Chapter 18: Defeat

Today, the Lord of Ziyang City, Marquis Levin, will hold a ceremony for Meng Fan's eldest brother Bogula to promote the knight of the family at the Lord's Mansion, and Meng Fan will get up early in the morning. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Big brother. Meng Fan walked into the house and saw the attendant Golding helping Bogula put on a silver-white armor. "Oh, Claude, you're up. Bogura turned around and smiled.

The tall Bogura looked even more powerful when he put on this set of silver-white armor, "Claude, go and eat breakfast, you will also go to the lord's mansion with me today." Bogura asked his brother to go with him to the ceremony of his promotion to knighthood of the family.

"Oh, okay. Meng Fan nodded, came to the table and sat down, "Claude, fresh bread." Parker came over with a stack of fluffy bread that had just been baked, and now Parker was the chef in the house, not to mention that Parker's baked bread was delicious.

"Jam. Parker served Meng Fan a stack of red strawberry jam, "Parker, you can sit down and eat too." Meng Fan said, Meng Fan's brother Bogula was not there, Parker was not as restrained as usual, and sat with Meng Fan, Parker picked up a loaf of bread and ate it.

"Claude, was it fun to go to the lord's celebration dinner that night, you haven't told me about it since you came back. Parker asked, chewing on his bread.

"There's nothing to say, it's just a dinner. Meng Fan tore the bread in his hand in half, dipped half of it in jam and took a hard bite and replied.

"Have you danced with any noble lady..." Parker grinned and elbowed Meng Fan, "No..." Meng Fan shook his head. "What's the matter, I heard Golding say that Commander Bogura danced with many women that night, and when he came back, his clothes were soaked with sweat, and Golding washed Commander Bogura's clothes for most of the day. Parker stared at Meng Fan strangely.

Reaching out and dipping the bread into the jam again, Meng Fan did not answer. "Knock, knock" Suddenly, the bell in Ziyang City rang, and the big bell hanging in the center of the city would only be ringed in case of emergency.

"What's going on?" Parker stood up from his chair, and Meng Fan looked up. Soon, Meng Fan and Parker knew what was going on.

Golding, the attendant, was sent by Meng Fan's eldest brother, Bogula, to inquire about the situation, and soon after, Golding brought back shocking news.

A few days ago, a total of 60,000 territorial troops in the two cities of Tieliu City and Yushan City of the Gilgidian Kingdom, plus 10,000 territorial troops of Ziyang City, a total of 70,000 troops, marched towards the Heavenly Dome Mountain Range, and this Gilgidian army was going to the Heavenly Dome Mountain Range to block the Bretan army that was trying to cross the Heavenly Dome Mountain Range and advance to the defense line of Fanxin Lake in the south.

In the Celestial Dome, the Gilgidian army intercepted the Bretan army, and the two armies fought a fierce battle in the Cardinal Forest in the Celestial Dome, but the battle ended in a crushing defeat for the Gilgidian army, and the 30,000 territorial troops of Ironstream City, including the commander Emmons Gerry, were wiped out.

Soon after, Meng Fan's eldest brother Bogula rushed to the lord's mansion, Bogula did not come to participate in the ceremony of promoting the family knight, due to the rout of the Gilgidian army in the Cardinal Forest, the lord of Ziyang City, Marquis Lewin, decided to postpone the promotion ceremony of Bogula.

When Bogula came to the council hall of the Lord's Palace, he saw that there were already many people in the council hall, the lord of Ziyang City, Marquis Lewin, sat above the council hall, and several commanders of the Ziyang City Territory Army, such as Kapua and Torre, stood in the council hall, and everyone's eyes were focused on the two people, Count Maramo, the commander of the Yushan City Territory Army, who had just returned from the rout in the Sky Dome Mountain Range, and Dorne Nolan, the city defense officer of Ziyang City.

In addition to the 30,000 Ironstream City Territory Army, there were also 30,000 Territory troops in Jade Mountain City and 10,000 Territory troops in Ziyang City, the commander of the Territory Army of Jade Mountain City was Count Marama, and the commander of the Territory Army of Ziyang City was Dorne Nolan, the nephew of the Marquis of Lewin.

The reason why Bogula, who was the commander of the seventh battalion of the territorial army of Ziyang City, did not follow Dorne Nolan to the Sky Dome Mountain Range to block the Brettan army was because in the battle to defend Ziyang City not long ago, the seventh battalion under Bogula suffered great losses, so Marquis Lewin did not send Bogula's seventh battalion.

"Count Maramo, you explain the battle in the Cardinal Forest in detail, why our army was routed by the Bretan army, and why was the army of Ironstream City wiped out?"

"Lord Marquis, our army discovered that Brettan army in the Cardinal Forest of the Sky Dome Mountains three days ago..."

"At that time, this Bretan army was about to march through the Cardinal Forest to the south of the Kingdom of Gilgias, and Lord Dorn and I both suggested that we line up outside the Cardinal Forest to meet this Bretan army, but Lord Emmons insisted on leading his army to assault this Bretan army in the Cardinal Forest..." Maramo said, glancing at Dorne Nolan, the city defense officer of Purple Sun City, who was standing beside him.

"Is that so?Dorne?" said Marquis Lewin, who was sitting above the council chamber, looking at his nephew, "Yes, my lordship, Count Maramo and I have suggested that we take up our positions outside the Cardinal Forest, but Lord Emmons said that the Bretan army was exhausted from the long journey, and that if we launched a surprise attack in the Cardinal Forest, we would be able to crush this enemy army in one fell swoop, and the Count of Maramos and I felt that Lord Emmons had a point, so we agreed. Dorne nodded a little awkwardly.

"And then, why did you still suffer?" Lewin stared at Malamo and Dorne, "This... The battle began quickly, at first the battle went well, the Bretan army was caught off guard by our surprise attack, the enemy turned around and retreated to the north of the Cardinal Forest, Lord Emmons led the army of Ironstream City in hot pursuit, and Lord Dorne and I followed with the army..."

"When we were about to chase out of the Cardinal Forest, a fire suddenly broke out in the Cardinal Forest, the fire burned very strongly, this sudden fire cut off Lord Emmons's troops from our troops, Emmons did not stop to help us put out the fire, but continued to chase the enemy army, Lord Dorne and I spent dozens of minutes extinguishing the fire and continued to rush forward, and soon we found the army of Ironstream City under a hillside that was surrounded by the army of Bretan. There was a look of horror on Maramo's face.

"My lord, this is a conspiracy of the commander of the Bretan army, they pretended to escape, and then set fire to cut off our army, Lord Emmons was anxious to defeat the Bretan army, did not realize the enemy's tricks, and the Ironstream army that was the first to catch up was surrounded by the Bretan army. Dorne Nolan, nephew of the Marquis de Lewin, said.

"Since you find that the army of Ironstream City is surrounded, you should go and help them out of the siege. Marquis Levyn spoke, "That's right, Lord Marquis, we want to help the army of Ironstream City break the siege. The Count of Maramo replied. "But just as Lord Dorne and I were leading our army to help the Ironstream army break the siege, a Bretan cavalry unit came up from the flank and intercepted us. ”

"How many people are there in this force?" Lewin frowned, "about three thousand." Maramo swallowed and replied.

"Three thousand, three thousand cavalry troops intercepted your forty thousand troops?" Lewin stood up with a calm face, "Your Excellency, this cavalry unit is all wearing brown and yellow armor, and the symbol of a tiger's head is engraved on their armor. Dorne Nolan said quickly.

"It's the Flying Tiger Battalion. A territorial commander in the council chamber exclaimed that under the command of the general of the Bretan Army, Lieton, there was a well-trained elite cavalry unit, which was given the name "Flying Tiger Battalion", and the soldiers in the "Flying Tiger Battalion" were carefully selected, uniformly wearing brown and yellow armor and bright red cloaks.

"Just this Flying Tiger Battalion is holding you back?" Lewin was still incredulous, "Lord Marquis, these Bretan cavalrymen are wielding their swords one by one, and Lord Dorne and I can't rush through at all..."

Maramo and Dorn beside him glanced at each other, and Malamo, who was shocked by the imposing charge of the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion, was terrified, Maramo actually gave the order to retreat, and Dorn saw that the army of Jade Mountain City retreated, so he also gave the order to retreat, and in this way, the 30,000 territory troops of Tieliu City were surrounded by the Bretan army outside the Cardinal Forest.