Chapter 30: The Taste of Popping Chrysanthemums
As a child, Shirinya has not yet regained the memories of her past life, and her curiosity about the world makes her curious about anything and constantly learning anything. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 But she never understood why she was afraid of all kinds of tests and books, and it was only now that she realized that it was the bane of the education method in her previous life that affected the present.
"It's back. Under the strong light, the eyes that went from darkness to light were closed again, and Shilinya looked at the roof of the strange tent and let out a sigh of emotion from a traveler in the desert seeing the oasis.
I don't know how long has passed since the real world, Shilinya relives the horrors of the education method of the previous life in the "ocean of knowledge". Those tentacles arranged a lot of book knowledge for Shilinya, and designed a lot of exams for this. Where there is no rest, no entertainment, only constant reading and then exams, the life of two points and one line is more extreme than the education method in the previous life.
Shilinya thought about resisting, but she was not facing a tentacle monster, but a large group of tentacle monsters, each of which was an expert-level magician! Shilinya, who couldn't bear it for the first time, resisted for a moment and was blown up by the other party with a telekinesis blast to an unknown place.
The tentacles designed a complete set of 100 exam papers for Shilinya, and if they couldn't complete it, they wouldn't be allowed to go out. After an unknown amount of effort, Shirinya, who finally completed the mission, immediately escaped from such a hellish place.
The feeling of returning to reality is very subtle, there are no octopus tentacles of ghosts, no crazy books, no neurotic twisted sculptures, and most importantly, there are no exams here!
Shilinya didn't wake up for long, but Dalefield, who had been taking care of her, immediately carried out all kinds of rescues - the girl's loveless eyes frightened the female mage.
"Delfield, why are you here?" the cool sensation passed from the other person's hand to his brain, causing Shilinya to start to re-observe such a familiar material world, "How long have I been asleep. ”
"I found out that you have been sleeping until now, and seven days have passed by now. Dalefil responded softly to the other party's question, took the handkerchief on the side and wiped the crystal liquid flowing from the corner of the other party's mouth, if it wasn't for Dalefil who had been here to take care of the other party, Dalefield definitely believed that this eldest lady had been played by someone several times.
Sensing her gaffe, Shilinya slowly returned to her normal body instincts, at least not to look like she had been played badly. Seeing that the other party was gradually getting normal, Dalefield picked up the potion on the table and poured it into the other party's mouth.
Mental stabilizing elixirs, which are used specifically for people who have suffered major mental blows, smell similar to the smell of burning plastic. After being poured with this kind of thing, Shilinya's originally pale face immediately turned green - whoever was poured this kind of thing was this kind of dying gesture.
After all, he was born in alchemy, and Shilinya swallowed it with a green face, although this kind of thing is inhumane, but some alchemists can dare to swallow the giant's toes in order to understand the properties of the material - equivalent to the toes the size of a small car in the previous life. I feel like I have no appetite when I think about it.
"Ahem...... used the alchemist in the book as an example to encourage herself, and Shilinya was able to swallow the inhuman thing in her mouth, although in the process of encouragement, she was almost induced by the actions of the role models for a second time.
Feeling her body gradually calm down, Shilinya remembered her experience, but after a moment, she was shocked, "Dale, was I alone at the time? Did you see the book I was carrying?"
"The Scout and I found you at the exit of a spider cave, and you were the only one there. Looking at the girl who had recovered in confusion as to why she had such a big reaction, Dalefield, who was a mage, just thought that the other party cared about a book that could be used as a shield, "If you mean that book, it was taken by the Duke." It should be with Mage Kane now, right?"
"Please take me to my father and Master Kane now!" Shirinya, who was still relatively weak, immediately jumped up from the military folding bed, grabbed the other party's arm, and put on a posture of crying to you if she didn't agree.
If you are alone, it means that the assassin has fled, and when he left, he did not make up for himself or throw himself down, and he is already a very benevolent and good person. The most important thing to care about now is that the book that I don't know what the name is that can be used as a shield!
Kane, as the leader of Alain's battle mage, is also Alain's court mage, and more importantly, the other party is an expert-level mage! The expert-level mage already has the ability to crack the props of the gods, and now that book falls into the hands of the other party, once something happens, the tentacle god doesn't throw himself to some ghost place to try what is pervasive?
"But it's dangerous out there right now!" Shilinya's request made Dalefil feel quite embarrassed, because it was really dangerous outside now—there was a battlefield not far away, and the battle was in full swing!
The heavy white snow had just melted on the earth, but the red snow water immediately stained the white earth. Originally a wheat field, the vast flat terrain and a small river on the side made it famous as a grain producing area in the vicinity, but today it is a battleground for fighting.
On one side were the soldiers who were small in number but had high morale and were well-equipped and in an orderly manner, and on the other side were the signmen soldiers who rushed forward with all kinds of spears and pitchforks in a morale manner, and there was no advantage at all except absolute superiority in numbers.
The commanders of both sides ignored the unilateral slaughter of the peasant soldiers on the battlefield with absolutely limited combat effectiveness, and the cavalry on the flanks of both sides also watched such an overwhelming slaughter motionlessly.
Alain stood on the high ground behind him, watching as the hoplites he had just suffered from the demons continued to harvest the incapable farmers of the other side. Neither Alain nor the army against him had ever thought of ending the battle immediately, and as a high-combat class such as mages and hoplites, there was no intention of entering the battle.
The other party's goal was only to stall for time, and Alain's goal was to destroy as many opponents' troops as possible in order to achieve the minimum time to annihilate the opponent's living forces - the hoplites, hoplites, and mages who were cowering in the rear.
A few days ago, Alain, who was still worried about his daughter's unconscious, suddenly got a piece of news that made his chrysanthemum shrink.
The Empire's growing rebellion left the army severely underarmed, and the two garrison regiments in the Morris area had to be redeployed home for civil war. As a result, something went wrong, and not long after the two garrisons were transferred, the Knuaille family, the rulers of the original Maurice Kingdom, immediately gathered their troops to declare war on Alan on the grounds of rebuilding the Maurice Kingdom and recovering the de jure territory of the Maurice Kingdom - that declaration of war was half a month late, and all the fighters were missed.
The war as a whole was not good for Alain's, and the patriarch of the House of Knoyes had made a great deal of money for this war - he had mobilized an army of 40,000 troops, including standing armies, signmen, and mercenaries, and although there were a large number of peasant signmen like the one in front of him who had been slaughtered simply, the number of others was really here.
On the other hand, Alain's side is almost in a desperate situation, and all the vassals who can't get instant information are broken separately, although there are vassals to organize resistance, but the sporadic resistance is pale in the face of the absolute strength of the other party. Laros's father, the Earl of Cold Creek, assembled an army of 4,000 men with the intention of joining the army in the city of Anjitan, only to be surrounded and annihilated by the other party, and this count also enjoyed aristocratic treatment in the tent of the Knoisille army. Until now, Knoyer's army has surrounded the city of Anjitan, the base camp of Alain, which has a makeshift army and a total of 8,000 local troops to resist, and Anjitan City was once a bridgehead for the imperial invasion of Maurice, and the defense has an absolute guarantee that it can hold on for a while.
Although he could hold out for a while, Alain still hoped that he would be able to return to Ankitan immediately, and if the people of the Knoyes family attacked it regardless of all casualties, there would be no accidents in the embattled city of Ankitan. The more than 6,000 elite troops at his disposal were an important factor in turning the tide of the war, and the army that had experienced many battles on the front line and received strong support from the Imperial Legion was definitely not comparable to the armies that had been put together from the outside. The most direct manifestation of this one-sided massacre is in front of us.
After all, it was the farmers who were captured from their homes by the lords, who paid a heavy price but did not cause any casualties to the other party's iron cans, and the farmers who were not determined to throw down their weapons and ran back, and some of the more intelligent ones fled to both sides of the battlefield, hoping to avoid the overseers behind.
The escape of the peasant cannon fodder was not expected by both sides, the enemy only hoped to use the cannon fodder to consume the physical strength of the opposing army, and Alain had no choice but to treat the enemy as a precious hoplite to withstand the enemy's cannon fodder - the hoplites were completely uncontested in the pursuit battle after the planned annihilation of the enemy.
"Why hasn't it started for so long?" Alain asked Kane on the side, in the plan, Turiss was to take the improvised horse archers and some light cavalry to carry out the rear popping chrysanthemum during the white heat, and now the enemy peasants have collapsed on all fronts, and the other party has not moved for a long time, once the opposing commander throws it down and drags himself down
The farmer retreated, and the effort was lost.
"The other mage is scouting, and Turis may be trying to slow down himself for the sake of poise. Kane, who was observing all the movements on the battlefield at all times, replied to his boss, everyone knows Turis's cautious character after years of cooperation, but time is taking off to ensure that the enemy army retreats.
There were 6,000 people on the Alan side, only 1,600 people were really put into the battlefield, all the shield-wielding hoplites were close to 500 people pressing on the front line, and there were more than 300 halberd-armed hoplites to cooperate in order to prevent the defense line from being dense, and there were 300 crossbowmen in the back who retreated to the back of the scenes after a salvo before the confrontation, and there were more than 100 light cavalry watching the play on each wing, as well as 400 light infantry watching the play as a reserve, only 800 people really fought, and all the others were in a state of watching the play.
For the first time, the enemy pressed almost 4,000 peasant soldiers, and there were more than 1,000 more elite guards under the command of the enemy who remained motionless, and in addition to this, there were more than 3,000 reserve cannon fodder behind.
Alain picked up the monoculars in his hand and observed the opposing commander, Earl Mann of Jolivier, a coward known in Maurice. More than ten years ago, the other party had a battlefield confrontation with Alain, and when Alain led his hoplite cavalry to launch a flank charge when the battle was in the heat of battle, the other party actually fled directly, which left a deep impression on Alain and the world.
The other party is an earl, and the mages under his command are not very high-end, and from the telescope, Alain saw the leader of the battle mages on the other side, a high-level mage. The opponent's mage is now observing every move on the battlefield at full power, but the vastness of the battlefield is really difficult for the opponent to be a handful of years old, and at the same time, the load is very heavy for a high-level mage.
The retreat of the Signmen left the battle ground empty, leaving only a pile of Signmen corpses on the ground to show the strength of the heavy infantry.
When there was no one on the battlefield, Count Jolliver ordered his crossbowmen to make a suppressive shot at the enemy, but nothing was achieved except for a huge accident, and the armor and shields of the infantry perfectly blocked all the arrows - the military idiot enemy commander did not let the archers approach first to shorten the distance and then retreat.
After the bow and arrow were fired, all the remaining signmen pressed together, and the dense crowd of people was visually shocking, but the speed of the opponent's cowering march did not bring the slightest momentum bonus to its number at all.
"Turis is already in place. Kane, who had been observing the battlefield and liaising with the various rank-and-file officers, finally said what Alan wanted to hear the most.
"That's good. "Alain finally relaxed, anything can happen on the battlefield, and he can't relax in the slightest because the other party is a bunch of scum, although the other party is nominally here to delay his own marching speed and buy time for the army in his rear, in fact, he is here to send people to the head.
"Order the infantry in front to advance at once, and the cavalry to surround the peasants from the flanks. Alain also didn't want to spend all sorts of time with the other party, so he gave orders to the battle mages who were in contact with the front line.
"The battle mages are all in position and bombarded, targeting enemy groups of mages and crossbowmen. "The quantity and quality of the mage troops are completely overwhelming, and the opponent can be so capricious.
Wearing a covered helmet, Alan took the long cavalry spears sent by his entourage, and led the hoplites and auxiliary light cavalry around him and most of the remaining infantry to begin to bypass the frontal battlefield in front of him and rush straight to the opponent's base camp.
Alain's large-scale military movement could not hide the enemy's army at all, and Count Men of Jolivier, who already had a psychological shadow, was immediately frightened and trembled, but the more than ten family knights sent by the Knooille family to protect his safety and actually acted as the overseer put an end to this idea of the other party.
"Knight Commander Bernard, please reinforce the front line at once, and I will put all my troops under your command. "Intent on escaping, Count Jolliver used a trick to distract a sword of Damocles standing behind him.
Knight Bernard, who had no reason to refute it, took over the command given to him by the other party in a gloomy manner, and began to gather the remaining army of more than 1,000 people to organize a defensive line on the hillside behind him, intending to delay for a while.
Neither Count Jolliver nor Knight Bernard thought that they would be able to retreat safely, on the one hand, because of the pursuit of Alain's army in front, and on the other hand, the promise and threat of reinforcements promised by the Knooille family before the war.
The Earl's Guard, which was better disciplined than the Signmen, retreated to the hillside in an orderly manner, intending to build a line of defense with towers, shields, spears, and crossbows to prevent the opponent from advancing.
But in fact, it was shown that his approach was completely useless, and the Symptom Soldiers on the front line did not have any will to resist, and the slightest contact imitated the previous batch of Symptom Soldiers, and they were even worse than their predecessors. At the same time, the mage troops that have been pampered in the rear are all pressed, although the fifty battle mages range in rank from apprentice to advanced, but if all the battle mages are pressed at once before the start of the battle, then the battle will end in ten minutes after the start of the battle.
A large number of mass destruction spells constantly bombarded the opposing guards, and the mages of the Earl's army who tried to fight back were suppressed to the death, and there was no way to fight back. In the space of tens of seconds, the originally crowded army formation became much more sparse, except for the soldiers who had nimbly looked for cover, the soldiers who dodged quickly, and the mages who could support a powerful enough spell shield, the rest of the personnel were either killed or seriously injured, although most of them were not affected, but they had lost the confidence to continue fighting.
Before the troops led by Alain had fully entered the battlefield, the battle was over. Whether it was the peasants who were cannon fodder or the army with a little strength, they were now constantly fleeing to the rear.
But the presence of troops on the hillside discouraged the other party's desire to flee. The last to appear was the troops led by Turis, who did not go around to the rear of the other side as planned to cooperate with the troops on the front line to flank the attack, but as soon as they appeared, the opponent's will to resist and the desire to escape disappeared.
"I surrender. I am Count Jolivier, I can afford to pay the ransom, I want the treatment of a nobleman. The army that was blocked in the back reluctantly stopped its flight, and Jolivier, who was most conspicuously dressed, immediately stepped out of the crowd.