Chapter 377: The Fiery Fox
Charles sat on the grass in the sun, a small table in front of him, and a sumptuous lunch was placed all the way to the edge of the table, the enticing aroma wafting over the barracks, in sharp contrast to the solemn atmosphere around him.
When Charles first formed the Lorraine Legion, he also thought about lowering his body and mingling with the warriors, but after deeply understanding the various unspoken rules of this world, he naturally gave up this practice of "wronging himself to please others".
Extravagance and waste are the identity labels of the aristocracy, and giving up this label is equivalent to giving up the suppression of class identity, and it is also a disguised weakening of one's own dominance.
Eating and living with soldiers can increase trust with soldiers, and distancing yourself from soldiers can also improve your control over soldiers.
Now that the Charr is eating and drinking in a conspicuous place, and also has the intention of stabilizing the morale of the army, the war is about to begin, and the more relaxed and arrogant the commander becomes, the more confident the soldiers below will think that the more confident the commander is in this war, the more confident they will be in their hearts.
"Report to the Legionnaire Commander, the Prussian artillery team we hired has all disembarked, but the six twenty-four-pounder guns they carry with them are too heavy to arrive here tonight, and they can be ready for battle to-morrow. ”
Dewar stood at the side of the dining table with a few pieces of military intelligence, reciting the report to Charles, looking at the fine sweat on his forehead, the job was obviously not easy for him. He is very smart and diligent, but after all, his foundation is too thin, and just half a year ago, this illiterate young man would never have thought that he would have the ability to read through letters.
"This morning, a new military flag appeared on the walls of Blue Mountain Pass, and the scouts identified it as the flag of the 1st Infantry Brigade of the Red Oak Regiment based on the details of the military flag. ”
"Our intelligence officers have finally sent back the news that a 3,000-strong Luxon army entered the Blue Mountains Pass last night, and it should be the 1st Infantry Brigade of the Red Oak Regiment, known as the 'Shield of Luxon'. ”
Charles stopped his knife and fork and asked in surprise, "Is there any news from our intelligence officers?"
At the beginning, Charles sent some intelligence officers to the Lucerne side, not asking them to contribute much, but only hoping that they could adapt to the environment of the high-risk industry of "spies", and they did not pass on any news to the outside world these days, which led Charles to personally enter the Blue Mountain Pass to investigate.
"Yes, my lord, this morning the people in the Blue Mountain Pass suddenly received an order to transport a large number of wounded people out of the pass, and our people mixed in with the people and slipped over quietly. ”
"Oh......."
Charles thought about it for a while, and he understood why.
The Black Oak Legion killed 1,000 enemies and lost 30,000 in the frantic attack a few days ago, and Leclow blocked the news to the outside world, prohibiting anyone who could wait to enter and leave the Blue Mountain Pass.
Now that the reinforcements have arrived, he no longer needs to hide the real situation inside the Blue Mountain Pass, and he has transferred all the wounded to the outside of the pass, which is the rhythm of unloading the burden and preparing for the battle.
"Seven thousand men, are you going to attack, or are you going to defend?" said Charles in a low voice.
There are now 7,000 soldiers in the Blue Mountain Pass, and if the Lucsen adopt a holding strategy, the Charr will have to throw the Lorraine Army into a narrow pass to fight, and if the Lucnese choose to invade Lorraine because they must leave people to defend in the Blue Mountain Pass, then the Charr will have to face a second-rate army of about 5,000 men in the wilderness.
In the eyes of outsiders, these two choices seem to be unfavorable to Charles, after all, his Lorraine Legion has only been formed for a few months, although there are some veterans who have participated in the war, but because of the Sbayan War a year ago, there is a significant gap between the ratio of veterans and the two veteran legions of Red Oak and Black Oak, and a new recruit team cannot fight a tough battle.
"You want to defend against the odds, but what if there is no danger?"
"Dewar, go and inform Neo that I'm going to increase the intensity of training tonight and get all the infantry battalions ready!"
As night fell, the routine training of the Lorraine regiment began again, and the musketeers of the regiment marched in orderly steps under the command of the whistle of their respective company commanders, and skillfully advanced to a distance of more than 100 meters from the positions of the Lucernes and began to load and shoot.
Because most of the infantry of the Lorraine Regiment were equipped with new rifled rifles, which were much higher than the Lucernes in terms of shooting distance and accuracy, the Lucernes suffered a big loss in the past few days of shooting, and gradually learned to deal with official duties, leaving only a few dozen unlucky ones to make a show in the forward position, and the rest retreated nearly 100 meters to sleep peacefully.
Listening to the shouts and killings, sleeping is a strengthened skill that distinguishes veterans from recruits, anyway, the Lorraine people will not really fight, and these elite Luxon infantry are too lazy to work hard, and two porridges a day have already starved their competitive spirit.
"Soldier Pong"
Round after round of neat gunfire, the Lorraine warriors came and went, and walked and came, and everything was exactly the same as it had been last night.
And the fortress artillery on the Blue Mountain Pass may be due to the lack of shell reserves, and this kind of night shelling with little effect was stopped yesterday, and the two sides just played so painlessly, it seems that tonight is another busy night.
But on the side of Lorraine, all the infantry battalion commanders suddenly received a special order.
"When you hear a loud noise, you go into battle in turn according to the assault training subject?"
"What does that mean?"
More than a dozen battalion commanders looked at each other, they were also military talents who had been trained as knights since childhood, and they were really a little confused when they saw this order.
Because they did not prepare siege equipment, how could they carry out assault training subjects? Could it be impossible for their soldiers to climb the wall with their bare hands?
"Dewar, where's the Legionnaire?"
"The Marquis is resting. ”
Dewar turned his horse and left, he was going back to his mission for the evening, to guard the marquis's tent and not let anyone enter.
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Charles carefully bypassed dozens of hoplites lying on the ground and sleeping soundly, and then sneaked forward against the shadows of the city wall, a few dozen meters ahead of his ultimate goal for the night, the gate of the southern wall of the Blue Mountain Pass.
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Blue Mountain Pass is a rectangular pass fortress established between the two peaks of the danger, there are two city walls in the north and south, because the Blue Mountain Pass was established at the beginning to defend against the barbarians in the north, so the north city wall is more than 30 meters high, and the south city wall is more than 20 meters high. Each wall had a tall gate, the southern one leading to Lorraine and the northern one to Luxon.
The commander of the Black Oak Legion, Leclos, was an experienced military commander and knew the importance of the gate, so he stationed two hundred heavily armored warriors near the gate to prevent the Lorraine side from sneaking up on the extraordinary.
At first, the two hundred hoplites were on alert with wide eyes and nervousness, but after several days of paralysis training, they lost the necessary vigilance, and now basically only a dozen people are left around the bonfire symbolically on guard, and the rest are ready to jump up and fight at any time.
But they never thought that Charles was an extraordinary person with the dual talents of assassin and hunter, and with the hound killer Tiger Cat as an accomplice, as long as he was given the slightest chance, he would fall into a situation from which he could never recover.
Charles successfully avoided the sentry's sight, and was about to touch the tall city gate hole, but suddenly stopped moving, the hunter system's "hidden" talent was quickly activated, his breathing gradually eased, all spiritual power fluctuations stopped, and his heartbeat dropped to an incredible frequency.
A fiery red fox scurried out of the city wall, strolling like a leisurely stroll that looked so strange to Charles.
"You can't carry it like that, do you?"
Although Charles didn't want to admit it in his heart, the spiritual power fluctuations emanating from the fiery red fox really told him that this was a spiritual power pet, and it was still a spiritual power pet of no low rank.
At the beginning of the crossing, Charles came into contact with a giant wolf with spiritual power that was not of a low grade, and later subdued the little tiger cat, and then the little tiger cat used the rough method of "poisoning the whole family" to screen out the hound Lake, as if the spiritual pet is not so rare.
However, Charr's hunter inheritance tells him that spiritual pets are definitely very rare species, and even if he is a true transcendent hunter, he is not capable of establishing a spiritual contract with spiritual pets to help it awaken and grow.
For example, the hunting dog Lake, it was raised by the hunter Neli since he was a child, and a person and a dog have a deep affection, but after it showed the ability to withstand and fit the spiritual power, it was Charles who calmed the irritable spiritual power in its body, and then regularly helped it smooth out the extraordinary power in its body, and spent a lot of time slowly guiding it into a real spiritual pet.
In this process, Nelie couldn't intervene at all, her supernatural strength didn't have the ability to cultivate spiritual pets, and even now, she needed Charr to help him occasionally train the hound Lake, so that it wouldn't go crazy out of control.
It can be said that if it weren't for Charles's demonic ability to control spiritual power finely, Lake would have the same fate as the little tiger cat at the beginning, that is, he died slowly in the torture of irritable spiritual power.
As long as they are contaminated with supernatural power, they will inevitably be affected by that kind of madness and depravity, not only by humans, but also by animals.
In the words of Wild Road Hunter Gersen, a low-level transcendent hunter with a spiritual pet is asking for trouble.
There are only a few extraordinary hunters in the entire Lorraine, and there are only two spiritual power pets, and the fiery red fox in front of him must be an outsider, looking at the abundance of spiritual power in its body, it seems to be stronger than the little tiger cat boots. So its owner........
"Whew..... Woo!"
Charles hid in the shadows of the wall and held his breath, but the little tiger cat couldn't help but jump out and let out a low roar of warning, in the past few days it has taken this place as its own territory, all the hounds will be scratched to death by themselves, or they will kneel on the ground and surrender, and now come out of a person who is not afraid of death, you must let it know how powerful your boots are.
The fiery red fox stopped, squinted at the little tiger cat, and gave a mocking look.
A fox can show a sneering look, which feels so strange in Charles's eyes.
In the face of this kind of ridicule, how can the little tiger cat's violent temper endure? Even when it was tortured by spiritual power before awakening, it never stopped stubbornly resisting fate, not to mention that it is now an eighth-rank pet powerhouse?
"Woohoo!
The little tiger cat's lightning-like figure swept through the darkness and rushed towards the fiery red fox, which was twice its size.
The fiery red fox did not make any chirps, but it was not slow at all, and when the little tiger cat rushed to the front and waved its paws, it turned its head lightly and bit the little tiger cat tail with its mouth open.
The long tail is the reverse scale of the little tiger cat, usually only Charles can touch it, Nelle can't touch it, the fiery red fox can provoke it at this moment, and a short body will run under the fox's belly to disembowel it.
The fiery fox jumped lightly and dodged, moving left and right to bite the little tiger cat.
This Charr's heart sank, and he felt nervous about his little tiger cat, how keen his eyes were, and he immediately saw that this fox was a very difficult opponent, and the timing of dodging and biting was just right, and he was obviously an experienced hunter.
"Boots, you hold on for a while, I'll be back to help you right away!"
Charles didn't sense that a hunter had entered the vicinity for the time being, so he immediately sneaked forward and entered the gate hole in the southern city wall of the Blue Mountain Pass, borrowing the power of the true god to drive the spiritual power void, and the "Bang Lala" dump truck began to unload the goods.
This is what the Black Oak Legion can't think of, the gate hole in the south wall is very wide, the gate is high and thick, a little explosive can't do much in this environment, and how much explosive can a stalker carry?
Not to mention that ordinary people don't know the storage space that only high-level transcendents can configure, such as the Spiritual Power Void, they know that the Spiritual Power Void of the Bright Church Pope is only one cubic meter in size, how much explosives can be stored?
Besides, every move of a strong person of this rank has the meaning of touching the whole body, will they be involved in this level of warfare?
Charles put the last barrel of explosives on the top of the city gate, took out a homemade time-delay ignition device and threw it into the gap of the powder keg, and then he hurriedly got out of the city gate.
He has a close spiritual connection with the little tiger cat boots, and the little one's condition is not very good at this time.
Sure enough, the little tiger cat's body was already covered with color, and a tooth mark turned up a small piece of its beautiful fur, and blood was dripping and scattering a ball of blood on the ground.
Charles's heart ached, and he reached out and felt a pair of Darkdance Blades to go up The fox, the fiery red fur was shiny and shiny, just enough to make a fox skin scarf for Fani.
But a faint fluctuation rippled in Charles's perception, and a gust of breeze suddenly swept through his body.
Charles, who was also a former Revenant, was all too familiar with this fluctuation, a hunter sensing all the anomalies in the area through the Embrace of the Wild.
Charles opened his vision of spiritual power, and soon found the conspicuous source of spiritual power fluctuations in a group of sleeping heavy infantry.
"Humph, see how long you can hide!"
Charles hid, silently reciting spiritual words in his heart, and a beam of spiritual power emanated from his body, and transmitted to the little tiger cat's spiritual connection to its body.
Best Companion: Transfer your pet's power to yourself through Spirit Whispers to increase your explosive power in a short period of time, or transfer your power to your pet to heal your pet's fatal injuries.
This seemingly simple skill is one of the most difficult skills in the hunter's inheritance in Charles' opinion, and he and Little Tiger Cat have practiced with each other many times before finally achieving a tacit understanding, and he is using it today.