After receiving the notification, I almost immediately gave up the destruction plan and began to retreat. Using magic to cool down, don't they even have the patience to wait? But now is not the time to think about these things. As it stands now, both the Miyu Forest and the Western Territory of the Empire have become the hunting grounds of the East Continent Alliance. And I and my army have become their prey.
"Sir, the army is ready. We can start retreating as soon as you give the order. In addition, I would like to ask you whether we should send a rear guard troop..."
"Cover the rear? Now it's not called covering the rear, it's called committing suicide. Our own strength is already very weak, so I won't waste any more strength at will. I have already made preparations for covering the rear. When we retreat, someone will help us delay the enemy for a while. Now, we retreat immediately!"
Without much explanation, and without any need for explanation, I directly ordered the soldiers to start retreating. According to the current situation, it is obviously not advisable for us to move deeper into the jungle.
There are too many unknowns hidden in the uninhabited jungle. If we encounter a Jedi, we will all be doomed. In addition, it is impossible to march fast in the undeveloped jungle, and it is difficult to cover up the traces of so many people, which makes it easy for the pursuers behind to follow us. If we are caught up by the enemy in this situation, they can kill all of us with just one forbidden spell.
Now, I must keep a certain distance from the East Continent coalition forces, especially their super magicians. I must stay away from them and never let them get close to us. In our current situation, I can only leave the maze forest as soon as possible and use my large number of war horses to distance myself from the enemy.
"After the 7th Battalion passes the slope ahead and all the troops have passed, remove the support of the horse pit on the hillside, and then catch up with the main force. The 2nd Squadron of the General Staff, immediately go to the No. 3 cable-stayed bridge and connect the cable and pulley for me. A squad of soldiers will go there to watch the other end of the cable..." I issued orders one by one while galloping on horseback. I designed and supervised the construction of almost all kinds of traps near this camp. Now issuing orders is as easy as eating.
In addition to thinking about these, I also reviewed the roads and areas I needed to bypass to move from my current location to the outside of the maze forest. If one step is wrong, then we are likely to get lost in this damn forest. The so-called maze forest is definitely not just a nice name.
While I was running away frantically, Ofer led the army to chase me. After quickly relying on a large number of magicians to consume the magic power to pass through the area destroyed by the forbidden spell, the army led by Ofer quickly broke through several unguarded military camps with the help of the magicians. Because there was no harassment from the defenders, the army led by Ofer did not suffer much loss, but due to those strange and whimsical traps along the way, Ofer had no choice but to send several large groups of wounded soldiers out of the forest. Think about it, without troops, those traps alone have caused heavy losses. If I didn't let those magicians use forbidden spells, I don't know how miserable my army would be!
"Sir, according to the magic reconnaissance conducted by the magicians, the enemy has at least several thousand troops in the military camp ahead. I think they haven't run away yet, so they must want to fight us to the death."
"A fight to the death? I want to see how they will die... Come on, send the heavy infantry to advance immediately, and let the magicians follow. I don't believe that their troops really carry so many magic arrows and magic-breaking arrows..." Damn it, could this army really be the secret army of the Kastark Empire that the marshal mentioned? In Orford's heart, he had already started to curse fiercely. Come to think of it, how could an ordinary army be equipped with so many magic arrows and magic-breaking arrows? Even the armor-piercing arrows they shot as ordinary arrows were not something that ordinary armies could afford.
Following Orfer's orders, the First Legion of the Mocast Empire began what they thought was an attack on the enemy. Rows of heavy infantry, followed by spearmen, and then magicians and archers...
Finally, when the East Continental Allied Forces came to about 800 meters, arrows rained down from the mountain. What caught the East Continental Allied Forces off guard was that the arrows shot out this time were neither magic arrows or magic-breaking arrows, nor were they the kind of well-made, extremely uniform, super-long feather arrows. Instead, they were an oversized, extremely rough thing similar to a spear.
Although this kind of thing is not very sharp, and it can't penetrate the tower shields in the hands of the heavy infantry. However, their weight and impact force make the heavy infantry in front suffer a lot. Often a spear shoots over, and a heavy infantryman with an unstable center is shot to the ground. Then, his body leans backwards, and the armor and weapons on his body and the force of leaning back are all transferred to the soldiers behind them. . . . . .
Afterwards, many heavy infantrymen rolled down the sloping hillside like dominoes, knocking over and crushing many innocent comrades along the way.
But these were not the most important things. The more serious thing was that the defense lines of the heavy infantry at many positions had loopholes, which caused the light infantry and magicians behind them to suffer. Although those crude weapons could not penetrate the tower shields of the heavy infantry, they were absolutely fatal to those soldiers wearing leather armor or magicians who were just wearing ordinary magician robes.
The heavy infantry were in a mess, mixed with the occasional magicians who were accidentally shot and the dying howls of the light infantry, which caused the morale of the entire magician army to be greatly disrupted. Many magicians, in addition to casually adding magic shields to themselves, had even begun to retreat.
"A bunch of cowards... Come on, send me a supervision team immediately! If those magicians don't immediately stop their careless actions and attack the enemy camp, kill them!" The extremely angry Ofer finally decided not to give any face to his friendly forces and took a drastic measure.
After the supervision team went up and chopped off a few heads, the magicians of the Kingdom of Yan finally realized that they were no longer the noble magicians who were high above and admired by others. They were just chess pieces on the battlefield. . . . .
Finally, under the protection of the heavy infantry who had recovered a little, the magicians began to attack the camp frantically. One after another, huge fireballs, wind blades, ice bombs, and even light spears, fire cloud explosions, dark corrosion and other magics swept over the camp as if they did not consume magic power. At this time, the true power of the magicians of the Kingdom of Yan was truly revealed. After a round of attacks, the number of arrows shot from the opposite side immediately decreased by half, and as the magicians focused on it, the density of the arrows' attacks became lower and lower. (To be continued)