Chapter 392: The Duel
Chapter 392 – The Duel
“Kill!”
In the Fougeres wilderness in the south of the Kingdom of Aldo, two armies were fighting fiercely with shouts that shook the sky.
The kingdom’s army led by Princess Catherine was engaged in a final duel with the rebel army led by Grand Duke Giles.
On a high slope, as the supreme commander of the kingdom’s army, Catherine, who was fully armored, rode on top of a white horse, biting her lower lip tightly as she watched the situation on the battlefield.
By her side, a number of senior generals of the kingdom’s army such as Ofina, Lester, and Walker accompanied her, but there were two senior generals – Duke Dodge and Sir Klein – who were not here, and they were not with Catherine as the commanders of the left and right flanks respectively.
From the early morning fierce battle until now, both armies had exchanged casualties and seemed to be evenly matched.
Next to him, Duke Walker glanced at the princess, wanting to speak.
Now go up to rotate combat is his troops brought from his territory, and already is the second round of combat, casualties are huge, his own family’s many children also in command of the battle was seriously injured, the duke is very heartbroken.
“Your Highness!” The Duke made up his mind and suggested to Catherine, “Isn’t it time to use ‘that’? A drumroll ……”
The so-called “that” was the secret weapon of the kingdom’s army or rather the royal family – Hellfire.
In the Duke’s opinion, the name “Hellfire” was aptly named, as it could not be extinguished by pouring water on it, this kind of terrifying flames must have really come from hell.
However, even in Duke Walker’s position, he only learned of the existence of this terrible weapon this year. In the city guards rebel to occupy the Jingyao in time to rise to serve the king, in the princess set up the south to quell the rebel army once again responded to the call, Duke Walker’s loyalty to the royal family has been recognized, and therefore also into the core of the kingdom’s military circle of power, and thus learned of the royal family has been not to be disclosed to the public the secret weapon.
“Now is not the time!”
Catherine vetoed the Duke’s suggestion without hesitation.
Duke Walker nodded slightly and stopped speaking. He understood the princess’s concerns, Hellfire was extremely small in number despite its power, it was down to the fact that the royal family couldn’t make this kind of thing on their own, and its origins seemed to have something to do with those mysterious pointed ears.
Obviously Her Highness didn’t want to reveal the killer weapon just yet.
Now the hellfire in the army also managed to be delivered not too long ago, almost not in time for the duel.
“Your Highness! The Undying Army has moved out!”
There was a commotion among the generals, pointing at the battlefield in front of them.
At the back of the rebel army, a unit with equipment that was clearly different from the rest of the rebels and a neat pace was slowly approaching the front line.
Catherine looked out over the Immortal Army and shouted, “Lester!”
“Yes!” Lester answered and then rode his horse quickly away from the high slope.
……
About an hour later, two armies carrying the hopes of both sides for victory collided head-on in the middle of the battlefield. One was the Kingdom’s mysterious troops armed with strange instruments, and the other was the rebel “Immortal Army”, which was always only 6,000 in size.
“Is that the trick that Catherine used to restrain the Immortal Army in the intelligence?”
A group of rebel executives, including Giles, were astonished. Because the enemy army in front of the Immortal Army seemed to be a lightly armored unit, unlike the other Kingdom soldiers who were generally equipped with metal armor, they only had simple protection.
After watching for a while, Samar beside Giles exclaimed, “Not good!”
He remembered the horrible experience he had during the first attack on Thorn Fortress.
“Lord Giles, it’s hellfire! I’m guessing that’s the hellfire we’ve encountered before!”
Giles was shocked, he had heard Samar describe this terrifying weapon, it was almost like magic and could not be extinguished in water.
However, this kind of weapon only appeared once, and in the subsequent battles, the “Restoration Army” never encountered it again. Therefore, he judged that the number of hellfire in the hands of the kingdom’s army must be very small, and the stalemate in Fougeres made him conclude that the kingdom’s army did not have any hellfire in its hands. The two armies fighting each other for years and years was a huge drain on the country’s strength. Catherine was a resolute woman, and could not possibly let such a good weapon go unused.
I didn’t expect to encounter it in a duel ……
However, after the initial panic, Giles immediately calmed down, he smiled with a grim expression and said to his general, “Samar, let’s make a bet ……”
Samar was a bit puzzled, “What? Your Highness the Grand Duke.”
“Let’s bet on how much Hellfire Catherine has in her hands!”
The Archduke now had the eyes of a gambler.
Samar was shocked, “You …… you don’t intend to pull the team back? Even though they are merely …… they can’t be given away for nothing!”
With a wave of his hand, Giles interrupted Samar’s words as he said with a cold face, “War is supposed to be a big gamble! And they were in the plan to be used to be sacrificed.”
And so the armies of both sides approached further, eventually reaching a distance of only about 10 meters from each other.
“Ready!” With Commander Lester’s roar, the kingdom’s army stopped in unison!
The “Immortal Army” on the other side also slowed down their steps, and at the same time, they placed their spears flat in their hands, ready to stab.
“Jet!” Lester ordered again, and a splendid scene appeared on the battlefield – only to see the strange instruments in the hands of the soldiers of the Kingdom Army shoot out a dragon of fire, and swept towards the opposite side of the Undead Army.
In a flash, the soldiers in the ranks of the undead army were set ablaze one after another, uncontrollably emitting the agonizing sounds of being burned by the intense flames!
The formation of the soldiers behind the undead army was immediately disorganized, dodging around in panic under the attack of the fire dragon.
Only the first platoon of undead soldiers, they wailed in pain while tightly gripping the weapons in their hands, grimly charging up, the flame-drenched them as if they were devils running out of hell.
“Jet! Second Platoon keep spraying!”
Lester also seemed to have not expected that there were still people who could charge over under such a terrifying attack, and was somewhat surprised.
The soldiers who had originally finished spraying immediately retreated to the back, and the second platoon rushed to the front, raising the instruments in their hands and spraying.
The fire dragon attacked again, the rebel ranks became more and more chaotic, the soldiers who were still standing in their positions and barely maintaining their formation were set ablaze, flailing their bodies in fear or rolling on the ground, but how could they not extinguish the horrendous flames.
The first platoon of Immortal Army soldiers, after charging to the front of the Kingdom’s army, were unable to defy their body’s physiological mechanisms and fell to the ground, their limbs twitching and letting the flames consume them, and they only inflicted very small casualties on their opponents.
The kingdom army continued to spray flames until the undead soldiers on the opposite side were wiped out or fled backwards in a broken state of mind.
“The Undying Army is defeated!”
“Long live Aldo!” “Long live Catherine!”
The other troops in the midst of the fierce battle saw this scene, the undead army that used to be unrivaled in battle was wiped out in such a short period of time.
The side of the kingdom’s army was demoralized and fought more and more courageously, while the morale of the rebels they were fighting with plummeted.
The battle, it seems, has taken a turn ……
Catherine and the others who were watching the battle on the high slopes finally had a hint of a smile as the balance of victory tilted in their favor.
“Your Highness! Now is the right time!” Ofina suggested, “Take advantage of the situation and throw the reserve troops into the battlefield, crush their center army with a single blow, and split their left and right flanks to eliminate them one by one!”
“Good!” Catherine agreed with her proposal and was about to give the order right away.
“What troops are those?” Duke Walker suddenly yelled.
People looked in the direction he was pointing, only to see that behind the rebels, a troop was in the process of changing.
“No…… undead army!”
When they could see it clearly, the crowd was stunned! That troop changed into equipment exactly like the Immortal Army that had just been annihilated, and the number of people roughly counted actually exceeded 10,000 people.
“How is it possible! Haven’t they already been annihilated?” Someone let out an incredulous query.
“We made a big mistake!”
Catherine gave her horsewhip a hateful jerk and gritted her teeth, “Who said that the Undying Army must only have six thousand people, that was merely the impression that Giles had been creating for us all along.”
She suddenly remembered the reaction of the “undead army” under the hellfire attack just now, only the soldiers at the front charged under the certainty of death, while the others fled in fear.
Perhaps …… the front of the “undead army” is just a decoy? Only a few soldiers are real.
Catherine decisively ordered: “Pass the order to Duke Dodge and Klein, gather the left and right flanks, and close in on the center army.”
“Yes!” The two knights spurred their horses and galloped off one east and one west.
……
On one of the rebels’ elevated vehicles, a man in gray robes looked away from the kingdom’s army.
His eyes glowed with a strange light, and the pupils of both eyes looked as if they were out of focus to the others.
“Huh!” An inexplicable laugh escaped his lips before he closed his eyes.
A moment later, the gray-robed man opened his eyes again and shouted to Giles and the others below, “Your Highness, the majority of that fire-breathing force has already switched to ordinary weapons! There are only a few hundred people who still wield those kinds of instruments!”
The bet was right! Giles waved his fist fiercely, and the generals around him breathed a sigh of relief.
“Catherine ah Catherine, you didn’t think that the Immortal Army at the very beginning was just a fake, did you, and even more so, you didn’t think that the Immortal Army had expanded to more than 10,000 people before the duel, did you? I sacrificed a lot to make you show your bottom card first, although your bottom card exceeded my expectations, hahahaha!”
Giles laughed happily, although there were some changes to the plan due to the appearance of Hellfire, but by and large there was no deviation.
He turned to Scott on the side and said, “Thanks to the timely support of the Secret Law Society gentlemen!”
Scott nodded slightly, “I’ll congratulate you in advance on your victory.”
“Lord Giles, the False King’s army is closing in on the center!”
Archduke Greedy Wolf immediately stopped his smile, now was not the time to laugh, he had merely gotten rid of the unexpected crisis caused by the Hellfire, but his center army did have more than 6,000 men crushed, and a large gap had appeared.
“Gather our army as well! Stall the False King’s army, wait until the Undying Army has finished dressing up, and rush over to deal them a fatal blow!”
Morale fell because the fake undead army was crushed? That’s fine, wait until the real undead army rushes up and make up for it right away.
Taking advantage of the fact that the kingdom’s army’s morale was fluctuating due to the reappearance of the undead army, the rebels disengaged from contact and began to form a large square formation.
However something unexpected happened to Giles.
“Your Highness the Archduke, the Vibranium family’s army has taken the liberty of charging the enemy army!”
“What? Bring them back immediately!”
“Your Highness the Grand Duke, it’s bad, the Veblen family’s army is defeated!”
“What? How long has it been!”
Only to see the unauthorized charge of the Veblen army running backwards in defeat, a cavalry of the kingdom’s army following closely behind their asses and slashing recklessly.
The routed soldiers instinctively ran towards the friendly troops who were reorganizing their formation in order to gain protection.
“We can’t let them storm our formation! Pass the order over to kill any routed soldiers who dare to charge the formation!”
Giles’s beard went askew with anger!
However it was already too late! If the enemy had charged, his troops would have been able to organize a defense, but with a large group of unformed friendlies retreating, the soldiers who hadn’t yet received the shoot-to-kill order could only make way for them, and the result was that the rebels who were reorganizing their formation became even more disorganized, and the rebel officers and soldiers, who were already afraid of the hellfire, suffered a huge drop in their morale once again.
“Long live Aldo!”
With the Vibranium’s army in front of them, Lester, who was leading the cavalry to pursue the Vibranium army, shouted and raised his lance to charge into the rebels first, followed by the knights who were armed to the teeth and immediately followed.
“Veblen! I swear I’ll rip your head off!”
Looking at the large formation that had fallen into chaos, Giles roared loudly.
In the distance, the kingdom’s army, which had already gathered, was covering up.
(End of chapter)