"The rear guard begins an orderly retreat! Anyone who disobeys orders will be killed!" Drawing his sword, Su Younian turned to look at the adjutant beside him and said, "Take my sword! Anyone who dares to take a step away will be considered a traitor and will be executed on the spot!"
In the morning light, Su Younian's warhorse was still whistling in the wind, accompanied by the clanging of weapons in the hands of the rebels. The two-wheeled carts used to transport food were guaranteed to be evacuated first.
"Frontliners, get ready! Follow me in launching a counter-charge, for..." Su Younian was still talking, but suddenly stopped.
He saw a scene that he would never forget in his life.
The endless stream of people rolled towards the east like a long dragon.
Unlike the peasant uprising army, at least they were dressed in military uniforms.
These people are real civilians, and behind them is a small demon cavalry.
**What he rode was not a warhorse like those in the human world, but a beast like a hungry wolf.
They were not in a hurry to crush this group of people, but instead let the giant wolves keep attacking and biting the crowd as if teasing them.
But the next second, a firework exploded in the air.
"Charge!" Although the disorganized army under Su Younian did not have a complete configuration, it also had cavalry, about three thousand people.
Seeing this scene, Su Younian ordered a charge without hesitation.
The advantage of the game appeared. When he charged forward, the civilians were separated by roads in a very orderly manner, and there was no tragic situation of people squeezing each other.
The demon cavalry of about one hundred people were completely unable to resist the charge of Su Younian and his three thousand men.
After a few moments, they had entered a state of division and encirclement, but Su Younian also felt the strength of the demon cavalry.
Their fierce war wolves seemed to be born with the terrifying power to intimidate war horses.
His own warhorse had no intention of charging in front of them.
Looking at the wound on his arm, Su Younian turned his head and looked at the terrible casualty ratio behind him, which was almost one to one, and suddenly a chill appeared in his heart.
He no longer had the 800,000 troops he had back then. Could he really still shake the terrifying existence of the demons?
This battle also gave confidence to hundreds of thousands of refugees. They continued to move silently behind the army led by Su Younian.
"Pass the order! No one is allowed to retreat!" Su Younian turned his head to look at the fleeing crowd, and smiled bitterly in his heart: "Let the retreating soldiers come over, we will go forward!"
"Go forward?" Lin Ming's adjutant, Qin Shuang, asked in confusion, "That's where the demons are coming from up ahead."
"If we don't move forward and stop the demons, they will all die!" Su Younian pointed at the person behind him and said to the person next to him, "Take my order and pass it to Marligt. Let's change the agreed meeting place. Tell her that if she can't bring the Central Army to support me, I will fight to the death in Mingsi City!"
Chapter 58: The game of turning the tide has begun.
"Yes!" The messenger saluted and ran away.
Su Younian knew that this matter would eventually reach Marligt's ears, because this was the setting.
It’s just a matter of time.
And as for the length of time?
Su Younian smiled, he didn't take this matter to heart.
Although he is a bit saintly, he is not ready to give up on the people in the game.
In other words, there is a high possibility that he will be stuck in Mingsi City.
The rebel army marched through the densely populated road, through the chaotic convoys, and between the defeated soldiers and civilians.
Perhaps the battle just now gave the whole army a fighting spirit. Su Younian controlled the formation into a battle formation. The whole army was in good order and looked radiant.
And the fleeing crowd was heading in exactly the opposite direction.
It's like rowing against the current, constantly breaking through the waves, but these waves are indeed reassuring waves.
Wherever he went, the residents who had previously looked despair and numb became full of energy.
Some people kept cheering for Su Younian and others: "Well done!"
From time to time, refugees were ready to join the army, but they were all rejected by Su Younian.
The reason is very simple.
The rations they carried were no longer enough.
However, when Su Younian tried to obtain information from the NPC's scattered defeated soldiers, he got completely different information.
"Well, my troops were defeated at Jiashangling."
"We were defeated in the provincial area. Our hatamoto died."
"Commander of the troops? We don't know. We heard he's dead, or captured. Anyway, we haven't seen him."
"The commander up front? I heard he's dead too? We don't know! Our troops were surrounded by demons, and out of thousands of people, only a few of us escaped. We don't have time to meddle in other people's business."
As for how many troops the demons have, there are even more different opinions.
Some people said that there were many of them, and they saw with their own eyes a group of demons that stretched for dozens of kilometers beside the Luo River;
Some people scoffed, saying that there were only a few teams at most and that the deserters were frightened and were just making up stories.
All kinds of rumors were circulating, some saying that all the troops on the front line had been wiped out.
Some people say that a major counterattack has begun, and an attack has begun along the Luohe line. The demons have retreated in panic.
But the points mentioned by these people all seem to revolve around one place.
Su Younian compared the maps in his head and was basically certain of one thing.
The Luohe area must be a meat grinder battlefield, with the armies of the demons and humans constantly infiltrating with the tactics of adding fuel to the fire.
And his own rebel army may also be part of the tactic of adding fuel to the fire.
Marigold's Central Army is a mobile force.
There are heavily armored cavalry over there!
Su Younian was still full of confidence in the heavy armored cavalry he had trained personally.
As long as it is deployed in the right place, there are very few things that can be dealt with head-on!
And to the north of Luohe is the terrifying building that he needs to conquer!
It is also the city wall of the demon clan.
Two days later, Su Younian's army arrived at Mingsi City.
The nearest point to Luohe is only about 30 kilometers away, and a large number of deserters who retreated from the front line have already poured in early.
There is a bustling crowd of people and cars day and night.
All the military structures had been broken down, and the square was full of people.
Su Younian's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
This is about the distance from the front line.
It was clearly a place to gather the remaining soldiers, but there was no one there to command the defense of the city.
This means that even if the local command system has not collapsed, it has been disconnected.
However, there must be a reason why the soldiers gathered here.
Although the rebel army led by Su Younian was also a ragtag force, after two days of high-quality marching, the difference between the game and reality had emerged.
In front of Lin Ming, something called unity and morale had begun to emerge within his own army.
Every soldier's fighting spirit is very high.
Their entry into the city also caused a sensation among everyone.
Irene, the commander of Mingsi City and a female knight, came over to meet them immediately after hearing that a new troop had arrived.
"What's the situation?" Su Younian asked the neatly dressed canned knight in front of him immediately after getting off his horse: "I need detailed information!"
"You are... Lord Su Younian!" Yilin seemed to recognize Su Younian. She took off her helmet and said with a tired expression, "The situation is really bad. The commander of the Luohe Western War Zone is at the district government. Would you like to see him first?"
"Okay!" Su Younian quickly dismounted his horse and said to his adjutant, "Evacuate the residents."
After saying this, he headed towards the district government.
He walked through the crowds and wounded soldiers in the square and entered the city hall. In a room inside, he met the commander-in-chief of the Far East Theater.
He understood it at first sight.
The situation has completely collapsed!
In front of him, the commander-in-chief huddled up in a ball, his shoulders trembling. He huddled in a corner with his face buried in his hands, sobbing silently.
His clothes were filthy and smelled terrible.
It seemed that he heard Su Younian coming.
He slowly raised his head, his face was terribly pale, his face was covered with snot and saliva, and his eyes were empty and full of fear.
Looking at Su Younian, if the plot were normal, all NPCs should know him.
But the person in front of him looked at Su Younian as if he were a stranger, and said nothing.
Su Younian became even more worried, but he still asked, "What is the current situation?"
"Do you know where the Central Army led by Marigold is?"
"How many demonic troops are there in front?"
He stared blankly at Su Younian, but remained silent. Finally, the deputy commander beside the man answered, "Sir Su Younian, three days ago, the headquarters suffered a sudden attack by the demons. We narrowly escaped death."
Su Younian turned to him and asked, "Is the Western Camp still there? Are all the troops still there?"
"The Western Camp has been captured by the demons! All four divisions have been chopped to pieces. We have lost contact with all our troops, and the dozen or so armies we know of have been defeated."
"What happened to his troops?"
"All the militia units have collapsed, and those that survived have all fled. We questioned a deserter yesterday and it was confirmed."
Listening to these simple news, Su Younian felt his head numb.
He had already sensed that the situation on the Luohe front was not good, but he did not expect to suffer such a miserable defeat.
Damn it, why did that Marigold girl give herself this hellish game?
Su Younian immediately started complaining in his heart.
But he thought of Su Qiuyuan, Su Xixi and An Ruoyun who were supporting him from behind.
He still endured it when facing An Mu and An Xi, who asked him to name them personally.
He began to take the battle report handed to him by the deputy commander and began to read it.
The more he looked, the uglier Su Younian's expression became.
Is the situation so bad?
There are four war zones in the east, west and central regions.
A melee is taking place on four fronts, with the goal of resisting the invasion of demons.
The entire army was completely wiped out, and these were the defeated troops in the middle route.
They were defeated all the way and a commander was killed in battle. This is the Eastern War Zone, and field battles are currently underway.
In a field battle with the demons, whose individual combat capabilities are very strong, the time it takes to be destroyed can definitely be described in days.
The other one was scared into an idiot, the one in the Western war zone in front of us.
There is only the southern war zone, because the area south of Luohe is all swamps, and perhaps the demons are not very willing to invade. After all, there are no important resources there, only woods and the like.
Su Younian gradually began to calm down, and then asked: "Where have the demons reached, and what is their total military strength?"
The officer slowly replied, "We don't know the total number of troops yet, but we know for sure it's no less than 300,000."
Su Younian took a deep breath: This is already three times the current number of troops he leads.
The Central Army that came to support Marigot was estimated to be only about 300,000!
And the unilateral army in a war zone only has 200,000 troops.
An army of nearly 800,000 soldiers could not withstand the 300,000 or so demons.
How can I resist it myself?
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