Chapter 681 – Defeat 1

In the wide valley, the three military formations on Aldo’s side advanced forward step by step with great vigor.

The light cavalry of the orc army still continued the strategy from earlier.

Contact, disengage, contact again, disengage again ……

With their superior riding skills, they quickly adapted to the speed of Aldo’s army’s advance.

The orcs adopted a divide-and-conquer strategy for the three army formations, trying their best to induce them to gradually move away from each other.

The Aldo’s army on the battlefield was a coalition of all the leaders that were hastily brought together in a short period of time, and the degree of cooperation between them was far from being close.

The strategy of the orcs soon worked, and the three army formations became further and further apart from each other.

Catherine and other generals did not fail to understand the orcs’ intention, on the surface, the battlefield is the shape of the Austrian army is forcing the orc cavalry to retreat, but in reality, it is the orc army leading the nose of the Austrian army to go.

The waving of the order flag did not stop for a moment, in order to try their best to keep the various parts of their side from spreading out too much, but the effect was quite limited.

Montreat, who was in command of the infantry in the center of the army, secretly became anxious.

But unlike Catherine and the others, he was not anxious because he was being led by the nose by the orcs on his side.

The current Montreat still believed that the spear infantry formation under his command was capable of slaughtering those barbarians without heavy armor protection.

What he feared was that the friendly forces that had meandered to the rear of the orcs were attacking shortly afterward – perhaps they were already on their way.

At that time, the Austrian army would be able to form a front and rear attack on the orc army.

But he wanted to grab more credit in this battle, and the troops under his command should be the main force to annihilate the orcs.

After struggling in his mind for a long time, he gave the order, “Speed up the advance, make contact with the enemy as soon as possible and kill them!”

The infantry brigade under his command was instantly demoralized and let out a heaven-shaking cheer.

From the officers down to the soldiers, they moved their legs to run and advance, chasing the enemy in front of them with a warlike spirit.

The knights on the left flank, after seeing the friendly troops advancing like this, also did not give in and engaged the approaching orc cavalry with their horses.

In this way, apart from the royal capital’s army on the right flank, the other two military formations cobbled together by local troops were themselves disorganized.

As they continued to advance, they were no longer able to maintain the orderly state of row after row that they had started out with, but instead, they were disorganized as if they were in a marketplace.

Catherine frowned, but she was helpless.

The troops of these local lords stayed in their respective territories on weekdays, and only gathered together on a small scale when they met to hunt, honing their coordination with each other.

And this was still an opportunity for exercise that only knights and their escorts could have, as for those peasant soldiers who were recruited on the fly, it was already a struggle to get them to form up neatly, and it could be said that it was a pipe dream to get them to stay in formation even while advancing.

Catherine could only order her own troops to be on the alert so that they could help immediately if something unexpected happened.

The orc’s commander, General Callum, looked at his army’s masterpiece with satisfaction.

“Begin the hunt!”

The order flag beside him was danced heavily, conveying the general’s will.

The orc light cavalry that had been at arm’s length with the Austrian infantry square suddenly began to retreat at a brisk pace.

“The orcs are avoiding our front, they lost, we won!”

Seeing the enemy’s retreat, everyone was excited.

The orcs retreating in a scattered manner was more reminiscent of words like rout.

Soldiers held their lances and took big strides to desperately chase after the enemy.

“The orcs are retreating?”

Catherine was also puzzled.

[Feigning defeat] was a job that tested the overall quality of the army, and if one was not careful, it would become a real defeat.

Most battlefield commanders didn’t dare to use this trick easily. “Continue to cover the infantry advance!”

Catherine gave the order.

“Your Highness, there’s an army attacking on the right!”

A cry of alarm drew Catherine’s attention elsewhere.

The princess hastily raised her binoculars towards her right.

Flying dust filled the field of view in the frame, and a troop of cavalry in a tight formation was running towards her side.

This is not an attack, this is clearly a duel – from the opponent’s posture, it is easy to draw such a conclusion.

“Meet the enemy!” Catherine ordered loudly.

No longer caring about covering the infantry, the Knights of the Royal Capital immediately adjusted their formation and prepared to meet this raging orc cavalry.

“Send an order to Aramburu and Montreat to pause their advance!” Catherine didn’t forget to inform the other two military formations.

The orc cavalry attacking from the side was like an iron hammer, maneuvered by an invisible hand to swing viciously.

The well-trained knights of the royal capital were not afraid in the slightest, and they quickly formed a rectangular square formation.

Catherine nodded her head to the bugler beside her, and the loud and clear sound of the bugle immediately rang out.

The knights urged their mounts under the command of the bugle, and the horses under their hips began to run at a slow pace.

The bugle gradually increased the tempo, and the horses also increased their pace, from a slow trot to a fast trot, and they were about to meet the orc cavalry.

Catherine raised her hand, the tempo of the bugle suddenly increased, the knights who still maintained their formation also suddenly accelerated, and the horses almost galloped with all four hooves in the air.

This situation only lasted for a few breaths before the cavalry from both sides collided hard together.

A violent collision sound that made one’s pressure roots ache came out from where the two armies met.

Gun barrels snapped, armor shattered, and screams of pain from injuries …… countless such things happened within an instant.

“Ho ah!”

An orc who was clearly much stronger than his companions threw his head up into the sky and let out a heaven-shaking roar, his only remaining eye emitting a cruel green light.

He held a chain indifferent a steel blade in his left hand, and rode his horse into the back of the formation to slash indiscriminately, and those who ran into this guy were either killed or injured.

The orc soldiers who followed him were like chicken blood, all of them fought bravely to be the first.

“Stop them!”

Klein shouted, finishing with a lift of his mounted rifle towards the terrifying orc.

“Die!”

The orc slashed at Klein’s riding lance, and the recoil from it sent a raw pain through him.

“Clank!”

With his riding lance blocked, Klein simply gave up, drawing the longsword at his waist as soon as he could, and continued into the battle.

The two cavalries that crashed together fiercely exchanged blows, inflicting huge casualties on each other.

At this point the three parts of the Austrian army had become three points on a square triangle in its entirety, while the infantry in the center was the uppermost part of this triangle, and the three parts were far away from each other.

“Forward! Forward!”

Montreat, who was commanding the army to advance, was so exuberant that he didn’t notice that the Knights of the Royal Capital, who were covering the right flank of his side, had already fallen into a bitter battle.

Rumble!
The earth began to tremble slightly, as if there was a huge beast running in front of it.