The Belan soldiers are not stupid, if they are closer to Meiquan Ling, to the distance where Luo Ming can bring thousands of people to attack at night, they will definitely be more careful when they set up camp, for example, the gate and wall are stronger, and there are trenches dug, and the passages are also wooden suspension bridges that can be retracted, so there will be no gap for Luo Ming to take advantage of this advantage.

Luo Ming's surprise was important, but it was also the carelessness of the people of Belan—they relied on the large number of troops, and learned that the coalition army had broken up into many units and returned to their own homes, and also considered the distribution of forces around the camp, so they did not consider the night attack, and did not act according to the highest standards when they set up camp.

Although Luo Ming initially achieved good results, he still did not dare to fight, and quickly led the soldiers to retreat after setting fire.

Generally speaking, the robbery of a camp requires cavalry, and it is easy to escape whether it fails or succeeds.

And Luo Ming didn't have so many cavalry, he still had nearly two hundred infantry under him, although these soldiers were carefully selected and cultivated, but they couldn't run faster than horses, and the whole team fled a little slower.

As the Berans gradually restored order, a dozen or so cavalry rushed out first, trying to pursue Lomin's infantry - it seems that not all of the cavalry had gone after Lomin, and a few remained here.

Even if you can't take Luo Ming's small army, at least you can delay their escape, right?

However, the artillerymen quickly stopped the gun carriage, turned the muzzle of the gun, and fired a preloaded round of shotguns.

A dozen or so cavalrymen were caught defenselessly by these two cannons, and almost all the troops were wiped out, and the two unfortunate ghosts who were lucky enough to survive also lost their courage and fled back to the camp screaming.

Relying on the deterrence of this round of shelling, the Berans hesitated for a while, and not many people immediately came out in pursuit, and Luo Ming led his soldiers into the jungle.

The top brass of the Beran army are now trying to maintain order in the camp, and they are afraid of causing a roar in the camp, so they can't care about organizing troops to go out of the camp to pursue for a while, so they can only organize the soldiers to restore basic order on the spot and enter a defensive state.

This is the result of Luo Ming's very clever timing - if he is greedy and stays in the Beran barracks for another five minutes, the order of the Beran army can be restored to a certain extent, and there will be a large number of Beran soldiers to block their return route, and the rest of the soldiers will gradually restore order and encircle and suppress them, and they will not be given a chance to escape from the camp at all.

Twenty minutes after going deep into the forest, Luo Ming immediately ordered the whole army to take off their paper armor, poured half of the gunpowder on it, and set it on fire with Cangyan.

On the one hand, this is to fully reduce the burden on the soldiers and speed up the march, and on the other hand, to send a signal by the light of fire and smoke.

In this way, they made a gallop all the way, and finally reached the river.

There, the flotilla of ships that had received the signal had already lined up, just waiting for Luo Ming's soldiers to board the ship.

While letting the soldiers board the ship, Luo Ming counted the manpower by the way, and found that there were thirty-seven people missing.

Purely considering the battle loss ratio, although these thirty-seven people are all elite soldiers that are difficult to replenish immediately, the Belan people were attacked by night, hundreds of people died, and several fires were set on fire, and the losses were not small.

Of course, these thirty-seven people may not all really be dead, and some may have been separated or captured by the enemy.

Luo Ming has long been prepared for this, the cavalry did not bring pistols, he also asked the soldiers to use up the grenades at the first time of the camp, the soldiers themselves did not understand the preparation of gunpowder, and even Luo Ming did not tell his subordinates the specific principle of the artillery and the real material of the paper armor, even if he was caught by the enemy, he could not ask for the most valuable information.

As for the soldiers who were scattered and lost, Luo Ming had already instructed them to temporarily abandon their armor and mix in the nearby villages and towns, or slowly trek back to the Meiquan Territory, which was a solution.

By the time the soldiers had boarded the boat, and the sky was already a little brighter, Luo Ming noticed that three more soldiers were coming or running towards him, and hurriedly brought them aboard the boat.

Perhaps they were caught by the enemy and then manipulated their minds with a spell or had a tracking spell on them, but Arianna was by her side and cast a few detection spells to rule out the possibility.

From a distance, there are indeed enemy troops chasing after them, but even the hundreds of cavalry in the vanguard are still five or six hundred meters away from here, and it seems that they have been tracked all the way.

Luo Ming let the boat leave the riverbank, came to the center of the river, and walked unhurriedly, only to see the cavalry chase to the shore, and some even stepped into the shallower part of the river, so they raised their bows and arrows and shot at Luo Ming's boat, and some of them used arrows and fiery arrows.

However, Luo Ming sneered, and asked the soldiers and sailors to pull up the baffle on the side of the ship, which was not thick, but ordinary arrows could not penetrate it.

He ordered the artillery to open fire again, killing and wounding seven or eight cavalrymen by shotguns, and the other cavalry also knew that it was obviously very disadvantageous to fire with their bows and arrows from the artillery, so they could only retreat temporarily.

And by the time the Beran's infantry was about to arrive, the fleet had already been three hundred meters away, and it was difficult to attack the enemy at such a distance even if they used spells.

At this time of departure, the warriors of Schönbrunn sang their praises together, and Romin himself beat a large drum, so that the voices of the whole army joined into one beat:

"I saw with my own eyes the heroic figure walking on the earth,

Cutting off the enemy's head is like plucking grapes;

The light of his sword like fire was thundering,

Unstoppable, glorious way!"

Although they were also almost exhausted, they still squeezed out the last bit of strength, and sang more cheerfully, singing the joy of this almost legendary operation, and also expressing their contempt for the enemy, showing the spirit of fearless optimism, and the voice was hundreds of meters away, as if a fiery military spirit was condensed and soared into the sky.

The Beran people, who had finally chased after them on the shore, were panting, and their faces became more and more blue.

Luo Ming's soldiers were already very tired, and he would not take them halfway off the ship and take a land trip, but now that they were all lightly armed, the speed of the ship could be increased a few more times, and although the water route would have to take a long detour, they could return to the territory before noon.

Yesterday afternoon, Luo Ming had already sent a messenger back to the territory of Meiquan to report on the military situation.

He had also left a few plans before, and as long as the retainers left behind by Meiquan fine-tuned these plans, they could deal with the current situation, at least until he returned to the territory to preside over affairs.

If nothing else, how could the Belan cavalry completely relieve their fatigue after only one night's rest? Even if they were back in full strength, would they dare to attack with disjointed infantry and cavalry, and use pure cavalry against spear formations and artillery? Then Luo Ming would not have liked them to come.

And Belan's infantry was also extremely tired after the night attack, even if they forced their march and became the end of the crossbow, it was impossible to return to Meiquan faster than Luo Ming.