Power and Empire Chapter 3758: Under the sword (23)

At eight o'clock in the evening, the wind blew across the grass and rolled the grass to the sky. A huge group of 10,000 infantry under the Imperial Eagle appeared in the southeast.

"Woo" the agitated trombone shook the night sky. The fourth arrival of the imperial army, the eleventh step of the imperial corps, was put on the battlefield. In terms of total strength, the number of imperial troops was already equal to the number of Aden’s 30,000 Flat, 12,000 imperial cavalry, 16,000 imperial infantry, the victory or defeat at this moment is no longer suspense, Poros can only order the cavalry to break through, the infantry is no longer able to control, can not control, in the imperial cavalry two Under this impact, the infantry except for the original formation has been in chaos. The colorful flag teams, battalions and teams have almost all been thrown into the deadly battle, and the injuries are expanding at an alarming rate.

The eleven infantry teams that make up the main combat force of the Red Dragon Cavalry Group were either collapsed by the imperial cavalry, or they were struggling to resist. The 24,000 Red Dragon fighters brought in this time have already fought. The damage was more than 40%. If it weren't for the direction of the formation, the Red Dragon Cavalry Group would still be flying, and the infantry group would have a glimmer of hope. Maybe hold on again, and the Red Dragon Knights will charge! As long as the imperial cavalry is repelled, there may be a chance for everyone to evacuate. When the war hits here, the Aden army knows that it is impossible to evacuate to the south. The only way is to return. No one thought of the imperial army. To make such a large encirclement, not only did the two hundred thousand southern princes coalition forces be wrapped in it, even the Red Dragon Knights wanted to eat it in one bite!

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted.

"Run, the main formation ran away." The infantry who were still desperately resisting looked hesitantly in the direction of the main formation. Sure enough, they saw the flag shaking. The thousands of Red Dragon Knights who were the backbone of the army finally moved, but the direction It was not the battlefield, but to the north. They ran away, and they saw them as the only one who could save the situation. Thousands of Red Dragon Knights just ran away.

"What's the matter?"

"We were abandoned, this formation ran away by ourselves!" The Red Dragon fighters yelled, they wanted to live and want to go back

The imperial black armored cavalry rushed like a tide, and the companions around him began to waver, one person, a group of people, thousands of people suddenly lost the will to fight, "Run ah ah ah -" hysterical voice , Runs through everything. Enduring tears in his eyes, watching the battle flag representing the golden thread pattern of glory being trampled in the blood, his eyes are empty and blank, what else are you hitting?

The red dragon knights all ran away, the army collapsed, and the capable army died in the battle, and what was left were just broken cowards, the battle situation was so corrupt,

"Run if you don't want to die"

The red dragon warriors of the brigade lost their helmets and armor, and their clothes were broken. In order to escape, almost everyone had been splattered with blood and battle marks. They knew that they were not **** men who had not experienced **** battles. , But at this moment, just running back desperately, the blood and bravery of the imperial cavalry in front of the battle has long disappeared bit by bit. Behind the defeated troops of this brigade, the imperial cavalry and infantry are pushing like a line. ,

The visor of the war horse is hideous, and the cavalry on it is also covered with blood and war marks. The horses and horses can be seen to be exhausted, but the spirit is still extremely excited. The horses and horses array forward, like waves pushing, constantly When the crossbow arrow was "shot", the collapsed army screamed and fell to the ground. The rest of the defeated army has run numb, no matter who is falling, no one takes a second look, just running for their lives

"Stop it, before the red dragon, there is no one to stop!" A red dragon knight commander shouted hysterically, facing the black torrent that was tumbling like a tide, and the one who was immediately submerged could not see a shadow, not all The red dragon knights all chose to escape. Except for the original formation, the red dragon knights of other teams looked lonely and indignant. The original formation had completely abandoned the infantry. I don't know how many of the Red Dragon Palace carefully cultivated them. In this way, the elite fighters of the empire collapsed under the imperial army's entire ranks. The tens of thousands of imperial troops approached like a hundred-meter-long arc of cold light. The **** battle in front was like a blunt knife rubbing the edge, so Wherever you go, corpses are everywhere

"Red Dragon Knight, charge!" shouted in grief and loneliness, some red dragon knights stomped on the ground with their hoofs flying hard and rode their horses vigorously. The imperial cavalry greeted the imperial cavalry from across the board, and just a few seconds later, the two armies clashed together frantically. The cavalry that collided with the two sides rolled from their horses to the ground. The sound of the cavalry's shattering armor was like a series of firecrackers, and the cavalry that collided with each other was like a dry Joe's straw. Squeezing and breaking from the middle, the sound of shattering armor is mixed in the collision of metal and flesh and blood,

This scene. The red dragon warriors who made them run wild and dare not turn their heads to take a look finally stopped some people. The scene they saw when they turned around was just to allow them to escape, and dozens of red dragon knights desperately blocking them were whizzing. In front of the imperial cavalry group, it was thin like a plank squeezed by a heavy hammer, breaking under the strong multi-level attack, under the torrent of imperial iron armor. These sophisticated red dragon knights struggled to resist the raging dark tide on the opposite side. With every impact, some people would fall down until the gun was broken and the body was scarred. The imperial cavalry eventually drowned these obstacles

"Pay attention to cleaning the battlefield, and don't leave the fish that slipped through the net!" Vegetalie, commander of the Ninth Banner of the Central Army, swept his eyes coldly ahead. The main formation of the Aden people was really fast. If it were slower, It's hard to run. The imperial cavalry of the Ninth Banner accelerates forward again after a slight pause, and the infantry of the Aden people is over!

More than a thousand meters away from the battlefield, the evacuated Poros was accidentally blocked by the Imperial Cavalry. His thin body had been shrunk into a very small ball, clinging to the horseback, black on the side. Shadow is approaching. He thought it was a wilderness shrub, but these shrubs are moving, and the speed is not low, the direction of movement is his own direction,

"Attention, to the southwest!" The red dragon knight on the flanks yelled frantically. Before he could hear his words, he heard the whistling sound of breaking through the sky loudly.

"Puff" a firelight flew from a distance to high altitude. It was a rocket that shot out in the air. Under the light of the firelight, the figure of the imperial black armored cavalry could be vaguely distinguished. At this moment, everyone could see it at a glance. After stroking the hills where the two armies were divided, there were more imperial black cavalry surging, and the arrow rain buzzed and trembled with the bowstring coming from the night, pouring down like a torrential rain

"There is an ambush!" The red dragon knight's flustered shouts one after another, and his ears felt the whistling sounds, pressing against the hilly ground, whizzing down, but fortunately, the opponent's shooting accuracy was not accurate enough, and the arrows were clustered. Floating around like raindrops, ordinary archers, if they don’t cover the area, can shoot targets 50 meters away on high-speed horsebacks, they are all sharpshooters, not to mention that they can’t judge the specifics of the opponent at night. The terrain and height, just the airflow driven by the horses running is enough to make most arrow clusters lose their heads. The true grassland marksman, hardly hit the target at high speed on horseback, most of them stabilize the horse or simply stand on the ground. Shoot!

"Target found!"

"Northeast, 400 meters!"

Various shouts, one of the Sixth Banner of the Central Army of the Empire bit the Red Dragon Knights of Aden who wanted to evacuate at night. They chased behind the Red Dragon Knights, frantically using their bows and arrows. Although the mountain and field is vast, the banner of Poros is also very conspicuous in the dark. In order to show the sacred red dragon flag on the white background and red border of the Red Dragon Palace, anyone who is not blind can see it from a hundred meters away. , I don’t know what the people of Aden think, so they burn bags when escaping at night! Originally, the imperial cavalry did not find the retreating Red Dragon Knights. They tentatively shot a few arrows after seeing this banner. Who knew that thousands of Red Dragon Knights were smashed out.

"Shoot, don't let the people of Aden run away!"

"To the northeast, there is the mound!"

"The soil is uphill, the bows and arrows are all raised a bit, twenty meters ahead of time"

Some imperial archers were joking and shooting wildly in the direction of the flag, feeling like hunting on the prairie’

"What the **** is going on?" Poros listened and wanted to vomit blood. Although these imperial cavalrymen were not using Aden language or the lingua franca of the empire, their intonation had a unique jumping syllable, but Poros From the clusters of arrows that are constantly flying towards you, you can also guess that the other party is shouting to his companions where he is. I really see a ghost. Poros's heart is trembling. In the dark, he is running at high speed. Immediately, I could barely see the sight more than 20 steps away in front of me. Sure enough, as soon as I left the position of the flag, the attack I received disappeared immediately. The pursuit at night is a battle that will test the ability of the pursuer. Once the trace of the target is lost, it is even more difficult to find the trace of the target again in the darkness.

The other party found him effortlessly. When I hung up, I was slid and hammered like a mouse crossing the street. I saw that his subordinates were easily pierced like pieces of paper, and the position of the arrow was running at high speed. The horse of war, like a puff of red blood, exploded in the night, and was instantly thrown away. More imperial archers seemed to smell the **** smell of the wind, and they were still pouring in from all aspects. , They did not hesitate to raise the prairie bow in their hands, and the arrows covered them like locusts. Even the highly equipped Red Dragon Knights would fall off a lot at a time, and the queue was chaotic

"Asshole!..." Poros's face was blue. He is running away. The imperial cavalry is still chasing. Why is the opponent's arrow so accurate? I just ran a curved diagonal line just now. Also taken care of by the other side, do these imperial cavalry have a pair of eyes that can be seen at night!

Poros was depressed and sweating on his forehead, a red dragon knight commander seemed to have noticed something, and suddenly shouted "banner, put down the banner, otherwise we will be the living target", this red dragon knight While shouting, the leader instigated the horse to run up to a nearby mound, condescending. With more than a hundred men under his command, block the front of the Imperial Archers at once,

"The opponent found out, prepare for melee!"

The imperial cavalry saw the target flag that disappeared suddenly, and knew that the people of Aden had noticed that the flag had betrayed their position. Since they could no longer harass the opponent from a distance, they would only have to fight in close combat. Otherwise, once the opponent got rid of the entanglement, in such a dark night, It is very difficult to find the other party under such a vast terrain

"The strikers draw their swords!" The captain of the imperial cavalry who led the team shouted, the imperial cavalry's hot red eyes gleamed with cruel and ruthless light, the sharp grassland scimitar was out of its sheath, and the wind blew on, mixed with damp. Water vapor. Another part of the galloping archers’ compound bows have also been drawn out of the full moon, calculating the distance in their hearts,

"Sixty degrees ahead, one hundred and fifty meters!" The melee cavalry running at the forefront found the target, shouted, and arrows flew out.

"Let's go!" Poros glanced at the direction of the mound with complicated eyes, and said with a complicated hum

"Kill", on the higher mound, the two cavalry units collided together like two iron walls. Almost instinctively, they completed the conversion of the confrontation formation, coming like an electric flash, and they even The people led their horses and plunged into the Red Dragon Knights of Aden, and the Red Dragon Knights of Aden squeezed into a ball when they were caught off guard. All kinds of long and short weapons collided crazily. The horses were squeezed and rolled to the ground. Blood exploded from the staggered collisions. In the fierce cavalry confrontation, a little bit of protection and dodge could not be achieved. The horses without armor hissed and screamed. Falling to the ground, the people behind can only hold their feet desperately, and are also working hard to spread the crowded formations

Some people are constantly falling off the horse, being pressed and complaining, they can only get up desperately, and the two sides fight in a small area. At every moment, there are countless weapons flying together, and there are people with heavy weights. Immediately fell, and was trampled into mud by countless horseshoes. It was difficult to even make a scream. Under the hills, the men and horses were all covered in blood, panting heavily, and the confrontation was short but doubly intense

The red dragon knight who rushed up the mound with his men fell and rolled over with muddy water, desperately trying to pull his mount up. The horse was sweating all over, with a weak nose, and could not stand up with soft legs. The red dragon knight naturally knew that this horse was completely finished. Four arrows were shot on his body and his stomach was shot. Cut a half-meter-long cut,

The horse smashed into the formation with a gust of wind, and he flew out without a horse. This red dragon knight completely regarded himself as an infantry, and swayed to his feet again, struggling to catch an imperial cavalry in the melee. The leg of the cavalry, flip it off the horseback! Immediately, a dozen red dragon knights, regardless of life and death, tightly shielded the white-faced young red dragon knight, and used their bodies to block the imperial cavalry rushing towards the youth. The focus of the battlefield suddenly gathered here, and then With this opportunity, the red dragon knight of Poros quickly disappeared into the woodland in the distance. . . . . .

Dark night, the southern princes coalition camp is brightly lit

Countless people and horses are shaking, and the camp of 200,000 people covers an area of ​​seven or eight miles. Except for the actual soldiers, about seven or eighty thousand people, the rest will be half-war and half-assisted. Servants, the camp is set up according to the status of the southern princes. The most central position is naturally the four marquis families, followed by the earls and the viscount’s camp. The lowest baron is directly arranged on the periphery of the camp, and the baron is big. Part of them are promoted by knights from major families, and they are middle-level commanders in the family’s combat power.

At the gate of the camp, a baron who had just patrolled the surrounding area entered the camp in embarrassment. The horse was quickly pulled to the stable by the servants. Because of the collective nature of the scouts, they were culled by the imperial scouts. The major families transferred the barons to personally lead the patrols in the surrounding areas. Naturally, these barons did not dare to run too far. They just hurried back after turning around a mile or two nearby. Now the entire southern vassal coalition is full of wind. Crane weeping, the grass and trees are all soldiers, because all the scouts have lost, the people of the southern coalition are even more panic, and the news that has been uploaded earlier has caused the southern princes to blow up, and the Aden people have run away!

The people of Aden would rather not be with the 200,000 southern coalition forces and leave quietly. Obviously, they are not optimistic about the current situation. This is a heavy blow to the southern princes

"What do you think about the imperial requirements?"

At this moment, in the large tent of the southern princes, more than 30 lords, large and small in the south, are sitting on both sides of the long table, and there is a depressive atmosphere in the air

Sitting in the most prominent position of the four major marquis families in the south after the nature, they are also the most determined lords in the south, sitting on the left are the lords that have existed in the south since the very beginning, and sitting on the right are the original lords. For the noble family banished by the Eero royal family, a letter from Kentham’s second daughter, Atri Ribbon, was spread on the long table.

"The empire simply wants to provoke our union with the Adenites. If we follow them, not only will we lose the support of the Adenites, but the royal family will also be unable to explain." A middle-aged aristocrat with a radical look Standing on the seat on the right, his eyes swept across everyone’s faces, and he said condensedly, “And this letter itself is an untrustworthy existence. Why did the empire ask the Kentam family to send it over? Who dares to say, The Kentam family did not secretly unite with the empire and sold us all."

"Yes, the Kentams are not trustworthy!"

"In order to get the support of the empire and want to become the new Eero royal family, there is nothing the Kentam family can do, and now it has become a running dog of the empire directly!" Various voices muttered. , The Marquis of Kentham, who was sitting in the front position, looked silent, did not say a word, let all kinds of ridicules, in fact, from the moment the Empire agreed to support the Kentham family to buy back King Erot, the Marquis of Kentham I know that I have become a target of public criticism. At this time, only by shrinking my head can I pass through safely. As for the new royal family of Eero and the Emperor of Eero, I don’t even dare to even think about it.

"Master Kentam, can you tell me privately, you really didn't join forces with the empire?"

A middle-aged nobleman sitting next to him couldn’t help approaching him and whispered, his name is Luerbeki. The friendship between the Luer family and the Kentham family can be traced back to the time of the Southern Flood. It was the ancestors of the Qathams who rescued the flooded land by the Luer family. Finally, the marriage lasted for a full forty years. The Marquis of Kentham strictly speaking was his little uncle. There is contact between the Kentam family, and Lulbecki is particularly active.

"Master Luhr, what do you think of our southern princes' status in the eyes of the Emperor?" Kentam turned his head to look at him, his tone was full of helplessness, which meant that even It’s the entire southern part of Erot that I’m afraid that the emperor wouldn’t be in the eyes of that emperor. What’s more, these southern princes, you know, even in the most prosperous period of Erot’s empire, they were fiercely fierce by the empire during the North-South war. After a beating, even the Erot Empire was unable to rank alongside the empire. What are the southern princes!

"Master Kentam, do you know that, I didn't believe that the Empire would choose Kentam House as the new royal family, but after seeing this letter from Atri Ribbon, I began to believe it" Lu Erbeki glanced left and right at the lords who were still discussing, and gave Kentham a mysterious smile

"As you said, we have no place in the eyes of the imperial emperor, but precisely because of this, for the imperial emperor, it doesn’t matter who can become the royal family of Eero, provided that, It must be beneficial to the empire, and the Kentam family fits such conditions very well."

"Don't talk nonsense, Lord Luer, this kind of joke is not funny"

"I'm kidding, just talk about it, why take it seriously?" Lulbecki smiled and said with a finger out of his mouth, "You see that the Kentam family is closely related to the Aitmen Mountain that has been incorporated into the empire, you can see Cheng is a pro-imperial faction of the southern princes and owns the largest chamber of commerce in South Eero. This means that the Kentam family will not oppose the empire’s commercial policies, and in terms of southern status, the Kentam family ranks fourth. The family of the Grand Marquis has a long history and has a good relationship with many southern families, which can help the empire greatly reduce the resistance and friction caused by entering the south.

Of course Luke's voice paused, and he smiled mysteriously

"All of this, if matched with the peerless look of my cousin Atriss, no one will be moved by it, isn't it?" Luerbeki smiled, but his eyes were bright and scary. He Lu The marriage relationship between the Er family and the Kentham family destined that whether he supports the Kentham family or not, in the eyes of other families, he belongs to the Kentham family. And if the Kentham family really becomes the new royal family of Erot, then the Luer family will naturally rise, and the biggest advantage is that the empire's army will go south, the Aden people will flee, and the southern princes will be in panic all day long, who I don’t know when the imperial army will be swept in,

But if the top empire really has contact with the Kentam family, it will be different

At least the Kentam house will be absolutely safe, and if the Luer family can stand on the side of the Kentam house, it will naturally be safe! In fact, he was not the only one with the Luer family. He was reminding the unconscious Marquis of Kentham that he was actually a golden life-saving talisman in the eyes of the southern princes at this moment.

"Really? It sounds like a bit of truth."

How old and cunning is the Marquis of Kentam, his eyes blinked, and he was a bit annoyed by the empire’s breach of credit and went south, but suddenly realized that the empire going south is definitely a good thing for the Kentam family. , It’s not a bad thing. If the empire doesn’t go south, it would be a joke for the Kentam family to become the new royal family of Eero. Even if the empire promises to sell the King Eero to the Kentam family, the Kentam family will also take back Eero. The queen of the royal capital was subjected to various suppressions from the Eero royal family. As for the Eero royal family to keep its promise, the Eero royal family only needs to throw out conditions that need to be approved by the southern princes, and the Kentam family absolutely can’t do it. /

But now, under the huge pressure of the empire’s southward movement, this impossibility has been loosened, and even invisibly split the princes in the southern part of Eero, just like the Luke family who has a good relationship with him. The southern lords who are related may not have wanted to push the Kentam family to the throne of the Eero royal family. By the way, they will also ascend to the sky. This kind of opportunity may not be encountered once in hundreds of years. If you change to your own Patriarchs of other families can't help but push it

It turns out that all this is the true intention of the empire to go south!

My situation will not be so unbearable! In the old and deep sunken eye sockets of the Marquis of Kentam, his gaze began to become sharp. His gaze swept across the faces of the lords present, and as expected, from the eyes of some well-connected lords, he could see the kindness to himself, and even A few nodded slightly at their own eyes,

"This letter from the top empire is really inexplicable. As long as we catch the Aden people who attacked the empire's army, we promised to let us return to the south safely. This is Eero. When it is the empire's turn to make the final decision. "A excited Eero nobleman stood up, sneered unabashedly" and the people of Aden ran away~IndoMTL.com~Where are we going to find the people of Aden!"

"Yes, all the people in Aden ran away, I am afraid they have passed the central sideline at this moment"

"If it were not for the imperial army that caused us to lose most of the scouts, we would not have waited until the people of Aden had run for most of the day to react"

"So, this letter is meaningless to us. We are a total of 200,000 troops. Why should we be intimidated by the empire." Most of the lords who stood up and strongly opposed it were the lords on the side of the nobility. Kentham's family is an old southern vassal. Everyone knows the bad temper of the old southern nobles. They would not move to the north if they were killed. They would rather bite the sand every day in the south! If the Kentham family really becomes the new Eero royal family, for those families who dream of returning to the north of Eero, there is no hope of returning to the north

"It seems that it is true. This letter came too late." Some lords also expressed emotion. If the Kentam family can take this out earlier, everyone may not be able to discuss it. Ambush the imperial army. It is from Aden, why should I let myself bear the imperial revenge now! What's more, the Adenites ran away. Under such circumstances, who would think that the Adenites are allies worth relying on!

At this moment, the horn trombone shouting for reinforcements in the dark night resounded through the wasteland, and looked so sad on this vast land

"What's the situation!"

"Has the Empire started to attack?" The southern princes who were in the meeting looked all over, stood up one after another, the Adenites ran away, is the Imperial army going to start a general attack!

"My lord, I just got the news that the Aden Army was sniped by the Imperial Army during its southward retreat. The casualties were heavy. The deputy commander of the Aden Red Dragon Cavalry Regiment, Poros, was injured. He was urgently seeking to see him outside the camp." An attendant was pale. Hurry over

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