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Chapter 133 The Battle That Ended Hastily

The false news of the enemy commander also boosted their soldiers, which left the already disadvantaged Earl Brando with nothing to do. He could only watch helplessly as the front began to collapse.

Just like a small gap had just appeared in the dam, it expanded rapidly in the face of the enemy's torrent, and eventually formed a complete rout.

Faced with this situation, the soldier's brain issued an extremely dangerous warning, and the survival instinct began to appear, completely suppressing other thoughts.

They can no longer think about turning around, whether they will face death immediately, and there is only one thought in their minds, and that is to escape.

Some people fell to the ground before they even had time to turn around, but there were still more people who were not killed, and they even fled here at an exaggerated speed.

Earl Brando was also kidnapped and fled quickly. He was almost squeezed, and then became the first earl who was trampled to death by the rout.

He had no choice but to run away with them while yelling not to charge into the army formation.

Fortunately, even though they were being defeated, the flag bearer still kept his mission firmly in mind. It was the flag in his hand that allowed Roland and the others to recognize that they were a friendly army.

Otherwise, without the distinction of flags, you would never know whether they are real friendly troops or the enemy's pretended defeat, because such things happen from time to time on the battlefield.

There are even those who use the flag to attack the army formation!
Therefore, there is an order to attack the army and kill without mercy!
"Everyone, stop and raise your shields and spears. Anyone who attacks the army will be killed without mercy."

They didn't know whether they heard Earl Brando's shout, or Roland's thunderous roar woke them up. It was more likely that their situation was no longer dangerous, and their brains gave up blocking other information.

Or maybe it was because of Roland's dense spear array that they felt a deadly threat.

All this began to clear their heads, and they began to avoid this large army, splitting in two in the middle and avoiding their formation.

At the same time, the enemy army behind them was exposed, and the front row of the enemy army had also spotted their reinforcements. They were obviously chasing the rout in a scattered formation, so rushing up like this was simply courting death.

A soldier subconsciously stopped running, but he was quickly pushed to the ground by his comrades behind, and tripped several unlucky ones.

In the end, these people all died under the stampede, which is why no one dared to stop when they charged. If they didn't want to be trampled to death, they could only bite the bullet and continue charging.

Roland just looked at the scene in front of him expressionlessly, "The archers are throwing, the first three rows are defending the enemy, and the rest of the soldiers are preparing to throw their spears."

The archers quickly pulled the full moon under the parameters reported by the flag officer, and thousands of arrows flew away. Most of the arrows avoided the rout of the fleeing friendly army and went straight to the enemy.

It's just that in the face of armored enemies, these thrown arrows cause very little damage to them.

Except for the soldiers in the first three rows who were preparing to withstand the impact, the remaining imperial soldiers quickly pulled out two throwing spears from the spear bags behind them, stepped back a few steps and waited for the order to throw.

Andal, who was leading the cavalry, was cruising. After the bows and arrows were shot, under his urging, the cavalry pulled down their visors, untied their lances from the saddle, and raised their shields to put them on top.

They began to urge the horses to speed up. Amidst the yelling and slapping of riding boots, the speed of the horses became faster and faster until they formed a charge.

"Distance fifty, projection."

As the flag officer reported the distance data, the soldiers began to run up and threw the spears in their hands. The iron spears flew into the air instantly, and made a burst of sound of breaking through the air.

Then, under the action of gravity, the heavy armor-piercing spears began to droop, and pointed directly at the enemy's assault troops, because most of them were in a pursuit posture, which caused them to hit this wave of spears firmly, and instantly cleared the air. A large area.

The sudden attack made these pursuing enemy troops wake up. Although they were carrying the momentum of victory, what they were facing was a modified and completely victorious army.

The enemy commander began to issue orders, trying to rearrange formation.

At this time, they had already heard the dense sound of horseshoes, which made their already chaotic formation even more chaotic, and because the battle line was too long, they couldn't find where they belonged for a while.

The enemy's sparse formation just ushered in the charge of the cavalry. Facing such a chaotic and defenseless formation, the cavalry sent out their lances one after another.

Under the action of huge potential energy, the cavalry spear easily penetrated their armor, and left the spear head directly on their chest.

A soldier was lucky enough to escape the sprint of the lance. Before he had time to rejoice, he fell to the ground and was directly trampled by the iron hoof. Just this blow killed him.

Under this wave of powerful cavalry charges, some people chose to run away directly. The counterattack of a few people did not cause any waves, and they were instantly submerged in the torrent of steel.

Then they took out the knight swords at their waists and started to kill more quickly. Under the action of inertia, they only need to lightly wave the knight swords in their hands to directly kill those fish that escaped the net next to the horses .

However, in the cavalry charge, the most fatal is the stampede, followed by the collision, and then the enemy killed by the weapon.

"Everyone, charge with me."

Seeing the cavalry roaring past, Roland rushed out like a sharp arrow after speaking. The soldiers followed with shields in one hand and spears in the other.

Facing their charge, the scattered enemy troops had no power to resist, and they showed a one-sided situation just after contact.

The enemy who pursued the victory was soon defeated directly.

And right behind them was their commander, Earl Bakar. He didn't understand why they, who were still victorious just now, would fail after just one effort.

As a vanguard in the offensive and defensive battles of Fort Lite, he consumed a large number of troops. This is his only remaining army. If he wiped out all the soldiers, he would not know how much land he would lose in the subsequent battles.

"The supervising team obeys the order and retreats to kill without mercy."

This filled his heart with anger, and he was unwilling to fail like this, which would make him lose a large share in the subsequent land distribution.

He tried to awaken their fighting spirit with cruel military orders, and at the same time he did not allow these defeated troops to attack his army formation.

And the opponent's cavalry also made him desperate to escape, because their cavalry had been completely lost in the previous battle.

Having no choice, he issued this order that he regretted for the rest of his life.

The fleeing soldiers were threatened by the supervising team and tried to go around them. However, they who chose to take a detour were directly overtaken and killed by the enemy.

This made them feel a sense of despair, and it also reminded them of the previous behavior of being treated as cannon fodder, and they felt resentful.

With the first sound of killing, they shouted from their mouths, their emotions seemed to find an outlet, and the killing intent began to pervade their hearts.

And compared to the enemy army charging behind, the supervisor team with only a few hundred seemed more bullying.

Thinking of this, their eyes were fierce, they pretended to be defeated and approached, and directly launched a surprise attack.

It's not uncommon to defect, but it was indeed the first time Roland saw it, which made him a little dazed, but the soldiers around him didn't respond.

They rushed up from both sides of him without making any distinctions. From their point of view, everything in front of them was the enemy.

With cold faces, they used shields to protect their vital points, and with the force of the charge, they stabbed out the short swords in their hands one after another, and killed the enemies one by one in front of them.

At this time, Earl Bakar was as stable as an old dog on the surface, but in fact he was already panicking, and he began to retreat slowly under the protection of the family knights.

It was only then that it was too late to make up their minds, they were already surrounded by rebels, and the horses couldn't even turn around, let alone run away.

Watching the knights being pulled off their horses one by one, "I am your earl, you can't do this, let me go."

Facing the threat of death, Earl Bakar could no longer maintain a calm face. He began to panic and tried to calm down the soldiers.

It is not known whether Earl Bakar's cry played a role, or his authority as an earl has long been rooted in the hearts of these soldiers.

The rout soldiers didn't care about him at all, they were just fighting for the horses that would allow them to escape quickly, and pushing and pulling each other, resulting in no one being able to sit on the horses and leave the battlefield.

Some people even stabbed the weapons in their hands directly at their former comrades-in-arms. This action immediately ignited these disorderly troops, and they began to kill each other.

At this time, Andal had already led the cavalry to cut off their retreat, and Earl Bakar was awakened when he heard the sound of horseshoes, "Everyone, surrender, only by surrendering is there a way out."

The rebel soldiers who heard the order to surrender were stunned and reacted. They immediately dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground.

Looking at the comrades killed by them all over the ground, they realized what terrible things they had done when they were sober.

At this time, the two royal legions were already very close, and under the command of the commander, they charged towards each other.

They slammed into each other fiercely. It was just a face-to-face meeting. Many soldiers on both sides were knocked to the ground.

Follow-up soldiers stepped on the body of their comrades/enemies, first there was a traditional shield collision, and after taking a breather, they had already pulled out their secondary weapons—maces—from their waists.

After the last royal legion duel, both sides realized the importance of armor breaking.

Because the armor of the elite legion is different from ordinary standard armor, their manufacturing process is more complicated, and at the same time stronger, it is difficult to pierce their defense with ordinary swords.

Such weapons can allow them to easily penetrate the enemy's helmet, and at the same time can cause huge damage to the enemy's shield. It is also a small hole when smashed.

It's not like they didn't have larger halberd-like weapons, but obviously such a weapon is not suitable for use in an army formation, and its head is too heavy, making it unsuitable for stabbing.

It is more suitable for slashing, but it is obviously not suitable for deployment as a standard weapon in the current era when legion battles are dominated by arrays.

They need lighter weapons for longer battles.

Some soldiers who were slow to react had just drawn out their weapons when they were directly nailed into their skulls by the oncoming mace and fell down slowly.

The physical strength of the soldiers on the entire battlefield has reached the limit, and the speed at which they swing their weapons is getting slower and slower.

Such them will only be harvested like mowing grass by the enemy's royal army, especially their knights are more threatening.

Therefore, the commanders of various battlefields directly issued orders to withdraw troops.

As the armies dropped many corpses and distanced themselves, the entire battlefield was divided into two halves, leaving only the royal legions of the two countries continuing to fight.

Such a situation made His Majesty Quesnel heave a sigh of relief. This not only resolved his unprotected dilemma, but also relieved the crisis of the entire army.

At least now the army will not cause a rout, as for the future, let's talk about it.

It's just that His Majesty Shabotai was very unhappy. His face turned ashen, and he looked at the battlefield in front of him without saying a word. They were just a little bit close to defeating the Rhodes Kingdom's army.

But he was still sensible, and he didn't intend to force them to continue fighting, because he knew that the soldiers were exhausted, and today's battle lasted for four to ten minutes.

Under such circumstances, he couldn't blame any nobleman or soldier, because they could already be said to have broken through the limit.

He also doesn't regret that he only sent reinforcements now, because under the circumstances that the situation is unknown, his army is nothing to the entire army, and the final result will be like this.

"Blow the trumpet and retreat."

Hearing the long sound of the horn on the opposite side, His Majesty Quesnel laughed out loud. At least he was the one who gave the horn to retreat later, which made him feel better, and at the same time gave the order to retreat.

Hearing the sound of horns coming from the rear of the two sides in turn, the royal legions who were fighting knew that this was telling them to retreat.

They waved the maces in their hands, and after forcing back or killing the enemy in front of them, they stopped entangled with the enemy and began to retreat slowly.

Roland, who also heard the sound of the horn, had no intention of withdrawing his troops, because there was still a fleeing enemy army in front of them, and they would not give the enemy a chance to rally.

Andal no longer kept his horsepower, he led a group of cavalry and launched a cavalry charge directly at the group of rout soldiers, and for a while, only dust was flying.

The enemy troops adjacent to them also discovered the situation here. If it was before the retreat horn, they might choose to rescue, but they are already retreating now, and they are exhausted and have no intention of rescue.

Seeing that the defeated soldiers could not escape, they threw away their weapons and knelt down to surrender.

It's just that the charging horses were not so easy to stop, and they still paid hundreds of casualties for their luck.

It was only then that Roland and the others rushed to tie them up, and led them back slowly.

As for the guy who kept calling himself an earl and asking for noble treatment, because he was too noisy, Roland had persuaded him with reason and stopped talking.

It's just the depression on his helmet, but it looks a little violent.

(End of this chapter)