39: The Legend of the White Raven
"It's a bit early to give up on the battlefield in the west, and I want to make one last attempt."
Evelyn told Ryan about her encounter with the White Raven that afternoon, saying, "I'm not sure who she is, but she'll help us fight the Prairie."
"Her mobility and combat effectiveness are quite strong, and Baiyun Village successfully held the position with her support in the afternoon."
"If she can continue to support our battlefield on the Western Front, the defensive front in the west may be able to be consolidated, and there is no need to retreat further, which is the most beneficial outcome for us."
"White Raven...... We don't have that in our army. "We don't know who she really is and what she is for, and it's risky to change our strategy for her."
"Maybe the appearance of the white raven this time is just an accident, and you can't entrust such a heavy responsibility to a complete stranger."
Evelyn shook her head: "I'm not saying to change our strategic layout, just that we don't have to withdraw the troops from the west so quickly."
"We can defend on the west for another week, and if the white ravens continue to support us during this week, and the western front can be maintained, then the status quo will be maintained.
"If the White Raven does not reappear within a week, and the Western Front is still in a state of defeat, we will abandon the western front, withdraw our troops, and make every effort to ensure the security of the Eastern Territory."
"A week...... Ryan nodded after a moment of silence, "Okay, then wait and see for another week." If the Raven reappears, find a way to keep in touch with her.
"She should be a hidden powerhouse in the city, and now that Linfeng City is united in fighting the same enemy, it has really helped us a lot to have such a master who understands righteousness to secretly assist.
"When communicating with her at that time, we must show our sincerity, it would be great if we could successfully recruit her, the strategy of high-level wind mages is of great significance, and we can also increase our chances of victory."
Evelyn hesitated for a moment, then just nodded and didn't say more.
She always felt that the white raven was not a wind mage, because when she was flying, she saw a wind circle spread out on her body.
Use the circle to cast magic, which is the alchemist's method.
But she also had some understanding of the magic circle of alchemy, and in her memory, the flying technique was a fourth-order wind spell, and the diameter of its magic circle was more than four meters.
How did a circle of this size fit into a backpack or anywhere else? She didn't understand it even if she wanted to break her head.
It's too contrary to the common sense of the circle of law.
As long as you reason carefully, you will find that the white raven is full of weirdness, she does not know the true strength of the white raven, and she is not even sure how she flew up and launched an attack.
Because she couldn't describe it, she finally chose to be silent and didn't think much about it.
Now is the crunch of the war, in which both sides have gambled on the fate of their respective camps, and as long as the White Raven can give us an advantage, it doesn't matter where her power comes from.
In war, strength is power, and power is everything.
Even if Bai Raven used evil magic to gain power, as long as she used this power to support Linfeng City, then she was also a hero who saved Linfeng City from danger, and it was worth her full effort.
It's as simple as that.
After agreeing with Ryan on the next course of battle, Evelyn left the conference room, then summoned her retinue and commanded:
"Show me the entry and exit records of all the people who come and go today, and pay attention to the entry and exit information for the next week, I want to find someone in it."
The white raven will not appear out of thin air, and now that the Lebuse Plain is already a battlefield between the Linfeng people and the steppe people, she has not observed the intervention of other forces, and she is most likely staying in the city now.
In addition to the army, some trade caravans and logistics transportation troops licensed by the City Lord's Mansion also have the right to enter and leave Linfeng City, perhaps she is mixed in with these flows to enter and exit Linfeng City.
If she could, Evelyn would like to find her in person, know her with affection and reason, and recruit her into the City Lord's Mansion at any cost, or enter into a partnership with her.
Now the Linfeng army on the front line desperately needs a morning star to find the direction of victory for them, and the white raven is the best candidate.
There are only two eighth-order transcendents in Linfeng City, one is the old city lord Aemon, and the other is the head of the knights, Ryan.
What the City Lord's Mansion did not make public was that the reason why the old city lord abdicated early three years ago was because he had a rare acute illness, which caused his physical condition to deteriorate rapidly.
The doctors and alchemists were helpless about this, and could only deduce that this was a strange Gu poison from the frontier, and now the old city lord relied on tonics and his own eighth-order knight's physique to support him, but he couldn't go to the battlefield again.
Therefore, the only eighth-order powerhouse in Linfeng City who actually had combat power was Ryan, and he had to sit in Linfeng City and confront the "Heavenly Father" of the grassland people from afar.
The "Heavenly Father" is the patriarch of the steppe people, their supreme leader, and the strongest of their tribal clans, and his strength is also the eighth order.
In this chess game, the behavior of the generals will be involved in the whole body, and they will not act rashly until the decisive moment.
In fact, Evelyn also has the same position, although joining the battlefield in person has won her the favor and trust of the generals in the army, but everyone is persuading her not to fight on the front line anymore.
If something goes wrong with her identity, who else can represent the City Lord's Mansion to lead the wartime Linfeng City?
By that Ivan, who doesn't know anything about war and has no interest in war?
Even about supporting Baiyun Village this afternoon, after she returned, she was scolded by Ryan and asked her not to act rashly.
If the enemy found out her identity and set a trap in advance to capture or even kill her, it would be a devastating blow to the morale of the Linfeng army.
Therefore, when these two prestigious people could not easily rush to the front line to encourage the army, someone needed to stand up and anchor the army's heart and lead the army to victory after victory.
From this point of view, the white raven is the best candidate.
One is because she is conspicuous enough and supports fast enough.
When the cyan circle unfurled and the white ravens streaked across the sky, the Linfeng army on the ground knew that their reinforcements were coming.
The second is because she is strong enough to really lead the army to defeat and win.
The Battle of Baiyun Village is the best example of her strength, and the current grassland forces do not have any effective means to threaten the white raven.
And the air power of the white raven completely crushed the ground guerrilla tactics that the steppe people were proud of, and its air offensive was almost a dimensionality reduction blow to the steppe people who were accustomed to fighting ground warfare!
Therefore, if the white ravens can be found and persuaded to cooperate with the military, then the pressure on the western front will be effectively improved.
In time, maybe we can take this opportunity to directly drive the grassland people who have repeatedly hit the wall out of Linfeng's borders!
Of course, that's all for later.
Now she can't be sure of the true body of the white raven, so she can only wait silently, hoping that she will appear in time for the next battle and help the army fight a beautiful turnaround again.
For some reason, she just has an inexplicable trust in the white raven, that is, she believes that she will appear again in a pinch.
Maybe it was from the glimpse in the afternoon that she felt a sense of familiarity and closeness from her.
After calming down in the evening and savoring it, she already had some vague guesses in her heart.
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By the next day, the victory in the Battle of Baiyun Village had been widely known.
In this battle, the defenders of Baiyun Village wiped out almost all the living forces of the invading grassland people's troops, which was a great victory for the Linfeng army for a long time, and this good news was immediately publicized by the city lord's mansion.
At this moment, it was not only the people in Linfeng City who were celebrating this victory, but also the other defenders of the Western Front outside the city were discussing the matter.
"Have you heard? Randy, the captain of the second detachment of the Seventh Brigade of that legion, he actually held the stronghold of Baiyun Village and wiped out all the grassland people's troops, is this true or false? β
"Hey, how can you listen to the news? How could a defender of the Linfeng Legion be able to stop the attack of the steppe people, it was clearly Lord Evelyn who led the reinforcements to arrive in time, and only then did he kill the steppe people! β
"Isn't that right? I've heard that by the time Evelyn arrived, the battle was over. β
"Tell me, then, who else could have done it if it wasn't Lord Evelyn? That's a whole steppe guerrilla force led by a high-ranking knight! β
"I've heard reliable sources that a strange reinforcement suddenly appeared on the battlefield at that time, she wore a white raven mask, flew in the air and sent a wind blade to drive the steppe people away!"
"Wind Blade? Which wind mage of the Order of Knights made a move? β
"Well, that's not clear, it's said that no obvious troop markings were found on her at the time."
"Heh, do you believe such a false rumor?"
"It's too stupid to wear a white raven mask, and there has to be a limit to rumors!"
"That is, who else dares to go out of the city to fight the troops of the steppe people except our soldiers now? Even the troops to which the reinforcements belong can't be formed, and this rumor designation is false! β
"Fake at a glance!"
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In a defensive stronghold on the Western Front, the defenders of Linfeng were chatting about the battle that had taken place yesterday.
When talking about the white raven that appeared in the battle of Baiyun Village, most people laughed it off as a rumor, and no one really took it to heart.
"Phewβ"
At this moment, the shrill whistle from the watchtower pierced the calm atmosphere in the stronghold, and the sentry issued a warning and shouted: "Enemy attack! The steppe troops appeared! β
Everyone's spirits suddenly tensed, and they quickly returned to their respective defensive posts, and a red signal flare immediately rose.
The steppe forces came quickly, and almost a minute after the sentinels raised their alert, they were already approaching quickly, bringing their stronghold into their range of attack.
They first fired a volley into the stronghold, covering the shamans of the army to get close to the stronghold, and then the shaman cast a spell, and in an instant, the ground was dented and the wind blades flew, destroying the fortifications in front of the stronghold in one fell swoop.
Not to be outdone, the defenders in the stronghold also responded with a rain of arrows and spells.
But the steppe cavalry who took the lead did not stop, they rushed into the stronghold at full speed with their shields, and their attack was so fast that only a small number of men and horses were killed and wounded before directly breaking through the defense line and fighting a white-knuckle battle with the defenders.
Swift, decisive and ferocious, this is the deepest impression left by the steppe people on the Linfeng army.
Under such a fast-paced blitzkrieg, even if the sentry fired a signal flare in advance, it was difficult for nearby reinforcements to rush in time.
"Hold on! Resist me! β
The captain of the defenders in the stronghold slashed the steppe cavalry in front of him with a sword, wiped the blood on his face, and shouted loudly.
He was actually the same time as Randy, the captain of the second team, and when the good news from Baiyun Village came last night, he thought, since Randy can hold the stronghold, then he can naturally do it!
But now, when the steppe troops came to attack them, he was desperate to find that it was really difficult to hold the stronghold.
They came so fast that there was hardly any pause, and they rushed into the stronghold and started the battle in one fell swoop, and they had the absolute upper hand in momentum.
Even if the defenders were ready to defend, they could not have imagined that the defense line of the stronghold would collapse and collapse at such a rapid speed, and they fell into a state of panic in an instant.
Under the advantages of the other, coupled with the fact that its own hard power was inferior to that of the steppe people, it led to the fact that after entering the white-knuckle battle, the defenders quickly fell into a situation of defeat.
Even if he took the lead in withstanding the onslaught of a wave of cavalry in front and commanding the team loudly, the battle line was still retreating step by step.
If this continues, I'm afraid the stronghold will fallβ
The thought came to his mind as a blade of wind descended from the sky, slicing the steppe cavalry in front of him in half.
There are no wind mages in your own defending troops, and reinforcements are arriving so soon!?
He looked back in shock, and soon saw a scene that he would never forget-
A figure in a white raven's mask unfurled two layers of magic circles behind her, flying from a distance, raising her strange long-barreled weapon in her right hand, and the wind blade that inspired it struck the steppe cavalry and slashed the steppe cavalry.
It's actually a white raven!?
That rumor in Baiyun Village is true!
After all the defenders present were stunned for a moment, what followed was exhilarating joy.
If it was really she who created the victory in the Battle of Baiyun Village, then this time, she might also bring them the same victory.
"The White Raven is here!" The steppe forces also discovered the addition of enemy reinforcements.
After yesterday's defeat, they seemed to have taken a countermeasure, quickly gathering the men and horses together to form a long-range anti-air phalanx, and then a rain of arrows came straight at her.
"Looks like it's been targeted."
Noren immediately said, "Don't rush to attack, pull to the flanks and dodge their attacks with all your might." β
"Hmm!"
In the face of the oncoming air defense net, Yuna did not panic, she accelerated laterally and dived, relying on Valkyrie's excellent maneuverability to shake off the wave of arrows.
Seeing her accelerate, the anti-air phalanx below also increased the advance of the archery, and another salvo blocked the flight path.
At the critical moment, Yuna's back leaned back, her legs stretched forward, and the "flying technique" of the backpack and the "acceleration" of the sole of the boot sprayed in the opposite direction at the same time, instantly canceling the speed of the forward flight, and there was a clean emergency stop in the air.
With her superb dodging skills, this round of arrow rain fell short again.
Not to mention that the steppe people are stunned, even the defenders themselves are stunned.
The hundreds of steppe cavalry gathered together so quickly and fired a salvo with bows and arrows, obviously guarding against the white raven.
But she staged an empty spark in front of everyone, like a peerless master strolling in the midst of the chaos, playing all the enemies between applause.
It turns out that the archers on earth cannot target the white ravens in the sky - the two are not the same level at all.
After a brief moment of shock, the captain of the garrison quickly came to his senses and shouted, "Let's go! β
By this time, the white raven had already flown to the flank of the steppe troops, and the steppe people were shooting at her with all their heart, and there was no time to attack them again.
Well, now is the best chance to fight back!
Under the command of the captain, the defenders of the ground stronghold began to counterattack, and their hard power was admittedly inferior to the enemy, but it was not a mud that could not support the wall, and it still put a lot of pressure on the enemy during the counterattack.
And when the steppe troops began to be forced to withdraw to deal with the defenders, the white ravens in the sky were less stressed, and began to pull out their magic guns and shoot at them.
Under the attack from both sides, the steppe people's forces began to retreat.
Ten minutes later, reinforcements from the Linfeng army arrived belatedly, and the victory of the defense of the stronghold was completely declared.
The battle is over.
Under the eyes of all and the cheers of everyone, the white ravens in the sky returned victoriously and disappeared in the distant sky.
It's like an incognito outsider, who has helped and then brushed away the dust, hiding his merit and fame.
Although she didn't say a word during the whole process, everyone imprinted her heroic posture in their minds deeply.
After today, Linfeng is in the army.
No one doubts the legend of the white raven anymore.