Chapter 401 Pursuit and Escape

The war is not over.

Although most of the noble wars of this era are concerned, when the Cecilians won a great victory on the northern and western fronts and the allied forces of the southern nobles fled, the war should have ended, and the next should be Sisi The Er people used the captured captives to negotiate with various families in the southern border, and used ransom and land to divide their interests, but these are all wishful thinking of the nobles who started the war.

Wars can begin with their ludicrous reasons for crusades, but they will never end with one fight and one surrender.

The main rout of the coalition was the main force of the Hosmans in the north. The 50,000-strong noble coalition actually killed and wounded less than 10,000 people in that battle-their long and chaotic ranks, rugged mountain roads, and scattered and messy marching routes caused them to face the artillery bombardment. The reason for the collapse, but on the other hand, most of them survived. The first round of artillery strikes only destroyed the vanguard of the coalition army (including the entire corps led by Earl Hossman). Just as many were killed by artillery fire.

Then, the 40,000 surviving people began to flee day and night.

In addition to leaving the necessary remaining troops to ensure the safety of the Kant area, the 1st and 2nd Corps led by Knight Philip and Knight Wald Perich, totaling more than 3,000 people, kept biting these fleeing enemies from a distance.

3,000 people chasing 40,000 people may sound like a joke, but it really happened.

In the hills in the west of Carroll Land, Knight Philip with the lord's order hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls of dry food, and then came to the middle of the team to check the deployment of the artillery positions.

Specially designed horse-drawn chariots were parked in the open space in the center of the army formation. Soldiers ran fast around the carriage, fixing the chassis of each vehicle and checking the situation of the small orbital acceleration guns. .

The wheels of those chariots were reinforced with steel, and solid steel frames were welded to the axle sleeves, to which the miniaturized "Persuader" railguns were fastened.

This is the "Bombarding Chariot" specially designed by the lord for mobile combat. The miniaturized "Persuader" rail gun can be easily installed on the horse-drawn chariot. When entering the combat state, the harness of the chariot will be removed. Remove it, and at the same time, the car body will be fixed on the ground with thick steel fixing piles. The recoil generated by the rail gun shooting is buffered and transmitted to the ground through a solid steel frame and a specially designed "retraction mechanism", relying on these exquisite The design of these powerful weapons can finally break away from the fixed turret and become a terrible weapon that moves with the army.

In order to ensure the operation of these shelling chariots, a shelling chariot will also be equipped with two auxiliary chariots - one of which is fully loaded with artillery shells,

Another vehicle is equipped with a large magic capacitor and magic net device, the former provides ammunition, the latter provides energy, three such vehicles will form a "mobile artillery unit", and in the pursuit force, a total of Twenty such shelling units.

These artillery pieces are the source of nightmares day and night for the noble coalition forces who are still on the run.

These advanced and powerful weapons are already inconceivably powerful equipment in the eyes of young knights, but Philip knows that these things are just "transitional products" in the mouth of the lord. The legendary hero seems to have more powerful than mobile artillery units. , A more bizarre idea, but for the task at hand, those things that only exist in the idea are not important. These magic crystal railguns are the real strength of the Cecil Combat Corps.

The well-trained soldiers completed the construction of the artillery position at the fastest speed, and then began to wait for the commander's order. Knight Philip looked up and saw the old knight Wald Perich walking towards him.

"The sentry saw the smoke and the enemy was in the intended position."

The old knight from Kant's Territory reported meticulously, and then glanced at the ready shelling units with a look of awe, while Philip looked up at the sun in the sky, silently estimating the time in his heart.

After a few minutes, the young knight said softly, "They should start eating."

Then he turned his head and loudly ordered the nearby messengers: "Start shelling, three salvos!"

The gunners got the order and pulled the lever of the shelling one after another. With a series of air explosions and sharp whistles, twenty rounds of magic crystal orbital bullets wrapped in light blue magic power had rushed out of the gun with a devastating momentum. mouth, and drawn a faint arc in the clear sky.

There began to be continuous huge explosions in the distance. The explosions happened far away from the smoke and dust, but everyone knew that those noble deserters had been scared by the shells, even if the shells landed thousands of meters away from them, They will also run away immediately after hearing the sound.

After three salvos, the artillery position stopped firing, and the messengers ran in the position and passed new orders: "The chariots are ready!" "The first group of light infantry, the second group is set off!" Let the car go!"

The well-trained 1st Corps of Cecil immediately began to carry out the order, and the 2nd Corps from the Kant area was infected in this atmosphere and also acted one after another, and Wald Perich showed an expression of admiration. Looking at Philip Knight: "I didn't expect you to be so sophisticated in combat skills at such a young age. Are all of you Cecils so good at combat?"

There was an uneasy smile on Knight Philip's face, and the old knight's praise sounded a little awkward to him: "This... In fact, I'm just following the lord's orders and tips. I didn't expect these methods to be so useful."

While saying this, Philip couldn't help recalling the instructions that Gawain gave him——

After the battle, they pursued the fleeing noble coalition forces, pursued continuously, and exhausted the enemy to the limit with long-range light artillery fire and continuous harassment pursuit; followed the noble coalition forces along the way and attacked every garrison location they stopped. As far as possible, drive them out of the colony before they get supplies, and use the enemy's food supplies as their own source of food and grass; if possible, open the granary of every noble along the way, in addition to supplying the troops' rations, all The food was distributed to nearby residents in the name of Cecil; the well-trained and well-equipped 1st Cecil Corps was the main attack, accompanied by the 2nd Corps in the Kant area, capturing the enemy prisoners who kept falling behind and sending them to the In the rear, the strictest military control was imposed in the process...

This will be a competition of endurance and psychological endurance, and the first ones who can't stand it must be those aristocratic coalition forces who are in a constant state of panic amid the sound of cannons.

Since that decisive victory, this destined to be a long pursuit has been going on for three days. Although it is only three days, Philip feels more and more effective and... terrifying of the lord's instructions in each day of the pursuit. .

The lord seemed to have long anticipated the direction of the war, and even anticipated the direction and most of the reactions of the enemy after the defeat. Cecil's army seemed to be chasing and biting a flock of weak sheep. The war changed in the process. It has become something that has nothing to do with honor, but more and more blood and cruelty emerge.

As an orthodox knight who pursues the spirit of chivalry, Philip still chooses to carry out these orders, not only because of his loyalty, but also because of his reason-reason tells him that this seemingly cruel action is actually the way to regain the southern border as soon as possible. The peaceful method, only when those stupid nobles are completely defeated, he does not need to carry out another Crushed Stone Ridge shelling in a few years.

The army set out, and the seemingly endless pursuit and escape were staged again in the vast land of the southern border. Equipped with thermal energy ray guns, the energetic Cecil combatants began to pursue those aristocratic remnants like birds of prey.

After the devastating artillery bombardment three days ago, the aristocratic coalition had already been frightened by the whistling and explosion of similar artillery shells. During the process of fleeing, they simply did not have the extra mental energy to think about how to deal with it. There are a few people who still maintain the ability to think rationally, and they will also be surrounded by tens of thousands of rout soldiers who only want to escape. In this case, the Cecil soldiers hardly encountered any decent resistance from the enemy.

At the primary level of the pursuit, the few remaining troops of the nobles who still maintained their combat effectiveness also fought back, but these troops who turned back and resisted soon became the victims of the heat ray gun, and the few survivors among them became the pursuit. The first prisoners of war the troops took in, and as the pursuit continued, these resistances were becoming less and less powerful.

Just like panic, hunger is gradually consuming the physical strength and mentality of everyone in this noble coalition.

In order to escape, the noble coalition had to discard a large amount of supplies, including most of the food, on the way to escape. No one thought that the Cecilians would carry out such a terrifying pursuit without leaving any way out. , In this endless escape, they almost exhausted the dry food they carried, and the Cecil fire and harassment almost never stopped so that they did not have any time to stop and eat normally.

The fugitive coalition of nobles tried to retreat to the high walls of Carroll Land to seek shelter, but the Cecilians destroyed their walls with "artillery" in front of them, and then the coalition was forced to the west like a flock. They tried to get supplies from the garrison points along the way and their respective territorial farms, but the "cannonballs" of the Cecil people always fell on them like shadows, and those noble soldiers were running into their farms and farms. After the granary, before they can even take a bite of bread, they will be driven to the next place by artillery fire in panic - and their food will become the Cecil's army ration.

The fugitive nobles gradually began to understand that the Cecilians had no intention of ending the war at all. They did not intend to stop negotiating, and they did not intend to accept it as soon as possible. The ancient legend who never obeyed the nobility rules also did this this time. There is no intention to obey the nobility rules - this war is not a nobility game, it is designed to never die.

However, the awakened nobles had no choice at all. They could only continue to flee, keep fleeing, and did not dare to stop until they died of exhaustion.

During the day-to-day escape, their physical and mental strength began to plummet.

(Mommy!!)