, where to retreat? Leave the valley, and soon they will be spotted by their scouts, and at the speed of their lunges, they will be overtaken before they reach Fort Djerbo...... Are you going to make me abandon the archers and run away with the cavalry myself? Rejecting Old John's suggestion, Zhu Peng turned to Nabal and said, "In your previous battle with Viscount Javier of Brugaburg, how many troops did you defeat him?

Faced with Rod Custer's solemn question, Nabar pondered for a moment, and then he said:

"In terms of military talent, I besieged his troops of less than 100 with 200 men, and it was only a draw, but he must have suffered heavy casualties...... This Viscount Javier is a very typical old nobleman, cautious, greedy and cunning, basically that's all. ”

"Be cautious, greedy and cunning...... Does it mean that the ability to make decisions is weak?" Looking at the military map in front of him, Zhu Peng's eyes narrowed slightly, and a sharp meaning flashed in them.

...... You can't be cowardly, you can't escape, you can't commit suicide, but sometimes when negative emotions arise in your heart, you occasionally think - dying on the battlefield is not suicide;

This kind of psychological burden caused by constantly experiencing various difficulties in the alien world for a long time is the torture that almost every spy wizard must endure, and it is also the most subtle curse of the soul of the possessed......

Still according to the original plan, Zhu Peng and five free knights "accidentally" encountered the cavalry of Zhiwa Cheze outside the valley, and Zhu Peng raised his iron-spine spear to challenge the nobles of Magali.

However, the other party did not accept it, and the noble earl, whose eyes were as sharp and gloomy as eagles and wolves, waved his hand, and a large number of cavalry behind him roared and swept towards the six horsemen on the opposite side like a blizzard.

Magali looked down on Rod Custer at all, and in his eyes, only William Custer, who was born recklessly and killed all the way from the mountain of corpses and blood, was worthy of being his opponent, as for his son?

A gentleman who was drunk and dreamed of playing with women in Riwache, and in Magali's eyes, he was not even qualified to challenge himself, and to kill him in an instant was to damage his reputation.

The knights under the command of Count Magali thought the same way, and none of them thought that their own earl was afraid of a milky boy, but that the earl was too lazy to pay attention......

A large area of cavalry in front of him rushed directly over, although it was not quite the same as the plan, but on the whole it was still in the direction of the original plan, Zhu Peng pulled the horse's head and led the free knights to flee back to the valley, and the heavy cavalry following behind him did not hesitate to follow and rush into the valley.

Magali already knew that the knights of Fort Bruga were roaming nearby, so he was not afraid of ambushes at all, and the ambushes in the valley were at most comparable to the defense level of Fort Jerpo, and under the charge of more than 130 cavalrymen in front and behind, any kind of ambush could only be routed on all fronts.

In fact, if Zhu Peng knew that there would be a Viscount Javier of Brugaburg running out halfway, he probably wouldn't have given up the advantage of defending the city to the valley to fight an ambush war, but knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent in a hundred battles is a relatively idealized state after all, and there are almost no generals who do not make mistakes in the actual war process, and they make fewer mistakes than the other side, and correcting their mistakes in time represents victory.

Magali was clearly well versed in this, and when he saw the rain of arrows shooting down above his head, and the surrounding infantry pouring out from front and back, he already knew that he had been ambushed.

However, he did not choose to turn back and retreat, because at this time, the U-turn would be entangled by the infantry behind, and the heavy cavalry would lose its impact power and have less of an advantage over the infantry.

"Let's rush over and let the infantry who are only worthy of hiding in the castle shiver see the bravery of my Snow Nation Iron Horse!" Drawing his two-handed axe behind him, Magali led the knights of the whole army to charge, and the fifth-level knights of Vegia followed their lord with a roar like wild beasts, as if they were about to break through the great wave that shattered everything, and swept through the thirty-man infantry in front.

Although the thirty-five Vigian archers who shot arrows downward on the rock wall of the valley under the leadership of John Watson had done their best, the frontal charge of more than 70 horsemen was still theoretically not something that the 30-man infantry could stop, even if the man standing at the front of them was the Pirate King Limitbreaker Nabal.

Zhu Peng knew this very well, so he led twenty freelancers and thirty Cerberus to cut diagonally to the middle of the charging Knights of Vegia, to cut off this heavy arrow. Then the front and rear infantry flanked and wrapped, and the cavalry of the opposing side continued to charge with the melee as the center, coupled with the continuous rain of arrows pouring down on the stone wall of the valley, there was enough certainty that the opponent would be completely defeated before the side was damaged.

The most powerful force of the cavalry is high-speed mobility and the impact of the battle formation, the cavalry surrounded and entangled by the infantry will not be stronger than the infantry of the same level, and Zhu Peng led the twenty free knights under his command to continue to assault and cut.

In fact, many formations in ancient China were also born from this kind of offensive and defensive conversion, local superiority, gathering crowds to annihilate and other strategies, but they were developed more meticulously and precisely.

Magali, who had originally led the charge, found that the enemy cavalry that was charging towards the central army on the side, although he was surprised that the Custer family still had such a large scale of cavalry reserves, and was surprised by the crimson strong giant dogs that followed closely behind the heavy cavalry, but he still reacted quickly, and actually led a cavalry team of more than 20 people to split out to hedge against the enemy cavalry during the charge, and the whole process was as smooth as a cloud, and it didn't even affect the remaining fifty horsemen to continue to charge.

Magali blocked the cavalry led by Zhu Peng, then there was still a huge possibility that the fifty cavalry would break through Nabar's defensive line, and once the infantry could not stop the cavalry charge, they would be killed and wounded by repeated charges, which was the beginning of the defeat of the entire army of the Custer clan.

However, Magali himself led the Knights of Twenty to fend off Rod Custer's cavalry charge, but it was the biggest mistake he made in this battle, and the reinforced sixth-class heavy cavalry freelancers showed the terrible killing of their entire army charge on the continent of Calradia for the first time.

The Virgian Knights, who lacked the distance and impact power, wielded a two-handed axe, and under the charge of the freelancers' cavalry spears, they were almost swept away like wheat harvested by a brush.

Twenty freelancers brushed their guns together, drew their sharp, broad-bladed two-handed swords from their waists, and continued to charge towards the charging Vigian cavalry almost unabated.

The scene in front of him, the bloody breath that instantly filled his mouth and nose, almost made Magali think that he was hallucinating.

(How is that possible...... The Knights I have worked so hard to build, even the Knights of Swadia's rank, cannot defeat them in an instant...... How is it possible?) When Count Magali was in a state of confusion, Zhu Peng, who saw the opportunity, stabbed his war horse with a charge, and Count Magali, who was famous in Viaia, the land of snow, stumbled and fell heavily between the corpse and a pool of blood.

The Cerberus quickly knocked him down in groups of three or five, Magali was a brave limit-breaker, but there were too many and too many oncoming red dogs.

............

Leading by example is a good thing, but it's also a bad thing.

A leader who can protect himself well and be invincible can quickly create an elite iron army with high morale and centripetal force, but if he is taken by the opponent in the course of the battle, the damage to the morale of the party is undoubtedly extremely huge.

At the moment of Magali's fall, Zhu Peng's essentia perspective almost instantly drifted past a "morale-50" judgment, although the knights of the Riwa Chaze were still wielding heavy axes to kill the enemy bravely, but the faint chaos of the entire army was inevitable.

In fact, Magali did nothing wrong, and the charge of leading the way is of great significance in small group operations, and a brave commander is a model for the three armed forces, whether it is William Custer or Zhu Peng, or the commander of any elite knights, most of them prefer this kind of behavior.

However, Magali did not expect that his knights would encounter a strengthened sixth-level knight order, and the two sides attacked each other, and his side died in an instant, leaving only himself as a limit-breaker into an absolute local disadvantage, and was in the dilemma of being beaten more and less by the enemy.

Also feeling that he had done nothing wrong was Viscount Javier Bruga, who was meant to help Magali, but as a supporter, he did not join the battlefield in the first place...... This is actually a very normal thing, the icing on the cake and cooperate with friendly forces to break the strong enemy, which is better than sending charcoal in the snow, and when the two sides are almost consumed, they will win the victory with the attitude of the main force, and the favorability is real.

Viscount Javier never dreamed that the brave and skilled Magali fell in an instant in the first wave, looking at the knights who were gradually falling into chaos in the Riva, Javier looked at the cavalry behind him, this is the last elite of Brugafort, and he suddenly fell into the hesitation of not being able to go to the battlefield.

After all, judging from the current situation, even if the army behind him smashes in, it is difficult to say whether he will win or lose.

"Lord Viscount, we have spotted the cavalry units of the Custer family from Fort Elb, and they are heading here. "A scout came forward to report when his lord was hesitant, which also made Viscount Javier reassured.

“...... Oh, my Earl, you can't blame me now, William is here, and you can't win against him, let alone at the hands of his son, let alone me. He muttered to himself as if in an excuse, and then Javier Bruga gave the order to withdraw.

As long as he still has military strength in his hands, no matter whether Magali can return to Riwa Cheze alive or not, he will not push himself too much, because the rise of the power of the Custer clan will inevitably bring huge pressure to Riwache.

............

"Ahh......h

Before, he was pressed under the heaps of hellhounds, and the dogs suddenly exploded under the crazy force, and the sharp Jinling heavy battle axe in his hand was full of power and never wear, and it was a double-edged giant axe forged by a master forge of special meteorite iron, which was like a storm in Magali's hands.

In the end, when the overall situation was reached, Zhu Peng did not want to waste any more time, and he directly organized the Free Knights to carry out another cavalry charge against Magali alone, and the heavy cavalry charge that hit the tonnage finally trampled this violent man under the iron hoof.

"Grab it, tie it strongly, he's my most valuable commodity. Looking at the heroic man at the end of the road, Zhu Peng could interpret the will to die from his attitude.

But no, the financial balance of Fort Derber and the first bucket of funds for start-up development still have to be squeezed from him, not to mention that killing Magali is simply breaking the arm of the Kingdom of Vegia, and from the overall situation, it is not cost-effective.

"Young Master Rod, Lord Bruga has retreated, and ...... The lord is here. ”、

The lord in the mouth of the scout was naturally Lord William Castel, who led a cavalry team of twenty cavalry with Magali far away, which was also one of the important reasons for the withdrawal of the Lord of Bruga.

"Father. ”

Seeing the dusty Viscount William, knowing that he was Rhodes waiting for an opportunity to save him, he couldn't help but feel hot in his heart, although the core of this body was already Zhu Peng, but the instinctive bloodline imprints of some bodies still existed.

"I can't imagine that after going through those hardships, Rhodes, you can grow to this point......" Viscount William, who rode his horse, looked at the most favored son in front of him, his eyes naturally showed some relief and pride, and the two rode away.

Viscount William didn't think that his son was taken away from his soul, he went all the way up as a mercenary from the bottom of the society, and the Custer family did not have enough heritage and lack of enough classics and history, so that Viscount William himself did not have the concept of soul snatching and crossing.

And in the history of civilization on the continent of Calradia, there have always been monsters after the appearance of the story, the children of the nobles who suddenly repented and changed their minds to become heroes to establish great achievements, in the eyes of the Calradians, this is a character who came into being, a hero who gained luck in order to fight against monsters.

Viscount William simply thought that this was also the case with Rhodes, who had spent a few years drinking and drunk, dreaming of death, and as soon as the demon appeared, he had luck and showed talent, so there was no doubt about it.

"Having captured Magali, he is extremely prestigious among the family of Zhivacheze, and his family will definitely do their best to redeem him as soon as possible, how much are you going to offer?"

"One hundred thousand dinars, the high-level architectural drawings they have, fifty books...... I don't know how many years Boyer has been in possession of the Zhiwache, and this time I can squeeze out as much as I can squeeze out, and if I am not satisfied, I will send Magali to Zhivading to accuse him of colluding with the demons, and question the legitimacy of the Boyer clan to continue to possess the Zhiwache. Listening to Zhu Peng's words beside him, the ruthless Viscount William couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, in fact, of course, it is impossible to dig out so much, if you really do it like that, the Boye clan is afraid that they would rather change the patriarch. However, the meaning has been clearly stated, and it will definitely make the other party bleed.

"Rhodes...... The Casters are going to occupy the Lijia in Virgia for a long time, and we are too stiff with the Riwache, right?"

"Father, there is no room for compromise between us and Rivache for a generation or two, unlike our neighboring kingdom of Nord, Rivache wants to expand, and the only three goals: Fort Bruga, Fort Elebuk, Fort Djerpo, will almost certainly clash with the Custers...... What's more, we are in a state of mortal enemy confrontation with Riwache, which is in line with King Yarogerk's wishes, if we dare to form an alliance with Riwache, we will completely lose the support of other nobles, especially the royal family. "If the great nobles under his command are close enough to wear a pair of pants, then where can the king still sleep, of course, they are mutually balanced and hostile, and the king can be at ease in the middle.

This kind of checks and balances is almost about to be played out in the 5,000-year history of China.