Chapter 187: Cross dress

Chapter One Hundred and Eighty Seven
An important city and capital of the northern provinces!
Over the Pamir plains and the Light Empire confronted for many days. Tiger's idea is simple.
At present, the road to the south is the Pamir Plain located in the north of Guangming Continent. The northern end of the plain is the Thunder City, which borders the Thunder Strait, and the southern end is two. After the only main force in the north, the empire went south and conquered the capital of the northern province, or Kaka city!
Second, bypassing the strong line of defense in front of them, leaving tens of thousands of people to contain them, and then leading the main force to go south from the other direction in the west...
Tiger shook his head. The second method is simply a lunatic-get around?
He led hundreds of thousands of troops to go deep into the enemy, and instead of fighting the chance of a head-on decisive battle, he went deep into the place? That is the idea of ​​a lunatic!
After rubbing the painful temples, Tiger sighed.
The past two days have not gone well. After winning with the battle convoy for a while that day, the Bright Empire man on the opposite side suddenly turned into a tortoise with a shrunken head, hiding behind a solid defense line, and refused to come out. Relying on the deep trenches and solid walls, as well as the archers, catapults, and spearmen hiding in the barracks along dozens of miles of defense. The coalition forces were unable to open the gap for two days.
What makes Tiger difficult to understand is that even in the face of the strong Thunder City, his army can inspire courage to fight, and the fighting is so fierce, the soldiers under his team will move forward bravely.
But now the situation has suddenly changed!
Except for the Sauron Kingdom that he brought out, the military disciplines of the Sauron Kingdom were fairly strict, and the armies of the other kingdoms seemed a bit strange. In the two days of fierce attack, they all refused to be the vanguard. Even if Tiger gave strict orders in the name of commander in the end, the commanders of those troops still pretended to be dead.
Those soldiers are even worse. Often they just stepped in place after running a few steps, and refused to take a step forward. Even if the supervising team behind is holding a sharp sword to supervise, those soldiers can also hide as slowly as possible.
Occasionally rushed up for one or two times, and there was no mortal faith and courage at all. After a sparse fight for a while, he immediately retreated. The first thing these soldiers did after they retreated was to rush to the barracks and divide up the spoils of other soldiers who died on the battlefield today.
Sometimes even in order to a pack of gold coins, these guys who are not aggressive on the battlefield will show their swords to their companions!
Tiger was so angry that he ordered several people to be executed. After hanging their heads out, it attracted the dissatisfaction of the army leaders of several other kingdoms. These people accused Tiger of selfishness and wanted their troops to die. , But did not send the army of the Sauron Kingdom up to desperately.
Tiger gritted his teeth and sent the infantry regiment of the Kingdom of Sauron to fight for a day, but found that the armies of the kingdoms that cooperated with the attack were still working hard, and finally Tiger had nothing to say. He angrily dropped a sentence: You should stay in the barracks and count your money slowly! Just think about it, if this war is lost, there is still no life left to spend! !
In addition, there is one sentence in his heart that he didn't say: The opponent's Thor's Whip hasn't appeared for a few days! Don't you fools doubt it?
Although Tiger was skeptical, at least he hadn't heard any bad news so far. In order to prevent the people of the Bright Empire from making any tricks, he sent tens of thousands of small troops to move around every day, especially on his sides and rear areas.
At least the news that came back the night before made him feel relieved-a 3,000-man army from the Goethe Kingdom was ordered to search around and patrol the other side's transport team last night. The two sides fought fiercely. The return of the blood-stained lieutenant made Tiger's heart relieved.
Because according to the lieutenant's return, what they encountered was "Thunder God's Whip"!
The commander's officer was killed, the army of 3,000 was defeated, and less than 800 people fled back. The two magicians accompanying the army also died.
Although thousands of people and two magicians were lost, Tiger didn't care-at least, Thor's Whip was still here! Did not go anywhere else!
Tiger repeatedly asked the adjutant who had fled back, especially about the clothes, armor and combat power of the army that defeated them.
There is no doubt about everything-in fact, Tiger is already at ease. Seeing the blood and horror of the adjutant in front of him, he already believed that the only thing that could beat the Roland army so embarrassed was Thor's Whip.
Although it sounds like the Thor's Whip that appeared is a bit less, it is said that there are fewer than two thousand people (In order to avoid responsibility, the adjutant deliberately exaggerated the number of Oliseh and his party.)
The news that came last night reduced Tiger's doubts again.
A small army of thousands of people sent out last night was also attacked. According to reports from those who ran back, it was also Thor's Whip who attacked them. The number ranges from approximately three to four thousand people. The place where he was ambushed was southwest of his base camp.
Traces of Thor's Whip were found in the southeast and southwest for two consecutive nights. So does it mean that Thor's Whip is nearby?
Tiger sighed. What is the Duke of Tulip doing? So a powerful army does not need to be on the frontal battlefield, but is divided into small groups of troops to go out and fight specifically to fight its own search team? ?
Or... Tiger's eyes lit up.
Or is the supply of the Light Empire insufficient? Duke Tulip was worried that the small army he sent out would attack his transport team, and sent Thor's Whip to it? ?
Thinking of this, Tiger laughed himself, it was ridiculous.
But didn't the adjutant who fled back the night before said that he saw the opponent's Thor's Whip guard transport team with his own eyes?
Or what kind of powerful weapon instead of ordinary supplies from the other side? ?
With many doubts, Tiger sighed and walked out of the tent. With the evening breeze, he cleared his somewhat dizzy mind, looked at the defense line of the Guangming Empire on the opposite side, and muttered: "That Duke Tulip, in the end For what?"
What the is Lord Duke doing?
No one knows, even Zieg doesn’t know this question.
In fact, the place where Zieg was at the moment was already behind the Rolandites on the Pamir Plain-of course, it was just a lot farther away.
Zieg had already set off with half of the Spike Army two days ago. Their goal is: Thunder City!
The 20,000 Spikes behind them did not wear the standard armor of Thor's Whip. They wore a standard Roland knight armor, and they also held the Roland cross swords in their hands-more importantly, they wore the can It is not the armor of the ordinary Roland knights, the armor of the special color and the black cloak behind them all show their identities-that is the supreme sacred knights of the Roland Continent belonging to the temple! And what Zieg wore was the standard, the real armor of the great knight of the Roland Holy Knights! !
In fact, Qi Ge also had some doubts in his heart. The root of his doubts lies in the recent weirdness of Lord Duke.
In fact, since the day when he had a face-to-face encounter with the holy knights of the Roland people on the Pamir Plains, Lord Duke seldom showed up after returning to camp.
But Zieg, Milo and others all speculated: Is Lord Duke injured?
After all, after fighting for so many days and fighting with the opposing paladin and the great knight, it would be too abnormal if Lord Duke said there was no injury on his body. Even if there are no external injuries, what about internal injuries?
No one knows how powerful the Paladin is, but Zieg knows it. In Thunder City, after the Paladin Fielding of the opponent in the siege got on the wall, he happened to ran into Zieg. Frankly speaking, Zieg had never doubted his strength like that time. . In fact, Zieg's current strength is almost reaching the empire's fifth-level warrior standard. But when facing the Paladin, Zieg only took the opponent's three swords, and the three swords almost chopped Zieg to vomit blood. And it seems that the other party hasn't done all that. Had it not been for the Lord Duke to help him take it, I am afraid that Old Zieg would have died heroically in Thunder City.
But Lord Duke is really hurt? Even if you are injured, you should at least talk to yourself? Even if you are worried that the news of the coach's injury will affect morale, how many senior generals should always disclose it?
During the few days in the barracks, it was really strange. A dozen guards of Lord Duke kept guarding outside his tent, and Lord Duke gave strict orders. Without his order, no one is allowed to enter the tent. ! Even Zig is no exception!
Although Qige had some doubts in his heart: the dozen or so soldiers of the Lord Duke made him very strange-some of them were originally soldiers of the Spike Army, and of course Zige recognized them. Just looking at the familiar face, Zieg felt a little weird: Those people had changed too much. Although I haven't tried it personally, Zig is sure that the current strength of those boys must have been greatly improved-the intuition of the samurai is very keen.
And the other soldiers, Zieg, don’t know it—it’s not surprising at all. After all, he is the Duke of Tulip. It is normal for the Duke of Tulip to have several special guards around him. Each generation of Duke of Tulip has several family The guards brought inside, such as the current Rand. Rand was originally the guard of the Ducal Palace, but now it is also incorporated into Thor's Whip.
But...Zig couldn't help but a figure popped up in his mind: Yes, that's the blue-haired kid.
What's the name of that blue-haired kid...well, Roddy. The kid didn't know him, it seemed that he was transferred from the Duke Tulip Mansion, and it was normal if he didn't know him. After all, these tens of thousands of troops, I can't have seen each of them. It's not a big deal to have a few personal guards of their family around the Duke...but...
But why does that kid always give people a strange feeling?
More importantly, Lord Duke only showed up once a day in the barracks, and took it with him in the tent at other times. Even if he had something to do, his soldiers would tell him what happened. Most of the time, it was this Roddy boy.
And... well... by the way, and his sword. That was clearly the Duke's weapon, but it appeared in the hands of that kid. Could it be that the Lord Duke gave it to him.
What's the origin of this kid? It looks like you are less than twenty years old—well, isn’t it a relative of the Tulip family?
At this moment, Roddy was about two hours away from Zieg. There are more than 20,000 cavalry behind him, also wearing the armor of the Holy Knights.
Their goal is also: Thunder City!
Kraft looked at the blue-haired boy next to him, but he thought of his own thoughts in his heart.
Kraft is thirty-five years old this year, and he is also an old soldier of Thor's Whip. It's just that because of his temper that he has been serving as the deputy commander in Thor's Whip before-the army of the empire knows that the position of deputy commander is basically a decoration, and the actual power is not as good as the captain of a column!
After the Lord Tulip rectified Thor's Whip, Kraft had the opportunity to take the upper position, relying on his own strength to take the position of command. Kraft is a very proud man. In the original Thor's Whip, he didn't really value those noble officers, and he never went with those guys. In addition to arrogance, there is a deeper reason: because Kraft himself is not a nobleman.
Because of this, Kraft looks slantingly at those noble lords—except for the great Duke, of course!
It's just that Kraft doesn't like the blue-haired boy next to him that much.
This kid probably entered Thor's Whip through the back door. Otherwise, how could you become the deputy captain of the Duke's personal soldiers so young?
You know, in Thor's Whip, being able to be the Duke's personal soldier is already a supreme honor-how many cavalry captains would even be demoted if they could be transferred to the Duke's personal soldier! This kid can be a soldier of Lord Duke at a young age—heh, he is probably a guy who walks through the back door.
Otherwise, why did he not dare to mobilize the vanguard of combat when he was a personal soldier of the Duke? Like the Spike Army? Or other cavalry?
Seeing his young age, he doesn't look like he has great abilities...
But whether it was Zieg or Kraft, who was dozens of miles away, they absolutely obeyed his order to lead the attack.
They all deeply remember the scene when Lord Duke summoned him in the tent before they set off...
The Duke's face seemed a little pale-this made everyone more puzzled about the rumors of the Duke's injury.
But fortunately, the spirit of Lord Duke seemed to be pretty good.
That night, the guards were tight outside the big tent. The Duke’s soldiers guarded the big tent tightly and no one was allowed to approach it. In the tent, only Miró, Zieg, and Kraft ruled.
Originally under the leadership of Kraft, he was not eligible to participate in such a classified military conference. Milo is the commander of the Northern Army, and Lord Zieg is the deputy commander of Thor's Whip. Together with the great Duke himself, these three people can be said to be the Big Three in the Northern Theater.
Therefore, Kraft was extremely nervous and excited when he attended that confidential meeting. A man of five big and three thick, standing there, he didn't even know how to put his hands.
A sand table was placed in the middle of the big tent, which vaguely looked like the whole battle, especially the terrain where the two sides confronted each other on the Pamir Plain. A small red flag was inserted on the sand table, symbolizing the laying down of the Bright Empire, and next to it was a small black flag, which was naturally Roland.
Immediately, Lord Duke put two small red flags behind the black flags on the sand table. His tone sounded very calm...
"There are two roads leading to Thunder City. One is a big road. When we retreat, and when the Roland people go south, we all walk along this road. The other is a small road, although it is not easy to walk, but It is enough for a small army to pass. Your goal is Thunder City!"
Zieg and Milo looked calm, obviously they already knew about this plan. Kraft's face was a little surprised at the time. Although he hesitated for a while, he still couldn't help but said, "My Lord Duke, with my 20,000 people and Master Zieg’s 20,000 people, I can win the thunder. City? I heard that the Rolanders have nearly 100,000 garrisons in Thunder City... and... we passed by on both sides of the Pamir Plain, in terms of time..."
At that time, Lord Duke’s expression was very firm. Kraft remembered Lord Duke taking a faint look at himself, and then said:
Commander Kraft. I know there is a lot of distance. You both bypassed the other side’s barracks and raced to Thunder City. , Driving day and night, with the speed of Thunder God’s Whip Qingqi, it takes about three days... But I demand... No, it’s an order! I order you to reach Thunder City within three days! Besides..."
The Duke's gaze seemed to sweep Kraft's face lightly, and then said in a low voice: "We have been in Thunder City for more than ten days, and I have let the Spike Army secretly dig a tunnel outside the south of the city! Although the time is too short and the tunnels are not dug too deep or wide, it is still possible for one or two thousand people to sneak in. I will give you my guard, and the guard will enter the city through the tunnel. Strive to open the city gate from the inside... and then... can't my 40,000 Thor's whips beat the 100,000 mobs!"
Kraft immediately stood up straight, and roared: "Master Duke, if you can't take Thunder City, Kraft will die there and won't come back!"
The evening breeze blew on his face, and Kraft was bumping on the horse, and couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his head. He glanced at the blue-haired young man Roddy next to him, sighed, and couldn't help thinking: Lord Duke said to let his soldiers enter the tunnel, is this kid named Roddy really Is that amazing? Hum...it depends on his age, half of the rand is good... alas, why doesn't the Duke send the rand? But sent such a kid...
It's just that Kraft didn't know. At this moment, Rand was in the head coach tent of the Bright Empire Barracks in the Pamir Plain.
The handsome account is surrounded by a team of more than a dozen soldiers, among them is Oliseh-Oliseh is very excited, just transferred to Thor's Whip, you can enter the Duke's pros Soldiers--maybe it was the soldiers who met the duke-sirs that night and accidentally told the duke about his heroic killing...
Just looking at a few companions around him, Olisekh was excited but couldn't help feeling a little weird-these two people had been met that night. They still looked so lifeless, the expression on their faces was as cold as ice cubes, and if they didn't speak, they definitely wouldn't speak a word a day. Even if he speaks, that tone is like...huh, it's like the parents are dead at home. Occasionally, the look in the eyes can make people tremble...a group of monsters.
Carter is even more uncomfortable than Olisekh.
Rand was ordered to stay in the big tent, wearing the armor of Lord Duke and wearing Lord Duke's helmet. I was ordered to pretend to be the Lord Duke here... This order is strange, but there is no doubt about the loyal Duke Rand—whatever, since it is the Lord Duke’s order, then I just follow it directly. Following the Lord Duke, there is no need to think about any problems. Whatever the adult says, do what the adult says. Even if the adult asks himself to ride a horse to charge against the hundreds of thousands of Roland people, Rand will definitely not frown!
It’s just that the only thing that made Rante uncomfortable was that the Duke’s command didn’t seem to be as simple as imagined... Before leaving, the Duke confessed his three words:
If someone wants to see the Duke at the end, they say: "No!"
If someone reports that the enemy has attacked, say: "Tightly defend!"
If there are any questions, just say: "Go ask Miro-sama!"
What makes Rand even more depressed is that Lord Duke did not say how long he should stay in this boring and almost insane tent. The words of Lord Duke are: Until I come back, no matter how long, you are not allowed to step out of the tent, no Just say a word! Just sit here for me!
What Rand didn’t know was that Roddy’s reason for choosing him was very simple: because Rand followed him the longest time and knew the tone of his own words best, and more importantly, Rand’s rough voice was quite a bit. The majesty of the army general, across the thick tent, suddenly sounded, and it was really similar to his own voice.
The two wolffang armies are advancing rapidly towards Thunder City-Zieg’s group is especially dangerous, because Tiger of the Roland Alliance is very cautious to arrange a lot of troops and garrisons on the road south behind him, just to prevent the empire The army ran its own way.
And Zieg did encounter people who blocked him on the road. But his approach is very simple!
From a distance, I saw the Roland army blocking him on the road, but the Spike army rushed forward without saying a word. No matter what the other party shouts or asks loudly, Qige leads the people all the way forward.
And those Roland people suddenly saw the oncoming army dressed in the Roland people’s armor—it’s important to see that they were wearing the armor of the Holy Knights from afar, even the banner was the Holy Knights. What’s more important is that the pattern on the flag is very clear. The different colors and patterns have clearly shown that this is indeed the team of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment of the Holy Knights Army... that’s absolutely correct. Ah, the Roland officer who is holding the stronghold will not admit to the banner of these famous holy knights who are raiding the continent of Roland! And even the opponent’s marching array is in accordance with the standard holy knights' queue-two knights holding high flags to open the way, the one in the middle of the back must be the leader of the knight, showing a standard inverted triangular shape. ...All right...
The only thing that the Roland people don’t know is that the information about these holy knights, including the level of their armor, the meaning of the patterns of various flags, and the formation of the march, were all captured. The holy knight Geta grand knight said-Roddy's method of forcing a confession is very effective.
After being unable to sleep for seven consecutive days, the originally determined holy knight finally had a nervous breakdown. When he confessed, he had almost become a lunatic, unable to say a complete sentence, his eyes were completely red and his face pale. It's like a vampire, if it weren't for his hands tied up, he would be crazy about pulling his hair out! He slurped and sipped some words that others could not understand, and his face was full of tears and nose.
No one would have imagined that a determined iron man would become like this in the face of this weird method of extorting a confession.
In the end, this tortured crazy guy almost cried and begged to put himself to sleep, because every time he closed his eyes and fell into a trance, the other party used various weird methods to wake himself up. Although the soldiers of the empire did not torture his body and did not use any severe punishments against him, he felt that his head would burst at any time without sleep for many days. Perhaps it was an illusion. He even felt that his head was already It is expanding like a balloon...
In the end, having a nervous breakdown, he said any information needed by the imperial interrogator, answered any questions, and then fell asleep deeply... and did not wake up again!
After eradicating the information provided by the poor great knight, Roddy ordered the creation of a group of holy knights that could almost be faked. The reason why he said "almost" is because after all, the time is too short. All the armor and equipment are The armor of Thor's Whip was simply refitted, and the color was wrong, so I simply brushed it with paint. If the style was wrong, let the craftsman simply handle it, and the flags were carefully made according to the number of the Holy Knights.
These have become the nightmare of the Roland army stationed on the road north.
Called from a distance that the other party did not agree, shouted loudly that the other party ignored it-if facing other people, the commander would have ordered arrows to prevent the other party from approaching... But after all, the holy knights are oncoming! ! It is the holy knights belonging to the temple! ! It doesn't matter if you offend the army of any country, but if you accidentally injure the Holy Knights, it is a felony that even the king cannot cover! !
What's more, the arrogance of the members of the Holy Knights is famous in the mainland. People ignore their own questions, perhaps because of their arrogant habits?
When the opponent was already close in front of him and the distance was close, I realized that something was wrong: the appearance of the armor was a bit irrespective, and the color was a little weird to look up close... but it was too late.
In this world, there is no army that can resist the frontal charge of the Spike Army—not to mention the fact that the opponent is so close that it has already rushed through the effective range of the archer.
Zieg’s approach is simple, rush! But never stop! After breaking the obstructed army, go all the way forward, absolutely not doing any fighting!
After waiting three days, when he reached the last stronghold in the southern part of Thunder City, Zieg led the people to break through the opponent's defense line with a thunder and thunder... The Roland officer in that stronghold waited until the opponent was less than one distance away from him. It took a hundred steps to react and order the arrow to be released...
Taking a look at the surrounding corpses, as well as the defeated soldiers who had been defeated by him, Zieg coldly ordered, leaving five thousand people behind!
This time Zieg did not rush on the road immediately. He jumped off the horse and stood in front of the five-thousand-man column. He was silent for a few seconds. His voice became hoarse after days of running, and his voice was also a little low: "Brothers, I want to tell you one point clearly. I want you to stay here to guard this stronghold! I am not afraid to tell you! Most of the people who stay behind are nine dead! Or ten dead. Birth!!! So I want to tell you that this is not an ordinary task. If you stay, you must be determined to die!!"
No one speaks, no one looks away.
Zieg gritted his teeth and continued: "Soon, there will be a large number of Roland troops here! Your task is to guard here! Lord Duke's order requires you to guard at least one day! One day! One hour less will not work! Even if you die until the last person in the battle, as long as the time is not up, you are absolutely not allowed to take a step back!" Zieg's gloomy gaze slowly swept across the audience, and he shouted: "If you are afraid of death, stand up early! I can forgive you. Those who are afraid of death, but if the Lord Duke's order is not fulfilled, get out of here as soon as possible!"
Without any hesitation, there was no fear or sway on their faces. Five thousand people stood on the spot, pulled out a scimitar neatly and pointed at the sky with a single sound, and then the five thousand people shouted in unison with the same voice: "Wolf tooth!!!!"