Chapter 131: Bloody War

readx;? Now that Louis had withdrawn from the narrow strip to the north of the fortress and retreated to the vast plains, he shrank his defenses and built only one camp, deep ditches and high fortifications, hoping to restrain the advance of Maitz by his troops, after all, he still had many cavalry, and Maitz could not bypass him and attack elsewhere. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Orlan Empire is not too cold, and the snow has melted a lot under the sunny day.

Standing on a high slope, Maitz looked at Louis' camp in the distance and smiled contemptuously.

This is the genius general of the empire? I don't even know that a single battalion can't hold it for a long time?

Oh, maybe he was waiting for the emperor's reinforcements? Indeed, the emperor still had a lot of troops, but when he came to the plains, he could spread the news of the fortress being conquered throughout the north, shake the imperial capital, and let the speculative nobles join him.

Soldiers have always served political affairs, and this idiot probably doesn't understand it at all, right?

How did Maitz know that although the academy's curriculum also included strategic battles, it was not Louis's strong point at all.

Louis was born in a commoner, and his studies were mainly based on the knowledge of battle formations, because at the beginning, becoming a knight captain was already his great goal, how could Louie think so far and work hard to learn the knowledge of battles and strategies?

When he was in the academy, Louis was just lucky to defeat his mentor in a battle formation deduction, and the mentor specially called him a battle genius in order not to lose face, which was praised.

At that time, Louis felt that the skills of the fighter had almost been learned, so he seized the opportunity and left the academy with the reputation of this genius.

Maitz thought about it, and felt that it was still advantageous to defeat Louis quickly, so that he could enter the imperial capital, although it was impossible to attack the imperial capital, but it could make the northern nobles see greater hope, and let the southern nobles take out the hidden army and let it go.

Maitz ordered his lieutenant: "Send air cavalry to pinpoint him, send a thousand cavalry troops, and attack Louis's supplies, hmph, he thinks that we have few men, so we dare not besiege him? ”

As for whether Louis can break through, Maitz doesn't care.

As long as he builds a high platform, or relies on air horsemanship, and keeps an eye on Louie's movements, Matz thinks that he can completely withstand Louis's breakthrough, of course, this will not be too long, but according to estimates, it should be enough.

So once Louis is resisted, Maitz becomes defensive by means of a defensive body, and Louis turns to attack instead.

Louie's attrition in defense slightly exceeded the attrition of Maitz's offense, and if he turned to attack, the result was predictable, he would lose.

Maitz had the confidence to be able to withstand Louis's breakthrough in a short period of time, because he had an ace cavalry in his hand that had not been used.

Maitz's army moved into action at the sound of an order.

When Louis saw Matz's move, he had to send air cavalry and a large force of cavalry to roam out, trying to sabotage Matz's tactics, and the cavalry on the battlefield was constantly attacking each other, and it was extremely chaotic.

In the evening, Louis was surprised to see the war book.

Marshal Louis:

The Orlan royal family is unkind, and all the tribes are angry, I don't know why your Excellency stopped the righteous army?

In this case, if you have heard the name of your genius, can you dare to fight to the death tomorrow at noon, on the plain of Felfa?

Commander of the Alliance: Maitz

This kind of ancient thing would still appear in front of him, this is a complete provocation! But now that Matz has an army of more than 200,000 and less than 250,000 men, is he really afraid of the decisive battle?

Louis stood on the watchtower of the camp, looking at the headache of the chaos outside, and suddenly felt that the decisive battle was not bad, he thought that even if he lost, it didn't matter, as long as he consumed the Metz and made him unable to go north, it would be equivalent to victory. Presumably, the emperor will blame himself on the surface, but secretly he will be happy.

He spread out the war book on the crossbar by the window of the sentry tower, and wrote the big characters of the silver hook iron painting: Fight to the death!

At noon the next day, the weather was fine, and the two armies set up a position on the plain, on which the snow had melted in the trampling and the sun because of the fierce fighting for several days, and although it was a little muddy, it was still suitable for battle.

The Magic Guild's air riders and mages all withdrew from the battle, which was the order of the magic guild leader Higolat, so that the remaining air riders and mages would not be able to form combat power.

The Griffin Knights sent by the Orlan Empire were more brave in battle, but they were almost dead, and Louie's remaining empty horsemen were almost also members of the Magic Guild.

For the withdrawal of the air rider and the mage, Maitz doesn't care, these guys are not reliable, in the war, the mages on both sides always tacitly try not to attack, and until now, the air riders have lost most of them because of the helpless confrontation, but the loss of the mages is very small.

Louis breathed a sigh of relief, for him, the simpler the battlefield, the better, and he was not afraid of simple formations.

In that case, let the remaining air riders and mages guard the commander of the army, both sides thought so.

The Demon Elf Clan is relatively calm, still behind the Chinese army, and there is no blood rush to ask for any heavy responsibility. Amilia's opinion has been taken seriously by the Demon Elves within them.

In the battlefield, the long-range weapons of both sides were not erected, one was that Maitz was afraid that Louis would not come out, and the other was that the supplies were insufficient, so that the long-range weapons were only bows and crossbows.

Except for the fact that they had placed some of the strongest cavalry in the middle army, the rest of the cavalry were guarding the wings on both sides, and the infantry was in the middle.

Louie's infantry outnumbered more than 40,000 and was well equipped, and on the side of defending against the trolls, he laid down 40,000 elite tower shields to defend against the enemy's 20,000 trolls. On the side of the goblins, 30,000 spearmen were laid down in an attempt to defeat 20,000 goblins, while the rest of the infantry was mainly against the opposing Terrans.

When Matz saw it, he smiled coldly and didn't try to change the formation, he still had a trump card: the magic cavalry.

In fact, the goblins are not too weak, they are no longer ancient goblins, after surviving underground with gravity twice as high as the ground for so many years, the power of goblins has become great, but the height of goblins is indeed a disadvantage.

Looking from the raised command platform, the plain was black and oppressive, covered with a huge military formation, the military formation slowly moved, and the white gas breathed by the soldiers in the winter was connected into a white mist, and an amazing murderous aura rose to the sky.

With the murderous aura, it was the cross black rain flying in the sky, and after a few bursts of black rain, the soldiers were like two waves colliding together, and in the earth-shattering roar, the decisive battle began!

The plains of Ferfa are destined to be filled with rivers of blood and corpses.

The battle array just began to collide, on a snow-covered gentle low slope in the north of the Felfa Plain, an all-black wildebeest appeared, the black steel armor of the knight was concave and bewitching, and a black and purple hair was sprinkled outside the helmet, with the wild wind rippling, the knight raised his hand on the edge of the helmet, looking into the distance, the sun shone on her face, it was a bewitching face armor, a pair of black and purple eyes like water looked around smartly, revealing a strange flattery.

She stood there, as if she was a bystander on the battlefield in the distance, as she watched the dwarf goblins of the battlefield struggle to withstand the attack with their shields, and saw the rear of the goblins reverse the situation with strange blow arrows, and she saw the powerful tower shield soldiers completely withstand the attack of the trolls, and she also saw the cavalry rushing against each other, killing and wounding countless people.

The faces on the battlefield were so hideous and terrifying, and the screams were so fierce and noisy, but the black-armored female knight did not move until she saw a cavalry with black gas all over her body appear on the flank of the Metz army formation, and then she chuckled and waved the trident in her hand.

On the dirt slope behind the black-armored female knight, a black line appeared, all of them were cavalry, dense, about 10,000 horsemen, and the cavalry had already set up an attack formation, but this formation was really not very good, and it was obvious that the training time was not long.

A burly man in black armor came to her side and whispered, "Lord Audella, are we going to attack now?"

Audrey chuckled and said, "No need, let Louis suffer a little, otherwise how can we reflect our value!" Gusta, this battle called you for your prestige, after the war is over, you will go back to the Imperial Academy, to fight for the title, and besides, don't patronize cultivation, learn the knowledge of war, you look at these cavalry, the training is really bad!"

Although Gusda called Audrey an adult, his attitude was very casual, and he said: "I will work hard, as for the title, Her Royal Highness Andina's support for young people is my hope." ”

Audrey didn't say anything, and watched the black cavalry of Matz in the distance break through the cavalry arranged on Louis's flank, and then waved her hand and led the army to rush towards the battlefield.

Several of the cavalry who followed her lit up with various strange runes, emitting a gray light, these lights were not very noticeable, but they could affect the surrounding cavalry, and their strength, confidence, courage, and agility were all improved.

With the roar of hooves, the cavalry rushed to the left flank of Louis's army like a flood of floodgates.

Louis was cursing fiercely, this black cavalry is very powerful, he has used the reserves of the Chinese army in a panic, the cavalry hidden in the Chinese army, to support the cavalry on the left flank, but it still can't resist the impact of those black cavalry.

Maitz's Chinese army was separated, and the reserves were also activated, but they were used to attack Louis's army, and he was ready to rely on this force to determine the victory, and suddenly, the front of Louis's trapezoidal army was like a hard punch, and it became a crescent.

Louis was frightened in his heart, he was wandering, and when he wanted to retreat with his personal guards, he heard the sound of hooves coming from the left rear, he turned his head to look, in the white field, a large cavalry was galloping, and some of the cavalry were shouting with magic props: "Viscount Audrey led the Phantom Knights to help Lord Louis!"

Louis was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the heralds to let the Chinese soldiers resist, let the law enforcement team try to maintain the formation, and ordered the left flank cavalry to pay attention to the convergence and avoid the collision.

After the Phantom Knights rushed to the left flank, they ran in the direction of Louie's cavalry and joined their forces, at this time, the gray light on the Phantom Knights also had an effect on Louis's cavalry, although the entire cavalry formation became relatively loose, but the individual strength of the cavalry increased by a step.

After the two cavalry combined, it expanded to more than 40,000, and due to the attrition of Maitz's cavalry, plus those black gas cavalry, there were only more than 30,000 left.

The cavalry on the left flank of both sides collided again, one side was looser, but the number was superior, and the overall strength was improved, and the black gas cavalry on the other side was strong, but the overall number of cavalry suffered.

Neither of the two cavalry was able to break through anyone, and like the cavalry on the right flank, the cavalry on both sides lost their mobility and became entangled, and Audella's side was still faintly weak.

After the flanks were blocked, Louis only had to work hard to maintain the Chinese army, and after losing the pressure on the flanks, he was finally able to withstand it, and now, the formations of both sides were chaotic, and it was a mess that affected everywhere.

A big melee has finally formed on the battlefield, and the power of the trolls has been brought into play, and they wield a large stick of iron to cause great damage.

The battle damage of the entire battlefield was significantly more Louie.

Maitz cursed fiercely, the victory in hand is gone, what if the advantage is there, it becomes a war of attrition, his forces will be consumed too much, but in this case, he has to fight.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the plains were dyed red, the sun was also blood, more than 200,000 people died on the battlefield, the soldiers were sticky and slippery under their feet, and the gaps between the soldiers were also widened.

At this time, the soldiers were very weak, the roars on the whole battlefield were quieter, but it was easier to command, and the weaker Louis army, in the continuous command, organized the rear army to resist, so that the soldiers of the front army were gathered into a squad, and the squad was slowly gathered into a large team.

Maitz was also organizing, but he organized the soldiers to continue pressing.

In this way, in the middle of retreat and advance, Maitz's pursuit stopped, and when it was completely dark, it was not good for both sides, and the battle situation would be uncertain.

Maitz looked at the Louis army in the distance and angrily ordered to set up camp.

That night, the logistics auxiliaries seized the equipment, buried the dead bodies, and counted the results of the battle.

Matz still had 120,000 troops left, and Louis was even more miserable, with less than 100,000 left, and Maitz was a great victory.

For the next two days, Maitz pursued continuously, and made sure to annihilate Louis's army, and in any case, completely defeating Louis's army, his political and strategic intentions could be realized.

Louis's cavalry suffered heavy losses after several breaks, and the morale of the soldiers was completely demoralized, and they no longer dared to engage Maitz.

Seeing that he was about to catch up with Louis, the logistics adjutant came to report: "My lord, the logistics can't keep up, the supplies behind it have been missed for two days, that is, so many people have died, and we have collected wildebeest meat, so that it can last for seven days." You know, a wildebeest can only eat about fifty pounds. ”

Matz didn't blame the adjutant, from the back to supply the assembly area, to get here, the fast horse died in a hurry, it would take a day, he was startled, said: "What? The enemy's air horsemen? How can there be no signal in our rear?"

After saying that, Matz himself thought it was impossible, and after the decisive battle, the old guy in Higolat canceled the order, trying to make the air riders and mages get more merits, but his own air horses were staring at them to death, not to mention that the griffin knights were almost dead.

The adjutant also said, "My lord, it's impossible! Besides, even if it's an empty horse, those sentries can't even have time to give a signal." ”

There was a burst of anger in Matz's heart, and he said: "Immediately ask an air horse to return to explore, we will shrink our forces and start to retreat slowly, damn it!"

If the logistics can't keep up, his strategy will fail, and instead of advancing, it is better to retreat to the vicinity of the fortress.

Maitz's retreat was immediately noticed by Louis.

Because Louis suddenly found that there was no pursuit, of course he had to send someone to investigate.

Louis didn't think it was a trap, as his soldiers weren't as strong as the multiracial soldiers of Maitz, and his soldiers were too exhausted to hold out from the continuous rapid assault.

A few times, Audrey and her cavalry dragged the cross-attack of Matz's black cavalry and the trolls, and Matz must not have known that if he tried harder, he might have to abandon the army and flee.

Louis was immediately excited, and if he lost the war, his future would be bleak.

The army turned around under Louie's orders, and instead began to pursue, Louis's logistics were sufficient, enough to be ruthless, because so many people had died.

Matz was helpless, he didn't expect Louis to fight well, but he was not small.

In this way, Matz can't retreat slowly, once the military rations are gone, it will be directly finished, with Louis behind, he can't attack nearby cities to get military rations.

Maitz had to use the same method of retreat as Louis.

So the war strangely turned into a defeat and began to flee victoriously, and at first Louis's soldiers were still weak and timid, but after two days of pursuit, they became crowded, and it seemed that the fatigue had disappeared, while Maitz's army seemed extremely tired, and it must be said that emotions really had a great effect on the human body.

Behind this strange change is the great shadow of Raphael that hangs over the canopy, and this shadow seems to be still smiling.

In the Rhine Fortress, after Raphael saw a magic signal in the sky, he asked the chief knight to lead the cavalry, drive the auxiliaries, and leave the fortress south.

Raphael didn't care about the auxiliaries escaping, according to the time, the auxiliaries did not return, they should have been noticed by the defenders of Ampere City, and no matter how much they deceived those sentry cavalry teams, they couldn't hide it.

Ampere City has 10,000 cavalry, and if he doesn't leave, it is estimated that at least 5,000 cavalry will rush over.

After Raphael's cavalry left the city, they no longer cared about the auxiliaries, they set out lightly, and did not even bring much supplies, they would go to the woods before to resupply, this is to rush to speed, so as not to be discovered by Matz's empty cavalry.

After that, the Oro cavalry will be broken into pieces again, lurking everywhere, waiting for the war to end.

Raphael, however, stayed, hiding in a newly built bunker in the southern wall of the city.

The bunker created a passage to the outside of the fortress, which resembled a segmented slide.

Raphael stayed because he thought that Maitz had cut off the logistics and would retreat, he still had something to do, and if Maitz didn't retreat, then it didn't matter, at most the plan failed, so he would use the secret passage to escape.

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