Chapter 353 Encirclement and Pursuit

The troops of the Rose Cross slowly advanced in the Brill Forest, while the reserve team from Pass Town rushed out of the forest at high speed.

Because it is a reserve team, about 2,200 of the 3,000 people can actually participate in the battle. For a war with a population of around 10,000, such a level of strength is enough to determine the outcome of a battle.

Compared with the panic a few days ago, Rody finally had some confidence in the current crisis, but he did not dare to relax at all. He did not leave after the army was launched, but moved forward with the army, silently monitoring the progress of the army. travel speed...

To be honest, this kind of behavior has caused a lot of resentment. After all, as the commander, the bishop absolutely does not want to see someone pointing fingers at his troops, and Rody, who is pretending to be a "priest", also understands that he cannot go beyond, so there is not much to go along the way. Talk nonsense.

He also understands that it is impossible for this army to be as commanding as his own cavalry. When the battle really starts, he can only be a "spectator"...

The time passed on the road like this, the calendar turned to May 6th, and after the sunrise on May 7th, the Rose Cross team in the Brill Forest finally started to meet before the decisive battle...

"Captain, is our speed a little slower?"

Walking in the dense jungle, the speed can't be increased after all, but it is obvious that since the early morning departure, Captain Sally has obviously lost the previous vigorous attitude, and instead postponed the departure time, and increased the team's detection range when advancing— —Although she didn't say it clearly, the team members all sensed that she was deliberately delaying her progress.

Sally didn't deny this, she nodded, and replied: "Roy and Bart who went to scout on the flanks haven't returned yet, and when they bring definite news, we will speed up and catch up with the team in front."

"Understood, Captain."

Knowing that Sally was not fighting timidly, the team members felt much relieved. And Sally, who was walking ahead, picked up the map to confirm the current position of the team——

The main force of the entire "Rose Cross" is scattered around the edge of the Brill Forest in a "convex arc". At this time, Sally's team is just behind the "arc top" of the arc, almost far from the left and right wings, The troops at the forefront are still more than one kilometer away.

This is the position she personally led the team to adjust last night. Sally is not afraid to face the enemy, but she still can't confirm whether these enemies are really as weak as before...

"Captain, there is news from the front line that the first team has left the forest and arrived at the scheduled assembly point."

"knew.

"

Sally nodded, still holding her breath, and did not urge the team to speed up.

"The second echelon left the forest and arrived at the assembly point. Bishop Fryer is urging us to move forward. Captain Sally..."

"I'll be there on time."

Sally looked up at the sun above her head and said, "Tell Bishop Fryer, don't rush me—"

The words stopped suddenly in the middle of speaking, and Sally looked forward vigilantly... The atmosphere of the whole team froze for a moment. Seeing this situation, the surrounding team members all clenched their weapons vigilantly.

However, there were no expected enemies around.

The subordinate who held his breath for a few seconds looked at Sally, and asked aloud, "Captain..."

"listen carefully"

Sally raised her hand to interrupt him, and the soldiers who received the reminder focused for a moment, but they all heard the vague...

"horn?"

When the team assembles, they don't blow the horn. They only use this kind of conch horn, which can be transmitted far in the forest, only when charging or retreating. When they heard it at this time, everyone thought of several possibilities——

"The decisive battle has been carried out in advance?"

Someone asked aloud, but no one answered him, because the team members in the forest had no way of knowing what happened outside.

But only a few seconds later, the sound of horseshoes suddenly came, and Sally turned her head. When she saw Roy, her subordinate, rushing back covered in blood, she immediately rushed a few steps and shouted: "Get out of the way, treatment preparation"

Exhausted, Roy jumped off the horse, and the two magic spells made him recover a little strength. When he got up, he had no time to salute and said loudly: "There are enemies on the right flank outflanking, and the number may exceed a thousand."

This sentence made everyone's hearts sink suddenly, and Sally immediately ordered: "Everyone, stop moving forward!"

Before the follow-up order could be spoken in time, Bart's figure appeared on the other side—"The left wing was attacked, and a fierce battle has already taken place. There are too many enemies to count."

"damn it"

Sally couldn't help cursing aloud. She had originally planned for the worst, but she didn't expect it to actually come true now. Even though she had made some psychological preparations in advance, the young woman still felt a little uncontrollable panic in her heart.

"Throw away all supplies and get ready to fight—"

She tried her best to suppress the panic in her heart, and was about to start giving orders one by one, but just as the voice fell, there was the sound of rubbing leaves and the sound of horseshoes in the forest behind her... Sally turned her head suddenly, but she was only hesitating Half a second later, he decisively said: "Cancele the battle preparations, all break out to the right wing quickly!"

"...we are surrounded"

The strategy of the "Rose Cross" in the Brill Forest is completely "skirmish" tactics, that is, all members act in the forest in the form of "small teams", each team ranging from 15 to 50 people, including several teams with nearly a hundred people. motorized cavalry.

Although it is announced that the number of people participating in the battle has reached 20,000, but because the supply in the forest is far more difficult to guarantee than in the plains, most of this number are engineers and farmers in charge of logistics—and no more than 3,500 people can actually go to the battlefield Hundreds of people.

Although the proportion is not high, this number is enough to instantly kill most of the private soldiers of the nobles in the kingdom, and can even "run wild". It can be used as the nominal commander-in-chief of this battle. Bishop Fryer, who has just left the forest at this time, But I was completely shocked by the sight in front of me...

The number of enemies coming from the front is more than 2,000, in a neat array, and there are two following cavalry teams on both sides, ready to charge at any time.

And what about myself?

The two batches of teams that just walked out of the forest only have 500 people in total, and the most basic queue integration has not even been completed at this time...

how so?

He held the staff tightly in his hand, and didn't know what to do at this time: Soldiers kept rushing to report the battle situation. Apart from the enemies directly in front, there were a large number of more than 500 enemy troops on both sides and rear of the entire army. , and within a few minutes, even small-scale fighting has occurred.

He originally thought that his team could easily retreat from the enemy as before, but the results reported were completely unacceptable to him: the scattered teams of the "Rose Cross" had no power to resist in the enemy's large-scale assault, and almost met each other immediately. wiped out

"Master Bishop, we must block their charge, otherwise the entire team will collapse..."

"Go ahead, block, what are you waiting for?" The adjutant's words brought Fryer back to his senses, and he shouted at all the subordinates beside him in an extremely groggy manner: "Why did the enemy suddenly appear? Why didn't anyone warn ?”

But no one answered such a question. The infantry team of the "Viper Cross" in front of them has already begun to accelerate collectively, and the flickering purple light proves that there are a lot of priests in the opponent's formation... This often means that the enemy will be more powerful than imagined. Difficult to deal with.

"Where is my unit? Why are there only so few squads?"

The accusation at this time is meaningless, Fryer's command ability is mediocre, and he is only carrying out Mograine's orders like a puppet from the beginning to the end, so he completely panicked when the sudden change happened, and completely lost the ability to respond .

However, the "Viper Cross", which had already been fully prepared, would not give him a chance to breathe at all. The first wave of the frontal team's charge crushed the first group of teams standing in front of them five minutes later.

These pagans are waiting for work, and they have been dormant for many days just for today's battle. Their morale is high and full of momentum... In contrast, the extremely exhausted "Rose Cross" team has no morale, no strength, and even the most basic The defensive formation was pushed flat without any formation, and there was no room for resistance at all.

Such a result was like a blow to the head, and the minds of the soldiers who thought they were sure of winning went blank, and what followed was panic and panic that gradually spread

Shouts of killing came from all directions, and the soldiers holding weapons looked left and right, but found that they didn't know which direction to flee. Crash--

Batch after batch of squads rushed out of the forest, bumped into teammates who were retreating in a hurry, and then collided with the enemy's advancing array without formation and defense...then they were all harvested.

The bloody battle broke out, but the gap between the two sides was very different, showing a complete massacre.

Among the countless teams of the "Rose Cross", only three teams chose the correct route, successfully broke through from the edge of the enemy's unencircled right wing, and left the edge of the Brill Forest unscathed... Among them, Sha Li's team.

But at this time, she would rather not have rushed out of the forest... because the situation on the plain battlefield is instantly clear after the field of view is widened—from a distance, these heretics who have been prepared for a long time are like adults hanging and beating children. Keeping the defense line of the "Rose Cross" retreating and shrinking...

And the three teams that managed to escape the encirclement with Sally had less than a hundred people in total at this time. Compared with the enemies with a number of more than four thousand, they only had the option of "preserving their vitality"...

"Retreat for cover"

"Throw away heavy armor and heavy weapons"

The embarrassment of throwing away the helmet and armor makes people feel extremely shameful, but complaining is useless, this is the reality: when failure is like a blow to the face, the only thing you can do is not to face the other side of the face, but to face it. It is the most reasonable way to protect yourself.

"Captain Sally, pursuers appear from the left rear"

"Report Quantity"

"About three hundred people..."

This amount made Sally completely lose even the idea of ​​turning around to meet her. She gritted her teeth and ordered, "Accelerate and continue to retreat."

This is not the first time she has chosen to "escape" to face a crisis. Once at the border of Efta, she also ran all the way because of Francis' traps and traps... But Sally understands very well that until now, the man who has led her countless The person who escaped the crisis for the first time will never appear again...

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