rise of empire total war

Chapter 285
"Let us fight side by side together, and fight bloody battles for the retreat of the main force of the coalition forces and the enemy!"

At the same time as the coalition forces retreated, the rear troops led by Malik, the military commander of the Kingdom of Pravia, gathered behind the gate of the camp wall. They formed a tight shield formation, stretched out their weapons from the shields, and watched nervously as more and more troops came from not far away. The closer the Winster heavy cavalry.

Rumble-

"Run, gallant knights, let our iron hooves crush the foul foe!"

Nearly two thousand cavalry were running in the open space outside the city of Tus. The sound of rumbling horseshoes resounded throughout the land, which actually made the ground tremble. From Malik's perspective, nearly a thousand heavy cavalry listed long The horse galloped in a long formation, and the horseshoes raised smoke and dust on the ground. Behind the heavy cavalry, there were more than a thousand light cavalry looming. Although covered by the smoke and dust, he could still vaguely see the light crossbows in the hands of some light cavalry. !

"Not good! Be careful to avoid arrow attacks!"

Malik yelled out loud, as if to verify his worries. The next moment, he heard a buzzing sound in the air, and hundreds of black spots flew from the air. Crossbow bolts with even shorter arrowheads appeared in front of the crowd. These crossbow bolts flew at high speed and fell into the crowd in just a few breaths.

"what--"

"Uh--"

The moment the crossbow fell into the crowd, there were several screams from the crowd. Those soldiers who were too late to raise their shields to defend or took a step too late were overturned by the deadly crossbow, and fell into a pool of blood after screaming.More crossbow bolts were blocked by shields, and they made clanking noises when shot on the shield. Since this is a light cavalry crossbow, its armor-piercing power is weaker than that of infantry crossbows, so it cannot break through the shield's defense.

However, shields can only protect them from crossbow bolts, not from the violent charge of heavy cavalry!

Rumble-

"Learn flat, knights of Winster, charge! For His Majesty the King!"

Amidst the sound of thunderous horseshoes, the fully armed Magnus roared vigorously, and at the same time raised the heavy lance carried on his shoulders and clamped it under his armpit. The mail cavalry and imperial knights beside him followed suit, and three The meter-long heavy lances were put down together, and then, just hearing a battle roar like a flood, nearly a thousand heavy cavalry ran into Malik and his infantry defense line head-on!
In the next moment, the shield was destroyed and people were killed, people turned on their backs, and countless infantrymen were knocked down under the impact of the horses, flying several meters away, comparable to the impact of being hit head-on by a high-speed truck, causing most soldiers to fight The infantry in the back row were knocked back again and again, and even fell to the ground. Before they could get up, they were trampled by the horses that broke through the line of defense, and they were trampled into an unknown pool of flesh and steel. object.

The charging Winster heavy cavalry was also uncomfortable. Although the heavy lance they used was made of apple wood, which could absorb a large amount of recoil and shatter automatically, it still returned part of the recoil to the knights.Some of the horses even collided with the spears raised by the coalition infantry. After the collision, the spears shattered, and the horses let out a wail, and then lifted the knights on the horses. The knights who were caught off guard flew out and crashed into the crowd Among them, he lost his fighting power on the spot.

After a round of charge, before the light cavalry rushed in through the gap made by the heavy cavalry, the coalition soldiers who followed Malik's deputy commander in the rear collapsed. They looked at the corpse trampled into a pulp by the horses and screamed. Weapons, turned around and ran back. After seeing the power of the heavy cavalry charge, no one dared to continue fighting with them!

No one could have stopped the rout, not even Malik, the coalition's second-in-command—nor had he nearly stopped it, to be precise, if he could rise from the pool of blood.

Malik died. He was hit on the head by a mace from the oncoming imperial knight during the charge of the enemy's heavy cavalry. He died on the spot before he could even let out a scream. Brain mixed with blood splashed around, and his original appearance could hardly be seen.

The army in the rear was defeated in a short period of time, and then, the heavy cavalry who dropped their broken heavy cavalry guns and pulled out their secondary weapons roared into the camp, slashing and screaming at the fleeing soldiers, those who were retreating When the soldiers saw this, they were terrified and ran towards the exit in horror, but the exit was already crowded with people. A large number of soldiers desperately wanted to squeeze out, but they were squeezed by the crowd and couldn't move half a step forward. , And at this moment, the Winster cavalry arrived, and they waved their blood-stained butcher knives on the heads of these coalition infantry who had no intention of resisting, harvesting fresh lives one by one.

Outside the camp, looking at the soldiers trapped in the camp and unable to retreat, Commander-in-Chief King Titos sighed helplessly. He knew that these soldiers were finished, and his position as commander-in-chief would soon come to an end.Thinking of this, he shook his head, followed the retreating team with his guards, and left soldiers from various countries in the camp to be slaughtered.

After such a change, the morale of the coalition forces that successfully evacuated fell to the ice valley. Everyone lowered their heads and walked dejectedly on the way to retreat. Almost no one of them spoke, except for the sound of boots on the ground and the sound of armor and armor along the way. Apart from the sound of the armor touching, there was a deathly silence.

It is a fact that the coalition forces suffered heavy losses. After walking to a safe place, King Titos ordered a count of the remaining soldiers in the army, and got a shocking number: there were less than 6000 soldiers left in the army. , there are about 5000 soldiers still in the camp. They either died in battle or surrendered. Some people may be lucky enough to escape from the killing field, but they have lost the courage to continue fighting and become Broken soldiers wandering in the wilderness.

Listening to Parhati's low-toned report, King Titos fell to the ground regardless of his image. He couldn't accept such a fiasco. Before he set off, the coalition army under his command had more than 5000 people, but after a After months of fighting, there were actually less than 6000 people left, and even lost a deputy commander.

He didn't dare to look at those soldiers, and he didn't dare to face the remaining nobles in the army. He could imagine that if they didn't take into account the presence of soldiers, they would definitely blame him for his ineffective command.

"Palhati, I should follow your advice and deploy the rear troops in advance." King Titos said in a low voice, his appearance seemed to have aged several decades, and his words were trembling.

"It's not your fault, Your Majesty the King." Looking at the loser, Paalhati felt a pang in his heart, and he comforted him: "Your Majesty, no one thought that the Winsters still had a group of people hiding in the city. Huge heavy cavalry, even if we deploy the rear troops in advance, we cannot stop the charge of Winster's heavy cavalry."

Parhati's consolation did not make King Titos feel better. He stood up staggeringly, glanced at the soldiers with low morale, smiled bitterly, and then said: "Let's go, let's withdraw to Sukenya Leader, I have a hunch that we will not be able to win this war."

(End of this chapter)