Chapter 346 Sneak Attack

Defeating on the battlefield is a complete disaster.

Many people have the experience of chatting with veterans in taverns. When those veterans talk about defeat on the battlefield, there are few people who are not afraid of it. The chaos, the unilateral pursuit and killing, the scene where everyone uses all means to escape, and even fights with comrades to fight for the escape path, can make the most ruthless and cold people feel afraid.

Lord Blood Tooth has just experienced such a defeat.

Many people (including believers of other evil gods) often see a terror warrior who will continue to fight until the last moment when he is defeated. Therefore, in the general concept, a blood god's Chaos Lord should fight to the end when facing failure and give his blood to the Blood God. If a terror seldom chooses to escape when he finds out that he has failed, this action is simply a direct betrayal of the Blood God. Such a person will undoubtedly not be able to become a terror Chaos Lord.

But in fact, there are all kinds of people who ascend to the position of Chaos Lord, and so are the terror lords. Some people eventually won their own position on the battlefield, some people were loved by the Blood God by fighting alone, and some people were for some inexplicable reasons - for example, making those vows to please the Blood God and putting them into practice - were recognized by the terror as the Chaos Lord.

For example, if a Chaos warrior is loved by the Blood God by fighting alone (which is very common) and is promoted to the Chaos Lord in a short time, then when this person fails on the battlefield, he will fight to the last moment with the determination to be dead and to glorify the Blood God. However, if a Chaos warrior gains this status through countless battles, he may not have adopted this strategy.

Because the obvious fact is that even the number one general in the world from ancient times to the present is not sure of winning a battle. Even if he has a 99% winning rate, in theory, as long as he fights enough, he will always encounter the remaining one percent.

There are always many temptations and small battles in the early stage of a large-scale war. The so-called "having experienced many battles and never losing" refers to a total battle. To say that a general can win every battle—including those small battles that are numerous and difficult to count—is purely empty talk.

Perhaps it was just a mistake in planning before the war, perhaps it was a slackness when the subordinates executed orders, perhaps it was an accident that humans could not plan, or simply the opponent was full of luck. As long as there were more battles, such accidents were always inevitable. In fact, a general could not spend his precious energy on those worthless small battles. No one dared to say that he could win every battle - as long as he could win a big battle, he would be a famous general.

Even Berel is no exception. Although Berel has the nickname of "Vampire Slayer", he does have the actual results of destroying the vampire clan. No one can say that Berel was defeated by vampires - but in fact, in the confrontation of the outer desert of Carlean, Berel suffered a lot of losses. He himself did not deny that he had been defeated by the vampires more than once, or even escaped alone. But even so, since he achieved the final victory, he was the winner. People would not see (and would not care about) his previous failures.

Lord Blood Tooth is the kind of person who ascended to the throne of the Chaos Lord by countless battles. Not to mention anything else, he experienced no less than five major battles just to control the White Fort. Of course, he laughed to the end. In fact, before becoming Lord Chaos, he had experienced enough battles of all sizes and sizes—and suffered more than once.

This is why after the defeat, the terrifying lord did not respond to calling the name of the Blood God to fight to death, but to the generals fight to the death. Winning was to tear a gap on the enemy's front line and lead thousands of troops to siege out.

But failure on the battlefield is definitely not something that can be ended.

Those subordinates who fought to the death delayed enough time for the Blood-Tooth Lord. Even so, he was still ruthlessly pursued. Since the enemy's defense line was torn open, the pursuers have been chasing them relentlessly. Although they had to concentrate their forces to encircle and annihilate the stubborn enemies on the battlefield, Ash Rufate still sent a large number of cavalry to pursue the defeated Blood-Tooth Lord.

Every time the cavalry bites from the rear, they will intercept some of the troops from the Blood-Tooth Lord's troops - the number will not be too large for people to eat, nor will it be too small for people to be indifferent. In military books, this tactic is called "tail cutting": when chasing, it is not a roundabout interception, but a sketch from the rear. Each time a small number of troops are intercepted and eaten, and then repeated. This method can achieve the greatest results with a smaller force without encountering too tenacious resistance.

The Blood-Tooth Lord was cut off for a full half of a day and suffered heavy losses. Fortunately, it was dark, and he was lucky to escape into a jungle with relatively complex terrain and temporarily escaped from the pursuit.

But the southerners caught up again the next day. The frontal battlefield had ended. This time, Ash Rufate sent a large number of troops to annihilate the Chaos Remnant Army. The next one was a cruel pursuit and melee. It was not a lucky chance to say that the Blood Tooth Lord became the ruler of White Fort. The Chaos God Selected Warriors unit he personally led was even more brave and good at fighting. Under such severe circumstances, his subordinates still maintained relatively high fighting spirit. Relying on this, after three days of bloody fighting and after a series of ruthless blocking and melee, although the Blood Tooth Lord had only more than a thousand troops left, he finally led his troops to get rid of the pursuit.

The Blood-Tooth Lord finally could stop and take a break. Then he discovered a very sad problem - he was lost.

This is impossible. In the fierce battle between the enemy blocking front and back, you have no time to pay attention to the direction. One battle followed by another battle. What you can do is to determine which side of the enemy's strength is weak and it is better to break out, rather than choose the right direction - the enemy is not a fool, and in the right direction, the enemy's main force often gathers.

In fact, this is not a particularly serious problem - after all, the terrain in the northeast of Groney is mainly plains, and it is only a matter of time before he finds the road. Another problem he has to face is much more serious: his troops have no food and grass.

The Chaos Legion's ability to collect supplies is much stronger than that of the southerners. In fact, because they have the blessings of the evil gods (or they think they have the blessings of the evil gods), their food range is much wider - even the corpses of the dead, the Chaos Warriors can eat them without any psychological burden. As for insects, beasts, fish, etc., they can eat them even if they eat them raw and live.

But unfortunately, it is impossible to meet the needs of a thousand troops with these extra things. It is okay to spread the troops into a large range, but the problem is that they are now going deep into the enemy's area. They are defeated soldiers, with only more than a thousand, and the tens of thousands of enemy troops are waiting to pounce on them. In this case, the food and grass problem of the Blood Tooth Lord becomes very serious.

The Blood-Tooth Lord met his spy in a depression.

After continuous cruel battles, marching and hiding, the Blood-Tooth Lord no longer had his previous arrogance. There was a scar on his face that was neither deep nor shallow - it was a trace left by a spear. Of course, the owner of the spear had completely disappeared from this world - plus the black blood stains on the armor and cloak (these blood stains are not as good as the Blood-Tooth Lord himself), which made his expression look particularly ferocious, and he looked like he could choose someone at any time.

Of course, it is not the only one who looks like this. In fact, the entire Chaos Legion has been out of food for several days. Although there has not been a situation where the Chaos Warriors are exhausted due to hunger (thanks to the Chaos believers who have physical qualities that are far stronger than the southerners), it is impossible for humans to not eat for a long time. In another day or two, this situation may occur in large quantities.

"Is there a big city there? Moreover, the number of defenders in the city is very small and the garrison is lax?"

"Yes!" the spy replied unambiguously. Lord Blood Tooth had a bad temper, and this defeat greatly strengthened this point. He could no longer tolerate any off-line behavior of his subordinates.

"How big is a big city?"

"It won't be smaller than Gaohuacheng."

"Gaohua City..." Lord Blood-Tooth recalled his map in his mind - of course, these maps have probably become the spoils of southerners because they are placed in the camp. Are there such a big city nearby? There are only a few defenders in such a big city?

A few seconds later, he opened his eyes. "City of Newestria." The Blood-Tooth Lord spitted out the place name decisively from his mouth.

"City of Niustria?" asked a subordinate.

"Well, the enemy's base camp." Lord Blood Tooth linked several evidence together. "There is only one huge city that is not smaller than Gaohua City... there is only one." He believed in spies. Because even an idiot would not make a mistake in a small city and a big city. "There are few defenders in the city - this is normal. They must have been dispatched in full force, and the garrison troops left behind are very limited. As for the garrison, this is also normal, because they may have received the battle report of victory on the front line, and they will inevitably slacken because they will."

"Where is their main force? Will it be nearby?"

"Impossible." The Blood-Tooth Lord immediately rejected the questions of his subordinates. "If they retreated, they would have been in the city long ago. They did not... This means that they must have marched to victory. They should do the same..." He said coldly. "Under Gaohua City, there are our camps and left-behind troops... and White Fort... My White Fort!"

Since he won a key victory, the southerners are indeed qualified to get more. However, the Blood Tooth Lord was not worried about the White Fort. He knew very well the strength of the castle. As long as there were some defeated Chaos Warriors - not too much, 10,000 or 20,000 to withdraw the White Fort, then the southerners would not have the chance to retake the city.
Chapter completed!