Demon Lord

The enemies in the melee were directly thrown into disarray by the hundreds of infantry arrays that rushed over. They hadn't retreated before, it was all because there was a group of knights leading the retinue to fight back and forth, so when Bucky and others rushed over, the knights who formed a small team and rushed back and forth suddenly kicked the horse's belly and came to the rescue.

Bucky knocked away the enemies blocking in front of him, caught a glimpse of the cavaliers rushing out of the corner of his eyes, and immediately shouted to his comrades: Long spear! Long spear ready!

Here! Come to form!

Immediately, three or four soldiers with rechargeable spears responded loudly. Baki pulled the two comrades beside him to his side, and the infantry who heard the shouts all around approached him one after another. In less than ten seconds, the eight soldiers raised their hands. He raised his shield and quickly formed a wedge-shaped shield array. Facing the cavalry team that was about to rush over, the four soldiers with charged spears squatted in the center of the shield array, stepped on the bottom of the spears, and aimed the spears forward...

A dozen or so knights brandished their weapons and knocked away the soldiers along the way. Facing the shield array that suddenly appeared in front of them, they felt troublesome for a while without long weapons. The long sword, attached to the battle aura, lit up with a light orange light. When he was about to reach the shield formation, he swung the sword forward suddenly and roared: Die to me!

However, before the energy of the long sword was released, the light that suddenly lit up in front of him directly engulfed him.

The four charging spears collectively released the energy in the spar.

The violent impact bombarded the knights in the rear all at once, and Bucky, who was in the most shield formation, only felt the heat on his head, and his ears were temporarily deaf from the loud noise. The dazzling light forced him to close his eyes, and when he opened them again, the knight team in front of him had turned into red minced meat scattered on the ground like splashes...

Keep fighting! Rush over!

No one could hear these words, but everyone continued to fight instinctively. They stepped on the crumbs of meat under their feet, silently but firmly charged into the enemy's ranks. The armor collided and the blades intersected. I don't know how long it took. When Bucky's hand was too shaking to hold the sword, there was finally no one to kill around...

The dragoon cavalry squad chased the fleeing nobles in the distance, and no one cared about the fleeing subordinates and other soldiers. Bucky picked up a cloth strip from the ground, wrapped his sword and hands together, and started looking for his company.

The rescue team led by the magician had already entered the arena. Bucky checked his body up and down according to the training regulations. Fortunately, he found that he had no external injuries except for more than ten pits on his armor.

He could feel a deep scratch on the back of the helmet. The sweaty Bucky wanted to take it off to have a look, but the combat rules did not allow him to take off the helmet before the assembly signal appeared.

So he gave up this idea, and immediately began to look for any injured companions nearby.

After walking back and forth for a long time, Bucky found that there were very few Efta infantrymen lying on the ground. Most of the wounded were caused by the impact of the opponent's cavalry, but the armor and shield greatly increased their chances of survival. Bucky counted, and there were no more than ten dead comrades in battle that he could see in front of him.

Glancing back, he noticed that the road pressure puppets had extended the road to the battlefield, and the bodies of wounded and dead soldiers were transported onto trucks and returned directly to Taki Town for treatment and burial. The rest of the people rested on the spot. Two hours later, the truck carrying food and new weapons and armor quickly arrived here, and the Falcon reconnaissance plane in the sky circled a few times before leaving.

Bucky didn't know what to do next. His sixth squad was located in the central area. After the whole battle, only three people returned to the rear due to injuries, and no one was killed. The news relieved him from such a heavy heart, and the supply truck brought drinking water and enough food for lunch. He had no appetite, but bit the bullet and ate a lot.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the road-rolling puppet ran over the battlefield full of blood and corpses, and continued southward all the way, and arrived at the periphery of Soria City at five o'clock on the magic clock.

The soldiers got up to prepare for battle, but the scouting dragon knights brought news: the enemy had given up their defense and raised their flags to surrender.

Bucky breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the simple white flag on the city wall, he knew that there would be no more battles today...

*****

Viscount Boragon was looking at the rising sun with an extremely heavy heart.

Among the forces currently controlled by Charles II, Earl Harrison is the one with the highest title and the strongest comprehensive strength. Among all the nobles who participated in this war, Viscount Boragon can only be regarded as the fourth nobleman.

After the announcement of the war report, he gathered more than a thousand people in his territory and rushed to the city of Dunkel in the south of the temple. However, the continuous rain prevented the speed of the march. The nobles who marched together with the surrounding ones hurried on their way slowly.

Because everyone had the same destination, they rushed over this way, and more than a thousand people led by Viscount Boragon and the other two viscounts followed back and forth on the same road. But what they didn't expect was that after setting up camp yesterday, a lot of soldiers and refugees suddenly came from the north. After asking, the other party said that the army of Efta had captured the city of Dunker...

Unlike other nobles who have not fought much, Boragon has always regarded Earl Moore as his teacher before, so he has a deeper understanding of the means and strategies of war. It was also like this, when other nobles laughed at this group of people for not knowing how to make up lies, he locked them up in batches for the first time, and then interrogated them himself.

The results he got naturally surprised him.

After dawn, Boragon immediately found three other nobles to discuss the matter of meeting the enemy, because judging from the direction the enemy was advancing, he was currently on the way of the opponent's attack!

Such a proposal was naturally ridiculed, but Boragon forcibly sent out his own scout team, dragged the nobles' personal soldiers to the front and conducted a long-distance investigation. As a result, it was natural that a large number of people were found Trucks and Golems.

So the soldiers of the entire camp immediately broke out and formed, and after two hours of formation, they began to move forward, and at noon they met the infantry division from Efta.

Boragon felt that he was well-prepared and had an active advantage, but he never imagined that within half an hour of the battle, the entire army would be defeated on the spot. The cavalry died from artillery fire, and the infantry was crushed regardless of their equipment or force. There were nearly 3,000 soldiers on my side, but they were picked up by the opponent's infantry who were less than 2,000 like stepping on ants...

Seeing that the situation was not good, Boragon immediately blew the horn to withdraw troops. But there were only more than 600 soldiers who were brought back, and the soldiers of other nobles added up to a little over 1,000. The wounded and those who died in battle had to be thrown on the battlefield. He couldn't think of fighting back after his grief and indignation, because the three nobles who were traveling with them, together with their guardian knights, three magicians and personal guards, had already Blown to pieces by the charging spear or spar cannon together, I'm afraid they can't even restrain the corpse.

Therefore, what he can do is to try to gather the soldiers who retreated from the battlefield, and quickly retreat.

The Viscount quickly arrived at the outskirts of Soria City, but this city is different from those fortresses, it is a completely open commercial city. It was originally just a well-developed town, but it was only called a city in the last ten years. Because it had never experienced war, the city wall was built very perfunctorily, with a height of only two or three meters, and there was no inner city. This kind of city wall can only be used to deal with horse thieves or bandits who occasionally harass. Last year, the orcs were too lazy to attack the city, so they let go of a horse, but Viscount Boragon knew that it would be foolish to use it against the Efta army with artillery fire!

Therefore, he led the remaining one thousand people to forcibly requisition a large number of farmers in the city, pulled all the food that could be moved here, and destroyed what could not be moved on the spot, and then let the team continue to retreat south without stopping.

By the time it got dark, his team had already left Soria City about ten kilometers away. Because it was carrying too many forced conscripted farmers, it was impossible for this team to continue on the road at night, so he planned to break out of camp as soon as possible tomorrow morning. His goal was the town of Lannis in the north of the Bordeaux River.

The Bordeaux River is a river that flows from east to west, and its width is not too large. In the central and western parts of the kingdom, it can be regarded as a natural territorial boundary. As it flows eastward, it gradually disperses into smaller rivers. Because of its existence, food irrigation in the southern part of the kingdom is much more convenient than in the northwest where Efta is located.

From here to the south is the territory of Earl Mirno, and if you pass through this territory, you can reach the imperial city where Charles II is located.

In other words, the Bordeaux River is the biggest natural barrier in Efta's attack. As long as the army can hold it here, Efta's army will not be able to drive straight in and pose a threat to the imperial city.

Because the river is not very wide, there are stone bridges here and there. Last year's orc raid went directly into the hinterland through these bridges, without encountering any obstacles along the way. This year, the nobles finally had a long memory, and they stationed some troops on the stone bridge and pontoon bridge for vigilance.

And when Viscount Boragon arrived here, he not only had to cross the river, but also demolished the bridge.

Viscount Boragon had been optimistic about the battle before, but now he has realized that... the enemy is not as vulnerable as the Royal Weekly said. On the contrary, the aristocratic army on my side is like a rabble that is about to collapse...

However, the short battle also gave him a simple understanding of Efta's strength: the opponent has long-range weapons similar to magicians, but there are not many of them. The number of people attacking was less than 2,000, which meant that the opponent might be fighting on multiple fronts, and the front line was very long. If he was the opponent, he could have allowed the army to attack here, which meant that Earl Harrison had probably already taken it.

Thinking that there were still many troops rushing to Dunkel City in different directions, Boragon immediately sent the only remaining cavalry to inform them, so that everyone could change their paths and gather towards him. Because if you continue to move forward in such a scattered manner, there will only be one consequence: being defeated one by one.