Chapter 359: On the eve of the decisive battle
In the Makeshift Congress Hall of Sands, Tanan was sitting on a throne with a gloomy face, and Amari, or Jag, stood beside him with a blank face.
"Let him in. ”
Tanan said in a deep voice, and soon the heavy wooden door opened outward, and then a trembling figure walked in.
"Tell me why it failed. ”
He looked coldly at Gnison below him, and there was no emotion in his calm eyes.
"Your Majesty!"
As soon as he opened his mouth, Gnison actually cried, so that even Amari, who was beside Tanan, frowned slightly.
"The last general led people to pursue the traitor Haag all the way to Clegmore, which lasted four days and four nights, and only almost captured the traitor a few times, but the Erathian did not know how to restore the divine arts, and with his help, we were repeatedly defeated, and when we chased to the city of Clagemore, we were suddenly ambushed by an unknown army, and all three thousand soldiers were martyred, and the last general also fought with his life to escape and report the military situation to His Majesty!"
I have to say that Gnison does have a high talent in acting, but just a few words and that tearful expression are vividly interpreted by the sadness of escaping death.
"How many men and horses are ambushing you?"
Tanan asked again, it was a well-known fact that an unknown army had broken into the heart of Krurod, so Gnison said that he had been ambushed, and he didn't suspect much.
"Two thousand or so will never exceed three thousand, and the battle situation was extremely chaotic at that time, and the general had no time to take a closer look. ”
Gnison replied sadly.
"Rubbish!"
Tanan snapped and smashed the handrail in his palm, and then the whole person suddenly stood up, and the raging anger began to spread from his eyes to the entire hall, and the sudden chill made the bonfire burning in the center a few feet lower in an instant.
"With 3,000 fully formed troops and two ghostly beasts, the enemy wiped out your army with only 2,000 men, what about Clegmore's defenders, and what are they doing?"
"Your Majesty!!"
Gnison cried even more sadly.
"The last general is incompetent, it is really after four days and four nights of pursuit, the soldiers are all veterans of the division are tired to the extreme, and the enemy is waiting for work, originally the last general wanted to enter the city of Clegmore to recuperate for a while and then seek the next step, but never expected that the defenders in the city have already surrendered to the enemy, our army has just entered the city half of the time when the head and tail can not be taken care of and the defense is lax, they suddenly launched an attack on us on the city tower, and then the enemy in ambush outside the city suddenly appeared, and our army was completely annihilated under the attack from inside and outside!"
"How can that be, you mean, that Haag and the enemy have colluded to lead you to the city of Clagmore, but they have already laid a trap there?"
Thinking that he had even deliberately promoted and reused this traitor, and even planned to let him carry the soul of the ancestor, Tanan immediately became angry.
The Admiral thought that this was unlikely, because the rebellious army did not see the two fugitives, and thought that they might have been killed by the enemy earlier or bypassed the area of Cleggmore, and if he really colluded with the enemy, he should have come to take revenge on the minister. ”
Gnison is not stupid at all, if he really admits that Haag has colluded with the enemy, then the first crime of unknown people will fall on him, don't forget that Hag was recommended to the leader by himself.
Sure enough, after hearing this answer, Tanan's face, which was flushed with rage, looked a little better.
"Even then, you can't wipe them all out, what about those two ghost beasts!"
After pacing back and forth on the steps for a few steps, Tanan looked at Gnison kneeling down again.
Since there are only 2,000 troops, it means that it is not the main force of the enemy, even if it is excusable to add Cleggmore's 2,000 rebels to defeat Gnison's team, but to say that all of them are annihilated is simply incredible, and the combat power of the ghost beast Tanan could not be clearer, and there is no suppression of the ultimate combat power above the multiple, which should escape anyway.
"Your Majesty, do you know, although the enemy army is not a lot of troops, but the weapons equipped are extremely strange, everyone holding an iron pipe can spew sulfur fire dozens of meters apart, and the lethality is extremely great, I led the army into the city and was caught off guard and entered the enemy encirclement and was subjected to a round of volleys, plus Cleggmore's rebels cut off our retreat, causing us to avoid it for a while it was actually heavy casualties.
What's even more terrifying is that four crystal dragons that I have never seen before rushed out from the rear of the enemy, and the ghost beast was not an opponent at all as soon as it engaged, and it didn't even last ten minutes until it was torn to pieces by those crystal dragons, and it was only under the siege that our army's morale collapsed and the whole army was wiped out, if it weren't for the soldiers under my command to protect each other, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to come back to be loyal to Your Majesty.
Now that the general's wish has been fulfilled, and the humiliated generals have no shame to live in the world, I ask Your Majesty to give the ministers a death and let the ministers pursue the three thousand soldiers who died. ”
After that, Gnisson's ugly face actually shed two lines of tears, and he couldn't bow down for a long time, but there was a sly glint in his eyes hidden by his trembling shoulders, and with what he knew about Tanan, his life was saved even if he said this.
"You go down first. ”
Sure enough, after a brief silence, Tanan's tone calmed down as Gnison had expected.
"Yes, Your Majesty. ”
Gnison immediately stood up after hearing this, then bowed and walked backwards, he knew Tanan's character well, and he also knew that acting should not be too much, the sorrow just now had successfully shirked the responsibility for the defeat, and if he wanted to gain an inch, it would cause the leader's displeasure, and the message that the person asked him to convey believed that the leader had already understood, and to continue to stay was to make himself uncomfortable.
It's just that when he was about to turn around and leave, a familiar but unfamiliar face suddenly appeared in the corner of his eye, and as soon as he came in, he only cared about his performance and cried, and he didn't notice that there was another person at the scene.
It stands to reason that His Majesty would never allow a captain of the guard to sit in on such an important matter, and with his usual personality, he would definitely have to scold him, but now in this situation where he could not protect himself, he could only pretend that he had not seen anything, and after writing down that face, he turned and left the hall of the parliament.
"What do you think?"
After Gnison left, it was a little more than half an hour before he turned his head to Amari, who had been standing silently, or the third generation of the barbarians' ancestor, Jag.
"It doesn't matter what I think or what you think now, the key is what the enemy wants us to do, there are many exaggerations and untruths in the words of the man just now, but the only thing that is certain is that they seem to be seeking an opportunity for a decisive battle, since this battle is inevitable after all, it doesn't matter if it is a little earlier, but when and how to fight must be in our hands, because we must not lose. ”
Tanan nodded when he heard this, although there is no need to doubt Gnison's loyalty, but the quality and fighting spirit still need to be boiled for a long time, which is also a common problem of these generals in the barbarian army now, and he has no good way to deal with it in the short term.
Speaking of which, the biggest reason for this result actually comes from himself, in order to quickly improve the morale of the army, he allowed some generals to use extraordinary methods, but what he didn't expect was that when the barbarians won successive victories again in the past extraordinary period, extraordinary methods have become a norm and even a stubborn disease.
Although he also very much wanted to eradicate this unhealthy trend in the army and let the barbarians return to the path of pursuing the honor of their ancestors, the continuous wars had consumed almost all his energy, and he had no time to take care of it, and when the soul of Jag came down and brought the news from heaven, it was even more impossible to rectify the military style in the short term.
Everything had to be done after the invaders were wiped out, especially the enemy chieftain named Lear, who Jagger named and killed.
"As you said, the most deserving of caution in that person's team is only one crystal dragon, and the rest are only slightly stronger than the ghost beasts, but they are also limited, and we have an absolute advantage in the number of troops, so as long as we do our best to pursue them for a decisive battle, any intrigue and trickery will be invisible in the face of absolute strength. ”
Tanan stared at the roaring campfire in the center of the hall, his resolute eyes as if he had made a decision.
"I hope it's not that simple, that young man is too cunning. ”
In fact, what Jag didn't say to Tanan is that the horror is definitely not only the crystal dragon, if the two armies stick to the highest combat power and contain each other, even if the strength of his soul is stronger than the doppelganger to block the crystal dragon, but if the young man bursts out again to kill Tanatos and Tanan can't stop it, all their plans will be in vain.
Sadly, they have no more options.
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