Chapter 595: Secret attack

Chapter 5 Hundred and 95
\"General Bethlow, the wind and sand here are so big, the visibility is so low now, shall we wait for the weather to be better before leaving, if there is an enemy attack here, or if there are monsters, we will lose a lot big"
Bethlow took a look at Robben and said with a slight disdain: "Duke Robben, this kind of weather has been raging in this wilderness for many years. Although there are occasional sunny days, most of them During the time, it was so windy and sandy, and visibility was very low. If we wait here and wait until next year, we will not wait for a good weather. Besides, in such weather, how could there be enemies attacking us? The situation is the same as ours, I can’t see things at all, and in this desert, I have never heard of any beasts infested. If there are beasts, he will only die of thirst and starve here. My Duke, you still have a good view of your woman, it is better not to be blown away by the wind"
　　 Looking at General Bethlow who disappeared in front of his horse, Robben frowned slightly. Fanny was obviously the boss upset, \"This old man, it's best to be blown off his horse by the wind and fall to his death."
Looking at the dust and flying sand in front of him and behind him, Robben tightened his clothes.\"Forget it, he is a long-standing veteran general. This statement may be correct, but the weather like this really makes people feel very Annoying."
　　\"It's very annoying, the sand keeps digging into the clothes, it's dirty"
Turning back, I glanced at Fanny who was shaking her clothes. Fanny's body had a faint cyan light that was almost imperceptible. Robben's mouth showed a slight smile, \"I was negligent..." said, Robben imposed a small cyclone barrier for himself and Fanny to keep all the wind, sand and dust out of the body.
　　 Looking at the cyan halo on her body, Fanny smiled happily.
Nodding to Fanny, Robben said softly: "Let's go, speaking of it, I really can't let the old man have an accident. We have to send troops this time, and we have to rely on him for many things. Let's follow him. ."
　　 Fanny wrinkled her nose, \"That old guy, only talks big, I think you are much better than him."
　　 Robben just smiled, \"Okay, let's go quickly, we will be left behind in a while, this kind of weather, if we leave the brigade, it will be bad."
　　\"I know, I'll follow you. You have to be like the old guy just said, don't let me fly by the wind."
　　\"Let's go" Robben turned his horse's head and moved forward, Fanny hurriedly followed...
\"Old man, how do I feel, I'm a little frightened, the wind is like something..." Beside Bethlow, the old general who kicked him under the table that day had his shield covering the wind and sand, and whispered to Bethlow. Talking.
Bethlow slid back straight, letting the wind blow his gray beard, sand clanging on his armor, sitting on the horse without moving, \"Leading soldiers for so many years, so suspicious of what can be here Except for the wind and the sand, is it possible that you hear those wronged souls calling you down? Hahaha"
　　 Bethlow laughed, but the other generals were a little silent.
After a few laughs, Bethlow saw that everyone laughed with him. He was boring and stopped the laughter.\"You die brains, none of you understand humor, um...this weather, call the whole army again Shrink the formation and pay attention to the surrounding situation. If there is any abnormal situation, report it immediately."
　　\"Yes" The messenger next to him immediately ran away from the messenger.
　　\"What? Old man, do you also feel a little uneasy?"
　　 Bethlow snorted, \"What am I afraid of, even if those wronged souls come out now, I can send them back to again"
Looking up at the sky where the sun can’t be seen, Bethlow finally showed a little caution on his face.\"But in such weather, it’s not good for the team to disperse. The messenger will go and notify all the teams that are the closest team. You must not leave the team if you are moving forward. If you leave the main force, please ask yourself for your blessings. We will not save you."
　　\"Yes" Another messenger left.
　　The wind rolled the black and yellow sand dust on the ground across the sky, covering the sun like a black and yellow curtain.
　　 After walking another distance, Bethlow suddenly turned around and asked, \"Why hasn't the messenger come back? Someone went and relayed my order again, and then tied back the two messengers who didn't come back."
　　\"Yes" The third messenger turned and disappeared in the sand. Robben looked back at the shadows of the soldiers in the sand. He felt that the sand was thicker than the sand just now.
　　 is almost like walking in the chaotic night.
　　\"Report General"
　　 Finally, a messenger ran over, covered in sand and dust, and he couldn't see his face. Robben didn't know which of the three previous messengers it was.
　　 General Bethlow took the horse’s head and asked: "What's the matter?"
　　\"General, there is a team of two thousand people on the right flank of our army...missing"
\"what?"
　　 Bethlow jumped off the horse immediately, and walked to the side of the messenger a few steps full of anger, and shouted, "Tell me more about what is going on?"
　　\"General...this...something...something..."
Bethlow stepped forward and grabbed the messenger and picked him up from the ground. Robben couldn't help but be surprised. Bethlow looked at least sixty years old. His body looked thin and thin, but he was very strong. All the soldiers and soldiers in the empire knew that this honourable old general was not vindictive.
　　Only when he mentioned this messenger, Bethlow's face was suddenly shocked, \"You..."
　　\"Goodbye General"
　　 abruptly changed, and Chuan Lingbing's body suddenly rose with a cyan halo of fighting spirit, one hand grabbed Bethlow's shoulder like lightning, and the other hand had pulled out the short knife on his waist.
　　\"General" everyone was taken aback, including Bethlow himself, but it was too late at this time. The closest thing to Bethlow was his horse five steps behind...
　　 The sharp short knife made a very short trajectory in the air, and went straight into Bethlow’s chest...
　　 Bethlow felt the cold on his spine. I didn't know when, cold sweat had already dripped down on his forehead. He stared blankly as he plunged into his breastplate with a faint blue awning knife.
　　\"General Bethlow, it seems that we are really in trouble." Robben's voice sounded softly in Bethlow's ear.
At this moment, a figure stood behind this messenger with lightning speed, holding his wrist with one hand, and strangling his throat with the other. This figure, It's Robben.
　　 Until this time, the surrounding generals and sergeants slowed down and ran up together to Bethlow back.
Pushing away the soldiers who were pulling him back in three or two times, Bethlow looked down at the armor that had been pierced with a thin gap, and quickly dragged him down, making sure that he was not injured.The short knife only penetrated the armor. In Bethlow's raised eyes, there was a bit of coldness.
　　\"It’s so interesting to be able to touch me in this army"
Walking in front of this messenger again, Bethlow looked at the messenger in front of him like a lion who was eager to eat. Robben, who was right across from him, really admired him. This was already 60 or 70 years old. , The old man who is completely incapable of fighting spirit and magic can still have such a momentum.
　　 Robben let go and put a binding magic on the fake messenger, binding him to an explanation.
Bethlow licked his lips and said: "Since you came to assassinate me, you must know who I am. You must also know the way I treat the captives. You want to say everything right now, and then happy Go to die, or do you want to die for the most part first, and tell me when I hang my last breath?"
This fake messenger was restrained by Robben on his face and could not move, but there was a weird smile on his face. Robben, who was standing on the side, suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly took a step forward and grabbed the fake messenger. The soldier's mouth was opened, and a stench rushed out, choking Bethlow back again and again.
　　 When I looked at the fake messenger soldier again, he had already rolled his eyes, and it was only a moment's effort that he was exasperated.
　　\"Is a dead man"
　　 Bethlow frowned and sighed, and said to the left and right: \"Check if there is anything on his body that can prove his identity, then, bury him, don't let the warriors go to the wilderness..."
　　\"In addition, send the order to the whole army, stop advancing, and all shrink to the Chinese army in a defensive formation, all the troops report their positions to me, quickly
　　\"General" All the messengers around Bethlow ran out.
　　 Bethlow looked at Robben standing not far from him, looking at the corpse being examined, \"Thank you, Lord Robben"
　　 Robben nodded softly, indicating that he had heard it, and turned to ask: "General Bethlow, we were attacked here, does it mean that the Duchy of Tamar has also begun to betray us?"
Bethlow looked at the corpse on the ground with a gloomy expression.\"I'm not sure, the national power of the Tamar Principality is completely disproportionate to ours. It has been attached to us for a long time. Although we have had hatred, it is already a few generations of kings. For more than a hundred years, our relationship has been very good. We are stuck, and now there is a princess who is the princess in the Principality of Tamar. I think the chance of them betraying us is not very great. Maybe, people from other countries are causing trouble."
Is 　　 only more than a hundred years old? Robben's heart sank slightly, hatred for this kind of thing, sometimes time can gradually wear off, but sometimes, with time, it will be full of eyes and branded in the bone marrow like poison.
\"The general has nothing to show his identity. He wears our military uniform from the inside out. Except for this short knife, this short knife looks like it was made by the master blacksmith of Wolffang City. It has been poisoned. Outside, there is no doubt."
A sergeant ran in front of Bethlow, dragged the short knife with a cloth, and held it in front of Bethlow. Bethlow reached out and took the short knife to take a look, and then threw it to the sergeant, \"Reward "You're here", and strode towards the corpse.
Kneeling down, Bethlow covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, opened the mouth of the corpse, squinted and looked at it, let go of his hand, and pulled the head of the corpse away, looking at the front of the forehead and behind the ears. , Then I stood up.
　　 took off his sleeves, Bethlow's expression was a little gloomy, \"These tamas are really them"
　　 Robben was a little strange, \"General Bethlow, how do you know he is a Tamar?"
Maybe it was because Robben saved his life just now, but Bethlow's tone is not so blunt this time.\"Most Tamar people eat a kind of grain that is only popular in Tamar. After eating this kind of food for a long time The teeth will wear out more severely. The vast majority of Tamar people have very white teeth. Moreover, their males, when they are sixteen-year-old adults, will be shaved off the back of their heads, and then wait for their heads. When it grows up, the bun will be shaved higher than before. This habit, in the surrounding countries, only the Tamar Principality is only, but now Tamar is already a small country, and since we are attached, we will not move anymore. Swordsmen, many of their situations, other countries no longer pay attention...
　　 All the sergeants around suddenly realized.
Bethlow sneered a few times.\"Those who thought that we were in a difficult situation, they finally showed their true faces. Do you want to avenge this million souls? Then I will send you to Those who died are company"
　　\"General"
　　 A messenger rushed over and said loudly: "Two troops on the right wing of our army have been missing, one is a 1,000-man engineer and the other is a 2,000-man archer."
　　 Bethlow carefully looked at the face of the messenger, and then he was relieved, but the news brought by the messenger made his face ugly.
One after another, among the news brought back by the messengers, there were more and more bad news. When the last messenger reported the report, Robben silently calculated it. Now, his 600,000 troops already have three. More than 10,000 people disappeared in the wind and sand.
　　\"Old man, it seems that something is not quite right"
　　 Bethlow snorted angrily.\"Of course it’s not right that people have come here to assassinate me. If you don’t expect it, there are a large number of enemies around us now, but we don’t notice it."
Knowing Bethlow’s bad temper, the general who spoke didn’t mind, and continued: "Now tens of thousands of people have disappeared in the wind and sand. You decide what to do now, whether you really leave them alone, or stay. Looking for them?"
　　 Bethlow groaned for a while, and slowly said: \"The whole army camped on the spot and guarded strictly. Now the enemy's situation is unknown, we can't move rashly. In this wind and sand, there may be traps, so we will stabilize our position first."
　　\"Old man, what about the missing soldier?"
　　 Bethlow said decisively: "They...are dead"
The strong defensive camp was quickly set up, and inside the military account that was blown endlessly, Bethlow, several generals, and Robben gathered together to discuss the current situation. On the table, there was a map and a map. There is nothing but a large desert marked on it...
　　\"Now that the enemy is dark, we are clear, and the situation is very unfavorable for us. We urgently need the enemy’s intelligence. We need to know where they are and how many people there are."
　　\"Our scout team is out, I think there will be a reply soon."
　　 Bethlow nodded, \"If this is the case, it is naturally best, but I don't have much hope for this. Perhaps, now those scouts are already dead outside."
　　 Everyone was silent. In such weather, there were enemies waiting for an opportunity to send out scouts. It was indeed not a good decision, but other than that, there was nothing to do.
　　\"Duke Robben"
　　\"General Bethlow, please tell me if you have any questions."
Bethlow single-handedly said: "Before leaving, I heard your Majesty say that in our army, there is a team of 9,000 people under your direct command, and even the orders of your Majesty will not execute the special team, I said Isn't it wrong?"
　　Roben nodded, \"Yes, this team is considered to be an empire's recruiting army. Last time, I took part of it to the Lothar Empire to participate in a joint meeting with Your Majesty."
Bethlow continued: \"Your Majesty also said to me that this team is very precious. Never let them participate in the usual battles. The tasks they perform are all very special tasks. Duke Robben, please verify."
　　 Luo Ben knew it well, \"General Bethlow meant that he hoped that my army would now go out to detect the enemy?"
　　\"I wonder if Duke Robben can accept this request?" Bethlow made no secret of his intentions.
　　\"Okay, General Bethlow, I will personally take my team out to detect the enemy, and I will definitely bring back the information we need" Robben replied with a smile.
Bethlow immediately shook his head, \"Duke Robben, you can't leave here. The situation outside is very dangerous. If something happens to you, it will be a huge blow to our army. For your safety, For the morale of our army, please think twice. I think, as long as you send your subordinates, it will be enough."
Robben also shook his head gently.\"General Bethlow, I am their sole officer. I have no reason to let them go to dangerous places to perform tasks, but I hide in a safe barracks. This... neither It fits the style of a Caton soldier, right?"
\"If you are just an ordinary general, in order to successfully detect the other party's intelligence this time, I will rush, and I will drive you out, but now you are the duke of the empire and the pillar of the army with high prestige In case something happens to you, have you considered the consequences?"
　　 Robben still shook his head.\"If the soldiers knew that the Grand Duke they respect very much would actually just hide in the barracks and send their subordinates out to live and die, I don’t know how long this respect will last..."
　　 Bethlow frowned.\"Duke Robben, as a Teijin, I really appreciate what you say now, but..."
\"It’s so decided. I, as the Grand Duke of the Empire’s Foreign Affairs, decided that I would lead my troops out. All of you stay here, act by chance, and follow the command of General Bethlow." Robben stood up Obviously, this discussion is about to end.
　　 Bethlow looked at Robben with a slightly ugly face, and said in a deep voice: \"Yes."
　　 Robben looked at Bethlow’s solemn face and smiled: \"I will be back soon, telling the soldiers to be prepared, ready to attack at any time, and prepare our heavy longbows and crossbow arrows."
　　\"Those things?" There was a little surprise on Bethlow's face.\"In this kind of weather, those things are completely useless, the range will be reduced by half, and it will not hit the target at all."
　　\"Prepare, it's better to have it than nothing." Leaving this sentence, Robben walked out of the big tent in the somewhat unacceptable look of everyone.
　　 Looking at the yellow sand in the sky, Robben quickly turned and left. The wind seemed to be getting a bit of a murderous air.
　　 The witches are nothing. The devil world has places with harsh environments. The witches are all supporting small wind shields around them, and they don't take the wind and sand around them as a thing.
The elves, whether they are dark elves or white elves, all have a face that is ugly to the extreme.There is never any wind in the forest, let alone sand and dust, and some are just fresh air and sweet water, although they are also supported by them. With the wind shield, but the choking dust smell still made all the elves sneeze.
As soon as 　　 got out of the camp, all the elves got into their tents and never came out again.
\"whats the matter?"
　　 Lilith was called out by Robben from the tent. Her two eyebrows were almost twisted into a ball. Although she was also supporting the wind shield, she shook her clothes from time to time, and her eyes had obvious disgust for the weather outside.
　　\"We are going out. Now the situation is a bit bad. We have to go out to find out if there are enemies nearby." Robben knew that the elves must hate the weather now, and his breath could not help being very relaxed.
　　 But I didn't expect that Lilith said nothing, she nodded and agreed, \"I will call them right away and will come soon." After finishing talking, Lilith turned and walked towards the white elf camp.
Under the protection of the wind shield, the veil on Nalan's face did not move.\"This Lilith is a very good elf. She only knows what she is doing and knows what is right. This time, you are really Got a good help"
　　\"Hope, if they don't fight each other in two steps, I am very relieved." Turning around, Robben went to inform the dark elf.
The dark elves and the white elves had the same reaction.Although the first reaction to seeing Robben was to complain about the weather, when Robben said that there was a task to be carried out, all the dark elves immediately left the tent and Lined up in the sand.
　　 The witches had already been notified that they separated the white elves from the dark elves and stood in the middle. There were a total of 9,000 people. It seemed that they were already on a certain scale.
Robben gently nodded to the witches, Nalan knelt down first, gently held a pendant on his chest with both hands, silently thinking of something, Nalan's body, A thin layer of bright purple halo rose up, and the witches behind Nalan did the same. For a time, a thousand bright purple lights lit up in the sand, and all the soldiers nearby couldn't help it. Somewhat surprised.
　　\"Old man, what are they doing?"
　　 Bethlow sullen his face, \"How do I know"
The old general next to Bethlow smiled, \"Why? I am angry? Back then, you were the same. I remember that when the two of us went to encircle and suppress the rebellion, you also ran around with hundreds of people. , The scars on your face, there are those left over from that time."
　　 Bethlow snorted, \"That's called a strategy, but I didn't go around and say that no matter then or now, I am not the Grand Duke of the empire. He did this very unwisely."
　　\"Perhaps, but, our Lord Duke is not a soft guy who turns into a straw bag on the battlefield. This is very gratifying. The last time I was in the Lothar Empire, maybe he really did it."
Bethlow sighed,\"I wish... he said so surely, I hope he can do anything else, otherwise, we will trap the Duke of the Empire in the first battle, which will kill me. I don’t have peace, I don’t have the face to see the emperor who went first.

　　\"I think, since your Majesty is optimistic about this Duke Robben, it always makes sense, now... I will prepare longbows and crossbow arrows."
Bethlow did not move, his gaze kept chasing Robben with all the troops leaving the barracks, completely disappeared in the sand and dust, then slowly turned around, \"All the bow and arrow teams are on standby, ready at any time fighting"
　　\"Roben, are we trying to find someone in this sandstorm?" After leaving the camp, Nalan put up a pergola in his hands, as if he could see through the sandstorm, looking around.
　　\"Well, there should be enemies lurking in these four weeks. Our task is to find them and get some information about them, know where they are, how many people there are, and how to attack us in this sandstorm."
　　 Lilith nodded clearly,\"Well, let's move separately. As far as humans are concerned, I think there should be little threat to us"
　　 Watching Lilith turn around and leave, Robben sighed, \"Lilith, wait"
　　\"Anything else?"
\"I understand that you hope to complete the mission number earlier and go back. I also know that your elves hate the current weather very much, but...I also need to remind you that your elves have never acted in such weather and are completely unfamiliar with it. , Now there are still enemies with unknown circumstances lurking around. If you leave like this, it is very likely that your people will suffer. If you don't want many people to fall in the first action, it is best to face our humans. Combat power, although we are far inferior to your elves in terms of individual combat power, the human army has advantages that you cannot match."
　　 Lilith looked at Robben quietly, and finally lowered her eyes slightly, pulled her clothes on, and said softly: "I understand, I will act with you"
Robben nodded happily, \"Okay, our first step is to stay away from the camp. Since the enemy can kill our soldiers and enter the barracks, they can also quietly divide our troops. I think they have no reason. Will not see that we have already walked out of the camp, be careful, we are now moving in one direction."
　　The dark elves are in front and the white elves are behind. The witches are scattered among the elves by Robben. Robben has only one request for the witches, which is to protect the lives of these elves when necessary.
　　 Robben was walking at the forefront of the team. The wind and sand blowing through the sky made Robben a little upset. With such low visibility, he walked all the way as if he was stepping in place.
　　\"Roben, when are we going? If they never come to us, will we never be able to go back?" Fanny was held by Robben and followed Robben closely.
　　\"No, if it were the Principality of Tamar, this hatred that has accumulated for more than a hundred years will never let us alone little sheep."
　　 The squally wind roared, Robben suddenly changed his complexion, turned to the right and shouted: "Be careful, there is a situation"
　　\"Om"\"Om"
Even in the gusty wind, the thick bowstring tremor clearly passed into Robben's ears.As Robben's voice was blown away in the wind, countless slender black shadows flew from the yellow sand. Come out and go straight to the front team where the dark elf is.
　　 In an instant, the dull collision and painful cries became a piece.
　　\"Lilith Magic Support"
　　 shouted twice in a row. In the rear team, the white elves with powerful magic shields began to release defensive magic for the dark elves.
　　 All the dark elves immediately shrank the formation, enclosing the injured dark elves in the middle, forming a sharp triangle team facing the direction where the enemy attacked.
　　 Amidst the yellow sand in the sky, only the wind roared. After a long time, there was no more movement.
　　 Robben frowned while holding an object picked up from the ground.
　　 This... should be a crossbow arrow, because Robben doesn’t think anyone can shoot such a big arrow, and there are still thousands of people shooting at the same time
The huge crossbow bolt with a length of more than one meter and the thickness of a fist fell all over the ground. All of the huge crossbow bolts that were shot from the sand just now were all such huge bolts. Fortunately, the dark elves are sensitive, although many elves are caught off guard He was injured, but no elves died, but many of the blades in the hands of elves broke when they collided with these huge crossbow arrows.
　　 Robben cushioned this huge crossbow with his hands. The weight was extremely heavy, just like steel, but it seemed that it was obviously not made of metal, it should be some kind of very heavy material.
　　 This is obviously something specially made for use in this kind of weather, such a heavy crossbow bolt, with the blessing of strong power, even in this windy weather, it can fly very far.
　　 Luo Ben faintly felt that he smelled a little conspiracy.
　　\"Be careful and protect the injured. Lilith and Nalan and I are at the forefront. Let’s go ahead and take a look."
Nine thousand people moved forward cautiously, but they were never attacked again.They walked a long way forward without any abnormalities.Roben paid attention to the ground under his feet, but under the strong wind, the desert sand. Flying back and forth, there is no trace of reference value at all.
Robben was a little puzzled, how did the other party know his position, in order to be able to detect the approaching enemy in advance, he has been in a state of mental resonance with Fanny, carefully searching the surrounding space with mental power, but until he was caught Before the attack, there was no abnormality. Obviously, the other side attacked from a place very far away from his team. And it's extremely accurate.
Thousands of such large crossbow arrows are shot at a time. This is obviously shot with a machine such as a ballista, but in this soft ground, such a machine is not very heavy, but it is not very convenient to move. , Why did the other party escape so quickly without a trace?
　　 Just when Robben was wondering, there was a sound of exclamation behind him.
　　The team of white elves burst into a strong magical flash, countless black shadows once again struck from the sand, the white elves’ magic shields were smashed with sparkles, and many elves were even directly smashed into the air.
　　\"Straight ahead, magic volley"
　　 Lilith, who had escaped the three crossbows, shouted angrily, all the white elves who could still fight back immediately burst into magical light, and various magic like raindrops smashed into the wind and sand without thinking.
　　\"Stop" After three consecutive rounds of magic volleys, Lilith finally called a stop.
In the sight of the yellow sand in the sky, everything has not changed.First, I immediately checked the casualties of the white elves.With the previous vigilance, there were no dead people in the white elves this time, but there were nearly a thousand elves at once. Injured, the number is more than three times that of the dark elves. For these powerful pure physical attacks, some of the shortcomings of the magic shield are also reflected~EbookFREE.me~ When Robben brought the elves and witches again After walking a short distance, there was still nothing. The enemy seemed to disappear into wind and sand.
Looking at the dusty ground, Robben thoughtfully and said: "We are still there, waiting for the next enemy attack." As soon as he said the words, Lilith and Nalan were both taken aback, but in the end, both of them were also both. Without saying anything, the elves and witches all opened the defensive formation in place.
Sure enough, a short while later, in the yellow sand, huge crossbow bolts that were several times more than the last time were shot. Fortunately, all the elves were prepared, but this time the number of injured people was less than before. a lot of.
　　\"Let's go and attack our enemy's direction"
　　 Everyone moved forward quickly according to words.
　　Finally, a smile appeared on Robben’s face, \"Stop moving forward, go to the place where we just came, and outflank the past as fast as possible"
　　\"What the are you going to do?" Lilith couldn't help complaining, but still a layer of blue light rose from her body and flew in the original direction quickly.
　　 Nine thousand elves and witches flew to the original place, and when they were about to reach the place, among the wind and sand, there finally appeared black shadows and... a panic.
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