【Chapter 26】Eastern Theater of Operations
Out of resentment against the enemy, Nivendon led the Coldlight Guard, chasing down the retreating mercenaries all the way without stopping. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Kassalon's power lasted only a short time, and as soon as she broke out of the encirclement, she fainted, but Nevedon still did not stop attacking, and he ordered his soldiers to carry Kassalon while continuing to pursue the enemy, as if to kill them all.
However, when they broke out of the encirclement, these Cold Light Guards soon became exhausted, due to the heavy casualties before, now there are not many Cold Light Guards left, plus those soldiers who are seriously injured and still hanging by a thread, at best more than a thousand people.
Halfway to the road, in the end, Nevendon reluctantly gave the order to rest in place, but at this time, the war couldn't help but let him order, in a wilderness between the east of Silver Spirit City and the Straits of the Stars, the Starry Night Knights and the mercenaries quickly formed an encirclement network for Nivandon, and the commander here was the Sandstorm who was the deputy of the mercenary king Bazel.
Sandstorm has a rough appearance, is an extremely bold mercenary, since he was a child, he has followed Bazel to fight in the east and west, although he is not young, but in Bazel's eyes, he has always treated him as a child, and his ability to command battles has won Bazel's trust.
This time, a thousand Starry Night Knights and four or five hundred mercenaries in the Eastern Battlefield surrounded Nevendon like an iron bucket, but because the Starry Night Knight officers did not receive enchanting instructions and refused to fight, the sandstorm that had killed and injured more than half of them because of the previous lure of the enemy to break through was even more furious at this moment, and he even pulled out his weapon and had a fierce quarrel with the officer.
Seeing that the enemy was only surrounded and did not move, Nivendon was even more nervous in his heart, and there was some fear, but he did not show it, he wanted to lead the soldiers to break through again, looking at the people around him who were wailing because of the pain, as well as those soldiers who were lying on the ground and tired, he had to reluctantly give up the breakthrough, and the sense of loss instantly spread throughout the whole army, and the morale was also extremely low.
If the Sandstorm coalition had been besieging at this time, it would have been devastating for Nevandon, but they didn't. Sandstorm was helpless for these Starry Night Knights, so he simply didn't say anything more. However, what people didn't expect was that the fire of the Star Strait easily mobilized the entire army, although there were only a thousand troops, but under the command of the flames, they also rushed over with murderous spirit.
Although Sandstorm had long thought that Agni might provide support, what he didn't expect was that the officers of the Starry Night Knight would ask to retreat, Sandstorm disagreed, because Nevedon was already a turtle in a sturdy urn, and if he could start the onslaught, he didn't have to wait for the Agni to come, and the remnants of Nivandon's army would be wiped out, and when the time came, he would kill the Agni with the advantage of numbers, and the eastern battlefield would be pacified in an instant.
But the truth is always unacceptable, and the officer of the Starry Night Knights decided to retreat because he considered the risk of loss for every Starry Night Knight, and deeply believed that the mercenaries were just farmers without honor. So in the quarrel, the Knight of the Starry Night officer scolded Sandstorm, and in the end, Sandstorm was humiliated and drew his sword and killed the officer of the Knight of the Starry Night.
This scene shocked all the Starry Night Knights, and now that the enemy is in front of them, and the dragons are leaderless, several low-ranking officers of the Starry Night Knights decided to leave with their troops, and with resentment against the sandstorm, they decided to sue in front of the enchanting one.
Sandstorm had no choice but to let the Starry Night Knights leave, and he took five or six hundred mercenary troops, and at the moment when the Starry Night Knights left, he quickly assaulted Nivendon. He had to block the route of Nevandon and Agni's march, because by this time the mercenary king Bazel's battle plan had been planned, and if the situation of the battle suddenly changed, Bazel, who was busy with his own plans, would die without a place to be buried.
It is precisely because of this that Sandstorm decided to carry out a suicide attack. Because Sandstorm is famous among mercenaries, he once defeated hundreds of sieges in desert areas with dozens of people, and he got his name from this, so now the mercenaries are almost obedient to him.
The moment he burst into the battlefield, the battle entered a white heat, out of survival instinct, Ni Van Dong, commanding the Cold Light Guard, at this moment with all his strength to resist the attacks of the mercenaries, and the Sandstorm, which was also fighting with the heart of death, also carried out an abnormal onslaught. The sounds of fighting, shouting, and wailing were endless, and everyone was fighting back in a desperate struggle. The chaotic battlefield became extremely tragic, stumps and weapons flew in the sky, hot blood spilled all over the surface, and the horrific corpses were densely covered under the feet of the people who were fighting.
The two sides soon reached a stalemate, but in the end, as time passed, the sky was bright, the dawn had arrived, and when they heard the flames of the battle, they quickly killed all their troops, and the troops composed of thousands of people drowned all the mercenaries in the sea of people in the moment they entered the battlefield.
The mercenaries were all killed, and none of them had time to flee the battle, Sandstorm finally left alone, carrying a giant sword, stained red with blood, and at this time he didn't know whether the blood was his own or someone else's, in short, he was wet, as if he had been soaked in the sea of blood for a long time, and he was not a trace of fear, and his eyes scanned the soldiers who surrounded him.
Agni had always had mercy on those who fought bravely, and when he saw Sandstorm still swinging his sword and slashing at the soldiers who surrounded him, he offered to negotiate and offered to let him live. Sandstorm felt that everything was so pathetic and sad at the thought of his allies not sparing him, but under the bitter persuasion of Agni, he seemed to understand this pointless battle.
He threw down the blood-stained greatsword in his hand, at the moment he was not worried about his safety and honor, only worried that Bazel would suffer misfortune because of the pit of the Starry Night Knights, Agni agreed to his condition, that is, he would go to Bazel immediately, and personally persuade him to abandon this battle, and at the same time uncover the evil face of the Starry Night Knights.
But just as he threw down his weapon, Nivendon suddenly drew his sword and pierced him in the chest. Sandstorm didn't even say a word, just slowly collapsed into a pool of blood on the ground with a hint of incredulity. Looking at his dying eyes, Agni suddenly felt very guilty, and he loudly accused Ni Fandon, but Ni Vandong didn't explain, just said that he didn't believe him.
In fact, Ni Vandong has always been obsessed with the attack on Silver Spirit City, and he can't let those enemies who attack Silver Spirit City slip away alive in front of him. After all, in Silver Spirit City, he had lived and managed for several years, and now it had become the largest city in the north, and it had become a pile of ruins in one day, which was obviously difficult for him to accept, and the desire for revenge had overwhelmed him at the moment of battle.
Seeing that the matter had come to this, there was nothing to pursue, after all, the war was important, he and Ni Vedon commanded a force of less than 2,000 people, and under Ni Vandon's proposal, they drove mightily in the direction of Silver Spirit City......
At this time, the flaming fireballs, like meteor showers, crashed into the Silver Spirit City overwhelmingly, and those traces of smoke that remained seemed to cover the entire sky. Thankfully, the battle between the two sides was still mainly at the city gates, with the towering walls withstanding most of the brutal fireball attacks.
But there are still some fireballs inadvertently rolling in from the city gate, whether it is mercenaries or soldiers, they are all crushed into a piece, this scene makes people feel the fragility of life, the corpses that have been crushed by the fireballs are even more miserable, the burning flames, the broken corpses, and the blood all over the ground, every place challenges people's fragile nerves.
Izzy, Tiara, and the scorpion are even more inseparable. Tiara and Izzy's coordinated attack made the scorpion have no chance to fight back, but he was still able to dodge with his nimble body, and gradually he was a little exhausted and fell to the ground, and at the same time, Yanna rushed over with several soldiers, and they surrounded the scorpion sitting on the ground.
"You can die now...... Tiara said and was about to stab the halberd at him, but Izzy, who was also sweating profusely, stopped her, "Don't worry. Izzy spoke, holding a long knife in his hand, turned around and came to the scorpion step by step with severe pain under the support of Yanna.
"Who are you?" asked Izzy sternly, but his voice was faint from the fireball and the distant fighting. The poisonous scorpion glanced at Izzy in front of him, snorted softly, and lowered his head "...... scorpion."
"It turns out that it's really your wilderness mercenaries who are making trouble...... "As soon as Izzy's words fell, Tiara and Yanna looked at Izzy suspiciously, Tiara was a little surprised, and Yanna didn't know the origin of the wilderness mercenaries. At this time, the corners of Izzy's mouth curled slightly, and the tense expression on his face eased, "The wilderness mercenaries are the troops of the mercenary king Bazel, and this mercenary force has always been extremely strong, they only accept some tasks with higher pay, and Bazel also has the reputation of leading all the mercenaries in the continent, I think this time the black prince also talked to you about some good conditions." ”
The poisonous scorpion hung his head and hummed "yes......" "What are the conditions?" Hearing Izzy's question again, the scorpion stopped talking, and then Izzy raised a long knife with one hand and put it on his shoulder, and Yanna next to her saw this scene and hugged Izzy's arm tightly, but she didn't stop it.
"Scorpion, tell me, what makes you so desperate to sacrifice......" Itzy's voice was calm and powerful, as if every word was deeply imprinted in his heart. He sighed lightly, shook his head with a wry smile, "Mercenaries have legal rights, ......" "Do you believe it?"
Seeing that the scorpion was silent, Izzy knew that he was not afraid of death, so he also took a deep breath and looked around, the fireballs were still slamming into the city, destroying all the buildings. "Even if the legal rights of mercenaries are really promulgated, then I believe that the Black Prince took it out after killing all the mercenaries, so you are being used, you look around, look at your own mercenaries, those Starry Night Knights simply want to annihilate us together. ”
The more Izzy spoke, the more agitated he became, he withdrew his long knife, grabbed the scorpion sitting on the ground, and walked towards the crowd. Tiara and Yanna were afraid that something would happen to Izzy, so they followed closely with a few soldiers. Upon reaching the chaotic crowd, Izzy pushed the scorpion to the ground, "If you still have any affection for your men, tell them to lay down their arms now!"
Izzy roared loudly, and at this time, all the people around him who were fighting stopped moving, and even some of the mercenaries and soldiers facing each other stopped their attacks, quietly looking at the few people standing in front of them. It was as if everything around had stopped, and the only thing that didn't stop was the trebuchet that was still attacking violently.
When the scorpion looked at the corpses of the mercenaries who had died tragically under the fireball, he shook his teeth and stood up, "Brothers, lay down your arms, we are defeated...... Although his words were weak due to loss, all the mercenaries understood what happened at the moment when the trebuchet attacked. "We don't have to fight this battle at all. After a stout mercenary finished speaking, he threw the long sword in his hand on the ground, turned around and looked angrily at the soldier who was standing opposite him and was still fighting with him just now.
With his actions, all the mercenaries dropped their weapons. But instead of cheering for victory or rejoicing at survival, the Coldlight Guardians knew that the battle was not over, and that the price of the battle was too great for those who did not participate to imagine it.
Seeing this, Izzy spread out his hands and looked at the scorpion with a serious face, his weak eyes showed his current abnormal exhaustion, "Scorpion, I respect you warriors, because we are all from mercenaries, but I don't want us to end up like this." You know what I'm talking about, maybe Bazel is still in the dark right now, you can completely reverse this outcome and tell me what Bazel's plan is?"
In the face of Izzy's words, the scorpion still shook his head and smiled bitterly, at this time, Tiara on the side was a little impatient, and was about to go up to give him some color, but was stopped by Izzy, because of the injured calf, so he limped towards the scorpion, reached out and grabbed his collar hard. "Do you want Bazel to die without a place to be buried?"
Izzy roared loudly, and then the scorpion weighed it in his heart, took a deep breath, and said helplessly, "Okay, the main target of the Starry Night Knights is you, and Bazel's plan is to conduct operations in the three major theaters in the north." Hearing his words, Izzy slowly let go of his hand, and the scorpion straightened his collar and continued, "The first thing is to introduce Nivendon into the battlefield in the east, so that when he is annihilated, if the fire dares to resist, he can directly and quickly attack into the Star Strait." Then here in Silver Spirit City, annihilate your ......."
"How did he think that I would come to Silver Spirit City with my troops?" "The plan is to change from time to time with your actions, if you come here, we will annihilate Nevandon, and then gather all our forces to storm Prado. Hearing this, Izzy also nodded secretly, it seems that Bazel's combat methods are also worthy of a famous general.
"Next, what's the next theater of operations?" "Prado, when he surrounded you, Bazel had already led his troops to attack Prado. Izzy was shocked, but he still pretended to be calm and said, "It seems that you have done a good job, if the various divisions fight well, the Northern War will be put down in three days." But since the Starry Night Knight is unwilling to unite with you, and only sends you to fight the vanguard, what is Bazel going to attack Prado now, doesn't he know that I Prado still has a garrison of thousands of people?"
“...... Thousands?" Tiara said in surprise, but when she saw the look in Izzy's eyes, she immediately closed her mouth. After all, Izzy can't reveal everything about himself in times of uncertainty. But the poisonous scorpion didn't care, he sighed, and said with a smile, "The Eastern Theater and here we are just a smoke bomb, Bazel's real plan is to take the Prado, because this can directly decide the victory in the north, so all the elites in the mercenaries are naturally in his hands." ”
Hearing this, Izzy panicked a little, "How many people!" "A thousand mercenary troops, that is all the elite of the mercenaries on the entire Sapro continent, I think it is not a problem for them to capture a city with equal numbers, even if there are no siege weapons." ”
Izzy pondered for a moment, wiped his face with both hands, the current battle situation is really one-sided in favor of the Starry Night Knight, even if he successfully resists Bazel's attack, then the Starry Night Knight's army will press up again, let alone after a battle, even now, he may not be able to resist.
"What would you do if I let you go?" Hearing Izzy's words, the scorpion smiled, the corners of his slightly upturned mouth were really uncomfortable, but the way he took a deep breath, everything seemed so calm, "I will leave the battlefield, find a tavern, eat dried meat, drink ale, and then cuddle up to a beautiful woman and brag about my experience." ”
"If that's the case, I can beat you into air-dried meat and soak it in ale barrels now. Looking at Izzy's fierce appearance, the scorpion smiled and raised his hands in undeniable agreement.
Seeing that the scorpion didn't respond otherwise, Izzy said with a serious expression, "I can let you go, but you have to explain all this to Bazel, and I don't think you want us to be wiped out under the feet of the Starry Night Knight, or become the story that those idiots brag about at the table." ”
Hearing Izzy's words, the scorpion nodded slightly, "I'll explain, but I don't know how Bazel will react." "If he has to attack Prado, I'll find you after I've eliminated him, and I'll tear you apart little by little and soak you in the drink......" Izzy said word for word, as if to make sure he did what he said.
"You don't have to intimidate me, I'll ......do my best," the scorpion said, turning to look at the mercenaries who were watching him, as the siege engines outside the city stopped their fierce attacks...... (To be continued.) )