Chapter 80: The Most Terrible Commander
As the days passed, the situation in the north heated up rapidly. An atmosphere of impending rain hovered over the border area.
In early spring, when Reilly was conducting field training in the border area, he asked to enter the garrison of the Iron Triangle Imperial Border Guard Corps to search under the pretext that a slave was "missing", but the Imperial Army sternly refused.
The main battle corps of the Iron Triangle Empire has always been arrogant, how can it endure such insults? The two sides used "body language" in the first negotiations, resulting in dozens of deaths.
The legion currently stationed on the border of the Bloodstained Lands is the main battle force that was transferred from the east half a year ago. In their view, the garrison of the southern border was equivalent to repair, and only the crusade to seize the mouth of Walvis Bay was an important war at the imperial level, and none of the emperor's more than seventy sons was qualified to lead the army alone to join the main battlefield. Therefore, these border guards did not think that Sarenwell's defeat was due to Richard's strength, and they directly labeled the prince as "incompetent".
In fact, a series of defeats in the Bloodstained Lands had caused Sarenwell's reputation to plummet, and he was now largely out of the throne. Recently, this prince, who once had the ambition to swallow heaven and earth, often borrowed wine to drown his sorrows. The several legions that were originally commanded by him were all taken back, and the genius commander who was once as famous as Li Shilongtu was reduced to a middle-level officer who trained new recruits, and the number of troops under his direct command was less than 5,000, and with his own small territory, it was very difficult to feed these 5,000 people.
Today, Salonwell's former allies are scattered, and no one else is far enough away from him, except for those nobles who are connected by blood. In this case, it is no wonder that the commander of the border regiment regarded Sarenwell as incompetent.
This legion had a total of 50,000 men, and the commander and adjutant were all strong men of the town, and they took over the defense area that was originally in charge of Sarenwell. In their opinion, the reason why they did not enter the Bloodstained Land was to show respect for the oracle and not to use force against Richard, who had destroyed the invaders within a year. And now, Richard took the initiative to provoke, and that would not be considered a violation of the oracle.
With both sides wanting to go to war, the conflict grew rapidly, and a month later, two thousand slaves under the command of Ray and five thousand men from the border guards faced off.
At first, Reilly did not make a move, and the slaves were defeated by the border guards. When the battlefield shifted to a valley, Reilly suddenly cast the eighth-level magic "Earth Shake", which shattered the entrance to the valley. It was only at this time that the commander of the Imperial Border Guards discovered that thousands of elven archers had appeared on the mountain!
In the face of the arrows falling like flying locusts, the border guards were also provoked to be ferocious. They knew that there was only one way to survive, and that was to crush the slave army in front of them and escape from the other side of the valley.
The red-eyed border guards exerted 200 percent combat effectiveness and broke the line of defense of 2,000 slaves almost instantly. However, just as they were about to break out of the valley, a violent earthquake buried everyone in the passage, including hundreds of slaves who had not yet escaped from the valley.
Reilly's coldness shook everyone, and the shooters on the mountain were still raining arrows at the same frequency. They were all puppet shooters transformed from the corpses of the Green Forest Elves, and there were no emotions of fear or surprise.
In the end, 5,000 border guards were wiped out in the valley, a result that completely angered the proud Empire.
The commander of the legion personally led the main force to attack and slaughtered into the bloodstained land.
There are no incompetent commanders of the front-line troops of the Iron Triangle Empire, and those who can participate in the Eastern Crusade are even more elite among the elites. Reilly tried a few times and found that the other party had no obvious weaknesses, and his command style was decent. Although this kind of person does not have the ability to defeat the strong with the weak, he cannot be expected to make any low-level mistakes.
As a result, Reilly simply gave up the harassment and prepared to face the Imperial Army. The target of the expedition is the Blue Camp, where Reilly intends to eliminate them.
On the day of the decisive battle, Lei Li led 7,000 troops to meet the 30,000 elites of the Iron Triangle Empire.
In the eyes of Gangde and the others, there was no suspense in this battle for a long time, because Reilly sent a full hundred Dawn Knights!
Even the floating island giants of the Holy Alliance have to be cautious in the face of such a lineup, let alone the natives of the secondary plane?
As soon as the battle began, Reilly gave the Imperial Army a dismount. When the distance between the two sides was still 500 meters, a wave of arrows shot over, catching them by surprise.
Accurate shooting from 500 meters away -- that's something that only a shooter of grade 10 or above can do. And judging from the scale of this wave of arrow rain, there are thousands of such shooters in the Reilly army!
The face of the commander of the Imperial Army changed drastically, he drew his long sword, and roared, "Quick!
The fighters immediately picked up speed and rushed towards Reilly's troops. However, just as the two sides were about to make contact, more than a hundred fireballs suddenly flew from the opposite side!
The Imperial Army was immediately blown up, and the originally tight formation was also in disarray.
"Assault on the whole army!" Reilly's voice resounded throughout the battlefield.
A hundred Knights of the Dawn formed a formation and crashed into the Imperial line. One by one, the Imperial Knights were lifted into the sky by spears, even the eighteenth-level Legion Commander was no exception! As the strongest of the Frontier Legions, he had not yet killed any of the enemies, and he was besieged by two Knights of the Scorching Sun!
Gonde, Three-Quarters, and Tiramisu each led a team of knights and smashed into the enemy's line. The border guards are worthy of the elite of the Iron Triangle Empire, and in such an unfavorable situation, they still maintain high morale and strong will to fight, and the performance of officers at all levels is also remarkable. However, whenever someone gathered their troops and organized a defensive line, the Knights of Dawn would turn into a crimson giant sword and slash down, crushing the Imperial Army's front!
Reilly drew his Dark Sword and swung forward!
Three thousand puppet knights urged their horses to rush forward like a tidal wave, cutting through the Imperial Army's line.
In early spring, the Fifth Legion of the Iron Triangle Empire entered the Bloodstained Lands and engaged in a duel with Reilly, only to be wiped out. From the commander of the legion downwards, a total of two Zhenguo powerhouses and seven Faro Sanctuaries were killed in the battle, and the losses of Reilly's side are unknown.
After the battle at the Blue Camp, Rayleigh led the puppet legion to attack the Fifth Legion's garrison, and raided the 15,000 defenders left behind during the night, wiping them out!
After this war, all countries of mankind were in an uproar!
It was the Fifth Legion of the Iron Triangle Empire, an elite army that could participate in the Eastern Crusade, and it was by no means comparable to the aristocratic private army that Sherowell had gathered before.
After receiving the news, the top of the empire urgently summoned Sarenwell and asked him to return to the imperial capital to discuss countermeasures.
When the guards delivered an urgent message from the Imperial Capital using ultra-long-range magic to Sarenwell, he was sitting by a stream fishing.
In fact, the stream has just thawed this season, and there are no fish to catch. But if he didn't fish, Sherowell would have nothing to do, and the recruits he trained would be recruited by other legions, so he didn't bother to train. And now he doesn't get the empire's military subsidy at all, and he only relies on the little income in his own territory, and even the most descendant of 5,000 troops is very difficult to raise.
After reading the magical message, Sarenwell was silent, and after a long time, he crumpled the letter and threw it into the stream, watching it flow downstream.
The guard was shocked, and said in anticipation, "This ...... Your Highness, this is not good. ”
"What's wrong?" said Sarenwell lightly, "It's too late to get Richard out of the bloodstained land." He shook the rod in his hand and continued fishing.
The man who accompanied Sarenwell on the fishing was the last general by his side. The brawny man would rather endure a reduction of more than half of his salary and stay with Sarenwell. His Royal Highness originally had five generals in the lineage, and he thought that these people were all henchmen who could be entrusted to his heirs. However, when Sarenwell was at his worst, there was only one one who remained by his side.
The general frowned and said, "Your Highness, is there really no way to deal with that kid Richard, if you don't kill him, I still can't swallow this breath in my heart." ”
Sarenwell smiled bitterly, "What are we going to do to kill him?" Now he has hordes of Sanctuary and Townsman powerhouses around him, as well as an incredibly elite knight order. In addition, we are now facing not Richard, but Reilly, who is even more terrible than Richard! This is a man who is so ruthless that he will even launch indiscriminate attacks on soldiers who are already entangled! This kind of person is not a qualified leader, but he is the most terrible commander! Unless the empire is willing to do its best, no one can help Richard and Reilly.
"Hi. The general threw his fist in anger and smashed a large stone.
"But we may have one last chance. ”
"What a chance. The general was overjoyed.
"God War. ”