For Amy, his first real leadership was not smooth... at least it was an unsmooth start. At this point, he even envied Chi Aotian's expeditionary army. In that army
, the small mercenary group system will definitely obey Chi Aotian's orders 100%, while the Black Dragon Knights will
It is simply equivalent to the private army of the Chi family. For hundreds of years, it has not discounted the orders from the Chi family at all. It has even reached the point where it only knows about the Chi family but not about His Majesty the King. After Chi Hanfeng died in the battle, Chi Ao
If God raises his arms with righteousness and personal hatred, he will definitely get the unreserved cooperation of the S Black Dragon Knights.
Where is the situation in front of me? Although Amy has absolute authority in the small mercenary group, what about the large number of officers? These officers are all from the ace of the ace army of the empire. The four major knights of the empire, the Imperial Guards, whatever
Pull out a squadron, and there will be a lot of extremely glorious history behind it, 500 years of imperial history, without war.
It was only 63 years ago. Which army is not made of steel? Which officer above the squadron leader does not have the title of nobility? Marshal Chi Datong, the second son of the most famous family in the imperial army, Earl Chi Hanfeng, has just taken office as the general of Gyeonggi, and there are three captains in the army.
Are they going against each other right under their noses? Amy, the leader of a mercenary group, can suppress this?! What a joke!
In order to assimilate the imperial officers as much as possible and avoid unnecessary internal friction in future wars, Amy can only draw them into combat meetings, and must learn to mediate between them, and ultimately achieve her own goals. This kind of pain has never been experienced before.
People will never understand.
Just when Amy was envious of Chi Aotian in the snowfield, he didn't know that the remnants of Chi Aotian's expeditionary force were almost in a desperate situation!
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In the known world, the most unsuitable places for human life are not rugged mountainous areas, icy snowfields, or swamps that can kill people at any time! Although these places are scary, humans can still find ways
Yes, even in a bottomless swamp, humans can save themselves and be rescued.
The desert, the boundless desert is the real forbidden land for human beings! Even for races that have lived in the desert all their lives, once they leave their oasis and the area they are familiar with, a look of fear will appear on each of their faces. They will fall into the desert area.
, you will never be able to escape because of the strength of numbers...the more people there are, the faster death may come.
Without water, it is difficult to survive five days in the desert. Even with enough water, the surface temperature of the desert under the scorching sun at noon is as high as 60-, which is enough to make anyone collapse or even lose consciousness. At night, the surface temperature of the desert may be as low as -20
-, this sudden cold and sudden heat is the most efficient killer in the desert besides lack of water!
Death in the desert is more than just that!
The desert seems to be a desert without any life. However, in fact, there are all kinds of creatures here. Living in this extremely harsh environment, each of them has been trained to be strong, evil and even vicious to the extreme! They
It was difficult to find food, so they used all foreign creatures that dared to invade their territory as their food. When they met the caravan,
They are like having a celestial party, rushing from all corners excitedly, waiting for the opportunity to get their due share! They are much scarier than their brothers and sisters in other environments. They are also rattlesnakes, and one in the desert is even more terrifying.
A small rattlesnake hanging in an eggshell is enough to bring down a giant elephant, and adult rattlesnakes in plain areas often become food for dogs.
Of course, if these stories are told to people who have never entered the hinterland of the desert, most people will not believe it. Only those who have actually entered the hinterland of the desert can talk about the color of the sand changing - those who talk about the color of the sand not changing all fall in the desert.
Hit.
In order to avoid the annihilation of the entire army and to avoid the aerial scouts of the Dragon Knights of Fanos, the remnants of Chi Aotian's army have stayed in this deserted place for nearly ten days!
After the bloody battle, Chi Aotian's expeditionary force was not only seriously injured, but also suffered heavy losses! At the peak of the expeditionary force, the total number of troops had exceeded the 20,000 mark! After that battle, the total number of soldiers who managed to escape was only 5,139.
, among them, there are 3721 soldiers who were originally affiliated with the Black Dragon Knights, 456 mercenaries from the original small mercenary group, 17 former soldiers from the Xueyue Legion, and the rest are allied expeditionary forces.
No dragon knight had ever tried to fire dragon breath at the river. Of course, no one could have imagined that the breath of the two giant dragons would swallow up nearly ten thousand soldiers in an instant with the help of the power of the river water.
Of course Chi Aotian didn't know, otherwise... Chi Aotian would never have given Grand Duke Iron Hand the opportunity to stop Jiang. If there is any consolation, the proportion of losses among senior officers of the expeditionary force did not reach that of legionnaires.
The proportion of losses. Even so, one captain, two squadron captains and five squad captains were wiped out from the roster of the expeditionary force that night... several of them were specially trained by the Black Dragon Knights.
officer.
Chi Aotian was going crazy in his rage. Fortunately, two elders with enough weight in the expeditionary force stopped Chi Aotian's revenge, leaving Black Lightning and 20 forest elves to search for the surviving soldier, Ta Yang,
Su Wen commanded more than 5,000 survivors to march northward, plunging into the forest-covered Qilian Mountains.
The level of detail of the two middle-aged people is not comparable to that of young people like Chi Aotian and Qu Jianhong. Ta Yang and Su Wen have quite the same opinion - they only rested for less than two hours in the Qilian Mountains.
As soon as it fell, the expeditionary force advanced into the hinterland of the desert.
This world is often full of coincidences.
This day was the autumn solstice in the 6th year of the magic calendar. Not long after Chi Aotian's remnants entered the hinterland of the desert, the annual monsoon wind blew up - this wind landed in the northernmost part of the Eminol continent and followed Qilian.
The northern foothills of the Shanshan Mountains have been blowing southeastward, howling all night long, and the traces left by 5,000 soldiers have long since been smoothed away by the wind and sand after dawn.
In fact, early the next morning, Hanhan and several other dragon knights who came for reinforcements at starry night were searching the land. The coincidence was that because the monsoon wind was blocked by the mountains and did not enter the southern foothills, this
As a result, all the traces left by the expeditionary force on the south side of the mountain range are there, but there are no traces on the north side.
This just gave several dragon knights a unified answer - Chi Aotian's expeditionary force is still hiding in the Qilian Mountains. This judgment is of course normal. Even if it is an elite army, without the supplies of the camel team, it will be a narrow escape when entering the desert. If it is certain
If you want to evade pursuit, even if you don't hide in the dense forests that stretch for thousands of miles in the Qilian Mountains, is there anyone who would go to the desert to die?
After setting fire to the Qilian Mountains, the dragon knights of Fanos also searched the desert area, but after all, human eyes could not compare with the elves.
In order to prevent being discovered by the Fanos Army, the expeditionary force completely adopted a day and night system. During the day, the soldiers flattened the organic tents on the bottom of the valley on the north side of the sand dunes, got in with their mounts, and piled sand on the tents.
, if you don’t come up and look, it’s hard to tell that there are people hiding in the sand. The forest elves change shifts to monitor the movements of the sky, especially
It's a dragon knight! In fact, the four dragon knights, Long and Lingyun, also searched for this generation. However, the expeditionary force did not know that His Majesty Hongshi had successfully sealed the dragon. Although the elves' eyes are sharp, they cannot be like X-rays.
They penetrated the dragon and saw the dragon knight. Therefore, when they saw Long, Ling Yun's mount dragon, the expeditionary force did not cheer, but pressed the tent tighter.
With Chi Aotian's temper, he was certainly not willing to do this. Two old guys, Su Wen and Ta Yang, joined forces to put pressure. The old guy's reason was simple - although the expeditionary force is not afraid of death, it must not be like a second-stringer.
Looking at the copper and iron walls there but bumping into them, the two old guys said exactly the same thing: use the desert
Deal with the enemy, wait until the enemy relaxes his vigilance and even starts to mobilize his troops to other battlefields, then insert it like a knife! Not only to achieve Chi Aotian's original pitiful goal - to burn Ulu, but also to
It is necessary to completely disrupt the enemy's layout so that the various theaters of the empire can take advantage of the opportunity to eat up part of the enemy.
This kind of abacus is a clatter, and it sounds like it is exactly what it is. Chi Aotian's good quality of doing good and doing things is once again reflected - this is probably the only advantage in Chi Aotian's character system.
It's a pity that God's calculations are not as good as those of man.
How many people in the world know about the desert? How many officers in the empire have experienced life and death in the desert? Su Wen, who has served in the Northern Federation for nearly 20 years, is a fire-fighting soldier. In the ice and snow, he can never hear his companions talk about the desert more than once a year.
10 times! Ta Yang, for the desert, it is even more pitiful.
As excellent commanders, they were able to discover how to avoid detection in the desert in the shortest possible time, but this could not cover up the mistakes they made in commanding the entire legion due to their ignorance.
There is no way, a person who has never been into the desert can never truly understand the hidden dangers of death in the desert! This is like saying to a foreigner who cannot speak Chinese at all, "It's sour, it's sour, it's so sour..."
...", even if the person's teeth are knocked out, there will never be any reaction in his mouth.
Originally, Qingluo had some knowledge about the desert. Unfortunately, he had entered the desert with caravans before, taking ancient roads, and there would be oases to replenish food and water every few days, so he had no idea about other aspects of the desert.
I don’t understand one side either.
On the seventh day after entering the desert area! The expeditionary force has begun to feel the pressure! The water has been completely exhausted. At first, in the middle of the night, the elf knights brought water bags back to fetch some water, but there were too many people, not only
People also have about twice as many war horses and earth-moving dragons, and the water brought back by more than 200 water bags is barely enough to moisturize their lips.
This was just the beginning. As the Fanos Dragon Knight and the four dragon knights of the small mercenary group further expanded the search area, the expeditionary force had to advance step by step into the depths of the desert at a speed of 20 to 30 kilometers every night... Crazy
The water the Eagle Knights can bring back is getting less and less.
The first thing that couldn't bear it was the war horse - this kind of herbivorous animal couldn't lack water at all. Moreover, how many days can the little fodder you carry with you last? At first, there were desert plants such as salix in the sand nest, and they entered the desert.
After 100 kilometers, there is only yellow sand left in sight!
The war horses fell head after head!
The order from the senior officers of the expeditionary force was to open the arteries of these twitching horses and use water bags to collect blood in case of any eventuality.
What! Was this his grandma’s order from someone else?!
The Allies are doing better. Most of the light knights of the Black Dragon Knights are still young trainee knights. Seeing their black horses staggering and falling to the ground, there are no people who don't cry! These horses are from the Imperial Military Department.
dedicated every year to
Called by the Black Dragon Knights, the one who is all black with four white hooves is the dark clouds covering the snow, the one who is all black with a white hair on his head is Moonlight, the one who is all black with a white hair on his chest is Yunzi, these are all purchased from nomadic tribes at a high price by the Imperial Military.
Zhongguo
Bought. As trainee knights, they were assigned a one-year-old horse from the day they entered the army. Taking good care of their own war horses was the first lesson in their knight careers. In Tongyunguan, war horses were born
When they are sick, most trainee knights spend the night in the stable with their four-legged companions holding quilts. In the war, their robes may betray them, but this silent companion will never betray him unless he dies.
Will give up loyalty.
The feelings that soldiers have for war horses are definitely not something that ordinary herdsmen and farmers can understand. In the army, old war horses cannot be killed. War horses that die in battle will be sent to the special horse hill of the Black Dragon Knights for burial as long as conditions permit. Many people from
Once you become a knight, you will never eat horse meat again in your life!
After receiving such an order, some of the young knights had forgotten their noble status and jumped up to curse. At first, it was just a few people. As more and more horses fell down in the scorching sun, the number of young knights who openly resisted the order became more and more serious.
More and more people came, no matter how concealed they were, they crawled out of the sand pit with their faces full of sand, and yelled at Tayan who came out to issue orders! Of course, some of them started to greet Tayan nakedly.
immediate elder.
The so-called holy priest did not pinch the eyes of these teenagers at all. He casually took the warhammer from the hand of the sheep-headed man next to him and smashed it twice on his hand.
The furious teenagers were not afraid of this threat, so they rushed forward, ready to teach the evil old priest in front of them a lesson.
Two cold eyes shot over. The surface temperature of the desert at noon was as high as 50-degrees. In this high temperature of 50-degrees, the invisible air-conditioning was enough to make all the teenagers shiver inexplicably. Chi Aotian walked over step by step, dry
The sand swished away beneath my feet.
"What are you doing?" The cold words quickly lowered the temperature.
"You are a knight, am I not?" Is there anyone in the Chimen family who is not a knight? "Don't I understand what a war horse is to a knight? Do you need me to tell you again, in the Imperial Capital?
Has Scambrai been captured? Haven't you seen the defeated troops retreating from the mercenary empire?"
The tone is calmer each sentence, but the pressure increases with each word.
"As young men who are trainee knights of the empire, do you forget what you do for a living after being exposed to the sun? Let me tell you, 400 years ago, the Black Dragon Knights fought the 400-year-old dragon's power.
Right here! Every
I personally ask myself, what did your ancestors do? You really look good for your ancestors! A tiger can be bullied by a dog even when it is in peace. Could it be that the most arrogant black dragon in the world will be bullied by a dog when it is down?" Chi Aotian did not say anything anymore.
Repeat the order, turn around and leave.
The voice of these words was not loud, and in the vast desert, all the soldiers of the Black Dragon Knights could hear every word without any obstruction.
It was in this three-thirds of an acre that Miss Moe Ikeda became the leader of the Black Dragon Knights. Back then, that 5,000-man army here not only killed mounts, but also ate mounts and even... ate people! Without these,
Without the supplement of exotic food, the Black Dragon Knights would not have the prestige they have today.
The teenagers stopped talking. They covered their mouths and wiped their eyes one by one, turned around and walked back, choking as they walked. Some people felt a sore nose as they walked, squatted on the ground and cried loudly, tears rushing down their dry eyes.
Come out... The sharp scimitar was pulled out, reflecting rays of light in the desert, touching the mane of the war horse, the teenagers were crying, the young horses...
...weeping too. No war horse is imperceptible. Tears the size of peas rolled out from the once handsome eyes of the war horse. In the separation of life and death, the war horse struggled to lick the hands of the young knights with its rough tongue... The young men
Of course I know what these dumb partners who have been together for two or three years mean - they do not hesitate to leave their chance of life to the knights...
While wailing, the bright scimitar turned red, and red liquid sprang out along the horse's neck! Bright red blood sprayed on the faces of the teenagers, and no one reached out to wipe it. The teenagers were crying and collecting the blood.
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A faint fishy smell filled the air...the war horses did not make any screams until they died.
After the blood was drained, the souls of the dumb companions had completely left the once strong bodies. Perhaps the war horses also had their own paradise... The teenagers used scimitars to dismember the war horses and threw large pieces of horse meat to the ground.
None of the dragon knights, with an average age of 28 years old, dared to pick it up with their hands, so they just let the bloody meat fall to the ground and be beaten.
The Earthly Dragon, who fainted from hunger, tore it out and ate it. Of course the Earthly Dragon Knights understood the emotions of these young men, and no one tried to comfort them - that was tantamount to making sarcastic remarks. Now, the best and only way to comfort them is
The means of comfort is to accompany the young brothers without saying a word and shed tears, the most heartbreaking tears for fellow knights at the departure of their companions...
At this time, in this pain, no one can know that greater difficulties and more dangers are still smiling ferociously ahead...