Never in his life had the Earl of Nickles seen an army so skillfully coordinated and so efficient in killing.

Those enemies in black armor are like ghosts emerging from the darkness.

The footsteps are as light and silent as those of a cat.

The speed is as agile as an antelope.

There was an eerie blue glow in their eyes, and the night seemed to have no effect on them.

Even those soldiers who burrowed into the dark corners would be pierced by their long, narrow and sharp sabers.

They are not only a group of efficient hunters, but the soldiers of the Huayu Plateau are like a group of cattle and sheep scurrying around, even if they have more numbers than the other party, they can't effectively fight back.

Among the soldiers of the Huayu Plateau, not all of them are wine bags and rice bags, but there are also some brave people, especially among the knightly vassals of the local nobles, many of whom have received formal and strict knightly training since childhood, and they are the backbone of the local nobles to maintain their rule.

Never giving up is their fine virtue.

They were chanting for clarity, trying to rally the scattered soldiers around them and reorganize the defensive line.

But the enemy will not give them such an opportunity at all, and the personnel on their side have just gathered and formed a certain scale.

Then there was a crackling sound like a cannonball, and the group of soldiers from the Huayu Plateau who had just gathered together were like autumn wheat, covered in blood, and fell in pieces.

"Hell!" the soldiers who did not fall were also completely discouraged, shouted loudly, and fled away from each other.

The Count of Nickles certainly knew what was going on.

It was another new weapon of the Eternal Night Army, the musket, which used the kinetic energy formed by the explosion of black powder to launch a famous arrow, forming a multiple, or even dozens of times more lethal than the bow and arrow.

He has in his hand an authentic product that has flowed out of the black market.

But those ordinary soldiers didn't know about it, they only heard the sound, and then they saw their comrades around them, blood splattered everywhere, and naturally they would attribute everything to the ghosts and gods.

Then it entered a new cycle, and behind their butts, there was also a group of hunters, who were carrying out an orderly slaughter on them.

The hunters were clearly in control of the rhythm, mainly cleaning up those who tried to hide in place, or resisting, and those who had completely broken their guts and wandered around, and did not try their best to chase them.

Instead, they followed them unhurriedly, like a flock of sheep, driving them to other camps, so that they could mobilize more people to flee with them, and even directly break up the counterattack line they had so hard organized.

This is the most typical sheep driving tactic, and once it takes shape, it will be very difficult to crack.

Pacifying a group of chaotic crowds and a group of fearless routs are not the same concept at all.

Those brave soldiers, in order to escape for their lives, are likely to do whatever it takes to raise their swords to their comrades, and different belonging makes it easier for them to do this.

"My lord, retreat, we have missed the opportunity to stabilize the position, the great rout has been formed, there is no way to return to the sky, if we go further, we will only put the Earl in it. The head of the guard beside Count Nickles whispered to his lost master.

"Ahh

He really hoped that everything he saw in front of him was just a nightmare of his own.

"At this moment, from the Helian Pass, into the fault mountain range, using the complex terrain to delay the other party, maybe there is still a glimmer of life. "The one who can become the head of the guard next to Count Nickles is obviously not a vulgar person, and he soon found out where his life is in the crisis.

"No, it's too threatening. Before Count Nickles could speak, other local nobles who gathered around Count Nickles retorted: "The army led by the Eternal Night Army has unknowingly touched behind us, and the Fault Mountain Range is afraid that it will have already fallen into the hands of the other party, and we are now going into it, which is to throw ourselves into the net, I think it is safer to rush back from both sides, and there are other troops behind us that we have not gathered, and we will be truly safe when we join them." ”

"Let's not talk about whether we can break through the blockade of the Eternal Night Army, and even if we do, how can you be sure that the other side is not deliberately letting us go? The chief of the guards stood by his opinion.

"Although I don't know how the Eternal Night Leader got around behind us, one thing is certain, their numbers will definitely not be too many, but a small force will infiltrate and catch us off guard. The local nobleman was also vigorous, "In order to cooperate with the outside and take the Helian Pass, so as to facilitate the entry of their army, maybe their army has been secretly dormant in the fault mountain range, and we are rashly entering now, wouldn't we be caught in the net?"

"How can you be sure that the army of the Eternal Night Army that has circled behind us is their small force?"

"It must be a small force, otherwise we wouldn't have been unaware. ”

"All your judgments are based on your past experience, the current situation is obviously not applicable, our sentinels have all been thrown into the fault mountain range before, not to mention a large number of troops, even if a small force infiltrates from here, it is impossible for us not to notice it at all.

Even if it is our sentinels, when they infiltrate, they have no time to deliver the news, and they are cleaned up, there will be signs, and the large number of sentinels who have lost contact is itself abnormal information.

But before that, we hadn't even received half of this anomalous message.

At least until the riots broke out, we hadn't received half of the anomalous messages.

What does this mean?

This shows that the Fault Mountain Range is safe for the time being, unless the Eternal Night Army can uproot all our spy posts in just half the night.

Not to mention the black light, even in broad daylight, in the rugged mountain road, it is not easy to do this.

I believe that the Lords of the Eternal Night do not have this ability, and I hope they do not.

If the other party really had this ability, they would not have dragged it out until now, going around behind us to launch a night attack. "Although the head of the guards did not hold important positions in the army, he had an advantage that others did not have, that is, as the head of the guards in the Earl of Nickles, he had access to more and more information about the high-level information.

"You mean to say that the Eternal Night Commander didn't infiltrate from the Fault Mountains, so tell me, how did they get here? Could it be that they put on their wings and flew from the sky? Or did they dig through the entire Fault Mountains like rats and drill through?" haha......" At the end, the local nobleman was amused by his own speculation.

Because either way, it sounds so ridiculous.

"It's not impossible. The leader of the guards not only did not laugh, but said solemnly, "It is unlikely that it will fly in the sky, although the Eternal Night Commander has giant eagles that can hump people, but there are not many of them, and the weighing is not as high as imagined, it is said that the knights who ride them are specially screened, and most of them are light women, and they usually perform reconnaissance missions."

Moreover, their targets in the air are not small, and if they are transporting troops on a large scale, they will also not be able to avoid our eyes and ears.

Most likely, underground.

The other party dug a tunnel, leading straight to the underground tunnel behind us, so that their army was embedded behind us unconsciously. ”

"Don't you think it's ridiculous when you say this? If you want to dig an underground tunnel hundreds of kilometers long, what a huge project, especially if you allow 100,000 troops to pass through it, or in the fault mountains, most of the mountains here are composed of hard rock layers, and it is more than ten times more difficult to build a mountain road than ordinary mountains, let alone dig underground tunnels, are you a little too overestimating the strength of the Eternal Night Army Leader?"

"It may be difficult to do this with manpower alone, but what if you add magic? I have heard in the past that the Eternal Night Commander has built an underground tunnel that can directly penetrate the northern fortress between Bressan, and it only takes them a few days to transfer their troops, and the convenience is even more efficient than that of the plains of the Plain River.

In the past, it was just a rumor, but now it seems that we have to re-examine this rumor.

At least the Lords of the Eternal Night have more construction capabilities than we can imagine, and the speed at which they can lead the construction of new cities is unbelievable to us.

Their idea of hitting the plateau is not a day or two, as early as ten years ago, they were already preparing today's plan, and it may not be said.

If we continue to follow our normal thinking, we will definitely fall into their other traps until they are doomed. ”

The leader of the guards, who was five big and three thick, had the brilliance of a wise man shining in his eyes at the moment, although he was suspected of being an afterthought, but at least he was able to justify himself and connect many things in series.

In such a chaotic situation, it is a very rare thing to still be able to think calmly.

The Earl of Nickles used to just keep him by his side, and being the leader of the guard was a bit of a tyrannical thing.

Even the local nobleman from before was speechless and shaken by his argument.

Once what the other party said was correct, what was now behind them was not as simple as a small army led by the Eternal Night Army that caused a riot, but the other party's army of 100,000.

If that were the case, they would have opened a huge pocket there, waiting for them to drill into it.

However, the unbelievable assumptions of the chieftains were wrong, and they chose to flee into the Fault Mountains.

Even if it's safe for the time being.

The other party only needs to block the Helian Pass, and the army will press up.

They will also become turtles in an urn, and in the end they will be a dead end.

"General, what do you think we should do now?"

"Which path to choose, this matter has to be decided by the Earl. ”

At this time, everyone's eyes turned to Count Nickles, after all, he is the manager, and at the critical moment, it depends on his attitude.

The Count of Nickles' face was gloomy and watery, having recovered somewhat from the shock he had experienced before, but his heart was still a mess and he was a little hesitant.

The situation in front of us is very uncertain.

Whether it is the head of his own guard, or the local nobles who have just argued with him, the opinions held by them are all conjectural.

Once this part is wrong, the final conclusion will present two extremes.

"This is the convening post of the 3rd brigade, a big fish has been found in front, brothers, follow me. ”

"The men of the third brigade, come with me and gather in the direction of the convening post. ”

"Kill, don't let the big fish run away!"

With a rhythmic series of shrill whistles, some of the ghostly Night Stalkers shifted their direction and swooped down in the direction of Count Nikelus.

As part of the swim against the current, the Count of Nickles is very eye-catching in their own right.

Not to mention that they have far better equipment than other soldiers, and it is difficult to go unnoticed.

Especially in the initial battle, those hunters in the dark night, after discovering that they had good combat effectiveness, did not hesitate to issue an order to call for a hunt.

With the sound of the whistle, the battle strategy of the pursuers in the dark changed significantly, from driving to brutal killing.

"Ice Spike!"

"Charge!"

"Flame Slash!"

The brilliant magical light was even more dazzling against the backdrop of the night.

Behind the dazzling, there is a deadly killing machine.

When they begin to bloom, it often means the death of a life.

With just one contact, the elite guards beside Count Nickles fell in a whole row.

"Combat Skill! It's a magical combat skill unique to the Eternal Night Commander!"

"It's really the main battle legion of the Eternal Night Army that has circled behind us. ”

"How the hell did they do it?"

"Can't stop it, can't stop it, withdraw it!"

"Can't withdraw, absolutely can't withdraw, the earl is behind us, if the earl has any mistakes, our loss of life is small, our family will be implicated, resist, even if it is to fill in with life, I must resist. ”

"Lord Earl, please get out of here quickly, the soldiers in front will be almost unbearable, if you don't leave, we will all stay here!"

When the magical light began to bloom, all of them formalized the identity of the hunters in the night.

Magical warfare, just as the Holy Light Divine Technique, which is a product unique to the Holy Aether Holy See, has long been one of the symbols of the Eternal Night Lord.

Although there are already warlocks, according to the magic skills of the Eternal Night Army, they have reversed their true secrets, and even created their own magic skills.

But most of them are in their infancy, and they are still a long way from a complete system, let alone a full system.

"Exit the mountain from the mountain pass, take a detour to the sheep's intestine and turn back to the plateau from there. "Count Nickles didn't have time to think about it, and he could only make a decision based on his feelings.