One Hundred and Forty Meteors
On the side of the road, in a temporary camp, several soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire who were standing guard were looking at the road in frustration as the friendly troops retreated westward. Before these brightly armored soldiers could enter the brutal battlefield, they were ordered to start retreating.
The flanking attack of the Alan Hill Empire had worked, and the Holy Demon Empire had to give up the plan to attack Higsnar and withdraw its troops from the salient as soon as possible, so as not to form a huge encirclement and ruin its own strength.
About 30,000 people are destined to be surrounded by this huge encirclement, and the remaining tens of thousands of people seem to have a chance to escape. How long has it been since the Holy Demon Empire experienced such a fiasco? Maybe they don't even remember it.
Once upon a time, when facing the mortal empire, they didn't even need to use a powerful magic legion. They could easily defeat their opponents with just the dragon knights and the giant horse cavalry.
They have become accustomed to exploiting mortal empires, and are accustomed to seeing themselves as gods, above all mortals. But today, they have to remember a cruel fact, that they are not gods, and they are not weak ants who are bullied by them...
"Have you heard? The 4th Corps is in charge of the rear..." A soldier stared at the elite infantry with spears in the distance and said, "We will start retreating tomorrow... I hope those aircraft of the other side won't fly to make trouble... …”
The comrade-in-arms standing beside him was holding a straw stick in his mouth, and seemed to have no regard for his status as a decent magician: "Isn't it? I heard that yesterday when the 1st Legion retreated, the opponent's aircraft dispatched a large group, and they beat 1 The legion can't raise its head, it's a miserable."
"More than 2,000 people have been fired in a day. Who can afford this way of fighting." The soldier who spoke first put his hand on the long sword, and his colleagues who died for him were not worth it. Shaking his head, he sighed with emotion.
This time, the loss of the Holy Demon Empire is completely impossible to make up for. Maybe the Norma Empire will spit out the benefits of eating it. The immediate failure has caused the Holy Demon Empire to lose a large number of magicians, and it may not be able to recover its vitality in a few years.
What is even more frightening is that it is still unknown whether the Alan Hill Empire is willing to stop the war. If the opponent insists on fighting, how will the Holy Devil Empire end is a serious problem.
War is a very strange thing. You can choose when to start, but there is no way to choose when to end. Even the victorious side cannot exactly control the time of the armistice. This is the uncertainty of war.
"It will be lively then... More than 30,000 prisoners of the Holy Demon Empire... Can you believe it? The Grand Consul estimates that his nose is crooked. How much will he have to pay to return these prisoners?" A bit resentful, he said sarcastically.
Everyone was reluctant to fight this war in the first place. After all, the war against the Norma Empire had almost exhausted the common people of the Holy Demon Empire from their enthusiasm for the war. At the beginning, everyone thought that the invasion of Higgs was just a small war against the mortal empire, so the opposition was not so harsh.
But now, the war has reached a dead end, and the Holy Demon Empire has no way to win, and even a reconciliation has become somewhat unlikely. This has made the people who have long lost patience to be dissatisfied with the decision of the parliament.
The minds of the people are determined, not only the common people of the mortal empire are unwilling to fight for a long time, but the common people of the magic empire are also human, and they are also unwilling to pay for the endless wars.
"We have never fought such a suffocating war... Even if the Eternal Empire taught us, we have never fought so miserably..." The soldier who spoke first said with a wry smile.
He's also a veteran, having fought in the defense of the Eternal Empire. After all, the two sides are still on the same level of combat power. Although the Eternal Empire is stronger and the magic is stronger, everyone can barely fight a dozen times, so as not to lose like this.
But as a magic empire, everyone knows that the Eternal Empire is nothing more than a Magic Empire that is stronger than the Holy Demon Empire. To the west of the Eternal Empire, that ancient and mysterious country is the real powerful existence.
"I don't know what this Alan Hill can develop into..." Another soldier muttered in a low voice as he looked at the remnants of the defeated soldiers who were passing by their camp incessantly.
In front of his eyes, behind the soldiers who had just passed by, were the wounded who could not see their heads. Some of the wounded were lying on the carriage pulled by the giant horse, and some of the wounded were lying on the racks carried by the back of the moving beast.
More wounded can only walk on their own legs. They carry their injured arms or have thick bandages on their heads.
This is the road they traveled when they came, and now they can only follow this road and go back to where they started. After paying a heavy price and sacrificing their friends or relatives, they got nothing but a painful memory.
The day after Alan Hill started the southern counterattack, the combat troops of the Holy Demon Empire began to retreat. They abandoned the entire salient, leaving only part of the army to support their defenses.
These remaining troops are destined to stay here, but no one knows how much the retreating troops can withdraw.
The Alan Hill troops that control the Rosroll area are trying to expand their results. They are storming north and east, and they are shrinking the pockets of the encirclement step by step.
The Holy Demon Empire's troops without air cover moved very slowly, and they had to act at night to avoid the threat of air power from the other side.
It is a pity that neither the Dragon Knight nor the Giant Horse Cavalry is an ideal night action unit, so whether it is to use the night to attack, or to use the night to retreat, for the army of the Holy Demon Empire to come. That said, it's not easy.
After all, humans are still not used to being active at night. This habit is common to both mortals and magicians.
At this moment, all the soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire are waiting for their fate with anxiety. The victory over the mortal empires that the Holy Demon Empire has maintained since its birth was ruthlessly broken in this battle. For the soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire, times have changed.
No one knows what kind of situation the Holy Devil Empire will face next, because no one knows what the fate of a magical empire will be when it is defeated by a mortal empire.
On the side of Ailan Hill, the situation is not very optimistic. The Higgs area is working hard to absorb the wounded on the front line. The price paid by Ailan Hill, who has won every battle, is a bit more than everyone can imagine. .
On the frontal battlefield, the successive losses exceeded 100,000 people. The magician troops of the Holy Demon Empire did not live up to their reputation. While their dragon knight troops were slaughtered by fighter jets, they also caused huge casualties to the Alan Hill ground troops.
Most of the combat units of the Second Army have lost their offensive capabilities, so that the follow-up counterattack can only be carried out by second-line troops such as the garrison. Under the cover of part of the main force of the 2nd Army, the first counterattack launched by the 10 garrison groups successfully drove the Holy Demon Empire back to a place 100 kilometers away from Higsnar.
The encirclement is being compressed, and the Holy Demon Empire, which has been unable to reinforce, has given up the supply of troops in the encirclement. The fast-consuming magic replenishment liquid reserve is the biggest enemy of the Holy Demon Empire's persistence in fighting.
After all, they can't get magic supplies in the forbidden magic realm, so this way of fighting completely relying on logistics supplies makes them more afraid of being surrounded.
It's just that now the encirclement is about to be formed, and it has become a fact that the army of the Holy Demon Empire in the pocket cannot get supplies, so I can only use one sentence to describe the army of the Holy Demon Empire in the encirclement now - there is not much time left for them. .
Compared to the Holy Demon Empire troops in desperation, the current Alan Hill troops at least have an absolute advantage in logistical supplies. Countless supplies and mobilized soldiers are heading to the front.
Although the Holy Demon Empire has an obvious advantage in the battle damage ratio, the mortal empire also has its own advantages in terms of military strength - Ailan Hill mobilized more than 2 million troops, which the Holy Demon Empire could not make up anyway.
The training system of magicians determines that their number is not too large, and the replenishment speed of the magic army naturally cannot keep up with the second-line garrison of Ailan Hill who can go to the front line after dozens of days of training...
When Ailan Hill's troops were continuously sent to the front line, and even the construction of the rear was not delayed, the Holy Demon Empire was fighting on two fronts and had difficulty in mobilizing troops, so they could only watch their opponents continue to fight. grow up.
This can be clearly seen from the comparison of the air forces of the two sides: before the two sides were evenly matched in strength, but now, the sky has been occupied by the fighter jets of Ailan Hill, and the number of these flying mortal weapons is increasing. many……
"What we can hope for now is the mediation of the Eternal Empire..." The ordinary soldier of the Holy Demon Empire said with a wry smile, looking at the soldiers with broken armor and wounds, as if looking at their future.
"Eternal Empire? Will they take care of our lives? I estimate that the only one who can help us this time is..." The comrade-in-arms who also had a heavy heart nodded and agreed with him.
Hearing the other party's words, the soldier seemed to see a glimmer of hope and said, "Yeah... Look at those real gods, are you willing to give us a chance."
Just as they were talking, above their heads, in the distant sky, a shooting star pierced the sky.