Chapter 40: The Great Rout (8)
Ishinuma and a few of his subordinates went to the hill closest to the settlement to look.
The interior of the city, which has just been obscured by buildings, is unobstructed.
So even Ishinuma was almost frightened.
The city is full of steel giants with sharp horns, layer upon layer, so that they can't stop in the city, so they can only park outside the city, and a simple fence is considered a protective measure, looking like a flock of sheep grazing in the pasture.
In the eyes of natives such as Ishinuma, these steel giants simply have more than they have encountered on the battlefield.
"My lord, let's withdraw." One of his subordinates cautiously proposed to build a yì, which won the heartfelt approval of all the scouts.
"Wait a minute." Ishinuma reluctantly made up his mind, wanting to see if he could make a valuable discovery again, after all, he came to such a time, and he fled with just one look, and he was too sorry for such a big risk.
He looked at it again closely, and even used one of his natural skills. As a low-level stone spirit, his natural ability is actually a chicken-ribbed thing, called climbing high and looking far, standing motionless in a high place, you can get the ability to double the range of vision, when the watchtower Wangfu stone or something is quite good, in fact, most of the compatriots of the Ishinuma clan are arranged in similar jobs, and most of their lives stand quietly on a high place and look out motionless.
Ishinuma soon discovered some anomalies.
Most of the giants were stationary, except for a few strange things—in fact, the construction machinery that continued to build the settlement—that kept busy. And most importantly, with the observation of Ishinuma, in this settlement, no defensive measures were found, that is to say that the city was unfortified! It is simply unthinkable that such an undefended situation could occur in a city so close to the front line.
Ishinuma once again calmed a few of his subordinates who were about to move, calmed down and took a closer look, using his shallow soul fluctuation detection method. This is a dangerous way of reconnaissance, and the reaction of soul fluctuations is on both sides, unless the difference in the strength of soul fluctuations between the two sides is too large, and the weaker side will not find out.
Ishinuma's adventure paid off again, and he was pleasantly surprised to find that there wasn't even a trace of soul fluctuation among those Iron Giants! And from the experience on the battlefield, these steel giants with great strength have at least some weak demon-like soul fluctuations. In fact, in the entire city, there are only a few soul fluctuations, and they are all on those strangely shaped things, not on the powerful steel giants. In addition to this, there are several fresh and powerful souls in the city, but they don't know anything about his soul fluctuation reconnaissance, and it can be concluded that those few should be humans.
Ishinuma was so excited by his discovery that his mouth was moist.
He's a stone spirit, and dryness is normal.
Maybe you can give it a try.
He said to himself in his heart.
But how to convince those who have been frightened is the key question.
He pondered, quietly retreating from the hillside, returning to the team with his men who had been waiting impatiently.
Seeing Iinuma return, almost all the soldiers became excited - they could finally go.
It's too much pressure to stay on the edge of this huge city.
It's like an ant lying on its stomach next to a giant beast that can crush them with a slight turn.
But Ishinuma first recruited a few cronies to his side and underestimated them softly.
The expressions of those cronies changed and began to hesitate, and they looked at the brigade from time to time, and then slowly calmed down.
Only then did Ishinuma walk to the side of the brigade and announce that he would take his team to the rear of the Centaur Palace, and those routs who had joined in halfway could evacuate first and wait at the bridgehead on the west bank of the Ghost River.
If Ishinuma hadn't recruited a few cronies to speak before, this decision might have made these routs grateful, but after seeing that scene, the already tense nerves of the rout soldiers immediately noticed the alarm.
If you make a normal arrangement, why talk to your cronies first.
The people in the opposite city didn't notice us either, so why arrange a team of the queen of the palace and just evacuate them all?
Doubts swirled in the minds of almost all of the routers.
And those subordinates of Iinuma's original family were also a little dissatisfied.
What is the queen of the temple, if it is discovered, it is not a dead death.
However, a few words were whispered in the ranks of the cronies, and they all settled down.
This made the other routs even more uncertain.
Taking advantage of Ishinuma's orders to clean up the traces of the station, the defeated soldiers have asked for familiar Ishinuma's subordinates to talk to each other.
Ishinuma's subordinates are all stone spirits, and most of them have no hearts, so they are set out in three or two sentences.
It turned out that Ishinuma reconnaissance found that the defense of the city on the opposite side was weak, and compared to the huge area, those few guards could not defend it at all, and the city was full of all kinds of wealth looted by humans.
Ishinuma wanted to sneak into the city with his subordinates to touch him, but it was not in vain.
According to Ishinuma's description, the wealth accumulated in it is simply like a small mountain, and you can steal it casually, and you don't have to fight for the rest of your life.
As the old saying goes, wealth moves people's hearts, and this spirit heart is no exception.
These are the lowest level of cannon fodder, and they joined the army just to live a mixed life, but how much they can eat with that salary, they are basically living a very hard life.
Now when I heard that there was such an opportunity to make a fortune, my eyes were red.
Nima's, good you stone swamp, everyone has followed you all the way, and when it comes to making a fortune, they want to throw us down, but there is no door!
For a while, the crowd was angry, and when they organized, they went to Ishinuma to comment.
As soon as Ishinuma heard the news leak, he first scolded angrily, "This group of stone eggs/sons who don't have a door on their mouths", and then said to the defeated soldiers, it's not that they don't take them away, it's too dangerous, the enemy in the city is heavily guarded, and if one is accidentally discovered, then it will be dead, and everyone finally escaped from the battlefield, full of desire to go home and reunite, if you die here, it's not worth it. He is also thinking about the big guys.
The routs disagreed.
Who to bluff! Tell your own subordinates that there are not a few soldiers, and it is easy to touch them, and when you get to us, you will become heavily guarded?
No, the heavy guards will also go!
Iinuma also said that there was not much wealth in it at all, and that he would not be able to make a fortune if he stole it.
No, you can't make a big fortune, and you can make a small fortune!
After all, if you say a thousand things and ten thousand, you have to go!
Ishinuma was helpless, so he had to agree to take all the defeated soldiers to make a fortune together, but he said: "Since it is a unified action, then you have to listen to the command, if anyone acts arbitrarily, it will be bad and affect everyone, I will be the first to kill him!" ”
The defeated soldiers patted their chests and promised that they would absolutely obey orders and listen to commands.
So Ishinuma reorganized the defeated army on the spot, re-established the basic structure, and led the team to sneak towards the city where he said that the wealth was piled up.
However, no one noticed that the soldiers who had gone with Iinuma to reconnoiter at the beginning did not advance with the group, they quietly stayed, and waited for the team to leave before crawling out, cursing Ishinuma for being nervous and going to die with everyone, while rushing to flee towards the Phantom River.
I am the dividing line on the last day of the Year of the Rabbit*****************************
First of all, I wish you all a happy New Year, all the best, and a prosperous Year of the Dragon.