The signalman mentioned that the large-scale retreat was of the First Army on the Right, because Teller remembered that his father once said that if he met with an accident that could not be rescued, then he should not be rescued, but find a way to escape from danger and preserve the bloodline of the Rommel family.

Teller felt that today's situation was exactly the same as what his father had said - his father Jiachi had fallen into the hands of the emperor, and might be beheaded or strangled in a moment, and there was absolutely no way he could save him with his own abilities.

So, Teller decided to leave, as his father said, to escape from danger and preserve the bloodline of the Rommel family.

But Teller also knew that if he left alone, not to mention saving his life, he would probably be torn to pieces by the original refugees of Kayikede along the way. You must know that since the Tianjuan Army raided Kayikede, they didn't gain much advantage, but they "created" a lot of refugees. They came in groups of three or five, begging or robbing, and they would do anything for food.

So at first, Teller decided to take his and his father's personal guards with him. There were about 500 of them in total. But when he gathered them together and told them what happened, someone among the guards immediately suggested, "If you want to take them, take them all away. Leave here and never be bullied by the Tianzhuan people again."

When the guard said this, he immediately received responses from others.

After the guards talked a lot, Teller nodded and waved his hand: "Then everyone go and inform the lieutenants, tell them that I ordered an emergency assembly, everyone bring weapons, as much dry food as possible, leave the baggage behind, and prepare to march."

Then, there was the scene that the Wu Laijun scout saw...

By the time Helen received the news, Teller had already led his men more than ten miles away. It is worth mentioning that just as he was about to run out, a pursuing troop rushed out from the camp of the Second Legion of the Right Army, which was a few miles away from him. They were the genuine Tianjuan Army, and it was they who sent people to pass the news to Helen while chasing.

Seeing someone chasing him, Teller ran even faster...

Then, Jiachi was carried back to Helen's tent.

After ordering Jia Chi to untie him, Helen briefly told him about Teller's escape. Jia Chi was startled, then he knelt on the ground and shouted: "Your Majesty, please give me a chance to redeem myself. I am willing to chase after the rebellious son under the escort of your Majesty's guards and bring back all the escaped soldiers of the legion."

"Are you sure?" Helen breathed a sigh of relief. It would be best if Jiachi took the initiative to ask to do so. The sooner the mutiny and escape of the First Corps of the Right Army was resolved, the better.

"Your Majesty, I am sure. I only ask Your Majesty to promise me one thing." Jia Chi said.

"Speak." Helen nodded, thinking to herself that she would just agree to whatever the request was, and would deal with everything else after she brought the troops back and stabilized the morale of the army.

"I beg Your Majesty to forgive the crime of my rebellious son. I will send him back to Hurlit Province and discipline him strictly." Jia Chi pleaded.

"I promise you." Helen nodded again and waved her hand, "There is no time to lose. I will let a hundred guards go with you."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Jia Chi kowtowed repeatedly.

Jiachi's timid and fearful look was just for Helen to see. As soon as Helen finished her explanation, he secretly said "well done" in his heart - Teller did a really good job in this. Although his original intention was questionable, the effect was exactly what Jiachi wanted.

What does Jia Chi want? Get out of here! Having already experienced what it means to be with a king, he doesn't want to put his life in Helen's hands again. Glory and wealth are good, but who would do something that would not only make him lose his life but also bring trouble to his people? So, Jia Chi led a hundred guards to catch up with Teller, and immediately killed the hundred guards, which was considered to be Jia Chi's vent.

Then, Jia Chi asked Teller to lead a thousand light cavalry to Hulite Province to pick up his family, and he led more than ten thousand of his men to follow. According to the agreement between him and Teller, they would meet in the mountains near Hongguwan Fortress, and then they would go to Kati Grassland together...

When Helen received the news that Jiachi had also rebelled, Jiachi's troops had already run more than sixty miles, and it was too late to catch up.

"You are all untrustworthy!" Helen slapped the table heavily. Her words made Li Moli feel heavy in his heart. He wanted to show his loyalty to Helen immediately, but suddenly he felt that nothing he said would be appropriate...

After listening to the latest report, Wu Lai smiled and pushed his half-eaten dinner aside. He said to Bailey and Sarres, "The situation is becoming more and more favorable for us. Tomorrow, I will go to disrupt the morale of the enemy. If successful, we will have a hard fight."

"High Priest, please let me go. There is no need for you to condescend to me." Sareth grinned and put down his plate.

"I'd rather go." Bailey raised a smile.

"No, you two can't go." Wu Lai shook his head with a playful look on his face.

"Why?" Bailey and the other man were stunned at the same time and asked at the same time.

"Because..." Wu Lai glanced at the two of them and laughed, "You two are not arrogant enough."

Not arrogant enough? Bailey and the other two were stunned again. Just when they wanted to ask more clearly, Caesar came over with his signature silly smile on his face: "Master, you don't want the food on your plate, right? If you don't want it, then I'll eat it."

Wu Lai's smile froze on his face. After a moment's pause, he stretched out his arm and tapped Caesar on the forehead: "How many times have I told you? Don't you remember? You are not allowed to eat from anyone else's plate, not even mine."

"When you were little, you often let me grab food from your plate..." Caesar pouted.

Wu Lai laughed: "Okay, I'm afraid of you. Go to the kitchen and get another meal. Eat your fill and follow me to the battle tomorrow."

"Going to war?" Caesar was stunned, then his face lit up with joy, "Okay!"

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Compared with people of this era, Woolley undoubtedly had a more thorough understanding of "morale". When he was teaching officers at West Point, he told them that morale is a proactive motivation to maintain will and behavior. It is manifested externally in the three psychological states of courage, patience, and worry, and internally in the three psychological states of self-awareness, cohesion, and competitive psychology...

The most fundamental function of morale is to stimulate people's potential physiological and psychological energy, such as physical strength, energy, and ability.

In combat, morale is a proactive motivation that gives soldiers courage and patience to act...

When the levels of training and equipment are similar, morale is often the key to victory, because soldiers with high morale will be more united and more brave and fearless than opponents with low morale.

And now, the morale of the Tianjuan Army was very low - the first and second corps of the left army "fought each other", the settlement site for the wounded was looted and burned, and the first corps of the right army fled... All of these were like dark clouds, weighing heavily on the hearts of everyone in the Tianjuan Army, even Helen was no exception...

Helen's eyes were bloodshot after a sleepless night. Although she was very tired, she couldn't fall asleep because there were too many things to arrange, such as the camp for the wounded, the supply of medicine, the transportation line of food and grass, and the transfer of the camp - this was even more important, because the escape of the First Corps of the Right Army left only the Second Corps of the Right Army on her right wing...

But what Helen felt most helpless about was the sharp decline in morale. When the army first set out, because of the presence of her emperor and the fact that they outnumbered the enemy, the morale was high. But after arriving here, Wu Lai's army first severely punished the first corps of the right army that was the vanguard of the expedition, and then launched two sneak attacks at night. One of them caused chaos in the two camps of the left army and resulted in a large number of casualties. The other time, the wounded had no medicine to treat and no place to send them. It even caused Jia Chi and his son, Teller, to flee with their troops...

Each of these things struck Helen's heart, making her feel flustered and confused.

She suddenly remembered what Wu Lai once said: "It's not easy to be the head of a family. The bigger the family, the harder it is. There are so many people crying for food, and you have to deal with so many things inside and outside. If you are not careful, things will not be done well, and people's hearts will be scattered..."

When Helen first heard this, she thought Wu Lai was just expressing his feelings about the difficulty of managing Salt Marsh Town. Now that she thought about it, it seemed that he had other intentions...

"Your Majesty, there is military intelligence." A guard reported loudly outside the tent.

Helen pulled her thoughts away from the memories and nodded to the lady-in-waiting standing beside her.

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The female official immediately turned around and called out in a crisp voice, "Come in and report."

The messenger guard lifted the curtain and walked in, then bowed and said, "Your Majesty, right now there are a hundred enemy soldiers shouting two miles in front of our central camp. They are using Hulett flags and shouting, asking if our army dares to fight for three rounds."

"Generals fighting?" Helen frowned. This generals fighting is a tradition unique to the Tianjuan people - when two armies are facing each other, they send out generals to challenge the generals of the other side to a one-on-one fight. If they win, they can not only improve their morale, but also reduce the number of commanders of the other side. If they lose, it goes without saying that the other side will get all the benefits.

But Kimo, Hurlit and Assyria did not have this habit, because these three territories felt that this method was too risky. Even if they really wanted to try it, they would only do so when they were sure that they were outnumbered and had no choice but to fight.

Wu Laijun obviously hadn't reached this level yet, so Helen was a little surprised.

"Yes, Your Majesty, that's the flag signal the other side sent out, and they really only have a hundred people." said the attendant who delivered the message.

"Help me up." Helen gently raised her arm, a trace of doubt flashed across her eyes again...

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When Helen saw clearly who the enemy general was in the telescope, her heart trembled involuntarily.

That was Wu Lei, riding a white horse and wearing a white robe. A broadsword with a handle and a blade about ten cubits long was placed across his saddle. Beside his horse, the giant Caesar was chewing a deer leg with great relish. He was wearing a hedgehog-like heavy armor and at his feet, there was a huge thick shield.

On each wing of Wu Lai, there were dozens of riders standing guard with their backs facing away. They were wearing leather armor and black cloaks, carrying a wooden box on their backs and a half-soldier crossbow on their left arms...

A few steps in front of Wuleima, two flag signal soldiers were waving flags vigorously to challenge for battle.

Helen's heart trembled not because of what she still had or had lost to Wu Lai, but because she knew Wu Lai - not only was his personal fighting power extremely high, but he would never take risks when he had the upper hand, not to mention that he brought nearly a hundred Daishan boys with him.

Wu Lai, you are really good at scheming. Helen frowned. Wu Lai was obviously here to get an advantage. If she did not agree to the fight, the morale would be frustrated again, and she, the emperor, would be laughed at. If she agreed, it was almost certain that no one among her generals would be Wu Lai's opponent.

While he was thinking, not only did the generals of the central army come to ask for battle, but even the commanders of the other camps came...

"Your Majesty, the enemy is so arrogant that they don't even wear armor. Let me take their heads."

"Your Majesty, I am willing to share the Empire's worries and kill this thief."

"I beg Your Majesty to let me fight!"

Helen was silent.

Li Moli also came. After a slight hesitation, he stepped forward and asked, "If Your Majesty is too lazy to bother with the enemy, I will set up those two large catapults and bomb them." The large catapults of the central army had a range of two miles, and Wu Lai was just two miles outside the camp, so it was also an opportunity.

Helen shook her head. The big missile train was huge. In order to ensure the shooting range, it was sixty cubits from the base to the top of the pole. It was so eye-catching, how could Wu Lai stand there stupidly waiting for you to bombard it?

"Or, how about you let me organize two thousand cavalrymen to go around them from both wings and surround them from a distance?" Li Moli asked again.

Surround? With Wu Lai's scheming, how could he not guard against your outflanking? Just as Helen finished thinking, a messenger servant came running over: "Your Majesty, the enemy's flag signal says that if our army does not have the courage to fight, then... please leave."

Ask us to leave? The original words should be "Let us go away". Li Moli thought to himself. He didn't believe that the enemy would be so polite. What's more, he really guessed it. The messenger changed the words on his own initiative because he was afraid of angering Helen.

"Are there any generals who are good at archery?!" Helen's eyes flashed with cold light, and she asked sternly...