The news that Chen Qi sent me brought forward the plan for the increase in troops. In the early morning of April 7 www.biquge.info I arrived at the Selmo Fortress with 5,000 soldiers of the Taiyan Army on Tang Long's flagship. Dai Jiangnan and Han Zeng had a great opinion on this operation, believing that before the end of the war in Selmo, I, as the top decision-maker, should not risk my life. I resisted their protest on the grounds that it was necessary to personally confirm information that might affect the whole situation, and arranged for this small landing before the reinforcement of the army. The 5,000 troops were loaded with just over 20 warships, and the Selmo Fortress was devoid of air defenses, so that the launch operation was as quiet as child's play. The Musku continent is probably a little paralyzed by the situation here, and it can't look down on the actions of these twenty or so warships, and they don't even fire and watch me land. On the way to land, I couldn't stop thinking: what if Feria knew that I was in the fleet myself, or that I was bombarding this side on a whim? That's a lot of money.

We landed just in time. The 5,000 troops were handed over to Chen Qi and quickly assigned to various defensive posts, and the soldiers of the previous raid team urgently explained to them how to use the ready-made Feria defensive artillery fire. Less than an hour and a half after the end of the emergency lecture, the reconnaissance ship reported that a large Feria reinforcement had been found in the eastern sea.

It is said that it is reinforcements, but this kind of reinforcement is really not like it - Feria's navy is extremely weak, and the largest naval base has been destroyed by Simba, and it has not recovered so far, and there is no action in this regard. Combined with Feria's consistent lack of attention to the Navy, it is doubtful that they have any intention of putting their heart and soul into restoring it. The number of these reinforcements was quite large, about 50,000 people, and since the appearance of the horizon, it has covered the entire line of sight of the eastern sea, and it is quite the atmosphere of thousands of troops smuggling into the Heavenly Dynasty. However, their image is really not much, they are all swimming over with life-saving floating bubbles and black pressure, which is too ugly and spoils the scenery!

These poor creatures still had no idea of the seizure of Fortress of Selmo, and they saw that the coastline was swimming harder one by one. Seeing such a grand occasion, I asked Chen Qi: "If we follow the original plan, we will come in fifteen hours at the earliest, what are you going to do?" ”

"This fortress city has strong walls and complete fortifications, so it is naturally not a problem to hold it for fifteen hours." Chen Qi said: "But if they are allowed to go ashore, the long-range air defense units inside will pose a threat to the landing of reinforcements." To prevent this from happening, I'll use nukes to wipe out most of them before they land. ”

I shook my head and said, "From now on, try not to use nuclear weapons unnecessarily." Publicly, our strategic goal is to occupy the planet, not destroy it. Try to preserve a better ecological environment during the occupation, so that future generations can use it. Privately, your body has suffered too badly and your recovery has not been satisfactory. Before he recovered, he suffered radiation damage again, how did he get it? ”

"Thank you for your concern." Chen Qi smiled, and his g-style eyes dimmed as he looked at the reinforcements of Feria on the sea: "Then let you order you to use those things less." The fish and shrimp in this sea taste good, and you can't eat it with that stuff. But how to defend against the enemy now? ”

"There are two forts on the east coast of the Sermo Fortress, sandwiched between the harbors, and only the beaches of the North and South Fort can be landed. Relatively speaking, the long-range firepower of the North Fort is relatively poor, and the South Fort is relatively complete. Well, I suggest that you take the raiders and the 1,000 Taiyan army to the North Fort, and when Feriasong has taken the beach, launch a charge, drive them out to sea, and then withdraw to rest, and then counterattack when they pounce again. The Feria Army is too far apart from your equipment to pose a threat to you. I'm mainly using Feria's artillery to carry out long-range strikes against them, don't you think? ”

Chen Qi smiled when he heard this and said, "General, don't you want to rush in person?" I really obey the rules that Naito set for you. ”

I said stupidly, "Ahem, the time when I rushed in the sea of corpses and blood has long passed. Now is the era of Xiao Chen, you young people, let me, the old man, hide in the bunker and continue to reminisce about the glory of the artillery era! ”

When Feria's reinforcements were about to arrive in the harbor, they had discovered that something was wrong, and the harbor was empty and there was no team to greet them. Although it hesitated, after five days of floating and crossing a sea distance of nearly 1,000 kilometers, which was not calm, this unit did not have the patience to let the army continue to soak in the sea and wait for the reconnaissance team to come up to see the situation. Suspicion turned to suspicion, and they swam to the harbor and the beaches of North Fort and South Fort unchanged. Seeing that they were less than thirty meters away from the beach, all the various automatic cannons on the beach suddenly rose to the ground and launched a fierce artillery bombardment on them, and the huge plasma cannons on the huge watchtowers of the North and South Fort also dropped powerful artillery fire into the sea. For a time, the Feria reinforcements suffered heavy losses, and one by one they were lifted into the sky and then sunk to the bottom of the sea.

What impressed me the most in this sneak attack was the creativity of the human soldiers. With just one or two translations in the Ferian language, they figured out how to use all the Feria weapons in the fortress, and dragged out a dozen gold-armored chariots that Coulson had abandoned in the warehouse because they were too heavy to trek through the swamps! This thing is heavy and unbeatable, but the range and lethality are comparable to the fixed plasma cannon on the watchtower, and a single shot can turn more than a dozen Feria's soldiers into flesh and blood.

Because of the use of these Feria own perverted weapons, the commander of Feria's reinforcements even thought that the defenders of the fortress of Selmo had defected for the first fifteen minutes. But after thinking about it, the rebellion of the Feria army could not be famous, and none of the four major elements of cause, motive, goal and result could be guessed. In anxious speculation, the Feria army at the forefront was constantly being thrown into the abyss of destruction. Within half an hour, the beach of Sermo was densely packed with fragments of the corpses of the Feria Army, and it was conservatively estimated that the number of extermination had reached tens of thousands.

The character of the Feria Army has two sides. When facing the traditional human troops on the flat ground, their physical and explosive superiority is so obvious that they are often confident to the point of arrogance, and the more than 200 He Guozhang regimental headquarters were wiped out by twelve Feria scouts, which is certainly a shame in the military history of mankind, but it is not a surprise for Feria. But when they are faced with extreme adverse circumstances, the decline in military morale is often more pronounced than that of human beings.

Mei Weifeng, deputy commander of the Fellle garrison and commander of the Luhjiao Guard Division, once published a research article in an internal journal, in which he counted the orientation of the corpses of the Feria army in the Gaklay Strait, and believed that there were many more people facing away from Luhejiao than facing there. Mei Weifeng reasoned that this meant that the morale of the Feria army had dropped too much in an extremely unfavorable environment, so that a large-scale escape and slippage occurred due to large casualties before the tactical objective was completed. However, it is really not fast to slip in the sea, and more people are killed in the process of escaping than in the attack. Whether Mei Weifeng's data is comprehensive and accurate is really impossible to verify now, but judging from the many contacts between the human army and Feria, although it is not true, it is not far away.

According to this logic, the defenders of Feria, which had been devastated by heavy artillery fire from their own men on the beaches of Selmo, should have been in disarray with a loss of up to 20 percent of their men. However, their commander was not incompetent, and immediately shouted two words of order with a loudspeaker, and the whole army immediately resumed the momentum of fierce forward attack. The Ferian translator next to me immediately translated: "It seems that the enemy chief is shouting, which means 'we can't cross the sea again, there is life in front of us, and to turn back is death.'" ”

"Troublesome guy." I shrugged my shoulders and said to the marching staff: "No more dumb riddles, give the order to the North Fort, and send troops to destroy the landers." The artillery fire is all in the sea, not on the beach! Let's just keep firing here. ”

The battle without suspense went on again and again. I didn't bother to look at the battle situation under my feet at all, but from time to time I raised my binoculars to look at the situation on Chen Qi's side. The Feria's army, which had swam nearly 1,000 kilometers into the sea, climbed onto the beach with great difficulty under the baptism of bullets and bullets, and few of them were still able to walk steadily. Chen Qi led the brigade into battle, and the Taiyan army on both sides held spears and kept squeezing into the sea, and in the middle was quickly slashed by the raiding team, cutting off the heads of the keel soldiers as smoothly as harvesting leeks. Often, after only five or six minutes of chopping, the Feria army on the beach would turn around and jump into the sea because of the disparity in casualties - although it would be a death to turn back, it would be better to die than to take the initiative to send their heads to the high-vibration particle knife to cut off, and it would be better to die than to live! Her side was so lethal that the Feria Army had to change direction and land on Nanpu Beach with all their might, which was unblocked by Marines. However, we have to say that although the long-range artillery fire of the Feria Army is not much, it is just as big as their size, and the lethality is too strong! The waters off the beach of Nanpu were quickly filled with the corpses of the Ferian Army, and the area of the beach continued to expand under the accumulation of the corpses of the Feria Army, but it was hard for them to imagine how much sacrifice and destruction only a small number of human troops of the Demon Swordsmen would have to pay to occupy the place if they were to use all these defensive fires.

The charge of the Feria army continued in waves throughout the day. By dark, the beach in Selmo had been filled with piles of corpses and stretched more than a hundred meters into the sea. The Feria army in the sea was still large, at least 20,000 men, but the intensity of the attack had obviously decreased a lot. Our side is no better, after all, the human soldiers in heavy armor have also suffered a great loss of physical strength in continuous combat. All reserves have been put into rotation several times, and now all the soldiers are tired. I looked at the time, Tang Long and Han Zeng's large-scale increase in troops had begun to be mobilized on the ship, and they could get here in about eight hours, can we still survive eight hours?

was worried, Chen Qi called me: "The soldiers on my side are very tired, transfer your gold-armored chariot to me!" ”

"Do you really care about the life or death of this pavilion?" I lamented, "The soldiers on my side don't have the equipment of the Demon Swordsman, and if they lack heavy firepower to let them rush up, such a spear-wielding soldier can't withstand it!" ”

"Then what should I do, withdraw to the fortress and retreat to defend the whole army?"

It seems like there is no way to do it, and it is not easy for us to last all day. The soldiers were extremely tired, and perhaps soon to reach a critical point. Although the Feria Army was also very tired, their physical strength was much better than that of humans, and once the tipping point was passed, it was possible to repeat Gaclay's instant comeback. And what about withdrawing to the fortress and waiting for reinforcements? Reinforcements will come, but if these Feria troops are allowed to come ashore, the reinforcements will inevitably suffer considerable losses, which is not what I want to see.

Chen Qi suddenly said: "Huang Er, we are very tired, but they don't know, right?" ”

"Ah......" I thought for a moment and said, "It should be so, the soldiers on my side have not been in battle, and the demon swordsmen on your side have cut too smoothly, probably they can't see our predicament for a while." ”

"Do you want to recruit them?"

"Make no mistake, Naive!" I blurted out a rebuke, but suddenly I was distracted from thinking about the possibility of doing so. Why do I think this is nonsense? Indeed, there has never been a precedent for the surrender of prisoners in the war between humans and Feria, and both sides have killed the opponent's ability to kill them all. However, when it comes to the opponent's homeland, it is not necessarily wise to completely clean up, so is it necessary to change the strategy?

Chen Qi wasted no time in saying: "Anyway, it's just a few words, there won't be any loss, right?" ”

"That's right......," I thought for a minute, and then instructed the guards beside me, "Get Feria's interpreter, and I'll give you a good lesson." ”

The last offensive of the Feria army had retreated a quarter of an hour earlier. It was already too dark to speak, and it was even more difficult for them to move their entire team in the sea, and it was probably going to be quite some time before the next offensive came. The soldiers who had been guarding the shore all day were tired one by one, and gradually began to wonder how long they could hold their spears in their hands. Suddenly, there was a commotion overhead, and several soldiers installed a large horn with a caliber of one meter to the head of Nanpu City, and shouted to the Feria army in the sea.

The human soldiers, of course, did not understand what they were shouting, but they found that it was okay not to shout, and as soon as they shouted, it was as if they had stepped on the sore spot of the Feria army, and they immediately collapsed and threw themselves on the beach again. This time, however, the assault was particularly fraught, and it came quickly and was defeated faster, and in less than ten minutes the whole army was scattered again. The only thing left on the beach was the sound of human shouting horns, and it was chillingly calm.

I don't know how long this perverted "calm" lasted, but suddenly a soldier shouted: "The Feria army has surrendered!" ”

Most of the human soldiers shouted at this voice inexplicably, but they soon saw a tall green dragon keel soldier waving a white flag on the beach wading dejectedly towards the water. I immediately sent a team with an interpreter to negotiate with it, and my heart was churning: Will Feria really surrender? I've never heard of anything like this!

Because of the poor level of translation, it took a long time of difficult negotiations to barely understand the meaning of this envoy. The envoy said that they were a marginal race of Feriya, the Blackwater Feria, who originally guarded the dust swamp area in the southeast corner of the central Mascu continent, with no more than three or four thousand people. A few years ago, when humans suddenly invaded, Emperor Feria issued a summoning order, inexplicably summoning their entire clan from their territory to fight, and also dismantling their elite men and horses to the Galleklay butcher Cruso, and they were very dissatisfied with this. For example, today's soldiers are coming, it is their opportunity to set things right, and they are willing to surrender the whole division, as a guide, to fight into the hinterland of Mascu, and raise troops to take revenge.

Although Shicai's shouting was full of words to sow discord between the Feria royal family and other tribes, it worked so easily? Is there such a good thing? How credible is what they say? These questions are up to me to judge. After thinking about it for a while, I summoned the messenger and said, "It is okay to talk if you want to have a meeting, and ask your leaders to come to me." ”

The green keel soldier looked around and raised his head and said a word. The translator beside me immediately changed his face and stammered, "General, you have seen the leader of Blackwater Feria. ”

The guards beside me immediately drew their high-vibration particle knives in unison in case he suddenly burst out. But I didn't see killing intent in its eyes, shook my head and made them put away their swords, turned to the leader of Blackwater Feria, stretched out his hand and said, "You have a lot of courage, then we can talk about it." ”

The lame interpreter explained the meaning of the handshake for a few moments before the leader of Blackwater Feria half-convinced reached out to me. When he was brought in, the accelerator and scythe on his legs had been removed, and the damage was minimized. However, its hands were still the size of my head, and the amount of energy contained in them was unimaginable, and it could squeeze ordinary flesh into pus with a single pinch. The guards around me warned me not to do this, but I smiled and gestured to it for the peaceful meaning of the handshake.

Finally, our hands were shaken. At this time, it was probably the moment when the mood of the leader of Blackwater Feria began to fall from the most tense peak, and I seized this time to infiltrate a strong spiritual power, and saw through its heart in a moment of lightning. It didn't lie. The creature has a strong but sincere aura on it, but it doesn't lie. It would be easier to deal with such intelligent beings, and I was relieved and smiled, "You are very honest, please take a seat." ”

The leader of Blackwater Feria looked terrified under this moment's mental shock, and even had the urge to defend himself for a moment. But seeing the tense guards around him, he controlled his uneasiness in time, bowed his head and said: "General, you have the terrifying power to see through people's hearts, and you have such a brave army, you must be the hero who changed the heavens and the earth in the legend of the Feria. If that legend is true, you will ruin the current Feria, but will give us a new lease of life, and I swear to surrender to you. ”

I nodded and said, "Okay, okay, I have a lot to ask you, you can sit down." But we still have a lot of time, so we don't have to rush to the point, what's your name? We have to know each other to be called it! ”

The translation was too lame, and it took me a long time to stutter the name of the leader of Blackwater Feria, only to explain that its name was probably pronounced "Panaga Yoshiang", which has a special meaning in the Ferian language (and only the nobles of Feria have the right to have a name with special meaning). This meaning is translated into several sentences, and it is not clear, and it is said upside down and incomprehensibly that it probably means "hating the flowers and plants of the world for a long time". I listened impatiently and said, "I haven't studied primary school Chinese, and I can't speak clearly, so let's give him a name, 'Chang Hate Tian', and ask him if he accepts it?" (To be continued.) )