Section IV
As a result, I couldn't control anything. I don't know who shouted: "Run for your life!" Suddenly, tens of thousands of people dispersed, and we wanted to intercept it, but where could we stop it, but let them break our queue as well. There were torches everywhere, there were fleeing crowds everywhere, the soldiers lost their weapons and equipment, and took off their uniforms as they ran, and the groups were in ruins, and they refused to turn back even when General Busen shouted that his throat was broken. After the middle camp, the left battalion, the right battalion, and the rear army all began to flee in large numbers, and the collapse was like a flash flood and tsunami, which could not be stopped.
Master Busen's face turned white, and he immediately said, "Providence! The Far East is finished!" He immediately pulled out his knife and tried to cut his neck, and several of us quickly rushed up and grabbed the knife. Our team leader, Chief Dekun, said, "My lord, take responsibility, we still have hope, and His Royal Highness the King of Light!"
Chief Buson stared at him blankly, but said nothing. He led his personal guards straight to the direction of the demons, and shouted, "It's a good man who accompanies me to kill the demons!" Some people rushed after him, and we wanted to rush with him at that time, but Chief Dekun stopped us. He said that Lord Busen was just doing his best to cover our retreat, and the army was defeated, and now there is nothing to do, and the only one who can save us is the King of Light. He divided us into a dozen squads and came to your Highness for help. If you haven't gotten the news now, Your Highness, then we are the first to arrive, and the other teams are probably unlucky.
Your Highness, our people have been slaughtered all over the field, and Ling Buxu's men and horses are chasing and killing them tightly! Your Highness, save us, save the Far East!"
The soldier was crying as he spoke. The other soldiers all knelt down on the road, knocked their heads to the ground desperately, and cried loudly: "Your Highness, save the Far East! We should not turn our backs on you, we are guilty of great sins, but for the sake of the Far East, save the army!"
"So, is it true!?" Shikawa Xiu lowered his head and muttered hollowly. He couldn't accept the fact that so many soldiers and horses, such a strong army, so many strong warriors, the orc legion, the dragon legion, the snake legion, the dwarven legion, the mighty army along the way, the soldiers and horses of the whole Far East, could it be that this was the end in the blink of an eye? Could the huge army that he had worked so hard to run disappear like dust overnight?
Sad and depressed, he turned his back to the sky and shouted, "Boudin, return my legion!" His voice was hoarse, like a wolf neighing, and tears and rain mixed with wild currents on his face. A blue light swept through the sky, and a thunderbolt suddenly thundered in the sky, shaking the entire heaven and earth. He vomited a mouthful of blood, blood running red on the placket of his clothes.
"Your Excellency!", "Your Highness!" the subordinates hurriedly rushed over, and Shirakawa cried with tears streaming down his face: "My lord, my lord! It's just that the children have lost a battle, and it's common for the soldiers to win and lose, don't be angry!"
The subordinates came up to escort Zichuan Xiu into the camp. When he came to his senses, he found that his wolf bèi, drenched in water, had lost his soul. At this time, the officers of the Xiuzi battalion all heard about the incident in the camp tent of the Chinese army, and the news of the defeat of the Far Eastern coalition forces at the Red River Beach spread like lightning throughout the battalion.
Coming to his senses, Shikawa Xiu immediately summoned the officers and issued an order: "Immediately pull out the camp and go to Imoto City in a battle queue!"
Ming Yu protested: "My lord, the situation is unclear now, and it is dangerous to advance blindly!" His opinion was: The previous base camp and the main forces such as the Second Army and the Third Army are very likely to be annihilated, and now the shape has become outnumbered by the enemy, and the Xiuzi Battalion is likely to have become the last armed force of the coalition forces in the Far East, and the lone army will face Ling Buxu. He suggested that he should "move forward as soon as possible", join forces with the First Army of the Far Eastern Allied Army stationed in Tran, and then turn back to fight a decisive battle with Ling Buxu's army after the strength of the First Army was collected.
Zichuan Xiu didn't say a word, just watched him and looked at him directly. The officers in the tent shuddered: what kind of eyes were there! Those dark eyes were full of sorrow, despair, and ferocity, like a bruised wolf. Ming Yu was so frightened on the spot that he almost peed his pants.
So no one spoke up, in the words of one of the officers present: "At that time, even if His Highness took us to jump off the building collectively, we would have gone." ”
The sound of military orders was heard frequently, and the black-clothed cavalry came out of the various camps one after another, turned over and mounted their horses. There was no other sound along the way, only the dull echo of the horses' hooves trampling the mud, the sound of the rain, the tens of thousands of cavalrymen in black robes, the sonorous sound of armor, the saber hanging from the waist, and the sonorous sound of striking the spurs from time to time. The soldiers and horses mixed into a torrent of black sè and rolled forward along the Far Eastern Highway.
Zi Chuanxiu walked beside the team and watched the army advance, it was not what it was like, this was the last army in the Far East, the enemy was a division of 100,000 tigers, and he had just won an unprecedented victory, his morale was like a rainbow, and the commander Ling Buxu was a famous general in the world. What is the prospect, even if he is optimistic, he does not dare to have the slightest extravagant hope.
The sky was full of rain, the clouds were low and thick, and the sky was oppressive with blue and white lightning from time to time, and there was a rumbling thunder in the distance, as if to foretell the future of this last army.
The camp traveled all the way to Guwok, a small city on the border of the province of Iriya, that night. By this time, the first group of defeated troops to withdraw from Red River Bay had withdrawn here, and the news of the defeat of the coalition forces at Red River Bay spread throughout the city. People were worried and panicked, and they all thought that the end of the Far East was near. Stragglers and fleeing people crowded the streets of the city, filled with wagons, luggage, baggage, and livestock, and people looked bewildered.
On the roads of the city, Shikawa saw groups of defeated soldiers wandering, who added fuel to the horrors of last night's battle to the civilians who did not participate in the battle, shouting: "There is no salvation in the Far East!"
"If you kill like that, you won't even be able to escape with a leg!"
From time to time, Shikawa stopped to listen. According to the soldiers, it was a tear in the air, and not only Elder Boudin was dead, but so were all the members of the High Command. That night, in order to block the pursuit of the demons, General Busen led a force to resist Ling Buxu's army and unfortunately died. General Bran led the remnants of the army in the direction of Ilia, and intercepted the demon army halfway, and the battle was fought, and it was not raining in the sky, it was blood, and it was estimated that Bran was also very lucky. Speaking of the dead Elder Boudin and the command, the soldiers all gritted their teeth with hatred, and said that the King of Light had led well, but this group of people insisted on coming to do it all of a sudden, and they braided their hair at a critical time, and as a result, they were satisfied with a lot, and there were many dead people, and a large group of people accompanied him to the sky to see the god of Audi.
But when Zi Chuanxiu asked about the movements of the demon army, not many people knew. Some people say that Ling Buxu is leading a large army all the way to conquer the city, and now he has taken the entire province of Minsk and the capital of the Far East, Kearny; some people say that the demon army is besieging Iben, and the hundreds of thousands of Far Eastern coalition troops have been beaten by tens of thousands of demons and dare not show their heads. All kinds of rumors spread frequently, and all the defeated soldiers cursed and swore that this was definitely what they saw with their own eyes, and Zichuan Xiu couldn't tell the truth from the fake.
When he arrived at the location of the local zhèngfǔ institution, he heard the sound of people from a distance, and Zichuan Xiuwang saw that a large group of defeated soldiers and citizens were besieging the municipal authorities at the entrance, and countless rubbles and tiles rained down on the closed doors and windows of the municipal office, smashing the place that maintained order to the point of breaking the head and bleeding, and the wolf bèi was unbearable.
The crowd was yelling terribly, "Hand over that bastard, don't shield him!" The roar shook the glass of the gate and window, and countless soldiers and people angrily threw stones at the municipal office, and the glass on the windows of the municipal hall was smashed one by one. The human wall of jǐngcha was torn apart by the onslaught of angry people.
Shirakawa inquired with the citizens next to him, and learned that Soss, a member of the Far East Command and the chief of staff of the First Army, had escaped here alone and was discovered by the defeated soldiers. The soldiers resent that Soth was the first to escape that night, and now they had to settle accounts with him. Frightened, Soth hid in the municipal hall and sought refuge from the mayor, but now the soldiers are determined to arrest him and settle the score.
"Ah, where is Soth?" Shikawa was overjoyed, all he had seen all this time was a few junior officers and soldiers, and he had not been able to meet the senior officers involved in the incident. Now, I think I can get more information from Soth's mouth.
Shirakawa called the local mayor and muttered quietly. Knowing that it was the King of Light who had personally arrived, the local mayor bowed and led Zi Chuanxiu in from the back door very courteously, and said: "In this time of crisis, the liberator of the Far East, our hero King of Light, has come to our ancient Walker City, this is a gift from the Great God of Audi to us, and we are very honored! May the light of the Great God of Audi shine on His Highness! We will always be His Highness's most loyal servants! I am willing to serve Your Highness, I don't know where we can help Your Highness?"
Because the Far East regime was established not long ago, a qiē subordinated to power. The mayors were elected by the local people to serve as prestigious chiefs and leaders, and Shikawa was not familiar with the local magistrates. There was no time to say hello, so he asked bluntly, "I heard, Soth is here with you?"
"Ah, yes, Lord Soth is here with us. ”
"I'm going to see him right away. Zi Chuanxiu said calmly, but that tone was unquestionable.
The mayor blinked and looked at Shikawa Xiu and the fierce guards behind him, his eyes clearly showing unease.
Although he was a civilian magistrate, he also knew a little about the split in the top echelons of the Far Eastern Army. With the defeat of Red River Bay, the power of the command has completely collapsed, and the King of Light is returning to power, and there are bound to be a bunch of people who will lose their heads after the autumn. Now, His Royal Highness the King of Light came to Suos with so many guards, probably because he wanted to think about it anymore, the high-level political struggle was life-and-death, and he didn't want to get involved.
He said cautiously, "Lord Soth is here, Your Highness and your lords, please come with me." ”
The group walked along the wide corridor of the city hall, and the mayor introduced the various buildings of the city hall to Zichuan Xiu as he walked, a certain corridor has a long historical tradition, and the history of a certain hall can be traced back to Zichuan Yun's generation, but at this time, Zichuan Xiu didn't have the heart to listen to this, he just casually said "uh-huh" a few times to deal with it.
As the group passed by the hall, a loud noise suddenly came from outside the door, and the thunderous slogan: "Hand over the traitor! Hand over the traitor!" The momentum was astonishing, and the door was slammed into a loud bang, and the door panels were deformed. Through the window, you can see that the people and soldiers who have been attacking have pressed close to the door, the angry faces, the terrible eyes that burst into flames, and the human wall formed by jǐngcha has been washed to pieces, and it is impossible to withstand it.
The mayor's face turned white: the defeated soldiers had lost their minds and were rushed in by them, and if the King of Light had any mistakes on his own turf, even if he had nine lives, he would not be enough to die. He was so frightened that he shouted: "Come, send more men up! You must stop them!" -- Your Highness, Soth will see you another day! Now please hurry up and get out of the way!"
Before Zichuan Xiu could speak, he only heard a "bang", and the door was knocked open. "Knock knock" kicked the crack in the door panel open, and the door collapsed entirely. "Kill the traitor!" With a murderous shout, a large crowd rushed in with red eyes.
"Protect the adults, line up the wall!" General Shirakawa said sharply, and the soldiers of the Xiuzi battalion rushed forward, forming a human wall at the door, all the swords were unsheathed, and the blades were all pointed at the outside. The Xiuzi battalion is the jīng rui of the entire army in the Far East, and the guards of Zichuan Xiu are even more jīng rui, they are not as restrained as the local jǐng cha, and they have no scruples when they move. A few of the mobs rushed so quickly that they couldn't stop and rushed straight up the mountain of knives, and the guards deflected their knives and whipped them with the backs of their knives. More than a dozen guards blocked the door, and the large crowd of mobs could not even get in, and the few who rushed through the door kicked out with their leather boots.
Encountering unexpectedly strong resistance, the routs were momentarily stunned and did not dare to rush again. Someone was scolding rudely, Bai Chuan frowned, stepped forward with his hand on the sword, and his face was as cold as water: "Bold! His Royal Highness the King of Light is here, who dares to mess around!"
For a moment, the air seemed to freeze, and the name of Shikawa Xiu was heard, and the silence spread from zhōngyāng in all directions like ripples thrown into the water by stones. The soldiers in the back noticed that the atmosphere was not right and hurriedly inquired: "What happened?"
"Some people say that His Highness is inside!"
"Really, I saw the Black-Clothed Army! I saw General Shirakawa!"
The crowd resounded with the sound of chirping and whispering, and the people standing nearby conveyed the words to the people in the distance one by one, and the news spread in an instant: "His Royal Highness the King of Light has arrived!" The soldiers immediately left the hapless Soth behind, and shouted in unison: "King of Light, King of Light!" Even those citizens who had only been watching the chaos joined the team. The woman was crying, "Your Highness, come out to meet us!" and the crowd grew louder and louder.
The soldiers standing in front of them consciously stepped back and gave way to the open space in front of the town hall. From the tattered doorway of the town hall, a group of armed soldiers came out surrounded by a general. The sight of their well-armoured, self-confident, and unhurried contrast to the dejected soldiers who roamed the streets, gave rise to hope that the armed forces of the Far East had not completely collapsed.
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