Chapter 22: Retreat

readx;?“ ...... Cavalry! There are cavalry on our flank! It is the steppe cavalry -- the cavalry of the new steppe annex of the Russian Gothic Empire!!"

When the herald, covered in blood, cried and told General Leopold the news, General Leopold was stunned. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info and then, I just feel that the world is spinning. He almost fainted, and fell to the ground.

"They were—why—how—"

He wanted to ask three questions in a row.

How did they get here, why we didn't find them before, how did things get to this point - but all three of these questions are just a little bit of a statement.

Because this guy knows, knows very deeply, that now is not the time to care about that kind of thing, and now the fate of his expeditionary force is very worrying, and if he takes one wrong step, then his army will be completely destroyed. Even he himself could die - and even if he didn't, he would probably be taken captive -

The generals of the Visigothic Republic today are not recognized by other countries at all. Because this country has killed all the nobles in this country. Nowadays, the general public opinion of the outside world, or the Old World, is that the Visigothic Republic today is a very barbaric and very dark country of mobs.

Therefore, General Leopold, who was captured, would not have been treated as a general officer in his proper position. At the same time, there will be no such thing as a ransom - of course, in fact, no one will pay him for it.

The great republics regard all backward monarchies that are not revolutionary and oppose revolution as a stumbling block to the great revolution, and they will never make any compromise with any monarchy.

In this case, these guys will not care at all about Leopold's life or death.

A failed, useless, proven himself to be an incompetent garbage and a Feywood guy who doesn't need to spend a penny more and waste a little more energy for such a guy. Compared to the great cause of the liberation of all mankind, General Leopold, an over-the-top loser, is nothing at all.

And even if he was able to escape this catastrophe, he would be spared without an army. It is even said that his homeland, the government, the radical revolutionaries have changed their sexuality very surprisingly, and they have not done anything to him because of his defeat. Not even thinking that he was a *** element because of this, sending him to the guillotine and killing him or something, General Leopold's next ending must be worse than death.

Because he will no longer be able to contact the army, he will no longer be able to go to war. And this is equivalent to saying that this guy will never be able to gain power in the future.

This is simply the biggest punishment for him who is ambitious. He is alive like this, and life is better than death. It must be better to live than to die.

"So, now it's time to fight hard. He gritted his teeth, and then said in a loud voice: "My friends, the great revolutionary cause has reached the most dangerous step! We are now facing the greatest challenge of the evil feudal empire and the evil monarchs! My friends! Now, the time has come to test us! Come, let us fight hand in hand!!!"

Encouraged by him, the soldiers, the officers and men of the expeditionary force, remained high in morale - they continued to shout, and in the shortest possible time began to move with the orders of General Leopold - and the cavalry was divided into two parts, two of which were cavalry regiments as rear. He flanked the other two cavalry regiments to block the steppe cavalry units of the Russian Gothic Empire, which had suddenly appeared and swept in from the north.

Of course, two cavalry regiments, and only light cavalry, and not cuirassiers, could absolutely not stop the steppe cavalry units that had undergone iron-blooded training and Cossack organization.

Of course, General Leopold never put all his expectations on these two armies, and he did not think that these two armies alone would be able to defeat the elite generals of the Russian Gothic Empire.

In fact, after seeing General Leopold's expeditionary force begin to retreat and stop attacking, the Imperial expeditionary force on the opposite side is turning from defense to attack as quickly as possible. It seems to have the meaning of "if you want to retreat, I will pursue", and General Leopold was so depressed that he almost vomited blood. At the same time, the Russian Gothic Emperor on the opposite side also began to step up the transport of troops to the west bank of the canal.

This bewildered General Leopold.

If the current situation is true, then the Russian Gothic Emperor**, like his own expeditionary force, is in danger of an imminent attack on the flanks, but the opposing commander does not seem to take it too seriously, and instead continues to transport the army to the other side of the canal.

"By the way, according to the combat effectiveness of the opposing army, they don't have much need to be afraid at all. ”

After a little surprise at first, a little confusion, the general quickly understood - yes, yes. In fact, the armies of the Russian Gothic Empire really did not need to panic too much.

Calculated by the combat effectiveness displayed by the emperor's ** team, the thousands of patchwork Levantine camel cavalry and desert cavalry are not opponents at all. It's easy to be swept away by them. In this case, William naturally does not need to be in a hurry.

"I didn't expect it at all, I miscalculated. General Leopold gritted his teeth, almost cutting off all of his teeth.

He gave one last hateful glance at the battlefield. Then, under the escort of a group of staff officers and the Praetorian Guard, they began to move to the rear of the battlefield.

"General, what about the Nerosians...... What to do?"

At this moment, a voice said timidly.

"Nirosians, want them all to die!" said General Leopold, angrily.

The expedition had been a complete failure. The great strength of the Russian Gothic Empire was by no means something they could shake.

Tens of thousands of troops can be transported here because the empire's previous center of gravity was not here, and it was negligent for a while. But now it's a different story. The Empire, which has the right to control the sea in the Eastern Azure Sea, will never spare any hostile army in this sea area again.

All warships will be bombarded to the slag by the Empire. Yes, that's it.

"In other words, there is no chance......"

At the same time, with a burst of heavy artillery bombardment, the Russian Gothic Empire's army turned from defense to attack - with cavalry as the lead, the elite cuirassiers charged the Visigothic expeditionary force array in a diamond formation. Those gaps that were blasted by artillery were broken through by the opposing cavalry before they could be replenished. The infantry units that followed closely behind were also able to maintain a tight formation when charging at a brisk pace.

Armed with heavy grenades, improvised breeziers were at the forefront, and after the grenades were thrown, Imperial soldiers armed with bayonets and rifles swarmed up.

Under such a fierce attack, the cavalry of the expeditionary force of the two regiments collapsed with little resistance. The great army of the Russian Gothic Empire continued to advance, looking at the posture, it was almost as if it was going to kill them all.

"In this way, you can see the color. Looking at this scene, William narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself.

If those guys are just scum, useless waste, then needless to say, this round of attacks is enough to disintegrate more than 99% of the world's armies.

The elite guards of the powerful empires of the Old World, or the Sultan Guards blown into the sky by the dark elves, or the elite guards of the East, Zoroaster, India, or any country or general, would all collapse under such a fierce attack. William never thought that any army could survive such a terrible attack, at least for now, with the current military level and the current level of technology, there is no army that can walk two rounds in front of the Russian Gothic ** team and still retreat.

But. If.

Only if, of course.

If the enemy on the other side can do this, then they are proud enough, because they have created a history, or even an era.

Although, William wasn't too optimistic that these guys could do this......

"But if those guys can really do that, then ...... This is where things get interesting. ”

Contrary to William, who was in a very relaxed mood and even had a somewhat "playful" feeling, General Leopold felt that he was on the cusp of the storm at this moment, as if in the next moment, his own army would be wiped out.

Although he wanted to put the tens of thousands of troops gathered by the Nirosians on his flank, it was better to block the Cossack cavalry that appeared on the flank. But it seems, this group of Nirosians is not idiots either. In the gap to the point where your own troops are at a disadvantage. Even when the total annihilation was imminent, these Nirosians had long since lost their impassionedness. Anything that was said to be fighting for the independence and freedom of Nirosia was not said.

These guys run faster than anyone else. And the troops deployed in the Nilesian army, that is, the instructors sent out by the Visigothic expeditionary force, were usually killed by them in the first place. Nor did they rally their armies at all.

Although these guys gathered the Nirosians and trained them in the latest - of course this latest - which is the latest - the latest army drill code, excluding the Russian Gothic Empire, these guys barely had a bit of a modern army. But that's just an empty shelf. I can't afford to be beaten and tested at all. The essence of the army in Nirosia is still a group of feudal, organized feudal armies at various levels of nobility.

They obeyed their feudal lords, who were dressed in the coats of officers of all ranks, not of officers of all ranks.

"Am I going to die here?"

Ahead was the attacking Russian Gothic Army, which was growing in numbers and its flanks were crumbling—and now upon visual inspection, General Leopold knew that the heralds he had seen before were mistaken.

What suddenly appeared on his flank was not a few steppe Cossack cavalry regiments, but an entire steppe new annex corps!

Tens of thousands of cavalry suddenly appeared, and then suddenly attacked, and suddenly put the expeditionary force on the cusp! )