Chapter 337: Gaokan City (13)
In particular, some of the tactical moves are completely unreasonable, like a tyrannical beast that fights on instinct, not a sane warrior who seems to be unaware of the damage it takes.
In addition, the defending fighters were a little afraid to shoot, so they broke into frantically and fell into passivity.
Thinking of Mingge's strange methods at the beginning, Philip immediately judged that these warriors were all controlled by the steppe people, and it was very likely that a Daxun was in the front team.
Philip asked himself if he was not the opponent of the fourth-order warriors, even if the other party did not awaken, it should not be underestimated, and Arthur under him seemed to be even more hopeless, so he commanded the warriors not to come hard, and used rope nets and cables to hinder their movements, so he asked for help from the rear.
Fortunately, Kalitan was not far from here, and when he saw Eric, he rushed straight up as if he had seen the prey of interest.
Sure enough, the battle between the high-ranking warriors was like a raging storm, and if it weren't for Calitan to lead him aside, I'm afraid the entire line of defense would have been shattered.
For the remaining puppet warriors, the effect of the rope was slightly better, and under the pressure and control of the heavily armored warriors who gathered, they slowly stabilized their position.
The entire line of defense also began to release a rain of arrows in an orderly manner towards the approaching steppe people in the night.
Moments later, the rescuer Philip had brought in arrived, and it was Bruce the Bearded.
"It's up to you, brother. Philip gave his cousin a word of encouragement.
"Will it really work?" asked Bruce, skeptically.
Philip shrugged his shoulders: "It never hurts to try, after all, they are still our warriors and heroes."
How many times can you use your Lion Roar?"
Bruce said uncertainly, "Haven't recovered yet, twice at most." ”
"Enough!"
Philip grabbed Bruce in front of the line, placed him behind a platoon of heavy shields, and shouted to Calitan in the center of the battlefield, "Bring him here." ”
Kalitan was a little dissatisfied, she had already taken advantage of the opponent's low intelligence and gained a lot of advantages, and the blue armor on the opponent's body had been cut off from the shoulder armor.
But she also knew that she couldn't hurt the killer, so even if she won the battle, it didn't make sense, and she ran this way with a dodge.
Philip swooped down from mid-air and grabbed Caritan's arm, leaving Eric to roar loudly more than a dozen meters behind him.
Before he could rush to the shield wall, an even louder roar resounded across the battlefield.
Bruce poked his head out of the gap above his shield, roared, and quickly shrank back.
As if he had been hit by something heavy, Eric staggered and fell headlong against the shield wall, then staggered to his knees, clutching his head.
Bruce was about to shout again, but was stopped by Philip.
The remaining one was left for the other twenty or so warriors, even the puppets controlled by the steppe people, who already had their own blood on their hands, and Philip would not give up on them, but only gave them a chance.
If he can't get rid of the other party's control, Philip will kill the killer and give them a break.
After the old trick is repeated, at least until noon tomorrow, Bruce will not think about using the awakened ability, but the effect is not bad.
Some of the two dozen warriors fainted to the ground, drowning in the surging steppe people, and the rest shook their heads to sober up, and then resolutely entered the ranks of the steppe people.
If they survived the battle, Philip swore he would forgive them.
The night attack lasted less than an hour, and the rest of the time gradually stabilized the line, except for the initial high-flying advance, which caught Philip off guard.
The casualties on both sides were heavy, but the steppe people lost more in comparison.
After leaving nearly 100,000 corpses behind, the steppe people retreated in an orderly manner, and the pursuing troops on Philip's side did not take advantage of it, and he called them back.
Eric also came to his senses at this time and was tied up, his identity was not something that Philip could decide how to deal with it, after all, there was no similar battle before.
And there were eleven of those awakened warriors left, and they sat on the ground and cried.
For them, Philip simply collected his weapons, provided them with water and food, and held them in solitary confinement.
Compared to Eric, they had much less blood on their hands and were much less harmful.
Before Philip could ask Eric for details about the steppe xun, he was told that his grandfather, Brad, had arrived at the east gate and was heading this way.
Well, at last he could be relieved from this heavy responsibility, and Philip felt a sense of relief, and when it was daybreak, he was going to look for his father.
To be honest, the moment he saw these puppet warriors, he broke out in a cold sweat, for fear that his father was among them.
But fortunately, after looking at it several times, none of them looked like they were wearing prosthetics, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.
Now that his father is still alive, he believes he can find him.
However, although his idea was good, the steppe people on the other side were obviously unwilling to let him worry, perhaps because they knew that reinforcements had arrived, and the steppe people finally made another move.
Philip rose into the air, and by the silhouette of the shadows, they had abandoned the eastern line of defense and began to retreat outside the city.
Also, there are only 300,000 people left, and they may not even be able to protect themselves.
However, as a native of Gaokan City, he would not easily let these executioners go away and wreak havoc on the vast southeastern frontier of the empire.
There are also countless ordinary people there who have not had time to evacuate.
After consulting his grandfather Brad, the old lion's exact words were that this battle was fought by the stinky boy, so finish it.
He still has a lot to do, and he doesn't have time to eat these scraps.
Listen, how pretending to be X, I don't know if the old lion will blush when he says this, but Philip willingly takes the order.
At two o'clock in the morning, Philip dropped dozens of oil canisters in the sky, lighting up the entire city, and then nearly 20,000 shooters covered the three blocks where the steppe man's broken tail was located with ten volleys.
After Philip had made general sure that there were no major traps, 10,000 foot soldiers flanked the line in three directions and cautiously made tentative attacks.
These steppe people are cunning, and they all hide in the house, sneaking up on them from any possible corner.
At three o'clock in the morning, after defeating the 60,000 men left behind, Philip's vanguard encountered the flame trap left behind by the steppe people and was forced to halt the pursuit.
More than 10,000 civilians in Gaokan City, who had been prepared for a long time, dragged water dragons, sand and iron hammers, and it didn't take a quarter of an hour to open a green passage in the corner of the fire wall, and rescued the 5,000 soldiers trapped inside in time, and the damage was slight.
At four o'clock in the morning, the passage was opened, and Philip led his troops to regain the western wall, only to see a huge pile of corpses here.
The corpses of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians of Gaokan City, who had not had time to relent, were piled up here, each stripped of his armor and clothes, and lay there naked.
The eyes of all the soldiers, including Philip, turned red, and they were enraged by the tragic scene in front of them.
All the attacks this time were light cavalry, whether it was infantry or heavy cavalry, in this kind of pursuit battle, except for slowing down the speed of the whole army, it was useless, which was also the fundamental reason why the Ward people tried to avoid field battles with the steppe people.
Wesley, together with Bruce and Chand, plus the Maga Regiment and the Red Rose Knights, formed two light cavalry regiments of 10,000 people.
The 23rd Regiment of Maga and the Knights of the Red Rose formed two cavalry regiments of more than 6,000 men each.
The steppe people retreated all the way to the northwest, and the speed was very fast, but with Philip watching from the sky, there was never a chance to get out.
Finally, the large amount of looted treasure and weapons and armor they carried seriously slowed down their speed, and they chased the distance to less than two kilometers in a narrow valley half a day's journey from the city of Gokan.
At this time, the steppe people were still strong, and if they took advantage of the terrain to fight back, they might have the opportunity to severely damage Philip, who was already a little chaotic in formation.
At this time, even if he unnecessarily loses one more person, Philip has to consider whether he is willing to give it up.
But the commander of the steppe people didn't know if he was frightened, and he used the trick of breaking his tail to survive again, leaving 100,000 people to set up an ambush in the dense forests on both sides of the valley.
But this is the doorstep of the Gaokan people, and if they are ambushed and attacked by the steppe people, they know every path here, it will be the biggest joke of this war.
Under Philip's sky scouting, Wesley led 10,000 men to meet him step by step, and the two cavalry archery troops divided into two routes, went around the back of the mountain, drove all the steppe people down the hillside under the attack from both sides, and then condescendingly released a rain of death arrows.
Under the pressure of the rain of arrows and the Wysley troops, the steppe people who suffered heavy losses fled westward along the valley in a hurry, but before they left the valley, they were blocked by Bruce, who led 10,000 horsemen around here, directly ate the 20,000 men of the vanguard, and blocked the remaining steppe people in the valley with countless tripping horses and felled trees.
The steppe people, who had hit the iron plate, began to break through the slopes on both sides again, but when they were halfway up, they found that there were large and small cracks on the seemingly gentle slopes here, which did not allow the rapid passage of large troops, and at this time their way was also blocked by Wesley.
In this situation, in order to minimize losses, Philip kept the two cavalry regiments restrained, relying mainly on the cavalry regiments lined up along the top of the slope on both sides to kill and wound the enemy.
The steppe people were desperate and rushed in the direction of Bruce, until they were freed from the barricades, only to find that they had less than 20,000 men left.
Bruce and Wesley led their troops to eat the steppe people with ease and pleasure, and continued to chase them northwest.
The fleeing steppe people did not expect that 100,000 people would be eaten so quickly, so they simply threw away those heavy and ill-fitting weapons and armor, and the speed was one percent faster.
But Philip deliberately squeezed them, and the direction they were heading changed imperceptibly, until they stopped in front of a large river.