Rhodes and Hunter Ryan are eye-catching in earning themselves the rightful command status - the Anteli stragglers, who are mostly experiencing real combat for the first time, begin to spontaneously move closer and consciously protect the two of them, allowing them to better control the situation and attack. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The unvolunteer soldiers gradually became full of fighting spirit and courage, roaring and shouting to persist in the battle, they did not take a step back to die, and waved their swords, axes, clubs, and other weapons at the well-trained pursuers with little discipline, gritting their teeth and fighting bloody battles with the enemy in front of them, both in terms of weapons and equipment and individual combat strength.

No one fled, and the roadblocks were united and fought more and more bravely...... Gradually, the battle began to unequivocally center on two men who were not wearing military uniforms behind the barricades. The Empire's pursuing forces also did not back down in the face of stubborn resistance, and they surrounded the deserters, who had no formation or experience, at the command of their commander, with a significantly smaller number of soldiers, and began to try to deal with the two tricky guys in the middle......

But soon, the commander realized that he had given his soldiers an impossible task, so he decided to retreat.

Rhodes noticed that the enemy's offensive had weakened, and his pursuers began to hold their formation and retreated, quickly returning to the side of the barricade. To the disappointment of the latter of the temple who found that victory was in sight, Rhodes and Ryan did not have the intention of taking advantage of the victory to pursue, the two backbones did not move, and the other soldiers did not dare to chase after the barricades, and the two sides that were in a state of stalemate a moment ago suddenly separated neatly, and after being shot at the end, the imposing Imperial pursuit force mounted their horses and retreated.

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This skirmish, which took place at an unnamed junction south of Anteli and with a total of less than two hundred combatants, was declared short and intense, and has not been recorded in any way in any official chronicle of its occurrence in any subsequent official chronicle, but it was indeed one of the few frontal victories of the Anteli army in this great civil war.

There was a cheer in their ears, and everyone couldn't believe it—not only did they repel their pursuers, but they also left them with at least thirty corpses, and although their own casualties were greater, they would have undoubtedly won if they had achieved their tactical objective and had won the battle.

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"We won?" someone asked in disbelief, trembling and incredulous, "We defeated the invincible Midland army?"

"Don't be a fool, 'Midland forces are invincible' means that they have never lost a war, not including battles and campaigns. The monster hunter untied his mask and poured cold water on him, feeling unhappy that he was forced to participate in this battle: "And the Empire is called the Empire because it can afford to lose countless battles of this magnitude, and if we continue to stay here, we will soon face a thousand, ten thousand, or even more red-clothed army." ”

Everyone nodded, Ryan had won respect for his performance just now, and no one opened their mouths to speak against him. Perhaps this small victory would only delay the pursuing Imperial army for a few hours, but at least hundreds of refugees would be able to flee into the Cavehall Forest under their cover, and many of those present could blow their lives for participating in the battle.

The stout officer squeezed through the crowd with excitement on his face: "Fuck it...... You killed a third of these bastards on the ground! I was worried about whether you could handle a sword, you are a natural warrior! Where did you learn how to use a sword? Are you interested in becoming a soldier? I promise you will soon become a general. If Antelli's soldiers were like you, I could fight all the way to that damn Winway City and pull Kyle Rose off his throne!"

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The officer's chatter didn't touch Rhodes' heartstrings, and perhaps he was a natural warrior - and maybe even born with the goal of producing super soldiers. But even then, the empire didn't treat itself badly at all when it was growing up, just because it might not be a natural person and took another country's army back to its own home?Rhodes shook his head with a wry smile: "No, I don't like to kill people." ”

"Well, but the hunter is right, we must get out of here, or we won't have a chance to enjoy this victory!" the officer sighed regretfully: "Let's see if there are any wounded who can be saved, and come and work with me!"

Seeing that most of the remaining soldiers were busy, Rhodes was a little distracted, the battle just now was thrilling but not dangerous, he had a real guy in his hands to deal with the pursuers, he didn't need superb swordsmanship and many flashes of temporary moves, just dodged the open guns and arrows and then slashed under the cover of the soldiers around him. The trouble now is that he has killed at least a dozen of his own soldiers, and his years of experience as a bear child have made him instinctively feel that he may have caused some serious trouble.

Fortunately, I covered my face just now, and if I didn't say it, no one would know.

He stood there for a long time, and as a hero of the battle, he had no one to urge him to do the chores, and the soldiers divided into two men to catch up with the refugees on horseback, and called back a wagon to drag the wounded, and the rest went to the woods on either side to cut a large pile of dead wood and branches, and moved to the narrow junction, where they were stacked with the barricades that had been hastily erected.

Finally, the group put on top the corpses of the robes that had been killed in the battle, many of whom they had not even known each other's names. The stout officer lit it, and the pile of burning wood debris would take on the dual duty of stopping the pursuers and cremating them at the same time. As the fire grew stronger, the heat of the flames baked their faces, and many felt their bodily fluids boil under the hot light of the rising sun, and the blood turned into steam and pulsated along the veins, and many began to feel ashamed of their previous desertion...... Under the baptism of this flame, an ethereal thing called "honor" and "faith", which many wise people disdained and even despised, quietly filled the chests of all the remaining soldiers.

Under the leadership of a few people, the soldiers tore off the coats of arms of their lords and families, and although they even had different uniforms, they now had the same identity - the Anteli soldiers, and the royal forces that protected the refugees who had evacuated north.

After wasting more than ten minutes watching the bodies of the victims be engulfed in flames, the remaining soldiers packed up their things and took the wounded with them, and continued their retreat north towards the Cavehall Forest.

The force was suddenly reborn brave and calm, their northward march was no longer hurried, and they were ready to meet and fight more pursuers.

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In the ranks, Rhodes didn't feel any blood, he was in a familiar trance after getting into trouble, and he was in no mood to guess and couldn't guess what what he was doing today meant - a small number of the soldiers around him were deserters when they faced the Imperial army again, some died on the battlefield that followed, and what was left in the end became officers and stalwarts of the Resistance at all levels, and what awakened in their bodies today became the soul that sustained the Resistance in its fighting.

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