The valley was bleak, the air smelled of blood, and a flock of crows landed on the corpses with unpleasant cries.

The army of three million Protoss, plus 300,000 reinforcements, finally broke through alive less than 500,000 people.

In addition to the corpses of the Protoss, there were hundreds of thousands of corpses of fierce beasts in the small valley, which fell to the ground in all directions, silently telling the cruelty of war.

Lei Shaoyuan led the second command to stand on the high ground in the east, everyone's expressions were heavy, it had been more than ten minutes since they stood here, but no one spoke.

The victory turned into a fiasco in the end, and the blood of 2.8 million children of the Protoss was spilled on the battlefield.

Whose account should this be reckoned with?

In Ye Yunyang's opinion, it should be the Alliance Elders who are responsible for this, because the counteroffensive order was issued by them, and the time and plan for action were also formulated by them, so a reasonable explanation must be given.

However, the four Great Elders did not even show their faces, and they also tried their best to cover up the facts, not allowing the returning personnel of the Air Force to leak the information to anyone, obviously not wanting to be responsible.

In this regard, Ye Yunyang scoffed.

Paper will never be able to contain the fire, and the inhabitants of the whole city know the plan of action of the army, and they are all waiting for the news of victory, how long can it be delayed?

Of the 500,000 people who managed to break through, the vast majority suffered injuries of varying severity.

Lei Shaoyuan really couldn't stand it anymore, waved his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Go back to the city and wait for the instructions of the four elders." ”

In the city, the atmosphere was a little strange, the people were all happy, waiting to celebrate the victory, and the people of the presbytery had a sad expression, and from time to time someone showed a wry smile.

Lei Shaoyuan called Ye Yunyang and walked into the gate of the Elders' House together.

From the very beginning, Ye Yunyang suspected that the beasts had a conspiracy, and proposed it in front of Lei Shaoyuan several times, although Lei Shaoyuan reported to the top, but because he didn't believe it, how could he convince others.

The old man felt that he was responsible, and he had to take the initiative to admit his mistakes to the Great Elders.

"Dean Lei, just say that you don't know anything, and I haven't said anything. After Ye Yunyang turned a corridor, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one here, he lowered his voice and said, "It is necessary for us to unify our voices, no matter who asks, we must say so." ”

Lei Shaoyuan glared: "Why? You obviously found the clue, and I am responsible for not reporting it, and continuing to conceal it can only add to mistake." ”

"Telling the truth is a big mistake. Ye Yunyang said with a straight face: "The counteroffensive plan was formulated by the four elders, everyone feels that this battle will undoubtedly be won, and such a result is bound to make people disappointed, the four elders are worried that they can't find a scapegoat, you and I hand over our heads at this time, and people feel embarrassed if they don't cut it." ”

Lei Shaoyuan's brows twisted into a pimple, he thought about it relatively simply, one was to admit his mistakes to the four elders, and the other was to fight for a reward for Ye Yunyang, after all, he was the only one who could see the clues.

But after listening to Ye Yunyang's analysis, he realized that things were not so simple.

Indeed, after such a big defeat, the Council of Elders must explain to everyone, and someone must stand up and shoulder the responsibility for the defeat. To put it more seriously, the entire Air Force couldn't escape the involvement, because they were in charge of the reconnaissance mission, so why didn't they find out that this was a conspiracy?

Not discovering the conspiracy is already a big crime, and now it is found and not reported, and it is even more of a crime.

At that time, Lei Shaoyuan didn't even have a chance to confess, you said that you reported it, but you failed to attract the attention of the upper echelons, and the guilt was greater than concealment.

"But, after all, I mentioned this matter to some people, and the four elders asked, what should I say?" Lei Shaoyuan's forehead was covered with sweat.

Ye Yunyang smiled indifferently: "It's simple, just say it's my own guess, I think I should be careful, but after all, I am soft-spoken, so I just mentioned it and didn't continue to insist." ”

Lei Shaoyuan took a deep breath: "This can only be the case, after all, there was no basis at that time, and the four elders could not punish me for such unwarranted worries." ”

The two of them spoke in unison and continued to walk forward until they came to Elder Zhao's office.

Elder Zhao's face was ugly, and he hadn't figured out how to explain it to the people until now, calling Lei Shaoyuan and Ye Yunyang over was just a routine matter.

Sure enough, after a few words, he asked Lei Shaoyuan what was going on before.

Lei Shaoyuan smoothly prevaricated in the past, and in order to prevent Elder Zhao from getting entangled in this matter, Ye Yunyang took the initiative to speak: "Elder Zhao, I think the most important thing now is to immediately organize a large-scale counterattack, make the momentum bigger, let the whole city know, and then announce the news of the victory." ”

"How can we return victoriously, there are less than 500,000 people left, and everyone is not stupid, how can we fool the past?" said Elder Zhao a little angrily.

Ye Yunyang smiled: "A tragic victory is also a victory, as long as we win in the end, what can we do if we die?

Elder Zhao involuntarily stood up, walked back and forth behind the Taipan table twice, raised his head and said, "What you said makes sense, a miserable victory is also a victory, it mainly depends on what we say, the Elders Council ordered this battle to be won, who dares to doubt it!"

But the question arises again, how to do this.

Ye Yunyang raised a finger: "It's very simple, send all the medium-sized flying wings, fully loaded with incendiary bombs to bombard the nest of the beasts, and the remaining individual flying wings are responsible for escorting, return immediately after completing the bomb dropping, load the incendiary bombs and set off again, repeat it several times in a row, it is logical." ”

Elder Zhao slapped the table happily: "Good idea!" Yun Yang is quick thinking, and he is the chief instructor and ace pilot of the Air Combat Team, you are personally responsible for this mission, and the formulation of the action plan is also a person's final say, and the elders will not ask about the process, as long as the result." ”

Ye Yunyang smiled and nodded: "The juniors must live up to their mission." ”

Elder Zhao happily walked around two more times and said, "Okay, you guys go back immediately to arrange this matter, Elder Ben hopes to see the fleet flying through the air within half an hour." ”

Walking out of the gate of the Elders' House, Lei Shaoyuan said with some concern: "How can it be possible to lead a fleet to set off within half an hour! Just giving the take-off order to the pilots stationed at the four take-off and landing fields will take more than ten minutes, and it will take more than an hour to move the incendiary bombs out of the warehouse, and then debug and load, and Elder Zhao is a little difficult. ”

"It's not difficult at all. Ye Yunyang said with a smile: "What he said just now was that he hoped to see the flying wings flying over here within half an hour, of course the loading of the entire fleet could not be completed in such a short time, but it was no problem to take off dozens of planes, and a turn here would be considered to complete the task." ”

Lei Shaoyuan gave a thumbs up and said sincerely: "Young man, your brain is fast!"

Twenty minutes later, sixty-four flying wings loaded with incendiary bombs skimmed over the Elders' House, and Elder Zhao, who was standing at the window, smiled and ordered his staff to start writing the news of the defeat of the beast, ready to release it at any time.

The first flying wings waited in the air outside the city for a full hour, and the second echelon and the escort fleet arrived one after another, and they formed a formation and flew to the south.

After the Battle of the Valley, more than 500,000 beasts retreated to a distance of 100 miles, and it was not clear what their purpose was.

In order to reduce casualties, Ye Yunyang ordered the fleet to rise to an altitude of 2,000 meters, and the most powerful beasts in the air could only climb to an altitude of 1,600 meters.

600 flying wings dropped 20,000 incendiary bombs, covering an area of more than 10 miles, and suddenly there was a sea of fire.

Before the fleet departed, Lei Shaoyuan, according to Ye Yunyang's request, sent people to make a big announcement in the city, saying that the fleet was going to bomb the lair of the beasts to lay the foundation for the final victory.

After the bomb was dropped, the fleet did not make any stops, and even bothered to do the statistics of the battle results, and directly returned to the sea with all its members.

After arriving over the city, the individual wings remained in the air to carry out the alert mission, and the medium-sized wings landed in order, loaded with incendiary bombs and rose into the air.

When they flew over the beast's nest for the second time, the fire had already been extinguished, and everyone was surprised to find that there was not a single beast below.

"Yun Yang, where are the beasts?" asked Li Hao with a glare.

"I don't know, have they all run away?" Ye Yunyang was also puzzled, and said to Mei Yu, who led the individual flying wings: "Let the three flying wings go down and have a look, the idea is safe." ”

Mei Yu personally led the team, and the three flying wings swooped down.

Soon, her voice rang out over the intercom: "The ground is full of beast footprints, heading in all directions, messy, almost certain that they have really fled this time." ”

Li Hao felt incredible: "One round of incendiary bombs will all run away? I knew that this was the case, there was no need for three million troops to go out of the city, so we just bombarded them away." Yunyang, let's go back here?"

"Of course not. Ye Yunyang refused without thinking, and said: "Going out of the city with great fanfare, everyone knows the mission of the fleet, if you go back with incendiary bombs, won't you slap yourself in the face." ”

"What then, there's nothing down there. Li Hao didn't know what he meant.

He smiled: "Nothing is better, all medium-sized flying wing pilots obey the order and throw all the incendiary bombs down, and whoever dares to disobey the order will be severely punished." ”

Everyone is dumbfounded, isn't this a waste!

However, since the commander had given the order, no one dared to disobey, and although they were a little unwilling, everyone still dropped incendiary bombs, and once again turned the area into a sea of fire.

In the city, many people stood on the dilapidated city walls, looking this way with binoculars in their hands, and because they were three or four hundred miles apart, they could only see a slight flash of fire, plus black smoke rising into the sky.

But even this was enough to make them excited, for just a quarter of an hour earlier the Council of Elders had issued a victory decree, saying that the previous bombardment had achieved great results, that the beasts had been killed or wounded, that the victorious army was returning to the city, and that everyone should be prepared to welcome them.

At the same time, Ye Yunyang sent all the individual wings to scatter to investigate, and the final conclusion was that no beasts were found on the ground within a radius of 100 miles, and no beasts were found in the air within 600 miles.

This is strange, the group of beasts that were desperate with the Protoss a few hours ago disappeared without a trace in an instant, what is the situation?