However, just as they stepped out of cover and were about to charge, a black line suddenly appeared in front of them.

The black line slammed towards them, in a swift gesture. In the black line, a spurt of magic erupted at the same time, and it was thrown towards them.

Crow had already identified it as an Imperial unit in a black uniform. Their main force was not in the stronghold on the hill at all, but lay in ambush on the waist of the hill, and as soon as they began to attack on the mountain, they suddenly struck down.

Cindy was about a position behind him, and they were at the edge of the line, closest to the enemy. A large amount of magic has completely covered the area they are in.

Crow judged his magical defenses and made a decision in a matter of tenths of a second. He turned around and threw Cindy down, covering him with his own body before ice barriers rose from behind him.

As he waited for the magic to strike, Crow felt as if the flow of time had suddenly slowed down.

Or maybe your own thinking has become very fast. In that moment, he thought of many, many things.

He thought that his young man, which had just begun, was about to end like this.

He thought that all along, he thought that man was born to be self-interested. Isn't the process of life a process of desperately trying to increase one's own interests, doing all kinds of tossing and turning or striding forward?

But now, he has denied what he always knew. In his subconscious, in the instinctive reaction he made without time to think, he chose to give up the chance of life to his comrades.

A comrade-in-arms who is usually even cowardly enough to make him feel disgusted.

He thought, after returning to the basics, is human nature really selfless?

He thought a lot, he thought, this may be the state of a person before he died.

However, the magic still did not fall.

In a momentary trance, no pain, no burning, he just suddenly felt that he was flying.

Cindy, who was protected by him, seemed to be flying.

With a "bang", he landed on the edge of a pile of bushes, his body was scraped painfully, and the impact of landing made him dizzy.

But then he came back to his senses and saw that their devilish Chief Luo Songxi was running through magic, throwing one soldier after another out of the magic range.

There was a layer of mist that seemed to be brought out by the refraction of light, and the magic hit him, and he didn't care about it, but the magic dissipated on its own.

Majestic, Claure didn't know why he thought to himself, if there was a pair of horns on his head and a pair of thin wings on his back, it would be a typical image of a great demon king.

And the black line has become scattered. A large group of dwarves were coming out from behind the Imperial soldiers, turning them on their backs.

The dwarves fought through the enemy lines and quickly split into two groups.

One group turned back and continued to charge, while the other ran to their side.

A bearded dwarf barely visible ran up to him and lifted him and Cindy on his back, moving them to safety.

The dwarf said to him as he ran, in a lingua franca with a thick accent:

"I'm from Blackstone Mountain, and the nobles I didn't like the most in the past...... But today I saw your behavior in covering up your comrades, and you have gained my respect. ”

"I'm not an aristocrat, there are no nobility in the Commonwealth, all men are created equal......" Crowle replied intermittently in a shaking, "...... Forget it, brother, you have a handsome beard. ”

"Yes, I like to be complimented on my beard, and when this battle is over, I'm going to treat you to a drink. "Dwarves.

The mud-legged dwarf from Blackstone Mountain and the human boy from Fort St. John were talking awkwardly, and the divide between race and class was bridging in a strange way.

Until Luo Songxi appeared, he loudly reprimanded the old soldiers:

"Before the war, I took care of you again and again, don't be aggressive, don't be aggressive, don't be aggressive!"

"You only need to contain the enemy's fire from the front, who told you to make your own assertion and fight up the hill yourself?"

"It's a fake military order, isn't it? Don't even think about sleeping tonight, give me an all-night weight exercise!"

The devil is the devil, and no matter how majestic it is, it is still the devil.

......

......

On the first day of the battle, the enemy attacked 18 strongholds, and the resistance coalition forces lost a total of 26 people. The vast majority of them were soldiers from the 17th Division of the Capital Military Region.

Successive battles, new recruits on the battlefield. This battle loss rate is a pretty good number in every way.

But the whole army did not celebrate, and the eight branches gathered in one place to hold a solemn memorial service for the fallen soldiers.

Although Campbell was seriously injured and lost a leg, his life was saved. But the downed mercenary, Saul Inietta, fell forever on the soil of Unity State.

Crow saluted Thor's body solemnly and muttered, "You are a good mercenary. ”

Luo Songxi walked over and patted him on the shoulder, "No, he's not." ”

"From the moment he joined my unit, he ceased to be a mercenary, but an honorable federal soldier. So he was a good soldier and has already been awarded the title of martyr. ”

"Although in the Federation, all men are created equal is only a political slogan, in my army, all identities are not counted before, and everyone is equal. ”

Claure nodded heavily.

"Also," Luo Songxi said, "although your team is greedy for merit today, your performance has won my trust. I agree with you to join the technical department led by Master Mars, and together with your teacher, there are more cutting-edge technologies waiting for them to study and translate into practice. ”

To Luo Songxi's surprise, Claure shook his head firmly and rejected him.

"Sir, I still want to stay on the battlefield. ”

......

......

Three days later.

The resistance coalition forces advanced in different directions every day, and when they encountered strongholds that could not be bypassed, they would easily pull them out, and when the Imperials mobilized their forces to launch encirclement and suppression, they could always jump out of the encirclement in an unpredictable way.

They had jumped from Unity to Friendship and advanced into the hinterland of Friendship and had never been known by the Imperials about their exact whereabouts.

Dia's blockade line was set up against the large forces of the Federation, and the extreme depth ensured the flexibility of the blockade. But even if more than 70 divisions, nearly a million people, are scattered into the territory of the three states, there will still be many gaps.

With the extremely strong reconnaissance capabilities of Sotheby's and 77, the resistance coalition forces skillfully followed these gaps, getting closer and closer to the core of the blockade line.

On the evening of the third day, at a high-level military meeting, Ann came in with a piece of information.

"The Battle of Fort St. John, the war began. She said.