Chapter Zero: A Fragment of No Known
It's over, it's all over.
The shields and blades forged by the oxygen-blowing process were torn to shreds by the vicious foes along with the warriors who wielded them. They did not give up resistance until the last moment, chanting all kinds of slogans, and with tenacity they met the encirclement of the enemy's tidal army, and fought until they died.
"For the sake of the people, for the sake of the motherland, we have nowhere to run!" A heavily armored two-handed swordsman who was originally responsible for covering the troops behind him was holding a sword in his hand to support his body that was too serious to stand up straight due to his injuries, and looked at the battlefield position behind him that was empty except for his own subordinates, and still resolutely gave the order. "Form a shield formation, sing a military song, and we can't lower our noble heads!"
"My subjects......" Above the fortress pass on the top of the mountain, the middle-aged man next to Novgorod watched all this in despair. This is the last point of the Red Dragon Country, the capital and other places have long fallen to the hands of the Double Moon Church, and if it is defeated again today, the Red Dragon Country will be declared extinct.
"Grand Duke," the generals on the city walls watched the battle as nervously, but the situation was already clear. "Please leave as soon as possible. You'll have a chance to escape before the enemy crushes our comrades and climbs the walls of the fortress. The people of the Red Dragon will not forget you, and we will create more miracles around you, even in the depths of Hell! ”
"No, I can't ......" The Grand Duke of the Red Dragon Kingdom, the head of the three pillars of the Red Dragon Regiment, naturally knows best who those soldiers are at this time. I can't go! My people have paid for me and I can't let them shed their blood anymore! ”
The regular new army had long been destroyed by the church army led by the gods of the world in the previous war, and the "soldiers" under the city seemed to be still majestic and high-spirited, but they had already retired and laid down their swords a few years ago.
They could be yeoman farmers, industrial workers, or maybe they were once civil servants in towns and cities—like the heavily armored swordsmen who led a team. Their sons may have died for their country in this defeated war, and they did not resent the country or put the blame on the Grand Duke who stood at the top of the walkway of the city wall.
"So, you're still not willing to surrender?" The god of the world, who had slaughtered an entire group of lightly armed soldiers, waved the long knife in his hand, and slammed the blood and flesh on the blade into the mud in front of him, "There must be a limit to the hardness of the head, right?" Do you think that if you are so stubborn, we will spare the traitors and your poor country? ”
"Hehe-hey-hahaha
On the opposite side of this "divine servant", the heavy armored swordsman and his subordinates who led the team first laughed at the enemy in front of them in a low voice, and then the laughter became louder and louder, so big that it resounded throughout the battlefield, so big that the gods of the world actually had a little inexplicable weakness.
"We don't need your forgiveness at all." After the laughter, the leader's expression made the gods shudder even more. "We use our own hands to obtain our own happiness, and use our own labor to win our own tomorrow, why should you forgive and let us go?"
"You're going to hell......"
"Hell?" The leader and swordsman laughed even more dryly. "In hell there are our families, our teachers, and all those whom you hate and fear. There's no pain there. Even if the devil rules there, we will take the devil by the throat and build it into our paradise! ”
"Crazy......" Many devout believers in the church army couldn't help but make some pious gestures at the moment, trying their best to remove the influence of this sentence from their minds. God, they have gone mad, please give them the final deliverance! Relief, relief! ”
The wails used to overcome fear gradually bypassed the fear, overridden the fear, and turned into a frenzied cry. The entire Great Formation of the Twin Moon Church Army repeated this cry, but their opponents were clearly more determined and brave than they were.
"Don't grind, like a." The swordsman raised the long sword that had originally supported the center of gravity of his body, and raised the steel sharp weapon towards the opponent's military formation, "Come on, muddy bastards, is it a difficult thing to send us to hell?" ”
"Come on, brothers, fight to the last moment for the people, for the country, and for the Grand Duke!"
After that, the living gods quickly recovered from their hesitation and vacillation, and changed hands with the long knife in their hands. For the eternal, who do not have to fear death, no matter how hard the shield is, no matter how sharp the blade is, there is no need to worry.
"Destroy it."
Flesh flies in the wielding of swords—the Red Dragons are unilaterally defeated. Even the three major armies of the Red Dragon, which are fully equipped and have both offensive and defensive means from near and far, cannot completely control the present gods, and this pure close-range combat force composed of militia and veterans is certainly not able to do so.
These powerful mine workers, the first teachers who received a cultural education and have now lost their students, the workers who have no factories to work in anymore, may have many stories to tell, but there is no way to talk about them.
Because they are dead. After only a few minutes, the soldiers under the city could no longer support their shields and raise their swords, but lay on the ground covered with wounds and even broken limbs.
"No......" the Grand Duke knelt on the ground twisted. He has seen too much of this scene since the defeat of the Red Dragon Kingdom, and too many Red Dragon people have passed away in front of him, "No, stop it......"
"It's useless." The troubadour shook his head, and then called two members of the Red Dragon Order to take the Grand Duke away. "I should have known that the tide was over. Let's go, let's go, our comrades. We'll be back. ”
After saying that, he turned to the general of the fortress on the city wall and ordered: "We are about to flee, abandoning this country for the faint hope. I ask you to at least cover our escape from the secret passage, and then surrender to save your life, or reveal the location of the secret passage, all according to your own wishes. ”
"I will do my duty for the survival of the country, be loyal, and even give my own life!" The generals who can guard here are naturally the "old revolutionaries" of the Red Dragon Kingdom. The Red Dragon Kingdom was able to quickly unify the continent and become rich, and why it could become rich, the people represented by these generals were naturally the most aware of it. "As long as our children and grandchildren have access to the grace of the wisdom of the Red Dragons,
"Don't talk too much." The black-robed mage drew a vague trajectory in the corner of his eyes, and the double moon with red cross pattern on the cloak was very dazzling, "What kind of interrogation methods and torture are on the church's side, I definitely know a hundred thousand times better than you." At that point, it's time to make the right choice for you. ”
Apostate mage...... The general turned his head to confirm the member of the Red Dragon Regiment who only existed in the legend, only to find that his figure had disappeared from the city, without a trace.
"If only we could have researched that new weapon sooner." Beside the fainted Grand Duke, Novgorod's trembling and self-reproachful voice filled the entrance to the entire secret passage, "It can replace swords and arrows, it can change the shape of war, but why does it take so many processes to meet us?" Why is it the only kid who came late? ”
Before the Church of the Two Moons launched a full-scale invasion of the Red Dragon Kingdom, the easy-to-craft Demon Burst Rocket and Demon Burst Spear were actually in the physical testing and prototype manufacturing stages, respectively. Once formed, Novgorod will inevitably remember from the roar the knowledge of nitrate, sulfur, charcoal, and even more weapons of war - this is the analysis of the "elves", the artificial intelligence Elizabeth.
But their manufacture requires huge resources and huge investment, and not only that, but it also occupies the production line of the Red Dragon State Military Factory. Although the Red Dragon Kingdom has greatly increased its domestic production capacity, just to re-arm the "sword forged into a plow" is already the life of a military factory, and these production plans can only be stopped.
And after the initial defeat, the military factories and the industrial and mining sectors have been moving forward on the endless cycle of increasing production-replenishing losses-increasing production-replenishing losses, until today. This is one of the few moments when Elizabeth's analysis gets wrong.
"Don't say it, if you escape from the sea, then there is hope, stop complaining, my friend." The Grand Duke who woke up suddenly calmed down a lot, and no longer stubbornly asked to stop here. "We failed, the Red Dragon failed. But we have lost to the unreasonable servants of God, and we have not done our people any favor by using them as our pawns......"
"We are sorry to lose, but we are not ashamed." The troubadour nodded, "They win by the unreasonable servants of God, and we rely on our people." As long as there are people in this world who are suffering and calamity, we will be able to win again. ”
"It's just...... I...... Unwilling. Novgorod shook his head. I should have been able to remember better solutions, I should have remembered stronger processes, and if I had remembered those earlier, it wouldn't have ended up like this, right? No, I can't take ......"
Beyond the dark passages, the wagons in the dense forest hurried, and soon left the fortress and the mountains behind.
In the desert beyond the thousands of miles of dense forest, in the harbor beyond the desert, the Red Dragon Regiment mysteriously disappeared. The Church of the Two Moons neither pursued nor besieged the fortress, for a very simple reason -
On that day, the officers and soldiers who had not entered the secret passage witnessed such a scene with their own eyes.
The moon, which was supposed to appear at night, early morning and late afternoon, emitted an ominous red glow. In just a few seconds, the light shone beneath the fortress that was about to fall.
It was the light that distorted the air, distorted the vision. All consciousness was left at this moment, and then the scorching heat covered the entire battlefield, and both people and "divine servants" were burned in that light...... Although the latter may still have the opportunity to be refactored.
"Hey, I realized I made a big mistake when I did it." Elizabeth, who had witnessed all this in Genting, shook her head, and with a flick of her sleeve erased all records of the use of weapons, "I really don't want to be so busy...... When will someone carry this weight for me? ”