The Future (8)
Compared with the imaginary triumphant return, the Crusade Army, which had lost a lot of money and even lives in reality, finally returned to its homeland like a lost dog...
This battle not only caused heavy losses to the originally small number of Celestial Knights, but also suffered a considerable blow to the morale of the Alliance Army...
Because the Eastern Expeditionary Army, which had been relying on war to feed the war, did not defeat the [Ming Empire] on the Shenzhou Continent, nor did they loot enough grain, grass and money...
On the way back, hunger also triggered several mutinies in the army... But it still allowed the top of the Mandate of Heaven to bloody suppress it with a tough attitude... As a result, when the Crusade returned to headquarters, the number of troops was only one-third of what it used to be... And to the attitude of the countries towards the Mandate of Heaven has changed...
"Mr. Xiao, we have arrived..."Pandra, who consciously stood beside the carriage respectfully as a guard of the Eastern Empire's envoys, whispered to the people in the carriage....
Calling himself Xiao Yunhong, an emissary from the Ming Empire... Originally, it was lonely at the beginning, and even all the soldiers resented it...
After all, this young man who looked like he was only twenty years old was a member of the Ming Empire who defeated them and killed countless soldiers... It's like later generations of Chinese people seeing the Japanese... It's not cool to look at...
So against this seemingly weak Ming Empire, the revenge of the Eastern Expeditionary Army soon came...
A knight of the Mandate of Heaven rode a war horse to drive away slaves in the early morning, and the whip in his hand seemed to accidentally sweep towards the head of the messenger when the Ming Empire envoy passed by...
The Mandate Knight's physique, which far surpassed that of ordinary people, threw out the whip with all his might, and it was too simple to kill an ordinary person... It's like a lion sometimes kills a person with a sword without a weapon at all...
When everyone who saw this scene thought that this envoy of the Ming Empire was definitely going to die here....even more surprising and terrifying things happened...
The horsewhip with the sound of the wind was about to hit the envoy of the Ming Empire... Suddenly it came to a strange halt in mid-air! It was like time had stopped! It was like a god had stretched out his hand to block it...
The envoy of the Ming Empire, who was always wearing a cloak and always had his head down, finally raised his head, turned his head and glanced at the Heavenly Destiny Knight, who wanted to hurt him...
The weather was not good that day, the sky was overcast... Grey... It was as if a storm was going to fall in the next moment.
All those who noticed the envoys of the Ming Empire could swear to the respected God, his old man... The black eyes of the envoy of the Ming Empire were as bright as gold the moment he looked at the Heavenly Mandate Knight...
Without warning, the Destiny Knight on his horse suddenly bled and fell off his horse screaming 'Wow Wow', waving his limbs like crazy...
Such a movement immediately attracted the attention of the other Celestial Knights... When they arrived to pick up their companion who seemed to be crazy, they sadly found that the companion with strong willpower and even the pain of scraping bones was completely insane.
Coincidentally, the Knights of Destiny drew their weapons from their waists and prepared for revenge... The next scene made these brave knights unable to move no matter what...
The envoy of the Ming Empire, who looked thin, threw a punch, an ordinary punch, and even the target was not to attack them, but to hit the body of the crazy Heavenly Destiny Knight War Horse....
"Bang bang!~" The huge roar spread like thunder in all directions... In the place where the sound wave passed, everyone fell into a state of deafness for a short time, and even many people's ears were directly bloody...
For a long time, no one made any sound, as if people were not only deaf but also deaf and unable to speak...
A heavily armored war horse disappeared in place, only the flesh and bone chips that splattered around it, the large iron pieces of slaps that splattered out in the fan-like shape, and the mist... The blood mist, with its strong pungent smell of blood, silently tells everything...
'This is an invincible monster...' all the words came to their hearts...
Each of the Knights of Destiny has superb martial arts, and they understand the meaning of this punch even more... Naked threats.
When it comes to fighting, no one dares to move, and the Knights of Destiny who are not afraid of death... The fear of the unknown makes even the bodies of young soldiers tremble...
"Antaeus—" said someone in a trembling voice...
Andros, a mythical giant, is immensely powerful and invincible as long as he maintains contact with the earth...
The Knights of Destiny, caught in a dilemma, have not yet reacted... The envoy of the Ming Empire tidied up the cloak on his body and walked to his tent...
I also like to watch the lively crowd silently make way for the envoys of the Ming Empire, and even the Knights of Destiny in the crowd are silent... They remembered the [Immortal] who had once been alone on the battlefield...
Maybe it was wrong to attack the Ming Empire in the first place...
It's like a farce, which ends in a hurry and quietly...
The attitude of the people in the Eastern Crusade towards the envoys of the Ming Empire fell into an even worse attitude, but after all, they still didn't dare to really turn their faces... The identity of the envoy of the Ming Empire, who was forgotten because of neglect, has finally been remembered again...
The messenger is a disciple of the [Immortals] of the Eastern Ming Empire... There is a reason for the strength of this messenger...
Since the strongest Valkyrie 'Karene Kaslana' has not recovered from her injuries so far, and the high-level leaders of the Mandate of Heaven have no confidence to beat the envoy of the Ming Empire, the Mandate of Heaven, who is unwilling to anger the envoy, still forcibly suppresses the opposition of the Mandate of Destiny Knight...
But no one thought of it. The attitude of the Mandate of Heaven towards the envoy of the Ming Empire 'Xiao Yunhong' soon ushered in a turning point...
Halfway back to the journey, the Crusaders, like their predecessors, encountered the army's worst enemy... Epidemics.
In this era, due to poor medical and health conditions and other reasons, soldiers are actually suffering from various diseases, and the army at this time has become the hardest hit area of diseases, especially highly contagious diseases, once an infectious disease breaks out, more soldiers die from diseases than on the battlefield...
And this time the Mandate of Heaven Crusade encountered a somewhat troublesome infectious disease... Dysentery.
Bacillary dysentery... Probably because of the shortage of food, the soldiers were reluctant to throw away some of the food that had begun to rot, but instead ate it, resulting in infection with Shigella, also known as dysentery bacillus...
The epidemic came so suddenly... In just one day, almost half of the entire army was infected with dysentery, and the vigorous soldiers had a high fever, diarrhea, and even some were severely dehydrated and unconscious...
The lack of medicinal herbs and the lack of health care can only isolate the sick soldiers and try to ensure that others will not be infected with the disease again....
The upper echelons of the Mandate of Heaven did not have the slightest fear, their physique far surpassed that of ordinary people, and they were also injected with the holy water of [God's Favor]... Aside from the Black Death, ordinary diseases can be ignored by the knights...
It's just that almost all of the soldiers in the Crusade Army are unable to resist infectious diseases... The number of Celestial Riders is pitifully small... They are more like hoplites or hoplites as killer troops, and ordinary soldiers are cannon fodder for the enemy...
"What should I do, Lord Bishop...", the Knight of Destiny, Eyal asked respectfully to the cardinal standing in front of him...
"We don't have enough herbs to treat them, so we can only protect the soldiers who are not infected, and give them up..."Otto Apokalis looked at his uncle with a helpless face but said extremely cruel words...
"Poor children... This is God's punishment..."The Bishop of Destiny, who finally said with a sad and pitiful look, could only turn away from these dying soldiers...
"......." Listening to the cries and screams coming from time to time on the other side of the barrier, the silent Otto Apocalis suddenly hated himself a little...
Why didn't you learn a little more about medicine in the Void Myriad...
"There's no way?..." As if talking to himself, Otto, who was standing alone outside the isolation zone, muttered to himself... None of the soldiers who guarded the quarantine zone a few steps away to prevent the sick soldiers from escaping answered...
"Your Excellency Otto, it's not impossible...", a voice suddenly replied abruptly...
The soldiers who reacted first subconsciously surrounded the people who suddenly came by with spears in their hands, but when they saw the people coming clearly, they couldn't help but take a few steps back...
"Oriental monsters," someone whispered in his native dialect...
"Envoy of the Ming Empire, Mr. Xiao Yunhong?..." Otto turned around and looked at the person who answered him with a wary look... As a member of the Mandate of Heaven, he also knows the notoriety of the other party... To be precise, the entire army knows almost ...
"I don't like people holding weapons against me...", the cloaked young man stretched out his hand and flicked the spear that almost pierced the tip of the spear in front of him...
"Put it down. Otto was silent for a few seconds before giving the order to the soldiers surrounding him...
"But, Your Highness Otto..."Although some soldiers wanted to say something, they still compromised under Otto's gaze... The soldiers laid down their weapons as quickly as they could ...
Do you think they want to fight the monsters of the East? The terrible description of the other party in the rumors had to be renamed Hades, the king of the underworld...
"Excuse me, what is the method of Your Excellency the Envoy..."Otto Apocaris, a young face who had not even become a bishop yet, asked Li Xuan with hope...
"Absolutely. Li Xuan, who took off his cloak and revealed black hair, said with a smile...
"But Mr. Otto has one thing to promise me. Li Xuan smiled like a child...
"A deal. ”
At this time, should he recite the phrase 'deep♂ dark♂ fantasy♂'...