Chapter 422: Getting Something for Nothing
Hundreds of griffin battle flags lined up along the city wall in a long line, waving in the wind, if you look at the hundreds of battle flags from the city, it will give people the impression that there are heavy guards here, but if you look down at the sky, there are not many soldiers in the city. [Full text reading]
Sejialan went out to conquer the country of mercenaries, not only took away all the magicians in the level, but also took away the strong soldiers, leaving only a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, and the city head set up a false flag, just to create an illusion. It's a pity that the mage tower was destroyed, and there is no so-called illusion of the magician, it is difficult to deceive anyone, and a sky eye magic can make the entire level in its original form.
In fact, Segaran is not worried about the situation in the rear, first of all, she is full of confidence in herself, coupled with the extremely powerful reconnaissance ability of the griffin knight, the large number of troops of the Ma Empire cannot bypass her defense line at all, and the small-scale infiltration force cannot threaten the checkpoint, she thinks that her supply line is safe. An Fei's looting made her a little confused, after all, the rise of the Grand Alliance in Moramachi Town was too far away from her, she could understand the movements of the major legions of the Ma Empire, but she could not extend her tentacles to the Hengduan Valley, she knew that the term An Fei Grand Alliance was very unfamiliar to her.
The reform carried out by Yoland, which made the Mao Empire show a thriving situation, and the national strength was greatly increased, even among the three major powers, the Ma Empire was also a well-deserved giant! And the kings of other countries also saw the benefits of the reform, but some lacked the courage to make bold moves, and some did not dare to challenge the domestic aristocratic alliance, so they could only survive under the strong threat of the Ma O Empire. In the past, the Ellisen Empire and the Shining Sand Empire always joined forces to fight against the Mao Empire in order to maintain a mutual victory and defeat situation, but now the Dark Moon Magic Legion of the Ellison Empire has been annihilated and the national strength has been greatly damaged. had to choose to retreat, and all the burden fell on Sejialan.
War is a very mysterious, very complicated thing, Sejialan is faced with an unsolvable problem, and the strategic resources she has at her disposal are seriously insufficient! The scope of strategic resources is very extensive, generally including both manpower and materials, but no matter which aspect, she knows that it cannot be compared with the Ma Empire. Knowing that an inexplicable mercenary group had attacked her baggage troops, she had just sent them out when she received the news that Béeri had led the Death Roar Legion out of the Hengduan Valley, and she immediately sent the Griffin Knight to chase after her. Chase the troops back, then gather the army, and reach a series of secret agreements with the Grand Knight of Fernando, as for the mercenary group, she really can't care about it.
This period of time was the most painful and torturous day for Segaran, because she kept torn between the two extremes, should she preemptively attack the Shield of Light before Belli arrived? After thinking for a long time, Segaran also vetoed her crazy idea that her strategic purpose was to disrupt Yoland's plan. Don't let Yolander annex the mercenary kingdom instead of forcing all the contradictions to explode in the most violent way.
Throughout the history of warfare. There are many examples of the strong bullying the weak and the weak rising up to resist and defeating the strong with the weak, but there are very few cases where the weak take the initiative to challenge the strong, and no one wants to kill themselves. Find a few of the most famous examples: The Battle of Guandu was fought by Yuan Shao, and the Battle of Chibi was fought by Cao Cao, and the Battle of Sun Quanshui was fought by Cao Cao. It was the strong who took the initiative to go south, and the strong always held the initiative, although they all failed in the end.
Sejialan's courage is also limited to the weak, and she is a general. Not a madman, and the third prince of the Mao Empire, Rodhart, is still in the army, and there is really a conflict. Whether it is killing Rodhart or capturing Rodhart, it will attract the revenge of Yoland, the Ma Empire has solved the threat of undead creatures, and there is no longer any worries, but the Shining Sand Empire cannot do its best to deal with the battle. What's more, Sejialan still needs time, she and the Grand Knight of Fernando have reached a lot of mutual assistance and mutual benefit agreements, Fernan has reported to the Holy See many times, in the letter bitterly complaining about the hegemony of the Maao Empire, asking for reinforcements, because the truth about the cause of Slanberge's death caused a great wave in the Holy See, and even attracted the general hostility of the Mao Empire, Fernando believed that his request would be fulfilled.
Therefore, Segaran adopted a steady strategy, temporarily shrinking her forces, showing weakness to the enemy, trying to ease the conflict first, and at the same time sending the griffon knight to ask for help from Her Royal Highness Chierric, her fiancé. The so-called Qiao daughter-in-law is difficult to cook without rice, it is not that she does not dare to fight against Beeri, but she can't take risks, her burden is too heavy, and it can even be said that she controls the future fate of the entire Shining Sand Empire. If she didn't dare to confront Béeri, she wouldn't have come to the land of mercenaries at all, defeating Beeri was not only her personal wish, but also the task given to her by her mentor!
An Fei was standing on the highest flagpole at the head of the city, with the griffon banner fluttering at his feet, and the Heart of Nature gave him unparalleled freedom, especially in this level where there was no mage protectorate, and he didn't have to worry about who would show him.
Although An Fei and Se Jialan's life trajectories are approaching the same intersection, it is undeniable that they are temporarily two levels of people. Sejialan didn't understand An Fei's extremely vigorous attack** After negotiating with Fernando, Fernando told her that it must be An Fei's mercenaries from the big league who attacked the baggage, but compared to Beerry, An Fei is just a small role, she can't focus on taking care of An Fei because of a small loss, and she can't be distracted under the pressure of Beeri's mountains. And Anfei also didn't know about Sejialan's plan and the reaction of the Shining Sand Empire, so he had no way of knowing that it was now when Sejialan was powerless to review and Chierik's reinforcements were halfway through, and he rushed to a vacuum location in a vacuum time period to start a battle with a huge disparity between strength and weakness! Sooner or later, the result would be completely different.
At the head of the city, a group of soldiers were patrolling weakly, walking past An Fei every once in a while, but he never saw An Fei, and some soldiers were sitting around the campfire, or talking about something, or lazy and sleeping. Because of the specific geographical conditions, this level has not had a war since its establishment, did the mercenaries dare to invade the Shining Sand Empire? Edward VIII later transferred the elite troops here, only because he was worried that undead creatures would infiltrate him, and Sejialan took those elite troops away, leaving behind those who were old, weak, sick and disabled to fight for them. It was a long, long time ago, and the vigilance of the warriors had long since vanished in the baptism of time.
A team of mercenaries quietly touched the checkpoint, but thousands of mercenaries walked together, the so-called 'quietly' was very limited, when Susanna, Ozgüch and others who were walking in the front were still more than a hundred meters away from the checkpoint, a soldier who was napping at the battlement heard the sound, opened his sleepy eyes, looked down, and was frightened to jump up on the spot, and the old, hoarse voice pierced the night sky: "Enemy attack! There is an enemy attack!"
"What the are you dreaming?!" another voice scolded unceremoniously.
"Enemy attack...... The soldier who called the police was so anxious that he danced like a cramp: "Enemy attack!"
"Get out!" another soldier sat up and cursed angrily.
Standing on the flagpole and watching all this, An Fei felt a little weird. The military literacy of the soldiers of the Shining Sand Empire is too poor, right? Even sleeping can be a reason......
"Enemy attack, ......" The soldier who called the police was so anxious that he was about to cry.
At this time, the patrol just came back, and they were very square
A few steps closer to the battlements, and when I looked down, I immediately blew up the nest because of the figures that came down to the city.
"Pull up the drawbridge!" shouted the small-headed soldier with his sword drawn.
"Adult Suspension Bridge...... Didn't you put it down?" muttered a soldier.
"Close the gates, fill the sandbags, fill the sandbags!" the little boss gave another order, according to the procedure.
The soldiers at the head of the city were already crowded around the battlements at this moment to hear this order. I couldn't help but look at each other, some of the soldiers had been soldiers here for decades. I've never seen a sandbag, now where to find it?
The men who live in this level all year round are roughly divided into two types: poor soldiers and rich tax collectors, neither of which has much combat effectiveness. The mercenaries under the city had already rushed close for dozens of meters, but the soldiers in the city had never done anything meaningful.
There was a bang, and one of the iron cables that was holding the suspension bridge suddenly broke from it, and there was an unpleasant groan from the suspension bridge, and then one after another the iron cables cracked inexplicably. The suspension bridge with a length of more than 20 meters fell with a bang.
"Who is this?!!You're crazy!!" the little head cursed, and then issued a series of orders that made people wonder if he was sleepwalking: "Magician, start intercepting, hurry!Archer, archer, ready!!"
An Fei couldn't laugh or cry. If you take the longbow back into the spatial ring and float down into the city, you will be scolded as a madman. He didn't bother to take care of those soldiers, and the army that didn't even have swordsmen, what kind of threat could they pose to the mercenaries? In fact, An Fei didn't know that there was no war here, and there would be no chance of meritorious promotion, and all the oil and water were taken away by those tax collectors, and the soldiers could only rely on pitiful allowances to maintain their own lives, how could the swordsmen be willing to run here to eat and wait for death? It is better to be a mercenary! The army here can be said to be the army with the worst combat effectiveness on the mainland.
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Before An Fei could fall to the ground, the city gate had been shattered by a dazzling golden light, and Suzanne entered with her sword first, followed by Ozgüch and Ye with the mercenaries.
"Here's to Ozgucci, Susanna, let's go. An Fei raised his voice and said that today's battle was too boring for him.
"Just the two of us?" Suzanne was stunned.
"The two of us aren't enough?" said An Fei laughed.
"Husband and wife are invincible in the world!" said Ozjuchi, exclaimed in a high-spirited manner.
"It's a combination of two swords, don't shout!" An Fei corrected, the combination of husband and wife is not good, and there is some taste.
"It's all the same. Ozgüch laughed, and in a blink of an eye, he saw the soldiers who knew that the situation was going to run down the inner wall, and Ezgüch's eyes lit up, and he chased after them. Most of the mercenaries' eyes are vicious, because they need to estimate the combat power of the monster at the first time to decide whether to attack or not, Ozgüch can see that those soldiers don't even have the slightest fighting spirit, and he likes to feel like one against one hundred.
"Let's go!" Ann Fei beckoned to Susanna, who, unlike Ozgüch, was not at all interested in this unsuspenseful battle.
The supply base of the Shining Sand Empire is fifteen miles away from the level, and the shadow mercenary duo who infiltrated in advance have already sent the accurate news back, and the distance of fifteen miles is not a problem for An Fei and Susanna.
Now. The soldiers in the supply base have already seen the blazing fire on the checkpoint, due to the lack of troops in Sejialan, there is only one army responsible for transporting the baggage, and that army has an accident again.++ Over two thousand, three, four.
What is a peak powerhouse? It is a strategic weapon, mainly used for deterrence, and under normal circumstances, the peak powerhouse will not go around and kill people and set fires everywhere. There's no need to open your mouth for anything. But there is an An Fei who is willing to contribute to the harmonious society that Yolande idealizes, and his own strength is unpredictable, not to mention, he also abducts a peak powerhouse to run around the world and cause trouble everywhere.
Although those soldiers were ready for battle, and even wanted to go to the support level, they were all dumbfounded when they saw the rushing approaching and unsettling fighting light, and their eyes were full of fear and despair.
Anfei is here to kill people. He would not have any mercy and did not hesitate to throw himself into battle with Susanna. Suzanne is a peak powerhouse, and there is naturally no one under him, An Fei is not a great magician, not a great sword master, but he is definitely a great appraiser, if there is such a profession in stages.
The Fire Elemental Sword in An Fei's hand had stretched to more than twenty meters long, and every swing could take away a piece of life, and sometimes life was so small. It is necessary to use 'slice' to count. And those who could survive under the scorching tongue of fire were all mid-to-high-level professionals, and their protective fighting spirit saved them once, although I don't know how many attacks they could survive before. But at least it wasn't killed in seconds. In a short period of time, Ampaire has identified hundreds of people whose survivability has passed. Stunned, shouting, angry, grief, desperate, or collapsed, all of them turned into coke, and after Anfei was purgatory!
Swore to sweep away the Huns, regardless of their bodies, five thousand mink brocade mourning Hu Chen. Poor and uncertain, the bones by the river are still deep dreams. The charm of this poem is written in the last two sentences, the tragedy of the war, but it can be seen that Chen Tao is a little shallow, Wuding riverside bones need to be pitied? Shouldn't we respect and worship, without the countless Wuding riverside bones, let the Huns go south in a big way, even their wives and children are still not guaranteed, how can they sit at home and sigh lightly? Why?
For Anfei, he must hypnotize himself, he is a native of the Mao Empire! Without a sense of belonging, he will show his feet in some small things that he can't take care of, and he can't get the true faith of Yoland, no matter what, Thor is his teacher, Chris is the prince of the Ma Empire, if he has to take root, the Ma Empire is his only choice.
In front of him are the undying enemies, An Fei shows a kind of momentum of slashing and killing, and the soldiers of the Flash Sand Empire have already gathered because they want to divide part of their manpower to support the checkpoint, which saves An Fei the trouble of chasing and killing, and the gushing tongue of fire makes An Fei feel like no one, and in a blink of an eye, he killed the entire military formation.
Breaking out of the formation will give people a feeling of sudden enlightenment, that feeling is very refreshing, very happy, if it is Ozgucci, it will scream, if it is Bravi, it will tremble with excitement, but An Fei's eyes only flickered a few times, and when he turned around, his face was full of quiet taste, like a philosopher thinking about life.
Quiet as a virgin, moving like a rabbit, after the quiet, of course, moved An Fei's body, leaving a series of afterimages in mid-air, and stabbed into the battle array, since he had already killed it once, he didn't mind doing it again.
How big can a few small battle formations be formed by more than 2,000 people? An Fei left a burning belt about 30 meters wide in the battle formation at one time, and the tragic scene had already made the soldiers of the Shining Sand Empire scattered, and in their eyes, An Fei was much more terrifying than Susanna! Seeing An Fei turn around and kill again, the whole camp immediately collapsed, crying and shouting for his mother one by one, and running around in the camp.
Even those who survived under An Fei's sword
The swordsmen also lost their fighting spirit, and sometimes they were more afraid of death than death, and they were originally leading their subordinates to stop An Fei, who rushed past them wrapped in a scorching fire, and before they could recover from the suffocating pressure, they saw that all their subordinates were dead, and only one of them was left with a light commander, and the nightmarish fear was simply indescribable.
An Fei slowly inserted the fire sword into the sheath, he was not afraid of organized or unorganized resistance, but as soon as the soldiers of the Shining Sand Empire dispersed, he had no way to chase them one by one. It will exhaust people to death.
"It went so well. Suzanne also put away her long sword and walked slowly to An Fei's side, and wrinkled her nose, although An Fei's fighting style was very powerful, but the sequelae were a little unbearable, the scorching temperature was a small problem, the scorching smell in the air made people feel sick, but she couldn't help but breathe.
"Isn't it going well?" An Fei smiled, then released his senses, carefully observing the entire camp. He suddenly didn't seem to have as many barns built in the camp as he had expected.
It didn't take long for Orsie and Thomson's mercenary group to drive hundreds of carriages over, in fact, before this time, An Fei was delayed for five days, and he first had to send a large number of mercenaries to thoroughly reconnoiter the relevant areas to ensure that there was no army of Sejialan to hide, and he himself even played the role of a scout, because his efficiency was hundreds or thousands of times that of others. And also. The number of carriages in the Storm Castle was far from sufficient, and the carriages that were replenished later were all made during these five days. Fortunately, after An Fei robbed the baggage, he destroyed the cart and brought all the horses with him, otherwise the horses would have been an unsolvable problem.
"Where's Ozgüch?" asked Anfei slowly.
"My lord, he hasn't finished fighting yet, it looks like he's a little on fire, and the loss should be very small. Thomson hurriedly replied, "Captain Himpella has gone to help him." ”
"Loss, are you kidding?" An Fei was stunned, not only An Fei, but Suzanne was also stunned.
"My lord, they are very strong in combat. Really, how could I joke with you about such a thing?"
"You said those soldiers are very strong?" An Fei became more and more confused the more he listened.
"Didn't you forget? There are still many tax collectors in the city, who estimate that we can make a fortune, and this road turns out to be a golden trade route. God knows how much those tax collectors have made!" Thomson laughed.
"You say those tax collectors are strong?" Anfei frowned.
"No......"
"To put it bluntly!"
"If you can become a tax collector, of course you are a nobleman. There were quite a few generals around them, and even Ozjuch was injured, and I heard the brothers say that they were injured by a high-ranking swordsman. Thomson hurriedly said, "Fortunately, their resistance is too scattered, otherwise we would be in even greater trouble." ”
An Fei suddenly thought of a thing, the laws of the Eastern and Western Empires clearly stipulated, except for the duke and marquis, the number of generals and retainers under the nobles was strictly controlled, and now it seemed that the Shining Sand Empire did not have relevant regulations, or the regulations were much more lenient than those of the Mao Empire, with the number and quality of mercenaries under Ozgüch, they had not completely occupied the checkpoint for so long, which proved that those tax officials had a lot of retinues.
He used to think that it was just a law, and after thinking about it, he finally understood the mystery, a country's resources are limited, and the resources it can attract are also limited, and a large number of nobles have a larger number of private soldiers to serve themselves, but it does not produce any benefits to the country. Yolande expanded the country's resources with the help of the law, and weakened the power of the aristocratic group, making profits at both ends! It is really difficult for this superior to make calculations large and small......
"Don't wait for Ozjuki, you go and open all the storehouses, first pick up the grain, then other things, by the way, pay attention and see if you can show the magic crystal." "The man who waited for the rabbit was because he inadvertently picked up the rabbit that was killed, and he had been guarding for many years, although he was not so stupid, but he still had a little expectation in his heart, hoping that he could make another profit.
"Understood, sir. ”
"Remember to keep a count of everything, whether it's taken away or destroyed, and I'll have to pay it back. An Fei instructed again.
The mercenaries of the two mercenary groups are in full swing, and they always bring people a different kind of pleasure if they don't work hard, don't care if this kind of behavior is worth advocating, that's the fact! The mercenaries seem to be full of energy. Horse-drawn wagons were driven into the camp, racing against time to load and unload supplies, and then they were driven out again, forming a convoy outside the camp, and everyone had a smile on their faces.
I don't know how long it took, there was the sound of horses' hooves on the other side of the checkpoint, and Simpera galloped over with a dozen mercenaries, and they rode all the same snow beasts, which were also trophies, and the things that were snatched did not need to be ridden in vain, not to be ridden, not to be ridden in vain.
"How's Himperaozgüch doing?" An Fei shouted.
"The battle is over. Simpera replied as she jumped off the snow.
"The damage is serious?" is the question that Anfei is most concerned about.
"I don't know. Himpella saw Orsi walking out of the camp and hurriedly shouted, "Orsie leave me some carriages!"
"What do you want the carriage for?" Orsie was stunned.
"It was Captain Ozgüch who asked him to pretend to be wounded, and we collected a lot of things from the tax collectors' homes, and Captain Ozgüch wanted to take them all away. ”
"How much do you want?"
"A hundred. Himpella thought for a moment and reported a number.
"What are you kidding? , the grain is not loaded?" called Orsi.
"Let Himpella take the carriage away. Thomson strode over: "I have inspected all the storehouses, my lord, many of them are empty, there is nothing in them, and there are heavy armor in the storerooms, which are useless to us, I estimate that even if Himpella takes a hundred wagons, the rest will be enough." ”
"Himpella told Ozgucci to kill all the tax collectors, and it was useless to keep them. An Fei frowned.
"Your Excellency, you haven't seen them, you don't know what kind of wealth they have!" "Master Ozgüch wants to bring them back first, squeeze them out little by little, and then kill them." ”
"Squeezed dry?"
"I think the space rings they wear on their hands are the worst, and they are also medium-grade, and half of them are wearing high-grade space rings. Himpella said with envy: "We even found the magic crystal in their house, so what is stored in their spatial ring must be more precious than the magic crystal!"
Orcy and Thomson looked at their fingers and turned their hands behind their backs with shame on their faces, embarrassed! I usually feel that I have been mixed up with Master An Fei, and I am very angry, I didn't expect that there is such a big gap compared to a tax officer!
"Okay. An Fei nodded and said, "Tell Ozjuch to speed up! We can ensure the safety of the mercenary country, it's hard to say here, we must leave as soon as possible!" "Understand, my lord!"