Chapter 16: The Storm Rises
"Hurry, hurry, and get ready to go. ”
The generals of all walks of life are integrating the army, and the sky is just dawning at this time, but for the sake of safety, the White Royal Alliance Army still does not stay long, and now they have to go directly to Lingyunsai and make a decision there.
"Mu Hao, your face is very bad. ”
"Ah, I didn't sleep much last night, it's fine. ”
"By the way, Master Wu took the dark department to the front to explore the way first, let's hurry up and follow. ”
"Li Jing is not well, is he? ”
"Yes, he still wanted to fight yesterday, but he couldn't stop it, and the wound recurred. ”
"Tell him to rest well and not to drag the injury all the time. ”
The army in front of him was gathering, and as far as the eye could see, the mighty army had filled the plain. The tents began to be put away, and the soldiers began to assemble one by one. Some of the wounded soldiers could not move and were directly carried aside, and they all needed to be transferred first.
"Don't be sluggish, hurry up!" Mo Bing urged the soldiers of the Xingfeng Battalion behind him. The footsteps of the assembly shook the earth, after all, the two armies combined were almost 100,000 troops. Not to mention the sound of mounts, armor.
Mu Hao was holding a map in his hand, discussing something with Kun Ba, and the two pointed and pointed, as if they were arguing about something.
"General Mu Hao, which of our troops is the vanguard?" Luo Qiankun stepped forward to ask, Wu Mingkun was not in the army at this time, and the right to command them was naturally in Mu Hao's hands.
"Brother Luo, come and see. "Although he is a general, but in terms of age, Mu Hao is a little smaller, and he is also very polite to Luo Qiankun, and he does not have the frame of a general. Luo Qiankun walked closer and looked at the marching map, but saw that Ling Yunsai's location was marked with a question mark.
"What is this?"
"If we go to Lingyunsai, the marshal has not yet given us the right to settle in, although the herald troops have already been dispatched. But we can't get in until we get a reply. It can only be built near Lingyunsai, but now there are many soldiers, and it is difficult to settle down, so if we go farther, go to the second line, and get to Tianhese, we don't need the marshal's approval to settle in. It's relatively safer. "In the defense line of the spirit division, the fortress on the front line requires the approval of the marshal, because the troops cannot be transferred randomly, but the second line is often used for dispatch and to undertake soldiers retreating from the front line. As a rule, in order to respond to emergencies, the permission of the marshal is not required.
"It's okay to have this idea, but we still have to discuss it with General Wu, I think, we can meet him first, and we can discuss it on the way. ”
"Alright, then we're ready to go. ”
After the army was assembled, the White Royal Alliance set off in a majestic manner. Soon after departure, he saw a golden light flying over in the distance, Yang Hao rode the golden feather dragon to the front, not much else, he directly told Mu Hao about the masked man he met on the road, Mu Hao also thought suspiciously, and he didn't press the table here.
Besides, Wu Mingkun took the dark front to explore the road, and when he walked on the road, he found some broken weapons scattered on the side of the road, which was the standard blade of the spirit master, but it didn't look like there had been a battle nearby, otherwise there would not have been only two or three scattered here. Picking up the scattered swords, Wu Mingkun looked at it carefully, and the broken place was not smooth, as if it had been broken by a huge impact. But there is no trace of destruction here, so the only possibility is that the knife was directly broken by a spell, but there is no person holding the knife, not even bloodstains, so Wu Mingkun is not easy to judge. After probing left and right, he didn't find anything, so he decided to wait for Mu Hao and them here first.
After waiting for almost an hour, he finally saw the army coming, and when they arrived, Wu Mingkun told what he had discovered. Holding the broken sword, Mu Hao also looked at it, but he didn't have too many inferences, after all, this kind of standard equipment spirit master army would have it, and he couldn't figure it out at all. So after discussing it, they continued to march, just for the sake of safety, Mu Hao and Wu Mingkun took a team of elite horsemen to open the way in front, while the dark department returned to the army and waited for instructions.
"Master Wu, should we go to Lingyun Sai first or ...... now" Mu Hao said his previous thoughts.
"Now if we can't be too chaotic, after all, as you said before, if the northern front is in chaos, then the marshal must be busy commanding other armies now, we have not received orders for a long time, and we have encountered a spirit before, so it is better to wait for the marshal's order now. ”
After discussing it for a while, the marching route was also finalized, and then the arrangements and plans, the two of them planned several plans to deal with different situations, and then they headed towards Lingyunsai. There was nothing wrong with each other all the way, but there was no sense of 'chaos', that is, when treating the wounded on the way, some of the doctors and nurses were tired, but there was nothing strange about it.
After marching like this for a few days, they finally saw Lingyunsai in front of them, the thick walls gave people a sense of oppression, but what worried Mu Hao the most was that after so long, the soldiers who gave the order did not return to the team for a long time, and even if they arrived at Lingyunsai, there was no way to enter. Just as he was thinking about it, the army gradually approached Lingyun Fortress. The gate was closed, and the guards in the city saw the White Imperial Alliance army hurrying out of the city to inquire.
"General Mu Hao!" The person who came was Luo Gu, the general of the garrison of Lingyun Sai. said that he was a general, but when it came to his position, he was not as high as Mu Hao.
"General Luo, we have come to Lingyun Fortress to inform the marshal, but we have not received a reply yet, we are still camping outside, but can we let our injured brothers rest in the fortress?"
After coming and going, Mu Hao informed Luo Gu of the previous battle, Luo Gu was not a pedantic person, he looked at the wounds of the wounded soldiers, and the doctors in the fortress also followed.
"How's it going, is there any situation these days?"
"Alas, don't mention it, don't mention those little bunnies under my hands, even I'm a little anxious now?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"General Mu Hao, you also know that the number of permanent troops is generally twenty or thirty thousand soldiers, and we usually have several armies in the fortress, if in peacetime, add up, a fortress can have more than ten or two hundred thousand people. However, it has been so many days, and we have not seen any of our troops, but we have seen you, and if we are suddenly attacked by the army of the spirits, we are afraid that we will not be able to stand it. ”
"So, after the fortress is emptied, you're the only one left?"
"Yes, we have been vigilant these days, and we don't dare to take it lightly. ”
"It seems that the situation is a bit serious, one of the front-line fortresses has actually been transferred to the empty. ”
"yes, I don't know what happened to the other teams. ”
Because there was no permission, Mu Hao and the others had to camp outside the fortress, but Luo Gu was happy, seeing that Mu Hao and they couldn't enter the fortress, and they didn't look good when they went back, they accompanied Mu Hao and them to the camp to discuss the recent situation. The approximate location of the other armies was marked on the map, but according to everyone's inference, it was found that the whole map looked messy and had no strategy to speak of, but the army was indiscriminately blocking the offensive of the spirits.
"How could a marshal command like this?"
Looking at the inferred location on the map, and taking a cursory look at the past, it is found that the battlefield is large and small, scattered and scattered. The whole northern front is like a Go board, but here a bunch, there a bunch.
"Although the position we arranged according to the intelligence is not necessarily correct, there is a general idea, there may be some details that we don't know, but, looking at the current situation, our entire northern front is a bit dangerous, and the army in the middle has almost no support, so we can only resist. Mu Hao looked at the map and was a little uneasy, he always felt that there was an article in it, but they didn't know it yet.
Therefore, with no result in the discussion, the White Imperial Alliance can only wait now.
"By the way, General Luogu, have our heralds ever come to the fortress?" Kun Ba just asked casually, but he didn't know that this sentence was the beginning of what happened later.
"There have been several waves of heralds recently, but since yesterday, none of them have come to us, what's wrong?"
"It's okay, we sent a messenger back to report our situation to the marshal, and by the way, we want permission to enter the fortress, but I am curious if we have passed by. ”
There is actually a reason for Kun Ba to ask this, because, normally, when the messenger returns the message, he will go through the fortress and leave traces when he passes through the stronghold, although this is not a rule, but generally speaking, he can supply himself in various strongholds and fortresses, and usually the sergeant who transmits the report will go to the fortress to resupply.
"I'm really not impressed, I've been very vigilant these days, so we've recorded all the reports that come and go, but I don't remember any soldiers from the White Front Army or the Imperial Kui Army coming. ”
"The boy who passed the news was from the first battalion of our cavalry of the White Frontier Army, and I remember that I had instructed him to pass by by the way, and that he was about entering the fortress. Gordy added on the side.
"Didn't that kid remember? Or was he in such a hurry?"
Although this little episode did not attract everyone's attention now, in what happened afterward, it made everyone understand how dangerous the situation of the white line has become.
At the end of the war, there was nothing left to talk about, and it was almost time for dinner. The smell of rice was already wafting out of the camp, causing everyone's stomachs to growl.
"Okay, let's eat first, now we have to wait and see. ”
Wu Mingkun waved his hand and beckoned everyone to go to dinner, at this dusk, the afterglow pressed on the ground, everyone was lazy, and the battalions had already begun to organize to prepare dinner.
And just when everyone thought they could enjoy dinner, there was an exclamation.
"Look! There's an army coming over there!"
In the distance, a huge army galloped towards them, one by one, and soon, several more armies appeared, all of them in armor, and some of the spirit masters were still stained with blood. Look far away. The entire hill was filled with troops, and a rough estimate was no less than 150,000 men.
"Great, there's a brother unit back!"
The White Imperial Coalition cheered, and some of the soldiers even ran to the camp and jumped to greet the galloping army. However, there was a sound of breaking wind, a sound all too familiar to those who marched into battle, the sound of archers firing in volleys.
"Rain of arrows!!!!!!! enemy attack !!!!!!!"
Some of them reacted quickly, and immediately raised their shields in the direction of the arrow feathers and pulled their nearby comrades over to cover them, and some of the heavy armor soldiers had not yet removed their armor, and the giant shields were immediately raised. But some were not so lucky, especially those soldiers who had been running to meet them, and when they found out, they turned around and saw that the rain of arrows had reached their backs and were shot directly to the ground, and for a while, blood was splattered and wails were everywhere.
"Array !!!!!!!!!!!!!! meet the enemy!!!!!!!" Mu Hao rushed out, the spiritual magic in his hand surged, and a huge barrier protected the camp, and the rain of arrows hit it and caused ripples on it, but there were still some arrow feathers that penetrated and shot through the head of the white imperial sergeant. After all, the White Imperial Alliance Army had just experienced the battle, and when they reacted at this time, they didn't say much, and all the soldiers with shields gathered together to block the fierce rain of arrows. And the spirit magic soldiers also reacted quickly, and used the defensive spirit method, although it was not as huge as Mu Hao's, but it also saved the other soldiers.
In the rushing army, the leader of the general was wearing feather armor and carrying a crescent scythe in his hand, shouting.
"Traitor!!!
The fierce eyes seemed to have a great hatred with the White Imperial Alliance, the fifteenth army crushed him, Mu Hao's face was expressionless, and at this time he only thought of one question.
Who is in command of ....... White Line?