Seeing that Thompson had already blown his beard and glared, Dip was also afraid that Albert would suffer. He turned in his mind, and hurriedly greeted Thompson with a smiling face: "Senior! ”

Then Dip commanded in a loud voice: "With the fox...... Fegul contacted her and told her to quickly contact the army and let them march here. As soon as there is news, I will divide 5,000 troops here and go to the place that my predecessors said. How?"

If there are 10,000 troops to supplement here, after the division of 5,000, the strength will not drop much. At this moment of hostility, Dipu still chose the most conservative approach.

With the stairs down, after a few words of verbose, Thompson acquiesced. Dip also immediately asked Hassan's Knights of the Holy Springs to prepare. After all, they are all papal knights, and it is convenient for Thompson to command.

The message to Figul was sent out quickly. But at that moment, the magic communication rang. It was the news from General Sully: let Dip abandon this defensive point, and no matter what he wanted, he hurried back to Lion's Tooth City at full speed.

Before they could recover from their astonishment, news suddenly came from the west: they had spotted the troops of the steppe barbarians twenty or thirty miles away. And Dipu ordered him to contact Lion's Tooth City immediately, but he didn't expect Lion's Tooth City to be quite surprised, but he just replied with a message - this is definitely not Lion's Tooth City's order, let Dipu make a decision on his own, and Lion's Tooth City will also contact General Sully as soon as possible.

Well, it's a complete mess. This flurry of accidents weighed on everyone's hearts like a 10,000-pound boulder. It's like walking into the dark night where you can't see your fingers, and your eyes are completely black. Especially......?

It's no use whining. At this point, let's deal with the past first......

......

Frontier of the Principality of Red Lion. Yorktown.

This small city, famous for its white stone houses, is in ruins. There was still black smoke everywhere, and the only remaining white walls of the stone houses remained. It has also been smoked black. And in the area where the battle was most intense, it had completely turned into a gravel field. But here, dozens of steppe barbarians were using leather whips to drive a group of captive civilians to clear the site, and several huge tents had been erected on the cleared flat land. And in front of the tent, the royal flag of the barbarian king of the steppe was fluttering.

In the largest tent, a dozen captured human maidens knelt on the ground. They were all trembling with fright, and their pretty faces were pinched by the dirty barbarian hands around them, facing the barbarian king Hu Lei who was sitting on the throne. The barbarian king Hu Lei admired these carefully selected with great interest. Dedicated to her own human slave girl. Then he waved his hand: "Take it down!

"Don't you, my lord?" asked one of the shamans beside Hulei.

"Hahaha!" laughed the barbarian king Hu Lei. He got up from his seat, "There will be so many in the future, every warrior will have it, let these slave girls give us more cubs." You see, the smell of dead enemies outside, that's what I like best. Hahaha——!"

The barbarian king Hu Lei's wild laughter revealed a very cruel truth. They don't need land, all they need to do is destroy and plunder. Plunder everything you see, including the civilian men and women. In fact, the steppe barbarians also understand. Such an apocalyptic war, they can't intervene at all. Even if the demons win in the end, they will turn the blade against themselves in the future. So these barbarians thought of taking advantage of this opportunity to transport everything they plundered back to the steppe. As long as there is a prairie as a barrier. The steppe barbarians were also invincible.

Therefore, this time, the barbarian king Hu Lei brought out not only an army of 300,000, but also more than 600,000 tribal warriors who were half-herding and half-soldiers. And the five great barbarian masters (sages) of the steppe barbarians were also all dispatched. It can be said that almost all forces were mobilized.

However, on the other hand. Such a large army is not for fighting tough battles. The combat policy of the steppe barbarians is actually very clear - only grab things. There is no interest in fighting!

So in the beginning, although in numbers far outnumbered General Sully's troops. But the steppe barbarians did not storm it. This gives outsiders a misunderstanding - the steppe barbarians are nothing more than that, and the strength is just like that. Even General Shali, who was at the forefront, had such a miscalculation. On the contrary, they were more worried about their back road being cut off by the demons, but they were not so worried about the steppe barbarians in front of them. So a series of stupid tricks appeared.

At first, General Sully put his heavy troops at the front line, trying to fend off the steppe barbarians. Later, he received a strict order from Van Bock, the Grand Duke of the Red Lion, and formulated a plan to retreat section by section and alternate cover. There is nothing wrong with this in itself, but the mistake is that it is a serious underestimation of the strength of the steppe barbarians. So at the beginning of the retreat, the army of steppe barbarians poured into the borders of the Red Lion Principality like mercury.

There is no way to resist section by section. The covering troops were crushed. Moreover, the steppe barbarians scattered in all directions, occupying towns and capturing civilians. Seeing that the situation was not good, General Sully immediately ordered the troops that could still be controlled to stop retreating and plunge into the battle against the steppe barbarians. And at this time, General Shali was ready to sacrifice himself again. So let Dip simply withdraw to Lion's Tooth City, and there is no need to consume this army anymore.

General Sully's more than 200,000 men and horses were actually in disarray. Some of them have been routed, some of them are still retreating according to the original plan, and the remaining nearly 100,000 have begun to hold on and counterattack. And the chaos on the border has spread, and the vanguard of the steppe barbarians is already operating around Dipu.

......

This is the first time that Dipu has encountered such a complicated situation. Those in the east need to be rescued, the enemy situation in the west is in demand, and there are troops in the north to respond. At this time, any choice can go wrong, and you have to make a choice. Even Thompson was silent, and everyone looked at Dip, waiting for his orders.

After a brief moment of weighing, Dipu finally made a choice: "The whole army will go west, and the enemy will be defeated first." Let the retreating troops from the south come back quickly and be stationed here first. Also, inform the civilians on the road and tell them to hurry up and evacuate. There's going to be a war here. ”

Although the more than 10,000 people in the east were surrounded, they also restrained the steppe barbarians. For a while, they couldn't get by. On the contrary, it was the steppe barbarians in the northwest who were free to move. It can not only kill civilians on this side of the road, but even follow and flank the attack, putting Dipu's troops in danger. So in this situation, Dipu made what he thought was the best choice! )