"Hahaha!" Thomas laughed and said, "General Marisa, you are still powerful, General Corincha and I killed people with weapons, but you took the head of the general with one mouth and captured the whole army, hahaha!" ”

"Even I couldn't have imagined that this could really be the case!" Marissa smiled, "It's still a good lady, and I've already seen the fame in it!" ”

"Those who are good at fighting, attack the heart first, attack the army in the middle, and attack the city below!" Lan Xian'er said, "And this is not the highest level of using soldiers, the highest level is to make your opponent surrender without going to war!" ”

Corincha sighed: "What I have encountered in my life, I have experienced four geniuses in the use of soldiers, Princess Jenny uses soldiers as skill, Marshal Michael uses soldiers as bravery, and Marshal Higg uses soldiers as strange, and the young lady's use of soldiers can be called a trick, my life is worth it!" ”

"Madam, then, those armies besieging the city can also use this method to make them turn against them?" Marissa asked suddenly.

"How can it be that easy? Attacking the heart, the first thing you need is your own strength, your strength is not as good as the other party, why let people defect? Lan Xian'er said, "This army is only 10,000 people, how long did it take us and how much effort did it take?" The enemy is hopeless in asking for help, and facing punishment on time, coupled with the tyranny of the druids, and the combination of multiple conditions, we are still frightened, and attack the 70,000 army, how dare you think? ”

"What's there, how do you know if you don't try? Besides, I still have a few unpublished speeches! Marissa stuck out her tongue and smiled with a sigh, "Madam, what are we going to do next?" ”

"Hehe, of course it's a tooth for a tooth!" Corincha laughed, "The druids have besieged us for so long, it's time for us to trap them!" If they honestly withdraw their troops, that's fine, and if the siege continues, I'm sure they'll all starve under the city!" ”

"Can't be careless!" Lan Xian'er said, "If the enemy is hopeless in attacking the city, he will take the initiative to give up the siege and use all his forces to besiege our two armies outside the city, so I have to be careful!" ”

"Yes, the young marshal reminded me correctly!" Corincha immediately said, "During this time, let's be honest first, and it is the last word to reorganize these seven thousand captives first and strengthen their own strength!" ”

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The 4,000 troops led by Higg have gone through turnover in the Druid's territory, fought with the Druids several times, won more and lost less, and finally persevered, but after more than a month's journey, they also advanced more than 600 kilometers, because it was a detour, and now there are still about six or seven hundred kilometers away from Horqin City, and this is the closest marching route if nothing else!

Although Higg and Smecta emphasized that they would no longer recruit soldiers, the number of their own army gradually increased, and the reputation of his own demon extermination advance detachment was outside, and many small groups of rebels who could not survive took refuge one after another, making this team even more mixed, good and bad. Higg had to keep adapting and rectifying to maintain the sharpest mental outlook.

For an army of more than 7,000 people, there are more problems to consider, first of all, supply has become a big problem, and the average village and township, even if the floor of the druid's house is scavenged, it is not enough to maintain the material supply of the army, but it is necessary to rely on this complex army to attack the city with city defense, even if it is a small city, it cannot afford to lose itself. At the beginning, the 4,000 pioneers of Corincha dared to attack the city of Korqin, that was because their expeditionary force was all elite divisions, and they were unprepared to attack the enemy.

Higg and his army have never escaped the enemy's encirclement and interception, after all, the target of more than 7,000 people is too big, and they have been marching and fighting for more than a month, and then marching and fighting, and everyone is almost unbearable, and they urgently need to find a place to rest and recuperate.

But Higg couldn't do that, because if he stopped for a moment, he would be overtaken by the enemy, and only through the Holly Canyon ahead could he be considered to have jumped out of the enemy's circle.

Holly Canyon is located in the middle of the Dorris Mountains, there is a fortress in the eastern section of the canyon called Holly Fortress, there is no regular garrison in peacetime, but now due to the smoke in the Druid territory, the Dorris Mountains have become a natural barrier to divide the rebel armies, and Holly Fortress has become the throat of this barrier. What Higg didn't expect was that the Holey Fortress, which usually had no garrison, had already stationed nearly 2,000 people, which was not many but enough to resist the advance of Higg's army.

The north-south Doris Mountains, covered with snow all year round, are the east-west watershed of the Druids' domains, with the eastern side of the mountain range flowing east or southeast into the sea, and the western side of the mountain range flowing south through the forest country into the sea, or southwest into the great river of Ahasia. This mountain range and this fortress are impassable, and they have become a natural barrier for the Druids to encircle and suppress the rebels.

It is almost impossible for the army to climb the Dorys Mountains, it is summer, the snow on the top of the mountain is melting, and the actions of the army are likely to cause a loose avalanche, even if it does not cause an avalanche disaster, the road caused by the process of melting snow is slippery and muddy, very dangerous, and it is impossible to climb at all.

The 50,000 druid army behind pursued Higg closely, and the vanguard arrived at Holly Fortress, only less than two days' journey, if it could not be cleared quickly, Higg's 7,000 army would soon be buried here, and the druids used this method to wipe out two rebel armies of thousands of people, so they have been intentionally or unintentionally letting Higg drill into this pocket array.

Thirty kilometers to the south of the fortress is the city of Amiens, and three kilometers to the north is the city of Uratu, the scale is not very large, but there are four or five thousand garrisons, and the two cities and the fortress of Holly are horns of each other, supporting each other!

Higg found soldiers from the local neighborhood as guides from the army, and after learning the whole situation, he decided to surround the fortress of Holey! In the jungle in front of the entire fortress, the banners were dense, and the commander who guarded the fortress was surprised, thinking that the rebels attacking the fortress had at least tens of thousands of people, and hurriedly lit a beacon fire and urgently asked for help from the cities of Amiens and Urathu.

The defensive posture of the fortress of Holly, the city of Amiens and the city of Uratu is destined to be in trouble on one side and support on both sides, which has been tried and tested repeatedly when the other rebels were exterminated before, so the help of the fortress is responsive.

Amiens City urgently sent 2,000 soldiers to reinforce the Horley Fortress, but unexpectedly the banner in front of the fortress was actually a suspicious soldier under Higbu, and his main force had already set up an ambush on the way to the reinforcements of Amiens, and the 2,000 reinforcements of Amiens City were defeated by Higg's main force and fled in the direction of Amiens City.

The loss of Amiens City made the reinforcements of Uratu City immediately return to defend their city, and they did not dare to come out again.

Higg immediately ordered Smecta, with his guide and a thousand dwarven warriors, to march to the Lantes River, twenty kilometers southeast of the city of Amiens, and to cut down wood and build seven hundred rafts in two days.

After the replenishment of Amiens was completed, Higg led the main force, and two days later joined Smecta on the banks of the Lantes River, drifted southeast along the river for more than 300 kilometers in a day and one night, and then climbed to the jungle on the west bank of the river, and since then completely jumped out of the druid's heavy encirclement, smashing the enemy's encirclement and strangulation of him.

But Higg also paid a great price, with heavy casualties in successive battles, and the rapidity of the upper reaches of the Lantes River, many rafts were too fast to dodge and crash into the reef, which also caused heavy losses to the army, and by the time they reached the riverbank, there were only more than 4,000 people left.

Another cost to Hig was that his march route had been forcibly changed, and he had moved all the way to the west, but now he had moved 300 kilometers to the southeast, and his return to Korqin City became even more distant.

The exhausted army finally got a short rest for two days.

This is gradually far away from the core area of the Druid's rule, less than 300 kilometers to the south, is the military buffer zone between the Druids and the Forest State, the Silent Forest, but it does not refer to Higg's Silent Forest Base Camp, the Silent Forest is about 60 kilometers wide from north to south, and about 900 kilometers long from east to west, and the Silent Forest Base Camp is only at the westernmost point of this military buffer zone.

In order to strengthen the control of the dwarves and elves and prevent them from escaping to the forest country, the druids moved a large number of people to the core area near the southern area of the forest country, so the location where Higg is now is vast and sparsely populated. Further south into the Silent Forest, it's no man's land.

The advantage is that you don't have to worry too much about the heavy encirclement and suppression here, and the disadvantage is that the supply of your own army will be tight.

However, there is no need for Higg to worry too much, although it is only summer, the elves and dwarves who have lived in the jungle for a long time will always have a way to solve their stomach problems.

After landing on the shore, he went all the way to the west for 200 kilometers, and then returned to the Doris Mountains, and walked south along the foot of the mountain for a day, the mountain was already relatively low, and it took Hig to lead the army for two days, and finally climbed over this east-west barrier, and entered the west of the Druid's territory, and there were still more than six or seven hundred kilometers away from the city of Korqin in the northeast. This road is indeed a bit far.

In summer, the jungle is very hot and often showers fall. Although the rain could cool down, it also caused problems for the march.

The advance detachment after the rain was stationed on the edge of a village, where it was intended to rest for three days, and after the need for a big battle, Higg reorganized the disorganized army.

This army of more than 4,000 people, each of them survived after two months of many battles and brutal marches, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are soldiers of a hundred battles, even Xige himself feels that the combat quality of this army is already close to that of the army in Horqin City, but they still need to change to better equipment.

"Mr. Higg, no, we're surrounded!" Smecta hurriedly came to report.

"Don't panic!" Higg said angrily, "There is no enemy situation in this vicinity, how can it be surrounded? How many people are on the other side? ”

"The number of opponents is unknown, but it is definitely much more than us!" Smecta said, "The other party has no intention of doing anything now, but the other party has sent a general to ask us to take care of things!" ”

"Don't be nervous!" "You go and arrange for your team to defend yourself, and don't act rashly without my orders, and then follow me to meet them!" ”

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