Xiao Chen stood on the wall on the side of the empire, watching the imperial army retreat from the doorway. Although the gambling between the saints seemed to him to be a bit of a child's play, this was the law of this world where strength was honored.

The sage made a promise that Emperor Alfred and then down must abide by, and after Morales failed, he asked Emperor Alfred to fulfill his promise, and then left Kuroki Pass. Xiao Chen didn't know what Morales had talked to the emperor. But judging from the fact that Emperor Alfred did not appear at all, he should have been extremely dissatisfied in his heart. But in the end, he began to arrange for the retreat of the Empire's troops. As soon as the empire retreated, Wang Jiyuan commanded the army to quickly occupy the key points in Heimu Pass.

The beast soldiers of the Empire, under the joint supervision of the spirit warriors and the ghost warriors, began to evacuate one fortification after another, one house after another. Wang Jiyuan's regiment even cordoned off several warehouses of supplies close to the side of the Chinese army, expelled the guards of these warehouses, and refused to allow the imperial people to transport them.

And Xiao Chen, a few masters, and several high-level mages flew over the battlefield together to the city wall on the other side of Heimu Pass, which could not only observe the retreat of the imperial people, but also prevent any changes to the imperial people.

The soldiers of the empire have experienced a series of defeats, and their morale can be said to have fallen to the bottom, and the soldiers who walked out of the Blackwood Pass at this time, and the Imperial soldiers who attacked the Blackwood Pass before, felt like they came from two completely different armies, one was full of fighting spirit, and this one was depressed.

The formation of these soldiers was loose, and the banners were crooked, and from the top of the city they looked not like ants marching in columns, but like flies flying around.

"Actually, I've always felt that it's a pity, if we continue to fight like this, the enemy's strength will be greatly damaged, and it will be of great help to our later operations. Lorenzo stood on the battlements, looking down, as if eager to throw a fireball from here.

"We achieved our tactical goals at the lowest cost, what's wrong with that?" Huang Zheng said, "Don't look at the previous battles, we have achieved a lot of advantages, but this is also inseparable from our preparation and luck." The final battle is really being fought, and the losses will continue to increase. If nothing else, at least more than half of those Spider Golems are now damaged. Nearly a third of the spirit attendants also withdrew, and some even annihilated their souls. In the future, we will face a large number of the emperor's black guards and praetorian guards, who are expected to fight with all their might to defend the palace, and those warriors have no way to retreat, which is not the same thing as the family elite of the nobles. ”

"It's just a pity that it's a pity that it's the people who support any war, and as long as the people die, the people of the empire will collapse, you know, I like big scenes. Lorenzo laughed.

Xiao Chen said: "If you want to kill and injure their living force, you don't have to do it in the Blackwood Pass, right? We promised the Morales Sage not to clash with them near the Blackwood Pass, but we didn't promise to teach them a lesson in the land of the Empire anymore, right?"

"You mean......" Lorenzo raised his eyebrows and said, "I've always wondered where Luo Ling and Mao Kai went. Now it looks like you've already made arrangements?"

Xiao Chen nodded and said, "After the joint spell was cast to break through the city gate, I asked them to prepare for the next wave of attacks, but I didn't expect the Imperial people to retreat so quickly, I hope they have time." ”

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Luo Ling and Mao Kai had rushed to a canyon about ten kilometers away from Heimu Pass a long time ago.

According to their judgment, if the Empire fails, they will not stay in their stronghold or in the village. Because there is no reason why the Chinese should not take both places at the same time. Therefore, if there is to ambush them, it is only carried out on the road.

This nameless canyon is the only crossing to the north that can accommodate a large army, the narrowest point is less than ten meters, and the height of the cliffs on both sides is more than seventy or eighty meters.

However, the people of the empire naturally did not let such a dangerous place go unattended, and there was a small fortress on the cliff of this canyon, in which a guard army was stationed. However, due to the large camps and fortresses further south, the Empire was actually behind the battle line for many years, and the defenders here were not strong, the number was small, and the defense was relatively lax.

Since the Empire took the Blackwood Pass, the value of this place has become even lower, the number of guards has been reduced to half of the original, and later because of the Blackwater Disease, the soldiers of the guards died or left three-quarters of the way due to illness, and the two hundred and fifty people of the previous Imperial detachment were finally only more than thirty people left.

The enemy army in such a small stronghold is not worth mentioning to Luo Ling and Mao Kai at all, Luo Ling used an illusion magic to obscure the vision of several outposts in the stronghold, during the magic effect, these sentinels will feel a little trance, they observe the surrounding scene will not change in any way, but what they see is actually an illusion made by Luo Ling, so naturally they can't see the magician who draws the magic circle nearby.

After making preparations, Luo Ling began to arrange measures to ambush the other party in this canyon.

Generally speaking, due to the large number of imperial troops, the team must be very long, so Luo Ling and Mao Kai began to arrange the magic circle in a range of up to one kilometer in front of and behind the outpost, of course, such a big project is not only done by the two of them, the two of them each brought four spirit mages, although most of these mages are middle and low-level, but they can also help in arranging simple magic circles. The magic circles brought by Luo Ling and the others were all ready-made on scrolls, and as long as they were fixed, activated, and camouflaged, they would be able to play a role in the next battle. Luo Ling and the others did not arrange until the sun set, and then they basically completed the arrangement of the magic circle along the way.

In order not to be detected by the enemy, most of these traps are arranged on the cliff walls on both sides, and the magic circles that make up the traps have been transformed by Lorenzo of the Rune Tower, which enhances the concealment performance, can converge magic fluctuations, can disguise the surrounding environment like a chameleon, and can be triggered from a distance by mental power. In addition to the regular types of explosions, lightning, freezing, slowing, and debilitating curses, many of these circles are illusion circles that create terrifying environments, or spatial interference circles that prevent teleportation. For an army of tens of thousands of people, it is a drop in the bucket to inflict direct damage, but if it can cause panic in the entire army, those beast soldiers themselves are weapons to destroy themselves.

When Luo Ling and the others finished arranging, they saw a long line of torches marching in the distance.