Chapter 45: The Beginning of the Massacre
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From a distance, the advance force of 5,000 people walked majestically on the deep forest avenue, with flags waving and shining brightly.
But the Lord of Kui Yuan, who was standing in it, could clearly see that the majesty was due to the shouting of the knights and the out-of-tune military songs. The banner is displayed because 5,000 people are composed of hundreds of small families from 2 dukes and more than 10 counts. The knights from various manors may have been brave in battle, but after five or six generations, those unscrupulous descendants still traveled far away for the first time, and their thighs were worn and their skin was so painful that they screamed.
With another sigh, Lord Kui was desperate for them. Beautiful Edith kept her promise, and Lord Quinn was ordered by Pilson to leave Fist Pass, which had made him tremble, and was appointed commander of the advance force of the crusading army. He was grateful, but the barracks looked ......
Alas, these manor owners, who had not fought for decades but were blinded by their exploits and booty, forcibly conscripted farmers and miners, put on leather armor and weapons for two months of training, and then rushed in, worse than the militia. Some of the knights' troops looked strong and murderous, but they were all sorts of sneaky and slippery when they marched. This is a war mercenary hired from the Crimson Federation, and the composition is extremely complex, and the devil knows how many thieves, fugitives, and spies are inside.
The team of 5,000 people was dragged to 1o Surrey, but fortunately, the scout was a veteran brought by Kui Yuan Jue from the Fist Pass, and he did his duty to investigate, otherwise he could kill himself with a sword in any ambush.
When he saw the giant wooden walls of the Bloody Castle, he breathed a sigh of relief. The walls of the Bloody Fortress are made of the finest trees of the Tiya Forest, and the wood is solid and tight, and the skin is burned black but mostly intact. The inside of the fort had been searched by scouts, and there was no one except for weeds and wild animals, and the houses inside were largely collapsed.
Lord Kui and a large group of "adjutants" and "knights of glory" climbed the wall to look, and the old guard chief of the fist pass was very satisfied with this place, it was early spring, the grass grew very low and could not hide people at all, and the field of vision was wide, as long as a little moonlight could prevent a sneak attack. In the distance, a gentle river flows into the forest, and although it is a few steps to get water, it also avoids the risk of flooding and underwater diving. At the end of the line of sight is the forest, and it must be difficult for the elves to attack, which is a good place to stay.
Seeing the commander smiling and nodding, the adjutants sang about how solid the wall was, and how good the vision was, thinking that they had guessed the mind of Lord Kui.
But the viscount just said: "A battle meeting!"
In an open space that had been cleared, the officers and the heads of each family sat around, and they tossed for a while for the ranking. The old men who have not participated in the war regard this place as a tea party, this one said that he wanted to grab 2o elf girls and go back to the yellow-faced woman who was angry at home, and the one who said that whoever grabbed the first one with me would taste my axe, and the topic became more and more deviated, and even the more reserved people came in.
Lord Quinn looked up at the curious birds on the abandoned tower, and thought to himself if only I could be so carefree.
"Are you going to bury your deployment and private soldiers here!" the viscount stood up and roared, startling everyone and looking at the commander for some reason.
"Use your brains, and think about why the regular army stayed behind, but took the initiative to give us the position of the first wave of looting. He asked.
"Because Essien is invincible!" jumped a young man under twenty years of age, not knowing which family it was. He turned his head to look around, only to get a bunch of "you're an idiot" look.
Another guy said, "What do you mean...... We are the stones of the path, and the high-ranking people behind the regular army use us to test the elves?"
"That's right!"
The crowd was in an uproar, and the discussion broke out again. "I knew it was a conspiracy of the Xiang Yi Party, and because of the Prince's relationship, he hated the southerners for a long time. ”
"No, I've heard that the royal family is worried that the power of the various principalities is too great, and maybe it's to cut it off. ”
"It may also ......"
"Alright!" Quinn paused, "if we suffer a big loss, the commander-in-chief behind will revoke my command in the name of damaging the country's prestige in the name of the war, and you may even be taken over by your own troops, let alone wealth." ”
The faces of the people became very good, some believing and some doubting. "Lord Quinn, the outer walls of this walled city are solid, and elves can't get in. ”
"Do you think the walls are black because they look good? Two years ago, the Blood Exhaustion Castle was burned by the elves once, and they were able to come back a second time!"
The crowd was shaken again, and immediately some people complained about how they didn't say it earlier.
Lord Kui pouted, if you had said it earlier, you would have run away and I would have commanded whomever I would have gone. "My lords, there is no other choice at this time, unless you plan to become deserters and have your property confiscated. Everyone stopped talking, waiting for Quinn's order to throw the burden to him. "If you want to continue to dream of wealth, you must act in accordance with my military orders, otherwise the scattered vanguard will not even be able to penetrate the periphery of the forest! Tonight, we must loosen the outside and tighten the inside, and strictly prevent sneak attacks......
After two hours of arguing, Kui Yingjue coerced and lured, and finally took the temporary command of all the private soldiers.
The bird at the top of the tower, which watched the two-hour play, spread its wings and flew towards the forest.
......
"How. Blackfeather's Lead Ranger asked the druid.
"I've been listening for a long time, and the commander named Quinn is a human with real skills, and he will guard against us tonight. Moreover, only 3,000 of the 5,000-strong troops were stationed inside the fort, and 2,000 were outside the fort. ”
The ranger frowned and nodded: "Two thousand people are still within the acceptable range." ”
"It's infuriating that these humans are afraid that the politicians behind them will outweigh Tia's bow and arrows, and they look down on us too much!" said the druid indignantly.
"Isn't that the advantage? ”
That night, the advance force was screened, and the 3,000 men whom Quinn thought were more elite and reliable were left in the fort, ready for a sneak attack. The 2,000 men outside the fort were too amateurish, or of unknown origin, and did not give any orders, making a slack appearance.
Quinn's instincts for years of war told him that if the elves had any intention of fighting back, they would definitely take advantage of the first night of the army's exhaustion. He prepares a large pot of unsweetened bitter coffee ready to spend the night refraining, sits in the tent and his brain is racing, if the enemy attacks, he will be entangled by the troops outside, there is enough time inside the walls to prepare and kill, if the other party is just to disturb the battle, he will ......
Thinking about it, thinking about it, my mind is in a fog.
In a place that everyone ignores, a peculiar little blue flower grows one by one, it is so inconspicuous, it is only a finger long from root to flower, two leaves, but it blooms in patches. Not only in the soil, but also in the collapsed houses and the walls of wells, flowers grew as if they had been agreed, and they emitted a faint fragrance together.
A guard on the fence stared wide-eyed at the flowers that came out of his feet, not knowing if it was a supernatural phenomenon or a natural phenomenon, he leaned in and sniffed it, and his upper and lower eyelids began to fight, and then he fell over with a bang.
Similar scenes play out in the Blooddeed Castle as the sea of flowers blooms, and the walls ensure that enemies can't enter at will, but also block the spring evening breeze and keep the scent of sleeping flowers in place. Outside the fort, the same sea of flowers bloomed, but they were quickly blown away by the wind and had little effect.
A night owl chirped in the dark sky, and dozens of shadows sprang out from the edge of the forest, which immediately melted into the night, leaving only traces of large creatures running over the grass.
Ramsilele sits on the back of his Nightblade Leopard companion, whom he calls "Chill Humor", and every time he calls out the name, the other elves feel that Ramsileile's follow-up to the Grim Joke line. The Nightblade troops soon came to the outer wall low, and the panthers flicked their dagger-like claws and led the riders to climb vertically.
Suddenly, there was a bang, Ramsile, and his dry humor fell, and the stealth effect was cracked, but fortunately, the nearby sentries slept soundly.
"Crawl!" the ranger fired at the big cat.
His animal companion also turned his head and glared at his teeth, and Ramsilele had been arguing with it for more than half a year, and at a glance he knew that it was saying: You are too heavy bastard!
The Nightblades climbed over the wall and landed silently, and in the midst of a pile of sleeping guards, the queen of Garlanord stood for a long time. Grim humor threw his partner down with a shake of his buttocks, and the ass staggered over for Drusilia to stroke his head. Ramsilele didn't get up in anger and made a gesture, and the Nightblade Knights immediately dispersed.
"Your Majesty, how does it feel to revisit the old place?"
"It's just two years, but I feel the same as in my last life. Drusilia sighed faintly. "Those bloody and reckless years seem to have been lived out by another person, strange and familiar. ”
The Nightblade Knights, mostly rangers, walked up to the guards near the gate of the wall, covered the mouths of the sleeping ones, and stabbed them neatly into the heart.