Chapter 470: Tentative Attack
After the stealth airship silently circled around Stannis, it followed his instructions and chased in the direction of the Kuroshio's retreat, and at the same time, Stannis also had important things to do, he stretched out his hand and gestured with his fingers to make a few tactical gestures, Charaki immediately understood what he meant, and signaled that everyone could dismount and have a picnic......
"Damn, I'm asking you to be on guard! I'm not letting you go out on the green, why are you still eating! Shalachi, too, how many times have I taught you, why can't you remember the meaning of my gestures! Are you going to be angry with me to be satisfied?"
While Stennis was shouting a reprimand, and Charaki was being reprimanded with an innocent face, Patkins, who was the subject of the rescue operation, also walked towards Stennis.
Although he still has the pride unique to the Wolf family on his face, he can still feel that his attitude has softened a lot, and he seems to know that he wants to have a good relationship with this guy.
"I said, thank you very much for your help, but ......"
Before he could finish speaking, Stannis had already greeted Evelyn behind him.
"Why didn't you tell me, if I had known you were here, I would have rescued you!"
Evelyn's face turned a little drunk, she knew of course that Stan was deliberately disgusting her brother by saying this, but she just couldn't get angry with him.
Sure enough, this sentence made Partkins angry enough, but he still smiled at Stannis very graciously, although the latter found this smile to be terrifying, like a vicious wolf trying to eat people.
"Okay, don't say the words of thanks that you want to cry bitterly, who made you my eldest brother, who will save you if I don't save you?" Stannis still said to the other party in a mocking tone, but obviously the other party did not react.
But Evelyn glared at Stannis with a little annoyance, and although he wasn't really Stanis, she still didn't want anyone to joke about the lost relationship.
Stannis had to keep his mouth shut, and then he worked with the Wolf family to count the casualties, but fortunately, Patkins gave a series of correct orders in the face of the surprise attack, which led to the saving of most people's lives, but even so, the Northern Coalition lost more than 2,000 dead and almost half were wounded.
Stannis kept patting him on the shoulder to comfort his former enemy and said, "Although the casualties are heavy, but Patkins, don't be too sad, as long as you can defeat this enemy, I will definitely be able to compensate you!"
But Patkins didn't appreciate it, and even said with a cold attitude: "I have nothing to be sad about, it's not my people who died, most of those who died in battle didn't carry out my orders, that's why I've always opposed the formation of a coalition army." β
Indeed, the northern warriors of the Worf family, as the most elite hoplites in the principality, are of course very different, in addition to the full-body plate armor worn by the general elite, each of them also wears a leopard skin on the right shoulder - of course, these are all fake, the snow leopards of the northern country have been hunted for decades because of their aphrodisiac flesh. However, Stannis rarely saw soldiers wearing leopard skins and armor among the corpses, and in the era of cold weapons, there was indeed no armor, and the survival rate of whether or not they could maintain discipline could be said to be very different.
Halfway through the battle, Korodov arrived with a second group of reinforcements. Stannis then signaled to him that there was nothing here, and asked him to escort the infantry-based Northern Coalition forces back.
But when they arrived at the main camp, they found that there was wolf smoke burning there, and many people were running around to put out the fire.
"Not good!" Stannis felt that something was wrong, could it be that the Abyss Lord was deliberately encircling the northern army to lure them out, and the actual target was the big battalion?
Without the slightest hesitation, Stannis didn't even have time to call the others to rush towards the camp first, but he didn't encounter any enemies along the way, when he rushed directly into the wooden fence where the flames were gradually extinguished, he found that although there were fires everywhere here, there was actually no large group of scab monsters in it, only a large number of soldiers fetched water from the river back and forth to extinguish the fire in the camp, and at the same time, a raging fire was lit in the center of the camp as if a bonfire was being held, and countless corpses were burned in it as fuel, emitting a foul smell that made people can't help but twist their nosesγ
Robert had seen the man coming in from a distance, and he called out to Stannis in a cheerful tone.
"Boss, you're back! We've had a good fight here, it's so exciting, it's a shame you missed it!"
Stannis shook his head, saying that his little brother really didn't know anything, and what he had just experienced was not much easier than here.
Still, he was anxious to know how this place had become like this, "What the hell happened here! Didn't I leave well, how did this place seem to have become a crematorium?" β
Robert turned to look at the burning corpses in disgust, and then pointed his finger at the pile of 'firewood' and said in a nonchalant tone.
"Soon after you left, those crusted xenos dug through the ground and appeared on the ground to attack us, but because of the priest's protection against evil, we had already anticipated their arrival and prepared for them, and then the moment they came out we ambushed them, it seemed that they were trying to steal the camp while you were away, and they all ran away in an instant, but on the way to escape they still set fire to the camp on fire. We were left with only one corpse, so we had to pick them up and burn them, and the smell was disgusting, you don't know. β
Stannis slapped his nose again, the smell was indeed too strong, but his younger brother was indeed quite capable, and he was able to knock away the sneak attack enemies so that they would not encounter another plan like before, and this time the trick of the Abyss Lord finally did not succeed.
Stannis knew that although the enemy did not succeed this time, they would continue to attack, and now that the Southern Route Army had been eliminated, and the Northern Army and the Central Route Army had converged, his large battalion had now become the only target of the enemy, and it was conceivable that he would be attacked violently.
However, the purpose of Stannis's march this time is not to defeat the Kuroshio on a frontal battlefield, but to do it all for that sole purpose - to enter the city of Baili and kill the Abyss Lord Aehot!