Chapter 197: Carey's Decision
After a long run with his cavalry, Sharon was already close to the battlefield.
However, when he suddenly saw many densely flickering torches in the distance, at least tens of thousands, he immediately stretched out his hand to stop the troops.
He then sent a few soldiers to check on them, but as they were about to get closer, several arrows flew out and knocked them to the ground.
Seeing this, he also sent another team of people out, but many of them were still shot on the spot, and the opponent's archery skills were very accurate, almost one arrow.
"My lord, the torches in front of me are planted on the ground, and there are quite a few children playing there. The soldiers who had fled immediately reported it.
"Kid, how many enemies are there?" asked Sharon.
The man shook his head and replied, "I don't see any enemy troops here, but I'm sure they're hiding in the shadows, waiting for us to take the bait." ”
Hearing this, Sharon also fell into deep thought, there were only a few thousand children in front of him, there must be fraud, if he rushed forward, he might fall into the enemy's ambush.
At this time, Su Lin was still playing on the ground with the children, and one of the children asked, "If they rush over, won't we all die?" ”
Su Lin touched his head and smiled: "Don't worry, the virtual is real, and the real is virtual." ”
When the boy heard this, he touched his head and did not understand what he meant.
After a while, Sharon's entanglement passed, and his subordinates also knew about his problem, and they were very hesitant and indecisive enough, and they could only do it on the side.
In the end, Sharon still made up his mind and decided to spare it, so he led the troops to spare it.
Seeing that his subordinates were a little dissatisfied, he also opened his mouth to explain: "We are cavalry, and now the speed has slowed down, if we rush over at this time, it will be miserable if we are ambushed, so we can only take a detour." ”
There was no reaction from the others, compared to him as a manager, they just listened to orders.
Surin watched as the enemy began to make a detour, so he immediately returned to the battlefield.
By this time, Hotto's troops had been separated and were being eaten away one by one, believing that they would be able to eat them completely before dawn.
However, at this time, the cavalry is the biggest threat, and someone must be sent to stop it.
Thinking of this, he immediately took out tens of thousands of people and personally led them to intercept the approaching enemy troops, which could delay a little time.
Soon Surin led his soldiers to a hillside, where intercepting the cavalry would minimize their impact, and now his side was weak, and he had to take advantage of everything he could.
Except for some archers, the rest of these tens of thousands of soldiers were all spear and shield soldiers, and they had now formed a defensive line on the hillside.
When Sharon led the cavalry to the side to prepare to attack, suddenly a rain of arrows shot down, because the sky is also relatively dark now, so for a while many people fell off their horses with arrows, and the speed also slowed down.
"Dark Arrow, everyone be careful, take out your shield. ”
"Your Excellency, there are enemy forces ahead. ”
Hearing this, Sharon looked at it and found that a group of enemies had appeared on the hillside not far away, and it seemed that they had been waiting here for a long time.
He then gave the order to attack, and the cavalry left and reversed direction, and quickly rushed towards the hillside.
Seeing this, Su Lin hurriedly turned his head and shouted at the archers behind him: "Shoot horses, don't shoot people." ”
As soon as the words fell, the archers behind them shot sharp arrows that had been killing them, shooting directly at the horses.
I saw that the sharp arrow shot straight into the chest of the war horse, as if penetrating a piece of paper, and immediately many war horses fell directly to the ground, and at the same time tripped over many galloping war horses.
After falling his horse in front, Su Lin, who was in the cavalry behind, also slowed down a lot, began to bypass from both sides, and rushed over again.
The Surin guard put his bow and looked at a knight who rushed up, and shot an arrow directly into his eye, and the man let out a scream and fell off his horse, and the horse behind him stepped into a pulp.
Then the two sides began to fight, and the silence of the night was also broken by the sound of screams and fighting.
Carey was organizing his infantry troops to the battlefield at this time, but he had only just begun to set off, and it was estimated that it would be morning when he arrived.
Now that there are no more infected and dead soldiers in the camp, Carey is relieved.
When the troops had departed, he wrote to the people of the church, asking them to send some more magicians to come and support.
As time passed, the sun slowly rose, and the sun brought light again.
At this time, the battlefield of 200 was also coming to an end, and most of Hoto's more than 200,000 troops were annihilated, leaving 60,000 or 70,000 people to surrender.
And Su Lin is also approaching the large army with the support of the soldiers at this moment, and there are only a few hundred people left around him, and the cavalry is also chasing after him.
Felicia also came with troops to greet her, and reported the results of the battle: "More than 130,000 people were exterminated, 70,000 prisoners were captured, and there were a lot of food, grass and weapons. ”
"Burn the grain and grass with the corpses, and keep the captured soldiers alone, so that they don't catch the plague again. ”
"Don't worry, I've done as you say. ”
It didn't take long for Sharon to come with the rest of the knights, but he saw that the battle was over, and there were corpses all over the ground, and many prisoners were being taken away.
Seeing this, someone immediately said, "My lord, what should we do now?
Sharon waved his hand and said, "No need, the battle is over, there are still a lot of people on the other side, we can't beat it." ”
It was almost noon when Carey arrived with a large army, and in the distance he saw a fire in front of him.
After entering, I saw that the tent and the granary were on fire, and there was already a sea of fire in front of me, and even before I got close, I could feel a heat wave coming.
Seeing that the 200,000 army was over, Carey didn't know what to do now, the first million army, but he didn't expect that only a few months later, there were only more than 300,000 people left.
Now that we are no longer able to continue the siege, it is time to think about how to deal with the current situation, either withdraw or seek reinforcements.
As the most powerful country on the mainland, the million-strong army was defeated in only a few months, leaving only one-third of the troops, and the world was in an uproar for a while.
When Urban received a letter from Carey asking him to send a magician for reinforcements, he threw it on the ground.
He sent 2,000 magicians to help him before, but all of them died, and Urban also suffered a lot of pressure from the sect, and now he still wants people, which is simply impossible.
Fortunately, the Church's army has firmly controlled the eastern part of Muga, and a large area of land already belongs to the Church.
Then Urban wrote to Const, asking him to lead his troops to Logo, and now that Buori had converted to the Church, it was very easy to reach Logo, and the large army of Logo had been consumed on the battlefield, and the rear must be empty.
When Kairi received Urban's reply, he was also annoyed, and rejected the request to continue sending the magician, telling him to wait for Garris's army to arrive and act with them.
After learning the news, Carey also tore the letter to shreds, and was about to stand up when he suddenly felt dizzy, and then fell to the ground.
When he woke up, he found that it was already night, and there was only Claure beside him, so he quickly sat up and asked, "What's wrong with me?"
"The doctor said you were too excited to faint, and there was nothing else wrong with you. Chloe whispered.
"This time we lost, lost. Carey let out a long sigh with a hint of decline on his face.
Hearing this, Chloe said with a firm face: "We haven't lost yet, don't we still have more than 300,000 people?"
Kaili shook his head and replied: "We can't use up the last bit of troops, now we have to take them home, we have no use to stay, but will fall into a disadvantageous situation." ”
Hearing this, Chloe also nodded and asked, "Do you really want to retreat?"
"Yes, give me the map. Carey pointed to the map on the table.
After handing it to him, Carey searched for it on the map, and said as he searched: "We can't go back from where we landed before, now Garris's army should be assembled there, and we must evacuate from the port of Nadessi in the southwest." ”
Felicia said with a cold face, "You mean Garris will do something to us?"
Carey put the map aside, sighed and said: "It's possible, we have always made them pay a lot of money and materials every year, and now that our national strength has dropped so much, it is inevitable that they will have ideas." ”
Then Claude went to arrange the retreat, and they were able to disappear into this land of right and wrong as soon as possible.
At the same time, Garris's army of a million was also assembled on the banks of the river, ready to cross the river.
As the commander of the army, Prince Morton was also in high spirits, especially after hearing the news of the disastrous defeat of Hotto's army, his mood was so refreshing.
Previously, Hotto had been the most powerful state in the Western Three Kingdoms, and every year he would give them a large sum of money and materials so that peace could be guaranteed.
This time they were defeated, and when the time came, they could have a good talk with them, and it was impossible to say who would give money to whom, and as long as they crossed the river, then the Banhad area would become Garris's territory.
In order not to make the mistake of Hoto's army and be ambushed by the enemy on the opposite bank, he also sent a large number of scouts to reconnoitre, and some soldiers crossed the river.
After making sure that nothing was wrong, Morton began to cross the river.
Surin also received the news that Garris had officially crossed the river at this time, and an inexplicable smile appeared on his face, and he secretly said in his heart: If you fall twice in one place, you should also remember this lesson.