Chapter 55: Operation Decapitation
The members of the night raids that had been sent out to support the various regions had failed.
Failing to save the fortresses in crisis in time, the situation of the revolutionary army became more and more critical.
The few who did not gain anything returned to the last fortress and re-entered the city by issuing a secret signal in the night.
The members of the hunters are still scattered in various corners, busy dealing with the aftermath of the war.
Therefore, this is the first time that the Night Raid has outnumbered the hunters head-on.
Leaving only Liva in command of the entire army, he gave the night raid a last hope: the decapitation operation.
"As long as you kill Liva and disturb the opposing army, you will have a chance to defeat the opponent." Najeta said calmly, after a few days of consideration, under the pressure of the war in the outside world, Najeta also thought very hard.
It's all worth it, though.
Using the constant reports sent back by the spies and the detectives on the enemy's formation, Najeta finally got a general idea of the opponent's position by combining these scattered things, and was very lucky to find a direct route to the Chinese army. Although she didn't know whether the other party did it intentionally or unintentionally, Najeta had no choice, and she was cornered and could only make a desperate bet to turn things around.
Moreover, the grain depot in the city has begun to bottom out.
Within a month, the winner must be decided, otherwise the revolutionary army will only usher in the fate of running out of food.
So, without the slightest hesitation, Najeta gave the order to raid the Chinese army.
The gate slowly opened, and the iron cables hanging from the huge gate swayed and creaked, making people question the sturdiness of the city, but the gate was in the air, slowly moving downward, clearly reflecting the stability of the city.
Outside the city, the Empire's army was ready to go.
Looking at the slowly falling city gate, Liva's face showed a mocking smile: "Finally got the trick, naΓ―ve guy." β
Najeta, that's it!
Liwa also felt a little anxious before, the empire's grain transportation line was cut off, although I don't know who did it, but Liva's eyes couldn't help but appear in front of a black-haired boy.
That guy named Gavi is a subordinate who is deeply trusted by Prince Ryan.
Although he is suave on the surface, he is in fact politically competent and has a strong ability to adapt to situations.
Although I don't know how strong the other party is, this strength and friendly relationship with Prince Ryan alone can make this guy easily gain a foothold and move among the various factions under Prince Ryan, and he is more than flexible.
With his own talent and a solid backer, what is even more rare is that this backer has given him a new position that cannot be reserved, and if Gavi can't mix it well, hell of it!
Liva couldn't help but sigh at the wisdom and good luck of the other party, and he wasted half his life until he was framed by the nobles and imprisoned, and he didn't understand the importance of connections and the need for backing, but it was too late. At that time, he even attributed the reason for his disappointment to the newly appointed Minister Earnest, believing that it was caused by not giving bribes, but ignoring the real key issue - that is, he was the commander of the light pole, and the only loyal subordinate Bled was also framed by the other party, and he really lost badly. Later, I also heard about Brad's rebellion and escape, although I was a little disappointed with him, but Liwa did not have any dissatisfaction with the other party, everyone has the right to choose, Liwa can choose to go to prison by himself, but he is not qualified to affect Brad's judgment. What's more, it's good to leave, the decay of this country is beyond cure!
Having been in prison for about half a year, Liva had wondered about his fate countless times, but he didn't expect to be forgotten by others. But forgetfulness and the deepest solitude in prison are the most terrible punishments. Facing the dark walls, Liva fell into deep thought. He has never been as important as he thinks, and all this has nothing to do with his actions. Unfortunately, he became a political victim of the aristocracy's attempt to bring down the minister. The root cause is because there is no backer.
The power of the aristocracy was weakened by a major overhaul by Minister Earnest and was used to save the country from peril. However, the hereditary aristocracy has long since lost the loyalty of their ancestors, and values personal interests far more than the country. Blindly enjoying one's pleasure and taking the suffering of others as the source of one's own pleasure is a manifestation of the disease of empire. Over the millennium, this phenomenon has gradually spread. The state began to decay politically from the top, all the way to the economic base used to support society at the bottom. Although it has not yet appeared, there are already initial signs.
Once the economic backbone of the country completely collapses, the country will collapse completely. This truth was understood not only by Minister Earnest, but also by a few people of insight among the aristocracy, but their position did not allow them to make any changes. The suppression of interests and identities forces them to go further and further down the wrong path. It is not without aristocrats with real perseverance who have tried to make changes, but they have all failed without exception. With the development of the empire for thousands of years, the interests of the aristocracy were interconnected, and gradually became an inseparable whole, and even began to faintly threaten the royal power. Although this situation is inevitable and cannot be completely wrong, the key is that in today's world, there is no aristocracy who can truly control the aristocratic group to stand up and combine the interests of the state with the interests of the aristocracy, which has become a serious problem.
The aristocracy has become a parasite living on the country, sucking the vitality of the country and accelerating the process of the destruction of this behemoth. Removing the moths on the surface has no effect, and only a radical change in the system can truly cure this problem. Otherwise, after the death of Minister Earnest in a few decades, a new group of corrupt aristocrats will be born and continue to erode the country, and who will bear the responsibility of saving the peril? Even if someone could stand up, would he really be as successful as Chancellor Earnest did, or would he have suffered defeat like countless of his predecessors? The empire could no longer withstand the experiments, and Earnest made up his mind that he should not have made up his mind, and dedicated his youth to it, and only now began to reap the rewards, and Liva respected this man, but he would not submit to it.
The only person he identified with and worshipped was the female general named Estes.
It was she who rescued the lonely and desperate Liva from the abyss of depravity, re-endowed him with the glory he once had, and even gave him the imperial tool, making him an emperor who everyone feared and respected!
Liva was grateful, and decided to give everything he had for the adult, even if it was his life, and he would not regret it.
The adult's original kick woke up the confused self, and Liwa really began to wake up.
Especially when this strong man who is feared by everyone is willing to become the backer of his hopeless character, Liwa is even more moved.
The admiration at that moment is a lifelong follower.
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The charge of the revolutionary army was fiercely met by the imperial army, and the formation was scattered, and the imperial army was defeated and retreated one after another. At the same time, due to the lack of training of the revolutionary army, the equipment was too crude, and there were even some civilians in the army who were full of numbers and had no combat qualities, the formation was cut into several pieces by the army commanded by Liwa at once.
They are fighting on their own, and even some of the cowardly people have fallen to the ground with their heads in their hands, hoping to escape the catastrophe.
The cavalry of the empire once again showed the might of a hundred battle heroes, even if the formation was broken up by the opponent's scattered and fleeing behavior, but each part of the cavalry quickly formed a new small phalanx, and continued to encircle and hunt the opponent.
The disparity in the level of the two sides can be seen, and it is completely a one-sided slaughter on the part of the Empire.
The shouts of fighting, the chaotic figures fleeing and pursuing, and the ground almost stained red with blood for miles all tell the tragedy of this war. The elite of the empire could not stand the passage of time, and their physical strength began to fade away, and finally a few unsupported cavalry died in the chaos of a group of chaotic people.
Both sides were red-eyed, and the formation of the cavalry was also scattered, the bright red blood stains on the swords flowed rapidly, and the staggered sound of swords seemed to be a helpless wail.
Life is indeed precious, but on the meat grinder-like battlefield, there is never a saying that anyone is more noble than the other, and only the strong who survive can see the sun tomorrow. All false identities and names have lost their meaning here, and no amount of prestige can become a person's talisman. When death comes, only power is the foundation of everything.
The law of the jungle is always the immutable law of war.
Liva seems to calmly command his army to raid left and right, each impact takes the lives of some revolutionary soldiers, Liva's vision can be described as vicious, every time he can find a suitable battle situation in the conflict between the two sides, such a talent, it can be said that it is several times better than Najeta.
But only at the level of a general.
Victory or defeat is sometimes not limited to the command of the opponent.
There's also a much simpler and more straightforward approach.
Decapitation operation, kill the main general!
Liva's central army appeared to be strong, but in fact Liva and his men were under tremendous pressure, and if you looked closely, you could see the dense beads of sweat on their bodies, and it was clear that they were not as relaxed as they seemed on the surface. There is a limit to human physical strength, in a crisis, although people can burst out far more than the usual strength, we call the outbreak of desperation, but this outbreak is not without cost, for the wear and tear of physical functions and for the high load of the mind, all put forward higher requirements for our physical strength. Liwa's Chinese army, which seems to be strong, has actually become the end of the crossbow.
Although the situation of the revolutionary army is even more unoptimistic, after several battles, the superior strength of the original revolutionary army is of course gone, and although the opponent's physical strength has been exhausted a lot, in the end it is still the veterans who have experienced battlefield battles, and they have fiercely bitten the defects of the revolutionary army ranks and dealt a severe blow.
In this battle, the number of dead and wounded on both sides exceeded 10,000, the empire lost more than 10,000 dead, but the revolutionary army died nearly 40,000.
Although each of them continued to fight with about 10,000 people, the empire defeated the opponent's prestige when the revolutionary army had the superior strength, and even killed nearly four times as many enemies as the opponent, which is extremely amazing no matter how you look at it. The rest of the battle, if nothing else, is probably doomed.
But the unexpected happened.
Flying fast and rubbing sparkling bullets, rubbing scorched black sparks in the sky.
Straight to Liva. Liva's pupils winced, and she hurriedly adjusted her body to avoid the blow, but then three bullets came at the same time.
It magically sealed the dead end of Liva.
Seeing that Liva was about to be shot out of a hole, a delicate iron plate suddenly appeared in front of Liva's body, and a groove was punched by the bursting bullet, but it finally protected Liva.
Looking at this effect, a smile appeared on the corner of Liwa's mouth: "It's really worthy of the work of a fashion doctor, it's really gorgeous and practical!" β
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The time goes back not so long ago.
"The long-term journey and successive battles have put too much load on his body." Doctor Fashion stretched out the little finger of his right hand and pushed his glasses, and the hand of the god [the perfect] glowed, "He's no longer useful." β
Ruthlessly uttering such cold words, Dr. Fashion's statement deeply pierced Liva's heart.
How so? I haven't had time to do anything for Lord Estes, how can I fall here!
"Well, then you should get some rest, Liva." Estes said to Liva after hearing this, turned around and walked out, "Don't worry about anything, take care of your injuries, and we'll take care of the rest......"
"Master Estes......" Liva's eyes seemed to have tears rolling in her eyes, unwilling to accept such an ending.
"It's really Lord Estes, it's a perfect figure." Doctor Fashion twisted a strange movement, stretched out his crimson tongue and licked his lips, his eyes followed Estes's back tightly, "Such powerful and beautiful, this is the person I should follow!" β
"Dr. Fashion." Liwa pondered for a moment, and finally spoke, "Am I really hopeless?" β
"It's not that it's completely hopeless, but the cost of treatment is a bit big." Fashion Doctor deliberately hangs each other's appetites.
"Really?! I'm not afraid to pay any price, as long as you want it, I'll give it all to you! Liva's eyes gleamed with hope.
"This surgery, but it's my first time, it may be life-threatening." Dr. Fashion's voice is very ghostly, making it impossible to see what he is thinking.
"I'm not afraid." Liva replied firmly.
"If you succeed, you may have to give up your identity as a human being, which is a heavier price than death." Dr. Fashion slowly confided in the last constraints, looking at the other party playfully, "Are you still up to your mind?" β
"I ......" Liwa obviously hesitated, if he gave up his identity as a human being, he would be scolded by the world, and he might even be recorded in history and continue to stint for thousands of years, this price is indeed too great, but thinking of the handsome figure standing proudly in the wind and snow, and the moving when his eyes are indifferent, the beauty between a smile and a smile, Liwa made up his mind, his eyes seemed to be burning with an unquenchable flame, blooming with a shocking fragrance, "I'm not afraid!" β
Fashion Doctor looked at each other in astonishment, but suddenly burst out laughing: "Good! β
Liva didn't hear the Fashion Doctor mutter, "What a stylish expression." Pair that with the fashion gear I gave you, and you'll be just as stylish. β
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After the surgery.
Liva was reborn and moved her body in some surprise.
Obviously watching the other party insert pieces of materials into his body, and even most of the parts of his body are reconstituted with those materials, but there is no sense of disobedience. To be precise, Liva can no longer be regarded as a person, but an artificial person!
Satisfied with his current physical condition, Liva smiled.
Pushing the frame, Dr. Fashion says, "It's probably the most stylish piece I've ever done." Not only does it bring a dying person back to life, but it even brings him one step closer at the same time, not only in terms of bounce and reflexes, but also in terms of resilience and resistance to hits. β
Liva listened quietly as the other man explained further.
"Half of your new body is assembled by me from precious materials, and the amount used is enough to make more than one imperial tool. In addition to what is considered to be the most precious of the Orija metals, your body is also made of another, even rarer, stellar meteorite. β
"Starfall Iron." Pondering those four words, Liva pondered what they meant, "What's that?" β
"It was a thousand years ago that a huge star struck our planet, and after the friction of the planet's atmosphere and the weakening of various strange forces, the star began to grow smaller and smaller, and re-formed an extremely condensed piece of iron, which was slightly stronger than the strongest metal in the world, and the heat could not melt it, so it could hardly be used to build equipment. However, everyone knows that there is an extremely powerful force hidden in it, and some people even suspect that the anomalies on this planet, including the appearance of those dangerous species and the appearance of various rare metals, are related to its arrival. That collision triggered volcanic eruptions, tsunami eruptions, and frequent earthquakes, which greatly changed the inherent pattern of the world. β
It was because of that turn of events that our ancestors realized the greatness of this world and began to explore places beyond their own realm. They tried to find the ultimate mystery of this world, but almost all of them died in the ocean. Only one man's convoy returned to the kingdom, but in the opposite direction from when he left. He set out from the east, and returned from the west, and crossed the majestic mountains of the west, announcing his return to the kingdom. He told the world that the world was not as round as people thought, but a spherical existence, and he kept moving forward, and it took him decades to return to this country. He didn't change direction during this time. It was at that moment that the ancestors realized the breadth and profundity of this world, which inspired a pioneering ambition and triggered that era of heroes. β
"The Great Pioneer Era a thousand years ago?" Liva asked.
"That's right." Fashion nodded approvingly.
After that, the empire took the piece of star meteorite into the treasury and tried to carve it when building the imperial tool, but it failed completely. It wasn't until later, when the emperor was making his courtiers, that the craftsman finally came up with a way to carve the stubborn iron. Although the craftsmanship of the craftsman is not good, the products made are messy, and the good materials are wasted, but it is indeed an innovation and progress. The ridicule of the courtiers is actually just grandstanding. β
"And now, you have a small piece of Star Meteorite in your body, which can automatically repair the wounds of your body, and you are almost a humanoid creature emperor, as long as your heart and head are not destroyed, you will hardly die. But you still have to be cautious and try not to get hurt, every repair is a great drain on your mental power, and even for your vitality there is a certain consumption. β
"I see. Thank you so much for your attention. Liva replied with a smile, making a proper courtesy, "I won't laugh back at the bottom." It will surely let this fashion masterpiece play its due light. β
Doctor Fashion's eyes narrowed, and he smiled as well.
It was his masterpiece, and he was looking forward to seeing how the traitors reacted.
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