Chapter 14: Night Attack
York pushed open the door of the inn and walked in. Then he said to Reilly, "My lord, we have already begun to count the battlefield. The casualties have not yet been counted, but they certainly will not be less than a thousand. Mistress Essin and Mistress Clark are doing their best to treat the wounded, and they can't come here yet. β
Reilly nodded and said, "Get all the cavalry ready for battle, and by the way, let Clark go and invite Priest Xiyu over." β
"Yes!" the orc shaman commanded.
Gangde hesitated for a moment before asking, "Lord Reilly, we fought hard to get them back today." Tomorrow's battle will not be easy! There are 30,000 troops outside. β
"After today's battle, they have a maximum of 20,000 left. Reilly smiled and said, "There won't be more than 10,000 people who can enter the city tomorrow." "The casualties of both sides were all recorded in the system, the Imperial army lost 10,759 men, the number of seriously wounded who lost combat effectiveness was about 7,000, and the casualties on the Reilly side also reached 3,000.
"With that said, we should have a lot easier tomorrow. There was a hint of joy on Richard's face.
Just then, Clark walked in with Xiyu. Seeing Reilly, her eyes lit up, and she said with a smile: "Your Highness, do you have any orders?"
"I've heard that the goddess of the hunt's magic can make people hide their tracks in complex terrain?"
Xiyu straightened his chest and replied proudly, "This is exactly what the goddess is good at!"
Reilly nodded, and said, "Very well! I'm about to attack the enemy's camp, and you and Richard go and destroy one of the other side's cavalry hiding outside." β
"Attack on the camp?!" Xiyou was shocked: "This is too dangerous!"
"Huh. Reilly smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't measure my actions by the eyes of mortals. β
Xiyou suddenly remembered that he was probably facing the incarnation of a god. In Faro, anything that has to do with God cannot be judged by common sense.
"But......" Xiyu looked at Richard and said, "Isn't Lord Richard's injuries okay......?
Richard smiled, took a demon sealing box from the hand of an elite humanoid warrior next to him, and then opened it in front of Xiyou: "Mana is not a problem. β
Xiyou gasped and lost his voice: "So many powerful recovery potions!"
In the Pharo plane, all items related to magic are valuable. Although Xiyu was the presiding officer of a temple, she had never seen so many powerful recovery potions. With this batch of potions, it only takes half an hour for her to return to her full strength. If there is a downside to this elixir, it is that it can only be drunk once a day.
Under the cover of night, Richard quietly went out of the city with five hundred cavalry. These are combat units produced by the brood, which include three hundred and fifty humanoid warriors and one hundred and fifty grenadiers.
The horse moved forward at a uniform pace, but there was no sound under the hooves, which was the credit of Xiyou.
Richard did not attack Sarenwell's camp, but ran towards a grove in the opposite direction. There were five hundred Imperial cavalry, tasked with intercepting Richard's escape route. This group of cavalry are all veterans and have a lot of experience. They hide it well, but they can't hide the infrared vision of the dragon fly.
When he was still more than a thousand meters away from the grove, Richard raised his left hand high, and then pressed forward! The soldiers immediately rushed to the black oppressive forest in front of them. At this time, Xiyou noticed a detail, Richard never gave an order from beginning to end, only a few simple gestures at most. Even if there are powerful followers, why can those ordinary warriors see Richard's gestures in the dark?
Before Xiyu could come up with a result, she was swept into the grove by the warriors.
The next moment, an exclamation pierced the night, and then turned into a scream. Then, exclamations and screams rang out continuously, and soon they were united. The thick blood qi spread in the night wind, and the sounds of fighting and screams gradually thinned out, and dozens of knights fled from the other side of the grove, urging their horses with all their might, and soon disappeared into the night.
After a moment, Richard stood in the woods and scanned the battlefield. Dozens of humanoid warriors are cleaning the battlefield, carrying out their wounded and stabbing enemies who are not yet dead.
With the help of magic and magic, the battle turned into an almost one-sided slaughter, with only a dozen or so humanoid warriors on Richard's side dying under the counterattack of the Imperial cavalry, while the opposing side was almost completely wiped out.
Although he had won a near-perfect victory, Richard's face was not full of joy, but rather gloomy and terrifying. Richard was impressed by the tenacity of the Imperial cavalry in the battle, as well as the fighting power that erupted in a desperate situation. Obviously, this time Sarenwell brought elite troops, and tomorrow's battle will still be very tough.
Richard suddenly called Gangde over and whispered a few words. So Gangde called all his followers, as well as Xiyou and other fighters who were not on Richard's side, and led them out of the grove.
It wasn't until those men were far away that Richard gave a new order. So, the brood warriors put down their work and threw themselves at the dead horses to share the food in silence.
With a rustling chewing sound, the brood warriors' injuries recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye. As long as there is enough food, these units will recover as quickly as if they had been healed. Of course, this scene is not allowed to be seen by outsiders.
When Richard returned to Oasis City, Sherowell was busy.
Reilly divided his cavalry into three teams and took turns storming Sarenwell's camp. Thanks to the aerial scouting of the Dragonflies, Rayleigh was always able to identify the weak points of the Imperial army, and then launched a lightning attack to destroy the enemy's living forces.
Although the Imperial Army's camp was sturdy, it was a makeshift structure made of wood. Under the spear of the Knights of the Dawn, the walls made of wood are not much different from those made of papier-mΓ’chΓ©.
Sarenwell commanded a large army to pursue and intercept Reilly, but he was always calmly escaped. He knew that it was all because the insects in the sky had seen their movements clearly. If you can't get rid of it, you won't be able to sleep tonight.
"No, Your Highness! there are too many bugs!" the archer general gasped and lowered his bow. He had already fired more than twenty tracking arrows in a row, killing the same number of dragonflies. However, there were still hundreds of dragon flies flying in the sky, and they constantly emitted a piercing buzzing sound, as if mocking the incompetence of the Imperial Army.
"What do the masters say?" said Sarenwell's face was so gloomy that he looked like he was about to drip water, and he wanted to let his anger turn into substance and burn all those hateful bugs to death.
"Those bugs are flying too fast for even the Grand Mage to lock on......" The Marksman General whispered more and more, and Sarenwell couldn't even make out what he was talking about.
"Order, reduce the size of the camp to half of its original size, and assign me another 3,000 troops to patrol the camp. Also, ask the five masters to prepare for defense, and make sure that the enemy's magic does not fall on the warriors!"
"Your Highness, this ......" If Sarenwell had done what he said, three thousand warriors would not have been able to participate in tomorrow's battle, which would be very disadvantageous to the Imperial Army.
"You give me orders!" said Sarenwell, almost snarling.
β...... Be. β
Seeing the movement of the Imperial army, Reilly summoned all the cavalry and headed for the Blue Water Oasis.
"What a decisive man...... Sarenwell. Before leaving, he took a deep look at the camp of the Imperial Army and said, "What will you do tomorrow?"