Chapter 98 Meat grinder
An Imperial cavalryman suddenly fell from the sky and fell beside Richard's horse. He reacted with great agility, and as soon as he rolled over, he got up, and at the same time shook off his riding spear, drew his saber, and stabbed Richard in the belly of his horse.
Richard's eyes flashed, the long knife disappeared in a flash, and the Imperial cavalryman suddenly covered his face and fell down with a scream. And the long sword in his hand had already broken in two at the moment of the double-edged exchange. With extinction in hand, all Richard actually needs to do is make his knife faster and more ruthless, and that's enough.
Slashing the enemy with a sword, Richard suddenly raised his head, and in front of him, Io in the battle seemed to be in the interval of casting magic spells, but he was not idle at all, and did not care about the escort of the two elite warriors around him, but a clever small stride crashed into the arms of another imperial cavalryman. Io's hand had somehow been on the horseman's neck, and with a twist of his backhand, he instantly broke his cervical vertebrae.
After killing the enemy, Io also raised his head and smiled brightly at Richard, but the eyes of both sides burst into flames in the air!
"How many are you going to kill, Great Mage?" asked Io defiantly.
Richard's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said, "At least a hundred!"
"Is this what you're capable of?" Io smiled proudly, raised his hand and pointed at the grenadiers, and said, "I can make these things die only ten!"
"If you really have the ability, then even if I lose this time!" Richard sneered.
So the two passed by, working towards different goals. In an instant, the light of magic and magic reflected each other, almost taking away all the brilliance of the world!
Both men knew that time was running out for them. If you don't want this battle of the striker to become a defeat against the enemy's main force, you must fight quickly.
Under the multiple blows of rank, equipment, magic, and divine magic, the Empire's two thousand-man cavalry quickly collapsed, showing signs of confusion and retreat. It's not that they are not brave enough, it's just that the enemy's blows are too fierce, fierce to the point of exceeding common sense, even if these elite cavalry of the empire, watching their colleagues fall in pieces, they are also angry for a while.
At the moment when the enemy retreated, Richard immediately gave the order to all his followers and elite combat units to retreat. Walls of fire separated the warriors from the Imperial cavalry, and hundreds of elite warriors quickly retreated, remaining in tight formations as they retreated. The throwers suddenly threw the last hatchet in their hands! This was their weapon of hand-to-hand combat, and once it was thrown, it was with bare hands.
Pieces of throwing axes roared out, instantly overturning the dozens of cavalry that were pursuing. Let the remaining pursuers stop in shock.
A short but incomparably fierce battle came to an end. When Sarenwell and his generals arrived at the battlefield, the gates of Bluewater Oasis City were closed.
Sarenwell's face turned pale, and he scanned the hundreds of corpses of Imperial cavalry in front of him, not saying a word. The generals behind him were equally solemn and silent. The general who commanded the vanguard cavalry knelt on the ground, his head almost hanging to the ground, beads of sweat rolling down. Among the piles of corpses of the Imperial knights, there were indeed the corpses of warriors on Richard's side, but the number was pitiful. No matter how you count, you can't count more than fifty.
This time, Sarenwell's men were not using horse bandits, but the numbered Emperor ** Regiment, but the battle loss ratio had expanded!
Sarenwell suddenly turned around, pointed at the generals, and roared with extreme anger: "I have always told you that you must not underestimate the enemy! No matter how many soldiers Richard has, you must use all your strength! This is the answer you gave me? I have 4,000 cavalry in my hands, but I only send 2,000? Looking at the corpses of the Imperial soldiers, are you sober?"
The generals listened silently to Sarenwell's roar with shame. After a while, a burly general suddenly stepped forward and said in a deep voice, "Your Highness, let's just rush into the city! There are only two Holy Domains on the other side, and there are five of us!"
Sarenwell's face sank, and he said, "Rush in, are you looking for death?"
"But......" The general tried to fight for it, but was interrupted by a wave of his hand.
Sarenwell did not give a new order, but walked around the battlefield, his face sinking like water. He suddenly walked up to the cavalry general, who was still kneeling on the ground, and said, "Get up and reorganize your ranks, you have one more night." Tomorrow morning, I would like to see a cavalry as before!"
"Yes, Your Highness!" roared the cavalry general.
Sarenwell again instructed the generals: "Clean up the battlefield, set up camp, rest today, and attack the city tomorrow morning!"
"Aren't they besieging the city?" asked one of the generals.
Sarenwell glanced at Bluewater Oasis City, his face gloomy, and said, "No, Richard is very smart, he knows that I just want him to escape, so he will never run!"
After a moment of silence, Sarenwell said slowly: "This Richard wants to cripple me in this place. In that case, I'll take him head-on!"
"However, Your Highness, didn't you say that Richard was a very powerful commander on the battlefield? Another general mentions.
Sarenwell touched his well-trimmed short beard, suddenly smiled, and said: "You are not those brainless Sanctuaries who only know how to wield knives and guns, you are all generals who can command the army! And your value as a general is far more important than the personal force of the Sanctuary, how can I risk you? Don't worry about Richard! I admit that if I command the same number of troops, I will definitely try to avoid Richard." Even if I had only half as many soldiers as Richard, I would have seriously considered going to war with him. But now, we have 30,000 elite Imperial soldiers! and Richard, there are less than 10,000. Among them, there are only more than a thousand elites who really belong to him. This is not the war Richard wants!"
"Richard always managed to defeat an equal number of enemies, and I, always let my enemies find that he had far fewer troops than I did. That's the difference between me and Richard. After a pause, Sarenwell continued: "Since I can't beat Richard one-on-one, then I will use two to one, or even three to one, against him." And now, the ratio of forces between us and him is three to one! Don't you have confidence in such an advantage? Do I still need to risk my best generals?"
Finally, with unprecedented majesty, Sarenwell said: "Richard is a great general, and I am a great commander!"
At this point, the generals rekindled their fighting spirit. The morale of being knocked out by Richard's head-on blow was boosted again.
Watching the army outside the city begin to retreat in an orderly manner and set up camp, Richard couldn't help but frown. At this time, Io also walked up to the city, stood beside Richard, glanced out of the city, and said, "This opponent is very unusual! ”
Richard smiled faintly: "How do you know if you haven't been beaten? What, are you afraid?"
Io said in an indifferent tone: "If a person who hasn't even killed a hundred cavalrymen is not afraid, then what do I have to be afraid of?"
Richard sighed and replied, "You didn't win either, did you? My throwers died far more than ten." ”
In the short battle just now, Richard's range magic killed less than eighty cavalrymen, and Io tried his best, but nearly twenty throwers were still killed. Neither of them was able to complete the bet.
Io looked at the Imperial army that was busy camping outside the city, smiled calmly, and said, "It's okay, we still have time to bet next." In a day or two, I will become a fourteenth-level priest. I'm curious how a twelfth-level great magician can compete with a fourteenth-level priest. ”
"You haven't reached level fourteen yet, and I won't be level twelve forever. "Richard was-for-tat.
"There are still long days to come, and there are still many battles. Time will verify a qiē. Io continued to smile.
Richard nodded, "Indeed, time will tell!"
At this point, there was nothing more to say between the battle priest and the great magician, and they each looked at the enemy army outside the city, each thinking about it.
Sarenwell did not besiege the city at all, and there was no need to besiege it. Richard knew that once he left the terrain protection that the Blue Water Oasis could barely use to resist, Sarenwell's cavalry would follow, and in the constant interception and escape, Richard's troops would continue to lose blood, and the best result would be to escape a few elite troops. Having lost his army, Sarenwell was able to concentrate the strong, begin cutting off Richard's followers, and eventually try to keep Richard in the Bloodstained Land forever.
Another way is to rely on the city to resist for a period of time, kill and wound a large number of Sarenwell's warriors, and then choose the opportunity to retreat. At that time, most of the exhausted Emperor ** team was unable to pursue, but could only watch Richard leave.
At this moment, Richard was thinking about the third plan, that is, to turn Bluewater Oasis City into an incomparably huge meat grinder! It was a crazy plan, but in Richard's calculations, the success rate was not so low as to give up.
Richard didn't think about escaping. Just like in the Bloodstained Lands, Richard was ready to give Sarenwell a new 'surprise'. After a battle between the Iron Wall and the Magic, Richard had built up confidence in the fighting power of his troops.
In the early morning of the next day, when the sun once again scorched the red earth of the bloodstained land, the Emperor ** team, which had already lined up a strict team outside the Blue Water Oasis City, moved towards the Oasis City under the urging of the dull war drums.
The battle of the blue water meat grinder has since begun.
The clash of wills between the general and the commander turned into a fire and burned the entire battlefield.
Blaze, burning all night in Bluewater Oasis City.
The woods had long since turned to charcoal, the camps outside the city had long since been reduced to ashes, and even the houses inside the city with wooden structures as the main body were burned in the fire. Smoke and unextinguished embers were everywhere. Although most of the houses in the city are made of red rock unique to the Bloodstained Lands and cannot be burned, the wooden windows and roofs are burning.