Riding and Slashing

Chapter 234
In the distance, a large group of flying birds were startled and circled in the sky without landing.

There were faint shouts, all of which were chaotic shouts, which sounded crazy and weird.

There was indeed a large group of Snake Cultists chasing Sigismund.

There were a lot of people, and it was dark.

But these Snake Worshipers certainly don't look like regular troops. Although the ones chasing at the front are indeed some Snake Cult warriors, regular troops will definitely not chaotically chase after seeing a large number of troops arrayed...

"Array! Spread out left and right, let the scouts in!"

Jocelyn obviously also understood this, so he was not too nervous, and calmly directed the front army to prepare to defend against the enemy.

Sigismund led dozens of gladiators and quickly entered the army formation through the gaps after the troops dispersed, and then the army closed again, waiting for the enemy to approach.

"Commander, we may be in big trouble... My scouts can't get close to Emperor Lingang at all. The Snake Cult has gathered tens of thousands of troops in front, and they are boundless and full of people... Moreover, they seem to be attacking us. March!"

Sigismund rushed to the lord, and quickly explained: "I found that they were marching this way, so I planned to get closer to find out the enemy's situation, but we were spotted. And then, they kept chasing We don't let go, it seems that we are preparing to fight an encounter with us!"

"Does the Snake Cult want to besiege the city and fight for aid? It shouldn't be... It stands to reason that the Snake Worship Cult should capture Emperor Lingang as soon as possible to serve their interests, and the besiege and aid cannot go so far, right?"

Justus frowned in disbelief.

He and the lord came to support with great fanfare. Of course, the Snake Cult knew their movements and would indeed take the initiative to fight, but even if they were besieging the city to fight for aid, they would not be so far away from Emperor Lingang...

"This is not a siege to fight for aid... They seem to have given up on the siege of Emperor Lingang! Almost all the Snake Cult troops are coming in our direction!"

Sigismund said hastily: "I swear, there are not many Snake Worshipers besieging Dilingang, and the main force coming to us is their main force!"

The gladiators beside him also nodded repeatedly, pointing to their own eyes to express that they saw it with their own eyes.

"If there are all farmers like this, no matter how many there are, there is nothing to fear... But they are obviously vulnerable, why do they dare to chase after seeing the army formation?"

Alina seemed very courageous.

"No...they're not farmers! They're trying to fight us forcibly! Give Jocelyn an order to stop entangled with the enemy and break through the enemy quickly! Then break away from the enemy and retreat to Buyulin Village!"

Li Ang looked at the front army, the shouts of killing had already sounded, and Jocelyn led the troops to fight those Snake Worshipers.

So he reacted immediately and ordered to retreat directly.

"Li Ang...those are just Snake Cult warriors and followers, our troops can kill them all within half an hour at most..."

Justus next to him looked at the Snake Worshiper in front of him, feeling a little puzzled.

"No, we can't afford to delay for half an hour... If we don't retreat, we are likely to fight with tens of thousands of people, and their follow-up people will definitely continue to join the battlefield! Perhaps their combat capabilities are indeed not strong, but we absolutely You can't fight with them in melee... Your Excellency Governor, you should know that the Snake Cultists are not afraid of death!"

Those Snake Cult warriors Li Ang had dealt with before, and their equipment was really good, but their strength was not that great.

The scale of the Snake Worshipers who followed Sigismund here does not seem too large, only in the early thousand, and most of the thousands of Snake Worshipers are just make up.

Although everyone was holding a javelin, they were pure farmers, and they only wore tattered cloth clothes—most of them were farmers who followed the Snake Cult.

If nothing else, this group of rabble really only needs one or two charges to wipe out the entire army.

However, the lord is aware of a considerable danger...

Although most of the Snake Worshipers seem to be farmers, they are completely different from pure farmers - the lord already knew when he killed the small group of Snake Worshipers in Buyulin Village half a year ago that the Snake Worshipers are not afraid of death !

Snake worshipers are also heretics. Although they worship different gods, they, like those under the Three Prophets, follow an evil god who can bring people back from the dead... or demons.

The dark goddess Ereda and the serpent Aziz Dahaka develop followers in basically the same way.

The combat method of the Snake Worshipers seems to be very similar to the thinking of the three prophets-since they don't have the ability to fight in formation, they will force it into a melee.

The Three Prophets would use their followers as cannon fodder to create melee opportunities, so the Snake Worship Cult might be doing the same!
Li Ang didn't know if the Dark Goddess Sect to which the Three Prophets belonged was related to the Snake Worship Cult, but at least one thing was certain, that is, the leader of the Snake Worship Cult army must be the same as the Three Prophets and would not care about these followers Life.

Maybe in their eyes, dying on the battlefield is equivalent to offering sacrifices to their snake god...

After all, they have always used living sacrifices as sacrifices.

The surroundings are all the territory of the Snake Worship Cult, and the number of followers of the Snake Worship Cult will inevitably be terrifying. Although these followers are all farmers with low combat effectiveness, being trapped by farmers will be fatal!
These farmers who joined the Snake Cult must have not received any battle training, and fighting in formation is definitely not the opponent of Li Ang's coalition army.

But if the Snake Worshipers use a piece of cannon fodder to follow the scouts into the army formation and hold back Li Ang's troops, then tens of thousands of Snake Worshipers will continue to join the battlefield, turning the battle into a melee...

Under this kind of crowd tactics, no matter how powerful the troops are, it will be difficult for them to escape.

No matter how powerful a gladiator is, he will be tired, and the arrows of the Noldor are limited. If they are held back by these cannon fodder and cannot be repaired in the continuous melee, then no matter how strong the troops are, they will be dragged by the crowd collapse.

"Blow the horn! The whole army retreats in formation!"

The lord gave the order again: "Your Excellency Justus, take your troops back to Buyulin Village as quickly as possible... Don't kill the enemy along the way, and don't stop there. Go back to the village and set up defenses to meet us!"

Justus nodded and complied, because he had already seen that behind the first group of Snake Worshipers chasing after them, there was still more smoke and dust rising.

The birds that were so frightened that they circled in the sky never fell down.

This means that there are always people coming from the direction of Emperor Lingang, and the number is huge!

As the governor of the empire, Justus led troops to participate in the encirclement and suppression of many Snake Worshipers. He has also seen the attitude of Snake Worshipers who are not afraid of death, so he now understands Li Ang's concerns.

He had never directly faced a number of Snake Worshipers who were larger than his own army before, but he could imagine how terrifying this kind of people without fear of death would be if they formed tens of thousands of people...

Justus has a large number of imperial guards under him. These young people are the nephews of members of the Immortal Legion under Emperor Marius, and they are also the reserve force of the Immortal Legion.

The Fanguards are very young, most of them are unskilled in skills, and cannot be selected into the Immortal Legion for the time being, so each will be assigned a large shield to increase the survival rate on the battlefield.

At the same time, they are very good at forming a dense shield formation, and they are also very good at array defense.

Therefore, Li Ang asked Justus to take these young and strong Imperial Vanguards back to Buyulin Village to set up defenses.

The horns of the retreat continued to sound, and the Freedom Army, under the restraint of the non-commissioned officers, stabilized their position. Instead of rushing out to fight the enemy, they lined up to cover each other while fighting and retreating.

And Li Ang himself was leading the Noldo elves to the rear, and he wanted to disengage the army from the Snake Worshipers who chased them first in the shortest possible time.

In other words, he wanted to kill all the enemies who had already fought in front of him as soon as possible.

The output ability of the Noldo elves is undoubtedly the strongest.

Perhaps using the Noldo Ranger to deal with the followers of the Snake Worship Cult is indeed an overkill. Those peasant-like enemies are simply vulnerable. After only ten minutes, the battlefield was full of corpses. Most of the Snake Cultists have been killed.

However, more Snake Worshipers have also come here one after another. After the enemy died and injured all over the place, the number has doubled several times...

At present, the number of Snake Worshipers that Li Ang can see is boundless, and the number of people is too numerous to count.

Moreover, no matter how heavy the casualties were, the Snake Worshipers did not retreat. No matter how many people died, they continued to charge forward.

Enemies who do not fear death are formidable, especially when there are many of them.

Fortunately, the rangers of the Noldor were all on horses, so they were not trapped.

Li Ang led the Noldo rangers to fight and retreat, and pulled them to the side as much as possible to slow down the enemy's footsteps, but a large number of farmers continued to come from the south under the leadership of a few Snake Cult soldiers, and the number of them was increasing.

From time to time, I could see some cobra warriors riding crimson army horses. They were probably equivalent to centurions in the Snake Cult. Each cobra warrior probably brought a dozen Snake Cult warriors and hundreds of farmer followers.

Obviously, the Snake Worship Cult has a strict and clear hierarchy. This is not the kind of messy peasant army. They have a meticulous organizational structure.

Lord Lord's judgment is correct, the Snake Worship Cult really wants to fight a melee, and it's purely fighting for numbers regardless of casualties.

Moreover, those cobra warriors are obviously making cannon fodder for their samurai and farmers.

They really don't care about the lives of their men, maybe they don't even care about their own lives.

Fortunately, it was still timely for Li Ang to disengage the army. If he hadn't retreated immediately, he probably wouldn't be able to leave now.

"Everyone, follow me! Prepare to ride and shoot!"

Seeing that the army had left the battlefield for at least two miles, and there were more and more enemies in front of him, the lord led the Noldor around to the side, and began to ride and shoot from the side while retreating.

It might seem wasteful to spend precious arrows on these peasants, but it has to be.

The crowds of Snake Worshipers were still chasing after them, but the constantly changing positions of the Noldor and the damage caused by their precise bows and arrows still played a great hindering role.

The Snake Cult army is getting farther and farther away from the Freedom Legion.

"Okay, let's retreat!"

From the discovery of the enemy to the present, it took about half an hour in total.

The lord estimated that during this half hour, his troops had killed or injured at least 1000 people to the Snake Cult.

If such a casualty rate is placed in an ordinary army, it will probably directly cause the entire army to panic and collapse.

But the Snake Worshipers did not.

The followers of the Snake Worship Cult who were shouting indiscriminately showed no sign of fear at all.

They seem oddly insane, and don't seem too bloodthirsty or warlike.

At the same time, the lord was still a little doubtful - if it was just to meet his own support army, the Snake Worship Cult could wait until he was near Emperor Lingang before doing anything.

Isn't it good to wait for work with ease?

My own army has already announced with great fanfare that it will reinforce Emperor Lingang, no matter how strong the Snake Worship Cult is, I will definitely go.

Why would the Snake Cult give up the siege of Emperor Lingang instead of running so far to attack their own troops with all their might?

Could it be that in the eyes of the Snake Worship Cult, his reinforcements are more important than Emperor Lingang?

Or does the Snake Cult have other plans?

If you don't figure out the reason, you won't be able to retreat the enemy in a targeted manner.Head-to-head with such an enemy, even if you can win, the loss will be huge!

The support to Emperor Lingang this time was very thorough, and it actually attracted the main force of the enemy to his side...

With doubts in his stomach, Li Ang returned to Buyulin Village.

The imperial guards under Justus had already formed a solid formation, and there were still some corpses of Snake Worshipers at the entrance of the village.

Obviously, Buyulin Village was originally attacked by the Snake Cultists. Fortunately, the lord left Lisa Dilan to intercept the Snake Cult's scouts near the village.

"My lord, less than half an hour after you left with the army this morning, a group of Snake Cult warriors appeared near the village..."

Seeing Li Ang leading the team back, Lisa Dilan stepped forward to report the situation.

"There must be Snake Cult's eyeliner everywhere around here, but fortunately, we don't have much loss... Prepare to meet the enemy, tens of thousands of enemies are only ten minutes away from us! This time it will probably be a tough battle No, I don’t know what’s special about us, so that the Snake Worship Cult can’t attack Emperor Lingang, but instead attack us with all its strength…”

Li Ang nodded and began to deploy defenses.

Since they camped in Buyulin Village, it was expected that the enemy would come to attack the village. This was also the reason why Li Ang asked Lisa Dilan to block the enemy's scouts around.

"Wait, my lord, maybe you should meet this person... maybe she can tell you something."

Li Sadilan did not leave, but took Li Ang into the village and brought out a woman.

It was a young girl wearing a pointed shashi helmet and carrying a black iron spear.

This girl's appearance is very outstanding, with an extremely delicate face. Although she is wearing a leather jacket that doesn't fit at all, she still exudes a coquettish style.

The eyelashes are extremely long, the eyes are green, and the red lips are very attractive. The combination is breathtaking.

"Who is she?"

The lord looked at Lisa Dilan, then at the woman, and frowned.

"She claimed to have escaped here. When I found her, she was being hunted down by a group of Snake Cult warriors..."

Lisa Dilan paused, and lowered her volume: "She is a member of the Snake Cult."

"Hiss... I am not anymore... Commander, my name is Alisa... Hiss..."

As soon as the girl opened her mouth, the overall coquettish style was immediately destroyed...

That hissing sound is exactly the sound of a poisonous snake spitting out a letter. This girl named Alisa is not imitating this sound, but sticks out her tongue every time before speaking, and the hissing sound caused by exhaling while sticking out her tongue.

Moreover, the tip of her tongue is forked!It's exactly the same as Nobuko of the poisonous snake!
(End of this chapter)