Chapter 709: Surprise Attack from the Rear
The march of the remnants of the Six Kings was no different from that of ordinary armies, with the most powerful warriors at the front and the heavy troops at the rear.
Originally, according to the normal logic of marching, the commander would generally arrange a convoy in the rear to prevent the enemy army from surviving behind the surprise attack, so as to ensure the safety of the entire army's march, after all, no matter how large the troops, it is not a joke to be surrounded by people head to tail.
However, Jupiter did not do this on this march, because the defenders of the frozen fortress were in a state of rout, and they were exhausted all the way, and it was impossible to launch a surprise attack around the rear.
Moreover, now that the main army of Dogurland is fighting in the desert, there is no second legion of scale in the northern region except for the four major legions of the frozen fortress, so there is no need to worry about the appearance of enemies in the rear, and there is no need to leave elite troops in the rear.
At least... That's what Jupiter thought in his heart...
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Self-martyrdom is at the cost of shattering the divine seal, casting all the golden flames of the sun contained in it, burning the enemy while irreversibly burning itself.
Under the desperate charge of Garrot, tens of thousands of tribal warriors were burned by the fire of self-sacrifice, and the order of the front line had completely collapsed, and there were blackened corpses everywhere, falling on the ice horizontally, and the black ash formed by carbonization was sprinkled all over the ice field in the cold wind, as if ink was splashed on the white scroll, forming a vast and extremely black abyss.
At this time, the fire of Garrot's self-martyrdom had burned out, and the once mighty black lion turned into ashes and disappeared into the vast world, never to be seen again, and he dedicated the end of his legendary life to Her Royal Highness the Princess.
Without Garrot's frenzied charge, the tribal warriors were finally able to break their wrists under the command of Jupiter, indiscriminately kill all their companions who were ignited by the fire of self-destruction, and even forcibly killed some of their companions who had not yet been ignited but were in a dangerous area, so as to clear a buffer zone and stop the wild spread of the fire of self-destruction.
After the burning path was blocked, the fire of self-martyrdom was finally put to rest as the last of the affected tribal warriors were wiped out.
In the end, after personnel counting, there were more than 30,000 tribal warriors burned to death by the fire of Garrot's self-martyrdom, which was equivalent to 4 full legions, which dealt a very serious blow to the vitality and morale of the remnants of the Six Kings.
At this time, the tribal warriors on the front line were terrified, and every time they thought of the fire just now, they had palpitations.
However, Jupiter quickly regrouped and led his army into the gorge to hunt down the fleeing soldiers of the frozen fortress, preparing to wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop.
After Garrot's death, the greatest resistance to the pursuit of the tribal warriors had disappeared, and the remnants of the frozen fortress were at the end of their crossbows, and the tribal front army quickly attached itself to the evacuation procession, and a series of encounters ensued.
Because the charging speed of the front army of the tribe was very fast, and the terrain of the canyon could accommodate the limited number of marchers at the same time, the battle line of the large army of the remnants of the Six Kings was dragged very long, and the front army had already caught up with the remnants of the enemy to start the battle, and a large number of rear troops were still crowded outside the entrance of the canyon.
"Boom..."Just as the rear army was waiting to enter the canyon, they suddenly felt a slight shaking on the ice, and many supplies on the trailer also began to shake, followed by a dull sound.
The tribal warriors looked at each other, not knowing for a moment where the tremor was coming from, until the thunderous sound of horses' hooves came from the rear and the shouts of slaughter rose to the sky, and they turned their heads back in astonishment to look back.
The battlefield was full of devastation, originally all scorched corpses that had long been immovable, dead and silent, but at this time, a large area of black ash was raised, almost covering half of the sky, and the irascible war horses at the end of the horizon struggled to raise their hooves, carrying hundreds of cavalry from the rear.
This is a military force without a military flag, even the armor is shabby, I don't know which formation it belongs to, the leader is a man with angry eyes and beard, he holds up his long knife to the sky, the battle cry pierces the clouds and cracks the stone, the thunder and lightning power brought by the potion appears from the tip of the blade, and every swing of the knife will cause the sky to thunder and surge.
The tribal warriors were all frightened and froze in place at a loss, and in Jupiter's deployment, the elite warriors were all in the front army, and the people at the back of the platoon were all baggage troops, and they were only responsible for the overall transportation of supplies, cooking, bandaging the wounds of the wounded, etc., and rarely participated in frontal combat.
Moreover, Jupiter also said before that the northern region is now empty of troops, and no one can pose a threat to them, but now that there is a surprise attack in the rear, they are completely defenseless.
"Glory to my lord!!" Amid a frantic roar, Lugo rode his horse into the densest area of the enemy, killing several of the tribal warriors on the spot.
Lugo wielded his long knife and slashed through the chaos of the enemy's formation, each sword bringing up a bloody arrow, the more he killed, the more frenzied he became, and the corpses were everywhere he went.
Immediately afterwards, hundreds of cavalry behind Lugo rushed into the formation, although they were not elite, but in the face of the unsuspecting tribal warriors, coupled with the impact of the horses, one by one was still like entering a no-man's land, the spear continued to penetrate the enemy's body, and the saber slashed down with blood flowing, and the enemy was scattered and fled.
Just as the cavalry was rushing to kill, there was a chaotic shout at the end of the battlefield, and the overwhelming crowd rushed towards the battlefield, all of them were ragged and unkempt, and the equipment of individual soldiers was so rudimentary that it was impossible to add more, and some did not even have standard weapons, and they rushed towards this side with shouting and screaming with mine picks.
The rear formation of the tribal warriors had been disrupted by the cavalry, and there was no time to organize effective resistance, and the moment the two sides came into contact, it directly evolved into a chaotic white-knuckle battle.
Although these slaves in the northern mining areas have not undergone militarized training, they have a lot of strength because they wield pickaxes and mine all year round, and the number of them is more than 30,000.
In fact, in terms of troops, the number of this strange army led by Lugo is far lower than that of the remnants of the Six Kings, even if it is only compared with the enemy's rear army, there is a difference of nearly 10 times the number of troops.
However, the tribal warriors were completely blinded, and the rear army without elite soldiers could not organize an effective counterattack, and each warrior's vision was very limited, many people were rushed in the face by the cavalry and did not know what the situation was, and they did not know how many troops the enemy had, and some people even thought that the main force of the kingdom army had rushed here from the desert, and the fear spread rapidly, and they were defeated and retreated, falling into a vicious circle of rout.
In this way, the situation that was originally toppled on one side became unstable again because of the appearance of Lugo and others...