Chapter 22: Crisis and Choice
While the surging torrent of human steel was frantically heading north, a large number of wolf riders led barbarian infantry, using standard infantry and surprise tactics among the rolling hills, flanking behind Ma Po Ling.
Then, at a certain time, as if they had discovered something, they rushed wildly in a certain direction.
However, the human army also seemed to have mustered the maximum force they could muster, blocking in the direction of their advance. For a while, the sound of guns and cannons on the battlefield within a radius of more than ten miles was endless, and the halo and explosion of magic energy flashed frequently, and the entire battlefield seemed to be a pot of porridge, and there was no return to the figure of the high-level demon war confrontation.
At this time, in the depths of the human front, a place with the strongest black and white halo. Above the sky, several streamer figures surrounded by dazzling stars were already facing each other in the distance.
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"What? The barbarian war emperor also has a day to be afraid? What are you doing there looking like frightened rabbits? It's coming. If you don't fight and don't leave, you can't wait for us to have a supper? β
Yang Qi floated in the air like this, surrounded by several figures who were also as starry as him, and he shouted at a few tall figures who were also starry in the distance.
"Hmph, human, do you think we're going to fall for your tricks? When our army is surrounded, we will naturally fight. Now, we just need to keep an eye on you so that you can't run away! β
A smug voice from the other side also came from afar.
Yang Qi sighed: "Bastard, after this group of barbarians suffered losses, they are getting better and better. β
He smiled bitterly at an old man beside him.
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"Do we retreat or not? Is it really good to expose His Highness to the guns of the barbarians like this? At least let His Highness go first, right? But the old man said worriedly.
"Well...... Let your Highness ask what he means. β
Yang Qi groaned.
Then, a trace of worry appeared on his face.
"It's just, Lao Xia. Now, even if we want to retreat, the Barbarian War Emperor will pursue them fiercely - as long as we are entangled by them, we can't run away in a hurry. Although they are afraid of His Highness's extremely cold gaze, we are also afraid that without His Highness's aura, our army is likely to be in a more difficult situation. β
"And we're not going to be fighting in our own army. But it is deeply encircled - whether His Highness can run away or not, it is only five or five. β
Yang Qi said in a low voice, but it made the old man's eyes even more melancholy.
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"Lao Xia, this time I really have to count on your nephew's heavy group - I also explained to you just now, we are now competing with them faster than anyone. If they were faster, the barbarian infantry and cavalry would have to retreat, otherwise they would have been killed as long as we held out for a while. β
Yang Qi thought about it, but he also comforted.
King Qi nodded, but he smiled bitterly: "But now." Looks like they're faster......"
"There's no way, they use Xingyao to find His Highness, naturally they will find it faster. Moreover, their infantry also had a faint suppression of the strength of our infantry who did not participate in the battle with heavy equipment - damn, this battle is getting more and more weird. β
Yang Qi spread his hands and said indignantly.
"Now, it's up to the sons...... Let's see if the reloading group is faster, or if the barbarians opposite us are faster. Let's see if the barbarians on the snowy fields in the far north will last long, or our army here will last long. β
He whispered again.
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"That's right. Lao Xia, if our defense line collapses, when the barbarian soldiers arrive in front of His Highness, it will be the time when the barbarian war emperor surprises. You pay attention to the battle situation - in case things are not harmonious, a few of us will resist first, and you will try to take His Highness to run first. β
He thought about it, but asked the old man again.
"How can that be. With the addition of me, our strength is faintly on par with the other side. As soon as I'm gone, how can you stand itβ" The old man suddenly became anxious.
"There's nothing you can't do. Most of them are serious injuries, at most sacrifices. Anyway, the old man has lived enough, but it's a pity that my grandson Yang Linkai ...... He was the one who was the best to carry my mantle and come out of the blue. If he hadn't died...... I don't really have any regrets, but it's a pity ......."
Yang Qi sighed lowly, but looked at the old man solemnly.
"His Royal Highness King Qi, don't hesitate. This is not a request, but an order - the safety of Your Highness is a matter of life and death for the Empire, and even if we fall one or two, we will make the barbarians on the other side pay the same price. β
"Okay...... old man sighed lowly, but looked nervously down.
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There, the armies of the two sides were fighting fiercely, and on the battlefield where the canine teeth were intertwined, almost every battlefield was mixed with black brilliance and white glitter, among them, there was a barbarian wolf riding a huge war wolf riding a hideous sword light.
The Emperor of War on the opposite side was also nervously staring at him. They knew that if they launched a surprise attack, the eerie light would disappear and their army would be overwhelmed.
But they ...... It is also possible to be targeted by those cold eyes, so as to ......
For a while, the most high-end powerhouses of the empire and the barbarians seemed to have become spectators because of the rat trap. And on the ground below them, hundreds of thousands of troops of the two tribes, whose life and death are entangled, have become the real protagonists.
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Far behind the streamers of the Imperial Stars, below, on the highest mountain among the hills.
Caiyun tried her best to look at the battle in the distance, although it was still too far away for her to see anything, only a column of troops reinforced from the negative side, frantically advancing forward under their feet - but the sound of gunfire in front of her eardrums began to sound more and more clearly, and her expression began to be full of hesitation.
Although she knew that maybe as soon as they left, the hundreds of thousands of troops in front of them would be in a more difficult situation, but the young lady was just a woman and a child, and she was not a soldier, so she couldn't just put herself in danger just to have a better chance of winning, and finally gave her life here, right?
And the Hou Ye held her hand when he was dying, and the last words of Yin Yin's advice were especially in his ears - that was to ask her Pan Caiyun to protect the safety of the young lady with her life...... But now......
"Young lady, why don't we withdraw first?"
She asked in a low voice in the voice of the silent girl.
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"Nope." A cold voice sounded, but the girl shook her head slightly.
"Why?" Caiyun rushed to the road.
"The Xie clan has shed too much blood for the empire and your compatriots, and you are also in danger for the sake of your compatriots and for the sake of victory, as an incomparably precious body of a divine descendant. Leave now, no one will say a word - you are not a soldier with the responsibility of defending your country, but a civilian, and if you want to leave, no one can order you to stay. β
She shouted and hurriedly persuaded, which immediately caused the guards around her to look at each other frequently.
The soldiers' eyes were full of pleading and expectation, but also with reluctance and relief, none of them spoke to dissuade them, but they all looked at the girl and waited for her to make her own choice.
"No, just to win, the empire can avenge my husband, and lose...... I'll be able to go to Shainin more quickly......"
The girl said lightly.
Her voice still carried the coldness and indifference that seemed to have remained unchanged for thousands of years, like a goddess above all living beings, revealing a trace of weirdness...... Glad? As if a ...... A wife who rejoices to see her husband soon.
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Caiyun was stunned.
This is a woman...... She mourned.
A woman who loves deeply, a woman who has no regrets, and a woman who is extremely noble. Like a vine wrapped around a towering tree, he begets and I live, he dies, he falls, and I wither.
Such a woman, such a love...... is worthy of the title of goddess, and is worthy of the love of my young master......
But, young master, why are you ...... I went so early...... Leaving such a woman who loves you so much to be lovesick and tormented every night. Now, I have the will to live and die, and I want to follow you......
She let out a low sigh and said no more, tears streaming down her face.
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However, the members of the escort group who did not know what was going on around them and heard their conversation were moved, grateful, and awe-inspiring in their eyes.
Her Highness can obviously go, no one will blame her, she has done her best, and we are in danger.
And now, she's even more ...... She didn't retreat - she even prepared for the worst, and she had the determination to follow her husband who had already died!
However, she is still only a girl - a girl with all kinds of miracles, but she has no power of her own; The girl who should be protected by our man, and should laugh in the arms of her imperial Yongwu......
She is also a wife who has lost her husband, and a mother of two young children who have just given birth! Her two may be at home waiting to be fed, and the mother of a child who has lost her father and is about to lose her mother!
She is the hostess of the Xie family in the far north! As soon as you enter the Far North family, as long as the human race will not become extinct, you will inevitably be glorious, rich, and radiant, the sixth star of the empire, the mistress of the Xie clan in the extreme north!
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But she's ...... for us
But, this is the Xie family...... A noble family that has been in the human race for 600 years, and now even a daughter-in-law has the blood of a hero.
This is Hsieh...... A man who will always stand in front of his people to protect them, and a man who will make us more powerful and courageous will be ashamed of his flesh and blood.
A demon war lieutenant general looked at the girl with a respectful face, he lowered his head and pondered, he had already walked to the periphery of the escort regiment, and gave a few low orders to a dozen low-level demon warriors of the escort regiment.
The demon warriors, who were also looking at the girl with respect on their faces, nodded their heads repeatedly, they went down the mountain, each blessed their magic energy to the peak, and began to run frantically in all directions in front of the gunshots. (To be continued......)