Chapter 199: The Elven Prince's Distress
The Blood Elf King Narus is a stern and silent man, he has a typical blood elf appearance, with long blood-colored hair and blood-colored eyes, and a lifelike vertical pupil on his eyebrows.
In the big tent of the Chinese army of the Elven Expeditionary Force, Nalius frowned, and now sixteen groups of reconnaissance troops have lost contact, and the vanguard is still a day's journey away from the log oasis, and the Chinese army is a day and a half away from the vanguard force.
Now that the army has penetrated deep into Arsa, this time the Elven King has even taken out the sap of the Elven Sacred Tree that he has collected for a full five hundred years, which shows his great determination. Therefore, this expedition is only allowed to succeed, not to fail.
And for Narius, it was also his last and most promising chance to break free from that man's control. So whether it's for the Elven King or for Narus, this is an opportunity they must seize.
But from the very beginning of the expedition, the situation began to get a little out of control.
First Xue asked the guy who didn't know what to do, and he didn't know where he got such a high prestige, so he actually made the entire Royal Praetorian Guard obey his orders.
This made Narlius quite angry, and he was quite contemptuous of the fact that the Elven King's even the Royal Guard did not fully grasp it. In fact, he also knew very well that the two elder elders sent out this time, as well as the 10,000 royal guards, were actually the Elven King's means of killing people with a knife, because these people were people he couldn't control, and they were loyal followers of the previous Elf King.
The current Elven King, who has been in power for hundreds of years, still controls only half of the Council of Elders and half of the Royal Praetorian Guard, which is considered incompetent by Narius.
It is precisely because of the incompetence of the other party that Narius wants to get out alone, he thinks that if he is dragged down by the incompetent elf king, he will be unlucky with him.
If it weren't for his chance this time, he wouldn't have led the army. He knew that the Elven King was also calculating him.
"Commander, is it now certain that Artha is aware of our expedition, and still needs to continue to raise the butcher's knife?" Snow asked, looking at Narius with a cold face.
Narlius ordered to kill all the targets the army encountered along its way, leaving not a single one alive.
Xue asked, for the sake of the other party, this order has clashed with them several times, but how many can he save? Although he saved a lot of people on the spot, can he still march with these people?
Especially in the first conflict, Narius directly gave the two army commanders of the vanguard an extermination order, and before the Chinese army arrived, the people had already been killed, and he Xue asked what could it be?
The Third Legion of the State and the First Legion of the Blood Elves are the absolute henchmen of Narus, and those two Legion Commanders will only obey Narus's orders.
Moreover, Narus also had the commander to leave Xue Wendao in the Chinese army, and Xue Wendao If he didn't listen to the order, Nalius could even directly cut him down with military law.
Therefore, Xue asked all the way to try to save people, but in the end he didn't save anyone.
The only fortunate thing that can be regarded as a misfortune is that there are very few fixed oases in the outer and middle rings of Arsa, and most of the oasis strongholds have great mobility, so it is impossible for the elven expeditionary force to always find a route that is full of oasis distribution, and although the elven army moves very quickly and secretly, it is impossible for more than 400,000 troops to march and want to occupy no movement.
Although the scouts have succeeded in preventing the spread of news to the inner ring, there is still news in the outer and middle rings.
Especially after entering Central, I got the news in advance, most of them have been transferred, and only some who are unable to transfer, or who are unlucky enough to be caught by the expeditionary force after the transfer will be slaughtered.
And this morning there was a small stronghold of fifty or sixty men who had lost their way because of a small sandstorm last night, and as a result, as soon as the sun rose, they crashed headlong into the sight of the scouts of the expeditionary force.
According to Narius's order, the scout troops could be directly executed without reporting such a crowd, but in the morning Xue asked that he happened to see this during the morning exercise, so he stopped it.
Now the fifty or sixty small groups, mainly the elderly, women and children, were being protected by the Royal Praetorian Guard, and Xue Wenwen ran to negotiate with Narius.
Xue Wendao has encountered this kind of thing a few times before, he protected people, but because he couldn't take these people on the road, so he let them go, Xue Wendao thought it would be okay like this, but after a few times, he suddenly had an extra heart, and let one of his subordinates follow those who left to see the situation.
As a result, after only half a day's distance, these people were chased and killed by the scout troops.
It was because of that time that the most fierce conflict broke out between Xue Wendao and Narius, and the two sides almost fought directly. If it hadn't been for the two elders to stop her, Yi Xue's character would have left with the Royal Praetorian Guard.
But in the end, Xue asked, but he stayed. On the one hand, if he dared to leave, Narius dared to send an army to besiege and kill 10,000 royal guards, and finally gave him the name of a betrayer.
Snow asked, even if he didn't think about himself, he had to think about the elven warrior who was loyal to him in the end.
And this time he came to Arsa for an even more important purpose.
He received the news that his father, the former Elven King, had not actually died, but had been deposed and exiled to Arsa.
This news was the result of Xue Wendao's sixty years of tracking down bit by bit, and finally he finally got some clues, and he didn't tell anyone, not even the last time he met with Sha Yunyue. Because he knew that if this incident was true, then his father's sudden "violent death" was definitely an insider.
He didn't want to expose any news in advance, so as not to have an accident, and he didn't want his sister to get involved and encounter any danger. Although she was not too satisfied with her "brother-in-law", Xue asked very clearly, it was safer for her sister to follow Tang Dou than to follow her to investigate her father's affairs.
For various reasons, Xue Wendao continued to stay in the expeditionary force, but his personality really couldn't make him turn a blind eye to the massacre, and he made up his mind to endure everything to investigate the truth, but when he really saw those innocents being slaughtered, he still stood up.
Narus raised his eyes at the snow and asked, "Is that what you want to say?" There was no fluctuation in his tone, for Narlius, the Arsa were nothing more than a herd of cattle kept in captivity.
Livestock should have the role of livestock, and now the army needs these animals to die, then they should die obediently.
As for the snow, asked. If it weren't for the fact that the Council of Elders still had a few supporters for him, or for the 10,000 loyal members of the Royal Guard, he would have been killed by Narlius long ago.
The widow of a former king should have been disposed of a long time ago.
Narius was already quite dissatisfied with the elf king's approach to leaving Xue and Sha Yunyue's siblings.
"Commander, we are soldiers, not butchers!" Snow asked, suppressing her anger.
He knew that if he didn't get the nod of Narius, even if he saved those dozens of people now, they would die in less than a day, couldn't he take them in the army and follow them?
That's not good, Narlius will definitely not allocate a little water to these people, and the supplies of the entire army are in the hands of Narus, Xue asked that it is impossible to give the food and water of the Royal Praetorian Guard to these people, if he wants to do this, Narius will dare to withhold even the water of the Royal Janissake.
In a word, the expeditionary force is outside, and Narius, as the supreme commander, actually has all the power. Without telling the consequences, he can do anything.
The six legions of the entire expeditionary force, the third legion of the Chinese and the first legion of the blood elves, are the absolute henchmen of Narius. Half of the members of the First and Second Legions of the Nation are Blood Elves, so you can imagine who they will be directed towards. Even if the Night Elves and Wood Elves of the Third Legion of the Tribal Army remained neutral, more than half of the entire expeditionary force fully supported Narus.
He Xue asked, even if it was the Overseer, the 10,000 Royal Janissaries were nominally the Overseer, but Narius really had to do something small, and Xue asked, what could it be?
"The task of the army is to slaughter. Do you think that we are here for friendly talks? Elwin, I'll say it one last time. The relationship between the parties in Alsa is extremely complex, and any of the outer occupied territories may be spies in the inner ring. I have led four expeditions, and I am well aware of the methods of the barbarians here. What they do best is pretend to be innocent! ”
He knocked on the table vigorously: "Also, don't forget, there are no innocents in Artari, all the people who live here are sinners, this is the place of exile, every breath of air they breathe here is out of our mercy, and our mercy can be taken back when needed!" ”
Xue asked was not good at words, and at this time he was even more dumbfounded by Narius's words, he had a stomach full of words, but he didn't know how to open his mouth when he held it to his lips.
Everyone said that he was a genius of the elven race, but he knew that he was just a fool who could only cultivate. If he was a genius, how could he have let his sister suffer from sixty years of exile, and how could he have spent sixty years investigating only a little clue about his father's murder that I don't know if it was true or not.
"So, do you agree?" Xue asked, clenching her fists tightly.
Unexpectedly, Narius smiled mysteriously: "No, I can promise you this time." But you need to do one thing! ”
Xue asked stunned for a moment, and then quickly asked, "What's the matter?" ”
"Go and ask the troops first, and then cooperate with them to take down the log oasis!" Narus gives a task that Yukido didn't expect.
"Am I alone?" Snow asked.
"Feel free, if you think you're enough alone. Of course, you can also bring the Royal Guard! The expression on Narius's face was not full of joy and anger, and his tone was flat and straightforward, but the meaning of his words was full of mockery.
Snow asked, frowning. Even if he didn't know much about military affairs, he knew that there must be a problem for the Elf King to send out all the 10,000 royal guards who were loyal to him in the end this time.
He has always reminded himself in his heart not to fall for Narius's calculations and put these 10,000 soldiers into the pit. But theoretically, the Royal Janissaries are warlords, and under normal circumstances, they do not go directly to the battlefield. How does the other party calculate?
How do you know that now the other party is so clear that the carriage and horses are coming.
"You are not going to listen to me. I don't want to order you either. Originally, you just need to be a supervisor in the Chinese army, everything is safe and stable, and there are not many you and the 10,000 Praetorian Guards in this battle, and there are not many of you. But since you want me to change the military order, then you have to pay the price! ”
Narius's attitude was unusually straightforward, and he asked about the conditions of the carriage and snow: "If you want to save those people, you can, I can swear by my war spirit, as long as you take people to cooperate with the vanguard to attack the log oasis, whether you succeed or not, I can release those people I caught this morning, and promise not to send people to chase them down, and even I can give them enough water to let them find a new place to live!" ”
"And you also have a choice, that is, when you haven't come, those people are damned people, whether it's worth your own life in exchange, it's up to you!"
Xue asked and hesitated, for the lives of fifty or sixty unrelated people, would he trade the lives of those warriors who were loyal to him?
But soon he had a decision.
Kindness is just a choice, there is nothing at stake!
"Okay, I'll take someone with me. I hope you don't break your vows! Snow asked, making her choice.
Narius still had a poker face: "I swear by my fighting spirit!" Don't say I won't give you a chance, you can choose to go alone or with some Janissaries, I want the fact that you are part of the attack! Do you understand? ”
In other words, as long as Xue asked to leave the Chinese army and go to the vanguard, this is the purpose of Narius.
Xue asked not knowing how the other party planned to calculate himself, after leaving the Chinese army's big tent, he found the commander of the Royal Praetorian Guard, told the other party the situation, and then selected three hundred elites to follow him to the vanguard, and the rest continued to be led by the commander and stayed in the Chinese army.
At the same time, Yuki asked to tell the Commander about his worries, telling him to be careful about what Narius was doing.
After explaining this, he went to watch the scouts release the fifty or sixty men.
As he admitted, Narlius gave them food and water, let them go, and swore in public that he would not hunt down those men.
After doing this, Xue asked before taking three hundred elites to the vanguard.
That night, they rushed to the battalion of the Third Army Corps.
Obviously, the commander of the Third Legion of the State had already been notified by Narius, and he had a cold attitude towards Xue Wenwen and the other three hundred people, and only said that he had arranged to start attacking the logs after tomorrow. Everything else was on business, and nothing was said.
The three hundred elites who followed Xue Wendao were all indignant, but Xue Wendao had long been used to it. He, the elven prince, is extremely glamorous in the eyes of outsiders, but he knows very well that if he hadn't cultivated a little bit of talent, he would probably have been exiled as early as his sister.
After a day's journey, Xue Wenwen and his men rested early in the camp arranged for them.
But in the middle of the night, suddenly a terrible siren came from the camp.