In his entire life, Count Nicholls had never seen an army that coordinated so skillfully and killed so efficiently.
Those enemies in black armor were like ghosts emerging from the darkness.
His steps were as light and silent as a cat's.
It is as agile as an antelope.
There was a strange blue light shining in their eyes, and the night seemed to have no effect on them at all.
Even if those soldiers got into a dark corner, they would be pierced by their long and sharp sabers.
They are a group of efficient hunters. The soldiers of Huayu Plateau are like a herd of cattle and sheep running around. Even if they have more numbers than the opponent, they cannot effectively counterattack.
Not all of the soldiers in Huayu Plateau are idlers. There are also some brave men, especially those knight vassals of local nobles. Many of them have received formal and rigorous knight training since childhood. They are the backbone of local nobles to maintain their rule.
strength.
Never giving up is their fine virtue.
They were chanting to reveal their identities, trying to gather the scattered soldiers to their side and reorganize the defense line.
But the enemy will not give them such a chance at all. Their people have just gathered together to form a certain scale.
Then there was a crackling sound like a firecracker, and the group of Huayu Plateau soldiers who had just gathered together fell down in pieces like wheat in autumn, covered with blood and flowers.
"Ghost!" Those soldiers who did not fall were completely discouraged. They shouted and fled away from each other.
Count Nicholls certainly knew what was going on.
It was another new weapon led by the Yongye Army - the musket. It used the kinetic energy generated by the explosion of black powder to launch an arrow, which was several times or even dozens of times more lethal than a bow and arrow.
In his hand was a genuine product that had flowed out from the black market.
But those ordinary soldiers didn't know anything about this. They only heard the noise, and then saw their comrades beside them with blood splattering on their bodies. They naturally attributed everything to ghosts and gods.
Then it entered a new cycle. Behind them, there was a group of hunters who were slaughtering them in an orderly manner.
Those hunters were obviously controlling the rhythm, mainly cleaning up those who tried to hide in place or resist, and did not try their best to chase those who had completely lost their courage and were running around.
Instead, he followed them unhurriedly, driving them to other camps like a flock of sheep, allowing them to encourage more people to escape with them, or even directly disperse the counterattack they had finally organized.
front.
This is the most typical sheep-driving tactic. Once formed, it will be difficult to crack.
Soothing a group of roaring and chaotic people is completely different from a group of violently defeated troops.
Those desperate soldiers, in order to escape for their lives, are likely to resort to any means and raise their swords against their comrades. Different affiliations make it easier for them to do this.
"Sir, retreat. We have missed the best opportunity to stabilize our position. The rout has taken shape and there is no way to recover. If we go forward, we will only bring the Earl into it."
The leader of the guard whispered to the frustrated master.
"Ah? What? Retreat? Where to retreat?" Count Nicholls looked like he had not yet woken up from a big dream.
He really hoped that everything he saw before him was just a nightmare.
"At this moment, if we leave the Helian Mountain Pass and enter the fault mountain range, we can use the complicated terrain to delay the opponent. There may be a glimmer of hope." The person who can become the leader of the guards around Count Nickles is obviously not a mediocre person, and he will soon be able to do so.
In the midst of a crisis, he found the location of the Shengmen.
"No, it's too threatening." Before Count Nickles could speak, other local nobles who had gathered around Count Nickles retorted: "The army led by the Yongye Army unknowingly touched behind us.
Go, the fault mountain range may have fallen into the opponent's hands long ago. If we get in now, we will fall into a trap. I think the safer way is to rush back from both sides. There are other troops behind us that we have not gathered.
, we are truly safe only when we join them."
"Let's not talk about whether we can break through the blockade led by Yongye Army. Even if we break through, how can you be sure that the other party didn't let us pass intentionally? By then we will be a group of sheep being driven by others.
Those who attack our own positions are likely to repeat the same old mistakes and make us lose faster." The leader of the Guards insisted on his own opinion.
"Although I don't know how the Yong Ye army leaders got around behind us, one thing is certain. Their number will definitely not be too many. It is just a small group of troops that infiltrated and caught us by surprise." The local nobleman also said the same.
Plausibly, "The purpose is to cooperate inside and outside to capture the Helian Mountain Pass so that their army can enter easily. Maybe their army has been secretly dormant in the fault mountain range. If we rush in now, wouldn't we be falling into a trap?"
"How are you sure that the leader of the Yongye Army who came around behind us is their small force?"
"It must be a small force. Otherwise, it is impossible for us to not notice it at all."
"All your judgments are based on your past experience. The current situation is obviously not applicable. All our sentinels were lost in the fault mountain range before. Not to mention a large number of troops, even a small force penetrated from here.
, it is impossible for us not to notice it at all.
Even if our sentry agents were cleared out by them before they had time to deliver the message when they infiltrated, there would be signs. The large number of sentry agents losing contact is in itself abnormal information.
But before that, we didn't even receive half of this kind of abnormal information.
At least before the riot broke out, we hadn't received any abnormal messages.
What does this mean?
This shows that the side of the Fault Mountain Range is safe for the time being, unless the Eternal Night Army leaders can uproot all our spy posts in just half of the night.
Not to mention in the dark, even in broad daylight, it is not easy to do this on rugged mountain roads.
I believe that the Yongye Army leaders do not have this ability, and I also hope that they do not have this ability.
If the other party really had this ability, they would not delay it until now and come around behind us to launch a night attack." Although the leader of the Guards does not hold an important position in the army, he has an advantage that others do not have.
That is, as the head of the Guards under Earl Nicholls, he has access to more and more complete information from high-level officials.
"You mean that the Yongye Army Leaders didn't infiltrate from the Fault Mountain Range. Then tell me, how did they get here? Could it be that they had wings and flew over from the sky? Or were they digging like mice?
Passed through the entire fault mountain range and drilled through? Haha..." At the end of the sentence, the local nobleman was amused by his guess.
Because no matter which method, it sounds so ridiculous.
"It's not impossible." The leader of the Guards not only did not laugh, but said solemnly, "It is unlikely to fly in the sky. Although the Yongye Army has giant eagles that can hump people, they are not many in number and cannot be weighed.
They are not as high as expected. It is said that the knights who ride them are specially selected, and most of them are women with light bodies. They usually perform reconnaissance missions.
Moreover, their targets in the air are not small. If they transport troops on a large scale, there is no way to avoid our eyes and ears.
Most likely underground.
The other party dug an underground tunnel directly behind us, allowing their army to embed behind us without anyone noticing."
"When you say this, don't you think it's ridiculous? It's such a huge project to dig an underground tunnel hundreds of kilometers long, especially if it allows a hundred thousand troops to pass through it, or in a fault mountain range
, most of the mountains here are composed of hard rock layers. It is more than ten times more difficult to build a mountain road than ordinary mountains, let alone dig underground tunnels. Are you overestimating the Yongye Army's leadership?
strength?"
"If we rely on manpower alone, it may be difficult to do this, but what if we add magic? In the past, I heard that the Yongye Army leader built a road that can directly connect Brissan and the Northern Fortress.
With the underground tunnels between them, it only takes a few days for them to mobilize their troops, and the convenience is even more efficient than that of a flat plain.
In the past, it was just a rumor. Now it seems that we must re-examine this rumor.
At least the Yongye military leaders have construction capabilities beyond our imagination. The speed at which their military leaders build new cities is incredible to us.
Their idea of hitting the plateau is not just a day or two. They may have been preparing today's plan as early as ten years ago.
If we continue to follow normal thinking, we will definitely fall into their other traps until we are doomed."
This powerful and powerful leader of the Guards had the brilliance of a wise man in his eyes at the moment. Although it was suspected of being an afterthought, he could at least justify himself and connect many things together.
In such a chaotic situation, being able to still think calmly is a very rare thing in itself.
In the past, Count Nicholls only kept him by his side and served as the leader of the guards, which was a bit of a waste.
Even the local nobleman from before was speechless and shaken by his argument.
Once what the other party said is correct, what is behind them now is not as simple as a small group of Yongye Army leaders who are causing chaos, but the other party's 100,000-strong army.
If this is the case, the other party may have opened a huge pocket there, waiting for them to burrow into it.
But the bizarre assumption of the Guards leader is wrong, if they choose to escape into the Fault Mountains.
Even if it is safe for the time being.
The other side only needs to block the Helian Mountain Pass and press the army upward.
They will also become turtles in a urn and eventually die.
"General, what do you think we should do now?"
"Which path to choose, this matter must be decided by the earl."
At this time, everyone's eyes turned to Count Nickles. After all, he was the coach. At the critical moment, his attitude depended on him.
Count Nicholas's face was gloomy. He had somewhat recovered from the previous shock, but his heart was still in a mess and he was a little hesitant.
The situation in front of us is very unclear.
Whether it was the leader of his own guards or the local nobles with whom he had just argued, the views held were all speculative.
Once this part is wrong, the final conclusion will show two extremes.
"This is the call post for the third brigade. A big fish was found ahead. Brothers, follow me."
"People from the third brigade, gather with me in the direction of the summons post."
"Kill, don't let the big fish escape!"
Following a rhythmic series of sharp whistles, some of the ghost-like night stalkers adjusted their direction and pounced in the direction of Count Nickles.
As part of the group that went upstream, Count Niklos and the others were very eye-catching in their own right.
Not to mention that they have far better equipment than other soldiers, so it is difficult for them not to be noticed.
Especially in the initial fight, when the stalkers in the dark discovered that they had considerable fighting power, they did not hesitate to issue a call for a kill.
As the whistle sounded, the stalkers' combat strategy in the dark changed significantly, from driving them away to brutally killing them.
"Ice Thrust!"
"charge!"
"Fire Slash!"
The dazzling magical lights are even more dazzling against the backdrop of the night.
Behind the dazzling beauty, there is a deadly murderous intention.
When they begin to bloom, it often means the withering of a life.
With just one contact, an entire row of elite guards around Count Niklos fell down.
"Combat skill! It is the unique magical battle skill of the Yongye Army Leader!"
"It's really the main battle legion led by Yongye Army that has come around behind us."
"How on earth did they do it?"
"Can't stop it, can't stop it, retreat!"
"We can't evacuate, we absolutely can't evacuate. The count is right behind us. If the count makes any mistake, we will lose our lives. Our families will be implicated. We must resist it. Even if it means our lives, we must resist it."
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"Lord Earl, please leave here quickly. The soldiers in front can no longer hold it any longer. If you don't leave, we will all stay here!"
When those magical lights began to bloom, everyone officially confirmed the identities of these stalkers in the night.
Magic combat skills, just like the Holy Light Magic is a unique product of the Holy Ether Church, have long become one of the symbols of the Eternal Night Army Leader.
Although there are already warlocks, they have deduced their true secrets based on the magic combat skills of the Eternal Night Army Leader, and even created their own magic combat skills.
However, most of them are in their infancy and are still a long way from a complete system, let alone full popularization.
"Leave the mountain from the mountain pass, take a detour through the dangerous Yangchang Road, and return to the plateau from there." Count Nickles had no time to think about it in detail, so he could only make a decision based on his own feelings.