Chapter 465: After the War
The high priest never expected this outcome.
Although the battle with the ratmen in the south came to a temporary end with a victory of the Lizardmen, the ratmen were not completely destroyed by them. The other side was able to withstand their multiple attacks, which showed that the ratmen still had the strength to fight. The high priest did not dare to mobilize a large number of troops back in a high-profile manner, giving the ratmen an opportunity to take advantage.
With this as a premise, and while ensuring that they can respond to attacks from the ratmen in the south at any time, the high priest has already mobilized as many troops as possible and gathered enough troops to resolve the battle here.
In fact, they did have enough troops.
The strength of the Great Zhou army was indeed a little beyond his expectations, but the key to their defeat in this battle was not this, but the sudden appearance of the Centaurs! [This group of Centaurs had just appeared in the southern battlefield, and now they have moved back?! ]
In terms of time, it is actually enough to carry out this move.
But the problem is that the Centaurs should not be aware of their actions.
Even though they had no idea how and when they would act next, the other party still appeared here in time.
That can only mean one thing, that is, this series of actions were planned by the other party from the beginning.
Their actions will not affect the actions of the Centaurs. The other party is just concentrating on following their own plan.
The most important force in fighting for the plain battlefield is the cavalry unit. However, this wave caused all their cavalry to be wiped out.
No matter how angry the high priest was, he had to swallow his anger for now.
"Thoros, Gruul, you two guard the rainforest defense line. This side is left to you."
After saying this, the high priest directly ordered the blue lizard guards to lift the sedan chair and send him back to the temple.
After receiving this order, Soros and Gruul's facial muscles twitched involuntarily.
It turns out that we can’t relax too early.
The high priest did not mention the defeat in the previous battle and did not pursue it any further, but now the remaining mess still fell on their heads and they had to bear the consequences.
After forcing themselves to watch the high priest leave, Thoros and Gruul's faces quickly turned ugly.
Not to mention that the dragoons are not without room for development in the rainforest environment, let's just talk about their lizardman infantry units as the core combat force in the rainy environment.
Although some of them stayed behind and did not rush forward to join the battle, the remaining part was less than a quarter of the original total infantry strength. What should they do? However, now the high priest turned around and became a hands-off boss. What can they say? They can't go to the high priest to argue, right? Isn't that courting death?
Unlike Gruul, who is a little mentally broken now, Thoros is still able to keep his composure. He has already started to think about how to borrow some temple guards from the high priest to supplement his troops.
Of course, it is definitely not possible now. We should wait for some time and deal with this matter slowly. We must not put ourselves in danger of falling into the hands of the high priest.
At the same time, Li Ce...
On the front line, each department basically knew what they should do and when. Li Ce only needed to make some arrangements and everything would start running at high speed soon.
The busiest department at the moment is undoubtedly the medical department.
Judging from the current situation, we will definitely have to stay up all night.
Of course, as the commander-in-chief of the front line, Li Ce himself was not idle. He devoted himself to the handling of post-war work. He was busy until the late night before he finally had a chance to close his eyes.
Although he was exhausted both physically and mentally, Li Ce's powerful biological clock as a soldier still allowed him to wake up on time the next morning.
After a simple breakfast, I plunged into a new day's work.
He didn't dare say he was tired. You know, the people in the medical department didn't sleep a wink all night, and he even slept for a while.
"Is there any movement from the Lizardmen?"
"That pterosaur rider flew over early in the morning and has been hovering over our camp. There's been no movement in the rainforest. Because of the battle, the lizardmen shouldn't dare to act rashly for a while, right?"
Listening to the report from the soldiers beside him, Li Ce nodded slightly to indicate that he understood.
The pterosaur rider does this almost every day. It's not a rare thing as long as the main force of lizardmen doesn't take any action.
After letting out a long breath, Li Ce couldn't help rubbing his sore eyes, and then began to confirm the subsequent report.
As for casualty statistics, they can only be obtained in conjunction with the diagnosis results from the medical department, which have not been sent here yet.
However, the losses in weapons and equipment have already been counted.
When the Lizardmen attacked before, they had just received a batch of supplies, and along with the supplies came a batch of weapons that had just been enchanted.
Li Ce reacted quickly at that time. When he received the news that the opposite side's Shield Ankylosaur had entered the plain area, he immediately ordered all the soldiers to put on enchanted weapons and prepare for battle without saying a word.
In the following battles, the enchanted weapons effectively increased the lethality of their Great Zhou cavalry. However, conversely, after this round of fighting, the power of this batch of enchanted weapons was completely exhausted.
Of course, this is something the Lizardmen don't know.
Li Ce didn't feel bad about the loss of this batch of enchanted weapons. If they had lost the battle yesterday, the frontline troops would have been wiped out. As the price of victory, what was the loss of these weapons? The report from the medical department was not delivered until after noon.
"Report to the Lieutenant. In this battle with the Lizardmen, thirty-four of our soldiers were killed and sixteen were seriously injured. In addition, there were thirty-seven wounded soldiers who were not seriously injured..."
Along with the report, the member of the medical department also gave Li Ce a detailed report on the condition of each injured person.
The situation of the sixteen seriously injured people is not optimistic. Now we have only treated their wounds, and whether they can survive depends on their luck.
In addition, the centaurs led by Drogo and the elven soldiers led by Silk were all injured, and many of them were seriously injured, including Drogo himself.
In the previous battle, among the Centaur soldiers, Drogo rushed the most fiercely and was injured the most seriously. His body was pierced with several holes by the opponent's weapons. Fortunately, his internal organs were not injured and there were no fractures, otherwise he would have been directly sent to the seriously injured area.
There is no doubt that more than half of their Great Zhou cavalry suffered casualties in this wave, but in fact, to be honest, facing the siege of the Speed Dragon Cavalry, which was obviously larger than theirs, and even larger-scale Lizardman Infantry, they were able to maintain this level of casualties. This was because the scale armor equipped by their king was playing a role.
After this battle, the scales on their bodies saved at least two or three lives for each soldier! If the king had not upgraded their armor in time, the consequences of this battle would have been disastrous!
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(End of this chapter)
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