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Chapter 114: The Battlefield

Uxhall City. ()

Although the soldiers of the Eastern Army have not yet shrunk the battle line to the walls of Uxhall City, they are powerless against the soldiers on the north bank of the Blue Water River.

It has been a few days since the total collapse of the northern front.

The 3,000-strong or so troops were all trapped in the endless battles in the north, and in the process, the commander of the Eastern Army sent more than 2,000 men to support the soldiers on the northern front, but these soldiers were like butterflies flying into the mouth of a tiger, not only did they not succeed in rescuing the soldiers who had lost contact, but after a day, even these soldiers lost contact with the south bank of the river.

Although the commander in chief of the Eastern Army ordered that all marches of more than ten miles must send a herald to report to the southern front, such an order was a dead word in the chaotic battlefield. The Eastern Army's scout nets had been swept away, and once the commanders had crossed the Blue Water River, they would find themselves in darkness: they knew only where they could see the battlefield, and there was no information anywhere they could see.

Under these circumstances, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Army still did not implement the strategy of contraction. The loss of control on the Northern Front was simply regarded by the bureaucracy as a 'temporary difficulty', and the soldiers were constantly filling the bottomless pit of the Northern Front at any cost.

At the earliest, the cavalry disappeared.

Including the Annexation Army and the Alien Mercenary Army--- two of the most effective cavalry in the Frost Castle Empire. They disappeared on a mission to clear the battlefield in the north. It was as if someone had covered the battlefield with a black cloth, and the cavalry disappeared from sight, leaving only sporadic scouts reporting outdated news. The officers and men could only guess that the cavalry had been sniped by the enemy near the forest, and that the cavalry would soon be able to break away from contact with the enemy and return to the south bank.

Then the Second Corps and the Annexed Corps disappeared completely.

It is only known that the last report of the Second Corps was that they were pursuing the rout of Uxhall, and that they were confident that they would be able to crush the Uxhall in the early morning of the next day. For more than ten hours, a bewildered soldier fled back to the edge of the blue water river. These soldiers could only report that they suddenly encountered an inexplicable situation: the cavalry that had come to support them suddenly became the cavalry attacking them--- the soldiers who were General Wright suddenly became soldiers of the Western Army.

Next, a period of chaos began.

The commander-in-chief of the Eastern Army sent the reserves in his hands to the north in batches, and they firmly believed that by increasing their forces on the front line, they could eventually achieve a reversal on the northern front--- and subconsciously, the commander of the Eastern Army thought that if he put in one soldier, he could deal with two soldiers of the Western Army. Therefore, when they had invested more than 5,000 soldiers on the northern front, and the situation was still not improving, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Army was shocked by a terrible situation: what they thought was the scale of a battle in a theater of war may have evolved into a decisive battle, and the staff of the commander of the Eastern Army speculated that there were already more than 15,000 soldiers of the Western Army under unified command on the Suno-Plain.

And a terrible news came at this time: an officer had defected.

At first, it was thought that the Kugits might have mutined against the enemy, but soon there were Kugits among the defeated soldiers, and they insisted that they were being attacked by the annexed army. At first, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Army did not believe this accusation against the Kugit soldiers, or was unwilling to believe it: Wright's defection represented not only a change in the balance of power, but also a serious psychological blow. For the entire Eastern Army, Wright's meaning may be more of a spiritual banner.

This kind of news quietly spread all over the battlefield.

The officers received orders from their superiors to ignore orders from Wright. Wright is said to have extended an invitation to his former comrades, and that various unknown messengers are hastening the collapse of the Eastern army. The officers of the Eastern Army received permission to attack directly when they encountered Wright.

And for those close to Wright, they were suspicious: such as Dimitri, such as Hor. Arcadio second, such as Lagrange.

Several of these officers have gone missing on the battlefield, and according to what is known, most of them were missing during the battle with Wright.

At the same time, Ukhru and several Salander nobles, who had disappeared before, were also suspected.

The longer these officers have been missing, the more suspicion they will become. Some of the officers managed to break out of the encirclement, and when they reached the banks of the Blue Water River, they were immediately arrested and observed. Junior officers were often released after a separate interrogation, but higher-ranking officers were more troublesome and the commander would send special personnel to interrogate them.

Some of the prosecutors from the heights had come to Uxhall early on, and had only remained in the staff as advisers before. But now, they have become the main force in screening whether officers are loyal or not.

Among these people is the famous Ruda prosecutor in the highlands.

The prosecutor had long made a name for himself in solving cases, and after the empire was divided, Rueda and most of his colleagues stayed in their posts. After a few days of idleness, they were taken in by the new imperial institutions.

Originally, the monolithic Eastern Army system could not be spilled with a drop of water, but since the beginning of the rebellion of the Imperial Frost Castle, these prosecutors have been given the opportunity to provide countless ways to get the information that the high-ranking officials want, which is how they used to serve Westerners.

These procurators had sent sympathizers to the gallows, then the pioneers, then the sympathizers of the Frost Castle, and now they were going to help the Frost Castle people deal with the will-willed officers and soldiers.

It is precisely because of this that these prosecutors have a very poor image in the minds of the officers and men of the East Lestein. This time, when the soldiers of Fort Frost on the front line saw the prosecutor in a black coat step out of the carriage, they knew that a new round of anti-rebellion operations was about to begin. These people are called 'blackbirds', and they hover over people's heads, bringing bad news and getting their own food.

The investigation soon began, involving officers including officers involved in the night attack on Uxhall.

Although the commander of the Eastern Army is usually very strict with his subordinates in the Eastern Army, he does not allow others to meddle in the affairs of his troops, whether these people are from the imperial bureaucrats on the high grounds, or directly from the information of Emperor Fiderick--- whenever Ruda and others ask to investigate a certain officer, the commander of the Eastern Army will let them find someone by themselves, and these people will undoubtedly receive a perfunctory reception in the barracks.

Departments will push them around.

The people they want to find in the officer's office are often deceived by others into going to the quartermaster's office; They sought the Swadians, but they were always brought into the camp of the Kugits; They were looking for a cavalry non-commissioned officer, but they were often told that the army had already gone on a mission, and if they were really looking for him, it was believed that the non-commissioned officer was on the battlefield, and if they looked carefully, they could still find it.

The prosecutor's arrogance caused extreme war weariness, and the morale of the soldiers of the Eastern Army, who had already been defeated, was even more demoralized. Some soldiers even openly refused to carry out orders to cross the river, demanding that the obstructive prosecutors be removed and that their brothers who had been stranded on the north bank be brought back.

By this time, the war zone had deteriorated to a terrible degree. After a day's hard work, the receiving force sent by the commander of the south bank received 1,400 scattered troops on the north bank of the Bluewater River, coming from all parts of the battlefield. The soldiers brought the news that on the north shore, "there were enemy troops everywhere, banners obscuring the sky, and their armor covering everything as if ten thousand fish had jumped out of the water en masse." ”

At this kind of field, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Army felt that the situation had deteriorated to the point where he could not grasp it. Under the constant persuasion of the staff officers, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Army finally gave the order to shrink the entire front. All the troops sent out received orders to defend themselves and wait for an opportunity to retreat. The troops of the Eastern Army felt a glimmer of life.

Orders were quickly sent to the mid-ranking officers, who arranged for non-commissioned officers and scouts to set up more than a dozen shelters on the north bank of the Bluewater River, and sent cavalry to guide the soldiers who had been scattered on the battlefield to retreat. However, the Western Army would not give up this opportunity, and soon, a panicked reconnaissance unit discovered that the vanguard of the Western Army had arrived on the bank of the Lanshui River.

After discovering that their people had not gone south, a brave group of Kujits resolutely asked for orders to go north to inspect the battlefield. At this time, the Eastern Army was no longer full of confidence, and they sent the prison army to control the Kujits. The Kujits did not say much about the distrust of the eastern army, and they spent the Blue Water River in the middle of the night, resting on the banks of the river until dawn, and then heading north before the sun came out. It took a day and a half for the Kugit to return to the riverbank in the afternoon of the next day.

They bravely crossed the battlefield, like a slippery and nimble fish through the vast legions of the Western Army.

The news they brought back was terrible and a torture for the commander-in-chief: more than 2,000 Eastern soldiers were still fighting on the battlefield on the north bank. They captured several forts and villages, and were divided into four sides surrounded by a wide battlefield, with no contact with each other. The smallest of the soldiers, numbering only four hundred, had run out of dry rations two days earlier, and now the soldiers were so tired that they could not even do the basic march, they slaughtered their horses, and waited bitterly behind a ruined fortress for reinforcements--- they did not surrender because they did not believe that they would be routed by the westerners.

When the commander of the Eastern Army nodded and motioned for the wounded Kujiit to go out, he couldn't help but sigh.

Then, the commander turned his head to look at his guest--- Ruda, the prosecutor from Dehrem.

"Sir Ruda''' The commander frowned.

"Yes, General. Your Majesty has restored me to the title, and although I am still ridiculed as the 'Lord of the Landless,' this does not prevent me from serving you. ”

"Don't say it's useless," the commander waved his hand in disgust, for these 'blackbirds', the commander could only barely remain polite, if it weren't for the fact that Emperor Fiderick had been angry and asked the commander to actively cooperate, these 'blackbirds' would have been sent away by the commander a long time ago, "Continue what you just said, why are you so sure Huo. Arcadio II and Wright must have defected together? ”

Ruda smiled, "Based on my secret observations over the years. ”