Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 323 The New Grave Buries Old Clothes

"Hammer of Purgatory" retreated.

The large-scale orc division headed south along the shadow of the west mountain of the Red River Valley, bypassing the bombed area with many scorched scars and countless bones, and retreated eastward through the southeast exit of the Red River Valley.

When entering the Red River Valley, the same huge scale, the same shoulder-to-shoulder crowd, the end is majestic and mighty;
But now that they exited the Red River Valley by the same route, the soldiers of the "Hammer of Purgatory" could only hang their heads in despondency. Even the shaman's non-stop singing of the soul battle song, lingering over the team, seemed extremely desolate.

Witnessing the gloomy expressions of his subordinates, General Gullit Gale on horseback wanted to say something to his adjutant several times, but in the end he was speechless.

It may be the first time in the glorious history of "Hammer of Purgatory" that he has stopped fighting and retreated in shame before directly confronting the enemy;
But General Gullit Gale, who was the general of the first army, had to withdraw.

In fact, the ideas of those radical orc officers are not unreasonable:

Even if it is suddenly attacked and suffers heavy losses, the "Hammer of Purgatory" is a glorious iron army that is famous all over the Federation. If it really goes all out and counterattacks, the remaining orc soldiers must be enough to wipe out the mysterious soldiers on the other side of the mountain. The human army was wiped out;
However, when the scouts mysteriously disappeared, the entire army of wolf cavalry was wiped out, and there was no enemy intelligence at hand, rashly crossing the mountains to launch an all-army assault, such an overly radical decision was beyond the psychological tolerance of General Gale:

Leading troops in battle, the most taboo is not knowing the enemy - just rushing over the mountain with black eyes, God knows how much damage the orc soldiers of "Purgatory Hammer" will suffer!

What's more, General Gullit Gale received the order to sneak attack on the human empire from the south - if there is no need to lose troops in this insignificant wasteland of the broken soul, that is a serious strategy of picking sesame seeds and losing watermelons mistake!
Therefore, although General Gale, like any orc with blood running through his veins, was full of shame and unwillingness, as the general of the first army, he still chose to take the overall situation into consideration——

——Only by escaping from the cemetery of the Red River Valley as soon as possible, can the "Hammer of Purgatory" have a chance to make a comeback and take revenge!

But even so, General Gale, who was sitting on horseback, looked at the slowly creeping division team, feeling confused:
"Hammer of Purgatory" encountered an enemy air attack without warning when he was camping in a remote corner of the Land of Souls, a valley that should have been deserted.

Does this mean that the raid plan that the Glorious Federation thinks it can do has actually been exposed to the sight of the human empire?
Even if the "Hammer of Purgatory" can swallow this sinister and mysterious human army in one gulp, what about after that?
In the case of the bankruptcy of the sneak attack plan in the southern border, how confident is it to cross the Lion Heart River with the remaining manpower?
What kind of defense will the human empire deploy on the north bank of the Lionheart River after hearing the news?
——For questions like these, even General Gullit Gale himself couldn't think of an answer.

At this moment, the head of the old orc division felt like a piece of snow on the wilderness, he could only take one step at a time, letting the cold wind of fate send him to the end of the journey.

And on the way to lead the army to retreat to the east, bad news even came to him one after another like carrion crows.

First of all, regarding the casualties of the "Hammer of Purgatory", the staff of the division finally came to a general conclusion:
The East Camp and South Camp, which were the hardest-hit areas in the air strikes, were almost devastated. In the process of the whole army retreating westward to a safe zone, many division members unfortunately died under artillery fire;

According to incomplete statistics, the number of orc soldiers killed in magic and bombing air strikes alone is close to six or seven hundred. If you add the injured orc soldiers who lost their combat capabilities, in just a few hours, " The Hammer of Purgatory's losses have reached nearly 500 people;

——For a division with a total of less than [-], it is considered light to say that a leg has been broken since then.

And air strikes alone are nothing.

The thousand wolf riders who tried to raid the enemy's shooting line via the northern Taniguchi, but were wiped out in the end, were the real injury to "Hammer of Purgatory"!

Losing the wolf cavalry means that the "Hammer of Purgatory" has lost the strongest sharp knife and elite attack, and has since lost its mobility advantage in tactical deployment!
In fact, until now, the officers of the Hammer of Purgatory have not figured out how the mysterious human beings on the other side of the valley managed to wipe out a thousand wolf riders in one go.

It may not be too difficult to repel the wolf cavalry, but it is necessary to swallow the most powerful thousand cavalry in the Glorious Federation...

The bewildered orc officers could only roughly guess at best that the opponent must have used quite powerful magic power.

But what kind of magic can be so "powerful", they are also full of question marks.

——All in all, with the air raid and wolf cavalry, the casualties of the "Hammer of Purgatory" division at this time were as many as 500 people, and the casualty rate reached a terrifying 25%!

That is to say, the shaman stabilized the morale of the army, and the quality of this group of orc soldiers was excellent, so that the "Hammer of Purgatory" could still maintain its formation in an orderly manner during the retreat——

You must know that the European armies in the middle ages of the earth can often withstand a single-digit casualty rate at the highest, and it will collapse if it is higher. Even if you dare, you can't sustain 20% of the casualties!

However, the only thing that "Hammer of Purgatory" can rely on is the quality of its soldiers.

Because soon some officers reported to General Gullit Gale, who was on the way to retreat, that the supplies of the division should not be recovered at all:

After encountering air raids, in order to preserve their vitality, the soldiers of the "Hammer of Purgatory" directly abandoned their garrison and gathered at the foot of the West Mountain;
This also led to the vast majority of the luggage carried by the "Hammer of Purgatory" being abandoned in the fiery bombing zone.

Soldiers alone cannot fight without supplies. Therefore, after ordering the entire army to retreat, General Gullit Gale specially arranged a death squad to find a way to return to the bombing area when the enemy's offensive weakened. How many people could be rescued? How much is the material;

But this plan also failed.

Because in the process of the "Hammer of Purgatory" division withdrawing from the Red River Valley, the humans in the west kept dropping bombs and bombing, and their ammunition reserves were as unfathomable as if they killed an incendiary bomb dealer!
The material recovery team composed of a group of the bravest orcs almost set foot on the scorched bombing area, and was almost bathed by a round of incendiary airstrikes that looked like eyes, and finally died under the cover of the shaman. defeated.

This also means that, compared to the distant plan of "how to cross the Lionheart River", General Gullit Gale seems to be more concerned about the practical problem of "how to prevent the division from starving to death on the wasteland" .

As for the bad things like the destruction of all the siege weapons, it doesn't even seem worth mentioning at this moment.

"Division commander..." the orc officer finally reported to General Gale on horseback, "...we have already asked, no one in the army has seen your... er...Sergeant Marco Gale, His commander, Captain Kaedwin, also went missing in the bombing—as you know, their camp is to the east, where they were first attacked by the enemy's air..."

General Gullit Gale sat on his horse, staring blankly at the divisions moving like long snakes, and the dust mountain covered in silver in the far east.

He suddenly felt that the wind in the wasteland was so cold.

He really needs a wolfskin cloak.

……

The military observers sent by the Southern Army were sent back to Shuangfengling by Xia Houyan.

The Lord Lord's official statement is "the follow-up military action is too dangerous, please return to the Phoenix Terrace and wait for the battle report."

However, the observers of the Southern Army who were stationed in the Igor Pioneering Army immediately issued a solemn protest against this arrangement, and strongly demanded to continue to stay on the front line to observe the battle:

This group of staff officers of the southern army was no longer a cowardly tortoise frightened by the invasion of the orc wolf cavalry. Put on one thigh, and stay on the front line to witness the whole process of this battle;
What's more, the incendiary bombs in Frost Maple Ridge also left a deep impression on them. During the short period of air raids, Knight Commander Cousins ​​and the representatives of the Southern Army had finalized a purchase contract for [-] incendiary bombs, which can be called efficiency amazing.

However, in the land of the cracked soul, obviously, no protest against the Duke of Frost Maple Ridge will take effect;
This group of grass-like friendly observers was almost taken back to Shuangfengling by pioneer soldiers.

The reason why the lord did this is also very simple:
I'm going to play necromancer magic for a while, how can I use it in front of you guys?

"Boss! I, ah, have completed the task with honor!" Eldridge happily returned to the team as soon as he saw off the Confederate observers.

"How's the result?" Xia Houyan raised his head impatiently, and looked at Ai Shuai who was sent to carry out the sneak attack mission.

"You are simply, ah, a fucking beast!" Eldridge's words of admiration made a certain unscrupulous lord feel a little uncomfortable, "As soon as your 'You You Dirty Book' is out, ah, those idiots They were all blown up!"

Xia Houyan rolled his eyes and stretched out his hand:

"You did a good job. It was right to send you there. Now return the Youyou Pornographic Book to me."

For some reason, Eldridge's eyes suddenly became very erratic.

After a full five seconds, the commander of the Eastern Realm took out a few Youyou pornographic books from the package coyly, and handed them back to the lord.

"Fuck!" As soon as he received the book, Xiahou officials realized something was wrong, "Why are there so many books missing? Where are the books?"

"That... Lord Lord..." Eldridge scratched his head and said, "When those orc shamans fought back, ah, they accidentally killed a few of your elf ghosts... Hey, Sneak attack, ah, there will be, ah, losses, you have to give some..."

"I'll give you a dick!" Under the rage, the lord's tone was a little assimilated, "Do you know how much magic power it takes to make a Youyou pornographic book, and it takes Bob Brook to fold it for several years? Shou, how many nights did you make Master Laurie lonely?! Look at your mother, how many copies are left here now?! Prodigal bastard, you are playing tricks, right?!"

In the end, the lord did not continue to pursue Eldridge's military responsibility for wasting supplies.

Because there were two groups of people, they rushed to the shooting front one after another.

First of all, the main group of the Pioneering Army finally caught up with this vanguard—the arrival of more than 1000 mighty people immediately shot down the previously deserted and only four "Cromwell Annihilators" one after another. The front line became crowded and lively;
Secondly, the warriors who went to stop the orc wolf cavalry returned from the northern mountain pass with honor.

At the forefront of the team were Juan Clemente, Alice Comstock, and the two chiefs of the Frost Maple Ridge Staff Department;
The mages of the "Northern Blizzard Mage Group" and the other Frost Maple Ridge infantry followed all the way and appeared in everyone's sight at the same time.

Just by taking a quick look, anyone can immediately realize how brutal the fierce battle in the north was:

Not only the team of pioneers who went to the north to face the orcs has shrunk by half, even the remaining heroes are almost all injured.

At first glance, it seems that only Alice Comstock, who is skilled in martial arts, was not seriously injured, and Juan Clemente, the leader of the team, had eye-catching scars on his dark armor. crack.

Even Sean Mountbatten and Alan Hotelling, the two commanders who were supposed to be in the rear, were wrapped in bandages. Judging from the blood-stained command knives at their waists, these two were obviously resolute. Into the bloody close combat.

Seeing this heroic army approaching step by step on the snowfield, Xia Houyan was the first to put down his feather fan and headgear, and stood upright in the snow, saluting this group of respectable soldiers. military salute.

Under the order of the political commissars, all the pioneer soldiers below the lord stood at attention and raised their hands in salute.

So, in an instant, smiles bloomed on the faces of the returning warriors covered in blood mist and mud.

As they approached step by step, the main force of the pioneering army gradually saw what they were pulling behind with a rope:
It was a simple stretcher gliding on the snow, on which lay the wounded soldiers of the Pioneer Army, as well as the remains of those who died in the battle;

And after that, the slow-moving "Roar Seven" ballista instantly stunned everyone in Shuangfengling:

Because every ballista was piled with corpses of tundra frost wolves and strong orcs, and countless dead orcs and dead frost wolves were piled high on the roof of the car to form a hill!

Yes, this group of soldiers even brought back trophies, bringing back countless mighty "Hammer of Purgatory" wolf cavalrymen who came and went like the wind, but eventually died in the wasteland of the Soul Breaker!

Sean Mountbatten clutched the bandage around his waist, approached the lord with a smile on his face, blinked slyly, and said in a low voice:

"How about it, my lord, we brought these back to you first, and there are still a lot left in the north... How much is your necromancer quota for this month?"

"Not much more." Xia Houyan patted his chief of staff on the shoulder in relief, put his arms around the young man and gave a thumbs up, "But Xiao En, don't worry, the number of high-level magic is limited, but the lord's low-level necromancer magic Not a vegetarian either! Macy has sent a message from the east, the orc division is retreating to the southeast... How should I say, my dear Mr. Chief of Staff?"

"Boss, fuck it!" The smile on Sean Mountbatten's face was very sunny and kind, "How can you let go of the goddamn thing that can cause casualties to us in Frost Maple Ridge so easily!"

(End of this chapter)