Chapter 853: The First World War
At dawn, Duke Mack awoke from his nightmare again.
Bang!
The guards on duty in the corridor were alarmed by the scream, and slammed open the door and rushed in, because the movement was too violent, the armor rubbed, and the sound of steel clashing.
"Master, are you alright?"
The chief of the guard walked briskly to the bed, checked the duke's body, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he was sure that there was no problem.
"It's just a nightmare, you guys get out!"
Mike pinched his eyebrows, looking very tired, he hadn't slept well since Downton's army appeared outside the city.
The chief of the guard waved his hand and told his men to withdraw.
"What's going on with Downton lately?"
The duke pulled the rope at the head of the bed, a crisp bell rang, and the maid quickly walked in with a teapot.
"The Death Knight didn't see that the Dark Ranger was still covering the battlefield, and the ogres were cutting wood and building improvised siege machines. ā
The Captain of the Guard had to keep an eye on the enemy forces outside the city every day, so it was familiar.
"Where's the steam airship?"
Mike was scared to pee on the airships, and feared being bombed while he slept in the middle of the night, so he had moved out of the Duke's Palace and into another courtyard.
"I don't see it, I guess it's where they stop to rest, if only I could know where they are and make a surprise attack. ā
It's a pity that the captain of the guard needs to consume a lot of energy to fly, and it definitely needs to be replenished, when it is in the sky, the mage group can't reach the range, so after landing, it is naturally the best opportunity to attack, but unfortunately it is impossible to find their position.
"Don't, it would be bad if the cavalry and natives took the opportunity to rush into the city, wait, as long as Kevin comes back. An army of more than 100,000 people could easily wrap them in dumplings. ā
Mike hurried to stop it, he was worried that the Captain's excesses would anger Downton and force him to jump off the wall, after all, the longer it dragged on, the better it would be for his side.
"Master, there are only a few thousand indigenous infantry left outside the city. Not a single Death Knight can be seen, and the number of Dark Ranger is very small, and they have to walk around the city every day, so I always feel like they are showing up on purpose, or covering up something?"
The chief of the guard hesitated, but decided to speak.
"Hide what?"
Mike drank the fragrant coffee handed by the maid, and finally calmed down.
"To disguise the fact that the army has left, you say, will Downton's target be the army under Commander Kevin?"
The chief of the guard asked.
"Haha. What are you kidding? He only raided the main city to avoid fighting Kevin's army, and if he made so many feints, it was just to engage Kevin, what are you trying to do?"
Mike burst out laughing and spat out his coffee, "Quick, napkins!"
The maid hurriedly ran over. Wipe for the Duke.
"Don't forget, he has a huge disadvantage in terms of strength. If it were you, would you leave nearly 10,000 ogre natives outside the city?"
Mike put on a look of wisdom beads in his hand and gave the captain of the guard a lesson.
"The master is wise!"
The chief of the guard thought about it, and according to the intelligence description, Downton's most subordinates were natives, and without them. What is he going to do to fight Kevin?
"Forget it, you all go out, I'll rest for a while!"
Seeing the maid bending over to make the quilt, and her plump buttocks were set off like a peach by the silky maid's skirt, the Duke was interested. Get ready to relax.
The captain of the guard glanced at the maid, bowed his head, and closed the door.
Duke Mack grabbed the maid's wrist and pulled her directly to the bed, and his big hand touched her buttocks, kneading it fiercely, and then ripped off the maid's skirt with a tearing sound.
The white suspender stockings were exposed, and his thighs were tightened, and Mike unceremoniously touched them, and just as he let out a heavy gasp like a bull, and just as he overwhelmed the maid, the door was slammed open.
"Who wants to die?"
The Duke was startled, but when he saw that it was the intelligence officer who crashed through the door, he suppressed his anger and asked angrily, "What happened?"
"Gong ...... Duke, it's a big deal, Commander Kevin's whole army is annihilated!"
There was no blood on the intelligence officer's face, and the information he was holding was completely soaked with nervous sweat.
"What? What did you say?"
McGan laughed twice, thinking he had misheard.
"Commander Kevin's army marched to the pine forest section, and was attacked by the Western Frontier Army led by Downton, and was burned by a fire, leaving only more than 20,000 horses, and the wolf retreated to the border!"
After the intelligence officer finished speaking, Duke Mac grabbed a pillow and smashed it in the face.
"Get out, don't lie to me!"
Mike roared with a hideous face, he couldn't believe it, and he didn't want to believe it, if what the intelligence officer said was true, it meant that his southern border was over, because except for his guards, all the well-equipped main troops were under Kevin's command, and there was no battle, let alone resisting the invasion of other forces, even the rebellion that occurred in the south, no, there were no troops to suppress it.
"Duke, can you figure it out?"
The intelligence officer urged him to step forward and hand the sweat-soaked information to the duke.
"When?"
The Duke looked at the words on the piece of paper, dizzy.
"Five days ago, because the dark rangers covered the battlefield, the sentinel who delivered the letter couldn't approach the main city at all, and this one was brought in by a carrier pigeon!"
It was this carrier pigeon, which was also hit by an arrow, but fortunately it fell on the city wall, and was picked up by the soldiers and handed over to him.
"Five days ago? doesn't that mean that Downton can already assemble here without any worries? No, maybe the army is already in the city!"
Thinking of this, Duke Mack couldn't hold back any longer, and in a fit of rage, a large mouthful of blood spurted out, and he fainted on the bed.
The high-ranking people who got the news hurried to the Duke's Palace, and after arguing for a whole day, they did not discuss any way to deal with it.
"Could it be false information?"
The Chancellor of the Exchequer suddenly spoke, and for the first time, the people who had been wandering all day suddenly looked like a lost traveler who had spotted Daystar.
"Yes, it may also be the intelligence sent by Downton's estimate, in order to make us mess up!"
"Yes, that's an army of 150,000. How many troops does Downton have? Count him at 20,000, even if he is standing and let him cut, he will have to kill for a whole day, and it is estimated that he will have to replace three or four knives!"
The more people talked, the more they thought it was Downton's trick.
"Let's not panic just yet. Don't be afraid of losses, try to send as many scouts as possible, and get in touch with Kevin first!"
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, as the first minister, was naturally in charge of all matters when Duke Mack vomited blood and was injured.
"Do you want to send troops and tentatively attack the natives?"
There are nobles to mention yƬ.
"Don't, maybe Downton is luring us out of town!"
More nobles opened their mouths to stop it, and the generals who could lead troops to fight went to war, and the rest of them. They are all political officials, and they have no experience in military affairs at all.
The summer night suddenly became long, and for the first time, the high-ranking people who had been noisy and lost sleep and did not sleep all night.
"Any news from Kevin?"
Listening to the hurried footsteps outside the door, a group of nobles ran out in unison.
"No, no news!"
The intelligence officer finished. A group of nobles drooped their heads and walked back listlessly.
"Don ...... Downton called!"
The intelligence officer gasped twice. Suddenly roared, the nobles shuddered, stopped, followed Huo Ran and turned around, staring at the intelligence officer.
"What did you say?"
The Chancellor of the Exchequer rushed to the intelligence officer and grabbed him by the collar.
"Downton called. His army has appeared outside the city!"
"Go and inform the Duke!"
The Chancellor of the Exchequer pushed away the intelligence officer and was about to say a few words to boost morale and calm everyone down, when a loud explosion swept in.
"He's coming!"
All the nobles in the conference hall turned white in an instant!
The city gates are bombarded by steam airships. When a gap was blown open so that the cavalry could assault, the Ancient Spear also carried thousands of elites and landed from above.
In order to avoid being observed by the people in the castle and to defend in advance, the battleship flew at a high position, and after almost reaching the sky above the Duke's Palace, it began to descend rapidly.
Kevin took away the mage group, so there were only a dozen judgment level magicians in the Duke's Palace, and in the face of the landing battleship, they attacked, but the weak flame bomb couldn't even scratch the skin of the battleship.
This is the flagship of the barbarian king Tanan, although it is not a complete defensive body, but there is no magic above the dragon slaying level, so it is not expected to cause trauma to it, and even if it is a strike of the dragon slaying level, it must be a salvo to pose a threat.
"Firebird, kill them!"
Downton stood on the deck and pointed to the mages.
The first element emerged from behind Downton, flapping its wings and flying down, the mages saw this scene, they were directly frightened, turned around and ran, even those archers did not dare to shoot arrows, for fear of being hit by the firebird.
"Rush, rush, rush!"
Little Walnut rode the bone dragon and flew down from the battleship, almost instantly making the soldiers who saw it lose their fighting spirit.
When the two angels appeared on Downton's side, there were already soldiers who had already dropped their weapons and fled, fighting so many super beasts that it was almost to death.
The battleship was still more than thirty meters from the ground, and the barbarians couldn't wait any longer, so they turned over the side of the ship, jumped down, and after landing in the duke's palace, they began to spontaneously form a team to drive out the target.
"McHale, your army of 150,000 has been destroyed, and now it's your turn, come out and die!"
Downton roared.
The soldiers who heard this were shocked, and a noisy discussion arose in an instant.
"What nonsense are you talking about, how can you annihilate Kevin's army with just a few thousand of you?" Mike coughed, and walked out, supported by a trembling maid.
"And what do you think this is?"
As Downton's words fell, Quasimodo, who was standing next to him, lifted a wooden stake several feet long, and on top of it, Kevin's body was hanging.
Wow!
There was an uproar, the soldiers panicked, but they didn't notice that the nobles looked uneasy, they all quietly left the Duke's Palace, and began to think about how to survive, Kevin's army was completely wiped out, representing that the southern border was completely about to change, and the McHale family became history from then on. (To be continued......)