Section 863 Glory in spite of defeat
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An orc leader with a bloody mane on his chest pulled out the mace in his hand and the corpse of a human soldier, roaring angrily at the sky, and in front of him, the human soldiers who were desperately fleeing into the distance became more and more scarce, and there were constantly snorting orc warriors passing by him, in their eyes, these defeated human soldiers were similar to the prey they had hunted in the extreme DS area. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
They licked their lips with their tongues and grim smiles on their faces, as if they had seen the dawn of victory.
However, the muffled thunder of the scramble interrupted their illusions, and in the opposite direction of the fleeing soldiers, they looked from afar, row after row of bull-like spear heads flashed blinding under the red sky, and the knights' spears like clouds of trees rose and fell on the artemisia grass, and the closer they got to the orc army in front, the faster and faster they became......
"Roar!"
"Whew"
Seeing the human cavalry in front of them who had rearranged their formations to kill, these orc warriors who believed in the beast god became even more excited, and the huge footprints on the ground were trampled by the orc warriors behind, raising a large piece of dust, looking from afar, on one side were dense rows of cavalry with neat spears, and on the other hand, there were fierce but murderous orc warriors who were rushing like a beast tide, and the formation was chaotic but murderous......
Finally......
At the moment of imminent contact with the gadfly-like orc army,
"Kill"
The cavalry of the Marcelli family cavalry legion before were expressionless and solemn, but at this moment, the human cavalry at the front couldn't hold back, and roared, and the prancing horses rushed into the pile of orc warriors in front, and their spears passed directly through the front of the orc warriors, but these cavalrymen were also quickly overwhelmed by the crowded orc army together with their war horses, and behind them, the cavalrymen who followed each other jumped in, swords and sticks struck each other, and flesh and blood flew sideways.
The moment the Marcelli family and the orc legion met, it was like two torrents colliding and bursting out with huge energy, and a large piece of it fell in the contact area in an instant, and the human cavalry and orc warriors who arrived later still stepped on the corpses of their companions and marched forward bravely......
It was an almost evenly matched battle, with the two sides fighting from noon to late evening, and from evening to night, and even the moon became extremely red because of this terrible battle.
Later battlefield statistics showed that the Marcelli family legion composed of nearly 200,000 soldiers with 120,000 elite cavalry, the commander Owemarcelli gave the order to retreat and leave the battlefield to count the number of people, there were less than 30,000 elite cavalry, and the rest of the infantry were all killed, and his opponent, the fourth prince Yale, was called the most elite orc clan except for the Beamon Legion, the Death Scythe Legion, the Iron Armored Beast Cavalry Legion, the Green Beast Cavalry Legion, and the Minotaur Legion. The Second Legion, which was only reduced to less than 20,000 men, could no longer become a legion.
In this battle, the army of the Delmar Empire lost 170,000 people, and the Orc Empire lost 60,000, and the casualty ratio was close to three to one.
The commander of the Marcelli family legion, Owi Marcelli, who led the retreat, did not know that the battle he commanded had set at least two records, first, this was the first time in more than three years of the Eastern Campaign, that the Delmar Imperial army had achieved a casualty ratio of three to one in a large-scale battle of more than 200,000 people, and second, it was the first time that the opponent had annihilated 60,000 people in a single battle.
Although the Marcelli clan was defeated in the end, in a sense, Owemarcelli and his legions were still defeated.
Later, however, there were still people in the imperial capital who accused the commander of the Marcelli family's legion, Owi Marcelli, of a miscommand - if he had been able to hold on at that time, perhaps the outcome would have changed, and even the total annihilation of the other party would not have been necessary.
However, this statement immediately aroused the opposition of many people, and a high-ranking imperial officer who had rushed back from the eastern region looked at that person, with a sneer on his face, and a look of contempt, this egg-picky guy had never left the imperial capital since the war started in the eastern region, and the senior officer turned to everyone and said the simplest but convincing reason- The orcs were born with no impact on their night vision, judging from the scene at the time, the 30,000 cavalrymen of the Marcelli family legion could not see the situation in front of them dozens of yards in the middle of the night, and they could only see a pair of green eyes shaking everywhere, and that was the eyes of their opponents, the orcs because of their unique physiological structure, let them see the night scene as day, just like the beasts on the grassland with strong night vision, if they did not retreat at this time, these 30,000 cavalry were no different from sending them to deathใ
Moreover, the combat effectiveness of 30,000 cavalry, compared with the more than 20,000 orc warriors who had already prepared to attack, was still slightly insufficient even if the field of vision was not obstructed during the day, Owemarcelli issued the order to retreat, at least protecting the living force of the 30,000 Imperial cavalry, you know, the cavalry of the entire Central Legion was only 300,000, and this battle had already caused the Central Legion to lose more than half of the cavalry.
As an Imperial soldier who has been fighting in the eastern region for three years and has participated in nearly 100 battles, no one knows better than this Imperial officer what kind of concept it is to annihilate the 60,000 orc army.
On the border of the northern region adjacent to the eastern region, Yu Lin Feng, who once again served as the commander of the orc army, used two imperfect but successful ambush battles to reduce the strength of the Central Legion that had just crossed the eastern region to the northern region from 1.7 million to more than 1.3 million, giving Franco, the commander of the Central Legion, a blow to the head.
The Fourth Prince, Yale, was the victorious side, but he did not feel the joy of victory, and in this battle, he lost more than 90,000 orc warriors, including the Second Legion, which had been following him most loyally.
However, just as the battle report had not yet reached the commanders of both sides, a third battle broke out in the northeastern part of the Riemann region.
An army of 200,000 troops led by Ray, the head of the Nestor family, the governor of the San Yago and Akita regions, and Morin Tola, the second son of the Tora family in the Balkans, and the Ariel family, the Newman family, and the Ariel family, the Viceroy families around the Akita region, also came to the Riemann region.
When a large and neat marching formation of long snakes appeared on the endless Artemisia Plain, it seemed that they did not notice any abnormality in front of them, and still marched unhurriedly.