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Author: Twelfth Floor Yueming

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The Immortal Legion was defeated.

Sometimes, soldiers are defeated on the battlefield not because they cannot fight, nor because they are not brave enough.

It's because of concerns.

There are no cowards in the Immortal Legion. While they protected Emperor Marius from retreating, they also left groups of soldiers behind with their lives.

These warriors waved their swords in the face of the charging cavalry, trying to trade their lives for time and space so that other comrades could take their emperor away from the battlefield.

The rear troops are almost certain to die in this situation, but they don't mind dying on the battlefield.

They were only worried that His Majesty Marius would be harmed.

These are loyal and brave warriors.

However, Li Ang knew that Emperor Marius did not actually want to leave the battlefield.

Li Ang was even sure that Emperor Marius would rather die here. Like these immortals, this emperor originally tried to use his own life to buy time and space for the Bacchus Empire...

The emperor was worried about the future of the empire and wanted to preserve the vitality of the empire as much as possible. He dragged his sick body to personally command and used his body as bait to lure the enemy into battle;

The soldiers were worried about the emperor's safety, so they abandoned the array and evacuated as shield masters...

The reality is often like this. They are all noble decisions, and they are all correct decisions, but they fail to get the desired results.

At this moment, the side of the battlefield.

General Agathon was running wildly along the perimeter of the battlefield with three thousand light cavalry.

Emperor Marius ordered Agatha to attack when Li Ang just launched his charge. Agatha's original task was to lead the light cavalry that were not suitable for head-on confrontation to attack Li Ang at the fastest speed while Li Ang launched the charge.

the rear.

As for where to attack specifically, Emperor Marius gave Agathon free rein - he could go straight to the River City, he could go to Serenmis to cut off Li Ang's food route, or he could go around behind Li Ang's army and cooperate with the main army formation to carry out a pincer attack.

It's also a good choice.

Agathon was best at raiding and fighting, and Emperor Marius knew the strengths of his favorite generals very well.

But Emperor Marius misjudged the mentality of his soldiers after all...

If the central army of the Immortal Legion withstood the impact, and if Marius' battle flag did not retreat even a step, Agathon would definitely go around the flanks of the battlefield to the rear of Leon and do what he should do.

But the problem is, the Immortal Legion has retreated!

Retreating with the banner of Emperor Marius!

Agathon was on the side of the battlefield. He couldn't see the overall situation, but he could see the battle flag of Emperor Marius...

Based on Agathon's understanding of Emperor Marius, Marius's central army's battle flag would never retreat unless it was really unable to stop the enemy...

But the Chinese army was led by His Majesty Marius himself. Why could they not stop it so quickly?

His Majesty Marius has experienced hundreds of battles and fought all his life. He has been defeated before, but it was because the difference in strength was too great. He has never lost in a peer-to-peer contest!

Moreover, even with a weak force against an enemy several times his own, His Majesty Marius had no precedent of retreating so quickly!

Has something happened to Your Majesty?

At this time, Agatha's face was full of confusion.

Are you continuing to carry out the tasks assigned by His Majesty Marius?

Or to rescue His Majesty Marius?

If they continue to attack the periphery, no one can stop these three thousand light cavalry. They can completely bypass the battlefield and directly cut off the supply line behind Li Ang, eventually forcing Li Ang to retreat.

But even if Li Ang retreats, it will be after today's battle is over - the currently retreating Immortal Legion, as well as Emperor Marius, are likely to be overwhelmed by Li Ang's cavalry...

If we go to rescue His Majesty Marius now, then these three thousand cavalry will still have a chance to hold back Li Ang's heavy cavalry that will rush into the battle later. They can help Emperor Marius alleviate the current crisis, and maybe allow the Immortals Legion to regain their position.

But these three thousand light cavalry were the military police and security guards recruited urgently by Emperor Marius, that is, mounted police. They were not suitable for carrying on the frontal battlefield.

And these are all light cavalry. If you use light cavalry to fight against the heavy cavalry that have already increased their speed, the losses will be astonishing...

But His Majesty Marius...is more important!

Agathon hesitated for a while, and finally made a difficult decision: "Brothers! Charge with me!!"

Three thousand Qingqi turned around and moved towards the center of the battlefield.

Since they had already charged for a while, their current position was already some distance away from the central army of Immortals, and there was no way to directly rescue them. Therefore, Agathon led his light cavalry into the battlefield from the side, and then tried to 'pursue'

Li Ang's heavy cavalry team...

It's almost suicide.

Because there are still two cavalry and archer units holding down the formation in the center of the battlefield.

Noldor elves and horns summon rangers.

The lancers had already charged into the Bacchus' formation, and the two cavalry and archery units had been projecting cover and fell to the rear.

Seeing Agathon's light cavalry change direction, both Islandil and Ralph realized what this troop wanted to do, and they also made the same reaction at the same time - to intercept head-on.

The individual combat capabilities of the Noldor elves and rangers can defeat these Bacchus light cavalry, and their equipment level is far superior to that of these improvised mounted police. As soon as the two sides came into contact, a large number of people fell on their backs - most of them fell.

Most are Bacchus.

But Agathon was still firmly pursuing the battle flag of Emperor Marius. He led more than a hundred iron-ringed centurions to fight hard, trying to penetrate the obstacles of the rangers and intercept some of the heavy cavalry behind...

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The battlefield has completely turned into what Li Ang envisioned - a melee.

Now there are no enemies around Li Ang.

The heavy cavalry continued to move forward in pursuit of Emperor Marius' battle flag. The charging horses knocked away most of the enemies around Li Ang. The other immortals also gave up besieging Li Ang and instead tried to intercept and chase Emperor Marius' battle flag.

Go cavalry.

But they lost their orderly formation and their stable mentality. This small-scale interception could only make them all fall under the hooves of the horses.

Of course, they still played a big role. They and the two-handed swordsmen who stayed behind successfully slowed down the charge of the heavy cavalry and prevented the entire legion from collapsing.

Agathon's light cavalry charge also prevented Leon's troops from pursuing the victory - the heavy cavalry could not continue to charge too far, and the subsequent pursuit could only be left to the Call of the Horn Rangers and the Noldor Rangers for mounted shooting and oppression.

But this was only possible with the sacrifice of thousands of people.

Relying on the sacrifice of the light cavalry and the fierce fighting of the iron ring centurions, Agathon rushed back to the central army array, and presided over the Immortal Legion to maintain order in the retreat.

Since the cavalry and archery troops failed to pursue, the army of the Bacchus Empire regained discipline after Emperor Marius was away from danger, and under the command of Agathon, they intercepted and slowed down the heavy cavalry.

Therefore, the heavy cavalry that rushed into the battle failed to completely overwhelm the Bacchus, nor did they completely throw the opponent into chaos. The hearty reverse-rolling bead curtain state did not appear, and the heavy cavalry ultimately failed to rush to the flag of Emperor Marius.

Down.

But in any case, this battle has been won - without a stable array, the Bacchus were unable to counterattack and could only continue to retreat until they retreated to the hilly areas before they would get a chance to regain their position.

Li Ang struggled to get up from the ground. His chest, abdomen, legs and hips were all injured. He was actually just gritting his teeth and persisting. If the immortals besieged him for a few more minutes, he would definitely not be able to withstand it...

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There were constant cavalry rushing past him. In order to avoid being accidentally injured by his own people, Li Ang did not move, but just raised his sword and pointed forward.

The banner of Emperor Marius had retreated further and further away.

The long contradiction formations on both sides were also retreating, and the crossbow arrows that were flying everywhere gradually disappeared.

Alice jumped over on three legs - one of her front hooves was twisted after the previous jump and she did not dare to step firmly on the ground.

But the little mare still nudged Li Ang with her head, trying to get Li Ang to ride on the horse.

Li Ang put down the sword in his hand and stroked Alice's head: "The battle is over..."

There is no need to direct anymore.

One man and one horse stood like this, watching other troops rush past them, or chase the battle flag from the side that was getting farther and farther away.

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It was getting late, and the battlefield in Salem Wasteland calmed down.

Bacchus' army retreated thirty miles and re-camped in the hilly area north of Salem village.

Leon's light cavalry was hindered by Agathon. The heavy cavalry and heavy infantry could not continue to pursue for too long, so they could only withdraw their troops to prepare and clean the battlefield, and then set up camp in the Bacchus' camp yesterday.

The place where they camped was the battlefield that Li Ang originally planned.

In this battle, more than 400 of Li Ang's men were killed and more than 400 were injured. Most of the casualties came from the first wave of charge by the heavy cavalry.

As for the Bacchus Empire, more than 2,000 people died in the battle alone - this is the number of corpses on the battlefield. As for the injured... those who were not dead were all evacuated. I don't know how many were injured.

Nearly half of the light cavalry led by Agathon died in the battle, and thousands of horses were left behind. The Immortal Legion also left more than 800 corpses.

For the newly established Kingdom of Pendor, this was of course a brilliant victory. It was a great victory achieved against the strongest country in the continent with equal combat power.

If we look at the strength of both sides, it is seven thousand five against ten thousand, and the New Pendor Kingdom is still at a slight disadvantage.
To be continued...