218. Contest

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These men and women also appeared to be seventeen or eighteen to thirty or forty years old. The equipment they use is very rudimentary, in order to ensure their mobility, they hardly wear any medium-sized armor, and most of their weapons are mainly short swords, etc., and only a few people will use spears with stronger piercing power or more sophisticated long swords, spears and other weapons.

These numb, almost unconscious people are blood slaves in captivity by the blood clan.

In the surface world, people often refer to them as humanoid golems.

Because these Blood Slaves have long since lost their sense of self and awareness, the only thing they need to do is to carry out the orders given by the Blood Commander.

And this time, the order given by the commander of the Blood Clan is to destroy all enemies at all costs.

Therefore, even though their strength was completely inferior to that of their opponents, they still did not have the slightest fear, and launched a death charge towards the enemies in their field of vision one after another.

This is a terrible battle unfolding in the hills and valleys.

In the face of this overwhelming number of blood slaves, the side of the Paul clan and the Riley clan has few blood slaves to consume for various reasons: the former is because of his participation in the call for the blood alliance war initiated by Dorne before; The latter is the result of being suppressed by Dorne in recent years, so both clans can only let the official members of the clan go into battle to kill the enemy.

However, although the official members of the clan have stronger combat power than the blood slaves, in this situation where ants bite and kill elephants, once entangled, it is often easy to take care of one or the other. What's more, Giovanni's revenge division is not only blood slaves, they also have official blood members from various clans, and those who can be sent to this battlefield to show their faces are generally relatively elite talents.

A member of the blood clan of the Paul clan stopped several blood slaves who rushed towards him head-on, and completely tore them apart with both hands without mercy, and the blood in his eyes showed that the lord of the Paul clan had completely killed the violent spirit.

In the face of another Blood Slave's charge, he did not hesitate to smash the Blood Slave's chest with a forward charge.

But before he could react, he only felt a sudden throbbing pain in his heart.

When he looked down, it was a right hand like a sharp blade that directly pierced the chest of the blood slave who had been knocked into his chest, and then inserted it into his heart, and suddenly pulled out his blood core, completely crushing it.

A member of the Bloodline who has lost his blood core, no matter how high or low he is, will not be able to live, just like a normal human heart being dug out directly.

However, before the lord of the Paul clan could lose consciousness, a whistling sound formed by the extreme force of the wielding suddenly sounded, sweeping through his neck like a strong wind, and then the lord's head was already flying.

The one who crushed the lord's blood core was a baron.

But at this moment, he watched the lord's head being cut off by the second person, but he only dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, and could only watch the figure of the other party jump more than ten meters away in a few ups and downs. And along with the other party's movements, the heads of several knights and members of the lord's blood clan from the Paul clan flew up one after another, and there was even the head of a baron.

For the Bloodline, the important part of the body is the head, except for the blood core.

It's just that under normal circumstances, it is not easy to cut off the head of an official member of the Blood Clan, and it is easier to directly destroy the opponent's blood core than to spend a huge amount of effort to cut off the head of the official member of the hostile Blood Clan.

The strength of this person who was able to easily cut off the heads of the official blood members of the Paul clan was evident.

This is a viscount.

Moreover, he was also a viscount from a third-order clan below the second-order clans such as the Paul clan, the Dominic clan, and the Riley clan, and his status was obviously much more noble than the bloodline of the fifth-order clan member who had crushed the blood core.

In such a pyramidal social structure that is completely based on blood, strength, and status, how can a mere baron dare to be dissatisfied with a viscount?

Even if the other party is snatching the credit from him.

Situations like this are by no means the only scenes on the battlefield right now, and there are several or even dozens of scenes like the one happening right now.

It's just that some people are lucky, while others are more unlucky.

A powerful earl has already shown his own grandeur on this battlefield.

In just a short moment, he killed more than a dozen barons and viscounts from the Riley clan and the Paul clan. The earl was obviously very confident in his own strength, so he didn't bother to kill those knights, lords, and other low-level bloods who had not even obtained the title, but set his sights on those more difficult barons, viscounts, and even an earl's merit for his merits.

Of course, the death of this earl can't actually be regarded as his own credit, but he knows how to fight for credit, so the count of the Paul clan, whose strength is actually not weaker than him, can only be hated by his hands in the end - it was he who completed the final blow to this count from the Paul clan, and the dozen or so viscounts around him dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out about it.

This was the policy that Flamens encouraged on this march: as long as the final blow could be delivered and the evidence was obtained, the credit was counted.

Such a policy clearly hints at Flamemings' attitude: he only cares about the result, not the process.

The implementation and promulgation of such policy orders has to be said that Flamens is indeed a smart person. Because he knew that his prestige and strength were inferior to Dorne, and it was impossible for all the Giovanni lower clans who responded to the call to be completely subordinate to him, so he could only make these lower clans fight bravely by issuing such an edict, instead of thinking about how to stumble on him.

Of course, there are pros and cons to everything.

Such a policy order can certainly allow all the Blood Clan soldiers to fight bravely against the enemy, but it is obviously impossible to completely unite them.

Therefore, this Blood Earl did not hesitate to snatch the credit of others, but he did not expect that such a blatant behavior would also make him be targeted by others for a long time.

Sean soon appeared in front of him.

The strong momentum of a fourteenth-order legendary powerhouse is simply not something that a small earl can withstand. Before the Count could even figure out why he had provoked such a giant, Sean's Black King had already slashed mercilessly, not even a word, just a moment later, when Sean turned away to continue looking for the enemies he had targeted, the Earl's body had been shattered into countless pieces of flesh.

And Sean's sword power naturally can't just be used against an earl.

Together with the dozen or so viscounts who had besieged the Paul clan just now, as well as the other blood slaves around them, all of them had become countless pieces of flesh at this time.

A cleared area appeared on the battlefield so suddenly.

In fact, there is not only one empty circle that suddenly appears on the battlefield at this time.

The strength of Riley and Paul is not low, and the Riley clan and the Paul clan together also have four dukes and more than a dozen marquises, this combat power may not be too strong in the face of the Flammings army, but if it is only in the face of the vanguard force that is now entangled in the valley and Sean and others, it is more than enough.

It's just that the number and scale of the enemies are too much, although almost more than seventy percent of them are just worthless cannon fodder blood slaves, but under the suppression of having a sufficient number of scales, it is still a little reluctant for the Sean and Paul clans and the Riley clan to completely resist them.

These cleared areas, in less than two or three seconds, will be filled by a large number of blood slaves.

Then, those official blood members from various clans will once again hide behind these blood slaves and continue to sneak attack.

This kind of regular force that uses blood slave cannon fodder to attract attention and be responsible for consumption, and then the members of the blood clan with the strength of regular soldiers hide behind the blood slave and kill the enemy by means of surprise attacks and sneak attacks, which is already a conventional means of warfare when the blood clan launches a war.

"If we continue like this, we will be completely consumed here." Mills, escorted by several members of the Paul clan who were not afraid of death, quickly approached Sean's side, and then said in a deep voice, "Flamens is even more cunning and difficult than we expected, and we won't be able to last even three days if it goes on like this!" ”

"I'm in charge of the break!" Sean also discovered this problem, under the continuous charge of blood slave cannon fodder, with the strength of the Paul clan and the Riley clan, without the cooperation of a sufficient number of blood slaves, there is really no way to fight a war of attrition with Flamens, who has hundreds of thousands of troops.

Soon, the horn of retreat sounded on the battlefield.

The people of the Riley clan and the Paul clan, led by Riley, Paul and Mills, began to retreat in an orderly manner.

However, the troops of the Giovanni clan, as the attacking party, obviously did not want to let the people of the two clans evacuate like this, so they naturally wanted to continue the pursuit.

It's just a pity that with such a great god as Sean in front of this army, it is absolutely wishful thinking for this vanguard to continue the pursuit. After all, after losing the unfavorable situation of entanglement, Sean can naturally go on a killing spree without worrying about any superfluous things, so although a small group of enemies broke away from Sean's interception net and continued to pursue Paul and Riley, this small force could not play any role at all, and it might not take long for Riley and Paul to solve it.

After all, Mills, who is familiar with all the surroundings, is not a dry eater.

By the time Sean had dealt with the large force of the vanguard army and rejoined Riley, Paul, and Mills, it was already dark.

But even so, Sean and the others did not dare to stop, but continued to sweep the traces of the ground march while marching towards the depths of the valley hills.

Mills chose this terrain to a large extent because this valley and hilly terrain is a relatively rare four-way cloister terrain.

The terrain is a special terrain with many valleys, hills, trapezoidal valleys, etc., and not only is the mountain road intricate, the internal terrain is extensive, but also spans the territory of several clans, forming a natural labyrinth with multiple entrances and exits. And what is even more commendable is that the area of this terrain is so vast that it is enough to swallow millions of troops to hide in it, even if it is just a few entrances and exits that surround the entire labyrinth terrain, it is necessary to mobilize at least three million troops, let alone divide troops into it to search and capture.

It can be said that as long as this vanguard force does not bite Sean and the others, it will not be easy for Flamens to find Sean and the others after letting them go deep into this natural labyrinth. On the other hand, because they knew from which entrance Flamens and the others were pursuing, it was a simple matter for Sean and the others to find the location of Flamens' troops.

The offensive and defensive rhythm of the two sides directly changed between the night.

……

But Flamens, too, is not a fool.

All along, the outside world's investigation and understanding of Flamens has been completely shrouded in the shadows of Dorne. And after breaking free from the shadow of Dorne, Flamens finally showed his unique natural ability.

After knowing that the vanguard force did not bite Sean and the others, he immediately gave up his plan to continue to pursue Sean and the others, and instead ordered the large army to turn directly to encircle and suppress the Dominica clan - this law of action was completely beyond the estimation of Sean and others.

Yes.

Flamens' swiftness of action and resoluteness of his goals far exceeded the expectations of Mills and Sean, among others.

When Riley led the clan forces to attack the Nurais clan, she had already confronted the first vanguard sent by Flemmings, and although the battle ended with a complete victory for the Riley clan's forces, the plan to attack the Nulais clan was undoubtedly bankrupt. For this reason, Sean also had to complete the convergence with the troops of the Paul clan with Riley as soon as possible, because after receiving the news of the defeat of the first vanguard force, Flamens did not hesitate to send a second mobile force known for its high-speed movement ability, and cooperated with the garrison army of the Nulais clan's territory to form a new vanguard force, which tightly bit the troops of the Riley clan.

If this battle had not arrived in time for Sean and the others to arrive in time, then it would have been the troops of the Riley clan who had suffered heavy casualties.

But even if Sean and the others had arrived in time, the forces of the Riley clan had already caused a certain degree of attrition. As a result, the combined forces of the Paul Clan and the Riley Clan were bitten by the enemy, and the two sides continued to fight until the next afternoon, when everyone retreated into the valley labyrinth, and the pursuit finally turned into a white-hot battle to the death.

Originally, according to Sean's plan, Riley should have led the clan forces to attack the Nurais clan, and then completed the convergence with the Paul clan in the afternoon of the next day, and then the two sides retreated into the valley labyrinth to set the first trap to meet the main force of Flamens.

As a result, although in terms of timing, it was true that the entire army withdrew into the Labyrinth Valley in the afternoon of the next day, but the cost of the battle was that both the Paul clan and the Riley clan had varying degrees of battle damage. Moreover, the two sides could not even set traps, so they could only temporarily retreat to the depths of the labyrinth, and even the strategic purpose of the first goal: attacking the Nurais clan was not achieved.

In a way, the combined forces of the Riley Clan and the Paul Clan had already failed in the first operation.

And Flamens did not hesitate to give up the pursuit of Sean and turned to encircle Dominic, although it was already in the speculation of Sean and others, but this time was too much earlier, so that even Sean couldn't react. By the time Sean and the others discovered that something was wrong the next day, Flamens' main force had approached to the point where it was only about a day-and-a-half-day journey away from Dominica Castle.

At this time, even if Sean and the others wanted to do something, it was too late.

At present, there are only two ways left in front of Sean: first, either turn around and pursue Flamens' troops, forcing Flamens to divide his troops, so as to reduce the pressure that Dominic needs to bear; The second is to continue to let Dominic face the main army of Flangels, while Sean and the others will start with the Nulais clan according to the original plan, and trouble these clans who responded to Flangels' call one by one.

After a few seconds of thought, Sean made a decision without hesitation: go ahead with the second option.

"Since Flamens wants to seize the initiative, then we prefer not to give him the initiative." Sean said with an angry face, "With our current strength, we may not be able to defeat those third-order and fourth-order clans, but the fifth- and sixth-sequence clans are not our opponents." As long as we specifically provoke trouble with these clans, even if the opposing coalition can withstand one or two blows, as long as there are enough times, they will definitely break away from the coalition and return to the clan territory. ”

"But in this way, I am afraid that Dominic will have to bear a lot of pressure." Riley frowned for a moment before she spoke, "There are still more than 350,000 blood slaves there, and if you count the regular soldiers in each clan, there are at least close to 500,000 troops. ”

"If we go after Flangels' troops, that's really giving the initiative away." Mills said in a deep voice, "When the time comes, maybe even we will have to get in." …… Now that we are going to find trouble with these small clans, Flamens will definitely have more pressure than Dominic, and he will definitely be unable to bear it faster than Dominic. ”

"I'm afraid that before Flamens collapses, Dominic will lose first." Riley sighed, "We should have dealt with Flamens in the first place, so there wouldn't be so much to do now." ”

"It's useless, even if I kill Flemmings at the time, there will be a second Flemmings, or even a third, a fourth." Sean said softly, his tone was a little indifferent, but those who are familiar with Sean's style know that this is the signature state of Sean when he begins to get angry, "I killed Dorne at that time, there were too many people, and it was impossible to gag everyone's mouth." So instead of us having to fight a mysterious person in the future who doesn't know anything about the details and information, then let's choose our opponents, at least what kind of person Flamens is, we all know very well, and it won't be a problem to solve. ”

Hearing Sean say this, Riley stopped talking.

She knew that Sean was telling the truth.

If it weren't for the fact that she was already tied to Sean, hearing the news of Dorne's death, even she would be tempted to participate in the competition for the new king of the Giovanni clan. Therefore, Riley is also very clear that if this news is not released by Flangels, then maybe it will really lead to some cross-river raptors to intervene, and the situation will be even more chaotic and confusing at that time.

And now, this news was released by Flamens, and with his former momentum, at least for now, no one will dare to blatantly sing against him and fight.

Therefore, as long as Kane can directly solve Flamens in one breath in the future, then Kane will naturally be able to pave the way to become the new king of the Giovanni clan at that time. (To be continued.) )