Chapter 194: A Thousand Miles of Defeat
The elven archers hiding in the woods at the edge of the battlefield also began to exert their might when the Rakshasa and orc alliance retreated to the woods, and countless accurate and deadly magic arrows suddenly flew out of the woods, piercing the heart and attacking the enemy, almost every sword would take the life of an orc or Rakshasa soldier. The continuous blows soon made the Rakshasa and orc coalition who were preparing to use the woods to counter the cavalry realize that the woods had already been ambushed by the Great Zhao Expeditionary Army.
Under the joint countermeasures of the Rouran army and the elven mages and elven archers, the Rakshasa and the orc alliance soon suffered countless casualties, and the remaining coalition soldiers finally collapsed, and countless Rakshasa and orc alliance soldiers scattered and fled regardless of the commander's orders, especially the orc soldiers who were already loosely disciplined, not to mention Rowitch, who had no field ability at all, and Dokor, who had no qualifications, even if the beast emperor came now, I am afraid there was no way to stop it
Hand-to-hand combat with poor discipline can easily collapse, unlike hot weapon combat. Do you think that if you are alone with a knife and face 10 enemies rushing over, what pressure do you have to make you hold a gun and face 10 enemies with guns......
Military experts in the former time and space believe that the elite is usually about 1/10, and in modern times (World War II), it is generally believed that the elite can endure 1/3 (meaning that after losing 1/3, they dare to go to the battlefield and do not need to repair, not a one-time loss).
According to Lin Ruofeng's troops in his previous life, the modern army (foreign war) is at the bottom of the whole army, and the casualties of more than one-third can not be defeated is a qualified army, the army that can be killed and injured more than half can be called an excellent army, and if the army can still fight tenaciously with more than 80% casualties, it can be called a trump card army (the Chinese army and the Japanese army have always punished defeated prisoners and deserters quite strictly. Plus the values education received from an early age. Therefore, the fighting will of the East Asian armies is generally much more tenacious. )。
And ancient wars are much more tragic than modern wars. It is much more intuitive, because cold weapon combat is a dense formation, and the impact of large-scale death on small soldiers is quite obvious, so people's psychology will be much more fragile than modern combat, and they are at a disadvantage as a whole, and one-tenth of the casualties can be regarded as qualified if they can not be defeated, and more than one-third of the casualties can be called very good, as for more than half of the casualties. That can basically only rely on the personality charm of the general.
Of course, in the ancient war, whether the general who commanded the whole army will be defeated will occupy a very large factor, if the general does not retreat to the death, and his prestige is very high, then if the army he leads is also very high, then maybe the whole army will accompany him to fight until the whole army is annihilated, on the other hand, if a general who leads the ace army flees before the battle, then even if the elite troops under his command will inevitably be defeated. Just like just Peters the Great and the Beast Emperor Morrick as for the Ace Guard.
Rovich and Dokol are strong-willed generals, but their qualifications and abilities are not convincing. In addition, he had to command orc soldiers who were of an alien race, so after the Rakshasa and orc coalition suffered nearly a third of the coalition soldiers. The coalition forces completely lost the will to resist and began to flee one after another.
A Thousand Miles of Defeat!
In the pursuit battle, the 100,000 elven mages and 200,000 elven archers of the elven clan naturally did not have much effect, and the night Lingyan only let the elven archers block this forest, and then led more than one million Rouran Iron Riders and 200,000 Lightning Iron Cavalry to launch a thousand-mile pursuit of the defeated four million Rakshasa and orc alliances.
On the other side, in order to cover the escape of Peters the Great, Muzychenko returned with 30,000 elite guards and rushed to the Lin Ruofeng army that followed him again.
On the other side, Marshal Kolobkov of the Rakshasa was finally brave, and led the 300,000 Cossack cavalry that was finally gathered to launch a counterattack on the hundreds of thousands of Rouran Iron Cavalry rushed out of the Chinese military camp.
Soon more than 300,000 Cossack cavalry were wiped out under the joint strangulation of Lin Ruofeng's army and the Rouran Iron Cavalry, and Kolobkov also fled without a trace with the badly damaged Muzichenko under the protection of dozens of guardian knights.
However, the precious time that Muzychenko and more than 300,000 Cossack cavalrymen exchanged their lives allowed Peters the Great and the Beast Emperor to escape.
If Peters the Great had calmed down a little bit and been brave a little bit, and didn't run, the Rakshasa and the orc alliance would have had time to organize troops to form a protective phalanx after temporarily blocking Lin Ruofeng's first wave of offsets, and use the hollow phalanx to resist the impact of Lin Ruofeng's cavalry. Muzychenko took the troops of Marshal Rakshasa Kolobkov and the Wolf Patriarch Stephen King and the rest of the Minotaur to fight nearby, and the main force was also on the way back, and the Rakshasa and the Orc alliance had every chance to turn the tide of the battle with their superior forces, but Peters the Great really lacked the Suzhì that a good commander should have.
Throughout the defensive counterattack of Bulgan City, the defeat of the Rakshasa and orc coalition was not accidental.
First of all, the Rakshasa and the Orc Coalition Division are tired, and this expedition to Bulgan City is a mistake in strategy. The expeditionary force slaughtered all sides in the southern frontier of Rakshasa, but the expeditionary force was also tired, so Peters the Great wanted to personally attack the city of Bulgan and choose a cheap. However, he did not think that his troops had been on the expedition for a long time, and the soldiers who had been mobilized from a territory as large as the Rakshasa were very tired, and the soldiers were already quite tired after a long journey and a long time away.
Besides, it was a huge mistake for the Rakshasa and the orc alliance to join forces, the orcs were free and scattered, but they themselves did not affect their combat effectiveness, but what is it to mix with the Rakshasa army that needs to be disciplined, so what is it to discipline or free to be loose, it is simply incomprehensible, interfering with each other, and the command system is extremely chaotic。
Secondly, the military literacy of Peter St. the Great himself was very problematic. Judging from the two-stage operation, Peters the Great failed the deployment, dispatch and command of the army. In the process of organizing the retreat, the problem was even more severe, and there were a total of mistakes such as the disjointed marching sequence of the troops, the command post being too protruding, the rear guard troops blindly leaving their posts, not establishing echelon cover deployment, the defense points were not guarded by troops, and he was not properly handling the emergency situation in the face of danger, and so on, so that Lin Ruofeng seized the flaw and beat up the Rakshasa and orc coalition troops who were more than Lin Ruofeng's army.
The Rakshasa and orc alliances, which had the advantage in the Battle of Bulgan, were defeated, with one general killed and two seriously wounded, and he himself was almost taken prisoner. However, it is normal to appear on Peters the Great, he has never really fought any battles in his life, this time he originally thought that he could pick up a military merit and go back to brush up his political achievements, hoping that he would be able to live forever in the future, and he himself did not have much military talent.
As for Lin Ruofeng, it can only be said that his ability to grasp the fighter is indeed first-class, and without Lin Ruofeng's excellent insight, the Great Zhao Expeditionary Force would not be able to win this battle so easily. After the baptism of many wars, Lin Ruofeng's military command ability was finally sublimated in the defensive counterattack of Bulgan City, keen insight, vigorous and resolute style, the courage of the three armies, plus the invincible, invincible, invincible Dragon Soul Iron Cavalry and Xiao Cavalry, the victory was not accidental.
Lin Ruofeng led the field army and the Praetorian Guard soldiers to join the Rouran Iron Cavalry and finally killed the remaining nearly 500,000 minotaurs of the Minotaur Legion who couldn't run, after chasing and killing to the west for three days and three nights, Lin Ruofeng's legion finally couldn't march with high intensity anymore, Peters the Great and the Beast Emperor had fled without a trace with their guards, and so far Lin Ruofeng hadn't figured out Peters the Great, Beast Emperor Morick How did they escape from under their noses with so many guards, although they turned around and fled west after learning that the main force of the coalition army was broken by Ye Ling and was fleeing in rout, but Lin Ruofeng led the field army and the cavalry of the Praetorian Guard, and the Rouran Iron Cavalry had been chasing after him, so it shouldn't be so easy to chase and lose.
Since he couldn't find the enemy, Lin Ruofeng could only order the Praetorian Cavalry and the Rouran Iron Cavalry to return to Bulgan City, now Bulgan City is very empty, only 100,000 Janissaries and 300,000 Elven warriors are defending the city, if it encounters an attack by a large force of Rakshasa or orcs, it will really be a joke, it doesn't matter if Bulgan City is lost, if these 300,000 don't have unicorn mounts to escape, and the very delicate elven warriors are all slaughtered, then Lin Ruofeng will be too late to cry.
It is true that the elves are strong, but it is also a fact that they are very fragile, without the protection of strong troops, even in the jungle they are best at, they are quite vulnerable, otherwise the elves will not be forced to almost wipe out in a very strong period.
Not to mention the political impact of the slaughter of these 300,000 elven warriors, even the combat effectiveness of the 300,000 fourth-order elven warriors themselves is also quite terrifying, and Lin Ruofeng can still distinguish the severity of this. (To be continued......)