At that time, Artoria gave an order. The Celtic army, which had long been unable to hold on, was like a general amnesty. They all breathed a sigh of relief. They could also see that if the fight continued, it would certainly not be the Greeks who would have been blamed here.

However, the queen's order is very simple, and tens of thousands of Celtic troops are moving, but they can't be talked about on paper. Seeing that the enemy's movements are inappropriate. As if to retreat, the front-line Roman army immediately joined the offensive. Step by step. It is hoped that the Celtic army will be completely annihilated here. As far back as the Celtic army retreated, they advanced. If the Celtic army insists on retreating, I am afraid that in turn, it will disrupt its formation. Let the Roman army take advantage of it.

Although Artoria had said that she had personally cut off the queen, she alone was a battlefield that could not be managed. It's one thing to charge single-handedly. But it's another thing for one person to hold back tens of thousands of troops. If a husband is a prisoner, something that cannot be opened can only happen within the "guan". And on the outskirts of Adrianople, it's a plain. Not to mention Artoria, even if you add the knights of the Hundred Guards next to her, it is not a good thing.

The empress could indeed force back some of the Roman armies by personal force, or even break them up. But this is a drop in the bucket for the retreat of tens of thousands of troops. While she broke through a group of enemies, the Romans from other directions could naturally attack. Crush her army.

So, after Artoria returned to his army, the situation was only slightly better. She is not a fierce beast like the Minotaur, she can burst out with great destructive power in a short period of time, sweeping through thousands of armies like a chariot. She doesn't have that much of an impact. You can break a path with just a physical impact...... In this way, after a while, the Celtic army continued to retreat, but something went wrong. On the way back, a Roman heavy infantry saw an opportunity, concentrated javelin, and then charged. Another gap was struck. The already somewhat scattered formation collapsed. If it weren't for Artoria, seeing that the situation was wrong, rushing over and breaking up that Roman army, I am afraid that the Celtic army would have suffered a great loss at this moment.

"Damn—hussars!"

Under such circumstances, Artoria had no choice but to make such an order. Wander around the periphery of the battlefield and charge once you see a flaw, or you will attack with a hussar who shoots from a distance with a bow and crossbow in his hand.

For this force was not her soldiers, but was lent to her by Egil. So before that, Artoria wasn't too embarrassed to give them death orders. But for a while, Artoria couldn't take care of much. If she doesn't use this army anymore, then I'm afraid that after a while, she will only be able to bring back this army. The Celtic army was formed for a long time. Year after year, there are victories and defeats. But it seems that it is like now, and it is rare to be almost wiped out in one step. Therefore, Artoria was also ruthless.

"The hussars went around behind the Celts and lined up. Take over the Celtic forces and engage the enemy!" Altoria ordered. The knights of the side guard immediately blew their horns. The hussars also immediately moved to the road where the Celtic troops retreated. The strikers dismount and line up with swords and shields. The defender dismounts and holds the bow. The left and right flanks did not dismount to protect the array. In an instant, a standard array was formed. Although there was a slight loss in equipment and numbers. But look at the well-trained look, too. They're not easy to mess with.

Seeing that there was such an army behind them, the Celts, who were struggling to support them, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. The troops that were close immediately turned around and ran through the gaps vacated by the hussars and broke away from the battlefield. In this way, the Celtic army continued to retreat, and all left in the middle of the Norman hussars. The retreat was a little faster. After a while, more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were withdrawn. At the same time, the horseback militias, which had long since lost their combat effectiveness, also left.

That's it. The retreat of the Celtic army was successful. The hussars were not warlike either. Led by Artoria, fought a little with the Romans for a while. I didn't get a bargain, but I didn't suffer either. Looking at the sky again, it was already dusk. It is estimated that after a while, the Celtic army may have gone some distance.

The hussars, who had a bottom in their hearts, did not hesitate to turn over and get on their horses. The bows and crossbows were fired at the Romans. Immediately afterwards, Artoria took the lead and fought a bloody way, after all, it was a cavalry unit, and it was easier to break through. It's just that in the previous fierce battle, less than 4,000 hussars were broken, but more than a thousand people were lost. In addition to the losses in the previous battle, the four thousand hussars were more than half. It's also a nerve-wracking injury.

"Damn, she ran away, you let her go, you didn't kill her!!" watched as Artoria led his army away. Lilianu roared without grace. She was genuinely frightened by Artoria.

After this, the empress also thought of sending cavalry to pursue. But she had no cavalry under her command who could take on this task. Heavy cavalry is not mentioned. The lightly armed Seljuk cavalry had previously been concentrated in the Roman phalanx as archers. I couldn't gather them together for a while.

If you take another 10,000 steps back, it is to concentrate them, and whether they can beat those elite hussars is still two words. Faced with a roaring and furious empress, the Roman soldiers were speechless. And finally, after a period of hysterical venting, Lilianu also returned to normal, looking at the battlefield full of chaos. She also lost her spirits.

"The whole army, rest for three days. Clean up the battlefield. And then...... Let's go back to Constantinople. ”

Hearing Lilianu's words, the Roman soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, and no one refuted them, and they all went back to sleep. Only Lilianu stayed on the battlefield a little longer. Looking at the devastation, I couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, and the grasp of the fate of the empire in my heart was slim again.

And so the battle ended.

Artoria's final decision saved the remaining 11,000 Celtic soldiers. Her army of 30,000 lost nearly 20,000. Including more than a thousand precious hoplites. The Norman reinforcements lost far less than that, with less than 2,000 hussars and less than 2,000 horseback militias. When the 10,000 cavalry returned, there was a small number of 7,000. All that adds up, Artoria still has 20,000 soldiers to fight with. This is also the reason why many people think: it is difficult to say whether the victory or defeat will be won if the battle continues.

The casualties on the side of the Roman army were much greater than those of the Celts. They lost all their mercenaries, as well as the vast majority of elite veterans, as did the heavy infantry and reserve regiments on the front. The elite losses of the Ironclad Holy Cavalry, the Guards Heavy Cavalry, and the Aguntople Heavy Cavalry are even more unacceptable...... In this way, the 130,000 Roman troops survived in the end - because the battle was so tragic that people have to use the word "survived" to describe it.

The final survivors of the Roman army were 74,000 men. Nearly half of the casualties were killed.

In addition to this, when the battlefield was finally cleaned up, such an incident happened. The Romans simply buried the corpses of the Greeks. As for the other mercenaries, there are also enemies who don't care. And the minotaurs weren't that interested at all. On the battlefield, hundreds of the corpses of the minotaur monster were left unattended. The most conspicuous of these was the Minotaur, who was blind in both eyes, wearing tattered armor and one size larger than the other minotaurs.

It was at this time that a few of the more daring veterans walked up to it. I want to cut something out of it as a souvenir. There are also deeds to boast about when I go back.

They first cautiously approached the monster, and found that its wounds had begun to stink [***], and some flies were surrounding them, biting its carrion and its body was cold and stiff. Looking at its nose again, I was sure that there was no breath left.

After these inspections, several veterans completely relaxed. They looked at each other with a chuckle, then drew the serrated dagger that had been prepared long ago, intending to cut off the metallic horn of the Minotaur.

But as they were about to do so, a viscous, phlegm-ting, bloody, muffled roar rang out again, terrifying! Then the troll lifted the nearest man beside him, opened his jaw and bit down, biting off the entire upper half of the man's body!

After seeing such a scene, the others were simply frightened crazy. There were also people who peed their pants. These veterans of a hundred battles screamed loudly like women for a while, using their hands and feet together, rolling and crawling, and ran back to the barracks without looking back. When people ask them what exactly happened. They stammered about it.

Then, a heavily armed team of 100 arrived at the accident site. They found the body of the Minotaur still in place, still lying on the ground. Still silent. But the hapless man with fresh blood and the upper half of his body bitten in his mouth also proved that the veterans were not lying.

Whether it was because of the posthumous conditioning caused by the excessive number of killings, or because the fierce spirit of the Minotaur did not want to be so desecrated by its corpse? But after carefully getting out the Roman soldier who had been split in half and burying it, no one dared to disturb the monster's corpse. Don't even dare to connect close to it.

Eventually, as time wore on, the Minotaur, the world's toughest minotaur warrior, was finally dealt with by scavengers and microbes. Its bones were also blown away by the wind, obscured by dust, and eventually vanished without a trace. However, rumors still circulate around Adrianople about the Minotaur Monster eating raw human flesh, its burial ground, and the fact that it will crawl out of the cemetery and attack humans again......

(To be continued)