Chapter 233: Retreating
Military orders issued!
"Soldiers, retreat! retreat!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Valls immediately commanded his soldiers to slowly tighten their attacking formations and began to slowly retreat.
The barbarian soldiers didn't expect the demons behind them to suddenly give up killing them, and they even couldn't believe it for a while.
But between life and death, the barbarian soldiers reacted very quickly, and no matter what the soldiers of the Zaga Legion thought, all they could do now was keep fleeing.
Compared with Vals's crispness, Richard's heart was unusually irritable.
In this battle, Richard's contribution was very great, and in the entire battle, the pressure of the seventh layer was borne by Richard.
In particular, Richard completed the task given to him by Saga perfectly, even better than Saga expected.
However, Richard's own plan was not completed, and in the end, the achievement of defeating the Blago's barbarian legion was obtained by Vals on the side.
Although Vals also has a part of Richard's credit, Richarder still feels very uncomfortable.
It's just that on the battlefield, the military order is the highest, and Richards is a rule-abiding person, so it is naturally impossible for him to disobey Sachar's orders to do his own thing.
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"Sword and shield soldiers, circular battle formation, retreat!"
Richarder cursed, and then directed the soldiers to begin withdrawing.
More than 4,000 sword and shield soldiers began to retreat slowly under the command of Richard and Vals.
But withdrawing troops in a state of war was not a simple matter, and the soldiers on both sides were intertwined, all in small squads one by one.
If it was when the Zaga army was still attacking in a neat formation before, it would be better to say, as long as it was directly retreating according to the formation.
But the most important thing now is that the legionnaires are chasing the barbarian soldiers, and in this case, of course, it can't be the kind of slow, large-scale legion movement.
The soldiers, who were largely scattered among the barbarian armies, were now suddenly withdrawn, and they could only form small formations with their comrades, and then gradually merge and grow stronger, and finally reorganized into neat ranks.
That's why Sachar didn't dare to send out the soldiers of the auxiliary legion, who were so poorly disciplined that they could not do this level of sudden withdrawal on the battlefield.
And when the army was withdrawn, it was very likely that the barbarian soldiers reacted that the soldiers of the Zaga Legion did not pursue them, but withdrew.
It is likely that Wells will react to the arrival of his own reinforcements, and then reorganize his soldiers to fight back, and then entangle the Zaga legion.
Therefore, the retreat of the Zachar army must be very fast, and there must be a corps to cover the retreat.
This task naturally fell to the First Legion of the Fallen Spirits, who possessed powerful attack capabilities and were able to carry out all-round coverage attacks on an area.
Moreover, their hands are long enough, as long as they have enough protection, any enemy can only be beaten passively, and there is almost no power to fight back.
Richards led 3,000 sword and shield soldiers in a bloody battle before the battle, and he handed over his descendants to his lieutenant to command.
Richard's lieutenant had been following him for many years, and the two of them fought in the north and south, making great contributions to the Elven Kingdom and the Fallen Duchy.
In the years of fighting, two people have cultivated an indescribable tacit understanding, and usually one look can know what the other person wants to do.
Now as soon as Richards said to withdraw the troops, the adjutant immediately understood what he was going to do.
"Fallen soldiers!"
"Soldiers of the Duchy!"
"Raise your longbows, fire arrows in multiple rounds, and cover the area to attack!"
The lieutenant skillfully commanded the soldiers of the Fallen Legion to carry out a large-scale attack on the retreating area.
Arrows from the sky were unleashed from the position of the First Legion of the Fallen Spirits.
Five thousand legionnaires fired arrows in unison, and they used multiple rounds of arrows, each of which was a full three arrows, and each round of a salvo was fired by tens of thousands of arrows.
Such a dense arrow attack is usually only available to legions armed with repeaters.
The most classic is the newly formed 34th Legion of the Emerald Empire, equipped with Michel's repeater, which can choose between one arrow and five arrows for each attack.
"The Fallen Spirit Sect is really worthy of being a branch of the Elven Clan, and the bow and arrow talent inherited from the Elven Clan is really powerful, and it can actually create such a curtain of arrow rain. Sachar said in admiration.
The gift of the Source of the World is truly the most precious gift, and the elven talent for bows and arrows is the highest in the world of Labral.
Among the legions of the elven kingdom, there are not only top-level archery legions, but also slightly second-level archery legions, and the elven kingdom can pull out dozens of them!
Just like the Emerald Empire's Sword and Shield Legion, any Jade citizen can become a qualified Sword and Shield Soldier if he enlists in the army, and the same is true for the Elven Kingdom, where their people can become qualified archers.
The Fallen Spirits have inherited the elven talent for bows and arrows, and their archery legions are also very powerful.
Although the First Legion of the Fallen Spirits was limited to the restrictions of the Principality of the Fallen Spirits and failed to advance, its strength has almost reached a peak, and the soldiers in the Legion are very strong in archery.
Almost all of the soldiers were able to successfully unleash a three-shot burst.
The arrows fell heavily, and it was as if it were really raining heavily in the sky, and the arrows fell densely from the sky like raindrops.
The arrows slashed through a graceful arc and shot into the void left by the retreat of the soldiers of the subject country.
There are still some barbarian soldiers here who have not had time to escape, and the range of the arrow rain is very large, and many barbarian soldiers die directly under the attack of the arrow rain.
The battlefield was littered with arrows, and countless barbarian soldiers were nailed to the ground by the arrows, and blood flowed throughout the range of the arrows.
In the great world of Labral, the archery legion with powerful attack ability will always be the natural enemy of the legion without strong defense!
Especially in the southern realm of this Emerald Empire, the strength of the bow and arrow type legion has been deeply engraved in the minds of all races under the pressure of the elven kingdom for countless years.
Even Zachar, from the central province of the Emerald Empire, had an extremely fast pace of travel due to the plains of the Emerald Empire, and the archers were usually only able to attack a few rounds, and then the cavalry would come in front of the archers.
Faced with the cavalry at hand, in the face of the butcher's knives raised in the air, the archers usually had no power to fight back at this time.
But in the southern border of Jade, this is almost impossible to happen.
In the entire southern border, the infantry is the well-deserved mainstream, and a large river divides the entire Emerald Empire into two worlds.
Among the two river basins, there is a river in the south, which is the dividing line between the southern border of the Emerald Empire and the central provinces.
In the South, there are only two types of terrain at most -
The first is like the other three provinces in the south, which are full of hills and rivers, and the water network is so dense that it can almost be called a water city.
Even if a lot of bridges are built, it is impossible for the hoplites in the central provinces of the empire to fight under such terrain, let alone those cavalry units that need a large battlefield and a large depth.
The emperors of the Emerald Empire were all so proud, but they never said that they would let the Senate Guards and the Emperor's Praetorian Guard go south, because everyone knew that it was to send the most elite soldiers of the Empire to their deaths.
No one can afford this responsibility, and if this kind of thing is really done, it is not that a person can solve it by committing suicide, and the price paid is far greater than this.
In this kind of terrain, of course, the sailors are the most important, and it is not the fleet of naval warfare like the East Sea Fleet of the Empire, but the kind of fleet that can fight in the middle of the great river.
The fleets of naval battles are completely different from those of the great rivers, first of all, they are on different ships.
The Emerald Empire's East China Sea Fleet is very strong, but the domestic fleet is not good, because the big names of the empire don't particularly care about this.
In fact, there is only one main thing for the domestic fleet, and that is to send the Empire's infantry to the enemy's warships, and then engage in white-knuckle combat, and the Empire has always believed that all battles will fall on the real knife in the end.
As a traditional land power, the Emerald Empire likes to defeat its enemies on land, and does not particularly care about the outcome of water battles.
This is also the pattern of previous battles in the South, and all wars will inevitably turn into a large-scale decisive battle between two armies in the end.
In the process, the ships of the fleet became vehicles for carrying soldiers.
The other kind of terrain is the province of Blago.
Although the province of Blago is a southern province, it has a very different topography from the other three provinces, and it does not have as many waterways, or even as many rivers, as the other three.
The province of Blago is very high, much higher than the three surrounding provinces, and is one of the sources of the water flow, or at least one of the upper reaches of the water flow as a whole.
The current here is so fast that even living beings can't pass through it, even boats can't pass through it, because the current is so fast.
The reason for this is that the mountains and rivers of the province of Blago are so steep that countless cliffs appear here, and many of these cliffs are very short distances, ranging from a few meters to tens of meters.
When a river flows down from above, it will naturally become faster and faster when it encounters such terrain here, and then it will form a roaring scene.
Crashing waves and raging waterfalls are the most common scenes in the province of Blago.
With such a complex terrain, even if it is two adjacent mountains, even if the distance is not very far in a straight line, it will take a lot of time to reach.
In this case, it is easy to imagine how powerful the archer legion with high mobility is.
The Elven Kingdom successfully conquered the entire Blago's kingdom by sending five legions that year, making the Blago's kingdom its vassal state.
If it weren't for some accidents later, I'm afraid that the Kingdom of Blago would still be a vassal state of the Elven Kingdom until now.
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The Principality of Fallen Spirits is a feudal state of the Elven Kingdom, which is different from the vassal state, one is an outsider, and the other is his own people.
Moreover, the Fallen Spirit lineage is also a close relative of the Elf Race, many Elves have their own relatives in the Fallen Spirit Principality, and their brothers and sisters are likely to become a fallen spirit in the future.
After all, the Fallen Spirit is a creature that is itself formed by the Elves, and as long as the Elves still exist for a day, the Fallen Spirits will never disappear.
There is no big difference between the appearance of fallen spirits and elves, so even Wells can't tell whether it is an elf or a fallen spirit in front of him.
People will always unconsciously think about things in a bad way, and in the current battle, the First Legion of the Fallen Spirits almost perfectly suppressed the archers of the Blago Barbarian Legion, showing great strength.
This made the Blago barbarians even more convinced in their hearts that the one who was attacking them must be the main battle legion of the Elven Kingdom!
The Blago barbarians have a strong fear of the Elven Kingdom, which is the after-effect of being ruled for too many years.
Facing the main battle legion suspected of being the elven kingdom, the soldiers of the Blago barbarian tribe could no longer care about the retreating subject soldiers, and began to frantically escape from the attack range of the First Legion of the Fallen Spirits.
Richards himself didn't expect that the retreat plan would be so smooth, the covering attack of the First Legion of the Fallen Spirits had not even been fully launched, the truly powerful attacks had not yet been used, and the current First Legion of the Fallen Spirits was not as powerful as the eight layers when they were shooting at the barbarian soldiers before.
I didn't expect that this level of attack would be able to drive the barbarian soldiers away.
Richards himself was really speechless, when he followed the army of the Elven Kingdom to pacify the barbarians in the southwest of the kingdom, he had experienced a hard battle.
Think about the beginning, and then look at the present, it can only be said that the strength of the Blago barbarians is too weak, and among the many barbarians, it is really the weakest column.
Vals still didn't have a trace of expression on his face, but if you looked closely, you could still see a hint of joy in the depths of his eyes.
After all, the withdrawal of troops was done very smoothly, without experiencing any major twists and turns, and the most important thing was to be able to quickly complete the task of Sagar.
On the battlefield, the soldiers of the Zaga Legion went to one side, and the barbarian soldiers fled to the other, and the formations of the two sides gradually became distinct.
A huge void appeared between the two legions, and in between them were countless corpses. ()
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