Just when the night of the entire imperial capital was shrouded in all kinds of complicated emotions, when Abbasid XI was anxious about the military situation and his ministers urgently discussed the military situation, when Roddy returned to the tulip family and had no sleep all night.
The Northwest, the Northwest in the midst of a fierce battle, the situation has changed again A hill on the edge of the Nishikawa Plain in the northwest.
The night had already covered the earth, and the moonlight was obscured by the billowing dark clouds in the sky, and only occasionally half of his face could be revealed.
There was no starlight in the sky, and an army was marching the winding mountain road.
They were wearing the uniforms and armor of the Empire of Light, and the soldiers were already exhausted at the moment.
Many people just dragged their swollen and numb legs by inertia, and moved forward with the person in front of them bowing their heads.
The standard-bearer was also listless on his horse, and the original flame-like thorn flower banner was weakly carried on his shoulder, and he pulled the reins with one hand, barely allowing himself to fall off his horse.
From soldiers to officers, all of them are pessimistic and fearful about the future.
They were originally subordinate to the Northwest Corps garrison at Blackstone Fort, but the day before yesterday they received an order from General Reuben, the commander of the Northwest Corps, ordering them to immediately abandon Blackstone Fort and move closer to Watt Fortress, where the main force of the Northwest Corps is located, at all costs.
At this moment, the whole army was filled with a pessimistic atmosphere, and everyone knew that in the past month, the Northwest Army had been defeated one after another, and General Reuben's main army of 150,000 troops had been killed by the Iron Cavalry Regiment commanded by the murderous demon king Luo Chenthal of the Great Moon Kingdom.
Having lost most of the territory of the northwestern province of Rostock, and finally even the stronghold of Fort Mudan was captured, General Ruben led the main force to hold on to the last large fortress in the northwest.
And just two days ago, all kinds of news came, I heard that the murderous demon king Rochenthal had been running for two days and two nights in a row, pulling out the imperial military strongholds around the Watt Fortress one by one, and Loulan Fort and Trier Fort were also breached overnight.
The command of the Northwest Army ordered all the scattered troops to immediately move closer to the main force, this order is correct, it is already at a disadvantage, rather than scattering the troops and letting people break them one by one, it is better to clench your fists and concentrate on confronting the other side.
However, when the commander of the Black Market Fort received the order personally issued by General Ruben of the Northwest Army Command, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
The order required him to lead the 15,000 defenders of Blackstone Fort to join the headquarters at once, but General Reuben only gave him a day and a night's work "What the hell" The imperial commander of Blackstone Fort rode on his horse, couldn't help but look back at the long troops behind him, and scolded in his heart: "Two days and two nights, how can I get there, it's a road of more than six hundred miles, we are infantry, not cavalry, soldiers walk on two legs, and they have to walk six hundred miles in two days and two nights, it's a joke, and there are heavy ordnance following behind, can those things fly?"
The commander couldn't help but secretly beg the great gods to bless him, and at this moment his army had been on the road for a whole day without a moment of rest, even if he could arrive to join the army, I am afraid that this army would not have any combat effectiveness in a short time.
Now the soldiers are so tired that they don't even have the strength to walk, if they encounter an enemy on the road now, it will be fine Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think of the news that came two days ago, it was said that two garrison armies in other places were intercepted by the troops of the Great Moon Kingdom on the way to get closer to the main army after receiving the order, and as a result, the infantry of the empire on the plain was rushed to pieces by the cavalry of those foreign barbarians, and almost all the troops were wiped out You can only ask the gods to bless you He looked at the surrounding terrain, fortunately, this is not an open area of the plains, the surrounding hills make the road relatively narrow, even if he encounters the enemy, the opponent's cavalry cannot play much role At this time, several scout cavalry ran back from a distance.
The commander immediately cheered up and asked, "How?"
The cavalry was already covered with sweat, but his expression was still very calm, and he said loudly: "My lord, the mountain road ahead is finished, and we can walk out of this hill in about half an hour, and when we walk out, it will be an open area, and there is no trace of the enemy."
It's just that my lord, we don't think we're going to find a better place to camp tonight.
In front of it is an open field, but there is a small forest next to it. ” The commander listened carefully to the scout's report, not daring to miss a word, and then he was silent for a moment.
It looks like it's going to rain tonight, so camping on the edge of the woods shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Don't worry about the enemy attacking with fire, I hope you won't encounter the enemy.
It's raining, in this bad weather, presumably the cavalry of the Great Moon Kingdom will not come out to attack us, after all, this rainy and muddy weather is not conducive to the cavalry charge.
"Order the whole army to speed up, get out of this mountainous area, and then set up camp," he ordered in a loud voice The soldier received the order, although his body had long since lost his strength, but when he heard that he could camp and rest, he still strengthened his spirit and quickened his pace.
When the front of the team walked out of the mountain pass and saw an open plain in front of them, the soldiers couldn't help but let out an exhausted cheer that they could finally rest After the order to camp was handed down, the whole army began to get busy.
To the soldiers' disappointment, the scout had so few woods that they had stumped to their behalf, and the trees were all slender saplings that could not be cut down to build a barrage for camping.
In desperation, they could only use the mobilization of baggage carts and simple timber hastily to form a weak camp wall.
However, to the relief of the Imperial soldiers, the legend may not have appeared in the ambush encountered, and the legendary Killer Demon King of the Otsuki Kingdom does not seem to show any signs of appearing, probably in this kind of weather, the enemy will also feel tired.
Everyone thought they would at least survive the first night safely.
A veteran was teaching the panicked recruits not to panic, and that if they were attacked by an enemy, the scouts walking around would be warned that if they wanted to escape, it would not be too late to hear the enemy's trumpets and war drums running.
The whole barracks were in a hurry, the soldiers were busy setting up tents and burying pots to make food, there was a loud "click", an earth-shattering thunder sounded, a lightning bolt pierced the sky, and then there was a bang, and the heavy rain smashed down on the head and face.
The soldiers let out a long sigh of relief, it finally rained, and on such a rainy day, the enemy's cavalry would not come out It was already completely dark, and a recruit was soaking wet, and he was trying to fix the wooden camp wall that had just been blown crooked by the wind with a hammer, when suddenly he looked up in horror as if sensing something, and looked up in horror at the far end of the empty sky, to the east, and began to find some faint black shadows.
"What's that?"
An old soldier looked back, his face immediately changed, and his mouth opened wide: "It looks like it's a human God, it's the enemy, it's the cavalry of the Great Moon Kingdom" "Enemy Attack" I couldn't tell who was the first to shout this sentence, and then it quickly spread like a plague in the dim night.
Everyone was terrified, and everyone screamed and threw away the tents they were building and the fences they were erecting.
The soldiers frantically searched for their swords.
The cavalry hurriedly put on their armor, and the men in the huge camp shouted and neighed.
I have to deny that the Bright Empire has been established for two hundred years, and the tradition of martial arts has still created many real heroes.
At this time, it was the loyal and brave commander of this army who really showed the strength of a warrior "Panic, everyone, pick up arms," the commander immediately decided, drew his sword and killed the few sergeants around him who were still rushing and running in panic.
"If you panic any longer, everyone will not survive the infantry formation" A majestic voice sounded in the night, he ran all the way, kept killing several soldiers who did not obey the order and blindly ran around with his knife, and then took his own soldiers to drive the scattered soldiers into a phalanx.
"Don't panic, fools, the enemy is still in formation, they have a certain amount of time to charge" The commander tried to calm down as many soldiers as possible, "take up your swords, raise your shields, shieldmen in the first column, spearmen in the second column" Several infantry formations that were beginning to take shape were finally lined up, and the commander commanded his only five hundred cavalry to turn over and move quickly to the back of the infantry line a hundred paces.
These five hundred men were the cavalry he had trained single-handedly, the real elite force in this army, and all of them had cold and resolute faces, and they held their sabers across their chests and tightened their reins.
The dull sound of horses' hooves came, and the earth shook under the trampling of thousands of horses' hooves, bringing dust to fly.
The trampling of thousands of horses' hooves even covered the rolling thunder overhead The commander sat on his horse and watched the speed of the enemy's approach, and couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart: "It seems that something is wrong, how can their cavalry charge so slowly?"
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The black iron stream in the distance gradually approached, and the imperial soldier's vision could finally clearly see the appearance of the enemy cavalry, and he could even see the feathers on the helmet of the enemy cavalry, and the commander suddenly showed a look of fear in his eyes: "It's not good to be an archer."
There was a shuddering sound of breaking the air, and suddenly tens of thousands of sharp arrows fell from the sky in the enemy's cavalry formation, and the shield in the infantry ranks was insufficient, and they could not resist the bows and arrows that were shooting like locusts in the sky.
Countless soldiers fell to the ground screaming with arrows, and some people had just raised their shields when they were pierced by several wolf's tooth arrows, and then someone immediately screamed: "It's the archers, let's escape."
Almost instantly, the already disheartened army collapsed, all the infantry ranks were in disarray, and it was clear to everyone that ordinary light infantry was no match for archers in the wilderness.
Their meager equipment could not withstand the sharp arrows fired by the opponent, and after the opponent's bow and arrow were fired, the full charge of the enemy cavalry was a slaughter for them Countless people kept shouting: "Run for your life, everyone run for your life" The infantry queue that the Imperial Army commander had painstakingly driven out collapsed in an instant, and he slashed a few fleeing soldiers with a knife in the back, still unable to control the situation.
These scattered and chaotic troops instead rushed the cavalry queue he was preparing to follow.
At this moment, the enemy's cavalry formation suddenly fell silent, and then a deep and high-pitched voice was heard shouting: "Change the knife and charge the Steller alien language: kill" The tens of thousands of cavalry of "Streier" let out an earth-shattering cry at the same time.
The Imperial Commander knew at once that he was finished, and the army was finished The black iron stream roared and rushed at an incredible speed, and the earth trembled under the galloping of thousands of horses, and the iron hooves seemed to trample everything to pieces In the roar, the front end of the enemy's cavalry had easily broken through the already fragile infantry ranks, and some of the brave soldiers who were still holding their positions had not had time to see the twisted and brutal faces and red eyes under the helmets of the enemy's cavalry, and the entire queue was shattered.
The enemy's iron cavalry quickly crossed the front line of the infantry and rushed directly into the depths of the Imperial camp.
Behind them were the completely crumbling and scattered infantry, which were being slaughtered by a steady stream of cavalry from behind, often slashed by the scimitars of the enemy cavalry or trampled into flesh by the enemy's horses' hooves before their swords were wielded The Imperial Commander watched in despair as his infantry ranks were easily torn apart by his opponents, and his body trembled, and he said to his heralds in a voice that was so calm that it was almost death: "Pass my orders, tell everyone to flee, and flee as far as you can."
After giving the last order of his life, the loyal soldier of the empire turned back to his five hundred cavalrymen and shouted: "I used to be the personal soldier of the Duke of Tulip, and there is absolutely no coward who escaped under the banner of Tulip, are you afraid?"
The shouts of the five hundred people seemed to drown out the shouts and screams of the heavens, and the five hundred sabers were raised high The commander no longer looked behind him, and drove his horse to the great sword in his hand and rushed towards the iron stream without hesitation, and none of the five hundred heroic elite cavalry behind him hesitated, and followed closely behind with a long saber shout The last cavalry of the empire collided with the enemy's cavalry forward.
Because the enemy's advance had passed through the first line of resistance of the infantry ranks, and their momentum had weakened, their sniping still had some upper hand at the beginning, and it also bought valuable time for the rout and escape of the other battalions.
But their sniping did not last long.
The valiant commander and his five hundred men were like pebbles thrown into a great river in the great torrent of steel, and although there was a little splash for a short time, they were quickly drowned ` In this battle, the 20,000 cavalry of the Great Moon Kingdom completely crushed the local defenders of the 15,000-strong reinforcement of the main force of the Northwest Army, and for a whole night, the empty plains were filled with the roar of the Iron Cavalry of the Great Moon Kingdom and the miserable howls of the Imperial soldiers.
This is no longer a battle in which the infantry, who lost their defensive position, were wantonly slaughtered by the cavalry In this night attack, the 15,000 men of the Imperial army were completely routed, and in the end, less than 5,000 escaped from the massacre.
And the chance of survival of these 5,000 people was still exchanged for the life of the commander and his 500 warriors, and the name of this commander is not recorded In this battle, the 20,000 cavalry led by Luo Yantal, the prince of the Great Moon Kingdom, won a great victory, completely defeating the last reinforcement force that was close to the main force of the Northwest Army, and annihilated more than 10,000 enemies No Prisoners: