Over time, the flanking battlefield has gradually divided the winners and losers.

The Imperial Army that originally surrounded the enemy is now very small, but the number of encircled Alliance forces is still the same, although the frigate force has suffered considerable losses, but the patrol ship force is relatively well preserved.

In this way, it will not be long before the flank battle will end, and once the battle on this side is over, the relatively well-preserved patrol ship force will quickly support the frontal battlefield.

On the side of the frontal battlefield, the situation of the Imperial Army, which should have been overwhelming, is not optimistic, so long time has passed, the battles on the flank battlefield are almost over, and they still have not ended their battles.

At this moment, the battleship force led by Wilton was still surrounded by regiments, and in the face of the enemy's non-stop ferocious attacks, the formation of the troops had already become chaotic, but even so, even if the battlefield was chaotic, there were still a considerable number of battleships surviving, which was about two or three hundred.

The large force led by Wilton originally had a full seven hundred battleships, and they had lost two-thirds of them in the continuous firefights, and there was no doubt that they had suffered heavy losses, but don't underestimate the remaining two or three hundred battleships, these are battleships after all, even if there are only two or three hundred left, they still have quite strong combat effectiveness, so the Imperial Army has never been able to gnaw this last bone.

Of course, another reason why the Imperial Army has never been able to eat the Alliance Army in one bite is the Alliance Army's Air Demon Force.

The timely reinforcement of the air demon troops not only greatly relieved Wilton's pressure, but also greatly slowed down the offensive of the Imperial Army, making the battle that should have been quickly divided between winners and losers dragged on and on, until the flank battlefield was almost over, and it was still difficult to solve the battle here.

Obviously, the situation on the battlefield did not develop according to everyone's imagination, and the air demon force of the alliance army became the biggest variable in this war, and the appearance of this army completely changed the entire battle situation.

And in this case, the Imperial Army had to make adjustments again, because even if the upper and lower levels of the Imperial Army did not want to admit it, they had to admit that now they had shown their defeat......

The flank battle was about to end, and once the victory was decided, the Allied air cruiser forces would support the frontal battlefield, and the two Imperial forces would be surrounded and completely wiped out.

That's what happens next.

But this kind of result was definitely not what the Imperial Army wanted to see, so in order to avoid the worst, the commander of the Imperial Army had to issue a new order.

Fall back......

At this stage of the battle, there was no point in continuing to fight, the defeat of the Imperial Army was decided, and this defeat was revealed in the final stage of the whole battle, which could not be reversed at all, and the commander of the Imperial Army had neither the strength nor the time to make adjustments, so he decisively gave the order to retreat.

With the order given, the Imperial Army that was besieging immediately reacted, and the heavy armoured troops charging at the forefront did not react much, but the other fleets around turned their bows at this time and quickly withdrew from the battlefield, and then the heavy armoured forces did the same.

This is really in response to the old saying, the defeat is like a mountain!

With the defeat assured, the Imperial fleet also retreated, and they all withdrew from the battlefield in a swarm, which not only made people look shocked, but also felt embarrassed.

As soon as he saw this movement of the Imperial Army, Wilton immediately reacted, and immediately issued an order: "Order the whole army not to pursue, and seize the time to adjust the formation." ”

Seeing that the enemy was clearly retreating, and still retreating, Wilton, as the commander-in-chief, did not order the pursuit, but let the fleet huddle together for defense.

This order may be incomprehensible to many people, because this is obviously a good time to pursue the victory, how can it be let go so easily?

People who think this way must be very accustomed to talking on paper, and they don't know what the real battlefield is like.

Now that the Imperial Army has retreated, and it is a rout, it seems like a good opportunity to take advantage of the victory and pursue it, but if you think about it, is this really the case?

It's retreating, but it's the Imperial Army!

Throughout the battle, no matter what the final victory or defeat was, the performance of the Imperial Army was impeccable, from the command of the Supreme Commander to an ordinary soldier, the performance of any one person did not insult the name of the Imperial Army, how could there be such an unbearable scene at this last moment?

Now the battle on the flank battlefield is not really over, and the imperial army still has a lot of time to withdraw from the battlefield smoothly, after all, they still have an advantage on the frontal battlefield, and no one can stop them if they want to withdraw, so why did they disperse in a hurry?

So this kind of chaotic situation is obviously just an illusion!

If Wilton had pursued at this time, he would certainly not have been able to get good fruit to eat, and the battleship force under his command had long since run out of power, and had already lost the ability to continue fighting with the enemy, so if the enemy was killed in the course of the pursuit, he might be completely wiped out! And once this happened, the outcome of the whole battle would be unknown.

Therefore, after the victory was assured, Wilton, as a famous general, could not take such a risk, and he decisively ordered the fleet not to pursue, and let go of the scattered Imperial army.

As a result, not long after this, seeing that Wilton did not lead the troops in pursuit, the Imperial Army, which had withdrawn from the battlefield in a panic, quickly adjusted its formation and began to move away in an orderly echelon.

Sure enough, as Wilton expected, the retreat shown by the other party at the beginning was just a trick to lure him to take the initiative, but unfortunately Wilton was not fooled.

I have to say that the commander-in-chief of both sides really fought from the beginning to the end of this battle, even if it was the last moment when the victory and defeat were divided, the two did not give up the last chance to turn defeat into victory, and they were still fighting in secret.

But judging by the final result, Wilton clearly had the last laugh.

At the same time, as the Imperial army retreated from the frontal battlefield, the Imperial army on the flank battlefield also began to retreat, but they did not have such good luck, and the alliance army, which had an extremely obvious advantage, did not give the opponent a chance to join up with the large army at all, and quickly annihilated all the enemies under the pursuit of victory.

However, just when the patrol ship force, which still had the strength to fight, aimed at the heavy armored ships that had withdrawn from the frontal battlefield, they found that the four sky cities sent by the Imperial Army had already flown into the battlefield.