Chapter Eighty-Three The War of Fifty Million
There was also a small episode in the war, Richard stood single-handedly on the split brain, flying too far ahead, and was seized by the imperial powerhouses, and the six Zhenguo powerhouses stormed out, resulting in a fierce battle in the air, and the six Zhenguo powerhouses were killed one by one, Richard was unharmed, and returned to the split brain, calmly,
Li Shilongtu found out that compared with the strong men such as Tiramisu, Splash, Crimson, and Gangde, who made the empire talk about it, the Crimson Grand Duke Richard himself was the most difficult one to deal with.
The battle of the Divine Crying Pass finally came to an end, the result of this battle exceeded everyone's most daring imagination, the 400,000 troops of the Iron Triangle Empire were completely defeated, and the defeat could not be more complete, hundreds of thousands of troops were blasted out of the Divine Cry Pass,
In the whole war, Richard consumed a total of 500,000 explosive arrows, each of which cost more than 100 gold coins, and the main force of the empire was equivalent to being pushed out of the Valley of the Divine Cry by 50 million gold coins, and 200,000 dead and wounded soldiers could be apportioned less than 300 gold coins each.
When he walked out with the army, Sarenwell suddenly turned his head and stared at the Wailing Mountain Pass, which was composed of two cliffs, and felt extremely gloomy,
The roar just now is the end of the old era, but also the beginning of the new era, the former Iron Triangle Empire is already in the past, even if it is Faro, sooner or later it will become the past,
The wind blew Sarenwell's tossed hair, and poured cold into his blood and marrow,
After capturing the Crying Pass, Richard left 10,000 Duchy soldiers to Salonwell to guard the prisoners, and asked him to complete the surrender of the emperor, and all kinds of ordnance and materials that the emperor had not had time to destroy in the Crying Pass were piled up, and Richard left them to Sarenwell to dispose of, so that he could use them at will to rearm the 35,000 surrendered imperial soldiers.
And Richard himself led 15,000 cavalry, and after a short rest, he set off again to pursue the remnants of Li Shilongtu.
Li Shilongtu deserves to be a famous general of the empire, in the process of rapid retreat all the way to the remnants of the army, and sent people to gather the scattered corps, in the rear of the preset assembly point movement, in Richard's consciousness, a few hours later, I saw that the slightly larger rout began to turn, dozens of rout troops are moving in the same direction, there must be a preset assembly point, Richard called up the imperial map, and sure enough, he saw that there was a small city located there, the new assembly point was not far from the ice fortress, and he could get the support of the fortress defenders at any time,
It's just that when Richard calculated the distance between the assembly point and the Divine Cry Pass, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth: "It's only eighty-five kilometers, Li Shilongtu, you can't help but think too highly of yourself." β
Richard then gave a new order, and not far behind him, the thinker, who was wrapped in black robes, received Richard's order, and a moment later let out a burst of high-pitched cries that were completely inaudible to human ears, a sound that could only be heard by the elite combat units of the brood,
Richard's army began to slowly accelerate, and after a moment it entered a state of high-speed galloping, the magic horses were far from being comparable to ordinary war horses in terms of speed and endurance, and their only disadvantage was that their natural lifespan was too short.
But now, the army led by Richard is all equipped with magic horses, so it has an amazing mobility, which is even beyond the imagination limit of Li Shilongtu, so an hour later, Richard caught up with Li Shilongtu,
When he saw Richard's cavalry appear on the horizon, Li Shilongtu almost fell off his horse, he immediately made a decision and shouted: "All the infantry will form a formation on the spot to block the attack, and the rest of the cavalry and mobile corps will withdraw with me and go to the assembly point at full speed." β
Li Shilongtu still had 80,000 troops under his command, more than half of them were infantry of the regular army, they received military orders, did not express any resistance or dissatisfaction, but immediately formed a formation on the spot, ready to resist to the death, while Li Shilongtu left at full speed with mobile forces,
In the Iron Triangle Empire, there are four main legions, although they are infantry, but each soldier is equipped with a war horse, and the regular knights are different, they are equipped with war horses that are known for their weight and endurance, this is the mobile corps, which is completely superior in the emperor's **, and its status is second only to the only one of the heavy knight corps,
Li Shilongtu's decision is equivalent to a lizard's tail and sacrificing the second-line corps to gain time and opportunity to escape for the main force, this is a very cruel decision, and it is also Li Shilongtu's style, on the real battlefield, the old marshal only has victory in his eyes, and the fresh soldiers are just cold numbers in his eyes, but relying on this ruthlessness, Li Shilongtu didn't know how many generals with talent above him he had defeated in his life, until he met Richard,
More than 30,000 cavalry and mobile corps surrounded Li Shilongtu and fled in a hurry, and the old marshal also rode wild on his horse, at this time there was a whistling in the air, and a strong man of the town country flew quickly and landed beside Li Shilongtu, this strong man of the town and country was the adjutant of the marshal, and was left to inspect Richard's next move, Li Shilongtu is not Richard, there are not a large number of flying beasts in his hands as eyes and ears, if he wants to monitor Richard's movements, now he can only rely on the level of the strong man of the town, in the case of a large number of feathered serpents flying in the air, no matter how much ordinary scout cavalry is scattered, it is equivalent to feeding food to the feathered serpent,
"How many men did Richard send after him. Li Shilongtu asked,
"He didn't send any man, and I saw with my own eyes that he had used all his forces against the troops we had left behind, and then Richard's followers discovered me, and I couldn't stay any longer. "The strong man of the town said,
Including Li Shilongtu, all the generals breathed a sigh of relief, after being blasted out of the Valley of the Divine Cry like a rabbit by Richard, in fact, everyone's hearts were full of unspeakable fear, the generals unconsciously slowed down some pace, and the marching speed of the surrounding armies slowed down correspondingly, and when the extreme tension dissipated, everyone felt exhausted,
There were more than 40,000 troops left behind, and Richard only brought 15,000 cavalry, and the well-equipped hoplites were not afraid of the cavalry impact when they were holding on intensively, and if they wanted to swallow these 40,000 people, Richard would have to spend a lot of time, and at that time, Li Shilongtu should have gathered another group of remnants at the assembly point, and then retreated to the ice fortress,
The scale of the Ice Fortress is not large, the military strength that can accommodate it is limited, and there has been no addition or expansion for decades, the empire that has always advocated attack does not like to waste precious military funds on fortresses and the like, so after a short rest in the Ice Fortress, Li Shilongtu prepared to withdraw to the imperial capital,
The imperial capital has never migrated since the founding of the country, bathed in the glorious history of the Iron Triangle family from the establishment of a vassal to the crowning of the imperial crown, this majestic city was built according to the model of a fortress from the beginning, and once kept countless enemies out of the high walls of the fortified city, but after seeing the power of the explosive arrow, Li Shilongtu suddenly did not have so confidence in the defense of the imperial capital,
In the distance, Richard stood safely on the split head, condescendingly overlooking the battle situation below, 40,000 emperors ** discharged a dense formation, like a hedgehog curled up, but in the past, this powerful dense defensive formation has lost its effectiveness today, and the blade composed of the constructed knights cut in and chiseled through, and this time the constructed knights are followed by thousands of dark front knights, and they will tear and expand the bloody wounds cut out by the constructed knights.
The Constructed Knights continued to impact the Emperor's ** Array, cutting thousands of warriors each time like cutting cheese, and then annihilated by the humanoid knights behind, Richard did only bring 15,000 knights, but these knights were composed of 11,000 humanoid knights, 4,020 Darkblade Knights, as well as two hundred Constructed Knights and more than a dozen powerful followers,
The elite warriors of the emperor ** only have five or six levels of combat power, and the worst humanoid knights in the Richard array have ten levels, plus the bonus of magic horses and equipment, a humanoid knight can easily kill five or six emperor** warriors, before the huge strength gap, no matter how the imperial warriors fight to the death, it is ineffective, as soon as the two sides come into contact, the imperial warriors are like harvested straw, falling in pieces,
Under the repeated chiseling of the knights, the defensive formation of the troops after the empire was broken also became as full of holes as cheese, and the soldiers on the periphery began to show signs of retreat, and it was only half an hour before the start of the battle, and the emperor ** had already suffered more than half of the casualties.
Looking at the desperate Imperial soldiers below, Richard shook his head and said to himself, "It's better to leave some more people for Sarenwell, this guy ......"
Richard's mind moved, and those imperial soldiers who instinctively waved their weapons suddenly felt less stressed, and they looked around blankly, only to find that Richard's knights did not launch a fatal impact again, but formed a huge arc, half-surrounding the surviving emperor**,
The split brain lowered some height, and Richard's voice enveloped the entire battlefield: " I am Richard, the warriors of the Empire, you have shown your bravery, now, I don't think you should give up your lives needlessly, my knights want to kill you, will it take an extra half an hour, so, I will build yΓ¬ you go to the Crying Pass, go there to surrender to your new emperor, Sarenwell, he will be the next emperor of the Iron Triangle Empire, and will also be the emperor who will lead you to a new life, then, those who are willing to go to the Crying Pass should leave now immediately, you have ten minutes to leave the battlefield, if you are not willing to surrender, you can also choose to fight to the death, before making a choice, I want you to think about your family and children in the rearγ β
There was a dead silence on the battlefield for a moment, and then there were many warriors running in the direction of the Divine Cry Pass, at first a few, then it became hundreds, and even thousands of people left together, and in the end, there were only more than a thousand imperial warriors left on the battlefield, they looked at each other, and naturally gathered together to form a small phalanx, (to be continued)