I will be crowned king

The sun rises in the east and everything revives.

Just as the golden morning light once again crossed the clear sky and illuminated the land of Strawtown, a farce-like battle had just come to an end when Anson finally found his pocket watch.

On the siege position on the east side of the town, the soldiers of the Storm Legion and the Shooting Army, who had been fighting all day and working the night shift, collapsed in the trench one by one due to sleepiness, with literal words written on their cheeks stained with mud and blood. Haggard, lying around, you are next to me and I am next to you, so exhausted that you don’t even have the strength to return to the camp to rest.

And all of this was due to a certain Borre Levent who thought he had seized the opportunity.

In order to take advantage of the Judgment Knights' attack on Anson Bach, the Storm Legion would probably have no time to react and break through the encirclement. Borre Levent forcefully organized the entire army to attack the besieged position without any preparation. , on the premise of avoiding fighting as much as possible, doing everything possible to escape.

An army is unprepared, but it has to avoid fighting as much as possible when breaking out, and run if possible. It sounds ridiculous to the extreme, but strictly speaking it is not completely without room for maneuver: after all, the Borre Corps still has more than 10,000 people anyway. There were only less than 10,000 people on the battlefield, including the shooting army, and they marched quickly to the battlefield. They fought for a whole afternoon, and their physical strength was severely exhausted.

On the other hand, only the main force of the Borei Army was damaged, and nearly half of the army still maintained a fairly good physical strength; plus abandoning the extra baggage and traveling lightly, it shouldn't be particularly difficult to break through the encirclement...

……Bar?

Beaure Levent decided to take a gamble.

But it is a pity that he ignored, or had to pretend to ignore, several issues: First of all, it was night, and they were going to break out, which would inevitably not create too much light. How would the various troops who did not know in advance and were unprepared go into the dark? Cooperate with the action?

Secondly, the Storm Legion's physical strength is severely exhausted, but the position is still in their hands. Even if the number is insufficient, can't they use bunkers and various trench traps on the position to delay the breakout troops?

Okay, even if all these problems are solved and the troops successfully break through the encirclement - such a chaotic operation must have caused a large number of people to be separated. How is he going to reunite these lost soldiers? How to deal with the enemy's subsequent pursuit and encirclement? Can a scattered army with no supplies really be able to persist in advancing to the slave port for several days without being disintegrated?

The final answer is that all these questions have been fulfilled without any accident.

Under a pitch-black night, tens of thousands of jihadi legions had no coordination at all. They basically fought independently in battalion units, and the sequences of actions were disconnected from each other. Some troops fled without hesitation and fell directly into the three holes they had dug before. trenches in the sky; some troops rushed too quickly and bumped into the front team, thinking they were enemies, and ended up fighting with their own troops in advance; others were more straightforward, thinking that the encirclement net was on the east and west lines, so they fled north like a smart man. , trapped in the hundreds of thousands of mountains and primeval forests of the new world...

But in any case, Borre Levent did indeed successfully break through - literally completing his planned goal, but at this time, except for a few relatives, there were only less than a thousand troops with him. Man, the dignified regiment commander shrank directly into the regiment leader.

The remaining troops were either separated during the breakout, annihilated by the Storm Legion, accidentally lost their way, or simply chose to self-dismissal, abandoning their identity as the Holy War Legion... and evaporated.

Even so, Beaure Levent, as the commander of the army, still did not lose confidence: although 99% of the troops were temporarily missing, the only way to break out was from his own position and return to the slave port to assemble. Basically, the only path he is on is the one he is currently on; as long as he keeps moving forward, the army will regroup under his command.

In a sense, he is right to think so... The soldiers of the Holy War Legion who traveled thousands of miles from the old continent to the new world have no understanding of the desolate new world. When encountering danger, most people will still subconsciously turn to themselves. Familiar areas, organizations and people are close together; as long as you make good use of this, even if the army is really broken up, it can be reorganized very quickly.

So in the next few days, Borre Levent, who had only a thousand people left by his side, panicked while avoiding the pursuit of the Storm Legion, and while running away, he gathered his troops and slaughtered the scattered fish. The shrimps once again completed the integration, constantly encouraging them to move towards the slave port, and believed that as long as they arrived at the slave port, everything would be fine.

As for whether it will really get better, how to regain the lost baggage and logistics, and whether the fleet transporting supplies and reinforcements can arrive in time... those are not issues that he needs to consider at the moment. Whether he can reach the slave port alive is the most important thing. of.

After experiencing an unimaginable setback, even Borre Levent's ideals have become extremely practical; in comparison, the Storm Legion is not as open-minded as he thought.

Suffering an almost completely unexpected blow, the most important thing was that the enemy, who had been almost impossible to escape, successfully broke through. The morale that was originally due to the prospect of victory fell to the bottom in an instant.

In particular, the enemy's total strength exceeds 20,000, and the Storm Legion, including the reinforcements of the shooting army, only has a little over 10,000. Losing the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the enemy not only means losing an easy victory, but also directly leads to the recurrence of the offensive and defensive situation of both sides. Turn around; once the enemy is allowed to recover, it will be impossible for the Storm Legion to continue to gain a foothold in Straw Town. The five eastern colonies will be lost almost in the blink of an eye!

Not only that, even the Storm Legion itself is not fully assembled at the moment... The Second Infantry Regiment, which was used as a bait to march eastward, has completely lost contact, plus nearly half of the shooting army; if they retreat like this, the consequences will be simply Unthinkable.

But the Storm Legion, which had just experienced a fierce battle and was forced to fight a night attack and blocking battle, was extremely physically exhausted. Even if everyone knew the seriousness of the situation, they could not immediately organize a pursuit and needed at least a day's rest; arriving from Strawtown The slave-catching port only takes five days at the fastest.

Five days...five days is enough time for a lot of things to happen.

The Storm Legion has always maintained the two characteristics of being timid and afraid of death, and having an eye for money, and this has formed a special tradition of the Legion - they will never actively propose to participate in a battle that they know is dangerous, as long as the Commander-in-Chief can It is the duty of the legion to come up with a plan that guarantees success and ensures subsequent benefits, and goes up the mountain of swords and into the sea of ​​fire.

But this time, Anson did not take the initiative to propose any plan, or even publicly expressed his summary of the failure of the blocking battle; instead, a group of exhausted officers couldn't wait to propose their pursuit plan.

"Pursue, must pursue! And the faster, the better, now is the best!"

In the temporary conference tent set up in the ruins of Strawtown, Leo, the commander of the Fourth Infantry Regiment who was unharmed, held his military cap and slapped it on the long table as if he was eagerly waiting for the meal: "As long as the commander-in-chief is willing to give our regiment this... Honor, I am willing to give up all the spoils captured in this battle - including those captured later!"

Faced with such an impassioned and tear-jerking declaration of war, the attitude of everyone in the Storm Legion was... very disapproving.

"Ahem... Well, although I admire Lieutenant Colonel Leo's courage and determination, the task of chasing down the remnants of the Borre Corps... I'm afraid it has nothing to do with you anymore."

After coughing a few times, the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, Norton Crosell, interrupted very politely: "I am doing this for the sake of you and your men. Don't get me wrong."

"Misunderstand?"

Leo's face suddenly darkened: "What do you mean?!"

"It's not interesting!" Norton immediately raised his hands with a very innocent expression: "I just think you are not suitable for this task."

"Although the Ring of Order protects you so bravely and skillfully that you don't even have a scratch on your skin, the Fourth Infantry Regiment has gone through a long-distance attack. You who occupied the headquarters during the night blockade suffered the strongest attack, not only In this way, your casualties are not small, basically second only to the Fifth Infantry Regiment."

"Under such circumstances, don't you think taking a short break is the wisest choice?"

"This, this, this, this...I...I..."

"That's right! The Fifth Infantry Regiment suffered the most casualties in the entire army, but this does not mean that we have lost our combat effectiveness!"

Just when Leo was speechless and stammered, Julien, who was still quiet at first, suddenly blushed, stood up with his hands on the table, and looked at everyone excitedly: "On the contrary, the experience of frustration has greatly inspired us. The morale of the entire regiment is determined to avenge the past and restore honor with the head of Borre Levent!"

"I am here to express my position on behalf of the whole regiment. All the spoils of war are free of charge. Anyone who likes the battle achievements can take it, but the Fifth Infantry Regiment... will definitely not lose to any Clovis... no, any team in the world. A strong army, we just want to prove this with our own hands!”

"Well……"

"This, this..."

Seeing Julien's whole body trembling slightly, the meeting that was so lively just now suddenly became quiet; you looked at each other, and I looked at you.

Finally, Norton and Leo looked at each other. The former coughed twice again and raised his hand to hold the other's arm: "Um...Julian, don't be so impulsive. Everyone is still discussing and has not finally decided who will come." …”

"I'm not kidding, really not!" Julien turned around suddenly:

"I am announcing this decision very seriously!"

"So are we!"

Leo, who was next to him, also quickly joined in: "Of course we all understand that you must be the most hopeful and qualified candidate among us - but being qualified does not mean being the most suitable... Do you understand this?"

"I……"

"That's right!" Norton immediately took over: "Just like Lieutenant Colonel Leo, who has also made outstanding achievements, he also has the qualification, but it does not mean that he is suitable."

"Am I not suitable?"

Leo glanced at him.

"Very inappropriate!"

Norton nodded matter-of-factly: "The reason has been made very clear to me just now. The only one in the Storm Legion who still has sufficient physical strength, has not suffered much losses, and can organize a pursuit immediately is our Third Infantry Regiment."

"Of course, this is just my personal opinion. The only one who can really decide the attack list is the Commander-in-Chief."

After speaking, he turned to Anson and nodded slightly, expressing that he fully obeyed the commander-in-chief's final decision.

Led by the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, all the officers silently looked at Anson who had never said a word, waiting for the result anxiously and uneasily.

It was such an unnatural scene that even the clerk responsible for taking minutes of the meeting was shocked; in his memory, a similar situation had never occurred before.

Karl, who also remained silent, rolled his eyes... There was no way, he knew his colleagues too well.

Except for Julien, an honest man who wanted to die gloriously, every one of the officers present was eyeing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity - the opportunity to kill or capture an imperial nobleman and commander alone.

In any case, Borre Levent is definitely in his weakest state now. If he cannot be captured now with the help of the entire army, it will be difficult to have such a good opportunity in the future.

Are there any benefits to doing so?

Of course!

Clovis is different from the Empire. Officers are not hereditary titles of nobility but a profession. Although senior officers are still monopolized by wealthy families, the competition between the middle and lower classes is still very fierce, especially now that wars are happening frequently and there is a battle happening all the time. In the ongoing era, every military achievement is an important addition to one's personal resume.

For example, Anson's ability to come forward depends on his victory in the Battle of Thunderburg, and the record of capturing Louis Bernard alive and killing Kroger Bernard was not disclosed to the public. Otherwise, how could he pass the Army review so easily and get Franz? Family angel investment?

The officers' thoughts are basically the same: with such a military exploit, their status within the Storm Legion will naturally increase in the future, and it will be convenient to rely on this resume to find a job.

Of course, it is not ruled out that some members of the Truth Society have ulterior motives. Some people who are suspected of having old grudges with the Levant family take the opportunity to seek revenge. There are young heirs who have left the family and are eager to prove themselves. Is there anyone who can help this guy with the Levant family? The "Head Hunters" who are curious about the ransom... each have their own agenda, and there are many.

Even Anson always kept silent to his extremely active subordinates because he had some special ideas... He especially wanted to know how important the life and death of Borre Levent was in the eyes of the Judgment Knights?

If we could take advantage of this opportunity to attract the Judgment Knights lurking in the eastern colonies, and block them with Borre Levent in the slave port to kill them, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?

Not only must a jihadist legion be annihilated, but the pillars that maintain the Holy See's influence and authority in the new world must be completely smashed, and the leadership of the war must be taken over!