Chapter 100: The Hunter and the Prey (3)

Nelson rode his horse and swept past the army as he scrambled with a dozen of his own soldiers.

As Senat's most trusted general, Nelson has more than 30,000 elite troops in his hands, and he was originally responsible for garrisoning Seke City, but this afternoon, Senate suddenly gave him an order, asking him to lead 20,000 elite infantry to the area of the Valo Mountains as quickly as possible, intercepting the Mochizuki City Magic Exchange Group, and giving him the power to command all Senate troops in that area, in order to reduce the threat of the opposing magician to his own army, Senate also generously provided him with 12 magicians。

As a good general, Nelson certainly knew that the Vallow Mountains were the natural frontier between Senate's territory and the territories of several other minor lords, and that there was an infantry of 5,000 men stationed there, and this infantry had been ordered to buy them time to hurry.

At the time when Senate had not openly broken away from the Empire, Nelson's identity was the leader of a mercenary group, but in fact this mercenary group was simply Senate's base for training troops, and they established a base in the mountains far from the city, where Nelson had personally trained tens of thousands of soldiers for more than ten years.

Every once in a while, some soldiers who have passed the training and meet the standards will be drawn out of the hundreds, they will register a new mercenary group under various names, and then go out to adventure to accumulate actual combat experience, and it will not be long before these new mercenary groups will be very reasonably hired by some rich people or caravans, and soon fade out of the adventurer's guild.

So no one will notice that the members of the mercenary group will become unrecognizable every once in a while, and the old members will almost all be replaced by new faces. Even the proprietors who hired them would not say anything, because these so-called rich people and caravans were none other than Senat's men.

Senat used this method to accumulate strength in secret, and his strength was mainly concentrated in the southern region, which was far away from the imperial capital, and the business was developed, and mercenaries were everywhere, making it easy to hide his power. Originally, Senate should have concentrated all his forces before launching a rebellion, but he believed in himself too much, and also underestimated the strength of the legendary invincible Royal Knights, and the timing of Senate's rebellion was indeed rare, if he waited for all his forces to be concentrated, the imperial capital would have passed that period of weakness.

At that time, Senat thought that it was impossible for the imperial capital to send troops so quickly, even if the army arrived in Seke City, Senate could defend for a period of time with the strength at hand, but what he never expected was that Orlando, the head of the Royal Knights, was bold and careful, and directly led the cavalry to quickly go south, continuously attacking Senat's important strongholds outside Seker City, so that Senate could not defend in the city with peace of mind。

It wasn't until he faced the legendary undead legion that directly crushed tens of millions of people with 10,000 people, and the Royal Knights, who had never failed since its establishment, that Senat realized that he was very wrong, as long as his own side had a slight flaw, the opponent's cavalry assault could accelerate and penetrate his own vital point in an instant, and no matter how his own sword and bayonet slashed, he could not hurt those holy knights who were shining with golden light.

In this asymmetrical battle, even Senat is the greatest military commander in human history, and when his army is defeated, Senat has to flee the battlefield with hatred, in order to protect his hidden power, he can only choose to flee north, and leave traces along the way to lure the Royal Knights to pursue him, in order to share the pressure of his hidden forces in the south.

Orlando succeeded in taking a risk, and could not stay in Seke City for a long time, and soon returned to the imperial capital, and the imperial ruler Fernando XIII ambitiously sent the city lord, hoping to use Seke City as a pedal to subdue the entire south Unfortunately, Senate's hidden strength in Seke City is far from what others can imagine, and the city lord was shortly in place and was elevated.

During those days, Senat not only had to hide in Tibet, but also spent a period of house arrest in the orc territory of the frozen plateau in the north, until the orcs attacked, Senat returned with the mission of attacking the imperial capital on both sides with the orcs. After Senat returned to Seke City, he took advantage of the inextricable battle between the imperial capital and the orcs to expand his armaments, turning the previous tens of thousands of elites into a full 200,000, and these armies in turn expanded Senat's territory.

"Although there are 200,000 people, the combat effectiveness has decreased compared to before, but fortunately, the imperial capital is now overwhelmed, and we still have time. Nelson rode on his horse and thought silently: "It's a pity that the master refuses to listen to my persuasion, it's not rational to be an enemy of Mochizuki City at this time, once ......."

"General, General!" Nelson's guards kept calling him, which also brought him back to his senses, and Nelson looked up to see that a scout on a horse was less than five meters away from him. Nelson reacted very quickly, he pulled the reins with both hands, and the horse immediately let out a long neigh, and the two front hooves were raised high, almost stopping the rapid galloping movement on the spot.

"Good horseman, good horse!" the scout cried out as he knew how difficult it would be to do so, and the soldiers who were trotting down the road also cheered in unison when they saw their general show his hand, but they immediately closed their mouths and went on without delay.

"What's going on?" asked Nelson, riding his horse, "Is it news from ahead?"

"Yes, General. The Sindi-Cantelli division of our army has succeeded in encircling the target on the peak of Mount Valen in the Wallo Mountains, and the target shows no sign of breaking through at all. Commander Cindy Cantelli had divided his forces to block the target's southward and northward passages, and was now ten times superior in force and ready to launch a tentative attack......"

"Bastard, do you think this is just an ordinary hunt? Even a few thousand miscellaneous soldiers under your command dare to fight the Grand Magister?" Nelson immediately scolded when he heard this, he had already issued an order, asking the Cindy-Cantelli troops in the Vallo Mountains to only encircle and not attack, for fear that the attack would be unfavorable but would cause a hole in the encirclement, and secondly, they did not know the ultimate goal of the master, in case this incident caused Seke City and Mochizuki City to fight to the death, wouldn't it be cheaper for the imperial capital?

Nelson knew that he was not the superior of these commanders before, although he had personally trained tens of thousands of elites, but for these second-line troops, he didn't know how powerful he Nelson was, if Nelson had trained his own descendants, how could such a rash act could happen, he immediately took out a command talisman from his arms and threw it to the guards around him, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up and rush over with my command talisman and order Cindy strictly- Cantelli must not act rashly, as long as the target is surrounded so that they do not escape, remember, Cindy-Cantelli must not be greedy, or I will not let him go!"

Watching his guards gallop away with 8 scouts, Nelson suddenly had some bad premonitions in his heart, and he immediately issued a second order: "Order the front army to drop their baggage and light equipment and advance, and tell them that there are still 80 kilometers left, and if they can't make it by dawn, I will personally command the Chinese army to send them to see the god of hell!"