Norton has realized that he may have passed up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but it would certainly not be wise for a star player to gamble on what appears to be an opportunity that could lead to a total rout. Therefore, Norton's retreat did not hesitate at all. In the middle of the night, Norton commanded the spearmen, the bearmen and the centaur archers to pin down the enemy in turn, covering the werewolf soldiers first, and once the enemy followed the attack, these werewolf soldiers in the rear would be outflanked from both flanks.

Looking at the tens of thousands of knights of the Aotian Expeditionary Force in the distance, slowly reining in the attack, Norton let out a long sigh and waved his hand, pushing all the centaur archers to the front, scattering and retreating north.

In the wee hours of the morning, for the first time in several days, the Norton Legion was truly encamped, and most of the soldiers were so tired that they didn't even have the strength to fight in their tents.

Norton washed his face in the icy river water, ordered his battalion of guards to patrol the camp, and then immediately sent someone to find the orc soldiers who had struck the war hammer in Qu Jianhong's hand at night. This task is not difficult, the total number of bears and orcs under Norton's command is less than 1,500, and Norton has disorganized them into the original team of 1,000 people, and a ten-long subordinate is also assigned one or two recruits, and it is impossible not to remember.

Sure enough, less than 10 minutes after the guards went out, they walked in with a bear soldier.

His Excellency the General glanced at the recruit coldly, he still looked like a child.

The young man had obvious tiredness on his face, his eyes fluttering with uneasiness, and even a little helpless.

Norton knew that the most bitter thing in every long-distance attack was the bear-man soldiers, who were inherently incomparable, and every step seemed to be big, but in fact consumed more physical strength. The general's heart softened: "You sit down and talk." ”

"Yes!" the young bearman was not very polite and sat down immediately.

Norton had just thought of this, and the bear-man boy was already snoring lightly as he leaned against the bar.

Alas...... Norton shook his head slightly, no matter what, this should be the descendant of an expeditionary soldier, let him rest and rest, casually draped a thick blanket over the young man, Norton began to patrol the camp with his personal guards...... This has just attacked someone, don't be attacked by someone again.

The red sun jumped up little by little from the southeast, not knowing when the other troops led by Monton would come, and the one-armed general involuntarily turned to look west.

At this moment, the white clouds in the western sky were suddenly dressed in red glow, and after a few breaths, the red clouds were swept by a hurricane above the nine heavens, suddenly spinning, and then scattering.

Dragon? Or Dragon Knight?

If it's a dragon knight, looking at the changing colors of the clouds, it's probably the two sweaty and bloody iron riders, right? For these mercenaries, Norton still has very complicated feelings. Unexpectedly, a protracted war would eventually turn into a mercenary war, and mercenaries could be seen at every critical moment.

In the eyes of the half-orc officers, the quality of the mercenaries is uneven, it is also an A-level mercenary group, and the performance of the small mercenary group is of course the most tenacious; You must know that this leader is the 14th strongest man on the battle spirit list, once he escapes, the Xuanqing Dragon Mercenary Group will definitely be torn apart, fortunately, Xiuda, Bi and other two dragon knights entangled him, and finally Arminisia was killed by random arrows; This time to intercept the Chi Aotian Expeditionary Force, it stands to reason that thousands of people fell under the iron hooves of the expeditionary force, and the two troops were also as deep as the sea, and they did not expect that they would not say a word at the military meeting.

Just as he was thinking, a red dragon broke through the clouds and roared down. The dragon knight's eyes are very good, and he spotted Norton in the sky, and then he fell to the ground.

"General Norton, you have been fighting for days and days, catching up with the Chi bandits in one fell swoop, Your Excellency is really worthy of being a model for our warriors. The dragon knight lifted his face and saluted the orc general very respectfully.

"Deputy Head Hanhan, how did you get here?" Norton nodded.

"Your Excellency, the commander of the regiment personally led a team of four thousand men only 120 miles from here, and will arrive here this afternoon at the latest. As he spoke, Han Han took a step closer to Norton, and his voice became a little quieter: "This time to intercept the Chi Aotian Legion, we did not take the initiative to take over this task, it is really an unspeakable hardship, the Grand Duke, please forgive me." ”

Norton didn't show it on his face, but he sighed in his heart, in the war, the most taboo thing is that there are many factions, generals support their own troops, and blindly preserve their strength.

"Your Excellency, needless to say, I am here waiting for His Excellency the Grand Duke to come. You and the Grand Duke said that I would hand over the supreme command here. ”

"Yes, I hope to work with you. With that, Han Han stepped onto the dragon and quickly disappeared into the clouds.

When Norton returned to his tent, there were already guards who had awakened the young bears - the natives of the Phanos continent did have similar habits to wild beasts, and they often slept a lot a day, but each time they slept for a little longer, or 10 minutes or 30 minutes at most an hour.

"Who is your father?" Norton thought carefully, and already had a feeling.

"I ......" the young bear man opened his mouth, before the words were spoken, the big tears had already burst out, back then, Du Qilie was the first of the four generals of the Western Expedition, Norton couldn't compare with it at all, I couldn't imagine that there would be such a scene today: "My father is Du Qilie......"

The choked and low voice of the young bear man startled Norton to stand up from his chair, the battle of Xilin Island, all of them died tragically, Norton was seriously injured, and later, I heard that the 9,000-man team was revoked for some reason, and several thousand commanders were dissatisfied with the practice of the expeditionary force headquarters, and vaguely heard that the retired soldiers of the 9,000-man team were discriminated against, but unfortunately the war continued later, and everyone including the marshal did not have time to pay attention to this matter.

Listening to the child in front of him telling his story incoherently, Norton did feel a little ashamed, the attack and defense of Xilin Island, if he successfully conquered Xilin Island on the first night, then Du Qilie would not have died in battle, if he did not die, he might have already become a senior officer at the level of commander. Where does such a young child need to wash away the shame of his father?

"Child, I'm not much older than you, it's just that I am a colleague with your father, so I call you a child, I hope you don't mind. You don't need to wash your dad for anything, he's one of the best soldiers in our Western Expeditionary Corps, and so are you. You don't have to stay here long, and after this battle is over, I will arrange for you to take up your post with His Excellency Marshal Dahaino. Well, you fought bravely last night, and you were promoted to the rank of 100 people, and I am sure that you will not disgrace your father's reputation. Norton said very sincerely, and he believed that the other two thousand commanders of the former Western Expeditionary Army would also do the same for his former robes.

"Thank you, Captain!" the young bear man wandered out a lot, and he was a little more sophisticated than his father.

"Well, no need, you deserve it yourself, you should be the captain of my personal guard, and now go down and change your clothes. Norton could see that this young man was an excellent billet, and he should be stronger than his father, and if it weren't for the fact that Dahaino had a wider world and could systematically learn how to use soldiers, Norton would have been reluctant to let him go.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the scout suddenly came to report that an hour earlier, Chi Aotian's army had set up camp and then marched northeast.

Could it be that the enemy dares to cross the Sicilian River under his nose? No, right? Chi Aotian could not make such a low-level mistake under any circumstances, this is the beginning of summer, it is the beginning of the rainy season in the Huayu Plain, the Sicilian River is 3,000 meters wide, the current is turbulent, and there is no need to build any pontoon bridges. Although the opponent has 20,000 soldiers, once they start to cross the river, there will inevitably be fewer and fewer soldiers on this side of the river, and when there are only 3,500 men left, won't that be a prey for themselves? Could it be that the enemy wants to throw away the car to protect the commander? No, this is the most taboo thing for an officer! It is impossible for the enemy to adopt this method.

Don't...... The enemy wants to fight against the water? Soldier Saint Han Xin has such a method of warfare, but at this time and then, tens of thousands of troops on the Huayu Plain are constantly coming, if Chi Aotian really dares to put himself on such a Jedi, how can he resist the impact of tens of thousands of troops with a tired journey?

Several thousand-person commanders also knew about this, and they were all waiting for the regiment commander's order outside the tent, watching their regiment commander rubbing his temples repeatedly in the room: "When did the regiment commander start to be indecisive too?"

"Is there a way we can cross the Sicilian River in one day?" said Norton, stepping out of the tent.

Crossing the river in one day, a few thousand people were stunned.

"Legionnaire, the Sicilian River is 12 meters deep, and even a centaur warrior who is proficient in water cannot pass through it so quickly!" Norton didn't like his subordinates who didn't have an opinion, and immediately a thousand commanders stood up and answered categorically.

"Unless, Legion Commander, unless I have an army of snake men, they are the only ones who can cross the river in a day as they walk on the water. Another thousand-man leader made bold assumptions.

Snake troops? This is the same as not saying, there is indeed such a clan on the Phanos continent, but the combat effectiveness is basically at the same level as the werewolves, and they are naturally obscene and promiscuous, and they are disobedient and like revenge, so no officer will choose them as their subordinates.

Norton suddenly caught a key word, and his brows instantly converged like a mountain! The one-armed general paced and repeated these four words several times in his mouth.

That's right, when I was on Xilin Island, it was in such a rainy season, and it was in the face of such a wide river, and it was this army that really broke through the eternal dangers on that river!

After the attack and defense of Xilin Island, Dahaino specially invited an ice mage to teach a lesson to the thousands of people under his command, and in that class, the magician turned a small pond into an ice cube like an iron magnet in front of many thousand people.

Don't...... Last time, that magister came to Chi Aotian's legion again, and was ready to use the same magic again......

Norton had a rare look of anxiety on his face. If this is really the case, with such a huge disparity in strength, the Third Legion will definitely not be able to stop the 20,000 tiger and wolf army in front of them, and, more importantly, on such a cold night, the combat power of the orc soldiers from the tropics will be greatly reduced.

Norton immediately made a decision, and immediately left a team of 100 to report the matter to the Sweat and Blood Mercenary Group that was brought in later, and repeatedly emphasized that the Sweat and Blood Mercenary Group should send at least one Phantom Beast Knight to inform the Commander of Monton about the matter.

"Pass my order, all soldiers, except for weapons, bring only one day's food, and everything else is to be discarded on the spot and ready to go!

Under Norton's cold order, the Third Army of the Western Expeditionary Army rested for less than three hours and hurriedly embarked on a new journey.