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Chapter 19 Retreat

~Date: ~November 04~

At that time, Artoria gave the order, the Celtic army, which had long been unable to support, breathed a sigh of relief. They could see that if they continued to fight, they would all say that the Greeks were definitely not the Greeks here.

However, the Queen's order was very simple. When tens of thousands of Celtic troops acted, they could not talk about the war on paper. Seeing the enemy's movements were inappropriate. It seemed that they were about to retreat, the Roman army on the front immediately stepped up the offensive, pressing step by step, and wiped out the Celtic troops here. The Celtic troops retreated as much as they could. The Celtic troops could not escape. If they insisted on retreating, they might disrupt their formation. The Roman army had an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Although Artoria had said that she had personally cut off the rear, she could not control the huge battlefield alone. It was one thing to rush into the formation alone. But it was another thing to block tens of thousands of troops by one person. The thing that a man could do as a pass can only happen in the "pass". And outside the suburbs of Adrian Fort, it was a plain. Not to mention Artoria, even if she was close to the Knights of the Hundred Guards beside her, she would not be involved.

The queen could indeed use her personal force to force some of the Roman troops to retreat and even break them up. However, this was a drop in the bucket for retreating tens of thousands of troops. While she was breaking a group of enemies, Romans in other directions could naturally attack and defeat her army.

So, after Artoria returned to her army, she only made the battle better. She was not a ferocious beast like Minotaurus, and could burst out with great destructive power in a short period of time, sweeping across thousands of troops like a chariot. She did not have that great impact. She could break through a path with her body collision alone...

In this way, after a while, the Celtic army continued to retreat, but there was a problem. On the way back, a heavy Roman infantry seized the opportunity, concentrated the javelin and shot in one round, then charged, and another gap broke out. The already scattered formation collapsed. If Artoria hadn't rushed over to break up the Roman army, it would have been a big loss in the moment.

"Damn it-Hussar!"

Under such circumstances, Artoria had no choice but to make such an order. He wanted to roam around the battlefield and charge once when he saw a flaw, or he would attack with a hussar who used the crossbow in his hand to shoot at a long range.

Because this army was not her soldiers, but was lent to her by Egil. So before that, Artoria was not very embarrassed to give them a death order. However, Artoria didn't care about much. If this army was not used, then she would probably only be this army after a while. The Celtic army was in a long time to form a war in the year. There were wins and losses. But it seemed that now, it was rare that it would be annihilated one step. Therefore, Artoria also made up his mind.

"The Hussars went around the back of the Celtics, and they were ready to line up. Substitute the Celtic troops to fight the enemy!" Artoria ordered the Knights of the Front Guards to blow the horn immediately. The cavalrymen also immediately took action and moved to the road where the Celtic troops retreated. The front guards dismounted with swords and shields. The defenders dismounted with bows and did not dismount. They formed a standard array with guards. Although they suffered a little in terms of equipment and numbers, they knew that they were well-trained. They were not easy to mess with.

Seeing that there was such an army behind, the Celtics, who were struggling to support, immediately breathed a sigh of relief. The nearest troops immediately turned around, ran through the gaps that the Hussars had empty, and left the battlefield. In this way, the Celtic troops continued to retreat, leaving the Norman Hussars. The retreat speed was a little faster. In a while, more than 10,000 troops retreated cleanly. When they left, the horse-riding militias who had long lost their combat effectiveness.

In this way, the Celtic army retreated successfully◆The cavalry did not love to fight. Under the leadership of Artoria, they fought with the Romans for a moment. They didn't get any advantage, but they didn't suffer any losses. Looking at the sky was already dusk. After a while, the Celtic army might have walked a distance.

The Hussars, who had a deep heart, did not hesitate and turned over the horses and bows and crossbows to shoot at the Romans. Then Artoria took the lead and drove a bloody road. After all, it was a cavalry unit, making it easier to break through. However, in the previous fierce battle, less than four thousand cavalry lost a team of more than a thousand people. In addition, the previous battle was damaged, the four thousand hussars were more than half. It was also considered a trauma.

"Damn it! She actually ran away! You actually let her go! You couldn't kill her!!!" Seeing Artoria leading the army away, Liliannu roared without any grace. She was really frightened by Artoria.

After that, the queen still thought of sending cavalry to pursue her. However, there were no cavalry under her command who could take on this task. The Seljuk cavalry, which was not equipped with heavy cavalry, were previously concentrated in the Roman phalanx and acted as archers. They were unable to concentrate them for a while.

To take another step back, it is to concentrate them together, whether they can beat the elite Hussars or say a little bit. Facing the roaring and furious queen, the Roman soldiers were speechless. Finally, after venting hysterically for a while, Liliannu returned to normal and looked at the messy battlefield. She was also lost.

"The whole army, rest for three days≌≌ to pick up the battlefield. Then... we will go back to Constantinople."

After hearing Liliannu's words, the Roman soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, and no one refuted it, and they all went back to sleep. Only Liliannu stayed on the battlefield for a while. Looking at the devastated eyes, they couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, and their grasp of the fate of the empire became slim again.

The battle ended like this.

Artoria's final decision saved the remaining 11,000 Celtic soldiers. Her 30,000 army lost nearly 20,000, including more than 1,000 precious heavy knights. However, the Norman reinforcements lost far less than this number. The Hussars lost less than 2,000, and the horse militia also lost less than 2,000. When the ten thousand cavalry returned, there was a 7,000-plus number. Artoria still had a bonus of 20,000 to fight. This is what many people think: it is difficult to say if the battle continues.

However, the casualties of the Roman army were much larger than those of the Celtics. They lost all the mercenaries and most elite veterans. The heavy infantry and reserve corps on the front also suffered heavy losses. The losses of elite soldiers such as the armored paladins, guard heavy cavalry, and Argontopuri heavy cavalry were even more unacceptable... In this way, a total of 130,000 Roman troops eventually survived - because the battle was too tragic, people had to use the word "survival".

The final survivor of the Roman army was nearly half of 74,000.

In addition, when the battlefield was finally cleaned up, something like this happened. The Romans only buryed the bodies of the Greeks. The other mercenaries and enemies ignored them. The European monsters had no interest at all. On the battlefield, hundreds of European monsters were left without anyone to care. The most conspicuous one was that both eyes were blind, wearing tattered armor, and the size was one size larger than other European monsters.

It was during this period that several brave veterans came to it and wanted to cut off something from it as a souvenir. After returning, they also had deeds that could be bragged about.

They first approached the monster carefully and found that its wounds had begun to smell bad. Some flies surrounded the wounds, biting its rotten flesh, and their bodies were cold and stiff. After looking at its nose, they confirmed that there was no breath.

After completing these inspections, the veterans completely relaxed and looked at each other with a smile, then pulled out the dagger that had been prepared long ago, and wanted to saw off the horns of Minotaurus' metallic luster.

However, when they were preparing to do so, a sticky, phlegm-filled roar sounded again, making people frightened! Then the monster raised the nearest person beside him, opened his mouth and bit it, biting the man's upper body off!

After seeing this scene, the others were scared crazy. Some of them peed their pants. Some veterans who had been fighting were screaming loudly like women, using their hands and feet, rolling and crawling, and running back to the barracks without looking back. When people asked them what was going on, they stuttered the matter.

Then, a fully armed 100-man team arrived at the site of the accident. They found that Minotaurus's body was still in place, still lying on the ground, still silent. However, the unlucky man with fresh blood and his upper body bitten in his mouth also proved that the veterans did not lie.

Is it because of too many murders that caused the conditioned reflex after death, or is it because of the fierce spirit of Minotaurus that he did not want anyone to blaspheme its corpse? People have no way of knowing it. However, after careful, he brought out the Roman soldier in half and buried it, no one dared to harass the monster's corpse until it was close to it.

Finally, with the loss of time, Minotaurus, the world's most powerful Ou Monster warrior, was finally solved by scavengers and microorganisms. Its bones were also blown away by the wind, covered by dust, and eventually disappeared without a trace. However, there are still rumors circulating near Fort Adrian: Ou Monster who eats human flesh, its burial place, and the fact that it would crawl out of the cemetery and attack humans again...

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