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GOR Chapter 537 Fight For Roland!
The disappearance of a large number of scouts finally caused General Rostock to fall into a state of rage.
After that, the Captain of the Tempest Legion issued a military order. Two cavalry battalions were sent out, totaling over 4,000 cavalrymen. They split into four groups and moved along the northern part of the Kaspersky Line. Over 200 kilometres long, they conducted a zip-line search.
Due to the lack of information, the enemy was able to wipe out a small group of scouts. To be able to wipe out so many scouts without leaving a single one alive, General Rostock became cautious. He believed that since the enemy was able to wipe out a small group of scouts, then the enemy must have a large number of soldiers. Additionally, their combat power must be formidable. Thus, he ordered the four groups of cavalrymen not to split up to avoid being wiped out one by one.
The four thousand cavalrymen spent three days and three nights to conduct a large-scale search of the northern part of the Kaspersky Line. They walked through hills, forests, and streams, looking for any suspicious clues.
One by one, the reports were quickly sent back to the main fortress of the Kaspersky Line. What made people even more puzzled was that these search teams found some places where the scouts were likely to have been attacked. They found some bloodstains on the ground. Fortunately, they were in the north. Because of the cold weather, the bloodstains on the ground would not completely evaporate. But the problem was that they did not even find a single corpse! Regardless of whether it was horses or men.
Finally, on the fourth day of the search, a thousand cavalrymen search the area to the edge of the frozen forest. Finally, they found traces of the enemy.
It could be said that this was the first time since the war of the Age of Mythology that the human army and the army of the sinners engaged in a head-on battle.
The thousand cavalrymen found traces of the enemy outside an abandoned border town at the southern edge of the frozen forest. That town was the last inhabited place in the southern part of the frozen forest. Due to the thriving poaching activities, it was once a place where mercenaries operated. There were also various black-hearted caravans from the continent who came to purchase magical beasts.
Following the establishment of the Kaspersky Line, the citizens of the Empire to the north of the line migrated in large numbers. Thus, the town became an uninhabited place. After an entire winter, most of the houses collapsed under the weight of the accumulated snow. This town, which had once been home to thousands of people at its peak, was now as quiet as a haunted house.
When the thousand-man cavalry squad arrived here, they were already at the furthest distance they were allowed to go. General Rostock's order forbade them from going any further into the frozen forest.
Seeing that the sky had darkened, the captain of the thousand-man squad had planned to rest in the abandoned town for the night. However, when he saw that most of the houses had collapsed under the weight of the accumulated snow outside the town, he dismissed the idea and did not order the whole army to enter the town. Instead, he walked around the town for a short distance before ordering the whole army to return. This decision had saved their lives!!
The battle started in an instant! Just as he gave the order for the rear to change to the front, a group of "monsters" suddenly appeared in the town!!
Those monsters were all riding on huge wolves. The wolves were covered in iron armor, and the enemies on the wolves' backs were all covered in iron armor. They were tall and sturdy, with sharp fangs. They howled like wild beasts as they charged toward the Empire's search team!
The Empire's cavalry hastily responded to the battle and suffered a huge loss in the first clash!
A total of 50 people in the rear was completely wiped out by the enemy's wolf cavalry. Those wolf cavalry were huge in size, but they had a powerful jumping ability! They were not charging close to the ground. Instead, they were leaping from the abandoned houses in the town under the cover of the evening sky. They were like ghosts!
After the initial panic of the Empire's cavalry, the Tempest Legion's indomitable spirit, which had been cultivated from years of fighting against magical beasts, exploded! The cavalry of the Empire's most elite Northern Main Battle Legion regained their composure in the shortest amount of time. The Vice Commander calmly commanded all the cavalry to turn around and clash with the enemy!
The battle was extremely fierce. The human cavalry was not used to the fighting style of these monsters. They jumped back and forth, high and low, and their super ability to jump several meters in a single jump caused the cavalry to fall into a bitter battle!
Fortunately, there were not many Wolf Riders here. Furthermore, they were fighting in the open field outside the town. The flat terrain also limited the Wolf Riders' powerful leaping ability!
With a total of 1000 Empire's cavalry, the number of enemies facing Knight was not much. There were only about 200 wolf cavalry. After a tenacious resistance, the Empire's cavalry repelled the enemy. The wolf cavalry left behind more than 20 corpses and retreated under the cover of darkness – after the failure of the surprise attack, they were smart enough not to fight to the death with the Empire's army.
But even so, the number of casualties of the Empire's cavalry made people feel helpless … After the battle, the number of casualties of the Empire's cavalry reached 130. There were also 40 with light injuries and 8 with serious injuries.
Such a ratio of casualties made the Empire's officers moved!
The Empire's most elite cavalry of the Tempest Legion, 1000 against 300 (according to the estimation of the human search team, the number of monsters they encountered was definitely not more than 300). With such a ratio of forces, although the enemy had launched a sneak attack, but in the fierce battle in the wild, the ratio of casualties to the enemy was as high as 1: 7! This ratio was intolerable no matter what!
What made the search team even more fearful was: Fortunately, they did not enter the town! Because in the flat wilderness, the human cavalry could still maintain a complete formation and clash with the enemy. But if they had rashly entered the abandoned town, on the narrow streets and uneven buildings on both sides of the road, the wolf cavalry with their terrifying jumping ability would have been able to attack from the buildings on both sides of the road. That would have been enough to cause more damage to the human cavalry who could not spread out in formation in the narrow streets!
And the enemy retreated calmly under the cover of the night. The human cavalry could not and did not dare to pursue!
The commander of the Tempest Legion had ample experience. He very keenly judged one point: Obviously, the enemy monsters did not seem to have the visual impairment of the night! And more than half of the human soldiers would become blind under the effect of night blindness once night fell! Although the Tempest Legion soldiers were treated well, their food was good, and their bodies were better than the average human soldier, but more than 30% of them suffered from night blindness – this was already the lowest proportion in the Empire's army.
After the enemy retreated, the search team did not immediately leave. Under the command of the commander, the cavalry cut open the bodies of the monsters on the spot and checked their internal organs. This was the basic experience of the death search scouts. They needed to cut open the enemy's stomach and check the remaining food in the stomach to determine whether the enemy had enough military rations.
But after cutting open the stomach of a monster on the spot, the scene shocked everyone!
Because the soldier in charge of cutting saw a few fingers in the stomach of a monster!
These fingers that had not been digested still had a rough outline. Obviously, they belonged to a human!
And from the stomach of a giant wolf, they also found some other human body parts …
This led to a very simple conclusion: they were cannibals! In other words, their food was humans!
Moreover, it was very likely that they were eating the missing cavalry scouts!
In this dangerous place, the commander of the search team immediately made a decision. They could not leave the bodies of the dead soldiers here to be defiled by the enemy. But if they brought along more than a hundred giant corpses, it would easily reduce the marching speed and increase the possibility of being attacked along the way. So, the commander endured the pain and ordered his men to set fire to the corpses of the dead cavalrymen!
This decision filled everyone's heart with grief and anger. This was because the custom of the Roland Continent was that the dead could not be cremated! The only ones who could 'enjoy' cremation were those who were burned on the stake of the Shrines!
But in order to not let the bodies of the dead soldiers become food for the enemy, the search team had no choice but to make this decision.
After setting fire to the corpses, the remaining cavalrymen vigilantly returned.
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The other three search teams also encountered different levels of battles later on, but in comparison, the scale was much smaller. One of the search teams encountered about twenty giant wolf cavalrymen. But the enemy was very cunning. When they saw the human cavalrymen from hundreds of metres away, they quickly left.
The other search team encountered five wolf cavalrymen. After paying the price of six dead and four wounded, they killed three of the cavalrymen. But the other two cavalrymen escaped with injuries.
Six days later, the search team returned to Kaspersky's Main Fortress and handed in all the information they obtained, which immediately caused a sensation!
Many people saw the corpses of the giant wolves and the wolf cavalrymen!
The wolf cavalrymen had a similar build to humans, but they were taller and stronger. After taking off their armour, their body structure resembled that of a human with a wolf's head. But their whole body was covered with thick fur – after an analysis, the imperial soldiers came to a conclusion that made people sigh: These were an unknown creature. Their fur gave them a stronger resistance to the cold than humans! In other words, in the cold weather of the North, they did not care about the cold weather at all. They could maintain sufficient strength and combat strength in the cold weather – these were the weaknesses of humans.
From the analysis of the battle, not only did these monsters possess powerful combat strength, their individual combat strength was much stronger than that of human cavalrymen. After an analysis, the imperial soldiers came to a rough conclusion: the combat strength of a wolf cavalryman was equal to two elite human cavalrymen!
Of course, if that was all, the humans would not be afraid. Because these brave cavalrymen of the Tempest Legion had fought against powerful magic beasts in the frozen forest for many years – magic beasts also possessed powerful combat strength.
But the problem was, the real reason why the humans had a change in mentality, even a trace of fear, was because of two other things:
First, after analyzing the battle, the humans concluded that these enemies possessed high intelligence! They were all wearing armor, and even the giant wolves they were riding on were covered in armor. Moreover, from the battle, they knew how to fight in groups!
Second … … they ate humans!
In other words, this was a species with high intelligence. They knew how to use tactics, knew how to use weapons, and ate humans as food … … At the same time, their numbers were probably huge!
Such a conclusion was enough to shake the morale of the army.
"This is only a small scale of the enemy's scouts!" In the Commander's Mansion, General Rostock gathered all the generals under his command. Everyone made a unanimous judgment, "This is only the vanguard scouts that were sent to scout the terrain before the enemy's large-scale invasion! It's just like how we humans use cavalrymen as scouts and vanguards! They use these giant wolf cavalrymen as vanguards and scouts! They came from the north and walked out of the frozen forest! After they finish scouting the terrain in the north … … what awaits us will be a large number of these monsters. "
General Rostock's face was gloomy. Finally, he made a decision, "Pass down the order, tell General Andre to dispatch his airship unit. We can't let the soldiers ride out to scout the situation anymore. It's too dangerous. Sending out small teams will only be sending them to their deaths. From now on, the scouting team's patrol can't go beyond ten miles around the fortress. As for the other areas … … we'll leave it to General Andre's air force! "
Looking at the different expressions of the generals, General Rostock suddenly stood up and shouted, "I know what everyone is thinking! But I don't think it's worth fearing! We are the Tempest Legion! We are invincible soldiers in the snow! We've faced groups of terrifying magic beasts! Moreover, we now have superior equipment, sturdy fortresses, and a large number of allies! We're ready for war! So … … everyone, now is not the time for us to be afraid! "Rostock stared at the generals and gritted his teeth," But … … it's the time to fight!! "
After that, Rostock pulled out his long sword and raised it high in his hand, "Fight for Roland!!"
The generals were solemn and pulled out their long swords in response, "Fight for Roland!!"
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