Rose Empire

Volume 124: Chapter 112 Chapter Great Victory

The number of Orlan knights ambushing in the city of Dorukocha was not 100,000, not 1 million, not even 10 million, but only 900.

Charlotte was initially worried that the night attack by nine hundred knights would not be able to defeat the reinforcements of the Northern Sokya front in one fell swoop, so she asked Old Jack to lead the main force to evacuate for a distance, and then she led two teams of griffin knights to leave the main force and hide in the mountains east of Dorukocha.

As long as the battle situation in the city becomes unfavorable, Charlotte will light a beacon. The Griffin Squad, which receives the signal, will only need to charge to the outskirts of Dorukocha to support the ambush troops or cover their retreat.

However, the speed at which the Bataan Army collapsed during the first night raid was beyond Charlotte's expectations.

The Bataan militiamen who fled in panic made Charlotte realize a fact - even if some soldiers had superhuman strength, the army of this era was still just an ancient army. They had all the shortcomings of an ancient army, such as a slow command system, weak organization, and almost no subjective initiative...

So, it was natural that the camp would be blown up.

Viscount Lanwan led 900 men to chase and kill more than 6,000 Bataan troops. The Bataan army was completely defeated and failed to make any decent counterattack. The battle ended before dawn.

After the battle, Ryan Nasazzi came to report that he had captured several prisoners. From the prisoners, Charlotte learned what the Carmela Army was about to achieve.

In the original battle plan, Charlotte only intended to carry out a night attack, but the poor performance of the Bataan Army and the tactics of adding fuel to the fire on the North Sokya Front made Charlotte think again, and she decided to use the same trick again.

There is an old saying that goes "Military forces should not set ambushes repeatedly", which means that troops should not set ambushes in the same place continuously. This world also has similar military common sense, but common sense is often a blind spot in thinking. The more the enemy thinks something will not happen, the greater the success rate of doing the opposite.

What gave Charlotte the courage to do the opposite was another piece of information provided by the captives - due to insufficient ships, Carmela's force this time was probably only more than two thousand people.

Charlotte did not think that the two thousand Carmela citizen soldiers could not defeat the nine hundred men under her command, but she felt that the two thousand Carmela citizen soldiers probably could not suppress the three or four thousand Bataan citizen soldiers who had become frightened birds.

Charlotte used the reverse empty city strategy to trick the coalition forces on the North Sokya front into believing that she had withdrawn, and then launched another night attack in the early morning when people were most sleepy.

As Charlotte had predicted, the demoralized Bataan Citizen Militia collapsed at the first blow, and the fleeing soldiers quickly overwhelmed the smaller Carmela Army.

This time, the west and south gates were blocked with stones, and the Bataan and Camera coalition forces had no time to clear them. After the defeat, they could only take a detour through the west and east cities to escape, which made the escape distance much longer.

The longer the escape distance, the more tragic the casualties.

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Charlotte, dressed in simple cloth, walked through the dirty mud and water on the streets of Dorukocha. Everywhere she looked, she could see corpses lying in all directions or seriously injured people on their deathbeds. The mud in the roadside ditch had been dyed red over and over again in the past few days and had almost turned black.

The Orlan knights were either leaning against the wall, or slumped on the steps, or simply lying in the rain, panting tiredly. The days of intense lurking and high-intensity combat had almost overdrawn the knights' mental and physical strength. As soon as the battle was over, many people collapsed from exhaustion.

"Your Excellency." Hermann Green came to Charlotte and saluted her respectfully.

"What are our casualties?" Charlotte asked.

"Excluding the Grey Knights, our army had a total of 16 killed, 22 seriously injured, and 314 slightly injured," Hermann Green reported.

Charlotte nodded slightly and asked, "What are our results?"

"A rough count shows that the enemy suffered approximately 3,500 casualties," said Hermann Green.

Charlotte couldn't help but smile happily. In the first night attack, the Orlan Knights only killed about 1,300 enemies, and the rest basically fled. These escaped enemies would return to Bataan sooner or later, allowing the Bataan citizen militia to gradually recover their combat effectiveness. The second ambush was the real victory.

Although many of the casualties in the second night raid were caused by the Bataan Citizen Militia and the Camera Citizen Militia fighting each other in the dark, to Charlotte, it didn't matter who was killed.

In two night attacks, nearly 5,000 enemies were killed, and the two large city-states were almost directly defeated.

Oh, and to add, Dorukocha.

Whoosh, bang…

A strong wind blew up the drizzle.

A mighty griffin landed in the city, and Jack Moore descended from the griffin's back.

"Your Excellency, our two Griffin squadrons sank a total of six enemy ships, and the rest all escaped." Old Jack reported to Charlotte with some regret.

Because the battle in the city was going too smoothly, Charlotte sent the Griffin Squadron, which came to support after receiving the beacon fire signal, to intercept the Bataan Fleet that was about to leave the port.

In terms of attack alone, the Griffin's attack power was more than enough to deal heavy damage to the Bataan warships. However, the problem was that the Griffin could not swim. If it dived into the water, it would be like giving away its life.

Therefore, the griffins' advantage in the battle at sea was not obvious, not to mention that Old Jack only had two griffins.

Charlotte shook her head indifferently and said, "Just run away. Those dozens of ships have nothing to do with the war situation."

"In this battle, we defeated three city-states at once. The northern Sokya front is almost finished," Charlotte analyzed. "You all fought brilliantly in this battle. What we need to face next is probably the vigilance of all the city-states on the entire Sokya Peninsula. The naval gap between us and these city-states cannot be made up by a few dozen ships. In the future, our main battlefield should still be on land."

The Sokya Peninsula has a developed shipbuilding industry. In recent years, the Aiye Alliance and the Delmer Alliance have fought more than one naval battle with a total scale of more than 500 ships.

This does not mean that Charlotte can fight against both sides at the same time by building 500 warships. A strong navy requires not only a sufficient number of ships, but also a commander who is familiar with naval warfare, skilled sailors, a deep naval tradition, etc. These are the shortcomings of the Oran Empire, which focuses on the army.

Therefore, in the next journey to unify the Sokya Peninsula, Charlotte still needs to rely mainly on the army and supplemented by the navy.

"But that's all for later," Charlotte laughed again. "Now the most urgent thing for me to do is to lead you all home and reward my warriors handsomely!"

"Go, retreat!" Charlotte raised her seemingly non-intimidating fist and waved it, shouting.

"Ow..."

Despite being exhausted, the Cavaliers responded with a loud cheer from Charlotte.

After a short rest, the Orlan knights, covered in dust from the journey, finally set out on their journey home.

Before walking out of this repeatedly ravaged battlefield, Hermann Green could not help but look back again. What he saw was a ruined city, a completely collapsed order, devastated buildings, and refugees who were numb, frightened, and crying in sorrow.

"What's wrong? Are you hurt?" Robin Mancini, who was passing by, asked curiously when he saw Hermann Green suddenly stop.

Robin and Herman were both old members who had followed Charlotte for almost ten years. The two were very familiar with each other. Herman shook his head and said truthfully, "No, I just think that the continuous tug-of-war in a city would cause too much harm to the people here."

"Heh..." Robin sighed and said nonchalantly, "Knight Herman, you are imagining things again. If we don't finish the battle in the enemy's city, we will have to leave the battle to the Viscount's territory. Don't you understand this?"

"What you said makes sense..." Hermann nodded slightly.

Although it made sense, Hermann's frown never relaxed.

Robin shrugged. He knew that Herman did not fully agree with his reason, but he was too lazy to talk to Herman. Herman was a meticulous person, but Robin was a dissolute knight. When Robin first served under Herman Green, he was often scolded by Herman. The two of them did not see eye to eye.

On the other side, the city-state of Bataan.

Elder Cleon of Fidelity returned to Bataan again, full of energy and enthusiasm.

A few months ago, after visiting the Viscount Lanwan, he went door to door to visit the city-states in northern Sokya, telling them about the threat posed by the Viscount Lanwan, emphasizing the importance of the Sokya city-states uniting together to resist the southward advance of the Orlans, and organizing the formation of the Northern Sokya Front.

The results of it?

At that time, these city-states said "yes, yes, yes", "OK, OK", but in actual implementation they dragged their feet and made excuses. In the end, the North Sokya front was not really formed, which made Cleon very angry.

Now, these hesitant city-states finally realized their original wisdom and took the initiative to invite me back!

Looking at the elders of the four city-states of Badan, Little Sassini, Sudaman, and Coloro who were standing at the dock to greet him early, Cleon suddenly found that it seemed to be a different kind of pleasure to make those who had disagreed with him in the past surrender voluntarily.

"Elder Cleon," As soon as Cleon got off the boat, Elder Lester of Badan came up to greet him warmly and said with a smile, "Thank you for coming all the way here. Badan has prepared a delicious banquet to welcome you."

"Let's talk about the banquet later," Cleon waved his hand with a stern face and said seriously, "I'm not here for vacation or dinner this time. I'm here to destroy the Oran people. First, tell me about the situation and the troops you have prepared."

The current situation has changed a lot from when they voted to invite Cleon to be the commander of the Northern Sokya Front. Lester and other elders originally planned to wait until the banquet to talk about it while eating, but this elder Cleon seemed to be quite impatient, so Lester had to give Cleon a brief explanation at the dock.

"The Orans attacked Dorucocha."

Lester startled Cleon as soon as he opened his mouth.

"What? The war has already begun?" Cleon said in surprise.

"Yes," Lester nodded, "In order to save Dorucocha from the Oran people, Bataan and Camera have sent citizen soldiers to the Dorucocha battlefield."

"Viscount Lanwan is indeed despicable and shameless!"

Thinking of Charlotte, Cleon couldn't help but feel angry.

Creon was born in a humble family, so he was always very sensitive and hated being looked down upon. In order to be respected by others, Creon started to climb up by any means at a young age. In order to reach the highest level of power in Phoenix, he was even willing to send his father-in-law, who had always treated him like a son, to death.

Originally, Cleon thought that after he became the elder of Fidelity, no one would look down on him anymore. However, his contact with Charlotte broke Cleon's idea.

Although Charlotte always maintained the proper etiquette of aristocrats in front of Creon, Creon could keenly feel that the noble lady did not take him seriously at all.

In the end, the experience of being scared by the griffin to the point of peeing her pants was regarded by Cleon as a humiliation of Charlotte to herself.

Therefore, after returning from Viscount Lanwan's territory, Cleon immediately decided on the strategy of building the North Sokya front. He had to teach that little bitch a lesson.

"How many citizen soldiers did you send out?" Cleon asked again.

"Bataan sent 6,000 people, and Carmela sent more than 2,000 people, a total of about 8,000 citizen militiamen." Lester replied.

Hearing this number, Cleon finally smiled: "Very good! Under my command, 8,000 citizen soldiers are enough to drive Viscount Lanwan out of the Sokya Peninsula!"

At this moment, a speedboat flying the flag of the Bataan city-state rushed into the port. When it hurriedly docked at the pier, it collided with Cleon's ship with a loud "bang".

Creon couldn't help but frown.

Lester was about to scold him, but he saw Giovanni Draghi, covered in blood, stumbling down the clipper.

"General Giovanni?" Lester's heart skipped a beat and he shouted quickly, "How did you become like this?"

When Cleon saw the miserable appearance of Giovanni and several Bataan militiamen who got off the boat with Giovanni, he had a bad feeling in his heart.

Sure enough, upon seeing Lestat, Giovanni, the famous general of Bataan, burst into tears and hugged Lestat with tears streaming down his face: "We lost, we lost, we lost, elder, elder, the Oran people are too terrible..."

"Who lost? How did they lose? Tell us what happened clearly!" Cleon pulled Giovanni over and asked sternly.

Giovanni sobbed as he recounted the battle situation: "We were all defeated. Our Bataan Citizens were defeated, the Carmela Citizens were defeated, Elder Alvaro disappeared, and the Oran people lured us into a trap and attacked us, twice in a row, twice..."

"So how many of your citizen militiamen are left?" Cleon asked again.

Giovanni looked back blankly at the few remnants of the soldiers who had disembarked with him, and then replied, "Including me, there are still... eight."

Eight thousand became eight!

Creon just wanted to vomit blood at this moment.

PS: Thank you for your monthly tickets, Blade recommendation tickets, and ostmeier and Sakura-colored Summer's rewards! Yesterday, there were really a lot of people voting and rewarding. I am really grateful. I will try to update more in the next two days as a reward!

PS2: Thank you to Miyanaga's son-in-law, Yukinoshita Saki for your corrections. The previous errors have been corrected.

Volume 125: Chapter 113 Chapter Another Battlefield

The city-state of Lesser Sassini, the Senate.

"Elder Awa has led the citizen soldiers to attack the city for several days, but there has been no progress. Dorukocha has fallen. We must stop this meaningless sacrifice..."

Elder Gareth of Little Sassini spoke eloquently in the elders' council.

Most of the elders in the audience stroked their beards and listened attentively, nodding slightly from time to time.

After Garris finished his speech, the Elders Council initiated a vote on whether to order Awa to retreat.

Although Matt tried his best to stop it, the Elders' Council still passed the order requiring Awa to withdraw his troops with an absolute majority.

Matt sighed helplessly. After the news of the fall of Dorukocha came, the Council of Elders had proposed three times in a row to order Awa to withdraw his troops. The failure of the first two proposals was the result of the elders' concerns about Awa's outstanding reputation.

Matt knew that the fall of Dorucocha was just an excuse. The real reason why the Council of Elders wanted to order Awa to withdraw his troops was that Awa's unauthorized requisition of Ambrato prisoners and unauthorized dispatch of troops had touched the sensitive nerves of the elders.

The elders wanted the Northern Sokya Front to expel Viscount Lanwan from the Sokya Peninsula, but they also didn't want Little Sasini to have another powerful figure with extremely high reputation and who was not controlled by the Council of Elders.

In order to protect Apo and avoid direct conflict between Apo and other elders, Matt took the initiative to take on the task of delivering messages to the front line.

Although Garris' speech in the Elders' Council was suspected of being inflammatory, most of it was true. For example, Awa had indeed launched many attacks on Ambratu, but each time he failed.

On this day, the army led by Awa once again attacked the city wall of Ambratu, but the result was still no surprise.

"You just let these bugs get away like that?"

A dark-skinned man on the city wall with a scar at the corner of his mouth that almost reached his ear asked again.

"I told you, hold on tight!"

Pacino-Mellerfeld responded coldly.

The fierce-looking man next to Pacino is called Xiao, the leader of the wolf warriors left by Charlotte. Since Apo first came to attack the city, Xiao has been clamoring to go out of the city to teach the little Sasini a lesson.

To be honest, Pacino also became impatient with the small Sassenian citizen militia that kept harassing the city. The enemy's combat effectiveness was pitifully weak, but they were persistent in attacking the city. Every time, their greatest achievement was to leave a few corpses under the city. They were just like a group of annoying flies and mosquitoes.

But Charlotte had left an order to hold on and not venture out, so Pacino rejected Owl's idea of ​​taking the initiative again and again.

Suddenly, there was a commotion on the city wall, and the defenders pointed and talked towards the city.

Pacino also looked towards the city in confusion, only to see the Little Sassini citizen soldiers who had just been repelled from the siege were urinating towards the city wall.

Pacino's face suddenly darkened.

"Aren't you going to go out and teach them a lesson?" Xiao asked again.

"Just defend and don't move out! Don't you understand?" Pacino scolded again.

Xiao grinned frighteningly, then walked down the city wall.

Out of disgust for Owl and his wolf warriors, Pacino didn't even bother to look at the departing Owl.

After walking down the tower, Xiao waved to a young wolf warrior and said, "Gather the warriors. Let's go out of the city and teach those bugs a lesson."