Chapter 756 (1/2)
With the belated main force of Byrne and the sunset in the red sky, the day's battle came to an end.
In order to raid the supply team of the Centaur army without alerting the other party, only less than 1000 Hussars and a ”Duke guard” of the half flag regiment were mobilized in this battle, plus 500 silver Armored Cavalry that Sarika insisted on bringing.
Although the reason why she did this needs to be studied, the final result proved that the decision was extremely correct.
Dwarf warriors with more than a thousand people... They fought very tenaciously, even after the front was torn apart, they were still fighting tenaciously. Even the charge of silver armor cavalry could not break their fighting will.
It can be said that without the charge of the silver cavalry, the only thing Loren and Sarika can do is to let the Hussars and Duke guards attack again and again against huge casualties.
They are sure to win in the end, but if a raid turns into a tragic scuffle, it is no different from failure.
The dwarves, although still completely annihilated, did the terrible act of ”fighting to the last soldier”... So that they didn't even catch a prisoner except 20 seriously wounded soldiers.
Even Byrne knights and imperial legions can't find any army that can do this - even the elite of duanjie mountain should break up half of the dead unless there is a supervisor team or forced to a desperate situation.
This shocked Loren far more than any previous battle.
”This is the dwarf, the enemy who once ruled Byrne and fought with us for hundreds of years... Respectable and fearsome.”
In the camp, Eckert stood behind Lauren, looked at the pile of bones beside the distant motorcade, and said silently, ”even if they are down now, they are still a very terrible force.”
”Stubborn, conservative, strong self-esteem, deep-rooted discipline and obedience... No one wants to fight this enemy.”
It seemed that he didn't think it was enough to express his meaning. Ike, with a heavy expression, repeated again: ”no one.”
As the sky darkened, the soldiers outside the camp had basically cleaned the battlefield and were ready to build a temporary camp for overnight stay.
”So... How did we defeat them?” Lauren asked, ”how did the bain people drive them out of Bain and block them in the Yunling Kingdom among the mountains?”
”Iron and blood, will and faith, courage and determination.” Eckert said faintly.
Loren was silent, chewing the words.
”The first to raise the flag was the bain people from the North - but their resistance soon failed. In front of the disciplined dwarf heavy regiment, the insurgents' army can only be regarded as local chickens and dogs, and will be defeated in one charge.” the count of fury Castle said:
”Among them, there is your ancestor, the ancestor of the Turin family.”
Loren raised his eyebrows unnaturally and subconsciously avoided his sight.
”Although the war was a disastrous defeat, it set off a wave of uprising, and let the northern insurgents elect their own leaders - your ancestors, Turin is one of them.” Eckert sighed slightly:
”In that war, he realized the biggest difference between the rebel army and the dwarf army, discipline and obedience.”
The black haired wizard nodded, ”what happened then? Did he win?”
Eckert shook his head and gave a negative answer.
”The ancestor of Turin... The great hero has been experiencing tragic defeat and flight all his life; his history is almost one of the darkest years of Bain. With the uprising, hundreds of thousands of Bain people were slaughtered on the battlefield or elsewhere.”
”But the turbulent Byrne colony has made the internal affairs of the dwarves very unstable... Fifty years later, the second generation Turin finally took advantage of the opportunity of the civil strife of the dwarves to capture a dwarf fortress and have its own chassis.”
Loren showed curious eyes: ”red blood castle?”
”It's a rock castle.” Eckert gave a direct answer:
”The castle was originally intended to resist the attack of trolls. It was abandoned by dwarves after the civil war began - Turin, the second generation leading 20000 rebels, captured the fortress with only 600 dwarves after paying the price of thousands of deaths and injuries.”
”Because this fortress has abundant supplies, various advanced dwarf facilities can provide weapons and equipment. The dead and wounded insurgents are blessed with steel forged armor and weapons for the first time.”
”The heavy armor makes the dwarf's crossbow and arrow no longer a nightmare of death;