Calis was not an arrogator, he just stood in his own shoes and thought about things.

Rhythmic footsteps could be heard behind him. Calis knew it was his lieutenant.

"Send five brigades to Suolong Pass." The duke methodically issued an order in the dark: "Be fast, you must occupy the vital areas before the other kingdoms." Artillery, in particular, I would like to see it erected on several important vantage points before dawn. ”

"As you wish." The adjutant saluted respectfully when Calis could not see behind him, and asked seriously, "What should we do with those belongings left by the northern giants?" ”

"Send a special person to guard it, and seal it all. If anyone dares to rob by force, then shoot on the spot and do not have to report it. ”

A hint of cruelty flashed over the duke's charismatic face, and then he relaxed: "Except for the Holy See army, send another message to Bishop Somsen to explain the situation to him." ”

The adjutant nodded in understanding: "You mean, give these things to Lord Bishop?" ”

Calis sighed faintly and stopped talking.

……

20,000 lion reinforcements are hurrying in the direction of Suolong Pass.

Shi Li was wearing a set of half-new commander-level armor. To make it more comfortable, he stuffed some cotton cloth into the joints. Although Shi Li is a very particular person, he usually shaves a fat face clean, but now it is not as good as in the past, and he can't take care of his appearance in a state of rapid marching.

He is one of Shi Rui's most trusted henchmen, the deputy commander of the Lion King's forbidden army, and the chief general in charge of the reinforcements this time.

The leon warriors are rough men, and they don't have any personal hygiene at all. It was already the fourth day since the departure from Roaring City, and in order to hurry, except for sleep and normal rest, from the division to the ordinary soldiers had no time to take care of anything else. As a result———— nightly camping became terrible and the makeshift camp was filled with a smoky smell, a disgusting mixture of nakedness, athlete's foot, feces, and saliva.

Shi Li has been patient. He thought it was stupid to run this trip in the middle of winter, but it was all the damned white Southerners, and he vowed to teach those dwarves a lesson of a lifetime, to make them understand who was in charge on this continent.

It was not far from Suolong Pass, and Shi Li ordered the soldiers to rest in place. It's noon, and you might have to go into battle as soon as you reach the pass. The soldiers must be given enough physical strength, and then lunch, and only when they are full can they have strength.

Baked potatoes are the most common food of the lion people, and the recipe is very simple. The lion tribe did not have the concept of uniformly supplying food to the army (cooking class), and the normal practice was to distribute the food to each soldier and make it for themselves.

All the soldiers carried some fuel, mainly burn-resistant peat. They gathered in groups of three or five, and a strong aroma of food quickly wafted over the temporary rest area.

Shi Li pulled a roasted potato from the fire, it was so hot that he had to toss and turn between his hands, and kept blowing a cool breeze to cool it. Fortunately, it's winter, and the cooling time is much shorter than usual, and it doesn't taste so hot.

As soon as I took a bite, there was a sudden commotion in front of the temporary rest area. Shi Li hurriedly stood up, and he saw several cavalry running in the distance, and the surrounding crowd dispersed. When the cavalry came in and out, Shi Li finally recognized that they were the scouts he had sent earlier.

The leader of the scouts almost rolled off his horse. His face was covered with sweat, he knelt on one knee and reported loudly in anger: "My lord, Suolong Pass has been occupied by the whites, and we have been defeated. ”

"What did you say?" Shi Li was stunned for a moment, and then immediately reacted, with a look of disbelief on his face: "You...... You're not lying about the military, are you? ”

In such a dangerous pass, all tribes spend a lot of food and materials every year, and Xiongguan, which sent the most elite soldiers to garrison, fell like this?

Hot sweat flowed from the scout captain's anxious face: "We met the rout who escaped from the Lock Dragon Pass. According to them, the white dwarves sent a kind of man-eating monster that would become tall and giants that had never been seen before. ”

"Giants?" Shi Li was stunned again, and he immediately became suspicious of the scout captain's words: "How tall a giant? ”

"Thirty meters, maybe higher." The captain of the scout struggled to recall what the defeated soldiers had said before: "Hu Yongxian, the commander of Suolong Pass, has been killed in battle, and the whereabouts of the deputy commander Shi Zhenghao are unknown. My lord, I beg you to order a reversal of the march at once, for a large number of routs are approaching in front of you. You have to make a decision now, or you'll be hit by them. ”

Shi Li felt that his brain was completely insufficient at this moment.

Hu Yong, known as the "most genius commander of the Tiger Clan", died first?

The whereabouts of Shi Zhenghao, who is highly respected within the lion clan, is unknown?

Speaking of the rout...... Shi Li knew that Suolong Pass was a military stronghold, and hundreds of thousands of troops were stationed there all year round. Well, even if the white man's artillery is great, even if those damn dwarfs have the upper hand, even if they are one-on-one, at least they can fight a lot. If you calculate it in this way, how many routs can escape from the frontal direction?

Thinking like this in his heart, Shi Li subconsciously asked out of his mouth: "How many defeated soldiers are there?" ”

"It's all over the mountains, and I can't count them. I saw at least tens of thousands of people alone. The scout captain's gasp was heavy: "My lord, give the order quickly!" If you don't transfer, it's too late. ”

"No, we can't escape!" Shi Li pinched his leg hard with his thumb, and the pain stimulated him to make a quick decision: "Pass my order and set up a defensive formation on the spot." ”

The scout captain was stunned, suddenly raised his head, and said in disbelief: "My lord, we can't stop those routs, they ......"

"Anyway, you have to try!" Shi Li roared at a volume several times higher than his: "We are reinforcements!" Got it? We must reinforce the Lock Dragon Pass. If we turn around and run away without even seeing the white man's face, do you think Your Majesty will let us go when we go back? And the tigers and dragons, what will they think? ”

The scout captain felt a puff of stickiness in his throat, and it became extremely difficult to speak: "But ......"

"Nothing!" The division violently bypassed in front of him, raised his hand and pointed directly at the adjutant standing nearby, and ordered: "Hurry up and pass on the order, and defend on the spot." ”

……

Half an hour later, the rout appeared.

Shi Li finally understood that what the scout captain said before was not an exaggeration at all.

Indeed, it was all over the mountains, like swarms of locusts, over the distant fields and hills, and covered the ground with a thick, moving carpet. They took up every inch of ground space as far as the eye could see, and they were rushing towards it at an astonishing speed.

"Hold on! Be sure to hold on! Shi Li let out the loudest roar in his life. When he saw the "huge carpet" of people pouring in from the end of the horizon, he knew that he had made a big mistake, and he shouldn't have been stubborn in setting up a defensive formation in such a damn area.

Despite the rush of time, the 20,000 leon reinforcements dug simple fortifications and set up deer barbs in front of the position with various materials.

Seeing that the violent flow of people was getting closer and closer, Shi Li gritted his teeth fiercely: "Release the arrows and shoot the rout soldiers in the front direction." Let them run in both directions, and they will not be allowed to storm our positions. ”

The archers stationed in the middle of the battle formation bent their bows and arrows and fired at the front of the battle formation. The flying feathered arrows drew dense arcs in the air, falling with roar and inertia, mercilessly burrowing into those who had already rushed into range, taking away their lives and provoking countless terrible screams.

Death threats worked. The routs were once warriors, they had received systematic military training, and when they saw their comrades who were shot dead on the spot in front of them, the people who followed them suddenly realized, and they immediately changed directions, and the dense crowd also moved to the left and right, and a large area of space appeared in front of the defensive position.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, go both ways!" Shi Li sent dozens of soldiers with loud voices to stand at the front of the position and command.

The dead and dying who fell to the ground with an arrow are the best indicators. It was as if there was an invisible wall in this clearing that could not be approached, let alone traversed. Despite the dense rout, the chaos did not affect the division's reinforcements, and the people avoided the stacked wooden deer bars and rushed towards the north in the distance.

"The gods are above, what exactly did they encounter?" Looking at the dense flow of people, Shi Li, who was wearing a full set of armor, muttered to himself, slightly distracted.

The scout captain previously reported that there were at least tens of thousands of routs fleeing from the direction of Suolong Pass.

But now it seems that the number of fleeing routs is far greater than that. Regardless of those who had already run past the sides of the defensive positions, the black-pressed crowd that was emerging from the end of the distant horizon alone numbered more than 100,000 people.

The adjutant standing next to him was also shocked: "No matter how powerful the white man's artillery is, the battle should not be fought like this." Only the most elite warriors are qualified to garrison the Lock Dragon Pass. This...... It's just unbelievable! ”

Shi Li's face was gloomy, and he could hear his own heavy and dull gasps.

Among the armies of all the tribes, the defenders of Suolong Pass are extremely special existences.

Only veterans are accepted there, not new recruit eggs. No matter how far the war between the tribes in the rear went, the defenders of Suolong Pass turned a blind eye. According to the rules set by the ancestors, except for the nobles and the small units directly under their command can be rotated, the rest of the guards can only be signed by the officers of the squad, squadron and brigade and the commander of the war group after the age of forty-eight, confirming that they are old and infirm and unable to assume the corresponding duties, and then they are allowed to return to their original tribes.

As a replacement, even if the clan war is the most intense, or even if the clan is on the verge of death, it is absolutely not allowed to transfer its own warriors from the Suolong Pass, and the commander of the pass will not let them go.

Hundreds of thousands of veterans are stationed in Suolongguan all year round. From commanders to ordinary soldiers, everyone is well aware of their duties. When the war was the most tragic in history, the defenders of Suolong Pass died in large numbers, and at the most, more than 600,000 were replenished in a row.

All of this was recorded on the clay stencils of the various tribes, and the names of the incumbent commanders at that time were personally engraved, and they were also recognized by the patriarchs and national teachers of the various tribes, and realized the possibility of fraud.

And now, they are defeated like this?

Shi Li's heart was filled with indescribable fear.

He subconsciously issued an order to the adjutant: "You take a squad and catch a few escaped guys from behind." I want to ask them, what the hell is going on? ”

This situation cannot be allowed to continue, otherwise it will seriously affect the morale of the support army.

The adjutant nodded knowingly and turned to leave.

More than ten minutes later, he brought back two rout soldiers who were tightly tied with ropes.

They were covered in dirt, and their bare arms, shoulders and other parts of their faces were covered in scratches. Neither of them was wearing armor, and it was evident that they had deliberately given up in order to reduce their weight in order to run faster.

The adjutant and the guards pressed the shoulders of the two men and pressed them to their knees.

The captured rout kept screaming and begging.

"Let us go, let me go."

"What are you doing here? If you don't leave, it's too late! ”、

Shi Li's face turned pale, he strode over, waved his hand and slapped everyone in the face, and let out a thunderous roar while spraying spittle: "Damn guys, don't you know what shame is?" You are warriors! It's a warrior! ”

"Why run away? Why give up the lock to the evil white people? ”

"Look at what you look like now, where do you deserve the title of "Warrior"? ”

With great strength, the division knocked the teeth of one of the routs off the spot, and the man's cheeks swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye. The other person next to him didn't care about the pain on his face, and shouted desperately in a hoarse voice: "It's not that we escaped on purpose, the commander gave a general retreat order before he died, and we all obeyed his orders before leaving." ”

"That's!" Shi Li didn't believe his words at all, and slapped the rout soldier with his backhand, stretched out his hand to grab the other party's ear and scolded angrily: "Don't think I don't know Hu Yongxian, he is a brave person, he will never give such an order." ”

"The Archon is dead, and I have seen him used by that terrible monster...... ...... by hand Yes, just swallowed it with your hands. ”

The rout, whose teeth fell, was dying. He had run a long way, and he was caught and beaten again, and now he was so exhausted that he could not even speak: "The enemy is behind...... Lord Archon...... Withdraw now...... It's too late...... It's too late. ”

He described the situation at that time in great detail, but Shi Li listened inexplicably.

Swallowed by a monster with your hands?

What does this mean exactly?

The fleeing soldier saw the question in his heart, and hurriedly said, "I really didn't lie to you, I don't believe you can find someone to ask again." A lot of people saw it at the time. I swear to the gods, I really didn't lie! ”

Shi Li's expression suddenly became solemn.

The barbarians take the heaviest oaths, especially to the gods.