Chapter 50 Why Did You Lose?

General McHale has no time to think about whether the prestige of the Candela Empire is in crisis. He only knows that he is really in a serious crisis now.

The sound of countless feathered arrows piercing the air came from above the head, so densely packed that it almost gave people the illusion that it was raining heavily.

But this "torrential rain" carried a powerful threat of death.

General McHale watched a "torrential rain" fall, surrounded by soldiers falling down like harvested straw, and for the first time a trace of panic arose in his heart.

What exactly is going on!

How could these guys from the Rulson Kingdom have such a powerful lethality?

"My lord, be careful!"

A personal guard beside him suddenly yelled, rushed in front of him, raised the huge shield in his hand, and blocked in front of the two of them.

"Ding ding ding ding—"

A series of clear and crisp sounds of flying feather arrows hitting the giant shield sounded one after another, and the personal guard held up the giant shield and stepped back involuntarily, barely stopping until he almost bumped into General Malhaer.

"My lord, are you alright?" the guard turned to General McHale and asked.

"It's okay." General McHale shook his head, but his eyes stopped on the giant shield in the hands of the guards, and he couldn't help shrinking his eyes.

This special giant shield was personally forged by the most famous blacksmith in Wimbledon, the capital of the empire. The whole body is made of solid iron, and the thinnest part is only the thickness of a palm. There are countless deep dimples, which seem to be almost directly penetrated.

It can be seen that these crossbow bolts not only have a strong impact. The lethality is even more astonishing.

Even this carefully crafted giant shield can hardly withstand it. No wonder the armor worn by the soldiers under him was like paper in front of it. It doesn't show any protection ability at all.

Turning his head and glanced at the countless soldiers under his command who had fallen to the ground on the battlefield, General McHale hesitated.

Going forward, there is little hope of winning this battle in sight.

But if you just retreat like this, wouldn't that be slapping yourself in the face?

After taking over the command of the Luerson Kingdom army from General Cook, General McHale only rested for less than a week, and then launched an offensive against the Luerson Kingdom again in a few days.

This time, he directly dispatched 30,000 of the 50,000 Imperial Third Army he brought with him, intending to defeat the army of the Rulson Kingdom in one fell swoop on the frontal battlefield. Use this to establish your prestige.

But he never imagined that the lethality of King Rulson's army would be so terrifying. As soon as the two armies came into contact, an extremely dense rain of arrows hit the sky and covered the sky, making the two sides just meet each other. Candela The soldiers of the empire directly lost at least 10%.

And what shocked General McHale even more was that the crossbow arrows from the Rulson Kingdom seemed endless, and the attack had never stopped from the very beginning.

Under such a terrifying arrow rain attack, the soldiers of the Candela Empire could not make any progress at all, and could only be passively beaten. The casualty rate skyrocketed.

Seeing that the situation was not good, General McHale wanted to send two light cavalry to go around. He launched an attack on the enemy from the flank, but he did not expect that as soon as the two light cavalry he sent out were dispatched, the Luerxun Kingdom immediately responded.

The Rulson kingdom sent out to stop the two light cavalry were two squads composed of dozens of strange-looking magic locomotives, and their maneuverability far exceeded that of the two teams under General McHale who were famous for their speed and agility. Qingqi, no matter how these two Qingqi go around, they can easily stop them.

And in addition to being equipped with that terrifying crossbow, they were actually equipped with a powerful attack weapon that General McHale had never seen or even heard of.

The two light cavalry were easily defeated without even touching each other's sides. In the end, only less than a hundred people escaped, which forced the end of General McHale's surprise attack plan.

So the current situation on this battlefield has become that the Candela Empire is simply being beaten and has no power to fight back.

Just as General McHale was hesitating, he suddenly noticed dozens of fiery red light spots appearing from the formation of King Luerson's army on the opposite side. After a while, these dozens of light spots turned into dozens of fireballs. It flew over here at high speed.

"My lord, be careful!"

The guards around him had seen the horror of these fireballs with their own eyes just now, so without saying a word, they directly threw General McHale to the ground, and covered him with several giant shields.

"Boom boom boom boom—"

Countless extremely violent explosions rang out, and General McHale, who was pressed down at the bottom, felt the entire ground vibrate violently, and the extremely terrifying explosions that passed over made his ears lose their response for a while.

After the surroundings finally returned to calm for a while, General McHale pushed away the guards who were pressing on him, stood up and took a look, and felt a chill in his heart.

He was able to become a general of Emperor Candela's first army, of course, he had experienced many battles, and he had never seen such a tragic scene.

But the scene in front of him now still made him feel chills all over his body.

Looking around, apart from him, there are hardly many people who can stand in the field of vision.

Dozens of deep pits with a diameter of more than ten meters have been blasted out on the originally flat grassland.

The center of the deep pit was as smooth as a mirror, but the surrounding area was densely packed with mutilated corpses that could not be seen in their true colors. The scene looked as miserable as it could be.

Looking blankly at this situation, General McHale only felt that the ambition in his heart was being wiped out little by little.

"My... my lord... I... we still... let's retreat..."

A painful sound resounded under his feet. General McHale looked down and found in astonishment that almost all the guards who blocked him were blown away by the violent explosion just now, along with the giant shield in their hands, leaving only the same The two guards at the bottom.

One of the guards was lying motionless, obviously dead, and the other guard was also covered in blood. I can only hold my head up. Barely make a weak sound.

After saying this sentence with great difficulty. The bodyguard drooped his head and remained silent.

General McHale's hands trembled slightly. He turned his head to look at the formation of King Luerson's army in the distance, and found that sometimes dozens of fiery red light spots were lit up. Suddenly, a deep chill passed through his heart, and his body trembled. , then took a deep breath, and squeezed out two words with difficulty.

"retreat……"

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If we say that the Candela Empire's first offensive against the Rulson Kingdom suffered a serious failure. While surprising other countries on the Sainz continent, they were able to give such things as "The Kendela Empire is too careless", "The Luerxun Kingdom must have carefully prepared", "The Candela Empire dispatched only local legions"... Waiting for these reasons to explain it, then the second offensive was defeated again, and the entire continent was instantly silenced.

The offensive launched by the Candela Empire this time was personally commanded by the general of the Candela Empire's army, General Mel Hale, and led by the third legion of the Candela Empire's regular army. Although it was also 50,000 people, its combat power was the same as the previous 50,000. The local legion is completely different.

Under such conditions, the Candela Empire's second offensive against the Rulson Kingdom unexpectedly failed miserably again, which really made everyone feel inconceivable.

And it's even more incredible. This time, the Rulson Kingdom not only repelled the invasion of the Kendela Empire, but even launched a counterattack. Within a week, they continuously pursued the Candela Empire's lower third corps led by General McHale, and beat them until they fled to 300 kilometers within the Candela Empire before barely escaping.

According to the revealed information, in the end, except for General McHale, there were only less than 10,000 Candela Empire soldiers left.

In other words, this time the Kendela Empire lost more than 40,000 regular troops in its offensive against the Rulson Kingdom!

In the thousands of years since the founding of the Candela Empire, except for the war with the Maruo Empire, the Candela Empire has never suffered such an astonishing loss!

And if the two losses are added up, this time the Candela Empire's invasion of the Rulson Kingdom not only failed completely, but also lost more than 80,000 manpower, and the loss of other materials was even more insignificant. Counting, it can be described as a big defeat.

While all the countries on the Sainz continent were shocked and unbelievable by this, they all had the same question.

What exactly did the Rulson Kingdom rely on to cause the Candela Empire to suffer such a disastrous defeat?

All kinds of information about the two wars between the two countries began to be passed around the entire continent.

After studying this information, all countries have discovered a problem. The reason why the Rulson Kingdom was able to defeat the Candela Empire so easily was not because they possessed such powerful tactical capabilities, nor was it because the Candela Empire underestimated the enemy. The only thing is that the fighting power of the army of the Rulson Kingdom is too terrifying.

In the two offensives, the total number of battles between the two sides was barely more than ten times, and this also included the subsequent pursuit battles by the Rulson Kingdom.

In fact, the actual confrontation between the two armies only added up to five battles.

And in just five battles, the Candela Empire suffered an astonishing loss, so much so that it completely lost its ability to fight.

This shows that on the frontal battlefield, the combat effectiveness of the army of the Rulson Kingdom is far superior to that of the Candela Empire.

But...why is the combat effectiveness of the army of the Rulson Kingdom even better than the regular army of the Candela Empire? Or far out?

You must know that the Candela Empire and the Maro Empire are both the two major empires in the Sainz Continent. With their strong national strength, the combat effectiveness of their armies has always been the top in the entire continent.

After all kinds of messy intelligence analysis, in the end all the information pointed to one point.

The key lies in the military magic machinery equipped by King Luerxun's army. (To be continued..)