Chapter 174 Angry Battle
"Wait a minute!" the general finally stood up and said in a deep voice: "If you have a clue, you can't attack the whole army immediately, you need to send reconnaissance cavalry to investigate first, it is very likely to be a trap......
"Trap?" the viscount was no longer excited, stared at the general, and said coldly: "Before sending troops, you promised me that you would be able to defeat Richard smoothly. You won't sue me now, the nearly 2,000 elite warriors here can't deal with a man who has opened up less than 300 knights?!Are you trying to sue me for this, huh!?"
The general was speechless, and no matter how strong the army was, it also needed proper command. But he wisely didn't say it.
An hour later, the Captain's scouts had found the trail of Richard's army. So Viscount Chim's whole army set out and pursued it with great might.
Along the way, Richard's troops left more and more traces, the captain's face became more and more brilliant, and the general's face became more and more ugly.
By nightfall, the Viscount's army had already pursued the border of the three major regions of the Bloodstained Lands, the Redwood Kingdom and the Land of Turmoil. The terrain is rugged and complex, surrounded by caves, stone forests and rift valleys, and a team of several hundred people can hide in a so-so way.
Under the persuasion of the general, the viscount finally gave up the plan to pursue by night, and instead chose to camp on the spot. This night, Richard did come to attack at night, and more than once. It's just that the night defense of the viscount's camp is much stricter than usual, and Richard's night attack failed once, and it only woke the viscount a few times. But after experiencing the heavy casualties of the first night attack, no one dared to take it lightly.
At dawn the next day, the sleep-deprived viscount struggled to put on his armor, and then mounted his horse under the swarm of his retinue. When the viscount climbed high and looked into the distance, he suddenly saw a familiar figure on the high ground in the distance. Although far away, Chim recognized it as Richard at a glance.
And at this moment, Richard was safely riding on his horse, watching the army of the viscount in the distance begin to move, rolling towards him, and couldn't help but smile lightly, and said to the quicksand beside him: "This time I won again." â
Quicksand snorted reluctantly, and then said, "Bet again on how long he'll chase you this time!"
"At least three days. Richard said leisurely.
"As far as his body and perseverance are concerned, I'll bet a day. Quicksand said.
Richard smiled lightly and said, "Three days! But you have to cooperate!"
Quicksand snorted heavily and said, "Okay, if I lose this time, I will definitely resist with all my might! I really doubt that you can really have elven blood and be so violent!"
"It's not violence, it's conquest. Richard corrected the quicksand, and by the way, justified his actions.
Seeing the Viscount's army coming, Richard was solemn, raised his hand and beckoned behind him. So a dozen barbarian warriors appeared from behind Richard and formed a horizontal line. And the Sand Knight also roared to the top of the dirt slope.
Viscount Chim roared excitedly: "He is ready to fight like a nobleman after all! The whole army is attacking! I must kill him completely this time! Did you see, he also has a lot of infantry under his command, and I have caught up after all!"
Seeing the sparse warriors at the top of the steep slope, Viscount Sim immediately bypassed the general and commanded the army to divide into three routes, with light cavalry on each wing leading a group of infantry to attack, trying to outflank Richard's rear road in a roundabout way. And the main forces attacked from the front. The viscount naturally stood at the rear of the battle line to oversee the army, escorted by his own guards.
The battle began and ended quickly, but it was very different from the blood-boiling knightly war that the viscount had expected.
Richard summoned six ferocious bears at the top of the steep slope, and the rough-skinned creatures roared into Sir Sim's forward force. The ferocious bear is not very outstanding in combat power, but its vitality is very tenacious, and its running strength is very amazing, and it will disrupt the Viscount forward at once.
When the troops outflanking on the right side of the viscount passed by a huge stone pillar, a throwing axe suddenly flew out from behind the stone pillar, cutting off all the dozen light cavalry at the front.
Before the troops on the right flank had recovered from the confusion, there was another sharp whistling in the air, and another swirling axe swirled into the air, cutting the remaining cavalry off their horses. This time, the fighters who outflanked the right flank saw the enemy clearly, but they were suddenly stunned. The strange appearance of the Speradiers is no exaggeration to suggest that they are not human at all. However, the well-trained viscount infantry was just stunned, and rushed forward with a shout, but there was another flying axe in front of him!
The ability of throwing axes is definitely not comparable to that of bows and arrows, and perhaps only throwing guns can be compared. Except for the heaviest tower shields, no shield armor of the infantry warriors could block the blow of the throwing axe! After this wave of flying axes roared, a blank space appeared in the infantry line!
Then a thunderous hoof sounded, and a squad of more than two dozen barbarians and sandfolk knights struck out from behind the pinnacle and cut into the ranks of the infantry, causing the swaths of warriors to fall in an instant. The infantry company on the right flank was severely beaten, and immediately there were signs of a rupture, and many began to hesitate.
This momentary hesitation was in the hands of Richard's troops, and the Sandmen knights and barbarian warriors covered the retreat of the grenadiers, and in the blink of an eye they were far away. On the frontal battlefield, Richard left behind all the highly mobile troops. After a charge from the Sand Knight disrupted the formation of the Viscount's forward, Richard led his team diagonally through the battlefield, once again scuttling through the Viscount's battered right flank troops, and marched away.
"Chase me! They have infantry and can't escape!" Viscount Sim turned pale with anger, and Richard's hasty escape gave him strong enough confidence.
This chase is three days and three nights, and it is almost impossible to close the eyes for three days and three nights.
Richard fled during the day and attacked at night, and it seemed that he could not run out of energy.
The night raids were varied, sometimes with a fierce bear suddenly appearing in the barracks, sometimes with a few fireballs shot out of the blue, and sometimes with all the troops rushing into the camp, so much so that once a black knight suddenly appeared near the viscount's camp. Caught off guard, the Viscount's elite guards were killed by the fierce undead. Each attack brought losses to the Viscount's army, ranging from a dozen to a dozen, which made Chim feel painful, but not afraid.
After three days, when Chim himself became exhausted, he could no longer muster the spirit of pursuit. Himqi's entity lĂŹ and energy are more vigorous than ordinary people, and the unicorn bloodline is the guarantee of his superior physique. When he couldn't stand it anymore, the ordinary warrior was already so tired that he just wanted to sleep for a few days. It was only then that the viscount realized that the troops he had brought with him were almost less than a thousand, and that more than a third of them had been lost, and that the elite cavalry was almost completely lost, and the soldiers were still there, but the horseless cavalry was not even as good as the infantry.
Viscount Sim's location was now more than two hundred kilometers from Richard's castle and nearly four hundred kilometers from his own domain. The viscount suddenly realized that he had gone too far and, more importantly, that his forces were weakened, so he ordered to be transferred to the Barony of Fontaine, where he was resupplied and awaited family reinforcements.
Richard was also dusty and tired. But his body on the war horse was still towering, and his eyes were even brighter. Looking at the viscount's army marching forward in the distance, he just showed a faint smile and said to himself: "If you want to escape, it's not that easy!"