Chapter 9 (Battle of Runes) The strong have appeared
"Udir, where are we now?? Why do I feel the temperature in the air getting warmer? A blind man dressed as a monk asked his companion next to him. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
The messy-haired man dressed in animal skin, known as Udil, scratched his hair depressedly, took the map in his hand, and looked at the location of Presti, the capital of Ionia, circled in the middle of the map, and looked depressed. The pain of being illiterate, Udil felt now, when he compared the map, chose a path that he felt was the closest to him, and took his master Li Qing to rush to Presti in the shortest possible time, but he came to this large volcanic area.
"Lord Sabo, Brother Chen Yin. Our brother who went to the mountains to explore the road came back to report on the situation......"
A burly bear-man warrior came up to Sabo and Chen Yin and whispered.
"Huh?? A blind monk, and a man who looks like a savage in animal skins? Two people are going to cross the volcanic mountains?? Blind, barbarian? Over the volcano? Isn't it crazy? After listening to the report, Sabo exclaimed incredulously.
When he heard the monk, blind, these key words, a vague figure appeared in Chen Yin's mind, it couldn't be him, right? ? What is he doing here? Could it be that it was also because of the telepathy of Soraka's predecessors the night before yesterday? He's going to go to Presti, too. After quickly sorting out his thoughts, Chen Yin said to Sabo on the side, "I'll go meet those two strange people first, you follow the plan I started, don't alarm them, don't venture to contact them, lest they have a misunderstanding." β
"Oh, oh, okay." Sabo's thick paws scratched his chin and replied, wondering why he couldn't make contact with them. We are also here to save people and help them fight, what misunderstanding will there be?? I can't figure it out, or I'll go and arrest someone to ask after Brother Chen Yin leaves for a while, and see what's going on.
Chen Yin definitely didn't expect that after only a short time of leaving, Sabo would go into trouble.
On the other hand, the battle for the port of Quds was nearing its end.
When all the reinforcements from the sea had landed on the coast, the Noxian forces began to retreat to the inner harbor, and since the beginning of the fighting, the entire harbor and several towns along the route have been converted into defensive camps, with three garrisons of about 5,000 men each. Kalmar's vanguard force was only more than 10,000 people, so it began to be suppressed, and when the follow-up support of the sea troops was reinforced by 20,000 people, it had an absolute advantage in military strength, and the withdrawal of the Noxian army was also reasonable.
The retreat of the invaders raised the morale of the rebels, and the various detachments pursued the defeated Noxian army, and in ten minutes, this chase had been chased from the coastline to the port, and from the port to the inner harbor.
On a high lookout platform in the inner harbor, a person shrouded in a black robe was coldly staring at the inner harbor with a murderous sound several miles away, at this time, there was a short sound of horses' hooves under the observatory, accompanied by a "call ~" horse control sound, a figure "swished" jumped onto the high platform.
When the black-robed man on the lookout saw the visitor, he slowly bowed his head to show respect.
"Sect Master, are you back?"
"Well, the head of the corpse keeper, you don't have to be polite, this time you have worked hard again, and you have planned such an earth-shattering plan!"
"Where, where you have a reputation, I will do my best to share the interests. It is necessary to congratulate the Sect Master in advance, and after today's victory, the prestige of the Sect Master will definitely resound throughout Valoran. β
"Hahaha, there is no point in false name, as long as the value is reasonable, we will serve the big money lord well, this time Noxus is very generous, they have promised to occupy the entire territory of Ionia, and then set aside two more provinces for us as a base place. Our Shadow Stream Sect doesn't need that much space, one province is enough, as for the other one, I'll give it to you as the headquarters of the joint mercenary group, and in the future, the "Corpse Keeper" mercenary group will be the master of that province. β
"In this way, I am really grateful, on behalf of the other leaders, I thank the Sect Master for his kindness!!"
It turned out that this black-robed man was the number one "corpse keeper" leader in the mercenary organization of the Valoran Continent, and he once participated in the civil war of the Equilibrium Sect with the robbery, helped destroy the entire Equilibrium Sect, and killed the master of the Equilibrium Sect. After that war, the mercenary groups, led by the "Corpse Keepers", received a larger deal of business, which was to participate in the Ionian War. However, mercenary regiments are all brutal people organized by hundreds of people or at most thousands, and each member can fight alone with one enemy and three enemies, but it is not their forte to go to the battlefield to charge, fight, and attack. Therefore, as the leader of the Combined Mercenary Group and resourceful power, the "Corpse Keeper" once again found the leader of the Shadow Stream Sect "Zao". The two sides are in cahoots, stirring up chickens and dogs in the Ionian Federation. In the middle of the war, "Zai" received a secret order from Svein, demanding that he completely eradicate the resistance, and promised him a high reward. Therefore, the robbers and the corpse guards held secret discussions, and the two sides kept their respective forces hidden, sending elites to infiltrate the major cities and villages of Ionia, and many of them successfully broke into the resistance groups throughout Ionia.
"Look at this group of ignorant peasants, how can the iron-blooded army of Noxus be defeated so easily, even if it is the 8,000 elite soldiers of my sect, I dare not guarantee to defeat the 10,000-strong Noxian regular army, the naΓ―ve peasant army!"
"Hehe, Sect Master, the leader of the peasant army is still very capable, but with the help of our excellent traitors, she can't do it even if she wants to control the situation now, just wait for her and those remnants of the Balanced Sect to enter the encirclement, let's give them another fatal blow! It is estimated that several leaders of our mercenary alliance and the Pirate King, who has been waiting for our news, can't wait?? β
When "Robbery" listened to the "Corpse Keeper" talk about the remnants of the Equilibrium Sect, the face under the black mask instantly became very hideous, come on, come on, junior brothers and sisters, the old guy is dead, and I have to send you on the road with him quickly.
On the outer edge of the Inner Harbour area, Kalmar has already met with several commanders of the Maritime Reinforcements, as well as two heroes of the Balance Sect, "Twilight Eyes" Shen and "Berserk Heart" Kenan. When Karma saw that the pursuit line of the resistance was getting farther and farther away, and became a little disjointed, she realized that this would be dangerous, so she hurriedly ordered the commanders of each detachment to restrain their fighters as soon as possible, occupy the inner harbor first, attack steadily, and stop pursuing again.
Although one order after another had reached all parts of the Resistance, the traitors who had been lurking in the Resistance had jumped out one after another.
"Brothers!! Keep rushing!! Let these Noxian dogs die on this land! β
"Follow me, brothers, to avenge our fathers and fellow villagers!! hack them to death!! β
"They were defeated, killed, rushed up and killed them all......"
If it was just one or two ordinary soldiers, this seemingly "blood-surging cry" might be suppressed and restrained by the higher-level generals of the Resistance Army, but when a few middle and high-ranking generals also shouted slogans with their heads and continued to rush and kill, the situation on the battlefield had become irreversible. Of the tens of thousands of Resistance fighters, the vast majority continued to pursue the Noxus rout with the large army, and only a small number of them hesitantly stayed where they were, not knowing whether to carry out the garrison and occupy it, or follow the brothers to continue the pursuit.
Karma also became a little dazed when he saw that the troops did not completely carry out their orders and continued to pursue the Noxus rout.
This is, what's going on?? How did the army of Noxus have been so completely defeated? Always feeling a little uneasy? After all, Karma mainly cultivates spiritual power, and he was confused for a moment and then thought quickly.
"Master Kalmar, let's hurry up and catch up with the big army, it is estimated that this time the battle will be successful."
"Yes, it's a rare opportunity, Kalmar-sama, let's kill Presti in one go!"
Several generals beside him made suggestions.
"Wait a minute, I want to do a mental deduction first, I always feel a little uneasy, I'm afraid that there will be an enemy ambush ahead." Kalmar waved his hand, rejecting the advice of his subordinates, and wanted to make a deduction for the sake of safety.
"Karma, there's no need to do deductions, I'll see if there's an ambush around, right?"
At this time, the "Twilight Eye" on the side put his hands together and slowly floated into the air, and after a while, Shen fell to the ground. With a relaxed expression, he said, "I have reconnoitred everything within a radius of 50 miles, there are no ambushes, the Noxus side has suffered heavy casualties, and their large army is fleeing in the direction of Presti. β
"Well, well, let's follow!" Seeing Shen's affirmative answer, Kalmar finally decided to continue the pursuit, except for the gunboats and transports that remained on the coastline, all the landing Resistance troops slaughtered inland. From the sky above, it looks like a swarm of black ants scattered over a large area, chasing another colony of ants, although this group of pursued ants is fleeing, but the formation has always maintained a semicircle.
At 1:20 p.m., there was an hour and 40 minutes left before Presti's surrender ceremony.
Standing on a mountain peak in black armor, he was looking into the distance, in front of him, there was an open plain, at the foot of the mountain, there was a large birch forest with a range of about five kilometers, and if you looked carefully, you would find that this forest was very incongruous, because no birch forest could grow so many and so dense bushes that were more than one person high, and, in the absence of wind, many bushes were shaking gently.
"Left Protector, how long will it take for them to get here?"
"Tell the Sect Master, in 10 minutes at most, the Resistance will arrive at the ambush circle."
"Okay, immediately go and send a signal to inform our pirate Mr. Wang, as well as the Noxian soldiers we are cooperating with the acting, I believe they have already held back their anger and are ready to vent, right?? We're going to have a killing feast soon! Hahahaha! β
After several cannon shots in a row, a puff of red smoke bombs rushed into the sky alternately, and on the lighthouse of the Holy City Harbor, the ninjas of the Shadow Sect who had been lurking for a long time sent out another red signal flare above the lighthouse as soon as they saw the signal.
On a small island more than ten nautical miles away from the harbor of the Holy City, hundreds of pirate ships flying various skull flags were already ready to go, and at the moment of seeing the red signal flare, the leading one was a huge pirate ship with a dark body and rushed out one by one, sailing in the direction of the port of the Holy City.
The back route on which the Ionian Resistance Army depends, the access to the sea, even if it is cut off. (To be continued.) )