The fiefdom increases by 1 soldier in 1 second, and the empress kneels down and begs not to rebel

"Continue the attack!"

"Which idiot gave the order to withdraw? Keep moving forward!"

In the middle of the Goltish army, Lieutenant General Hopkins, riding on a horse, roared angrily towards the front.

He didn't understand why such an unexpected situation occurred on the battlefield at this moment. The 53rd Division in front of him did not strictly implement the tactical arrangement of charging to meet the enemy. At this moment, most of the soldiers of the 53rd Division were moving forward, but some people were shouting to withdraw, and they actually turned around and began to evacuate.

This was definitely something that had never happened before. Hopkins did not think that these soldiers were afraid of the enemy because he had just caught a soldier who was running back and asked him. The soldier said that it was Lieutenant Colonel Miniel who first called for a retreat.

This made Hopkins furious, and after slapping the soldier hard, he immediately yelled at them to continue fighting.

In addition, he ordered people to look for Minel in this chaotic crowd, but the news he received was that Minel was killed in a shelling not long ago.

But this was not the worst news. Just now, he learned from some people that when the enemy launched the first round of artillery fire, their commander, Lieutenant General Klein, unfortunately died in the artillery fire.

That's bad enough news.

Hopkins was not very familiar with Klein, the commander of the 53rd Division. Although they had met each other many times, they had never established a close relationship. However, after getting to know each other in depth over the past two days, he knew that Klein was a very good commander.

But he died so hastily in the artillery fire, which really makes people sigh at the unfairness of fate. His luck was too bad. But no matter what, this undoubtedly caused the empire to suffer an irreparable loss.

But Hopkins no longer had time to mourn for him. What he had to do now was to unite the 53rd Division and let them continue fighting, rather than causing chaos in the army because of an inexplicable "withdrawal".

"Withdrawal is a wrong order! Keep fighting now!!!"

Hopkins roared angrily, and the messengers accompanying him also roared. Then the soldiers of the 53rd Division who were running back and those who were hesitant because they didn't understand the situation turned around again and rushed towards the front line.

In front of them, the casualties of the 46th Division had increased to more than half, and the 53rd Division also suffered heavy losses. After all, at the beginning, the artillery bombardment launched by the Yan Army was directed at their location.

The fierce battle continued and soon it was six o'clock.

This is the darkest time of the day in winter, but at this moment the entire battlefield is filled with flames of war. The officers of the 53rd Division gradually realized that the situation was somewhat serious.

The 46th Division in front of them continued to attack the Yan Army positions. However, until now, they still could not see their own troops breaking through the Yan Army positions, and the 46th Division had lost less than one tenth of its troops in the process of attacking.

As successors, they had no choice but to spread the line and, for the first time, change the horizontal formation into multiple columns to launch an assault. Changing into columns would undoubtedly greatly reduce their combat effectiveness. In the absence of a salvo fire, their hit rate would be extremely low. However, at this point they were forced to change their formation. Otherwise, the densely fired shells would kill them before they arrived.

Even so, facing the almost non-stop artillery bombardment in the Yan Army's positions, this method of advancement was still difficult to achieve results. The enemy's artillery shells seemed endless. From midnight when they launched an artillery attack on the Macedonian military factory, up to this moment, the enemy had launched a high-saturation artillery bombardment for six consecutive hours. This was an unimaginable stockpile of weapons.

This was totally unbelievable, and the commanders of various troops couldn't help but wonder, was this really an isolated army that had fallen into danger due to its excessive pursuit of strategic locations?

Ordinary soldiers who only needed to follow orders from their superiors had no time to think more in the midst of gunfire, but the officers gradually realized the seriousness of the problem.

The first person to notice the problem and realize the need to change the plan was not the front-line personnel, but Lieutenant General Harbaugh who was at the rear of the army.

In the initial tactical arrangement, the troops led by Lieutenant General Harbaugh were to spread out their front lines in order to encircle the enemy forces that might flee in the later stages of the battle, and then join forces with the frontal forces to carry out a comprehensive encirclement and suppression.

But when Lieutenant General Harbaugh led his soldiers to gradually expand the front line, they found that the fighting on the front line had turned into a disadvantage for their side.

Perhaps because he was in the rear and had not been deeply involved in the war, Lieutenant General Harbaugh's thoughts did not become confused by the intensive artillery bombardment and he remained calm.

So he keenly felt that there was a serious problem with the direction of this battle.

The enemy forces, which should have been quickly broken through by their superior forces, not only held their ground but also caused heavy casualties to the attacking forces.

The advancement of our own troops was extremely slow, and this "slowness" was based on the fact that after the soldiers at the front died, the follow-up troops went up as supplementary personnel to fill the line and advance.

Then this kind of advancement is not called advancement, but making soldiers line up to die!

After realizing this problem, Lieutenant General Habo's face turned pale. He didn't know whether it was right to continue attacking the Yan Army's positions despite the huge casualties, or whether this battle, which had been turned into an offensive by the enemy, had failed and it was right to preserve the manpower at the moment.

Lieutenant General Harbaugh did not think about this for too long. When he heard that the enemy's artillery bombardment had not weakened but was getting more intense, he made a decision.

"Withdraw troops immediately!!!"

Lieutenant General Harbaugh, sweating profusely and with a pale face, shouted with all his might.

The officers beside him stared at him blankly for a second, and then they all shouted anxiously at the same time:

"Order! Retreat!!!"

Followed by.

"Woo!"

"Woo!"

"Woo!"

The sharp calls for retreat sounded one after another.

At this time, the darkness of the night had gradually faded away, but the eastern sky in this cold winter appeared a cold and pale color.

The sun has not risen yet, the shelling has not stopped, and the war is still burning.

The corpses outside the Yan army's position were piled up densely, and the blood and flesh almost covered the entire ground. Even if the wind blew at this time, it still couldn't blow away the thick smell of blood that seemed to be tangible.

The thick smoke almost covered the sky, so even though the east was already bright, it was still dark here.

On the ground, the Gothic soldiers who heard the order to withdraw did not hesitate at all. They turned around and ran. Their heavy feet moved so fast that almost everyone of them became sprinters.

As Klein said before the battle tonight:

'The soldiers were somewhat lacking in physical strength, but with an urgent battle ahead of them, they were still able to squeeze out their physical potential to fight.'

Charging towards death may not necessarily allow the soldiers to squeeze out their physical potential, but the desire for life will definitely make them use all their strength to escape.

In the Yan Army's position, Qin Ze looked at the Golts soldiers in front of him fleeing back frantically. He said expressionlessly:

"Exiting so soon? But it's not over yet."