Rise of the Empire Total War

The title of the previous chapter should be "Baden VS Sophie (Part 2)", because the VIP chapter cannot modify the title, so I am modifying it here (although no one will care if I know it)

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"My lord is defeated! My lord is defeated!"

The fall of Earl Sophie caused panic among the surrounding soldiers of the Ravana Kingdom Army. This panic quickly spread to the entire battlefield. As the news spread, the content changed from "defeated" to "death in battle" and intensified.

Although Earl Sophie struggled to get up from the ground despite the pain in his body, the calls for his death on the battlefield became louder and louder. Even if the people around him saw that he was still alive, they still couldn't stop the spread of rumors.

Finally, under the spread of rumors and the offensive of the rebel infantry, the already dominant Royal Army's battle line was shaken. With the movement of the first soldier abandoning his weapons and turning around to flee, the wave of fleeing snowballed like a snowball. Sweeping across the entire front soon, the soldiers screamed and discarded their weapons and shields to reduce the resistance to escape, exposing their fragile backs to the enemy's attack range.

Earl Sophie, who managed to get up with the help of the guards, opened his mouth and looked at this scene in despair. The shame and anger in his heart made his eyes bloodshot. He wanted to draw out his sword and go up to fight Baden. Fortunately, the surrounding guards were there in time. Stopped him and persuaded him to retreat first, and then gather the rout troops and fight the enemy.

Although Earl Sophie was unwilling, the remaining reason in his heart made him make the right decision. Before the rebels surrounded him, he retreated with the soldiers who were still fighting around—as for those who were still fighting with the javelin cavalry He has no time to take care of the light cavalry.

On the other hand, although the light cavalry who were better at close combat had experienced the baptism of javelins before and lost many cavalry, they still won the next close combat. The javelin cavalry who fought against them threw away the javelins they carried They could only draw out their cavalry swords and raise their cavalry shields to transform into melee cavalry. However, they could not defeat the light cavalry of the Royal Army after all. The cavalry equipped by the latter obviously had an advantage in horse battles. Before the long sword slashed at the enemy, the opponent's lance pierced into their bodies.

While the infantry battlefield was victorious due to the duel between the two commanders, the cavalry of the rebel army was beaten to pieces, and they could only scream and try to drive their horses to run wildly into the distance, intending to escape the pursuit of the kingdom's light cavalry. However, the victory in the cavalry battle could not change the final outcome of the encounter. The initial battle between the Royal Army and the rebels ended in failure after all.

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The pride in his heart prevented Earl Sophie from returning to Ravana City with the rout he had managed to gather. He chose to take more than 600 routs and stationed next to the small castle of the baron nearby—this small castle can only More than a hundred soldiers can be stationed,

So he can only be stationed outside the city, thinking about how to defeat the Baden rebel striker who has brought him shame.

Failure in this battle could have been avoided. If he hadn't been shot and injured by Baden's lance in the duel, how could he have fallen off his horse in public, which would have led to chaos in the army and a complete defeat across the board.

He doesn't resent the soldiers fleeing. As the commander, if something goes wrong with him, it will affect the state of the soldiers. This is what he has learned from the education he has received since he was a child.

"My lord, Arathan has returned with the cavalry."

Earl Sophie, who had retreated into Bart Castle for a few days, finally received the news of the light cavalry he had abandoned. After listening to the guard's report, he quickly walked out of the former baron's study room, and under the guidance of the guard, he saw Mabuku's cavalry commander Arasan, the latter's condition is not very good. He is covered in blood, his helmet is gone, and several weeds and leaves are stuck in his messy hair.

The light cavalry that came back with Arathorn was less than half of the original number, only thirty or forty. According to Alashan, after defeating the javelin cavalry of the rebels, they returned to the battlefield only to find that their own infantry had fled. After the cavalry, they finally got rid of the sticky rebel infantry and followed the traces left by the rout to find this place.

In addition, he also brought news about the rebel striker. In the duel with Count Sophie, Baden was not unscathed. His shoulder blade was smashed by Count Sophie's lance. He almost fell off his horse, but he still endured it. After the Royal Army collapsed, he fainted from the pain. Now the command of the rebel forward was delegated to the adjutant, and under the command of the adjutant, the rebel forward came along. When the route returns, it seems to be preparing to join the main force.

After hearing the news from Arathon, Sophie almost fainted from anger. It turned out that as long as he endured the pain and did not fall off the horse, the one who fell would be Baden, who was more seriously injured than him, and the outcome of the battle would also change accordingly. .

"Baden...I remember you." Sophie gritted her teeth and said bitterly, "If you can return to the battlefield, I will definitely defeat you with my own hands and redeem my lost honor!"

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Regardless of Earl Sophie's anger, on the battlefield of Ramirez thousands of miles away, Richard was commanding his army to build more siege equipment. Rumors of a war in the rear suddenly spread in the army one day, and the whole army As a result, there was a commotion in the military capital, so Richard had to prepare for the final siege in advance, and at the same time strengthen communication with the rear.

"Your Majesty Caesar, the news about Bandak's civil war in the army is getting worse and worse. Some people even say that the rebels have begun to besiege the city of Ravana, and the morale of the soldiers has been affected."

"Have you caught the soldier who spread the rumor?" Richard asked in a deep voice to Condra who was reporting. He did not believe that this kind of news was fabricated out of thin air, without a certain basis, and the soldiers who had little communication with the rear How could it be possible to spread such important rumors.

"Three soldiers were caught, one from Mabuku, and the other two were militiamen from Port Bell." Speaking of this, Condela lowered his voice a lot, "It's strange that when they were interrogating why they spread rumors At that time, the three of them said in unison that they had received the omen of their gods in their sleep, and I can make sure that they have no chance of colluding with each other before that."

"The prophecy of the gods?" Richard couldn't help frowning. If he was an atheist in his previous life, he would have scoffed at such things involving the gods, but he has personally experienced a more mysterious time travel and is full of people everywhere. After four or five years of living in the world of faith, I no longer dare to easily deny the existence of gods.

"Yes, Your Majesty Caesar, as a devout believer in God, I have always paid little attention to the words of pagans, but this is really weird. If there were no people behind them, then only the last An explanation..."

"The false gods they believe in really give them prophecies in their sleep..."

When he said this, Richard could feel the tremor in Condela's tone.