Act 26: The Great War Begins I

The fleeing knights and their squires under the woodland. .For these Viero soldiers who have never seen the world, that kind of scene is like the doomsday befalling everyone. It makes them feel a sense of fear from the bottom of their hearts, as if they feel that the fear is coming As they swooped over, they were alone and helpless, and they would die in the next moment without a place to bury them. The private soldiers were terrified like sifting chaff. Where there was any courage to resist, they could only drop their weapons, scream and flee in all directions. In a blink of an eye, they completely collapsed.

And the sharp claws of the dread spirits were like claws hanging in mid-air, passing over the heads of these soldiers, swept the knight on the horseback, and pulled him off the horseback. The knight let out a miserable cry, and with a bang, his intestines and spine were pulled out from his lower body. The bloody half of his body flew into the air, and then fell, the fragments of internal organs and stinky blood flew all over the ground. The Dread Spirit let out another piercing howl, passed through the woods again, and flew high.

Count Jacques, the supreme commander of Viero's army, looked at this scene with a pale face. Thirty or forty fear spirits spread their wings several meters wide, and drove the broken soldiers of the knights into the forest from mid-air. Many knights They were not killed by these undead at all, but they were hit by a tree and their brains were split, and they were killed alive; A dead end. The scene of one or two thousand people being driven into the dense jungle like ducks is really sad and funny. If they have the courage to stop and fight back, they may be able to retreat unscathed, but they have already been scared to death If he lost his courage, he would rather scare himself to death than stay and fight those nightmares.

Several noble commanders of the Viero Army and noble knights watched this absurd scene, but none of them could laugh. Earl Jacques turned his head and whispered a word, and out of the woods came out a number of priests in red robes and pointed hats. The cavaliers chanted something in a low voice as they walked, and after a short while, visible white shimmers rose from the scriptures in their hands, forming a halo, and these halos gradually enveloped the entire army. Earl Jacques felt as if a warm power had been injected into his heart. That power did not bring him any real benefits, but surprisingly possessed a soothing power that calmed him down temporarily.

This is the blessing of courage. The aristocratic private army stirring in the woods also became a little quieter amidst the chant of the priests of the Temple of Fire.

"It's the halo of fear. Those screaming monsters must be relatively high-level undead." Jacques held the hilt of his sword and said to the others around him. Compared with his paler colleagues, Earl Jacques has at least experienced the Black Rose War, and he is one of the few Viero generals who has dealt with Madara. In this matter, Grand Duke Viero regarded him as a confidant. When Her Royal Highness the Princess came to ask her grandfather with a letter from Brando last time, Duke Viero asked him to come out and answer. However, he dismissed Brando's speculation at the time. In his deep-rooted opinion, the things in the darkness to the east were nothing but sleazy dogs, and Madara's advantage in the Black Rose War was purely because the kingdom did not Putting too much defense in the butcher area.

For example in Karasu,

The Highland Knights didn't let Madara take advantage of it too much.

But at this moment, Count Jacques began to feel a little shaken in his heart. The army of Madara in front of him was obviously different from the one he had seen in Viero last year. When he led the army to fight against the undead army in Vieiro, although he was terrified enough, he remembered that when the wobbly ribs attacked from the woods for the first time, the peasant soldiers recruited from the countryside around him were almost the first to attack. Time completely collapsed, but fortunately his knight confidantes stabilized their position, and after some rushing, they found that Madara's bones were no more than that. The only thing that threatened them were those Lich, but their combat effectiveness was generally no more than that. It's just on par with the knights under the lord.

Of course, the Earl didn't know that it was Frostpaw's army that invaded Vieiro. Frostpaw himself was a ghoul, but the lowest level of dark nobles in Madara, probably the same as the subordinate knights under him now. Sneaking into Vieiro was just to avoid the terrible Highland Knights and take advantage of it. The idea was the same as that of our Master Planche, but he didn't expect to bump into Jacques' muzzle. The two fought head-on. Jacques lost almost all of his infantry retinue, while Frostclaw was even worse, losing a lot of Lich. Since then, he has never recovered, and was annexed by other lords not long after.

He would not even know that it was the elite of Madara in the Black Rose War who invaded Butch back then, because Staron and Tagus were the confidantes of Madara's Supreme One, and the one-eyed dragon Tagus was even more Born in a famous family, the vampire family was the most trusted force of His Majesty the Emperor of Madara until after the Battle of the Inclined Forest. Although the current army under Blood Staff is not as luxurious as the combination of Instalonga Tagus at the commander level, after its army joined the dark mercenaries from the Sea of ​​the Dead Moon, The overall strength is actually stronger than the army in the hands of Instaron in the Black Rose War.

This strong contrast is now clearly magnified tens of millions of times in Earl Jacques' vision, making his mood seem to fall from the clouds to hell. Although he was still a seasoned soldier, he said calmly and calmly about "high-level creatures of the undead", but in fact he knew in his heart that he was just hearing about these things.

Earl Jacques' colleagues were obviously well aware of his tricks, and they were not much comforted. They saw dozens of the same terrifying creatures flying out from behind the dread spirits that drove away the knights. Coming from this direction, although there is still a considerable distance, but still panicked. The top of the mountain where they are located faces the Cherny River Valley, on the other side of the valley opposite the left wing, there are still about a few miles away from the fleeing knights, and in the dense coniferous forest on the right, there are elite soldiers lying in ambush. The heavy infantry guarding the crossbowman position in the center was originally a very beautiful blocking position. Relying on the cavalry on the left flank, it could effectively drag Madara's undead army into the open river valley with a range of twenty miles. Among them, buy time for the Tonigels and Lantonilans.

But the problem now is that they have lost the force involved. After the heavy infantry and crossbowmen lost the cover of the cavalry, they are now just man-made knives and me as fish and meat, not to mention that Madara still has air power. At this time, a well-known swordsman next to Grand Duke Viero has already distinguished that those fear spirits have at least the strength of the silver median, that is, at least level 4 creatures. Super creatures, these things alone can kill all of their noble infantry of less than 4,000 people here.

Counts Zlin and Bomos immediately insisted that they should retreat. Their reason is to preserve the strength of the coalition forces. If they are wiped out before the Lantonilanders, then the scene that took place in the Silman Valley that day will repeat itself, but if they can at least withdraw these 4,000 people, or Withdraw at least six brigades from these twelve brigades, then there is still hope for the subsequent battles. The noble knights immediately echoed this statement, but Earl Jacques himself sneered. He knew very well what these people were thinking, and they said it grandly, but in fact they were just greedy for life and afraid of death. They originally thought that this was a sure-fire battle, so they scrambled to join the battle, but once they encountered some danger, they immediately wanted to stay out of it.

Of course, Earl Jacques also understood that he was not a noble person himself, and the thoughts of these people were understandable. "But the question is, are these guys all idiots?" He couldn't help secretly annoyed, "Do you think the initiative is in our hands now? Withdraw if you want?"

Thinking of this, the Earl couldn't help but feel cold; at least compared to his colleagues, he is still a noble lord who knows soldiers. Earl Jacques thrust his sword into the ground, and suddenly replied coldly: "Your Excellency has entrusted me with full authority to command this coalition army, and we must do our best. You are your servants, how can you retreat without a fight? "

Earl Zlin was Jacques' good friend, but he couldn't help being taken aback by his attitude. I wonder if my friend has been scared crazy? He had seen the lunatics of the Royal Party, but his friend was definitely not this kind of person. He couldn't help but give him a weird look, wondering what kind of medicine this guy was selling. Most of the other nobles had the same idea, but they looked at Earl Jacques with more or less unfriendly eyes, like an unspoken rule. In the current noble circle, you can be upright, but if you If you want to hinder other people's interests or even life safety, then you are destined to be an existence that cannot be tolerated by the rules.

Today's Eruin nobles, as Brando said, have long lost the glory of the ancient times. The nobles of the former king Eke set an example and used their swords to plow a kingdom in this barren land, but their descendants , has lost that kind of courage long ago, and has become a waste that only has conspiracy and desire for power left.

But at this moment, Jacques had such an idea more or less in his heart. He simply couldn't understand how these guys who usually talked to him happily could be so stupid. He glanced at these guys coldly, and had to say clearly: "What are you going to use to retreat? Can you outrun the skeleton knight? Or outrun those monsters flying in the sky? A bunch of idiots, now our only The chance of surviving is to hold on here until the people of Lantonilan come to rescue us. Of course, you can try to turn around and run away to gamble on the less than 1% chance of surviving, but do you have the guts?"

After Earl Jacques said these words, he couldn't help but let out a long breath. For some reason, although he clearly felt that defeat was imminent, he felt inexplicably happy in his heart. He suddenly realized that compared with these idiots, he was at least the one who stood out from the crowd.

Everyone was petrified.

Although most of these aristocratic lords bear the titles of Viero's retainers and knights, in fact, most of them are under the shade of their parents. They are all prominent figures in the aristocratic circle, but unfortunately, war? That kind of thing is a bit too far away for the province of Viero in the country. In their eyes, the most recent war is about the dispute between the Grand Duke of Viero and Jean Denel, which in Brando's view Even the border conflict is not considered a small fight, the scale is comparable to a villager's fight, and these nobles forced out a few so-called 'famous generals'. Once upon a time, Count Jacques himself was one of them, but now he only felt blushing.

After a while, most of these nobles confirmed the words of Earl Jacques from their friends or subordinates, and they suddenly disappeared like eggplants beaten by frost. There were also a few stupid people who even asked if they could surrender to Madara. Of course, everyone knows that surrender is okay, as long as you become a dead person. But this result is obviously unacceptable to them. In fact, this is also a disadvantage of Madara when facing the human country. Generally speaking, in the confrontation between the human country and the human country, or even any other civilized country, surrender and redemption It is very common for nobles to be captured, but they still have to be treated decently, and then wait for the family to offer a price to redeem them, and then return to the country decently, but they can be treated like heroes. This is a comparison in the war of nobles. common sense.

But Madara is a country that does not accept living beings. Being defeated by Madara is basically equivalent to being killed. Therefore, in the battle with Madara, even the most timid army will not choose to surrender, and will often fight to the death. die. And now, the same is true of the choice left to Earl Jacques. If you don't stay and fight, you can only be killed, there is no other way to go.

"What if those Lantonilans don't come? They know we've been defeated, so I don't think they'll come to die." Someone among the nobles couldn't help asking.

"Don't they dare to come!" Count Bomosh replied angrily. But after saying this, he opened his mouth and suddenly stopped talking. The people present seemed to suddenly remember that they had changed the battle plan without authorization, otherwise they would not have fallen into such a situation. But now the Lantoni Lan people not only have every reason not to come, they can even scold them for their stupidity behind their backs. Of course, in the eyes of these nobles, this is definitely not because they made a mistake, but because the Lantoni people are so narrow-minded.

There was a moment of silence in the woods.

Earl Jacques was worried about affecting morale, so he replied: "Don't worry, that Earl Tonigel may not come. As far as I know, he is such a cautious person. But the commander of Lantoniland, Ike, I I know that guy's character very well. He is an idealistic knight. If he can come, he will definitely come back to save us. Of course, the premise is that you have to be strong enough to persist until then, otherwise don't blame others for doing it for you. You collected the corpse."

With the explanation of Earl Jacques, and the fact that Eco became famous after the battle of Ambersea, these Viero nobles finally breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, some people have already praised Eco's character in private, as if Mr. Cavalier could hear his praise from tens of miles away, and came to rescue them quickly.

With potential hope, Earl Jacques finally boosted the morale of this army a little. At this moment, they are no longer fighting for victory, but simply for survival.

Viero's army began to rearrange their defensive positions in the linden forest, and their movements were soon transmitted to the ears of the Blood Staff through the Horror.

The dark lords of Madara have completely calmed down at this time, at least they think they have figured out the details of the unknown enemies in front of them-it is nothing more than Lantonilan or Viero. Anyway, it must not be a highland knight, as for Earl Tonigel? Excuse me, what is that? These dark nobles from the Dead Moon Sea have never heard of them. The obvious good news for them is that it seems that Lantoniland and Vieiro's army doesn't know Madara at all. The Aruin army, this kind of army, whether it is in the eyes of the blood stick, or in the eyes of these rebellious dark mercenaries.

That's a pile of garbage, not even garbage.

"It seems that they still have a support army." The black-haired young man tapped on the map, and replied to the blood stick: "This support army should be around us, although I don't know how these Eruins played themselves out of touch Yes. But they are not a big threat to us. Even if this pocket is closed, their fighting power alone is not worth showing. Besides, these idiots have messed up. Now we just need to eat these idiots safely. "

He chuckled: "They are here to send us soldiers."

The blood stick is also sneering. The stupidity of the Eruin may seem a little surprising to these dark mercenaries, but in his opinion it is commonplace. He was surprised by the combat effectiveness of the White Wing Cavalry of the Van Meer Legion before, which was already a bit extraordinary, but now this is their normal level. Its eyes looked at the pale map made of unknown animal leather, as if it was really looking down on this land from mid-air. The army of undead is marching across the front several miles wide. Unless these humans have been sealed off Without this area, it would be impossible to surround them otherwise.

Of course, it might have been possible, but the other party was so stupid that it was pathetic.

"Use the skeletons to test their combat power first." It replied coldly, setting the tone of the battle.

... (To be continued.

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