Chapter 137 A tower with a human head, eight thousand floating corpses
Cavalry charge, what you want is momentum!
Chang Le used all his means to exaggerate his own momentum beyond measure, and the whole army was like a landslide and tsunami, pressing down from the high slope towards the besieging enemy army in one breath.
The enemy commander was killed, the various divisions lost coordination, the petty leaders had different orders, and the soldiers were terrified, and they were suddenly in chaos.
And the panicked and chaotic infantry can only be reduced to fish under the knife in front of the cavalry, not only is it powerless to resist, but it is also difficult to escape.
This one-sided massacre lasted for a full hour, and Chang Le, believing that the light cavalry was fast, ordered his troops to pursue freely, and tried to kill them all.
In the end, most of the people who were able to form a system and slip through the net were those "fire troops", and the cultivators were very strong, even if they couldn't outrun the light horses, at least they were faster than other soldiers on their side, and after using friendly troops as backs, they finally picked up their own lives.
Feeling that it was almost over, Chang Le turned on the amplification function of the king's suit, and the loud command voice spread over a radius of more than ten kilometers, calling his cavalry to stop the pursuit and search, and start cleaning the battlefield.
The skinny monkey was a little puzzled:
"Boss, why don't you chase it?"
"Leave some alive and let them bring news to King Fisher, his army of 10,000 is finished!"
Chang Le smiled and turned around:
"Let's go, go to Fort Stanley, the garrison is great, it's best to take them in!"
has been a robber for too long, and he is really used to the word "joining".
Just when the Changle army was charging and the enemy army was in chaos, Lola had already galloped down from the city, and the password was issued repeatedly, asking her subordinate cavalry to get on the horse immediately, and the rest of the troops had horses to ride horses, and no horses on foot, and immediately opened the city gate to flank the enemy.
But this reversal of the tide of the battle came too suddenly, the horses were crowded together in the stables and squares, and the heavy vests and saddles were not installed, and if these things had been prepared, the battle would have been over.
Lola was so angry and amused that she ordered everyone to attack on foot.
The gates of Fort Stanley, which had been closed for twenty days, rumbled open, and the elite guards rushed out, Lola was originally the captain of the heavy cavalry of the first division of the ace, and after half a moon of siege, more than 200 of her subordinates survived.
Coupled with the remnants of the rest of the troops, everyone hid in the castle, relying on the city wall for more than ten days, and was depressed for a long time by the enemy's rain of arrows and trebuchets.
Miranda leaned against the arrow stack and looked down on everything, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
There is Weber with the rank of major general in the building, and there is still her colonel at the head of the city, but the person who gives the order is actually Major Lola, and even her own soldiers of the Sixth Division rushed out of the city gate with others, she can't be angry about this, only the word "admiration".
Then she looked at the battlefield outside the city, and couldn't help frowning, "Huh".
Lola, who had arrived outside the city, simply laughed, and pointed to Chang Le's "army" with one hand:
"What the hell is this!"
It turned out that Changle's "army of 10,000 people" charged down, causing the enemy army to collapse and start a unilateral massacre, the truth was gradually revealed, the real cavalry force was only two rows, the formation was very wide, but the thickness was very thin.
The cavalry had large branches behind them, and they had chosen dry and exposed slopes to dive at high speed, and because of the terrain and smoke, the enemy could not see how many troops there were behind, and they could only see an endless stream of people.
But those who followed behind were actually infantrymen, stomping their feet and running wildly while roaring, and their main function was to be strong!
There weren't many serious infantry in armor and with swords, and then there were farmers who carried sharpened sticks as weapons!
The worst thing is that there are not even many farmers, the whole formation is quite loose, and the spread area is large enough, and the number of people is spectacular under the shroud of dust and smoke!
What is an army of 10,000 people? It is simply a rabble of 1,000 soldiers and 2,000 peasants!
Changle and the regular cavalry had already rushed to nowhere to go, and Lola had to fight side by side with the peasants, chasing down the scattered enemy army.
Some of the enemy soldiers saw the true face of the farmer who was chasing behind them, and then they shouted in a lost voice:
"Fooled! We are fooled! The enemy is not strong at all!"
So they turned around and swung their swords, and engaged the peasants with sticks.
The peasants are all refugees who have fled into the mountains, a few have already "joined" to serve in the Changle army, and many more did not voluntarily set off to participate in the war until last night, sharpening their own sticks without weapons, and their morale is quite high, but the actual combat effectiveness is hardly optimistic.
But the Fisher-Zaran coalition paid the price for their massacre.
These farmers were either killed by their own relatives or had witnessed such a bloody crime, so they were full of anger and fierce fighting, even if they were stabbed in a desperate way, they would stab the opponent with a stick, and even if the stick broke, they would hold the enemy soldier and roll down, roaring like beasts, picking at their eyes and biting their throats.
They are not fighting, they are taking revenge!
And Lola and the elite guards then killed, and those enemy troops who had just mustered up the courage to resist could only collapse again after encountering such a demon king.
When the red sun moved to the zenith and turned fierce, and the scorching sun shone on the corpses everywhere, Changle finally rode back to Fort Stanley.
By this time, Lola had taken off her helmet and held it in her arms, talking and laughing with a group of peasants.
"Lola! It's you!"
Chang Le saw that familiar face from a distance, his heart suddenly became hot, he shouted loudly, beat the horse and galloped, jumped up dozens of meters away, and fell straight in front of Lola, opening his arms to hug.
Lola flew a punch in the face, hitting Changle in the chest, completely curbing his forward momentum.
This punch was not a real fight, but it was also quite heavy, Chang Le's chest was full of blood and qi, and he gave up his attempt to hug, but the smile on his face remained undiminished:
"I haven't heard from you all the time, I'm in a ...... mood Good thing you're okay!"
The thin monkey followed, jumping off his horse and looking at Lola, with a smile on his face, but tears glistening in his eyes:
"Tyrannosaurus, with what I know of you, I thought you would have died heroically a long time ago!"
Lola smiled, threw the helmet to the ground, pulled the thin monkey and hugged him fiercely, and patted him on the back:
"You're also promising! With what I know about you, I thought you would have escaped three thousand miles away!"
The thin monkey was hugged like this by a big tyrannosaurus wearing iron armor, and the bones on his body were chaotic, like walnuts that had been crushed by the wheels, and he couldn't help but beg for mercy.
Chang Le laughed "hehe":
"You only hug the thin monkey and don't hug me, eccentric!"
"Boss, help!" the thin monkey was breathless, his voice hoarse, and he turned back for help with a bitter face.
Lola let go of her hand, patted the thin monkey on the shoulder, and smiled:
"If you call me the big tyrannosaurus again, I will still hug you like this, hug the dragon, if you don't hug it, you can't do it. ”
Then she faced Changle and pointed to the city:
"I can't hold you, because your woman is on the city wall, and I'm afraid she'll be jealous. ”
Then she tapped on her iron armor:
"It's hot, I'm about to be able to barbecue, I'll go back and change my clothes, I'll see you in the castle!"
"Who is my woman?" Chang Le couldn't help but look at the city wall, but the distance was too far for him to see clearly.
"Definitely not Fanny, she didn't go to the front at all, I guess the Tyrannosaurus is talking about Miranda. ”
The skinny monkey moved his limbs to relieve the pain while helping to explain.
Chang Le shook his head, said no more, and turned to gather his troops.
Now that he is not in a hurry to enter the city, whether the enemy army has been completely annihilated, whether there will be other enemy troops who will quickly counterattack, these are all doubts, and as the commander-in-chief, he does not dare to relax in the slightest.
While regrouping the scattered troops, he counted the results of the battle, and at the same time kept the scout cavalry as far away as possible.
By noon, the situation had finally settled.
A total of 6,000 were beheaded in this battle, and the remaining about 3,000 enemy troops fled, and because of the large number of enemies and the obstruction of high mountains and rivers, it was difficult for the cavalry to annihilate them completely.
Chang Le's own subordinates also suffered a lot of casualties, more than 300 killed and more than 500 wounded, with a total of nearly 1,000, accounting for almost one-third of the total force.
After all, the enemy army numbered as many as 10,000 people, and although it was generally in collapse and chaos, it was enough for a few people to put up a desperate and stubborn resistance, which was enough to inflict serious losses on his small army.
There were basically no casualties among the cavalry, and chasing down the rout was a lucrative deal.
The infantry was okay, they were all elite guards he had contained, and they were fully armed with armor and shields.
The peasants who joined temporarily were the worst, the equipment was poor, the fighting skills were not perfect, and the enemy dared to resist when he met such an opponent, if it wasn't for Lola to kill out of the castle in time to stabilize the situation, I am afraid that when Chang Le and the cavalry are in pursuit, they will only see the corpses of these hot-blooded men when they come back.
In fact, the task given to them by Chang Le was very simple, they were only responsible for waving the flag and shouting to make a strong noise, but they didn't expect the croppers to join the battle without hesitation.
All in all, the surprise attack was a great risk, but fortunately it ended successfully.
Wendy did not participate in the frontline fighting, but she immediately rushed to the scene, erected improvised awnings on the spot, and began to treat hundreds of wounded. Under the premise of limited magic power, only the seriously injured can be rescued, and the lightly injured can be bandaged slightly and the treatment can be postponed.
The existence of this little girl has saved the loss of at least a thousand people for Chang Le so far, she does not directly participate in the battle, but the value of a light mage to the combat troops is probably far greater than that of the most powerful warrior!
There were countless beheadings in this battle, but there was no prisoner, because Changle said before the war that he would not take prisoners.
As for the corpses of the enemy, he had already thought of how to deal with them, stripped off all the armor, cut off the heads, threw the corpses into the Starr River, and let them go downstream.
Enemy troops piled up under the walls and died in multi-day siege battles were treated in the same way.
The main force of Fisher-Zalan is in the lower reaches of the river, and it won't be long before you see these 8,000 floating corpses.
This is tantamount to Chang Le's challenge book, which clearly tells the commander of the coalition forces, King Fisher:
"Your 10,000 people are finished, the headless corpse has been sent to you, as for where the head is, welcome to visit!"
The severed heads of the enemy were stacked on top of each other along the main roads leading to the interior of the empire, and the base was composed of more than 900 heads, which gradually decreased upwards to become a cone-shaped tower of more than ten meters.
Even if King Fisher can't see it for the time being, his spies and scouts will.
King Fisher would naturally know that a large army had just been born behind him, annihilating all his 10,000 horses, and openly provoking him with 8,000 floating corpses and towers with human heads!
As for the name of this fierce force, it has long been famous, "Knights of Heaven".
The emblem of the unit is "Black Armor".
Chang Le was inspired by the red-clothed "Agni Army", in addition to the original white cross-line flag on a black background, he also dyed the armor of the whole army black, so that the enemy could be shocked and smell the "black" color change.
Due to the rush of time, this black color was rather impure, and it was only a temporary smear of cutting down trees and burning charcoal, but it had already impressed the enemy survivors enough that they would naturally hype it up to others when they returned.
In order to prove that they were not ashamed of their defeat, they are likely to exaggerate the number and combat effectiveness of the "Heavenly Knights", which is also the effect that Chang Le wants.
As long as Elliott, the king of Fisher, is a man, it is impossible not to be angry, and it is impossible not to lead the army back to the division in anger and come to Changle to fight to the death.
In this way, Marshal Fontaine had time, with the financial support brought by Blue Moon, to calmly put in order a new army.
As for how to deal with the pursuit of hundreds of thousands of troops when the enemy army really returns to the division, it is useless to think too much now, and it is most practical to strengthen your own men and horses first.
So after arranging the work outside the city and handing over the command to the thin monkey, Chang Le officially entered Fort Stanley.
The defenders of the fort automatically lined up to greet them and saluted in unison.
But Chang Le didn't see Lola, only met Miranda, who looked strange.
Miranda was silent, unable to tell whether she was laughing or sad, and only silently stretched out her hand. Looking at the hand shape, the five fingers are open, the tiger's mouth is upward, and it is obvious that he should shake hands in a manly style, rather than waiting for his kiss as a noble lady.
"I didn't expect you to be there too. Chang Le smiled kindly and reached out to shake her.
Reuniting with old people on the bloody battlefield, even if he was a very annoying guy before, now looks much kinder, and he is no longer deliberately cold and alienated.
Miranda's lips moved, she didn't say any meaningful words, and she held Chang Le's hand tightly.
Chang Le looked down at her slender jade fingers, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile mockingly:
"Why, shake hands with filthy pariahs, you're not afraid of nausea?"