Chapter 196: Defeat is like a mountain
The King's Guard is arguably the most elite unit in the country, and every year the most elite people are selected from all over the country to join, and everyone in the army is proud to join the guard. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ The captain of the info guard is also the only one in the country, a sword master in the prime of life. He is in his fifties, at his peak, and has traveled all over the mainland, ranking first in China in terms of strength, and is a little famous in the world.
Such a powerful army to challenge any frozen huskies, in their eyes, is already the glory of huskies, and as for being abused by huskies, it is absolutely impossible. The king's move was to inspect the border defense, test the level of the territory, and even more so to shock those noble city lords. Since the empire intervened in many domestic affairs, although the overall strength of the whole country has risen, he has gradually become marginalized as a king.
A retired veteran of the empire came to recuperate, and there was still someone who wanted to ask him what he meant, and of course the king was not happy.
This time the personal guard consisted of 100 men, plus the king, the lords and nobles of the city and their retinue. Moreover, it is impossible for the nobles to travel in a carriage with the king, and it is inconvenient for them to show their heads, after all, this trip is to be kept secret. Eventually, the guards were followed by more than thirty wagons, and their number increased to more than one hundred and fifty.
The number of people in a group is not large, but the convoy is huge, and more than 30 cars send out a long line. At noon the next day, he arrived in the border city, rested in the city for the night, recuperated his spirits, and came to the border post early in the morning of the third day.
At this time, the border of Lou Baole country, the project has already started for a few days, the head and deputy head of the wolf regiment of the frozen capital are all there, and there are about 100 people in the nearby half mercenary group, and the roadbed is being built. Others work in the main city and in the middle of the road. Nowadays, there are a lot fewer people who come to challenge, and it takes about three to five days before a team comes. The country of Leibozier is a small country after all, and this mercenary group keeps coming to challenge, and there will be an end of time after all.
There are still eight graves on the border, and it is inevitable that there will be heavy hands in heads-up battles, and many people are killed on the spot, but the corpses are just dragged back on the spot. After all, heads-up is all about the rules, and as for the sneak attack in the middle of the night, it has never appeared again.
Little Spoon still insists on running dozens of kilometers to the small outpost in the middle of the night every day, and then sleeps alone. But I don't know if it's good luck or bad luck.,I haven't encountered anyone sneak up since the last time.γ The head of the regiment, the deputy head of the regiment and others persuaded her not to go, but the little spoon still refused. In fact, the head of the regiment and the deputy head of the regiment are all here, and she, the assassin of the relevant department, is no longer insignificant here.
Speaking of which, she had followed Locklock to do an urgent mission, but Locklock left with a border guard, and she didn't know what to do here. She said that she was probing the border situation, but now that there is no one on the other side of the border, what else is there to investigate, how this mission is over, when it will end, and how to report it? She doesn't know very well.
The only thing that feels a little worthwhile here is to sleep in the middle of the night. If it didn't make sense, the little spoon felt like he was here to eat and drink for nothing. But even so, she was still very bored in the daytime, she was not needed for patrolling, she was not needed for single-handedness, she could not train here, she could not take a shower when she sweated, and it was not her turn to work when she came to the project.
Since the mercenaries came, the task of food has obviously been much bigger, basically only a third of the engineering personnel here, but there are more than a hundred people. The army had already sent a few more cooks, but Little Spoon volunteered to take the position of fireman.
It's freezing here, and it's a lot more difficult to make a fire than at home, but it's not a problem for her. It's just that occasionally I'm in a trance, how do I feel that I've come out to carry out a mission, or is I doing the same work as at home? The people in the border army are almost all familiar with her, and everyone likes her as a cheerful little girl, and now she can eat spicy food with everyone, but she always feels a little lost in life, and she doesn't know what to do next?
By noon, the smoke was already billowing from the border of the country of Leibozier, and it could be seen from afar above the wilderness. The wolves of the frozen capital immediately lined up in front of the border, and they were used to it during this time, and there were often mercenary groups coming and going, of course, all of them called themselves "barbarians". Troops are always on stand, and patrols are kept in the vicinity as much as possible.
But as the other party gradually approached, looking at the opponent's formation, he couldn't help but have some doubts. These more than 30 carriages are really not like the handiwork of ordinary mercenary groups, and it is even more of a joke to say that they are barbarians.
As the leader of the wolf group of the frozen capital, he didn't dare to be careless, and hurriedly ordered the mercenary group to temporarily suspend work, and asked people to notify the old mage to come over.
After a moment of calm observation, the more the regiment commander looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Maintaining an army's marching formation is the basic embodiment of its discipline and is also the guarantee of its combat effectiveness in combat. The more elite the army, the neater the formation, this thing cannot be trained in a short time. A scattered army wants to pretend to be elite, which is almost immediately visible in the eyes of professional officers. And on the other hand, it is not so easy for the elite to disguise themselves as a ragtag army.
Some movements and formations will be revealed subconsciously, which is relatively easy for infantry, as long as you remember to walk in a chaotic way. However, the cavalry was not easy, because the mounts had long been accustomed to marching in formations through constant training. Even if the knight pushes him to run deliberately out of order, the horse will soon find his place again and continue running. Unless you spend time training them in the way they run.
In general, among all kinds of troops, the types of troops with the highest requirements for marching in the queue are probably only honor guards or personal guards. Seeing their way of marching, even if it was disrupted from time to time, it still became neat in a moment, and even the horses knew how to adjust their steps, and the whole undulation became uniform. The elite level of this force is definitely not trivial, even if they are all masked and wearing cloaks, and they don't even have weapons, they can't hide it.
Coupled with the more than thirty carriages behind him, the leader of the Wolf of the Frozen Capital couldn't help but have a terrible thought, and even he couldn't believe it.
"Quick!Telecom Mage," the regimental commander immediately ordered, "transfer all of us in the city!"
"Yes!" the communication mage immediately raised his hand and summoned a cold petrel, quickly wrote a code word, and then clamped it in the petrel's mouth, signaling it to report to the city. The weather here is too cold, and it is difficult for parrots to survive, so they can only find a boreal petrel to make a cameo, which is still imported. The training was not easy, and the whole regiment was just like that.
Haiyan flew high and disappeared from everyone's view in a moment. At this time, the neighboring countries had also arrived at the border and immediately lined up. Almost subconsciously, the crowd was lined up straight, and even the horses were stiff and motionless, like wax figures. The head of the regiment further affirmed his conjecture, and he couldn't help but be secretly nervous.
In the middle of the other party, the curtain was lifted in the largest and most gorgeous carriage, and a masked man in a black cloak stood up: "Which of you is a frozen husky?"
The regiment commander rode out two steps: "We don't have frozen huskies here!"
"How is that possible?" the other party did not believe.
"We are the wolves of the frozen capital, there are no huskies here!" replied the regimental leader. For him, this title is his pride, how can he change it casually? Now that the little spoon has not come out for a long time, it is just a fire in it at this time, and of course this name is coming back!
"Impossible!" the other party resolutely disagreed, "This is not the first time that this name has been spread, and it has already been thunderous in China." There's nothing to be ashamed of. β
The head of the regiment was silent for a moment, and simply drank his identity: "Your Excellency, I don't know what you want to do when you came to the border with people this time?"
The other party stiffened slightly, and subconsciously retorted: "What is Your Excellency, I am a barbarian, you can call me Your Excellency the Chief." β
The head of the regiment snorted coldly: "Your Excellency, it is meaningless to do such a thing that wants to cover up. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this generation is extremely bitter and cold, there are not even animals, and there are no so-called barbarians in themselves. β
The other party stopped pleading and sat back in the carriage. Then another masked man on the side came out, turned over and dismounted, and came to the middle of the two armies empty-handed, and stood directly on the border line: "You guys go up together." If there is no frozen husky, then I will fight until he comes out. β
"Captain of the Lebozier Guard, is that you?" the regimental commander saw through at a glance. How much strength the neighboring countries have, the commanders of the various legions know in their hearts, and the more than thirty regular armies that dare to single-handedly challenge the regiment commander are only the masters of the holy rank. And the country of Leibozier is a sword master.
The man in black just smiled and didn't say anything.
"What are you doing today?" the head of the regiment was also a little surprised. It is said that it is a sneak attack, but it is extraordinarily ink. It would be too blatant to say that he was here to find out what the situation was. It would be naΓ―ve to say that they came to challenge the frozen huskies.
"Don't talk nonsense, you don't go up? The man in black did not hide it, he directly burst out with purple fighting energy, raised his hand and waved, and the fighting qi swept like a blade more than thirty meters long. Ordinary soldiers can only stand stupidly, there is nothing they can do at all, even the regiment commander and deputy regiment commander also jump up from their mounts, as for whether they can dodge, it can only depend on luck.
Suddenly, the ground shook, and everyone only felt that there was a flower in front of them, and there was an extra strong wall between the two armies. The wall is pitch black, the stone is hard and cold, and with the strength of the Sword Master's purple fighting spirit, there are only shallow marks left on the split wall.
"Who?" the man in black subconsciously turned his head to look at another place.
At this moment, an old man came out of the ground, a slightly messy robe, living with a magic staff, but with an iron helmet on his head. Everyone saw that the old membrane mage who was officially in charge of the project.
"Who are you?" asked the man in the carriage on the other side.
"No, I'm an infrastructure maniac. β
Other: "......"
"Your Excellency," the infrastructure madman also saw through the other party's identity at a glance, and his face was serious, "Are you going to war? Are you ready to go to war? Don't talk to me about barbarians, all dressed in jewels, and the carriage is full of nobles, thinking that a black robe can stop it?"
The king hurriedly stretched out his hand, retrieved the captain of the guard, and asked in a low voice, "What strength does the other party have?"
"Your Majesty, it's the Grand Magus. The captain of the guard replied, "The elements are thin here, and if I do fight, my chances of victory are greater." However, the battle of the Holy Rank has a large scope, and Your Majesty is afraid that it will ......."
The king also frowned: "How can a great mage do rough work? Is this still a mage?"
"Your Majesty, we don't have much time," the captain of the guard reminded, "They have a teleportation array, once the time drags on, maybe other Sword Saint Grand Magiors in the country are here, and then it will be troublesome." β
The king secretly clenched his fists: "No matter what, you can't go back like this when you come today." You find a way to lure him away and fight him where no one is around. Our side has far more troops than our opponents, and we can still fight!"
The captain of the pro-guard team immediately received the order and returned to the formation, and was just about to speak, when he was interrupted, and the infrastructure madman directly spoke: "I know, you want to fight in a different place, right?"
There are a lot of methods at the level of the Great Magus, and listening to a whisper is really nothing. The captain of the guard also took the opportunity to change his words: "Since you already know, then say that you dare or not, right?"
"It's really a shoddy provocation," the infrastructure maniac dismissed, "I have to hurry up, I have to rush the deadline after the fight." β
The two of them spoke crisply, but their movements were slow. After all, both sides have the weakness of soldiers, and the strength of both of them is too high, if one person goes away first, the rest of the people can kill all the others in an instant. can only restrain each other in this way, walking slowly but damaging each other.
The teams on both sides were all motionless, watching the two masters go farther and farther, and even waited patiently for more than an hour, worried that once the two teams fought, a certain saint-level master would see that his own people could not fight, so he hurriedly killed the carbine, and the two teams couldn't stand it.
"What are you waiting for?" the king seemed to have run out of patience, "come with me!"
"You guys play barbarians today, and don't regret it in the future!" the regiment commander also retorted coldly.
"Up!" An order was given, and the horses of both sides neighed in unison. One side of the hundred-man guards charged in unison, while the other side ran straight back.
"Shoot the arrow!" the regiment commander shot an arrow, and more than 30 people followed suit. The fastest horse was struck by more than 30 arrows, and even three arrows on the horse's head, and the knight fell from his horse. The wolves of the frozen capital here are also elite, and they are specially replaced for defense, far from being comparable to the patrolmen who have not been trained for half a year, and their archery skills are also more first-class.
"Shoot the arrows!" "Release the arrows!" the regiment commander gave the order, and two more people fell in front of him, shooting horses without shooting people. More than thirty people gathered to shoot one person, unless this person could bless the Dou Qi to the horse, even if it was a Yellow Dou Qi 6th order master, he would not be able to resist. As for the guards, they were dressed in ornate armor and shields, which were not as light as the shields on the other side. Moreover, the wolves of the frozen capital are stationed here all year round, and it is the first time that the guards have come here, and the weather is so cold that people and animals are not used to it.
"What are you doing?
The guards hurriedly fired back, the strength of these people was indeed much stronger than the original border soldiers, and the arrows were all vindictive arrows, but the accuracy was a little poor.
The head of the regiment immediately made a decision, threw out a bunch of beast traps from his spatial ring, and spread them all out on the ground. The pursuers were horrified, and those in the front row hurriedly shouted: "Beware of clamps on the ground!"
At this shout, everyone paid attention to the ground, desperately adjusting their horses, for fear that their horses would step on them. At this time, the opponent released a salvo of arrows at the right time, and more than ten people all knocked off their horses for a while.
The gap in numbers began to shrink, and everyone desperately pursued but couldn't catch up, and they were a little desperate for a while. The other party is still not dead.
At this time, the king finally saw the problem, the opponent was faster than them, and the bow and arrow could have a longer range, and it was a battle specially designed for this terrain. If you continue like this, you will even be slipped to death.
"Come back, come back, don't chase it!" cried the king at the top of his throat.
When the guards heard this, they turned around and ran back. The regiment commander waved his hand: "Chase!" The wolf of the frozen capital turned around and chased again, arrow after arrow, and the masters of the pro-guard team fell down one after another. In the past, the ragtag army on the border was beaten like this, and now there is no difference between the pro-guard forces.
"Do you have any clips?" called the king. It is true that the pro-guards are now on the run, and if they are still clamped, of course, they can hinder the pursuit of the wolves of the frozen capital.
The guards were just running away, and apparently no one was prepared for the same. The group fled all the way back to the king's side, coming and going, and half of them were missing. Looking at the number of people, there are only fifty or so riding, and the other party is still about thirty riding, and there is no one less.
"Do you want to come?" the regimental commander just coldly provoked.
The guards bowed their heads and glanced at the king, who seemed to clench his fists, visibly exasperated, but said nothing.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the distance, and a strong tremor was heard, and it was obvious that the two Holy Rank masters had already begun to duel.
The king suddenly remembered something, turned his head and shouted at the other carriages: "Didn't some people say that the soldiers of their country are inferior to ours?
The rest of the carriages were silent, and the nobles were all playing dead.
"You don't want to live, do you?" said the king, furious, "you think I can't cure you when I go back?"
Seeing that the king seemed to be really angry, a voice floated out of one of the carriages: "Your Majesty......"
"Call me Chief!" the king remembered his identity at this moment.
"Chief, in fact, the battle between our soldiers is meaningless, and when the Sword Saint over there decides the winner, the Sword Saint will naturally win. The man replied.
The king nodded, as if he felt it made sense.
The leader of the Wolf Regiment of the Frozen Capital smiled coldly: "Do you think that if you stand still, we will have no choice? I have given you the opportunity again and again, since you must pretend to be barbarians, then clean you up as barbarians!"
More than 30 people shot at the king. The king was shocked, and finally the king had some strength, and hurriedly lay down, but he was still hit by an arrow in the shoulder.
"Protect Your Majesty!" shouted the guards subconsciously, and then surrounded His Majesty's carriage, holding shields.
"Call me Chief!" the king was still full of energy, apparently not seriously wounded.
"Arrows!" The fighting arrows whizzed away, and the horses pulling the cart were killed in an instant, even if the guards were holding shields, but the knight's shield was not a full-body shield for infantry after all, there were too many gaps. Wanting to reflect, the other party has quickly retreated.
"Your Majesty, let's retreat first!" A city lord has already seen that the form is wrong, "Your Majesty is injured here, it is difficult to heal, the weather is too cold, there will be hidden dangers." β
When the king heard this, he was immediately shocked: "Will there be a hidden danger?" Subconsciously touched his shoulder, and found that the blood oozing out was frozen, and his heart was also cold.
"Withdraw!" the king finally stopped dwelling. When the soldiers of the guards heard this, they hurriedly picked up the king. Then put it on his horse, and the other team members in the rear hurriedly blocked the arrows and sight in the rear.
"Want to run, chase!" the regiment commander waved his spear and charged his horse.
The guards were finally happy in their hearts, they had been shot with bows and arrows, and they were on fire in their hearts, and they were finally able to fight in close quarters! They could finally give full play to the true strength of the guards! The four elites of the guards burst out with yellow fighting spirit and rushed up, the regiment commander pulled up the horse's head, and even the people and horses flew up, and the two front hooves stepped directly on the faces of the two guards, the spear in his right hand stabbed, and the bow in his left hand swept, and in an instant, four sixth-order masters fell off the horse.
The hearts of the other guards on the side were cold, it turned out that the melee combat was so bad, and there was no fighting spirit in their hearts.
"Scatter and run! "Scatter and run!" someone shouted, and the noble carriages had long since turned around and left, and did not show their faces from beginning to end. The pro-guards worked hard to escort this king away, and the army was defeated, not to mention that their captain was still in a one-on-one battle with the infrastructure madman, and if there was a captain commanding, it would not be so outrageously defeated.
The Wolves of the Frozen Capital unceremoniously chased across the border again, this time even faster, and the already scattered formation was rushed back and forth, killing and wounding countless people. Once again, he unceremoniously chased under the city gate, but strangely did not see the king, probably scattered in the pursuit. Everyone didn't bother with this issue, this time it was a big victory, and they were in such a happy mood that they high-fived each other and celebrated.
The guards in the city looked at this similar scene, and their hearts were shocked and they couldn't even believe it: "Could it be that Your Majesty is also ......?"
In the evening, the duel between the two Saint Rank masters finally came to an end. The infrastructure madman still stood calmly, the captain of the personal guard lay on the ground panting, and the broken walls and gravel around him, the big craters and chasms, it can be seen that the battle between the two was fierce.
"Unexpectedly, your magic was not wasted at all because you started moving bricks?" the captain of the guard lay on the ground, unbelievable.
"Hmph! You ask this kind of question, which means that you are far from it. The infrastructure madman shook his head, "Alright, I won't kill you either." Kill you, and the balance of power in your country will be broken, and this will not be good for us. But if you're looking for death again, then don't blame me for being unkind. β
The captain of the guard gritted his teeth and got up, his body staggered a little, but he still admired: "Okay, in the case of thin elements, you still defeated me, I have nothing to say." β
"You will also calculate some paper strength, the elements are thin, I can save some clods of soil in the space ring first, what's so difficult about this. "Infrastructure maniacs disdain.
"But I still don't understand one thing," asked the captain of the guard, "why are you, as a great magister, willing to move bricks?"
"Your way of thinking is too backward," the infrastructure madman shook his head and sighed, "can't you think of architecture as a happy thing? Isn't this a kind of art? Instead of fighting all day long, it is better to leave something for future generations, you have a sense of accomplishment, civilians thank you, and the country thanks you. Why can't you figure it out when it's right? You have problems with your values, and it's a shame that you're a sword master. β
The captain of the guard looked embarrassed, and he was speechless when he was scolded, so he could only drag his tired body and bow his head and walk back.
When the wolves of the frozen capital came back from pursuit, it was already late at night. It seems that the battle has come to an end, but it is not. While the king of Lebzier was still in the wilderness, he was alone on his horse, and the guards sacrificed their lives to rescue him. But in the panic, everyone scattered and fled for their lives, but the king did not know the direction.
There are basically no landmarks in the wilderness, and as a king who came here for the first time, he suddenly got lost. They didn't dare to shout for fear of attracting enemies. He could only look at the sun and try to make his way, but after walking for a long time, the surrounding area was still a wilderness, the wound was always painful, and the king was anxious.
But until the sun went down, the king still couldn't find a single landmark. As the sun went down, it was even darker and colder. In a moment, the horses fell to their knees, and the king hurriedly rolled down to check, but the horses could not stand up again. The king had no choice but to leave his horse and walk on foot, and he was worried that those city lords and nobles would directly declare that they were dead, and then what would they do?
Fortunately, the king also has a space ring, which is fully prepared with water and food, so that he will not starve to death.
From dusk to midnight, the king finally found himself in circles, there is a slight difference in the pace of people's left and right feet, when the eyes can not judge, it is easy to go around in a big circle, which is why many desert Gobi people can get lost. In the darkness of the night, the king could see mainly the footprints he had walked.
In the second half of the night, the king rushed to the space ring to find some arrows, and inserted one at every interval, and by looking back to ensure that there was a line between three points and a line, he let himself go straight.
After a lot of hard work, until about dawn, I finally saw a faint light of fire in the distance. Looking at this fire, it should be a charcoal fire for heating, which means that someone is living there. The king was so excited that he hurried to the city.
But when I got closer, I couldn't help but feel cold, the funny sign on the door obviously represented that this was a small outpost in Lou Baole Country. The king stood at the door and secretly calculated that the other party might not know him, so he could pretend that he was a wounded nobleman and had lost his way to take refuge here. If he is recognized, he will have some strength, so that he will not even be able to defeat the small soldiers of Lou Baole Country.
After thinking about it, the king straightened his clothes, took off his black cloak and threw it aside. Then knock on the door with a smile: "Is anyone there?"
The door opened with a hula, and the king was startled, but when he saw that it was a person who looked like a little girl, he was a little relieved: "Girl, I am a merchant traveler, I have been injured a little, and I have been separated from my companions. Hope I can stay one night and I will definitely be thankful. β
"Business travel?" the other party was a little skeptical, but didn't seem to think much about it, "Then come in." β
"Thank you, the God of Creation will bless you," the king nodded in thanks, "by the way, I don't know what the girl's name is." β
The other party waved his hand: "Call me a frozen husky." β
The king was like being struck by lightning for a moment, his whole body was shocked, and he blurted out: "It turns out that you are the frozen husky!"