THE FIGHT TO BE KING
CHAPTER 309: RETREAT TO THE CITY OF BERN!
Ferta rushed 150,000 of her troops to where Sordas had left yesterday.
Although Ferta was worried about the state of Sordas, but he did not panic and let his troops walk slowly so as not to fatigue.
The reason for the Myro movement that decided to retreat last night, Ferta realized that Sordas was most likely ambushed by enemy forces.
From the beginning, Myro's army was not a Victory Army but a fake army used to deceive him. Using the plan, Ferta and Sordas would divide their forces, giving the enemy an opportunity to stage an ambush.
Ferta gritted her teeth full of anger, she had always been proud of her intelligence, but who would have thought the enemy had actually managed to trick her which made Ferta so angry.
If Ferta had noticed the peculiarity of Myro's forces from the start, she might have been able to kill Myro directly.
But the golden opportunity had to be lost due to his arrogance that underestimated Myro, if he was careful then all this would not happen.
Despite being angry, Ferta took a breath to suppress the anger she had. Now what was most important was not regret, but rather he had to ascertain the state of Sordas. As long as the person was lucky, there was a chance of Sordas surviving as well as escaping from the enemy ambush.
Ferta continued to step forward with her horse before stopping when she found the thousands of corpses that were on the ground.
Most of the corpses on the ground came from Sordas troops, Ferta was able to notice through their uniforms.
Descending from his horse, Ferta stepped forward to observe all the corpses around while the troops behind Ferta followed the actions of their general.
After examining all the corpses for 5 minutes, Ferta's eyes immediately fell onto the corpse of a man lying on the bottom of a tree.
The dead man had a large body like a bear and full armor, but he did not wear any weapons because before dying, the man used fists as his weapons.
Right, the corpse that Ferta saw was none other than the corpse of Sordas.
Walking closer, Ferta made sure Sordas was no longer breathing before shaking his head "Huge loss, in this battle, we lost 150,000 troops and a general of 7 generals. I don't know how much punishment I received from your majesty for this failure".
Recalling the cruelty of King Diamant I, Ferta smiled bitterly. As 7 generals, he was certainly not sentenced to death for the wrongdoing that occurred because the king still needed his power. But he certainly did not avoid severe punishment for failure such as not receiving a salary for a year or getting a sword slash.
"But what's really going on here? Even if Sordas fell into the trap of the enemy, he was a general of the 7 noble generals, how could he be killed so easily? Actually who was able to kill Sordas?", muttered Ferta staring at the stomach of Sordas where there is a fist-shaped wound that is most likely the reason why Sordas was killed.
Ferta examined the wound while muttering doubtfully "Fist Blast Wind? Isn't that Sordas' ability? Why was he injured by his own fist? No, could it be that the enemy side also possessed the ability of the Wind Explosion Fist? It seems like the war this time is not easy, even more difficult than against Azeroth Kingdom, the Duke of Victory should not be underestimated".
Before the soldier finished his report, Ferta stood up and waved his hand "Forget it, the chances of General Sordas's forces escaping were very small considering that the enemy had managed to kill 100,000 troops and General Sordas himself. Tell the whole army to prepare, we will return to Bern City and fight the enemy's attack there. Even if we suffer heavy losses now, we must not allow the enemy to obtain Kelrun's corpse until a glorious decision arrives on the matter".
The soldier was shocked at Ferta's decision "General, are you sure? However noble one tells us to fight the enemy on the main road and defeat them, lest we fight in Bern City".
Ferta rolled her eyes "Are you stupid? Previously we could indeed fight the enemy directly because our position is superior, but see our current position? Our troops are only 150,000 people, most of whom lost their spirits in the defeat of Sordas, do you still think you can fight 200,000 enemy troops on the main road?".
"This-", the soldier answered nothing because Ferta's words were true.
Seeing the soldier no longer answer, Ferta stopped being angry "We have to use the walls and defenses in Bern City in order to defeat the Duke of Victory's army. They are indeed more than our troops, but as long as we utilize the city walls and defenses there, we will definitely win! Do you understand?".
"Okay general, I will tell the rest of the army to prepare to leave here" said the soldier who rushed away as quickly as possible.
Seeing that the army had gone so far away, Ferta raised her head and looked at the cold sky "Duke of Victory, I must admit that I lost to you once! But I will not lose again, if you dare to come to Bern City, I will certainly defeat you and avenge the death of Sordas!".
Not wasting too long, Ferta took her soldiers away towards Bern City as quickly as possible. While the bodies of Sordas' troops, they did not bring him because their number was too much, which is 100,000 bodies.
Even the bodies of Sordas were left there, which showed how ruthless and uncaring King Diamant I was to their comrades.
The bodies of their comrades were treated with no care like this, let alone the corpses of enemies like the Corpse of Kelrun. Because of this, it is not strange that King Diamant I put the corpse of Kelrun like a rebel corpse.
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A few kilometers from Bern, Myro had been waiting with Falka and the 10,000 Mongol Cavalry and 100,000 royals combined.
At first the nobles under Count Horganef tried to refuse to give Myro an army. But thinking of the 200,000 troops behind Myro, they did not dare to resist and immediately gave the newbie troops they had just trained.
100,000 troops was indeed a lot, but as long as dozens of nobles cooperated, they could gather such a large army of rookies without any problems.
Myro sat in the command tent until Falka opened the door of the tent "Master, Ren and the others have returned, it seems like everything is going according to plan as they bring a lot of enemy prisoners with them".
Hearing Falka's report, Myro stood up from his chair while smiling "Let's go and meet them face to face!".