The rarity of the thin monkey lies in the fact that it can still maintain the integrity of its infantry brigade under the chaotic situation of the whole army's retreat, and there are more than 300 of the more than 500 people left after several battles.

Because of the thin monkey's flexible command, humorous speech, and love for nurses, everyone has long regarded him as a brother and is willing to share life and death with him.

Of course, after the two armies met, they were also willing to recognize Chang Le as the boss, because the legendary deeds of this "grand thief" were known to everyone and had enough prestige, not to mention that even the thin monkey called him "boss".

Changle's troops increased to 700 people, but there were not enough horses, and the recruits under the thin monkey belt were not very good at riding, so they were faced with the problem of using infantry.

With Chang Le's rich experience, he quickly found the best way for the small infantry unit to play - night attack.

In peacetime, he led the cavalry to fight outside, attacked the enemy's logistics units, and burned grain and grass supplies. Once a target suitable for a sneak attack is found, the infantry hidden in the mountains will be transferred out and sneak into the enemy camp at night.

During the battle, Chang Le killed the sentries himself, and then everyone took their places, and then worked together to hack the enemy to death.

Occasionally, some of his subordinates were not cautious enough to make noises to alarm the enemy, but in this kind of night battle, it was the attackers who were unprepared, and in the end, the attackers had the upper hand.

As a last resort, the retreat route and meeting place have already been agreed on anyway, and Chang Le can also avoid too many losses of troops by cutting off his own cover.

There are battles, and casualties are inevitable, but there are powerful light mages in the team, and Wendy's bloodline talent makes her equivalent to a fourth-order light magister, and her healing ability is better than any elixir, as long as the soldiers are not killed on the spot, there is a great hope of survival.

It is difficult for ordinary ace legions to enjoy the support of the light magister, so Wendy's morale and fighting spirit are comparable to Chang Le's "shocking education" at the slaughter site.

What's more, Wendy is still a princess, a very beautiful princess! There is a beautiful woman standing behind the man, and her combat power must increase tenfold!

In this way, after seven days, Changle's army became stronger and stronger, not only containing many of the defeated soldiers, but also many peasants who had fled the village voluntarily surrendered, and the whole army grew to more than 1,000 people.

He had to set up a hidden camp in the mountains, arrange the fleeing women and children into it, and let the new peasants protect their wives and children nearby, while being trained by the officers of the Guards, so as to improve their combat effectiveness before they were used for other purposes.

At the same time, Changle fought dozens of battles, except for a few times when he avoided the situation when he saw that the situation was not good, most of them ended in complete victories, because he did not fight at all when he was not sure.

Now Chang Le is a little suspicious, at the beginning, Marshal Fontaine's "fifteen days, seven battles and seven victories" was a statement processed by later generations, and this kind of combat method of rear attack and harassment could not be talked about "a few battles and a few victories" scattered and scattered, and he himself could not remember how many battles he had fought and how many people he had killed.

Wendy has been statistically stating all along, and according to her, she has killed 5,000 enemies and burned countless enemy food and grass.

But Chang Le seriously suspected that the little girl exaggerated the results of the war and had too high expectations for him, the "second Fontaine".

The legend of the marshal back then was not easy to replicate, first of all, he could delay the advance of the enemy army and buy time for the empire to reorganize the army, Chang Le couldn't do it.

Because Fontaine was facing the Cayenne, the enemy army bypassed the Death Swamp and attacked northward, relying entirely on long land routes for supplies, and once the rear was disturbed and the food and grass were cut off, the shrewd Bruno III carried out a strategy of clearing the wilderness, so that the Cayan had to withdraw the main force to settle the rear.

At present, the Fisher-Zalan coalition army is advancing eastward along the Starr River, and the river is the best channel for transporting grain, and the Changle troops can block the land route to a certain extent, but it is difficult to interfere with shipping.

The current emperor of the empire, Robert V, was also in a daze, not only was the army slow to move, but he did not even give an order to "clear the wilderness", so that the enemy continued to seize granaries full of new wheat, and in the summer, the water and grass were abundant, and it was not a problem for people to eat and feed horses.

Therefore, no matter how hard Changle tried, the main force of the enemy army was not mobilized back, and it is said that the advance of the coalition army had approached the city of Sessniek, and the city lord Marquis Philip asked his deputy to lead the troops to defend it, and he packed up his soft goods overnight and fled to the imperial capital with his family.

Most of the defenders were new recruits, and when they heard that the enemy was fierce and brutal, and that their lords had fled from the battle, they were now generally demoralized, and they were in fear all day long.

The sworn enemy Philip is so embarrassed, and the fall of the fief is just around the corner, but Chang Le does not gloat at all.

Sesnek is a rich city, with a civilian population of more than 100,000, plus the refugees who have entered the city to avoid disaster, once it is breached, with the habit of slaughtering the city by the coalition army, it will cause a great tragedy!

Moreover, if the enemy army advanced towards the imperial capital at such a speed, the empire would not have time to reorganize its army.

He could only inform Blue Moon to evacuate Cessnek immediately and not put himself in danger.

Blue Moon herself is in Sesnek City, and in fact, all the above information about the enemy's progress comes from her.

Since Blue Moon escorted the refugees north, because the distance gradually exceeded a thousand kilometers, the idea transmission failed, and Chang Le was very troubled by this.

Although it is normal for others to be unable to contact thousands of kilometers away, Changle has become accustomed to knowing the situation of his subordinates at any time, giving orders from hundreds of kilometers away, and now he suddenly loses all communication, and he always feels worried.

Fortunately, after Blue Moon arrived at the Wild Rose Camp, she felt that Amy was in control of the overall situation, and she was not at ease with Changle, so she took a few powerful subordinates to go south again, and soon sent a message in Sesnek City, asking the master to give follow-up instructions.

Blue Moon also sent another piece of important information:

What Chang Le was looking forward to, and even the people of the whole country were looking forward to, Marshal Fontaine's reappointment as commander-in-chief seemed impossible at present.

Robert V had planned to ask the marshal to put out the fire and organize a new army to resist the enemy, but this order could not be issued and was stopped by the suzerainty of the Valley of Blood Souls, Nomadeus.

Nomadis, Grand Duke of the Protectorate, the only master of the War Sect in the Empire, is obliged to protect the royal family in the event of war in accordance with the agreement with the royal family.

In the same way, this time, the commander of the Fisher-Zalan coalition army, Elliott the King of Fisher, will have at least one Warlord by his side, which is a practice for hundreds of years, and it is also the reason why Changle cannot attack the enemy commander.

According to the "Steller Convention" of that year, all countries on the mainland were not allowed to send fifth-order or higher cultivators to the battlefield, because the lethality of masters above the Battle Sect was too terrifying to ordinary soldiers, and it was very inhumane.

Since the Zhan Sect was not allowed to be on the front line in person, he was given the duty of assassination and counter-assassination to deter the enemy's Zhan Zong.

Since the outbreak of the war, Havilland's palace has been attacked many times, and it is thanks to the help of the archmage Eunice, and it is precisely because Eunice is busy escorting her that Wendy has been able to sneak out of the mage tower and travel thousands of miles to find Changle.

The combat power of the Great Demon Guide can be said to be higher than that of the same level of War Sect, but the Fa Rank must be prepared for combat, and it is very dangerous when encountering a sneak attack by the War Class, and he is by no means the best person to deal with emergencies.

However, Nomadeus, who should have taken on this responsibility, dragged his feet and stayed in the Blood Soul Valley without moving, repeatedly negotiating with His Majesty the Emperor.

He believed that the emperor's heavy use of the straw bale Duke Stennis had led to the rout of the battle, and that this mistake had to be corrected, and that he did not want to wade into troubled waters to join the doomed side if he could not choose a shrewd general as commander-in-chief.

Normatis's opinion was actually Chang Le's heart, and he almost applauded it when he heard it.

However, the "shrewd general" to whom Nomadeus belonged was not the expected Marshal Fontaine, but the Marquis of Philippe!

In short, the emperor must appoint Philip to lead the whole ** team, otherwise Nomadeus refuses to serve the royal family, and does not even rule out joining the enemy camp!

It was this attitude of Normatius that caused the Emperor to withdraw the order to activate Fontaine, but the appointment of Philip was also delayed, and the Empire's plan to reorganize the new army was delayed day by day.

"Normadis, Philip, two bastards!" Chang Le couldn't help but grit his teeth, "If Duke Stennis is a straw bale, Philip is a piece of shit, not only incompetent, but also immoral!"

Lan Yue heard him scold like this, and couldn't help laughing in the thought communication:

"The Emperor did not fully obey Nomadeus, and now His Majesty is hesitant to consider another way. ”

"What way?"

"After the defeat of Duke Stennis had no way out, he had to cross the river and flee to the Cayan Empire, and then he sent a letter back suggesting an alliance with the Cayennees. Because Emperor Cayenne has a huge force, and there are many masters of the Battle Sect. ”

"The Cayan invaded twenty years ago, and were killed by Marshal Fontaine, and their hatred is as deep as the sea, why should they help the Empire?"

"As long as the empire hands over Marshal Fontaine to the Cayenne people, and then marries Princess Wendy to Prince Cayenne, it can be exchanged for the unsparing support of the Cayenne people. ”

"Bastard! The Duke is also a bastard! none of these nobles are good!" Chang Le scolded angrily.

Of course, having said that, although Chang Le has never regarded Marshal Fontaine as a nobleman, he is also a nobleman, but he has no selfishness and desire for power, and it is precisely because he refuses to form a party for personal gain that he offends the two aristocratic factions at the same time and has to go home to farm.

And the Duke's plan is even more immoral than that of Marquis Philip, to take Marshal Fontaine and Princess Wendy as gifts to the savage Cayenne!

If the emperor chooses Nomadeus's plan, the empire will be doomed, and if he chooses the duke's plan, the empire will become a puppet of the Cayenne, and even worse, it will ruin the life of Marshal Fontaine and Wendy's happiness!

But the Emperor is now clearly more inclined to the second way!

"Master, you don't have to be too angry, Marshal Fontaine has already sent troops, and as long as he wins the battle and becomes the mainstay again, His Majesty will be reluctant to sell him to the Cayenne. ”

"Why, without the emperor's order, he also came to fight?"

"He is an imperial nobleman and has an obligation to be loyal, so he has long taken his Qinwang army and stationed on the outskirts of the imperial capital, and he will shed his last drop of blood for the empire with or without the emperor's order. ”

Chang Le let out a long breath:

"The marshal is willing to go out of the mountain, and there is indeed a turning point. How many people are in his Qinwang army?"

"Five hundred. ”

"What? Just kidding! 500 against an army of more than 100,000?"

Chang Le had been silently communicating, but at this time he couldn't help but shout.

However, after Lan Yue explained a few words, he quickly understood the reason.

Marshal Fontaine had always felt guilty for the brutal killings twenty years earlier, so he had long devoted himself to charity, and his small fiefdom was almost tax-free.

While benefiting the people, the marshal himself was, of course, shy of money, the castle did not even have a guard, and there were few servants, and his wife was often forced to paint and sell it to support the family.

Although the people in the fiefdom enthusiastically signed up to join the army, and there were many defectors from all over the country, the marshal himself could not come up with money and food to support the troops, and weapons and equipment were even more scarce.

He was able to organize five hundred people with donations from some minor nobles and merchants, but the nobles belonging to the two major factions, as well as the royal family, did not provide him with the slightest support.

However, now that Chang Le knows about this, the marshal will no longer be alone.

He asked Blue Moon about the expansion of his troops, and the answer was "rapid expansion", because there were too many homeless and hungry refugees, and the recruitment was going very well, and the "Knights of Heaven" in Camp Wild Rose had skyrocketed to three thousand.

It's just that the newcomers don't have much combat power, and because Jason went south with Blue Moon, there was no suitable person to train them.

"It's not a problem. Chang Le smiled, "A group of idiots can become an iron army under the marshal!"

"Master, do you want to ......?"

"Well, you immediately return to the north, leave a hundred people in the camp to protect the refugees, and the rest of the troops are all pulled to the imperial capital, and you, along with yourself, are under the command of the marshal! And Amy's money, let her keep some of the necessary amounts, and you bring the rest to the marshal!"

"Yes, master!"

After this decision, Chang Le's heart relaxed a little, although the situation was still critical, he finally found a way out.

Since the emperor is hesitant and the whole army is making no progress, then do it on your own!

And Marshal Fontaine needs not only money and food, but also time, even if a group of idiots can become an iron army under the marshal, it will not change overnight!

So what Chang Le can do is to hold back the footsteps of the enemy's main force, not only to help the marshal gain time for training, but also to make the situation in the empire less critical, maybe the stupid emperor will not be sick and rushed to the hospital.

How do I bring back the enemy's main forces?

Now it seems that it is useless to just attack the supply lines in the rear, because the enemy can switch to water transportation, and he must think of other ways to beat the enemy hard!

Chang Le stepped out of the tent with a straight face and walked up a high slope, looking at his troops who were resting and many refugees with depressed expressions.

Where is the enemy's sore spot? How can we save the enemy?

His brow was twisted into a mess, but it was difficult to answer the question in his heart.

Wendy was playing with several refugee children at the bottom of a nearby slope, one of whom had just fallen and broken his knee, and Wendy's hand was shining with gold, causing the wound to heal quickly.

This scene not only made the injured child stop crying, but several others even screamed in surprise as the most wonderful magic trick in the world.

There is a child who does not hesitate to break his fingers, just to let the "princess sister" do another trick.

Wendy laughs and scolds him for being an idiot and hurting herself just to see how heals him, refusing to do so in order to discourage it.

However, the injury must be healed after all, and Wendy's personality likes to make others anxious.

An older child frolicked with several small children, Chang Le watched from afar, looking at Wendy's beautiful face full of sunshine, he took a deep breath and secretly swore an oath:

"Little girl, you should have your own happiness, not become a political bargaining chip, I will never agree to this!"

At this moment, the sound of rapid horses' hooves came from far and near, and the thin monkey returned from a reconnaissance trip.

When he saw Chang Le from afar, he began to shout:

"Boss! Important information!

"Since it's important information, don't shout in public!

Chang Le scolded and walked back to the camp first.

The skinny monkey panted and followed:

"A hundred kilometers to the west, near the border, there is a Guards Army, which is surrounded at Fort Stanley, it should have been withdrawn as soon as the battle failed, there are quite a few people, the combat effectiveness is very strong, the enemy army has gathered tens of thousands of people to surround it for half a month, and it cannot be taken!"

"Tens of thousands!" Chang Le touched the newly sprouted beard on his chin, and couldn't help but smile, "If you annihilate this group of enemy troops, the enemy will hurt enough!"

"But there are only more than a thousand of us, and half of us are recruits!" the thin monkey couldn't help but remind.

"Are you scared?"

"Don't be afraid! Follow the boss, even if the sword is a mountain of fire...... I'm cautious too!"

"Fuck your little one!" Chang Le smiled and kicked him in the ass, "Don't talk nonsense, blow the trumpet and gather!"