Chapter 35: The Pursuit of Victory
The battle continued, and Kong Ming still rode the snow wolf to the top of the high ground from the beginning of the battle to the present, and he never seemed to move during the entire battle. By this time, the battle had come to an end, and a decisive victory had been won, and he suddenly relaxed only to realize that the clothes on his body had already been soaked from the inside out, and the armor he wore outside was covered with dust flying everywhere in the battle. After relaxing, Kong Ming realized that the mercenaries who came to support were far beyond his imagination. Kong Ming looked back and found that Li Yao was passing by him, and subconsciously asked, "How many people have you recruited here?"
"You can't imagine it. Li Yao replied.
"How many people?" Kong Ming asked again.
"I really don't know. It seems that the mercenaries from all over the city have arrived. Li Yao said.
"And how much do we have to pay them?" Kong Ming frowned.
"Hehe, we don't have to give them money!" Li Yao said proudly.
"If they don't give money, they will come?" Kong Ming is really a little strange, mercenaries have always been unprofitable, and they never do things without benefits, because sometimes they often find good intentions to do bad things. Therefore, among the mercenaries, it has always been unprofitable not to get up early.
"Nothing, I just sent more than five hundred people, riding war horses, and shouting constantly in the sea, Harvey is defeated, Harvey's army is defeated, everyone go to see them together, go kill them, go grab their weapons, go grab their magic horses, go rob their women......" Li Yao said here, and suddenly heard a cold voice next to him, his excited face turned around, but saw a cold face, which made his head have a short circuit for a while.
"What did you say?" said Yi Yiyi as she looked at him coldly.
"Go kill them, go grab their weapons. Go and rob their magic horses, go and rob their women-people" Li Yao finally knew what the problem was. Saying to rob a woman in front of a beautiful woman, isn't this tired?
"And then?" Kong Ming asked on the side, really not wanting to expose the rest of the matter for this kind of bloody matter.
"Behind, it seems that the mercenaries in the whole city are stirring, and all the people are coming out, at least I have seen too many mercenaries coming out, almost riding or something. Snow wolves, demon bears, black panthers, snow eagles, many, many monsters and mercenaries. ”
Kong Ming looked around and said strangely: "Snow wolf, demon bear, and black panther have all seen it." Where are the snow eagles you are talking about?"
"I can't see it now, it's an old mage who flew over directly after hearing about it, why haven't I seen him yet?"
At this time, countless mercenaries of all kinds of clothes passed by Kong Ming's side, and the mountains were all over the field. And there is an endless stream, which makes Kong Ming a little dumbfounded. If it is said that it is 300,000, it is definitely less. Judging from the number of people in this face and the magic mirror, there are at least 500,000 mercenaries, or Kong Ming's understanding of Hai Rong City is really not enough, but it seems that there will not be so many mercenaries, which makes Kong Ming a little inexplicable.
"When did there be so many mercenaries in Hairong City?"
"Yes, I've lived in Haicheng for so many years, how come I never realized that there were so many mercenaries in Haicheng City?" Li Yao muttered as he spoke. He really didn't even know how there were so many mercenaries. Perhaps there is only one person who can explain why so many mercenaries have come to this place.
The Lord's Mansion of Hairong City.
"City Lord, we have tricked so many mercenaries here, will they overturn our City Lord's Mansion?" the butler asked cautiously, standing next to the City Lord. Ever since Kong Ming had won a few battles in Harvey's territory, the lord of the city had sent the butler to pass on some gossip that the mercenaries would set foot on Harvey's territory from the city of the sea and rob the hated nobles of their wealth, and this had become a fact. Because they kept showing the things that the Snow Wolf mercenaries brought back from Harvey to sell to the interior of the entire Chaos Land, a large number of mercenaries crowded into Hairong City, and fifty or sixty thousand of them directly joined the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army, and the others waited in Hairong City. When this battle started, many mercenaries sent scouts to observe, and a more powerful mercenary even used magic to show the scene in a large square, which was unexpected by Kong Ming. And when the magic image of the snow wolf mercenaries attacking the Harvey army was displayed there, all the mercenaries watching were enthusiastic, especially when the two armies were in the stage of stalemate, the leaders of those mercenaries were even more bright, of course, they were looking at the fine armor and sharp swords on the Harvey soldiers, and the sturdy war horses, and their eyes were shining. At this time, when Li Yao was propagandizing everywhere in the city according to Kongming's arrangement, they set off as soon as possible and went straight to the battlefield. So in this situation where all parties are intentionally and unintentionally intertwined, a scene that surprised Kong Ming appeared, and countless mercenaries were like flies, heading towards the fleeing Harvey soldiers. Seeing this situation, Kong Ming ordered: "Order, let our snow wolf's people take the current place as the boundary, attack ten kilometers forward, and then retreat." ”
After the herald passed the order, Che leaned aside and asked, "Commander, why did we only advance ten kilometers?
"Hehe, it's better to take back our soldiers at ten kilometers, and now that so many mercenaries are going to beat the water dogs, we don't want to join in the fun, and besides, what we need now is rest, because we will have a bigger battle. ”
"What else are we going to do?" asked Yiyiyi.
"We waited until they had advanced 10 kilometers and then gathered the people back as much as possible, and our target was not here. ”
"Where?"
"Remember what I told you, now we're going to sweep the cities and hinterlands of Harvey's borders, which are the source of wealth, and this little thing in these Harvey sergeants is not in our eyes compared to those. We want to be big. Kong Ming said.
"You mean we're going to attack the hinterland of the Harvey Empire?" said Che Yi tremblingly, this kind of thing is unthinkable for him, you must know that the mercenaries of the Land of Chaos have attacked the hinterland of the Harvey Empire only a few times, and because of the nature of the mercenaries, the first few times they just entered the Harvey Empire and came back after a robbery. It's hard to make a big difference, but this situation is a legend and a yearning for every mercenary in the Land of Chaos.
"Hehe, I'm not the one who went into the Harvey Empire to grab it and came back, they made me not able to live a good life, and they don't want to live a good life!" Kong Ming said angrily. This sentence has some meaning of a child's temper, you know, he originally just wanted to take a look at the Harvey Empire, live here for a few years, and then see if he can advance to the holy level. Where did he think that someone would actually hit him with an idea, even if he decided to win or lose on the battlefield, he still wanted to come to Yin, so that the prestige of the third prince of the family could be raised to a higher level on him, isn't this? Since someone has done the first year of junior high school, don't blame him for doing the fifteenth. This time, he must have gotten into the belly of the Harvey Empire and have a good time. And if you want to play, you can play big. So this time, he couldn't just look at these defeated Harvey troops, but he wanted to take advantage of the annihilation of the 300,000 troops of the Harvey army, and there was no chance for mobile forces in the northeast of Harvey to defeat all the towns on this side. Because the main thing in the Harvey Empire is the aristocratic feudal system, the inhabitants of the territory belong to the Harvey nobility legally speaking, so the contradiction between the nobles and the commoners in these territories is great. All they need now is a fire, and Kong Ming is ready to act as this fire, once the entire northeast of the Harvey Empire is lit, then even if the Harvey Empire has more troops. It can't be extinguished one by one in these four places where the fire started, this is Kong Ming's original plan, but at the original time, the 300,000 troops have been following behind, and at that time, a little fire will let them be extinguished, and it will also expose Kong Ming's intentions, which is very unfavorable, so, at that time, he just made some tests in the interests of the nobles to see if these commoners dared to resist the rule of the nobles. Judging from these battles, the reaction of these civilians can be satisfactory to Kong Ming, because every time he passes through a city, many civilians will voluntarily join the mercenary army, which is the best proof of this. So this time, Kong Ming must take advantage of the victory to pursue and set the entire northeast of Harvey on fire. Kong Ming didn't realize how much trouble his idea brought to the Harvey Empire after it was implemented, nor did he realize what kind of madness his idea caused the entire Harvey civilian population to fall into, in short, for a long time afterward, Kong Ming was considered a national hero of Harvey, even if everyone knew that he was not Harvey.
At this time, the three princes were still pretending. If at the beginning, he was really hazy, then now he is pretending, because he can't tear up his dream of being an emperor because of his own failure, he wants to find a scapegoat from among these people, and this scapegoat must be a big official, and the other must be the person around him, because only in this way will it affect his decision-making, and only in this way will he get rid of the punishment of failure, so the most important thing for him now is to find a scapegoat. The other qiē is no longer important, in addition, he also thinks of the mastermind behind the scenes who found Kong Ming to come here as his opponent, that person is the culprit of this qiē, he must be subject to his ambition, this qiē is all Kong Ming's fault, how can he defeat him? As a prince, the problem of thinking is indeed the problem of the throne, and then there is conspiracy, and then there is ambition.
It can be said that magic communication is indeed a good thing, and at the moment when the three princes were defeated, all the people on the continent who cared about this battle knew about it, and they also issued different orders, which was unexpected by Kong Ming. In the palace of the Harvey Empire, the Emperor directly ordered a new legion of 500,000 men, led by Alexander Cruid, to set off for the Land of Chaos immediately. This was their first reaction, because they didn't want the situation in the northeast to lose because of the defeat of the Three Princes.
In the palace of the Huayuan Empire, the emperor of Huayuan, after seeing this report, looked at Kongming's grandfather Yun Haifeng and said: "I really don't know why you have such a general, he can lead 100,000 soldiers to defeat the 300,000 army of the Harvey Empire, if he is leading the 100,000 elite army of our empire, I can be sure that he can easily play the 300,000 army to death." If at first your decision was based on an uncertain prophecy, now I can tell you not to fight his idea now. Because whether he is in Harvey now, or in Kari, he will be a viscount of the Empire from now on, from this moment on. Well, this alone is not enough, send someone to sue Sù Yiyiyi, and let her do whatever it takes, fully support Kong Ming's operation, let them drag the Harvey people there for me, and then we will use some means on the side of the Chu State. Let's see if we can get something. ”
In the Duke's Mansion of the Huayuan Empire, Xiang Tiancheng, who now lives here, saw the content sent to him by a friend, and his heart was quite shocked, although Kong Ming had only met him a few times, he gave him a lot of pertinent advice, and now he regretted the most probably why he was not in the last battle. Take a moment to listen to the empty Ming's Jianyì, if that. Maybe the consequences won't be the same at all. He will not be an empty duke of the Huayuan Empire, this qiē is just a little bit of time.
Deep in the Land of Chaos, in the midst of a city lord's mansion, this is the place where the real ruler of the Land of Chaos, despite the name of the Land of Chaos, and there seems to be no connection between the various city lords. But only those lords know that this is the place where the real rule of the Troubled Lands is, even if it has a low reputation. A man in black armor sat on a chair and said hoarsely, "This time the Lord of Haiyuan City did a good job. Send him a message, if you want to support the snow wolf mercenaries regardless of a qiē, they can give whatever they want, don't they need snow wolves, you go down and send some people to the orc empire, buy 100,000 snow wolves back, sell them to them, and ask for the cost price. Well, my guards have been training for a long time, but they have never fought on a real battlefield, let them change their identities and become mercenaries, and then join the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army, and from then on, for a period of time in the future, only listen to Kong Ming alone, and go immediately. ”
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Of course, this qiē Yiqiē Kongming didn't know that all the countries on the continent connected to the borders of the Harvey Empire had issued orders to support him at the same time, and from this time on, he could ask for money and money, and ask for people, of course, those people joined the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army as mercenaries, and from this moment on, his Snow Wolf Mercenary Army will expand exponentially, but this also leaves an unchangeable scar for the future ending. After all, these mercenaries are all soldiers from the major empires, and it is impossible for them to really work for Kong Ming, and that is their real boss, and Kong Ming is just the spokesperson of those bosses in the Harvey Empire in a certain way.
After two hours, the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army finally assembled, and the first information Kong Ming received was that in this battle, the entire Snow Wolf Mercenary Army had more than 30,000 casualties, including more than 10,000 deaths, and more than two or two people were injured in various ways. The Fourth Division, on the other hand, did not suffer any casualties, and the Fifth Division, as a special division, suffered the least casualties because it was behind several divisions.
"We rested for half a day, and each division left all the wounded and gave them an explanation, and these wounded were handed over to the deputy commander of Yi, and the rest of the men set out after dark, and we set out to target the secret city. ”
"Why do you want me to stay?" Yi Yiyi said with some annoyance, in a way, Yi Yiyi is responsible for monitoring Kong Ming, Kong Ming's dispatch, she will lose the function of monitoring, if Kong Ming makes a decision that is not conducive to the Huayuan Empire, then she doesn't even know, how will she explain it when the time comes?
"There are several roles for you to stay, one is to take care of these wounded and other things after this battle, the second is to recruit more mercenaries, I believe that in the next period of time, there will be a lot of mercenaries to join our snow wolf mercenary army, you will be responsible for their collection, and then bring them to us, third, you must bring more snow wolves to us, because our current mobility is not enough to support us in a more powerful battle, and finally, you will find me one or two holy magisters, because in the future, the battle will be more difficult, and we need these sages who can determine the outcome at one time。 Therefore, your task is quite heavy, and you have to do your best to complete this qiē, because the battles that our people are fighting in front will be getting harder and harder, and they will need more and more follow-up mercenaries to replenish them. Sora said sternly.
"What about you?"
"We're going to take advantage of the victory, and don't let the Harveys slow down, because the mercenaries who are going to pursue them will definitely chase them from this line to where they can, and we need to blitz the city from the other way. Because we have already destroyed it, and now we are just repeating it, and after that, we will directly attack the hinterland of the Harvey Empire, and really tear a hole from there. ”
"Wouldn't it be too dangerous for you to go deeper into this now?"
"I've really thought about this question, if I was only a little sure that our mercenary army would survive in Harvey, now I can be 100% sure that we will survive in Harvey Empire for a long time, and even longer. ”
"Why?"
"Because of the people! From these attacks on the city, I have seen that the commoners of Harvey are really pitted against the nobles, so we have to use these people, we have to give them what they want. Kong Ming said resolutely.
"What's that?"
"Freedom!" (to be continued......)
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