Five hundred and ninetieth chapters take their place
"Win!"
"Win!"
"Win!"
The battle on the left wing started in the morning. At this time, the sky had not yet darkened, and there were no more sea warriors standing nearby. The plain was littered with fragmented corpses of the sea clan, spread out in the distance.
It would be a big trouble to clean up the corpses of tens of thousands of Sea Clan soldiers.
The cavalry, led by Richard, have completed their pursuit and are once again stepping over the corpses of the Hai clan soldiers who were ravaged by them. Some infantry have begun to organize themselves on the battlefield, mainly to collect the scattered corpses of their companions, and then put them away.
The corpses of the sea tribe were gathered together for burial or set on fire. Before disposal, some of the more valuable dwarf equipment from the elites were pulled off as trophies.
After Richard led the cavalry to attack, he almost completely defeated the more than 100,000 Hai Clan troops on the left wing. These more than 100,000 Hai Clan troops were not the cannon fodder troops that were near Harbor City before. At least half of them were patrol guards.
This kind of elite, but even so, is still vulnerable to the iron cavalry of the North.
In fact, there were not many Sea Tribes who died directly under the impact of the cavalry. They probably only numbered a few thousand in total. This was because the cavalry in the North was too powerful and gave them little chance to escape. Many cavalry in the back row did not even fight with them.
When the Hai Clan had the opportunity to fight, they followed the comrades in front and charged all the way to achieve a great victory. The Hai Clan suffered more casualties due to the trampling on each other after the retreat and the pursuit of the cavalry, and their lives were easily harvested from the back.
In line with the principle of maximizing the results of the battle, Richard led his cavalry in pursuit for at least ten miles. Many of the sea tribesmen ran out of energy and simply stayed there waiting to die until they were rescued by the sea tribe's royal court.
When the army arrived, the cavalry from the Northland stopped their pursuit. If Richard hadn't been reluctant to bear the heavy casualties of this precious cavalry in his hands and had determined to continue the attack, the subsequent support troops from the Hai Clan would also have been extremely powerful.
It is likely to be directly defeated.
Even if the Sea King sent out elite troops to respond, the only ones on the left wing of the Sea Tribe who could escape in the end were the priests who fled first and General Falk who threw away his armor and infiltrated into the ordinary patrol guards. At least half of the Sea Tribe
The soldiers fell under the pursuit of the cavalry, and because Richard led the cavalry to chase the elites, more of the ones who escaped were ordinary sea warriors whose lives were not important, and most of the casualties were the elite patrol guards.
"Your Majesty, the human cavalry has withdrawn."
In the camp, a sea general was carefully reporting the movements of the human army to Sea King. Sea King paused for a long time with an ugly expression on his face, and then ordered:
"Strengthen your alert and be careful of the human army attacking the army!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
The scene where Richard led the heavy cavalry to charge into battle just now gave him quite a shock. This was the first time for the Sea Clan, who was good at fighting on land, to see human cavalry charge into battle. Moreover, they skipped the novice difficulty level and faced it for the first time.
That's right, this is the heavy cavalry team in the North that is basically considered the best in the world.
After seeing the scene of human heavy cavalry charging into the formation, Neptune kept deducing in his mind whether the simple camp of the Sea Tribe could stop the opponent if these thousands of cavalry charged directly into the formation.
Maybe you can rely on huge numbers and use the corpses of countless soldiers to delay the opponent's charge?
"Your Majesty, General Falk is back."
At this time, Falk, as the defeated general, also returned to the Sea Tribe's camp. His first move was to rush to the Sea King to apologize.
"Let him come in." Neptune said in a deep voice.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Falk knelt down on the ground as soon as he arrived in front of Neptune. At this time, he looked quite embarrassed. Not only had he lost his mighty armor, but his body was also covered in mud and blood. With the unique slippery skin of the Shanghai people, he looked like a scoundrel.
Like a snake.
"Your Majesty, I am guilty."
"Now that you know you are guilty, why did you come back? The leader of the Asi tribe died in the battle, and you brought back almost none of the thousands of elite patrol guards entrusted to you by the royal court. How dare you come back alive?"
Seeing the embarrassed Falk, the anger that Neptune had just suppressed surged to the surface. He originally thought that victory in this war with humans was a sure thing, but he didn't expect that he was hit by a sap as soon as he started, and tens of thousands of ordinary people were killed or injured.
Soldiers are all trivial matters. What makes Neptune feel distressed is the 5,000 elite patrol guards of the Royal Court brought by Falk. These patrol guards are all selected from the best among ordinary patrol guards, and the strongest beings are selected.
There are only 50,000 in total, and they are all equipped with dwarf armor smuggled from the land at a high cost, which can be regarded as one of the royal court's trump cards.
Five thousand were lost in this battle. For Neptune, this loss was considered as painful as cutting off his fingers.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! The final irreversible reason for the war was that the priests escaped before the battle. If they had not escaped first, even if we could not win, our entire army would not have been annihilated."
In fact, even if the dozens of Sea Priests do not run away, their abilities will only cause a little trouble to Richard. After all, the Sea Priests are just very ordinary spell casters. Even high-level priests can
It is barely equivalent to the combat power of an earth-level priest. The entire sea clan does not have more than double digits of such high-level priests. The rest are mostly beings who can only cast one or two spells and are at the same level as knights.
If they want to pose any threat to the three thousand cavalry in the North, they must have the qualifications to block the three thousand cavalry. If they don't run away in advance, the result is almost certain that they will immediately become a thorn in Richard's side.
Just like those armored elites of the sea tribe, chase them and kill them.
However, regardless of whether it was useful for the Sea Priests to stay, Falk wanted to quickly throw the blame away and shirk some of the blame. He knelt down without raising his head, and could feel the anger of the Sea King at this time. He was afraid that
Neptune's next order was to call on the bloodline warriors on both sides to come up and execute him as a warning to others.
And Falk's words did play a certain role. The angry Sea King wanted to execute Falk for a moment to vent his anger, but Falk's words made the Sea King transfer part of his anger to the priests who escaped from the battle.
Compared to bloodline generals like Falk, who always obeyed orders, the priests were not particularly obedient. This time they escaped without permission on the battlefield, so they had to use it to establish a prestige.
In the camp, several other high-ranking priests secretly screamed that something was wrong when they heard this. No matter what the reason was, escaping from battle would be fair and upright if investigated, and any punishment would not be excessive. However, there were only a few high-ranking priests.
The death of a priest is a big enough blow to the power of the priests. If another one is punished this time, their power will be greatly weakened.
However, before they could open their mouths to defend themselves, Neptune had already considered everything and immediately ordered:
"The left-wing priests escaped from the battle and should be executed immediately according to military discipline. However, considering that we are currently short of manpower, let them stand in the front row with the patrol guards in the next attack. If they survive, they will be exempted from the blame this time."
"His Majesty..."
"Um?"
The physique of the priests is not as good as that of the sea patrol guards, and is only slightly stronger than those lower-level sea warriors. They have already seen how intense the battle in the front row is today. Just a flesh and blood millstone can make these little arms and legs...
When the priests stood up, they would be dead within minutes.
However, as soon as they opened their mouths, before they could say any words of mercy, they met the angry eyes of Neptune. Under the pressure of Neptune, they did not say the last word of mercy. They could only hope that their companions would be lucky and survive longer.
Already.
"As for Falk."
"His Majesty!"
As soon as he heard Neptune say his name, Falk, who had just been gloating in his heart, immediately straightened up and waited for Neptune to deal with him.
"Next, you will serve as a centurion in the legion, lead a hundred patrol guards, and serve as the vanguard of the next attack."
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Falk was originally a high-ranking general in the royal court, but now he was beaten to the end and became the leader of a hundred men. The punishment was not light, but compared to the priests' punishment of death, he led a hundred elite patrol guards, which was more
If you have some hope, as long as you can win the next battle, the probability of survival is still very high.
"Your Majesty, the scouts from the northeast didn't come back tonight. I don't know what went wrong there."
"Let General Asda handle this matter and send some people to investigate the situation."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After the Sea King finished dealing with the defeated army on the left wing, the sky became slightly darker. From the faint optical fiber, it could be seen that there were soldiers patrolling the sea camp at night, and many lower-level soldiers were organized to start.
Undercover trenches and small pits were dug around the camp. This was obviously to prevent Richard from leading the cavalry to attack the camp. Although the Hai tribe has little battlefield experience, they are not stupid. As an intelligent race, they still have the ability to learn and summarize, and they will soon lose their ability.
The division master made some arrangements for the cavalry.
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The main battlefield is dozens of miles away
"Chi!"
"ah!"
"Human army, what skeletons are there! Let's go!"
As one of the main breeding areas of the Sea Clan, Benchang in the South China Sea is not only limited to Harbor City and the area where the main forces of the two sides are fighting. Both areas only occupy a small area of Benchang, and there are only some scattered areas in the wider area.
Most of the Sea Tribes there are those who got lost and fell behind after arriving on land, wandering in random directions. In addition to lower-level soldiers, there are even some elite patrol guards among them.
Only a small number of organic patrol guard teams were sent out to collect lost troops and explore the terrain.
Originally, they had escaped from the main battlefield, which was like a millstone of flesh and blood. Unfortunately, they ran into an even more terrifying army at this time.
"boom!"
"Rush out, don't let these skeletons surround you!"
A scout team composed of more than a dozen patrol guards was sent out to investigate the situation on the flanks of the army. They were also followed by dozens of lower-level Hai Clan soldiers. An army like the Hai Clan army that was not highly organized,
Although the Sea Tribe's fighting methods are primitive and the development of war forms is far inferior to that of the races on land, the Sea Tribe Royal Court's army has learned some of the most basic battlefield elements and at least knows how to send out scouts to investigate the surrounding situation.
It's just that the troops in this direction never returned once they were dispersed. However, the Sea Clan lacked enough sensitivity to the fact that the scouts had not returned for a long time. They just thought they got lost at night. After all, the Sea Clan's scouts were not professional.
It was normal for this kind of thing to happen. I had no idea that the scouts in this direction had been hunted down one by one.
"boom!"
The combat effectiveness of these skeleton soldiers transformed from the sea tribe was still a little weaker. The encirclement had not yet been formed. The patrol guards in front had already forcibly opened a gap. They were about to run out of the gap, but they had just taken a few steps.
, under the dim sky, several sharp arrows struck silently, each arrow hitting the vital point accurately.
In an instant, half of the patrol guards who had just smashed the skeleton soldiers easily fell down. Only a few patrol guards in heavy armor survived because their armor blocked the sharp arrows.
But before they could react and find where the cold arrows came from, several human warriors wearing plate armor and barrel helmets rushed out from the large number of skeleton soldiers. These human soldiers were wearing iron armor when walking.
It was clearly making a clanging sound, but it moved very quickly, and rushed in front of them in a few seconds.
"clang!"
"Chi!"
"ah!"
The remaining patrol guards instinctively resisted, but this resistance was obviously in vain. The few human soldiers all ignited their fighting spirit. With the cooperation of a few people, they killed all the patrol guards in less than ten seconds. The remaining
The lower-level sea warriors below did not need them to take action, and were quickly surrounded and killed by the surrounding skeleton soldiers. Soon after, they stood up from where they were and became new skeleton soldiers.
"Jie Jie Jie, Your Majesty Catherine, I never thought that one day we would fight side by side."
Under dusk, in addition to a large number of undead troops, many system troops also left the main battlefield and went around to the flanks where the two sides were fighting. The commanders were Catherine, who had been in charge of internal affairs in the north, and what Richard regarded as
Sandro of Instability.
"snort!"
Catherine glanced sideways at Sandro, the disgust on her face showing unreservedly.
"When did you skeletons become so weak? In the end, you have to rely on the Crusaders to take action."
"Hey, soon, I will have a new baby."
"But you, Lady Catherine, must not let a Sea Tribe go and ruin Lord Richard's plan."
"Will the gryphon knights and silver pegasus in the sky let go of a sea tribe that discovers us?"
"So much the better."
Both of them sounded a bit unkind, but they also cooperated in their actions. Who would have thought that two people who are like old enemies would act for the same goal here?
