Chapter 70: The Fall of Delhi

The speed of the battle for Delhi shocked the senior military officers of the countries at the time, and some said that the battle, which lasted only ten minutes, opened up a whole new era of warfare.

On the night of March 25, the fifth year of the magic calendar, the red moon slipped silently through the clouds. In the spring of the Flower Language Plain, the rainy season will quickly begin, the clouds in the sky are getting thicker and thicker, the air pressure is very low, and the soldiers can even clearly see the faint water vapor condensing into tiny water droplets on their metal armor. Visibility is not very good.

Every half hour, the soldiers defending the city will shoot several rockets in all directions to make sure that there will be no sneak attackers under the city. The news of the massacre in Gifu City is no longer a secret, in the eyes of the soldiers who have been temporarily recruited, the soldiers of the Black Dragon Knights have been equated with demons, and no matter how lazy the soldiers are, a chill continues to rise in their hearts, and everyone trembles under the pressure of life and death.

It's a pity that everyone ignored the top of their heads.

Of course, from a practical point of view, even if the soldiers defending the city were very serious about defending the sky - the result was similar, and the human eye could see far more than the elves in the middle of the night.

In this way, the devil's idea of warfare was put forward by the person closest to the devil.

At the battle meeting against the city of Derry, the chaplain once again exceeded his remit. He categorically rejected His Excellency Chi Aotian's idea of using the allies to storm Delhi, and he didn't pay any attention to His Excellency General's face, and unceremoniously used a series of words such as stupid pig and stupid person in his words.

Fortunately, although Chi Aotian is extremely cold, he is extremely quick to accept good opinions, and this young man is not a person without bearing, and he is quite able to distinguish the difference between malicious attacks and well-intentioned criticism.

Long before the military council, the chaplain had drawn 10 indigenous people from the Allied army and asked them to draw a plan of the city of Delhi, with a focus on the castle and the cathedral. Repeatedly comparing 10 maps that are more or less the same, the exact location of several targets was finally confirmed.

Lord Tayan's idea was simple - to concentrate the elite soldiers of the Black Dragon Knights and raid the castle and cathedral in the second half of the night, which, if successful, would turn the city into the largest supply base for the expeditionary force. If it fails, then bypass Delhi and continue to advance deep into the steppe, there is no need to expend too much energy and blood for the sake of this city that has no strategic significance. If you just think about pushing the aura of terror into the hearts of the inhabitants of the Holy See, the slaughter of a large city and the slaughter of 10 small towns will be the same.

The characters who entered Tayang's plan are as follows: Chi Aotian, Qu Jianhong, Qingluo, etc., as well as all the phantom beast knights, all the elven archers, for the expeditionary force, such a surprise attack team can be said to concentrate more than eighty percent of the elite.

"Your Excellency...... Aren't you going to participate in this operation?" Before setting off for the expedition, Qu Jianhong asked seemingly casually at the moment when he pulled off his mask.

"Hehe......" The old dishonored man didn't seem to hear the sarcasm in his words at all: "When did you see the most important character rushing to the enemy to slash and slash, and ...... In the unlikely event that you all die in battle, I will command the remaining soldiers to surrender to the Holy See with dignity. Tayan had a vengeful smile on his face.

In a word, the handsome face under the mask of His Excellency Qu Jianhong turned red. The most shameless person in history, but that's it.

The sneak attackers were divided into two teams, His Excellency Chi Aotian led three Phantom Beast Knights and 150 Vulture Elf Archers to raid the City Guard, while Qingluo and Qu Jianhong took the remaining Phantom Beast Knights and Vulture Archers to raid the Cathedral.

The other two captains led the other soldiers into action at nightfall, sneaking five miles outside of Delhi - the war here was in charge of Chang Qing, the commander of the Vulture Swordsman Battalion of the Little Mercenary Regiment, who had participated in the attack and defense of Hamburg and had similar experience in warfare.

The number of soldiers in the castle guard is twice as large as usual, but in terms of combat effectiveness, it has decreased. The city guards of ordinary cities have a direct army of about 100 people, and their combat power is much higher than that of ordinary swordsman battalions. During the Great War, His Excellency promoted most of the elite soldiers to officers, sent them to the city walls or commanded the people, and in addition, the three bishops also selected more than a dozen brave men from them for safety.

The elves attacked at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, and after the battle of Hamburg, the elves have mastered the secret of night fighting. The deep darkness of the night completely engulfed the green arrow feathers, and all the sentries on the ground of the castle guard, each of them were hit by at least three arrows in the first wave of arrows, and fell to the ground in a state of exhaustion - not even a warning signal could be issued.

Chi Aotian and the three Phantom Beast Knights led their mounts down, and more vulture archers also quietly fell. At low altitude, when the dragon was about to land rapidly, the crackling sound of its wings tearing through the air almost resounded through the heavens and the earth. Such a loud noise, of course, alarmed the sleeping guards of the castle guard's mansion, including the castle guard.

The inexperienced swordsmen of the city guard hurriedly pushed open the barracks gate without even putting on their leather armor, and the arrows that were fired from the opposite wall slashed straight at them, and the elves fired at a short distance at a very fast speed, and the short arrows continuously pierced through the unarmored flesh of many swordsmen, and nailed to the wall with the flesh scraps.

General Hughes had not yet slept, and was studying the loopholes in the defense of the city wall with several subordinates, as soon as the screams sounded, General Hughes immediately blew out the oil lamp on the table, sweat instantly slipped from the general's forehead, and in just two breaths, Hughes had already guessed what was happening-many times, one mistake and all the games were lost...... The thought was already beating.

A cold and flat voice came from outside the courtyard: "Fight, still, surrender." ”

Although I have never met this person, according to the information from the Fanos military, on the imperial side, only this person can shorten the question into four words, and there is also this person who will turn the question into an confessional statement in such a flat tone.

The squadron leader of the Phantom Beast Knight next to the black-clothed boy lit two torches, kicked open the window, and threw them in, the flames devouring everything that could be ignited, and thick smoke billowed out of the window. The people in the room could not stay any longer, and the six officers fled from the house coughing.

"Your Excellency! To be honest, for the actions of the Black Dragon Knights in recent days, as a soldier, as a person with a knightly title, Ben Jue deeply despises it. Xius recognized Chi Aotian at a glance, such a person was too distinctive, and in the middle of the night, the majestic body that exuded a breath of death stood like a black mountain.

"Yes. Passing the award is nothing more than a serious study from His Majesty the Pope. Chi Aotian taunted the noble and righteous Holy See in his own way, and drew his big sword from his back.

Hughes was speechless, he never dreamed that the Holy See would conquer Scambrae, and the bishops added countless embellishments to that battle, of course, all the words and strategies of the sneak attack had been completely erased, and it had completely turned into a frontal attack by the righteous against the evil. But as a professional soldier, how could he not know the gap between the Imperial Army and the Holy See's Catholics, if ...... Without the use of some means that do not see the light, it is impossible to defeat such top soldiers as the Colorful Dragon Knights and the Praetorian Guard of the Amy Empire in any case.

"Retreat, my lord!" The two subordinates pulled out their long swords from their waists, one left and one right, and the snow-white long sword shook a series of tiny lightning flowers in the night sky.

"Be careful!" Xiusi immediately remembered the previous introduction about Chi Aotian, the brave man who was able to defeat Xiang Tian, and even slaughtered two giant dragons in a row, reminding his subordinates in surprise.

Chi Aotian's grasp of the long sword is much more accurate than any language, the shield in his left hand pushed away the stabbing sword on the left side, and he rotated his body violently, and the Xinghan long sword in his right hand drew a two-meter semicircle, half stabbing and half slashing enveloped everything in front of him, the officer in his right hand obviously did not know or forgot the story of Xinghan's long sword, the stabbing sword blocked obliquely, Xinghan's dazzling light instantly swallowed the lightning flower, and half of the sword body fell to the ground suddenly, jingling and bounced on the stone slab. The young officer was stunned for a moment, watching the snowy long sword seem to have no body and swept over his body, and after a moment, a blood line suddenly appeared under the bright pupils, and the officer wanted to raise his weapon, but the whole body lost its balance and fell stiffly, half of his head rolled on the ground like a cut coconut shell - the sword just now cut off the soldier's head at a very fast speed, and the white brain and blood slowly flowed out, and the body that was instantly destroyed the brain nerves was driven by the central nervous system, and subconsciously crawled forward for more than two meters, and the white and red liquid pulled out a long line......

The young officer on the left hand turned pale, trembling and throwing his long sword on the ground, covering his mouth and spitting it out.

At this moment, several phantom beast knights and vulture archers appeared on the south wall again, and in a long smile, several big heads were thrown in: "General Chi, fortunately, I have brought the heads of all the middle and senior priests." "In the darkness of the night, a knight with a skeleton painted on his face led the sitting dragon to the ground with a roar.

You don't have to look at their faces, you can already recognize their identities from the half-swept back hair on the top of the skull on the ground.

The priests who have been serving in the Holy See are not mercenaries and soldiers, and have little experience in confrontation. Just now, several senior pastors heard the alarm outside, and thought it was a crowd* , Didn't realize that the enemy who had not yet met had crossed a distance of nearly a hundred miles and broke into the city in one fell swoop, the priests asked the comer in a lofty tone while pushing the door, Qu Jianhong led the mount dragon and jumped down from the roof, the two-handed war hammer smashed on the bishop's back with the sound of the wind, the sharp tip of the hammer instantly pierced the weak body and leaked out of the chest, the huge claws of the earth walking dragon habitually destroyed all the objects that could be destroyed in front of him, and the head of another bishop was scratched to the ground by sharp claws.

It was only then that the last bishop remembered the chanting mantra: "O God of heaven......"

Cough...... Even Qing Luo, who was on guard with a bow in the distance, didn't know what to say. When has it been since this kind of large-scale magic has been sung, and it turned out to be offensive magic...... I really don't know how these priests used to fight. Of course, His Excellency Qingluo did not know that these bishops, gentlemen, had never participated in any war.

Once again, the warhammer slammed the last survivor against the wall, blood painting the white walls of the church in the shape of a red human.

Seeing the heads of the three bishops rolling on the ground like leather balls, everyone in the castle guard couldn't help but hold their breath.

"Your Excellency, if we don't surrender again, we'll kill them from here, and set a few fires by the way, and I'll see how the army and the people who have lost their officers react, and maybe some god will really come out to help them." In that case, Derry City will be as famous as Gifu City, but Gifu City seems to have a larger population, so Derry City should be in second place or even lower. The malicious meaning attached to His Excellency Qu Jianhong's ill-intentioned question, everyone understood.

"Order the troops directly under the city guard to surrender to the army led by His Excellency Chi Aotian, and no one is allowed to resist, otherwise there will be no mercy. General Hughes was bitter in every word.

"Yes...... Your Excellency...... "A middle-aged officer threw down the long sword in his hand and strode out from the officers of the Black Dragon Knights.

Xiusi bowed to Chi Aotian very respectfully: "Xia Guan has been in the southern military career of the Holy See for 17 years, and he has always admired the Chi family and the Black Dragon Knights, and this time, Your Excellency and your family really gave me a big surprise. The humble tone was clearly heartfelt.

"You're welcome, it's just a soldier's duty. Chi Aotian's attitude suddenly became modest.

It looked like two friendly officers were handing over the defensive ground.

"Your Excellency's killing...... Especially for civilians, it is really against the ...... of the military" The old officer looked up at his young opponent.

The expression on Chi Aotian's face did not change in the slightest, and he pondered for a moment: "You don't have the right to ask me like that...... Of all that I have done, the Holy See and the Phanos have only done more. I will not stop, for the conquest of a country, there are only two ways, either spirit or force, I am not the Holy See, I am a soldier, I use my own means to take revenge. Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me perish. There is no need to take out those benevolence, righteousness and reason to reason, the biggest truth in the world is - killing people pays for life. At least, I didn't deliberately kill any civilians, at least I let 10 people go to report the news, and if I didn't know to surrender or flee, I deserved to die. I have only one goal, the Holy See will hand over the Pope and all the clergy who participated in the bloody night of the imperial capital and dissolve it automatically, and I will stop. Otherwise, no matter how many people die, don't blame. ”

Is such a thing possible? Based on the previous experience of several Holy See officers, there is no hope at all.

"Alas...... Retribution...... I sincerely wish your Excellency prosperity and prosperity. Hughes' tall body bowed deeply again.

The middle-aged man's bulging shoulders hung down in a low sigh, and as he turned around, he took off the blue feather feather's helmet and bent down on the ground, his long hair instantly fell over his broad shoulders, and a pair of white gloves were removed from his hands, wrapped in a long stabbing sword, and placed on the helmet.

In the skyrocketing firelight, the former Delhi city guard held the scabbard obliquely in his right hand, pushed open the gate that had been licked by the flames with his left hand, and his tall body shook into the gate, and his hair flew in the heat wave and instantly turned into tongues of fire, and the wooden door was then carefully closed, and the scabbard was stuck in the position of the door latch. A strange smell instantly rushed into the nose of everyone in the yard with the heat wave.

"General—" Tears welled up in the eyes of the last three officers of Derry, and they fell to one knee, their right hand clasped their left chest at the same time, and their proud heads were buried deeply.