Lord of War

Fifteen days, this is a limit period Sean set for himself since the beginning of the war. (VIII) ΔChinese Δ网『Δ⒈

Because Sean didn't know how long the battle between Alexis and Emrakul would last, but he did know that the war between Emrakul and the ancestor of the blood elf, It is a real battle to the death - only one of the two can survive. So in such a deadly battle, Xiao En believed that it only took about ten days to determine the winner, and he believed in Emrakul's strength even more, so he set the number of fifteen days.

It is precisely because of this that he will formulate a series of strategic plans after discussing with Mills and others.

But what I didn't expect was that this plan basically died when it was just started. ,

On the third day, Flemings directly gave up encircling Sean's large army and turned to besiege the castle of the Dominique clan, and Sean directly led his troops to fight against other small and medium-sized clans of the Giovanni clan.

Sean listed as the first attack target the Giovanni clan's vassals, the Nules clan on the fifth sequence list.

The contest between the two sides started here.

In just one day, the last 20,000 blood slaves remaining in the combined forces of the Paul clan and the Riley clan were exhausted in the war against the Nules clan. As a price, the Nulais clan was completely maimed by the blood soldiers led by Xiao En. In the deadly battle, even the Patriarch of the Nulais clan was killed on the spot. All blood clans died in battle.

Even Sean didn't expect that the Nules clan would choose such a bloody counterattack.

According to the sequential clan method of blood clans from generation to generation, the new blood clan clans that are directly separated from the thirteen clans of this clan's bloodline are the second sequence clans. The strength of the patriarch of this kind of clan must be the rank of prince, even if not, its future growth limit must be above the prince, and two or more clans can definitely be cultivated within the clan, this is the second rank The strength of the clan.

If those future achievements cannot become the blood clan of the prince, the Thirteen Clans will definitely not let them break away and start their own clan.

Being able to start a new clan is an honor that needs to be screened and identified.

And from the stage of establishing a clan, the development of a clan will naturally have its own history of rise and fall.

Each clan has a period of 500 years. If there is only one prince left in this powerful clan due to various reasons in the 500-year development history of this clan, and at the same time, the patriarch of the clan has begun to pass on the second generation,

Then this clan will fall from the second rank to the third rank.

In other words, the clans on the third sequence must all be clans with at least one prince in charge.

The fourth sequence after that is that the clan inheritance has started for more than two generations, and the strongest within the clan is at the rank of Duke; the fifth sequence is at the rank of Marquis; the sixth sequence is at the rank of Earl; the seventh sequence is at the rank of Duke Naturally, it is the rank of Viscount, and this is also the lowest level sequence. If there is not even a Viscount in a clan, then the clan is not far away from being annexed by other clans.

The Nulais clan is a clan in the fifth sequence, and the patriarch is a strong man of the marquis rank. In the entire clan, there are thirteen blood clans at the rank of marquis, more than 30 blood clans at the rank of earl, and nearly a hundred blood clans at the rank of viscount; The potential performance is not strong, but it is not weak either.

But such a clan was completely disabled within a day.

After the entire clan went through a day of bloody battle, there were less than a hundred members of the clan who could still be regarded as official members. Among them, only two barons were the most powerful, and the rest could only be regarded as "newcomers" Lord and The knights, as for the blood slaves, were exhausted in this battle. Perhaps in the coalition forces around Flemings, the Nules clan still retains a considerable amount of combat power, but all this still cannot change the fact that the Nules clan has basically been removed from the Giovanni clan.

This is just the result of the war that broke out on the third day: facing the joint attack of two powerful clans in the second rank, it is impossible for a mere fifth rank clan to resist.

Even if, these two clans in the second sequence have experienced a series of tragic wars, they are a tired army.

But its authority cannot be challenged or questioned by anyone.

How Flemings would react after receiving the news that the Nules clan had been beaten and collapsed was beyond Sean's guess. In fact, even Sean didn't expect that the Nules clan's resistance would be like this It was so fierce that the two sides who fought the real fire in the end couldn't stop easily. However, based on the information Sean received from the snoopers he sent out the next day, it was Flemings who sped up the pace of the march.

The itinerary that was supposed to arrive in the afternoon of the fifth day had already arrived in the middle of the night of the fourth day.

Then on the morning of the fifth day, Flemings completed the siege of the entire Dominic clan castle. In the afternoon of that day, after the entire coalition troops rested for a noon, Flemings gave the order to attack Dominique Castle, and since then the encirclement battle has officially started.

But beyond Flemings' expectations, it was the difficulty of the Dominique clan.

Fighting from the afternoon of the fifth day until late at night, the coalition troops led by Flemings only occupied the outer wall area of ​​the entire castle, and just started a tug-of-war with the defenders of the Dominique clan on the inner wall.

In one day, being able to take down the outer wall of a second-order clan base camp is definitely a proud record.

But if you know the actual casualty data of this war, then I am afraid no one will think that this is a proud record.

The 200,000 blood slave cannon fodder of the Dominic clan was completely exhausted in this battle, and the price was the 300,000 blood slave cannon fodder of the Flemings coalition, with only a little over 30,000 left. As for the casualties of official blood clan members on both sides, there were more than a thousand people. Perhaps when the Flemings coalition army divided this thousand casualty index among the various clans in the coalition army, the number of casualties was not large.

But for Flemings, as the commander-in-chief of this coalition army, he only felt a burning pain when faced with these numbers.

It can be said that this battle is even more tragic than the one where Sean destroyed the entire Nules clan.

But these data are only the result of typing in half a day.

Flemings felt extremely annoyed when he thought that even the inner city walls of the Dominique clan had not been captured.

Of course, during the two days when Flemings hurriedly marched to the first round of confrontation with the Dominique clan, Sean was also not idle.

The destruction of the Nules clan is just the beginning.

Sean took the Nules clan as the starting point, and started a clockwise sweep. During these two days, two clans that were also in the fifth sequence were maimed successively, but the severity was not as severe as that of the Nules clan. The clans were so cruel, and after the main garrison troops of these two clans were wiped out, Xiao En led the coalition troops to leave. Of course, another factor that didn't cause such a tragic confrontation with the Nulais clan was that these two clans probably didn't intend to fight to the death with Xiao En's coalition army from the beginning.

After the main force of the clan's garrison was wiped out, the two clans quickly chose to retreat and hide, not engaging in a frontal fight with Xiao En's coalition troops at all.

Obviously, after knowing the fate of the Nules clan, both clans knew what it would be like to fight Shawn head-on.

As for Xiao En, after the two clans gave up their resistance, they began to implement the looting policy that had been planned long ago: the towns in the territories of the two clans were all plundered and destroyed to a considerable extent. After all, Sean's army does not have any logistical supplies, and this series of war expenses must be obtained through war, which is the so-called war to support war.

Then when the war time turned to the sixth day, a second, more intense battle broke out between Flemings and the Dominique clan.

At noon on the sixth day, the inner city wall of the Dominic clan officially declared its fall. The Dominic clan abandoned the ground defense line of the castle and retreated to the underground safety zone. And when Flemings, who thought that the war was over, and that the next massacre would be a massacre, broke into the castle of the Dominique clan and discovered an extremely spacious and vast underground area, he almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

Because in this second battle, the last 30,000 blood slaves of the coalition army were completely exhausted, and the coalition army also had nearly 500 official blood slaves. Although the Dominic clan once again paid the price of the death of nearly a thousand members of the official blood clan, some small clans in the coalition army are unable to continue to participate in this war at this time, especially after hearing that there are three fifth ranks in the rear After the news that the clan was disabled, for a while, voices of disagreement began to appear within the coalition forces.

All of this made Flemings extremely irritable.

But the war did not end there.

Flemings' blitzkrieg plan has since officially failed. Because from this moment on, every time Sean troubles him in the rear for one more day, the pressure he needs to bear will become heavier and heavier, and the voices of doubt will become more and more, and eventually he will be completely dismissed. Disinheritance.

This is a result that Flemings cannot tolerate.

Maybe Sean didn't know why the Nules clan was so determined to fight Sean to the death, but Flemings knew it very well. Because the Nules clan belongs to his direct line power——if Flemings is unable to compete with Dorn for the right of inheritance in the end, and can only be forced to leave the Giovanni clan to create his own clan, the entire Nules clan will be destroyed. Immediately turned to join the Flemings clan.

But now, the Nules clan has been completely destroyed by Sean, which is tantamount to cutting off a way out for Flemings.

It's just that Sean hasn't realized this yet.

On the seventh and eighth days that followed, Flemings soon had a better understanding of how difficult the Dominique clan was.

In these two days, the coalition troops who had lost all the blood slave cannon fodder could only fight against the Dominic clan with the official blood members of their own clan. But for the coalition forces that are not united internally and almost everyone has different ideas, this kind of exhaustion can be said to be a bottomless pit, and naturally no one is willing to go up and do their best. In this way, it gives the Dominic clan more breathing time .

In these two days, the casualties of the Dominique clan dropped from an average of thousands of casualties per day to only three or four hundred casualties per day. Although for the Dominic clan, this battle loss needs to be borne by them alone, unlike the coalition forces which are shared among all the clans participating in the war, but after four consecutive days of cauldron battles, many of them are in the sixth and seventh ranks. The small clans of Sequence couldn't bear it anymore, and they finally had to stop this attrition war.

Although the clans of the second and third ranks can continue to persist, how could a powerful clan like them have no ambitions for the throne of the Giovanni clan? As for the medium-sized clans in the fourth and fifth ranks, they also have their own supporters. When the clans in the second and third ranks began to defy Flemings’ orders, these medium-sized clans also began to work. Effortless improvisation.

From the ninth day onwards, the pressure that the Dominique clan had to bear became less: at the end of the day, the casualties of the Dominic clan were even less than two hundred people.

On the other hand, during these four days, Sean naturally did not stay idle, but began to work even harder in the rear of the Giovanni clan.

In just four days, two other clans of the Fifth Sequence were completely maimed by Sean, and the degree of tragedy was not necessarily better than that of the Nules clan. In addition, there were seven small and medium clans that were completely attacked, and the entire clan territory was an undefended zone for Xiao En's troops.

On average, Sean maintained a terrifying record of beating two clans every day.

And more importantly, among the other two clans that fought to the death with Sean, one clan was very unlucky to be discovered by Sean as their "breeding farm". There is no possibility.

What is a farm?

The breeding farm is the place where the vampire raises slaves in captivity.

These slaves have not yet been turned into blood slaves by the blood race. They still have self-awareness, but they have lost their freedom. But for the blood race, these slaves are actually equivalent to chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, pigs and other farms built by humans-after raising these slaves to a certain level, in addition to leaving the necessary number of mating, The other slaves were all transformed into blood slaves. In addition to serving as cannon fodder for the blood clan, they were also spare bait for the blood clan.

This is a very tragic and bloody method.

Both the Devil Party and the Secret Party use this method to solve the needs of the clan. It's just that when the Secret Party factions do this kind of thing, they are a little more humane than the Devil Party, that is, to provide these slaves with a certain degree of freedom, and they don't go out to plunder at will like the Devil Party.

Sean has no intention of changing the living mode of the vampires, after all, he cannot stay in the underground world forever.

Moreover, the slaves in this breeding farm have been determined from birth. These people have no wisdom at all-of course, they cannot be regarded as human beings in the strict sense, but just some humanoid.

If a war breaks out between the surface and the underground worlds, and some human beings are plundered by blood clans and raised here as pigs, ducks, cattle and sheep, then Sean will definitely rescue them. But looking at those humanoid creatures with almost no intelligence at all, no matter how much Sean wanted to admit it, he couldn't treat these creatures as human beings, so he took a tacit attitude towards the next actions of the Paul and Riley clans .

Because of this, after leaving the clan territory, the army led by Xiao En already had more than 20,000 blood slaves.

And because of the addition of more than 20,000 blood slaves, Xiao En was able to maintain the deterrent progress of breaking through two clans per day in the next operation. Of course, on the eighth day, more than 20,000 blood slaves were also exhausted in the head-to-head fierce battle with another fifth sequence clan.

On the tenth day, when Sean once again completely wiped out a clan of the fifth sequence, all the small and medium clans in the Flemings coalition army finally couldn't bear to announce their separation from the coalition army. Because the pressure Sean put on them was too great, these lower-level clans in the blood clan's social structure were simply not qualified to participate in a war of attrition on this scale.

On this day, it was rare that no war broke out between Flemings and Dominique.

But there is no doubt that Flemings must have been questioned by many parties on this day, and his pressure has obviously reached its limit. The Giovanni clan began to question Flemings' leadership ability-this kind of doubt is extremely fatal for a person who wants to become the leader of a thirteen clans, and it is precisely Flemings who is the most powerful. unwanted results.

Now, there are only two choices before Flemings.

Either turn back and solve the trouble of Xiao En who is making trouble in the rear, or give up the status of the new king candidate of the Giovanni clan.

No matter which of these two roads Flemings chooses, Sean has already achieved his desired goal: if Flemings chooses the former, wait until he finds Sean and begins to implement the interception and siege tactics At that time, the 15-day deadline had already arrived; and if the latter was chosen, then another long debate meeting within the Giovanni clan would definitely be held, and this meeting might last longer than five days.

No matter how you say it, Sean finally achieved the fifteen-day strategy.

And in the process, being able to deflate Flemings is Sean's greatest joy.

So starting from the tenth day, when Flemings did not make any movement, and after all Flemings' small and medium clans left the coalition forces, Sean did not take any action. Moreover, in order to prevent possible traps, Sean led the troops into the maze of the valley. His caution and carefulness naturally made countless demon clans reviled him, but for Sean, who has long been used to soldiers and is not tired of deceit, How could he have cared about such mild scolding?

On the tenth day, the eleventh day, and the twelfth day, there was no movement for three consecutive days. Whether it was Riley, Paul, or Mills, they all felt relieved.

After ten consecutive days of fierce battles and mobile battles, no matter who they are, their nerves are tense, because in this kind of contest where they cannot see each other's strategies and tactics, the competition is the ability of the commanders on both sides to resist pressure and the ability to fight against each other. The ability to grasp the enemy's movements and the ability to trust one's own side.

Dominic believed in Sean's choice, so he showed an extremely tenacious resistance and bought enough time for Sean.

This point is the most critical factor for Sean to win this battle against Flemings.

Secondly, the discord within the Flemings coalition forces is also a point that Sean took advantage of this time.

With the strength of the Paul clan and the Riley clan, it may be possible to carry out a ransacking attack on a second-order clan that responded to the call of the coalition forces, but this battle will inevitably pay a heavy price for Sean and the others. Such a result may make this clan feel extremely angry, but it will definitely not bring any hope to Dominic, because among the coalition forces on the Flemings side, there are three clans belonging to the second sequence, Sean and The coalition forces of the Paul clan and the Riley clan can only destroy two clans of the second order at most, and then they will completely lose their combat power.

Moreover, this loss of combat power will also lead to the destruction of the Paul and Riley clans.

No one with a little brain would do this kind of strategy.

Therefore, Sean chose the most time-consuming and labor-intensive method, but one that can maximize the results of the battle: picking soft persimmons.

In this way, the third key element is involved: the ability to resist pressure.

If Flemings had more charisma as a leader, stronger command ability, or if the coalition forces could be united as one, then no matter how much Sean disrupted the Giovanni clan's rear, it would be difficult to achieve effective results. . Because as long as these small and medium-sized clans do not leave the coalition forces, Flemings will not be questioned. Perhaps the war will still be very difficult, but as long as they continue to persist, the Dominic clan will definitely be destroyed first.

After all, the strength of the two sides was not equal from the beginning.

The strength of the Dominic clan is one less than one dead, but the battle losses of the coalition forces can be shared. In this way, although the battle damage for the coalition forces may not be smaller than that of Dominica, they have always maintained it within a tolerable range, and naturally they are not afraid of this kind of war of attrition. But the Dominic clan can't do it. Once the loss is too large, even if it can win the war in the end, it is still a loss for the Dominic clan.

To put it simply, it means winning a battle but losing the future of a clan.

Fortunately, in the end, it was Flemings' allied forces, not Sean's allied forces, who were unable to hold on first.

...

"It seems that this battle is completely over."

In the maze of the valley, Mills, who was resting on the ground with no image at all, smiled and said to Sean next to him: "Flemings is really unlucky to meet a monster like you to act as his opponent."

"Perhaps." Even Xiao En couldn't hold on to the continuous battle for many days. Naturally, he would not let go of the rare rest time at this time. Prince, I really plan to fight him directly."

"I heard that there is a prince of the fifteenth rank." Riley also interjected.

"He's the Patriarch of the Amani Clan, right?" For the internal situation of the Giovanni Clan, Paul has a deeper understanding than Riley. Yan is someone who can be the uncle of Riley, "That old man has lived for at least one or two thousand years, right? He still holds on to the position of Patriarch, really."

"Fifteenth rank, isn't that one step away from being able to step into the rank of elder?" Xiao En has lived in the underground world for so long, so he naturally knows how to sort some ranks, "Now in the thirteenth clan of your blood clan , there are not many strong elders, right?"

"There is one from each of the thirteen clans." Paul replied, "They are all old monsters that have lived for tens of thousands of years, and they are sleeping in the deepest part of the pool of blood. ... that Lesemba is the only remaining ancestor, I really don't understand Why did he suddenly wake up?" Speaking of this question, Paul turned his head and glanced at Sean, obviously because Alexis went to find trouble with the ancestor of Lesamba, so Paul also thought that Sean must know something What.

"To be honest, I don't know too well." Sean said helplessly, "But I guess, it should be the momentum resonance."

"Momentum resonance?" Mills' strength is relatively weak, and he doesn't quite understand the meaning of these words.

On the contrary, both Riley and Paul became thoughtful.

"By the way, if that Amani became an elder, wouldn't the Giovanni clan have two elders?" Sean asked.

"That's right, it's not that easy just to become an elder." It was Riley who answered Sean, "There are too many factors involved in this. If the Patriarch of the Amani clan wants to step into the rank of elder, I'm afraid it will take more time." It will take another two or three thousand years of hard work, after all, he is too old...Moreover, it is hard to say whether he can live for two or three thousand years."

The definition of genius seems to be the same whether it is in the surface world or the underground world.

The few people who felt relaxed about the end of the war were also chatting at the side at this time. After all, as long as they persisted through the last three days, Flemings would never be able to make trouble again.

Not only Flemings, but the entire Giovanni clan is unlikely to make any troubles again, because for them, the ancestors who are superior to them have suppressed it, and it is impossible for any clan to want to make troubles .

This is the absolute deterrence formed when the strength reaches a certain level.

But at this moment, a messenger who seemed to be in charge of contacting external intelligence hurriedly ran to Xiao En and the others, and then reported a news that shocked everyone.

In the past three days of silence, it wasn't that Flemings resigned himself to giving up, but he broke out his final struggle!

He had obviously reached some kind of agreement with the patriarchs of other clans, but no one knew what the content of the agreement was. The only thing that can be known is that today, on the thirteenth day of the 15-day war that Xiao En estimated, the Giovanni clan army with a size of more than half a million suddenly gathered again, and then began to move towards the Dominic clan. into the territory.

This newly formed coalition army is almost entirely composed of second and third rank clans, and only a few relatively powerful fourth rank clans have also joined the coalition army. The entire newly formed coalition army has more than 400,000 blood slaves. These blood slaves can be said to be the last number of blood slaves that the entire Giovanni clan can piece together.

From this point of view, it can be known that Flemings is really desperate this time.

More than 400,000 blood slaves, plus 100,000 elite blood clans of various clans, together with the remaining tens of thousands of Flemings coalition forces that surrounded the Dominique clan before, the size of the entire newly formed Flemings coalition has already Reached an unprecedented 600,000 huge. This scale and quantity is definitely the largest civil war army in the history of the entire blood race society.

Not to mention anything else, the 400,000 blood slaves alone are enough to fill the entire underground of the Dominique clan.

Perhaps many Minik clans could fight Flemings one or two by virtue of the underground space of the castle, but under such a large-scale troop pressure, it might be difficult to persist even for a day. After all, the two walls of the castle of the Dominic clan were lost because Flemings unscrupulously used crowd tactics to forcibly suppress them, and if Flemings used this method again, the Dominic clan would really be unable to survive. It's the fifteenth day.

Moreover, the most important point is that the time limit of fifteen days is just Sean's prediction.

The actual time limit is likely to fluctuate by a few days. Even if the battle may end on the fourteenth day, it may also be delayed to sixteen or seventeen days.

Everyone's eyes, when they heard the news, couldn't help but look at Sean.

"Go!" Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao En decisively gave the order to fight.

Soon, Xiao En led the crowd to leave the Labyrinth Valley, and turned to attack the new coalition's marching route.

On the fourteenth day, Sean and the new coalition forces engaged in a hand-to-hand handover with mutual casualties. The commander of the new coalition army also decisively left half of the troops to encircle and counterattack Xiao En and others, and the remaining half of the troops continued to advance towards the territory of the Dominique clan.

Obviously, Flemings intends to wipe out Sean, the Paul clan, the Riley clan, and the Dominique clan this time.

But on the fifteenth day, the miracle Sean was looking forward to did not appear.

Whether it is Emrakul or Alexis, the war between the two of them is still not over.

On this day, the nearly 200,000 new coalition troops left behind by Sean and Flemings finally broke out in a bloody battle on a large scale, officially sounding the war horn of Giovanni's bloody battle.

...

And on the third day when the bloody battle officially broke out, a strong shock that spread throughout the underground world suddenly resounded.

At this moment, all residents of the underground world, no matter where they are, can hear a very obvious sound of glass breaking.

Many people may not know what this sound means.

But for all those whose strength has reached the rank of prince (legendary) or above, they are very clear about the meaning of this voice: it is the sound of the crystal wall of the plane breaking!

In an instant, almost all the strong men involuntarily turned their gazes to the place where the voice came from.

It's a very subtle feeling.

Obviously it was only the moment when the sound was heard, but for those whose strength has reached a certain level, it is as if they witnessed the scene of the shattering of the crystal wall, and they can clearly know where the shattering of the crystal wall is located. . (To be continued.)