Lost, completely defeated!

Polante couldn't believe it. There was a war report last time that the Xia army had been driven to the top of the mountain. At this time, he actually came to tell him that his 100,000 army was defeated like this, and it was completely defeated. How could he believe this? How could he believe it?

But the soldiers who turned around and fled had to convince him that the horror on the faces of the soldiers passing by him passed by one by one in front of him.

"Master Knight, run away, Xia Jun is chasing me." A knight ran over from the front with a smoke on his face. If it weren't for the conspicuous equipment of the knight, Porant would not have believed that this look was the instrument that an elegant knight now possessed.

Hearing the terrified words of the knight, Brandt couldn't believe it and asked angrily: "Run? What are you running? Have you forgotten the rules of the knight?"

"Knight's Code?" At this time, the knight came back to his senses from Xia Jun's fear, looking ashamed. He replied: "Yes, Master Knight, let's fight now."

"Back." Porant saw the knight's behavior and knew that it was not the time to worry about it at all, so he asked: "What's going on? Didn't it mean that the Xia army was surrounded on the top of the mountain? Why was it defeated?"

"Go back to the Lord Knight, all this is the conspiracy of the Xia army." When he heard Polante's question, the knight suddenly became angry and said, "The Xia army is luring us to attack. If it weren't... if the Xia army hadn't launched an attack, our army would have almost died."

"So that's it, so that's it!" When Polante heard the words of the knight, he finally understood why the Xia army attacked and retreated at a time, and it turned out that it was consuming his troops!

After he figured it out, he only felt that he was a small bug, played with by Xia Jun in his palm. The blow was so big that it even made him feel that this was a terrible nightmare.

The knight saw Porant who was lost and ignored him. His eyes turned around and saw that no one noticed him. He quietly left Porant's side, took off the conspicuous equipment and decorations on his body, and merged into the escaped crowd.

The knight looked in the direction of Polante in the crowd and whispered: "Knight's Code? Bah! Is it important to have life? If it weren't for the purpose of pleasing you, I would have run away after escaping, and would have been informed?"

For high-level nobles like Polante, the honor they possess may be more important than life, but for those knights who are promoted from the bottom, these are just capitals for showing off. Once life is encountered, life will definitely be more important.

"Master Knight, Master Knight?" The Polante's guard also heard the words of the low-level knight. Seeing Polante standing there without movement for a long time, he stepped forward and whispered a few words.

"Ah?" Porant then came back from his loss of consciousness. Seeing that the escaped soldiers were getting fewer and closer, he knew that the Xia army had really launched an attack, so he said helplessly and powerlessly: "Let's go, let's go." After that, he stepped onto the wildebeest and headed towards the north under the guards' escort.

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The attack of the Xia army was very fierce. After defeating the enemy with the last force, the cavalry was the first to pursue the enemy.

The war horses were repaired behind the mountain for a whole day. At this time, it was the time to be full of energy. When they ran without hesitation, they launched a series of attacks on the enemy's back.

Since the Xia army changed its clothes, the cavalry equipment has also changed greatly. It turns out that there are no heavy cavalry with full armor, but a large brigade was retained in the Jinyiwei for the guard of honor.

The current cavalry equipment is similar to the original light cavalry. The same breastplate and helmet protect important parts of the body. The sword in the weapon has not been cancelled. It just replaced the crossbow with a cavalry musket, and there was an ammunition pack on the waist. In this way, you can still get off the horse and fight in a formation when necessary.

If we say that the cavalry was the first to launch the pursuit, the artillery was the first to launch the attack. Artillery was also the least changed army. Except for no one with a standard musket, the rest had no changes, and even the short sword on the waist was not cancelled.

However, the Xia Kingdom still followed the principle of long-distance artillery attack. In the army, the ratio of artillery was very high, and basically sixty-two soldiers were equipped with one artillery.

If the Xia Kingdom had not entered the steam era and had complete and powerful industrial capabilities, Yang Song would not have dared to complete artillery like this, and he would not have even dared to expand his army on a large scale for this reason.

Infantry has changed the most. The original spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, heavy-armed soldiers, crossbow soldiers, strong crossbow soldiers and other types are gone. Except for a large group of heavy-armed soldiers who act as guards of honor in the Jinyiwei, they all become musketeers.

The weapons and equipment of musketeers are still very different from those of the musketeers in the world where Yang Song used to be. For example, the infantry breastplate and helmet were not cancelled. After all, the enemy that Xia Kingdom needs to deal with is not a hot weapon army that ignores individual defense.

Moreover, many concepts are very different from the previous musketeers, such as fixed loading, combat rules, combat methods, and military bands without loud flutes and drums.

After all, the development of the army still depends on the needs. If the enemy is at the same level as the Xia State and equipped army, it will be a completely different appearance.

By the end of the 14th year of the Apocalypse, the population of Xia Kingdom had reached 17 million, but even if the number of troops in the Shanghai army was counted, it was only less than 70,000, and the proportion of military and civilians reached 4/1,000!

Such a large proportion of military and civilians is unprecedented. It is not that the Xia Kingdom does not have enough military resources, nor that it does not want to expand its army, but that the navy and artillery are really a very expensive "big family", because after this, the Xia Kingdom will go bankrupt.

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"Order the artillery to follow the attacking army." Li Jing saw the battle situation at the top of the mountain, and smiled and ordered: "Let the militia behind come up and clean the battlefield. By the way, remember to send a team of people here to redirect."

Li Jing asked Guihua City to send a team, which was decided by Yang Song and Liu Ji and others after discussing. The people in this team must be all natives living in Guihua City, and the intention was self-evident.

When the militia in the rear cleaned the battlefield and the delegation was shocked, the army in front had already attacked outside the town.

This town was originally just an ordinary town, but since the Xia Kingdom occupied the Linhai Basin and built the Naturalized City, the Fulimet Kingdom has built this town into a military town. Therefore, it is not just a small town, but not a fortress.

The town walls have also been expanded, completely blocking the passage between the two mountains, making passing caravans have to pay a considerable toll again if they want to reach Guihua City.
Chapter completed!