Chapter 106 4 Withdrawal of troops

Being trapped by enemy troops on a narrow mountain road was simply the worst situation of the war. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoIf Muller had prepared enough to ignite the fire, then Shurya's 10,000 cavalry would undoubtedly be wiped out.

Fortunately, Shurya was lucky, because there were almost no trees on the Nayler Mountains, and the only young grass could not escape the fate of being eaten by sheep, so Muller could not find anything to start a fire attack. But even so, the rain of arrows from the archers knocked down the Arubanian cavalry in batches.

"Immediately force a breakthrough!" Shurya shouted. In this case, Shurya still did not lose his cool, and he quickly judged that the opponent's forces were insufficient, so he could not launch a full-scale attack to eat himself completely, and could only attack in the dark of night. If the enemy blockade can be broken without casualties, then the enemy will not be able to pursue.

Shurya was right, and the troops broke through in the thickest possible formation under his reorganization. The firepower of the musketeers was not dense enough, and the shortcomings of the slow reloading speed were immediately exposed, and after paying hundreds of casualties, the Arubanian army finally broke through the blockade of the Palchi army.

Although they managed to break through the blockade, the biggest problem faced by the Arubanian army was that the Mahabi Trail was too narrow, and it took too long to break out of the encirclement network in such a passage, during which time they had to endure a constant rain of arrows. Shul Adam immediately sent two detachments to attack up the ridge, his purpose was of course not to eliminate the Palchi archers, which was completely impossible in the current terrain, but to give the Palchi army the illusion of being attacked, so that their fire could be diverted to these two detachments, in order to buy time for the main force to break through.

Müller, who was watching the scene from the top of the mountain, frowned and finally decided to attack himself. With the forces at hand, Müller should not have attacked the huge enemy army at all, but Müller noticed that the two detachments sent by Shurya would almost certainly be wiped out by his own archers, but those two forces still launched a decisive assault without hesitation. This is enough to prove what a powerful general Shurya is, the soldiers know that they will die in battle and will faithfully carry out the orders of the commander, if this enemy general does not take advantage of this opportunity to get rid of now, I am afraid that it will become a big problem for the Palchi army in the future.

Müller only led two hundred soldiers to storm Shurya's position, and at this time Shurya's troops were only six or seven hundred, and they were unable to form a solid formation at all, which was the main reason why Müller would take such a risky act.

Shurya's men sensed the danger even before the commander-in-chief, as Shurya was preoccupied with the breakout of the troops, and the Parchians were already close to the distance where bows and arrows did not have time to attack under the cover of night.

The short encounter was almost tragic, and the cavalry of Arubania was not strong, but they were as weak as children in the face of the attack of the two-sword Muller, and the soldiers who desperately blocked in front of Shurya were quickly reduced to single digits, and the others were blocked by Muller's men and could not get close.

Shurya actually faced the situation of having to fight alone for the second time in more than ten days, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart and pulled out his scimitar.

The confrontation between the two generals was short and intense, and if Shurya was an ordinary general, then he would have long ago known how many times he had died under Muller's harsh knife skills.

"What a thief." Mueller couldn't help but sigh.

Shurya didn't answer, his heart was full of mixed feelings at the moment. Shurya couldn't imagine that he had just encountered Eglius and Senas a few days ago, and his wingman Abrach had been defeated by a hairy young man named Alam, all three of whom were above him in martial arts, and the handsome man in Paz's robe he met today was not weaker in martial arts than those three in the slightest! Shuerya didn't dare to imagine how many such capable people there were under Li Tianhao's subordinates, let alone imagine that he would have to face such a wolf-like opponent in the future. However, all this must be considered only if he can escape alive tonight, and the most troublesome problem at the moment is how to get rid of this difficult opponent.

Shurya noticed that the opponent's forces were quite thin, and he was obviously ready to take down himself in one fell swoop and then retreat, so he had the bottom in his heart, although he was at a disadvantage, he could still parry Muller's tricks, so Shurya only defended and did not attack, and protected the portal to the death.

As soon as Muller saw that he was only defending and not attacking, he knew that he was deliberately delaying time, but Shurya was not an idle person after all, and he really had nothing to do with him for a while. Seeing that the Arubanian cavalry on both sides surrounded again, his subordinates could not support it for too long, if he couldn't take Shurya again, not only would his subordinates be killed in battle, but I was afraid that even he would be surrounded by enemy troops, so he had to grit his teeth and start retreating.

By this time, the two detachments sent by Shurya had been almost completely wiped out, but their sacrifice bought precious time for the main force, and Shurya's troops took advantage of this gap to successfully withdraw most of their troops in the face of firecrackers and horses. At this time, only about a thousand cavalry led by Shurya himself remained, and he had not had time to withdraw.

Shurya's men covered the commander with their bodies, and rushed forward against the attack of the firebolts. But then a flying projectile struck Shurya's mount, and the horse fell to the ground.

Shurya was thrown to the ground hard, and the guards next to him hurriedly pulled him up to prevent him from being trampled on by the horses behind, but at such a hesitant moment, Palchi's firecrackers happened to be another volley, and a projectile hit Shurya's left wrist, the projectile completely shattered the wrist bone, and Shurya's left hand was completely knocked away!

A bone-chilling pain swept through Shulya's brain circuitry, and the old general hurriedly pressed the wound with his right hand, and his legs clamped the horse's belly, and rushed towards the intersection.

The scene of Shurya's injury was clear to Mueller, and when his subordinates asked if they wanted to pursue, Mueller shook his head slightly: "Forget it, if I was killed just now, then it's fine, if I killed an injured old man now, there is really nothing to boast about." We are short of troops, and if we do our part, we will certainly not be able to do so. Order the headquarters to withdraw from the battlefield quickly! ”

Müller's actions were later criticized by later generations as being too cautious, and even at the time it was said that he missed the opportunity to get rid of Shurja because of personal honor issues, but Müller himself did not take such accusations seriously. With the withdrawal of Mueller, the ambush battle on the Mahabi Trail came to an end, in which Arubania lost a full 4,000 cavalry, while the Parci side lost less than 100 men. More crucially, as Shurya's plan to storm the fortress of Tours fell through, the fortress of Mayoran could not be conquered, and the two cities of Agoba and Kutila were besieged, the Arubaneian army's attempts made no progress except for the recapture of the stronghold on the Beerser line. (To be continued.) )