Chapter 8: Half Dead

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A raging fire lit up the sky, and it was the Crusaders' stacks of grain and hay burning. The pen "Fun" Pavilion was also burned www.biquge.info those wooden panniers, although it was raining, but as long as they were shot by three or more fire oil arrows, the alchemical oil could make the stones catch fire, not to mention the wood.

The countless pack beasts tethered to the side of the car had no time to untie the reins, and could only struggle and wail in the flames. It takes ten years for each adult pack beast to grow, and they are once a valuable asset, but now they are abandoned. Because, human lives are struggling, and how can they be managed.

The Crusaders were pinned down by the Moon Lake, and only the lake remained when they retreated. The enemy was more than three times as large as theirs, and many even had weapons that belonged to the Crusaders, because they were much better than their own. It seemed like a battle with no hope of victory, but the Crusaders could not afford not to fight. Because to lose is to lose everyone's lives.

The first column consisted of sword and shield bearers and commando dwarves, as well as the warriors of the light assault team, where there was no room for cavalry, and the knights were reduced to foot combat, and under the leadership of the officers, they formed a line of life side by side, and strangled with the fiercely charging enemy.

The second column is the archers, who are no longer able to attack the enemy's barrage, and can only target individual snipers. The enemy was overwhelmed, and more importantly, they didn't have enough arrows.

Next to the archers, were members of the sapper corps. They are even more pitiful, whether it is a bed crossbow or a stone cart, they all need to be prepared and set up, and the enemy did not give them this opportunity from the beginning. Now, they can only hold large shields, armor, and even pots and basins, and work with the second-line miscellaneous soldiers to defend themselves and their comrades against waves of arrows from the enemy's rear.

The third column is the group of embarrassed mages, bloodstained, mudy, and young mages who can't care so much now, healing, dispersal, protective magic...... They had to keep the front-line warriors fighting for as long as possible, fighting for a little longer, and they had to weaken as much as possible the threats posed to the Crusaders by the mages.

For these young good seedlings, this is quite a hard job, most of the enemy's mages are battle-hardened battle mages, and their experience and ability are all superior to them, if it weren't for the eight elven spells such as Seleburn to command the battle, I'm afraid that these rookies who have been killed will be difficult to release even effective spells.

At the back, on a dumped cart, Lana stood like a javelin, standing under a banner still flying in the rain. Eight rose knights are responsible for blocking all ranged attacks against Lana. The main general sits in the town, fights against the water, the banner does not fall, and the morale of the army does not fall. Despite the suddenness of the incident, despite the fact that the camp was broken through at the first time, although many people did not even have time to put on their armor, despite the fact that their own people stabbed them in the back, despite the large number of enemies. However, the Crusaders did not flee, they were not annihilated, they were stubbornly resisting and fighting bloodily.

Blood and water mixed with the rain, dyeing the land red, the sound of the rain merged into the sound of weapons, ringing into a piece, the sword light, and the arrows flying in the sky, as well as the magic light brought by ice picks, falling rocks, fireballs and other spells, the screams and screams overshadowed everything, becoming the main theme of the battlefield, the fierce battle continued, the killing was deducing, and the killing was now, both sides were red-eyed......

Behind the armed forces attacking the Crusaders, near a large cart near the dense forest, stood a man in golden armor, his face sinking like water, his yellow eyes shining unusually bright, and the fierce light of a beast leaking out between the opening and closing. Beside him, an emaciated intelligence officer reported to him the latest front-line battle report:

"Your Excellency, the 35th Column is crippled and withdrawn! The 37th Column has been topped!"

"Your Excellency, the 37th Column is crippled, and thirty-three people have been withdrawn!

"Your Excellency, nearly half of the mages in the Mage Department are close to mana consumption, and they need to meditate!"

"Your Excellency, the seventh charge has been blocked, and the battle has been going on for nearly two hours, and most of the soldiers are physically exhausted, and the archers need to rest......" A stream of water, whether rain or sweat, was gurgling down the intelligence officer's forehead and sideburns. As he read the battle report, he cautiously peeked at the man known as Your Excellency, who was clearly not in a good temper.

"Of course you need to rest, you need a thorough rest, a permanent rest!" a cold voice sounded behind the lord, and the forty-year-old man only had time to change into a stunned expression before he was smashed to the ground by a heavy blunt blow. The emaciated intelligence officer saw a face with a streamer lightning mask, and his heart jumped to his throat, he knew who it was, and before coming, there was the most information about this person.

Yes, Li Yun rushed back, two hours and 17 minutes after the attack on the crusader camp. Maybe it's the extreme anger, maybe it's the reason that he doesn't get angry but laughs, in short, Li Yun feels very happy now, it's not easy! It's not easy to find a good reason to kill! It's not easy to break the seal of self-restraint!

"Since fear requires blood and human life to smear, and since intimidation and considerable benefits cannot satisfy the greed of others, then good, I will play the role of a god of death in Nessera first!" The floodgate called kindness in Li Yun's heart was completely closed at this time.

He volleyed into the air, countless liquid plasma flew up and down Zhou's body, and three floating alchemy balls were lined up, along with the two hands with five fingers wide open, "Wan Jun, forked lightning!" Like a devil's howl, thousands of blue lightning bolts were released from the rear of the attacking Crusader forces in an instant, and countless bursting arcs and jumping electric current bifurcations made these lightning bolts connect into a huge and incomparable power grid.

At that moment, no other sound could be heard on the battlefield except the roar of Thor and the hiss of electricity. At that moment, everyone only felt that night had fallen, and in fact, it was the blazing light of countless lightning bolts that blackened people's eyes. At that moment, countless people felt that they would suddenly be in hell, and they would die, and they would not be spared.

This was the first time that Li Yun launched an attack with a drop of original blood equivalent at one time, except for the battle with Tigalus, and you must know that the total energy used in the battle of the Dead City was not more than half of the current blow.

The two-thousand-square-meter fan was shrouded in purple and blue, rising dozens of feet high, and the dazzling soul was trembling. With one blow, nearly a thousand characters of all colors turned into charcoal, and the arc of electricity spreading along the rain, fog and muddy water made more people convulsive and fell to the ground, their bodies were soft and numb, and their hearts were beating wildly.

One blow creates a terrible hell on earth, a black hell with an arc of death. The smell wafted through the air not of the meat being roasted, but of the thoroughly burnt meat.

Li Yun didn't intend to stop at all, instead, he released the second drop of energy equivalent to the original blood, and this time, he gave the execution of death to three alchemy balls.

With the alchemy ball as the center, the three thick purple thunder pillars that penetrated the sky and the earth exuded tremendous power, like three streams of molten steel that kept pouring downward, splashing large and small plasma and arcs, and roaring towards the most dense places of the enemy.

This is the name that Li Yun chose for this formula, and in fact, even if a person runs wildly, he cannot keep up with the speed at which it is moving. The ground was blasted out of three deep, charred trenches by the thunder pillar, and in the air, any object touched by the thunder pillar would turn into black ash.

Different from the forked lightning, the energy of the lightning was quite concentrated, just like three indestructible heavenly knives, under Li Yun's control, the dazzling thunder pillar drew a deadly death cutting line, completely shattering the orderly attack queue, and making countless people disappear.

When the lightning swept across the battlefield, Li Yun was killing, killing unscrupulously, using the death scythe flowing with red lightning to insidiously kill from behind the enemy. These ordinary soldiers, their speed is far inferior to that of the evil corpse, their resistance, and their resistance are far inferior to the stitchers, attacks, and they can't be compared with the instantaneous poisonous fire bombs of the White Bone Mage, so they are vegetables and grass, and under Li Yun's unreserved harvest, a large amount of blood and human heads flew into the sky.

Alina is also killing people, and his main targets are commanders, mages, and then archers. Now that this is a slaughterhouse, there is nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to hide. Who is abusive, who is abused, let the weapon speak, let the strength speak.

Some people use the last feather that breaks the bridge to describe the subtlety of the battle situation, which is classic, but not suitable for this battle. Li Yun's appearance was not that feather, but the equivalent of a C130 pulling a main battle tank and crashing into a suspended soft bridge.

In just a few minutes, the exhausted army attacking the crusaders collapsed. They can't help but collapse, and no one wants to fight a battle that is impossible to win.

Their rear battle is finished, their mages and commanders have died, they have killed nearly a thousand brothers in a single breath, and they are completely dead, and many more are dying, and no one can stop this death, all those who want to try and those who are unlucky have been turned to ashes in an instant, and they have lost their heads or their internal organs to the ground.

The armor was useless, the curved arc flashed, the brilliant blue light flashed, the heavy armor was torn apart like papier-mΓ’chΓ©, and the hundreds of pounds of living people were thrown away like sandbags for children's games, and it was no longer two people who were killed, but the devil, the meat grinder, and wherever they went, there were only stumps and gushing blood, without exception.

The Crusaders also began to counter-charge, and the Rose Knights, who had protected the commanders of the teams, were the sharp knives of the charge, and their strength also made the enemy want to have two more legs.

"Throw down your weapons, surrender and don't kill!" Li Yun shouted loudly when he saw that the time was ripe. The Crusaders were also instructed by their commanders to fight and shout surrender without killing.

The defeat was like a mountain, and many enemies chose to surrender, and many more chose to flee. Or along the road, or into the dense forest, in order to run faster, heavy weapons can be thrown away, heavy armor is not much meaning, it is good to have a dagger to defend themselves, some don't even think about it so much, they just run recklessly with the crowd all the way, until it is confirmed that there is no danger to their lives or are killed.

Anyone who has fought in the war knows that it is a tragic thing to take prisoners no matter who they are given to, especially those who are counter-encircled and suppressed after the failure of the conspiracy. This truth is like in another plane called the earth, a kind of sniper class will always die a miserable death if caught by the other side.

Although the dense forests of this world are rampant with monsters and beasts, it is easy to lose your life and get lost, most people think that they will be lucky enough to survive. And that's how the legendary missing people are often created.

The Crusaders were too exhausted to pursue the defeated enemy. After fighting fiercely for so long, it is largely due to a will to survive. Now that they have won the victory, they have relaxed mentally, and many people have fallen directly into the muddy water and cannot climb up. A serious illness or death from multiple organ failures is the sequelae of excessive fatigue and hyperactivity.

"Soldier, no rest, I want you to search for your living companions, I want you to count your belongings, I want you to go and see the prisoners, and if you can't do it, you can wash the toilet for a year!" The commanders drove the soldiers away with their scabbards, seemingly stern, but in fact they were afraid that they would never be able to stand up again after lying down.

"Grab the bucket, line up, fetch water from the lake to put out the fire! Quick! Quick! You, untie that beast of burden! Damn! With a knife, not with your hands!"

"Carry all the seriously wounded to me, and drag them over there without any danger to their lives!

"Go into the water, let the captives all go into the water, put their hands on their heads, and make sure that we can clearly see that they are all standing in the lake, find some crossbows, and whoever is not honest will kill me!"

"Watch out for the enemy under your feet, maybe he wants to pull a funeral object when he is dying, maybe they are cheating on death, kick their weapons away first, give them a good time if they are seriously injured, we don't have so many doctors, our own brothers are still struggling on the edge of life and death! The corpses are all carried over there, and they are laid out in rows!"

"Group 2, Group 4, Group 6, Group 8, I want you to go and recover those scattered mounts, they can't go far, they are in the nearby woods or somewhere, if you can't find the mounts, you will be a second-line miscellaneous soldier in the future!"

Thanks to good training on weekdays, the post-war clean-up work was quickly and methodically carried out under the leadership of the grassroots commanders. They are all professional soldiers with excellent mental qualities. Maybe in the bottom of their hearts, they have a lot of hatred and complaints, but for a soldier, duty comes first, and now their duty is to rescue after the war and do everything possible to minimize the losses caused by the war.

The layer of electromagnetic cover around his body made Li Yun's body have no mud, no blood, and no rain, just like many kings who are high up and kill people in one sentence, looking clean and innocent. However, the blood-soaked death scythe is very real, and its rich murderous aura makes it exude a shocking charm, especially the somewhat pink arc light, which makes people wonder if even metal can be dyed with blood.

Slowly walking to Lana's side, Li Yun asked in a low voice, "The commander of the scout team betrayed?"

Lana nodded heavily.

β€œ...... What a good lesson!" Although there had been a speculative result for a long time, after hearing it with his own ears, Li Yun still couldn't help but be angry and clenched his fists with a gurgling sound.

Black smoke curled and devastated her eyes were not far away, and Jessica was healing the badly wounded warriors with the rain of water system. At Lana's request, she can be described as a nest in today's battle, in addition to fighting against the opponent's three Dafa targeted spell attacks, that is, to cast this range of powerful water healing magic, the main mages of the crusaders responsible for healing and recovery are in the team of the Holy See Templars who have not yet converged, and only 4 of the more than 40 accompanying mages know the light system healing method, and one can use the water system healing technique, and they are all monomers, and the burden of rescuing the seriously injured is naturally not Jesica.

The rain had mostly stopped, but the night followed. Pine oil torches are lit, people are already exhausted, but there is still so much to do. It lasted until midnight, and the work was hastily completed.

In the big tent in the center, everyone was silent, and the loss report on the table was the main culprit of silence.

The Crusaders lost forever 1,147 valiant warriors, the most severe of which were the scouts, especially the most elite Shadow Division, of which only thirty-one remained. Most of the elites of these crusaders were attacked and killed by the same group of traitors when they went out on a mission, and their supreme commander was a traitor, taking advantage of their power, under the deliberate arrangement, under the surprise attack without warning, no one could escape.

The second most killed were the soldiers of the engineering team, who could not be regarded as front-line fighters, and many of them died directly under the sword in the enemy's attack camp.

Then there were the three teams of assault, light attack, and foot combat that participated in hand-to-hand combat, and almost all of them were wounded, and many of them had to use their own flesh and blood to fight the killing before they were armed.

Equally miserable were the second-line miscellaneous soldiers and the Greenhill family's convoy, 700 people, 500 people, and less than 300 people in total who are still alive. The opponent's combat policy is obviously annihilation, and they don't intend to leave a single one alive except for Lana, a hostage. Of course, maybe you will pick a few women who are smart and enjoy it, which is normal in many armies in this era.

More than half of the food and grass and military supplies were destroyed, but compared to the Crusaders, whose population was reduced by half, this was not enough to be a major crisis.

"Master, are you going to interrogate the main culprit now?" Alina, who was standing behind Li Yun, broke the suffocating deadlock and bowed down to ask.

"No, go and call Seleburn!" Li Yun put one hand on his cheek, and his eyes flashed with a palpitating cold light.

Alina bowed her head slightly and walked out of the tent. Li Yun turned to Jessica and said, "Lord Leader, thank you for everything you have done today. It's late, you should go and take a break, tomorrow there is heavy work to trouble you, I have some very personal issues to discuss with Lana, and you can't participate. ”

Although the words were polite, Jessica could hear the suppressed anger in Li Yun's tone, the vague killing intent that she had never felt in this strange mage.

Jessica's mind was in a mess right now, there were so many things for her to think about, and she had already sensed something strange from the events of the day.

The enemy who attacked the crusaders was a well-armed regular army, which everyone could see. This is not just a simple slaughter launched by a minor lord who covets Lana's wealth, but also a handful of people who can have such a large amount of money in Nesser.

Think about who is the biggest beneficiary after Lana's accident, the mastermind behind this attack and killing, and his identity is about to be revealed. It was the identity of this main messenger that made Jessica's heart tremble.

As she exits the tent, Jessica is confronted by the leader of the eight elven mages who impressed Seleburn.

In the face of enemies who suddenly come out from all sides, they can be said to be the most calm group of people. Not only did he look as usual, but his eyes did not fluctuate abnormally, as if this kind of thing was commonplace. Jessica believed that without them, the mage would never have been the result of two dead and seven wounded.

These mana can only be regarded as mid-level and mid-level elven mages, and their ability to control magic is simply superb, and it seems that every bit of magic power can produce the greatest effect in their hands. In Jessica's opinion, even Jessica's teacher, Youde, and the court mage who is recognized as having the strongest ability to control magic, cannot compete with them.

Also, the incantations they chanted when they used them, both in pronunciation and formatting, felt very strange, and sometimes it was just a coherent whisper and the spell was used. With Jessica's knowledge of the methods of magic used by the various intelligent races, they don't use any of them.

The mystery of the elven mage's origins makes Jessica even more curious about Kzananza. A few hours ago, she had seen two large-scale, spell-like attacks with a strength of more than level 7, and the breeding body could reach such a strength, and at that time, Jessica even had a dream-like unreal feeling.

However, after a few breaths, Kzananza's martial arts brought more shock to her. If great strength and speed are given by a special system, then proficient fighting skills can only be one of the skills that you have.

A magus with super high martial skills, Jessica finally appreciated the horror of the battle form of Quezananza. Why is the messenger so greedy?What is the relationship between Kezanansa and Lana?Why do you want to take the risk of driving such a person to a dead end?The more you know, the more mysteries there become, and Jessica is deeply troubled.

Just as Jessica was about to spend a sleepless night, Seleburn was cautiously reporting the situation to his master, "Master! The converter is badly damaged, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to use in a short time." Even the collector can only run at half power......"

"You're saying I won't be able to replenish my energy for quite some time?" Li Yun interrupted Seleburn's narration.

"If you can't find enough repair materials in Vicburg, I'm afraid it's like this!

After taking it and looking at it expressionlessly, Li Yun handed the material sheet to Albert, "Contact Bukachi and ask him to help purchase these materials." Seleburn, Stephanie and the enemy commander, you help me to open their teeth, and I want a detailed written report to give you three days. ”

"We also have a few traitor captives, and the crusaders need to know from their mouths who else is the lurking enemy. Which of you has the ability to do this well?" Li Yun glanced at the several team officers on the other side of the table with blazing eyes.

"Me!" stood up Wagnan Dietrich, a red-haired, stocky engineer officer.

Looking at Wagnan's angry look and bloodshot eyes, Li Yun's left hand tapped the table a few times, and said slowly: "What I need is a calm torturer, not a madman who is eager to avenge his subordinates." ”

"Your Excellency, let me come!" said Inak as he stood up and said calmly.

After staring at Inak for a while, Li Yun nodded, "In the same three days, you need a detailed written report, and you can freely transfer the manpower." ”

"Yes!" replied Inak, standing firm.

"Sandra, go and call all the Rose Knights!" Li Yun ordered the female knight of the guard beside Lana. In a few moments, the Rose Knights were already in the tent.

"From now until the new order is given, you will take on the task of being a crusader scout. Divided into two groups, each group of 5 people, 2 people maneuver, immediately started. Also, I want to know if Vicburg is also involved in this incident, Sandrola, you can go for yourself. Lana's bodyguard, Alina, is in charge of everything from food to lodging. ”

"Other commanders, reorganize your forces, count the detailed damage reports, you should know what to do, the Crusaders will have at least three days of rest in Moon Lake, and that's all for today's brief meeting. By the way, there is an additional task, do a good job of administrative work, the grievances of the soldiers should not be backlogged, but need to be resolved, you have to investigate the general opinion of the soldiers about this incident. Okay, if you don't have a debriefing, you can step down. ”

Only Li Yun, Alina, and a saddened Lana were left in the tent. The butter wax on the table was peeling off and burning, and a delicate dagger emitted a cold blade under the light of the candlelight, just like Li Yun's eyes now. Standing up slowly, taking two steps with his hands in his hands, Li Yun said coldly to Lana: "Frett still wants to kill us!"