The war is not over.
Although in terms of most aristocratic wars in this era, this war should have come to an end when the Cecil people won a complete victory on the northern and western fronts and the southern aristocratic coalition fled. The next step should be for the Cecil people to use the captured prisoners to negotiate with various families in the south and use ransoms and land to divide their interests. However, these are all wishful thinking of the nobles who launched the war.
The war may start because of their ridiculous reasons for crusade, but it will never end with a battle or a surrender.
The main fleeing force of the coalition forces was the main force of Horsman in the north. The 50,000-strong noble coalition actually suffered less than 10,000 casualties in that battle. Their long and chaotic team, rugged and difficult mountain roads, and messy marching routes caused them to instantly lose their lives when faced with artillery bombardment. The reason for the collapse, but on the other hand, it also allowed most of them to survive. The first round of artillery strikes only destroyed the vanguard of the coalition forces (including the entire regiment led by Count Horsman). In the next half day, the coalition forces fled and stampeded, the knights who supervised the battle hacked and killed, and people who fell off the cliff during the retreat even died. Just as many people were killed by artillery fire.
Subsequently, the 40,000 people who survived began to flee in embarrassment day and night.
In addition to leaving behind the necessary troops to ensure the safety of the Kant area, the first and second corps led by Knight Philip and Knight Walder Perich, totaling more than 3,000 people, have always been biting these from a distance. The fleeing enemy.
Three thousand people chasing forty thousand people, this sounds almost like a joke, but it really happened.
In the hilly land in the west of the Carroll Territory, Knight Philip, who carried the lord's order, hurriedly took a few mouthfuls of dry food, and then came to the middle of the team to check the layout of the artillery position.
Specially designed horse-drawn chariots were parked in the open space in the center of the military formation. Soldiers ran quickly around the chariots, fixing the chassis of each vehicle, and inspecting What about those little orbital accelerator guns.
The wheels of those chariots are reinforced with steel, and a strong steel frame is welded to the sleeve of the wheel axle. The miniaturized "Persuader" rail gun is fixed on those steel frames.
This is the "artillery tank" specially designed by the Lord for mobile combat. The miniaturized "Persuader" rail gun can be easily installed on a horse-drawn tank. When entering combat mode, the battle tank The harness of the vehicle will be removed, and the surroundings of the vehicle body will be fixed to the ground with thick steel fixing piles. The recoil generated by the railgun firing will be buffered and stabilized by the strong steel frame and a specially designed "retreat mechanism". After spreading to the earth, relying on these exquisite designs, these powerful weapons were finally able to break away from the fixed forts and become terrifying weapons that moved with the army.
In order to ensure the operation of these artillery tanks, an artillery tank will also be equipped with two auxiliary tanks - one of which is fully loaded with artillery shells, and the other is equipped with a large magic capacitor. and Leyline Device, frontThe first provides ammunition, and the latter provides energy. Three such tanks will form a "mobile artillery unit", and there are a total of twenty such artillery units in the pursuit force.
These artillery pieces are the source of nightmares for the noble coalition forces who are still on the run.
These advanced and powerful weapons are already incredibly powerful equipment in the eyes of the young knights, but Philip knows that these things are just "transitional items" in the lord's mouth. The legendary hero seems to still have It has a more powerful and incredible idea than the mobile artillery unit, but for the task at hand, those things that only exist in the idea are not important. These magic crystal rail guns in front of them are the real power of the Cecil Combat Corps.
The well-trained soldiers completed the construction of the artillery position as quickly as possible, and then began to wait for the commander's order. Knight Philip raised his head and saw the old knight Walder Perici. is walking towards him.
"The sentry saw the smoke, and the enemy was at the predetermined position."
The old knight from the Kant Territory reported the report meticulously, and then looked at those people with an expression of awe. He glanced at the ready artillery unit, while Philip looked up at the sun in the sky, silently estimating the time in his mind.
A few minutes later, the young knight whispered: "They should start eating."
Then he turned his head and shouted an order to the nearby messenger: "Start shelling, three Fire!"
The gunners received the order and pulled the levers of the bombardment. Along with a series of bursts of air and sharp whistles, twenty magic crystals wrapped in the light of light cyan magic were fired. The orbital bomb has rushed out of the muzzle with a devastating momentum and drawn faint arcs in the clear sky.
Continuous huge explosions began to be heard in the distance. The explosions occurred far away from the smoke and dust, but everyone knew that the noble deserters had been frightened by the shells, even if the shells fell. Even when they are thousands of meters away, they will flee immediately after hearing the sound.
After three volleys, the artillery position stopped firing, and the orderlies ran in the position to deliver new orders: "The tanks are ready!" "The first group of light infantry, the second group of light infantry set off!" "The grenadiers set off with the tanks!"
The well-trained First Corps of Cecil immediately began to execute the order, and the Second Corps from the Kant area was infected in this atmosphere. They all took action, and Walder Peric looked at Philip Knight with an expression of admiration: "I didn't expect that you can be so experienced in combat at such a young age. Are all you Cecil people so good at combat?"
An uneasy smile appeared on Knight Philip's face. The old knight's praise sounded a little awkward to him: "This...Actually, I was just following the lord's orders and prompts. I didn't even think of this myself. The means will be so useful."
As he said this, Philip couldn't help but recall what Gawain told him.Instructions——
After the battle, pursue the fleeing noble coalition forces. Continuous pursuit, use long-range light artillery fire and continuous harassment to exhaust the enemy to the limit; follow the noble coalition forces along the way and attack At every garrison where they stay, try to expel them from the garrison before they obtain supplies, and use the enemy's food supplies as your own source of food and grass; if possible, open the granaries of every noble along the way, In addition to supplying rations for the troops, all food was distributed to nearby residents in the name of Cecil; the well-trained and well-equipped Cecil First Corps served as the main attack, and the Second Corps from the Kant area accompanied them, constantly arresting stragglers. enemy prisoners and send them to the rear, imposing the strictest military control in the process...
This will be a competition to test the limits of endurance and psychological endurance. The one who cannot bear it first will , must be the coalition of nobles who are in panic all day long amid the sound of cannons.
After that decisive victory, this pursuit, which was destined to be very long, had been going on for three days. Although it was only three days, Philip felt more and more about the lord's power in every day of the pursuit. The command was effective and... scary.
The lord seemed to have anticipated the direction of this war, and even anticipated the enemy's direction and most of the reactions after the defeat. Cecil's army seemed to be chasing and biting a group of weak sheep. In the process, war has become something that has nothing to do with honor, but it has an increasingly bloody and cruel flavor.
As an orthodox knight who pursues chivalry, Philip still chooses to carry out these orders, not only because of his loyalty, but also because of his reason-reason tells him that this seemingly cruel action is actually This is the way to restore peace to the southern border as soon as possible. Only when those stupid nobles are completely defeated will he not have to carry out another gravel ridge bombardment in a few years.
The army set out, and the seemingly endless pursuit and escape took place again in the vast land of the South. The Cecil combat soldiers, equipped with thermal ray guns and full of physical strength and high morale, began to continue to pursue those soldiers. The remnant soldiers of the nobles were like frightened birds.
After the devastating artillery bombardment three days ago, the noble coalition forces had already been frightened by the roar and explosion of similar artillery shells. In the process of fleeing, they had no extra energy at all. Come to think about how to deal with it, even if a few people still maintain the ability to think rationally, they will be dragged away by tens of thousands of broken soldiers who just want to escape. In this case, Cecil's soldiers almost never encountered Any decent resistance from the enemy.
At the beginning of the pursuit, the few remaining combat teams among the aristocratic remnants also fought back, but these troops who turned back to resist quickly became victims of thermal ray guns. The few survivors became the first batch of prisoners of war received by the pursuit forces, and as the pursuit continued, these resistances became less and less and weaker.
Just like panic, hunger is gradually devouring thisThe physical strength and will of everyone in the noble coalition.
In order to escape, the noble coalition had to abandon a large amount of supplies, including most of the food, on the way to escape. No one thought that the Cecil people would carry out such a terrible act. , chasing without leaving a way to survive, in this endless escape, they soon almost exhausted the dry food they carried, and the Cecil people's almost never-ending artillery fire and harassment gave them no time to stop and normalize Eat.
The fleeing noble coalition tried to retreat to the high walls of Carroll Territory to seek shelter, but the Cecil people used "artillery" to destroy their walls in front of them, and then the coalition forces were like sheep. Forced to flee to the west, they tried to obtain supplies from the garrison points and farms in their respective territories along the way, but the "cannonballs" of the Cecil people would always fall on them like a shadow. Those noble soldiers After running into their own farms and granaries, they would not even have time to take a bite of bread before being driven to the next place by artillery fire in panic - and their food would become the Cecil people's military rations.
The fleeing nobles gradually began to understand. They realized that the Cecil people had no intention of ending the war. They had no intention of stopping and negotiating, and they had no intention of quitting as soon as they saw fit. The nobles who never obeyed The ancient legend of rules has no intention of abiding by aristocratic rules this time - this war is not a noble game, its purpose is to fight to the death.
However, the nobles who woke up had no choice but to continue to flee, and they did not dare to stop until they died of exhaustion.
As they fled day after day, their physical strength and mentality began to hit rock bottom.
(Oh my god!!)