If you find peace and happiness, they may be jealous of you, but you still have to be happy anyway.

- Mother Teresa (world-renowned Catholic charity worker, founder of the Missionary Society of Charity)

After Roderick personally led 110,000 soldiers to the battlefield, knowing that the victory was decided, he handed over the battle to Roderick's army to encircle and annihilate the remnants of Malen's army, and began to slowly withdraw the 35,000 last soldiers under his command, who were also exhausted, from the battle.

With 110,000 soldiers as the main force to encircle and annihilate Roderick, with 40,000 cavalry interspersed with assaults, it would take hours to completely annihilate the 40,000 soldiers of the remnants of Malen's army; after all, it was 40,000 soldiers with weapons in their hands, not 40,000 lambs to be slaughtered.

Even if there were 40,000 lambs to be slaughtered, 150,000 people rushed up to slaughter them one by one, and it would take time; Roderick, who had not found any trace of the other 450,000 troops of the enemy, was not in a hurry to carry out this encirclement and annihilation battle.

In order to avoid too many casualties among his soldiers, Roderick did not mind spending a few more hours using cavalry to divide the enemy army into separate stragglers, and then the infantry with absolute superiority in strength to surround and kill the enemy stragglers.

There is no doubt that Roderick's method of encirclement and annihilation is indeed much smaller than the casualties of attacking 40,000 remnants with 150,000 troops, but it will take a lot longer, as everyone knows, this wasted time is what Malen urgently needs!

The encounter of the army under his command voluntarily surrendering and being slaughtered allowed Mullen to command less than 40,000 remnants of the army to fight to the end without any extra words.

The battle on the battlefield became more and more fierce as time passed, and the elite warriors of the Dart tribe, who were born to fight, began to fight for survival, and they could only use this way to do their last death struggle.

After half an hour had passed, the strength of the remnants of Malen's army had dropped from 40,000 to 32,000, and more than 8,000 soldiers had been killed, and after an hour and a half had passed, the strength of the remnants of Malen's army had dropped from 32,000 to 18,000, and more than 14,000 soldiers had been killed.

After three hours, the strength of the remnants of Malen's army had dropped from 18,000 to 6,000, and more than 12,000 soldiers had been killed, and the last remaining 6,000 soldiers were all elite veterans of the Dat tribe, and the warriors and cannon fodder troops of the other tribes had long since been wiped out.

The veterans of the Dart tribe, who have persevered until now with excellent weapons and equipment and excellent combat strength, although there are still 6,000 people, are no longer able to fight, and a whole day of bloody fighting has exhausted the last trace of strength in their bodies, and even their stubborn will is no longer useful.

Seeing that the enemy army was about to be annihilated, and that the cost of his own casualties was only three or four thousand, Roderick was about to order his men to launch a final blow against the enemy troops who were unable to resist, when suddenly, a low and long horn sound came from the north and south directions at the same time.

Roderick, who easily recognized that this kind of trumpet sound did not belong to his side, immediately realized the gravity of the situation; if nothing else, the army that was about to be killed from the north and south must be the 450,000 troops of the Eastern Alliance, which had disappeared for several days!

If he was at the peak of his own army, which had been recuperating for a long time, Roderick might not have the confidence to use the 150,000 elite divisions under his command to face the rabble of 450,000 Eastern Alliances.

However, the crux of the matter lies in the fact that after several hours of fighting, the more than 145,000 officers and men under Roderick's command will still be able to exert a few percent of their combat effectiveness; will it not affect 90 percent of their combat effectiveness? or 50 percent of their combat effectiveness? No one dares to guarantee this.

Fortunately, it was only an hour or two before nightfall, and as long as Roderick and Hall gritted their teeth and survived the two hours, they would have gained a precious night's respite, and after regrouping, they would be able to fight the enemy several times.

After a little discussion, Roderick led 38,000 cavalry and 80,000 elite soldiers to divide into two routes, of which 60,000 elite soldiers on the north route built a defensive line on the spot to prepare to resist the enemy army coming from the north, and 38,000 cavalry and 20,000 elite soldiers on the south route took the initiative to attack.

The advantage of cavalry over infantry has never been as simple as mobility, even if it is a light cavalry with weak impact power, the lethality of charging with all strength should not be underestimated, especially the charge of tens of thousands of cavalry, which is a terrifying war machine on the battlefield!

In order to give full play to his cavalry superiority, Roderick chose the enemy army from the south as the target of his tens of thousands of cavalry, followed by 20,000 elite soldiers, which he used to cooperate with the cavalry to inflict heavy damage on the enemy.

The Eastern Alliance's southern route army, which is composed of 50,000 soldiers and 150,000 cannon fodder troops, is naturally at the forefront of the army, and it is natural that those cannon fodder units are purely used for fighting for attrition; it is self-evident how poor the combat effectiveness of these cannon fodder units is.

When the tens of thousands of cavalry who had rolled up a thousand feet of smoke and dust rushed towards them in an indomitable charging attitude, the panicked cannon fodder instinctively broke back and fled without even thinking about it, until the Overseer behind them raised their sharp butcher's knives against them.

It seems that it has become a common practice for the Eastern Alliance army to force the cannon fodder troops to fight, but Roderick, who personally led tens of thousands of cavalry to charge the enemy's cannon fodder troops, had to admit that this method of persecution was indeed an effective and good method.

It's just that the time it takes from the time the overseer team plays its role to the cannon fodder unit reorganizes its formation is enough for the rushing cavalry to complete a hearty attack and inflict heavy damage on the enemy's chaotic cannon fodder troops.

The overseers who successfully stopped the tendency of their own cannon fodder troops to collapse forced the cannon fodder in front of them to rush forward, while the cannon fodder at the front was still fleeing backwards, so that the cannon fodder troops, which were barely in a good formation, suddenly became chaotic.

The Lucy cavalry, which took the opportunity to rush into the enemy's cannon fodder troops, successfully penetrated the formation of the enemy's cannon fodder units in the first wave of charge, and then, without waiting for the overly frightened enemy cannon fodder troops to react, the Lucy cavalry, which turned its horse's head, began a second wave of charge.

After two waves of reciprocating charges, more than 30,000 of the 150,000 cannon fodder troops in the Eastern Alliance's South Route Army were either killed by the Lucy cavalry, or trampled to death due to chaos, and the miserable scene on the battlefield was unbearable to look at.

The Lucy cavalry, which had lost only two or three thousand, soon began their third and fourth waves, and after this round of reciprocating charges, the 20,000 Lucy elite infantry, who had arrived on the battlefield in time after the cavalry, joined the attack on the enemy's cannon fodder troops.

After 20,000 elite soldiers took over the attack on the enemy's cannon fodder troops, the Lucy cavalry, who had their hands free, began to replace their charging objects with the enemy's elite soldiers behind the enemy's cannon fodder troops, which was the key to determining the outcome of the battle.