117. War and Peace
Amon shook his head and said, "There is only one possibility for me to lay down my arms here, and that is that your guards will kill me, but before that, they will definitely kill your majesty by mistake first! Your Majesty, before you make a request, let me make a request to invite the man outside. ”
...... Under the "escort" of a team of guards, Medanzo walked in vividly, standing behind Amon with a sword, acting as a loyal captain of the guard, seeing his posture with his chest held high as if he was accompanying the army under the command of the commander Shicha, but his eyes kept staring at the two beauties on the bed board and looked at it again and again, and whispered in Amun's ear with a sword: "My God, you are amazing, I knew that you would definitely be able to catch the king, but I didn't expect to bring this beautiful scenery to the table!"
Then he waved his hand again and said to the people around him: "You servants, how can you look at the princess's jade body? It is simply rude to lose face, why don't you hide your face and retreat! Your Majesty also needs to wear clothes, it is not suitable to stay here, change us into a good tent, in the middle of the night, do you want Your Majesty to sleep naked in the open air?"
As he spoke, Medanzo had already shifted his position, hung his sword back at his waist, drew his short blade, and tapped it lightly against the back of the king's chair. Amon put away his short blade, stretched out his hand and took out a branch out of thin air, took two steps forward and pointed around, and said, "I'm sorry, I was rude, how can I treat Your Majesty and the two princesses like this." Bring the king's clothes, wait for the two princesses to leave here and rest, and give us a comfortable tent. ”
He picked up the branches, and the two bed boards on the table flew up lightly, as if they were held up in the air by an invisible big hand and fell into the courtyard outside. Only then did Celia see clearly that the "branch" in Amon's hand was actually a magic staff, and the legion leader also knew magic skills, and the use of mana was quite exquisite.
The efficiency of the king's personal work is high, the palace people carried the bed board down with the two princesses, and re-arranged a gorgeous animal skin tent, and the king naturally had a special tent and bedding for travel. Amon and Medanzo "guarded" Lucille, saying only that the king was tired and frightened and needed to rest, and that he would talk about it tomorrow, and then closed the big tent.
The Janissaries surrounded the tent, and Amon and Medanzo could not fly, but no one from outside dared to rush in, because the king's life was in the hands of the Assassins. I don't know how the king and the assassins "rested", anyway, the rest of the camp didn't want to sleep, so they could only wait for dawn in anxiety, guessing what tricks the two assassins wanted to play?
The supreme commander in the camp has temporarily become the king's entourage of the great magician Celia, and she can't make the decision when something so big happens, so she immediately sent someone to send a secret message to inform the commander and chief priest of the Nannar Legion, as well as the front-line command of the main battlefield. At present, this news can only be known to the top level on the front line, and in addition, it must be tightly sealed and not leaked, otherwise it will shake the morale of the army.
Of course, Celia had to ask the great warrior Afei who was guarding the gate of the big tent, how could he let the assassins capture the king? Afei was also aggrieved and couldn't say it, Medanzo was making a lot of noise outside, and finally attracted Celia's attention, and when she went out to perform magic to try to take Medanzo, Amon sneaked into the camp from the other direction.
If Celia was still next to the king's tent, even if Amon could enter the camp, it would be difficult for him to quietly approach the king's tent. The king's tent has three entrances, the front tent is the usual meeting and banquet place, and Afei and his personal guards are guarding the front tent door. The tent in the middle is the king's bed, and there is a tent in the back with the king's palace guards, and there are two magicians and a group of guards outside the back tent door.
When Celia struck, the fierce battle outside the camp attracted everyone's attention, and Amon suddenly moved on the side of the king's tent, and with a single sword, the entire tent was split in half, but the people inside were unharmed. It's hard to describe how amazing this knife is, Amon didn't use a short blade made of the fangs of a strange snake, but the short knife that Mayor Dusty gave him when he left Duk a few years ago.
Amon was silent when he sneaked in, but he didn't hide it when he moved, a knife used by a hunter when he walked the mountains, but with a dazzling light like a rainbow in the night sky, he swung his knife in the distance and cut the animal skin tent more than ten feet wide and the bracket in half, and made a sharp sound of breaking through the air. The divided tent was swept to the sides by a force, covering all the people in front of the tent and behind the tent.
As a great warrior, Ah Fei naturally would not be entangled in the fallen tent, and when Amon swung his sword, he reacted, took out his sword and opened the big tent and rushed in, appearing at the king's side at the first time. He was closer, and although he was delayed, he rushed into the middle tent faster than Amun.
But as soon as he rushed in, Amun, who was also galloping, picked up the staff in his hand, and the bed board where the king slept was split into two halves, and the two ** princesses lying on it smashed towards Ah Fei. Ah Fei's duty is to protect the safety of the king and the princess, his sword has been raised, but the knee-jerk reaction did not split out, but with the tip of the sword, very delicately picked the two bed boards from the side, and landed smoothly on the table in front of the tent, and the two frightened princesses were unharmed.
When he raised his sword again, Amon also rushed forward, swinging his staff and striking straight at him with a roaring sound, a power that only a great samurai can inspire. The sword and the iron staff struck each other, and the sound was like muffled thunder, and it was Ah Fei who flew out.
If Fei had held on to the staff with all his might, he might not have been shaken that far, but the king was lying between the two. Lucille deserves to be unlucky today, he had fun during the day, drank some wine at night, and was in high spirits, holding the two princesses in bed when he was having fun, when suddenly there was a sharp whistle in the sky, and he saw the stars in the sky naked.
The king and the beauty were in the middle of a fight, and the others did not dare to disturb them, so they were not too close to the position of the middle tent. Amon used his spatial magic to accurately split the bed board and threw the two princesses at the great warrior Afei, but Lucille fell to the ground between the two cracked bed boards, and then looked up to see a sword and a staff clashing above his body.
If the power of the two great warriors exploded hard, the unobstructed king in the vicinity would be enough to be killed several times by the aftermath of the sword. So Alfi couldn't take it hard, so he was knocked out, and by the time he smashed the big iron furnace in the courtyard and got up and rushed back, the others had already jumped out from under the tent, and Celia and Aluka had arrived, but the king had already fallen into the hands of Amon.
...... The commander of the Nannar Legion, Orebein, and the chief priest, Vivian, were shocked to hear that the assassins were actually Amon and his personal guard captain Amon and his personal guard captain Medanzo, and suddenly realized when the two men had crossed the line and entered the rear, which was during the inexplicable offensive two days earlier.
Goret had long reminded him that Amon was the most familiar with the terrain in this area. But Orebain never dreamed that after Amun, as the commander of the legion, quietly infiltrated the enemy's defense line with only one of his personal entourage, avoided all the sentry posts and scouts, accurately touched the king's camp, and successfully held the king hostage!
If the king had any advantages and shortcomings here, not only would the Praetorian guards accompanying him be guilty, but Orebain and Vivian would not be able to walk around, and even the greatest victory on the battlefield would not be able to make up for such mistakes, not to mention that the Nannar Legion did not win the battle at all.
After receiving the secret report, Olebain immediately ordered the whole army to hold the camp and the defensive line, and he rushed to the king's camp with Vivian with the elite personal guard Pegasus. To deal with the two Assassins, there were enough Janissaries around the King, and it was useless to have more people, but Orebain had to do so, and he had to assume a posture of loyal escort.
...... On the side of the An-La Legion, the chief priest George is anxiously awaiting news that Amon and Medanzo are not fatal, and that they will decide the fate of the entire battle. Amon had said that his plan was to disrupt the other side's battle line even if he could not capture the king of Hati, and to disturb the rear would make it difficult for the Nannar army to take care of the whole thing, so that the An-la army would have a chance to carry out the pharaoh's order to rescue the main battlefield.
The adventure of two people is safer than the death of 20,000 people, Amon gave the order as the commander of the legion, and did not bring a single priest. The chief priest, George, was responsible for supervising the army, but in the end he reluctantly nodded and did not stop Amun's actions.
Orebain and Vivion abruptly left the camp with their elite guards and rushed to the edge of the Black Fire Swamp to the northeast, naturally not hiding from George's detection. The great magician couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart, it seemed that Amon's action had succeeded. At the same time, he was also very worried, he didn't know what the situation of Amon and Medanzo was, and it was almost impossible to get out.
George's only help was to apply pressure on the battlefield, and the An-La Legion was ready to attack. George and John then led the main force of the Legion to the north and attacked the large camp of the Nannar Legion. A few days ago, the An-La Army would never have had such a military operation, but now the situation has changed.
The last time there was a pursuit and attack camp battle, the Nannar army pounced too fiercely under the enemy, and the battle was not conducive to the loss of vitality, and it had not yet recovered, not to mention that the commander was not there, and the order received was just to defend it. And the An-La Legion has just won three battles and three victories, and the morale is high, and the confidence of the soldiers who have never fought before has been reversed, and they dare to attack any kind of enemy they encounter, let alone take the initiative to attack their defeated generals.
The elite of the An-La Legion unleashed an onslaught on the Nannar Legion, this time it was really equivalent to tying people to trees and beating them. George did not attack rashly, but set up a battle formation, chose a main attack direction, and steadily advanced step by step. Since the other side did not take the initiative to attack, this fierce battle scene looked like a camp attack exercise, and John calmly mobilized all arms to cooperate and launched round after round of offensives.
Olebain had barely reached the halfway point when he heard that the camp had been attacked, and he was in a dilemma, so he gritted his teeth and continued to march towards the king's camp, sending a message that he must rely on the fortifications to defend to the death. George's purpose was not to capture the camp, but to use the strategic advantage to severely damage the opponent's living forces, so he did not storm the fortress and strong fortifications, but only chose the weak links in the defense line to launch a shock battle, and the Nannal army paid heavy casualties in order to hold the gap in the defense line.
The battle lasted for a day, and the main attacking An-La army also suffered hundreds of casualties, but it attacked a corner of the large camp of the Nannar army, and achieved brilliant results. They burned many tents and stockpiled supplies, and before the reserves of the city-states of Orebene and Syria arrived to reinforce them, they collected their troops and brought back a large amount of booty.
After this battle, on this flank battlefield, the combat effectiveness, morale, and offensive and defensive initiative between the two legions have been reversed. The Nannar Army, which had suffered two heavy losses, could no longer take the initiative to fight back against the An-La Army, and could only passively take a defensive position.
Another rumor that frightened the Hattish soldiers was the slogan chanted by the An-La legion: "The king of Hati has been captured alive by our great legion commander Amun, the defeat of the Hatian army is imminent, your legion commander has rushed to the king to surrender, you are not ready to surrender!"
Such rumors are unbelievable but have to be suspicious, the commander of the legion and the chief priest left in a hurry and only ordered to defend to the death, and the battle was so fierce that they did not come back to preside over the overall situation, something must have happened, could it be that the king was really captured alive? If the king was captured by the enemy, then the main force of the Hati must have been defeated!
A day later, Orebain returned, and immediately ordered heavy fines to be imposed on those who spread rumors in the army, but panic hung over many soldiers like a lingering shadow, but they did not dare to speak out publicly.
How did Orebain come back? He was ordered by the Imperial Prime Minister and Minister in charge of military affairs, Chocolate, and the commander-in-chief of the front, Gore. Half a day after he arrived at the king's camp, Goret himself arrived with Master Chocolate in his own hand.
...... Before the news came, he was discussing the battle at the front with Prince Asher, who was supervising the battle on the front line on behalf of the king, the prime minister of the kingdom Jugul, who commanded the Enril legion, the chief priest of the Enril legion, Zhan Bei, and the chief priest of the Anu legion, Wallette.
Zhan Bei is the patriarch of the Hati Divine Academy, the chief divine master of the royal palace, and a ninth-level great divine magician. There are only three ninth-level great magicians in the Hati Kingdom who have come to the front line of the main battlefield this time, and they can be described as elite.
Zhan Bei frowned at the time and said, "His Majesty's latest order is to urge us to launch a main attack, destroy the main force of the Eju army as soon as possible, and preferably capture Lassis II alive and establish a miracle unprecedented in the history of Hati. Lord Gore, as the commander-in-chief of the front, your Majesty the King is very anxious. ”
Ge Lie smiled bitterly: "Of course I understand the mood of His Majesty the King, everyone wants to achieve the final victory as soon as possible, but at this time, the general attack, the army of Eju will be a battle of trapped beasts, the combat effectiveness in despair should not be underestimated, although we can achieve victory, but the price will be very large." As long as the siege is half a month, the Hati will win without a fight, and they will neither have the strength to counterattack, nor will they be able to retreat through the desert again. ”
Prince Asher nodded and said, "Lord Goreh commanded this war, and the enemy was like a god, and the army of Eju was led by the nose, and the development of the battle situation so far is completely in line with our expectations. His Majesty was indeed a little too anxious, and he waited many years for this great victory, and of course he wanted to capture Lassis II. Pharaoh Eju, who became a captive of King Hatie, would wash away a hundred years of shame. I will send a messenger to explain the specific situation of the battlefield to my father, and you will still act according to the plan. ”
Ge Lie added with a smile: "I suggest that Your Highness add another explanation, if you want to capture Pharaoh alive, he will definitely flee if you launch a general attack at this time, although the masters around him cannot lead the army to retreat, but it is possible to protect a person who escapes back to Eju." The reason why Pharaoh has not left is because the main force of the army is trapped in the desert, and he is waiting for help to arrive. ”
Chocolate also analyzed: "I hope that Pharaoh will flee sooner, then it will mean that the war will be abandoned, and the army besieged by us will be defeated without a fight, and the end of a great victory will come sooner." The Pharaoh's stay in the army was a symbol, and the Eju army would continue to reinforce the area. Reinforcements could come from two directions, a support legion from the city-state of the headland across the desert, and an army of An-la on the other side of the coastline. ”
Prince Asher nodded, "Eju's national strength is strong, and in order to turn the tide of the war with all his might, it is completely possible to invest two more legions. ”
Wallette cautiously interjected: "In my opinion, the longer the Pharaoh does not flee and the longer the war drags on, the better it will actually be for Haty. If the Pharaoh had gone, we had wiped out the Horus Legion and the Isis Legion, and although we were able to inflict heavy losses on Eju and win a great victory temporarily, it did not shake the foundation of Eju's national strength. With the temper of Lassis II, he will definitely make a comeback with his armaments, if not for the sake of fighting for thousands of miles of fertile land, but for the dignity of the Eju Empire and his face.
Then the war will not end, and whether we win or lose in the future, we will have to pay a heavy price. If we besiege now but do not attack, attract the follow-up reinforcements of the Eju Empire to fight under unfavorable conditions, trap the main force of the Pharaoh and only fight his backup, and wipe them all out in the desert, this will make the Eju Empire stumble and unable to go on an expedition for a long time, and peace will truly come. ”
Ge Lie nodded and said: "This is exactly what I think, since the Eju army is trapped and waiting for reinforcements, let them take their last breath here without dying, first destroy the An-La army that is coming east to rescue, and then concentrate the main force to defeat the Eju reinforcements who come across the desert." We don't even need to fight a war of annihilation, the logistics in the desert are destroyed, the scattered army can't get supplies on the spot, it's basically a dead end, this is a war of attrition in which we have the advantage, it depends on how long the Ejugs energy will last?"
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(To be continued)