Section I

On the night of August 10 of the year 782, at the same time that Zichuan Xiu encountered a mutiny, the attack on Ling Buxu's army began.

At dawn, countless rockets shled towards the demon camp, and a raging fire was ignited everywhere. Under the cover of the dense arrows that covered the sky, a large group of orcs, snakes, dwarves, and dragonmen rushed forward, and a terrifying shout of killing sounded on the battlefield. In the firelight, thousands of orc infantry shouted the slogans "For the Far Eastern Motherland!" and "Destroy the Demons!" and rushed into the camp of the demons, and between the burning tents, the soldiers of the Far East fought the enemy hand-to-hand with bayonets, machetes, throwing guns, and even fists and teeth, fighting with peasant blindness and fanaticism, but they were met with stubborn resistance and a sudden counterattack by the demons - the unusual troop movement in the third army camp tent before the attack had aroused the jǐng awakening of General Ling Buxu, who ordered jǐng to be stopped.

After surviving the initial chaos for more than ten minutes, the Demon Clan's well-trained war machine qì came into play. The shield phalanx and the spear phalanx coordinated with each other, and the archers returned fire in the same dense manner. In contrast, the attacker appears to be more fanatical and less calm. They lacked planning and command, and each team fought in silos, blindly rushing to kill, and did not know how to concentrate troops to attack key areas. Soon, the tide of battle tipped in favor of the demons, and when the initial frenzy had passed, the attack began to crumble. The half-orc queen retreated, leaving a dense mass of corpses and wounded on the ground. Angered by the treachery of the Far Easterners, Ling Buxu ordered the execution of all captured prisoners.

In addition to being angry, Ling Buxu was very puzzled: "Could it be that the purpose of the Bright King's negotiation is to lure us away from the camp and eliminate us?"

The clumsy attack at night made him wonder: the art of command is a very professional science, and it best embodies the commander's personality. In the past battles, Ling Buxu had a very thorough understanding of Ming Yu's style. Ming Yu is meticulous and meticulous with his troops, likes to repeatedly test and tempt the enemy, and at the same time carefully protects the main force, attacks cautiously, like the half-orcs last night, only with fanaticism and blind bravery, killing indiscriminately, attacking without level and not preparing reserves to expand the results, the style of play has no rhythm and rhythm, and does not know how to save troops and body. General Ling Buxu was very surprised by this stupid peasant war-style fight, as if the Far Eastern coalition army had regressed overnight into the rabble at the beginning of the uprising.

But no matter what kind of inside story is behind it, it is an indisputable fact that the Far Eastern coalition treacherously attacked the army of the kingdom. For the forced evacuation from Fumingke Province, the demon soldiers were already holding back a wave of anger, and now they have been attacked by treachery, and they are so hot that they are about to explode. The demon soldiers shouted furiously, "We have been deceived by the cheap dogs of the Far East!!" The soldiers declared that they would refuse to move forward until there was punitive retribution against the Far Easterners, and the officers were on the side of the soldiers.

Seeing that the mutiny crisis was imminent, Ling Buxu had to make concessions.

That night, in Chernî, the capital of the province of Calais, the inhabitants who were asleep in the middle of the night were awakened by the slight tremor of the earth, and the whole city echoed with a low echo: "Knock, knock!" So, the jǐng bell began to ring frantically, the city's garrison was awakened in their sleep and urgently boarded the city tower, the distant sky was orange and red, in the darkness, countless torches appeared, and the boundless black sècháo water poured into the city, overwhelming the mountains and seas, unstoppable, thousands of demons roared like beasts, and the roar shook the city wall. In an instant, Chernoh's low city wall had been swallowed up by the demon army of the black sè, and in the darkness, the mournful cries for help and cries echoed under the bright moon.

The massacre lasted until more than five o'clock in the morning, and before leaving, the demon army set fire to the entire city, and the red fire was even more dazzling than the dawn sun, as if two suns were rising at the same time, and the residents within hundreds of kilometers around could see it clearly. The demon soldiers nailed the captured 6,000 civilians alive to the mutilated city wall, and the bloody slogan was written on the city gate: "King of Light, this is the end of treachery!"

The Cherno massacre of 782 was a tragedy in the history of the Far East. More than 30,000 people were killed in the entire incident, mostly women, children and the elderly, who had no combat effectiveness. This incident is different from the previous tragedy of the Sharo massacre directed by Lu Di, which could have happened completely unnecessary.

Among the generals of the demon clan, Ling Buxu is a very special character. He used his troops steadily, firmly, impeccably, and had a brilliant record, and what is even more valuable is that this demon general never consciously poisoned civilians, which made the brutal demon generals regard him and Yun Qianxue as outliers. History could have recorded him in the annals of history as a soldier who abided by morality and etiquette, just like Yun Qianxue, but at the last moment of the evacuation of the Far East, due to anger and helplessness, he crossed his moral bottom line, causing the Far Easterners to suffer a catastrophe of extermination, and also tarnished his own military reputation.

The bad news quickly spread throughout the Far East. The inhabitants of the Far East, who were immersed in peace and joy, woke up as if they had been hit in the face. Immediately, fierce waves of war surged from all over the Far East, and the angry voices of blood debts and blood repayment rose higher and higher, and the residents of various places demanded that the King of Light immediately send troops to exterminate this demon bandit army with no one at all. Especially in the major cities in and around the province of Calais, the inhabitants of their towns were trembling at the thought that their towns were less than a hundred kilometers from the mouths of the terrible bandits, and they were almost like hungry dragons, and countless representatives of the public and spontaneous petitioners were rushing to Gaza City to petition the King of Light to "immediately send troops to defend their town." But at this time, countless ominous news spread from this mouth to that mouth, and rumors spread everywhere:

"The Southwest Bandit Army has bloodied the entire Calais Province!"

"The Southwestern bandit army has taken our Minsk stronghold Kearny!"

"The King of Light has been defeated, and the rebel armies of the Far East have been defeated!"

"There's a traitor! He's made peace with the demons!"

"The King of Light is that traitor, he betrayed the Far East!"

Various versions of the rumors came out one after another, and the common people were at a loss, they could not grasp the causal relationship between these successive events, and they were so frightened that the sky was about to fall: "What's the matter? Didn't we just win so many battles, how did we become like this in a blink of an eye? Even the King of Light was captured?"

Wave after wave of terror swept through the central provinces of the Far East, panicked towns along the march route of the Southwest Legion, and forced the newly settled population to flee their homes, triggering a mass refugee cháo. The rolling flow of people on the Far Eastern Highway is endless, and the civilians of the Far East who have been traumatized by the war for a long time are dragged and scattered, dusty and haggard. As long as someone shouted: "The demon soldiers are coming!" Suddenly countless people screamed in horror, and the residents fled in panic, crowding and trampling on each other, killing and injuring countless people, and they were extremely miserable.

At this time, the local organs of the newly established Far Eastern regime were supposed to play a role, and the local officials should have come forward to clarify rumors, pacify the people, and stabilize the situation, but in fact even the local officials themselves were at a loss. For so many days, they received orders from two different ones. One is marked "Far Eastern Commander's Headquarters", signed by Elder Boudin and the major generals on behalf of the Holy Temple, in which the order requires the local government to immediately organize the recruitment of self-defense forces and garrisons, mobilize the people to launch an attack on the southwestern bandit army without delay, and delay and delay their actions in every way at any cost, so as to buy time for the regular army to encircle and annihilate them;

Another order came from the King of Light in Gaza City, he asked the local zhèngfǔ and garrison to maintain restraint and calmness, appease the feelings of the people, and relieve the affected people, and the local armed forces must not take the initiative to provoke the demon army, so as not to repeat the tragedy of Cherno and bring a retaliatory blow to the city, and wait for the order of the King of Light himself.

The two diametrically opposed orders caused confusion in various places, and opinions were divided into two factions, and the elders who were old and serious agreed with the opinion of the King of Light, they knew the horror of war, and what kind of disastrous consequences would be brought about by provoking the army of tigers and leopards led by the famous general of the kingdom Ling Buxu with those newly formed rabble. But the young men who were strong and strong-spirited agreed with the order of the high command, and they said: "The Southwest Bandits have mutilated our compatriots, can they be allowed to go away with impunity?"

The old people retorted: "It's your own business to seek death! Don't affect the whole city! The King of Light said, don't take the initiative to provoke the demons. His Highness is far-sighted and knowledgeable, and it is right to listen to him!"

"The King of Light is a coward! He betrayed the Far East and took refuge in the demons!"

"Bastard, what do you say! The King of Light is the hero of our Far East!"

"But now he's surrendered to the demons!"

The armies and zhèngfǔ everywhere were thrown into chaos, and the two opposing factions were-for-tat and uncompromising. It is often said, "The more the truth is argued, the clearer it becomes." But often the opposite is true, and the more the truth is argued, the more confused it becomes. Without more authoritative means, it is absolutely impossible to convince the opponent by relying on words. Seeing that they could not overwhelm the other side, both sides of the argument angrily resorted to more authoritative means of persuasion. It took only an hour or two to go from verbal argument to physical altercation, and from individual confrontation to large-scale scuffle in less than a day or two, and each side had its own supporters. The smoke of martial arts resounded in various cities and military camps, and both factions firmly believed that they were right, and those who supported the King of Light called each other "traitors!" while those who supported the Far Eastern High Command scolded each other as: "Demon lackeys!" on the streets. In the alley, thousands of people are fighting, all parties are not in harmony, you occupy half of the street, I occupy the other half of the street, throwing tiles and bricks at each other, fighting with wooden sticks and iron rods, that posture is really jaw-dropping, as if before the arrival of the demon army, the Far Easterners themselves have to fight to the death.

The Cherno massacre gave rise to another consequence that Ling Buxu himself could not have imagined. He contributed to the rise of the main battle faction within the Far Eastern Army. Seeing the brutality of the demons, those generals who were still hesitating between Elder Boudan and the King of Light quickly made a choice.

On August 12, fifteen Far Eastern teams stationed in Kearny, the Far Eastern capital of the Far Eastern province of Minsk, announced that because the King of Light had betrayed the people of the Far East, the Kearney garrison would no longer be under the command of the King of Light, and that they would all join Elder Boudin and support the Elder in eliminating the Southwest Gang. The same statement was then issued by the Tussauds province and the garrison. Then came the provinces of Calais, Iriya, and Deya...... In the next three days, as if a chain reaction had been pushed, the major provinces and garrisons in the Far East all expressed their support for Elder Boudin, vowing to carry out the war with the demons to the end. Of the twenty-three provinces in the Far East, only the provinces of Wag (controlled by the Xiuzi battalion left behind in Bulu Village) and the fortress of Tran (controlled by the First Army commanded by Roger) were still under the control of the King of Light.

So the army was thrown under the command of the elders, and according to the orders of the elders, they were assembled from all sides to the province of Ilya in the central Far East. The province of Ilya is an important town in the central part of the Far East and a necessary place for the Great Far Eastern Highway. According to the itinerary, Ling Buxu will pass through the province within four days.

After the rebel forces withdrew from Gaza, Shikawa waited in Gaza for three more days, waiting for his troops to come and rendezvous. As a result, one by one, the messengers sent out to contact them turned back in discouragement: all the Far Eastern troops refused to come to join the division, and the only ones who obeyed the order to assemble were the 6,000 Xiuzi battalion troops originally stationed in Kearny. At the time of this disaster, only the loyalty of the Xiuzi camp can still be relied on. They broke with the local Far Eastern forces and came to the King of Light. So the army under the command of Zichuan Xiu increased to more than 10,000 people, but he did not have much comfort in his heart: when the entire Far East was speaking out against him, more than 10,000 soldiers were just a drop of water in the sea.

After some consideration, Shikawa Shu decided to follow in the footsteps of Elder Boudin and pull the army to the province of Irya. Along the way, the Xiuzi Battalion encountered many refugees who had fled from their homes to escape the legendary "ghost-like" Southwest Legion. Seeing the troops of the Xiuzi Battalion passing by and seeing the banner of the King of Light, the refugees erupted in enthusiastic cheers, and they were welcoming their heroes and saviors. The people commented: "This must be to exterminate the Southwest Gang!" Seeing that he had not yet lost his prestige and respect among the general public, Zi Chuanxiu was somewhat comforted.

Sometimes, the people blocked the road, they shouted to see the King of Light, they wanted to know, what is this qiē for? We have such a powerful army, we have so many soldiers and horses, we have so many brave generals, our army has reached the eastern border of the demon tribe, but in our country, why can that small demon gang rage in the territory of the country, like entering a no-man's land, slaughtering innocent people?

"Why didn't our army resist and let the enemy go so deep into the heart of the Far East, less than two hundred kilometers from the capital city of A.T. Kearney?"

"King of Light, there are legends everywhere, legend has it that you became the governor of the demon clan and abandoned us Far Easterners, this can't be true, right?"

Facing the pair of longing eyes on the dusty faces of the people, Zi Chuanxiu couldn't say a word. He had no way to explain to these eyes what kind of politics, strategy, or peace talks, and these things were too far away for those simple and upright people. They only know that their homeland is threatened, their wives, children, children and children are facing the tragedy of being slaughtered, and the King of Light and the army who are supposed to protect them are standing by and watching.

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