The art of war is cloudy, and the end of the strong crossbow cannot wear Lu Min.

The Holy See itself, nearly 2,500 miles from south to north and more than 1,700 miles from east to west, is the second only country on the continent of Eminole after the Amy Empire, with a total population of between 1,000 and 12 million according to incomplete statistics.

From the time Chi Aotian stepped on this blue sky and green grass land, a full three months have passed. In the past 100 days, the Black Dragon Knights have been like a violent beast that has burst into the boundless flock, passing all the way through a pool of blood, those who follow me live, and those who oppose me die, the Black Dragon Banner and the Flying Winged Rattlesnake Banner are invincible, and there is almost no one in front of the horse, and the sweat and blood iron cavalry mercenary regiment, known as the first mercenary group in Southern Xinjiang, and have two dragon knights who are ranked in the top 20 on the battle spirit list, also had to be defeated before leaving the dragon.

However, as time passed, as the war continued to move towards the infinite interior of the Flower Language Plain, the balance of the war tipped in favor of the Holy See little by little......

First of all, it is necessary to increase the combat effectiveness of the instructors. Except for Qifu City, which was really planted in the hands of the Black Dragon Knights, almost all of the more than 30 villages and towns in the other five major cities and towns were destroyed by the local people who were brought by the Black Dragon Knights, and the Holy See fell into deep reflection from top to bottom, why, which herdsmen who once only knew that they were submissive, were able to break out into such a powerful war force? Why, which professional soldiers that the Holy See had been training for about half a year were so inferior? After learning the hard way, the Holy See transferred three thousand people from the Fanos training camp to be responsible for training instructors, the Fanos orcs are far stronger than humans in terms of hardship and hard work, and the requirements for human soldiers are far stronger than manpower instructors, and there are at least three-digit recruits in the training camps in every city who die in training, but, in such cruel training, batch after batch of instructors really have the ability to fight.

Second, the Holy See's series of bloody repressive measures against villages and towns that provided houses for the rebels in the southern part of the Flower Language Plain were used as positive teaching materials to be hyped up within the Holy See. After hearing about the killing spree again and again, the local residents of the Holy See all realized one thing: if they stubbornly defend in the town, they will definitely be slaughtered by the Chi Aotian expeditionary army; however, if they are not slaughtered by this expeditionary force, then the Holy See will inevitably place the crime of collaborating with the enemy and completely eradicate it. In this case, a large area of uninhabited villages had already begun to appear within 100 miles of the possible route of Chi Aotian's army - civilians were crying and leaving their homes on the front foot, and there were instructors coming over on the back foot to burn them, so as to completely cut off the supply of Chi Aotian's expeditionary force.

Again, after more than two months of repair, especially after the replenishment of new recruits, at this time the army has been strong, and the combat power under his command has reached 45,000, originally, in the planning of the base camp, I hope that Mengton will play the role of Bian Zhuang, but what I didn't expect is that the 4000 iron army led by the iron hand barricade collapsed on the whole line in a few days, and the Chi Aotian army did not suffer any major injuries at all, in this case, the base camp will certainly not be stupid enough to first block the river with the iron hand and finally let Chi Aotian choose the cheapest situation, the original plan was quietly revised。 The Phanos officer, who had been on the periphery, quickly got in touch with the Grand Duke of the Iron Hand and provided him with the best camp and priesthood. Under this premise, Monton has sent several elite thousand-man teams to constantly haunt the vicinity of Chi Aotian, oppressing the area where Chi Aotian replenishes grain and grass.

Finally, religious jihad is often the cheapest and most effective means of propaganda for the Holy See, and groups of ordinary people are quickly armed by the Holy See, of course, many of them who have relatives died in the expeditionary force, who will take the simplest weapons and wait on the steppe to attack the lone expeditionary force, day and night seem to never stop.

After three days of repairs in Rhodes City, the expeditionary force continued to move forward, several senior officers clearly felt that the surroundings were full of strangeness, and the elves continued to see black smoke columns on the horizon, and when the team reached the bottom of the smoke columns, they found that they were burning villages in the wind, and the villages were empty, all the houses were burned, all the wells were filled and poisoned. In such a completely devastated town, there is certainly no need to expect to find food supplies.

On the first day it was found that there was nothing like this, and for five or six days in a row it was found exactly the same thing, and everyone in the expeditionary force understood what was happening. The elven knights then discovered several Phanos armies outside the range of the expeditionary force's attack, each of which was as many as a thousand people, and there were so many people who had already surfaced, so what about the ones that hadn't been revealed?

At night, after the 20,000 troops of the Black Dragon Knights were stationed, Chi Aotian convened an emergency meeting of all the senior officers. When Chi Aotian briefly said that the more than ten villages around him were empty, only the breathing of the soldiers could be heard in the huge tent.

What should we do? At present, the expeditionary force needs at least 200,000 catties of grain and grass for people to eat horses every day, and even if some of the forage can be replenished on the spot, then the grain needs about 50,000 catties. 50,000 catties a day, 10 days? 20 days? At least one million catties of grain are needed! The amount of grain that the expeditionary force can carry with them is only about 300,000 catties, and in the past period, every six days or so, the expeditionary force had to find a gathering point for villagers to replenish it.

If the enemy really empties all the villages within 100 miles of the expeditionary force, then there is really no food and grass to replenish, then, from now on, the soldiers must all start to eat meat, give the grain to the war horses, if the meat is finished, then only the slaughter of the war horses, the war horses are finished......

I heard that in similar wars before, there were soldiers who ate human flesh, alas...... Needless to say, there was such a case in the history of the war of the Black Dragon Knights, otherwise, there is one of the most well-known poems among the soldiers: "Laughing at Hulu meat, thirsty for sword blood, and looking for feudal marquis for thousands of miles", don't think that it is the coquettishness of literati and ink writers, that is a 100% fact! Even the famous Yue Wumu in ancient times also left: "Zhuangzhi is hungry for Hulu meat, and laughs and talks about thirsty for Hun blood." That is the true portrayal of the soldiers replenishing on the spot at that time.

In ancient legends, when the hussar general first went on an expedition to the Huayu Plain, at that time, due to the fact that human beings had not yet formed a large-scale war mechanism, the supply situation line was stretched to 1,000 miles, and there was no way to replenish it - send a cart of grain to the barracks, and at least 10 carts would be consumed on the road or even taken by the enemy. In this case, the hussar general had no choice but to order foraging on the spot, and after the local cattle and sheep had been eaten, the local inhabitants were killed, and then crushed with a war hammer, and some of them were dried on the roof of the chariot to make dried meat for later use; the other part was wrapped in clean grass leaves and placed under the saddle, and after the horses galloped for several hours, the heat emitted by the horse's body and the heat from the friction with the saddle would make the meat raw and cooked, and when they arrived at the camp, they could start eating after falling off the horse, saving the trouble of the firehead army. At that time, there was no fire head army, the weak ones had long been abandoned, and the strong ones were also transferred to the combat team.

In the summer of January, the Flower Language Plain, located in the subtropics, is already quite hot, and that's it...... A small breeze blew, and cold sweat flowed from the backs of all the officers who had graduated from the Imperial High Knight School. No wonder...... In the course of the High Knight School, the hussar general's eating of human flesh during the expedition was described, and the lecturers from the army commented very calmly on the inappropriateness of the hussar general's method of eating meat at that time - the meat was placed under the saddle, and a large amount of sweat flowed out of the human body and the horse's body, and this sweat dissolved into the meat and was evaporated by the heat, and this was repeated, so that the salt in the sweat was retained in the meat, so that the meat tasted very delicious even without salt. However, this practice is extremely unscientific, and sweat, especially that of herbivores such as horses, is slightly toxic - the grass that horses eat is more or less poisonous, and people will die if they eat these grasses. Under the careful brewing of this special condiment, this minced meat is slightly toxic, and many soldiers suffer from migraine and other occupational diseases.

To this day, these senior officers can still remember the homework assigned by the teacher after that lesson: "How to cook meat on a rapid march." Thinking of this, the officers all felt bitter in their mouths, and they glanced at each other's robes, and found that all of them were pale.

What was the standard answer at the time? Several officers couldn't remember it for a while. Alas...... What a failure...... There was a fever on the faces of the officers, but I heard that General Chi Changyun won the first place from the Junior Knight School, the Intermediate Knight School, and the Imperial Senior Knight School, I wonder if Chi Aotian also has such excellent results?

Several senior officers felt something float in front of them in a trance, and before they could react, one of them was slapped on the head, and his blue-green hairpin helmet was almost crooked: "What are you three doing? Do you want to be a daughter-in-law or are you thinking about how to join the enemy?"

The vicious words came out unscrupulously from the mouth of the super bright head that was reflecting the candlelight in front of him: "General Chi Er, you subordinates, you have to be careful, you see, you dream in the middle of the day, either you have a nervous problem, or you were overworked last night, and the kidney deficiency and internal fire are rising." ”

"Where did we do those things? We don't have ...... at all," one officer tried to explain.

"Hey...... I know that you nobles are all hypocritical on the surface, and you are all low-level and good-looking...... Kindness...... Of course, General Chiji, I don't include you when I say that. The old priest made a posture that there were no three hundred taels of silver here.

Several officers even looked at each other with a wry smile, among the original officers of the Black Dragon Knights, except for Qu Jianhong, who didn't sell Tayang's account much, everyone else was willing to bow down when they met this old priest. There is no way to do this, this old guy who should be in the coffin according to his age is extremely dexterous, and if he fights with his bare hands, this few officers may not be able to beat him, let alone the monster he summoned.

Qu Jianhong is still recuperating from his injuries, and since Qu Jianhong was injured, Ta Yang has been extremely concerned and has been visiting him twice in three days, although the words that come out of his mouth are nothing more than "You are not dead yet." "Damn, good people don't live long, and they will be a scourge for 1,000 years. "Millennial King Eighth, 10,000-year-old turtle, your kid seems to have the physique to live for 10,000 years." Wait, but anyone can feel the concern hidden in Ta Yang's cold words, and now, Qu Jianhong saw Ta Yang, and his attitude obviously changed a little. Alas...... This doesn't mean that there will be no backstage for the officers in the future, the key is that in the future, if the two of them are embarrassed, wouldn't there be another ...... in the famous aristocratic family in the Tongyunguan War Zone? cough, cough...... Why do you say again?

"You bunch of waste snacks, you can't fight, you can't use your brains, you can tell me, what else can you do?" The spitting stars flew around Tayan's mouth, and the three officers really had nothing to say. Tayan still has an advantage, if the other party is obviously soft, then Tayan will generally not continue to bully the past, according to Tayang's own words: "Not with the juniors." ”

Immediately, Ta Yang returned to his seat and patted the table: "Fortunately, there are still talented and learned people like me in the expeditionary force, if these bastards of the Holy See continue to blockade like this, the solution is not completely ......."

"Is it possible that the military advisor should also ......" Several senior officers at the same time remembered the old priest's previous deeds, and with everyone's understanding of him, they ate people...... It doesn't seem like a fact that's too unacceptable. Perhaps, this guy is still regretting why he didn't pickle all the corpses in the previous war. All three officers felt something tugging at the depths of their nerves.