Chapter 1597: Deployment Error

There were only two hundred-plus Xingtian Tribe Soldiers here, but they had not penetrated too deeply, so the number of Huaxia and Xuanyuan Tribe Soldiers they encountered was not large; both sides fought back and forth, and although the Xingtian Tribe Soldiers were at a disadvantage, they were not yet being suppressed.

Once they heard them start calling for reinforcements, they began to fight while retreating, and upon hearing the distress signal, the other Huaxia and Xuanyuan Tribe Soldiers immediately began to assemble toward the direction of the attack, emptying their forces almost in an instant, leaving only a small number of Soldiers behind to stand guard.

However, the other side attacked by the Xingtian Tribe, although they heard the cries for help, did not send the majority of their forces to support them like the center position did; that was the responsibility of the central Soldiers—no matter whether the left or right side called for help, the center had to rush to support them, and when the center called for help, the two wings had to arrive in time to support them.

Therefore, this time, Xingtian's plan only succeeded halfway, because on the side the second team attacked, although some Soldiers were sent to support, the majority remained, and no vacuum was formed.

However, the deployment of the Huaxia and Xuanyuan Tribe's combat power had some problems, because the very front, which was the place most easily attacked, was a fake Battalion, intended to confuse Xingtian and wait to trap Xingtian well, but they had not deployed enough Soldiers there, and the heavy forces were concentrated in the real Battalion in the rear.

This resulted in the front-line forces being somewhat empty; after the two wings went to support, the final side's forces only numbered about three hundred, which was on par with the Xingtian Tribe's forces.

Therefore, from the beginning, they fought to a standstill; after discovering they had been tricked, they blew their whistles again to call for help, but they could no longer receive timely and massive aid, at most only the Soldiers they had sent out themselves could return in time.

The Xingtian Tribe Soldiers killed quite fiercely, with a completely suicidal style of attack, and for a time they vaguely held the upper hand; furthermore, there were not many Huaxia Soldiers here, as it was mainly Xuanyuan Tribe Soldiers, and the pressure the Huaxia Soldiers faced was also quite great.

The battle lasted for a long time, and both sides' Soldiers had already suffered more than half casualties; the Huaxia and Xuanyuan Tribe Soldiers began to retreat, because they could receive support in the rear, and their own reinforcements were about to arrive.

The Xingtian Tribe, sensing the intentions of the Huaxia and Xuanyuan Tribe Soldiers, began to retreat rapidly after a symbolic advance; they were also leaving, but while retreating, they quickly took the weapons of the Huaxia Soldiers on the ground that they could, and if it affected their retreat, they swapped out their own original weapons—the Huaxia weapons were indeed good enough, while the Xuanyuan Tribe's weapons were a bit worse, so they picked and chose what to take.

The Xingtian Tribe Soldiers who started the attack first, upon discovering the approaching reinforcements, immediately abandoned the attack and began to retreat rapidly; the Huaxia pursuers behind them continued to chase relentlessly, but halfway through the pursuit, a large number of Xingtian Tribe Soldiers suddenly appeared in the forest ahead and began to throw Spears to attack; for a moment, the Huaxia and Xuanyuan Tribe Soldiers thought they had been tricked and fallen into an ambush, and not knowing the number of enemies, they could only choose to retreat and stop the pursuit.

The side with few reinforcements and heavy losses also dared not pursue; once they left their garrison position, they might suffer a greater blow, so it was better to prioritize stability, and by the time the reinforcements from the rear arrived, it was only a matter of cleaning up the battlefield.

Shaoyin led a team over to support, and after briefly questioning the Xuanyuan Tribe Leader here as well as his own officers, he knew they had been tricked; it could not be said that their own people were too stupid, as this also had a lot to do with their tactical arrangement errors and force deployment.

Shaoyin had no choice but to quickly have the Soldiers he brought replenish the emptiness at the front, and have the wounded carried back to treat their injuries; as for the dead Soldiers, they were collected, and the killed Xingtian Tribe Soldiers were also gathered and counted.

The result of the battle was quite grim: twenty-three Huaxia Soldiers died here, and this was still under the condition that there were not many Huaxia Soldiers at the front and it was mainly Xuanyuan Tribe Soldiers, while more than two hundred Xuanyuan Tribe Soldiers died, and almost everyone was injured, whether lightly or heavily; Limu, who came along, had a livid face.

The Xingtian Tribe Soldier corpses that could be found numbered only over one hundred and seventy, a death toll lower than theirs, and the injury situation was unknown, but a very serious problem was that many Huaxia weapons were lost: seven Knives were lost, twelve Spears were lost, and even two Repeating Crossbows were missing; the Bows were not lost, because there were very few Archer and Swordsmen standing guard at this time, and Archer and Swordsmen were the elite of the elite, so they were not so easy to kill.

This was quite bad news for Huaxia; their own high-quality weapons had been taken by the enemy, and they would certainly be used to fight against them in turn.

Although they also confiscated many Xingtian Tribe Soldier weapons, the quality was not very good; Huaxia looked down on them, but they could not be thrown away—even if they were melted down, that was still Iron, so they had to be kept.

After bringing the battle situation back, Baifeng and Xuanyuan both had dark faces, especially Baifeng; he did not expect his deployment problem to be so great, causing him to lose so many Soldiers; fortunately, Xuanyuan did not yet feel it was Baifeng's problem, because he also had a share in such a tactical arrangement.

Afterward, the two summarized their experience and arranged more tactics for the front, turning one fake Battalion into half a real Battalion; they also found the main problem was that it was night, and the visibility in the trees was too poor—even sitting in the trees, they could not see the enemy clearly, so at the very front, no tree sentries were arranged, and the sentry posts were very close to where they were stationed, which was why the Xingtian Tribe people were able to sneak over all at once without them discovering it.

Regarding this, Baifeng's opinion was to directly abandon the ambushes on the two wings and concentrate the forces at the fake Battalion, so that such small-scale raids would not succeed, and if they dared to launch a frontal raid, then they would directly launch a fierce attack, and the real Battalion was also moved forward again, so that the main army in the rear could immediately rush to the front within seven minutes.

The fake Battalion was no longer fake, but became an advance post; however, during the decisive battle, it could still be used to shake Xingtian—as long as it could be used once, at a critical moment, then it would be effective.

As for this failure, Baifeng did not look for trouble with his subordinates, because the problem was his the most, but Xuanyuan still had to hold people accountable, because that was where their Soldiers were the most, and the command of the action was mainly the Xuanyuan Tribe, not Huaxia; the Huaxia command was in the center position, where they faced the enemy head-on, while the two wings were the responsibility of the Xuanyuan Tribe.

Xuanyuan believed that the main reason this time was that their Soldiers would call for help as soon as they encountered the enemy, without considering the strength gap between the two sides at all.