Chapter 7: The Return

Night, late at night.

On the Qingfeng Plain, there is no air pollution or anything like that, and there are few clouds in the night sky, so the whole sky looks very beautiful with stars. The starry light was just right to reflect the black-robed men of the small group of sneaky flights towards the Silver Wolf Legion. The Silver Wolf Legion's camp was pitch black, and except for the faint light in one tent, the rest of the place looked like ghosts.

The camp of the other three lords' private legions was brightly lit, with loud shouts, brawls, and the occasional shrill laughter of women.

The black-robed men hovered above the camp of the Silver Wolf Legion, their hands bursting with all kinds of brilliance, and this time they didn't retain their magic, and all of them unleashed their most powerful magic. But just as their magic was about to be completed, several powerful crossbow arrows whistled out with an old command. The two-meter-long, thumb-thick pure steel crossbow bolt pierced the bodies of more than a dozen high-level mages like eggshells, and with a terrible howl, those mages fell from the sky. The backlash of magic caused their bodies to swell in an instant, exploding like a few cannonballs.

A pale yellow curtain of light appeared outside the mage's exploding bodies, blocking out the loud noises they were emitting and limiting the power of their explosions to less than two meters.

Outside the camp, a surprised sound came from a very far away, followed by a strong voice: "What a silver wolf legion, Balu, you are worthy of being one of the five beast generals in the imperial capital... Assault. "With the last shout, the sound of 'rumbling' horses' hooves rang out from all directions, followed by fireballs, water balls, and balls of light in the sky smashing densely into the camp of the Silver Wolf Legion.

The camp of the Silver Wolf Legion suddenly became brightly lit, while the camp of the three private legions suddenly turned pitch black, and then, a hazy yellow curtain of light appeared over the entire camp, facing those dense magic bullets. With the roar of the explosion, the light curtain was shattered, but all the magic bullets were intercepted. The roaring Smart heavy cavalry had just approached the camp, but they were greeted by countless crossbows and bows, and their horses fell one after another, and they fell to the ground in embarrassment, and were immediately trampled into meat cakes by the horses of their companions behind them.

Another burst of magic bullets struck, and another yellow curtain of light greeted them, and after three times, more than thirty high-ranking mages of the Smart Empire flew into the sky under the leadership of Karin, floating far beyond the reach of crossbow arrows. Carlin shouted loudly: "Which old immortal mage of your Van Empire is in the camp? Let me get out and see, is it Gibbs or Dalgio? No, your Silver Wolf Legion can't configure such a high-level mage, right? Come out and let me take a look." ”

Sweating profusely, Meko floated into the sky, looking at Carlin with a pale face, and after he stared at Carlin deadly, he nodded and said, "You are Carlin?"

Carlin proudly uncovered his cloak, revealing his mage badge, and said with a smile: "Oh, it turned out to be Meco, I've seen your portrait, and you can be regarded as a top mage in the Van Empire, but, compared to us, you are so-so and have the virtue of eating well... Hmph, no wonder our magic bullets are useless, your strength is probably equivalent to the level of our Imperial Diamond Dragon Fourth Order, with you as the leader, if you are purely defensive, it is rare to tear your enchantment. ”

Carlin muttered a few words, and his voice drifted with the wind, but Meko almost died of anger, and Carlin muttered: "This old man looks very good-eyed, I don't know how his daughter looks, if she is very beautiful, she can be a lover." ”

Mei Ke muttered a few words angrily, raised his hand and threw a water dragon a hundred meters long. Carlin laughed, and an even larger fire dragon came out of his hand, and the two dragons collided together in the air, knocking over the large group of Smart Empire's cavalry below, and Carlin smiled and led the mages to retreat. He laughed loudly and said, "Balu, Balu, you are really insidious enough to use those miscellaneous archers of the private army against me? ”

Meco's complexion has changed, and a mage wearing heavy chain mail can still float in the air?This Karin's magic power is also too amazing, whose apprentice is he, in the mage world, he has never noticed Carlin, a young man.

Two teams of more than 500 private archers sneaked up on Carlin under the cover of night, but Carlin and the others had already flown away, and then more than 1,000 Smart infantry in light iron armor surrounded them and cut them into pulp. However, these archers fought back on the verge of death, and also stabbed more than 200 Smart Imperial soldiers, and their strong combat effectiveness made Smart's soldiers speechless.

At the sound of the strong voice, the heavy cavalry, which had already lost more than 2,000 men, immediately turned their horses and retreated, while the heavy infantry and light infantry, under the cover of archers and magicians, formed a regular shock formation and rushed towards the large camp of the Silver Wolf Legion. On the two wings of the Silver Wolf Legion, the brigades of the three private army legions took advantage of the night to feel out, ready to outflank their rear road like pincers, but the retreating heavy cavalry had already stared at them from a distance.

The officers of the three private army regiments gave the order, and they stood in place. Facing the onslaught of heavy cavalry head-on on the plains? That's a joke. There is no need for them to waste their troops here, anyway, even if they have dragged the other party's more than 10,000 heavy cavalry, they will not blame them if they want to come to Balu.

At the beginning, the entire camp of the Silver Wolf Legion, and the tent with lights, was the place where Ray was temporarily placed, Ray slept all day, and his spirit had all recovered, and when those mages flew over to sneak attack, he was gnawing on barbecue and drinking gruel. A few of Balu's own soldiers looked at him from the side, and sighed in their hearts: "What a big guy, it's a pity, I encountered this kind of thing the first time I went to the battlefield, hehe, it looks like it's a waste... With so many friends dying in front of him, maybe he will be scared when he sees blood in the future, so how can he fight?"

When the crossbow bolts sounded, the soldiers had already rushed out of the tent like the wind, and Thunder listened blankly to the characteristic 'thump' sound of the crossbow arrows being fired, not knowing what was happening. But by the time the dense explosions in the sky rang out, Ray's eyes straightened. The same explosion, the same explosion that knocked him out that night, and when he woke up, all the people were dead, and Bit, they were all dead.

Thunder's whole body shrank into a ball, trembling all over, and gradually, he let out a sharp scream, but the noise outside was already very loud, and no one noticed the sound of thunder at all.

Outside, the Silver Wolf Legion actually opened the wooden gate of the camp, and two thousand soldiers lined up the shock formation, facing about 20,000 Smart Imperial troops head-on. Balu's shriveled and hard voice sounded like a dead tree: "Hehe, Shalin, is that you? Do you remember when you were defeated by me in the emperor? You are not as good as me, your soldiers are not as good as me, what are you... You are very powerful in war, but you rely on strength to speak in battle, what are you?"

Shalin was speechless to refute for a while, and the courage in the hearts of those Smart Imperial troops who charged up suddenly weakened by seven points.

Balu laughed dryly: "Shalin, hehe, just by virtue of you, you also have the title of a famous fierce general in the world, to guard the 'Iron and Blood Battle Castle', but if you really talk about strength, you are at least outside the twenty in the Van Empire, what kind of thing are you." No wonder you want to betray the Empire, when you arrive in the Smart Empire, you will be the first military general of the Empire, huh?" Balu deliberately provoked a sharp sound with his last 'um', which mocked Shalin very much.

Shalin roared angrily, mixed with a powerful fighting voice: "Charge, what are you still looking at? Heavy cavalry, charge, break up the infantry on both wings, and break through the opponent's camp. Wizard team, unleash your most powerful magic. The Silver Wolf Legion has a maximum of one hundred and fifty magicians, and you twenty thousand magicians can't break through their defenses?"

Karin's dissatisfied voice sounded: "If you're not a magician, don't command indiscriminately here, 20,000 magicians use their most powerful magic at the same time? That magic interference is enough to kill 18,000 people, worthy of a magical idiot... Is one hundred and fifty magicians very few? Their concentrated magic power is also very powerful, we don't dare to rush closer, how can we attack with all our strength?"

Shalin roared, "Then you rush forward. ”

Carlin snorted and shouted: "There is no door, don't forget, I am the commander, you are ****** my subordinate, you dare to order me? I will immediately ask my father to revoke your knighthood, believe it or not? Don't think that Caroka's kid came with reinforcements, you have a backer... What if Karoka brought 200,000 men over? I'm still the commander, and if you provoke me, I'll cut you down right now... Hmph, do you want my mage team to charge? Can you think of you, just those soldiers of yours, can you cover them? There is no way except to send magic bullets from afar. If I had a Silver Wolf Legion, I'd be on my own. ”

The sarin was angry, and the infantry of the two countries also rushed together. The heavy infantry on the side of the Smart Empire did not raise their spears very neatly, but the Silver Wolf Corps was a uniform 'ha', five hundred spears were stabbed out almost at the same time, at the same angle, without any deviation, and the heavy iron armor with a finger thick could not resist their thrust at all, and the five hundred Smart heavy infantry howled miserably, and were picked up by them high, and took advantage of the situation to throw out.

Such a blow made the Smart Imperial Army completely frightened, looking at this momentum, looking at this momentum, it is worthy of being the corps of the first army on the mainland. But Shalin's order has been given, and the infantry still have to continue to charge. Five hundred Van hoplites retreated three steps in order, and the fifteen hundred light infantry behind them rushed up with a howl, and in groups of three, they swung their heavy machetes and cut off the heads of countless Smart Imperial soldiers who had been wrapped in them.

Karin's sarcastic voice sounded throughout the battlefield again: "Oh my God, God, God, forgive this idiot-like sarin, the soldiers of the people blocked the gate of the camp, keeping the formation and killing happily, but unfortunately our lord sarin, did not notice that he could not spread the formation, so he ordered the soldiers to rush up... Oh, my God. ”

Shalin's angry voice roared, "What are you all paying attention to those who are less than 2,000 doing? ”

With the sound of horses' hooves, the heavy cavalry had already rushed towards the soldiers of the three private legions, but the soldiers actually shouted and ran towards the back. The heavy cavalry was happy, but found that behind the private army, there were a dense number of pikemen and archers of the Silver Wolf Legion. Long spears were already on the ground, and the archers had unleashed their first showers of arrows.

Amid the neighing of horses, countless heavy cavalry were raised high, or the horses under them were hit by arrows, and they were thrown to the ground. Countless pikemen were also broken by the heavy impact of their spears, and the dying heavy cavalry slammed into them, knocking them over, spurting blood. But the fierceness of the elite legions of the Van Empire was finally revealed, and the rolling pikemen, as long as they could still get up, screamed and crawled up, covered in blood, drew their short swords at their waists, and pounced on the heavy cavalry who fell to the ground. Uncovered their helmets and stabbed them in the neck.

Another column of pikemen rushed up, roaring and stabbing at them, this time aiming for the horses under their seats... Another group of horsemen fell to the ground, and before they could get up, their heads were cut off by the mad pikemen.

With a shout, the heavy cavalry of the Smart Empire actually retreated, while the soldiers of the private army rushed forward with cheers. Who wouldn't want to do the beating of the water dogs? The head of a heavy cavalryman is a bounty of ten gold coins.

Carlin didn't use his magic power to shout loudly this time, but discussed with Shalin in a low voice: "Hell, don't go to the battlefield, I didn't know that the cavalry of our empire were so cowardly, my God, General Shalin, you have to train them well in the future." ”

Shalin also smiled bitterly: "Lord Carlin, how do I know that the soldiers of the empire are like this? In my plan, as long as they have the courage of Van soldiers, I can lead them to raid this camp, it seems... ”

Where are the two of them at this moment, who are looking at each other and roaring at each other just now, it is clear that they are two wolves who have gathered together to conspire.

Carlin muttered a few words, shook his head and said, "Then, forget it, the goal has been achieved, let's withdraw from the army." The total number of their four corps is 100,000 people, and with our strength, even if we forcibly eat them, the losses will be very heavy, really, I originally wanted to eat a roasted wolf leg, what a pity... But it's okay, I guess Baloo should hear us, right?"

Shalin nodded: "That's right, I really want to see, Balu knows that we have 200,000 reinforcements behind us, what will he do." Will he run away? No, hehe, I know this guy Baru, he's not going to run away. He will definitely ask for reinforcements from the imperial capital, but... ”

Carlin sneered: "We have spent decades cultivating so many of our own people in the Van Empire, and it is time for them to play a role. Oh my God, what a fertile land in the southern provinces of the entire Van Empire, Shalin, do a good job, I will do my best to protect you as the lord of the Xili Province and the Qingfeng Plain. ”

Shalin thanked Carlin gratefully, and shouted loudly: "******, a bunch of bastards, retreat, retreat... Retreat all... Keep in formation, you useless waste, the front team becomes the back team, cover the archers in the middle, cut the back with bows and arrows, break the rear with heavy infantry, retreat carefully, don't mess around, bastards... ”

Shalin grumbled, "The middle and lower rank officers of the empire need to be trained well, Lord Carlin, my God, they don't know how to control the army... The empire attaches too much importance to the cultivation of magicians, and I heard that there are only two military academies in the imperial capital that train middle and lower-level officers, right?"

Carlin rolled his eyes: "Yes, there are only two military schools in the imperial capital, but there are more than a hundred mage academies... Actually, when I was a child, I really wanted to go to a military school, but unfortunately it was too difficult to get in, and I ended up in the magic academy, which is more popular and easier to take exams, who knew that those old ghosts actually said that I was a genius, woo, in fact, I always wanted to be a knight. Carlin felt sorry for himself again.

Shalin also rolled his eyes, he had no choice but to deal with this treacherous and changeable Karin.

The soldiers of the Smart Empire retreated in a panic, and Balu stood at the gate of the camp, watching them retreat with a gloomy face, stopping the pursuit of his own subordinate soldiers. But at this moment, a beastly howl sounded from the camp of the Silver Wolf Legion, and a man smashed away the two soldiers like a wind, and rushed towards the retreating Smart army with a machete.

Balu was furious: "Who dares to disobey my orders?" When he fixed his eyes, the man was not Ray, but who was it?

Someone once said that when a person who is usually gentle and never angry really gets angry, then he will definitely become a crazy beast. Ray was like this at the moment, when he first started, he was extremely afraid, hearing the dense explosion overhead, he was only afraid was fear, it was deep, enough to make him nervous about it. He remembered the fire and blood that night, and the trampled head of Bit.

Immediately afterwards, perhaps it was the unique fierceness of the mountain people, the brave temperament of the mountain people, and the way of survival of the mountain people against fierce beasts and nature, which made Lei deeply despise his fear. Yes, what's there to be afraid of? Didn't you kill a giant wolf on your own when you were fifteen years old? What is there to be afraid of?

Lei screamed: "Damn, what's there to be afraid of? Isn't it just a human being? Lao Tzu is not afraid of wolves and tigers, will he be afraid of you?"

An inexplicable emotion overwhelmed his mind, the fear of seeing his father torn to pieces by the beast as a child, the stress caused by years of worrying about his mother's body, and the fear and sadness of their bloody corpses, all these strange emotions softened together, and caused Ray to fall into a strange, strange madness. He grabbed a knife and rushed out.

The agility cultivated on the rugged trails in the mountains, the sensitive senses and hearing brought by chasing wild beasts, and the strong body trained while fighting countless beasts, allowed Ray to easily avoid the sparse rain of arrows, and howled and rushed into the retreating Smart Imperial Army.

The thunder snapped, the sword flashed, and the head of a heavy infantryman was cut off by him. Then there was another knife, the machete specially made by the Van Empire, specially equipped with the elite corps directly under the imperial capital, weighing about thirty catties, plus the lines that are conducive to chopping and chopping for special shooting, it is simply a necessary weapon for killing people and slaughtering the city. In Lei's strong hands, such a murder weapon fully exerted his power. The sword flashed, and another heavy infantry was split in two by him from his left shoulder to his right waist, and the blood splashed, staining Lei's entire body red.

Thunder laughed hideously, and shouted loudly, "Carlin, you bastard, I'm going to cut you." ”

A black iron knight rushed over with a gloomy swing of his sword, and Thunder smiled wildly and swung his sword to meet it, the swords intersected, and the long sword was split into two pieces. The Black Iron Second-Order Knight looked at Lei in disbelief, and for a moment, the sword light flashed, and his head flew into the sky.

The rear of Smart's Imperial Army was in chaos, where had they ever seen such a crazy way of fighting? A guy without armor actually hacked to death two heavy infantry and a black iron knight with a knife... The soldiers panicked and left with a roar, anyway, General Sharin had ordered a retreat, why should they risk their lives?

Thunder screamed wildly and rushed forward, and then, there was a dense but neat footstep behind him, and a spear stabbed out, provoking the soldiers of the Smart Empire, and the long arrows poured down, splashing blood on the light infantry.

Ray slashed with his knife indiscriminately, and now not only the soldiers of the Smart Empire did not dare to approach him, but even the people of the Silver Wolf Legion avoided him, who wanted to be slashed by him for no reason? As a result, it evolved into a strange situation in which Ray took the lead alone, leading the men of the 5,000 Silver Wolf Legion to pursue the more than 20,000 crazy fleeing Smart infantry.

Shalin was furious and roared violently: "Stop, the whole team will fight again, the heavy cavalry will outflank the two wings, and the magician team will attack." ”

As soon as Shalin's order was given, a thin arm was ghostly stretched out towards Lei, and after a punch blasted away the machete in Lei's hand, he was dizzy with a dozen consecutive slaps, and then the man carried Lei in one hand, and retreated back with five thousand silver wolf soldiers. The man laughed: "Shalin, you have found a good master, look at your subordinate soldiers, it is too much to describe them as garbage." I was so frightened by a small soldier of mine that I loosened my position, and I was grateful for the military merits of 2,000 people in vain. ”

Shalin was angry, and when he saw Balu leading the people back to the camp quickly, he paused angrily, and stared at the commander of the infantry with murderous eyes, it seemed that the man was going to be unlucky.

Carlin, however, took a moment to peel an apple and munched on it, and asked vaguely, "What is that boy yelling?" Strange, do I have acquaintances in the Van Empire? Could it be that I once had a relationship with a beautiful woman from the Van Empire, and then it was her lover who came to me for revenge?"

Shalin shook his head and didn't speak.

Carlin sighed: "Really, I thought I could make Balu suffer a loss, but who knew that it was us who suffered... The elite legions of the Van Empire are really not something our brigade can deal with, so we have to tease them slowly... Thankfully, tonight's goal has been achieved. Alright, let's camp on the ruins of the Iron Castle, it's a waste not to camp on such a large piece of flat land. ”

The Smart Imperial Army slowly retreated, and in this night's raid, the Van Empire army killed and wounded only 3,000 people, but they themselves suffered more than 15,000 casualties. On the way back, Carlin complained again: "If only the army that followed you had betrayed were there." Alas... At least they're also the Vatican Imperial Army. ”

Shalin was angry and muttered: "Didn't you say that they are Vatican after all, and they are unreliable, so you have to send them to the other two attack groups?"

Carlin raised his eyebrows: "Yes, yes? Oh, by the way, that's what I said, Shalin, since you don't have the right soldiers in your hands, you have to work hard, train these soldiers hard, alas, otherwise no matter how good our plan is, the soldiers can't fight at all." ”

Shalin stretched out his right hand: "Then, it's easy, it's enough to ask Lord Carlin to give one-tenth of the Empire's annual allocation to the Mage Guild to the Army." ”

Carlin was stunned for a moment, and shouted: "There is no door, I will give you a tenth? It is better to dial it to myself, the imperial capital has just produced more than a dozen exquisite jewels, and I am worried about running out of money... My dead ghost father, as the first prime minister, will not embezzle a little more, how can the income of millions of gold coins every year be enough for my expenses. I have more than 200 lovers in the imperial capital, don't you need to spend money?"

Shalin almost fell off his horse, and he roared gloomily: "I seem to have heard that the Empire's funds for the research and development of new weapons are only a million gold coins a year, right?"

Carlin snorted a few times: "That's the Empire's business, what does it have to do with me? It's my father's private property, if I donate them to the Empire, then I might as well be Your Majesty the Empire... Although I have this hope ... Alas, I don't know when our majesty will die? He has no sons, and if I marry all the princesses, won't I be the next majesty? Hehehehehehe. ”

The knights around him, once again, automatically overthought Carlin's rebellious words, including Shalin, they all knew that this was very possible, and who of them dared to say more. After all, among the five princesses of the empire now, there are four who are not innocent with Carlin, and the last little princess, Carlin is also pursuing like a mad dog.

In the camp of the Silver Wolf Legion, at this moment Balu was throwing the struggling thunder on the ground, and the thunder howled frantically: "Kill, kill, kill, kill... ”

Balu laughed and kicked Ray in the stomach and roared, "Kill, kill, kill, kill you fart." Sober me up, Lobo, and take stock of Ray's exploits. ”

A pro-soldier nodded and reported: "Hack seven heavy infantry to death, and the bounty is thirty-five gold coins." Seventeen light infantry were hacked to death, and a bounty of fifty-one gold coins was given. Jumping over the level and hacking a second-order knight of black iron to death, a bounty of thirty gold coins, and according to military discipline, he should also be promoted to an official rank. ”

Balu smiled: "Okay, yes, you kid doesn't lose my time, well, if my silver wolf soldiers have your crazy energy, I dare to chase and kill more than 20,000 people, hehe... The kid's physique is very strong, he deserves to be born in the mountains, damn, he can cut through such a thick iron armor. You used to be an ordinary soldier, didn't you? Now you'd better be an ordinary soldier, but be my own soldier. ”

Ray finally came to his senses, shook his head, he suddenly remembered the scene he had just split the living person into two pieces, Ray howled miserably, and suddenly vomited so wildly, kept vomiting, and his limbs began to twitch.

Balu shook his head: "After all, it's a novice, hehe, it seems that you should not be the team leader, otherwise how can you lead those soldiers under me, there is no way to make them respect you... You take care of Ray, I'll go see the three legion commanders, they must have come with a bunch of heads to receive the reward, damn, where do I have so many gold coins for them. I should scare them a little bit... 200,000 reinforcements, enough to eat us. ”

Balu walked out with a few soldiers a little worried, and Ray gradually quieted down on the ground, gradually slowing down.

A pro-soldier affectionately pulled up the thunder, hammered him twice in the chest, and shouted: "Good boy, it's really powerful, we just cooperate with the heroes, but we don't dare to rush out alone, hey, it's really a good brother." However, you still have to learn to kill, think about your brother who was killed by the Smart Imperial Army... When the Smart killed them, there would be no mercy. ”

Another veteran soldier patted Ray's shoulder and said with a smile: "Ray, is it the first time you kill someone?" Remember that feeling, remember that feeling of flesh and blood, in the future, you will slowly get used to it, and finally fall in love with that feeling, whether it is your own flesh or someone else's flesh, it is a very enjoyable thing." ”

A tall soldier slammed the thunder and laughed: "The kid is very big and has a lot of strength, yes, yes, I Tuga likes people like you." Follow me in the future, and I'll take good care of you. Well, isn't it just killing, you've killed wild beasts in the mountains, have you? ”

Ray nodded softly, his stomach churning again. He was puzzled and thought, "Oh my God, how could I just rush out like this? That person, how could it be me... I, I killed people, I killed so many people, more than two dozen people... Their mother, must be sad ... But, but... If I were killed by them ... Mom... ”

Early the next morning, the spies of the Silver Wolf Legion came back to report the military situation, and Karlin and their army had already camped on the ruins of the 'Iron and Blood Battle Fort', fifteen miles away from the Silver Wolf Legion. Baloo was furious: "That damn magician, he's deliberately provoking us, damn it, they're camping there, damn it. ”

The gray-faced Meko shuddered and asked, "Lord Balu, what should we do? If the Smart Empire really has 200,000 reinforcements, it will be difficult for us to do it." I've exhausted all my mana last night, and I won't be able to use any magic for at least three days, and we won't be able to protect them if their magicians come in a big way. ”

Balu was silent for a while, nodded slowly, and whispered: "No, we can't retreat, even if they have reinforcements, we have a total of 100,000 soldiers, as long as the defense is properly, they can't eat us quickly." If we retreat, the province of Xili will be completely exposed to them, and the whole province of Xili will not have any defense at the moment, and if the province is occupied by them, it will be troublesome. ”

The three privates were also speechless, if the province of Xili was occupied, then their lord's territory would also be in danger. Even if the soldiers of the Smart Empire were expelled in the end, the war was fought in their own territory, and when the time came, they would not have time to cry because they would leave a ruin for them. These southern provinces are the richest places in the entire Vat Empire, and if they are reduced to ruins, not to mention that the empire's economy will be in trouble in the next few years, at least the enraged Shagru Majesty will be angry with them.

Again, Balu emphasized: "No, we must not retreat. Yes, we will not back down. ”

The three private army captains looked at each other, nodded wordlessly, and sighed in their hearts. They can't retreat, after all, their family is in the province adjacent to the Xili Province, and for their own interests, they have to desperately resist the attack of the Smart Empire. Thinking of this, they couldn't help but regret it, they should have known that this was the case, they should not have sat and watched Duke Green's good show, they should have led troops to reinforce a long time ago, at that time, if they combined forces to attack Smart's army, judging from their performance last night, they could defeat each other in one fell swoop, right?

Balu said in a deep voice, "Did the person we sent out, the person who delivered the military information departed?"

One of his subordinate golden knights nodded wordlessly. Another golden knight asked in a puzzled whisper: "However, the imperial capital has not replied to anything, what is going on?" The Minister of War has said that as long as we come to find out the enemy's situation, he will ask His Majesty for authorization to mobilize the reinforcements we need, but now... ”

Balu frowned: "Something seems to have happened inside the empire, remember the scene when we set off? Because of the problems of food, grass, military salaries, and ordnance, our departure time was forcibly delayed by three days, three days... We were on our way day and night, but we were almost a day late, and the sentinels who had made contact with General Kylo were powerless to save them... Damn, three days. According to normal procedure, we should not be delayed for so long. ”

The people in the big tent were shocked and asked, "My lord, what do you mean?"

Balu sighed: "Since we have spies in the Smart Empire, then their Smart Empire will only have more spies within our Empire, and those people must have already acted, the first time I sent out to report the destruction of the 'Iron and Blood Castle', maybe... Perhaps he has been ... Otherwise, we should have received a little bit of a reply anyway. ”

Mei Ke lifted his beard: "Yes, although the reply from the imperial capital can't arrive so quickly, but there are military stations on the road to receive heralds, according to the rules, they should send us a message back, reporting that our people have arrived... Don't... ”

Balu drank: "Come on, send a hundred heralds, disguise themselves as ordinary people, and rush to the imperial capital day and night." Ordered them, whoever rushed to the imperial capital first, should go directly to the Minister of War with my personal letter, report the relevant matters, and ask him to thoroughly investigate these matters... Damn, to rush to the imperial capital here, it will take five days for a single horse to travel day and night, even if the imperial capital immediately sends troops, it will take more than fifteen days for the large army to arrive, that is, twenty days. ”

Everyone's faces were solemn, and Balu stood up violently: "Everyone, we should need a month, we must hold on here for a month, no matter what, we can't take a step back in thirty days, even if there are more reinforcements from the Smart Imperial Army, we must not retreat... Baru, please do your best. ”

The three legion commanders stood up, wordlessly drew their swords and pointed them into the sky, and nodded slightly. After a while, one of the legion commanders gritted his teeth and drank, "I can send someone to ask our Lord Duke to send reinforcements." I have brought with me 23,000 men, and there are five divisions in the duke's territory totaling more than 30,000 men, and more than 70,000 miscellaneous troops, and seven regiments of the Imperial Army, which I think will be enough to reinforce us. ”

Balu frowned and pondered for a long time, then nodded and said, "Very good, but Duke Luke's division is obviously overstaffed." Although the lords' private armies are overstaffed, it is rare to reach the scale of his supernumerary... We now have nearly 100,000 troops, if each of the three lords can support us... 20,000?"

The legion commander who had just spoken trembled all over, regretting in his heart why he had told the truth. The establishment of the Imperial Army, a division is three teams, that is, 3,000 people, and the five divisions are only 15,000 people, but why do you say that Duke Luke's five divisions have 30,000 people?

The three legions reassured loudly: "Don't worry, we will ask the Duke to reinforce as many troops as possible, there is absolutely no problem." We won't take a step back until the Imperial Capital Legion arrives. ”

Balu thought about it for a long time, and finally nodded slowly: "Okay, in that case, I think the private armies in each lord's territory are about the same size, well, let's ask each of them to reinforce 30,000 soldiers with combat effectiveness, and at the same time, we also have to bring a large amount of grain and grass and arrows, we are mainly defensive, so we also need a lot of wood to make fences and block horses... The mages of the Smart Empire are too hateful, if there's a strong crossbow that specializes in dealing with them, bring them all to me. ”

The three corps commanders nodded. Balu laughed: "It's okay, according to the strength shown by the Smart Empire in the past, the size of their entire army will not exceed 400,000, if we concentrate more than 300,000 in front of us, they are unable to attack us from other directions, with the reinforcements of the three lords, we can have a good fight with them." ”

Balu pondered: "Let's deal with the current crisis first, even if the Smart Empire recruits the private army of their great nobles to participate in the battle, but their regular army is like this, what strength does their private army have? Hmm, I hope the reinforcements from the imperial capital will arrive soon. ”

Iron cavalry, more than a hundred heralds roared out of the camp of the Silver Wolf Legion.

And on the side of the 'Iron and Blood Castle', countless magicians began to set fires. Under Carlin's supervision, those magicians, no matter what kind of mage they are, use the high-level fire-based high-level magic, and the lowest-level fireball magic if the attributes really don't match, desperately incinerating the corpses on the ground.

Carlin floated in the air, smiling and said: "Aha, the place chosen by the 'Iron Blood Castle' is good, the scenery is very good, and if you have money in the future, build a villa here, and bring thousands of beautiful women here to be happy, it's really wonderful... Except that these corpses are disgusting, everything else is really good. ”

Carlin didn't notice that in the camp of the Silver Wolf Legion, far away, Lei grabbed the bow and arrow in his hand and stared at him viciously... From a distance, Carlin was nothing more than a small black dot floating in the air, but with a beastly instinct, Ray knew it was Carlin.