“Kley…” General Mandel stood up in surprise and walked out of the account.
Before he could walk out of the tent, two figures in beggar-like costumes rushed into the tent.
“General Clay! Commander Guilfrey! What happened? How did you make it like this?” Master Clark exclaimed. With his strong mental power, he recognized the identities of the two at a glance.
“General Mandel! Hurry! Retreat the troops!” Jilfrey shouted anxiously without caring about his embarrassment.
“Retreat? Are you crazy?” General Mandel shouted angrily.
“General, the Third and Fourth Corps, the entire army was wiped out! They, their new crossbow chariot…” Gilfrey helped explain.
“What? The whole army was wiped out?! Is he true?” General Mandel interrupted Guilfrey, staring at Klee wide, waiting for his answer.
General Kley avoided his eyes and replied in pain: “Yes, they invited an entire order of knights from the chaos. Moreover, their new crossbow cart can shoot the official knights to death two kilometers away.”
“What? A whole order of knights… shooting the official knights to death two kilometers away… How is this possible?”
“How many people are there in that order? How strong are they?” Clark asked hurriedly.
“There are about five or six hundred people, and they are extremely strong. The leader of the regiment is at least seven levels, and I can’t even have the courage to resist in front of him.” Klee answered truthfully.
General Mandel and Clark gasped at the same time.
“Where is the crossbow cart? How many such crossbow carts do they have?” General Mandel asked.
“Fifty, they used fifty crossbow chariots, each of which could shoot nearly a hundred crossbow arrows. After only eight rounds, we were wiped out.” Klee’s voice trembled a little. He was as if he was in that desperate battle again when he was telling the situation of the battle.
“General Mandel! They pulled over 150 such crossbows this time. I counted it, and there were a total of 150.” Jilfrey’s voice was already crying: “Retreat quickly, General, it would be too late to retreat.”
General Mandel glanced at Master Clark, pondered for a moment, and spoke again. This time, he spoke very slowly, almost word by word: “Kley, all of what you said are true?”
“I swear with the dignity and honor of the knight, it is true.” General Clay said without hesitation: “What we need to consider now is not whether we can occupy this place, but how to preserve the empire.”
General Mandel fell into deep thought again, and he really could not accept this sudden turn.
Just a few minutes ago, he was still betting with Clark that he would end the war in a few days and occupy Coennas City. Now,However, some people told him that if he did not withdraw his troops, even the empire’s land might be insured.
While he was hesitating, there were another voice from soldiers outside the tent.
“General, there is military information!”
“Come in and talk!” Mandel shouted loudly.
A blood-covered knight stumbled into the camp, half kneeled on the ground, and said intermittently:
“General…scout…discovered the enemy…on the periphery of the military formation. Our two hundred knights intercepted them and were all killed, only…I was the only one who escaped.”
“What kind of costumes do those people?” Kry asked hurriedly.
“All body, black armor.”
“How many people do they have?”
“Only, only three people…”
“Three people… only three people…” Mandel fell to the chair.