The sound of the door kicking woke the guards in the living room, and they climbed up from their marching blankets, but all of them looked confused, apparently in a hangover, and could not figure out what was happening.

"What, if you wake up the sir," one of the guards scolded and rushed into the house, until now he thought it was his companion outside.

However, he was greeted by Raymond's crisp sword, and half of the guard's neck was sliced open, and the whole person spun to the ground, blood splattered all around.

The rest of the guards didn't realize something was wrong until blood splattered their faces. However, the hangover and the suddenness of the incident caused them to react so sluggishly that some of them could not even touch their swords, and the Gaspard soldiers swarmed them up and quickly dealt with them all.

At this time, the door of a room on the left side of the living room opened, and a man in disheveled clothes rubbed his eyes and poked his head out: "What's the noise, if you don't want to sleep, get out of here." ”

However, when he saw the corpses and blood in the living room under the light of the torches, his face changed suddenly: "What are you..."

Before he could finish speaking, Raymond took a step forward, grabbed the man's throat, put the sword in his hand on his neck, and pushed the man into the room.

After making sure that there was no one else in the room, Raymond said in a deep voice, "Which room does your commander live in?"

The man now understood that he had been attacked, and he said in a pale and trembling voice, "You, who are you..."

"Say!" Raymond snorted, the blade pressing against his neck.

Feeling the coldness of the steel, the man was frightened and hurriedly said, "The room at the end of the corridor on the second floor. ”

"Please, please spare my life. ”

"No, I can't. ”

As he spoke, Raymond slashed his sword against the man's neck, then pushed him away. The man clutched his throat in horror. Blood trickled down his fingers, and he opened his mouth as if to call for help, but he couldn't make any more sounds.

Raymond walked out of the room and closed the door with his backhand, when he heard the muffled sound of a heavy object falling to the ground inside.

At this moment, the Gaspard soldiers were violently kicking open the doors of one room after another. Raise your sword and rush in. The first floor of the entire house was filled with shaking figures, screams and exclamations.

Knowing that the enemy commander was on the second floor, Raymond rushed upstairs without stopping, and a group of people followed him closely.

At the corner of the upstairs is a long hallway, with several rooms on each side, and the door at the end is closed.

Raymond strode towards the room at the end, when the doors of the two rooms opened, and the officer, who heard the movement downstairs, came out in a daze, trying to figure out what was going on.

But before they could ask. The soldiers who were following Raymond had pushed them back, and then followed with their swords, and immediately a scream could be heard in the hallway.

Raymond walked to the room at the end, raised his leg and kicked the door open, but the room was empty, the sheets on the bed were scattered, and he happened to see a figure jump from the window.

Unexpectedly, the other party had already fled first. Raymond hurried to the window. He was about to chase after him, but he didn't know that the probe looked down. I saw Bastet grabbing a panicked man.

Raymond smirked as he rushed to the window, and Bath slashed the man's neck with a scimitar in his hand, then threw him to the ground as he turned and rushed into another room.

Raymond was relieved, and he turned and walked out of the room, where the rest of the soldiers also walked out. There was blood on everyone's sword.

"Are you done?" asked Raymond.

Everyone nodded excitedly: "It's all killed." ”

"Okay, let's go!"

Raymond waved his hand and led the group out of the house.

By this time, the whole town was in complete chaos.

In order to facilitate the gathering of soldiers the next day, the commander of the enemy army limited the rest of the troops to the area of houses around the square.

This resulted. In addition to the fact that officers can have a relatively relaxed living environment, ordinary soldiers have to be crammed into one room with many people. Dozens of people sleep in a room, and hundreds of people can be squeezed into larger ones.

Coupled with the all-night carnival and the hangover, after the Gaspard soldiers were killed, the enemy was powerless to resist, and many enemy soldiers died in a daze.

Due to the lack of troops, the Gaspard army could not storm every house, so they set fire to the remaining houses. The soldiers in the square kept throwing torches into the enemy's houses, and soon the fire spread.

Awakened from their sleep, the enemy instinctively ran out of the house under the threat of smoke and flames, most of them completely unarmed.

Waiting for them outside the house, however, was the Gaspard army, who was on standby. Since Raymond had given an order not to stay, they slashed and slashed the enemy almost naked.

All of a sudden, the whole square was surrounded by flames, thick smoke billowed out, and people rushed out of the burning houses one after another, and countless figures scurried around like flies. Screams, shouts, and cries for help mingled into a tumultuous hustle and bustle, and Gaspard chased the panicked Dirk soldiers with his swords raised, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.

"Lord Yamanlu, what should we do?"

As Raymond had already dealt with all the officers who had gathered together to sleep, the Dirk army was out of command, and the terrified soldiers were completely unable to organize effective resistance, and everyone went their separate ways, being crushed by Gaspard's troops, who were far outnumbered by him.

The man, Yamanlu, the same staff member who had warned the commander to be on guard, was too low to live in the officer's house, and instead escaped as a result. But at this moment, he is already the highest-ranking person in this unit.

So, in a panic, many soldiers automatically gathered around him. At this moment, everyone is asking for help from Amanlu, waiting for his orders.

Seeing the chaotic scene around him, Yamanlu clearly knew that it was impossible to resist. The only way is to run for your life.

"Run!" he said.

Needless to say, those soldiers also have this idea, but they lack a leader. Hearing this, the crowd immediately fled out of the town.

"Wait, wait!" Amanlu called out to the crowd in a rage.

"It's Gaspard's direction over there, and God knows how many enemies are waiting for us. Do you want to die?" said Amanlu.

"Run back, go back and report to Your Majesty, this is the only way to survive. ”

As Raymond had expected, the terrified enemy did not dare to run into Gaspard's territory, and all those who were still alive rushed out of the town and fled back under the command of Armanlu.

At this time, the whole square was strewn with corpses and rivers of blood. Most of the enemy soldiers died here, and many of them didn't even have time to draw their weapons, and died completely unexplained.

"Lord Raymond, the rest of the enemies have fled. Someone reported to Raymond.

Raymond also saw that the remaining enemy troops rushed out of the town in one go, fleeing in the direction they came. He took a breath and said, "Okay, there's no need to chase, Makudi will clean them up." ”

The Gaspard soldiers present slashed softly one by one. But everyone was excited. This was the first time that Gaspard's army had won a complete victory over the Dirk army. This gave them a little more confidence in winning this war.

The next day, news came from Makudi's side that the fleeing enemy troops had been blocked by them, and all but a few who fled in the night were annihilated.

And just like that, after a night of fighting. This Dirk forward force, which penetrated deep into Gaspard's territory and was proud of the enemy, was completely annihilated.

After Makudi and his troops came to rendezvous, Raymond ordered everyone to make some arrangements for the battlefield, and then ordered: "Go." It's time to go back!"

Gaspard's army left the town and headed for Orat in high spirits.

A few days later.

Dirk's main force, which had been reported by the survivors, arrived outside the town of Darru.

"Your Majesty, look. ”

Accompanied by several generals, Renard, who had already sat on the throne of Dirk, was watching the scene in the town.

When Raymond left, he deliberately did not clean up the battlefield, but only planted the flag of the forward unit on the statue in the middle of the square to demonstrate to the Dirk army.

At this moment, in front of everyone, in addition to the burned houses, the corpses all over the ground were the Dirk military flag flying high, which was extremely dazzling.

Renard looked at the scene in front of him with a calm face, without the slightest joy or anger in his eyes. He didn't speak, and the rest of the generals didn't dare to speak, just cautiously exchanged glances behind Renard's back.

"Good job. After a while, Renard suddenly smiled.

Because they couldn't see his expression, everyone behind him was stunned, and they couldn't help but show a panicked look.

When he was a prince, Renard was known for his arrogance. And in this battle for the throne, he took this trait to the extreme, in most of the war, Renard ruthlessly cleaned up his royal brother's power with thunderous means, and everyone who joined the Denard camp, whether it was a general, a civil servant or a nobleman with a prominent family, was without exception in a different place.

In the end, Renard did not let go of his own brother, and personally beheaded the defeated and begging Denard, completely exterminating all those who resisted him. It is said that when the queen learned of this, she was so angry that she fell seriously ill and is still dying.

Such a terrible wrist that even the people on Renard's side were terrified. Since his accession to the throne, Veron has flourished, and even his confidant Belén has become doubly cautious when accompanying Renard.

Just like now, although Renard was laughing, the people on the side only felt bottomless and even more afraid.

After a while, a general said cautiously: "All the way over, I didn't see a single Gaspard." It seems that the intelligence is correct, and in order to resist us, Gaspard carried out a complete evacuation. ”

Another said: "That stupid man of Enshir must have been too careless because of this, and he was ambushed here." ”

"Your Majesty, I am willing to lead a force to continue to be the vanguard and sweep away all the enemy forces in front of you. The general who had spoken earlier patted his chest and shouted for orders.

"No need. Renard shook his head: "The enemy has already run away, and there will be no more ambushes ahead." ”

"What are you talking about?" Seeing that he was so determined, everyone looked at each other.

"Enshir is careless. You must not be ambushed, Your Majesty..."A general was about to remind Renard, but he suddenly realized that his words were tantamount to comparing Renard to Enhil, and he quickly stopped.

Ignoring the unlucky guy who was sweating with fright, Renard said leisurely: "Because it was Raymond who did it." He wouldn't be so stupid as to be delusional enough to do it a second time. ”

"Raymond?" said one of them, puzzled, "Eddington will definitely fight us with Gaspard, but this is just a small ambush, how can you be so sure that he must have done it?"

"Because that's how he does it. Renard looked at the Dirk banner on the statue with an appreciative expression: "Only Raymond would do bad taste." ”

"But I love it. ”

It was really unpredictable what Reynard was thinking, so one general had to say, "Your Majesty, let's let people clean up this place." ”

"Of course!" replied Renard, speaking out to the square, "these are my Valiant warriors of Dirk, and they must be buried properly." The troops were ordered to rest outside the town for one night and continue their advance tomorrow. ”

"Yes. Everyone behind him breathed a sigh of relief, and they should have said in unison.

"That's right. Behead the guys who escaped and bury them with them. As he turned to leave, Renard added lightly.

The generals' hearts beat uncontrollably again.

That night, the Dirk army camped outside the town. After clearing the battlefield, they gathered together the bodies of all the soldiers who had died in battle and placed them in the town square.

After a simple funeral ceremony, Renard ordered the entire town of Darru to be set on fire as a grave for the dead.

The fires that burned the towns were raging. The firelight lit up half of the sky. The officers and soldiers of the entire camp of Dirk watched the fire that reflected the sky, for them. Even more terrible than the fire was the unpredictable madness of his own king.

But for Renard, ordering a town to be burned down was as worthless as a late-night snack. At this moment, he was sitting in the huge command tent, not even interested in glancing outside.

"According to the intelligence that just came in not long ago, it is not only western Gaspard. From the east of the city of Orat, that is, throughout the kingdom of Gaspard, the people have been displaced wherever we are on the march. An intelligence officer reads a document to the crowd.

"The entire kingdom of Gaspard?" everyone gasped when they heard the news.

"The whole country was evacuated. That's a lot of money. One of the generals sighed.

"What exactly are they going to do?"

"According to credible information, it seems that the other side intends to choose the location of the decisive battle at the Giant's Seal Pass on the border with Headington. The intelligence officer continued.

"Mark of the Giant?" the general said in surprise, "No wonder they are going to evacuate the people of the whole country, it turns out that they want to exhaust our troops with a scorched earth strategy." ”

"Hmph, it's just wishful thinking. Another person sneered: "This time we are well prepared, and we are not worried about the lack of food and grass at all." Moreover, by doing so, the enemy has betrayed their fears, and secondly, it has done us a great favor by not being able to threaten our logistics any longer. ”

"If that's Raymond's ploy, the rumors are too much of an exaggeration for him. ”

At this time, Renard, who had not spoken, asked, "What about Orat City, is the enemy ready to hold on?"

The intelligence officer nodded: "Yes, only there, the enemy does not intend to give up." Although the enemy's main force had all withdrawn to the Giant's Seal, a part of the soldiers was left to defend it. ”

"Hold on to the lonely city?" the congregation members all showed admiration, and they naturally knew how much courage it took to hold on to such a city alone.

"Who is the commander left behind?" someone asked curiously.

The intelligence officer glanced at the document in his hand, but he looked embarrassed, as if he was hesitating whether to say it or not.

"What's the matter?" someone said impatiently, "Didn't you even hear about this?"

The intelligence officer hurriedly said, "No, it's just..."

After a pause, he finally said, "According to the intelligence, those who are left behind are... It's Queen Sophia. ”

"What!?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was taken aback, and even Renard sat up straight.

"Is it true?" the general asked, "Is there a mistake?"

"How could it be Sophia, did the enemy leave his queen in the city?"

"There must be a mistake in the intelligence, or the enemy has released it to confuse us. ”

......

Everyone gossiped and expressed disbelief.

The intelligence officer read the document carefully again, and said to everyone: "It is specifically noted in the information that our secret agents have repeatedly verified this article. This news has long spread in Orat City, and they have confirmed it in many ways, and it seems that it is indeed true. ”

"Give it to me. Renard held out his hand to the intelligence officer.

The intelligence officer hurriedly handed him the document, and Renard took it and looked at it silently for a while, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Interesting, this time it was really unexpected. ”

Renard said this, apparently he already believed it.

Seeing that Renard had confirmed the authenticity of the information, the generals attending the meeting glanced at each other, and one of them slapped the table: "This is a great opportunity!"

Another said, "That's right, the enemy is stupid enough to leave the queen behind to defend the city, as long as we capture Orat and capture Sophia alive, we can guarantee that the enemy of the Giant's Mark will collapse immediately." ”

After learning that Sophia was staying in Orat City, everyone was very excited, and immediately turned the goal of eliminating the combined forces of Gaspard and Headington to capturing Sophia alive. (To be continued......)