I have millions of wage earners

"Forward! For the glory of the Iron Hill Kingdom!"

Flynn's words caused a burst of warm applause.

After these suppressions for a long time, the noble lords who were eager to grab the credit started to move while shouting: "For the glory of Lord Flynn!"

"go ahead!"

The excited noble lords, along with their various soldiers and horses, together with the players, launched a new round of offensive against the imperial army.

Although the lords are on top, no matter how reckless they are, they are still a little calmer than the players who are also reckless.

After all, when Lord Reckless leads his army to charge, he at least knows how to hold up his shield and move.

And when the reckless players are charging to grab heads, they are all strange, and the wave comes anyway.

Naturally, the shrewd lords shouted: "Brave adults! Come here!"

"Heroes, go there!"

"Fearless warriors! Follow me! For glory! Charge!"

The noble lords let the players act as cannon fodder to draw the Empire's counterfire in the event of a charge.

In fact, players are not stupid, and many people have also discovered the little Jiujiu of the nobles.

But just like what Niu Dingtian said at this time: "Damn! These Hammer Dukes ask us to go wherever there are the most enemies!"

"These NPCs are so mean!"

"Brothers! Go to the place with the most enemies! Charge!"

Players know they are cannon fodder, then what?

oh.

Cannon fodder is cannon fodder. At the very least, cannon fodder is to a large extent the person closest to the enemy and the most convenient person to steal people's heads.

After various military lords led their elite troops to join the battlefield, the ensuing battle situation immediately improved a lot.

On the one hand, this is because the attack of Flynn's army has become much more organized - although the armies of various lords are not as strong as the Imperial Army in front, they can still be used in pursuit and escape battles.

On the other hand, the empire itself has no intention of fighting and just wants to run away.

Flynn's army continued to advance and regained a lot of lost ground, and the empire's counterattack was delayed.

It can be seen that the empire is indeed retreating, and it only intends to fortify layers of defenses to avoid a collapse, and does not intend to launch a counterattack.

Flynn originally wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to mobilize his troops and show off his micro skills.

But Flynn was embarrassed to find that he no longer had many strong reserves on hand.

Players have already entered the battlefield.

The troops of various lords also spontaneously fought under the leadership of their own lords.

The Second Legion and the Oath Warriors are on the battlefield behind enemy lines.

Flynn only had a small number of NPC soldiers left on hand, and ordinary legions used for logistics.

Although these ordinary indigenous soldiers can also fight, after all, they have not achieved great success. Should they be allowed to chase and escape?

Flynn thought about it and decided that it would be better to keep a reserve force on hand anyway.

After taking stock, he found that he had no available troops, so Flynn gave up the idea of ​​micro-managing.

Not being able to show off when you want to show off is the loneliest thing!

Of course, Flynn can use the mission system to give orders to players for forced micro-management, but it is not necessary.

…

I have to say that the imperial army is indeed very organized and orderly.

It was clearly retreating, but the collapse that Flynn had been expecting never happened, and the army always maintained an orderly retreat.

After half a day of hard fighting, the imperial army successfully withdrew from the encirclement network of the Maginot Line.

success?

Not really.

The empire had a mighty army of 2 million at the beginning, but no more than 500,000 successfully escaped from the battlefield.

Including the precious giant elephant cavalry, the entire army was wiped out while covering the retreat of the army.

Many elite soldiers of the empire and even some mages became prisoners of war.

Flynn arrived at the entrance to the Maginot Line with a victor's attitude. Here, there were still 40,000 to 50,000 imperial troops who were still resisting.

It was the existence of these elite rear-cutting troops that bought time for the empire's main force to retreat.

Flynn still respects these soldiers who fight loyally to the death.

Flynn had tried to recruit them before, but was rejected.

Flynn estimated that it was because the empire's large forces had not yet gone far, so these rear-end troops were unwilling to surrender.

The empire's hundreds of thousands of defeated troops have now basically gone far, so if they try to recruit surrender now, it feels like they are very likely to succeed.

After all, even from the perspective of honor, these imperial soldiers have done enough, and there is no shame in surrendering now.

And things turned out to be within Flynn's expectation.

After another campaign to persuade them to surrender, the tens of thousands of imperial soldiers who were responsible for breaking up the rear, led by their generals, collectively surrendered to Flynn.

At this point, the defensive battle of the Maginot Line, where millions of people fought, ended with Flynn's victory.

It's a pity that there was no total annihilation, but after all, the imperial army is not free from attack, and the imperial mages are also pouring out firepower crazily, which is indeed very fierce.

Players and various lords have also tried their best.

If you try your best, there will be no regrets.

Flynn did not fight personally, and mainly focused on presiding over the post-war cleanup and statistical work.

This job seemed simple, but it required a lot of energy. Flynn was overwhelmed. After all, the aftermath of such a big battle was also a huge project.

Not all the troops participating in the war are players, so some rewards need to be distributed to various lords, including the logistics troops.

There are also some diplomatic actions such as enfeoffment and rewards, which will take up a lot of Flynn's time.

Most players have no intention of chasing the enemy anymore.

Tired of fighting, it's time to relax.

Players are also looking forward to getting rewards, and then spending a lot of money. When they should go offline, when they should rest, when they should go to other places to make money or to kill monsters for development, they should go to other places to work or kill monsters. Strange.

Massive organized pursuit, yes, but not too big, and a bit draggy.

As for Flynn’s noble lords?

Will they give chase?

Their elite troops also suffered a lot of losses in the previous pursuit of the imperial army.

The energy consumed is almost the same.

These indigenous troops, who had gone through a hard battle, naturally had no extra time to pursue the imperial army that had already run away.

They also stayed here to wait for Flynn's reward.

Flynn's army had no intention of fighting anymore, and no large-scale pursuit was organized in a short period of time.

But this does not mean that the approximately 500,000 troops that the empire successfully evacuated can return to their territory smoothly.