The slow and silent pace, like a heavy invisible air pressure, makes people unable to take a step.

The eyes of the closed helmet were flat and silent, and the spears and spears in their hands shook up and down neatly as the troops advanced, like a forest of moving guns.

The city was extraordinarily quiet, except for the crisp sound of steel boots hitting the floor, there was no other sound in the whole world, the marching team was silent, and the crowds on both sides of the send-off were also silent.

In this different silence, a red flower, as if blown by a breeze, floated slightly along the sky above the soldier, and finally fell weakly on the soldier's body, dotting the way forward.

The flowers, more and more, they came to see off the crowd, and along with the flowers, a young girl let go of her crisp singing voice, the ethereal voice, accompanied by the melodious horn of the city gate, like a heavenly war song, wrapped in the ears:

"In the middle of summer in the mountains"

"The foggy world still comes into view"

"We are determined to move forward"

"Walk the whole world"

"Witness the Changing of the Seasons"

"We will create countless legends"

"Mountains and mountains, difficulties and obstacles"

"Can't stop our hope for freedom"

"Now we open our arms"

"Embrace our home"

"The world we have created has never been more resilient"

"I can still hear you in the breeze"

"Seeing you in the shade"

"Stick to it, the legend will never die"

"A legend will never fade away".

Whispering the last lyrics, Lelouch was slightly silent, looking at the troops around him, under the heavily armed helmet, there were young cheeks, although they were full of anxiety about the upcoming war, but when they saw Lelouch, they would be replaced by fanatical worship and trust in an instant, this worship offset the terrifying pressure from Mordor, perhaps only this worship and trust will make them really have the courage to attack several times or even dozens of times their own powerful enemies.

It was dark, and it was dark.

...

"Get out of the way, go ahead and report urgently!"

As the guards dodged the gates, a knight in chain mail rushed through the city gates, and in the dark streets, there were disturbing and urgent horses' hooves.

"Bah, bah ~ this dog... Lord Knight, I don't know where there are so many emergency military reports, and there are at least a dozen or twenty on this day. ”

A gate soldier who had just dodged to the side and was in no hurry, fell and ate, and his mouth was full of dust, he was about forty years old, and his wrinkled dark cheeks showed a large mouth full of yellow teeth.

"Big mouth, that's enough, be quiet, if those knights hear it, we won't be able to get good fruit to eat. ”

An old guard interrupted Big Mouth's complaint, and Big Mouth curled his mouth, which was regarded as approving the old man's words, after all, no one wanted to touch his head at this time.

"Oh, I don't know what's going on at home, we're running too fast, but we haven't had time to pack anything. ”

"Who says it's not? Let's retreat to this white city, we don't have anything to eat, if it weren't for our luck and being selected as a soldier, the whole family would have no food to eat!"

"Hehe, this is also called Luo, a piece of black bread a day, enough for a few people in your family to eat? If you want me to say, we will starve to death before Mordor comes. ”

A group of city gate soldiers may have started routine complaints because of the pressure brought by the night, and the old captain seemed to feel that he couldn't control it, so he sighed slightly, and squatted in the shelter in the city gate, and then tightened the thin leather clothes on his body, maybe the nobles of Baicheng also knew that now was not the time to be stingy, and they generously gave every captain of the cannon fodder team who could be sacrificed at will, equipped with leather armor that could still be used, and an iron sword that was not too long, and in the hands of others, they also ensured that each person had a spear that could stab the leather armor and thin iron armor。

However, the soldiers did not seem to want the old captain to rest early, but gathered around, and the old man looked at the crowd and exhaled:

"It's not early, just leave a few people to deal with it, and the others rest early, you can't eat enough, and if you don't sleep well, it's really possible that Mordor hasn't hit yet, and we'll be finished first." ”

"Hey, hey, old man, you're well-informed, can you tell us a few, what's the situation now?"

"Yes, old man, you said that we are not low in our hearts until now, even if we die, at least we have to let our brothers be a ghost!"

"It's just..."

The crowd was all reunited, and the veterans were asking so much, thinking that they couldn't sleep either, and seeing that these little soldiers, who usually don't bird themselves, were so polite to themselves at this time, and they were also pretentious, so they sat up:

"Want to hear it?"

"I want to think about it, I want to hear it!"

"Oh, this person is old, it's just a cold panic, you said that if you can stutter in the middle of the night, let us warm and warm, maybe you won't be so sleepy, right?"

When the crowd heard this, they looked at each other, and finally, one of them said, "Old man, you don't know what the situation is?"

"Okay, just a sip of wine!"

After the man took out a wooden pot in distress, poured out a bottle of wine all down, and reluctantly handed it to the veteran, the veteran took it carefully, and did not drink it immediately, first took a deep sip, and after being satisfied, he began to speak energetically:

"What's going on?

After the veteran calmed everyone after saying the first sentence, he began to gush:

"Let me tell you, do you know how many people there are in our White City now? Let me tell you, there are less than 80,000 people, although the number of civilians in the White City who have been recruited may be nearly 100,000, but how many of them can fight, and how many can go up to the city wall to face Mordor?"

The veteran said this, and one person was puzzled: "No, aren't the four dukes all coming to Baicheng with soldiers now, how can they be so many?"

"Hey~ Do you really think that the four dukes are here, I tell you that it is all a lie, the actual situation is much worse than this, let's first say that our four dukes, the dukes of the West and the dukes of the East did not send troops at all, so they each sent 5,000 miscellaneous soldiers, that is, soldiers like us, you said that such soldiers can win a few strong orcs, even the heavily armed orcs may not win a hand"

Hearing this comparison of combat effectiveness, the soldiers nodded in agreement.

"Besides, the dukes of the north and the south, these two dukes are sincere, and they bring all the people they can bring in the territory, but you don't look at it, what is the quarrel above, as soon as the duke of the south comes, he shouted that the emperor will take the royal family to the south to avoid the disaster, and give this white city directly to Mordor, maybe as soon as Mordor is in a good mood, he will not fight, and it will be stable. ”

"Eh, that's not bad, the south is rich, I've heard that people over there can eat black bread every day."

Hearing this, the soldiers were a little yearning.

The veteran's face turned cold on purpose: "What do you want to do? That black bread is also eaten by you, a pariahs in the north?" Besides, even if the emperor really wants to leave, he won't take people like us, and if he wants to take those knight masters, he walks fast and has strong combat effectiveness!"

Hearing this, the soldiers' faces were slightly embarrassed, and at the same time, there was a slight resentment in their eyes.

As if he had not seen it, the veteran continued:

"This southern duke doesn't want to fight, even if the northern duke always wants to fight, but who knows that this lion duke is really arrogant, and actually took his miscellaneous soldiers to attack the Mordor army head-on, don't you say this is looking for death?

Hearing this, the soldiers were anxious, after all, no one wanted to die, although it was also a crime to live, but no matter what, it was better than dead:

"So, if we can't defend this white city for even a day, it's going to be finished?"

The anxious person asked directly, and the veteran picked up the wine again and asked, saying:

"No, although we have few people, but you have also seen that when the southern duke's people entered the city that day, the army lineup was still very strong, in addition to 5,000 knights, there were 25,000 infantry, good guys, those infantry are all wearing iron armor, there are still a lot of steel armor, and the horse team that transports supplies is even more out of sight, and it took two days to completely enter the city, you said that with the army of the southern duke, plus the lion duke's daring army, it is no problem to hold on for a month. ”

(Note: In ancient formal siege warfare, it was rare to take down a few days in a few days, of course, the situation of being broken is counted separately!)

Hearing this, instead of being reassured, the crowd continued to ask:

"And what about a month from now?"

"A month later, then I don't know, anyway, a soldier like us will definitely not live for a month~"

As he spoke, the veteran stood up as if he wanted to move his body, but the anxious soldier did not give him such a chance, but asked eagerly:

"My grandfather, then you mean we all have to die, and there is no hope of life?"

The soldier's voice had begun to weep, and his words were full of despair.

Who knew that the old soldier sat down again, picked up the wine, looked at it, as if he had made a big decision, drank the wine into his stomach in one gulp, and said after moaning comfortably:

“... Not necessarily, aren't there still Earls of the Red Dragon?"