Chapter 7 Victory in the first battle
The moment the cavalry of the Lightning Army and the gun and shield soldiers of the Right Route Army came into contact, Stilvin knew that he had been completely defeated this time. He immediately ordered the adjutant to order the Eagle Trainer to report the situation here to the Central Army and the Left Route Army, and ask them to send troops to rescue him at a speed.
"I just don't know if it's time?" Stilvin looked at the adjutant's back as he walked away and smiled bitterly. He didn't know, and at the same time, Diaz also issued an order to the hawk trainer and released six flying eagles specifically used to confuse the public.
"Everyone go together! Kill!" Seeing that things had come to this point, Stilvin had to fight to the death. Anyway, judging from the fate of Richard, the escape commander of the escaped legion, he might not be able to save his life if he escaped. And if he fought to the death, maybe after he died, Wales could still treat his family well.
He then took the lead in raising his spear and shouted: "Brothers, fight against the enemy for the honor of the Rock Legion!" After that, Stilvin led his personal guards to immediately face the cavalry of the Lightning Legion that rushed forward.
The two armies immediately fought together. A sword and sword shadows were filled with people and horses.
However, the result of this melee... is not so much a battle, but rather a massacre. The preparation was not enough, not only did not eat dinner, but even the 20,000 right-hand soldiers of the Rock Legion were not standing in the queue. When facing the Lightning Legion cavalry who were well prepared and murderous intent, they fought for less than half an hour and then collapsed. The heavy cavalry of the Lightning Legion holding a cavalry was chasing the right-hand soldiers who were fleeing everywhere with high morale. The entire battlefield was filled with the sound of collisions of weapons, the neighing of war horses, and the screams of the right-hand soldiers when they were killed. These scattered right-hand infantry soldiers fled behind their camps, dispersed the right-hand cavalry team that had just gathered.
So, the cavalry of the Lightning Army, like a wolf and a tiger, rushed into the camp that the right army was building, and chased them all the way to the bank of the Shudon River. I don’t know how many soldiers of the Shudon River fell into the river and drowned. The blood dyed half of the Shudon River red.
Anne felt a little embarrassed when she looked at the tragic situation of the dead soldiers on the battlefield. She ordered: "Tell us that if the enemy is willing to surrender, there is no need to kill them!" Anne was soft-hearted. After all, these soldiers were also her people, and she wanted to convince some people to surrender.
After Anne announced that the surrender would be spared from death, soldiers of the right-wing soldiers who had already been defeated handed over their weapons, raised their hands and surrendered on their knees. The fierce battle gradually subsided.
Roger looked at the time and it took only more than an hour from the heavy cavalry of the Lightning Legion to Anne's announcement that the surrenders would not be killed. The right-road army of the Rock Legion, which had three divisions and a total number of 26,000, collapsed under the raid.
"Leave two thousand light infantry to guard the prisoners and clean the battlefield. The other heavy infantry immediately advanced towards the enemy's left line army. After resting for three hours, the cavalry moved around behind the enemy's left line army!" Roger ordered.
He sighed inwardly, and he was still cautious. If he had known that only ten thousand cavalry could be used to solve the enemy's right-road army, he would have sent infantry to bury the enemy's left-road army's must-pass path, which would save a lot of time to run away and make the ambush more fully prepared.
"Brother Roger, you are so good! We never expected that it would be easy to deal with the enemy's right-wing army in just over an hour, but our own casualties were so minor." Diaz and several division commanders were convinced by Roger. Only then did they understand why the Lightning Army lost more than 50,000 people under the city of Hetante, where Roger was in charge of defense. This Roger was completely a military genius!
"Haha, we have a good time to seize the opportunity. They were building camps and preparing to set up camps. This is the time for their defense to be the most relaxed. Moreover, thanks to Lord Adams commanding the brothers of the direct guards to kill all the enemy scouts. Otherwise, after these scouts returned to report, the right-road army would be prepared. Even if we can win, there will be heavy casualties." Roger said with a smile.
"By the way, how many casualties are we? How many prisoners are taken into custody?" Anne asked with great concern with her big beautiful eyes wide open.
"Oh, Your Highness, don't worry, our casualties are very few, with only 476 people killed in total, and 518 were injured, and the total casualties are less than 1,000. According to preliminary statistics of the enemy, the death toll of more than 12,000, including their commander Stilvin, was injured, and more than 8,000 people were surrendered, mostly cavalry. However, hundreds of enemies escaped." Diaz quickly reported.
"Hey, no matter whether the soldiers of the Rock Legion or the soldiers of the Lightning Legion who died, they were all Ice's soldiers, and I was very sad!" Anne's big beautiful eyes showed a sad look and she sighed.
"This... Princess, it is impossible to avoid death in war. Only when we quell the domestic situation as soon as possible can we avoid the country from falling into war!" Simon hurriedly persuaded. He was extremely loyal to Princess Anne.
"Okay! Anne, don't think about these sad things. Our next battle is to attack the enemy's left-road army. We originally planned to attack them from two directions, but now we have captured more than 5,000 prisoners, which gives me a better idea..." Roger said his new plan at this time.
After hearing this, everyone applauded.
Simon sighed: "Mr. Roger, your method is completely something we have never thought of before. I believe it will definitely catch the enemy off guard."
Diaz and Anne were also amazed at Roger's thoughts, only Fonseca whispered: "This kid is really despicable. It seems that I have to be careful when I duel with him."
"Okay! Let's set off soon. We will probably fight the enemy's left-wing army in three days." After Roger finished explaining the new combat plan, he climbed onto the horse's back, waved his whip and slapped the horse's butt a few times.
The horse he sat down immediately ran forward quickly.
"Brother Roger! Wait for me!" Annie hurriedly followed him.
Seeing this, Diaz and Simon couldn't help but smile and ordered: "Everyone is on the horse! Let's prepare for the next victory...
Chapter completed!