The echo produced by the explosion turned into a low roar, sweeping across the battlefield and flying towards the depths of the grassland.
Vechin and Torek were leading the large force of the Dulci people towards the depths of the grassland away from the battlefield. The troops remaining on the battlefield were originally waiting for most of the Dulci people to retreat after they left the battlefield.
Weichen, Tolek and Deipole, who were mixed in the crowd of tribesmen, were running southward in panic when they suddenly felt a bright light coming from behind.
As soon as Vechin and Torek turned around to look, they saw an orange-red fireball rising not far behind them.
Wei Qin and Tolek were stunned, and suddenly realized that there was the location of their left-behind tribesmen.
"No..." As soon as Vechin and Torek opened their mouths, a heat wave mixed with sand and gravel hit the crowd from behind, like an invisible hammer hitting them. The orcs who were hit by the heat wave suddenly moved forward.
With a tilt, the orc in the back row fell to the ground in a hurry.
At this time, the "rumbling" explosion sound came close to the ground.
The strong explosion sounded like it was exploding in their ears. Vechin and Tolek only felt a "buzzing" sound in their heads, their vision went black, and their chests felt as if they were being squeezed hard, and they could not breathe.
When I came up, I even lost my mind for a moment.
When Vechin and Torek opened their eyes again, there was a sharp "buzz" and "buzz" sound in their ears. In front of him, the Durci fell to the ground and was struggling to get up from the ground in panic.
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Vechin and Tolek hurriedly turned around to look for Deipole, and saw Deipole climbed on the horse's back after being shaken. His body was on one side, and he would soon fall off the horse.
Vechin and Torek rolled off their horses without hesitation, rolled on the ground, and reached out to catch Deipole.
Seeing that her pretty face was pale, her eyes were tightly closed, and her face was stained with dirt, Vechin and Tolek shook Deipole's shoulders and shouted anxiously: "Wake up, wake up!"
Deipole took two deep breaths and opened his confused eyes.
Vechin and Torek hugged Deipole and said with relief: "That's great, you're okay."
Deipole suddenly woke up, pushed Vechin and Torek away, struggled to stand up from his arms, and stared at the place where the black shaman had just been guarding.
There is only a large, charred pit left there, with green smoke still rising. It is surrounded by black debris in a radial pattern, and it is no longer possible to tell whether they are clods of soil or human bodies.
The further away from the pit, the larger the debris on the ground becomes. At the very edge, there are Dulci warriors struggling to get up from the ground.
However, their actions were as awkward as those of children who had just learned to walk. They struggled with their hands and feet, and then fell down again. Then they struggled to get up. They had been stunned by the explosion.
Deipole stared blankly at the bombed ground, and lamented in a charming voice like crying blood. His body softened, and he sat down on the ground weakly. He murmured with a dull expression: "What should I do? How many times can I do this?"
Years of hard work are just like this."
Vechin and Torek squatted in front of Deipole, grabbed her arms and pulled her up from the ground, saying softly: "Let's go quickly, we have reinforcements behind us, and we have internal intelligence in front of us. This little
Frustration is nothing.”
Deipole glared at Vechin and Torek with cold eyes, gritted his silver teeth, and said coldly: "Now, are you satisfied?"
"I..." Vechin and Torek opened their mouths, but could not say a word.
Although this was just a mere defeat, the shame of the defeat came up together with Deipole's blame on him. Vechin and Tolek blushed and lowered their heads without speaking.
Deipole suddenly acted like a shrew, punching and kicking Vechin and Torek, and shouted loudly: "It's all because of you. What kind of victory on the battlefield do you want, what kind of honor do you want as a man? There is no such thing."
Don't show off your ability, thinking that if you defeat a few savages on the grassland, you will really
You are a famous general. You are not even as good as the Lorraine opposite. The victory of this bullshit man is just for your face. So many of us died. How do you want me to explain to the superiors? Do you know that in order to support you,
I endured so much pressure. You are a stupid, selfish bastard."
"That's enough." Vechin and Torek roared with a straight face, picked up Deipole, held her still on the horse, and shouted: "Soldiers, let's go, this shame, Scorpion God Ston
Testify, we must avenge this shame."
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Lorraine watched thousands of orcs holding the black scorpion flag heading south in the camp, knowing that this was the tribe with those black shamans.
Lorraine didn't think that all the necromancers would be killed this time. Keeping them would cause trouble for him in the future, but he could only shrug helplessly. The targets of the imperial soldiers' counterattack were still outside his camp, so he had to watch.
and watched them go away.
At this time, the whistling autumn wind blew, and the top of the black mist was first blown by the wind. A large piece of black mist turned into gray smoke and rolled away with the autumn wind.
Then the entire black mist was pushed by the autumn wind and began to roll along the direction of the wind. The black mist became thinner and thinner, and its color gradually became transparent.
It's like a black veil being lifted up layer by layer.
The black mist was quickly blown away by the wind from in front of the imperial soldiers, first turning into several broken pieces of smoke, and then the smoke separated again, becoming lighter and smaller, until under the gaze of the soldiers
down, completely disappearing into the grassland.
The soldiers were still uneasy and cautious, preparing for the strange drum sound to sound again. After waiting for a few minutes, the battlefield in front of the soldiers was still empty. At this time, the horn sound of counterattack came from the rear.
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Only then did the soldiers realize that those corpses would never rise again.
The imperial soldiers who had been fighting the zombies for most of the day lowered their weapons, wiped the sweat off their heads, panted heavily, and spat loudly at the orc corpses on the ground.
Vera led the mages back to Lorraine. As soon as they landed, the surrounding imperial soldiers all raised their weapons and cheered towards them.
Vera proudly puffed up her chest, smiled so much that her eyes narrowed, her little face flushed with excitement, she took Lorraine's arm and said loudly: "Master, it's so fun! It's even more powerful than the time I blew up the meeting hall.
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The mages also performed a great service and completely eliminated those necromancers, so they did the job that was originally the priest's job.
Everyone was smiling and shouting: "Now those pastors can't hold their heads up in front of us."
Seeing that the necromancer who controlled the zombies was killed by Vera and her men, Lorraine knew that there was no need to wait on the battlefield, so he immediately waved his hand and shouted: "Send the order, the necromancer has been killed, counterattack and kill him."
Legion commander Firdolis also shouted the order: "Counterattack, the infantry will cut off the orcs from both sides."
The ordering soldier agreed, then held the order flag high, and ran out of the camp at lightning speed, shouting at the top of his voice: "The necromancer has been killed by us, there will be no more zombies, the general has ordered, counterattack, counterattack~!"
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The half-orcs who had just approached the two wings of the human military camp were originally planning to rush towards the human military camp with roars and pick up some bargains, but they were also confused and confused by the violent explosion.
They were hesitating whether to look at the direction of the wind again, when they suddenly heard the passionate sound of horns coming from the human military camp, and they were all stunned.
Only then did they discover that the center of the battlefield had become empty. The black mist had left no trace at all, and the zombies that had firmly restrained the human legions all fell straight to the ground at this moment.
In some places, there were even two or three layers of corpses stacked up.
Those imperial soldiers who had been retreating under the pressure of zombies just now were like wolves seeing chickens in a cage, rushing towards the orcs with a ferocious smile on their faces.
You must know that the undead have not appeared on the earth in the past thousand years. Now these soldiers of the empire suddenly found themselves facing this kind of terrifying creature. At first, many people were almost scared to the point of urinating.
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Everyone calmed down, gritted their teeth, and tried their best to withstand the attack of the zombies. They were holding back their anger, and these orcs who came to their door were just used to vent their anger.
But this time, these orcs couldn't run away even if they wanted to. They were caught by the cavalry and infantry of the Imperial Legion.
The orcs who stayed on the battlefield saw that the situation was over.
They originally planned to come here to take advantage, but ended up losing the money themselves.
Everyone scolded the Dulci people. These grandsons would not release the zombies early in the day, and they would not release them until we, the warriors of the tribe, had transferred in.
If you don't collect the zombies sooner, you won't collect them later, and when we warriors reach the entrance of the human camp, you will collect them all again.
You are so pretty, aren’t you a liar?
The patriarchs of each tribe bared their sharp teeth in annoyance and cursed the shamelessness of "Dead Scorpion", "Damn it, I will remember this grudge"; at the same time, they quickly gathered their men and shouted: "Turn in, turn in, turn in,
We must run past the so-and-so clan."
"A certain clan is going to run away. We don't want to be their scapegoats. Everyone, retreat, retreat!"
"..."
It is not an easy task to chase tens of thousands of fleeing orcs with thousands of people, especially since these orcs are strong and strong and can run very fast on the grassland.
The infantry of the Empire are all invulnerable and heavy armor. They themselves cannot move quickly. They have been fighting on the battlefield for almost a whole day. They are already exhausted. The fact that they can hold on to encircle the Orcs who are trapped is enough to prove that they are worthy of the victory.
Elite.
The cavalry, on the other hand, never achieved any results in frontal battles. They were made to run back and forth twice by the orcs, and they were very angry.
When they finally chased the fleeing orcs, these ruffians were all rattling their teeth, waving their sabers, and wantonly harvesting the enemy's heads.
These orcs are not stupid either. Although they have not learned the advanced experience of the US military during the Korean War and Vietnam War, they carry a small piece of paper with several languages on them. Fortunately, when the enemy rushes forward, they need to fire.
Want Geneva treatment or something.
But these orcs knew a common body language in war. They threw their weapons, knelt on the ground, raised their hands to the sky, and kept shouting "no kill" and "no kill" in blunt Ruman language.
The smarter ones will also say "peace-loving"
These words were learned by the orcs early on when they were marching north, and they were all spontaneous. Not only that, the orcs were also surprised to learn that humans do not kill prisoners.
This made these half-orcs laugh at the pedantry and idiocy of humans, and at the same time, they were secretly happy.
Now, those things that I have hastily learned along the way have not been in vain, and it is finally time to put them to use.
And it seemed that the human soldiers clearly understood what these orcs wanted to express. When they saw these orcs kneeling on the ground and surrendering, they ran up and kicked them to the ground, and tore their clothes clean in twos and twos.
Of course, misunderstandings occasionally occurred during this process. Many orcs covered their big butts and would rather die than obey. It was not until they were stomped hard several times by human soldiers that they became honest.
Then the soldiers dragged these half-orcs who had only a pair of underpants off from the ground, slapped them hard on the buttocks with the back of a sword, then pointed them in the direction of the camp, motioned them to go there, and then went to deal with it.
The next group of orcs surrendered.
With a quick mind, he took off his clothes before the imperial soldiers came up, raised his hands and walked towards the human camp.
This made the imperial soldiers who were chasing the orcs' tails dumbfounded.
The battle continued until night. At night, the orcs' eyesight was far better than that of humans. It would be dangerous to pursue them any further. The imperial soldiers could only withdraw their troops back to camp in frustration.
That night, although Lorraine did not go to the battlefield, he was still exhausted, but he still wrote hard with the lamp on, and wrote a colorful letter reporting his victory. He also went to find General Ferdolis in person and asked him and a group of officers to
Also sign your name.
In this battle, the imperial army of less than 10,000 people led by the Governor of Lorraine won a complete victory in the south of Croni City, defeating more than 20,000 orcs at the edge of Kou at a small cost.
The earth will be cleared.
When the good news came back to the capital, the whole city was shocked. The officials and the people celebrated on the road. His Majesty praised him and said: "This son is really my lucky general." The whole city couldn't help but celebrated for three days.
Of course, these are the statements in the history book issued by Emperor Leo the Great more than ten years later.
The fact is that Lorraine's document reporting his victory was sent to Ruman City, but no one paid any attention to it.
Although in the Ministry of Military Affairs, Lorraine's letter of victory was read from top to bottom, the Minister of Military Affairs also cordially commented, "It has been read and handed over to the Under-Secretary-General for decision."
Then there is the second-longest "read".
Then it was transferred again, and again, until it was on the desk of a certain small clerk, and finally it was put into a corner of the archives together with a bunch of documents asking for military pay, supplies, and transfers to eat dust and never see the light of day again.
Chance.
Although for Lorraine, General Ferdolis, and the nearly 10,000 soldiers who participated in the battle, this victory was hard-won. After many twists and turns, they almost all lost their lives before defeating the 20,000 soldiers on the opposite side.
Mostly orcs.
Six thousand people were beheaded and more than four thousand captured. The result alone was already the same as the number of troops participating in the war. No matter how you look at it, it was a rare victory.
But for the big shots in Ruman City, this victory was too common. Whether it was Grand Duke Julius or the Delen Front in the north, they often sent various documents reporting victory to Ruman City.
Everyone is very clear about the connections here. One is Grand Duke Julius who is seeking credit for his subordinates, and the other is Prime Minister Russell who is supporting his own people.
These battle reports are much more beautifully written than Lorraine's. They can easily use three thousand to forty thousand or something. The people in the Military Affairs Department have long been numb. People like Lorraine who have lost ten thousand to twenty thousand have already lost their temper.
, basically can’t be used.
Several leaders in the Ministry of Military Affairs were all human beings, and they knew exactly what was involved in such a great victory. In the name of verifying and deliberation, they threw it into the trash can.
Although Lorraine's report this time contained some practical information, unfortunately, it was accidentally killed by inertial thinking.
Moreover, there is a saying among the Imperial Army that when fighting these uncivilized savages, winning is a matter of course and there is no glory. If you lose, just wipe your neck and commit suicide. Your ancestors will be disgraced.
Although the report of victory was lost, another letter from Lorraine attracted the attention of the empire's top officials. Lorraine reported to the imperial capital that necromancers appeared among the orcs on the grassland and directly participated in the war.
Although according to the rules, this kind of matter should be reported to the Holy See headquarters, which will send people to deal with it directly, but Lorraine knows very well that his immediate boss is the empire, not the Holy See, so he naturally throws the Holy See aside.
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Lorraine knew that for such a big matter, the Vatican would get the news soon even if she didn't tell him. Then it would be up to Hilmeria.
This news caused an uproar in the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Military Affairs. Not to mention that the Prime Minister himself is a cardinal. He was attacked by people from the Dark Council last year and has already held several battles against necromancers in the empire.
Big sweep operation.
The big shots in Ruman City are well aware of the dangers of these necromancers. Regardless of the dirty and evil necromancers mentioned in the propaganda, they cannot escape the sharp eyes of the masses. Once they show up, they will be brought to justice by the just people.
, there is absolutely no opportunity for evil.
In fact, these necromancers are so elusive that if they sneak into the city and create a plague, they will be in big trouble.
In particular, the grassland is a blind spot for humans. Once these necromancers collude with the orcs, they not only gain space for activities, but also pose a huge threat to humans.
Emperor Julund convened the prime minister, the Ministry of Military Affairs and other senior officials to discuss countermeasures. However, Lorraine did not know this at the time. After he sent in the report he should write, he had to continue to pay attention to this war of his own.
That night, an urgent message from General Larry was delivered to Lorraine.
When the soldiers covered in dust and blood handed the urgent report to Lorraine, Lorraine knew that something bad had happened.