Three thirty in the morning, Pariston.

Standing on the high platform and looking at the battlefield in the distance, Qin Ze said expressionlessly:

"Ignore the cavalry that are fleeing in other directions, and only pursue the Golts that are fleeing along the main road."

"Just chase them all the way and clear the way for us to leave Pariston tomorrow."

As soon as the words fell, the messenger beside Gong Hou responded and immediately rode forward to deliver the message.

Qin Ze put down the binoculars in his hand, turned around and walked back. He no longer needed to pay too much attention to the battlefield dynamics.

Because now, the Goths have been completely defeated. Those cavalrymen had been beaten and scattered an hour or two ago. They were wandering around everywhere. With heavy casualties, they had completely lost their fighting spirit and became dogs that had lost their homes.

The Goths in the main position held out for a while longer, but more than half an hour ago, it seemed that there were no more troops in the rear to join the battle, and all the offensives stopped in an instant. Then they threw away their weapons and armor, and fled for their lives, no longer having the slightest will to fight.

It was obvious that after the fierce fighting that lasted for most of the night, the Golts could no longer bear the casualties and had no choice but to abandon their positions and flee.

But Qin Ze didn't want to let these fleeing remnants of the defeated army go. The Gothic cavalry was so weak that it was almost a decoration. Without the cover of the cavalry, how could those infantrymen escape easily, let alone at such a close distance.

Therefore, this battle is not over yet, and we still need to further expand the results of the battle and eliminate as many enemy forces as possible.

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On the other side, Saski, who was evacuating with the remaining troops, was riding a warhorse and shouting:

"Char! Take your troops to intercept! We must stop these damn bastards!"

The officer whose name was called turned pale. Before he could speak, Saski began to urge him:

"Hurry up! Can't you see they are chasing us?! This is not a solution. Damn it, is Fili already dead?!"

"Yes, sir!" Charles replied with a pale face, and immediately rode forward to command his troops to intercept.

Saski turned his head and looked behind him. Although the enemy was still some distance away from him, the panic in his heart was fully reflected on his face.

How excited they were at the beginning, how terrified they are now when the defeat comes.

He had never thought that he would be defeated so easily even though he led an entire army to fight. The strength of the enemy was beyond his imagination. Although there was no time to count the casualties during the several hours of fighting, Saski knew that at least six or seven divisions had been destroyed when he looked at the retreating troops.

No, more than that, in the initial proactive offensive, the artillery units of each division were basically deployed to the front line, and with the collapse of the front line, only one in ten of the artillery units remained, and in the current evacuation, the remaining clumsy and heavy artillery vehicles have been mostly abandoned.

After losing these most lethal weapons, the army's combat effectiveness was severely damaged, so it was unable to even stop the enemy's pursuit.

The fleeing cavalry made the situation even worse. Saski had reason to believe that before he gave the order to retreat, Fili had already become a deserter and ordered the cavalry to withdraw.

This move undoubtedly made the situation worse. After all, at this moment the Yan State cavalry was chasing them unstoppably on the flank, causing huge casualties to the retreating troops.

The sound of gunfire continued to ring behind him, followed by endless screams. Saski's face became paler and paler, and beads of sweat soaked his entire face.

Leo, who was following Saski closely, did the same. He turned his head to look behind him, then looked around, and said with a heavy breath:

"Sir, I'm afraid we can't escape the pursuit of the Yan people."

"We evacuated too late, and our station is too close to the battlefield. The Yan Kingdom cavalry is outflanking us from the side. It won't be long before we are caught up."

With a "plop", cold sweat dripped down his chin onto the horse's back. Hearing this, Saski felt as if a stone was stuck in his throat. He turned his head with difficulty to look at Leo, and then looked back.

Just as Leo said, the scene that came into view was that the rear was being shot at, while on the north and south sides, the Yan State cavalry had formed two columns, closely following their own army and continuously shooting at the fleeing soldiers.

Although the Yan people were unable to fire artillery shells during the pursuit, the bullets fired were extremely dense, and a group of people fell to the ground with every round of gunfire.

The crackling sound of bullets never stopped. Saski had never seen such a bad situation.

"Then...what should we do then?" Saski asked in a trembling voice. His voice was sharp and weak, completely different from his usual tone.

Looking at Saski's confused, helpless and frightened face, Leo couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Although this tragic defeat was inevitable, he still felt that this battle should not have ended like this. If they had not underestimated the enemy before the war, and had fought steadily from the beginning, testing the enemy step by step, and understanding their military strength and combat effectiveness, then no matter what, the situation would not have turned out like this, and even retreat would have become a difficult problem to solve.

Compared with the battle between Dylan and the Fifth Army in Enzos and the Yan people, today's defeat was obviously a shameful humiliation.

Thinking of this, Leo couldn't help but shook his head in self-mockery and said to Saski:

"Sir, I think the Yan people have decided to chase us to the end. We are still quite a distance away from the next town. There is no good terrain along the way for us to avoid the pursuit of the Yan people. I don't think we should evacuate to the town. You know, even we can't stop the Yan people. Taking them to the town will only make things worse."

"It will be dawn soon..."

At this point, Saski interrupted and said, "Don't talk so much nonsense. Just tell me what method we have to escape their pursuit now!"

"Let the remaining troops go separately. The Yan people may divide their forces to pursue, or they may only pursue one or two routes. This may work." Leo said.

After the words fell, Saski said hurriedly:

"Run separately?! What if they catch up with me..." Saski stopped talking here, because at this moment there was an expression of contempt on Leo's face.

"Asshole! What's that look in your eyes?!" Anger rose from his heart and Saski's rage erupted again.

Leo was about to speak when his eyes dimmed in an instant.

"It seems like it's too late to run away separately..."

"Bang bang bang!"

The dense sound of gunfire came from the flanks, and the Yan cavalrymen galloping on their horses had cold eyes and fired bullets one after another with muskets in their hands.