"Retreat to the woods!" This is the only way for him to withdraw this remnant army to the woods, to prevent the enemy from going out of the city to pursue, and hastily withdrawing the army, the already frightened Rhodok coalition army even forgot to take away a large number of supplies and armaments.

"We've won! they've withdrawn!, we've won!" At the head of the city, looking at the Rhodok people who had fled, Resarit and Karl excitedly reported that this was the first time they had participated in such a large-scale battle, and they won it with one blow, so exciting, how could they not be excited.

Not only them, but almost all the soldiers were cheering, this was their victory in the first battle! It was also the most crucial battle, and they all knew that if they won this battle, it would be the moment when the empire would go to glory!

"Hooray! Hooray! Long live the Holy Rhodok Empire! Long live the Emperor!" the excited soldiers shouted their empire and their idols, their voices trembling through the city of Viruga.

"Order, let's pursue!" Resarit said at this time, and it could be seen that he also had a certain amount of military knowledge.

"No! I have already made arrangements! This time, I want to destroy his entire army!" Fan Ming's intention is not only to win this battle, but to maximize the damage or absorb the enemy's strength and expand his own strength, his purpose is the whole of Rhodok!

"Boss, what should we do, are we still going to attack Aaron?" at this moment, a pirate of the Rhodok coalition retreating into the woods asked the palace minister.

"Fuck it! There are less than a thousand of us alone, and almost all of us are goddamn peasants. These are not enough to add to their moat!Let's stand by! Let's get ready and take the remaining few hundred brothers back to the island!," Miyashi said with a sigh of regret.

Just a thousand people loosely scattered. As he wandered through the woods aimlessly, suddenly, a sharp arrow shot out of the dense forest, instantly hitting the head of a pirate, and the brains and blood splattered out from the other end, which was extremely terrifying.

"What's going on!Who is it!" shared his body, which was already numb from exhaustion and exertion. Suddenly shuddered, and immediately asked a pirate beside him.

"We're under attack! It's the Imperial Army! they're coming from the front!" said the people, looking ahead at the dense forest. Sure enough, rows of straight trees gradually emerged in the silent jungle, and under the guidance of the horn, they moved neatly towards them!

On top of the moving tree. is a very obvious banner of the Imperial Eagle. The banner is majestic and magnificent, blending with the pikemen below, and the murderous aura comes out.

Looking at the phalanx of spears that were getting closer, the awe-inspiring murderous aura told the palace minister that his death was not far away

"Retreat, get out of the plains!" ordered the palace minister, and the coalition army, which had just been exhausted, began to run out of the woods again.

The pirates are okay, they have been fighting for many years, and escaping is already a compulsory life-saving course. But the peasants and soldiers were different, after all, they were a bunch of peasants who could not even afford to eat. Where does the body come from, lì long runs.

So, after a while, one of the militiamen shouted, "No! I won't run! Anyway, Saint Fanming promised not to kill us, so what are you running with them!" Then, more and more militiamen broke away from the group that was speeding up and collapsed to the ground.

The pikemen, who had caught up, gathered the militia, gave them dried meat and water, and let them into the city, and at last all the militia broke away from the fleeing coalition army, and there were more than 1,800 people, all of whom were placed in the city.

Seeing the soldier fleeing, the palace minister was not angry but happy, which just saved him the burden of escaping, and he didn't know that this also meant that he was going to die.

"My lord, send a signal!" said an adjutant to Lem seeing that the militia had already gathered up.

"All right, blow the horn!!" Lem commanded loudly,

Afterwards, the soldiers blew the Empire's horn, the low sound of which echoed between the plains and the valley beyond.

Although the palace minister who heard the horn didn't understand the specific meaning, he also knew that it was an order for a certain army, and he secretly sweated in his heart.

His premonition was good, and sure enough, after the horn sounded, a cloud of smoke rose from the valley in front of them, and something was approaching them.

When the smoke got closer and closer, and the sound became louder and louder, as if a heavy hammer was striking the earth, shaking the earthquake violently, the palace minister looked up and took a closer look, it turned out to be Baron Melny's cavalry!

They were running towards them on heavy horses' hooves, their bright armor reflecting dazzling light in the sunlight, and the triangular pyramidal formation of the cavalry aligned them in a uniform formation.

At first, when he saw the cavalry led by Baron Melny, the palace minister was still excited, but as Melny got closer and closer, the hideous expression on his face became clearly visible.

It wasn't until there was still a hundred paces to go, that the cavalrymen under the command of Melny leveled their spears, and then the palace minister foretold that something was wrong, and immediately ordered the remaining two hundred pirates to turn around again and run towards the mountains and forests on the other side.

But these two sets of retreating eleven roads can catch up with the four-legged BMW, before they can run a few dozen steps, the cavalry has already chased, the huge impact of the cavalry, cut them off from the middle, the spear penetrated into the pirate's body, inertia dragged them for a long distance before stopping.

After the cavalry entered the pirate ranks, it set off a bloody storm, and the spears continued to take the lives of the pirates, leaving their bodies lying on the ground.

Since these cavalry were not equipped with armor, they could not travel back and forth through the crowd like heavy cavalry, like tanks, and these were some light cavalry, although they also had spears, but as long as the spears broke, they could only stop and draw their swords to slash.

If you usually encounter infantry with average morale, the cavalry that stops becomes a target for the infantry, but now you encounter a group of tigers who have been frightened, so even if they draw their swords and slash and kill, those pirates do not fight back, but just hold their heads and wait for death.

At this time, Lem and the pikemen also followed, and the pikemen formed a phalanx, and advanced with spears in hand, and in a few moments the pirates who had been intercepted fell to the ravages of their spears and swords.

"Thank you, Lord Baron, for coming! I am grateful to you for stopping them this time!" said Lem to Melny.

And Melny also dismounted, put the sword master on the ground, and said to Lem: "It's nothing, it's all my duty, but this time I let that palace minister run away, if it wasn't for these damn pirates, I would definitely be able to catch him for His Majesty!" Melny sighed as he looked at the mountains and forests that Gong Xiang and his party had fled into in the chaos.

"Haha! Your Excellency the Baron don't care! Your Majesty has already arranged it there! Now that our mission is over, let's wait here for the palace minister to be captured, and then go back together to find His Majesty Xià to receive the reward!" Lem said happily to Melny.

"Oh! I see! Your Majesty really deserves to be the god of war!" Melny said with a serious sigh.

At the same time, Gong Xiang and his party, who had fled into the mountains and forests for a long time, wandered around the mountains and forests for a long time before stopping to rest in a bush that was not easy to find.

"Boss, where are we going now? we can't get out of this damn woods!" asked one of the pirates.

"Nonsense! It's because we can't get out, that's why we're here! Since we can't get out, they can't get in! they won't find us!" said Share, angry.

He looked at the already tired body of less than thirty people left around, and suddenly felt a wave of jealous sleepiness, he couldn't believe that he was defeated by a group of mud-legged people with a weapon that he had never seen before, but it was powerful, and now he was full of remorse, hating that he shouldn't have come here, and buried the lives of more than a thousand brothers in vain, you must know that that was the foundation of his family!

While there was silence all around, and the tired pirates were lying asleep on their sides, danger was quietly approaching.

There was a sudden rustling sound in the bushes, but the pirate who had long been asleep did not notice it, and the source of the rustling sound was this sharp scythe.

The scythe quietly stretched out, stopped above the pirate's head, paused, and at a command, the scythe cut down at the same time, and in an instant, more than thirty human heads fell to the ground, and columns of blood spurted out from the headless corpse.

Needless to say, this was Harold's scythe, and when all the heads were cut off, the scythe soldiers stood out from the bushes, in fact, they had already followed the group of pirates, and had been hiding in the bushes waiting for their time.

"My lord, one less!" reported a scythe soldier.

"What? one is missing?" asked Harold in disbelief.

"Yes, their leader, that palace minister!"

"Damn, go and search, get caught!" said Harold angrily.

Gong Xiang had already sensed that something was wrong just now, so he slipped away, and at this time he used his pirate skills to climb a tree to avoid being searched, and his eyes looked at the people below viciously. Gritted his teeth and revealed: "I'm Harr!

Harold, who returned to the city, Lem and Melni were warmly welcomed by the people of Van Ming and Viruga, and after that, the first battle of the empire ended in a perfect victory, although he was escaped by the palace minister, but it did not affect the overall situation, and Baron Melni voluntarily gave up his position as a baron, joined the Holy Rodot Empire, trained cavalry for the empire, and became a cavalry commander.

With the victory of this battle, the empire also turned from defense to offense, and officially began the journey of annexing the kingdom of Rhodok!

The first year of the Gregorian calendar, September.

After the siege of Viruga, the empire was fully adjusted and prepared for half a month, and in half a month, Fan Ming recruited new soldiers, strengthened training, vigorously stockpiled food, and reorganized the army for war.

Because of Fan Ming's reputation, it soon recruited a considerable number! The legion absorbed many new forces, injected fresh blood into the legion, and there were veterans as centurions, leading a hundred people, and after half a month passed, the free legion was fully equipped and its morale was high, and it only wanted to fight. (To be continued......)