Chapter 370: Deserter
With everyone's stunned eyes, Shen Mengting, who was holding a giant sword, was still gasping for breath. Her actions just now were too aggressive, and she cut off the head of a soldier almost in the blink of an eye.
At this point, most of the soldiers fell silent. The few who had shouted the loudest before also all kept silent.
After such a play, Ma Liming was actually impressed by this woman. The word 'decisive' is probably Ma Liming's annotation to it.
Shen ...... Shen Mengting! Shen ...... "Qian Hao's body seemed to be trembling. He wanted to get close to the woman, but because of some thoughts, he didn't dare to move a single step.
Shen Mengting was still gasping for breath, but even though her body had trembled weakly, she still held the giant sword tightly. At the same time, the blood stained with the sword slowly remained until it dripped to the ground.
"You ...... You ......" Shen Mengting began to swim around all the soldiers around her, "I think you are really dizzy! At the moment of the great enemy, you don't think about how to resist the enemy, and you even have to think of ways to sanction the marshal! Who gave you the guts!" Her voice was very loud, and it also revealed a prickly feeling like a needle cone.
Most of the soldiers were shocked by Shen Mengting's momentum, and they all chose to remain silent.
"Also, as far as you guys just said, I think you don't have any shame in the truth! No! I should say that you really have to be a soldier in vain!" Shen Mengting knocked the head of the giant sword to the ground, "I know what you think! On the surface, you have said all kinds of reasons, but in fact, to put it bluntly, you just don't want to fight with the Saurons, right? Some people who are greedy for life and afraid of death! Forget it, you soldiers, even if you are mobilized, what can you do? It is better to give up!"
As soon as Shen Mengting's voice fell, there was a burst of whispering. After that, it was naturally a few of the more daring soldiers who came to act as negotiators.
"Well, since you've said that, let us go!" the soldier was quite swaggering, and didn't blush at all.
"What? you say...... Are you trying to ......?"
"Didn't you just say that it's useless to mobilize us? Since it's useless, why do you still leave us here? Don't you let us go sooner or later?" another soldier at the edge of the line also opened his voice and roared.
"You ......" Shen Mengting unconsciously clenched the hilt of the giant sword.
At this moment, a soldier from an unknown place suddenly shouted disturbing panicked words.
"Ah...... Here it is! Sauron's army is here!"
His words were full of surprise, and it didn't take long for them to affect the order of the team. For a moment, there was a sense of confusion in the ranks, and a large number of soldiers began to roll over on their backs.
Shen Mengting turned her head when she saw this, and she suddenly realized that Sauron's iron horse was really in front of her.
If you want to take a detailed measurement, it may only be less than 500 meters away. Sauron's army is no longer a cloud of dust, because of the indentation of the distance, their horses are all visible, so to speak.
No, it should be said that the movements of each of them can already be fully captured by Shen Mengting.
It probably won't take even a minute for Sauron's army to come in without mercy and destroy everything that had to do with Saran.
"Hey, hey, Shen ...... Generalissimo Shen Mengting!" Shen Jun was a little flustered, "They're here!"
The sound of the horses' hooves of Sauron's army was like flies, which had been ingrained in his ears, and Shen Mengting couldn't dispel it at all. She turned her body completely toward the onrushing foe, her feet quickly splitting away.
It seems that there is no second way for her at the moment except to resist Sauron's thousands of troops alone.
"I can't take it anymore! I'm going to get out of this place!"
I don't know who in the group of soldiers roared, but before a few seconds of precipitation, several soldiers ran into the distance. Their arms were swinging very fast, apparently trying to flee the place.
And as someone becomes a deserter, this number will increase several times. In an instant, a large number of Saran soldiers ran in both directions, all of them terrified, in stark contrast to the rushing army of Sauron.
Of course, in the process of escaping, the panicked shouts did not stop at all.
"Hey, you guys stop me!" said Deputy Marshal Ma Liming, who suddenly shouted loudly.
However, his screams were now almost fart-like, and no soldier would pay any attention to him.
Helplessly, he had to lock his eyes on Qian Hao, who was a professional archer archer, "Hey, archer archer, remember that you are a young [river crab] general, right?"
was suddenly questioned by Ma Liming, and Qian Hao never reacted. His neck also shrank reflexively, and his shoulders were lifted by the way, "Huh?"
"I'm asking you, archer!"
After confirming that the annoying deputy marshal was talking to him, Qian Hao was relieved to stop his awkward twitching, "Hey, what do you have to tell me?"
"Are you just watching these soldiers as deserters?" Ma Liming's head was constantly flailing, and the trajectory of the shaking was naturally corresponding to the fleeing Saran soldiers, "Shouldn't you have some measures?"
"Huh?" Qian Hao's body leaned back.
"Shoot them, deserters!" said Ma Liming's tone was quite tough, not at all like a joke.
But Qian Hao couldn't accept it at all, "What...... What? you call me ......" He looked down at the longbow he was holding, and imagined the light arrow he had pulled out to shoot through one of the soldiers on his side.
No! Absolutely not! As soon as this vision was generated in his mind, he shook his head sharply. In this case, the scene is quickly dispelled.
"Hey, what are you still thinking about? If you hesitate any longer, the 10,000 troops here will completely dissipate!" Ma Limingdu got off his horse and ran to Qian Hao's side.
Before Qian Hao could get out of the shock, his half-open mouth was trembling constantly. He hoped that others would give him some hints, but Shen Mengting had been focusing on the upcoming Sauron army at the moment, and had not taken care of his side infinitely.
As for Shen Jun and Chen Tianhao, when Qian Hao moved his gaze to them, he was completely at a loss. Needless to say, these two people are definitely not counted on.
Therefore, Qian Hao can only rely on himself to think about the problem at present. He glanced at the longbow in his hand again before releasing the answer, "No......! Tell me to shoot my own soldiers? ......?"
"You're still talking about the soldiers on your side, they've become deserters, and if we don't deter them, I guess no one will be willing to fight for us!" Ma Liming glared quickly.
The next move he made surprised everyone present.
Ma Liming directly threw the sword in his hand quickly. Then, as the sword flew upwards at a rapid pace, he grabbed the hilt of the sword with a quick hand. However, the holding position has changed to a backhand grip.
Seeing this, Qian Hao couldn't help but ask, "Ah......? What are you doing here?"
Ma Liming ignored it, he just stared at the group of deserters running into the distance, "Hey!
But how can deserters care about others, their current goal is only one, that is, to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible.
"I warn you again, all of them stand still! I command you all to stand still as deputy marshal!" he shouted like he was at the top of his throat, and he made a gesture that was akin to that of a spear thrower.
"Hey, what are you doing here?"
Ma Liming still didn't pay a little attention, he continued to observe the group of deserters, "I'll warn you one last time!"
About another second or two passed, and after Ma Liming twitched the flesh of his nose, he threw the sword in his hand with all his might.
The speed of the sword was very fast, and it went straight through the layers of soldiers and pointed directly at the deserter who was running at the front.
Then, a tragic scene happened. One of the deserter's legs was stabbed directly by the thrown sword, and the entire calf was pierced by the blade.
The miserable cry of "Ah......hh He seemed to be in great pain and was still clutching his legs.
After Ma Liming's ruthless moves, the soldiers who were trying their best to escape with a step also stopped. Some of them turned around slowly, their expressions almost full of horror.
At present, for them, the number one fear has changed from the attacking Sauron soldiers to the deputy marshal Ma Liming.
"Don't think I'm talking casually! I've been warned several times, and I don't have to listen to it, and I'm not allowed to escape!" Ma Liming continued to scold.
But who would have thought that some of the soldiers who were about to flee would also start to reply, "Hey, why didn't you let us escape? Why did you do that?"
"Why do you want me to do this? Are you too embarrassed to ask? Do you still have this face that says he's a Saran soldier?"
"It's not about whether it's a soldier or not! we're just an ordinary person!" rushed out one of the triangular-headed soldiers, one of the ones who had just tried to escape, "a war with no chance of winning at all, what kind of war is this?
"But even then, you will not be allowed to escape!" said Ma Limin, continuing to roar loudly.
"But...... Even the marshal has just said that he has given us up, and there is no point in mobilizing us. So why don't you let us escape?"
"Oh yo! Now it's the marshal and the marshal called, wasn't it just the title of 'this woman, that woman'?" Qian Hao stepped forward heavily.
But most of the soldiers who were about to flee were still chattering like that, they had long lost the faith in defending their country.
Wang Bin kept looking at the scene in front of him, and he was extremely disheartened. He began to move forward until he approached Ma Liming's side, "Alas, the deputy marshal! I think it's better to let them go! A soldier like this can't fight if he stays!"
Ma Li took a deep breath when he heard this. It's just that he doesn't seem to intend to retreat, "No! Absolutely not! If they are allowed to escape, then the soldiers who are between 'escape' and 'resistance' will also be shaken!"
"But, ah......" Wang Bing's brows were locked very tightly, and his expression of great grief had reached its highest point at this moment, "Leaving them here seems to be of no use except for shaking the morale of our resisting army!
General Wang Bin seemed to be reasonable, and Ma Liming also had a sense of wavering.
"What's the matter? You don't think it's any use to leave us here, so let us go!"
"yes! Let's go!"
"I don't need any food and grass, I guess if we stay here, we will be killed by the Sauron army!"
The soldiers had unstoppable complaints, and they had indeed long forgotten their belief in defending their homeland and country.
"Okay! If you want to go, let's go! I won't come to save you, and I will definitely not force you to go to the battlefield again!" Shen Mengting, who had not spoken for a long time, finally opened her mouth at this moment, although she was still facing the direction that the Sauron army was rushing from, but her attention had already shifted to the group of deserters in the rear, "You can go!"
Hearing that the generalissimo had already spoken like this, the deserters seemed to be in high spirits, and some of them began to question Vice Marshal Ma Liming's previous actions.
"You ...... You must be soldiers in vain!" said Ma Liming, who continued to roar loudly in a frenzied manner.
But because of the consent of the 'Generalissimo', the deserters seemed to have a backer to confront Ma Liming.
"What about being a soldier in vain? It's better than dying to save face!
"That's enough! you guys go away, there's more nonsense. The enemy is about to rush in, don't even have a chance to escape!" Shen Mengting turned her head sharply to the side, she almost squinted her eyes to look at the group of deserters behind her.
In fact, she did not know what proportion of deserters accounted for in the army of more than 10,000. However, she also knew that if a deserter escaped, the force would have fallen apart.
Shen Mengting didn't want to do this either, but at this moment she knew that she had lost her ability to control this army. In other words, it is useless to keep soldiers who want to escape. So she had to gamble and gamble that the soldiers left behind would account for the majority, so as to reawaken the belief of those Saran soldiers in protecting their homes and defending the country.
So......
"You'd better hurry up!" Shen Mengting turned her head again.
Now that the generalissimo had spoken, the deserters began as if they had been shielded. They were about to run into the distance, and the soldiers, who had been standing still, were inclined to pour their bodies to the side.
The form seems to have reached the point of no return, and this raid battle seems to end with infighting on Saran's side without even fighting each other.
Shen Mengting quickly closed her eyes towards the front, ignoring the sound of horses' hooves from the enemy in front of her, and fell into her own violent thoughts.
Soon after, she suddenly opened her eyes and raised her head high, "You can run away!" But there is one sentence that I still want to emphasize to you deserters! That is, the series of statements you have just made are actually wrong. ”
It was a final hoarse cry, but this trick still didn't work, and the soldiers who should have fled here did not slow down a little.
Shen Mengting could feel this, but she didn't care about anything, she was still talking to herself, "You think that we generals treat you as cannon fodder, that's an extremely wrong view. Her head was slowly lowered, and she resumed her attitude of looking ahead, "Actually...... We are just your collaborators. At the same time, we are your guardians. We need to command you, and we have reached the maximum usability of the army. In other words, we're all your friends!"
After Shen Mengting's words fell, the rear didn't know which deserter's disdainful voice came, "Hmph! That's a nice word! But in the end, it was all us low-level soldiers who struggled to fight the enemy! And what about you? You only know how to drink tea in the barracks!"
In the face of this accusation, Shen Mengting's anger returned. She writhed her body hard, "Oh? Do you all think so? Do you all think that we are not worthy to command you? Or are you making excuses for losing your faith in defending your family and country, or are you greedy for life and afraid of death?"
The three consecutive questions were completely released, and Shen Mengting's heart was also loosened a little. She raised her greatsword and took a battle stance.
When Qian Hao saw her like this, he couldn't help but send a question, "Ahh
Shen Mengting didn't answer, she continued to tell her inner thoughts. Although everything she said was related to the deserters in the back. But he never even looked at them.
These people are simply a disgrace among the Saran soldiers, but Shen Mengting still doesn't want to give up on them until now. As his father had said, every Saran could not give up, and they were all sons of the Saran Kingdom. If they were to fight against the Sauron Empire, they would all be mainstays.
So Shen Mengting tried to make a final effort, "No matter what the soldiers think, whether they are afraid to escape, I, as a marshal, can't have any thoughts of giving up at all!"
"So...... I'm going to fight to the death, even if I'm the only one left in the army!" she said in a tone of extreme toughness, but also a kind of recklessness.
Fight for the Syllos
Fight for the Syllos