When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 923: Forward, Forward! Raise our flag! (XI)

After a few injections of energy from Lavr and Jinigis, several large infantry phalanxes finally stabilized their position and stopped retreating.

As for the Holy Alliance's army, they did not fight back but also retreated slowly.

After all, every step forward they take means the clockwork warehouse has to be transported a little further.

Although the situation is clearly advantageous now, the battlefield is changing rapidly.

Perhaps because of this small problem, the victory of the entire war would be ruined.

The captains of the battle groups quickly made judgments and asked the corps commanders to take advantage of the enemy's confusion and withdraw their troops in turns.

This is different from the alternating withdrawal of the Guards. Their alternating withdrawal does not lure the enemy into a real withdrawal.

Like the Guards' counterattack in the Battle of Ladenburg to lure the enemy, never mind the two new regiments, even the Black Champions had difficulty using them.

Although the soldiers are very anxious, don't be hasty.

Because the one who is anxious is King Jiji. The Holy League is fighting at home, and the troops, resources and food can be replenished at any time. So what if they fight for another ten days or so?

As for King Gigi, Horn said that every village on their main march route was moved away.

There were broken hairs thrown into the well, dead pigs, ducks and feces thrown into the pond, and guards were ambushed at the sluice gate, ready to release water to attack the camp at any time.

The route along the river was fine, but the inland route was really confusing.

It would be considered fast if the reinforcements from Xia Lucheng could arrive within ten days.

You can make the holy league slowly. If the bread is too big, just eat it bite by bite. You will eventually finish it.

The slowly retreating Holy Alliance army suddenly heard a thunder-like sound behind them.

There was a sound like hail hitting a copper kettle, and the veterans quickly realized that it was the hinges that were moving the plate armor along with the body.

The iron hooves of the war horses scraped the hard ground, and the horses' bodies repeatedly crossed back and forth. The oncoming wind pulled countless swallowtail flags into a straight line.

Thousands of noble knights actually launched a charge towards the retreating Chongxin Regiment!

Thousands of knights did not form cone-shaped charge formations as before, but instead formed a strange loose horizontal formation.

In the air twisted by the heat, their tall bodies twisted like ripples, reflecting the dazzling light.

The dust was raised and rolled like a long corridor, even forming a smoke screen, which could be regarded as a sandstorm.

"It's those noble knights, stand still and prepare for defense."

The officers shouted and the orders were passed down level by level.

The wheels rolled, the muzzles turned, the orderlies gritted their teeth, and the horses neighed as they dragged the gun carriage to the front line.

Clockwork cannons were once again pushed out from the infantry phalanx, pointing at the charging noble knights.

The legion commanders had long anticipated that these knights would launch a surprise attack, so they did not use up all the spring magazines.

The artillerymen pressed the last spring chamber onto the tail of the gun and drew the character "屮" on their foreheads, asking for the blessing of the Holy Spirit in the gun.

They turned the handle and a dwarven-forged steel screw lifted the gun.

The steel gear stuck to the firing rod and the pin was tied with a hemp rope. There was no time to use the astrolabe for divination, so the gunners gave orders immediately.

"emission!"

The three gunners pulled the tether at the same time.

"Om-"

There was a crescendo of buzzing in the mainspring chamber, and it sounded exactly like the prelude of a church organ.

Peach-pit-sized pieces of lead and iron sand spurted out, tearing the air apart and covering the noble knights who were rushing forward desperately.

First there was the remnant sound of glass shattering, and then the armor exploded one by one.

The dense popping sounds were like a rainstorm piercing through parchment, interspersed with the crisp sound of armor deforming.

At least twenty knights fell off their horses immediately, and more of them cried out in pain, covering their arms, chests or thighs.

Looking at the knights rolling on the ground, the commander of the Holy Alliance couldn't help but reveal a smile of contempt and anger.

This group of knights charging in a horizontal row seemed to have taken the wrong medicine and were still using the roundhouse tactic to scare the infantry and make them flee.

What do you regard the Holy Alliance’s army as?

This group of charging noble knights faced the Chongxin Regiment head-on from the very beginning, and the horizontal formation turned into a vertical formation.

In chaos and roar, it swept past the straight line of the Holy Alliance battle formation and took almost all the damage from the Falcon Cannon.

They hadn't even circled back to the Black Champion's position before they were already running away crying.

In the Holy League, the recruits cheered once again.

Only the veterans frowned. This was too weird.
As the commander of the Worshipful Regiment, Das was also restless and kept looking through the telescope. You know, the behavior of the noble knights was very abnormal.

The knight knew he would be bombarded but still acted in this way. He was arrogant but not a fool.

Moreover, after the bombardment, the casualties were actually around a hundred people, so they should have been retreating rather than rout.

No matter how much you look down on the noble knights, they still have basic military qualities.

Looking at their movements, they were actually heading towards leaving the battlefield, and King Gigi actually allowed it?
Why were these knights able to escape in front of King Gigi in public?
Licking his cracked and bleeding lips, Das stared at the dust in front of him and said, "Give me a spell to enhance my hearing."

"Now?"

"Right now!"

The black-robed monk adjutant said nothing and bestowed a blessing on Das.

Endless and chaotic sounds flooded into the ears and head, accompanied by piercing tinnitus.

With his eyes closed, Das frowned and pursed his lips tightly, trying hard to suppress the urge to vomit.

Amid the endless noise of battle cries, shouts, soldiers clashing, and cannon fire, he suddenly heard a regular sound.

"Da da da, da da da -"

These were not the hoofbeats of those fleeing, for it would be impossible for them to be so uniform.

I opened my eyes and cold sweat ran down the corners of my eyes and nose.

"All troops, stay where you are and rule over Victor and Jeshka!"

Das suddenly ordered.

The adjutant was puzzled: "Didn't you say we should retreat?"

"Go quickly!" Das shouted with red eyes.

Three or five military police quickly left the regiment and ran towards the other two regiments and Horn.

The flying dust was like a curtain on the stage. Behind the translucent khaki veil, he saw a light red shadow surging.

Row after row, stirring up the smoke and dust, the figures became clearer and clearer.

"Whoosh-"

A long arrow with a red tip shot through the smoke and dust, cutting a small hole, drawing an arc and landing in front of the Chongxin army.

"Praise the Holy Wind!"

The moment he saw the long arrow, the corps commander in the front row gave the order without hesitation.

The lead instantly tore through the smoke screen, forcing the stage to open, revealing the terrifying creature behind the smoke screen.

The scarlet robe glowed an eerie red in the sunlight, and the already somewhat rotten finger bones were tightly clasped around the lance and sword.

The stench of decay arrived before the smell of mud, the ground shook the soles of the feet, and the faces of many recruits gradually turned pale.

They knew what it was.

The military bugle sounded urgently, and the Blood Knight, who had been numb and expressionless, suddenly became ferocious.

They grinned so wide that even their back teeth were visible on the sides of their cheeks.

The Leia people also stopped pretending and took off the bandages on them, still trying to intimidate them in this way.

"Damn it..." The veins in Das's neck began to beat.

As expected, the role of these noble knights is to deceive the artillery and cover the attack of the Blood Knights.

They didn't know when the north wind started to weaken, and they didn't realize it until now.

The raised dust could completely cover the figure of the Blood Knight. When the Blood Knight appeared, he was only a hundred steps away from them!

It's only a hundred or so steps, which is just a dozen seconds for the Blood Knight.

The clockwork cannon had just finished firing. Not to mention whether there was a new clockwork chamber, even if there was, it would probably be too late to reload it.

Rubbing his dry eyes, Das took deep breaths, feeling both nervous and relieved.

"Finally here, Blood Knight."

“Aaaaaaa——”

“Ahhhhhhh!”

Letting out an inaudible war cry, the Blood Knight, who had been silent before, suddenly accelerated and charged towards the Chongxin Regiment in front of him.

"Put your spears down!" the corps commanders screamed at the top of their lungs.

(End of this chapter)