Chapter 283: The Storm Begins

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Two days later, .

More than 20,000 people and a large number of large quantities of military supplies poured in at once, filling the small oasis with an area of only two hectares.

Facing the guards of the Summer Palace of the God of War stationed in the Yale Oasis, the entire expeditionary legion was taken aback, whether it was His Royal Highness Karn the Lionheart or Lord Lucio, who managed the "Legion of Warriors" of Tygo's private army, they were all shocked by the powerful and dazzling lineup of the Summer Palace Guards, and no one thought that the Divine Comedy Shaman, as a small lord, had accumulated such a huge military strength.

Liu Zhenzhen actually can't say it, and he doesn't want to be in the limelight, but if he wants to avenge Helen, the summer palace guards composed of his followers will be exposed sooner or later, even if all of them are sent back to Fei Lengcui, the soldiers of the Toulon United are all seen with their own eyes, one pass ten, ten pass hundreds, or no one can hide it, it is better to show it generously.

The first battle was a complete victory, and the vanguard legion wiped out the opponent's 6,000 men and horses with weak troops, which was also a beautiful battle to be proud of, but there was a huge discord within the entire expeditionary legion.

The reason for the matter was the batch of weapons and supplies captured by the vanguard corps when they captured the oasis, the quality of the scimitars of the Mulan people was so good that the entire Beamon army coveted it up and down, and thousands of camels could also be used as the best means of transportation in the desert, as for the heavy grain and grass, not to mention, in short, it was all money.

As the chief shaman of the expeditionary sacrifice group, Liu Zhenzhen not only did not help the temple to help the temple after the first battle, but generously let the soldiers of all the sports teams carry out a weapon change, how could this not make the three gold-robed priests jump in a hurry.

It's useless to jump feet, if Liu Zhenzhen buys their land tent, he won't be called Liu Zhenzhen.

The three golden-robed priests originally wanted the chief shaman to be the first rafter and negotiate with the legion commander to redistribute the spoils, but Liu Zhenzhen had no such intention at all. Anyway, the "Begging Tower of Light" he wanted for himself had already arrived, and he was too lazy to take care of other people's affairs.

In desperation, the three golden-robed priests had no choice but to run to fight with the legion commander Prince Karn, after all, this battle was won by the guards of the Summer Palace of the God of War, and even the two Toulon Wing Ground Pig warriors admitted this, so these captured materials and equipment could not be without the temple land. In addition to those supplies, the temple also wanted a piece of the temple with a large number of captured slaves, most of whom were skilled craftsmen, and the winemakers inside alone were a great fortune.

His Royal Highness the Lionheart Prince Karn is not a fuel-efficient lamp, the Mulan scimitar can easily split the armor of the Beamon warriors, how can such a treasure knife be said to be caught and then sent out, the value of a mature craftsman, how can he, as a high-ranking nobleman, not understand, it is two words in general, no need to talk about it!

The desert natives in the surrounding area have also been cleared, and the two high-level leaders have no worries, and they can quarrel without distraction.

In the face of Prince Lionheart's insistence on Qingshan's unrelenting attitude, the three golden-robed priests became anxious, and they even said that they would withdraw the expeditionary sacrifice group and the "Warrior Legion" of Tygo's private army to Shabak to threaten His Highness Karn.

If it weren't for the advent of war, there might have been a real chance that this farce would have turned into a fact.

When the expeditionary corps rested in the Yale Oasis until the second day, the scouts suddenly reported that the enemy had begun to appear one hundred and fifty miles away!

The sharp disputes between the temple and the military headquarters have all come to naught in the face of the coming war, whether it is the altar sacrifice or the Bimon soldiers, this basic consciousness is still there.

The commander of the corps, Prince Karn, reviewed the information on the enemy situation gathered by the counsellors, and together with his staff, pounced on the map, circled the general direction and position of the enemy's movement, and for further confirmation, a large number of air scouts and Wolf scouts were also sent out to make detailed reconnaissance of the movement and size of the enemy army.

Four waves of scouts, a total of twenty horned eagle beast knights, four Biao warriors and a hundred wolf riders, in the end, only two Biao warriors returned, and they were covered in bruises, which made His Highness Karn suddenly realize the seriousness of the matter, and the atmosphere of the entire expeditionary legion suddenly changed from soothing to tense pre-battle preparations.

"Ladies and gentlemen! The ferocity of the enemy is far greater than we imagined!" His Highness Karn's first words at his own pre-war meeting made all the officers and priests feel the weight of the battle.

The military counsellors distributed to the generals and priests stacks of information on the enemy's situation, which had just been tortured from the mouths of captured slaves, imams, and lion tamers and snake slaves, including the commander of the Karn army, and read them for the first time today.

In the entire venue, only the rustle of reading materials remained, and only Liu Zhenzhen remained silent.

After reading the report on the enemy situation, all the officers and high-ranking priests frowned and had serious expressions.

According to the information interrogated from the prisoners, the regular army of Kalimantan City, the western border province of the Mulan Empire, was 40,000 people, and after the mobilization of reserves, there was no problem in tripling this number.

It was not so much the number of enemy soldiers that worried the Beamon generals the most, but the huge gap between the untrained militia and the professional soldiers, and even more so when compared to the professional soldiers of Beamon.

The generals were all worried that this sin city that sold and plundered Beamon had a commander with excellent command ability, and there were no other forces around the entire Mulan Empire except "Kalimantan City", not to mention that there was no second small desert country, and even the thieves were all cleaned up by this commander.

Sacl, Aza, Lettuce, Markan......

Under his leadership, the regular army of "Kalimantan City", also known as the "Flying Camel Army", was invincible! His Majesty the Sultan of the Mulan Empire regarded him as Mulan's first general, and all the desert nations respectfully called this army "Mulan Storm", a metaphor for its unstoppable might.

In the summer offensive launched by the Beamon Kingdom last year, this famous general, known as "Mei Shuai" among the Mulan people, failed to fight with the Beamon army because he participated in the Mulan Empire's war against the desert country of Marand, and the Beamon military could not make an accurate evaluation of him; Now that this Mulan has nominally returned from Markan, he and the invincible army called "Mulan Storm" under his command are obviously the main opponents of the Beamon expedition, which has been confirmed by the mouths of all the captives.

"What do you think?" Lionheart's voice was a little hoarse, and the two days of arguing had exhausted his throat.

"Your Highness! Why is there no detailed information about the secret unit of the 'Mulan Storm' Legion on this enemy circular? General Wolf Guti raised the enemy briefing in his hand and asked a little puzzled: "This enemy army called "Mulan Storm" has a secret army composed of vultures, desert elves, iguanas, desert dwarves, frost armored giants, snakes and scorpions, so what kind of mission does this secret army shoulder?" And what is their way of fighting? Why is there no intelligence in the first place? ”

"That's right!" Several other generals also chimed in.

"Generals, we can't figure out the details of the enemy, and the enemy can't figure out the details of our foundation either, which is normal." General Pinto, the chief of staff, knocked on the low table in front of him and signaled for everyone to be silent.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there's actually something I haven't been able to figure out!" When it came to the secret class, Liu Zhenzhen, who had been silent, suddenly came to his senses: "Why are there dwarves and elves in the desert?" What about the Frost Armor Giant? How is it possible for a frost giant to survive in the desert? That's not!"

"There are also mineral veins in the desert, so it's not surprising that a dwarven branch can appear!" Prince Karn kneaded his eyebrows vigorously, and as he flipped through the information, he had a headache: "The name of this desert elf is 'Mainz', not that the slaves pointed out that this Mainz has the same pointed ears as our Hippogriff scouts, I really can't believe that there are elves in the desert!" There is no forest in the desert! Where did the desert elves come from? It's so confusing!"

"Could it be a cactus forest?" Liu Zhen laughed, and the officers all laughed too.

"There are so many secrets in the desert! I really don't want to believe that the Frost Armor Giant can covet such a hot desert! The secret force of the other side has done a very good job of secrecy! Our gendarmes have already worked the prisoners, but the information they have obtained is still limited, and we really know very little about what kind of troops this secret army of the other side is. Prince Kahn smashed his mouth and turned his head to look at Liu Zhenzhen: "Your Majesty, you and the other party have already fought each other, do you have any special opinions on the enemy's secret forces?" ”

"This ...... I don't have much to say, the Mulan army that fought against our forward corps, their secret troops are lions and vipers. Of course, Liu Zhenzhen would not be stupid enough to take the initiative to mention the "Beggar Tower of Light" at this time: "Dear Highness Karn, if the lion and the poisonous snake are the secret weapons of the other party, then the secret army of the other party is a little too worthless. If it's in a narrow strip of land, I admit that the sudden appearance of a bunch of lions and poisonous snakes might have a surprising effect, but in an open area like the desert, if I have archers, I can reimburse them all in one wave!"

"Nothing surprising indeed! We also have this kind of secret force! When it comes to the ability of beasts to be armies, who can compare to our beast tamers in Beamon!" One of the Rhine generals from the "Whip of the God of War" couldn't help but interject.

"Your Highness, ask more, what is the establishment and combat means of the secret army composed of animal tamers when we go out on this expedition?" Liu Zhenzhen asked curiously.

He had long heard of this team of mysterious beast tamers, and he was naturally not good at asking too much out of secrecy before, but now that they were about to go to the battlefield, he naturally satisfied his curiosity first.

"Nothing surprising, except that each of them domesticated a violent bear and a porcupine." His Highness Karn passed by lightly.

Liu Zhenzhen knew that Prince Lionheart didn't reveal all the old things, and since he didn't want to say it, Liu Zhenzhen snorted, so he didn't ask more.

"Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, do you have any thoughts?" Prince Karn saw that everyone could not figure it out, and his eyes were fixed on his cardinal counselor, General Pinto.

"Your Highness, Your Majesty." General Pinto, chief of staff, like all the smart and wise Fox staff, put on an elegant and confident pose of "having 100,000 armored soldiers in his chest": "The so-called secret arms of the other party, we can analyze them from the characteristics!" The Frost Armor Giants and Desert Dwarves are so powerful that they may serve as ground reserves for a fatal blow; And Mainz, that is, the desert elves, is nothing more than accurate archery; As for the other desert Beamon, although I can't make a definitive conclusion for the time being, I guess it is that those combat methods must be in line with the characteristics of these races themselves!"

"Makes sense! Each race of warriors has its own specialty, and as a commander, you must give priority to making the most of it! No one treats elves like hand-to-hand combat, just as dwarves can never be ranged attackers!" Liu Zhenzhen agrees with this view.

"Yes, the law of best use must be followed, and I respectfully Richard!" Pinto's chief of staff nodded, smiled and continued: "Today we sent four groups of air scouts, almost all of the army was wiped out, and the vultures of the opposing air force are really fierce! Compared to the Golidian in the past, it is not inferior to the Hippogriffs. According to the reports of our escaped Biao warriors, the weapon of these vultures is a black oil lamp that can unleash a seven-colored mixed weave of lightning with a range of up to one hundred and fifty yards! It's very powerful! From this, it can be seen that the opponent's secret class may be different from us in terms of weapons!"

"Magic weapons? No way? Has the Mulan Empire become so strong? Liu Zhenzhen's eyebrows furrowed, a little almost incredulous.

"I don't know." Pinto's chief of staff hesitated and shook his head, "According to the report of the Biaoren samurai, the number of the vulture air force on the other side is as high as two hundred, and if such a number is all equipped with magic weapons that release lightning, even the Holy Francis Empire will not be able to do it!" At present, the forward corps that is persecuting the Yale Oasis has three or four wings of troops, and if they follow the established line, I believe they will encounter us the day after tomorrow!"

"There are still 37,000 regular troops in Kalimantan City, and it stands to reason that it is impossible to pull them all over, so it seems that the enemy's main force is at least 30,000 men! Ten more wings than we do!" His Highness Karn nodded.

"That's 10,000 more!" Pier General Kai Zhi Manhaha is a great enemy, "Our expeditionary legion can resist at least ten times the enemy than the Mongolian warriors!"

"You're too underestimated! General Kezyman!" Pinto's chief of staff said displeasedly: "Don't forget that they also have a famous commander!" How can a commander who can destroy countless countries be despised ? Although there is no need to imagine the opponent too strongly, there is still the necessary respect!"

"You must be too cautious, my Lord of Staff!" Prince Karn smiled and waved his hand vigorously: "Desert combat, unobstructed, no matter how powerful the commander is, he can't set up an ambush!" In the open field, we Beamon warriors can be said to be the best at it! In fact... What kind of handsome people are there these years? As long as the pre-war reconnaissance is done well and the overall quality of the army is strong, no trick will be able to work!"

"The other side has secret forces......" Pinto's chief of staff was still a little uneasy.

"It doesn't matter what special class he has! Two battles and one fight, everything is understood! What if the opposing air force has magic weapons? There are seven Smai priests in our sacrificial group!' Is the song of the forbidden sky a faΓ§ade? No air force can fly through the skies of Smai!" General Wolf Guti interrupted the military counselor's nonsense with a sneer.

"General Guti, this sentence of yours is very suitable for my taste!" His Highness Karn laughed and said, "Order all the scouts to stop taking off at once!" Our air force doesn't fly as fast as anyone else, and there are not as many of them as there are, so don't go and die! But if they dare to come, I promise they won't fly back!"

"His Royal Highness is ready to do it, right?" General Guti laughed.

"Since the opponent's forward corps is only one hundred and fifty miles away from us, we can't do without it! Are our scouts dying in vain? His Highness Karn sneered and issued an order: "Early tomorrow morning, the 'God of War' Legion's Mixed Wing of Lion and Tiger Warriors, the 'Bigagafeng' Centaur Marksman Wing, and the 'Bloodhoof' Boer Heavy Wing will join me to meet the vanguard of these Mulan bandits for a while!"

"Only three thousand? And without cavalry? "Liu Zhenzhen is a little strange.

"There are too many people, I'm afraid that these enemies will scare their hearts!" His Highness Karn laughed, "Without cavalry, they wouldn't be afraid of us, would they?" ”

"What if the enemy can't beat us and chooses to flee?" General Kezman asked curiously.

"All I want is for them to escape, and once they do, they will move closer to the main force! The Expeditionary Legion is just in time to catch up and fight them! What we Beamon warriors crave most is such a head-on battle!" His Highness Kahn proudly issued an order: "All troops will be set up tomorrow!" Maintain a distance of thirty miles from the vanguard troops, and once the enemy is defeated, the wolf riders will follow their walking route, taking care to keep a good distance until they find their main force before launching a decisive battle. In this case, Princess Nancy of Kalimantan City will be able to be saved!"

"Yes!" All the generals stood up and gave a military salute.

"All the sacrificial lords of the expeditionary sacrifice group, you might as well come and follow the forward corps tomorrow to see how our Praetorian Guard fights!" His Royal Highness Kahn nodded politely to Liu Zhenzhen: "Your Majesty, your air cavalry number is as high as more than four hundred, can you send some to support our air operations?" ”

"No problem! I just heard from you about these vultures playing with oil lamps, and I'm already a little tickled!" Liu Zhenzhen said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, there is still a little thing I want to trouble you!" His Royal Highness Kahn looked at the Divine Comedy shaman very seriously: "Half of the grain and grass baggage of our expeditionary army is still on the way, and the Cambridge Wing responsible for escorting has opened a large distance with the main force, and it is estimated that the day after tomorrow will reach the oasis, if the battle goes well tomorrow, the entire legion will be opened, but the existing baggage of the Yale Oasis must be protected, and when the Cambridge Wing arrives, the defense force of the entire oasis will be completed." I think... Please take up this responsibility for the time being......"

"Oh? Does Your Highness mean to make me a grain guard? Liu Zhenzhen couldn't help but laugh dumbly, a hundred miles away from the Yale Oasis to the north, is the Hengduan Mountain Range that divides everything in the Taklamargo Desert into two, although there is a weathered gap in the middle of this Hengduan Mountain Range that stretches for dozens of miles, but the entire Beamon army can only enter the hinterland of the desert by walking through it. Where the army has stepped on, how can any small fish and shrimp penetrate the Yale Oasis?

Not long ago, I pushed myself as cannon fodder in the front, so this time I was pulled to the back? Liu Zhenzhen felt that he didn't quite understand the meaning of the prince's land.

"The defense of the baggage base means the lifeblood of the entire expeditionary force! The so-called way of using soldiers is the most ruthless thing than cutting off food! I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if, although it is not possible to be infiltrated by the enemy, but I have to guard against it. After all, there are still a lot of prisoners here, and we don't know the number of enemy air forces at the moment, so I'm going to let the three children of Lord Mourinho stay behind and help him with the crown!" His Royal Highness Karn seemed to see the doubts of the Divine Comedy Shaman, and said very sincerely: "Once the Cambridge Wing arrives at the Yale Oasis, Your Majesty has handed over your defense to them, and with your mobility ability, you can easily catch up with the main force and participate in the later battle, so I think no one is more suitable for this important task than you." ”

In the end, it is a battle-hardened and veteran commander of the army, I have to say that under the seemingly rough appearance of His Royal Highness Karn, he has thought of everything, even including such details, and all the officers secretly admired it together.

"It's my pleasure." Liu Zhenzhen immediately nodded vigorously.

Guarding the baggage is indeed the top priority, Liu Zhenzhen listened to the Three Kingdoms Commentary when he was a child, and all the people who escorted the grain and grass were the top generals, His Royal Highness Kahn arranged this, and he really valued himself very much! can get together with Godani's fake public and private affairs, of course, Liu Zhenzhen will not refuse.

But his heart immediately tightened again, the Cambridge United's food protection unit arrived the day after tomorrow? Isn't that the limit of the prophecy of pregnancy after six days that Joan of Arc said?

By that day, the main army of the entire oasis had already been deployed, and if he really used his strength, it was not impossible to fulfill his promise. Liu Zhenzhen thought about it and smiled like a wolf.

An entire tent of people got goosebumps from his laughter.