Chapter Eighty-Four: Civil Strife
As the sky turned gray and white, an army of 1,000 men appeared from the end of the horizon, moving in one direction as if with a purpose, and finally came to the village that had been reduced to ruins, and the air around it was still filled with a faint smell of blood.
The thousand-man army put on a vigilant posture of preparedness for battle, and the commander sent dozens of soldiers into the contraction after confirming that the enemy had most likely left, and within a moment, several soldiers quickly walked out carrying a headless corpse on a simple stretcher.
"My lord, there is not a single living person in the village, all the villagers and soldiers have been killed, and the body of Officer Buster has been found. ”
The commander of this army of 1,000 men was a middle-aged man with a delicate appearance, and this kind of mild facial line can be said to be an extremely rare outlier in the Peloponnese, which is popular for roughness and barbarism.
"Huh, the head was actually torn off alive by brute force?" The delicate commander glanced at the headless corpse, his eyebrows couldn't help but pick up, and then said in a slightly surprised tone: "Buster's strength is about 200 horsepower, and the fighting method is also extremely ruthless, if you want to tear off its head directly, you must need extremely strong strength, even I am afraid it will be difficult to do." ”
Commander Qingxiu raised his head and glanced around the surroundings, frowned and muttered: "There is no trace of the scene being besieged by the army, how did the enemy do it......"
Since the enemy did not leave any clues, Commander Qingxiu could only put it down temporarily after being puzzled, and ordered the soldiers around him: "Let all the soldiers rest on the spot, and when the sun rises in front of our eyes, immediately prepare and set off." ”
The soldier immediately went down to convey the order, and at this time, a man in officer armor beside Commander Qingxiu drove his war horse to his side, looked up at the soldiers around him who immediately began to bury the pot and cook, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Kakus, why do we follow Xu Luo's instructions and let the soldiers leave the battlefield that should belong to them. ”
"Rhodes, do you know why there is a dark night?" said the delicate commander known as Rhodes with deep eyes and a distant tone: "Even if it is light, there is always dusk, and after the afterglow of struggle falls, it will be swallowed up by endless darkness. ”
The officer named Rhodes had an expression on his face that he didn't understand, and after hesitating for a moment, he couldn't help but say, "My lord, Xu Luo is just relying on the prestige of his father and uncle, and he is not your opponent at all. And with General Markov guarding the royal city, we may not have the possibility of turning the tide of the war!"
"Rhodes, you really don't know anything......" The gentle expression on Ka's face, coupled with his unusually delicate countenance, was quite strange compared to his status as the commander of a thousand armies at this time.
"Although Xu Ross is only a hundred-man enemy now, his strength is extremely fierce, and his blood is at least 2,000 horsepower. Even if I personally commanded a thousand armies, I would not dare to easily become an enemy of him. ”
"But my lord, should we just give up Thebais and watch Iphicles and Hyros take over our royal city!"
The officer named Rhodes immediately had an excited expression, and still tried to persuade his commander to change his mind: "My lord, as long as it is under your leadership, my sword is fearless, and after we have gathered the private soldiers of various nobles, the scale will reach at least 10,000 people, and when the time comes, we will surprise and sneak out from the back, and unite with General Markov, we will definitely be able to defeat the combined forces of the two countries under the royal city!"
A regretful expression suddenly appeared on Ka's face, his hand gently rubbed the handle of the sword, and he sighed and said: "Rhodes, people who don't understand the rules of this world have no ability to survive, even if the sun is always twilight......"
"My ......, my lord"
Rhodes was about to say something more, when a blinding cold light suddenly flashed in front of him, and he couldn't help but close his eyes, and when he opened them again, he found that his surroundings were constantly spinning.
"I'm ......"
Until the eternal darkness consumed Rhodes, he remained unaware of the fact that his head had been cut off by his trusted chief.
When Rhodes' headless corpse fell from his horse, the smooth fracture in his neck gushed out a shocking fountain of blood, forming an eerie contrast with the stiff corpse of Bastet beside him.
Ka Kuos glanced regretfully at the two corpses on the ground, and whispered to himself, "Haven't you seen that the sun of Thebais is already twilight...... Buster is an acquaintance, but it's a pity......"
Rhodes' death did not cause any commotion at all, and the soldiers around him immediately turned their heads in shock with a look on their faces, as if they did not dare to question any of the actions of their delicate commander.
Nor did he pursue the death of Buster and his soldiers, and when the sun was fully rising, he immediately urged his army to regroup and march in the direction of the border between Thebais and Tirins.
Kratos confirms his suspicions when he encounters the scattered army of the second Thebai. The reason why the kingdom of Thebais was so quickly brought to the royal city by the combined forces of the two countries was actually due to internal collapse.
According to the information that a Thebai officer was forced to ask before his death, most of the private soldiers of the entire Thebai Kingdom gave up resistance, except for the army directly under the general Markov.
The nobleman to whom the officer was loyal sent orders to lead his soldiers to the border between Thebais and Tirinth to join the other nobles' private soldiers.
This order is said to have come from a certain prominent figure in the combined forces of the two countries, and according to the officer's knowledge, the purpose of this was to prevent Thebais' surrender from uniting with Mycenae.
In the event of a defeat in the war, the Thebai army could at any time strike back, or directly cross the border and enter the territory of Tirinth.
Tirins was so confident that he thought he could easily conquer a royal city defended by a thousand enemy powerhouses, and in the end he had retained enough combat power to deter these heavily armed noble private soldiers.
Although Tirins's approach can be said to be arrogant to the point of self-confidence, it is not one of the reasons why the Thebais nobles can easily compromise.
Although the Thebais nobles were intimidated by the might of the alliance between the two countries, they undoubtedly had ulterior motives in their hearts, and whenever the war was turbulent, these surrendered armies would act for the greater good of the nobles to whom they were allegiated.
Kratos sneered in his heart after learning about the misfortunes of the Thebai nobles and the alliance between the two countries, but this also created a great opportunity for him.
Kratos immediately turned around and headed in the direction of the borders of Thebais and Tirins, searching for traces of Thebais' army along the way.
Once he finds a target, he will use a sneak attack to destroy it by stealth cannibalization or sneak attack and decapitation, and the head of the officer he leads will become a trophy for him to exchange for military merit.
And when confronted with a large army that cannot be easily taken down, Kratos will give up decisively, easily bypassing the eyes and ears of the opponent and continuing to look for the next target.
Just as Kratos was harvesting the heads of Thebais' high-ranking officers, Mycenae's legions finally entered Thebais, and five days later, they approached unimpeded to a place where the city of Thebais could be seen faintly.
Although it was still half a day's journey, the Mycenaean soldiers could already see that the rolling thick qi and blood rose into the sky like wolf smoke, surrounding the lonely Thebai royal city, like a predatory beast, stretching out its hideous claws towards its prey.
The noble private army of Mycenae immediately stopped its advance and camped on the spot, and hundreds of scouts rushed out of the legion and scattered from all directions to the battlefield in the middle of the confrontation, and it was not long before the latest reports of the war would be fed back to the commander's tent.
Before the aristocratic private army could gain a firm foothold, a surging qi and blood suddenly separated from the wolf-toothed battlefield, moving quickly towards the location of the military camp, and the qi and blood rushing to the sky exuded an arrogant momentum without restraint, and the intention of the comer was self-evident.
These cavalrymen were all dressed in bronze armor, vigorous in blood and blood, and their strength was at least dozens of horsepower, and they were all low-level officers who could lead a squad in the army.
And the officer in the lead was wearing gray metal armor, and his momentum was unrestrained all the way, and his qi and blood were surging out almost endlessly, just one person was equivalent to the might of a thousand soldiers.
The strength of this officer obviously did not reach the level of a thousand enemies, but his qi and blood were so strong that they far exceeded the level of a hundred enemies, and the power that burst out in an instant even exceeded a thousand horsepower, and a single punch could blow up a high-ranking officer like Nitos.
As the commander-in-chief, Alubond was also alarmed by this huge momentum, and he walked out of the military tent surrounded by his attendants, wearing armor, and looked at the pair of cavalrymen who had already appeared in sight with a serious expression.
At this time, it can be clearly seen that the armor on the person who came is depicted with a bull pattern with three eyes and two horns, which is the symbol of the kingdom of Tirinth.
"Hear my prayers, Great Father, and your mighty divine power will lead me to break down all barriers that lie ahead...... Powerful, huge, invincible power, Hercules Fist!"
The leading officer of Tirinth suddenly leaped from his horse, and the mighty blood formed a huge fist, and attacked the Mycenaean army with the power of crushing everything.
The blood qi exuded by this officer was not only majestic, but also completely twisted into one, as if every drop of blood in his body contained absolutely powerful power.
The power of this punch is definitely more than 1,000 horsepower, and the power is twisted into a single force, which can more than double the power, at least to the extent of 2000 horsepower.