"That's ...... What is that? ”

Pal Cross looked at the soldiers who had fallen like wheat on the distant front, at the men who had fallen screaming, whether they were armored or unarmoured, from within shooting distance of their own. Macie Kulesha and Omari Donovan, who were standing beside him in command, were equally shocked, and they watched their soldiers being slaughtered in a daze, forgetting to react for a moment.

"It's over...... It's over......"

Cross, who had been very confident just now, collapsed at this moment. He suddenly understood why the other party was fearless in the face of his own threat and the soldiers of the two regiments, it was not blind arrogance and mania, but the correct judgment of his own strength and silent contempt for himself as a guard officer. He learned this through this short and tragic battle, but he didn't know how to change it. The weapons on the opposite side are so powerful, and the lethality is so amazing, even if their two regiments are all explained here, it is estimated that they will not be able to hurt a single hair of Gastens.

"My lord? My lord?! ”

Kulesha, the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division of the 3rd Guards Army, called anxiously beside Cross, "We must stop the attack, otherwise the soldiers will die......"

Hearing this, the focus of Cross's eyes was once again focused on the battlefield, and in his field of vision, the drums representing the attack stopped at some point, and the soldiers in the front row crowded on the line of death formed by the accumulation of corpses, and they did not move forward. Although he could only see the backs of the soldiers, Cross could also imagine their expressions.

That must have been panic and despair. That is the most common expression of human beings when faced with an unknown force that they cannot understand.

"Withdraw...... Withdraw ......"

Cross waved his hand helplessly, and his heart had already begun to look for a way out for himself. The direct command of this battle was the two regiment commanders, and the responsibility for the failure of the command could not be blamed on him. But the initiator of this battle is himself, and he must take responsibility for provoking this doomed battle and forcing a subordinate with unlimited potential. Just imagining the reaction of the six princes when they heard the news, Cross felt like he was going to suffocate. He can predict with great confidence that what will happen to him in the Six Princes.

"Must ...... It is necessary to make up for the ......"

Seeing Gastens' prowess, Cross felt that there was another way. If they could convince Gastens to supply the weapons that caused today's casualties to the three guards, they could break the deadlock in Oridry and even destroy Roninger in one fell swoop. The credit for helping His Majesty the Emperor quell the rebellion can not offset his mistakes today.

As for the battle just now, it was just the death of the people on his side, and the people on the other side didn't have anything to do, so they shouldn't mind, right?

Realizing that he had found a path that might have little hope but still a direction to work on, Cross came back to his senses and concentrated to find that the two regimental commanders had begun to retreat. As soon as the clarion call for retreat sounded in the air, the soldiers in the front row began to rush back, as if behind them, there was a magister or dragon, chasing them.

"Fuck ......"

Kulesha cursed, not knowing whether he was scolding himself, the soldiers who fled for their lives, or something else. But at this point in time, everyone no longer cares, and no one wants to figure out who he is scolding. The soldiers who had been withdrawn from the front line were emotionally broken down and huddled around the gathering place, and many tried to continue running back, but were stopped by the soldiers responsible for maintaining order. Even from the command platform, the panicked arguments of the soldiers could be heard.

"My lord, what's next?"

Donovan saw that Kulesha was rectifying the rout, walked to Close's side, and asked with some uncertainty, "The lethality of the opposite side is too strong, and our two regiments are estimated to be unable to handle it." If you want to ask for reinforcements, it's best to bring in the artillery cavalry, maybe you still have the strength to fight. ”

"The artillery cavalry is not armored, and if that kind of weapon can penetrate the iron armor, it will definitely be able to kill the artillery cavalry, and we can't win."

Cross muttered to himself, and then gave his own answer.

"We're not going to fight, we're going to make peace."

Invisibly, he even forgot that the word peace only appears in wars between countries. Now, dealing with a rebellious serf who defended the city, Cross subconsciously regarded the other party as a force at the same level as the Six Princes and Anken Rein.

"Peace?!"

Donovan was very surprised, "My lord, we have killed so many soldiers, and we just negotiated peace?" This...... But how do you explain it to your brothers? ”

"How?"

Cross's anger at the enemy's fighting power finally exploded on the issue, and he glared at Donovan and roared loudly.

"How do you want me to explain?! Yes! Two regiments, nearly 3,000 people, can't beat the other party's 200 people? How do you ask me to explain? How else can you explain it? You told me, how can I explain how to fight like this, fight like this?! ”

Donovan realized that he had stabbed the hornet's nest and said nothing. It took a good five minutes for Cross to stop. He raised his head, looked at the scolding and panting Cross, hesitated, and was about to speak, when he heard the special and terrible gunfire coming from behind.

"Tutu Tu Tu Tu—"

Someone shot in the rear?

At this moment, Donovan felt as if he had returned to Green Pine Mountain, to the time when he learned that the back road was cut off and the front road was intercepted, and the panic and despair that suddenly erupted from the inside out turned him into a stake.

"Enemy attack!! Enemy Attack !!!! ”

The news of the enemy attack was transmitted from back to front, wave after wave. Cross, Donovan, and Kulesha all turned backwards in unison, and immediately saw the enemy attacking. The enemy, dressed in civilian costumes and holding strangely shaped guns in their hands, made a sound similar to that of a weapon in the defense line of the Naksan crossing, and were killing the soldiers in the back row of the Third Regiment. Moreover, to the surprise and even horror of everyone on the podium, the weapons in the hands of these people could shoot continuously without stopping to reload. Cross watched a certain person on the other side, shooting as he advanced, and one person drove dozens of people on his side to run like pigs.

"This ...... What's going on? Why are there enemies in the back?! ”

Cross was completely panicked at this moment, and when he realized that the danger he was facing was not only the defeat of commanding the battle, but also the possibility of threatening his own life, he completely collapsed. The Sistes, the guard officer of the Six Princes, shouted and demanded that Kulesha and Donovan beat the enemy back behind. But at this time, the team of two people had just been frightened by the weapons at the Luoshan crossing, and where did they have the courage to organize a defensive line? In less than twenty minutes, the rear of the command post was completely defeated, and the retreating troops in the front and the defeated soldiers in the rear mixed together and fled in all directions, completely losing their formation and organization.

Cross, Kulesha, and Donovan, on the other hand, began to flee when they realized that the battle was not going well, and they took off their conspicuous military uniforms, changed into the big red uniforms of ordinary soldiers, and followed the scattered soldiers, fled into the woodland on both sides of the road, and completely abandoned the battle.

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On March 28, 848, Gastens won the first battle since the founding of the Communist Party.

Elena Guard.

"Your decision was good, but I hope you'll be careful in the future," Gastens approached Berranchel at a simple celebration on the factory floor. The unit attacking the enemy's rear was Berlanchel's company of sharp knives. When Bellanchier returned to Elena with Everett, he found that Elena was being defended by Cross's troops. He observed the situation, and when the defenders at the Naksan Pass had routed the enemy's attack, he took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the enemy's rear. Judging by the results, the effect is good. With a company of soldiers, Berrancier broke up the formation of the enemy's two regiments, and although he ran away from the commander, the number of wounded and killed in a battle was nearly a thousand.

"Head, I didn't win, can you wait to talk about me?"

Berranchier scratched his head and smiled shyly. Ivan and Zink, who were not far away, saw him and walked over with wine glasses.

"General Branch, don't be soft on your merits, it's not hard to bring a sharp knife, if it's hard, I'll help you bring it for two days?"

Ivan had been staring at the sharp knife for a long time. This company, which was completely equipped with Gastens' newly designed weapons, was extremely combative. Anyone wants to take the area, the kind of momentum that kills the enemy on the battlefield, a commander, will not let go.

"No, no, the sharp knife is good. And I brought it well, not only capturing Everett alive, but also completely breaking up the enemy's ranks. Right, boss? ”

"That's right," Gastens smiled, and then suddenly tensed his face, "but have you ever thought that we were only repelling the enemy's attack, and we were on the defensive side. If you win the war, it will be easy to talk about it in the future, and there will be room for relaxation between you and the six princes. After all, the offensive was launched first by the opposite side. But now that you are fighting like this, we have changed from defense to offense, and we have also broken up the two regiments of the Six Princes, where does this make the faces of the Six Princes go? How else can we negotiate with the Six Princes? ”

"Ah...... Head...... No way? ”

Berlanchir was frightened by Gastens's sudden intimidation, he froze for a moment, looked carefully at Gastens's expression, and found a smile on the corner of his mouth, and immediately understood the meaning of his head. He smiled and brought a glass of wine to the head, bowing his head to admit his mistake.

"Head, I was wrong, I shouldn't have killed the enemy so hard, please punish the leader!"

After saying this, Bellanchier didn't hold back, and followed again.

"But the boss is going to break with the six princes anyway, whether this fight or not, isn't it all the same?"

"You kid!"

Gastens reached out and patted Bellanchier on the head, unable to hold back, and smiled. He did have the intention of showing his hole cards to the six princes, so he didn't care about Bellanch's actions. On the contrary, this time Bellanchier's assault on Cross's troops also proved the ability of the Sharp Knife Company in sports warfare, and gave him a deeper understanding of Elena's war potential.

"Speaking of Everett," Zink brought up another topic, "Everett said that Yarrow Rose's men came to him, what about this?" ”

"Isn't Yarrow Ross our backer, how can he suddenly deal with us?" , Ivan also had questions about this, and asked casually, "Is it Cross's order?" ”

"It should have been arranged by Cross, first find someone to rush into Elena and kill our guts, and then we can talk about it, it's easy to talk. It's just that they didn't expect that our place was too hard and scratched their teeth. ”

"What about this man, kill?" , Zink was also asking. He is now in charge of Elena's security affairs, and he cares about it.

"Publicly executed in the martial arts arena, beheaded, and then given to Ross, he naturally knows what I mean."

To his enemies, Gastens had no sense of distress at all. Since Yarrow Ross dares to stand up against him, he must be prepared to accept his own revenge.

"So what do we do next?" Daisy squeezed over at some point, "Or, let's expand, right?" Eat more land and people? There are still too few people in Elena now. ”

"You can absorb the population, and don't expand for the time being", Gastens also had thoughts on this matter, "When Yarrow Ross receives my letter, he will naturally give me an answer." ”

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While Elena was hosting a celebration dinner, Cross, who had fled the desert, was sighing in Yarrow Rose's mansion.

"It's really my misjudgment this time, I didn't expect that kid Gastens to have such a powerful thing, and so many people died, I feel ashamed in my heart......"

In front of Yarrow Ross, Pal Cross, who was once infinitely beautiful and majestic, has long since lost his previous aura. He changed into clean clothes and was sitting in the reception room of Yarrow Rose's house, discussing with him what to do.

"But will Gastens take revenge? If he retaliates, there will be no army available in the province! ”

Yarrow Ross was telling the truth, the garrison responsible for the defense of the province of Engspan was the Fifth Army in the Western Theater of Operations. During the previous attack on Tulucas, the Fifth Army was largely disabled. Later, after rebuilding, it remained in the Tulucas Line, guarding the Thorny Hills with a group of recruits, and only an incomplete 6th Division remained in the territory of Enspan Province, which was still retired from the front line to rest. Neither Yarrow Ross nor Pal Cross had much confidence in using the Sixth Division to fight Elena.

"Can't let him take revenge", Cross has already thought of a way to deal with Gastens on the way to escape, "He is now strong, we can't beat him, and Ankenrein can't stand another rebel army in the west." Therefore, your task now is to stabilize him, no matter what the cost, you must stabilize him. ”

Yarrow Ross nodded, and just as he was about to say something, he received a message from the butler that Gastens had sent something. Pal Chloe also became nervous when he heard what Gastens had sent. Now that his side has been defeated and lost, what will Gastens send over to humiliate himself?

What was carried in by the servant was a wooden box, which looked ordinary. But when Yarrow Rose opened the wooden box, he screamed in fright and took a step back. Pal Cross also frowned when he saw the contents of the wooden box.

It was a human head that had been processed.

"Who is this?" , Cross saw from Rose's reaction that he knew this person, and asked directly.

"It's Everett, the leader of the rout I was looking for, and told them to harass Elena."

Yarrow Rose replied as he glanced at the head again. When he looked up again, his voice was visibly nervous.

"My lord, what shall we do?"