Chapter 174: The Funeral of the Ice Lake (Part II)
In the middle of the snow, Constance Dante and all others were hidden in white military uniforms, while the mechs were covered with white canvas, and they were ready for an ambush.
Prostrate in the snow, Constance Dante felt a piercing cold on his skin, even though he had been here for a while, but Constance Dante still couldn't stand the weather here, it was early summer, but it was still like nine midwinters, for Cons Dante, who was already weak, the weather here was really difficult.
"Ahem・・・・・・" Constance Dante, who felt the cold in his body, couldn't help but cough in a low voice.
"Is there nothing wrong with your body?" And Constance Dante was next to General Vasily, he looked at Constance Dante and couldn't help but worry, even if he knew that Constance Dante had the power to drive a high-level mecha, but he still couldn't be completely at ease, especially seeing that Constance Dante needed to act on crutches, and he seemed to have one eye that couldn't see clearly. How could such a young man with a deep disability be the opponent of the Teutonic Knights, who had been trained for many years, not to mention that Constance Dante wanted to kill Kniprode, who seemed to have been famous for a long time. When the Rus' attacked Warsaw, they did not suffer less. Kniprod still leaves a deep shadow on the Rus' to this day.
"No problem, don't worry." Constance Dante tried to adjust his breath and replied.
But Vasily sneered slightly, "You think I can rest assured because of your words to Grand Duke Alexander, then the people who are going to die down are my subordinates, if something goes wrong with you, it means that their lives will be cut off in vain, they are not Novgorod people, of course you don't care about their lives or deaths, but they all came here with me, and I am naturally responsible for their lives." "There is a small hillside on the shores of Lake Chud, and at this time the mechs and mountain artillery units are deployed on it, while the new army and Vasily's infantry are concentrated below, waiting for the Teutonic Knights. According to Alexander's plan, these infantry were used as bait to lure the Teutonic Knights to the bait, but the bait was often called cannon fodder, and even if they could catch a big fish, the bait would probably be pushed into the stomach for most of it. But Vasily would not use his men as cannon fodder as bait.
"This is war, General Vasily. These sacrifices are inevitable, and my carefully cultivated new army is underneath. Don't think that I will willingly let those subordinates who trust me be cannon fodder and bait, I naturally want to let those nobles in Novgorod come and use it as bait, but unfortunately they don't even have the qualifications to do so. Naturally, Dante will not have reservations, this is already the smallest plan. You can only ask God now to give us the best. Grand Duke Alexander said coldly.
And at this moment, a conspicuous black in the distance was the first to enter people's eyes, it was the Teutonic Knights, without camouflage as a cover, this army did not know what the danger was for the past ten years, so that they did not realize that the prey they were going to hunt not far away had already played opposite them at this time.
"Everyone's silent! Get ready for battle! Alexander gave the order.
The infantry in ambush on the plains were crawling in the snow without any danger of being discovered, and all they needed now was to wait for the Teutonic Knights to enter their ambush circle. Vincent told Alexander all the secrets of the Teutonic Knights, so that he had no secrets at all, the battle plan, the strategy of action, and the arrangement of the rear were known to Alexander a long time ago, but he had been holding back, even if the Teutonic Knights launched a surprise attack, he did not warn the nobles of Novgorod, let alone the principalities of Northwest Rus. And all of this is for this day, and this sharp blade can only live up to the price it originally paid by piercing the other party's heart.
All were waiting, waiting for the Teutonic Knights to enter the ambush circle.
The Teutonic mechs were slowing down at this point, as they seemed to sense that something was wrong.
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"Grand Master, is it a little unsafe for Knight Lukas to be there on the other side of the Neva. After all, there are too few mech knights there. The knight in charge of leading the way said to Kniprod. It seems that there is some concern about the front line, after all, there are two fronts, and the Teutonic Knights have taken all the mecha forces with them.
"It's not about that now, isn't there Wiggins, Maximilian and that Vincent he pulled? With the four of them, the main battle knights were enough to suppress the rabble. This era has long been the age of knights, and those anachronistic armies have long been useless. The Rus' people can't afford to turn up the storm. "Kniprod has always been a staunch supporter of mecha tactics, and in his eyes the traditional combat forces and tactics should have ended a long time ago, of course, even so, the Teutonic Knights still have a large number of troops in service, although they are called auxiliary infantry, but most of them are mercenaries rather than Teutons, so Kniprod naturally does not worry about casualties on the front line. Now all he was thinking about was Alexander's whereabouts.
"Although there are two district captains, and the god Vincent who is said to be amazing, but ・・・・・・" The knight still felt unsafe and still wanted to say something, but was directly interrupted by Kniprode.
"Enough, it's not something to care about. Let's see if this is where we were supposed to be. "There seems to be something wrong with the surroundings, I have been here once before, and Kniprod has a good memory, and he clearly remembers that there should be a forest here even if it is a snowfield, but in front of him is a white expanse.
Something seems wrong!
"This・・・・・・ this, we just follow the road signs!" The knight who went to lead the way didn't quite understand why the Grand Master could ask about this, the road sign had been marked a long time ago, how could it be wrong.
Kniprod, on the other hand, felt faintly uneasy, and his intuition was certainly not credible, but as a general who had fought for many years, sometimes intuition was even a flash of lightning in his mind, which was very important.
"Everybody stop moving!" Kniprod decided to give the order for the army to stop marching. However, it was too late to give this order by this time.
"What's the matter・・・・・・ what's wrong, Commander?" The knight in charge of guiding the way still didn't know what to do.
But at this time, there was a sound of the sky falling apart!
It's shelling!
A thought crossed Kniprod's mind sitting in the mech, and he roared over the walkie-talkie to warn everyone. And the next moment, the fierce artillery fire instantly drowned the black iron stream!
And Alexander looked at everything below, and the artillery behind him shelled fiercely, sneering slightly.
"Kniprode-kun, this is the cemetery I have chosen for you. Enjoy, this is where the funeral of you and your most cherished Knights will be held. From this day onwards, the glory of the Teutonic Knights will be a thing of the past. (To be continued.) )