Chapter two hundred and seventy-fifth hunting action
The five thousand dragon cavalry commanded by Key Yan, Jiang Lei and others are actually not afraid of a head-on charge with the Acrylic Legion with only a small number of cavalry.
As long as Jiang Lei and the others command properly and use the kite-flying tactics to their full potential, there is no chance that the five thousand dragon cavalry will eat away at the enemy army of more than fifty thousand people bit by bit.
However, before setting off for the expedition, the commander-in-chief had already warned that after pursuing the enemy, he must try his best to save the lives of his own soldiers and minimize losses.
Ke Yan and the others could only watch helplessly as the acrylic army huddled together, gradually retreated under the cover of the shield soldiers, and wandered on both sides of the enemy's battle formation on horseback, waiting for opportunities to sneak attack and fire arrows.
Although the tactics of the Acrylic Legion gradually achieved some results, from time to time the screams of Roman soldiers hitting arrows echoed in the wind and snow. Every scream would always cause a small stir in the Roman Legion.
A small commotion.
A team of ten dragon archers wandering on both sides of the Roman battle formation watched the arrows they shot hit the enemy. They raised a sneer at the corners of their mouths and quickly picked up their big yellow bows and galloped away, evacuating the enemy archers.
Within range.
When the enemy's mind was once again focused on retreat, Dalong's archers once again approached quickly on horseback, shot a wave of cold arrows and immediately withdrew without any intention of fighting.
Often, after they galloped out of the range of the archers, the arrows from the Roman soldiers' counterattacks gradually covered the position where they were placed for a sneak attack.
Toward these enemies who were like living targets, the Grand Dragoon was like a cat playing with a mouse, happily toying with them along the way.
"Report! Your Highness, the dragon enemies wandering on both sides of us are too despicable. They used the speed of their horses to approach our troops on both sides and fired a wave of cold arrows before quickly retreating, waiting for our archers to fight back.
By that time, they had already disappeared into the snow on horseback.
Every sneak attack by the enemy with cold arrows can take away the lives of at least three of our soldiers. In just one hour, we have lost more than 400 brothers under the cold arrows of the enemy archers.
It simply won’t work if we continue like this, it would be too passive for us.”
Alec looked around at his own soldiers whose morale was somewhat low, and waved his riding whip fiercely.
"Asshole, these big dragons have no sense of chivalry at all. When they reach an area with a clear view, I will make them pay with their blood.
Huck, go and send an order to the generals in each department, telling them not to be blinded by anger and take the initiative to pursue the despicable dragon enemy.
The enemy is now eager for us to disperse and pursue them! As long as we pursue them on impulse, we will definitely fall into their scheme.
The enemy has been sneaking around and firing cold arrows, which just shows that their military strength is not as good as ours, otherwise they would have surrounded us in one fell swoop and taken the initiative to attack.
By doing this, they are deliberately provoking us and irritating us, hoping to spread our formation so that they can defeat us one by one.
There are mostly infantry on our side. Once they disperse, they will be immediately surrounded by the enemy's cavalry and gradually cannibalized.
They are cavalry, and their speed is too fast. Our two legs cannot catch up with the four legs of the war horses. The most beneficial way for us is to stay together and maintain a battle formation that is both offensive and defensive at all times.
Tell the soldiers that as long as they stick to their formation, the enemy army of Dalong, which is not as powerful as ours, will only dare to make sneak attacks and not dare to take the initiative to attack.
When we arrive in our Roman territory, I will immediately mobilize the cavalry from Bulgaria to join us. At that time, it will be time for the dragon enemy to pay with blood.
The small gains and losses in front of you are nothing, you must have a big picture view."
"After receiving the order, the general will go immediately to deliver the order."
A moment after Hack left on horseback, several more shrill screams from the battle formation on the south side of the Roman legion reached Acrylic's ears.
Acrylic glanced towards the south, gritted his teeth and took a few deep breaths of air-conditioning, forcing himself to suppress the anger and slight uneasiness in his heart.
"Commander, let the trombone player blow the trumpet to order the soldiers of the three armies to maintain their formation and speed up the evacuation."
"It's an order."
The trumpets in the Roman legion sounded again after a few cups of tea, and the Roman soldiers retreated much faster.
In the wind and snow on the north side of the Roman Legion, Jiang Lei and Ke Yan put down their telescopes with complicated expressions, and looked at each other with frowning brows.
"Brother Ke, this Acrylic is really a character, it seems not as easy to deal with as we thought!
After we teased him like this, he actually showed no intention of fighting back, and instead sped up his retreat."
"Yes! It is indeed not simple, but it is reasonable when you think about it. He is both a prince and the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces. There are some simple people who hold high positions and hold real power.
He must be very aware now that with Xue Mu blocking his sight, it would be very detrimental to them if he continues to struggle with us.
After all, we can retreat in one blow with the strength of our horses, while their infantry cannot catch up with them even if they rely on their two legs.
Brother Wei guesses that this guy must have been planning to wait until he got to an area where there is no wind and snow to obstruct his vision and clean up with us!"
Jiang Lei sneered twice: "Hmph...the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
If Acrylic, that bastard, knew that tens of thousands of my Dragon Heavenly Army were waiting for him to get in ahead of us! He would definitely stop retreating and have a good fight with us, and then take a roundabout route and flee to Rome.
Empire.
What a pity! God’s calculations are not as good as those of humans, and his acrylic is destined to die.
The Roman Kingdom was about to plunge into the abyss because of his impulsive actions.
But that's fine, they brought it to your doorstep by themselves, which saves us from having to rack our brains to find excuses to attack the Roman Kingdom in the future.
This battle of acrylic can be regarded as a mistake, and it gave us a legitimate reason to be famous.
It’s true that if God does evil, you can disobey it, but if you do evil on your own, you won’t be able to survive!”
Listening to Jiang Lei's sighing words, Ke Yan smiled like an aunt, pulled the reins of his horse and galloped forward.
"The enemy has sped up their evacuation, and they will also expose more flaws. Brother Jiang, let the brothers take action. Let's see which of our brothers has the better military exploits in this battle."
"No problem, the loser will buy a drink."
"agree."
Naturally, Ya Aili and the others, who were running for their lives, didn't know that before they knew it, their own soldiers and horses had become gambling money on the drinking table of a group of dragon generals.
Just as Key Yan expected, as the Roman legions accelerated their retreat, more gaps and flaws were exposed.
Under the orders of generals like Key Yan, Xiong Kaishan, Jiang Lei, etc., the dragon archers who had already sharpened their swords once again rushed into the wind and snow to hunt down the enemy.
One after another, the phoenix-feather arrows or wooden-feather arrows shimmering with cold light left the string and shot towards the dense formation of Roman soldiers.
Even if there were shield bearers on the outside to protect them, each wave of cold arrows fired by the dragon soldiers could always take away three or five unlucky Roman soldiers.
Listening to the miserable screams of the soldiers on the left and right, although Yali wanted to bite his teeth into pieces and swallow them, he still managed to maintain his composure as a commander.
He knew extremely well in his heart that the best way to protect his soldiers was to quickly evacuate from this snowy world.
The journey to the Roman border was supposed to only take three days, but under the constant harassment of five thousand dragon cavalry, the Roman legions walked for seven days before reaching the Frankish border.
The torturous days of the dragon cavalry constantly firing cold arrows for sneak attacks also lasted for seven days.
During these seven days, the Dragon Cavalry continued the tried-and-tested kite-flying tactic, causing the morale of tens of thousands of Roman legionaries to continue to decline.
It was not until around noon on the seventh day that three dragon scouts rode up to Keyan and other generals, and the dragon cavalry's destruction of the Roman soldiers stopped.