Chapter 392 Decisive Battle
“Kill!”
In the Fougere Wilderness south of the Aldo Kingdom, two armies were fighting fiercely, with loud shouts.
The kingdom's army led by Princess Catherine and the rebels led by Grand Duke Giles launched a final decisive battle.
On a high slope, Catherine, the supreme commander of the kingdom's army on the front line, was riding on a white horse in full armor. She bit her lower lip and watched the situation on the battlefield.
By her side, Aofina, Leicester, Walker and other senior generals of the kingdom's army were accompanying her, but two senior generals - Duke Dodge and Sir Klein, were not included. As commander of the left and right wings, there was no presence with Catherine.
From the fierce fighting in the early morning until now, the armies of both sides have suffered casualties and seem to be evenly matched.
Duke Walker next to him glanced at the princess and hesitated to speak.
The troops he brought from his own territory are now going up to fight in rotation, and it is already the second round of fighting. The casualties are huge. Many of his family members also suffered serious injuries while commanding the battle. , the Duke was very distressed.
"Your Highness!" The Duke made up his mind and suggested to Catherine: "Can we use 'that'? All at once..."
The so-called "that" is the kingdom's army or the royal family's secret weapon - Hellfire.
In the Duke's view, the name "Hellfire" is really appropriate. It cannot be extinguished by pouring water. This terrible flame must really come from hell.
But even as Duke Walker, he only learned of the existence of this terrible weapon this year. After the city guards rebelled and occupied Jingyao, they promptly mobilized troops to serve the king. When the princess formed an army to go south to counter the rebellion, he once again responded to the call. Duke Walker's loyalty was recognized by the royal family, and therefore he also entered the core power circle of the kingdom's army, thus learning that This is a secret weapon that the royal family has never revealed.
“Now is not the time!”
Catherine rejected the Duke’s suggestion without hesitation.
Duke Walker nodded slightly and stopped talking. He understood the princess' concerns. Although Hellfire was powerful, its quantity was very small. Ultimately, it was because the royal family could not make such a thing by itself. Its origin seemed to be related to those mysterious pointed ears.
Obviously His Highness doesn’t want to reveal his trump card yet.
The Hellfire in the current army was sent not long ago and almost missed the decisive battle.
"Your Highness! The Undead Army is out!"
The generals made a commotion and pointed at the battlefield ahead.
Behind the rebels, a force with equipment that was obviously different from other rebels and a neat pace was slowly approaching the front line.
Katherine looked at the "Undead Army" from a distance and shouted: "Lester!"
"Yes!" Lester replied, and then quickly left the high slope on horseback.
......
About an hour later, two armies carrying both sides' hopes of victory collided head-on in the middle of the battlefield. One is the mysterious army of the kingdom armed with strange equipment, and the other is the rebel "Undead Army" with a size of only 6,000 people.
"Is that the trick that Catherine used to restrain the undead army according to the intelligence?"
The top rebels, including Giles, all looked surprised. Because the enemy army in front of the Undead Army seems to be just a lightly-armed force, unlike other Kingdom soldiers who are generally equipped with metal armor, they only have simple protection.
After watching for a while, Samar next to Giles yelled: "No!"
He remembered the terrifying experience when he attacked the Thorn Fortress for the first time.
"Lord Giles, it's Hellfire! I guess that's the Hellfire we've encountered before!"
Giles was shocked. He heard Samar describe this terrible weapon, which was like magic and was indestructible when exposed to water.
However, this weapon only appeared once, and in subsequent battles, the "Restoration Army" never encountered it again. Therefore, he judged that the number of Hellfires in the hands of the Kingdom's army must be very small, and the stalemate in Fougères made him conclude that there were no Hellfires in the hands of the Kingdom's army. Such long-term confrontation between the two armies is a huge drain on national strength. Catherine is a decisive woman and cannot leave such a good weapon unused.
I didn’t expect to meet him during the decisive battle...
However, after the initial panic, Giles immediately calmed down. He smiled with a ferocious expression and said to his general : "Samar, let's make a bet..."
Samar was a little puzzled: "What? His Highness the Grand Duke."
"Let's bet on how much hellfire Catherine has in her hands!"
The Archduke's eyes now looked like a gambler's.
Samar was shocked, "You...you don't plan to withdraw the team? Although they are just...but they can't be given away for nothing!"
Giles waved his hand and hit. After Samar finished speaking, he said with a cold face: "War is a big gamble! And they were sacrificed in the plan."
So the armies of both sides got closer, and finally reached each other. The distance is only about 10 meters.
"Get ready!" Following Commander Lester's roar, the kingdom's troops stopped in unison!
The "Immortal Army" on the opposite side also slowed down, and at the same time laid the spear in its hand flat, ready to assassinate.
"Spray!" Lester ordered again, and a gorgeous scene appeared on the battlefield - the strange equipment in the hands of the soldiers of the Kingdom's army sprayed out fire dragons, flying towards the undead army on the opposite side. .
In an instant, the soldiers in the Undead Army were set on fire one after another, and they could not suppress the painful sounds of being burned!
The formation of the soldiers behind the undead army was immediately in chaos, and they fled in panic under the attack of the fire dragon.
Only the first row of undead soldiers screamed in pain, but held the weapons in their hands tightly, and charged with ferocious expressions. They were surrounded by flames as if they were devils escaping from hell.
"Spray! Keep spraying from the second row!"
Lester seemed to be surprised that someone could rush over under such a terrifying attack.
The soldiers who had finished spraying immediately retreated to the back, and the soldiers in the second row rushed to the front, raised their equipment and started spraying.
The fire dragon attacked again, and the rebel team became more and more chaotic. The soldiers who were still standing in their positions and barely maintaining their formation were set on fire one after another. They beat their bodies in horror or rolled on the spot, but they could not be extinguished. No more that terrible flame.
After the first row of undead soldiers charged towards the kingdom's army, they fell to the ground one after another because they were unable to defy the body's physiological mechanism. Their limbs twitched and allowed the flames to engulf them. They only caused very small casualties to their opponents.
The kingdom's army continued to spray flames until the undead soldiers on the opposite side were eliminated or fled backwards with their expressions collapsed.
“The Immortal Army is defeated!”
“Long live Aldo!” “Long live Catherine!”
Other troops who were fighting fiercely saw this scene. The undead army that had been unrivaled in the battle in the past was actually wiped out in such a short period of time.
The morale of the kingdom's army was greatly boosted and they fought more and more fiercely, while the morale of the rebels who fought them plummeted.
The battle seems to have reached a turning point...
Catherine and others who were watching the battle on the high slope finally had a smile, and the balance of victory tilted towards them.
"Your Highness! Now is a good opportunity!" Aofina suggested: "Take advantage of the situation and put the reserve troops into the battlefield, defeat their central army in one go, separate their left and right wings and eliminate them one by one!"< br>
"Okay!" Catherine agreed with her proposal and was about to give the order immediately.
"What kind of army is that?" Duke Walker suddenly shouted.
People looked in the direction he was pointing and saw a troop changing uniforms behind the rebels.
"No... the undead army!"
When they could see clearly, everyone was shocked! The equipment of that army was exactly the same as that of the undead army that had just been wiped out, and a rough count of its number exceeded 10,000.
"How is that possible! Aren't they already wiped out?" Someone asked in disbelief.
“We made a big mistake!”
Katherine whipped her horse whip bitterly and said through gritted teeth: “Who said the Undead Army must only have 6,000 people, that’s just Jarl "This is the impression Si has always created on us."
She suddenly remembered the reaction of the "Undead Army" under the Hellfire attack just now. Only the soldiers standing in the front charged under certain death, while the others They fled in fear.
Perhaps...the "immortal army" in front is just a bait? Only a few soldiers are real.
Catherine decisively ordered: "Send the order to Duke Dodge and Klein to close the left and right wings and move closer to the central army."
"Yes!" The two knights galloped away east and west on horseback.
......
On an elevated vehicle of the rebels, a man in a gray robe looked at the kingdom's army from a distance.
His eyes glowed with a strange light, and the pupils of his eyes seemed out of focus to others.
"Haha!" He laughed inexplicably, and then closed his eyes.
After a while, the man in gray robe opened his eyes again and shouted to Giles and others below: "Your Highness, most of the fire-breathing troops have changed into ordinary weapons! They still hold their hands There are only a few hundred people with that kind of equipment!”
The bet was right! Giles shook his fist fiercely, and the generals around him breathed a sigh of relief.
“Catherine, Catherine, you didn’t expect that the undead army at the beginning was just a fake, didn’t you? You didn’t expect that the undead army actually expanded to more than 10,000 people before the decisive battle? I wanted to show you my trump card first. But you have sacrificed a lot, although your trump card is beyond my expectation, hahahaha!"
Giles laughed happily. Although there were some changes in the plan due to the appearance of Hellfire, there were generally no changes. Deviation.
He turned to Scott aside and said: "Thank you all for your timely support from the Secret Law Society!"
Scott nodded slightly: "I would like to congratulate you on your victory in advance."
"Jia Sir, the Puppet King's army is moving towards the center!"
Grand Duke Tanlang immediately stopped smiling. It was not the time to laugh yet. He had only escaped the unexpected crisis caused by Hellfire, but his own Indeed, more than 6,000 people in the Chinese army were defeated, leaving a big gap.
“Gather our army together! Hold back the Puppet King’s army, wait until the undead army has finished changing their clothes, then rush over and give them a fatal blow!”
Morale dropped because the fake undead army was defeated? It doesn't matter, when the real undead army rushes forward, they will make up for it immediately.
While the morale of the Kingdom's army was fluctuating due to the reappearance of the Undead Army, the rebels broke away from contact and began to form a large square formation.
However, something unexpected happened to Giles.
"Your Highness, the Veblen family's army has launched an unauthorized charge against the enemy!"
"What? Let them come back immediately!"
"Your Highness, the Veblen army has been defeated!"
"What? How long has it been!"
I saw the Veblen army charging without permission! They ran backwards in defeat, and a Royal Army cavalry followed closely behind them, killing them wantonly.
The broken troops instinctively ran towards the friendly troops who were reorganizing their formation in order to obtain protection.
“We can’t let them attack our formation! Send the order over and kill any broken troops who dare to rush into the formation!”
Giles's beard was so angry!
But it’s too late! If the enemy troops were coming, his troops could still organize a defense, but a large group of disorganized friendly troops retreated. The soldiers who had not yet received the kill order could only make way for them. As a result, the rebels who were reorganizing their formations changed. The situation became even more chaotic, and the morale of the rebel officers and soldiers who were already afraid of the hellfire plummeted again.
"Long live Aldo!"
With the Veblen army "clearing the way" in front, Lester, who led the cavalry to pursue the Veblen army, shouted and raised his lance. He took the lead and rushed into the rebels, followed immediately by the knights who were armed to the teeth.
"Veblen! I swear I will twist your head off!"
Looking at the chaotic formation, Giles roared loudly.
In the distance, the Kingdom’s army, which had already gathered, was coming to cover them up.
(End of this chapter)