512 Books Shadow
In Zhou Shu's opinion, the mercenaries of the Eagle Killer were somewhat similar in nature to the Mongol cavalry that swept through Asia and Europe back then. The main reason why the Mongols were able to fight had little to do with the Mongols' so-called ability to ride and shoot, and the most important factor was that their war costs were very low.
Zhou Shu felt that whether it was the Central Plains soldiers of the Han nationality or the European soldiers, they were playing the same routine as ants, and they had an anthill, and they sent troops from the anthill to attack the enemy, and then returned to the anthill to recuperate after a battle.
This anthill provides food, rest, and protection to the ants and is important.
But the falcon killers and the Mongol cavalry were in a state of migrating wild animals, they did not need a stronghold, and now the falcon killers had lost everything they could, and only had rations and weapons on them, and attacked in a state of great flexibility.
In this state, the Falcon Slayer should be able to successfully break through, and if he keeps it this way, the speed of escape will definitely exceed the speed of the enemy's pursuit. After all, the soldiers of these lords and nobles always have something to deal with after the battle, and they have to maintain supplies, and if the mercenaries have nothing to eat, they will probably attack the villages and towns......
Zhou Shu, a person who has never read war-themed literary and artistic works, will feel this way, mainly because he was shocked by the current scenery.
The Gray Witch's flying machine is still a nostalgic flying broom, and this thing is not as good as Aleusha's flying mobile phone in terms of performance, but the Gray Witch can't help it.
He now looked as if he was floating in the air on his own, but in fact he was being carried with him under the influence of a flying broom. The same goes for Ada, who was shivering with her eyes closed next to him.
The witch's broom was like a big magnet, sucking the two of them in a certain distance.
Zhou Shu stared at the army under him that was divided into five ways during the flight, and suddenly felt his blood boiling. It was quite spectacular, and it was the first time he had observed a large-scale march from such a height, rather than taking part in it. The thrill from a bird's-eye view is much more intense.
The armies of the lords and nobles have been assembled to meet the enemy, and it seems that they have indeed ambushed the movement of the falcon slayer.
Now Midali was a little confused, she didn't know why these people were so at the behest of the Knight King to embarrass herself.
The knight king has little control over the lords of these places, and he can only 'ask' the lord for help, but he cannot 'order' the lord to do things. The lord can completely disobey the order and find an excuse to prevaricate and perfunctory. The knight king had nothing to do with them. Since they were willing to attack themselves, that is, the knight king paid the corresponding price.
Midali felt very wronged when she encountered this kind of thing. It also made her feel uneasy that things had become so weird. She believed the conspiracy theory that the Knight King was testing his successor, and the Prime Minister was loyal to the Knight King. With the power of the prime minister, he may have the ability and favor to ask the little lord to help.
"There must be some important clues that I don't know. Midali ran with the team, her head full of thoughts.
It took about twenty minutes for her to meet the first wave of troops blocking her.
The Gray Witch and Zhou Shu have been following Midali in the sky. It's kind of protecting him. Now that it's dark, they don't have to fly too high, and they can keep themselves from being noticed.
As far as the plan was concerned, the enemy found the fleeing falcon killers scattered and chased after them like five sheepdogs, but none of the legions used all their strength, and it was clear that they still had a large number of soldiers in their camp for support.
"Not fooled at all......," Zhou Shu spoke to the Gray Witch in English, "what are we going to do now?"
The five enemy legions were scattered, and the Grey Witch calculated. If you let yourself attack and concentrate one, it will take at least half an hour to destroy the opponent. Deal with these people. It's like baking cupcakes in the oven, and it takes the same time to bake one as it does five.
It's a pity that these people are not cakes, and it took half an hour to get one, and the other four are estimated to have already fled.
Now it's even worse. The five legions were divided into ten, and in addition to those in the barracks, there were five armies that pursued the eagle killers.
The Grey Witch frowned and said, "It seems that we want to support the Falcon Slayer." They annihilated the enemy in regular combat!"
In other words, she wanted to support each of the five fleeing Falcon troops, at least to get rid of the pursuers first, and then deal with the enemy according to the situation.
Anyway, it's fine now, and it's summer again. The sun goes down late. There are at least two hours left on his side to fight, and it will be even more difficult for the lords' armies to escape after entering the night, and the night is the home of the Gray Witch, so it will be more efficient for her to kill people.
Zhou Shu listened to the gray witch's idea, and said curiously on the side: "You speak like an officer, have you ever been a soldier?"
"I wish I had. The Gray Witch raised her hand and grabbed her own space props USB flash drive, and took out a machine that Zhou Shu was very familiar with. It was a projector.
"Oops, I remember!" Zhou Shu helped the gray witch hold the somewhat bulky projector, and the monkey anxiously asked her to turn it on to work. He remembered that he had registered the Gray Witch's shadow creature in the Book of Summoning, but he couldn't summon it. According to the reasoning at the time, it seems that these creatures did not have a suitable environment for their survival, that is, there was no existence of the magic shadow battlefield. Now that the Gray Witch has begun to create her shadow battlefield again, it means that Zhou Shu can use the Book of Summoning to create shadow creatures with good combat effectiveness to help.
"Be careful, don't break my plane. The Grey Witch couldn't figure out why the guy was suddenly excited, but she picked up her speed and cast a large shadow from the sky onto the earth.
This projector is a magic that the Gray Witch used when she was still a **silk.,It can artificially create a large shadow.,By the way, it can also cast a lot of shadow monsters in the shadow.。
Zhou Shu's movements were faster than the Gray Witch, and before the Gray Witch threw a slide into the machine to create a shadow monster, he had already spit out a large white mist from his mouth, causing it to fall from the sky.
It was the first time that the Gray Witch had seen Zhou Shu use his magical power so generously, so she stopped her work and concentrated on it. Soon he found out that Zhou Shu had summoned a bunch of shadow creatures, and they were all artificial varieties that he was familiar with, all of which were bargains.
"Oh~ I see. The Gray Witch said meaningfully: "Zhou Shu, your magical ability is to copy creatures. Isn't it a trend to make it out again?"
"Almost. Zhou Shu shrugged, "I didn't hide this from you a long time ago. ”
The shadow creatures he conjured were all the beasts that the Gray Witch used to use, lions, tigers, bears, sharks, and so on. These things had caused a lot of trouble for Chief Kurogi's squad, but now that their numbers had skyrocketed, and their opponents were nothing more than ordinary reinforced soldiers, Zhou Shu felt that these shadows should be enough to deal with this group of pursuers.
The Grey Witch clutches a new one in her hand. The relatively expensive Shadow Slide was originally going to use a high-level Shadow Demon to settle the previous battle. Seeing that Zhou Shu had conjured up enough shadow creatures, she decisively chose to save money, after all, the cost of summoning demons was still very high.
The Gray Witch's shadow battlefield appeared, enveloping all the falcon-slayers who formed a circular array and advanced in it. Midali and the others have already engaged the enemy in close combat, and the mercenaries are much more effective than the armies under these lords. After all, they were an army that had retreated from the Defeated City, and their opponents were only second-rate legions who had never been on the battlefield.
As a legion commander, Midali began the battle with a bag of throwing knives on her shoulder, using her dexterity to plunge knives into the heads of her enemies.
The cost of these knives is quite high. The opponents were all professional soldiers in leather armor, and their rags and knives could not penetrate their leather armor.
Today is a day that everyone is destined to save, and as soon as a few of Midalie's throwing knives were thrown out, a large area of darkness suddenly fell in the sky, which suddenly made people feel cold. She knew very well that it was the Gray Witch and Zhou Shu who were playing tricks, and immediately sent the order down, explaining that this was the assistance of friendly forces, and that no matter what happened for a while, don't panic.
She originally wanted to lead the team to teach this small army that was blocking her way a lesson. Tear through their blockade and continue to flee to the agreed place. After the arrival of Zhou Shu's shadow monster, Midali felt that it was better to stay here for a while. Let these monsters clean up the enemy again.
As the shadow battlefield fell, a large number of gaseous black creatures appeared, huge in number, gnawing at the legionnaires on the lord's side. These shadows were like unbeatable and agile beasts, and they pounced on the neck of their prey one after another.
These monsters are not afraid of swords, and ordinary attacks slashing at them simply cannot kill them. After the attack, the monsters merged with the shadows on the ground and vanished. Soon it will pounce again from the ground, and this untraceable attack pattern is even more terrifying than that of the beast.
Midali gathered her family and told them to take a defensive stance and not attack, so as not to be accidentally injured by the monster. The soldiers who had already begun to catch and fight retreated, and the lord's side was attacked from behind by monsters that appeared out of thin air.
The monsters that hurt people behind are the ones with the largest number of them. In addition, there are some less obscene, directly using wall-like bodies to prevent the lord army from escaping.
The shadows looked like brown bears in a circle of size, lined up in one place, waving their paws to slap the soldiers to their ground, and there were more and more of them. It seems that as long as the area is covered by the shadow cast by the sky, these bears can appear at will.
Midali put away her weapon and watched the enemy soldiers be bitten by the monster and broke their arms and legs, and suddenly felt that this was cruel. She saw a shark leap out of the water's shadow, biting seven or eight enemy soldiers standing in one position defending each other, and this kind of thing was happening one after another in a row where she couldn't see.
There were only more than 3,000 people in the main army of the two thousand-man teams chasing Midali, and only a few hundred actually entered the range of the contact battle, and the rest were slowly surrounding. After seeing this terrifying scene, the pursuing team of the lord's army turned around and fled directly, and they were not ready to fight again.
These people were not covered by the range of the shadow battlefield, so the shadow creatures summoned by Zhou Shu could not intercept them.
"Oops......" Zhou Shu sighed when he saw this situation. The Grey Witch thinks this is a good sign.
"Let them go back to the barracks, it's impossible to annihilate them here. ”
Let them go? What about my eldest lady's orders?
Zhou Shu was used to the situation where the plan made mistakes in the actual action, but the task did not lower the requirements because of this, and he did not intend to discount the expectations of the sick princess for himself.
"You're going to chase you alone. I think it's better to escort Midali to a safe place first. ”
Zhou Shu nodded when he heard this, and then spewed out a flame from the palm of his hand, floating in the air with his own strength like Iron Man.
"I'll fly by myself and see if I can catch up with them. Burn them as many as you can. ”
The gray witch was a little uneasy when she saw Zhou Shufei's stumbling, but she still decided to act separately for the time being.
"Are you sure you're not going to capsize in the gutter?"
Zhou Shu nodded, "Probably." ”
"Then I'll take your little friend and leave first. The Grey Witch gestured to Ida beside her.
"Well, I'm sorry for you. Master Zhou said this, slowly adjusting the angle of the flame in his palm. Pursued in the direction of the fleeing lord army.
The Gray Witch ascended into the air after separating from Zhou Shu, and then recited the elven spell to enhance her eyesight and observe the entire battlefield.
The Gray Witch, a high-achieving student of demon studies, has listened to some elven spell courses in the academy, and in general, there is no essential difference between her and the demon control, and now she has a lot of magic potions in her pocket that she got from the sick princess, and the magic that she was reluctant to cast before can now be thrown away.
From above, the implementation of the plan is not as smooth as expected, but it is okay. Not all lord armies retain strength. Instead of chasing the enemy with all their might, there were still two legions that took out at least eighty percent of their forces to pursue, and now they are running away with the Eagle Killer.
At this rate, nearly 20,000 people can get together in 20 minutes.
The other three legions all had only a small part of their troops, and the Grey Witch decided to attack one of them first. At present, the probability of completely destroying these people is very low, and we can only kill them as much as possible.
The most grinding regiment was about 8,000 men left in the barracks, waiting in helmets and armor. It looks like you're going to fight someone, but you're actually lazy.
The Grey Witch flew into the air of the barracks almost like a bolt of lightning. Once again, he pulled out his own projector.
She just had a big move that didn't work, and the limelight was robbed by Zhou Shu, and now Zhou Shu is not there, there is no audience, and she can't share it with others when she is in the limelight, which makes her a witch a little frustrated.
looked at the woman beside him who was brought by Zhou Shu. The Grey Witch cleared her throat, "Ahem, Ada, huh?"
Ida whispered in response with her eyes closed, shivering. She was ordered by Zhou Shu not to open her eyes, but her ears still heard the sound of fighting and screams of gold and iron, and knew that there was a battle nearby.
The Grey Witch said to Ada, "You do me a favor. Hold on to this machine of mine. She said this, shoving the projector into Ada's hand.
Ida closed her eyes, without the slightest ability to disobey orders, trembling and holding the things in her arms in her arms, the corners of her clothes blocking the exit of the projector's shadow.
"Open your eyes, don't close them, I want you to work!" said the Gray Witch in a menacing tone.
"But, Zhou Shu said......"
"Now I'll have the final say!" The Gray Witch didn't take Ida as a human at all, she could guess that this guy was a female slave in the White Moon Country, and her tone was very casual. "If you are disobedient, I will take off your arm and roast it now and feed you, Zhou Shu will not complain to me for just one of you. ”
Although Ida wanted to continue to obey Zhou Shu's orders, he was helpless not here at all now, so he had to do what the voice next to him said. She slowly opened her eyes and saw that she was hanging in the air, and knelt down with a soft foot.
She is now pulled by the power of the gray witch's broom, and she kneels in mid-air, and she will not fall. Ada quickly discovered this and was a little bolder.
"Help me hold this thing, don't mess around. The Grey Witch said, and began to pull out the slides, and put them into the projector one by one.
The camp of the lord's army was in the middle of the setting sun, when suddenly a large shadow fell from the sky, causing the soldiers to panic.
It seemed that this army of cowards was even worse than the people who were chasing the Midali army just now, and the mere appearance of the shadow frightened them into a commotion.
The Grey Witch stuffed into the projector were the shadow monsters of two Western dragons, which were not dragons, but shadow bodies created by shadow magicians. Demons come to this world and need to live on the bodies of creatures in this world, or create their own bodies like the Archdemon of Novgorod.
This shadow dragon is the body created by the shadow mage for the demon to lodge. As soon as the Gray Witch's dragon appeared, two of the demons she had bought were immediately thrown into it, and the shadow dragon was slaughtered in the barracks.
The dragon's body was so tall that the human soldiers looked like bricks stacked at their feet. The dragon's tail swayed left and right on the ground, rubbing against dazzling sparks. The soldiers and non-commissioned officers of the lord army stared blankly at the sudden appearance of the monster, and then without resistance, they were swept into the sky by the dragon's tail, like rags blown up by the wind.
The first blow of the two dragons was outstanding, and then the officers and soldiers began to flee, which made the next killing seem less refreshing than the sweep of the dragon's tail just now.
The Grey Witch hesitated to use some expensive spells to limit the activities of these guys. She has a way to make the person who steps on the shadow like he is stuck in a quagmire, but the price of using this trick is only high, which is equivalent to two months' income when she was **silk.
"Do you need it?" the Grey Witch hesitated, she hadn't used this spell once, and she still wanted to be realistic. In the end, she persuaded herself and used it. As for consumption, it's good to find a sick princess for reimbursement afterwards. (To be continued......)