"My lord, we will reach the city of Andler in half a day. As long as we pass there, we can return to the land of our own country. Unexpectedly, Bora disappeared, and his successor defected to the Mocast Empire. This result is really ironic... It's a pity that so many of our brothers were killed. I really don't know how to face their families. Do you want me to tell them that they were ambushed and killed by the troops we originally thought were friendly forces? Damn Yura, I will never let you go..." Weimar gritted his teeth and snorted in a low voice, his face full of murderous intent, which completely concealed his original aristocratic temperament.
"Weimar, this is not your fault. If anyone is to be held responsible for this, it should be me. If I hadn't thought that we should integrate the resistance forces in the Andler region, we wouldn't have gone deep into the enemy's territory alone, and in the end, we would have almost been wiped out. The current situation is entirely my fault. So you don't have to bear any burden for this... Now, what I am most worried about is the 6th Division of the Flame Legion that remains in the occupied area of the Empire. Since we followed them in their breakout, we haven't sent them any information, and we don't know how they are doing now? After all, leaving such a small force there is like putting sheep among wolves..."
Feng Ya, whose armor was covered with knife marks, was extremely depressed. If she was not the commander of the army and if she was not on the battlefield, she would have burst into tears long ago.
This war brought her nothing but sadness. In the previous battle of the military station, she originally thought that she could rescue some of the defeated remnants, but she did not expect that the situation was so out of control that she had to personally slaughter so many imperial soldiers.
Moreover, in the final retreat, she also used dishonorable tactics to save her main force, but pushed the friendly forces to the more difficult end of the battle, while she chose the easier end. Thinking of the look that the young commander of the Flame Legion gave her at that time, Feng Ya herself could not forgive her selfish behavior.
What made Feng Ya even more embarrassed was that after the two armies broke through the siege of the East Continent troops, she took her troops to the Andler region due to the interests of the empire, trying to gather or reorganize Bora's troops in the area, thus losing the opportunity to contact this department of the Flame Legion.
"Sir, don't worry. With the calmness of their commander, I think they can get through this stage. You can explain things to him when the time comes. I think he won't have any objections after understanding our difficulties..." A surviving division commander comforted Feng Ya.
"Passed the checkpoint? In the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of East Continent coalition forces? I think if they are still alive now, it is all because of the good deeds of their ancestors..." Feng Ya's captain of the guards, Sally, was suddenly stopped before she could finish her words.
"Shut up... What's that sound? Fengya, stop the whole army..." Weimar suddenly jumped off his horse, ran a short distance, and then lay on the ground. Tens of seconds later, Weimar jumped up like a frightened cheetah and ran towards Fengya.
"Sir, there are two troops coming in our direction. One is coming from the Empire, and the other is coming from Andler City. Both are large in number, including one light cavalry division from Andler and about two divisions from the Empire. According to our current situation, I estimate that we may come into contact with the troops coming out of Andler in half an hour, and in less than an hour, we will also meet the troops coming from the Empire. Sir, please make a decision!" Weimar was extremely panicked as he had to wipe the dust off his face. Looking at his 7,000 light cavalry and less than 3,000 archers, no matter which troop they met, it would be a disaster for them.
"Sir, fight them. There is no way back. If we kill one, we will get back our losses. If we kill two, we can still earn another. Let's go all out..." The division commander who had comforted Feng Ya before had seen his soldiers being killed in their sleep. Here, he was completely unable to control his emotions and tried to draw his sword while shouting.
"Enough, leave your lord alone. Do you want to kill us? With so few people, even if we only fight the enemy coming out of Andler, it will be enough for us to suffer a lot, not to mention that there are at least two divisions of enemy troops behind us." Slapping the hand of the division that was trying to draw the sword, Weimar whispered to stop his reckless actions.
"Weimar, we have no way to retreat now. There are at least 4 infantry divisions behind us! How can we fight them? It seems that we are doomed this time..." Sighing, Feng Ya could already feel the despair of the officers present. In the narrow Andreel Passage, if they were attacked from both sides, the consequences would be almost certain.
"Sir, I think we still have a chance. Lord Weimar, I wonder if you have heard that there are more than 20,000 galloping horses coming from the other end of the continent. At least half of them have no riders..." At this time, the words of a cavalry captain attracted almost everyone's attention.
Without any explanation or questioning, Weimar immediately lay on the ground again and carefully confirmed it again. After a long time, Weimar stood up with excitement on his face.
"Sir, I was wrong just now. Most of the horses coming from the Empire are ordinary war horses, and they don't have riders. I think we ran into the East Continent coalition forces that looted the Empire's war horses and were preparing to send them to the Mocast Empire to equip their cavalry. If..."
"If we attack the cavalry unit coming out of Andriel first, and then turn around to attack the horse team, then we still have a chance... So, let us fight for survival! All troops, prepare for battle, let us teach the reptiles of the East Continent how to ride horses!" Feng Ya, sensing the opportunity, immediately issued a battle order.
Ten minutes later, a light cavalry division quickly rushed out from one side of the Fire Phoenix Legion. Looking at this army composed entirely of soldiers with leather shields in their left hands and long swords in their right hands, Feng Ya smiled faintly for the first time in more than two months.
"Front line, prepare for stabbing and spearing, back row knights prepare for a round of crossbow attack before contact, archers conduct harassment attacks from both sides, full army assault! Show those reptiles how a real cavalry unit fights..." Facing this unit that had just learned cavalry combat, for a leader among the Knight Kingdom commanders, it was almost childish. In the eyes of Feng Ya and her commanders, this single-armed light cavalry unit was undoubtedly a small dish, and there was no possibility of choking to death.
As the two armies gradually approached, under the threat of the archers on both sides, the troops from the East Continent in front of them had already felt panic. After all, the leather shields in their hands could not protect their whole bodies. The occasional stray arrows could easily nail their exposed bodies and their horses that they could not protect. Panic immediately began to spread among their team. . . . . .
Afterwards, the first two rows of soldiers in the Fire Phoenix Legion raised up the more than 5-meter-long bayonets in their hands, forming a forest of guns with two rows in front and back.
Just as the soldiers of the East Continent were terrified by the sudden appearance of a forest of spears in the darkness, a burst of crossbow arrows denser than the previous ones rained down on their army formation. Before they could respond, the spears in front of them had already penetrated the bodies of the soldiers in the front row. The screams of pain continued, and almost in the blink of an eye, thousands of East Continent cavalrymen returned to the arms of Hades. And what followed, although it could not be called a massacre, the extreme difference in horsepower meant that the casualties on both sides were not proportional at all.
"For our dead comrades, for the people in the occupied areas who are enslaved by the evil people from the East Continent, and for our own lives - kill! Kill them all..." Weimar, with a ferocious face, chopped off an enemy officer with a sword, then raised the bloody sword to pick up the head, shouting wildly.
"kill......"
Responding to Weimar's call, the soldiers around Weimar immediately shouted loudly. Then, the soldiers of the Fire Phoenix Legion who were further out also joined in, and the entire battlefield was filled with the sound of killing.
Like a group of demons from hell, the Flame Legion, from Fengya and Weimar to every soldier, fought bloody battles, and every sword and every knife was so crazy. In less than half an hour, the entire cavalry unit of the East Continent was defeated, defeated by the enemy's tactics, or defeated by the crazy troops of the Fire Phoenix Legion.
In the end, the Fire Phoenix Army wiped out a division of the enemy at the cost of 3,000 casualties. Facing the corpses scattered all over the ground, all the soldiers of the Fire Phoenix Army looked at it in disbelief, and they dared not believe it for a long time. However, the sound of galloping horses woke them up. Indeed, what awaited them was not just this battle...
"Organize the troops, let all the seriously wounded soldiers rest on the spot, and help each other treat their wounds. The rest of the troops assemble immediately, let us fight another beautiful annihilation battle, and then we can go home! Whole army, charge!" Encouraged by the previous battle, all the soldiers of the Fire Phoenix Legion seemed to have taken stimulants, and followed Feng Ya's orders, charging forward desperately. The horse archers on both sides also started to fire frantically outside the range...
"What's the army in front of us? Show your flags, otherwise... Oh~~~ Damn it! Shoot, shoot them all, shoot them all with armor-piercing arrows... Damn it, you are playing with bows and arrows in front of your ancestors, I will make you pay for it..."
Following the familiar shouts, the enemy troops on the opposite side also began to fight back, with arrows raining down from the front, and within a few breaths, all the light cavalry in the front rows were shot down. Often, a powerful arrow would penetrate the person in front and continue to shoot the second cavalryman.
"Well......"
A short and dull cry made Feng Ya turn her gaze to her right. What she saw was a division commander who had followed her for several years, trying to catch an arrow that had completely penetrated his chest. The arrow, more than one meter long, had completely penetrated his armor and body, hanging in the air behind him. Blood slowly seeped out from the gaps in his armor. (To be continued)