Chapter Eighty-Eight, The Tragic Meeting
The sky gradually brightened, and the battle had already ended, leaving only the camp of the Demon Crocodile army full of messes.
quelled the scourge of the undead, and the heavy casualties made the Demon Crocodile King unhappy.
Just as he was about to scold, he took it back when the words came to his lips.
The main generals were all on the front line to command the battle, and the remaining Prime Minister Susilo was a civilian official, and commanding the operation was not the main business of the family.
If it is really to be held accountable, the Demon Crocodile King's own responsibility is the greatest.
If he hadn't been relieved, and he had to take the guards to the front line to join in the fun, the camp would not have been so empty.
"Marshal, the troops stationed in Yangguan County have not returned for a long time, it shouldn't have been an accident on the way!"
The Demon Crocodile King asked with a nervous expression.
In last night's battle, the Demon Crocodile army lost nearly 30,000 troops, which was equivalent to a big defeat.
If the defenders of Yangguan County had another accident, the rescue operation would have failed, and it would have been a complete failure.
"Your Majesty, please rest assured!
Boyx was approaching this direction with his troops, less than twenty miles from us, and there would be no accidents.
Time dragged on until now, mainly to bypass the enemy's cavalry corps.
Judging from the feedback information, those Terran fools did not notice that our troops had left! ”
Marshal Kante replied.
The retreat was not planned as planned, but communication remained open.
The night attack plan failed, and there was no point in rushing back in a hurry, so safety was naturally the first priority.
The effect is very obvious, and after going around in a big circle, it was successfully evacuated.
If it weren't for the fact that the enemy army of the undead was killed into the camp last night, resulting in heavy losses for the army, this wave of layout can be described as perfect.
The two armies successfully met, and the strength of the Demon Crocodile army returned to its peak again, at least in numbers.
"It's good to fool the enemy!
No matter how powerful Hudson is with his troops, there is no guarantee that his subordinates are as good as him, and it seems that dividing troops to fight is the enemy's shortcoming.
It's a pity that the enemy's cavalry is too fast, otherwise taking advantage of this weakness will definitely make them suffer heavy losses! ”
The Demon Crocodile King said indignantly.
The defenders of Tiaoyang Guan County came back, but he personally proposed it. Once the division is successfully completed according to the plan, his prestige in the army will inevitably increase.
At this time, the plan died halfway, and the Demon Crocodile King was set up at once, lest the evacuation fail.
"Your Majesty, after the two armies successfully meet, will our battle plan be changed?
Continuing to confront the Terran army is not a long-term solution.
The longer it drags on, the worse it is for us. ”
Prime Minister Susilo said tactfully.
Although he is not the commander of the army, he still understands the situation in the army.
After a day and a night of fighting, the casualties of the Demon Crocodile army had reached an alarming number.
The loss of nearly 10 percent of the troops is a test for any army.
If it's just heavy losses, then that's it, the problem is that the enemy's losses are minimal!
There are no specific statistics, but according to the situation on the battlefield, the minimum battle loss ratio of the two sides is more than a dozen to one.
All indications show that the probability of swallowing the enemy army is infinitely close to zero.
It is impossible to rely on the superiority of the enemy to besiege them, and the enemy's cavalry can easily tear through their blockade line.
Once the encirclement is carried out, the comparison of the forces of the two sides on the local battlefield is likely to be reversed.
"You mean that we don't fight the enemy army in a decisive battle, but directly lead them to the territory of the Stone Man Clan, looking for an opportunity to provoke a conflict between the two clans?"
The Demon Crocodile King asked with concern.
It was their established strategy to draw the anti-Terran alliance into the war.
It's just that the original strategy was to defeat the Terran army and break the myth that Hudson, the number one general on the continent, was invincible, so as to induce a new round of continental war.
The two sides personally fought each other, and saw the strength of the enemy army, and this optimism was directly extinguished.
The main focus of the Terran army's camp is stability, and no matter which direction they break through, they can't find an entry point.
It is also not advisable to lure the enemy out for a decisive battle, because they are not sure to deal with the enemy's cavalry during the day, and the enemy will not come out at night at all.
Now the competition between the two sides is patience, and whoever can't bear it first will suffer a loss.
"Yes, Your Majesty!
The best strategy has failed, and now I can only choose the middle strategy to try.
The Anti-Terran Alliance is not monolithic, and the Stone Terran does not have a high voice in it, so offending them is nothing.
What's more, as long as a war breaks out on the mainland, the situation will not be up to them.
If the Anti-Terran Alliance does not want to be defeated, it must enlist the support of the geocentric races.
The passage to the inner world is definitely more than now, and when the time comes, we propose to obtain a passage to the inner world, and the elves will give it.
After regaining the strategic initiative, whether to continue to participate in the continental war or directly return to the inner world can be decided according to the development of the situation! ”
Prime Minister Susilo worked hard to draw cakes.
Theoretically, this situation is possible. But the premise is that the parties follow their script.
The Kingdom of Hesse is not without elite troops, and the main forces of the people happen to be stationed in the border areas.
If you want to enter the territory of the Stone People, you must first cross the defense zone of the border defenders.
If you are not careful, you will be caught between the two armies before and after, and open the group annihilation dungeon.
Just as the high-level demon crocodiles hesitated, the earth suddenly trembled, and a familiar flag appeared in the sky.
The troops stationed in Yangguan County finally withdrew smoothly.
It's just that after a period of tossing and turning, this force is a little embarrassed at the moment.
"Open the camp and let them in!"
The Demon Crocodile King ordered with a little excitement.
It would be nice to be able to withdraw the troops, deep down he had already made up his mind that as long as he could return to the inner world, he would definitely destroy the entire Giantfoot Centipede clan.
The originally good situation was directly pitted and displaced by a pig teammate, and no one could bear it.
When the demon crocodile soldiers in front stepped into the camp, the ground suddenly trembled, and in an instant the experienced Marshal Kante realized that something was wrong.
"Oops, the enemy cavalry is on a sortie!"
The words landed, and the mood of all the demon crocodiles present fell directly from the peak to the trough.
As they had expected, the cavalry rushed directly into the marching ranks and slaughtered, and in the blink of an eye they swept the long ranks into pieces.
Where is the enemy army did not find their traces, it is obvious that they have calculated the time and are waiting for this time to launch.
The first rays of dawn had fallen, and it was a good time for the cavalry to launch.
A quarter of an hour earlier, the sky was not bright enough for the cavalry to play; A quarter of an hour later, a large number of demon crocodile soldiers entered the camp, and it was difficult to stage this shocking scene.
Witnessing his own army being slaughtered by the enemy, but unable to find a way to deal with it, the blow to the morale of the army can be imagined.
"Give the order to go down and let the First Legion go out to answer!"
Marshal Kante ordered ruthlessly.
It is not clear whether it is worth using the most elite troops to intercept the enemy cavalry and save the remnants of this army whose morale has been severely damaged.
But as the commander of the army, he had to do something, and he couldn't watch the enemy's conspiracy succeed.
Playing and slaughtering at the gate of the camp is not only a simple battle, but also in the hearts of the demon crocodile soldiers.
In the face of such a tragic mission, ordinary legions can only increase the enemy's achievements in the past, and only the most elite troops can hope to carry it down.
The tragic scene continued to be staged, and it turned out that the infantry fought the cavalry, which was to fill with their lives.
The first legion was elite, but the enemy's cavalry was also elite, and there was even an extra war horse.
In the panic, countless demon crocodile soldiers frantically poured into the camp.
Originally, it was a pit for the cavalry to trap the horses, and it suddenly became a place where many demon crocodiles died.
Even if the danger is detected in advance, it is too late to avoid it. The back was full of chaotic troops, and the crocodiles rushed forward.
The tragic scene made the high-level of the Demon Crocodile Clan unbearable to look at it directly.
If it weren't for their sanity, they would all be tempted to rush out and fight the enemy.
……
The coalition battalion, seeing the success of the cavalry raid, all the generals became eager to try.
"Marshal, the fighter plane has appeared!
The rebels have paved a safe passage for us, and we will be able to crush the enemy army in one fell swoop by following their route directly into the enemy camp! ”
A middle-aged general said excitedly.
The fighter plane came too unexpectedly, and I thought that I would have to fight and confront each other for a while, but I didn't expect the enemy to provide an opportunity for me.
"Don't worry, it's not the time yet.
Seeing that those demon crocodile soldiers who blocked the cavalry did not, the fighting will they showed was no worse than our elite.
The chaos outside the enemy's camp, which was the unit they had withdrawn, was tossed around in Yangguan County for several days, and the morale of the army fell to the bottom.
In addition to these troops, the remaining army of demon crocodiles is still combat-ready.
Now for a decisive battle, even if you can defeat the enemy army, you can't swallow them! ”
Hudson shook his head in rejection.
If you really want to break through the enemy camp, it is not the cavalry legion that will be dispatched now, but the Warcraft legion.
However, it is easy to defeat the enemy, but it is difficult to eat the enemy.
More than 500,000 demon crocodiles, how can they be so easy to kill.
In case the fighting spirit of the other party is stimulated, it is still unknown whether this pseudo-elite led by him can withstand the tragic casualties.
As the minutes passed, the battle continued, and the number of demon crocodile soldiers who fell to the ground increased.
The First Legion, which was responsible for intercepting the cavalry, suffered more than 30% casualties, and it was all holding on with a will.
The demon crocodile soldiers who fled frantically had already completed their evacuation at this time, but their responding troops were entangled.
"Pass the order, collect the troops!"
It is really puzzling to have the opportunity to eat an elite of the enemy army, and to give up like this, but the order still has to be carried out.
The cavalry wants to retreat, and the demon crocodiles who are struggling to hold on will naturally not stop them.
Of course, they are not capable of stopping it. Compared to the speed of movement of the cavalry, the infantry is still far behind.
A battle has come to an end, and the earth is stained red with blood, which looks particularly strange in the sun's rays.
Compared to the calm of the coalition camp, the demon crocodile camp was full of wails.
A large number of wounded soldiers were brought back to the camp, and at the same time pessimism was brought into the camp.
The rout soldiers who fled back in embarrassment are even more negative emotions to create machines, constantly propagating the strength of the enemy army.
Combined with the real battlefield they saw in front of them, countless demon crocodile soldiers became pessimistic about the war.
The First Legion, which is an almost mythical existence among the Demon Crocodile, was directly crippled by the enemy on the battlefield.
"The cavalry of the Alpha Kingdom is indeed powerful, and the giant-footed centipedes are not unjustly defeated. If we hadn't taken precautions in advance, I'm afraid we would have followed in their footsteps.
The order was given to go down to bury the pot and make rice, and the commanders of each regiment immediately went down to stabilize the morale of the army.
Those who dare to spread rumors will be killed! ”
After sighing, Marshal Kante decisively ordered.
There was a dazzling brilliance in his eyes, and after so many years of fighting on the battlefield, he finally found this feeling again.
The pressure Hudson put on him was unprecedented, but Marshal Kante was no ordinary man, and the more pressure he had, the more he could motivate him.
The losses suffered in the previous battles were mainly caused by the asymmetry of information.
The skills of the Demon Crocodile Clan are known to the enemy, but they know very little about the strength of the enemy.
Most of the information obtained by the previous interrogation of the Hessian nobles was lagging behind, or rather erroneous.
Dealing with the Hessian army in the same way that it was a mistake to deal with the Terran army in front of you.
"Marshal, big things are not good!
The water source was destroyed by the enemy, and we ......"
Without waiting for the officer who reported the news to finish speaking, the high-level leaders of the demon crocodile changed their faces one after another.
Water is the source of life, and if you don't drink it for a day, you will die of thirst, how can this battle continue?
"Order all the water magicians in the army to immediately create a batch of water out for emergency.
The order goes down, and from now on the whole army is forbidden to waste a drop of water.
In addition to daily cooking and cleaning the wounds of the wounded, daily drinking water is provided according to the quota! ”
Marshal Kante calmly ordered.
Water mages in the inner world are scarce, but scarcity does not mean that there are none.
The Demon Crocodile Clan was an amphibious creature in ancient times, but after retreating into the inner world after being defeated in the war, the rivers, lakes and seas that lacked sojourn slowly became land creatures.
No matter how much it changes, some of the bloodline genes left by the ancestors have been passed down.
Some of the crocodiles activated these talents and became water mages.
It's a pity that the water source in the inner world is scarce, and there are only a few underground dark rivers, which can not have many resources for the cultivation of water magicians.
In the mage group, it is a more niche profession.
"Yes!"
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Watching the officers leave, the high-ranking officials looked at Marshal Kanter expectantly, hoping to find a solution.
The mage makes water, which can only solve the urgent need.
To feed the daily consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops, it is necessary to obtain a natural water source.
"It looks like this is a trap designed by the enemy, just waiting for us to drill into it. From the moment we set up camp, we fell into the trap.
The battles ahead were just maze deliberately laid by the enemy in order to confuse us.
The real challenge has just begun!
Last night's army of the undead did not come to attack our camp, but to the water source of the army.
A large number of undead creatures crossed the border, and even if the enemy did not attack the water source, we would not dare to drink it.
As the overlord of the continent, the Terran has some vicious methods that we don't know about, and it is entirely possible.
This place is no longer in place, and even if you can solve the water problem, you can't fight the enemy in the battlefield they have chosen.
If I'm not mistaken, the enemy will then use the advantage of cavalry to cut us off from the outside world.
And then we are trapped to death, starved to death, and thirsty to death! ”
With that, Marshal Kante set his sights on the Demon Crocodile King.
It's time to make a strategic decision again, and he, the commander of the army, can't decide the future fate of the Demon Crocodile Clan on his own.
"Marshal, carry out the backup plan!
Hudson's use of troops is too vicious, and we don't know how many ruthless methods there are in the future, and we can't sit idly by. ”
The Demon Crocodile King said in a low tone.
A war that is in the enemy's calculations all the way cannot be fought.
has been able to hold on until now, and there have been no major mistakes, because Marshal Kante is adaptable enough.
Change the commander who reacts slowly, and estimates that he is still working hard to solve the water source in a daze at the moment, and he does not know that the enemy has calculated them early.
After figuring this out, the demon crocodiles didn't bother to continue to entangle, thinking about leaving early.
The title of the number one general in the mainland, whoever is interested in it will take it, anyway, they are not ready to attack.