219. The Sudden Intruder
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Fifteen days, a limit that Sean has set for himself since the beginning of the war. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
Because Sean didn't know how long the battle between Alexis and Imoku would take, but he knew that the war between Emrakul and the Blood Elf Ancestor was a real battle to the death - only one of the two would survive. So in such a death battle, Sean believes that it only takes ten days to determine the winner and loser, and he believes in the strength of Imoku even more, so he will set the number of fifteen days.
It is precisely because of this that after consulting with Mills and others, he will formulate a series of strategic plans.
But what I didn't expect was that this plan basically died when it was just beginning to be implemented. γ
Since the third day, when Flamens directly gave up the large army encircling Sean and instead besieged the castle of the Dominic clan, Sean directly led his troops to fight against other small and medium-sized clans of the Giovanni clan.
The first target of Sean is the vassals of the Giovanni clan, the Nurais clan on the fifth order list.
The contest between the two sides began.
In just one day, the last 20,000 remaining blood slaves of the combined forces of the Paul Clan and the Riley Clan were exhausted in the war against the Nurais Clan. And as a price, the Nurais clan was completely disabled by the blood soldiers led by Sean, and even the head of the Nurais clan was killed on the spot in the battle to the death, and almost all the blood clans of the entire clan above the rank of viscount were killed.
Even Sean didn't expect that the Nulais clan would choose such a bloody counterattack.
According to the sequence clan method of blood clan generation after generation, the emerging blood clan that is directly separated from the thirteen clans of the bloodline of this sect is the second sequence clan. The strength of the head of this kind of clan must be the prince rank, even if it is not, its future growth limit must be above the prince, and two or more clans can definitely be cultivated within the clan, which is the strength of the second order of clans.
If those future achievements cannot become the blood clan of the prince, the thirteen clans will definitely not let them break away and open up their own clan.
Being able to open up a new clan is a glory that needs to be screened and identified.
And from the stage of opening up a clan, the development of a clan will naturally have its own history of rise and fall.
Each clan, with a period of five hundred years, if the development history of this clan in the five hundred years has led to only one prince left in this powerful clan due to various reasons, and the head of the clan has begun to carry out the second generation transmission, then the clan will fall from the second order to the third order.
In other words, the clans in the third sequence must all have at least one prince in charge.
After that, the fourth sequence is that the clan inheritance has begun for more than two generations, and the strongest person within the clan is the duke rank; The fifth sequence is the rank of marquis; The sixth sequence is the rank of earldom; The seventh sequence is naturally the viscount rank, and this is also the lowest order. If a clan doesn't even have a viscount, then the clan is not far from being annexed by other clans.
The Nulais Clan, a clan located in the fifth sequence, is headed by a strong man of the Marquis rank. There are thirteen blood clans in the entire clan, more than thirty blood clans in the earl rank, and nearly 100 blood clans in the viscount rank; The strength of the entire clan is ranked in the middle of the fifth sequence of clans, and the potential embodiment of the clan bloodline is not strong, but it is not weak either.
But such a clan was completely crippled in one day.
After a day of bloody battles in the entire clan, there are less than 100 people left in the clan who can still be regarded as official members, of which only two barons are the strongest, and the rest can only be regarded as the lords and knights of the "new ding", and the blood slaves are exhausted in this battle. Perhaps in the coalition forces around Flamens, the Nulais clan still retains a considerable degree of combat power, but all this still can't change the fact that the Nulais clan is basically removed from the Giovanni clan.
This was only the result of the war that broke out on the third day: in the face of the combined attack of two powerful clans in the second order, it was impossible for a single clan in the fifth order to resist it.
Even though, these two clans in the second order have already experienced a series of tragic wars and are a tired army.
However, its authority no longer allows anyone to provoke or question it.
What Flamens' reaction would be after receiving the news that the Nurais clan had been beaten and collapsed was not something that Sean could guess, in fact, even Sean did not expect that the resistance of the Nulais clan would be so fierce that the two sides who fought the real fire in the end could not easily stop. But according to the information received by the eavesdroppers sent out the next day, it was Flamens who quickened the pace of the march.
The trip, which was supposed to arrive in the afternoon of the fifth day, arrived late at night on the fourth day.
Then, on the morning of the fifth day, Flamens completed the siege of the entire Dominica Clan Castle. In the afternoon, after the entire coalition force had rested for a noon, Flamens gave the order to launch an attack on Dominica Castle, and the siege began.
But to Flamemins' surprise, it was the Dominica clan that was so difficult.
From the afternoon of the fifth day until late at night, the coalition forces led by Flamens only occupied the entire outer wall area of the castle, and began to engage in a tug-of-war with the defenders of the Dominic clan over the inner walls.
To be able to take down the outer wall of a second-order clan base camp in one day is definitely a proud achievement.
However, if the actual casualty figures of this war were known, then I am afraid that no one would think that this was a proud achievement.
The 200,000 blood slave cannon fodder of the Dominic clan was completely depleted in this battle, and at the cost of the 300,000 blood slave cannon fodder in the Flamens coalition army, only a little more than 30,000 remained. As for the casualties of the official blood clan members on both sides, they are also more than a thousand, and perhaps when the Flamens coalition army apportioned this thousand casualties index among the various clans in the coalition army, the number of casualties was not large.
But for Flamens, as the commander of this coalition army, he only felt a burning pain in the face of these figures.
It can be said that this battle is a more tragic war than Sean's destruction of the entire Nurais clan.
And these data are only the results of half a day.
The thought that even the inner walls of the Dominic clan had not been breached made Flamings feel unusually annoyed.
Of course, in the two days between Flamens' rapid march and the first round of confrontation with the Dominic clan, Sean was also not idle.
The destruction of the Nurais clan was only the beginning.
Sean took the Nurais clan as the base point, and began a clockwise sweep, in the past two days, two clans that were also in the fifth sequence were disabled, but the tragedy was not as fierce as the Nurais clan, and after eliminating the main garrison forces of these two clans, Sean led the coalition army to leave. Of course, another factor that didn't cause the confrontation with the Nurais clan to be as tragic as it was when they fought against the Nurais clan was that the two clans probably didn't intend to fight to the death with Sean's coalition forces in the first place.
After the main force of the clan garrison was wiped out, the two clans quickly chose to retreat and dodge, not fighting Sean head-on at all.
Obviously, after knowing the fate of the Nulais clan, the two clans knew what it would be like to fight Shaun head-on.
And Sean, after the two clans began to give up resistance, began to implement the raiding policy that had been planned for a long time: the towns in the territory of the two clans were plundered and destroyed to a considerable extent. After all, Sean's army does not have any logistical supplies, and this series of war expenses must be obtained through war, which is the so-called war by war.
Then, on the sixth day of the war, a second, more intense battle broke out between the Flammings and the Dominic clans.
At noon on the sixth day, the inner walls of the Dominic Clan were officially declared lost, and the Dominic Clan abandoned the ground defense line of the castle and retreated to the underground safety zone. And when Flamens, who thought that the war was over and that the next thing would be a massacre, broke into the castle of the Dominic clan and found an extremely spacious and vast underground area, he almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood.
Because in this second battle, the last 30,000 blood slaves of the coalition army were completely exhausted, and the coalition army also had nearly 500 official blood casualties. Although the Dominica clan once again paid the price of the death of nearly a thousand official blood clan members, some small clans in the coalition army were no longer able to continue to participate in this war at this time, especially after hearing the news that three fifth-order clans in the rear were disabled, and for a while, there were also disagreements within the coalition army.
All this made Flamens extremely irritable.
But the war did not end there.
Flamens' Blitzkrieg plan has since officially failed. Because from this moment on, every time Sean makes trouble for him in the rear for one more day, the pressure he needs to bear will become heavier and heavier, and the voices of doubt will become more and more, and eventually he will be completely stripped of his inheritance.
This is the result that Flamens cannot tolerate.
Maybe Sean didn't know why the Nurais clan would be so determined to fight Sean to the death, but Flamens knew very well. Because the Nurais clan is his direct power - if Flamens is unable to compete with Dorne for inheritance and is forced to leave the Giovanni clan and start his own clan, the entire Nulais clan will immediately join the Francian clan.
But now, the Nurais clan has been completely destroyed by Sean, which is equivalent to cutting off a back path for Flamens.
It's just that Sean hasn't realized this yet.
On the seventh and eighth days, Flamens quickly learned more about the difficulty of the Dominic clan.
During these two days, the coalition forces, which had lost all the blood slave cannon fodder, could only fight the Dominica clan with the official blood members of their own clan. However, for the coalition forces that are not united internally and almost everyone has different thoughts, this kind of pure and bottomless consumption naturally no one is willing to go up and fight hard, so it gives the Dominica clan more time.
In these two days, the number of casualties of the Dominic clan suddenly dropped from an average of thousands of casualties per day to only three or four hundred casualties per day. Although for the Dominica clans, this battle loss is something they need to bear with their strength, unlike the coalition army, which is shared among all the clans participating in the war, but after four consecutive days of cauldron battles, many of the small clans in the sixth and seventh sequences are completely unable to bear it, and they finally have to stop this war of attrition.
Although the clans of the second and third sequences could continue to hold on, how could a clan as powerful as them not have ambitions for the throne of the Giovanni clan? As for the medium-sized clans of the fourth and fifth sequences, they also had their own supporters, and when the clans of the second and third sequences began to disobey Flangels' orders, these medium-sized clans also began to improvise without help.
From the ninth day onwards, the pressure on the Dominica clan became even less: at the end of the day, the number of casualties in the Dominica clan was less than two hundred.
On the other hand, during these four days, Sean naturally did not sit idle, but began to work more desperately in the rear of the Giovanni clan.
In just four days, two more fifth-order clans were completely crippled by Sean, and the severity of the tragedy was not necessarily much better than the result of the Nulais clan. In addition, there are more than seven small and medium-sized clans that have been completely frightened, and the entire clan territory is an undefended zone for Sean's troops.
On average, Sean maintains a terrifying record of crippling two clans every day.
And more importantly, in the other two clans that fought to the death with Sean, there was a clan that was very unlucky that Sean discovered their "farm", so that if this clan wants to develop, it is even more impossible.
What is a Farm?
The farm is where the Blood's slaves are kept in captivity.
These slaves have not yet been turned into blood slaves by the Bloodline, they are still self-conscious, they have just lost their freedom. But for the blood clan, these slaves are actually equivalent to the chickens, ducks, cows, sheep and pigs and other farms built by humans - after raising these slaves to a certain extent, except for leaving the necessary number of matings, all the other slaves are transformed into blood slaves, in addition to serving as cannon fodder for the blood clan, and at the same time serving as spare bait for the blood clan.
This is a very tragic and bloody method.
Whether it is a demon party or a secret party, it is in this way to solve the needs within the clan. It's just that the secret faction will be a little more humane than the demon party when it does this kind of thing, that is, to provide a certain degree of freedom for these slaves, and it will not go out to loot at will like the demon party.
Sean has no intention of changing the survival mode of the Bloods, after all, he can't stay in the Underworld forever.
Moreover, the slaves in this farm, whose fate had been decided from birth, had no intelligence at all - of course, they were not strictly human, but merely humanoids.
If a war breaks out between the two worlds on the surface and underground, and there are humans who have been plundered by the blood clan and raised here as pigs, ducks, cattle and sheep, then Sean will definitely come to the rescue. But looking at those humanoid creatures with almost no intelligence to speak of, even if Sean tried to admit it, he really couldn't think of these creatures as humans, so he took a tacit attitude towards the next actions of the Paul clan and the Riley clan.
Because of this, after leaving this clan territory, the army led by Sean has more than 20,000 blood slaves.
And because of the more than 20,000 blood slaves, it was able to support Sean in the next operation, and he was able to maintain an average of two clans per day. Of course, by the eighth day, more than 20,000 blood slaves were also exhausted in the fierce battle with another fifth-order clan.
On the tenth day, when Sean once again completely wiped out a fifth-order clan, all the small and medium-sized clans in the Franmings coalition army finally couldn't help but declare their separation from the coalition army. Because the pressure brought to them by Sean was too great, these clans at the bottom of the blood social structure were simply not qualified to participate in a war of attrition of this scale here.
On this day, it was rare that no war broke out between Flamens and Dominica.
But there is no doubt that Flamens must have been questioned from many quarters on this day, and the pressure on him has clearly reached its limit. Doubts began within the Giovanni clan about Flamens' ability to leadβa question that would be fatal to a man who wanted to be the leader of the Thirteen Clans, and the last thing Flamens wanted.
Now, there are only two options left in front of Flangels.
Either turn back and solve the trouble of Sean, who is making trouble in the big rear, or give up the identity of the new king candidate of the Giovanni clan.
Whichever of these two paths Flangels chooses, Sean has already achieved his desired goal: if Flemmings chooses the former, by the time he finds Sean and begins to implement the interception and encirclement tactics, the fifteen-day deadline will have already expired; And if the latter is chosen, then there will definitely be another long argument meeting within the Giovanni clan, which may last more than five days.
In any case, Sean finally achieved the strategy of fighting for fifteen days.
And in the process, being able to make Flamens deflated is Sean's greatest pleasure.
So from the tenth day onwards, after Flamens did not make any movement, and after all the small and medium-sized clans of Flamens broke away from the coalition army, Sean did not take any action. And in order to prevent possible traps, Sean led the troops into the valley maze, his caution and carefulness naturally made countless demon blood clans scold more than once, but for Sean, who has long been accustomed to being used to deceit, how could he ever care about this painless scolding?
On the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth days, there was no movement for three consecutive days, and whether it was Riley, Paul, or Mills, there was a sense of relief.
Ten days of fierce fighting and movement warfare have tightened everyone's nerves, because in this kind of contest in which each other's strategies and tactics cannot be seen from each other, what is competing is the ability of the commanders of both sides to resist pressure, the ability to grasp the enemy's movements, and the ability to trust their own side.
Dominic trusts Sean's choice, so he shows an extremely tenacious side of resistance, giving Sean enough time to win.
This is the most crucial factor for Sean to win this war against Flamens.
Secondly, the discord within the Flamens coalition is also a point that Sean took advantage of this time.
With the strength of the Paul clan and the Riley clan, they may be able to carry out a looting strike against a second-order clan that responded to the call of the coalition, but this battle Sean and others are also bound to pay a heavy price. Such a result may make this clan feel extremely angry, but it will definitely not bring any hope for Dominic, because among the coalition forces on the Flamens side, there are three clans that belong to the second order, and the coalition of Sean and the Paul clan and the Riley clan can only defeat two second-order clans at most, and then they will completely lose their combat power.
And this loss of combat power will also lead to the destruction of the Paul clan and the Riley clan.
This is a strategy that no one with a little brain would do.
Therefore, Sean chose the most time-consuming and laborious way, but it can maximize the results: picking soft persimmons and pinching.
This brings us to the third key element: resilience.
If Flamens had been more charismatic, more commanding, or united within the coalition, it would have been difficult for Sean to achieve effective results no matter how much he messed up in the rear of the Giovanni clan. Because as long as these small and medium-sized clans do not break away from the coalition forces, then Flamens will not be questioned in any way, maybe the war will still be very difficult, but as long as it continues to persevere, it will only be the Dominica clan that will be destroyed first.
After all, the forces of both sides were not equal from the beginning.
The strength of the Dominica clan is one dead and one is missing, but the battle losses of the coalition army can be shared. In this way, although the battle losses of the coalition forces are not necessarily smaller than those of Dominica, they have always remained within a tolerable range, and they are naturally not afraid of this kind of war of attrition. But the Dominica clan is not good, once the loss is too large, even if the war can be won in the end, but for the Dominica clan, this is still a loss.
To put it simply, it is to win a battle, but lose the future of a clan.
Fortunately, in the end, the side that couldn't hold up first was Flamens' coalition, not Sean's.
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"It looks like this battle is completely over."
In the valley labyrinth, Mills, who was lying on the ground resting without an image to speak of, said to Sean next to him with a smile: "Flamens is really unfortunate to encounter a monster like you to act as his opponent. β
"Perhaps." After many days of continuous fighting, even Sean really couldn't support it, and he naturally wouldn't let go of the rare rest time at this time, "If it weren't for the fact that there were several fourteenth-order princes around him, I really planned to fight him directly." β
"I heard that there is a prince of the fifteenth order." Riley interjected.
"He's the head of the Amani clan, right?" As for the situation within the Giovanni clan, Paul knows more about it than Riley, after all, Riley can only be regarded as a young girl at best, and Paul can be regarded as an uncle of Riley in terms of age, "That old immortal has lived at least one or two thousand now, right?" is still holding on to the position of the head of the family, really. β
"Fifteenth order, isn't that one step away from being able to step into the elder rank?" Sean has lived in the underground world for so long, so he naturally knows some of the ranking methods, "Now among the thirteen clans of your blood clan, there are not many powerhouses of the elder rank, right?" β
"Each of the thirteen clans has one." Paul replied, "They are all old monsters who have lived for tens of thousands of years, sleeping in the deepest part of the pool of blood." β¦β¦ Lesomba was the only surviving ancestor, and I really didn't understand why he suddenly woke up. Speaking of this, Paul also turned his head to look at Sean, apparently because Alexis had trouble with this Lesomba ancestor, so Paul also thought that Sean must know something.
"To be honest, I don't know." Sean said helplessly, "But I guess it should be the momentum resonance." β
"Momentum resonance?" Mills was weaker and didn't quite understand what he meant.
Instead, Riley and Paul were both thoughtful.
"By the way, if that Amani becomes an elder, then won't there be two elders in the Giovanni clan?" Sean asked.
"That's right, it's just not that easy to become an elder." It was Riley who answered Sean, "There are too many factors involved, and if the head of the Amani clan wants to step into the elder rank, I'm afraid it will take another two or three thousand years of hard work, after all, he is too old." β¦β¦ Moreover, it is difficult to say whether they will live for two or three thousand years. β
The definition of genius seems to be more or less the same in both the surface world and the underworld.
Several people who felt relieved about the end of the war were also chatting on the side at this time, after all, as long as they persisted in spending the last three days, then Flamens would never be able to turn over any more storms.
Not even Flammings, the entire Giovanni clan is unlikely to make any more trouble, because with the powerful ancestor who is high above them to suppress it, it is impossible for any clan to make trouble again.
This is the absolute deterrent force formed after the strength reaches a certain level.
But at this moment, a herald who seemed to be in charge of contacting outside intelligence hurriedly ran to Sean and the others, and then reported a news that shocked everyone.
In the past three silent days, it was not Flamens who gave up in resignation, but he broke out in the last struggle!
He had apparently reached some sort of agreement with the heads of the other clans, and no one knew what the agreement would be. The only thing that can be known is that today, on the thirteenth day of Sean's expected fifteen-day war time limit, suddenly an army of more than 500,000 Giovanni clans gathered again, and then began to march towards the territory of the Dominic clan.
Almost all of the newly formed coalition forces were composed of second- and third-order clans, and only a few of the more powerful fourth-order clans also joined the coalition. The entire newly formed coalition army has more than 400,000 blood slaves, and these blood slaves can be said to be the last number of blood slaves that the entire Giovanni clan can piece together.
From this point of view, it is possible to know that Flamens is truly all-or-nothing this time.
With more than 400,000 blood slaves, plus 100,000 elite blood clans of various clans, plus the tens of thousands of Flemmings coalition troops that had surrounded the Dominica clan before, the scale of the newly formed Flangels coalition army has reached an unprecedented 600,000. This is definitely the largest civil war army in the history of the entire blood society.
If nothing else, those 400,000 blood slaves alone are enough to fill the ground of the entire Dominica clan.
Or many Minicke clans can fight with Flamens with the underground space of the castle, but under such a large-scale force pressure, I am afraid it will be difficult to hold on for even a day. After all, the two walls of the Dominic Clan's castle were lost because Flamens used crowd tactics to forcibly suppress them without any scruples, and if Flamens used this method again, the Dominica Clan would really not be able to survive until the fifteenth day.
And, most importantly, the fifteen-day time limit is just Sean's prediction.
It is likely that the actual time limit will fluctuate by several days, that is, it is possible to end the battle on the fourteenth day, or it may drag on to the sixteenth or seventeenth day.
Everyone's eyes couldn't help but look at Sean when they heard the news.
"Let's go!" Without the slightest hesitation, Sean decisively gave the order to fight.
Soon, Sean led the group out of the labyrinth valley and instead attacked the march route of the new coalition army.
On the fourteenth day, Sean and the New Coalition launched a hand-to-hand handover, with casualties on each other. The commander of the new coalition force also took the opportunity to leave half of his troops to encircle and counterattack Sean and others, and the remaining half of his troops continued to advance towards the territory of the Dominica clan.
Obviously, Flamens intends to wipe out Sean, the Paul Clan, the Riley Clan, and the Dominic Clan this time.
And on the fifteenth day, the miracle that Sean had hoped for did not happen.
Whether it's Imrakul or Alexis, the war between the two of them is still not over.
On this day, the nearly 200,000 new coalition troops left behind by Sean and Flamens finally broke out into a bloody battle on a tragic scale, officially sounding the clarion call for Giovanni's bloody internal war.
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And on the third day of the official outbreak of the bloody war, a strong tremor that affected the entire underground world suddenly sounded.
At this moment, all the inhabitants of the Underworld, no matter where they were, could hear an extremely obvious sound of glass breaking.
Many people may not know what this voice means.
But for all those whose strength has reached the rank of prince (legendary) or above, they know very well what this voice represents: it is the sound of the shattering crystal wall of the plane!
In an instant, almost all the powerhouses involuntarily turned their eyes to the place where the voice came from.
It was a very subtle feeling.
Obviously, it was only the moment when this voice sounded, but for those whose strength had reached a certain level, it was as if they had witnessed the scene of the shattering of the crystal wall, and they could clearly know where the location of the broken crystal wall was. (To be continued.) )