chsdbacks #429 - Great achievements
#429 - Great achievements
"So you really arrived on July 22nd?" Catherine asked in disbelief. "You should have just arrived at Little Pond City and driven away the besieging army."
"As it turns out, those noble coalition forces weren't that scary," Horn said, patting Catherine's soft waist. "Aunt Catherine, get down. Don't keep taking advantage of me."
"Who cares?" Catherine, who had previously been attacked by Horn for her age and weight, finally blew her top.
She jumped off Horn's lap, but didn't land steadily and almost fell to the ground, glaring at Horn. "How old are you? You're calling me aunt?"
"I'm nineteen, and you?"
Catherine seemed to choke on her food, and after a long while, she gritted her teeth and said, "Twenty-one."
"Impossible. Martin said you were older than him."
"So what?" Catherine puffed out her ample chest muscles. "I have a lifespan of one hundred and fifty years. Thirty years old is like just turning twenty for mortals."
"I'm a male witch, so nineteen for me is nine years old. What's wrong with calling you aunt?" Catherine was provoked by Horn's stubbornness. "You're already old, why are you pretending to be a young girl?"
A surge of heat rushed to Catherine's head, and the sound of her heart pounding could almost be heard directly.
Blood pressure, high.
Catherine suddenly felt that she had some reason to mistake Horn for Juan Nuo; this potty mouth seemed to be cut from the same mold.
It's just that Horn was a bit more sarcastic, while Juan Nuo was more direct, opening and closing his mouth with 'old woman'.
"Get out, get out!"
"Why should I?"
"I want to change clothes, you get out!" Pushing Horn's back, Catherine pushed him all the way out of the bedroom and slammed the door shut behind him.
Brushing the dust off his shoulders, Horn didn't leave immediately. He pressed his head against the door for a good seven or eight seconds. After hearing the rustling sound of washing up inside, Horn slowly let out a breath.
After this series of jokes, this witch shouldn't have much of a death wish.
When Horn saw her earlier, he could clearly feel that she still had a death wish, and even her desire to survive was very weak.
This kind of witch who can stimulate plants is exactly what Horn needs right now.
Can't die, still useful.
In order to feed her blood in time and prevent her from giving up treatment, Horn stayed by her side for three days.
Otherwise, with Horn's busy schedule, how could he find the time to sit by the bed and read?
As for his own blood being able to regulate the berserk magic power, it was really a pleasant surprise, but…
Horn touched his neck. He didn't know why, but when he came into contact with Catherine, whose berserk energy hadn't completely dissipated, his neck once again felt a pulling sensation and bled.
That feeling was only for a moment, and he even wondered if it was his imagination.
Walking out of the inner bedroom, Horn plopped down on the main seat of the conference room, looking at the busy crowd inside.
The battle of Rapid Current City had ended three days ago, but the post-war statistics and debriefing were still going on.
This battle involved tens of thousands of people and retreated hundreds of kilometers. There were too many things to count and debrief for such a large-scale operation.
Fortunately, Horn gave them a deadline and forced them to come up with a brief report within the specified time.
Seeing Horn sit down, Armand, who was originally writing on paper, picked up the report and quickly walked to Horn's side.
"How many of those Edict Knights escaped?" Horn took the report from Armand, but didn't flip through it, and instead directly asked Armand.
"Armand's Edict Company had 300 people, of which 18 Edict Knights escaped, 25 Banner Knights escaped, and 52 Squire Knights escaped."
"So many Squire Knights escaped?" Horn scratched his head and opened the report, and after reading it for a while, he suddenly understood.
These Squire Knights were lightly armored units and were sent to the battlefield early to fight guerrilla warfare.
When the battle situation was not right, they ran very fast, and the Savior Army's main target was the Edict Knights, so naturally there was no energy to deal with them.
"What about the Edict Company in the city?"
"We entered through the south gate, and the Edict Company escaped from the west gate. The total number of Edict Knights on the other side is unknown, but we left more than thirty of them behind."
After practicing and gaining experience in Kashya County for a while, Armand became much more capable. He summarized, "Overall, the number of Edict Knights we annihilated and captured definitely exceeds one hundred. The other side probably only escaped with an incomplete Edict Company."
Horn counted on his fingers. Prince Condé had a total of nine Edict Companies. One was wiped out in the Battle of Pavia, one and a half were wiped out in the Battle of Rapid Current City, and one was wiped out by Moliat.
So Prince Condé currently only has five full Edict Companies and one incomplete Edict Company left.
Among them, there are four on the Upper River County battlefield, one led by Barnifus in Swiftwater Fortress, and half led by Elard.
If it weren't for the fact that a heavy fortress, Stillwater Dock, was blocking the waterway downstream, Horn would have wanted to take the opportunity to take a boat down the river and push Swiftwater Fortress in one wave.
With the empty military strength of Hotham County, who could stop him?
"How is the overall situation of the Savior Army in this battle?"
"127 soldiers died in the ten old legions, 388 were seriously injured, and 1253 were slightly injured;
115 soldiers died in the two Black Hat Army recruit legions, 110 were seriously injured, and 222 were slightly injured;
As for the Little Pond City militia, only about 500 people have arrived at the camp outside the city, and the rest should have run away."
Compared with the Battle of Pavia, which also annihilated an Edict Company, the Savior Army at that time lost (not including minor injuries) more than a quarter of its soldiers.
And today, if we only look at the proportion of regular legions, only about one-tenth was lost.
Of course, the numbers are similar to the previous Battle of Pavia, but the biggest difference is:
In the Battle of Pavia, the Savior Army only needed to deal with 500 transcendents, while in Rapid Current City, they had to deal with more than 1200 transcendents.
"What about the situation of the Church's army?"
"If we exclude the squire knights, they have 1200 truly transcendent knights," Armand scratched his head. "If we only count transcendent knights, we annihilated and captured nearly half."
Following Armand's narration, Horn flipped through the report.
In the great battle three days ago, due to the flat terrain and the fact that the opponent's forces were indeed too large,
Although the Savior Army defeated them, the proportion of those who were actually captured or killed was not as high as in the Battle of Pavia.
But compared to other uprisings, this annihilation rate is frighteningly high.
Of the 1200 transcendent knights who went on the expedition, only about 700 escaped the vicinity of Rapid Current City. The total number of guards and squire knights captured by the Savior Army was nearly 10,000.
The other nearby armies quickly ran away after receiving the news of the royal army's defeat, and even the city official of the important town of Ansonburg ran away.
After the Battle of Rapid Current City, the Edict Company was crippled, and the remaining noble knights did not dare to mess around, and it is estimated that they can only honestly hold on to Deer Horn Township in the north of Lower River County.
Currently, Horn has not continued to attack this part of the army. On the one hand, there are many castles on the opposite side, and it is not cost-effective to nibble them off bit by bit. On the other hand, there is no need to do so for the time being.
The main attack direction he chose was Dog Fox Township, and Jeanne is currently leading the army to attack here.
Once Dog Fox Township is captured by the Savior Army, then the south of Lower River County, the east of Kashya County, and the entire Langsand County can be connected into one.
The political talents of Kashya County and the economic talents of Lower River County can all be fed back to the Savior Army government of Langsand County.
Just as Horn was thinking about the complementary nature of the three-county alliance, the sound of a door opening came from behind him.
Catherine, who had changed into a close-fitting casual dress, appeared before Horn's eyes.