Section 358 Decisive Battle 2

Bayrell immediately sent out a battalion of halberd infantry and crossed the river to line up on the opposite side while the enemy retreated to prepare for the offensive. He ordered them to fight to the death, and at the same time he mobilized all the cavalry units he could muster in the rear, and concentrated them in a position where they could easily wade across the river.

The Chaos Legion then abandoned the river crossing in favor of destroying the bulging small force first. By the time they had targeted the infantry of this brigade, Bayeur had already formed a column of cavalry and swooped it out from the flanks. The cavalry and halberd infantry flanked back and forth, defeating the 3,000 Chaos warriors who rushed towards them. By the time the scattered Chaos Legions retreated to the rear of their comrades and regrouped, they had already lost more than a thousand men in this contact battle.

It's a classic fight, but it doesn't change anything. It only took a brief moment for the Chaos Legion to understand their mistake. The whole force was pressed on all fronts, and Bayral could only let the cavalry and infantry sent across the river retreat.

The mages of the two armies have begun to fight. Ashrufat had planned to use a large number of demon-breaking scrolls to completely eliminate the magical combat power of both sides, but now this plan was useless. Because the battlefield was so large, there was no point in disturbing the winds of magic in one of the areas, just for the Chaos wizards to move to an unaffected place to continue their work.

The outcome of the magic battle was overwhelmingly unfavorable. None of the priests of the Church were able to successfully use magic, and the Chaos Legion threw multiple fireballs and lightning bolts at the heads of their enemies in a row. Bayral's troops were pushed back a little distance.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Chaos Legion began to force their way across the river. Instead of crossing the river from the selected crossing point, the whole line jumps into the stream and wades across the river. As mentioned earlier, the water of the stream is only the height of a person's chest, and cannot pose a deadly threat.

But it's easy to go down the river, but it's hard to get up the river. The riverbank was steep and muddy, and the Chaos warriors in heavy armor couldn't get up for a moment.

At this time, Béral mobilized all his spears and halberds, and ordered the enemy to be driven back at any cost. Taking advantage of the brief moment when the Chaos Legion could not reach the shore, they launched an attack with spears and halberds, turning the battle into a one-sided killing. Once again, the Chaos Legion was repulsed.

But right away, the Chaos Legion attacked again, and the two sides fought along the stream, again and again. In the end, Bayral had to abandon this line of defense due to the numerical disadvantage.

The corpses of the Chaos warriors who died in the ditch were stacked on top of each other, densely piled up, and the blood stained the river red. Those who fell but could not get back up were drowned, and there were almost no wounded in the battle.

The Chaos Legion paid a heavy price, but they nevertheless captured Bayrell's strongest defenses. They began to rush across the creek in large numbers, preparing for the next offensive. Because of their superiority, they formed a crescent formation to outflank the enemy's flanks.

Now, Bayral has no terrain to rely on and must engage a superior enemy in a face-to-face situation.

It was at this moment that Barranca, in the center, realized that his flank was being detoured. Although his forces were also overstretched, he still sent a strong cavalry to support Belle.

Centered on the halberd soldiers who had just fought fiercely, Bayral formed a large phalanx. He placed a few less tired troops on the flanks, also formed a crescent formation, and began to attack the enemy. These two troops, one of them was excited by the victory he had just achieved in capturing the enemy's line, and the other was recovering from fatigue from rest, so they stormed each other, and the battlefield, which had been quiet for a short time, was quickly filled with new blood and new passions.

After a face-to-face white-knuckle battle with no tricks at all, the Chaos Legion retreated. Barranca's reinforcements rushed towards the enemy's flank and rear at this time, hastening their rout. Béral led his army in pursuit, driving them across the creek once more. This time, however, the creek was no longer a line of defense, as there were so many corpses piled up in the stream that anyone could easily wade across the river.

However, Bayrell's action caused his troops to break away from the main force and form a gap with friendly forces. Realize that you can be attacked by the enemy from both flanks at any time. Therefore, Bayral had to return the troops in time.

If this time it was the coalition forces that were not at a significant disadvantage, then Barranca might be able to defeat the Chaos Legion in one fell swoop if he took advantage of the situation to attack. It's a pity that although Bayral won a small victory, it couldn't change the overall strength of the two sides.

At the same time, Barranca sent reinforcements to Beller, when the cavalry, returning from the same route, suddenly launched an unexpected attack on the enemy in the center. Two successive waves of cavalry charges tore apart the unprepared Chaos Legion battle line. But after tearing through the enemy's first line, they saw the enemy's second line. They did not dare to rush anymore because of the large number of opponents. The victory that had just been won became meaningless in the blink of an eye.

However, this wave of tug-of-war is still just a test for this big war. The Chaos Legion saw a situation where the central part of the coalition army had gathered a considerable number of cavalry, allowing them to lightly reinforce the flanks and return in time. This meant that if the Chaos Legion were to attack both flanks of the coalition, they would have to defeat the reinforcements sent by the coalition center. Conversely, if they attack the center, the flanks will not be able to provide timely support to the center.

So the Chaos Legion began to concentrate its forces on the central side, and then launched an attack on all fronts. This is no longer an offensive on a certain flank or a certain point, but an all-round offensive on the entire battlefield. But the focus is on the central Barranca side.

As in the last battle, Barranca sent the tanks out at the critical moment. Due to the muddy terrain, tanks cannot roam freely, but they can still pose a threat to the Chaos Legion in a large area. Barranca hopes to counteract Chaos' numerical superiority with this new vehicle.

But unfortunately, this was not the right decision. The Chaos Legion had already prepared, so when the tanks had just appeared on the front line, and before they even entered the battle, a lot of magic had already been thrown on these tanks. The thick casing and riveting that wrapped the tank corroded at a rate visible to the naked eye, turning into fragments and falling off. The steel chariot that was still majestic and rampaging just now turned into a rusty, slow-moving broken chariot in the blink of an eye.

Some tanks had wheels that were too rusty to bear their own weight and collapsed, while others were scrapped because of a malfunction of the steam engine. Only two tanks held out to the battle, but that was also pointless. The steel shell had turned into a rotten iron plate, and the Chaos Warriors directly used the weapons in their hands to dismantle the toy, which was no longer a threat.

The phalanx of Chaos Chosen Warriors took out the tanks like a play, and hit the coalition in the front.

At dusk, the serpent-like coalition front was torn apart from the middle. The troops in the center retreated, ignoring the two wings, and the troops on both flanks had to retreat with them. If it weren't for the complex terrain - the plains didn't have any complex terrain originally, but because of the heavy rain and muddy puddles everywhere - perhaps the Chaos Army's tail-of-the-tail pursuit would have completely routed the coalition forces.

Fortunately, the experienced gunners had already chosen the route of retreat. So although it was said that it retreated under pressure, there was no situation where a large number of cannons got stuck in the mud and had to be discarded.

It was slowly getting dark.

The troops barely held formation, retreating under the magical onslaught of the Chaos Wizards, followed by the blades of the Chaos Legion, of course. The magicians on Ashrufat's side had run out of energy in the afternoon battle, and the Demon Breaker Scroll had run out, and they could no longer stop the enemy's magical attacks. And the Chaos Wizard does not have any idea of hiding his strength, but does his best to use magic to cause death, injury and destruction, hoping to collapse the coalition in this way. Their magical combat power does have a great advantage, causing a lot of damage.

Under the magic attack, the casualties of the soldiers skyrocketed. Soldiers who were able to move were carried with them as much as possible, and those who were incapacitated were left behind. The vast majority of them will never come back.

But the reserves under the command of Ashrufat, that is, the two thousand cavalry, were thrown into battle at this moment. This new force launched several rounds of counterattacks, which caused the Chaos Legion's pursuit to be slightly halted, and finally dragged on until dark.

The night failed to stop the fighting. Marven had already made up his mind that he would never let Ashrufat escape from the palm of his hand. The Chaos Legion did not make any moves, but followed closely behind Aeshurufat. In the night, there were lights everywhere, and no one knew whether the nearest fire was an enemy or a friendly one. Only the battle cries - and the wails of pain - that still rang out from time to time on the battlefield showed that the fighting continued.

Ashrufat's dark vision played a huge role here. He was still able to see the battlefield clearly and understand the location of the various troops at hand. With his superhuman body and dark vision, he was able to run in front of the disoriented troops at the critical moment and tell them how to act. This greatly negates the advantage of the Chaos Legion.

But even so, even if Ashrufat tried all his means, the entire army barely collapsed, but maintained the appearance of an army, slowly retreating in one direction.

The Chaos Legion is still in pursuit. Although it was dark, there were many mages in the Chaos Legion, and they separated the mages and kept in touch in some way, and they were able to maintain a minimum of internal scheduling. The morale of the Chaos Warriors is also high, and they all know that they have the victory in their hands.

In the middle of the night, an accident happened. A fireball fired by a Chaos wizard happened to hit a bush. Originally, it was not easy to catch fire in such an environment after heavy rain, but this time it caught fire. The fire lit up the surroundings, revealing a retreating army. This was the main force of the Tiberius under the command of Berel. In the retreat just now, Bayrell had skillfully and slowly gathered his troops and prepared for a surprise counterattack.

The Chaos Legions from all sides immediately surrounded them, and the battle broke out in chaos. The two sides had no formation, no discipline, no organization, and just like that, they fought in the firelight.

The surrounding Chaos Legions were attracted by the firelight, while the other troops on the coalition side were unable to come over for reinforcements because they were retreating. Beller was under siege.

Ashrufat rushed forward with his assembled cavalry, and he attacked from behind the Chaos Legions, crushing the enemy to the ground. In the firelight, his blood dragon banner fluttered through the ranks, gathering the scattered soldiers once again. Bayral finally broke through the siege with his men.

This operation saved Bayral, and although he suffered heavy casualties, he was not completely wiped out.