Chapter 304: Defeat

The sudden defection of the Elsira army on the battlefield completely disrupted all of Marek's deployments, and even if he knocked his head out, he would never have thought that Elshira would come out like this. "They're all crazy, aren't they?, what the hell are the Elshira family thinking!" was the only voice left in Marek's head.

Malek couldn't turn his mind for a long time, and his eyes were blank looking at everything that was happening on the battlefield, but fortunately, the people around him hurriedly reminded him at this time, which made him sober up a little. Malek ordered loudly: "Retreat! Retreat! Regroup!" At Malek's call, some officers gradually regained their senses and began to beckon their men to regroup.

After withstanding the powerful onslaught of the Elshira army, the two sides began to fall into a scuffle, with tens of thousands of cavalry mixed together and slashing at each other with swords, and not so long ago they were in the same trench, but in the blink of an eye they were fighting each other until one side fell completely.

At the same time, on the other side of the battlefield, the Holy Cult Army also fought with the Correa Army, and the Holy Cult Army first planted a large number of tripwires and spikes on the battlefield, and when the Correa Army's cavalry launched an attack, these pre-set traps worked, and countless cavalry were tripped and fell to the ground, which greatly reduced the impact of the cavalry. However, the Correa army was not so easy to defeat after all, although many cavalry were trapped, but it did not stop the Correa cavalry completely.

The powerful impact of the cavalry swept several pikemen phalanxes to pieces, which was unavoidable in any case, and it was the price that the Holy Cult army had to pay. After withstanding the onslaught of Correa's cavalry, the Cult's infantry began to engage in a scuffle. Although the combat effectiveness was a little weaker than that of the Correa Army, the impact of the Elshira Army's defection still helped the Holy Cult Army a lot, at least they only needed to withstand one round of impact.

The armies on both sides of the melee have exerted a strong will to fight, and everyone is trying their best to kill the enemy in front of them, which is an extremely rare and cruel fight, the ground is full of blood, and the fallen corpses are covered all over the battlefield, making it difficult to get off the ground, and every step becomes very difficult.

Time passed little by little, and this kind of simple slaughter without any tactics to speak of continued, and due to El Shira's defection, the Holy Cult had an absolute numerical superiority, and in such a war of attrition, whoever had more men would be able to win the final victory. The Correa Army is powerful and powerful, but it has become useless in this pure war of attrition.

As time went on, the Correa grew in number, and the corpses on the ground were piled up like hills, and the blood made the ground muddy and slippery, and if you were not careful, you could fall and probably never get back up.

The Cult's advantage over mages became more and more apparent, and the walls of fire divided the battlefield into separate areas, making it difficult for the Correa army to assemble and fight on their own, so the advantage of the cavalry could not be brought into full play.

The Holy Cult Army, on the other hand, relied on its numerical superiority to wear out the opponent's will and life little by little, and in such a battle situation, no matter how strong the individual ability of the conniving Correa Army was, it could not reverse the passive situation.

At this time, the relatively complete right army formation in the Correa army was the right army formation, although they also lost a lot of people, but the entire army formation and formation were relatively well preserved, and Marek relied on the right army formation to support it.

At this time, a staff officer who had a good relationship with Marek came to his side and made his own suggestion to him: "Lord Marek, we should consider retreating, because if we continue in this way, our army will be exhausted sooner or later." ”

Marek was already red-eyed at this time, and the fire of his hatred for Elshira could literally boil the seawater, and when he heard the staff officer say to retreat, he grabbed the other party's collar and said viciously: "Retreat? I'm going to kill all of Elshira's treacherous villains!"

The staff officer was almost suffocated by him, and finally spit out a few words: "Big ...... Person...... We...... Mission...... No...... Forget ......" A few other close sergeants saw that the staff officer was red-faced, for fear that Marek would suffocate him to death, so they hurriedly came up to persuade him.

It took a long time to finally pull the two apart, and Marek's chest rose and fell violently, gasping for air, feeling as if the strength of his whole body had been drained. Malek gradually calmed down, in fact, the staff officer's words were not wrong, if you think about it calmly, it is indeed a better way to retreat now, at least you can maintain part of your combat strength.

What's more, even if this battle is lost, it is not the end, as long as the other armies are combined, the Correa army still has a strong fighting force in Pesthanes, but the purpose of returning to Solandaniel cannot be achieved. However, if you do not retreat, I am afraid that it will lead to the annihilation of the whole army, and then you will also not be able to complete the task of reinforcing the army, and it is a wise choice to withdraw in comparison with the two.

Malek has served in the army for many years, gradually rising from a mid-level officer to the top command, and he has rarely been defeated for decades, and if he does, it is only an inconsequential setback, and this is the first time that a fiasco like this has been encountered, and the proud character of the Correa makes it difficult for him to make the decision to throw in the towel.

But the soldiers who fell one by one in front of him reminded him with the cruel truth that if he retreated a little later, more soldiers would fall. Malek clenched his fists so tightly that he almost crushed his teeth, and the others couldn't say anything when they saw that his face was so pale, although they wanted to say a few words of comfort, after all, they themselves were not willing to flee like this.

Marek looked around, only to see a group of cavalry rushing left and right in the crowd but could not break through the encirclement of the Holy Cult Army, the cavalry were picked off by the spears one by one, and instantly drowned in the dense crowd, and in a short time, this group of cavalry was completely annihilated, and not even a single one survived.

All this was seen by him, but there was no way, there were still two walls of fire between them, even if they tried their best to break through, I am afraid that the cavalry would not be able to escape. Malek sighed, knowing that this was happening on the battlefield at any time, and he had to make a decision.

Malek slammed his thigh with his fist and said categorically: "Pass the order, the whole army will break through and retreat to the south!"

As the order passed down layer by layer, the soldiers of the Correa Army breathed a sigh of relief, and then they burst out again with a strong fighting force, and it was all because of the will to survive that drove them. Looking at the battlefield at this time, some of the Correa troops rode horses and some ran, rushing towards their camp, although there were several walls of fire along the way, but this still could not prevent them from escaping.

Some of the horses stopped in front of the wall of fire for fear of flames, and immediately threw the cavalry off their horses, and some of them were already covered in fire but were still running towards the camp, and the entire Correan army finally collapsed. At this time, the Holy Cult Army and the Elshira Army followed and killed at the same time, and the corpses of the Correa Army were lying along the way.

The defeated Correa army ran all the way to the camp gate, and some ran back to the camp, but some of the clear-headed people went directly around the camp and continued to flee forward. The Holy Cult Army and the Elshira Army, who had been chasing all the way, quickly reached the gate of the camp, and the small number of people in charge of guarding the camp immediately turned around and ran away when they saw that the other party was rushing towards them, without even resisting.

The camp was quickly captured and burned to the ground, when the Holy Cult sounded the horn to collect the troops, so the soldiers stopped the pursuit and began to return to the camp in an orderly manner. However, the Elshira army did not give up, and kept chasing and killing behind the Correa army for dozens of miles before letting the other party go.

A terrible battle is finally over, and the bloody battlefield is like a huge slaughterhouse, and the smell of blood has attracted countless crows and vultures, chattering over the battlefield incessantly, as if they are messengers who have come to lure the dead to hell......

(End of chapter)