War is such a thing, while hurting others, it is also painful for oneself. —Epigraph.

I am Zhao Lucheng, a member of the Fe tribe, the commander of the heavy cavalry of Fe City, and I am considered to have the lowest status in the army's expedition this time, but I have been entrusted by His Majesty the Sword Emperor with the great responsibility of the vanguard of the South Road.

Even Xiao Yulong, whose status is far greater than mine, is my subordinate.

You know, I was a member of the Lords and factions who were strongly opposed to war.

I know that this is the importance that His Majesty the Sword Emperor attaches to me, and as the best graduate of the Imperial Military Academy this year, I am also confident that I can handle this position, although none of the outstanding graduates in the previous classes can take on such a big responsibility soon after graduation, and most of them hold positions such as small commanders in various small units.

I actually didn't want to fight, not that I felt that my own lack of combat experience would drag down the whole army. It's that I think the empire has just suffered a defeat, and even the previous emperor died in battle, and the whole country is in a state of great vitality.

But since the exhortation is useless, this battle must be fought, so fight it well.

This is my first real expedition, and the "battles" I have fought before have all been exercises in the academy, and although it cannot be regarded as a small fight compared to my battle this time, there is still a big difference.

I confidently reorganized my army and pulled in the heavy cavalry unit that I usually trained in Fe City, and on the road from Ge City to P City, I kept ordering my subordinates to patrol the front and rear of the march route, and always report to me the road conditions to prevent accidents. I was afraid that the soldiers would not be careful in their inspections, so I asked Xiao Yulong to serve as the commander of the inspection troops.

But along the way, the patrol troops did not find a single soldier of the non-metallic army.

I believe in Xiao Yulong's reliability, he has always been such a reliable person. So this means that the non-metallic army has not deployed a single soldier on the road? You must know that this is their border, and they don't have border guards on the border line of the country?

At first, I thought that the enemy might be despising me, a young commander with little experience, who saw no need to intercept and ambush our troops, and simply reduced their forces to the vicinity of City P.

But when I drove the army into City P and found that it was just an empty city, I finally realized that the enemy may not be despising our army, but attaches great importance to our army, thinking that we are not a soft persimmon to pinch, so they will retreat and give the city to us, while they concentrate their forces to attack our weakness this time, and it is also a fatal weakness - the backup army led by His Majesty the Sword Emperor.

My subordinate Su Zhengyu also saw this, but I always felt that it was a bit too simplistic.

Because it is reported that our opponent this time is the non-metallic perennial general Beitang Shuodong, a man who has never lost a battle since he took office, how could a person like him set up such a simple game to set us up?

When I led my army to rescue Sword Emperor IV., I met them in this area of Death Valley, and then defeated Beitang Shuodong's army so easily, even Beitang Shuodong himself was entangled by General Wei.

But when I saw that the situation in our army was very good, I could not believe it, and I had to believe that we had indeed won.

Now I'm waiting for my patrol force to report back to me.

But who knows, the reversal and the reversal are only a matter of moments.

In the blink of an eye, the patrol force I sent was left with a knight dragging a badly injured body with a scarred body that had been seriously injured by strong acid to report to me that we had been targeted by the strong acid troops of Gong Rui, the patriarch of the non-metallic F clan, and that we were not far from here!

And Xiao Yulong, who led them, led the remnants of the army to flee into the Valley of Death.

I looked at Wei Zilu, he was still fighting with Beitang Shuodong, and he showed no signs of stopping.

This guy has reached such a time, and he doesn't know where to come back to strength, even if his left waist is not lightly injured, he is still there wielding the two big axes in his hands.

He had a standard S-man face - brown eyebrows and yellow face. There is also the body shape of the S race, which is different from other non-metal races - huge and sturdy.

The S clan is the place where the army produces knights in the non-metal alliance, and this sentence is indeed true.

This man wielded the two axes so much that no one else could get close, and with my martial arts, I thought it would be better for me not to mix them in.

I've been failing hand-to-hand combat...

It's also a shame for me to be a knight.

The knights are fierce in close combat and desperate in charge to intimidate their opponents, but my melee combat is not up to par.

In other words, I am only fit to command armies, and it is a bit inappropriate for me to fight myself.

At this time, we all heard a lewd laugh, the man called himself "Gong San Grandpa", if my expectations are correct, this person should be the patriarch of the F clan, Gong Rui.

The strong acid troops he brought this time are not vegetarians, and this is not an ordinary mage team that we can usually break by just relying on a charge.

Their strong acid can spread and spread, and once splashed on the knight's face, it will quickly corrode the knight's body, and the severe pain will make them unbearable, and even if they are saved from the rear hospital, it will not be easy to deal with.

What's more, the heavy cavalry unit I led was a heavy cavalry unit that relied on horses' hooves to crush the first people, and it was not good at speed.

"The whole army retreats!" Thinking of this, I immediately decided to let Wei Zilu escort the Sword Emperor IV. to lead the troops to retreat, leaving Qingshan in fear of running out of firewood, the number of soldiers we have here is still quite considerable, and they are all regular troops, not the three-legged cat army before the Sword Emperor IV, it is enough to protect him.

As for Beitang Shuodong, we can't catch this person at all, so we can only let him go, and it is more important to protect the safety of His Majesty the Sword Emperor.

I took a little people to Death Valley to save Xiao Yulong, he is the brother I grew up with, and I can't let him be in danger and leave him alone.

But the situation has been reversed, and Gong Rui's troops seem to have come over in an instant, but listening to the voice, I feel that they are still some distance away from here.

Now this distance is a little close...

Then, unsurprisingly, the acid with a little rancid smell splashed down from the sky in an instant!

......

The eyes were burnt black, the ears were full of screams, and the nose was full of rancid smell......

A well-armoured, well-armed knightly army was just like a group of defeated rats in the blink of an eye, scurrying around with their heads in their hands......

I escorted the Sword Emperor IV. out of the chaotic soldiers, and not far behind, a group of masked men in khaki robes were waving a tube-like staff in their hands, chanting a spell from the tip of the staff, and a stream of colorful and pungent liquid with a rancid smell poured out from the tip of the staff.

The liquid sprayed into the air, on the ground, on the body of the knight who couldn't dodge, and the places where the liquid touched quickly lost their vitality without exception, and those places turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye......

As long as it is completely covered by these liquids, it is melting at a speed visible to the naked eye, whether it is a weapon, a war horse or even a knight, and finally melts into a lump of black ash.

Ruthless, brutal, ruthless, efficient...... I don't think I can think of any other words to describe their behavior.

Many of the knights who were drenched were screaming and fleeing, completely losing the majesty of being a knight in the past, of course, in the face of the enemy's way of killing people without much effort, even the slaughter of thousands of people who regarded life as mustard would tremble with fear.

Soldiers are not afraid of death, they are afraid of the feeling of powerlessness that cannot stand up to the enemy.

"Zhao Lucheng, what can I do now?" the Sword Emperor IV. asked me with some panic.

I frowned and looked behind me at the soldiers of the Acid Force who were calmly and efficiently killing me.

Now the situation has turned back to the direction that is unfavorable to us, and the appearance of Gong Rui's strong acid troops can be regarded as completely reshuffling the battle situation.

I looked in the direction of Beitang Shuodong, this strong man is now not restrained by Wei Zilu, and he is now commanding a force to fight against the knights.

I knew that this guy was not that simple, it turned out that it seemed that he fell for our countermeasures against him, but in fact he created a trap that seemed to allow us to counter him.

Give the dummy.

I have to admit that I'm still a little tender.

Beitang Shuodong can become a victorious general, and he really has real skills, and I have become one of his defeated generals.

But the current situation is very critical, depending on the meaning of the non-metal army, they are now going to fight with us endlessly, but we have no power to fight back in the face of their attack, and most of the knights have lost their combat power.

My original wish was very good, I came to the army and ran, there were 30,000 horses, and they were all soldiers I personally trained in Fe City, so I threw it away, I couldn't get along with my conscience, I couldn't get along with military law, and I would even be judged as a deserter.

But now that this situation is out, I can't be sure if this group of people is still mobile, and I can't organize the panicked stragglers, so if it drags on like this, the army can't be withdrawn, and it will put the Sword Emperor IV in danger of his life.

At this time, a soft-looking knight rode to my side, and I saw that it was my subordinate-Su Zhengyu!

"Commander, I've got my horses ready, get His Majesty the Sword Emperor on board!" he shouted, "It's too late!"

At this time, he completely lost the bookish anger that belonged to the secretary before, but looked like a soldier.

But seeing him like this, I figured out a little bit: no matter who person, once he is forced to the point of life and death, and when the person is unwilling or unable to die, the will to survive will make this person let go of no matter how big and good the image is, no matter how much face he has.

Su Zhengyu is like this, he is just a scholar, he has no combat effectiveness, it stands to reason that he should have run away early, but he didn't do it.

Because he knew very well that it was useless for him to run alone, at least at this time he brought a few horses.

Thanks to these horses, His Majesty the Sword Emperor has one more way to live.

Without further ado, I asked the Sword Emperor IV. to hurry up and get on his horse, and called a few knights who were not very flustered on the side, and ordered them to protect the Sword Emperor IV.

At this time, the old general Wei Zilu also came, and I explained a few more words to him, and he nodded.

In fact, I don't need to explain anything to him about His Majesty the Sword Emperor, when it comes to the length of time I have been with His Majesty the Sword Emperor, I am definitely far inferior to Wei Zilu, who has served as a guard general in the Sword Emperor family for many years.

"Su Zhengyu, you take His Majesty the Sword Emperor and the old general Wei Zilu to leave quickly, and take the road we came from before," I explained to Su Zhengyu, Su Zhengyu was puzzled, I saw this, I wanted to explain more clearly, but as soon as I turned around, I saw that the non-metallic strong acid troops were not far from us, and the only knights who could still fight were gradually losing in the battle with the enemy, and more and more people were sacrificed, and they were almost unable to withstand the advance of the strong acid troops.

I am well aware that in such a situation of disintegration of troops, it is impossible to reorganize a force against the enemy. Our defeat is decided, even if a hundred and ten cows come to pull it, we can't pull it back.

The most important thing in front of me at this time is to save the Sword Emperor IV., and without the cover of the army.

So I figured it out a little, since if you want to make Sword Emperor IV. escape smoothly, you must leave someone to cover, then I will cover, these troops are also mine, my brother is also missing, whether he arrived in Death Valley or not, I don't know, it just so happens that this is not far from Death Valley, I can use my small number of people and flexible characteristics to draw the enemy into Death Valley, and find Xiao Yulong's whereabouts by the way.

"Su Zhengyu, General Wei, it's up to you to protect Your Majesty. With that, I waved my hand to them, mounted a warhorse alone, and rushed towards the strong acid troops that were constantly advancing towards us.

To be honest, I never thought I would be such a hero in the eyes of others, and I left without even looking at them, just straddle the horseback, like a determined warrior rushing like a madman in front of an unshakable enemy in the eyes of everyone in the back-and-forth countercurrent.

The coolest retrograde.

The rancid acid poured down like a torrent of rain, and I made my way forward, spilling the acid on both sides and behind me, with only a few falling on my armor, but it was all right.

I was surrounded by knights who had lost their horses who had fled in the opposite direction of me, melting and collapsing into a black mass in the acid, but the fear I had when I saw this cruel way of killing was gone, replaced by anger!

My subordinates, my comrades-in-arms, my companions, are all lives, precious lives, lives with me day and night, why should it be your turn to cruelly deprive them of their lives!

I drew my matching sword, a knight's sword, but it hasn't been drawn much since I went into battle.

With my sword in my hand, I charged towards one of the most advanced enemy mages, and with the speed of my horse, I quickly cut off the head of one of the enemy mages who rushed to the front.

The mage rushed quite forward, and before I could kill him, he was busy chanting a spell to chase down a knight with a broken arm, whose left arm seemed to have been corroded by strong acid, and the fracture was charred black, and there was not even a trace of blood.

The mages of this squad seemed to be enraged by my actions, and all of them stopped chasing after me, and a row of pipe-like staffs brushed at me, shooting acid at me.

I leaped over their heads and landed right in the middle of their ranks, their furious hooves stomping directly on the heads of some of them!

The weight and impact of one person and one horse are not covered, and suddenly, the heads of several mages were directly torn away by this huge force!

The enemy was terrified and wanted to disperse quickly to dodge my attack, but it was too late, so I killed a team of mages of the strong acid army by myself.

After that, I killed more people in this way to attract their attention, and more and more people came to surround me, and I used the terrain and speed to miss most of their attacks, some of them on their own.

Finally, when the enemy sent a force that I couldn't kill, I grabbed a bloody way and galloped to Death Valley.

Let's make my first fight even more exciting!

I hope you non-metallic people don't let me down!