Chapter 50 The Night
Of course, Egil didn't know about these things. **《》** and he didn't need to know. His current task is to stop the pursuers. He didn't care about the Mongolian army that had already rushed over. In fact, it would be troublesome enough to stop the Mongolian army that was now desperate and wanted to defeat him.
"Get together! Raise the spear! Think about how you do it during training!" Egil fought on the front line, holding a demon knife in his hand and killing countless people. While harvesting heads, he wandered in the array, shouting loudly and boosting morale.
The current situation is almost exactly the same as before, but the attack and defense have completely reversed. The Norman Empire's palace army is also guarding the gate of the outer city on the west side - the only passage in the fortress, which can pass through a large number of soldiers, and is under the crazy and desperate attack of the Mongols. Just like before, the Norman Imperial Guard attacked the same location where the Mongolian heavy troops were stationed. Speaking of which, this is probably a cycle of cause and effect, and the retribution is unhappy...
In this way, Egil commanded the army, arranged the shield, blocked the bow and crossbow, and counterattacked the long axe and sword. He commanded a group of militias to recruit militias and repelled the Mongols' attacks several times in a row. Then, he began to retreat in the gap between the opponent's attacks - from another completely fallen fortress, which could also be passed. If he did not retreat at this moment and continued to push here, the opponent would probably react and chase after a while, and at the same time sent troops to block the retreat of the palace army. It would be bad at that time.
"Retreat." In this way, the Norman soldiers who had fought for most of the day began to retreat to the west in an orderly manner under Egil's arrangement. Seeing the sweaty and dirty soldiers, Egil frowned tightly. Although he could use words and tricks to make these soldiers' morale high, the lost physical strength and hunger would still reduce their combat effectiveness.♀♀ made Egil feel very uneasy.
Especially what he had to do next was to fight against millions of Mongolian troops he might encounter in the wilderness with 20,000 troops alone. Egil was not just feeling uneasy.
"While ensuring that the main force can break through smoothly, we must also ensure that I can survive!" Egil thought so while quickly calculating.
After fighting for a while, only more than 20,000 were left. If you fight hard, you will definitely suffer a loss. You will have a geographical advantage of the city wall for a while. The Mongolian cavalry can't use it to gain the upper hand. However, if you continue to retreat to the rear, this advantage will be gone...
But what if this is not the case? The mission of the palace back is so sad. It will be a life-threatening death.
While sighing like this, Egil urged the army to continue moving forward. After more than half an hour of marching, seeing the army being exhausted, Egil had no choice but to order the army to divide into three teams and take turns to rest and eat.
After hearing this news, the soldiers' originally tense nerves finally relaxed. The soldiers who were ordered to rest called "Oh" and fell to the ground to rest, drink water and eat food. However, Egil was still very nervous. He kept warning the soldiers: "Just eat half full. If you eat too much, you will not be able to fight the next time! Talk to the people around you, don't fall asleep. Otherwise, you will be confused when you wake up! This is a fatal matter!" Around him, a group of guard knights, led by the Knight Captain Alpha, were still guarding Egil meticulously.
"You guys have a rest, this is an order!" For these desperate knights, nothing is more useful than the word "command". Egil shouted for a long time and felt very dry and too lazy to talk to them in detail. So, just when Egil was dry, a water bag suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Master, you can take a break, too." This relatively neutral voice was Egil's personal bodyguard Sonia.
Egil felt a little relieved, and said "yes". He took the water bag, opened it and fed it a few times. He thought about it again. He felt that there was nothing missing, so the horse of the bridge walked under a crooked tree. He sat down next to him without caring about the dirt. Sonia also followed Egil and stood beside Egil.
"You should take a rest, too." Seeing Sonia still on guard, Egil couldn't bear it. So he said.
"I'm very sorry, master. But I can't accept it." Sonia said in great confusion.
"Then please." Egil, who knew Sonia's personality, stopped talking, closed his eyes and started to rest for more than two hours. Three groups of soldiers were resting for a while, and also ate food and water. At least he recovered some physical strength. The moon was already rising. Egil opened his eyes, took out his pocket watch and looked. After confirming that the time had passed, he began to urge the army to continue moving forward. In less than half an hour, a faint sound of horse hooves made Egil scream in secret.
"The whole army is on guard! Get ready for battle!!" Egil immediately pulled out his knife and ordered.
The soldiers of the recruiting army were not produced by the system, but they couldn't understand the horn order. Although Egil also ordered and trained the soldiers to recognize the horn sound. However, the result was not ideal. Therefore, the slogan was still roaring, and his voice was also of the slogan. Fortunately, the guard knights under Egil were very good. Egil shouted like this, and immediately, more than 90 guard knights shouted together. The voice spread farther and farther. Soon, the 20,000 soldiers were all ready for battle. The shield spearmen were arranged into dense arrays, with crossbowmen in front, and the archers attacking the infantry behind. Finally, a very tough U-shaped lunar formation...
Just when the Norman Empire broke through, Genghis Khan was anxiously waiting for news from the front line. In the evening, he heard that the other party finally broke out of the fortress. Genghis Khan's heart was half cold. Later, Mongolian general Zhebe came back to apologize and said that he could not kill Egir. Genghis Khan's heart suddenly became cold.
"One or two, all of them are useless! The deer with a lame leg can let you let go!" Genghis Khan was furious and roared like this, his face turned red. Looking at the Mongolian generals who were kneeling below and didn't even dare to leave the atmosphere, he knocked over the golden bowl of horse-dried wine on the table. Then he coughed violently.
"Father, Father Khan... Pay more attention to his health..." Hearing Genghis Khan's severe cough, his favorite youngest son Tore, he dared to pluck up his head and said carefully.
"If you didn't get angry with me so much, how could I do this?" Genghis Khan roared like this, followed by another cough. After hearing this, the Mongolian generals were embarrassed to death.
And just when he was so embarrassed that he was about to die, a command suddenly came from outside the camp. A Mongolian scout took two steps at a time, quickly walked into the camp of the Central Army, knelt down on one knee and shouted: "Report to the Khan! The vanguard troops found that there was something wrong with the other party's army, and suspected that Emperor Norman was among them."
"What?! Did you say that Emperor Norman didn't escape at the first time?!" Genghis Khan felt much better when he heard the messenger say this and began to think about it. After a while, another messenger reported: "Khan, our elite cavalry has caught up with the opponent's remaining soldiers and the path of advancing between the opponent!"
After that, it was even shorter than the last one - but it was the one sent by Ogedei, who had the most eyes on the center of the Mongolian generals.
"Your Khan! You have asked Norman for captives! The other emperor is indeed the commander of the palace army and has not run far!"
"Okay! The blessing of immortality!!" Hearing three good news in a row made Genghis Khan's mood improve a lot. And the Mongolian generals breathed a sigh of relief. After hearing Genghis Khan assign the mission, he went out and prepared to lead the troops, and attacked overnight. He twisted off the head of the Norman Emperor.
Genghis Khan couldn't sit still this time, and Bei took action himself. However, when he was about to step out of the camp, he suddenly felt a little dizzy. His body slanted and almost fell. The Mongolian general Zhebe, who was walking next to him, was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and helped him.
"Sweat? Should I take a break?" Zhebe said in a low voice.
"It's okay. As long as I kill that emperor, I can rest for as long as I want. As for now, it's not possible." Genghis Khan's eyes were bright when he said this, but his tired expression could not be concealed no matter what.
"Khan... I will definitely kill him next time!" Zhebo looked at the lord who had the kindness of knowing him and felt very sad. He couldn't help but say this.
"Well, it all depends on you." Genghis Khan forced a smile.
At the same time, when the Mongolian army was ready to go, Emperor Norman also discovered that what he encountered was a group of scouts with light and fast horses. After tentatively charging forward several times, these scouts were repelled by the Norman crossbows and spears, they carefully patrolled the imperial array and did not attack again. They seemed to be waiting for reinforcements.
"Let's go!" I felt that my position was too flat and not suitable for fighting against the cavalry. So I jumped up, stood up from the horse's back, took out my telescope and looked at the nearest hilly area. Then I asked the army to advance.
While the palace army was moving, the Mongolian light cavalry tried to attack several times. It still failed. They had to disperse the range of the Norman crossbow from afar to prevent the Normans from escaping. (To be continued...
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