Whether the prestige of the Candela Empire is in crisis, General McHale doesn't have time to think about it so much, he only knows that now he is really in a crisis of Yan zhòng.

The sound of countless arrows breaking through the air overhead was heard, and the dense density almost gave people the illusion that it was raining heavily now.

But this "rainstorm" came with a powerful threat of death.

For the first time, General McHale felt a sense of panic in his heart as he watched a "rainstorm" fall, and the surrounding soldiers fell like harvested straw.

What the hell is going on!

How could these guys from the Ruerson Kingdom have such a powerful killing power?

"Be careful, sir!"

One of the guards beside him suddenly shouted, rushed in front of him, raised the huge shield in his hand, and blocked the two of them.

"Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding-"

The crisp sound of a series of arrows smashing against the giant shield sounded one after another, and the guard involuntarily took a few steps back with the giant shield, and only barely stopped until he almost collided with General Melhair.

"Are you alright, my lord?" the guard asked, turning back to General McHale.

"It's fine. General McHale shook his head, but his gaze stopped on the giant shield in the guard's hand, and he couldn't help but shrink his eyes.

This special giant shield was made by the most famous blacksmith in the imperial capital city of Wimbledon, the whole body was made of iron, and the thinnest part was the thickness of a palm, but now it was smashed into countless deep pockets on the surface by the crossbow arrows that had just fallen, and it seemed that it could only be directly penetrated.

It can be seen that these crossbow arrows are not only extremely powerful. The lethality is even more staggering.

Even this elaborate giant shield could barely resist it. No wonder the armor of his soldiers looked like papier-mâché in front of him. There is no protection at all.

Turning his head to look at the countless soldiers on the battlefield who had fallen to the ground, General McHale hesitated a little.

If it continues, there is little hope of winning this battle.

But if you retreat like this, isn't that a slap in the face?

After taking over the command of the army from General Cook, General McHale only took a week's rest before launching another offensive against the Kingdom of Ruerson in a few days.

This time, he directly sent 30,000 of the 50,000 Imperial Third Legion he had brought with him, intending to crush the army of the Kingdom of Ruersun in one fell swoop on the frontal battlefield. With this, you can stand up.

But he never imagined that the lethality of the army of the Ruerson Kingdom would be so terrifying, as soon as the two armies came into contact, there was an extremely dense rain of arrows like a torrential rain, so that the two sides just looked at each other, and the soldiers of the Candela Empire directly lost at least one percent.

What shocked and even frightened General McHale was that the crossbow arrows on the part of the Ruerson Kingdom seemed to be endless, and the attack never stopped from the beginning.

Under such a terrifying rain of arrows, the soldiers of the Candela Empire could not make an inch of progress at all, and could only be beaten passively. Casualty rates have skyrocketed.

Seeing that the situation was not good, General McHale wanted to send two light cavalry to bypass by. Launched an attack on the enemy from the flank, but he didn't expect that as soon as the two light cavalry he sent out were dispatched, the Ruerson Kingdom immediately responded.

The two light horses sent by the Ruerson Kingdom to intercept them were two small detachments of dozens of strange-looking magic locomotives, and their mobility was far beyond that of the two light horses under General McHale, who were known for their speed and agility, and no matter how they detoured, they could easily stop them.

And in addition to being armed with that terrifying crossbow arrow, they were also equipped with a powerful attack weapon that General McHale had never seen or even heard of.

The two light horsemen were easily routed without even touching each other's edges, and in the end they escaped with less than a hundred men, thus ending General McHale's plan for a surprise attack.

So now the shape on this battlefield has become that the Candela Empire is simply beaten and has no power to fight back.

Just as General McHale hesitated, he suddenly found dozens of fiery red points of light emerging from the formation of the army of the Ruerson Kingdom on the opposite side, and after a while, these dozens of points of light turned into dozens of fireballs, flying towards this side at high speed.

"Be careful, sir!"

The guards around him had seen the horror of these fireballs with their own eyes just now, and without saying a word, they directly threw General McHale to the ground, and several huge shields blocked him, covering him tightly.

"Boom, boom, boom—"

Countless incomparably violent explosions rang out, and General McHale, who was pressed at the bottom, only felt that the entire ground was shaking violently, and the incomparably terrifying explosion sound transmitted from it shocked his ears for a while.

After the surroundings finally calmed down temporarily, General McHale pushed away the guards who were pressing on him, stood up and looked at it, and suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

He was able to become the general of the Candela Imperial Army, of course, he was experienced in a hundred battles, and he had never seen any kind of tragic scene.

But the scene in front of him now still made him feel chills all over his body.

Looking around, apart from him, there were hardly many people in the field of vision who could stand.

On the grassland floor, which was originally relatively flat, dozens of deep pits with a diameter of more than ten meters have been blown out at this time.

The middle of the pit is as smooth as a mirror, but the area around the pit is densely packed with mutilated corpses that cannot be seen at all, and the scene looks as miserable as it is.

Looking blankly at this situation, General McHale only felt that his ambition was being drained little by little.

"Big ...... My lord...... I...... We're still ...... Let's retreat......"

A painful sound sounded at his feet, and General McHale looked down and was shocked to find that almost all of the guards who had stood in his way just now were blown away by the giant shield in Liantong's hand by the violent explosion just now, leaving only the two guards who were also at the bottom.

One of the guards lay motionless on his stomach, apparently dead, and the other was covered in blood. You can only hold your head up. Barely made a faint sound.

After saying this sentence with great difficulty. The guard's head drooped and was silent.

General McHale's hands trembled slightly, turned his head to look at the army of the Ruerson Kingdom in the distance, and found that sometimes dozens of fiery red lights lit up, and suddenly a deep chill passed through his heart, his body shook, and then he took a deep breath and squeezed out two words from between his teeth with difficulty.

"Retreat ......"

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If it is said that the first offensive launched by the Candela Empire against the kingdom of Ruersun suffered a severe defeat. While surprising the other countries on the continent of Sainz, they were also able to give things such as "the Candela Empire is too careless", "The Ruerson Kingdom must have been carefully prepared", "The Candela Empire is only sending local legions...... If these reasons are to be explained, then the second offensive will be defeated again, and the entire continent will be instantly silent.

This time, the offensive launched by the Candela Empire was personally commanded by General Melhair, the general of the Candela Imperial Army, and led by the Third Army of the Candela Empire's regular army, although it was also 50,000 people, but its combat effectiveness was completely different from the previous 50,000 local legions.

Under such conditions, the second offensive of the Candela Empire against the Ruerson Kingdom was defeated again, which really made everyone feel very incredible.

And what's even more incredible is that. This time, the Kingdom of Luxon not only repelled the invasion of the Candela Empire, but even launched a counterattack. Within a week, they pursued the lower three legions of the Candela Empire led by General McHale, and they fought until they broke and fled to 300 kilometers into the territory of the Candela Empire before they barely escaped.

According to the information revealed, in addition to General McHale, there were only less than 10,000 Candela Imperial soldiers left.

In other words, this time the Candela Empire lost more than 40,000 regular troops in the offensive launched against the Ruerson Kingdom!

For more than a thousand years since the founding of the Candela Empire, apart from the war with the Maro Empire, the Candela Empire has never suffered such an astonishing loss!

And if you add up the losses of the two times, this time the Candela Empire's invasion of the Ruerson Kingdom not only failed completely, but also lost more than 80,000 manpower, and the rest of the various material losses are countless, which can be described as a great defeat and loss.

All the countries on the continent of Sainz were shocked and incredulous by this, and at the same time, the same question arose.

What did the Ruerson Kingdom rely on to allow the Candela Empire to suffer such a crushing defeat?

Information about the two wars between the two countries began to spread throughout the continent.

After studying this information, all the countries found a problem, the reason why the Ruerson Kingdom was able to defeat the Candela Empire so easily was not because they had a strong tactical ability, nor because the Candela Empire was too light on the enemy, but the fundamental reason was only one point, that is, the combat effectiveness of the army of the Ruerson Kingdom was too terrifying.

In the two offensives, the number of battles between the two sides combined was barely more than ten, and this also included the pursuit of the Ruerson Kingdom later.

In fact, the two armies really faced each other in a total of only five battles.

And in just five battles, the Candela Empire suffered incomparably staggering losses, so much so that it later completely lost its ability to fight.

This shows that on the frontal battlefield, the army of the Ruerson Kingdom is far superior to the army of the Candela Empire.

But...... Why was the army of the Kingdom of Ruersun even better than the regular army of the Candela Empire, or was it far superior?

You must know that the Candela Empire and the Maro Empire are both the two major empires of the Sainz Continent, and with their strong national strength, the combat effectiveness of the army to which they belong has always been the top in the entire continent.

After all kinds of messy intelligence analysis, in the end, all the intelligence pointed to one point.

The key to this is the military magic machinery that the army of the Kingdom of Ruerson is equipped. (To be continued......)