Chapter 104 Let's Retreat

Duke Macaroth, the commander of the expeditionary force of the Candela Empire, looked down at the battle report in his hand. His dark skin was now full of blackness because of his gloomy complexion, as if the cloudy sky outside.

The atmosphere in the tent of the Chinese army seemed to be frozen in time. Everyone held their breaths, not even daring to release the sound of breathing, for fear of attracting the attention of Duke Macaroth, so the volcano was triggered.

However... volcanoes are not things that you can't erupt if you don't want to trigger them.

After a while, Duke Macaroth put down the battle report, squinted his eyes and glanced at the faces of the other officers of the Candela Empire Expeditionary Force in the tent one by one, causing them all to lower their heads before letting out a muffled groan.

The other officers in the tent trembled involuntarily.

In the military headquarters of the Candela Empire, apart from the Grand Duke Campbell Sudirman, the Marshal of the Empire, the Duke of Macaros has the highest status and the most prestigious.

This time, the Imperial Military Department asked him to personally lead the expedition to the Luerson Kingdom, which undoubtedly represented the great importance the Imperial Military Department attached to this expedition.

However, in the first step of the expedition, the Imperial Expeditionary Force was hit in the head.

The Sixth Front Army, which was divided into six directions and marched towards the interior of the Luerxun Kingdom, suffered extremely disastrous defeats within three days.

Among them, the San Joan Legion of the Fourth Front Army suffered the least loss. However, after being ambushed by the army of the Rulson Kingdom, more than 4,000 soldiers were killed on the spot, and more than 10,000 soldiers were lightly or seriously injured. The San Joan Legion, with a strength of nearly 30,000, lost nearly half of its combat power in one go.

Among them, the most serious losses were the Golden Eagle Knights and Chiyang Legion under the name of the Third Front Army.

The direct death of the Golden Eagle Knights plus over 10,000 soldiers who lost their combat effectiveness due to serious injuries is equivalent to directly crippling half of them.

The Chiyang Legion suffered a slightly weaker loss, with more than 7,000 soldiers killed in battle, but not many seriously injured, only less than 2,000. From this point, it proved the cruelty of the battlefield.

And in comparison, the loss in manpower is not as severe as the loss in material to these two legions.

During the fierce battle, the Golden Eagle Knights lost a total of sixty-three large cargo magic locomotives, and the most critical magic artillery was destroyed as many as eighty-nine. The high firepower that the Golden Eagle Knights have always relied on the most has also directly declared that it is close to being scrapped.

The Chiyang Legion was even more straightforward. More than 100 of the 500 taels of large cargo magic locomotives that were originally equipped were directly damaged in the battle.

This time, the most famous high-mobility power brought by the large-scale freight magic locomotive of the Chiyang Legion was also scrapped.

Worst of all. Due to the break between the Candela Empire and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce withdrew all support for the Candela Empire.

It is reflected in the large magic freight locomotive, that is, there is no official logistics maintenance department of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Candela Empire.

These large freight magic locomotives were all purchased from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and now they are broken. Of course, they cannot expect the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to come and repair them. I can only find a way by myself.

However, although several chambers of commerce in the Candela Empire have privately developed and imitated large-scale cargo magic locomotives, and have achieved certain results, it is impossible to reach the height of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in terms of technology.

And even with maintenance technology, there is no way to find suitable parts that meet the standards in the Kandela Empire.

With the current level of the magic industry of the Candela Empire, many parts cannot be manufactured by themselves.

So this means that the Chiyang Legion also lost most of its combat effectiveness.

Summing up the results of the Sixth Front Army, the first batch of people who participated in the battle totaled more than 130,000 people. They only experienced one battle, and the loss of personnel alone was more than 40,000, and the loss of various materials was countless. Close to losing half of its combat power.

This result undoubtedly shocked the Candela Empire.

Even before the start of the war, they had expected that this war would not be easy, because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce would definitely fully support the Luerxun Kingdom this time.

But no one thought that this war would be so difficult, and the Candela Empire suffered such a serious loss just for the first time.

What's even more frightening is that the loss of the Rulson Kingdom is almost zero!

Because from the beginning to the end, among the nine regiments and 130,000 soldiers of the Sixth Front Army, none of them had ever actually confronted the army of the Rulson Kingdom.

In other words, the various legions of the Candela Empire were passively beaten from beginning to end. I didn't even touch the army of Lu Ersun Kingdom.

This fact undoubtedly shocked everyone in the Candela Empire, and even a little bit of fear.

But this is not what surprised them the most.

What caught the attention of the Candela Empire military most was the Third Front Army.

The two legions, the Golden Eagle Knights and the Chiyang Legion, were not even ambushed, but suffered such terrible losses when they fought head-on with the Rulson Kingdom on the Indra Prairie.

This victory. It means that the strength advantage that the Candela Empire army relied on the most has disappeared in an instant.

The Rulson Kingdom did not send many people at all, which was enough to defeat the Candela Empire army several times, and the Candela Empire army did not even cause any losses to the opponent.

This means that the combat effectiveness of the two sides is no longer at the same level, and the number of troops has become a meaningless thing.

If the Rulson Kingdom continues to maintain such a strong fighting force, the army of the Candela Empire may not have any hope of winning.

Duke Macaroth pondered for a while with a gloomy face, and suddenly fixed his eyes on Gerald, the leader of the Golden Eagle Knights standing in front of him on the left.

"Gerald, tell me, what happened to that weird-looking magic motorcycle you encountered?"

Hearing this question, Gerald saw the monsters he encountered on the battlefield that day, and a look of fear involuntarily flashed across his face.

Even though it was the battle three days ago, he still feels a strong sense of powerlessness when he thinks about it now.

When he saw those strange magic locomotives for the first time, Gerald was still puzzled, and ordered his subordinates to attack with magic artillery.

But then the strange magical locomotive told him with facts that the two sides were not at the same level at all.

Under the frantic bombardment of the magic artillery of the Golden Eagle Knights and even the Scarlet Sun Legion and various individual magic rockets, those strangely shaped magic locomotives easily resisted all the attacks with a flash of light, and they counterattacked at random . It will cause heavy losses to the Golden Eagle Knights and Chiyang Legion.

Such an exaggerated difference in combat power even made Gerald suspect that these guys are demons brought over from another world by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce!

However, this is of course an illusion. The fact is that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce now possesses such an extremely terrifying, demon-level military magic machine that makes it impossible for people to think of a way to defeat it or even block it.

Now I heard Duke Macaroth asking himself to describe what was going on with that thing. Gerald opened his mouth and stayed for a long time, not knowing how to describe it better.

Seeing Gerald staying there, Duke Macaroth snorted dissatisfiedly.

"What? Gerald, have you been beaten stupid by the Luersons? If you are afraid, go back to the empire now, don't be ashamed here!"

Gerald trembled all over, woke up, and quickly shook his head vigorously: "No, no, my lord, I'm not... It's just that you want me to tell you about the weird magic motorcycle I encountered that day... I don't know. How should I describe it, but... I really can't think of any way to get those things."

"Do you mean that we have no chance of winning when we encounter that kind of thing?" Duke Macaroth raised his eyebrows and asked back.

Seeing the evil look in Duke Macaroth's eyes, Gerald still could only give a wry smile and nodded slightly.

"Yes, Your Excellency the Duke. I don't think we have any way to resist those horrible things if we meet head-on."

Hearing this answer, the other legions in the tent couldn't help showing surprised expressions.

Although most of the generals and officers in the tent have actually participated in the previous battles with the army of the Rulson Kingdom, and most of them suffered a great loss. They know that the Rulson Kingdom has many extremely powerful military magic machines, so that They have all kinds of magical means of attack, making them helpless.

But Gerald said that the so-called "weird magic motorcycles" he encountered could not be stopped at all. Isn't this too alarmist?

Could it be that Gerald deliberately exaggerated the strength of the enemy because he lost the worst, so as to cover up his own weakness and lead to defeat?

If Narorov, the head of the Chiyang Legion, hadn't been unable to participate in this meeting because he has been in a coma these days. Could he be in the same breath as Gerald?

The Duke of Macaroth was obviously also very dissatisfied with Gerald's answer. He snorted heavily and said, "Gerald, according to what you said, should we retreat immediately? Anyway, we can't fight Enemy, isn't it?"

Anyone can hear that this is obviously full of irony. However, after thinking for a while in a muffled voice, Gerald nodded vigorously, and replied with a very serious expression: "Yes, Your Excellency the Duke. I think... in the situation that we are unable to deal with it, we should temporarily choose Retreating is a wise choice."

Duke Macaroth was furious and slapped the table beside him vigorously. Pointing at Gerald, he cursed loudly: "Gerald, if you shake the morale of the army like this again, believe it or not, I will immediately pull you out and deal with it by military law?"

Gerald wanted to make some more excuses, but another officer standing beside him stopped him by pulling his arm.

Seeing that Gerald lowered his head and stopped speaking, Duke Macaros snorted coldly again, glanced at the crowd, and said with a calm face: "Since our army of the Candela Empire has already attacked, we can't do anything until we have achieved results. Retire! If anyone shakes the morale of the army again, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

A group of generals and officers responded awe-inspiringly.

"Now let's discuss the next battle plan, look here..."

Duke Macaroth walked to the huge map hanging on one side of the tent, and just as he opened his mouth, the curtain of the tent was suddenly lifted, and a guard of Duke Macaroth, who served as a messenger soldier, rushed in with a look of panic.

Before the Duke of Macaros could ask, the guard had knelt down on one knee in front of the Duke of Macaros with a plop, and said in a panic: "My lord, I just received the news that the western city of Sewen was attacked by an army of unknown origin. ..."

Everyone in the tent was shocked.

The west city of Sewen is the location of the logistics warehouse of the expeditionary army, which is equivalent to the foundation of this expeditionary army. Now that the west city of Sewen is under surprise attack, then...

"How about the material warehouse?" Duke Macaroth asked hastily.

"Material warehouse... the warehouse was completely destroyed in the raid..."

The answer spit out from the guard's mouth instantly plunged the tent into a dead silence. (~^~)