Section 346 Sneak Attack

Defeat on the battlefield was a complete disaster.

Many people have the experience of chatting with veterans in taverns, and when those veterans talk about the rout on the battlefield, few are not afraid. The chaos, the one-sided chase and killing, the scene where everyone tried their best to escape, and even the scene of comrades fighting each other for a way to escape, can make the most ruthless and ruthless people feel fearful.

The Bloodfang Lord had just experienced such a rout.

Many people (including followers of other evil gods) have often seen a warrior who is afraid of the last moment of defeat and will continue to fight until the very end. Therefore, in the concept of ordinary people, when a Chaos Lord of the Blood God is faced with defeat, he should sacrifice his blood to the Blood God regardless of fighting to the end. If a Sadistic Lord chooses to flee when he finds himself defeated, this kind of action is tantamount to a direct betrayal of the Blood God. There is no doubt that such a person will not be able to become a terrifying Chaos Lord.

But in reality, the people who ascend to the status of Chaos Lord come from a variety of sources, and so do the Lords of Fear. Some people eventually earned their place on the battlefield, others gained the love of the Blood God by fighting alone, and some were terroristly recognized as Chaos Lords for some inexplicable reason, such as making and fulfilling vows to please the Blood God.

For example, if a Chaos Warrior is favored by the Blood God (which is very common) in a solo fight and is promoted to the Chaos Lord for a short period of time, then when that person loses on the battlefield, he will fight to the death to the glory of the Blood God until the last moment. However, if a Chaos Warrior had achieved this status through countless battlefield victories, then he would probably not have adopted this strategy.

Because it is an obvious fact that even if he is the number one general in the world throughout the ages, he does not have a 100% chance of winning the battle. Even if he had a 99 percent chance of winning, theoretically, as long as he fought enough battles, he would always meet the remaining 1 percent.

In the early stages of a large-scale war, there are always a lot of temptations and small battles. The so-called "undefeated in a hundred battles" refers to the whole battle, and it is empty to say that a general can win every battle, including those small battles that are too numerous to count.

Maybe it was just a mistake in planning before the war, maybe it was a laxity in the execution of orders by subordinates, maybe it was an accident that couldn't be calculated by manpower, or maybe it was simply the other party's luck. As long as there are more battles, such accidents are always inevitable. In fact, it is impossible for a general to expend his precious energy on those worthless small battles, and no one dares to say that he can win every battle he has ever experienced - as long as he can win a big battle, it will be a generation of famous generals.

Even Bayral is no exception. Although Beller has the nickname of "Vampire Slayer", he does have a real track record of exterminating the vampire clan. No one has ever said that Beller has been defeated by vampires - but in reality, Beller has suffered no less than any number of encounters in the desert outside of Callean. He himself does not deny that he has been defeated by the vampires more than once, and even fled alone. But Rao is so, since he has won the final victory, then he is the victor. People don't see (see and don't care) about his previous failures.

The Bloodfang Lord is the kind of person who has risen to the throne of the Chaos Lord through countless battles. Not to mention anything else, just to control the White Castle, he has experienced no less than five major wars. Of course, he had the last laugh. In fact, before becoming Lord of Chaos, he had experienced enough battles, big and small, and had been defeated more than once.

That's why, after the defeat, the abusive lord's reaction was not to call the name of the Blood God and fight to the death, but to fight to the death for the Overseers, winning by tearing a gap in the enemy's front and leading thousands of his men out of the siege.

But defeat on the battlefield is by no means so simple.

Those men who fought to the death had delayed enough time for the Bloodfang Lord, and even so, he was still relentlessly pursued. From the moment they tore through the enemy's defenses, the pursuers were in constant pursuit. Despite concentrating his forces on the battlefield to annihilate the recalcitrant enemy, Ashrufat sent a large number of cavalry to pursue the defeated Lord of the Bloodfangs.

Each time, the cavalry bit up from the rear, cutting off a portion of the Bloodfang Lord's troops—not so many that it could not be eaten, nor so few that it would be indifferent. In the military books, this tactic is called "tail cutting": when pursuing, it is not a roundabout frontal volley, but a strategy from the rear. Intercept a small number of troops at a time and eat them, then repeat. This method allows you to achieve maximum results with fewer troops without encountering too stubborn resistance.

The Bloodfang Lord was cut off for half a day, and his troops suffered heavy losses. Fortunately, it was dark, and he was lucky enough to escape into a jungle with complicated terrain and temporarily escape from the pursuit.

But the southerners caught up the next day. The frontal battlefield was over, and Ashrufat sent a large number of troops this time, intending to annihilate the remnants of chaos in one fell swoop. A brutal chase and scuffle ensued. It was no fluke to say that the Bloodfang Lord became the ruler of the White Keep, and the Chosen Warrior Force he personally led was even more brave and good at fighting. In such a grim situation, the subordinates still maintained a relatively high fighting spirit. Relying on this, after three days of bloody fighting, after a series of ruthless blocking and scuffles, although the remaining strength of the Bloodfang Lord was only more than a thousand people, he finally led his troops to get rid of the pursuit.

The Bloodfang Lord could finally pause for a moment. Then he found a very sad problem - he was lost.

There's no way around it. In the fierce battle of the enemy, you don't have time to pay attention to the direction. One battle followed another. What you can do is to determine which side of the enemy is weaker and easier to break through, rather than choosing the right direction - the enemy is not a fool, and the main forces of the enemy are often gathered in the right direction.

In fact, this is not a particularly serious problem - after all, the terrain northeast of Gruny is dominated by plains, and it is only a matter of time before a way is found. He had a much more serious problem to face: his troops ran out of food and grass.

The Chaos Legion is much better at gathering sustenance than the Southerners, and in fact, with the blessing of the evil god (or the blessing they think they have), they have a much wider range of food - even the corpses of the fallen can be eaten by the Chaos warriors without psychological burden. As for bugs, beasts, fish, etc., they have no problem even if they eat them alive and chew them alive.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to meet the needs of a thousand-strong army with these extras. It would be possible to spread the troops into a large area, but the problem is that they are now deep into the enemy's area. They were defeated, numbering only a thousand, and the enemy's tens of thousands of troops were waiting to pounce on them somewhere. In this case, the problem of food and grass for the Lord of the Blood Fang becomes very serious.

The Bloodfang Lord met his spies in a hollow.

After a series of brutal battles, marches, and hiding, the Bloodfang Lord has long since lost his former arrogance. There was an extra scar on his face that was not deep or shallow—it was the mark of a spear, and of course the owner of the spear had completely disappeared from this world—and the black blood stains on his armor and cloak (these were not the bloodtooth lord's own) made his expression look particularly hideous, as if he could choose someone to devour at any time.

Of course, the Bloodfang Lord is not alone. In fact, the entire Chaos Legion has been without food for days. Among the Chaos warriors, although there has not yet been a situation of being exhausted due to hunger (thanks to the fact that the Chaos Cultists have a body that is far stronger than the southerners), it is impossible for humans to go without food for a long time, and in a day or two, I am afraid that this situation will appear in large numbers.

"Is there a big city there? And the garrison is very small and loosely guarded?"

"Yes!" replied the spy unequivocally. The temper of the Bloodfang Lord was already bad, and this defeat greatly strengthened this, and he could no longer tolerate any off-line behavior from his subordinates.

"Big city...... How big?"

"It won't be smaller than Gaohua City. ”

"Gaohua City......" The Bloodfang Lord recalled his maps in his mind—of course, these maps had become the spoils of war for the southerners because they were placed in the camp. Is there such a big city nearby? Such a big city with very few defenders?

After a few seconds, he opened his eyes. "Neustria City. The Bloodfang Lord's mouth spat out the name of the place decisively.

"Neustria?" asked one of his men.

"Well, the enemy's base camp. "The Bloodfang Lord links several pieces of evidence together. "A huge city no smaller than Gaohua City...... That's all there is to it. "That's what he believes in the spies. Because even an idiot can't mistake a small city and a big city. "The defenders of the city are scarce - this is normal, they must have been in full swing, and the garrison left behind is very limited. As for the laxity of the garrison, this is also normal, because they are afraid that they have already received the battle report of victory at the front, and they will inevitably be lax because of this. ”

"What about their main force, could it be nearby?"

"No way. The Bloodfang Lord immediately vetoed his subordinates' doubts. "If they had withdrawn, they would have been in the city by now. They don't have ...... This shows that they must have taken advantage of the victory. They should do the same......" he said coldly. "Under Gaohua City, there are also our camps and the troops left behind...... And the White Castle...... My White Castle!"

Now that they've won the crucial victory, the Southerners do have the right to want more. However, the Bloodfang Lord was not worried about the White Keep, he was well aware of the fortification of the castle. As long as some of the defeated Chaos warriors - not too many, one or two thousand - withdrew to the White Keep, then the southerners had no chance of retaking the city.

"This is a great opportunity. The Bloodfang Lord said coldly. "The city is empty, but there is certainly food and grass in the city. And they're not going to let us go!"