But Tsykov was determined too soon, and James was too happy! At the same moment when Tsykov's sure victory was in full joy with James, I breathed a long sigh of relief and sighed, "It's finally time to catch up!" ”

Just as the encirclement of the Imperial Coalition was about to be completed, a great storm suddenly befell the Imperial Coalition as if it were sudden and without warning! For a while, the wind and clouds changed, and in the overwhelming darkness, fierce winds and torrential rain with thunder and lightning swept through the Imperial Coalition Army's array, almost shattering the encirclement that the Imperial Coalition Army was close to completion!

At this moment, the cavalry team led by Memphis and I launched a fierce assault on the Imperial Alliance, and the "Weiming" with the flaming waves became a fiery snake dancing wildly in the dark! At the same time as we launched the attack, Meinster's light cavalry regiment also broke through the incomplete formation of the Imperial coalition forces and successfully completed the retreat. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

I swung my sword and cut off the heads of several Imperial cavalry who had been stunned by this scene, and galloped away with Memphis with the remaining seventy or so Meinster cavalry.

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In the face of this great natural storm, those who are good at using troops such as Tsikov could not immediately clean up the chaos and reorganize the formation, and in the blurred vision of the wind and rain, they were even more powerless to organize their own cavalry to pursue us, so they had to watch the pigeon that fell into the pocket easily fly away and let us fly away.

At this time, James was hysterically shouting in the storm: "Give me a chase!" Chase me and kill all these bastards! Whoever killed Alex for me, I will give him the title of marquis! He couldn't seem to accept the fact of defeat, but no one responded to his voice.

And Tsykov just silently picked up the pieces and reorganized the army.

Later, people commented on the performance of the sixth prince James in this war: "The goddess of victory only gently stroked the corner of her clothes, but James thought that the goddess of victory was flattering herself." ”

In this war, the Imperial coalition army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, especially the number of new heavy cavalry was more than half, and the Meinster army also paid the price of more than 6,000 corpses.

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After the storm was over, James couldn't contain his fury and cursed out expletives that were not commensurate with his royal status: "Fuck, it's bad luck to be in this unexpected storm!" Alex, this bitch, really fucking shit luck, let the weather help him! Let him escape this time, next time he won't have such good luck!

Hmph, next time I will cut off his head and hang it high on the tower of Meinster, so that the world will know the fate of repentance and insult to me! ”

For Mainster, the storm was not unexpected, but expected. We must draw profound lessons from this war and correctly understand and evaluate our opponents in order to avoid even greater defeats. In this war, the commander of the Mainster army had already made a precise and meticulous comprehensive consideration of the timing, weather, terrain, environment, and psychology of the enemy and other factors for launching a surprise attack, and the timing of the attack and retreat was quite accurate, and the breakthrough point was precisely selected on the right flank, which was the least heavily defended, mainly heavy cavalry, and had the worst mobility and adaptability...... Of course, I also have an unshirkable responsibility for the defeat of this war, and I was also fascinated by the battle situation and did not notice the special atmosphere of unusually hot and quiet weather...... However...... "When General Tsykov saw that James had become completely caught up in his imaginary world and could not listen to any advice, he swallowed what he was about to say back into his stomach, owed to Prince James the Sixth with no expression, and then turned away silently.

Tsykov, who came out of the tent, said to his adjutant what he had not finished saying before: "If the eastern intelligence officers of the empire are either incompetent, or all of them are bought!" Intelligence says that the total strength of Meinster will not exceed 20,000, and this time we encountered at least 30,000! And there are no camel soldiers in our preset! On the contrary, a large number of light cavalry appeared, and half of the new heavy cavalry that we had used to deal with the camel soldiers was lost at once—what a costly loss! I suspect Meinster has mastered this technique of adding a thermostat layer to heavy armor as well! ”

"Probably not, right? The new type of heavy cavalry has only appeared on the mainland for ten years, and it is quite technically difficult to add wind crystal ore to the inner layer of heavy armor, and wind crystal ore needs to be refined in composite ore deposits, and the process in this is quite complicated, which is not something that a small country that has only been established for two years can do. Adjutant Azeglio raised his own questions.

Tsykov shook his head and said, "That being said, there are things we thought were impossible...... There should be other chaebols behind Meinster! Moreover, Meinster's various performances after the founding of the country show that they not only have excellent national masters, but also have superb political and administrative talents, and can include many super-first-class talents, Mainster is definitely not simple! If it weren't for the monarch himself, his advisor would be a brilliant man, and this is not a role that Memphis can play!

"This time we are facing a very formidable opponent, and the enemy coach is beyond the scope of the general, whether it is the art of strategy or the art of command...... It was as if the entire battlefield had been turned into a canvas for the painter to calmly ink on, and time, space, meteorology, psychology, and fighter planes were all blended into the elements of painting...... Although the eagle is still young, it has it after all! Wings to the sky......"

At this point, he paused for a moment before saying what he wanted to say the most: "Whose head will be the last to hang on the upper floor of Meinster City?" Probably it's going to be me......" The last sentence became muffled nasal, so Adjutant Azeglio couldn't tell exactly if it was "us" or "them".

At this time, the adjutant, who had heard so many words from his boss for the first time, looked up at General Tsykov's thin back, and suddenly realized that the Qi Shuai he loved seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden.

(The Biography of General Tsikov)

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In the next ten days, we launched dozens of offensives against the Imperial Coalition forces in a row, and in the form of guerrilla warfare, with the help of good mobility and geographical and climatic factors, we constantly hit the morale of the Imperial Coalition Army, and also disrupted their entire marching steps, effectively mastering the rhythm of the whole war, so that the Imperial Army was exhausted, unable to get sufficient rest, and was constantly depleted mentally and physically. The defeat in the previous battle had made General Tsykov extremely cautious, and of course, Tsykov's over-caution had also cost him several opportunities to snipe at the Meinster army.

On the morning of August 26, 1893, a hurricane blew in the desert, and after the hurricane, the sky became dark, and then it rained continuously.

The dim sky and heavy rain blurred the vision, but I still observed a slight confusion in the rear of the Imperial Coalition forces, and when I received news that the light cavalry guarding the grain and grass had been transferred to the right flank, leaving only the infantry to protect the food, I immediately ordered Matthew's heavy cavalry regiment, Eakins's assault regiment, and Galen's 3,000 light cavalry to take advantage of the rain to attack the enemy's rear with futong oil, trying to burn the grain and grass of the Imperial coalition army in one fell swoop.

However, it was a painful setback! Our troops who carried out a sneak attack braved the heavy rain to raid the enemy's rearguard, but they were beaten to pieces, and in the end the number of people who fled back was less than half of the original!

It turned out that Tsykov had mixed the mages with the infantry, and when we carried out a surprise attack, we were caught by the lightning attack magic of the enemy mages and the sharp spears of the infantry. A hundred times more terrifying than a sword, the electric light and the terrifying silver spear continued to tear apart the bodies of the Meinster soldiers...... Our army suffered heavy losses in a sudden situation, and in just half an hour, a force of 6,000 men was killed by 3,000 men, and finally only took advantage of the rain to kill the feathers.

Looking at the army in front of me, which was colored, more than half damaged, and undecided, and looked at the sad and angry expressions on the faces of Matthew, Ekins, and Galen, I tensed my face, bit my lower lip tightly, and tried to suppress the raging anger burning in my heart due to the unexpected frustration, and I didn't say a word for a long time.

Unexpectedly, the flaw exposed by the Imperial Coalition Army was actually a trap! …… I hate it! The elite troops of 6,000 men were lost in half in less than half an hour! Half of them are new heavy cavalry! I think that in order to build this army, at my suggestion, Memphis worked hard to obtain this kind of technology, recruit talents in this field, and also tried to abandon the camel soldier and develop this new type of army...... I was easily counted by Tsykov! Tsikov is a famous general, I despised him too much before! It turns out that I, Alex, am nothing more than a man who has been carried away by victory...... Was it the previous victory that made me light-hearted and reckless? Because of the pride of victory, arrogance leads to defeat, it seems that I still can't leave the category of mediocre generals! The failure of this sneak attack will definitely make the rear defense of the Imperial Alliance stronger in the future, and it will be even more difficult to destroy the enemy's food and grass! In that case, it will be Meinster who will lose in the end!

I am going to become one of the shortest-lived kings in history, and I will die like a meteor in less than a month after I ascended the throne......

In the face of the grim situation, I struggled to think about the best way to deal with it.

Vittegar wrote: "Our king stood motionless in the wind and rain for a long time, without even blinking his eyes, and his expression was so solemn that his lower lip, which he had bitten so deeply, that he had been bitten so deeply that blood had come to us, and we looked up to our king with trepidation, and could not guess what was in his heart at this time. Just as we were about to suspect that he had become a fossil, our king finally spoke......"

The rain stopped abruptly, and I suddenly turned to the waiting crowd and said, "The rain has stopped!" ”

In the midst of everyone's slight astonishment, I ordered the remaining 3,000 raiding troops to be gathered around and said, "I will lead everyone to launch another surprise attack on the Empire again!" ”

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According to the relevant historical materials collected and the memoirs of Adjutant Azelio, in this war, which was called the "game of death" by the Imperial soldiers, General Tsykov, who had always been calm and calm, showed a rare anxious expression on his face, even after defeating the 6,000 elite troops of Meinster, his face did not show a look of joy, but looked more solemn.

"The intentions of the enemy's commanders are unpredictable and incomprehensible—if they were to bring me down once and for all the lone army that had gone deep into the desert, they would have started too soon! The strategy of constant harassment should be adopted, and only when our troops have exhausted their strength and are extremely tired and have to retreat after continuing to penetrate deeply. It stands to reason that they are capable of doing this with more than 30,000 troops...... It would only be a matter of course if the enemy adopted this strategy, as they had done before...... If this is the case, we can take advantage of the abundant supplies and pretend to retreat, and lead the enemy to the edge of the desert before attacking...... However, two successive attacks showed that the enemy had no intention of doing so, and as a result, we could not retreat calmly, and the enemy lost the advantage of waiting for work. Could it be that the enemy is just trying to demoralize our commanders and soldiers and inflict heavy losses on our heavy cavalry? If only that's it, the enemy has already done it......

"However, the role of our army's new heavy cavalry in the desert is mainly to attack the enemy's camel soldiers head-on, since the enemy does not have such a type of troops, but a large number of light cavalry, supplemented by a small number of new heavy cavalry, then, the effect of our heavy cavalry frontal impact has been canceled out in the face of the enemy's mobility, and the enemy should not focus on dealing with heavy cavalry...... The remaining role of the heavy cavalry is to assault and break through, for us who cannot correctly grasp the position of the enemy army, the assault is obviously impossible, as for the breakthrough...... Unless the enemy is not in it for victory—no, who in war is not for victory? …… This situation is so weird that the enemy manager's behavior is simply a madman's behavior, but judging from the enemy's strategic and tactical performance, the enemy coach cannot be a madman...... An opponent who does not play according to the rules at all...... Maybe it's a sane madman......"

General Tsykov sighed as he arranged for his soldiers to recuperate—as if he were talking to his adjutant as if he were talking to himself. Later, these words reached the ears of Alexander the Great, and the emperor sighed with emotion: "Tsikov is really my confidant! ”

The wisdom of Adjutant Azeglio could not give any answer to the commander's question, and at this moment, a thought accidentally flashed through his mind: "Maybe the Meinster army is not here for victory at all...... but then shook off this unrealistic idea.

For the Imperial Alliance, everything is still in a sparkling fog, and it will take some time for the situation to become clearer......

(The Biography of General Tsikov)

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I gazed majestically at the troop of more than 3,000 men in front of me, and the men of the desert all had expressions of disbelief on their faces, and the thought may have arisen in their hearts: Is our king mad because of the defeat just now?

But I said: "I have launched another surprise attack at this time for the following reasons: First, our army has been newly defeated, and the enemy is in the midst of joy and slack after victory, and now all I can think of is rest, and I will not estimate that we will attack immediately. Second, the enemy is now mixing the mage team with the heavy and grain and grass delivery team, which is a good time to destroy the enemy's logistics and supplies in one fell swoop. Due to the existence of enemy magicians, it not only becomes a terrifying attack force, but also can use the magic array to transport grain and grass over long distances, carry out limited supplies to the enemy army, and can also summon water elements to supply water, so that our army can not implement a series of strategies such as cutting off its grain and grass and drying up its water source.

3. Our army has a reason to fight, and it also has the strength to fight again! Only by completely destroying the will of the enemy commander and letting the Imperial coalition fall into the net we weave, will Meinster have room to survive in the future! ”

"However, it is impossible for the whole army to carry out a surprise attack, and it still depends on the strong impact of heavy cavalry, strong attack regiments and elite mobility of light cavalry! However, our army has been newly defeated, and its strength has been reduced by half, and it has not been able to curry favor with the enemy's mages and pikemen with a complete 6,000 elites before, and at this time, with half of the tired division, is it still possible for us to win? Galen said worriedly.

I smiled faintly and said, "It's impossible under normal circumstances, but I'm going to create a special situation to fight!" ”

After speaking, he called Vivien to his side and said, "Vivian, I need you to do me a favor. I'm going to bless the helmets of 3,000 soldiers, and you're going to use the methods we've experimented with, and at the same time open the magic barrier to digest and absorb my overflowing magic, so that my magic doesn't leak out when I cast my magic. ”

Hearing my words, Vivien's face turned pale, and she said uneasily: "We only have a fifty percent chance of success in the experiment with this method, and this is not a Lost Forest, there is no natural barrier, in case I can't stop your magic power from leaking, it will inevitably cause huge fluctuations in the space element, and it will ...... then."

Hearing Vivien's slightly trembling voice, I gently hugged her, calmed her uneasy emotions, and said with a smile: "I can't care so much, I can only take risks in this critical situation!" If I can fully control my magic, everything will be easy...... But at this moment, I am not capable of doing this...... My understanding of the magic element nucleus is still in the initial stage of exploration, and I have only a preliminary glimpse of the spectrum of the magic element, and I have not yet fully grasped the beauty equation of the permutation and combination of the element nucleus, so I cannot control the energy of the magic element nuclear fission, let alone the higher stage of the magic element nuclear fusion and the magic antimatter energy......"

I sighed lightly, stared at Vivien's beautiful eyes with a determined gaze, and said, "I can only rely on you at this time...... You and I have the same mind and tacit understanding, and with your familiarity with my magic, you will definitely be able to feel the slightest change in my magic! Vivien, believe in yourself! You have to be confident in your abilities! You can do it! ”

Hearing my words of trust, Vivien nodded resolutely.

I took a deep breath and came to the three thousand Meinster soldiers who had gathered together, feeling slightly excited...... Since I left the Lost Forest, I have never used magic, but I have only used the "unnamed" to attract the magical elements of the space to produce "beautiful sword skills", on the one hand, because I can't control my own magical power at all, and on the other hand, if this uncontrollable, transcendent magical energy is released into the space, it will be difficult to hide from the ears of the gods in another space connected to the human world.

After I cleared my mind, I began to look inward, chanting a unique magic incantation in my mouth: "Source of hope, umbrella of a hundred souls, prayer of life, eternity of space...... O most holy and brilliant element of light, obey my call, assemble in my name, and show your seven-colored spectrum before my eyes...... I send out the Wings of Light! ”

Vivien also followed suitably to unleash a dark wall of magic, tightly enveloping the entire vast space where I and the three thousand warriors were.

As the incantation was completed, an unusually brilliant wave of light enveloped me, and in the direction of my outward opening of my hands, like countless small hands extending over the more than 3,000 soldiers of Meinster, climbed from the bottom to the top of the armor, and then dispersed into a network of countless rays of light, and finally weaved a brilliant veil of light on the armor.

Throughout the process, Vivien's magic wall should also fluctuate and fluctuate in line with the outward expansion of my magic, trying to dissolve and absorb the manic light elements that try to break through the wall, and the scene of light and darkness intersecting and merging is a spectacle.

Just when the light element was about to break through the barrier of the dark magic wall through my strong domineering spirit, I also completed the protection process of the "Holy Light Wings", put away the magic, and the remaining light element in the air lost its power source, and immediately disappeared, most of it was recycled into my body, and a small part of it was dispersed in the space, and with the elimination of the power I exerted, it was easily absorbed by the dark magic wall that permeated the space.

Afterwards, I couldn't help but sigh and said, "It's really dangerous! If the 'Wings of Light' were to be issued a little longer......"

"Alex! I'm sorry, but if my magic was a little stronger, you wouldn't have to risk all odds to complete it...... I can do it directly......"

I looked at Vivien, whose face was covered with fine beads of sweat, smiled kindly, and said pityingly, "Little fool! What is there to apologize for? You've helped me a lot! And not being able to control my magic only shows that I am not capable enough. ”

"I just wanted to help you a little more......" Vivien whispered.

I gently wiped the pearl-like beads of sweat from her face with my hand and smiled, "Don't think about anything, just think about how I will celebrate with you tonight when I return from victory!" Stay here for me! ”

Vivien blushed at my words, and I laughed heartily again, and then quickly stepped onto the mine, and rode away with three thousand Meinster troops in high spirits.

After the rainstorm, the desert sky seems to be washed anew, the clouds are scattered and the wind is light, the blue sky is clear, clear as a mirror, the desert moistened by the rain has slightly reduced the heat and dryness of the scorching summer, but the sky that has lost the shade of the clouds is occupied by the scorching sun again, and the water vapor in the air and the rain in the sand layer are quickly evaporated on the desert under the bright sun, and the uncomfortable high temperature and dry heat are restored. It was also a very uncomfortable situation for the soldiers in the desert, who had just come out of the bathtub in the rainstorm and fell into the furnace of the scorching sun, like a dish that had been marinated and steamed.

I personally led 3,000 soldiers and horses to the rear of the enemy army with lightning speed, and the red armor was like a blinding blood-colored arrow into the rear guard of the Imperial Alliance—and my golden armor stood out in the bright red tide, like the brightest and sharpest arrow in the blood arrow!

In the face of our surprise attack, the unexpected Imperial coalition forces were a little nervous, but the well-trained pikemen quickly lined up and stood in front of us, buying the mage team time to unleash their magic.

This was undoubtedly a fairly correct strategy, and in the previous battle, it was this method that led to a brilliant victory for them and made our army suffer greatly, but the same strategy could not have worked twice!

The sharp chrome spears of the Imperial pikemen could not pierce the cavalry armor under the protection of our "Wings of Light", and the sharp impact of our army tore apart the enemy's phalanx like a devastating force when it was slightly stopped, and the blood-stained butcher's knives devoured the flesh and blood of the enemy, countless pieces of flesh and stumps that had been chopped up flew wildly, and the corpses of some pikemen who had lost their heads still rushed on their own, and were picked off by swords in front of the red cavalry...... A blood-spattered passage was opened in front of every heavy and light cavalry of Meinster!

And Ekins's Strike Regiment is also creating a relatively silent but frantic slaughter - the soldiers of the Strike Regiment armed with hand-held mechanical crossbows unleash a continuous "whoosh" arrow, this crisp but relatively weak sound on the battlefield continues to create a large number of deaths, turning teams of pikemen into lifeless hedgehogs! This kind of strong crossbow unit, which is between light and heavy cavalry, has finally been given its due value on the battlefield and has played an amazing role.

Of course, the Imperial Coalition also bought the mage team precious time to gather their magic at the cost of a large number of pikemen's corpses, and as the enemy mage's magic spell was completed, a dazzling number of lightning strikes swept through the sky and rained down on our cavalry!

However, this powerful lightning magic did not have the desired effect this time - the terrifying lightning stream that could instantly turn creatures into char touched the armor of our soldiers, and was immediately bounced off by the light waves floating above, only to bring a slight ripple of light on the armor, like a small stone stirring in a lake. After a slight shock, the knight's red armor was undamaged.

This extremely strange situation made the magicians of the empire lose the ability to think, and showed an expression of disbelief!

But they could not react next, and Meinster's cavalry rushed to them in a rain of bullets and blood, and these weak mages with no hand-to-hand combat ability quickly became expensive sacrifices under the blood-colored butcher's knives of the red cavalry, and the terrible screams that floated through the air put a tragic end to the defeat of the Empire's forces in this brutal war.

Immediately after destroying the mage's ranks, we poured tung oil on the enemy's weights, grain trucks, and various munitions trucks, and then I ignited them with the flames brought by the "unnamed", and the enemy's supplies were instantly surrounded by flames.

In the blazing firelight, I led the cavalry to break through and retreat, and the outflanking Imperial light cavalry became a falling domino in front of us!

The edge of the Mainster 3,000 invulnerable cavalry was unstoppable, and after a round of fierce killing, the piercing red color became a more terrifying existence in the eyes of the imperial soldiers than the legendary immortal skeleton soldiers! On their faces at this time, apart from fear or fear, they were powerless to stop and even less courageous to stop our retreat.

And my dazzling golden armor under the scorching sun and the scorching flame flow of "unnamed" in my hand created a kind of splendor of blood and fire. My tall and grim image has been transformed into the worst nightmare of the Imperial soldiers, and my name will become the immortal legend of Meinste.

General Tsykov watched the red cavalry of Meinster disappear into the golden sea of sand, and then counted the casualties and losses of the soldiers with a gloomy expression, and personally accepted this unusually heavy gift I had given to the Imperial Alliance, and a sense of heroic pathos was suppressed in his heart like a lump of lead......

It took less than a quarter of an hour for our army to retreat from the attack, and only a hundred of the more than 3,000 cavalry were slightly wounded, but not a single one was killed, and the impossible goal was turned into a living reality through my magical hands, and the brilliant results made every soldier of Mainster have a look of excitement and joy on his face, in their eyes, I am already a superior being, and the worship of me will be more devout than the worship of God! From now on, this army will become even stronger, and they will be my most valuable treasure!

At the carnival of the bonfire, my thoughts were not rendered by the frenzy, but became clearer. I was well aware that this battle was an easy victory on the surface, but in fact it was a risk! Regardless of the dangers of my rash use of magic, if the enemy is so determined to besiege us at the cost of great sacrifices, it will be us who will lose in the end - our 3,000 soldiers will spill their blood on the desert! Because the magic of the "Wings of Light" can last for a limited time, the magic on the armor has gradually faded after we can evacuate. If the enemy commander was not intimidated by our heroic momentum at that time, and calmly peeked into the fact that we were not conducive to a long battle, he would have been ruthless enough...... Obviously, Tsikov was not an unscrupulous general, and he might have done so if James had been replaced, but he clearly did not have such a calm and keen eye and a wisdom and ability to see the opportunity......

At this point, my thinking has gone further, beyond the real battlefield.

In the expanded Civic, I thought of the possibility of building a magic armored heavy cavalry: after this war, if the magic crystal ore and basalt iron ore mined in the Lost Forest were used to create cavalry equipment and supplemented by magic tempering, the protection power of the armor and the attack power of the weapon were far beyond the new heavy cavalry of the current continent! Of course, the technical difficulties involved need to be solved first, and a large number of mages will need to be used...... However, the problem of magicians is not difficult to solve, elves are naturally good magicians, and I can get a lot of manpower from the fairy forest...... Armored heavy cavalry, this will be a force that can dominate the world! If I can control my own magical power and use my magic power to rearrange the molecular structure of the combined armor, I am afraid that Meinster's magical heavy cavalry will become a powerful force that even the gods will fear! However, there is still a long way to go to build such a force......

At this point, I no longer have any doubts about the upcoming victory, and the goddess of victory seems to be on Meinster's side this time.

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