Volume 1: Twilight of the Moon Chapter 82: Holy War (6) The Calm Before the Storm
The glare of daylight made it impossible for Xiaoyun to open his eyes for a while, and when he woke up, he found himself lying outside the commander's tent, and several staff officers were running towards him in the distance.
"General, why are you here?"
"General, are you alright?"
A group of generals helped Xiaoyun up, he didn't know that just a few hours ago, the tens of thousands of Blue Wolf Army he led and the 5,000 men and horses of the deputy commander Sky were all annihilated on the Sha'e Plain, and only a few seriously wounded Green Wolf Army cavalry rushed out of the encirclement.
When Xiaoyun heard the news, his originally fragile nerves collapsed even more at this moment, "Where is my backup Blue Wolf Army?"
"None of them have come back!" the staff officer on the side paused, "According to the description of the Blue Wolf Army that rushed out, a group of unpredictable cavalry finally appeared on the battlefield, and the souls of tens of thousands of people were taken away in just a few round-trips. ”
"Do you believe it?" Xiaoyun shook his head vigorously, forcing himself to come to his senses.
"General, I didn't believe it at first, but the soldiers who cleaned up the battlefield came to report that there really wasn't a single intact corpse of our Green Wolf Army. ”
"The notice went down, and the whole army withdrew to Mossburg. The pigeon tells Geselle to prepare the fortifications and meet the enemy at all times. ”
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Night gradually descended on Sha'e, a little starlight shone in the night sky, and the late autumn evening in the plains was particularly cold, and countless birds and beasts huddled in their own nests and shivered, praying that natural disasters would not befall here.
"Why do you have to leave after saving someone?"
"It's often the people who hide in the shadows who get a glimpse of the whole picture. ”
The girl listened as if she didn't understand, she didn't dig too deep, just hugged the boy next to her tightly.
"Is it cold?"
"I'm not cold with you. ”
"Makes you suffer. The boy gently kissed the girl's forehead, "Soon this war will pass, and then you will be able to live a comfortable life." ”
"Will you still be there?"
"I promised you that I would do it, sleep. ”
The girl fell asleep with a happy face, but the boy had insomnia, looking at the bright stars, his mind was in chaos.
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The news of the defeat of Xiaoyun's army and the retreat to Mosburg soon spread throughout Granton, and the whole kingdom was in a panic, they didn't expect that the general Xiaoyun would actually lose the battle, which was completely unimaginable in their opinion, could it be that the scene a few years ago was going to be repeated.
The royal capital, the inner hall of the palace.
Yueshi turned over the battle reports of the past few days, and the expected defeats followed, not only the defeat of Xiaoyun's soldiers to retreat to Mossburg, but also on the other side of the Sha'e Plain, there was also a premeditated siege battle in Saith City, of course, the result was gratifying that the left-handed king successfully held Saith City, but the process was extremely tragic, the battle losses were clearly written in the battle report, the Tianying Guardian Army lost 5W people, and most of the various large and small equipment defending the city were damaged, and the left wall of Saith City collapsed seriously, and the food and water in the city were also insufficient.
The more Yue Shi looked, the more irritable his heart became, the kingdom just came out of the rebellion of the beast clan, and it had just stabilized, and now there was this kind of thing, which was not clear that he was calculating our Granton, but he understood what he could do, from beginning to end, we could only be beaten passively.
The door opened at this moment, and in came a beautiful woman with a graceful figure, dressed in bright red tight armor, with a cold face, although the body was thin and thin, but the sharp eyes definitely made any man stop thinking about it.
"Father, how is the battle on the front line?"
"Look. ”
"Father, in fact, you don't have to worry too much, the general is experienced, Mosburg is easy to defend and difficult to attack, there will be no problem in the middle lane, but I am worried about the situation in the lower road Saisi City, I heard that the master has also rushed over, I am afraid that there will be variables. ”
Yueshi didn't think so, but what could they do now, they could only rely on themselves.
"Lun'er, it's late at night, go to sleep. ”
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Lower reaches of the Yuhua River Basin.
"What's going on, Sigeris, that broken city looks crumbling, and in my opinion, it can be won with another round of attacks. Looking at the ruined Saith City in the distance, a muscular man asked.
"It's easy to take it, but what about after that?"
"What do you mean?"
"Don't forget the previous agreement, what we should do and what we shouldn't do, I don't want to provoke those people. ”
"That being said, but I've come all the way to watch a play. ”
"If you're free, there's someone across from you who might be of interest to you. ”
"Who!"
"You'll know when the time comes. ”
The situation on the battlefield was changing, and after several days, the walls on the flanks of Seth City were finally repaired, and although they were still dilapidated, they were barely enough. During this period, Srian was paying attention to the movements of the opposite side all the time, but the strange thing was that the other party did not have any tendency to send troops in the past few days, even if the left wing of Saith City opened the other party, he did not take advantage of the situation, which made him confused, and once thought that the opposite side was withdrawing, but the fluttering battle flag announced that I was still there. Did he really meet a gentleman, but it didn't look like the posture of the attack, which made Si Rui'an a little big, and he couldn't see what kind of medicine was sold in the other party's gourd.
It's late at night, today is the day of Sriyan's patrol of the city, everything seems to be normal and nothing unusual, Srian walked slowly up to the city wall alone, five steps to a fire pier, ten steps to a sentry, thirty steps to a lookout post, on several protruding platforms of the city wall are five huge beacon towers, once the city of Seth City is lost, the wolf smoke on the beacon will be lit, the whole Granton can see.
In a trance, a black shadow floated by, and Srian was just stunned for a moment when he felt a sword blade behind him approaching him, and he turned around lightly to dodge, and pulled out his saber, and opened a certain safe distance with a vertical leap.
"It's ok. The man in black approving.
Si Ruian didn't pay attention to it, the black robe must not be a good person, and he stabbed directly with the sword in his right hand, extremely fast. The man in black turned sideways very calmly, and the blade of the sword passed close to his cheek, and then he hit Srian with a heavy punch in the left lower rib of the left hand, and only this time Srian flew out of several meters and fell to the ground.
"But that's not it!" the man in black pressed closely.
Si Ruian endured the severe pain and struggled to get up, he obviously felt that at least several lower left ribs were broken, he fumbled and took out the command cigarette, and was about to light it, but the next second the man in black had already come to his side, gently took the command cigarette, and whispered in Si Rui'an's ear, "Don't worry, this time I just came to meet you, not for your master." ”
After saying that, the man in black disappeared from the city wall.
"How's that, is it interesting?"
"It's boring! next time, it's hard to find something. ”
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Niltz Outpost Tent
"Now that the other party is cowering in Mossburg, what should we do next? ”
"Just order the troops right away! I must kill the commander with my own hands. ”
"But the order I got was not to storm!"
"If you don't dare to go up, I'll go straight up with the light cavalry. "Joan is now bent on slaughtering Xiaoyun with her own hands.
"You're a puppet, and President Selua won't agree to do that. ”
"Hahaha, even the president doesn't dare to say this to my face, what are you. Joan grabbed the commander-in-chief's collar, even in Niertz, his status is transcendent, the president sees that he is respectful, you dare to teach me a lesson with a little commander.
"Be careful when you talk to me in the future!"
The commander-in-chief collapsed to the side, his eyes full of despair.
The weather in the plains has changed, and it was still sunny and blue, but now it is overcast, and it seems that a rainstorm is coming.
The sweltering heat made the Nilts soldiers hide in the shade of the trees, standing or squatting in twos and threes, just to enjoy the shade of this moment, a soldier in the corner is taking a nap.
"Eh, which part are you, friend?"
The soldier did not lift the large leaves that shaded the sun, "I am from the 16th detachment of the Fourth Army." ”
"Oh, so am I! What's your name?"
"Nice!" the soldier didn't even think about blurting out, but soon he realized a problem, since it was a detachment, how could he not know himself?
Fiercely, he opened the big Pu Ye, but in front of him was a strange boy.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Nice too!" As soon as the words fell, the boy stunned Nice with a knife in his hand.
In the distance, the same detachment was calling, "Hurry up, Nice! The captain found out that we were lazy and will be punished again!"
"Got it!" Ness replied.
"Why is it so slow!"
"I've been sleeping for a long time, a little dizzy!" Ness said in a hoarse voice.
Due to the sudden withdrawal of Xiaoyun's troops, the time it took for Niltz to set up camp was greatly reduced, and now it was just a makeshift outpost tent, although it was, everything was available.
The camp wall is still made of several rows of large wooden piles, with two layers, one high on the outside and a low one on the inside, with planks between the inside and outside for the soldiers to guard here, and the bottom is for the soldiers to rest and shade for a short time. There are several watchtowers at the four corners of the camp and inside the camp to reconnoiter the enemy, of course, due to the rush of time, the watchtowers are not high and can only vaguely see Mossburg.
Although Niltz lost tens of thousands of troops in the previous battle, there are still close to 19W men and horses stationed here, so the camp is also distributed differently according to the division of different group armies, the 2nd, 4th, and 6th group armies are stationed in the east, west, and north of the camp respectively, and in the middle is a wide training ground for the purpose of gathering troops. There will also be small bamboo railings separating each other from each other to make it easier to distinguish them.
Ness followed the team into the outpost camp slowly, the gate of the camp closed with a roar, what will greet him next? Ness did not have the slightest nervousness, and even had a little excitement at the moment, he quietly waited for the night to fall, and at this moment the sky that had been gloomy for a long time finally could not be suppressed, the dark clouds instantly swallowed the entire sky, and the storm finally came.