Chapter 586: A Thousand Miles of Escape
For three days in a row, the Eight Generals and Wang Du led more than 1,000 White Turban troops around the City of God, sometimes gathering together to meet the crusaders who tried to encircle them, and sometimes dividing into small groups to harass the inhabitants around the City of God.
Sneak attacks and intrusions have made it impossible for the Crusaders to know how many coalition armies have suddenly appeared.
Faced with the ghostly White Turban Army, the Crusaders were helpless but to hold on to the city of God, and then send a large army to surround and intercept it.
Unfortunately, the White Turbans would not have confronted the Crusaders head-on without absolute certainty, and the Crusaders did not dare to go deep into the primeval forest to encircle and suppress.
In the face of this situation, the Crusaders sent out often bluffed and then returned to the City of God, which made the White Turbans operate around the City of God more and more wide, and the damage caused by them became more and more terrifying.
Because of the terror caused by the White Turban Army, a large number of surrounding residents poured into the City of God, making the City of God overcrowded, and the pressure on all sides increased.
Here, it needs to be mentioned that because the White Turbans caused huge losses to the local population, the local residents had a grudge against the barbarians and werewolves, and the Crusaders were worried that there would be spies infiltrating the City of God to deal with the alliance army, so they began to capture the barbarians and werewolves, and even some residents directly lynched the barbarians and werewolves.
The Eighth General and Wang Fool didn't know that their thousand-mile attack this time was a chance to eliminate the traitors, and it was their enemy who did it.
During this purge, a large number of barbarians and werewolf traitors were tortured to death, including many of the technical backbones of the construction of spaceships, you know, in those days, the technology of spaceships was transmitted to God City by the barbarian tribes.
The thousand-mile attack launched by the Eighth General and Wang Du not only "encircled Wei to save Zhao", solved the urgent need of Stone City, but also killed a bloody practical problem for those wavering barbarians and werewolves, and sobered up some barbarians and werewolves who tried to rebel......
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Unbeknownst to Wang Fool and General Eight, on the afternoon of the second day after they tried their best to attack the City of God, the news of Arthur's killing spread throughout Stone City, which greatly encouraged the morale of Stone City's army.
After the invention of spaceships from another space, the spread of information became extremely terrifying, and news from thousands of kilometers away often spread to every corner of human settlements overnight.
Most importantly, there are "rumors" that the Dark God is back, which is like a shot in the arm for the Alliance Army in Stone Town.
The fighting spirit of the alliance army is becoming more and more vigorous, and almost every moment there are soldiers asking to go out of the city to fight.
The fighting spirit of the Crusaders, who had been fighting all the way to Stone Town, fell to the freezing point, rumors spread in the barracks, and the morale of the army was shaken.
At first, the Crusaders were able to suppress rumors in a variety of ways, but as the Crusader masters disappeared one by one, the Crusaders surrounding Stone Town began to panic.
Undoubtedly, some "rumors" have turned into facts.
The news of Arthur's death in the city of God, known as the god of war by the Crusaders, broke out on the third day, and the people in the Crusader army were panicked......
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On the fourth day, Wang Fool and the Eighth General began to encounter fierce enemies, and in an ambush, they lost 300 men, which was their largest loss in a single battle so far, that is, when they attacked God City in a row, they only lost more than 100 people.
The reason is very simple, there are masters who have dragged the eight generals and Wang Du, so that the White Turban Army has lost the advantage of mobility, once the commander is caught in a bitter battle, the whole army loses its flexibility, and there is no ferocity like a bamboo all the way at the beginning.
In every battle in the past few days, it was the Eighth General who took the lead in the battle, and Wang Du supervised the battle while looking for an opportunity to sneak attack, and this near-perfect cooperation could often hit with one blow, killing the enemy commander, leaving the enemy leaderless, and then taking what he wanted, wantonly slaughtering.
At present, there are more and more masters returning from Stone Town to help, and the cooperation between the Eighth General and Wang Du is still flawless, but there is no longer the fluency of quick battles at the beginning, and it often takes a lot of time to kill a master of the other party, and this time period will cause a large number of White Turban Army deaths.
Obviously, if it continues like this, it won't be long before Wang Fool and General Eight will become the commanders of the light pole......
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"What should I do?" General Eight glanced back at the White Turban Army lying in the forest resting, and asked Wang Stupid. The current Eighth General already has a kind of blind trust in Wang Fool, and many times, he will ask for Wang Fool's opinion.
"Back to Stone Town, I hope they make it back alive."
Wang Fool also glanced at the White Turban Army.
After several days of continuous fighting, the White Turbans had reached their limits, and if it weren't for the fact that each victory had given them an almost spiritual opium-like frenzy, they would have been exhausted.
Whether it is a barbarian or a werewolf, they are all human beings, they are not immortals, they need to relax their tense nerves at all times, and they need a safe environment to rest.
The eighth general didn't say much about Wang Stupid's decision, and made a decision - to go back to Stone Town. As Wang Yi thought, the Eighth General also hoped that the surviving White Turban Army could go back alive, and only by staying alive could they enjoy the honor.
After making the decision, the Eighth General did not drag the mud and water, and on the evening of the fourth day, the surviving White Turban Army of more than a thousand began to embark on the road of triumph.
In order to avoid being pursued by the Crusaders, the Eighth General did not choose the original route, but went around a huge semicircle.
The day after the White Turbans left, the spaceship that had been extracted from Stone Town appeared in the sky over God City.
The Crusaders' most elite troops and most elite ships rushed back......
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While the White Turbans were trekking through the wasteland, all kinds of rumors were flying in Stone Town, and as the frequency of Crusader spaceship activity became less and less, the Alliance finally couldn't hold back and began a large-scale counterattack, not only the ground forces launched a counteroffensive, but even the few ships poured out.
Blade Peak, thousands of miles away, received the news and sent all the ships to join the fight to hunt down the Crusaders.
Arthur's death had already dealt a heavy blow to the Crusader spaceship troops, and the fact that God City had withdrawn most of its elite to aid God City made matters worse, and in the face of the Alliance Army's counterattack, the Crusaders immediately collapsed on all fronts.
The defeated Crusaders began a thousand-mile exodus.
Due to the haste and the fact that the Allies deliberately destroyed the Crusaders' troop carriers, the Crusaders were unable to evacuate the 200,000-strong army, and the Crusader infantry could only evacuate on foot and a small number of dragonhorses.
The most terrible thing is that because of the loss of the supply base around Stone Town, the small spaceships of the Crusaders could not play a role, and the spaceships needed to fly to God City to supply arrows and power stones after every battle, and the long battle line of more than 2,000 kilometers made the Crusaders lose their air cover and became a live target.
The whereabouts of the fleeing Crusaders were exposed to the Confederate ships.
An army of 200,000 fled through the primeval forest, abandoning their armor along the way, not only dealing with the pursuers behind them, but also dodging the spaceships in the sky.
In addition to the wolf-like alliance army following behind all the way, the crusaders also had to face all kinds of fierce beasts in the primeval forest.
This is a planet whose land is covered by primeval forests for more than 80 percent, and the territory of human activities is almost negligible in the entire planet, and 200,000 people are fleeing for more than 2,000 kilometers, like a drop of waves in the sea.
According to historical records, this was the largest escape in another dimension, less than 50,000 of the 200,000 crusaders returned to the City of God alive, and the other fifteen were buried in the reckless forest, most of them died of beasts and diseases......
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The White Turbans didn't know what was going on outside, they were trudging through the forest, and many of the places they had passed through had never been set foot by humans for thousands of years, and the vines that had grown were intertwined, making every step extremely heavy.
In fact, the White Turbans faced the same problem as the fleeing Crusaders, not only dealing with the harsh natural environment, but also dealing with the beasts that peeped through the woods.
Unlike the defeated and fleeing Crusaders, the White Turbans did not have to worry about pursuers behind them.
On the second day after the White Turban Army left the City of God, the Crusaders began to clear the vicinity of the City of God on a large scale, they didn't have the heart to go deep into the primeval forest at all, they were more worried that the White Turban Army would suddenly kill out one night, which made the Crusaders nervous, not daring to be careless, the entire City of God can be said to be as heavily guarded as an iron bucket, not even a fly can fly in.
These days, General Eight is not a human life, he is like a tireless machine, constantly waving a long knife to open the way in front.
Many times, the Eighth General wanted Wang Fool to also share the work of opening the way, but what made the Eighth General vomit blood was that only after he was out of danger, Wang Fool suddenly became a disabled person, and he staggered with a cane, so he almost let the Alliance soldiers carry him away......
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"Grandma's, Lao Tzu is the god of darkness, it's good that Lao Tzu didn't let you carry it away." Looking at the sweaty Eighth General in front of him, Wang Stupid was secretly proud.
"Stop!"
Just when Wang Stupid was smug, suddenly, the body of the Eighth General in front of him froze, and the expression on his face became extremely solemn.
There was a rustling sound ahead, as if someone was making a way through the overgrown forest.
Someone!
The White Turban Army, which was originally a long snake formation, was thrown into battle one after another, the archers immediately occupied a favorable position, and the werewolves also circled to the two wings to respond.
As the sound of the rustling got closer, the atmosphere became more and more tense.
Finally, a group of soldiers dressed in Crusader armor emerged from the primeval forest.
"I'm cāo, actually intercepting us ahead." Wang Stupid scolded secretly, threw away the crutches in his hand, and straightened his waist.
Hey, something is wrong! Wang Fool found that the number of crusaders was not large, at most there were only about a hundred, and they looked like wolves, some of them were disheveled, their armor was scattered, and some of them even had no weapons.
It's close!
It's close!
The Crusaders walked into the encirclement of the White Turbans without the slightest vigilance.