Caterano spat on the blood foam in his mouth, looked up at the surroundings, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

Although I knew that my soldiers were definitely not opponents of the Burgundians, and I and other generals of the coalition forces did not have any hope, it would be a proud thing to defeat the Burgundian cavalry.

But things went against my wishes, or strictly speaking, the strength of the two is not on the same order of magnitude. The entire defense line has been hit by the opponent and cannot continue to defend like this. After all, if you continue to defend, it means that the Italians and this trapped beast are fighting each other. It is not cost-effective, and will disrupt the advance arrangements.

This has only been less than half an hour in front of each other! Even if the three thousand pigs are placed here, it will take half an hour to clean up the Burgundians.

Caterano knew that this was not the time to lament. If he did not order his retreat, his troops would become a laughing stock of the coalition forces.

"Retreat!" With Caterano's order, the expected orderly and battle-retreat scene did not appear. After the supervision team took the lead in evacuating the battlefield, the other Italian soldiers retreated in a swarm, all of whom only regretted that their parents had fewer legs.

On the battlefield, how to attack is a subject, and how to retreat is also a subject. Obviously, Italian soldiers did not pass the subject.

Originally, Caterano planned to block here for a while, so he arranged for all troops to retreat in an orderly manner, let the Burgundians leave the pass, and then gathered the troops to pursue the enemy at the right end, and achieved results. But the current situation is that Caterano underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Burgundians, or overestimated the combat effectiveness of his subordinates. He never expected that just a wave of offensives, the mountain pass that he was stationed on was almost taken down by his opponent. This was the case when the front-line commander of the other party was killed. It can be said that the opponent had no command and no rules in this place, but the difference in the quality of the soldiers on both sides was indeed obvious. This was no longer something that the commander could make up for by command.

The Italians were unable to resist and had to flee in a panic.

"Master Viscount! The enemy soldiers in front have been penetrated by us, but Lord Ebul was also killed." The officer reported to Dahar.

"This idiot!" Dahar cursed inwardly, although Eble was his enemy, competing with him for the position of deputy to the cavalry unit. Eble would not feel distressed at all when he died. But the key is that he and he are internal conflicts between him and Burgundy, and they can be resolved at any time after being closed. Now that he is dead here, who can effectively lead the Thousand-man team under his command?

"Tell the soldiers in front not to pursue and evacuate here as soon as possible."

"Yes, sir."

Of course, Dahar did not dare to let his troops chase the obviously "vulnerable" troops in front of him. He didn't know that there was only such a weak brigade nearby. In his opinion, this army had a higher possibility of acting as bait. The combat effectiveness of the Western Qin soldiers could be imagined. It was impossible to be so weak. He took down a defensive position with one wave of offensive, which made Dahar feel that it was too smooth - except for Ebul's death, it was a failure.

It has to be said that the Burgundians' prudence saved the lives of the Italians.

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Since the pass was full of corpses and the troops could not pass normally, the Burgundians had to stop and start cleaning the mountain road. Although it didn't take long, it finally calmed down Catlano and his troops and had the opportunity to reorganize the already disrupted troops.

"There were probably more than 400 people lost, most of them should have been injured and left behind." The adjutant obviously did not expect the battle to be like this, and he felt quite dejected. But from the beginning he had made up his mind to try his best to preserve his strength. The loss of 400 people was not small at all.

As for those soldiers who were left behind due to injuries, the adjutant must be helpless. In this situation, the Burgundians would not need to be captured, and falling behind would mean death.

Now their defeated soldiers retreat to a small road, which is not the path the Burgundians have to take when they retreat, so it is still very safe to do so as long as the other party does not have to kill them.

"How many of them will we kill?" Caterano sighed. Although he was a little unwilling, his morale was obviously not good now, so there was no need to say he would pursue the other party again. He had to swallow this failure, but even if he swallowed the defeat, he wanted to know how many enemies he had fought.

"The appearance of almost two or three hundred people was mostly shot to death by our arrows." The adjutant leaned against a tree and said slowly.

The Italians rely on geographically defensive defense and have a strong long-range firepower offensive. If the battle is like this, it will definitely not even be a draw.

In fact, the battle originally envisioned by Bai Zhou was not fighting like this. The Italians' advantages and disadvantages were very obvious - they had strong long-distance attacks, but their melee ability was pitifully poor.

In this case, it is undoubtedly a very unwise thing to force a temporary position. They can send multiple small troops along the way to hold powerful crossbows and bows to harass and attack. Even if they can only kill a few people at a time, as long as they have more times, the results they can achieve will definitely be more than two or three hundred, and the effect will be good on the morale and mental blows of the enemy. At the same time, because Burgundy is going to retreat and cannot figure out the reality of the coalition forces, they will definitely not dare to rashly divide their troops to clear out the Italian sneak attack troops. So if you do so, even the losses will be reduced to the minimum.

To take a step back, even if Caterano is worried that his small troops have not had that high tactical qualities and cannot fight independently, and insists on using the form of overall combat, he can temporarily let the main Burgundian troops evacuate and then launch an attack from the rear.

The Burgundians who wanted to escape as soon as possible had no intention of entangling with the Italians here, and they would definitely choose to leave some soldiers behind the temple, and the main force would continue to retreat. In this way, with Caterano's three thousand troops, it should be no problem to eat the Burgundians behind the temple. Moreover, in this way, those Burgundians were thinking about how to save their lives (because the large army had already left, but their cannon fodder troops might not have the awareness of cannon fodder), and would not choose to fight to the death (if the road ahead was blocked, it would definitely be a life-threatening attack).

This is not that Bai Zhou has a good idea to not tell the Italians, but that Bai Zhou feels that if he does this, it seems to be a bit "hands-long". After all, the Italian troops are not under their jurisdiction, and how they fight is their business. If he not only arranges the big strategy, but also arranges the other party to implement the small tactics. I think that the aristocrats who are a little arrogant will not think that Bai Zhou is for their own good, but thinks that he is looking down on them and most likely will not appreciate it.

Like this time, with Caterano's temperament, although he was not the kind of person who could not listen to the advice, before he fought with the Burgundy head-on, he always believed that even if his troops could not stop the opponent's attack, it would be no problem to delay and block one or two waves of offensives. Moreover, he did not expect his troops to completely block the opponent. He just wanted to block several waves of offensives, and evacuate while the Burgundy was losing their aura, and then consider chasing and further expanding the results of the battle.

If Bai Zhou told him his thoughts at the beginning, even if Caterano didn't say it, he would think that Bai Zhou looked down on his soldiers even though he didn't say it.

This has nothing to do with the size of the mind, but human nature.

Therefore, this battle was only because Caterano used a more wrong method to lead to the current result. It cannot be said that the Italians did not do their best. After all, the three thousand troops lost more than 400 people in one battle, and this loss was beyond their acceptance range.

"Da, da, da!" A series of horse hooves came faintly in his ears. Caterano understood that this was the Burgundian army and had begun to sail out of their attack range. In other words, the remaining battles seemed to be unable to use the Italians to take action again. Their mission was completed, although the quality of the completion was not very high.

The sound of horse hooves gradually faded away, and after about ten minutes, the Italians finally breathed evenly, and Burgundy did not send anyone to cause trouble for them, but retreated all the way.

"Sir!" an Italian scout ran to Caterano and shouted.

"What's wrong, what's the matter?" Caterano was a little surprised. What else would happen to them Italians at this time?

"Not far away, His Highness, the third prince of the Holy Roman Empire, fought with the Burgundians again. Their scouts found me and said they hoped we would come over as soon as possible to provide support!" The scouts, panting and finally explained the matter clearly.

"Is that right? Okay, come over now and tell them, I will take the troops there immediately." When Caterano and his adjutant heard the news, they immediately stood up and ordered the scout.

"Yes, sir!" The scout took the order and turned around and left.

"Haha, I didn't expect that our second interception unit was not far from us." The adjutant smiled. The reason for this expression was because he believed that the Italians had a chance to "revenge".

Although their troops were low and they were unable to pursue anything by relying solely on their own, there were allies facing the pressure on the front and they chose to harass them from the rear. The adjutant felt that they still had the troops under their command.

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ps: Thank you for the fantastic fallen leaves for rewards. There are two updates today... I have been saying that it has been a long time since I have been two updates.
Chapter completed!