XX

The regrouped cavalry infiltrated the eastern half of the fortress, and the Directory's blue army was infiltrated, drowned, and cut by the green-uniformed Fathes. The two sides were mixed together, the artillery was no longer functional, and the several gun emplacements near the west were empty.

"Captain, bring this to Eugen. This thing is good for his retreat. You take your Imperial envoy to join Eugen, and the last two ships are still in the harbor. ”

Radetz Govar, who was watching all this from the battery by the harbor, shook his head, no hobby, no madness, just graciously handed the shimmer telescope that had accompanied him for many years to Edith, and calmly began to assign the retreat plan.

Edith was startled, took the telescope stiffly, and dissuaded: "Your Excellency, I think you should retreat from the waterway with us." If you don't go, who's in charge of the big picture in Kengrad?!"

"I'm a little tired. The former famous general, who has gone through dozens of battles and is almost undefeated, looked calm, "Maybe I shouldn't have ...... Forget it, there's no need to talk about the scene. Hurry up, I guess Leonard's river fleet will come over soon to join in the fun, and if it drags on, it won't even be able to go by water. ”

Looking at the marshal's expression ready to accept any outcome, Edith didn't know how to persuade for a while. Fortunately, the viscount on the side couldn't hold back for a while and opened his mouth to answer.

"I don't go by water. In any case, I am also an envoy of the Empire, and I have the right to choose my own retreat route, right? ”

"But ......," Govar said and stopped.

"I know what Robert has, and I know what I have, but I don't know your captain and the other side's captain. Besides, you need someone to lure away the enemy and unite the defeated for you, right?" as for what you feared...... Rest assured. In the name of my honor, I will not tarnish your reputation. ”

As he spoke, the viscount drew the sword at his waist, and the golden light spread out from the spine of the sword, reflecting his resolute expression. It was the expression of a true paladin. The implicit meaning of his words was understood by everyone.

Goval's breath stagnated. "Then I won't ask you why. Pick and choose. ”

Hearing the marshal's words, perhaps infected by the knights, Edith immediately stood up.

"Then let me go with him, Your Excellency. I know the road here, and with me, I can at least save more of our people. ”

"All right, Captain. You take all those who are willing to go overland, and the others will still get on board. Priority is given to the wounded. ”

After giving the final orders, the Commander-in-Chief of the Directory watched the young men leave. Now he seemed a lot more relaxed, his brows that had been tightening were loosened, and he found an empty shell box on the edge of the Lingang Fort and sat down, looking at the direction of the port with his naked eyes. The green uniforms of the Phaetes were still a little ill-visible from this distance, but the sound of gunfire could already be heard.

"If you don't admit defeat by now, you will be ridiculed by the juniors like Betsy and López. Govar watched as the double green signal representing "retreat" streaked across the sky repeatedly, "But I have one more thing to teach them. ”

Naimon rode a horse that had lost its owner and followed Robert and Sain along with them. He tried to keep his distance from the others, because the blue uniform that represented the "traitor" was so conspicuous in the sea of green. The other soldiers who had surrendered were left in the square, while he "volunteered" to follow the gendarmerie captain. Presumably out of precaution, Robert agreed to the proposal.

In fact, he just couldn't face his comrades who had cheered and celebrated together a few hours earlier.

The cold wind outside the body did not abate slightly, but it did not feel as biting as it had just now. Robert dispensed him a precious potion of warmth like a comrade-in-arms, saving him from the brink of freezing.

"Lay down your weapons!

The lieutenant colonel charged at the front of all the guerrilla cavalry, holding the humble sword in his right hand and using protective magic in his left hand to fend off the enemy's fire. All bayonets and spears simply break in two knots when they are pointed at this inconspicuous sword.

"I'm the captain of the gendarmerie, Sean Constance! Govar has surrendered, and Eugen has withdrawn! You have no hope, surrender!"

The real traitor follows Robert. The middle-aged officer didn't know magic, but the expression on his face was not confused, and he didn't hesitate to attack his colleagues who were cheering together just now. The demoralized defenders were disarmed by Robert, or captured or rebelled by the gendarmerie captain who followed behind.

Naimon has been trying to find Robert's shortcomings, and the more he searches, the more desperate he feels. He did not mistreat his prisoners, nor did he beat or scold his subordinates, charging at the front and retreating last. Even the enemy, he always does not kill them directly, but shoots down their weapons first - it is surprisingly pedantic. The boy could not imagine how such a man could have survived his military career, but he knew that the man must be carrying out some creed with his strength.

After the double green signal was heard, the remnants of the Directory began to retreat in an orderly manner, and the pressure on the flanks dropped sharply. Finally, on the spearhead of the cavalry assault, there was no longer a moving blue uniform. Faced with an intricate road system, the team didn't know where to go.

"Go to the place where the signal was given to retreat, there is only one mage in Govar who can use ray magic to send messages. Other units split up in companies. Sein suggested.

Listening to this speech without even a hint of emotion, Naimon slowed down his mount in disgust.

"He's become a 'mage who can use ray magic' so quickly, and he's a complete traitor...... What was I thinking? Am I just a traitor?"

But the memories of the past twenty days are still uncontrollably floating in my mind. Busy paperwork, noisy officers' cafeterias, celebratory firebird contests, and the occasional cold-box lunch brought by a beautiful boss. In this fortress, people recognized his abilities and identity as an officer. Now he's just a betrayer, and even when he returns to Lenny's house, he's just an ordinary person.

A military is a profession that kills people for a living. His dream is to live an ordinary life. But now, the teenager finds himself gradually ......

Two more signals to retreat were issued, this time closer. The cavalry rushed out of the junction and found in front of them the middle of the enemy's main force! More than 1,000 soldiers who had withdrawn from the various blocking points were crowded on the road in a disorderly manner, retreating towards the north.

"It's the Phaetes!

Naimon could hear that it was Edith's voice, which had long since lost its former calmness and calmness. He looked ahead and saw a great sword that shimmered with golden light, standing in front of the dim iron sword.

"Although its special effects should have no effect on the owner of 'Justice' at all...... But I still want to give it a try. Leave the task to me. ”

With a weapon called "Honor", Vlasol Rasta pointed at the invincible edge of his opponent's "Justice": "Activation, Magic Suppression, Glory Crown!"

"Oops!"

Soleton felt extremely uneasy, and subconsciously shook his horse's head. In a panic, he didn't bother to look at the road, and plunged into the familiar alley, escaping from the surveillance of the Fates guards and fleeing towards the uninhabited south side.

Behind him, the golden halo of honor collided with the bleak justice, bursting into an arc of death as dazzling as a crescent moon. The "Crown of Glory" turned into countless arrows of light, but they were all easily bounced away by the iron bar.

Half an hour had passed since the capture of the artillery positions, and neither the retreating ships nor the troops of both sides had yet arrived. Eugen gradually began to get anxious.

"Major Cusson, is there any detection magic?"

"Sorry, there are only two left, not enough for long-term observations. The second staff officer was stunned for a moment, and replied a little ashamedly.

"Use it. "Yes. ”

Cusson closed his eyes, and the world turned black and red. He chanted the incantation, his right arm pointing diagonally above the fortress, and the colorless detection line shot out along his index finger, flashing above the fortress. The smoke of fire caused by shelling and gunfights is not normally visible, but it can be detected by detecting magicians. As a member of the Special Operations Division, Peter was adept at discerning distances and altitudes based on small temperature differences. This effect only lasts for a split second, so it requires a lot of observation.

"Now the combat line is between the east gate and the north gate, and the intensity of the battle is not high. Artillery support was minimal and limited to five batteries on the east and north sides. Our army is ...... Fall back. ”

"What about the ship?" asked Eugen.

"There's one moored in the harbor. There was no battle at the dock. ”

Peter opened his eyes, ending the magic effect. Hearing these results, Eugen thought for a moment and turned sharply.

"Gather all the enemy's horses! Soldiers who will fight on their horses come out! Artillery units take over the artillery, and face the north gate!"

Major Coussen paused for a moment. "You want to go in? According to the current state of the war, everyone inside should be able to evacuate, and the ship should arrive soon. Now that the battle has been lost, there is no need for us to risk more people......"

"No, it's dangerous now. If we don't start again, there will be big problems politically. Eugen grabbed a horse left behind by the Phaetes, stepped on, and waved his arms, "Unwounded soldiers!

At this moment, the drawbridge at the north gate slowly opened, and the vanguard of the evacuated troops had arrived. Seeing the heavily armed cavalry, the soldiers who were supporting each other were startled at first, but finally relaxed and stopped when they saw the blue uniforms.

"Don't stop here! Quickly pass in squads, and then form a formation on the artillery position!"

The defeated defenders poured along several different roads to the north gate, and the lieutenant colonel's cavalry lined up and rushed into the fort against the retreating crowd. He ordered the cavalry to divide into several groups and rush to the rear of the enemy, and he himself chose the road with the largest number of defeats, and rushed to the enemy's advance with more than twenty elites. Fortunately, although the team was large, it was not very long, and he soon saw the end.

At the end of the procession, there was a large empty field with no people, only corpses and bloodstains. What separates the Rurogas from the Pharises is the flying golden light.

"...... that?"

Eugen saw that the radiant sword was on the defensive, while the dull sword was on the offensive. Rasta can only do his best to maintain his "honor" and resist Robert's "justice".

No, not maintenance.

Although Eugen was a new generation of officers with a magical education, he also received a considerable level of training in swordsmanship. He could see that it was the sword itself that was now on the defensive, not relying on the swordsmanship of the Liberation Knight. A holy sword capable of automatic combat, no less capable than any first-class swordsman.

"So that's the last special effect of 'Honor'. 'Honor is something outside of the body,' did the man who made this sword mean to say that?"

"Eugen. Now that you've arrived, don't stay and take over the back line. Edith's calm voice sounded, she was using ultra-long-range shooting to stop the enemy who wanted to approach from both sides, "The broken reinforcements have arrived, Your Excellency the Viscount, withdraw!"

At the moment of hearing this, Frasol Rasta's sword paused. That moment decided the outcome of this battle.

Robert's mustache cocked slightly, and he smiled pitifully. A dull white light appeared on the body of the sword in his hand, which was as ordinary as an iron bar, piercing the only flaw.

Honor is something outside of the body, praised and bestowed by others.

And justice lurks in people's hearts, forgotten and trampled on.

Justice is so rare that it seems inconspicuous --

-- But once it does appear, it's most powerful.

The golden divine sword flew diagonally and slammed into the wall, adding a few new chips before falling. Every blade that had been stabbed with the iron bar was chipped, making it look like a ridiculous logging saw, no longer capable of piercing concrete. The famous sword of the Knights of Liberation fell to the ground in this way, and no one picked it up.

"Surrender, Imperial Secret Envoy?" Robert asked faintly.

"I surrender. The bastard son of the Commander-in-Chief of the Holy Imperial Army, the second best secret agent of the Royal Security Department in the South at the moment, glanced at the inconspicuous iron bar and replied with a sigh.

All this changed so quickly that Eugen's soldiers didn't have time to jump off their horses. As a true staff officer, the Lieutenant Colonel of the Overseer immediately made a judgment, turned his horse, leaned over and picked up Edith, and placed her behind his horse.

"What are you going to do? Don't you save Rasta?!" Edith's cold shell was finally completely peeled off, "and that would be a big problem......

"I don't have time to take care of politics anymore! Get on your horse and retreat!"

Then there is the routine pursuit, breaking, harassing shooting, and finishing. The finishing touches were done by Rasta's captured artillerymen: seeing that the artillery position had been lost, Robert waved his hand to stop the pursuit, avoiding the possibility of more sacrifices.

Thus, the Battle of Fortiburg ended on the drawbridge at the North Gate.

The Directory army had a total of 10,500 men, of whom 603 were killed, 980 wounded, 1,656 captured, and 7,261 remaining.

The total strength of the Phaethus army was 5,300 men, of whom 440 were killed, 891 were wounded, 2,070 were captured, and 1,899 remained.

The Southwestern Army invested a total of 3,200 troops, with zero dead and wounded and zero captured.

In terms of the ratio of casualties, the defenders with superior forces won a big victory. Twenty-five percent of the casualty ratio from Robert Ayr is enough to make any commander proud.

However, as far as politics is concerned...... That's another story.

"I said, how can you make a mistake like this?" After listening to the final situation, Peter Cussen sat down weakly against the barrel of a cannon, "What are we going to do next?"

"Anyway, block the news first and retreat north. Now we still have half a division on hand, and we can restore supplies as long as we retreat to friendly territory. Alternatively, we can take advantage of our strength advantage and try another attack. ”

Hearing Edith's suggestion, Eugen also sat down and pulled into his pocket. The pockets are empty.

"It's hard to decide...... Peter, do you still have cigars in the supplies?"

"No, sir. ”

"Then retreat. Be careful to keep it secret, or our men will run out before they see our allies. ”

As a result, the remaining Directory forces abandoned their attempt to save their commander due to cigar supply problems. The artillery fire finally fell silent, and the soldiers dragged their heavy steps back on the journey.

There was only an inconspicuous secret communication magic that flew upstream against the waters of the Metributsy River.

"The battle is over. Govar and Rasta were captured. It is a devastating foreign affair for my country. The new head of the Southern Bureau was asked to preside over the rescue plan. ”

The crypto note reads "R.S.A(Southern), Agent Brume Eagle". The Royal Department of Security is currently the highest-ranking surviving secret agent in the South.

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