Chapter 29: The Raid on Kashgar
Why is Kashgar an alien race?
When Lin Yu's face was blue and purple, and his hands and feet were completely numb under the heavy binding, such an irrelevant thought suddenly floated in his heart.
The idea of using a harrier to call the police was perfect: no matter how fast the alien race was, it could not be faster than a harrier flying with wings, and once the harrier delivered the letter to the high priest, the plan for a surprise attack in the rear of the alien army would be completely useless - anyone would think so, because this is what it is.
However, after only twenty minutes by Kashgar's side, Lin Yuqing's confidence melted like ice and snow.
"First, the harrier was wounded, and the news may not be conveyed in time, and second, the high priest also needed time to mobilize the troops after receiving the news. Soldiers are fast, our clan must march at full speed, complete the surprise attack before the fortress is ready, and catch them by surprise - you better not even take a breath until you see the Fang people!"
Kashgar shouted to a few of the fallen spirits who followed, "Go back and tell them that all fallen spirits must be conceited hosts, and my children must march with all their might!"
Seeing that the fallen spirits turned their heads and disappeared into the vast army, Kashgar quickly issued another string of orders that Lin Yuqing did not understand to a few alien races around him;
Lin Yuqing was tied behind the Kashgar guards at this moment, and was shocked by the violent and bumpy pace of the alien race...... By the time you arrive, the High Priest may already be ready for battle!"
The young man's temperament, once a question arises, he scratches his liver and lungs, and he really can't bear to ask; even if he dies after asking, he will die a happy death.
Kashgar glanced at him.
In the high-speed march of the alien race, the leader's breathing was still steady and long. His voice pierced through the heavy footsteps of the army and clearly reached Lin Yuqing's ears.
"Do you think the point of raids is all about raids?" the alien sneered, "The situation has long since changed. Whether it's the Harrier you put back or my 5,000 troops, their greatest significance is only to allow Yue Kai to transfer troops from the front line. ”
Lin Yuqing was stunned for a moment, still a little incomprehensible, but Kashgar turned his head, as if he didn't intend to say more—but then, the young man's low cry of "ah" made the leader of the alien race quickly look back at him, and a mouth cracked on his pointed skull: "You figured it out." ”
Lin Yuqing looked at Kashgar in a daze, and in the cold autumn wind that blew quickly, he actually sweated slightly.
The High Priest's letter made it clear that the two sides were in a stalemate on the battlefield, and even one more squadron could affect the tide of the battle - in such a situation, if the High Priest suddenly had to withdraw some of his forces from the front line, would this momentary chaotic change allow the opposing commander to seize the opportunity to open a breakthrough?
Humanity is faced with a pair of long-standing alien brothers who have been scheming for a long time, who have unknowingly passed through the barrier mountains, kidnapped a tribe, and deceived the fallen spirits through feints, so that they can compete with the greatest advantage of mankind, and now they are about to encircle on both sides and destroy the fang kingdom in one fell swoop.
Is it still a question whether the opposing commander will be able to seize the opportunity?
Being able to figure this out in a short period of time shows that Kashgar also knows very well where the focus of the next battle should be: it doesn't matter whether he can defeat the defense troops mobilized by the high priest, the important thing is to use these 5,000 people to contain the high priest, so that the rear of the Fang country troops will be chaotic, so that the front will lose - compared to the original plan, this is certainly not the most ideal, but it is the best way to deal with the mutation.
It is ironic to say that in Lin Yuqing's short life of 16 years, the first leader he has seen such a well-resourced and courageous leader is not a human being, but the human world so far does not even know the existence of Kashgar.
Countless claws struck the ground with a rumbling, drum-like thud, and the earth trembled and choked with smoke and dust, which smeared half of the night sky. The road ahead was still shrouded in the silence of night, and they were getting closer and closer to the mountain pass checkpoint.
Compared with the young man's strangely white face in the night, there was no trace of emotion in Kashgar's cold pupils. He exhaled, his slightly pale breath dissolving into the uniform running footsteps of countless alien races, and with a gentle hissing sound, he suddenly asked Lin Yuqing an irrelevant question: "Do you know how old this guard carrying you is this year?"
Lin Yuqing was still immersed in panic, and when she heard it, she was stunned for a moment.
"You don't know. ”
The Great War was approaching, and it seemed that even Kashgar was in a strange mood, and he actually talked slowly with this human captive who had almost broken something. "Do you know what the average life expectancy of our people is, what we eat, how we survive in the desert, what season we mate and give birth? You don't know any of this—not only you, but even the Fangs who have fought with us for so many years. ”
Lin Yuqing didn't understand his intentions for a while, so he just endured the bumps and listened quietly.
"You don't even know why we keep attacking human territory. ”
Kashgar's voice was almost laughing, almost mocking—"But we know you." He raised his head as if to speak to the sky, "I know that the Fang Kingdom is supported by other nations, I know that their army structure is still stuck in the composition of the tribes, I know that most of the fallen spirits are too lazy to go to war all the time, and I even know that in the fall, the most popular snack of the Fang Kingdom is a honey-stuffed fruit." Every piece of information I bought in exchange for the lives of the children. ”
"In the nearly 1,000 years of suffering, the scales on our bodies have become two layers thicker, our mothers have been able to give birth to more children in one child, and even in the stupid family that only instinct remains, there are slowly people who can communicate and think. Look at you again...... There is no difference between you and a thousand years ago. Do you know why?"
"Because you have fallen spirits. The arrogance and ignorance that have swelled up in human beings as a result are truly the greatest gift from Heaven to our race. ”
Kashgar leaped forward, jumped over a boulder, curled its long tail behind him, and threw it far out of the path of the army. "Even in a place like Fang Country, even the tactics haven't changed after so many years...... Once the battle situation is tight, I only know to quickly call the priests to summon the fallen spirits. I don't think you're an inferior race, but you're a convenient race. ”
Lin Yuqing opened his mouth half-open, unable to say anything for a while.
"Do you know why I took you with me when I was marching with all my might?"
Seeing that the young man shook his head, Kashgar snorted softly, and in the sound of thousands of thunderous footsteps, people almost didn't hear his next sentence clearly: "What did Glory tell you?"
Lin Yuqing was taken aback, thinking that he had misheard: "What?"
"Don't play dumb. You are alive now precisely because I want to know every word that Glory has to say to you. Kashgar said in a low voice, "What are you so surprised about? I didn't expect me to guard against it? I said that it would be stupid to underestimate your opponent." ”
In just two days, Kashgar has always regarded the glory of the god of war as a military advisor, and he respects it everywhere, and even on the surface, even Lin Yuqing's life is left because of the glory - he never expected that Kashgar had already taken precautions against it!
What should he do?
"If I tell you, I'm useless," said the boy, plucking up courage, hoping to argue for a moment, "How do I know you won't kill me at once?"
"You said, I might save your life to find out more. Kashgar said in a lukewarm tone, "If you don't say it, it will have no value, and I will have no reason to keep you alive then." ”
"Let's, let me think about ......"
"We're a quarter of an hour away from the mountain pass, and you only have that quarter of an hour. Kashgar's voice was faint, "Once the army stops, it will be unsafe for you to talk again, and I can't take care of you." ”
Lin Yuqing once again felt the thoughtfulness of this alien leader—the other party was obviously jealous of the glory of the god of war.
What the glory of the god of war is going to do, and which side it is on, no one knows. Although one person and one spirit did not say anything important, the ambiguity of Glory's attitude was not like helping the alien race wholeheartedly, but it was clear...... If he did, would it be a good thing or a bad thing for humanity?
But before the young man could understand, Kashgar suddenly raised his head and let out a low hiss, and then a foreign soldier waved the command flag, and the foreign troops in the rush suddenly stopped--in the high-speed march, the troops in front of the head suddenly stopped, almost equivalent to beckoning the rear troops to come up and trample themselves to death; however, this unit in Kashgar was able to brake their heels neatly in a blink of an eye, row after row, without even stirring up a single unnecessary sound.
"Look, it's called a born warrior. Kashgar's gaze swept over the soldier behind him, and he hissed.
The silhouette of the Barrier Mountains towered in the darkness of the night, like a giant silently gazing at the earth. The only level fortress that leads to the sea of quicksand, the shadow floats in the darkness, and it is already close at hand.
In Lin Yuqing's confusion, he hurriedly approached two aliens from the night in front of him, and it seemed that they were the scouts who had been released before. They rushed all the way to Kashgar and squeaked and whispered, and Kashgar asked a few questions, all in a foreign language.
This must be information related to the level ahead! Lin Yuqing had never hated himself for not being able to speak foreign languages like this, and he listened anxiously with his ears pricked up for a while, but still fell into a fog.
After sending the two scouts away, Kashgar twisted the skin of his forehead and fell into silent thought.
"What the hell is going on?" Lin Yuqing finally couldn't hold back, "What's going on ahead?"
Kashgar glanced at him, but did not respond. After looking down and thinking for a few seconds, he suddenly waved his hand and hissed out a paragraph at a few aliens around him, and as soon as the aliens got the order, they immediately scattered in all directions, and soon the five thousand troops moved slowly—Lin Yuqing watched in a daze as the groups of alien soldiers kept running past him, and he felt his throat and eyes dry.
The alien leader turned his head and watched the young man slowly crack a smile: "You miscalculated, everything is normal at the mountain pass level." ”
"What?" Lin Yuqing's surprise was not trivial.
He remembered that when he released the letter harrier, it had no visible wounds on its body, and it didn't look like it couldn't fly far, so it should have arrived one step earlier than the alien troops, but now that everything was normal at the mountain pass checkpoint, could it be that something went wrong in the middle, and the high priest didn't even mobilize the defense troops? Or did he not think that "alien arrival" meant that there was alien coming from the rear?
In any case, he must stop the raid on Kashgar!
Seeing that the alien army was about to complete the array, Lin Yuqing was so anxious that his brain was buzzing; he glanced at the fortress in front of him under the cover of night, and suddenly a thought came to him, and he shouted desperately at Kashgar, who had already walked away: "I know! This must be the trap of the high priest!"
Kashgar paused, and slightly sideways half of his body.
If the High Priest hadn't gotten the letter harrier yet, then Lin Yuqing would have to delay him as much as possible - he didn't have time to breathe in his youthful anger, "Have you ever thought that the High Priest is a very smart person, he doesn't need to mobilize troops from the front line, he can just put the summoned fallen spirits in the rear and ambush them, and he can wipe you out!"
He felt that this was very deceptive, and at least enough to make one think about it for a moment, but Kashgar's response was only a pause, and then he turned around and left—once the alien leader had made up his mind, he would be like a rock and would not be moved by words again.
Just a few minutes later, this disciplined, ruthless and elite alien raiding force, under the command of Kashgar, silently pounced towards the mountain pass checkpoint.
By the darkness of the night, the five thousand alien soldiers seemed to be one with the darkness. The unconscious Fang people had already been thrown on the side of the road, except for a few fallen spirits left to guard the host, the rest also sneaked into the mountain pass with the alien race - Lin Yuqing also became one of the people who were thrown on the side of the road, watching the alien troops completely disappear from view.
Before launching a general assault on the mountain pass, the alien forces seemed determined to remain quiet, and although they were no longer visible, there was still silence in the darkness ahead.
You can't call Nagarjuna yet.
Lin Yuqing glanced around, and resisted the urge to call out the falling spirit. The few fallen spirits left behind to guard were on high alert at this time, wandering between human bodies in one place, and they would stare at him from time to time, obviously taking him as the focus of their precautions. The boy gritted his teeth without saying a word, and just as he was grinding the rope in his hand a little, a soft footstep stopped beside him.
Lin Yuqing raised his head, and just collided with the sparkling eyes of the glory of the god of war. At first glance, it was empty.
"Ai ...... Where's Ada?" the boy asked, in a hoarse voice.
"I'm going to the checkpoint to help in the battle," said the god of war as if he hadn't heard it, "Say, did the high priest receive a letter from you?" I don't want the front to be a trap, because I'm afraid of pain. ”
"Did you hear me?" the young man smiled bitterly, "I just made it up to delay Kashgar's operation." ”
Rongguang chuckled, and suddenly squatted down—a warm, light, sweet, and thick complex aroma suddenly hit people's noses. It held its chin in one hand and said with a twinkle in its eyes, "What if...... If I say that your nonsense is likely to be true, are you happy?"
Lin Yuqing raised his head sharply and stared at Rong Guang tightly, but he couldn't tell if it was joking or not.
"I've lived at Valhalla for so many years, but I've watched Yue Kai grow up...... I know that kid very well. Rongguang exhaled a soft voice, but it was cold without a trace of temperature: "By the way, don't you wonder who I am helping?"
The boy's nerves tensed, and he reflexively thought that he might have heard his conversation with Kashgar - but looking at Rongguang's appearance, it didn't seem to be like it. It smiled softly: "There is also a difference between the falling spirit and the falling spirit." Didn't that kitten of yours tell you? A fallen spirit like me can't survive in regularity, stability, and order. The fallen spirits who defected this time were all similar to me...... I've been waiting for what I need for a thousand years, and the world hasn't provided it to me, so I've had to take it myself—oh, they've set fire. ”
Accompanied by the soft sound of glory, the mountain pass in the distance suddenly "boomed", and suddenly ignited a bright red flame that soared into the sky, dyeing half of the night sky; the sound of fighting suddenly tore the peace, like a sea suddenly overturned, enraged, a wave of turbulent roars, and the waves swept the earth.
Lin Yuqing was stunned, and immediately struggled hard, shouting at Rongguang: "Let me go!
Rongguang sighed softly, his pointed fingers slid over his ears, but he seemed to can't help but smile more and more on his face: "Okay, I'll let you go." ”
Lin Yuqing didn't expect it to really agree to his request so easily, but became vigilant - Rongguang finally smiled: "But if you think that I am in charge of all this, you are too naïve...... In this matter, there is another fallen spirit. ”