Chapter 1512 Karma (Part 1, ask for a monthly ticket)
The night breeze was slightly cool, and in the dark blue sky, the stars gave off little blue lights. It was dark all around, except for the crackling sound of the bonfire in the middle.
The orange firelight was swaying, illuminating the surrounding area hazy. Looking from a distance, one could vaguely see a few figures, sitting silently around the bonfire.
Under the illumination of the campfire, their shadows all trailed long behind them, and the dark shadows that kept shaking seemed like ferocious ghosts.
Behind them, the dancing and flickering firelight reflected the silhouettes of several people from time to time - and there were more people hiding in the darkness in the distance.
The surroundings seemed very quiet, and only the "coo, coo, coo" calls of summer insects could be heard, and occasionally the night owls screamed like ghosts, which reflected the tranquility of the night.
Suddenly, a loud neighing sound came from the horse: 'Hey...'
Everyone present was shocked and jumped up from the ground. They pressed their sword hilts with vigilant hands and looked around.
But in the dark night, nothing was found.
All around there was only the ever-changing wind in the wilderness blowing.
After they waited nervously like this for a long time, the man in the middle forced a smile, braced himself, and said: "No... nothing happened.
It's just a false alarm. Everyone, sit down, everyone, sit down."
After saying that, he took the first step and sat down next to the bonfire again.
By the light of the bonfire, his face can be clearly seen.
Astonishingly, it was none other than the arrogant Prime Minister Madolins~!
Next to him are several of his loyal henchmen.
The leader was none other than Madolins' number one loyal dog, Minister of Military Order Phil.
In addition, there are Dodry, Tan Gao... and several other young officers who came to power because of the mutiny.
The other people looked at each other a few times, and then sat down at the bonfire. At the same time, there was the sound of swords being sheathed around them.
These powerful young soldiers came to power in the bloody coup that swept the country. Since taking office, they have been actively promoting the war and have the trust of the High Priest of the Undead.
They originally regarded themselves as the mainstay of the empire, ruthless and ruthless. They aimed at the prosperity of the empire and vowed to build a new empire spanning Semites and humans.
Waking up to hold the power of the world, drunkenly sleeping on the lap of a beautiful woman, he is the well-deserved focus of the entire Semitic tribe. It can be said that he is high-spirited and heroic. He uses the heaven and the earth as a chessboard and all living beings as chess pieces to display his ambitions.
However, just two years have passed, and now, these proud Semites all have pale faces and dull eyes.
Hearing the slightest sound, he looked around, looking even more panicked than the old man Madolins.
This is not surprising. In the past five days, these young soldiers have been frightened by the indiscriminate bombing of human war fortresses. The incendiary bombs exploded in front of them. They watched helplessly as people whose whole bodies were on fire
The last crazy dance, when they closed their eyes at this moment, the screams of the burned soldiers lingered in their ears.
According to their original battle plan, before the human army came over, they recruited as many troops as possible, mainly Semitic nobles and knights, to form an army that dared to fight, put all their bets at once, and fight the enemy to the death.
Either win or lose.
The past methods of organizing battles and resisting step by step are useless in the face of mankind's overwhelming advantages.
In the end, it will just become a stupid fueling tactic. It is better to concentrate on fighting a decisive battle.
Moreover, even if they lose, the 200,000 troops guarding the imperial city will definitely be wiped out.
These 200,000 people are the true essence of Lingshan. Almost all of them are educated and come from the landlord class. Their loss will inevitably cause fatal damage to Lingshan, and it may even be impossible for him to recover in fifty years.
Moreover, the hatred between the families of those who died in the war will separate the reconciliation between Akadelin and the Caribbean and create irreparable internal conflicts. This hatred will eventually lead to division and even civil war.
I have to say that, like all those self-centered mad dogs who say, "I do all these things for your own good," these people are indeed very unscrupulous in what they do.
For their own selfish reasons, they did not hesitate to drag everyone to be buried with them.
But having said that, as the loyal lackeys of the high priest, they have been tyrannizing Lingshan, excluding dissidents, and suppressing opposition voices.
His hands are stained with the blood of his compatriots, and his reputation has already spread thirty miles away. I don't know how many people are sharpening their knives in the dark, waiting for the opportunity to kill them.
As the saying goes, if you have too many debts, don't worry, if you have too many lice, don't bite them. Everyone is shameless anyway, and they don't care about it. On the contrary, they secretly rejoice because someone is buried with them: Real man, you must lose vigorously even if you lose, not many
Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people died for themselves, which does not show their high status in the empire.
But...but later, their wishful thinking did not work out.
After witnessing the power of human machine guns and cannons, the soldiers no longer had much courage left. The war fortress was the straw that broke the camel's back.
All the troops, including the officers, were demoralized, disintegrated, and fled one after another.
Moreover, although these young officers were usually arrogant and impassioned, they loudly swore that they would live and die with Akadelin, fight against humanity until the last moment, and never give in.
I don’t know how many literary and artistic aristocratic ladies were moved to tears by this.
But in fact, as the editor-in-chief of "Spirit Times" Peeves said, each of them is "severe and timid", caring about life and body, and simply put, they are afraid of death.
The sight of the incendiary bombs dropped on the war fortress scared these self-proclaimed Semitic heroes to the point where they almost peed.
It turns out that not only the cannon fodder who rushes to the front will die in the war, but elites like me who hide behind may also be killed.
Human beings are really unethical. They don’t care about the rules of war. Everyone is an official. It won’t matter what they mean. You guys are really going to blow us up~!
This is really embarrassing.
You must know that people like you have important responsibilities for the country and the nation, and are extremely important figures anytime and anywhere.
Once he dies, the country and the nation will have no future.
This life does not belong to me, but to the Semitic people. For the Semitic people, no matter how difficult the conditions are, I must grit my teeth and survive.
However, how could these human beings use these weapons to treat themselves so roughly without any sense of reason?
Therefore, after escaping back to the city, everyone in the army was panic-stricken, and all the trees and grass were soldiers.
At this time, it is simply impossible to hold on to the city and defend it. If nothing else, they will have to finish the game if a few incendiary bombs fall.
So after everyone held a brief military meeting, they immediately decided to flee...well, everyone would temporarily move in to preserve their strength for the future.
Originally this was an excellent strategy.
Give up the fight for one city and one land, rely on the vast spiritual area, deal with the enemy, engage in mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, launch people's war, disrupt the enemy's supply lines...
When the Semites invaded the human race, this is what Duke Luo did. He conserved his strength, resisted step by step, and retreated step by step. While consuming the enemy's strength, he traded space for time.
But now when Madolins does this, it is not so effective.
At the beginning, they calmly mobilized all the remaining soldiers, without telling the soldiers the purpose of their march, and coaxed them to escape with them.
It was relatively smooth at the beginning, but you must know that these soldiers and generals are all Akadelins. From the beginning, there will be no problem in fighting, defending their homeland, and protecting their land and property.
But when it came to abandoning his family, running away, traveling thousands of miles away, and fighting against humans, he naturally gave up.
When Arkadelin fell, what would the Free Army do if they traced and implicated their own families?
Among the Semitic people, it is customary to involve others and confiscate their homes.
Don't talk about anything else, just the ferocity displayed by Mr. Leo Lei, the director of the State Administration of Taxation, is enough to make people drink a cup of it.
He is a ruthless character who has been passed down by Sir Alex Ferguson and is said to be able to pull pure, sky-green, non-GMO soybean oil out of stones.
When the Semitic nobles heard the name of Mr. Lei, they all trembled in fear.
What if he went to his own house to collect taxes... Just thinking about it makes my tailbone feel cold~!
Not to mention that there is a super boss Lord Lorraine standing behind him. Mr. Lei himself admits that he currently only has five successes of Lord Lorraine.
Therefore, before they had gone fifty miles, the soldiers realized something was wrong and started to make trouble. They asked the officers to give an explanation.
General Fell led his gendarmerie and rushed forward, and then chopped off several heads, and then managed to suppress him.
Just when everyone thought everything was fine and planned to reorganize the team, the human war fortress appeared in the sky.
That is simply a disaster, a huge disaster~!
Those war fortresses swooped down from the sky like vultures, making chilling screams, and then dropped powerful bombs on the ground.
Many people were so frightened that they peed their pants on the spot, and their legs were so weak that they could not run away.
The power of the bomb was so great that it was no less powerful than a high-level lich's all-out attack. Once it was fired, it exploded like an earthquake.
At that time, the troops were all lined up in dense formation in order to march, and there was no time to escape.
After the enemy's bombardment, when the team was gathered together, they took a quick inventory and found that one-fifth of the people were missing.
There may have been a lot of people killed in the bombing, but it didn't reach such a high level.
It can be seen from this that those bastards must have become deserters and took advantage of the chaos to escape.
Major General Dodry... Well, originally Dodry was only a major, but because he was at the forefront during the coup, he bravely killed the former finance minister and the minister's dog, and made great contributions, so he was promoted to major general.
When Major General Dodry discovered the situation, he became furious and strongly demanded that the gendarmerie be sent back to arrest him.
The so-called brain-dead doctor without medicine is referring to his situation, right?
The remaining soldiers didn't know this yet, but after his fuss, everyone knew it.
When those simple and honest soldiers heard this, they realized that not only did they obey orders, but they could also escape~!
Therefore, the people's hearts, which had been suppressed so easily, began to float again. Some people shouted, "Let's go catch the deserters," and turned around and ran away like rabbits.
The number of soldiers who asked themselves to go back to arrest people suddenly increased sharply. Feier felt that something was not good, so he immediately led his team to suppress them again. He had just cut off a few heads and suppressed the soldiers again, and then the war fortress appeared again.
Then, there was another bombing, and then everyone formed the team again, and once again found that someone had become a deserter. Then they suppressed it again...
This cycle went back and forth three or four times, and everyone was furious.
But this time, the officers learned wisely and dispersed the soldiers, so as to reduce the bombing losses.
But just as the troops were dispersed, the enemy's cavalry appeared on the horizon.
Seeing them charging forward with sabers and rifles raised, all the officers almost cried. Isn't this too rude?
Isn't it necessary to fight in a majestic formation and attack the emperor's army, with gongs and drums beating in front of you?
This despicable style of bullying the weak with the strong, bullying the few with the crowd, and harassing them on multiple fronts is simply a humiliation for a knight.
But at this time, the soldiers were scattered, and it was too late to form a formation for confrontation.
Everyone could only watch helplessly as they passed through the troops one after another like iron rods piercing mutton skewers, scattering and defeating them all. Then they headed straight for the Chinese army's banner.
Facing the enemy's shining sabers and grenades, there was nothing we could do. At this time, everyone had no choice but to run away desperately and hope for their own good.
The dizzy group ran wildly, covering more than a hundred miles. When the enemy retreated, they gathered their troops and horses again. Looking again, they found that the infantry had already disappeared, and only a few thousand cavalry remained.
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And all the supplies were lost.
At this time, everyone was hungry, so they went around to blackmail the people and grabbed some food, chickens, ducks, etc. But when the rice was ready, before they could even take a spoon, the damn war fortress rushed over.
Although it was getting late at this time, it was difficult to find the target for the war fortress in the sky.
But tens of thousands of troops made a fire to cook together, and the little smoke was as dazzling as a torch in the dark night. The war fortress was discovered dozens of miles away.
Then there was another round of indiscriminate bombing, which sent all the troops flying.
In this way, after the continuous pursuit and bombing by the human army in the past few days, Madolins was beaten like a lost dog. He just ran for his life in a hurry without even eating a hot meal.
Many soldiers died from bombing and constant enemy pursuit.
Although some people ran very fast, they were tired of being constantly chased and running away like dogs, so they turned their horses around and launched a suicidal charge towards the human coalition forces chasing after them, and then were shot by rifles.
Beat it into a sieve.
But more people look for an opportunity to sneak away quietly, take off their armor, throw away their military uniforms, and pretend to be ordinary people to escape.
Just like peeling potatoes with a knife, out of the more than 100,000 troops that originally left the city, only a few hundred people were left, all of whom were close followers of Madolins, and their morale was extremely exhausted.
However, this is not without its benefits.
For example, if we originally had to worry about the supplies for tens of thousands of troops, and if people eat what horses feed, they would eat up every leaf along the way like locusts, and rob all the villages along the way.
But now there are only a few hundred people, and the logistical pressure has been greatly reduced. Everyone can just go to the countryside and grab a few pigs and cows, which is enough to eat.
And the target has become much smaller.
At least during these two days of marching, as long as you pay a little attention and hide in time, you will no longer be visited by the enemy's war fortress.
The pursuit speed of the human army has also slowed down. They probably went back to consolidate their victory, so everyone can now breathe a sigh of relief.
Madolins sat down by the fire again, then took a branch and stirred the bonfire thoughtfully, making the flames become more intense.
He looked at the flames, feeling bitter in his heart: He originally wanted to lead his army away and use the vast territory of the Semitic people to deal with the enemy. Even if he could not defeat them, at least he could preserve his strength.
But I didn't expect that after just a few days, they were dying and running away. There were only less than a thousand people left in the army. What should we do next? What should we do?
Why has there been no movement from the undead until now? What about the lich and dark mage as promised? What about the war fortress?
This is different from what Lich Cameron promised himself.
Aren't they afraid that after humans annexed the Semitic tribe and grew in power, they would send their troops north to completely eliminate them?
He frowned and fell into hard thinking.
Even the wrinkles on my forehead are much deeper.
Although the several officers next to them were silent, they quietly exchanged...exchanging strange glances.
Not far away, several soldiers in uniform were lying on the grass, staring blankly at the starry sky, not knowing what they were thinking about.
A few low choked sobs could be vaguely heard in the distance, and it was obvious that there were soldiers hiding somewhere secretly crying.
Feir frowned after hearing this, and then called to an officer next to him: "Tan Gao, please take someone over to have a look."
Tan Gao agreed, then stood up and walked into the darkness with a few soldiers.
Then he heard another commotion coming from the other side, as if several soldiers were quarreling. Fell immediately shouted: "Doddry, you guys take some people over to have a look, maybe you can chop them down."
head."
The Dodleys also agreed, then stood up and walked towards the mess. After a while, the noise subsided.
But after a while, they still haven't come back.
Feier couldn't help but hesitate for a moment, stood up, and said to himself: "I'll go over and see what's going on."
With that said, he patted his butt and walked out.
At this time, only Madolins and a few of his trusted guards were left beside the fire.
Looking at Feier's back, the guard officer was a little confused: Why do they all look a little sneaky today?
But seeing that Madolins was still deep in thought, it was not easy to disturb him, so he could only watch helplessly as his figure disappeared into the darkness.
At the same time, an ominous premonition arose in my heart. It seemed that Feier's departure was a huge mistake for me. (To be continued.