Chapter 965 The Most Brutal Breakout Battle in History
The military god Zi Yi was killed, the sword god Wooding was deposed, and the important border areas were lost... After repeated heavy losses, Bran is no longer the first empire that has stood on the mainland for thousands of years and is powerful in all directions!
The current Bran Empire is like a towering tree that has lost its vitality. It may still look bright and lush from the outside, but in fact it has long been decayed inside, losing its metabolic function and unable to carry out photosynthesis. (..Now that the three main armies on the front line have suffered heavy casualties, cracks have begun to appear in the bright appearance that can still be seen...
This is a sign of collapse and there is no way to heal!
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"The Bran Empire... is over..."
When detailed battle reports from the front line were sent back to the hinterland, it was already the third day after the war started. In these three days, instead of being able to restore the decline, Brango's main army was sinking and collapsing like a huge ship soaked in water, and its destruction was imminent.
This is Bran's most elite military force, not the reserve handymen that the Gray Army is killing now. And with the unstoppable collapse of this elite force, in fact, it also took away the pillar of the empire that was already on the verge of collapse...
It was a shocking scene to see such behemoths falling apart and sliding towards the abyss of depravity, unable to stop at all. Even though Josiah was mentally prepared, standing on the enemy's side, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, shaking his head repeatedly.
Before joining the Gray Army, Bran was Josiah’s homeland, so it’s normal to feel emotional now. But Tang En was different. It wasn't that he didn't have any emotions, but he was mostly shocked.
You must know that Tang En, a scumbag, also went to college. He also received nine years of compulsory education and had to bear a lot of history. If I remember correctly. Except for the living Taizu. In the vast history, many outstanding people rebelled. You sing and I come on stage, but I haven't seen many successful cases. How did it happen here?
This is so unscientific, damn it——
Compared to Joshua's feelings and Tang En's shock, Lansha was much calmer. In fact, he was a little depressed when he was flipping through the detailed battle report...
He banged his head, "I'm careless, I'm careless. I should write in more detail... I've been too comfortable commanding the Gray Army recently. I've forgotten that those idiots can't understand simple tactical requirements... It's a pity, it's a pity, let me Bran's soldiers took advantage of the chaos and escaped a lot... Oh, you idiot..."
Sighing repeatedly, Lansha made it clear that he was very dissatisfied with the performance of the tribal army in the frontline battle. It was also her fault that she failed to change over and treated the tribal army as a gray-coated army in some tactical aspects. In fact, the two are of course completely different concepts. The former's fierce combat effectiveness is obviously stronger than the latter, but the latter's ability to comprehend superior tactical requirements is way ahead of the former.
It can be said that the same tactical instructions will have completely different results if they fall into the hands of the Gray Army and the tribal army.
besides. This is also because the tribal army now has no commander. Lansha ran away, and Tiwu was summoned back by the queen and died on the way. Leaderless. It is natural to fail to do your best.
However, from this perspective, we can also know the serious impact of the only remaining important road on Bran's three main armies - facing the tribal army that lacks this and that, and is almost like a regular army, It's really embarrassing to be beaten into such a miserable state...
Feeling regretful, Lansha became more and more angry the more he looked at the battle report in his hand. He simply threw it away without reading it. He stood up and motioned to Frei to walk outside the tent: "Assemble all officers above the regiment, clean up the army, and send out troops immediately. By the way, purple-bore cannons. Have they all been transferred? I'm of great use... Next, it's our turn to take action..."
"Chief." Before he finished speaking, Victor, who was the commander of Joshua's bodyguard, walked in, paused, and said, "Bran sent someone over again to ask for negotiations, and they are outside the camp... Uh, I'm not very emotionally stable."
It's damn good if the mood is stable. This side can receive frontline battle reports, and of course Bran can do it as well, even more detailed. In this way, Bran can certainly understand that the Gray Army has repeatedly postponed the negotiation time and changed the negotiation location. Their purpose is really to delay the plan and wait for the tribal army to attack...
But no matter how much he curses and curses, we still have to talk, and even Bran's attitude will only become lower. The reason is also very simple. The last important road is still in the sight of the gray-clothed army!
"No time." Joshua waved his hand without thinking, "We can talk after we occupy the last important road. Also." After a pause, he smiled with some evil intentions and said, "Tell them one thing - come out. Damn it, you’ll have to pay it back sooner or later! Well, that’s what you said, right?”
Tang En touched his nose, chuckled and nodded.
This is indeed true. Thinking about the outcome of the last negotiation between the Gray Army and Bran, it's no wonder that Josiah and the others have dug a deep hole for Bran now.
Again, if you go out and mess around, you will have to pay back sooner or later.
The so-called difference is just a matter of length of time...
At this point, as the tribal army suddenly tore off its disguise, the gray-clothed army, which had previously slowed down its offensive momentum, once again surged forward. In just two days, they broke through several weak blockades and seized the last important road in one fell swoop.
Not the end, just the beginning!
No celebration, no delay. Under Lan Sha's continuous command and dispatch, hundreds of thousands of gray-clad soldiers quickly changed their focus, changing from their previous vertical attack strategy to horizontal expansion, heading straight into the deeper hinterland of the south. The first important city to be captured was the northern holy city, Shanxi City...
This is almost a milestone strategic turning point.
At this moment, King Bran finally woke up from a dream. Immediately, whether they were soldiers from the four major lords in the north, reservists, or veterans who were supposed to retire, they gathered together desperately, almost like piles of garbage, and lay them in front of the gray army. Resistance and retreat. I don’t want to suppress the gray-clothed army, I just want to slow down the gray-coated army’s advance...
With the war situation evolving to this point, anyone can easily see that Bran's north cannot be saved. Now the royal court of Brandu City only hopes that the retreat process can be slower and slower, so that they can meet as many of the main forces retreating from the front line as possible - that is also their last hope of turning around!
It has to be said that King Bran, who suddenly woke up like a flashback, made the right decision.
Now, Bran's army, which has suffered repeated defeats, has completely lost its will to fight. If we don't retreat and adjust, it is not impossible to be completely wiped out in the north. But choosing to retreat is different, especially the main front-line army. After all, the regular army is a regular army. After abandoning part of its troops and risking their lives to stop the barbarians from pursuing them, most of the remaining legionnaires retreated rapidly along the main roads. The gray-clothed army could never stop them.
Of course, the Gray Army didn't even think about blocking them head-on. Rabbits trying to survive were terrifying, let alone the main army that had been fighting on the front line. Lansha's deployment was extremely simple. Based on the principle of taking advantage of as much advantage as possible, he moved out of the way and selected two main roads where Bran's retreating troops were most concentrated. He mobilized all the purple-bore cannons to erect them on both sides... …
There is no doubt that this is definitely the most brutal breakout battle in the thousand-year war history of Xize Continent!
The regular soldier Bran, who had been running around day and night without rest, had just stepped into the ground. Before he could take a deep breath, he was so exhausted that flying meteors appeared in the sky. They disappeared in a flash and fell directly to his feet.
Immediately, with the roar of violent explosions one after another, the earth trembled, the space trembled, and the mountains and hills on both sides of the surrounding roads also trembled... Immediately afterwards, various broken limbs and heads of the companions, familiar or unfamiliar, flew in the air accompanied by dust and withered grass. , tossed and drifted in the layers of rolling air waves, lingering for a long time...
The ambush with the purple-bore cannon was Lansha's idea, but the Gray Space members personally participated in the designation of where to place the purple-bore cannon at the ambush site. Very thief and insidious. In almost all places, as long as there is a team of soldiers and horses guarding the pass, it is a situation where one man can guard the pass and ten thousand men can't break it. Even if there were thousands of troops below, they would not be able to capture it easily and destroy the purple-bore cannon, the ultimate murder weapon.
Bran's main army has thousands of troops, but they lack time and are afraid of being chased by the tribe's army. They can only bite the bullet and force their way into this land of continuous artillery fire...
In this area, regardless of strength, status, military rank, etc., there is only one thing that counts if you want to pass, and that is luck!
With luck, even if you are a soldier at the bottom, or even a wounded soldier, you can still crawl through this journey safely with a lame leg——
If you are unlucky, even if you are a general, an officer, a battlefield hero, or a future famous general, you will still be torn apart without distinction, and you will be in the same dust——
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Purple bore cannon!
This important battlefield weapon, designed by the military god Bran himself and perfected by Lina, has exerted its greatest effect in the current environment and has become the biggest nightmare for Bran's soldiers today!
Just like a human meat grinder——
There is no need to wait for the opportunity, no need to focus on aiming... nothing is needed. Just pick up the explosive crystal and place it at the mouth of the smoking gun barrel, release it gently, and there will be a large number of frightened dead souls, slowly rising from below in a daze... …
In front of it, don't say anything about killing one person in ten steps. Below, Bran's soldiers take one step and ten people die. They are trying their best to downplay the description...
No one knows how many people were killed or injured in this battle.
All I know is that the roaring artillery fire lasted for a long time, throwing countless explosive crystals, and there were not a few barrels that were so hot that they exploded...
I only know that during this period, the soldiers controlling the purple-bore cannon changed batch after batch. Not because of casualties, just because they needed somewhere to vomit...
I only know that after the war, the soldiers in gray clothes who could not clean up the battlefield simply demolished the peaks on both sides and completely covered the mountain road, thus covering up the mountains of corpses and seas of blood...
I only know that the soldiers of Bran who had a lucky escape, most of them will not be able to hear the sound of thunder in the days to come, and will go crazy when they hear it...
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. (To be continued...)