Chapter 826: Battle of Marunpo (End)
The midday winter sun shone dimly on the snow, while the orderlies pushed carts and picked up usable spoils in the snow and mud.

As for the remaining Holy Grail musketeers and supporting infantry regiments, they chased after the remnants of the Leia army.

Groups of prisoners of war, dejected, were escorted by the Holy Guns towards the Haji Fort in the rear.

On such a cold winter day, the most joyful thing is to have a sip of distilled gin.

That’s what Victor did, unscrewing the silver hip flask he had snatched from the noble.

The cold drink went down my throat and turned into hot steam.

It not only dispelled the coldness in the body, but also numbed the arrow wounds and pain on the body.

“Hahahahahaha—” Victor couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

At the end of the battle, they held back 8,000 enemy troops with only a few thousand men, and completely depleted the enemy’s morale and physical strength.

With the addition of the new force at this time, the Leia army, which still had a lot of fighting power left, was defeated with almost no effort.

In this battle alone, at least two thousand Leia people were left at the Barin Manor in Marunoucho, near the camp where Victor was stationed.

There were both prisoners of war and dead bodies.

As for the more than 5,000 people who escaped, there is no need to worry, because you have to know that he contributed all the clockwork cannons, not to the troops in other camps.

Even Victor was a little confused. Don’t they understand the principle of surrounding the enemy on three sides and leaving one side?

There is a river to the west, a fortress to the south, and enemy troops to the east. They chose to run north. Didn’t they realize anything?

Shaking his head, Victor was about to drink again when he heard the clerk behind him shouting, “Victor, we have pork stew with French fries in the back, come and eat.”

“Help me get a bowl first.” Victor quickly put away the wine jug, “Don’t let those beasts take it all away from me.”

Victor limped towards the stove, but stopped halfway.

He stared blankly in one direction, not saying anything for a long time.

Victor rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand, fearing that sand had blocked his eyes or that he was too tired to see it correctly.

But he confirmed again and again, and was sure that he was not mistaken.

I don’t know if it was because he was too tired, but when Victor supported himself on his knees and walked towards the mound of earth, even his calves were shaking.

But he rushed to the mound with trembling legs, even stumbling and almost tripping.

There was a door panel placed on top of the mound of earth, and the person lying on the door panel was covered with a white cloth stained with bright blood.

Although the white cloth covered the face, Victor could recognize the hat with colorful feathers without lifting the cloth.

At this moment, a long steel arrow was stuck in the hat, piercing from the front to the back.

After taking several deep breaths, Victor dared to slowly reach out his hand and uncover the white cloth.

“I knew it.” Without opening the lid completely, Victor knew who it was just by looking at the open eyes and thick eyebrows.

“I told you, no one goes to the battlefield without a helmet, but you wear that flashy felt hat of yours.”

After cursing for a few times, Victor felt something blocking his nasal cavity, and even his voice became muffled.

After all, on the battlefield, who can say they can escape unscathed?

“It’s obviously a victory.” Victor stroked Coleman’s hair and sniffed, “It’s obviously a victory, my brother.”

The two had known each other since the Gulag period, and had joined the Black Caps together, traveling from Little Mud Ditch to Pavia, from Montenegro to Cheese Bay.

Every battle was fought by two people together.

It is said that saving a life is a grace, and the two have saved each other’s lives countless times.

When it comes to brothers, none is as close as Victor and Coleman.

“Coleman, Brother Coleman, this is probably the first time I call you that.

I am two years younger than you, but I have always regarded you as my own brother…you…you…”

Halfway through his speech, Victor suddenly felt something was wrong.

The arrow clearly pierced his head, so why wasn’t there a trace of blood on his hair?

Looking at the big donkey face with a mustache, his eyelids suddenly trembled, and the mustache twitched along with the corners of his mouth.

“I’ll fuck you!” Victor, who turned red in a second, kicked Coleman off the mound.

“Oh my, oh my, the Chapter Master injured someone, is anyone here to help?!”

“How dare you shout? Come here!”

“That’s enough. Don’t think I’m a good guy. If you step on my…ah!”

Coleman cried out in pain after being pinned to the ground by the angry Victor. However, the people around him watched the fight between the Chapter Master and the Deputy Chapter Master, and no one stopped them except laughing.

“Are you pretending? Huh? I really thought you were dead. Why are you covering your face with a white cloth?”

Coleman turned his head and shouted in injustice: “I ran all night last night and just took a nap. The sun is so hot in the middle of the day. I can’t sleep without covering my face.”

“Who are you showing it to when you roll your eyes when you sleep?”

“I always sleep with my eyes open.”

Victor was still blushing: “What’s wrong with your hat?”

“My hat was a bit too high, and the arrow went over my head without even scratching my skin,” Coleman complained. “I really didn’t mean to do that.”

Victor was stunned for a moment, then he loosened his hand and let Coleman out.

Although Coleman said it lightly, everyone could imagine how dangerous the scene was.

Coleman got up from the ground, brushed off the dirt on his body, and patted Victor’s shoulder: “Your Majesty said that he wanted to build a good world where everyone has enough food and everyone can live. This peaceful country has not even been seen yet. It’s a pity to die now.”

Victor chuckled, stood up and patted his knees: “My mood was wasted.”

“Oh, I know, brother Victor, I treat you as my own brother too… Hey! The captain hit someone again, ah——”

…………

Count Dreta rode on his horse like a zombie, but he kept muttering to himself.

If you listen closely, you can hear “Where did that come from… one thousand… five thousand… Hajib… it doesn’t make sense… did they create people out of thin air?”

You know, they had calculated it well. This time it was not just his attack, but the attack of the entire Leia army.

His link collapsed, and it was such a tragic defeat that the chain reaction was immeasurable.

But he still can’t figure out where the army came from.
You know, the Mountain Knights of Xialucheng had just been defeated and many of them were sick, so Horn could only mobilize 30,000 troops.

Through complex maneuvers and changes, Lavle forced Qianhe Valley to call in a large number of troops for support in every direction.

This means that the enemy’s transportation capacity should be greatly occupied. Even if they can squeeze out reinforcements, it is impossible to squeeze out so many.

It was even more unbelievable after they joined forces with several other defeated armies.

Each army said it was charged by two to three thousand infantry and Grail cavalry.

From early morning to noon, all four attacking enemy forces were defeated, and from the captured crusaders they learned that they were either black champions or mountain knights.

In other words, these people were not transferred from the rear, but had been there before.

Deretta felt that this was the crux of the problem.

Could it be possible that they could march through some spiritual world or engage in subspace navigation or something like that?

Or are they clones like in “The Witcher” or zombies created by blood magic?
Is magic really that powerful?
No, no, the more Dreta thought about it, the more it seemed wrong.

An idea suddenly flashed in his mind, and Dreta could not help but utter the famous words of the ancient Aiur scholar Hakimides: “Eureka!”

Although he still couldn’t believe it, this was the result closest to the truth.

One to two thousand people should be evenly distributed among their various camps.

Then, after finding out the strength of the Leia troops through reconnaissance on the first day, they immediately and quickly deployed troops.

Each camp should have been composed of 500 to 700 militiamen, who resisted enemies that were about six times their number.

Then a mobile force was dispatched, which was as strong as the separate troops in terms of numbers and combat effectiveness.

The first detachment was quickly cleared, and then the troops in the camp were transferred out again to continue to quickly clear the remaining low-number troops.

Isn’t this just an enlarged version of the oblique attack with a camp?
However, this kind of fighting style, which is out of sight and relies entirely on the personal consciousness of officers and soldiers, still requires too much quality.

If Deretta were to take over, not to mention who would be in charge of guarding the camp, it would be a problem whether this mobile force could unite and complete the mission consciously.

Unlike the Kingdom Army or the Holy League Army which have a single leader, their noble army is a coalition force, which is a combination of generals and soldiers.

“I really lost, I really lost…” Dreta looked up at the sky with the scorching sun hanging down, “…I am convinced.”

When Dreta came to his senses, he found that the marching team had stopped.

He lowered his head and was about to ask what happened, but when his eyes swept over Adam Castle, his neck was blocked.

On the towering walls of Adam Castle, black and red flags are fluttering.

The ground was covered with rubble and there were scorch marks on the walls, which were the remnants of the bombardment by the clockwork cannon and plasma crystal.

After seven or eight seconds, Dreta murmured, “Yeah, five camps can be used, but five fortresses can’t be used?”

(End of this chapter)