Chapter 414 Is it so difficult to bear the pressure for half a day?
"Our original goal was to rescue Rapid City."

Sissi hurriedly chased after Jessica, jogging to persuade him.

"It was Rapid City that looked down on us in the first place. We came here to fulfill the covenant. Why should we risk our lives to rescue them?" Jeska walked quickly with a headache, retorting Sissi's words impatiently.

"If it weren't for those lightning-shaping wizards introduced by Lady Catherine, would we have been able to gather all the holy guns before the Battle of Pavia?"

"If it weren't for the help of Her Excellency Catherine, would the "Saint Sun's Expedition" have spread throughout the Thousand River Valley? Could the Saint Sun's victory have been transformed into fame?"

"Without the channel of Lady Catherine, could Martin have gone to Langsand County? Without the favor of Martin and Lady Catherine, could the grain agreement between Kasha County and Langsand County have been signed so smoothly?"

Sissi asked rapidly.

"What? Moral kidnapping?" Annoyed by what Sissi said, Jessica got angry with Sissi for the first time. "Why didn't you mention that Rapid City had planted spies in Kush Territory, trying to infiltrate and seize power in the Salvation Army government?"

"The Magedi Chamber of Commerce has various branches and subordinate organizations. We don't know every one of them." Her face froze, but Sissi still argued, "Didn't Lady Catherine send a list of activities in Langsander County later, and let Your Majesty punish us?"

"You are from the Magde Chamber of Commerce, so of course you would say that." Hakuto, who was guarding the center of the army, said sarcastically, "Who knows what you are really like?"

Considering the situation on the battlefield, Hakuto stood on the side of Jeshka. They had no feelings for Rapid City and were simply fulfilling their previous alliance agreement.

If they can defeat the great enemy Alman here, it doesn't matter if Rapid City is destroyed. It's not their city, so what?

"But..." Sissi rushed over and stood in front of Jeshka, trying to persuade him again.

"Sissi, we are old friends." Looking at the stubborn Sissi, Jessica's blush faded, and the only remaining eye blinked guiltily and helplessly, "I know that everyone in Rapid City is your family and friends, but the people in the Savior Army are also our family and friends."

"We use fireball crossbows to bombard them here, and then force them to attack. Then we will win, and we can still rescue Rapid City." Hakuto added with his arms folded across his chest.

"When that time comes, the entire Rapid City will be burned down and razed to the ground!" Sissi couldn't persuade Jessica and Hakuto, so she walked quickly towards Jeanne, "Sister Jeanne, those are tens of thousands of innocent civilians!"

Jeanna had just returned from the battlefield. She pulled out a piece of slippery intestine from the gap in her skirt armor and asked with her head down, "How far is Rapid City from here?"

"Eight kilometers." After thinking for a moment, Sissi said, "We can let the cavalry go first, then remove the saddles from the carriages and have an infantry regiment ride over there. It will take less than half an hour."

"Is it still in time to rescue them?" Jeanna turned her head and took off her riding boots with great effort, pouring out the sweat from her boots. "I mean, if by the time we get there, Rapid City has already surrendered, and it is the Church that is defending the city, what should we do?"

Sissi said firmly: "I believe in Lady Catherine. She will definitely insist on fighting street battles with the church army. You know me. Please trust my judgment."

Jeanne showed a hesitant look on her face, but in Sissi's hopeful eyes, she sighed and nodded, "Okay, if it's for the lives of tens of thousands of innocent people, then I'm willing to take the risk."

With the score tied at 2-2, the final decision came down to Horn.

To be precise, in the Salvation Army government, even if the odds are zero to ten thousand, Horn still has to make the final decision.

Normally, Horn complies with the voting results and opinions of the ministers and elders, essentially to give them face and ensure the normal operation of the government and the dignity of the ministers.

If the Holy Grandson really wants to be stubborn, his power can be said to be unlimited.

If you are not convinced, be careful that the Holy Father may come down to earth and possess you in public, giving you one-on-one counseling.

In front of her was the calm Saint Grandson. Sissi gritted her teeth and walked forward: "Your Majesty, if you can capture Rapid City, the entire Megdi Chamber of Commerce is willing to accept you as their male master."

Jeanne, who was bending over and wiping the inside of her shoes with a rag, suddenly straightened her back.

Wearing a knee-length Milanese full body armor, Horn inserted the Blood Cloud sheath in his hand into the ground, stepped on a large stone, and looked towards the direction of Rapid City in the distance.

"Don't make any noise, I'm thinking."

Horn neither agreed nor refused.

At the current location of the Saviors, except for those high-ranking knights with superb hearing, it is basically impossible to hear the bell of Rapid City eight kilometers away.

According to the news brought by the cavalry, they should have captured the city twenty minutes ago.

Twenty minutes ago…

Horn rubbed his brow. He thought that the Kush Knights of Nedsal were already bad teammates, so how come another Rapids City suddenly appeared?
The last letter said everything was fine, telling the Salvation Army to take their time and not to worry, but the next letter said the city had been breached.

No, sister, the main forces of the church have been transferred here. Is it so difficult to withstand the pressure for half a day?

Even if the city was breached, there must have been a process, at least some foreshadowing or something. How come everyone was so fine and energetic one second, and so different the next?
"Our Magde Chamber of Commerce is willing to bear all the expenses of the Salvation Army!" Seeing that Horn was still silent, Sissi added in panic.

This time Horn finally responded. He looked up at Sissi and said, "Don't say that again."

Knowing that she had said something wrong, Sissi quickly closed her mouth and stood aside like a begging little white rabbit, waiting for Horn's decision.

Retracting his gaze, Horn cast his eyes on the army in front of him that had fought all the way from Autumn Dusk Island. No one understood the fighting power of the Savior Army better than Horn.

This is not Horn's usual joking nonsense, but the truth.

Due to the need to develop the Holy Gunslingers, unlike most religious leaders of this era, Horn needs to spend a lot of time with the war monks.

Therefore, he was quite familiar with the combat effectiveness of the war monks.

If it were in his hometown, without any supernatural powers, these Salvation Army infantry could easily defeat these feudal armies of the late Middle Ages.

But we need to analyze each issue specifically. Due to the existence of the extraordinary, the knights can ignore the trenches, ignore the chevaux de frise, ignore the chariot forts, and ignore the mortal spear phalanxes.

If it weren't for the extraordinary, in this empire without cannons and gunpowder, the chariot-fort tactics they used on the long and sweaty road would have been a fatal blow to the knights.

But with extraordinary powers, these terrifying knights can smash the chariot fort with their physical bodies, or even jump over it.

If the rigid bunker tactics continue to be used, the consequence will be that the soldiers will become dependent on them.

Without timely transformation, it will be difficult to have the motivation to promote field combat capabilities on the plains in the future.

This forced Horn to adopt the more flexible Galar horizontal formation tactics, and then cooperate with the Holy Gun Cavalry and Hussars to form a barely complete tactical system.

However, since its inception, this system has been using the defensive counterattack concept of the car bunker tactics, which actually goes against Horn's original intention.

He found that the car fort tactics were not flexible enough, so he chose the Galar horizontal formation.

But there is a gap between reality and ideal after all. Horn's starting environment was too poor and his development was too rapid, which resulted in the entire army still being in the process of quantitative change even though he provided enough meat.

That is to say, their extraordinary rate and training do not match their morale. They can exert their full strength in static defense, but in offense, they can easily reveal flaws and be counterattacked.

To put it simply, the original knights had high attack and thick blood, the ordinary mortal battle formation had low attack and thin blood, and the Dunjar phalanx with popularized supernatural powers and armor had low attack and thick blood.

After Horn's Galar Phalanx was equipped with the Holy Gun, the problem of low attack of mortals was changed, and the extraordinary knights were brought to the same level - both sides had high attack and low health, and they would kill each other in seconds when they met.

This is why Horn has been trying to use defensive counterattack tactics. The combat effectiveness of the extraordinary knights far exceeds that of the knights on Earth, so casualties should be reduced as much as possible.

But the problem is that if we fight like this, we will win tactically but be at a disadvantage strategically.

If he were to sit in silence here with the church army and cause Rapid City to be massacred, perhaps the people of Thousand River Valley would know that it was a last resort, but they would still be a little disappointed in him.

You know, Horn's identity as the grandson of the saint is quite sensitive, just like a ghost, if you believe in it, it exists, and if you don't believe in it, it doesn't exist.

Compared to other traditional powerful figures in Qianhe Valley, his influence is not profound, and is mainly spread among the lowest level of refugees.

If we watch Rapid City being massacred, we will not only lose a lot of people's hearts, but also lose some legal principles, especially since Rapid City is an important strategic stronghold.

In Rapids City, one can go downstream to attack Feiliu Castle or go north to support Meliati, or retreat to Xiaochi City. If it is taken away by the church, one will probably fall into a strategic passive position.

Thinking of this, Horn couldn't help but shake his head. He couldn't accept such an ending.

Seeing Horn shaking his head, Xixi's heart sank, and her whole spirit and energy shattered like a porcelain doll.

But after a few seconds, he returned to normal, but his eyes revealed a bit of tragic heroism: "If you don't want to rescue, please lend me a warhorse and a long sword."

"Who said I won't go to rescue them?" Horn picked up the blood-stained cloud on the ground in surprise and hung it around his waist again.

"You just..." Sissi opened her mouth in surprise.

The gray smoke from firewood wafting in from the upwind side made the entire battlefield a little blurry.

But Horn could still see rows of black-clad soldiers standing in neat rows, as tall and straight as iron rods stuck in the ground.

The moisture-laden wind made the clothes sticky, and from time to time someone would reach out and secretly pull up the clothes to fan themselves or scratch their noses.

Apart from the occasional low noise, almost no other sound could be heard. Maneuvering and standing in this small range, they were like a long steel wall.

Since the start of the war, the Salvation Army has almost always been fighting a positional war.

But this is not a long-term solution after all. Horn cannot choose the battlefield every time. There will always be encounters or even ambushes.

The ugly daughter-in-law has to meet her parents-in-law eventually.

"Give the order!" Drawing the blood-covered cloud from the scabbard, Horn's voice was as sonorous as steel, pointing to the enemy's right wing, "March diagonally to the west and outflank!"

(End of this chapter)