When the commander of the army, Orver, led his army, two divisions of the Seventh Army, and two magician units to escape from the forest of mystery, Orver was horrified to find that he had lost nearly one division of soldiers out of thin air. Although many of the soldiers did not die, most of them had lost their ability to fight. At this time, the wounded soldiers could only become obstacles and burdens for the army's progress.
"Sir, we have 4,000 soldiers trapped inside, and nearly 5,000 more wounded..." After counting the casualties of the soldiers, an officer immediately came to report to his commander.
"Get lost! Send the wounded to the back immediately... Wait, notify the magician troops first, and have them flatten the forest within a kilometer ahead... Tell them to use fire magic to burn those bastards to death. They actually wanted to lure us in and then burn us to death. Now I want to see who will be burned to death in the end." He looked at his soldiers being carried to the back indignantly, and then he took a good look at his appearance. While wiping the blackened armor in anger, Orfer asked his subordinates to convey his orders.
Soon, with the help of the Seventh Legion's troops stationed outside, they quickly cleared the wounded soldiers. More than 2,000 magicians lined up in neat formation and began to slowly move forward. Every magician almost simultaneously erected a single magic shield to protect their own safety. Although the durability and defense capabilities of a single magic shield cannot be compared with the magic wall erected by a group of people, even though the magicians of the Kingdom of Yan were well-trained and powerful, they were unable to maintain the stability of the magic transmission between magicians during the movement.
"Fire and wind magic free attack... er..."
As soon as a magician leader shouted, a magic-breaking arrow more than one meter long was shot out from the woods. It easily penetrated the magician's magic shield and brought a rain of blood to his neck.
Then, thousands of magic arrows and magic arrows were thrown at them like they were free, and the magicians were beaten to pieces in an instant, and they fled. In just a few dozen seconds, after leaving behind hundreds of corpses, the magicians all retreated to 1,000 meters away from the edge of the forest.
"Damn it, why are you panicking? I'll send heavy infantry to hold you off in front, and you just blow them up..." Furious at the magician troop's unauthorized retreat and cowardly behavior, Ofer couldn't help but get furious and loudly scolded the magician troop.
"My lord, we are noble magicians, not the suicide corps of your Mocaster Empire. Please think before you speak next time. I don't think you are so ignorant of the seriousness of the matter. Without our magicians, the troops of the Kastark Empire would devour you in an instant. And you said you would give us heavy infantry protection, but why didn't you provide us with protection in the last round of attack? Do you want to deliberately reduce the number of magicians in our kingdom?" Feeling that his self-esteem was damaged, the commander of the magician troop was also very dissatisfied with Ofer's behavior for letting his magician troop face the enemy's archer troop alone in the previous attack.
"You... But now I am ordering you, now I order you to continue to attack that forest under the protection of heavy infantry, and cut down all the forest land..."
"I'm sorry, I can't do it! At the same time, my troops refuse to follow such an idiotic order... Don't you think about what kind of arrows were used against us just now? They were magic arrows and demon-breaking arrows! Judging from the number of magic arrows and demon-breaking arrows just now, the magic arrows possessed by the enemy can easily tear through the protective layer formed by your heavy infantry, and then their magic-breaking arrows will take our lives..." With a sneer, the commander of the magician troop of the Kingdom of Yan interrupted Ofer's words very bluntly and firmly rejected Ofer's request.
"I will send you a double layer of heavy infantry defense wall, and then you use them to deal with my heavy infantry, while you use magic to blast them... In this way, even if the heavy infantry's defense is broken, you will have plenty of room to successfully cast magic. The worst case scenario is that your magicians will suffer a small number of casualties." As soon as Ofer's words came out, not only did the magicians of the Kingdom of Yann look very strange, but the faces of the people around Ofer from the Mocast Empire also became quite strange.
"I'm sorry, I won't let my subordinates take this kind of risk again. I refuse to attack before I'm sure of the outcome. Also, I never thought that your officers would treat the lives of their soldiers as if they were inanimate objects. It seems that this rumor is not just hearsay!" After rejecting Ofer's request again, the magician commander couldn't help but mock him. In his heart, he was madly cursing Ofer and the Mocaster Empire.
The Kingdom of Yann only has 20 regular magician units, or 40,000 people. And each magician needs 3-5 years of training to become a qualified magician (unlike learning magic like me, ordinary people learning magic simply don't have that many magic crystals to use, and their magic growth depends on their own ability).
But the Mokast Empire is different. They are famous for their large population. They are most famous for their infantry, a large number of infantry, especially light infantry. Unlike the elite troops strategy of the Kastek Empire, the Mokast Empire likes to form an army quickly. They often send recruits who have only been trained for several months or even one month to the battlefield.
Therefore, in this case, the casualty rate of the army of the Mocast Empire was not taken seriously by their officers. They did not care how many casualties the soldiers would suffer, as long as they could win, they would pay a very high price to obtain a meaningless victory. But in the eyes of this magician commander, Ofer became a fool commander who took human life lightly.
"I don't care how much you object. I only know that I am the commander of the army now. Now, I will give you two choices. First, you must immediately flatten the road from here to the enemy's hiding place. Second, I will immediately execute you on the spot for disobeying military orders. Now, you decide for yourself!"
“…” (To be continued)