In the distance, a large number of flying birds were frightened and kept circling in the sky without landing.
There were vague shouts, and they were all random shouts, which sounded crazy and weird.
There is indeed a large group of Snake Worship Cult gangsters chasing Sigismund.
There were a lot of people, and it was a very dark place.
But these Snake Worship Cult disciples definitely don't look like regular troops. Although the ones chasing at the front are indeed some Snake Worship Cult warriors, regular troops will definitely not pursue them in a chaotic manner when they see a large number of troops arrayed...
"Form up! Spread out to the left and right and let the scouts in!"
Jocelyn obviously understood this, so he was not too nervous and calmly commanded the front army to prepare to defend against the enemy.
Sigismund led dozens of gladiators and quickly penetrated into the military formation through the gap after the troops dispersed. Then the army gathered together again, waiting for the enemy to approach.
"Commander, we may be in big trouble... My scouts can't get close to Imperial Port at all. Snake Worship Cult has gathered tens of thousands of troops in front, and they are all full of people... and they seem to be marching towards us!"
Sigismund rushed to the lord and explained quickly, "I found that they were marching this way, so I planned to get closer to find out the enemy's situation, but we were discovered. And then, they kept chasing us, as if they were preparing to have an encounter with us!"
"Is Snake Worship Cult going to besiege the city and bring reinforcements? It shouldn't be... It stands to reason that Snake Worship Cult should capture Imperial Port as soon as possible to meet their interests, and they can't besiege the city and bring reinforcements this far, right?"
Justus frowned and expressed incomprehension.
He and the lords came to support with great fanfare. Of course Snake Worship Cult knew their movements and would indeed take the initiative to fight. However, even if they were to besiege the city for reinforcements, they would not be dozens of miles away from Imperial Port...
"This is not a siege for reinforcements... They seem to have given up the siege Imperial Port! Almost all the Snake Worship Cult army is coming in our direction!"
Sigismund said hastily, "I swear, there are not many Snake Worship Cult disciples besieging Imperial Port, the ones coming towards us are their main force!"
The gladiators beside him also nodded repeatedly and pointed to their own eyes to show that they saw it with their own eyes.
"If they were all farmers like this, there would be nothing terrible no matter how large the number was... But they were obviously vulnerable, so why did they dare to pursue them when they saw the military formation?"
Alina seems very courageous.
"No... they are not farmers! They want to force a melee with us! Send an order to Jocelyn to stop entangled with the enemy and break through the enemy quickly! Then break away from the enemy and retreat to Buyulin Village!"
Li Ang looked at the front army and saw that the shouts of killing had already started. Jocelyn and his troops had already engaged those Snake Worship Cult disciples.
So he reacted immediately and directly ordered to retreat.
"Li Ang... Those are just Snake Worship Cult warriors and followers. Our troops can kill them all in half an hour at most..."
Justus next to him looked at Snake Worship Cult in front of him, a little confused.
"No, we can't afford to waste half an hour... If we don't retreat, we will probably get into a melee with tens of thousands of people, and their followers will definitely continue to join the battlefield! Maybe their combat capabilities are indeed not strong, but we absolutely can't fight them in a melee for numbers... Governor, you should know that the people of Snake Worship Cult are not afraid of death!"
I have dealt with those Snake Worship Cult samurai Li Ang before. Their equipment is indeed very good, but their strength is not that great.
The size of the Snake Worship Cult disciples who came here after Sigismund didn't seem too big, just over a thousand, and most of the thousands of Snake Worship Cult disciples were just make-up.
Although everyone holds a javelin, they are completely pure farmers and only wear tattered common clothes - most of them are farmers who follow Snake Worship Cult.
If nothing else, this rabble will be completely wiped out in just one or two charges.
However, the Lord is aware of the considerable danger...
Although most of the Snake Worship Cult disciples look like farmers, they are completely different from pure farmers - the lord already knew when Buyulin Village killed that small group of Snake Worship Cult disciples half a year ago that Snake Worship Cult people are not afraid of death!
Snake Worship Cult disciples are also heretics. Although they worship different gods, they are the same as those under Three Prophets. They also follow an evil god who can bring people back to life... or an evil demon.
The ways in which Dark Goddess Eredar and Orochi Aziz Dahaka develop followers are actually basically the same.
The fighting method of Snake Worship Cult's disciples seems to be very similar to Three Prophets's idea - since they don't have the ability to fight in formation, they will force it into a melee.
Three Prophets will use his followers as cannon fodder to create opportunities for melee, so I'm afraid Snake Worship Cult will do the same!
Li Ang doesn't know if there is any connection between the Dark Goddess sect to which Three Prophets belongs and Snake Worship Cult, but at least one thing is certain, that is, the leader of the Snake Worship Cult army must be the same as Three Prophets and does not care about the lives of these followers.
Maybe in their eyes, dying on the battlefield is tantamount to sacrificing to their snake god...
After all, they have always sacrificed human beings.
The surrounding area is Snake Worship Cult's territory. The number of Snake Worship Cult's followers must be terrifyingly large. Although these followers are all farmers with low combat effectiveness, being trapped by farmers will be fatal!
These farmers who joined Snake Worship Cult must have not received any battle formation training, and fighting in formation is definitely no match for the combined army of Li Ang.
But if the Snake Worship Cult followers followed the scouts into the military formation with a cannon fodder, holding back the Li Ang troops, and then tens of thousands of Snake Worship Cult followers continued to join the battlefield, turning the battle into a melee...
Under this human sea tactic, no matter how powerful the troops are, it will be difficult for them to escape.
No matter how powerful the gladiators are, they will tire. The Noldor's arrows are also limited. If they are held back by these cannon fodder and cannot be repaired in the continuous melee, then even the strongest troops will be overwhelmed by the sea of people.
"Blow the trumpet! The whole army forms a formation and retreats!"
The Lord Lord gave the order again, "Your Excellency Justus, take your troops back to Buyulin Village as quickly as possible... Do not kill enemies along the way, and do not stop. Go back to the village to set up defenses to meet us!"
Justus nodded and obeyed, because he had already seen that there was even bigger smoke and dust rising behind the first batch of Snake Worship Cult disciples who were chasing after them.
Those birds that were so frightened that they kept circling in the sky never fell down.
This means that there are people coming here from the direction Imperial Port all the time, and there are a huge number of them!
As the governor of the empire, Justus has led troops to participate in the encirclement and suppression of many Snake Worship Cult gangsters. He has also seen the Snake Worship Cult gangsters' attitude of not fearing death, so he now understands Li Ang's worries.
He has never directly faced Snake Worship Cult disciples that exceed the number of his own army before, but he can imagine how terrifying it would be for such people who are not afraid of death to form tens of thousands...
Justus has a large number of Imperial Guards under his command. These young people are all the nephews of the Immortal Legion members under Emperor Marius, and they are also the reserve force of the Immortal Legion.
The mortal guards are all young, most of them are unskilled and cannot be selected into the Immortal Legion yet, so each one will be issued a large shield to enhance their survival rate on the battlefield.
At the same time, they are very good at forming dense shield formations and forming defensive formations.
Therefore, Li Ang asked Justus to take these young and strong Imperial Guards back to Buyulin Village to arrange defense.
The horns of retreat kept sounding, and Free Legion stabilized his position under the restraint of the non-commissioned officers. He did not rush out to engage the enemy, but lined up to cover each other while retreating.
And Li Ang himself was leading the Noldo Elvess to the rear. He wanted to break away from the contact between the army and the Snake Worship Cult disciples who were chasing them first in the shortest possible time.
In other words, he must kill all the enemies he is fighting as soon as possible.
Noldo Elves's output capability is undoubtedly the strongest.
Perhaps using Noldo Ranger to deal with the followers of Snake Worship Cult was indeed a overkill. Those farmer-like enemies were simply vulnerable. After only ten minutes, corpses fell on the battlefield. Most of the Snake Worship Cult followers who were originally chasing had been killed.
However, more Snake Worship Cult disciples have also arrived here one after another. After the enemy was killed and injured, the number increased several times...
At present, the number of Snake Worship Cult disciples that Li Ang can see is endless, and the crowds are so crowded that they are hard to count.
Moreover, no matter how heavy the casualties were, the Snake Worship Cult disciples did not retreat. No matter how many people died, they continued to charge forward.
Enemies who are not afraid of death are really difficult to deal with, especially when there are many of them.
Fortunately, Noldo Ranger are all riding horses, so they won't be trapped.
Li Ang led the Noldo Rangers to fight and retreat, and tried their best to pull to the side, delaying the enemy's footsteps. However, a large number of farmers continued to come from the south under the leadership of a few Snake Worship Cult soldiers, and the number was getting larger and larger.
From time to time, you can see some Cobra Warriors riding crimson horses. They are roughly equivalent to centurions among Snake Worship Cults. Each Cobra Warrior brings about a dozen Snake Worship Cult warriors and hundreds of farmer followers.
It is obvious that Snake Worship Cult has a strict and clear hierarchy within it. This is not the kind of messy peasant army. They have a rigorous organizational structure.
The lord's judgment is correct. Snake Worship Cult really wants to fight a melee, and it is purely about numbers, regardless of casualties.
Moreover, those Cobra Warrior are obviously letting their samurai and farmers die as cannon fodder.
They really don't care about the lives of their men, maybe they don't even care about their own lives.
Fortunately, Li Ang was able to disengage the army in time. If they had not retreated immediately, they would probably not be able to escape by now.
"Everyone, follow me! Get ready to ride and shoot!"
Seeing that the army was at least two miles away from the battlefield, and there were more and more enemies in front of him, the lord led the Noldor around to the side, and began to retreat while shooting from the side.
Maybe it seems wasteful to waste precious arrows on these farmers, but it must be so.
The huge crowd of Snake Worship Cult disciples were still chasing him, but the Noldor's constantly changing positions and the damage caused by their precise bows and arrows still acted as a great hindrance.
The Snake Worship Cult army is getting farther and farther away from the Free Legion.
"Okay, let's retreat!"
From the time we discovered the enemy to now, it only took about half an hour in total.
The lord estimated that in the past half hour, his troops had caused at least more than a thousand casualties to Snake Worship Cult.
Such a rate of casualties, if placed in an ordinary army, would probably directly lead to panic and collapse of the entire army.
But Snake Worship Cult didn't.
Those followers of Snake Worship Cult who were shouting randomly showed no signs of fear at all.
They seem to have a strange kind of madness, and it doesn't seem like they are bloodthirsty or warlike.
At the same time, the lord still had some doubts in his heart - if it was just to attack his support army, Snake Worship Cult could wait until he was near Imperial Port before taking action.
Isn't it good to wait for work in leisure?
My own army has already announced in a big way that it wants to reinforce Imperial Port. No matter how powerful Snake Worship Cult is, I will definitely go.
Why would Snake Worship Cult rather give up the siege of Imperial Port, but run so far to attack his own troops with all his strength?
Could it be that in the eyes of Snake Worship Cult, his reinforcements are more important than Imperial Port?
Or does Snake Worship Cult have other intentions?
If you don't understand the reason, you won't be able to defeat the enemy in a targeted manner. If you go head-to-head with such an enemy, even if you win, the losses will be huge!
This time, Imperial Port's support was very thorough, and he actually attracted the enemy's main force to his side...
With a lot of questions, Li Ang returned to Buyulin Village.
The Imperial Guardss under Justus have formed a stable formation, and there are still some corpses of Snake Worship Cult disciples at the entrance of the village.
Obviously, Buyulin Village was originally attacked by Snake Worship Cult's gangsters. Fortunately, the lord left Risadiran to intercept Snake Worship Cult's scouts near the village.
"Sir, less than half an hour after you left with your army in the morning, a group of Snake Worship Cult warriors appeared near the village..."
When Risadiran saw Li Ang leading the team back, he stepped forward to report the situation.
"There must be Snake Worship Cult's spies everywhere around here, but fortunately we didn't suffer much loss... Get ready to face the enemy. Tens of thousands of enemies are only ten minutes away from us! This time it will probably be a tough battle. I don't know what is special about us that can make Snake Worship Cult stop attacking Imperial Port and instead attack us with all its strength..."
Li Ang nodded and began to set up defenses.
Since we are camping at Buyulin Village, it is naturally expected that the enemy will attack the village. This is why Li Ang asked Risadiran to intercept the enemy's scouts around.
"Wait, sir, maybe you should meet this person... maybe she can tell you some information."
Risadiran did not leave, but entered the village with Li Ang and brought out a woman.
It was a young girl wearing a pointed Sashi helmet and holding a Black Iron Spear.
This girl's appearance is very outstanding, with an extremely delicate face. Although she is wearing a completely ill-fitting leather coat, her whole person still exudes a coquettish charm.
The combination of extremely long eyelashes, green eyes, and alluring red lips is truly breathtaking.
"Who is she?"
The Lord Lord looked at Risadiran, then at the woman, and frowned.
"She claimed to have escaped here. When I found her, she was being chased by a group of Snake Worship Cult warriors..."
Risadiran paused and lowered his voice. "She is from Snake Worship Cult."
"Hiss... I am no longer... Commander, my name is Elisa... Hiss..."
As soon as the girl opened her mouth, her overall alluring charm was completely destroyed...
That hissing sound is exactly the sound of a venomous snake spitting a message. The girl named Elisa is not imitating this sound, but the hissing sound caused by sticking out her tongue every time before speaking and exhaling while sticking out her tongue.
Moreover, the tip of her tongue is forked! It is exactly the same as the poisonous snake's nobuko!