Chapter 21: Convergence and Capture
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Three days later, near the western part of the Western Coalition camp, Scout Jack and his partner Donner were on daily patrols, and Donner rode on his horse boredly and said to Jack: "Hey, when do you think this war will end? It really seems like going home to see how my mother, my brother, and sisters are doing? My father and I are not at home, and I don't know if they are doing well, and the lord has raised taxes again?"
Jack replied angrily: "Shut up! When the war will end, it's not our turn to worry about the little people, the tax increase is absolute, you also saw the defeated soldiers two days ago, the reinforcements from all four routes were beaten by the long ears, so many people died, the baggage, and the ordnance were basically all lost, if you want to make up for it, it must be from the mouths of our civilians to deduct copper, do you think those nobles will pay a penny?" I estimate that even if we humans are about to lose, the stingy nobles will die holding on to their possessions, rather than spending them to become baggage and ordnance. ”
"Hahaha...... You're right, those damn aristocrats are like this, they want money and face!" Donner laughed loudly at Jack's words.
"Da la! Da la! ......Da la!" A rapid sound of horses' hooves entered the ears of the two, Jack and Donner drew the long swords at their waists and looked nervously in the direction where the sound came from, a team of human light cavalry appeared in their eyes, the two looked at each other suspiciously, the uniforms and flags are different from the current army in the coalition, where is this army?
"Phew, brother in front, what part are you?" a knight on a horse stopped and shouted.
Jack replied slightly nervously, "We are scouts of the Fifth Ranger Regiment of the Emperor of the Valhalla Empire. Who are you?"
"We are scouts of the Second Field Regiment of the Kingdom of Kadesh, how far is this from the coalition camp?" the knight asked again.
It's not a secret that everyone knows. And Jack didn't think that the cavalry squad on the opposite side would be spies of the elves, so he replied truthfully: "You can see it more than ten kilometers to the east!"
The knight on the opposite side hurriedly said to a soldier next to him: "You go back immediately to report to Your Highness." Our army is about to converge with the main forces of the coalition forces. ”
"Yes!" the ordered soldier hurriedly beat his horse and ran back.
As they spoke, Jack and Donner had at least approached the knight who claimed to be the army of the Kadesh Kingdom, and Donner asked with confusion, "Are you really the army of the Kadesh Kingdom?" I heard that you were ambushed by the army with long ears a few days ago, and the whole army has been wiped out. ”
When Kadesh's scout captain heard this, he immediately came to fire and said loudly: "Our whole army is annihilated? Which bastard said that? I will definitely promise not to kill him, four days ago we did encounter an ambush by more than 80,000 elven troops, but our army under the command of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke Catherine inflicted heavy losses on the elven army, at least killed more than 40,000 of them, and His Royal Highness Catherine single-handedly singled out the elven queen and the two elders and defeated them, forcing the elven army to retreat on its own initiative, hehe." We're awesome. After saying that, the captain of the scout had a smug expression on his face, and the other scout members also had the same expression.
"Blow, you blow, it's still bad, why don't you tell me how many of your own casualties are?" Jack said secretly in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it, for fear that he would be beaten up by the many Kadesh scouts.
"Donner, go back and report to Prince Terry that reinforcements from the Kadesh Kingdom have arrived. Jack turned to his partner.
Donner was immediately unhappy. "Why me again?"
"Because your father told me to take care of you, because I am older than you, because you can't beat me since I was a child. If you don't go, be careful I'll beat you!" Jack demonstratively raised his fist.
Donner habitually shrank his head, turned around and muttered, "My dad is you going to take care of me, not asking you to call me." ”
"What do you say?!"
"Nothing!" Donner had already run away.
The tent of Prince Terry, the camp of the coalition forces. Prince Terry stood up in surprise and asked, "Say that again?"
"Reinforcements from the Kingdom of Kadesh have arrived, less than fifteen kilometers to the west. Donner replied aloud a second time on his knees.
"How is that possible? Didn't they have been wiped out a few days ago? Aren't ......? Damn nerds. He almost made a big mistake by him!" Prince Terry ordered loudly, "Come, pass the order to all the generals." Let them go to the west of the camp and prepare to meet Archduke Catherine and her army!"
To the west of the coalition camp, more than thirty generals in gorgeous armor were whispering and exchanging words with each other, and the topic of conversation was naturally Catherine and her army who were about to arrive.
After waiting for about half an hour, a general with good eyes shouted, "Here it is!
A large army appeared in the distance of everyone, and at the front of the army were two big banners, a red flag embroidered with the logo of the Kadesh Kingdom and a double sword shield, which was the military flag of the Kadesh Kingdom, and one was also red, with a bright yellow sickle axe and a five-pointed star embroidered in the middle, and a golden-red phoenix flower was embroidered in the upper left corner, which was Ouyang Yu's personal flag, and Andy also had his own flag in the south of the continent, the same red flag, in the middle was a big black and gray iron cross, and in the upper left corner was a yellow phoenix。
Ouyang Yu's army slowly approached, and the generals secretly observed, they found that this army had obvious traces after the battle, and some soldiers were even bandaged with blood-colored white gauze, but the morale was high, the military appearance was neat, and the baggage and ordnance were not intact but sufficient, and they were not a defeat at all, as someone said, but like a big victory, so many generals turned their heads to look at someone who swore a few days ago that the army of the Kadesh Kingdom would be defeated and there was no need to go to the rescue.
This person is in the western part of the continent that can be on a par with the power of the Valhalla Empire, the second prince of the Dimatt Empire, who is only twenty-two years old, Laurent García Dimat. A top student of the Royal Military Academy in Dimat, the prince who is most likely to succeed to the next throne. Now the prince became the object of ridicule, and his handsome face turned red.
Everyone waited for a while, and Ouyang Yu's carriage drove to the camp gate. Under the support of Jasmine and Doris, Ouyang Yu, who was wearing a black skirt and armor and had beautiful hair, slowly walked out of the carriage, her face was not very good and a little pale, this was because she had awakened for more than three minutes in the battle with the elf queen, and her heart was overloaded before she fell into the condition, which was very painful, even healing magic could not cure it, so she could only wait for her heart to slowly improve, plus she had to deal with post-war matters and marching. I haven't been able to cultivate well, so I have become the sick and weak I am now.
Ouyang Yu gently broke away from Jasmine and Doris's hands, walked up to Prince Terry and said, "Reinforcements from the Kadesh Kingdom and the Duchy of Arundel have arrived according to the order, please instruct the commander-in-chief." After speaking, he put his right hand into a fist on his chest and gave a military salute.
"Welcome to you and your army, Your Highness Catherine, please. Prince Terry was full of joy and wanted to take Ouyang Yu to his handsome tent, but was interrupted by Ouyang Yu.
"Please wait a moment, Your Highness the Prince, our army has traveled a long way, and a few days ago we fought with the 80,000-strong army of the Elven Clan, although half of the enemy was annihilated. But our army has also suffered more than 30,000 casualties, and now there are a large number of wounded in the army, please ask Your Highness to arrange for military doctors and priests to mobilize medicine to treat the wounded of our army. In addition, our army has also captured some elven prisoners, please have them taken to the prisoner of war camp. ”
"Prisoners of war?!" Hearing these two words, the generals and soldiers of various countries can be regarded as exploding. The battle has been fought for several months, and it has been pressed and beaten by the elves. Lost soldiers and broken generals, only human soldiers were captured. Where will there be prisoners of war for them to catch, as soon as they heard Ouyang Yu say that there were prisoners of war, they immediately shouted and wanted to see.
Ouyang Yu smiled and agreed, showing the prisoners of war captured by his army is conducive to improving the overall morale of the human army, and it is also conducive to showing the strength of his army.
Soon, a series of elven captives tied up by chains and magic stones came over, there were not many people, only more than a thousand, most of them were dwarves and centaurs, and there were also some real elven warriors with long ears who were difficult to distinguish between male and female, among them was Hongye Fengyu, who was rescued by Ouyang Yu, and she was also at the forefront of the prisoner of war team.
As soon as Fengyu saw Ouyang Yu glaring at her fiercely, she lowered her head and walked without saying a word.
The generals and soldiers of the coalition army were silent for a moment when they saw the captive, and then they all let out a shocking cheer, except for Laurent García Dimat, the second prince of the Dimatte Empire.
The myth of the invincibility of the elves disappeared from the hearts of the generals and human soldiers at this moment, and in its place they were nothing more than that, and the thought that we would be able to defeat next time, the morale on the human side was much more restored.
The captives slowly walked into the camp dejectedly, they attracted a lot of coalition soldiers to come out and watch, it was nothing, the soldiers just pointed at the captives, and when they saw the elven warriors who were difficult to distinguish between men and women, they would let out laughter and eyes that all men understood.
Suddenly, a soldier who was only sixteen or seventeen years old rushed out with a long sword raised and slashed at an elf girl, "Stop!" Ouyang Yu, who had entered the camp with the prisoners of war, happened to be nearby, and just before the others could react, she stepped forward a few times and pulled out the black magic sword at her waist and swung it, "Dang!" When the soldier's long sword was about to hit the female elf captive, he was knocked out by Ouyang Yu, and it was inserted into the ground in a circle in the air, and the soldier was also chopped back and sat on the ground, although Ouyang Yu has lost all his magic power now, his basic attributes are much higher than ordinary soldiers, and it is easy to stop a small soldier.
"Alert!Isolate the captives!" Ouyang Yu ordered loudly as the Black Demon Sword returned to its sheath.
With her orders, her soldiers quickly separated a human wall, and the captives sped up their march.
After doing this, Ouyang Yu covered her heart, gasped for breath, and was a little unsteady, and a dense fine sweat appeared on her forehead, Jasmine and Toris hurriedly came up to help her, and Avril also came over and took out a handkerchief in distress and carefully wiped the sweat off her forehead.
"I'm fine. Ouyang Yu smiled at the three girls, but this time he didn't push away their support.
"Daring! take it for me!" shouted Prince Terry as he pointed to the creep sitting on the ground, and the guards behind him swarmed up and grabbed the creep still sitting on the ground.
"Take it down, send it to the punishment camp and draw fifty whips, and if you are still alive, throw it into the slave camp!" Prince Terry's order was extremely cold, and judging by the young soldier's physique, there was a high probability that he would not be able to withstand the fifty whips, and even if he was lucky, he would die in a slave camp with no medical care and poor sanitary conditions.
"Please wait a moment!" Ouyang Yu came over with the support of Jasmine and Doris, and said, "Your Highness, please wait a moment, I want to hear why he is doing this." ”
Prince Terry waved his hand, and the guards soldier holding the small soldier let go of him, and Ouyang Yu asked, "What's your name, why did you attack the prisoners of war?"
The little soldier knelt on the ground and raised his head with tears in his eyes and said: "My name is Beta, my brother, my brother was killed by these elves in the last battle, died under the magic of the elves, and even the body could not be found after being bombed, when I saw these elves, I couldn't help but want to kill them to avenge my brother!"
The words of the little soldier made the soldiers gathered around feel the same way, and many of them had brothers, friends, and friends from the same village who died at the hands of the elves, especially those soldiers of the Turani Kingdom that had been destroyed, and some of them lowered their heads and cried, staring at the captives with red eyes and clenching their weapons.
"I see. Ouyang Yu turned his head to Prince Terry and said, "Your Highness Terry, this soldier has violated military regulations but there are extenuating circumstances, and I ask Your Highness to be lenient." After speaking, he also quietly hinted that he should pay attention to the feelings of the soldiers around him, if he didn't handle it properly, the morale he had just raised would be gone.
After seeing the hint, Prince Terry nodded slightly and said, "With Her Royal Highness Catherine interceding for you, plus you want to avenge your brother, so minus most of your criminal law and go to the punishment camp to receive five whips yourself." ”
"Thank you, Your Highness the Prince, thank you, Your Highness Catherine!" the soldier thanked again and again.
"Beta. Ouyang Yu stopped the little soldier who wanted to leave and said: "Beta, I support you very much if you want revenge, but you can only take revenge on the battlefield, and only by destroying the enemy can it be regarded as revenge, killing the captives is just a coward's behavior, and these captives can also help us exchange for compatriots captured by the enemy, so you can't kill, you know?"
"I see, Your Highness. Beta gave a military salute vigorously.
"Everyone!" Ouyang Yu said loudly to the soldiers around him: "You are the same, only by destroying the enemy on the battlefield can it be regarded as real revenge, killing prisoners is a shameful cowardly act, I can do it, aren't you men as good as me as a woman?"
Ouyang Yu's words made most of the soldiers blush, but some still stared at the captives with red eyes, Ouyang Yu approached Prince Terry and whispered: "The captives should continue to be taken care of by my soldiers, otherwise I will have problems, and if there is a mutiny because of some captives, it will be troublesome." ”
Prince Terry enjoyed the body fragrance from Ouyang Yu's body very much, and agreed to her request, and after the small turmoil, Prince Terry led Ouyang Yu and a group of generals from various countries to his tent. (To be continued......)