Chapter 600: The Cicada Unwilling to Fail

The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind.

Bracada is a yellow finch hiding in the shadows, Death Knight Hart is a praying mantis focused on its prey and unaware of its danger, and Mrak, the commander of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, seems to be the cicada destined for tragedy.

But the cicada obviously didn't want to give up on it, he was still desperately trying to find a way to survive for himself.

The predicament did not despair Mrak, he was a famous Imperial general, he had participated in the last war, he had a distinguished military exploit, whether it was the coalition of Negan lords, the Krigan army, the army of the undead, or the armies of the Krurod barbarians and the Tetalia swamps, all of whom had been defeated under him in the great war that swept the continent.

Mrak was proud, he did not admit that he had failed, and although the expeditionary force was at a critical point of life and death, he still believed that he was capable of turning defeat into victory.

In the barracks of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, Mlak was in his tent, looking at the map spread out on the table with frowning brows, thinking for a long time, thinking about how to turn the tide of the current unfavorable battle.

He admits that he did underestimate Hart, he thought of the various methods that Hart might use, and also thought that Hart might make a fuss about his supply line, so secretly, he had to strengthen his defense against the supply line, but he missed one thing, and that was magic.

Mrak never expected that Hart would have such a big plan as using the magic portal to attack his supply line in an all-out way, and he didn't expect that the necromancers would have the strength to complete this huge plan.

If you make a mistake, you will lose the whole game.

But did you really lose? Mlak doesn't think so.

It is true that the emperor's supplies have begun to run tight, but since the supply line was broken, Mlak has promptly ordered the ration to be limited, which allows him to hold on for a short period of time, calmly planning how to counterattack the enemy.

Mrak's eyes wandered on the map, judging from this map with a large number of marks, the emperor is now completely trapped in the encirclement of the undead army, this is a moving encirclement, the emperor to the east, the encirclement will move to the east, the emperor will move to the west, and the encirclement will also move to the west, in the process of moving, Hart will also send high-powered troops to harass the emperor, slowing down the emperor's speed, even Mlak has to admit that Hart's trick is really ruthless.

But this is not an uncrackable tactic, and Mlak has already thought of a way to deal with it, and he has a plan.

"Hart, Hart, let's see who can have the last laugh in this fight."

Beginning the next day, the Imperial Expeditionary Force suddenly gave up continuing to advance to the eastern part of the swamp to the surprise of everyone, and instead broke through to the southern part of the swamp with all its might.

This is a rather unusual move, because it is known that the direction in which the Imperial Expeditionary Force should break through is the east, and in that direction there are reinforcements sent by the Imperial side who are also trying to break through the blockade of the undead army and rescue the Expeditionary Force.

Only by reopening the supply lines in the east can the Empire continue its military plans in Titalia, so in any case, the Imperial Expeditionary Force should break through from the east.

Hart, of course, was puzzled by this.

The South, why is it the South? What does Mlak want to do?

Although he has an absolute advantage, Hart does not underestimate the enemy, he is clear about the emperor's combat effectiveness, and he also knows that Mlak is not a guy who easily admits defeat, so Hart has always treated this war with a very cautious attitude, he knows that the imperial expeditionary force will not be willing to tie his hands, let alone sit back and wait for destruction, so in order to completely annihilate Mlak's expeditionary force, he is even mentally prepared to bear serious losses.

But for a while, Hart couldn't figure out why Mrak suddenly changed the direction of the breakout, and some of his staff officers thought that Mlak might find it difficult to break through from the east, so he planned to break through from the south, where the undead army was weaker and less numerous.

"From the south, he can turn back to the empire via Krurod," one of the staff officers affirmed, but Hart didn't think so, his instincts told him that things weren't that simple.

Eventually, Hart decided to stay the same.

He thought very clearly, no matter how happy the emperor was, he was just surrounding them to the death, keeping the established strategy and tactics unchanged, he didn't believe that in his mobile encirclement, what tricks could Mlak play.

And from the time calculation, Hart felt that even if the food in Mrak's hands was saved, it should be consumed, and in the swamp, due to the previous scorched earth policy of the undead army, Mlak could not get decent supplies from the local area.

An army that does not have enough to eat, no matter how subtle its tactics are, does not have enough combat effectiveness is in vain.

But to Hart's surprise, after three days of leading his army to the south, Mlak suddenly changed direction again and advanced westward.

In the west is the large army led by Hart himself, of course, it is the elite of the undead army, and the combat effectiveness is strong, and it is basically impossible for the Imperial Expeditionary Force to break through from here, and this direction is contrary to the location of the Empire, so this time, Hart and his staff officers are all full of question marks again by Mrak's strange behavior.

Some of the staff officers thought that Mrak had begun to lose his mind under the siege of his own army, and that the strange behavior of the Imperial Expeditionary Force was just an aimless action under the wall in a hurry, Hart scoffed at such a statement, joking, Mlak is a famous general, so it is so easy to lose his mind, and there must be some unknown conspiracy hidden in the seemingly random actions of the Emperor.

But Hart still couldn't see through Mrak's layout, so he chose to adapt to the changes and continue his trapping tactics.

Things soon changed again, and under the command of Mrak, the Emperor, besieged by the army of the undead, reversed course again, and this time, they chose the eastern part of the swamp, which was the right direction they should have chosen.

As soon as the emperor moved, the encirclement of the undead army also moved, and the huge encirclement that was originally moving west with the emperor began to move to the east again.

The death knight Chama was annoyed by the emperor's strange behavior in the past few days.

Tsuma is Hart's close confidant, she is a female knight, she has been a loyal follower of Hart since she was on the continent of Enros, she is loyal to Hart, and after Hart became a death knight, she also followed in Hart's footsteps, allowing the necromancers to turn themselves into a death knight and continue to be loyal to Hart.

Chama does not have much talent in strategy and tactics, her command ability can only be said to be decent, but her bravery and loyalty, as well as her strong martial arts, make her a close general under Hart, she unconditionally carries out every order Hart gives her, and always succeeds in completing it, so it is quite used by Hart, this time, Hart let her lead his elite, responsible for the command of the eastern part of the encirclement.

Chama is not a very patient undead knight, if it weren't for Hart's order, she would have wanted to lead the army and fight the powerless emperor who was already trapped in her eyes, she felt that Lord Hart was too cautious this time, but orders are orders, so Chama still faithfully carried out his mission, according to Hart's request, retreating and advancing from time to time with the enemy's actions, not giving the enemy a chance.

Now the enemy is rushing in the direction where she is, Chama has the heart to meet the enemy, but can only retreat helplessly, her heart is full of depression, because it is not a happy thing to march back and forth in the swamp like this, the swamp is too difficult to walk, many times, the muddy ground makes her have to give up her mount, and march on foot like ordinary soldiers, although she does not feel tired, but she is always uncomfortable in her heart, without the mount, is the death knight still a death knight? Those low-level zombies, skeletons and ghosts also made her feel upset, these frightening and self-aware walking dead are really troublesome to command, if those vampires, lichs, death knights, and other commanding vampires are distracted, maybe these guys will run away on their own, and the combat effectiveness is far from the emperor commanded by Chama before.

It's no wonder that necromancers don't have any subtle tactics when they fight, and such an army can't use much of a strategy other than crowd tactics

As she thought angrily, Chama walked forward with one foot high and one foot low, still holding her undead bone horse mount in the same heavy armor as her, she was now in an open swamp, the road was very muddy and difficult to walk, and the dirty mud splashed from time to time stained her black armor that had only been polished last night, which made her regret that she had chosen to go around a forest on the side in order to save time, but chose to cross in a straight line from this swamp.

But this is also a helpless thing, the march speed of the undead army is not good, and it is as slow as a snail in the swamp, and she must keep the encirclement intact, the emperor is rushing in this direction with all her might, she has to avoid fighting the emperor head-on, although she doesn't want to do this in her heart, if she walks through the woods, although the road is easy to walk, but she has to take a long detour, it may take twice as long to reach her expected destination, and it is very likely to be bitten by the emperor, in case that happens, She's sabotaging Lord Hart's plan to annihilate the enemy.

Of course, Chema didn't dare to break Hart's plan, so she had to take the road in the swamp.

As she was on her way, Chama suddenly felt her hand on the reins sink, and the undead bone horse stopped again, and when she looked back, sure enough, the horse's hooves sank into a soft mud again, and it seemed that it could not be pulled out for a while.

This situation angered the Death Knight, who cherished her mount, and she bent down to try to help her beloved horse, when she suddenly heard a voice in the sky that felt all too familiar to her.

The sound of crossbow bolts breaking through the air.

(Octave.)

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