One by one, the pikemen in the queue fell, and the sight of me was a knife in my heart.

"Axe thrower!" my hoarse shout echoed over the battlefield, "Kill them for me!"

I think my eyes must be red, I have never tried to see my own men killed and not be able to come to my aid—for I am the Supreme Commander, and my duty is to command the whole army and not to rush to the front line, and even the orders I give are conveyed by the heralds.

The pikemen were followed by a group of axe-throwers and ordinary swordsmen, and when they received my order, the axe-throwers in front shouted in unison, and the throwing axes in their hands had been shot!

The flying axe was approaching, and the red-clothed warriors in front of and behind the pikemen had to stop their attacks and first block the throwing axes with the double knives in their hands.

I'm glad I was training the soldiers some time ago, because the pikemen took advantage of this moment to distance themselves from the red warriors behind them. The pikemen in the front also fired at the same time, and countless dense silver spear heads stabbed out together, forcing the red-clothed warrior in front to retreat several steps!

The axe-throwing officer hoarsely waved the war knife in his hand, "Throw!"

"Throw!" another round of axes flew out, more accurate than the last one.

"Kill!" the axe-throwers were followed by soldiers armed with long-handled swords, and they rushed forward to divide and surround the red-clothed samurai who jumped behind the pikemen.

The axe-thrower continued to throw, not caring at all if some of the axes fell on his own people.

Because when designing the axe, the master and I had already taken the mess into account today. The master made the most appropriate adjustments to the weight and edge of the axes according to the armor characteristics of our soldiers, and I trained the axe throwers very rigorously.

Just like in this state of scuffle. The axe-throwers knew how hard they should throw the axe. What kind of rotation speed should be applied to the axe - the axe can effortlessly slash into the body of the cardinal warrior without harming his own people.

Then. The pikemen commanders at the front shouted the same command in unison, "Raid!"

"Raid! Raid! Raid!" the pikemen shouted, no longer clinging to the neat formation, the pikemen in front of the red-clothed warriors stopped on the spot and continued to entangle with them, while the pikemen next to them and behind grabbed a few steps or so to outflank, and in an instant, a hundred or so circles were formed on the front line, firmly entrapping the red-clothed warriors inside.

The other pikemen crossed the circle and formed again on the march, ready to deal with the enemy's follow-up troops, those who had not yet arrived. The ordinary infantrymen who had died under the shooting of the feather arrows, the red-clothed warriors were in a hurry by the flying axes that came one after another, and when they stabilized their positions after the two rounds of flying axes, they had to face a harsh fact - they were surrounded by more than a dozen sword soldiers or pikemen, and the encirclement was quite tight, and there were large blades and spear heads shining with cold light in the front and back, left and right, and there was no room for movement at all!

Perhaps in order to maintain the agility of his body, the red warrior did not have too thick armor on his body. After losing their precious dodge space, they can no longer use their ghostly speed, and they lose their greatest agility advantage, and they become inferior to ordinary infantry.

"Kill!" shouted countless red-eyed soldiers with deep hatred!

The pikemen slammed the head of their spear into the body of the red-clad warrior. Then grit your teeth and rotate the gun left and right a few times, then withdraw the gun and stab again...... At last. Then a few spearmen worked together to lift the blood-spare-spare-strewn body of the red-clothed samurai and threw it out of the circle with a shout!

The cardinal warriors who were thrown out were not dead, but they couldn't do anything to blame, because the spearmen fired their guns were all fatal or the main joints of their bodies - if anyone knew more about the skeletal muscles of the human body, my soldiers were now better than the witch doctors!

One by one, the red-clothed warriors were thrown into the air, and some of them were dismembered by their swords before they could land. Even if they were lucky enough to fall to the ground, they would be chopped into meat sauce before even the dust that had been stirred up dispersed a bit! This is not a perverted act, every soldier knows the story of the dark mage in the Demon Alliance who will resurrect the dead warriors.

One of the guards led my horse, and I stepped on it and continued to watch the battle.

As soon as the cardinal warriors were eliminated, the pikemen who rushed to the front were already in one with the enemy's ordinary infantry, and our entire formation was pressed against them.

With the chanting of our magicians, a large magical enchantment appeared above the battle line. The enchantment completely protects the entire front line of enemy soldiers - we already have the upper hand, and God knows if a defeated demon coalition will use magic regardless of their own people?

And under the magical enchantment that exudes various colors, the soldiers on both sides are in full swing! My soldiers are well-trained and work well together under the command of the officer. The officers gave the orders loudly, and the soldiers responded with shouts, as if a well-oiled machine had been activated...... After each shout of the soldiers, they would take a step forward, and similarly, many blood-spattered flesh would fall in the ranks of the enemy.

However, after a long time, the enemy army could no longer hold on, and although they appeared to be tenacious, the whole front still completely collapsed, and our soldiers scattered and chased down the enemy's stragglers one by one......

As in the last battle, not a single enemy surrendered.

I'm not surprised by the enemy's tough-nosed style, after all, this is a forward force. In addition to the requirements of speed and agility, a good striker's strong fighting style is even more important! Otherwise, if the opponent captures one or two captives and is tortured slightly, won't the opponent know everything?

Before this battle, I did not underestimate the enemy's vanguard, in fact I not only carefully chose the ambush sites, but also entertained them with twice as many troops. If it weren't for the unexpected appearance of those cardinals, it would have been a beautiful ambush battle...... Thinking of the unexpected appearance of the red-clothed samurai, I suddenly thought of their ghostly body shapes, and the pair of demonic long knives in their hands!

Regardless of the sporadic battles ahead, I immediately led a group of elven magicians to the place where I had just fought with the red-clothed samurai, and I wanted to find out the details of these samurai.

The ground was a mess, littered with the remains of our soldiers and the fragments of the cardinals. The magicians crouched down. Pick up the red-clothed samurai's sword and look at it.

"How?" I asked aloud. "Can you identify them?"

"Wait a minute, please. Governor Cohen," one of the leading elves turned to me, pulled down his hood, and said to me, "We need a moment. ”

"Okay, I'll wait. I nodded in reply, but I was very anxious: if I can't quickly determine the identity of these red-clothed samurai, maybe I will miss the fighter.

The elf picked up a long knife and held it up to the sun for a long time. Then he held the knife in his hand, closed his eyes, carefully stroked the blade with his white fingers, and finally whispered something to a few elves.

"Governor Cohen," the elves' eyes looked at me, their eyes already full of worry, "I think we already know where they came from. ”

"Who is it?"

"Scorpion Warrior. ”

"Poison, poison, poison...... Scorpion Warrior?" I couldn't help but frown, "What's that?"

"The Scorpion Warrior, a very small number of warriors in the Demon Alliance. Very special. The elf looked at me and said, "Actually, I haven't seen it before." I came to this conclusion from their weapons. ”

"I'm listening. I motioned for her to continue.

"The Scorpion Warrior was trained by the Demon Alliance for assassination, not from other races, but from among the humans of the Dark Demon Temple. The selected candidates have been trained rigorously since the age of five, and after the training is completed, they have a very agile and fast body, especially for short distances and small range movements. And their weapon," the elf raised the long knife in his hand a little, "this long knife has great poison on it. ”

"Poison?"

"Not only is it poisonous, but it has also been blessed with curse magic by the High Sacrifice Magician of the Dark Demon Temple," the elf said slowly, "In fact, many of our soldiers have only been cut through their skin by their knives...... As long as the skin is cut by such a weapon, it will be paralyzed by the curse magic first, and then poisoned. ”

"What?" I jumped off my horse and took a few steps over to the remains of a soldier, examining the pikeman's wounds.

The elf was right, the pikeman had only been cut through his glove by the long knife, leaving a black wound on the back of his hand, and the wound was very shallow and there was not a trace of blood. I lifted his helmet mask again, and his whole face was already black......

"These soldiers of mine have died of poisoning?" I looked around, and there were the bodies of my soldiers everywhere.

"Yes, Governor Cohen, the corpses of these soldiers must be burned immediately," the elf came to him, "or I don't know what the consequences will be." ”

"You go and rest. I nodded, and then said to the star officer beside me, "Count the number of people and clean up the battlefield!"

"Yes!"

When the bodies of the fallen soldiers were placed on firewood, the number of battle casualties was counted.

In this battle, our side suffered nearly 2,000 casualties, of which more than 1,200 soldiers were killed, almost all of them at the hands of the enemy's scorpion warriors! That is to say, in addition to those who were shot, every scorpion warrior who rushed to the front of our army killed more than eight of my soldiers! If it were not for the large number of axe-throwers I had, if it were not for the well-trained soldiers of my soldiers, the number of soldiers who died would have been at least doubled!

These were just a hundred or so scorpion warriors, and it was my most combat-ready Guards Regiment that fought against them! It was the most elite soldiers under my command! With such a large number of casualties under such an advantage, it can be said that this battle was ...... I'm a loser!

The firewood under the sacrificial soldier was lit, and looking at the flames, I gave them a standard military salute with my extremely heavy right hand on my chest. Rest in peace, my soldiers, you will always be the best, and I will honor you with the blood of my enemies......

I could no longer fight such an enemy army, so I made up my mind and turned to a cadre of officers and said, "Retreat immediately!"

"Yes!"

A day later, I had already set foot on the dividing line between gods and demons with the Broken Queen's troops. Although we were not slow, we were still caught up by the cavalry legions of the Demon Alliance as we approached the Grand Canyon.

We were overtaken by a whole legion of light cavalry, but they did not attack immediately, but followed us unhurriedly in three directions.

I've tried to stop, I've tried to make a feint, but the enemy won't fight me!

If I stop, they stop, and if I counterattack, they will run back...... I can't expect soldiers to catch up with the hussars on two legs, can I?

What does this cavalry regiment want to do? They have nearly 30,000 soldiers, and it stands to reason that they should attack! Why are they now dragging behind us as if they were being monitored?

What they did puzzled me. I had to be on my guard along the way. At the same time, tell yourself over and over again: Hold on! As long as you get to the Grand Canyon, you will be solved!

Day and night. I mobilized every cell in my head.

Two days later, we had reached the periphery of the Grand Canyon and saw a small city at the mouth of the Grand Canyon, only one step away from being out of danger.

When I entered the earthen city, I found that the advance troops had not done what I had ordered—I ordered them to enter the ravine at once, except for one guard.

In Tucheng, every street and alley was crowded with soldiers, and they had just arrived...... The Broken Rear Force led by me marched quite fast, almost following the footsteps of the advance troops and following Tucheng.

"Why haven't you entered the canyon yet?" I asked, catching an officer.

"Report sir. This is the order of the staff officer!" the officer replied to me, "he ordered us to set up our defenses and stand by!"

"Damn you!" I ordered, after a foul word, to prepare my troops to enter the Grand Canyon at once—the pursuers behind us were too close to us to be killed at any moment.

I hurried into the headquarters and found Carlos.

"Why haven't you entered the canyon yet!" I slapped Carlos in the face, "The pursuers are already following!"

"Sir...... You'd better go to the city walls and take a look," Carlos had bloodshot eyes in his eyes while still holding the map in his hand, "we can't get in at all." ”

"Whatever it is, it can't stop me!" I left him behind, and rushed up the wall in three or two steps. I was stunned for the first time.

This earthen city was built by the exiles, mainly to protect against robbers. Just about seven or eight miles away from the mouth of the canyon, two low and simple city walls connect the dense forests and swamps on both sides of the Grand Canyon, enclosing the entire canyon entrance, and the canyon entrance is in the shape of a funnel. And now, from the bottom of the city walls to the mouth of the canyon, this huge funnel is crowded with refugees, and at a glance the vision is full of wriggling people, all races, not to mention hundreds of thousands!

"What the hell ......," I sat down on the wall, "isn't this my life?"

"Sir, there are too many refugees," Carlos said as he walked up to me, "and we can't force our way in...... Not to mention entering the canyon, there is not even a place to put your feet. ”

"Where did these people come from?" I said, shaking my head in disbelief, "how could so many refugees pop up overnight!"

"The war has spread throughout the dividing line between gods and demons, and only here is there no war. They even came as far as the borders of the Trafa Empire, dragging their families over several mountain ranges...... Neither of us had noticed that the retreat had been blocked, and when we entered Tucheng an hour ago, the city was full of people, and more refugees had gathered more than a dozen miles from the city. Carlos whispered, "And we didn't think about it beforehand! It's my fault!"

"It's not your fault, it must have been a trap for the Demon Coalition to let them escape here," I said slowly, "Remember when we drove out the rioters in Camp? they're quick learners!"

"Can you drive them away?" Carlos asked me tentatively, "let our troops pass first?"

"It's too late, the enemy has already caught up, and it's not easy to drive away these hundreds of thousands," I shook my head, "If we use a tough approach, most of our soldiers are from the dividing line between gods and demons, and there may be relatives among these people...... As soon as the soldiers mutinied, we were finished. ”

"So what do we do?"

"What else can I do?" I spat on the ground, "we've fallen into a trap, and it's time to fight hard!"

At this moment, an officer ran up the wall and said, "Report to the chief!

"Prepare for the battle, I misspelled you Carlos......" I stood up and patted the dust on my body, "but don't think I apologize to you, there is a chance for you to fight back!"

"Ah...... No need to ......"

"Pass my order!The whole army enters the earthen city to defend!" "By the time Carlos stammered, I had already strode under the walls, "Build a stronghold and set traps - I'm going to kill all these mongrels of the Demon Alliance!"

"Yes!"

"Carlos!"

"Here!"

"A meeting of the officers of the regiments!" I cried out, "just on the wall ahead!"

"Yes sir!"

"Report to the chief!" the fast horse stood alone, and then stopped steadily, and the knight on the horse saluted Major General Long Lia, the supreme commander of the 26th Legion of the Demon Alliance, "The enemy army has entered Tucheng!"

"Got it, go down!" Major General Long Ria said to the people around him with a smile, "It's really worthy of the battle plan drawn up by the military department, it's perfect!"

"I've looked at the map, and the walls of that earthen city are only two men tall," asked a young officer beside him, "Sir, are we going to attack at once?"

"No, we are not attacking now," said Major General Lonria, "and our task is to keep an eye on them and wait for the follow-up troops." ”

"Why don't you attack, and from what we've seen all the way, this army is nothing remarkable," the young officer asked, puzzled, "isn't it a great achievement to destroy this Phantom Legion before the other legions?"

"Nothing remarkable, do you know how much we have paid to trap this Phantom Legion?" said Major General Long Ria with a stern expression, "Now I can tell you that the reason why Marshal Verlaine accepted the armistice request of the Divine Alliance was to encircle and annihilate this legion!"

"What?"

"In order to completely annihilate this Phantom Legion, the military department has formulated a very thorough battle plan, no matter where they flee, they will not escape the fate of destruction," Major General Longria looked at the vague earthen city wall in the distance, and said word by word, "The whole plan has more than twenty main battle legions involved, just to prevent them from infiltrating into the interior of the alliance, there are nine main battle legions firmly guarding the border of the two empires bordering Kamp!" Other legions formed siege groups of varying sizes to roam around Kamp, and three legions were dedicated to driving the refugees along the dividing line between gods and demons. ”

"Is the other party really so powerful?" the young officer was surprised, "how many main battle regiments are needed?"

"If you have five thousand soldiers, including three hundred scorpion warriors," Major General Longria said, looking at the young officer, "how many Divine Coalition forces can you deal with?"

"Twenty thousand!" said the young officer, "at least two thousand! If not, cut off my head!"

"Chop off your head, I'm afraid your head is not enough to chop off," Major General Long Ria shook his head, "There are only 10,000 people, and this army has been wiped out with less than 2,000 casualties!"

"Impossible!"

"That's a fact, not to mention that this Phantom Legion has single-handedly stirred up Camp into a pot of porridge," Long Ria said hatefully, "and thanks to the ruthlessness of the military subordinates, they burned all the places in Camp where they could hide. Otherwise, they will continue to stay in Camp, and no one will be able to catch them!"

"If they're really that powerful, can these refugees in Tucheng stop them?"

"Whatever the reason, the plan of the military department was formulated like this, and in fact they are also trapped here," Major General Long Ria smiled faintly, "We are driving people in here, and naturally there are people over there to help block the ...... This is being done all over the dividing line. The Divine Alliance wants to get out, and we want to annihilate this legion completely, and each has its own place. ”

"How could such a thing happen?" the young officer couldn't help but shake his head, "I really can't imagine that the Divine Alliance would be willing to give up even such a legion?"

"Remember, kid, this is the result of the agreement, and besides, there is nothing good in the Divine Alliance," said Major General Longria, "well, I have to keep an eye on them until the follow-up troops come up...... I have a report here, you send it back to Shawin!"

"But father!" said the young officer, "in that case I will not be able to make it to battle!"

"Glens, this is the order. ”

"Yes Father, since you insist. (To be continued......)