Alien Empire Total War - Chapter 232

“Damn it, how did the Lumens bypass the defense line and appear behind our ass?”

In the dark night, a long army marched slowly like a long dragon entrenched on the ground. Gehrman Wittman, the commander of the Fifth Division of the 1st Enclave Army, rode on his beloved horse, with his own. The adjutant and some officers were at the front of the line, and he was cursing and complaining as he steered the horse forward.

The officers beside him were all silently burying their heads on the road, and they were also full of doubts about this question.

“I guess, the enemy is likely to come in from the defense area of ​​the seventh division, which is directly facing the Todes Kingdom. If the Rumeng people put pressure on the Todes Kingdom to force the latter to give up the military right of passage. , it all makes sense,” speculated Wittmann’s lieutenant.

“It should be like this. If we break through from the front line of defense, it is impossible for us to not receive news, and the enemy will not easily touch the position of the headquarters.” Wittman said, he couldn’t help but want to curse the gang Cowardly Todds, if the adjutant’s conjecture is correct, the Todes will be their sinners!

At this time, he had forgotten that the Republic of Enkelan and the Kingdom of Todes had only maintained regular bilateral trade, and the relationship between the two countries was mediocre, and the Kingdom of Todes was not obliged to sell itself for them.

Although the battle situation at the headquarters was urgent, it was already night. For the sake of safety, Wittman did not dare to speed up the march. Therefore, after they dawdled on the road, the battle on the other side was over for a long time, which gave the imperial army Plenty of time to lay ambushes on the way they come.

The night was very quiet at this time. Except for the crows and bats flying in the dark, there were only the footsteps, gasps and the sound of equipment colliding with each other when the Enkelan soldiers marched. No one spoke. , the atmosphere is very depressing.

At around 8:00 that day, the reinforcements of the 5th Division finally entered the ambush circle set up by the imperial army. Due to the bad weather in the past few days, the sky was densely covered with dark clouds, and the light of the moon could only barely shed a few traces. , the earth was pitch black, and I could hardly see my fingers,

Therefore, the torches fired by the fifth division on the march were particularly conspicuous in this dark night, like a huge live target, telling the surrounding ambushers to fire here quickly – and on both sides of them, the ambushers Silently, in the darkness, watching this army step by step into the abyss of death with no expression.

After the vanguard of the Fifth Division walked through the ambush circle, the vision suddenly changed!

In this incomparably silent night, a dazzling light spot suddenly slammed into the sky on the side of the army. The light spot made a sharp whistling sound, rose to mid-air and then exploded suddenly, almost lighting up half of the night. !

Seeing the fireworks rising into the air behind him, Wittman’s heart throbbed, and an uneasy premonition started from his heart and quickly spread throughout his body, causing him to sweat instantly.

“Enemy attack—”

The shrill scream pierced the silence of the night sky again after the exploding fireworks. In the next second, several red light spots appeared on both sides of the fifth division. Then, those light spots quickly moved towards the surroundings like a plague. Spreading out, countless torches gathered together, and the firelight reflected this battlefield like daylight!

boom boom-

After the torches were fired, several deafening loud noises suddenly sounded on both sides, and a dazzling light appeared in front of the dark muzzle than the burning torches, and several solid shells roared out immediately. Before diving into the crowd, forcibly crushed a **** road!

At such a close distance, bombarding an extremely conspicuous target, even a novice artilleryman could not miss it, not to mention that the imperial artillerymen who participated in the war were all experienced veterans who followed the Fourth Army in the South and the North. Under the operation, the artillery shells are not missed, causing a lot of damage to the enemies who form a dense queue!

The next second of the artillery bombardment, the imperial ambulances on both sides fired at the Enklan army in chaos. At this time, the gap between the two sides was only 200 meters, and the rifled guns could still accurately kill the enemy. Under the turns of the soldiers, the Enkelan soldiers standing on the periphery of the queue were shot and fell to the ground!

At this time, they finally reacted to counterattack, but most of the soldiers of the Fifth Division were recruits who had been sent to the battlefield soon. Most of them had not really fought the enemy yet. When they were ambushed and in such a dim environment, it was difficult for them to respond in the fastest time when they were in panic and confusion.

In addition, although the enemy who ambushed them took the initiative to fire torches, they could not judge the number of enemies based on the number of torches alone. The sound of gunfire from all directions was even more continuous, which made the terrified soldiers come to a mistake. Judgment – the number of enemies is endless!

On the other side, Wittman, who was released from the ambush circle and narrowly escaped, looked at the slaughtered subordinates behind him, and wanted to command the troops to turn back to defend, but he was immediately held down by the adjutants and other officers around him. The dazzling light of the artillery firing revealed the adjutant’s terrified face, but no one laughed at him, because the officers around him also all had the same expression.

“General, retreat! The enemy’s ambush must be well prepared, and we just turn back and let more people die! Retreat, we can also tell other troops what happened here, and call back later!” The adjutant pressed Looking at Wittman, he said with hard persuasion.

Several other officers also pressed him and persuaded him. Wittman listened to their persuasion and knew that he was only going to die if he rushed back~www.mtlnovel.com~ So he suppressed the urge to go back and asked the adjutants to let them go. , then glanced bitterly at the enemy who was slaughtering his subordinates recklessly, and with hatred retreated with the vanguard who had been spared with him.

As soon as they retreated, the unit responsible for monitoring and guarding against them was relieved and turned to participate in the siege of the main enemy force – they did not know that they had let the commander of the 5th Division run away, they thought the enemy was in command The officers will stay in the safe middle army, so they will first let go of the leading troops that are less important in their eyes, and instead pour all their firepower on the main enemy army,

A more important reason is that their troops are far lower than the enemy’s, and there is no way to eat up this entire army, so they can only focus on the middle and rear army.

The Central Army of the Fifth Division, which was severely hit, was quickly defeated, and the defeat of the Central Army also affected the rear army. It took less than two minutes from the time when the signal to launch an attack was sent to the end of the battle. In an hour, the reinforcements consisting of more than 6,000 soldiers were defeated.

Of course, it was only after the battle that they learned with chagrin from the captives that the commander of the Fifth Division had escaped with the vanguard they had let go.