"What? Baron Dior led the army alone and went to ambush in advance?"

Prince Nicholas was taken aback, he thought for a moment and said, "The remnant coalition has lost a lot of elites, and the leader Kelman is still strong. With the team of hundreds of people under Baron Dior, it was too reckless to ambush Kelman. ”

Julien: "yes, I persuaded him to come too......"

Prince Nicholas added: "However, this is indeed a genius idea. When I was making the battle plan, I only thought about defeating the vanguard army and giving them a dismount, but I didn't think about setting an ambush to annihilate them in advance. Baron Dior, was a military genius. ”

Julien wiped his sweat: "Yes, yes, in fact, I also trust his judgment, and I also handed over the most elite cavalry team to his command......"

"Why didn't you go with him?" asked Prince Nicholas.

Julien hurriedly said, "We...... At that time, I was worried about the safety of His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

In the midst of the battle, Prince Nicholas did not ask much, only nodded slightly, and then continued to charge.

Originally, Nicholas only planned to stop after a dozen miles of pursuit and return to the Black Rock Fortress to set up defenses. Now he has changed his mind, he wants to pursue all the way, even if he arrives at the battlefield half an hour late, he can still play a role in supporting Bai Xiaowen.

Julien, who was following Prince Nicholas's war horse, whispered: "Dio is going to be developed." ”

Cecilia's expression had returned to his initial coldness: "He has to survive first." With that, she grabbed the horse's belly and sprang out like a sharp arrow.

......

Black Iron Gorge.

Bai Xiaowen took the lead, but it was actually only about an hour.

In other words, he set off an hour earlier than the remnant coalition army. Counting the speed advantage of the remnant coalition army, this hour will be reduced by a small half.

It's only half an hour, and there's not much that can be done.

Fortunately, the terrain of Black Iron Gorge is dangerous, and it is a natural ambush site. Bai Xiaowen ordered his soldiers to dig stones from the middle of the valley, and made the second half of the valley a pit on the left and a ditch on the right, which was uneven.

A group of soldiers cut down trees and brought them to the northern exit of the valley to pile them up and pour grease.

As for the extra stones, except for some barricades, the rest were transported to both sides of the mountain.

"Here they are, Lordship!" shouted Harvey, who was watching the wind from afar.

Bai Xiaowen, who was directing the soldiers to throw grease on the dead grass on the ground, nodded when he heard this: "Everyone go up the mountain, the veterans are in the first half of the valley, and the recruits are in the second half, go quickly!"

There are about two or three hundred veterans, and except for some elites, most of the others are ordinary template soldiers above level 4, and they still have a certain combat effectiveness. These people are also the basis that Bai Xiaowen relied on to deal with the rout of the remnants coalition.

As for the recruits, they are weaker, and if they fight the elite soldiers of the remnants head-on, they will have to flee in a few rounds. Therefore, Bai Xiaowen arranged them on the mountains on both sides of the Black Iron Gorge as an auxiliary.

A few minutes later, the sound of chaotic footsteps sounded, and several wolf cavalry with obvious burns on their bodies were in front, followed by troll headhunters and monitor lizard knights, all of them in a chaotic array, scrambling into the canyon.

"Well, God help me. Bai Xiaowen used his insight skills to look at a few wounded soldiers. These remnant elites all have a negative state with all attributes halved! I don't know what kind of backhand Nicholas used to turn the tide of the battle.

The commander of the Vanguard Army, the Mallet Berserker Kelman rode the monitor lizard at the end. The leaders of the remnants who had followed him had disappeared, either dead or lost in the chaos.

However, only the elite has the negative status of "All Stats Halved". As the leader, Kelman's status is basically intact, and his attributes are not deducted.

Bai Xiaowen sighed secretly, if Kelman also hit the debuff with all attributes halved, this battle would be much easier. However, if you can kill Kelman in good condition, the battle rating should be much higher, after all, he is a high-level boss.

Soon, the first few people in the rout ran to the middle of the ravaged canyon and found the anomaly.

In normal times, this anomaly would be fed back to Kelman within ten breaths. But now, the remnant vanguard army is in chaos, and by the time word of mouth discovers the anomaly, the broken Kelman has already arrived in the middle of the canyon.

Seeing the holes of different depths dug in the ground, Kelman's face was a little solemn. He jumped off his mount, his nose twitching, and soon he could smell a hint of grease.

Kelman crouched down and touched a handful of dead grass on the ground.

His face changed, he stood up suddenly, and shouted out the classic three words that many generals have said, and there will be more generals in the future:

“...... There is an ambush!"

As soon as the flags with red stripes on a white background were unfurled, two columns of human soldiers suddenly stood up on the canyons on both sides, shouting and throwing torches and stones downward, and soldiers who were good at archery shot rockets!

With a bang, the flames fell on the dead grass and burned.

It is worth mentioning that these oils and fats are all materials that Bai Xiaowen scavenged through the Plague Buster Industry in the Red Leaf Collar.

The residents of Red Leaf City have encountered such a temporary manager, and they don't know if they are lucky or unlucky, at least for the next few months, they can only live a miserable life with a nest head in their hands and no drop of oil in the food - if there is still a vegetable at all.

The smell of being burned by the flames was not pleasant, not to mention the rain of falling stones, and many of the routed soldiers rushed to the northern exit regardless of the thirty-seven-twenty-one.

"Lord Overseer, the canyon exit is not far ahead, let's rush too!" several of the orcs beside Kelman shouted in the language of the remnants.

Since the enemy has set up an ambush, the road ahead must be impassable. Let's go back, and the rear army will become the front army, and rush out through the southern entrance!" Kelman shouted, "Go and get my orders!"

"Lord Overseer, it's impossible to give orders now...... one of the orc guards said helplessly.

The remnants who had just been defeated and burned by the wildfires were like headless flies in the environment of billowing black smoke, where could they reorganize their troops and counterattack?

Kelman sighed: "It's my fault...... I didn't expect that in this remote frontier, the human race would actually arrange an archmage who could use forbidden spells! The injuries on your body will not be able to recover in a short time. ”

Several of the orc guards were panicked and at a loss.

"Thankfully, Overseer, you have a treasure from the Great Shaman that temporarily heals your injuries. As long as you're here, we have hope!" one of the orc guards apparently took Kelman as a lifesaver.

Kelman nodded, and said solemnly, "Call everyone who can be notified, all come with me!" With that, he jumped on the monitor lizard, turned around, and rushed to the entrance of the valley on the south side.