Chapter 58 It’s a Long Road
The angel commander walked around the remains of the massacre for several times. The corpses on the ground were already stiff and the blood had completely turned black, indicating that the battle was not short. The general's personal guards helped turn over the corpses, trying to find some members who were still alive, but it was in vain. The scene had obviously been cleared once, and some of the people who had tried to hide had been killed.
"What on earth is going on?" The elder of the army walked up behind the general and said angrily: "What on earth happened? Why did the army of more than seven million people disappear so mysteriously? Even if it was raided, at least Are we going to kill the opponent’s three to four million troops? Why are all our people dying?”
A soldier asked cautiously: "Didn't the vanguard battalion that was wiped out before report that they had encountered an elite enemy force with strong combat capabilities? Could it be...?"
"Impossible." The general shook his head. "Since they are elites, there won't be too many. One million elite assault cavalry is already amazing, there won't be more. This is a forest, and the air cavalry can't play a big role. No matter how elite it is, it's impossible not to injure one person." Charge and kill seven million regular troops, unless they have five million elite air cavalry with the combat power."
"Five million?" the elder shouted. "If they had an army of five million, they might as well just block us at the mountain pass. Why would they let us in to fight? Such an elite force plus some miscellaneous soldiers would be enough to stop us, but they didn't do that, so They definitely don’t have that many elites, and that one million should be all they have.”
"But they...!" The general thought for a while and shook his head. "Maybe I'm overly worried, but no matter what, we have to be careful. Since the other party can eat an integrated army of 7.5 million people, the 14 million we hold may not necessarily be safe. Of course, we don’t have to worry too much. Although many troops have been wiped out by the enemy, the rest are all elites. Only 100,000 of the 7.5 million forwards are our angel legion, and the rest are the Holy See’s Saints. Members of the Knights of the Temple. Our main army currently has a ratio of angels and paladins at one to two, and four million angels are not that easy to deal with. What's more, there are one million high-level angels among them."
The elder said frustratedly: "If I had known earlier, I should have listened to that guy Dracula and brought the Blood Angels!"
"In such a legion-level melee, ten thousand Blood Angels won't have any effect, right?" the general asked.
The elder immediately said arrogantly: "You have never seen the Blood Angels, so you don't know how powerful they are. If you see them, you will know their level. To tell you the truth, if there are two million Blood Angels, how can we solve these problems?" There is indeed hope that the seven million regular army can achieve this without losing a single person. However, the Blood Angels are not that easy to train. Besides, we only have 10,000 Blood Angels, so how can the enemy gather two million men?"
"Report!" A soldier suddenly rushed to the general's side. "We found survivors."
"Lead the way quickly." Several leaders immediately hurried towards the place where the survivors were found. Before they reached the place, they unconsciously covered their noses because they all smelled a very bad smell.
When the generals rushed into the woods, they only saw a few soldiers surrounding a high priest leaning on a tree trunk. This high priest was obviously the ass-assed high priest who smoked out a room full of generals during the meeting that night. Of course, here These generals don't know about his scandal, because everyone who knows is dead.
The two elders who accompanied the army sent by the Presbyterian Council all knew the high priest. Anyone who could attend the high-level meeting was not a soldier. Of course, the elders knew these senior personnel. Several elders were all high-ranking priests, although they later concentrated on studying power. Fortunately, I haven't forgotten all my old skills and finally saved this guy.
When the army commander saw that the high priest was awake, he immediately shook the guy and asked loudly: "What happened? Why were so many troops wiped out?"
The high priest was already very weak, and he almost fainted again after being shaken like this. The two elders asked someone to bring him some water and food first. After struggling for more than an hour, they finally regained some strength and began to explain the situation. These generals now know the reason why these armies were wiped out, which makes them feel a little relieved. If you are being plotted, you just need to be more prepared. It is much better than the enemy having two million super legions. The reason why the high priest was able to escape was entirely due to luck. This guy kept doing it all night and actually fainted in the grass in the morning. It happened that no one else had noticed him yet, so they took him down. Later, when we came to slaughter this legion, the high priest woke up, but when he saw this situation, he did not dare to come out. He simply hid in the grass and did not move, so he escaped.
When the general found out that more than seven million of his troops had died on laxatives, he was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot. Several elders also sat on the ground in a daze. This kind of irregular warfare simply makes the Temple of Light, which advocates fairness and justice, hate them to the core. They have been planning to find a place to fight us head-on. But we just took them in circles, and in these many circles, we also bypassed nearly half of their troops.
Several generals and elders discussed it together, and finally came to the consensus that they should rush to Tianyu City as soon as possible to start a decisive battle. In field battles, we can rely on our strong mobility to fight guerrillas with them, but in siege battles, unless the city is no longer wanted, we can only defend without any strategy. The army of the Temple of Light is not good at fighting guerrillas. The best way is to storm Tianyu City and force us to fight them, so that their advantages can be used.
After reaching the conclusion, the army immediately began to take action. The generals first directed everyone to clean up the scene. Try to cover up the scene as much as possible so that the following troops cannot see such a tragic situation. So as not to shake the morale of the army. After the cleanup was completed, it was already the night of the 21st, so the troops simply rested for the night. The team officially set off early in the morning on the 22nd. The small river in front of the troops happened to be in the dry season. The water was just above waist depth, and the troops could flow across. It takes a lot of time for tens of millions of troops to cross the river. Fortunately, the army is well-trained and the team can cross the river relatively quickly.
Seeing that the army was almost over, the high priest, who had just been rescued and was still lying on the ground to rest, suddenly felt that the ground seemed to be shaking. "Your Highness, do you feel anything?" the high priest asked the elder.
The elder was watching the army crossing the river and did not react for a moment. But a few seconds later he also felt an obvious vibration. Several generals also noticed the increasingly strong vibrations, and turned their heads to look upstream. They felt that the vibrations seemed to be coming from there, and there were also loud sounds approaching here.
An angel ascended to the sky to see what was going on, but as soon as he reached the height of the treetops, he was silenced by an arrow.
"Enemy attack!" the guard shouted.
As the soldiers panicked, the ground shook more and more loudly. Suddenly, the ground was almost unbearable. Huge vibrations and the sound of trees breaking accompanied the rush from far to near. The ground was already shaking like a bumpy carriage, and many people had to squat down to stabilize their bodies. Suddenly, a white wall rushed out from the corner ahead, with a large number of broken trees in it.
"Oh my God!" The generals knew instantly that they had been plotted again!
The huge sound came from the flood. The four to five meter high waves rushed over like an overwhelming sea of broken trees and large rocks. The force was simply beyond human power. Those who had not yet crossed the river, as well as those on both sides of the bank, All the soldiers were involved. More importantly, all the army's siege equipment was still in the river. They were all swept out together and disappeared downstream of the river.
The flood was so violent that it swept not only the river, but also the attack area within 20 meters on both sides of the river. Not many soldiers were swept up. After all, how wide can a river be? The key is that the losses of siege equipment were too heavy, especially the largest giant siege ram, which was only one in total. This time it was completely over.
This flood came and went quickly, and it was over in less than ten minutes. It was obviously planned to trick people. The big guys in the temple were protected by angels, or they were angels themselves. They flew directly to avoid the flood, but unexpectedly they were attacked by archers. Although several main officers were fine, the two elders who accompanied the army were all injured. The worst thing was Elder Zuo. This guy had an arrow in his butt and it went straight in. It was probably not that easy to take out the arrow. Now the high priest, who was unable to walk due to diarrhea, had company. Elder Zuo, like him, lay on a stretcher and was carried away.
In fact, there happens to be a dam on the upper reaches of the river. We just bribed the guild that manages the dam to let them open the gate and release water when we give the order. Floods during dry periods are more serious than floods during normal flood periods because you are unprepared and the damage you suffer will be much more serious than usual. The Temple of Light finally realizes that water and fire are ruthless.
After the disaster, the angels began to search around for the source of the arrows that attacked the elders. Nothing was found. Final tally of losses. The loss of personnel was only about 500, which was nothing to this legion of more than 10 million people. But the war machine lost more than half, which is much more important than those personnel. Without these siege equipment, the battle losses will increase by at least ten percentage points. For this army of more than 10 million people, these ten million points are more than one million people, which is of course more valuable than five hundred people. many.
In a siege battle, if there is not a large number of siege equipment, the city wall will cause a lot of casualties to the attackers, so the bright army has to stop and cut down trees to re-make siege equipment. Fortunately, most of the destroyed areas are trebuchets and the like. The wooden structure devices and real magic weapons are all contained in the space treasures and are not transported outside, otherwise the losses will be even greater.
This delay lasted until noon on the 22nd before the bright army got back on the road, but the God of War never wastes time. While the army of the Temple of Light was rushing to make siege equipment, he also commanded us to move around. Because we gained a lot of experience by massacring the army of the Temple of Light, although we were ordered to move around, the players in the meeting were very cooperative. After all, the performance of the God of War Everyone can see that they are indeed doing better than anyone else, and they cannot accept it.
On the afternoon of the 22nd, the Legion of Light began to pass through the vast jungle, but did not leave the forest until it was completely dark. After being divided, the 7.5 million people in the vanguard of the Temple of Light were killed after passing through the forest and reaching the river. In other words, this road should lead to the other side of the forest. After all, another army had already left. I've done it once, but this time I walked for so long and still couldn't find the exit. The only survivor of the forward army, the high priest Kohomer, didn't feel that something was wrong until this moment!
"Stop...stop...stop quickly." High Priest Kohomer shouted.
"What's wrong?" Elder Zuo, who was lying next to him, asked him in confusion.
The high priest said: "Did we go the wrong way? I've just walked this road, it shouldn't be that long?"
Several generals knew there was another problem as soon as they heard this. They have figured out our situation in the past few days. Although they don't know who our commander is, these senior officials of the Temple of Light have understood that we have a commander who is particularly good at calculations. So as long as there are abnormal situations along the way, it must be calculated. The current situation is obviously an omen.
Elder Zuo asked the high priest: "Are you sure this is the wrong way?"
A deputy general also said: "There are no forks on this road. There is no reason why we will go the wrong way if we follow it, right?"
Kohomer shook his head and said: "I don't know what happened, but we must have gone the wrong way. When we came here, this road only took more than four hours. At that time, it was because our people were short of food, so The speed is not fast. The current army is so fast that it has not left for seven or eight hours. Isn't this obviously a problem?"
"But it doesn't make sense!"
A general said: "Either way, we may be almost at the exit. We might as well march for two hours first. If we don't get out, it means we are really going the wrong way."
"It seems like this is the only way."
The army continued to move forward, but the speed accelerated a lot. Two hours later, the soldier walking at the front suddenly noticed something moving in front, so he reported it to his superiors, and several generals ran over immediately. After Constantine, the coach of the Temple of Light, rushed all the way, he found an army in front of him, and there seemed to be a lot of people, because the traces on the ground were very obvious, and some were traces left by heavy carriages. It seems that the number of people on the other side must be very large.
Constantine quickly organized a strike team. Because he was anxious, Constantine himself joined the team. With a wave of Constantine's hand, the assault team immediately touched it. Most of the opponents were knights, and they actually carried the flag of the Temple of Light. A soldier next to Constantine said: "Coach. Those people dare to pretend to be us!"
Constantine himself was so angry that he immediately rushed forward and planned to knock down two of them first. But as soon as he rushed behind him, the knight heard the sound and suddenly turned around and held his weapon.
"Karl?"
"marshal?"
The attacker and the attacked were both stunned. The person Constantine attacked was actually an acquaintance of his, one of his close associates. Because the team was advancing in the forest, the team stretched longer due to the road. Constantine was afraid that someone would fall behind, so he asked his trusted subordinate to go to the back of the team to watch so that no one would fall behind. Unexpectedly, he actually caught up with him from behind.
The confidant named Karl also looked baffled. "Marshal, aren't you in front? Why are you coming up from behind? Are you still attacking me?"
A general next to Constantine asked first: "We still want to ask you, why did you run in front of us?"
Karl looked aggrieved. "When did I run in front of you? The marshal asked me to go to the end of the line and watch so that no one would fall behind. I have always walked at the back of the line, but when did you, my boss, fall behind? Why didn't I see you? ?”
Constantine caught both men. "Wait a minute! So you didn't leave your post without permission. Does that mean the person we are chasing is the back of our legion?"
The people next to me also heard that something was wrong. "Damn, then we became the circle team, didn't we?"
Constantine nodded and said: "I said that I can't get out! It turns out that we have been running around in a closed circle. It must be because I ordered the team to speed up, and our team was too long. It takes time for the team to receive the order, so as the order is passed back, the team is gradually stretched, which makes us the last to join our own rear team. Damn. What is this? "
Constantine depressedly ordered the entire army to rest where they were. He himself returned to the commander's gathering point. As soon as Elder Zuo saw him coming back, he immediately asked: "What's going on? Are those people in front of us trapped travelers like us or enemies who have laid traps?"
"Hey... don't mention it!" Constantine found a big rock and sat down depressedly. "The one in front is our rear team. Fortunately, the person walking at the back is my trusted aide, otherwise it would really be an idiot snake!" There is a kind of greedy idiot snake in European legends. He often regards his own tail as food, and ends up swallowing it from the tail. Finally, he swallows himself into a small circle, only to realize that what he is eating is his own tail, and then slowly spits it out. If Constantine really gets into a fight with his rear team on impulse, he will really become a snake biting the tail like an idiot snake.
After listening to Constantine's explanation, the left elder looked at the right elder. The two of them have the highest status in the army this time, so of course they have to discuss things with each other first. The right elder thought for a while and said: "I think we were under an illusion. There was clearly an entrance when we entered the forest, and the High Priest Kohomer also walked this road, which means that both ends of the road are open. , but someone used some kind of illusion to forcefully create chaos, causing us to keep going in circles."
Elder Zuo immediately continued: "In that case, we should immediately ask the priests who can detect illusions to search the illusion areas along the way. As long as they find the intersection, they will be able to get out."
"You're right. I'll make arrangements right away. We have so many priests, and we will definitely find them all in one night." Constantine got up excitedly and ran to arrange the people to detect the illusion.
Neither Constantine nor the elders could sleep well that night because they were very nervous about the results of the investigation. Whether the army can leave safely depends on whether this exploration work is effective. The members of the command team, including High Priest Kohomer, had been deceived too much these days, and they instinctively believed that this would not be such a simple cover-up. As a result, they guessed correctly. The next day, the 23rd, all the priests came back early in the morning, and no one found any traces of illusion.
Constantine said excitedly: "How could it be possible? Did you miss something?"
The leader of the priest group said: "We use a three-person team to cover the 'sex' detection. Each person's spell and the spell of the person next to him cover half of each other. This is equivalent to every inch of land being used for illusion detection twice. It’s impossible to miss.”
"Is it possible that the other party's illusion technique is relatively advanced and your divine power is insufficient to detect it?"
The priest said with a mournful face: "Detecting illusions does not destroy illusions. There is no relationship between power level at all. It just discovers traces of illusions. No matter how powerful illusions are, there should be traces, even if they are illusions arranged by high-ranking gods. If it can be detected, if there is no reaction, it means there is no illusion, and there will be no mistakes."
In fact, what the high priest said was absolutely correct. This circle road is indeed a real road, not an illusion at all. In fact, this is a phased strategy of the God of War. The initial release of water to destroy the large equipment of the Temple Legion was only the first step. We know that those instruments are just battering rams and trebuchets made of wood, and the real advanced magic weapons are in space items, so destroying those equipment is not the main purpose of the God of War at all. The God of War has calculated that although these things are not very important, they are indispensable. This place happened to be a forest, and the equipment was all made of wood. After the Temple of Light discovered that these things had been washed away, of course they would immediately use local materials to rebuild them. What the God of War wanted was the day the other party wasted in building these things.
When the people from the Temple of Light were building those machines, we had already used a lot of labor and construction machinery to cut a circular road in the forest. Then we started to cut a road from this circular road to the road at the entrance of the forest. After this comes the part of 'confusing' the enemy. Because someone on the opposing team has already walked this path. So once they find a fork in the road, they immediately realize there's a problem. Illusions can be used against ordinary people. Priests are the nemesis of illusions. Although they may not be broken, they can definitely be discovered, so illusions must not be used.
The method we used was to use dryads to pretend to be big trees. Among the guardians of this guild are tree demons presented by the demon clan. These creatures are originally big trees, as long as they reveal their true form. Then he stood on the road and blocked the real road. When people from the Temple of Light pass by the forked roads, they will only find the forked road leading to the circle road we dug, while the other real road is blocked by the tree demon. Although dryads are magical creatures. But they were originally big trees, at most they were just relatively old. Since it is not an illusion in the first place, of course detecting illusions will not work. As long as the tree monsters don't move, no one can tell the difference between them and ordinary trees.
With the cooperation of the tree demons, the army of light turned onto the branch road leading to the circle road. At the same time, the connection between the circle road and the branch road was also disguised. This side was also blocked by the tree demon. The temple of light could not be seen at all. There is a fork here, which leads directly to the ring road. When the army all walked in, the dryads immediately changed their positions, giving up the interface of the circular road, and turned to block the branch road where the army of the Temple of Light entered. When the army of light passed by here again, the fork in which they came in had been blocked, and they could only continue walking along the road. But this road is a closed loop, no matter how long they run in it, they will never reach the end.
While the army of light was running circles on the road we built, we used this time to plant real saplings on that approach road, and then let the natural mages use their magic to catalyze the growth of the saplings. Soon the saplings grew to be the same as the surrounding trees. When you are there, you really become a part of the forest, and you will never see any flaws. We used this method to forge the circular runway inside. We cut down some big trees blocking the road, planted some ordinary plants, and then made it look like roadside plants. Anyway, those plants are genuine forest plants, they were just transplanted from other places. After the real trees grew up, the dryads began to gradually withdraw from the fork in the road, replacing their positions with real trees to form a real forest, so a completely closed circle road appeared.
In fact, the Legion of Light could run one lap of this road in two hours. They ran four or five laps in the forest from noon to evening, and they stupidly thought that the forest was relatively big. It is estimated that if the high priest Kohomer hadn't walked by once, they might not have discovered the problem with the road until tomorrow. But we are not afraid. Even if there is a problem with the road now, it will not be easy for them to figure it out. We threw a lot of magnets into the forest and the compass was useless. There is still two or three kilometers of dense forest between the real road and their circular road. If they can't determine the direction, they can't even think of finding this road. As for directly opening a road out of the forest, this method is exactly what the God of War hopes. Anyway, the God of War wants to consume the morale, food, physical strength and patience of the opponent's personnel. By the time they open a way out, these things will probably be gone.