Chapter 739: Secret Love
After defeating the Rigner pirates, under the persuasion of Gru, he reluctantly shifted his energy to quelling the rebellions everywhere, clearing out the remaining pirates in the coastal area of Eli, and consolidating his rule in the Eli region and pacifying people's hearts.
After communicating with Jian Chen, she stationed the main force of the Rigner pirates somewhere at the junction of the Tulaone Forest and the Erimi Forest, allowing them to rest on their own, and ordered the temporarily gathered pirates scattered around the country to come and rendezvous, and then she went to the city of waterfalls under the protection of a personal guard.
Later, under Christine's arrangement, she traveled from the city of waterfalls and a returning supply force to Negan through the magic portal again, and then with another supply team ready to go, she again passed through the portal and arrived at Jian Chen's camp in the Harmondale area.
The whole process took several days, and at this time, the war between the old and new empires born in the Hammondale area took on a new twist.
The Elasia army couldn't hold on to the deep ditch and high fortress, and Chen Jian was not polite, he first let people have the same deep ditch and high base, dug trenches around the camp to prevent cavalry charges, and sprinkled countless iron thistles, erected a forest-like rejection of horses, and put on a posture of preparing for a protracted battle with the Erathia army.
He then arranged for the two armies of flying units and mage troops to take turns in battle, taking advantage of his own strong air superiority, and bombarding the Erathian army with airdrops, crossbow arrows, and magic almost non-stop, in this way he used to demoralize his opponents and deplete them little by little.
This one-sided blow caused the morale of the Erathia army to be demoralized, and the non-stop air raids day and night made the soldiers unable to even rest properly, all of them were physically and mentally exhausted, Inheim organized a counterattack between the griffins and the angels, trying to boost morale, but in turn the Entagre army seized the opportunity to kill them.
In the end, the Erathia Army not only failed to achieve the goal of regaining morale, but also further lost air supremacy because of the heavy losses of the flight troops, so that the Entagrei Army was more sure of its air superiority, and it was unscrupulous in the air, although it failed to completely annihilate the flight units of the Erathia Army as Chen Jian said at the beginning, but it also achieved another goal that Chen Jian hoped for, turning the sky of Hammondale into the air corridor of the Entagri Army.
Then the situation of the Erathian army was even more difficult, because the Entagre army could do whatever they wanted, when and where they wanted, and attack the enemy they wanted, and the tide of the battle began to show a one-sided trend.
This situation made the whole Elasia army, both soldiers and officers, go through the days and years, and everyone's nerves were broken, because they had no idea if the alarm bells that represented the enemy's air raid would ring again in the next moment, and they didn't know what the enemy would throw on their heads from the air this time - during this time, the Erathia army had learned how shocking the crazy attack method of the Entagri army was.
In addition to the most common magic, crossbow arrows, stones, and more, the Entagrean Army has dropped everything they can think of from the air that could be used for air strikes over the course of a few days, such as giant snowballs.
Thanks to the increasingly cold weather, the land of Hammondale is now covered with a thick layer of snow, and the Ntagre army has made large snowballs of astonishing size from local materials, and then used them as weapons for air attacks on the dragons.
However, this snowball attack is still mild, and it is the other method of damage that the Entagrean army really uses to make the soldiers of the Erathian army crazy, which is a method of attack that the Entagrean army calls "poisonous rain".
The so-called poisonous rain is actually boiling dung water, since the establishment of the goal of the air force, Chen Jian has not been less thinking about the air-dropped weapons for the air force, and then he had an idea, he thought of the ancient Chinese battlefield was often used as a defensive weapon in the defense of the city "golden juice".
So Chen Jian ordered to make some specially designed large iron buckets with good seals and their own switches to collect the dung water of the whole army, and then the dragons carried this large iron bucket to the sky above the enemy, first by the dragon with strong control over the dragon Yan to heat the dung water in it, and then turn on the switch of the iron bucket, and pour the smelly and alarming temperature dung water on the enemy's head.
However, due to the altitude and weather, the lethality of this attack is far from as good as Chen Jian imagined, the dung water is often cooled in the air, and when it falls on the enemy's head, it is just simple stinky water, but even so, this attack still achieved amazing results - the overwhelming dung water made the camp of the Erathia Army smelly, seriously damaged the living environment of the Erathia Army, so that the soldiers could not even eat safely, and they were disgusted from time to time. It was an extremely serious blow to morale.
Now that he was beating crookedly, Jian Chen couldn't help but be happy, so this poisonous rain attack continued, and it was very bad to choose to set out at meal time, pouring dung on the enemy's heads when they were eating, and making everyone in the proud Erathia army mention this poisonous rain, all of them gritted their teeth with hatred but were helpless.
Being tossed by the enemy every day, most of the people can't stand it, they can't sleep well, they can't eat well, they have to clean up the filth in the camp every day, no matter how good their temper is, they can't stand it, everyone is desperate to change this situation, and some people even took the initiative to propose to Inheim to attack the enemy's camp.
"The enemy's camp is there, and we can end this passive situation by rushing over and defeating them"
A similar proposal was quickly approved by most people, but Inheim was slow to agree.
It's not that he doesn't want to fight, but he knows that even if he does, he doesn't have much chance of winning.
"Miscalculated," Inheim said to his cronies in private, "If we start a full-scale attack when the Entagre army has just arrived and has not yet gained a firm foothold, there may be a chance to win, but at the moment the Entagre army is already fully prepared, just waiting for us to attack and see the information sent back by these scouts, to see how their camp is defended, if we attack them at this time, it will only be in their hearts, I originally thought that the Entagre army would want to fight like us, They will take the initiative to attack, but we didn't expect them to drag us to death."
Because Heim didn't know that he had actually guessed the true purpose of the Entagrean army, and the famous general of the empire, who knew nothing about the true strength of the Entagrean Empire, although he made a correct judgment, he lacked enough confidence in this judgment, and was finally confused by Chen Jian's blindfold of retreating as advance, and overturned this judgment himself, and circled himself into a cognitive misunderstanding.
He asked Kendall for help, hoping that the country could send more griffin legions to help, but at this time, Kendall was also powerless, he didn't have griffins in his hands, but they were stationed in various places, and if he wanted to move, it would not only take time, but also seriously affect the defense of other parts of the empire, Kendall didn't have so much time now, the situation within the empire was getting worse and worse, and he didn't dare to let the overall defense of the empire have problems because of the war in Hammondal.
So in the end, Kendall not only did not send the griffon army he hoped for to Inheim, but also asked Inheim to use his forces to repel the enemy army as soon as possible.
"Force the enemy to a decisive battle and defeat the enemy with superior forces"
Kendall instructed Inheim and implicitly stated that even if he dismounted, the cavalry of the Erathian Empire would still be a valiant and warlike army.
"Does he want me to use my precious cavalry as hoplites?" After receiving Kendall's instructions, Inheim was furious, "Why don't you just withdraw for the time being?" Hammondale is important, but it's not that important, is it? Because you feel that retreating without a fight like this will damage the majesty of the empire, do you want to let the soldiers die in vain? ”
Although he has always been at odds with Kendall, Inheim still has a lot of respect for Kendall, but at this moment, because of Kendall's decision, Inheim is completely disappointed in Kendall, this idealist's imperial celebrity, he doesn't have much talent in politics, he doesn't understand that Kendall made such a decision for many reasons.
"Doing nothing and putting the empire in the hands of people like you is the biggest mistake I've made in my life"
However, despite the anger, the order is still an order after all, and Inheim has no choice but to start preparing for the battle.
The army of Erathia, which numbered hundreds of thousands, was divided into two routes by him, attacking the two large battalions of the Entagri army.
Although he didn't think he had much chance of winning, Inheim still did his best, although he attacked separately, but one of them was just a feint, the purpose was to contain it, and the other way was the direction of his all-out attack, and this way was naturally the direction in which Chen Jian personally sat down.
Inheim concentrated all of his elite in this army, and at the same time, he also sent out all the flying units in his hands, which had only one mission, that is, to ensure that the ground troops were not too heavily attacked by the enemy's flying units during the attack.
Then, late one night, the Erathian Army in the Hammondale area almost poured out of its nest and pounced on the enemy's two large battalions, and the reason why it chose to operate at night was because Inheim wanted to use the cover of night to make it more difficult for the enemy's flying units to attack and reduce the damage they suffered during the march.
And after mastering some of the rules of the enemy's use of Doomsday Magic, Inheim determined that the attack would not be counterattacked by the enemy with this weapon of destruction, because it was just during the day, and the Entagre army had just used a Doomsday Judgment.
However, Inheim was a little suspicious, and this time, the magic of the Doomsday Judgment was also deliberately used by the enemy in order to fight for the sake of Yin*, in order to make himself feel at ease and boldly fight, and he didn't believe that he would not be alert at all when preparing for the Entagri army with such fanfare.
Inheim's suspicions proved to be correct, as the Erathian Army was attacked with unprecedented ferocity by the Entagre Army's flying units.
The griffons and angels of the Erathian army poured out of their nests fought back heroically against the enemy's attack, and an unprecedented large-scale air battle unfolded in the night sky of Hammondal, because Haim wanted to finish the battle, Chen Jian also thought the same way, in fact, Chen Jian was already a little impatient to wait.
"Your Majesty, everything is as we expected, the enemy only left a small number of troops to guard the camp and Baiya Pass, and the rest were divided into two roads, attacking the two large battalions of our army"
After listening to the scout's report, Jian Chen smiled, he understood that tonight's battle was the key battle for him to retake Hammondal.
"Sure enough, it's not in vain that I let Master Barty use the magic of the Doomsday Judgment."
Thinking like this, Jian Chen began to check whether there were any loopholes in his arrangement, according to the degree of the Erathia army's advance at this time, he estimated that the other party should attack his camp at sunrise, and he still had more than half of the night to calmly make some adjustments to his defense.
But soon he realized that he didn't have anything to adjust, for tonight's battle, he had been preparing for too many days, and everything that should be adjusted had been adjusted during that time, after everyone's review.
All he can do now is to wait here for the enemy's attack, and at most to make some necessary responses depending on the changes in the battle situation.
This made Jian Chen feel a little depressed.
At the moment of the war, there is nothing to do?
"Could it be that the so-called general style is like this?" While paying attention to the progress of the war, Jian Chen was spinning these chaotic thoughts in his mind, his thoughts were scattered, and he invisibly revealed some absent-minded demeanor.
In the eyes of the pirate princess Katarina, who was staying in the camp of the Entagre army at this time and was invited to watch the battle tonight, it became a sign that he was confident and sure of victory.
"This man is really arrogant."
Katarina, who had just been defeated in Eli, looked at Jian Chen's appearance of wandering into the world, and secretly hated the itchy straight teeth.
"Even the Erathia Empire, which is known as the strongest empire of the Big 6, and the Erathia Army, which is known as the strongest army of the Big 6, is he completely ignorant?"
Thinking like this indignantly, the more Katarina looked at Jian Chen, the more she felt that her heart was not good.
"Am I that far from him?"
And what made Katarina very dissatisfied was that the stunning appearance that she had always been proud of seemed to have really lost its effect in front of this man.
Chen Jian invited her to watch the battle tonight, and she also deliberately dressed herself, and she did not wear the aristocratic clothes she used to wear in front of outsiders, but wore the outfit that she thought best reflected her temperament, and she usually only wore it on the Rigner Islands.
Even in winter, this pirate costume is still worn by her with a slightly playful and noble temperament in the wild.
But what disappointed her was that her elaborate dress only made Chen Jian feel slightly surprised, except for a few more glances at the beginning, Chen Jian has always been indifferent.
Katarina couldn't figure out why she was so deliberately pretending to be herself in front of Jian Chen, but she couldn't tolerate this man daring to ignore her, and she felt that her self-esteem had been greatly hurt.
Looking at Esreina and another elven beauty standing behind Jian Chen at this time, and thinking about the female magician who had just left, as well as the dragon queen Moriel who was commanding the battle in another place, and the group of angelic beauties who were busy in this command tent at this time, Katarina was even more angry.
"The guy with the heart of the flower has arranged so many women around him, and most of them are not from the human race, is it possible that he is good at this tune?"
However, although she was unhappy, Katarina also had to admit that these women around Jian Chen were indeed extraordinary, especially the three queens, who were even more stunning.
The pirate princess was thinking about it here and lost her mind, but she didn't notice that her eyes kept turning around Chen Jian like this, although Chen Jian himself didn't notice it because of his distraction, but she was clearly seen by Esreina and Vekena beside Chen Jian.
"This woman can't mean that to Jian Chen, right?"
Aisrena is from the past, thinking that at the beginning, she didn't look at Jian Chen secretly with such eyes, so she quickly thought of this aspect, and couldn't help frowning at the moment.
But then she was relieved, not to mention that Jian Chen didn't have feelings for Katarina, this was just Katarina's wishful thinking, just Katarina's identity and position, it was destined to be a relationship that would not lead to results.
So Esrena quickly shifted her energy to the matter at hand again, and she was busy directing the real-time battle reports sent by the angel clan secretaries to help Chen Jian's troops everywhere.
However, the idle female elf Vikna fell into a burst of self-pity at this time because of Katarina's ambiguous demeanor.
Vikna didn't have a special feeling for Chen Jian at first, but after all, the two had been together for a while, and after Vikna recovered her memory, she didn't forget how Chen Jian treated her during the time when she lost her memory, and Chen Jian didn't take advantage of people's danger, so she has always had a good impression of Chen Jian.
But even so, Vikna never thought that she would have anything to do with a human, but after spending a long time with Kedrak, the grandmaster of interracial free love, Vikna was inevitably affected by it, and when she was idle, she occasionally wondered what would happen to her if such a thing happened to her.
Then unconsciously, Chen Jian became her imaginary object, which made her pay more attention to Chen Jian on weekdays.
Curiosity about the opposite sex can often only have one outcome.
But what really made Vikna secretly affectionate for Jian Chen was because of a letter from Jian Chen.
When Vikna stayed in the Farouk Army as an envoy, Vikna tried to steal the Doomsday Blade of the Farouk Army.
She noticed that although Farouk was quite wary of her, he coveted her beauty, and she noticed that Farouk's private life was a bit shady.
This made her feel that if she used the skills she had learned in the Moon Shadow Organization to perform beauty tricks, she might be able to successfully charm Farouk, and then try to find out the whereabouts of the Doom Blade and take it away.
If there was the Doomsday Blade, the Ntagri Empire, which still claimed to be the Hammondale Race Alliance at the time, would definitely be able to take its force to the next level.
When planning these, Vikna didn't have any psychological burden because she might be Farouk, in the Moon Shadow for many years, this kind of thing is not unacceptable in her opinion, although now that she has changed her allegiance, she doesn't think this will change, not to mention, this time the target is the Doomsday Blade, in exchange for such an artifact with a female spy's **, she thinks that Jian Chen will definitely not have any hesitation.
As a result, after she reported her plan to Chen Jian, she was reprimanded by Chen Jian in writing a letter.
"The alliance has not yet degenerated to the point where it is necessary to use women ** to seize the blade of doom, this kind of thing will not exist before, it will not exist now, and it will not be in the future, at least during the period when I ruled the alliance, yes, maybe some people think that it is convenient to use such means, but in my opinion, this is just some shameless tricks, to use such means to achieve the goal, it can only be a manifestation of the incompetence of those people"
Although it was not in person, the delicate Vikna still felt the other party's anger from between the lines of Jian Chen's words.
"The past is gone, you are not the same person you used to be, the Alliance is not the Elven Kingdom, you don't have to sacrifice yourself so much for the Alliance, think about the companions of the Moon Shadow Organization in the past, not everyone among them did those things voluntarily, right? But they don't have a choice, and you now have a chance that they don't, I sincerely hope that you can cherish this opportunity and please remember that in the Alliance, you are not a pawn, but our companion."
Jian Chen wrote this letter out of personal likes and dislikes, as a traverser, he really couldn't get used to the Moon Shadow Organization's use of beauty, and he couldn't accept that Vikna, the female elf who had been with him for a while, still had the idea of cheapening his body like this, so he was very annoyed, he needed Vikna's powerful espionage ability, but he couldn't accept Vikna's sacrifice for this, he had his principles.
It's just that he didn't expect that this letter would open Vikna's heart.
The reason why the female elf was angry with Jian Chen had some misunderstandings