(Thanks to the book friend Flame Queen for the reward)

The massive barbarian infantry began to move forward, breaking through the undefended coalition camp, slashing at every living creature in sight.

The guards quickly issued Tianhao's order by word of mouth.

"Kill one more white man now, and you'll have less trouble later." It's straightforward, simple and easy to understand.

Killing is a physical task, and the efficiency is far less than that of a bullet.

The four-hour period had passed, and the white soldiers began to experience strong side effects. Many people fall to the ground and foam at the mouth while running, which is the result of strenuous exercise and loss of nerve control. More human bodies can be consumed, and their bodies are so sore that they can't even raise their swords to resist, so they can only accept the fate of being slaughtered.

When Tianhao led the army to rush into the logistics base, he intercepted a dozen priests who had no time to escape. He shouted in time to stop the heavenly madness who wanted to swing his knife and kill, and saved the heads of these people.

"Why are you leaving them behind?" Tianmad gasped and chased all the way, his physical energy was too exhausted, he was covered in sweat, his chest rose and fell violently when he breathed, and he said hatefully: "They're all damn bastards!" ”

"I don't like these people as much as you do." Tianhao leaned the blood-stained long knife in his arms, vigorously rubbed the half-dried blood on his hands, and explained simply: "I will leave them useful, you will understand later." ”

Looking at the infantry that had caught up behind, Tianhao raised his hand and called a personal guard: "You go and tell their commander, we will rest here for half an hour, and then catch up." ”

After continuous pursuit, the infantry as the vanguard was exhausted and had to rest to ensure combat effectiveness.

Looking at the back of the guards walking into the distance, there was deep hatred in Tianmad's eyes: "Third child...... I know you're not going to be on the side of white people, but you have to understand that there are no good white people in this world. ”

Tianhao heard what he said, and couldn't help but stop the movement of his hand: "What do you want to tell me?" ”

"Come with me and show you something." Having adjusted his breathing, he stuck his long knife behind his back and turned to walk towards a tent not far away.

If Duke Calis had been present, he would have recognized it as Father Perias's field laboratory.

There were two pigs guarding the door of the tent, and Tianmad lifted the curtain and walked in with Tianhao, and the strong smell of blood came to his face.

Tianhao has seen many tragic scenes, but he has never felt so shocking as now.

The cages were full of savages, their hands and feet cut off, held in place with belts and metal buckles, like human specimens placed upright, but still alive.

Each of them was twisting their necks desperately, trying to keep their eyes open, their lips dilated to the extreme, and a "hehe" sound came from deep in their throats.

"Whites cut out their tongues." "When they were discovered, they were already like this, and the whites used them as material for some kind of witchcraft. The old priest said that it was evil witchcraft peculiar to white people. ”

Tian Hao forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, looked around, walked up to the nearest barbarian, raised his hand and pressed it on the other person's shoulder. This is a man in the prime of his thirties, with a small half tiger head on his left arm, and it can be seen that he is at least a hundred heads or more. He was trembling, his eyes full of anticipation, and a dull roar continued to emanate from the depths of his empty mouth.

"I understand what you mean, I can understand ......" Tianhao sighed, reached out and pulled out his saber, and stabbed the other man hard in the neck.

By barbarian standards, they belong to the category of "extremely seriously wounded people who cannot be saved." "A painless and swift death was a relief for them.

The man's gaze was no longer angry, his eyes were full of gratitude. Tianhao's knife was very accurate, cutting off the trachea and killing him with one knife.

There is not much poetry, and there is no futile sadness. The Heavenly Maniac called the guards from outside, and several of them took action separately and sent them on their way in silence.

"Rest in peace, my people, and I will avenge you."

"The gods will take your souls, and you will be happy in heaven, and you will be fed every day, and you will never be afraid of the cold."

"Your bodies will return to the earth, where wheat will grow to provide food for the generations to come. This is the destiny of all of us, and it is also your credit. ”

The eulogy for the dead is primitive and simple, without flowery rhetoric, only the expectation and yearning for a better life.

The smell of blood in the tent was stronger than before, and large patches of blood splattered from the bodies of the deceased, one after another, staining everything that came in touch red.

"Pack them up, carry them out, put them together with the other dead and hand them over to the convoy behind!"

This is the custom of the barbarians, and the battle dead must be brought back to Suolongguan. On the one hand, it cannot be wasted, and on the other hand, the souls of the dead can only be accepted by the gods and ascend to heaven only in their own land.

Other furnishings in the tent caught Tianhao's attention. There were bottles and cans everywhere, and glass test tubes inserted in wooden carriages, the meaning of which was difficult for savages to understand, but Tianhao knew that some kind of experiment was going on here with the eyes of a civilized age, and he couldn't help but think of the black potion that had been found on the white soldiers.

The white cloth under the side cabinet shook for a moment, and there was a fist-sized bulge on the blood-spattered surface. The amplitude is not large, and it is difficult to see the difference without a closer look.

Tian Hao raised his hand to block the Heavenly Maniac who was holding the war knife and wanted to pounce on him, he stared at it for a few seconds, and said in clear English: "If you don't want to die, come out immediately." ”

The blood-stained cloth shook again, and it was clear that the person hiding inside was lost in thought. Anyone who is smart knows what choice to make at this time. The embarrassed hideout crawled out, revealing Father Perias's dirt and dirt face.

"Who are you?" Tianhao noticed that the clergy was different from the ones he had caught, especially the delicate silver cross on the priest's chest.

Perias's face was full of shock, he raised his hand to Tianhao, and stammered, "You...... Do you speak our language? ”

"There's nothing strange about that." Tianhao accentuated his tone and asked coldly: "You'd better answer my question seriously, I'm not impatient, whether you live or die, you choose." ”

"My name is Perias." He replied in a panic, "I am a second-degree priest. ”

Tianhao had little interest in the personnel structure of the Holy See, and these things had already been known through Elizabeth and Bonnard. He casually picked up an empty glass test tube from the table and turned it around in front of Perias's eyes: "It seems that the method of making that potion is very simple, and it is not as difficult as I imagined. ”

Perias understood the subtext of his words, was silent for a moment, and nodded hesitantly: "Yes, this is the temporary production center of Migal Land Forty-Four Elixir. ”

Tianhao looked at him: "Do you know the formula? ”

A look of pride appeared on Perias's face: "I created it, I am the first inventor of the potion." ”

He was clearly not a warrior and not an officer in office. This kind of guy who is proud when it comes to research, Tianhao has seen a lot in the era of civilization, and he is very familiar with both his expression and temperament.

"Take him away." Tianhao immediately made a judgment, turned around and ordered Tianmad who was standing next to him: "You lead a team to go back first, and you must ensure the safety of him and those black-clothed prisoners outside." If anyone asks, say they're my trophies. ”

"Spoils?" Tianmad was reluctant to accept this order, and his brows furrowed tightly: "Are you sure, third child?" I don't like these guys at all. I feel like they're going to cause us trouble, and it's better to kill them than to keep them. ”

Tianhao didn't say much, he patted Tianmad's shoulder heavily: "Execute the order, don't forget my disappointment." ”

He is well aware of his brother's temper, and at best, he can vent it. The past experience has already implanted trust in Tianmad's heart, and he will do everything well.

……

Half an hour later, Tianhao led the infantry brigade to the south.

The hunt lasted two full days.

A silhouette of a building appeared on the distant horizon, and as it got closer, it was a tall city wall and a massive core tower.

It has the feel of a high-rise building in the era of civilization, but the scale is much grander than that of ordinary buildings. Visually covering an area of more than 10,000 square meters, it is surrounded by a large number of towers of different heights, plus the dense stone walls on the perimeter, which together constitute a defense.

This is the Shenwei Fortress, which was jointly funded and built by the southern kingdoms to block the defense support point of the northern barbarians.

Regardless of the area or length of the defense, the Shenwei Fortress is not comparable to the Lock Dragon Pass, but it is firmly nailed here, posing a threat to the barbarian army with powerful artillery fire.

The terrain here is not as complex as that of Suolongguan, and there is no natural geographical advantage. In front of the fortress is a canyon that is said to have been a river long ago, but was artificially diverted by the Kingdom Coalition to form a peripheral obstacle. There are hills on the left and right, and it is easy to get around, but as long as the generals in their right minds will not do this, the defenders of the fortress may attack at any time, stage supply lines, and by that time, it will be too late to regret it.

Catapults and ballistas have far less range than artillery, and with the current level of technology of the northern barbarians, they can only keep filling the fortress with human lives. Regardless of the cost of defeating the battle, the Kingdom Alliance will never allow this to happen, and they will press heavy troops to desperately intercept and buy time for the comprehensive strengthening of the defense of the cities in the rear.

With the advantage of population, coupled with artillery, the northern barbarians were suppressed inside the Lock Dragon Pass, and it was difficult to reap the results of any form of active attack. The white people in the south also knew the importance of gunpowder, whether it was the Shenwei fortress or the border cities facing the north, they were all set up in important positions, and sulfur could not be found nearby, which essentially strangled the possibility of the barbarians obtaining gunpowder.

Hu Yong arrived at the fortress with his follow-up troops first.

Looking at the towers standing in the setting sun from afar, he pursed his lips and said nothing, and after a long time, he finally hung his arms weakly and gave the order to withdraw in a wordless manner.

The centuries-long experience of countless predecessors had taught him that the white defenders of Kamui Fortress would not send troops to fight in the field. The walls and towers are their strong support, where there is a huge amount of gunpowder and cannonballs, the barbarian bows and arrows cannot penetrate the walls, trebuchets and ballistas cannot shoot that far, here is a real steel hedgehog, rushing hard, only piercing himself covered in blood.

Over the years, many generals have tried to avoid Kamui Fortress and look for a breakthrough in other directions. The most successful one is more than four hundred years away, when the barbarian army once occupied two-thirds of the territory of the Golden Lily Kingdom, only twenty kilometers from the capital. However, the huge coalition wiped out the victory of the barbarians by numbers, and they surged up like ants and gnawed at the mighty giant elephants alive.

When they developed gunpowder and made muskets and artillery, the northern barbarians no longer had the possibility of taking the initiative to attack, and the whites completely grasped the initiative in the war.

Eagle Town clutched his injured arm and stared at the distant fortress with his reddened eyes. He was shot in the middle of the pursuit, not very serious, but very angry.

"Why did the Patronus refuse to attack?" His voice was a little chilling, full of incomprehensible sorrow: "We have died so many people and paid so many sacrifices, why do the gods keep standing on the plain of death and refuse to leave? It stops every time it gets to that point and leaves the rest to us...... Is this our destiny? ”

Shi Zhenghao stepped forward from behind and stood side by side with Ying Zhenquan, his expression was serious, but his words were very emotional: "Don't question the gods, the guardian spirit must have its reasons for doing this." It has been protecting us for so many years...... This should be a test for us by the gods. ”

Eagle Town was skeptical of this statement: "Can we still pray?" I mean next time. Ten years, twenty years, or more? The white people will still come, and by then we may all be gone, and the young people will never know what is happening today. I...... Why do we have to stay at the lock and can't come out? Why is that? ”

Hu Yongxian's eyes were confused: "This is the will of the gods, we can only obey it." ”

"No, that's what you think."

Ying Zhenquan slowly walked in front of Hu Yongxian and looked up at him for a long time: "I respect you very much, you are the real commander. Whether it is the vision or the capture of fighters, he is better than me in all aspects. ”

Shi Zhenghao noticed something wrong in his words, and hurriedly walked over: "What do you want to do?" ”

"Don't let anyone stop me." Eagle Town's face was full of ferocity: "Something must be done. I'm going to do it my own way, you just have to watch. ”

Shi Zhenghao felt a little bad, and grabbed Ying Zhenquan's arm hard, but was thrown away by the latter. He quickly took a few steps back, drew his saber, pointed at Shi Zhenghao with the sharp tip of the knife, and quickly pointed at Hu Yongxian, roaring angrily in a hoarse voice: "This is my choice, none of you can stop it." ”