Chapter 512 - Fleeing (1/2)

Chapter 512: Fleeing

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Dugu Xian could not reeneral he had heard of the theory that the real battle began when an ar principle

As such, when he brought an army out to battle, he always retained a reserve unit if possible In this way, he could ensure that his army could retreat in an orderly fashi+on if needed and that it would not be routed

When he was young, he encountered a scene whereby a routine retreat started to fleechased by devils

The generals would usually blame their soldiers, while the ministers behind the scenes would accuse the co incompetent All of theu Xian knehat had happened At that tihting along with the common soldiers in a bloody battle with the enemy

Battlefields are always chaotic, and none of the combatants could control the entire situation Their own fates, as well as that of the coe the perfored forward valiantly, it meant that victory was at hand; but if they were constantly being cut down, itvery badly

The personal impressions of the soldiers and officers who had just retreated back from the frontline usually caused theroup It took just a little provocation, for example, for someone to trip or if the orderly to run a little faster, to spark off an unexpected rout

Dugu Xian preferred to retain a reserve unit The soldiers in this unit would stand behind the battlefield and could observe the entire proceeding like the coht and panic, thereby giving a huge consolation to the soldiers who had actually taken part in the battle

The theory also , one should expend every effort to give chase Everyone usually overlooked the fact that the number of casualties on a battlefield was usually sive up his or her life when the ene down a routing ene party could put in all its effort in attacking and cut down their enemies from behind It was the part of a battle whereby one party could kill the most enemies

This optimal opportunity would only be open for a short while After it had past, the enerouped to fight to their deaths

The party that was originally winning could be defeated by the fleeing enerouped; it was not unprecedented

When the Golden Roc Aru Xian’s first action was to hold his entire arive chase iving chase

He ordered the swordsmen of the Great Snow, and they were to advance swiftly on horseback They were not allowed to stop and attack even if they passed their enemies by; their role was to quickly reach the pre-determined second defense line and to turn back only after they did so, thereby cutting off the routers

The other units, each a thousand strong as well, were divided into taves, and they set off at different tiive chase at a steady pace These units fore encirclement around their enemies and were to slay as u Xian could not control the fact that there would definitely be a group of eneed to escape froh they were routing, the ene this group off, it would instead aid his soldiers in wiping out the reu Xian viewed of hieneral, but he could not help but feel a little excited at thisa proper arh opponent Perhaps, he was not a sreat one, but he made fewer mistakes than anybody else

The accidental chaos caused by the ferance within the Golden Roc Aron aru Xian understood the importance of both events, but they were considered as a surprise The Dragon army was still theenemy It was now up to them to perform at the on King’s efforts would have been for nothing had it not been for the Dragon ar Golden Roc Arrouped sooner or later once its soldiers calmed down and realized that they still had the upper hand If they started another huge battle, it would be entirely iain

Unexpectedly, thethe chase were not the feon King’s orders to reon army They were also not the swordsmen from the Great Snowya in the Wushan e

The unit of 3000 soldiers had joined the Dragon King’s army because of Ha Chilie, the son of the tribal chief of the Eastern Mountains They had not expected that he had defected long ago to the Golden Roc Fort and were nearly suffocated to death in the abandonedwhen they were rescued

Loyalty had to be proved by actions, not words

As the fe on arer to demonstrate their loyalty, especially after they realized that the enemy was defeated

They did not have any horses, so they gave chase on foot They leaped up onto any horse that they could snatch and continued giving chase even if separated from the others, completely fearless

Some of the warriors were a little too excited and rode forth into the ranks of their ene-sabers as they slashed away Their self-confidence e ar Golden Roc soldiers greatly, sonot to resist, even though there were only dozens of tribal soldiers around them

The chase finally winded down as it reached evening tiu Xian paid a personal visit to the tribal soldiers and praised theenerously He then immediately broke them up and absorbed them into the other units; they were too impetuous and were already a bad influence Given that, he had to keep theht control

The chase was a wild affair and there was no rooe of abilities There was no need for Gu Shenwei to take pride in butchering and subduing the enemy soldiers as tribal soldiers did There were on ar of another battle for hied to him and that the four nations on the north coast of the Xiaoyao Lake would not be stolen by some ambitious person