Chapter 291 The "Xia Feng" Offensive Reverses the Situation

It is already July, and in terms of weather, it is already the rainy season.

The Luolin Empire is the most southerly of the four empires. During the rainy season, it is almost never sunny all the time.

However, since the Britannia Empire officially launched the "Summer Wind" offensive in early July, it has been sunny every day no matter which battlefield it is in the east, middle, or west.

In his free time, Albert also joked with others: This may be because the gods are blessing their Britannia Empire, and the weather has been clearing up so that their Britannia Empire can launch an offensive better.

However, this continuous sunny day finally stopped until today - the evening of July 20, 290 in the Imperial Calendar of the Britannia Empire.

The sky that had been clear before was slowly covered by dark clouds without even realizing it.

Just looking at it, I felt that the oppressive dark clouds separated the sky and the earth.

Then more raindrops fell, connecting the sky to the earth.

The first rain since the official launch of the "Summer Wind" offensive finally fell in the evening of this day.

Continuous rain fell from the sky, dripping on the dry land, dripping on the green vegetation, and dripping on the remnants of the demoralized Britannia Army's Central Route Army.

The tattered shirts and broken armor stained with blood, sweat, and mud, the broken arrows stuck in the back, shoulders, arms, etc., and the anxious expressions on the tired and haggard faces.

All of this declares the identity of the Britannia Army's current center army - a defeated army that is on the run.

Although they successfully withdrew from the Sola Mountains a few hours ago, the Central Army also suffered heavy casualties.

Before the expedition, the Central Army had a mighty 60,000 troops. After the battle of Sola a few hours ago, there were only more than 28,000 troops left, less than half of the original number.

The Central Army - can already be declared disabled.

Alyssa is now riding the same horse as Hazel. Alyssa is sitting behind Hazel, leaning her little head on Hazel's back, sleeping and unconscious.

In the Sora battle a few hours ago, Alyssa worked so hard that she was exhausted in order to open the retreat for the entire army as quickly as possible.

After the entire army successfully evacuated from the Sola Mountains, Alyssa's tense nerves suddenly relaxed and she immediately fainted due to exhaustion of physical strength.

The military doctors accompanying the army immediately gave Alyssa emergency treatment.

Fortunately, Alyssa was only slightly injured in some parts of her body and exhausted, so there was nothing serious. She just needed to rest peacefully.

In order to evacuate from the Sola Mountains as soon as possible, Albert ordered all baggage and items that were difficult to carry to be discarded.

For example - carriage.

When withdrawing from the Sola Mountains, all the carriages carried by the central route army were abandoned.

Therefore, now there is not even a place for Alyssa to lie down and rest. She can only sit on the horse and sleep next to Hazel.

In addition to losing all the carriages, a lot of the baggage was also abandoned.

In addition to food, spare arrows, swords, and guns, there are also many raincoats.

Because the raincoats were thrown away, after the heavy rain, the entire army had less than 10,000 raincoats left.

In other words, less than 10,000 people in the entire army can now receive raincoats to protect themselves from the rain.

In the end, all the remaining raincoats were distributed to those who were seriously injured, so that the wounds on their bodies could get wet with rainwater to avoid triggering infection.

As for those soldiers who were not injured or were slightly injured, they could only be treated like drowned rats.

After it rained just now, Hazel put a raincoat on Alyssa in time to prevent Alyssa from getting wet by the raindrops.

In the Sola battle just now, Hazel did not go to the front line to fight with the enemy like Alyssa, so she was not injured like Alyssa, so she was not assigned a raincoat.

Regarding this point, Hairouer has no complaints.

Because compared to her, those who were injured needed raincoats to protect themselves from the rain.

There were no injuries on her body. Even if she got caught in the rain, it was just a cold at most.

And for those who have suffered a lot of injuries, if they get caught in the rain, it will not just be a cold, but it will most likely lead to infection.

After tying Alyssa's raincoat tightly, listening to Alyssa's steady breathing, a few dark colors slowly appeared on Hazel's face.

"What a miserable defeat..." Hazel murmured in frustration, "The situation of the 'Xia Feng' offensive... was turned around by Barr..."

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Albert, who was located in the center of the remnants of the Central Army, lowered his head. Without a raincoat, he let the raindrops hit him.

Someone did give him a raincoat just now, but Albert rejected it.

"I don't need it, let's give it to the injured soldiers."

——These are Albert’s original words.

There were not enough raincoats, and there were more than 10,000 injured in the entire army, so Albert didn't want to waste these precious raincoats on a man like him who was not injured at all.

Albert seems to have aged several years now. He is obviously only 46 years old, but now he looks as if he is over 50 years old.

Albert's lost look now is completely different from the high-spirited look he had when he sent his army to pursue Barr a few days ago.

"Haha..." Albert smiled self-deprecatingly, "I'm so ashamed... I didn't expect that I would be defeated by some people who looked down on me before, and I was defeated so badly... I was so ashamed that I wanted to commit suicide. ah……"

Albert said while clenching his fists.

Albert, who has experienced many battles, knows that they are in a bad situation now.

It's not just the central battlefield that's bad, but the entire situation of the "Summer Wind" offensive is bad!

It turned out that he had maintained a fierce offensive in the central battlefield, beating Baal completely.

Although the western battlefield has been stalemate and the eastern battlefield has been silent, because its central battlefield has maintained a fierce offensive, the overall situation of the "Summer Wind" offensive has always been that the Britannia Empire has the upper hand.

However, in the battle of Sola a few hours ago, he was defeated by Barr and when the center army was left with less than half of its original strength, the entire situation was instantly reversed by Barr!

It’s not the Britannia Empire that has the upper hand now! But the Luo Lin Empire has the upper hand!

The center army commanded by Albert was the main force among the three armies in the "Xia Feng" offensive.

However, now that the main force has been defeated, the few remaining troops of the Central Route Army are no longer able to pose a threat to the main force of the Luo Lin Army led by Barr.

Although Albert didn't want to admit it, the fact was already the case - he was no longer able to carry out the original general strategy and annihilate the effective force of Luo Lin's army.

And since the Central Army, which is the main force of the 3rd Army, is no longer able to complete the task of "annihilating a large number of Luo Lin Army's effective forces", it means that the "Xia Feng" offensive can be declared a failure.

"I didn't expect... the 'Xia Feng' offensive would end up like this because of me... I'm really ready to die to apologize..."

Albert closed his eyes and said painfully.

"...Send two messengers." Albert said to a knight next to him in a tone full of unwillingness and pain, "Go to the positions of the West Route Army and the East Route Army respectively, and tell Allen and Su Cheng that they He told them about the disastrous defeat of our Central Route Army and told them to let them lead the troops to retreat first... After we retreat to a safe area together, we can then think carefully about what to do next..."