Chapter 58: It's a Long Road

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The angel commander walked around the remains of the massacre a few times, and the corpses all over the ground were already stiff, and the blood and water had completely turned black, indicating that the battle time was not short. The General's guards helped rummag through the bodies in an attempt to find some of the members who were still alive, but in vain, the scene had apparently been cleared once, and some of those who had tried to hide had been killed.

"What the hell is going on?" The elder of the army walked behind the general and said angrily, "What the hell is going on? Why did the army of more than 7 million people disappear so inexplicably? Even if it is raided, at least three or four million troops of the other party must be killed, right? Why are it all our people who die? ”

A pro-soldier cautiously asked, "Didn't the forward battalion that was annihilated before report that it had encountered an elite enemy with strong combat effectiveness?" Could it be ......? ”

"Impossible." The general shook his head. "Since it's elite, it won't be too much, a million elite assault cavalry is already amazing, it won't be more. This is the forest, the air cavalry can't play much role, even the elite can't kill seven million regular troops without injuring one person, unless they have five million elite air cavalry with this combat effectiveness. ”

"Five million?" The elder shouted. "If they have five million of these troops, they might as well block us directly in the mountain pass, why let us in and fight? Having such an elite plus some miscellaneous soldiers is enough to stop us, but they didn't do it, so they definitely don't have so many elites, and that one million should be all that. ”

"But they ......!" The general thought for a moment and shook his head. "Maybe I'm overthinking, but we have to be careful anyway. Since the other side can eat a consolidated army of 7.5 million people, the 14 million we have may not necessarily be safe. Of course, we don't have to worry too much. Although a lot of troops were wiped out by the enemy. But the rest are already all elite. Of these 7.5 million forwards, only 100,000 are our angel legions, and the rest are members of the Holy See's Templar Order. Our main army currently has a one-to-two ratio of angels and paladins, and four million angels are not so easy to deal with, not to mention that one million of them are high-level angels. ”

The elder said in frustration, "I should have heard that Draculas's blood angel coming!" ”

"Such a legion-level scuffle. 10,000 Blood Angels can't do anything, do they? The general asked.

The elder immediately said arrogantly, "You have never seen the Blood Angels, you don't know how powerful they are, if you do, you will know their level." To tell you the truth, if there are two million blood angels, there is indeed hope that the seven million regular troops will be eliminated without losing a single person. However, the blood angels are not so easy to cultivate, and besides, we only have 10,000 blood angels, so where can the enemy gather 2 million people? ”

"Report!" A soldier suddenly rushed to the general's side. "We've found survivors."

"Lead the way." Several leaders immediately hurried towards the place where the survivors were found, and unconsciously covered their noses before they reached the place, because they all smelled a very bad smell.

When the generals rushed into the woods, they saw a few soldiers surrounding a high priest leaning against a tree trunk, the same ass high priest who had smoked a room of generals out of the meeting that night. Of course, these generals here don't know what is wrong with him, because those who know are dead.

The two military elders sent by the House of Elders knew the high priest, and none of the soldiers who could attend the high-level meetings were small soldiers. The elders, of course, know these senior personnel. Several of the elders were all high-ranking priests, although they later concentrated on the study of power arts, but fortunately, the old profession had not forgotten and finally rescued this guy.

As soon as the army commander saw that the high priest was awake, he immediately shook the guy and asked loudly: "What happened?" Why did so many armies wipe out? ”

The high priest was already very empty, and he almost fainted again after being shaken by this. The two elders had some water and food brought to him first. It took more than an hour to recover some strength and begin to explain the situation. These generals now know the reason why these armies were completely wiped out, which makes them a little more relieved, and they only need to be a little more prepared to be plotted. It's better than the enemy having two million super legions. The reason why the high priest was able to escape was completely lucky, this guy pulled for a night, and in the morning he actually fainted in the grass, and it happened that no one else had noticed him, so he was pulled down. Later, when we came to slaughter this legion, the high priest woke up, but when he saw this, he did not dare to come out, so he simply hid in the grass and did not move, so he escaped.

The general learned that more than 7 million of his troops had actually died on laxatives, and he vomited blood on the spot. Several elders also sat on the ground in a daze. This kind of irregular warfare simply makes the Temple of Light, who advocates fairness, hate it to the bone, they have been planning to find a place to fight us head-on, but we are taking them around ***, and this twist and turn also bypassed nearly half of their troops.

Several generals and elders discussed it together, and finally came to the unanimous agreement that they should rush to the city of Tianyu to start a decisive battle. In field battles, we can rely on strong mobility and they fight guerrillas, but in siege warfare, unless the city is gone, we can only defend to the death, and there is no strategy to use. The army of the Temple of Light is not good at guerrillas, and the best way is to storm Tianyu City and force us to fight a decisive battle with them, so that their advantages can be brought into play.

After the conclusion was reached, the army immediately began to act, and the generals first ordered everyone to clean up the scene, try to cover up the scene as much as possible, so as not to let the follow-up troops see such a tragic situation, so as not to shake the morale of the army. After the cleanup was completed, it was already the night of the 21st, and the troops simply rested for the night. Early in the morning of the 22nd, the team officially set out, and the small river in front of the troops happened to be in the dry season, and the water was just over the waist, and the troops could flow over. It takes a lot of time for tens of millions of troops to cross the river, but fortunately, the army is well-trained, and the team can cross the river relatively quickly.

Seeing that the army was almost over, he had just been rescued. The high priest, who was still lying on the ground resting, suddenly felt that the ground seemed to be shaking. "Your Highness Elder, have you felt anything?" The high priest asked the elders.

The elder was watching the army cross the river, and he didn't react for a moment, but after a few seconds, he also felt a noticeable tremor. Several generals also noticed the increasingly strong tremors. They all turned their heads to look upstream, and felt as if the vibration was coming from that side, and there was a loud sound that was coming closer to this side.

An angel ascended into the air to take a look at the situation, but as soon as he reached the height of the treetops, he was shot with an arrow.

"Enemy attack!" The guards shouted loudly.

As the soldiers panicked, the ground shook more and more, and suddenly, the ground was almost unmanned. The sound of the ground shaking and the breaking of trees rushed from far and near, and the ground shook like a jolting carriage, and many people had to half-crouch down to stabilize their bodies. Suddenly, a white wall rushed out of the corner ahead. There are also a large number of broken trees.

"Oh my God!" The generals knew in an instant that they were being calculated again!

The loud sound came from the flood, and the waves four or five meters high rushed over like a sea of broken trees and large rocks, a force that could not be resisted by man. Before they crossed the river, and the soldiers on both sides of the bank were all swept in, and more importantly, the army's siege equipment was still in the river, and they were all swept out together and disappeared into the lower reaches of the river.

The flood was fierce. It was not only the river that swept the ground, but also the attack area within 20 meters on both sides of the river, and there were not many soldiers who were swept away. After all, how wide can a river be? The point is that the loss of siege equipment is too heavy, especially the largest giant battering ram has also been swept away, and there is only one thing in total, which is completely finished.

This flood came and went quickly, and it ended in less than ten minutes. The bosses of the temple are protected by angels, or they are angels themselves, and they fly directly to avoid the flood, but they were unexpectedly attacked by archers. Although several of the main officers were fine, the two accompanying elders were all colored, and the worst was Elder Zuo, this guy was hit by an arrow in the ass and went straight into it, and it was probably not so easy to take out the arrow. This time, because he couldn't walk because of diarrhea, the high priest had company, and Elder Zuo was also carried away on a stretcher like him.

Actually, there was a dam just upstream of the river, and we just bought the guild that managed the dam to open the sluice gate and release the water when we ordered it. Floods during dry periods are more deadly than floods during normal flood periods, because you are unprepared and will suffer more severe losses than usual. The Temple of Light has realized that fire and water are ruthless.

In the aftermath of the disaster, the angels began to search for the source of the arrows that attacked the elders, but found nothing. In the end, the losses were counted, and the personnel only lost about 500 people, which was nothing to this regiment of more than 10 million people, but the war aircraft lost more than half, which was much more important than those personnel. Without these siege equipment, the battle losses would have increased by at least ten percent, and for this army of more than 10 million people, these ten million points are more than a million people, which of course is much more valuable than 500 people.

If there is no large number of siege equipment in the siege battle, the city wall will cause a large number of casualties on the attacking side, so the bright army has to stop and cut down trees to remake siege equipment, fortunately, most of the destroyed wooden structures such as trebuchets are installed, and the real magic weapons are all packed in space treasures, and they are not transported outside, otherwise the loss will be greater.

This delay did not return to the army of light until noon on the 22nd, but the god of war would never waste time. The army of the Temple of Light is in a hurry to make siege equipment at the same time he is also the commander of our group turn, because the slaughter of the Temple of Light army has gained a lot of experience, although the group that was instructed to turn, the players in the meeting are very cooperative, after all, the face of the god of war can be seen, people are indeed better than anyone else, not convinced.

On the afternoon of the 22nd, the Legion of Light began to walk through the vast jungle, but did not leave the forest until it was completely dark. The 7.5 million men in the vanguard of the Temple of Light were killed after crossing this forest and reaching the river, which means that this road should lead to the other side of the forest, after all, another army has already walked once, but this time it has been walking for so long and has not found an exit. The only survivor of the vanguard army, High Priest Cosoma, didn't feel that something was right until this time!

"Stop...... Stop...... Stop it. The high priest Coshoma cried.

"What's wrong?" Lying next to him, Elder Zuo asked him suspiciously.

The high priest said, "Are we on the wrong path?" I've just walked this road. Shouldn't it be that long? ”

As soon as a few generals heard it, they knew that there was another problem, and they had already figured out our situation in the past few days. Although we don't know who our commander is, these high-level leaders of the Temple of Light have already understood that there is a commander on our side who is particularly good at calculation, so as long as there is an abnormal situation along the way, it must be calculated. The current situation is clearly a harbinger.

Elder Zuo asked the high priest, "Are you sure this is not the right way?" ”

An adjutant general also said: "There is no fork in the road here." There's no reason why we're going down the wrong path, right? ”

Cohoma shook his head and said, "I don't know what's going on, but we're definitely on the wrong track." When we first came over, this road only walked for more than four hours, and at that time, it was because our people lacked food, so the speed was not fast, and now the army is so fast that it has not gone out for seven or eight hours. ”

"But it doesn't make sense!"

One of the generals said, "Either way, we may be almost at the exit, so we should march for two hours first, and if we don't go out again, it means that we are really going the wrong way." ”

"It seems that this is the only way to go."

The army continued to advance, but at a much faster pace. Two hours later, the soldier who was walking in front suddenly noticed movement ahead. So he reported to his superiors, and several generals immediately ran over. The commander of the Temple of Light, Konstantin, rushed all the way over, and sure enough, he found that there was an army in front of him, and there seemed to be quite a few of them. Because the marks on the ground are very obvious, and some of them are traces left by heavy carriages, it seems that the number of opponents must be very large.

Konstantin quickly organized an assault team, and because he was more anxious, Konstantin himself joined the team. With a wave of Konstantin's hand. The assault team immediately touched it. Most of the other party are knights, and they are still flying the banner of the Temple of Light. A soldier beside Konstantin said: "Boss, those people dare to pretend to be us!" ”

Konstantin himself was angry. Immediately rushed up, planning to put down two first. But as soon as he rushed behind them, the knight heard the sound and suddenly turned and grabbed his weapon.

"Carl?"

"Marshal?"

Both the attacker and the attacked were stunned. The person Konstantin attacked was actually an acquaintance of his, and this was one of his cronies, because the team was advancing in the forest, and the line was relatively long due to the road. Konstantin was afraid that someone would be left behind, so he asked this cronie from Fei Kuji to go to the back of the team to watch so as not to let people fall behind, but he didn't expect that he would catch up with him from behind.

This cronie named Kardi also looked inexplicable. "Marshal, aren't you in front? How did you get up from behind? And attack me? ”

One of the generals beside Konstantin preemptively asked, "We still have to ask you, why did you run ahead of us?" ”

Carl looked aggrieved. "When did I go ahead of you? It was the marshal who told me to go to the end of the team and watch so as not to leave anyone behind. I've always been at the back of the line, but when did you fall behind? Why didn't I see you? ”

Konstantin pulled both of them down. "Wait, wait, wait! So you didn't leave your post without permission, which means that we caught up with the rear of our legion? ”

The person next to me also heard the problem. "Damn, aren't we going to be a circle team?"

Konstantin nodded: "I said that I can't get out!" It turned out that we had been running in circles in a closed circle, and it must have been because I ordered the team to speed up, and our team was too long, and it took time for the rear team to receive the order, so as the order was passed backwards, the team was gradually lengthened, which made us the most on our own rear team. Damn, what's going on? ”

Konstantin depressedly ordered the whole army to rest in place, and he himself returned to the commander's assembly point. As soon as Elder Zuo saw him coming back, he immediately asked, "How is it?" Are those in front of you the same trapped travelers as us or the enemies who set traps? ”

"Hey...... Don't mention it! Depressed, Konstantin found a large rock and sat down. In front is our back team. Fortunately, it is my cronies who walk at the back, otherwise I would really be an idiot snake! "There is a kind of greedy idiot snake in European legend who often uses his tail as food, and ends up swallowing it from the tail. In the end, I swallowed myself into a small circle only to find that I was eating my own tail, and then slowly spit it out. If Konstantin really impulsively fights with his own rear team, he will really become a snake head and bite a snake tail like an idiot snake.

After listening to Constantine's explanation, Elder Left looked at Elder Right, the two of them had the highest status in the army this time. Of course, if there is something, we must discuss it with each other first. Elder Right thought for a moment and said, "I think we have fallen for the illusion. There was obviously an entrance when we entered the forest, and the High Priest of Cohoma also walked this road, which means that this road was open at both ends, but it was forcibly created by someone with some kind of illusion, so that we kept going around the same place. ”

Elder Zuo immediately continued: "In this way, we should immediately ask the priest who can detect illusions to search the illusion area along the way, as long as we find the junction, we will definitely be able to get out." ”

"That's right, I'll arrange it right away, we have so many priests, we must be done in one night." Konstantin got up excitedly and ran to arrange for the illusion detection man.

Neither Konstantin nor the left and right elders could sleep well that night. Because they were nervous about the results of the investigation. Whether the army can leave safely depends on whether this reconnaissance work is effective. Including the members of the High Priest Cosema in the Inland Command Corps, they have been pitted too many times these days, and they have instinctively thought that this will not be so simple to cover up. They were able to guess correctly, and the priests all returned the next day, early in the morning of the 23rd. None of them found any traces of illusion.

Konstantin said with some excitement: "How could it not be?" Did you miss something? ”

The leader of the priesthood group said: "We use a three-person team of covering detection, and each person and the spells of the people next to them cover each other half, so that every inch of land is used twice for illusion detection, and it is impossible to miss it." ”

"Is it possible that the other party's illusion is relatively high, and your divine power is insufficient to detect it?"

The priest wept and said, "Detecting illusions is not destroying illusions. There is no relationship between the level of zài's power at all, it is just the discovery of traces of illusion, and no matter how powerful the illusion is, there should be traces. Even if it is an illusion arranged by a high-ranking god, it should be able to detect, and if there is no reaction, it means that there is no illusion and there will be no mistakes. ”

In fact, what the high priest said was not wrong at all, this circle path is indeed the real path, and it is not an illusion at all. In fact, this is a staged ploy of the god of war. Releasing water to destroy the large equipment of the Temple Legion was only the first step. We know that those weapons are just battering rams and trebuchets made of wood, and the real high-level magic weapons are in space items, so destroying those devices is not the main purpose of the god of war at all. The god of war calculates that although these things are not very important, they cannot be without. The place happens to be a forest, and the equipment is made of wood. After the Temple of Light found out that these things had been washed away, of course, it would immediately rebuild them on the spot, and what the god of war wanted was the day when the other party was delayed in building these things. While the people of the Temple of Light were building those machines, our side had already used a lot of labor and construction machinery to cut a circular path in the forest. Then we started cutting down the circle road and cut a road that connected to the entrance to the forest. After that, it's time to confuse the enemy. Because one of the people in the opposing team has already walked the road, they will immediately realize that there is a problem as soon as they find a fork in the road. And illusion is okay to deal with ordinary people, the priest is the illusion buster, although it may not be broken, but it can definitely be found, so illusion must not be used.

The method we used was to use the Dryad to impersonate the Great Tree. Among the guardians of this guild are the dryads given by the demon clan, these creatures are originally big trees, as long as they show their true bodies, and then stand on the road to seal the real road, when the people of the Temple of Light pass through the fork in the road, they will only find the fork in the road that leads to the circle road we dug, and the other real road is blocked by the dryad. Although the Dryad is a magical creature, they are originally large trees, at most they are relatively old. Since it wasn't an illusion in the first place, of course it wouldn't work. As long as the dryads don't move, no one can tell the difference between them and ordinary trees.

With the cooperation of the Dryad, the Bright Army turned on the fork in the road leading to the circle road, and at the same time, the connection between the circle road and the fork was also camouflaged, and this side was also blocked by the Dryad. As soon as the army had all walked in, the dryads shifted their positions, giving way to the ring road and blocking the fork in the road where the Temple of Light army had entered. When the army of light passed by again, the fork in their way had been blocked, and they had to continue along the road. But this road is a closed loop, and no matter how long they run in it, they don't want to reach the end.

While the army of light was running laps on the road we built, we used this time to plant real saplings on that section of the approach path, and then let the natural mages use mana to catalyze the growth of saplings, and soon when the saplings grew to the same size as the surrounding trees, they really became part of the forest, and there was no flaw in the battle. The circular runway inside was forged in this way, cutting down some big trees that blocked the way, planting some ordinary plants, and then creating the appearance of roadside plants. Anyway, those plants are real forest plants, but we transplanted them from somewhere else. The Dryads began to gradually withdraw from the fork in the road after the real tree had grown, and the real tree took their place to form a real forest, so a completely closed circle path appeared.

In fact, the Legion of Light can run one lap in two hours, and they ran four or five laps in the forest from noon to night, and they were stupid to think that the forest was relatively large. I guess if it hadn't been for the high priest Coshoma walking through once, they wouldn't have been able to find out that there was a problem with the road until tomorrow. But we are not afraid, even if they find that there is a problem with the road now, it is not so easy for them to figure it out. We threw a lot of magnets in the woods, and the compass couldn't be used. The real road and their circle road were still separated by two or three kilometers of dense forest, and if they couldn't determine the direction, they wouldn't want to find this road. As for leaving the forest directly, this method is exactly what the god of war wants. Anyway, the god of the army is to consume the morale, food, body and patience of the opposing team's personnel, and when they open a way out, these things will probably be gone. (Totaro National Day Special Update)

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