The epic story of green monsters

Chapter 907 Regret
  The elf army's evacuation was as well-trained and methodical as their battle.

Although there was a huge threat like Alan with astonishing lethality, the elves did not show any panic when they evacuated, and they did not give any chance to the wilderness and dwarf legions who were chasing after them.

On the contrary, the shortcomings of the dwarf army were fully exposed at this time. The burden brought by the heavy armor and the shortcomings of the short legs themselves caused them to unknowingly fall behind the wilderness army during the pursuit.

When the three armies gradually distanced themselves, the elf central army suddenly killed another carbine, causing the Wilderness Cavalry and Sword Dancer Legion who were charging at the front to suffer another huge loss.

Upon seeing this, Albad could only issue an order to suspend the pursuit. When the dwarf legions reunited, the distance between them and the elves was already quite large.

Allen wanted to hold back the elven army, but now he was only one person, and there were seven or eight elven strongmen around him who were constantly harassing and obstructing them. It was still very difficult to achieve his goal.

In this way, they chased for hundreds of miles. The faces of the three soldiers were full of fatigue. Seeing that they were getting farther and farther away from each other, in desperation, after a few words with Albad, Gray Beard gave the order to blow the signal to withdraw the troops. Trumpet.

The fighting that lasted for two full days and nights finally came to an end with the elves taking the initiative to withdraw from the western mainland.

Looking at the rolling stream of people being left behind, as well as the battlefield of strong men who were gradually leaving the army, Commander Mario, who was standing in mid-air, could not help but sigh softly. He felt helpless at the current situation, but also a little bit... The joy of being out of danger.

This evacuation was not a temporary decision, but a judgment he made based on the current circumstances after discussing with his elf commanders and staff members.

Hundreds of thousands of wilderness and dwarf troops are approaching the city. There are not many choices for the elves. Among them, the choice that seems to be the safest and most reasonable is to defend the city. However, before the dwarf army has arrived at the fortress, the bugbear saint Alan The effect of the supreme power made Mario and the others no longer have high expectations for the defense of this fortress.

Perhaps with the help of the repaired city fortifications, if the Elf Legion really wanted to defend the city, it would not be impossible.

At least Mario is very confident in the strength of his soldiers. Unless the food supplies in their fortress are exhausted or the fortress defenses are completely destroyed, neither the dwarves nor the wilderness army will be able to recapture the fortress from their hands.

At the same time, there are many other advantages in defending the city. For example, it would not be easy for Saint Berserker Allen to enter the fortress alone to launch an offensive against the soldiers in the city.

In addition, the dwarves and the wilderness army will always suffer a lot in siege operations, and the damage will inevitably be more than that of the elves. In the final battle loss ratio, the overall outcome of the three parties is that the elves have the upper hand.

But this is not what Mario wants to see. In his heart, the life of every elf warrior is far more valuable than the wilderness barbarians and dwarves. He is unwilling to exchange the lives of his elf soldiers with the dwarves and the wilderness for a dead city. Therefore, Mario and the others chose to abandon the city on their own initiative and start a decisive battle with the wilderness and the dwarf army outside the city.

Mario and the others were sure that the other party had not thought of their own plans, and at the same time they were sure of the false strength of the seemingly powerful wilderness army, hoping that the main force would suddenly break out and attack the rabble in the wilderness to defeat it.

If the plan succeeds and there is no support from the wilderness, then when the main elven force turns back to launch an offensive against the dwarf army, the battlefield situation will completely change.

Even if the final plan fails, the elven army with all its main strength can take advantage of the situation to evacuate to the west without being besieged in that dead city.

The advantage of this is that it can advance and retreat, and can effectively preserve its vitality, so that the main force will not be lost in this isolated city of little value.

When the news that the main force on the northern front had suffered a defeat reached Mario's ears, he had already made a clear judgment. Regardless of whether the kingdom would continue to implement the Eastern Expedition plan in the end, there was a high probability that their southern front would not be able to win the battle. How many reinforcements are there?
  The kingdom's local heritage is still there, so there is definitely no real shortage of soldiers. However, it has suffered defeats in several battlefields. Counting the soldiers killed in the early stages of advancement, the total loss of troops has exceeded one million.

With such a huge amount of losses, even for a country as powerful as the Elf Kingdom, I am afraid that the high-ranking dignitaries will be heartbroken at this time, and it may even shake the goal of the entire Eastern Expedition, and it is not impossible to give up the campaign.

Even if the higher-ups are still determined in the end and continue to provide reinforcements to the third-line battlefield in the east, considering the importance of the third-line battlefield and the threat to the dwarf kingdom itself, the southern battlefield that they preside over will definitely be abandoned. At this point, the kingdom will definitely devote its vitality to more important battlefields.

Now that he has this understanding, it is no longer possible for Mario to trap his living power in this dead city. Instead, he will voluntarily give up the occupied land of little value and retreat to the home border when it is too late. Go in.

Although the losses in this decisive battle were heavy, and there were still two days and nights of fighting outside the city in the previous siege, the total losses were nearly 100,000, but the number of soldiers who followed him back was even greater, about 180,000 as the main force. Combined with the garrison of Thorn Castle on the western border, if it was purely defensive, the southern battlefield was still in their own hands and could be defended, so as not to damage the kingdom's territory after the defeat.

In fact, thinking about it now, I still underestimated the strength of the bugbear saint. No matter how amazing the opponent's lethality is, after all, with the number of troops in front of me, even if I don't resist and let him kill him alone, it will still take several days and nights. Only then can we completely kill more than 200,000 soldiers.

This was because Mario had already been mentally prepared to lose a large number of soldiers and to defeat the main force of the Thorn Alliance first, but he still did not expect that Allen, the bugbear, did not regard the killing of the elves' army as an attack. Instead, the focus is to rely on its own unparalleled strength to forcibly reshape the battlefield terrain, delaying the progress of replenishing the elf forward, middle army, and reserve forces, but this has given the Thorns Alliance, which has shown signs of collapse, a chance to breathe again. , also made Mario's plan fail.

Since the main force of the Thorn Alliance cannot be defeated, there is no need for the Elf army to continue the decisive battle. The most important goal in Commander Mario's mind is to retain the vitality to return to the homeland and re-garrison the defense line.

(End of this chapter)