Chapter 192 (1/2)
It inter when the decisive battle of the second crusade finally began That battle was later referred to as the 'Sandwich Biscuits'1
After tense preparations by the Roland Continent Coalition Aran
Tiger had already lost confidence in the war However, as the Supreer carefully arranged for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of soldiers
Since it was a retreat, it was inevitable to leave a few soldiers behind to guard the rear As the various groups had different ideas, there was a heated debate to decide who should stay behind to guard the rear
Tiger did not participate in the discussion He just sat there and sneered as he watched the others quarrel
Finally, they decided to leave behind the infantry regidom
The one known as the second-rate infantry throughout the as entrusted with the i death
After leaving behind thirty thousand of the Goethe Kingdohts of the Sauron Kingdom and the sorcerers They were the first to retreat from the battlefield
Tiger no longer wanted to bother with the other groups of soldiers As for the infantry of Goethe Kingdoer did not believe that they could acco off the enedom's soldiers were not so brave and would probably surrender
”Let us wait and die! All of us are just waiting to die!” Tiger's eyes were cold as he looked at the main camp behind him ”They sent us to our deaths in this war!”
Milo was an outstanding general Prejudices aside, he actually was quite capable
Without the Lightning God's Whip under his coan his pursuit of the Roland army
Milo did not dispatch all the troops at once In the beginning, he carefully sent out a few troops to harass the enemy to slon their retreat He tried his best to delay them
It would not be wise to fight directly with the enemy now
Consuy and your food supplies!
The infantry of the Goethe Kingdo the rear collectively surrendered after two days Thirty thousand people became prisoners
That was all as expected by Tiger Whatever the case, the thirty thousand prisoners would be able to delay the ar them
However, Tiger or perhaps, everybody from the Roland Continent was shocked by what happened next
All thirty thousand prisoners were ordered to be slaughtered by Milo within the night
Although many officers did not support Milo's decision and many, in fact, even complained to His Excellency the Duke but His Excellency the Duke still did not show up The 'Duke' remained in the tent and told them, ”Go and ask General Milo
Within the night, all thirty thousand Roland prisoners were executed Milo surrounded the prisoners in the barracks of the Roland aran to attack The sound of fighting lasted throughout the night as the soil was dyed red
Milo did not have any intention of cleaning up the battlefield He ordered his soldiers to burn the barracks of the Roland ar with the corpses
Although many military officers of the Empire objected to Milo's actions, they could not disobey his co those thirty thousand prisoners, ould need to allocate at least twenty thousand soldiers to watch over them! We do not have that many people and it is impossible to leave behind twenty thousand soldiers on the plain and waste them on those prisoners!”
Milo's last sentence was also straightforward, ”No mercy for invaders!”
Because of Milo's harassment, the Roland arons and only took along their supplies
Milo was clever and did not send his arht cavalries to go back and forth to harass the Roland army so that they could not retreat peacefully Meanwhile, his main army steadily approached from behind
He ' tactic in the current situation
It was a full five days when the exhausted Roland army finally arrived at the south side of Thunder City They had already put in their utmost effort
Tiger was not surprised to find the Holy Knights at their wit's end below the city wall
As expected, the Holy Knights were unable to recapture Thunder City
Tiger had a ridiculous thought when he looked at the banner of the Tulip Family above the city wall — he felt like he was just a bystander and the predica to do with him
It was now necessary for a last-ditch effort The Roland army became desperate in the face of the predicaardless of which kingdoed towards the banner of the Tulip Fa above the wall of Thunder City
They were greeted with arrows and stones
The joke was that those arrows and also the food used by the Lightning God's Whip, in Thunder City, were all initially the hoarded supplies of the Roland army
So, a strange battle began The Roland arht between Thunder City and Milo's aran a fierce battle at Thunder City while they were being attacked from behind by Milo's army
Frankly speaking, if it was just the tens of thousands of the Lightning God's Whip fighting against the hundreds of thousands of the Roland army and also their team of skillful sorcerers, the city would be destroyed sooner or later
However, Milo, behind the Roland ar them a headache
Tiger was confident of ending the battle at the Thunder City if the Roland army had a month's worth of time
Milo's army had already left its line of defense at the plain In an open area, their superior army should be able to defeat Milo's army However, that would still take time
Although Thunder City's defense was solid, the tens of thousands Lightning God's Whip were obviously outnuer was confident of winning back Thunder City if he had sufficient time
Unfortunately, the problem was still time The food supplies left in the army would only last for two more days
Two days… Tiger could not help but laugh dryly What is next? First, we go hungry When we can no longer tolerate the hunger, ill start killing the horses After losing the horses, the Holy Knights possibly could not even defeat the enemy's heavy armor infantries After that, ould we do? Will we start eating people? Hahaha… This is ridiculous!
The 'Sandwich Biscuit' battle lasted four days before the Roland ariven up
Both sides sent ers to and fro for a day After that, the Radiant Eiment Commander, the Duke of the Tulip Family, announced the acceptance of the surrender conditions and ensured that the prisoners of ould not be slaughtered as Milo's actions had already caused a deep fear in the Roland army
It was during that winter that the second crusade, that had lasted two months, finally ended
At the city walls south of Thunder City, five hundred thousand of the Roland Continent Coalition Arion of Radiant Empire had accepted the surrender of the Roland army In that war, the Roland Coalition Arht hundred thousand soldiers Al became prisoners of war
Likewise, the Eold coins had been spent on the war Besides that, less than three hundred thousand soldiers remained of the four hundred thousand soldiers that went to the North A the casualties, the Flame Warriors had lost thirty thousand soldiers while the Northern Legion lost one hundred thousand soldiers The elite Lightning God's Whip had fifty thousand soldiers before the war but after the war, they only had less than thirty thousand soldiers re