Just this winter.
The most decisive battle of the Second Holy War, which was later called the "Sandwich Biscuit" battle, finally began.
After intense set-up, the combined forces of the Roland began a massive retreat from the Pamirs Although Tiger has lost confidence in this war, as the commander-in-chief, at least nominally, Tiger still carefully arranged the retreat of hundreds of thousands of troops Since it is a retreat, there are always various mentalities to stay behind the break, and there has been another debate on the question of who will stay behind the break.
This time Tiger didn't get involved in the argument, he just sat there with a sneer, watching these people arguing with cold eyes.
The last to be left behind were the infantry legions of the Gothic kingdom.
This army, known as the second-rate infantry of the Roland coalition army since the war, was entrusted with the important task of staying behind to die After leaving behind the infantry regiment of 30,000 Gothics, Tiger took his Royal Knights of the Kingdom of Sauron and the Wizard Guard, and retreated first, as for the rest of the troops, Tiger didn't care anymore.
As for the Goethe infantry regiment in charge of the break, Tiger didn't believe that they could do their job well, and the Goethes wouldn't be so brave, and they would probably surrender "Wait for death, everyone wait for death" Tiger looked cold, riding on his horse and looking at the camp that was gradually moving away behind him: "This is simply a war for us to send to death" Miró is an excellent general, and despite other prejudices, he does have what he has.
Without Thor's whip, the Emperor Regiment began to pursue the Roland people under his leadership.
Miró did not devote all his troops at once, and at first he only carefully sent a few troops to disturb the other party's retreating pace, and try to slow down the other party's footsteps.
It's no longer a wise move to fight the other side now.
Consume it, consume time, consume your energy, consume your food The Goethe Infantry Regiment of the Roland coalition in charge of the broken Roland army surrendered en masse two days later. 30,000 people became prisoners of war, all of this is in Tiger's calculations, no matter what, 30,000 prisoners of war can always delay the pursuit of the Bright Emperor, but the next thing made Tiger or all the Roland people frightened Overnight, 30,000 prisoners of war were slaughtered by Miró's order Although many officers in the emperor did not support Miro's approach, and even many people objected to the duke, the duke never showed up, but said lightly in the tent: "Go and ask General Miro" Overnight, 30,000 Roland prisoners of war who were all disarmed were executed, and Miró surrounded these prisoners of war in the original camp of the Rolanders, and then sent a team of heavy cavalry to start killing that night, and the sound of fighting lasted all night, and the blood stained the soil of the plain red, and Miro had no idea of cleaning up the battlefield at all, and ordered a fire to burn all the Roland barracks and those corpses.
Many of the officers of the Golden Light Empire were very disgusted by Miro's approach, but they could not object to Miro's words: "If we take these 30,000 prisoners of war, we will spend at least 20,000 to take care of them, we don't have so many people, and it is even more impossible to waste 20,000 soldiers on the plains on these prisoners of war."
Miró's last words were very crisp: "There is no mercy to the aggressor" Because of Miró's harassment along the way, the Roland retreat was very slow, and their precious baggage was left behind, and the only remaining supplies were the only thing the Roland people had now.
Miro was very clever not to let the army really fight to the death with the Rolands, several light cavalry teams harassed each other back and forth, so that the Rolands could not go peacefully, and the real large army was advancing steadily behind This guy brought the trick of "dragging" to the fullest By the time the tired steps of the Rolands finally reached the south of Thundering City, it had been a full five days, and they had done it with all their might.
Faced with the Holy Knights who were at a loss in the city, Tiger was not surprised at all.
The Holy Knights really didn't manage to take back Thundering City, which is too normal.
Looking at the tulip battle flags fluttering at the head of the city, Tiger had a ridiculous thought in his heart that he was just a bystander, and the predicament in front of him seemed to have nothing to do with him at all The dying throes are still to be done.
Faced with the predicament, the Roland people finally fought to the death.
The armies of any kingdom finally mustered their last courage at this moment and launched a charge towards the thundering city with the tulip battle flag, and they were greeted with sharp arrows and stones The funny thing is that those arrows, and even the food used by the Thunder God's Whip army in Thunder City at this moment, were originally hoarded by the Roland people in Thunder City And so, a strange battle began.
The Roland army was caught between Thundering City and Miró's legions.
In front of the Rolands, the Thundering Walls were fiercely contested, and behind the Rolanders, Milo's legions attacked.
Frankly speaking, if you simply rely on the tens of thousands of Thor's whips in Thundering City, facing the siege of hundreds of thousands of Roland troops, and the sharp magician team of Roland people to break the city, it will be a matter of time But Miro, who was behind Roland, was too much of a headache for them.
If the Rolands could be given a month, Tiger would be confident that he could settle the war under Thundering City Miro's legion had already left the line of defense on the plains, and in a wide area, their superior forces could completely defeat Milodan, and that would take time Although Thundering City is strong, the garrison of tens of thousands of Thor's whips is obviously too thin in the face of hundreds of thousands of Roland people.
Tiger is confident that he will take Thundering City within a day, but the problem is: time The food in the army was only enough for two days.
For two days, Tiger couldn't help but start laughing maniacally.
What's next, starve first, and then start killing war horses and eating horse meat when you can't stand it, and the hungry Holy Knights who have lost their war horses may not even be able to beat the opponent's elite heavy infantry regiment, and then they start eating people Hahaha, it's ridiculous, it's ridiculous Four days after the Battle of Sandwich Biscuits, the Roland army renounced After a day of back and forth negotiations between the envoys of the two sides, Duke Tulip, the commander of the Bright Emperor, announced that he accepted the terms of surrender of the other side and promised not to massacre the prisoners of war, Miró, had made the Roland people deeply fearful, and in the winter of that year, the second holy war, which lasted two months, ended.
To the south of Thundering City, a coalition of 500,000 Roland people surrendered to the Empire of Light.
The Northern Theater Legion of the Empire of Light accepted the surrender of the Rolands.
In this battle, the 800,000 troops invaded south by the Roland people, except for nearly 300,000 who died in the war, all the rest became prisoners of war.
And the empire, too, paid a heavy price for this war In addition to the nearly 10 million gold coins spent on the war, the more than 400,000 regiments in the Northern Theater of Operations were left with less than 300,000 after the war.
Among them, the Flame Warrior Regiment of the Divine Cult lost 30,000, the Northern Legion lost nearly 100,000, and the number of elite Thor's Whip also dropped sharply from 50,000 before the war to less than 30,000.
Most of the Thor's Whip was lost in the final Battle of Sandwich Biscuits, in the final siege battle of the Rolands.
The empire won time and finally won the war Under the Thundering City, hundreds of thousands of Roland troops, including the Holy Knights, had all laid down their weapons, and under the supervision of the 50,000 heavily armed infantry of the Northern Legion and 20,000 Thor's Whips, they were concentrated in their original military camp.
The food and supplies needed every day are provided directly from the Thundering City.
Under the call of His Majesty the Emperor, Zig was left as the commander-in-chief of the front, and under the escort of the whip of ten thousand thunder gods, Duke Tulip returned to Yanjing with Lord Miro, the commander of the Northern Legion The only thing that was somewhat unusual was that even during the ceremony of accepting the surrender of the Rolanders, Duke Tulip, the supreme commander of the Bright Emperor's team, did not show up, and it was Ziggy and Miro who came forward to accept the surrender of the other party.
Miro took the sword from Tiger Tiger, the commander of the Roland coalition forces, and it was Ziggy who signed the surrender Under the strict escort of 10,000 Thor's whips, the cavalry nervously guarded around a completely sealed carriage, and marched towards Yanjing Looking at the tight and impermeable carriage, the worries in the hearts of the soldiers of the empire gradually appeared.
Could it be that the rumors are true, our great commander, the Duke, is really seriously ill Under the deliberate arrangement of His Majesty the Emperor, the original welcome ceremony of Yanjing did not take place, and the triumphant date of Duke Tulip on the "newspaper" was simply fake, so that tens of thousands of civilians in Yanjing and the admirers of Duke Tulip pounced in disappointment, and the angry crowd almost tore apart the soldiers of the security station, and Duke Tulip's convoy quietly entered the city gate of Yanjing in the middle of the night The grand celebration banquet was held.
Duke Tulip also did not participate.
According to the official version of the Empire, the Duke was injured in the battle and needed to recuperate at home.
And in that grand celebration banquet, Miro, as the only supreme general in the Northern Theater to attend, was out of the limelight.
In the face of the sycophants of the Yanjing aristocratic ministers around him, Miró's good aristocratic education made him behave very appropriately, both noble and modest, and perfectly portrayed the image of a loyal and brave young general of the empire, watching his nephew being guarded by everyone in the middle, and seeing the smile on the face of His Majesty the Emperor sitting there.
The Marquis of Caroline finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and the turning point of the Lionheart family had finally passed.
Taking advantage of the break between the banquets, the Marquis of Caroline pulled Miró aside and carefully inquired about Duke Tulip's injuries.
Miro's smiling expression that had been maintained for a night dimmed at the moment, he sighed and whispered, "I don't know" "I don't know," Marquis Caroline was a little surprised.
"It's true."
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Miro said in a low voice: "In fact, Seth hasn't appeared for a long time, he rarely appeared in front of everyone when he was on the Pamir Plains, until the decisive battle under the Thundering City, I was always in command" Speaking of this, Miro frowned: "I also have some doubts in my heart that he came back from the battlefield that day, and he didn't seem to be injured, but then he hid in the tent and disappeared, is that the paladin of the Roland people really so powerful" The Caroline Marquis pondered for a while: "So, can you interrogate that paladin carefully?"
Miro shook his head: "The other party's mage guards and paladins have run away, the situation was very chaotic at the time, their army is surrendering, and those mages and paladins, as well as their senior knights, all those who can fly have flown away" Miro sneered: "Thundering City is not big, although magicians can't fly long distances, but flying through Thundering City to the seaside, it can still be done, as for whether they can fly through the Thundering Strait, I don't know." ” The old fox Caroline was silent for a while, his eyes flashed with a sly gaze, and he suddenly whispered, "Will Seth be seriously injured or he may die?"
Miro's body shook, and he immediately shook his head, his tone was firm: "He won't die" Miro's gaze seemed a little strange: "I don't even think that anyone in this world can kill him" Marquis Caroline looked at his nephew's expression, sighed, and said in a low voice: "No matter what, if the war is won, Your Majesty will definitely reward you greatly, if, I mean, if Seth dies, then you are the biggest hero left in this war Zig, that guy doesn't have the support of a big family behind him, and he can't become a climate Miro, have you ever thought that if Seth dies, you will be the first person in the emperor" Miro's body shook violently, and a light flashed in his eyes, as if he had thought of something.
But then his gaze dimmed, and he looked at his uncle, the expression on his face was a little complicated, as if he hesitated, and Miro slowly spoke.
"Dear uncle.
I know what you expect from me in your heart, but what you don't know is that after going through this war, I don't have a strange feeling for that guy Seth, I should say that I have a strange feeling for the Tulip family" Miró took a long breath, and then seemed to spit out all the depression in his chest, let out a long sigh, and said in a deep voice: "That guy Seth, maybe I will never surpass him in my life, and that family" Miró stared at the old Caroline Marquis:" That family makes me feel hopeless, and that's a real charisma."
Miro's eyes became complicated again, there was respect, jealousy, disappointment, helplessness, but more than that, amazement "You can never imagine that kind of scene, as long as the tulip flag is flying, and thousands of imperial soldiers are like worshipping the gods, for the tulip flag, those people die willingly, without even the slightest hesitation and fear, those people's piety to the tulip, that madness, that absolute loyalty, we can never do" Marquis Caroline didn't speak, looked at his nephew's face, and sighed softly.
The newspapers of Yanjing were already filled with the joy of the victory, and every day there were countless crowds outside the Tulip Duke's Palace, and the soldiers of the police station did their best to guard the surroundings of the Duke's Palace.
The news of Duke Tulip's injury has slowly spread under Andy's arrangement.
The number of people in the religious center in Yanjing has also increased unprecedentedly, and countless civilians have run to the religious center to pray, praying that the great gods will bless the patron saint of the empire with health and longevity.
Outside the Tulip Duke's Palace, countless infatuated girls held blooming tulip flowers in their hands and prayed silently.
But these people all consciously stood dozens of meters away from the Tulip Duke's Palace, because they were afraid that they would disturb the Duke who was recuperating and resting.
Every day, a team of royal guards would come to the Tulip Duke's Palace, and I heard that it was a court medical officer sent by His Majesty the Emperor to treat the Duke's injuries And the various newspapers in Yanjing also sent countless people to wait around the Duke's Mansion at night, and every day various newspapers in Yanjing will publish some news of the Duke's Mansion with Tulip.
"According to this newspaper, a servant of the Duke's Mansion said that the Duke was able to get up yesterday."
"According to this newspaper, according to the little remaining veal steak found from the garbage heap outside the Duke's Palace yesterday, it is said that the veal steak is the favorite food of the Duke of Tulip, so we can guess that the Duke's body is recovering and can already eat" "According to the younger brother of the nephew's nephew of the servant of the neighbor of the medical officer who was in charge of treating the Duke, the Duke's injuries have basically healed." “” “” Every day, the newspapers are full of all kinds of news and speculation about the Duke, and each newspaper for its own sales, and finally began to blame others for publishing false information indiscriminately, with the start of the war of words, Yanjing's public opinion has been a mess, and no one believes the real or false news On the last day, a newspaper that boldly guessed that the Duke's injury might be very serious, was rushed into the headquarters by the angry crowd, and then after all the people were beaten with blue noses and swollen faces, all the newspapers closed their mouths for three days.
Issued by the Imperial Commander-in-Chief, His Majesty the Emperor signed a commendation order to reward meritorious heroes The only thing that caught everyone's attention was that at least Duke Tulip was mentioned in the order.
"Duke Setrudolf of Tulip, Marshal of the Imperial High Command General Zige, the former deputy commander of the Central Cavalry Corps, served as the commander of the Central Cavalry Corps and gave him the title of earl General Miro, the former commander of the Northwest Army, was appointed as the deputy minister of military affairs, and the title of earl was given to the former commander, and the former deputy commander was given the title, and the former deputy commander was appointed as the former column commander."
After this commendation was issued, the grand ceremony was held in the palace hall of light, but Duke Tulip was still not able to attend It is worth mentioning that in this lengthy commendation order, which lists dozens of names, there is an inconspicuous name.
"Roddy, the former deputy captain of the Duke of Thor's Whip Wolf Tooth Army, performed well in the raid on Thundering City, and was transferred to the Royal Guard, giving him the title of viscount and the title of court warrior" To be continued: