Legend has it that Salvatore was a very strategic and courageous military commander, bold in the use of troops, often unexpected, daring to launch surprise attacks, many times in outnumbered battles to achieve victory, after the formation of the Western European Union, he strongly instigated the other six major alliances to launch an offensive against the Chinese Federation, and finally was opposed by the four, so the plan was put on hold.

Later, he managed to unify the thoughts of the generals under his command, and led the Lionheart Legion on a cross-border expedition alone, wanting to defeat Yao Komatsu of the Ten, so as to gain the approval of the remaining six members of the Senate and personally kick off the conquest of the Chinese Federation.

At the beginning of the war, he was indeed victorious, methodically approaching Yao Xiaosong's base camp "Hulu City", until Yao Xiaosong invited the neighboring city lord Fan Yuan to come to help in the battle, the situation gradually stabilized, and the war came to a stalemate.

Fan Yuan's own ability is not extremely outstanding, at least compared to Zheng Zhongli, but there is a person named Ding Zu under his account, known as "Yin Master".

Ding Zu offered a plan, called catching turtles in the urn, the whole layout is interlocking, there is no trace of loopholes, at least in Salvatore's opinion, so he naturally fell into the plan, through more than ten hard battles, Salvatore led the Lionheart Legion to capture the gourd city, Yao Xiaosong was defeated, led the crowd away, Salvatore sent people to take over the defense facilities in the city, and then personally led the army into the city.

However, before Salvatore had time to celebrate, he found that the hundreds of thousands of people who had been there when he entered the city had all disappeared without warning, and only after sending someone to check did he know that they had already dug out countless secret passages out of the city, and had already withdrawn from the secret passages the moment he personally led his army into the city.

Salvatore was so angry that he ordered people to pursue along the secret passage, but there were thousands of secret passages, and the Lionheart Legion under his command was only more than 200,000.

Later, he found that Hulu City was besieged, and the siege was more than 600,000 troops gathered by the Eight Great Chinese Army, and they directly did something that made Salvatore angry and desperate, throwing haystacks, boiling oil and other flammable substances into the city - burning the city.

The fire burned for six days and six nights, Salvatore led his men to launch dozens of breakthroughs, each time they encountered strong resistance, each time they were beaten back to the city, he finally understood that the tide was over, he committed suicide, a small part of his soldiers went with him, and the rest surrendered.

The once famous Lionheart Legion perished along with Gourd City in this battle.

It is precisely because of this battle that Ding Zu has secured the title of the top mastermind of the Huaxia Federation, such a huge secret passage project, involving a wide siege of the city in all directions, has not been detected by the intelligence organization under Salvatore, and more importantly, he also persuaded Yao Xiaosong to give up Hulu City and exchange the city for the enemy's death. It avoided the situation in which El Salvatore defended the city to the death and the Western European Union launched a rescue.

Liu Zhi recognized Salvatore's ability, but he felt that this guy was a little overconfident, although the number of the Huaxia Federation was far less than that of the Western European Union, it has always been known as the land of a hundred battles, since the second year of crossing, this land, large and small wars have never stopped, ten, are all trained from blood and fire, and when facing foreign enemies, they also show quite unity, and there are countless ministers and generals under his command, not to mention the Duke of Lionheart, even if it is a Lionheart Emperor, in the case of such a lonely expedition, he will definitely end up with no bones.

This is also what Liu Zhi is worried about, Salvatore has a stubborn personality, rarely listens to the opinions of others, in case he is not afraid of the threat, and directly kills the five members of the negotiation team, it is impossible for him to form a military alliance with them again, there are only two ways in front of him, one is to forcibly capture the fortress and organize people to fight against the half-werewolves, and the other is to solve the half-werewolves first, and then turn the spearhead after the end and find Salvatore to settle the general account.

In Liu Zhi's view, although it is not difficult to capture the fortress, it is not beneficial to the overall situation, Salvatore killed his people, it must be a capital crime, after the fortress army loses its commander, the combat power will definitely be greatly reduced, and it is quite troublesome to manage, and it will not be of much help to the expeditionary force on the frontal battlefield, and it is necessary to always guard against them stabbing in the back, it is better to throw them directly in the fortress and not allow them to come out, but if you do this, it is equivalent to losing an important help.

As for the half-werewolves, Liu Zhipin is not afraid of them, although they have gathered more than 3,000 people, and it is unknown whether there are reinforcements, but with the current equipment and combat power of the expeditionary force, it still occupies a great advantage, which is mainly due to the emergence of the six-sided crossbow and the equipment of the whole army, so that the expeditionary force has a strong long-range strike capability.

Of course, if the strength of the half-werewolves exceeded 5,000, Liu Zhi would not go head-to-head with them, because even if he could win, it would bring huge losses to the expeditionary force and greatly disadvantage the subsequent development of the tribe.

So he wanted to lure the half-werewolves out first, destroy their main forces in the wild, and then break them one by one, and before that, he would try his best to enlist military assistance from the fortress.

After all, the main purpose of this expedition is to increase the combat experience of the expeditionary force, and if it goes well, it only needs a little mobilization to build the skeleton of each battalion, and those slightly dangerous situations should be avoided as much as possible.

Liu Zhi thought about these in his mind, and seven or eight minutes passed quickly, and the gate of the fortress suddenly opened a gap, and five figures walked out in turn, which was the negotiation team sent out by Liu Zhi.

Jumping off Beamon, Liu Zhi greeted him, and the five of them quickly ran to the front, all of them shouted "Chief" with some excitement, and then began to cry word by word.

"Chief, I knew you wouldn't abandon us, but luckily we all held on."

"We all thought we'd never see you again, Chief......"

"The consul of that dog day, there is no morality at all, he arrested us after asking us about the situation, and also searched all the equipment on us, if it weren't for the leader of you, they would definitely not return the equipment even if they were willing to let us go."

Liu Zhi listened to them patiently for a while, and looked at them a few times by the way, the five people were all equipped with equipment, and there were no obvious external injuries on their bodies, but their faces were slightly pale, and their expressions were quite haggard, obviously they had been tortured a lot, and they frowned slightly and asked, "Did they use torture?" ”

"Hmm!" One person nodded and said in a low voice: "With waterboarding, we used our vitality to prolong the breath-holding time to prevent water from being poured into the stomach, lungs and trachea, and deliberately pretended to be very uncomfortable, so they held on for more than an hour, they gave up directly, put all of us in the water prison, and said that if we don't say anything today, they will tie us up and throw us into the Crazy Fish River one by one, until someone speaks." ”

Liu Zhi's face was cold, and he asked half-loudly, "What did they ask?" ”

"First they asked us where we came from, how many people there were in the tribe, how many troops there were, etc., because it was not a secret, so we told the truth, and then they asked about the source of the hexagonal wood, the processing method, and also knocked on the side of some awakening-related things, we knew that we couldn't disclose it, and we didn't dare to say a word."

"Well done." Liu Zhi bowed his head with satisfaction, and said with a straight face: "Now go back to the team first, and when you get rid of the half-werewolves, I will help you get back all the hardships you suffered today." ”

In fact, Liu Zhi doesn't feel that these can't be revealed, secrets such as hexagonal wood, special awakened, and vitality control, even if others know, without the most core qi conduction technique, it is impossible to copy the development model of the tribe, not to mention that the tribe is now on the right track, and as time goes by, the speed of development will only get faster and faster, and all successors are destined to be left far behind.

Jumping on the shoulder, Liu glanced directly at the top of the city wall, many people were taken by his gaze, subconsciously turned their heads, he sneered in his heart, and quickly walked away with more than seven hundred soldiers, and disappeared at the end of the plain after a while.

PS: Today's first chapter. 8)