Revised Edition, Volume 18: The End of the World, Chapter 2: The Enemy's Civil Strife (II)

I went down the castle tower and was about to go back to sleep, but I was confronted by Jing Wei with a team of soldiers who took turns to rest. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info she was covered in the blue-green blood of the Feria soldiers, and it was obvious that she had won a lot today. The panda girl fought happily, showing off her merits like a little girl, and boasting to her subordinates that she had "killed seven with a knife, pierced nine with a gun, and picked up a shotgun on the ground when she was busy, and I don't know how many were killed." She clearly saw me beside me, and the soldiers around me were saluting me, but she still pretended not to see me bragging about her cowhide, which made me very dissatisfied, and snorted, and said to herself: "A woman does not look like a woman, and she is so brave and fierce all day long, and she knows what to be proud of!" ”

As soon as I heard me say this, the soldiers around me, who knew that Jing Wei was powerful, suddenly scattered like birds and beasts, and ran away in an instant. Jing Wei knew that I meant her, so she couldn't help but whisper to me: "Okay, people don't look like women." Is the general going back to spend the night with the women of women? ”

"Eh......" I pondered for a moment, then raised my eyes to her and said, "It's none of your business." ”

Jing Wei snorted, threw his hand and left, and said in a weird manner without looking back: "It's none of my business......"

gave Jing Wei this trouble, and somehow felt a little unhappy. After I went back, I ate some supper cooked by Chen Qi for me, but it was also tasteless, and I went to bed immediately after eating. There was no part of Chen Qi to speak in this battle, she was bored, and kept blowing the pillow wind on me, trying to pull another G-type army to show her majesty and make some great achievements. After listening to two sentences, I became impatient and reprimanded: "The two armies are facing each other, it is the time of fairplay, you pull some people to throw atomic bombs indiscriminately, it is against my aesthetics, don't even think about it!" You don't have to bother with what merit medal you want, my general's seal is in the drawer, and I will write the document myself and send it - give me sleep! ”

hit a big nail head-on, Chen Qi won't make me feel better. When she started her stubborn temper, she didn't care if you were a big general or not, whether it was the time and occasion to make trouble, she just didn't stop moving her hands and feet on me, pulling her ears and pinching her nose to prevent me from sleeping well. I really have no intention of fighting her, and I have enough strength to transcend the five elements, just to make the ninja invincible, so that she will give up automatically when she is soft and boring. Chen Qi fixed me for an hour, feeling as if he had finally become bored after plastic surgery on the corpse, and slept next to him with hatred. It's a pity that she had to have enough energy to fight against me, and she actually couldn't fall asleep at all. After falling asleep for less than half an hour, I suddenly heard the shouting of killing, and I immediately sat up and jumped out of bed, ran out of the door and asked, "What's wrong?!" ”

The guards couldn't answer either. Fortunately, Jiang Xu had already rushed over, and when he saw him, he shouted: "The general is relieved, it's not an attack, it's the enemy army fighting in the house!" ”

Twilight Feria suffered heavy losses in the general attack, and judging by the losses of the nobles, it was almost a catastrophe of extinction. However, the forces retreated so quickly that the Praetorian Guards did not even see what had happened on their side, thinking that they were greedy for life and afraid of death. At Akis's orders, they began to swing their scythes at the routs that had retreated into the sea. At this time, the twilight Feria forces were in complete chaos, with few officers in control of the situation, and the troops in the vicinity of the Praetorian Guard suffered heavy losses under their sudden and indiscriminate slashing. In this general attack, Twilight Feria lost a total of only more than 200 troops, but in the chaos cut down more than 2,000 Janissaries, which shows that "the efficiency of civil wars is always stronger than foreign wars" is an immutable axiom that is applicable throughout ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad.

The remnants of the officers of Twilight Feria were furious when they found out that the Praetorian Guards were stabbing behind their buttocks—even if the intelligence of the mass-produced low-level dragon keels was low, they would not be able to cut off an arm or leg, and they were immediately furious. However, the chieftain moor was smashed to pieces by a head-on hit from the kappa artillery, and it was not easy to find someone who could control the situation and negotiate with the Praetorian Guard. The adjutant general Huangyin had no choice but to take up the burden, and after using all his strength to gather the chaotic army, he led his entourage to the nearby Praetorian Guard and shouted and cursed:

"Bastard, what are you doing, even we are chopping! Let Akith come out and speak! ”

It was only then that Archis realized that it seemed that he should not have defeated the Twilight Feria forces that had retreated so badly. However, after cutting all the heads, the head can't be retreated, do you take the initiative to admit your mistake and let the family cut twice on yourself to dissipate your anger? So he held back his head, and several of his lieutenants scolded back with laughter: "You scumbags, you rolled back before you were next to the enemy." Retreat from the battle, who will you kill if you don't cut it? ”

"Bastard, dry your eyes and see! More than half of our nobles died in this battle in Twilight Feria, what about you? You guys watched the excitement from behind, didn't fight together, let our people die unjustly on the beach, and even took advantage of the fire to rob and use knives behind us! ”

Although the Praetorian Guards were at a loss, they would not surrender, but doubled their sneers back: "Who said we won't support, you have to give us some time to complete the team, right?" Before we could get our team together, you were defeated and retreated, so it's too late! ”

Hearing the roar of laughter from the Praetorian Guard, the Twilight Feria army exploded. Human eyes and skin turn red when provoked, while they turn blue. Enraged by the Praetorian Guard's arrogance, a faint blue light reflected in the twilight of the sea where the Feria Army was located, causing even the human observers on Selmo Castle to think about this anomaly.

Shade cried out loudly, "Warriors and sages of the Twilight Feria, can we accept such an insult? We died for the royal family, but they insulted us like this, can you bear it? ”

Twilight Feria's entire army roared, saying that such treatment would never be acceptable. Arakuin immediately shouted, "Warriors, charge me!" Kill Akis, let's throw Blackwater Feria! ”

An unpremeditated scuffle broke out suddenly.

The Praetorian Guards had previously semi-surrounded the flanks and rear of Twilight Feria, and had an absolute strategic and topographical advantage. However, they have an Achilles' heel: they are too small. Originally, the number of Janissaries was comparable to that of Twilight Feria, but after a day of fierce fighting, the total number of Twilight Feria's army did not decrease much, and the greatest loss of personnel was cut down by the Praetorian Guards. At this time, Twilight Feria had about 17,000 men, and the Praetorian Guard had been reduced to 10,000 after a series of fierce battles, and in this case the situation of encircling both sides of Twilight Feria was maintained, and it was obvious that the battle line was too wide, and the number of men on each side was smaller.

When Twilight Feria first began to charge at the Praetorian Guard, Akis didn't care—the fighting power of the Imperial Praetorian Guard was on par with the Blackwater Feria Army, which was known as the strongest in Nebuchu, but it was much stronger than the third-rate minions of Twilight Feria, and it didn't matter if there were fewer people. Trouble is noisy, and a random assault kills the leader who is leading the trouble, and the mutiny can be nipped. This kind of thinking is very much in line with the usual arrogant thinking of the Feria royal family, and at first glance it sounds fine, but Akith did not go to the scene to scold and fight, only hiding behind and listening to the good show, but did not discover a terrifying fact: Wild Shade itself is a high-level mage, and there are four high-level mages by its side. Feriria's regular soldiers, who had been blocked by a large number of rebels, were completely powerless in front of the mage.

By the time I climbed to the top of the castle to see the excitement, the battle between Feria and the Praetorian Guards had reached a fever pitch in the twilight. The combat effectiveness of the ordinary soldiers of the Praetorian Guard was much stronger than that of Feria the Twilight, but both sides were floating in the sea, with nowhere to focus on their bodies, and their attack power was weakened a lot, but their skin was about the same thick. So much so that the killing efficiency of melee hand-to-hand combat is very low, and the battle line cannot be opened at all for a while. On the contrary, the remnants of the mages of Twilight Feria were more lethal to the fireballs and grids that kept blasting on the Praetorian Guard's heads. At this time, the advantage of Twilight Feria's large number of people is reflected: not because they are more numerous, but because they are so numerous that the Praetorian Guard simply can't rush in and slaughter those weak mages! The mages of Twilight Feria also quickly found a way to deal with the Praetorian Guards in battle, they did not waste their magic power to directly attack the opponent's vital points, and they also cast very few powerful spells such as power grids that consumed a lot of mana and cast for a long time, but only threw small explosive fireballs into the opposing team in quick succession. The burning of these small fireballs was really nothing to the dragon bone soldiers, but as soon as they exploded, the life-saving buoys on their bodies were burned, and the mighty and majestic Praetorian Guard soldiers sank into the sea without reluctance. They were indeed several times stronger than the Twilight Feria army on the other side, but they had no chance to make a move, and all they could do in the end was to hurry up and shout two words of "despicable bastards" and "a kind of hard fight" before sinking, in order to show that they had not walked in the world in vain.

The tide of battle quickly fell to one side, and the Praetorian Guard no longer dared to attack this side, instead desperately fleeing away from the mage of Twilight Feria. Among them, the Praetorian Guard also had a few mages who came out to save the scene, but these poor apprentices were all lecturers and professors in the academy in the past, and often a low-level spell was killed instantly by a dozen large fireballs that burst into Qi Qi on the opposite side before it was released.

After the mages of Twilight Feria completed the first phase of their attacks, their mana was almost exhausted, and they began to rest. The Praetorian Guards no longer had the courage to take advantage of the opportunity to launch a counterattack—they had gone too far, and were now three or four hundred meters from the edge of the battle formation of Twilight Feria. By the time they swam over, they were probably rested enough to launch a second wave of attacks, not to mention that they would be drastically reduced as soon as they fought, and Twilight Feria had almost no losses in this infighting! Archis had offended Tuckferia so badly that he didn't dare to go over to take refuge now, so he had to lead his people to the rear, trying to take control of the army of Feria from afar and then reorganize the situation and annihilate the twilight Feria's army. As for what to do after the counterinsurgency, it seems that there is not so much to think about.

The Praetorian Guard approached and looked at the Feria, and the army was silent for a long time. The Twilight Feria Army, which had no idea about the situation, did not rush to attack, but monitored the spot, and at the same time sent an envoy to find Chang Hetian to discuss the specific matters of surrendering ashore. They were talking fiercely when suddenly there was a commotion in the shallow sea, followed by fierce cursing and fighting. However, I couldn't really hear it in the tide, and I couldn't figure out what was going on for a while. I waited patiently for a while, and then ran to the castle and reported to me: "General, I saw that the chief of Feria, Arrois, had booby-trapped the commander of the combined army, Akis, and the head has been sent to me to check that it is correct!" ”

"Oh?" Jiang Xu and I glanced at each other, both surprised that this matter went so smoothly. Jiang Xu hurriedly said: "It happened suddenly, how to arrange it below, my subordinates immediately came up with a plan." ”

"General, my subordinates have a proposal." Probably because he felt that he had subdued the three major foreign clans, his confidence was much harder, and he didn't pay attention to the nominal direct leader Jiang Xu, and said directly to me: "After Akis was ambushed, all the Praetorian Guards under it were taken down, and the big thing was decided. Now that the leaders of the three clans have gone to the beach and surrendered, can the general be present to accept their surrender and personally order them to accept my command and control? Most of the people of Feria are bright and generous, and as long as the general treats him with sincerity, he will serve the general with all his heart like me! ”

"Oh, oh, you're thinking far-reaching, the art of collecting your heart." I looked at it with a smirk and said, "I promised you that you would not lose your Commander Feria, so you don't have to be in such a hurry. ”

Rao is long-hating heaven and three big and three coarse, and he couldn't help but have a blue face, obviously a little ashamed to tell me what was on his mind. It didn't hide it, and said loudly with a straight chest: "Anyway, I can't hide anything from the general, and my subordinates have some of these private thoughts, but it's also for the sake of the general to subdue the hearts of the three tribes and be able to establish a hegemony in the future!" ”

I nodded and said, "Okay, then let's go and have a look first, Jiang Xu, you can come with you." ”

The beach has been covered with many high-powered lights, which illuminate the place where the chiefs of the three clans are located as bright as day. Chang hated Tian walked quickly in front and introduced the leaders of the three clans to me one by one. Anyway, the leader of Yuanwang Feria, Arova, was a keel soldier, but he was very small, probably shorter than the height of Basque Bing, which was really not amazing; The leader of Tuchferia, Hegenberg, was also a keel soldier, tall, thin and old, and looked more than a hundred years older than Chang Hatian, but Chang Hatian knew him very well and knew the details, and later secretly told me that the guy was only in his forties, and that the life expectancy of the Ferians was still in the stage of young teeth, and he had only taken over as chief for a year or two; The source of the final chaos, the current presiding officer of Twilight Feria, Arakami, is a tall mage, and this is the first time I've looked closely at Feria mage up close, and I see that the creature's face bears some vague similarities with humans. Thinking back to the humanoid astronauts on the royal space warship, it can be seen that the race of Feria is indeed very complicated.

All three chieftains have been unarmed from their bodies. As a mage, Barren even accepted a beautiful forehead ornament from Hong Wushuang's friendship - it looked exquisite, but those of us who had been through the sixties knew what it was, it was one of the many great but basically useless inventions of the Celestial Bureau, and when worn, it could seriously inhibit the high-speed movement of the spiritual flow, and it could almost reduce the combat power of the sixth-level god general of the Celestial Realm to the level of the old janitor in the vegetable market. Immediately after wearing it, Araja understood what it was—or rather, he had probably imagined what it was before it was worn. But they have reached the brink of surrender and are not guilty of making a fuss about the caution of humanity that has not yet established a relationship of trust.

After observing their appearance, I invited them all to sit down. According to the usual practice, Jiang Xu first said a bunch of high-sounding polite words, which roughly meant boasting and showing off his strength, indicating that they knew that the practical and timely investment was very in line with the will of God and the people, represented the development trend of advanced productive forces and advanced culture, and represented the fundamental interests of all Nebuchu intelligent creatures, and so on. This slut talked about this one after another, ignoring that I hadn't slept at all, and I would have to fall down on the spot if I continued like this, and it was very ugly! I insisted on listening to him for fifteen minutes, and finally I couldn't stand it anymore, and even made him shut his mouth with a look, and said to the three major leaders: "Commander Jiang Xu is the highest military general of our army on the planet Nebuchu at present, and is responsible for all strategic arrangements and deployments, you can ask him for more advice and learning in the future." Of course, Feria's communication with humans doesn't happen overnight, so we can take our time! Before the establishment is decided, you will be under the jurisdiction of Chang Hate Tian for the time being, and if you ask more about it, you will be able to quickly understand the nature, objectives, and policies of our army and provide assistance for your rapid integration into our army. It's getting late, so I won't say more, if you have any difficulties, raise them now, and I'll find a way to solve them. ”

The three leaders looked at each other, and Arashi said, "The others are nothing...... It's just that our people have been immersed in the sea for many days, and they are all tired after a day of fighting, can we let them go ashore and station? ”

After listening to the translator's words, I stared into its eyes and asked, "Is that what you think?" ”

Arayin didn't understand why I asked like this, but it sounded a little unkind, and he hurriedly argued: "Our army does have such difficulties, but this is also a problem that everyone is facing. Before the general came, we told Chang Hatian about the situation. ”

"I did." Chang hated the sky and said: "General, see if you can solve this problem according to the example of our Blackwater Feria surrender?" ”

On the night of the surrender of Blackwater Feria, reinforcements from our army came several times as many times as theirs at once. And now, if the nearly 80,000-strong Feria army enters the Selmo Fortress and makes trouble, our army will really not be able to endure it. Jiang Xu never dared to make this kind of decision, and kept reminding me with his eyes that I should pay attention to it and not agree casually. But I ignored his warning, smiled slightly, and said, "It's not good to be soaked in the sea all the time, why didn't you say it earlier." Whose troops are at the front? Hurry up and arrange the order of disembarkation. ”

Jiang Xu's face changed, and he was about to say something to stop him, but I glanced at him to stop it. After listening to the translation, the chief of Feria, Arowa, immediately stood up and saluted, saying, "Thank you for the concern of the general, my tribe is at the forefront, and this will inform them that they are ready to go ashore?" ”

"That's all for tonight, let's go down and rest early." I also stood up and held out my hand to Arovad. It had already heard that Chang Hatian had roughly explained the etiquette here, and quickly reached out to hold it with me, and shook it twice very carefully. I smiled slightly, turned to Chang Hate Tian and said, "I didn't declare you the Commander of Feria, do you know why?" ”

Chang hattian waited for a long time and couldn't wait for what he wanted, but I brought it up myself, and I couldn't help but say a little angrily: "I thought the general had forgotten." ”

"I haven't forgotten, I deliberately didn't say it." I smiled slightly and said, "Boss, you still have to continue to practice." You've basically done a good job of rebellion this time, but this person hasn't figured it out thoroughly. Kill it, guards! ”

I suddenly turned my face, and my tone suddenly became sharp and eerie. There was no need for a translator in vain, and Arova had sensed the murderous aura that had burst out of me. There was a flash of white light between the two of us, and with a loud bang, Arois flew upside down, rolled away on the beach more than ten meters away, and knocked over five or six guards. It turned out that it had removed all the weapons from its body, but at this time, somehow a spike about a foot long protruded from each of its hands, shoulders, and legs, and it reflected a dazzling light under the strong light around it, making it extremely sharp. Jiang Xu was so frightened by this sudden change that he collapsed in his seat, stretched out his hand and desperately grabbed the hem of Jing Wei's clothes in front of him, and shouted inarticulately: "Is the general okay?" ”

I took two steps forward slowly, turned my head to look at Hegenberg and Desolate Shade, who had been pressed to the ground by the guards with knives, and sneered: "With this little trick, you also want to take my life and take advantage of the chaos to destroy my army?" I don't want to think about how long my Chinese culture is, these conspiracies and tricks have been repeated countless times in our history! Just by cutting off Akis's head, you can trick me into meeting me personally, give you the opportunity to assassinate you at close range, and then command the army ashore to fight back - when all humans are idiots? Hegenberg, barren, stand up! ”

The guards lifted up the two frightened leaders, and I didn't look at them, but said coldly: "I see that the leader of Feria is stubborn, trying to use war speculation to obtain high-ranking officials, but he does not know that he has harmed his people, and he has also harmed your people!" I give you a chance to immediately order the encirclement and suppression of the Far Watching Feria! ”

Hegenberg, the leader of Tuchferia, hurriedly persuaded: "But the general, looking at Feria from afar, there is a gap with the royal family, probably just one of its ghosts, and it is enough ......to destroy it alone."

I snorted, "Oh, understood, are you ordering me?" ”

Desert quickly shouted a few words to Hegenberg, and then it suddenly understood its situation, and promised repeatedly: "Yes, yes, immediately send troops to destroy the traitor", completely ignoring which way the definition of "traitor" should be headed. Naturally, I will not let them go back to the camp, but only let them each send messengers back to order the siege. At this point, Arovad looked helpless and pitiful—his men were far away, and he didn't know what was going on here. Such a big event, presumably it didn't say anything to anyone in advance for the sake of secrecy, and only ordered to wait for its order at any time. But after all the calculations, I can't calculate that all my thoughts are in my expectation! Even though I still wielded a few spikes in a fang-and-claw shape, I could completely ignore its presence. It's a pity that when I ordered these things, the reflection of its spikes repeatedly hit my eyes, which made me have the idea of killing it quickly, and I didn't want to interrogate it anymore, anyway, its clan was going to destroy me, what else to ask? Said to Jing Wei at the moment: "Kill it." ”

The Feria translator was already scared to death, and even translated this sentence honestly. When Arowa heard the news and learned that there was no chance of turning over, he immediately broke out. However, I seem to have offended Jing Wei today, she was passive and slacking off at such a critical juncture, and she had no intention of making a move. Do you want the general to personally demonstrate? Even though I wasn't afraid of Arrowade's dying counterattack, I was still angry enough for Jingwei's behavior. Fortunately, things did not develop to the worst extent, and Arowad had just burst out and pounced on me, when suddenly someone beside me rose up lightly, and was intersecting with the flying figure of Arowad in the air. With a flash of white light, Arowald's body suddenly broke in two. The lower half of the body fell to the ground, and the upper body finally failed to enter again after more than two meters of pounce, and fell to the ground. The remnants of its upper body twisted and struggled on the ground, and it actually rolled towards Jiang Xu! In Jiang Xu's desperate screams, Jing Wei finally pulled out his long knife slowly and methodically, nailing the tumbling body of Arowade to the beach. At this time, the tip of Arowade's arm was only five centimeters away from the tip of Jiang Xu's nose, Rao is he had killed countless people in previous years, and he couldn't help but be scared at this time. After a while, he jumped up and pointed at Jing Wei and scolded: "Bastard woman, you did it on purpose!" ”

The civil war in Feria in the sea was in full swing, and the slightest noise on my side was really nothing. I waved my hand and told Hong Lei Dong and the others to invite Hegenberg and Arakush down to watch, so that the others dispersed. When only Chang Hantian and the translator were left in the room, I said, "Boss, have you understood everything about today?" ”

Chang hated the sky and smiled bitterly. It was the Feria who had the most contact with me, so I always saw the unknown side of Feriria: "There is no need for the general to kill more than 30,000 people who look at Feria from afar, this is just a prestige!" ”

I gave him a blank look, and said coldly, "Can you do a good job with today's mission?" Tell for yourself! ”

Chang Hate Tian raised his arms and waved them unwillingly, and said dejectedly: "I failed to see through Arowad's conspiracy, and the last step was ruined. ”

"Elder, I know all your thoughts, and you have no secrets in front of me." I accentuated my tone and said to it in an increasingly oppressive tone: "It's good to be ambitious, but if you always hit the pot last, it's nothing." What if you and your Blackwater Ferians were invincible? After all, this is not a world in which force can solve all problems. Including tonight's act of slaughtering the Feria tribe from afar, it will be enough for you to learn for a long time. Don't think that if you are seventy or eighty years older than me, you can put on any old qualifications, your history is still short after all. If you want to become a hero, you really have to learn more from me. I've written down the matter of Commander Feria, and I won't miss you after all, but I won't announce it for now. When will you be able to fully grasp these existing surrenders, and when will you be sealed, understand? ”

Looking at the long hatred that had promised me dejectedly, I suddenly began to wander too much, as if I was looking down at this person who was speaking majestically three feet above my head. Who is talking to Chang Hate Tian like this, is it really me? How did I become such a person? The cold night air kept coming, and I suddenly felt like I was surrounded by a great sense of strangeness and loneliness, which could not be lost no matter how hard I tried. (To be continued.) )