Chapter 578: Lu Xi's First Victory
While thinking so, Lu Xi casually picked up a spear from the ground that had killed a centaur, and then lifted the orc's head on it and raised it high above his head.
"Wan Sheng! Nadia! Triumph! ”
The wolf cavalry, when they finally followed their fellow centaurs, began to retreat involuntarily. In terms of the discipline and morale of the army in the cold weapon era, in the face of such casualties, if it were a human being, it might have already been a white flag, but this group of orcs really deserves to be a fighting nation among the fighting nations, and they have persevered so hard until now. However, there must be a limit to the morale of any army composed of living people. When the generals who maintained the army under their command with radical means turned into corpses, and the heads were used as trophies for the other party, it also became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
"Wan Sheng!" Once again, the Union soldiers in the midst of the bitter battle let out such a frantic shout. By this time, this rookie army, which lacked training and organization, was given a true military soul after only one battle. Even if Lu Xi's golden thigh aura can no longer protect them, with this battle, all the surviving soldiers present have become real elite soldiers. Because, they did experience a brilliant victory without fancy, with strength, and with less victory. The sense of honor and confidence gained from this victory will stay with them throughout their lives, and it will also change their destiny.
To put it bluntly, the generation of elite soldiers is as simple as that...... Just keep winning.
(System: Morale +1 for all troops, morale is now 8, and the chance of activating the skill "Unyielding" is +25%).
"Woo woo woo ......" a wolf captain took out his horn and blew the signal to retreat. Compared to the passionate voice when attacking. This time, however, the sound of the trumpet was particularly miserable.
However, I want to leave at this time. But it's not that easy.
In the next second, a whistling arrow suddenly pierced the orc trumpeter's throat. The trombone made of rhino horn was even neatly split in half by the sharp blade of the arrowhead.
I don't know when. A team of about 500 human soldiers, riding horses, rushed over the flanks of the orcs.
They didn't look like ordinary Federation soldiers, at least many of them didn't wear Federal-style armor, but were dressed in classical elf-style strip armor, and they didn't wield ordinary weapons that didn't look like they were produced on an assembly line. Their faces were fanatical, their morale was high, and their eyes were filled with unquestionable determination for victory and blatant hatred for the orc army. These people are riding horses that are not fearless and good-breed war horses, and some of them are not even the standard of war horses. If you really hedge with these orc wolves in a state full of energy, maybe you don't even meet each other, and half of the riders will be thrown off their horses by the terrified mounts.
However, at this time, none of these cavalry retreated on the way to charge. To put it bluntly, both humans and horses are very willing to bully soft persimmons.
Some of the orc cavalry were desperate for a final Jedi counterattack, but were quickly cut down by enemies who outnumbered them in battle. Fortunately. These last-minute warriors were able to break off in a short period of time, although this may not have been their original intention. All in all, not only the centaurs, but the vast majority of the orc wolf cavalry. That is, without looking back, he fled in the direction of the northern horizon. At this time, even the fighting nation of the pure masters has completely lost the courage to fight.
A rider had already rushed to Lu Xi's side on a flying horse. But he stood behind him by a fraction of a second. The rider on the horse jumped off the horse with a number of movements, bowed to Lu Xi, and saluted. But it's that Lottery-faced brain-dead fan No. 2 Elliott, uh. If there is Liszt's storage zài, this child should be the third brainless fan. Judging by his well-crafted and handsome actions just now, he should have been riding a horse. It stands to reason that the geographical conditions of the Federation do not require such a means of land transportation as horses, and there is only one reason, which is purely learned in daily leisure and recreation. Should I say, is it really worthy of being the young master of the gate valve noble?
Well, but the young master of the Federation will have such a variety of deposits, I don't know why, I feel that this country still seems to have something to be helped.
However, speaking of which, this aristocratic bear child seems to be a good friend of Liszt and Liszt for many years, and that strange brain-dead fan huddles together to keep warm secret society organization, which should be the first one initiated and established by the two of them, right? "Senior sister, I came in time, right?" Elliott said as he winked his eyes at Liszt, which was a greeting. It seems that they should really know each other so well that they don't need any politeness at all.
"The timing was right, and the direction in which we could charge was a bit wrong. It should not be due west, but should be pressed from the northwest, so that the enemy's escape path can be squeezed as much as possible. Lu Xi raised his head and put on a sophisticated face and said seriously. Anyway, he has just led a group of rookies to a brilliant victory, and he already has the prestige of many "famous generals", and others will feel justified in saying anything.
"Eh, if you don't want the enemy to escape, wouldn't it be better to go directly to the north side and press over?" Liszt said curiously.
"Then all the enemy's escape routes will be cut off, and it may become a trapped beast, even if the enemy is completely destroyed, our losses will not be small." Lu Xi replied, and then said to Elliott, "Sue Lieutenant Colonel Basil, just pursue it a little." There's no need to push the enemy too hard. ”
"Understood, senior sister!" As if he had been ordered by the Supreme Commander, Elliott gave a standard military salute, his face glowing with glory, and then he jumped on his horse and galloped away.
"Speaking of which, where did these horses come from? As I remember, there were only about 2,000 horses in Black Mancheng, and half of them were used to pull carts. Liszt wondered.
"Have you forgotten? Mr. Jacotto, we last met at Mr. Baggins' shop, do you still have a video? A halfling uncle with chestnut hair and green eyes? ”
"Mr. Jacto?" It took a long time for Liszt to get out of a certain furrow in his cerebral cortex. The image of this person was extracted, "Remember." Did we last meet the day before we left Blackman, at Mr. Baggins' tavern? Belch. Remember that this gentleman must be a distant relative of Mr. Baggins, right? What's wrong with that? ”
"This gentleman is a well-known livestock trader, and the last time he came to Heiman City, he wanted to establish a branch of the Chamber of Commerce here, and his main business was to transit through Guò Heiman City, and sell war horses from Auckland to the High Court Kingdom and the Dragonclaw Peninsula Alliance. He came to Black Man City to persuade Mr. Baggins, the head snake here, to work together. Of course, you know, you need to stock up on doing business, especially this kind of military supply business. So, the town belongs to Mr. Baggins' stables. There will definitely be a lot of good goods stocked. Just ask Mr. Baggins for a note. With my dignified black city girl...... Uh, the prestige of the celebrities in Blackman, plus the experience of fighting side by side before, Mr. Baggins should sell me a face, right? ”
"So, Senior Sister just let that Drow girl go back to the city just now to prepare for these things?"
"At present, the only people in the city who will obey my orders without hesitation are the five or six hundred men I brought out from the Namoan Mountains, and I am very confident in their current fighting spirit and combat effectiveness. With them, I have the certainty that I will completely defeat this group of orcs and centaurs...... Well. It's just that I didn't expect this golden thigh to be so easy to use. A group of rookies actually crushed twice as many enemies as them, and sure enough, in this kind of medieval era, morale would represent a qiē? ”
"Uh, Senpai. You say, what was it good for? ”
"I mean, reinforcements were mobilized faster than I expected. Mr. Baggins has really given me face, and I must thank him well when I go back. Lu Xi turned his head. He shouted to the soldiers behind him, "I led you to victory, but it was the same. Without your fearlessness and perseverance, victory would never have come. Ladies and gentlemen, I know that you are now exhausted and scarred, and you are also grieving for your fallen comrades, but at this time, please hold your heads high and be proud of being a hero! Accept the cheers and praise you deserve! ”
"Victory! We've won! "The exhausted Union soldiers, the scarred Union soldiers, and even the Federation soldiers who were missing arms and legs and barely had one breath left, at this time, they supported each other, raised their weapons high with their last strength, and let out excited cheers.
At this time, the battle had stopped, and that powerful brainwashing magic technique had naturally lifted the original effect. However, the Union soldiers, who were amazed by their brilliant victory, were completely unable to recover from this state of excitement and wonderfulness as if they had been drugged.
Even the most nervous people are vaguely aware that after today, their fate will develop in a direction that they have never hoped for before.
"Speaking of which, if it weren't for my brainwashing, maybe so many people wouldn't have died in battle, right? Well, though, without my brainwashing, the refugees would have died even more. Now, the living have become heroes admired by all, and the dead will become heroic spirits remembered by all, and maybe they can become gods by faith. Everyone was actually happy! The slight guilt quickly dissipated in Lu Xi's self-defense. In this way, without any psychological pressure, he joined the celebratory crowd as a matter of course.
At 5 p.m. on June 21, 1225 A.D., the first battle under the direct command of Lu Xi as a federal officer was thus over. The rookie soldiers of the Ninth and Twelfth Legions of the Federation, under the protection of the morale of the goddess as if "the goddess blessed the earth" (the official language of later generations), completely defeated the enemy army more than twice their strength at the cost of 211 killed, 345 seriously wounded, and almost all of them were slightly wounded, and left behind more than 2,000 orcs and centaur corpses. This number sounds a little bigger, but in fact, the military officer who counts the merits of the war also counts the dead wolves in the number of heads, anyway, no one will complain about the details that make everyone happy.
But in any case, the army without a political commissar in the era of cold weapons actually fought to the death without retreating despite more than half of the casualties, and consumed the enemy's period alive, which is definitely a record that makes anyone who knows the army stunned.
This may be another legendary career. As for whether future generations of historians will study this battle that is not too large-scale as an important historical event, it depends on Lu Xi's own efforts, as well as the mood and discipline of the noble founding will of the Great Universe. (To be continued......)