Lord of War

War has never been changed by individual will.

The fundamental thing that can really determine the behavior of war is interest.

Only when the interests reach a sufficient height, then the ensuing war is a matter of course. Maybe some unnecessary troubles can be resolved through diplomatic means, but Xiao En's enemies obviously don't intend to use diplomatic means to solve these troubles, so it is obvious that in the Principality of the Void, there are huge forces that can make his enemies not hesitate to start a war big interest.

Of course, judging from the fact that the enemy is only invading and infiltrating on a small scale, it is obvious that the other party does not really want to start a war.

Probably just not too sure.

William was still wondering what the enemy's target was, but after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't come up with any answer, so his gaze could only fall back to the small town that had been converted into a military defense stronghold.

A small-scale conflict war, even a battle that is close to siege of a city, does not take too much time. The war can be ended in one day and one night at most. The only thing William needs to guard against is that these enemies will flee in the dark, and their destructive power may bring long-term trouble to the Duchy of the Void, so after letting the steel wings attack, William also mobilized the surrounding local garrison to form a huge encirclement net to prevent these enemies from dispersing and fleeing.

At this time, the battle has been going on for several hours, but the progress is not very optimistic. On the contrary, the casualties have become a bit heavy.

Just like the well-known results of the battle, the real way to deal with this kind of narrow-area defensive warfare that uses all available places to the extreme is either a full-scale siege. Or it is a fight for every inch of land. And the steel wings that have adopted the killing method of fighting for every inch of land naturally need to face a great threat of death. In these few hours, Iron Wings had dropped more than 500 corpses. Among them, hundreds of people were injured and lost the ability to fight again. As for other minor injuries, there were as many as three or four hundred people.

As their enemy, although many people were killed in this mysterious elite army of unknown origin, it was only three or four hundred. And in this process, according to the battle report information that was constantly fed back, William also felt awe at the enemy's army, because the nature of this army was exactly the same as that of Cecilia's Guards, as if death meant nothing to them. It is a very sacred thing.

lightly injured. After a little bandaging, "Baidu No Qihang Text" will immediately re-enter the battlefield. As for the seriously injured, on the premise that they knew that they could not survive, they would immediately burst out with a ferocity that was not afraid of death, as if they wanted to drag another enemy to die together. Under such a completely suicidal counterattack, it is naturally conceivable how difficult it is for Iron Wings to completely open the situation.

This kind of battle loss ratio of almost one to two has only appeared once in the war with Dabiang since the establishment of Iron Wings for so long.

William's brows were already frowning almost into a monobrow.

This battle. It also made William finally discover another drawback of the impact shield.

When dealing with cavalry battles, the shock shield is certainly a god-level killer, but when facing the enemy's condescending attack, it is because of the shock shield's abnormal weight. As a result, it is impossible to lift with one arm (in this way, the value of the impact shield is completely powerless in the face of the enemy's projectile attack. This is also the root cause of the heavy loss of the steel wings.

Perhaps, orcs such as tauren and bear man can easily lift the impact shield weighing hundreds of catties. But for the northern barbarians, this is obviously impossible.

then. When another wave of arrow rain fell, more than a dozen northern barbarians fell down on the spot.

However, the fall of these northern barbarians does not mean that they are also doing nothing.

The throwing of the short spear also shot and killed a dozen archers who also had to show their heads in order to attack. Even if they hid behind a bunker, with the long-term training of the barbarians in the north and the quality of "Mr. Qihangmeng Xingmeng" of these short spears, as long as it is not an armor of the level of the tower shield, it is impossible to block it. The piercing attack of these short spears.

After fighting for so long, Iron Wings is no longer as unbearable as it was when it rushed into this small town at the beginning. In this battle, they are also learning and growing rapidly. Perhaps the impact shields really cannot allow them to deal with the attacks standing on the roof, towers, and sentries, but their counterattacks are no longer powerless. Yes, if you want to kill them, you have to pay the same price.

All of this is the change brought about by An Nuo and Abaza.

If it weren't for Abaza, who had a keen mind, it would not be so easy to counterattack these enemies who occupy the geographical advantage and harmony. Of course, if it weren't for Annuo, a commander with steel wings, he would have encountered a tragic number of nearly a hundred people killed in the first time he invaded the town, and his morale would have dropped to an underestimation.

It can be said that these two people are the soul and mind of the entire steel wing.

But even so, it is still not an easy task to wipe out this enemy army.

The town gate of the town extends for a range of 100 meters. All the buildings have been demolished, and there are only countless corpses belonging to the enemy lying on the ground—corpses from the side of the steel wings. No matter what the battle situation is, when Abaza When the retreat is ordered, someone will always take the corpse and the shock shield away as soon as possible. This was the death order issued by William before the war, so even though it might cost a few more casualties of the northern barbarians, Abaza and Anuo still carried it out without hesitation.

Because of the intensity of the battle, the densely packed corpses of the enemy soldiers were almost spread out on the ground, and the blood flowing out even stained the entire ground red, and one could feel a very strong sticky feeling when one stepped on it. But no matter how uncomfortable it was, Iron Wings still launched round after round of attacks without fear of death, but because the entrance of the town was too small, even a lot of town walls were destroyed during the attack , but there are only hundreds of people who can really enter the town to launch an attack.

But there are hundreds of people. But it has to face the siege from almost all surrounding spaces.

If the impact shield was not strong enough, it would be almost impossible for a strong attack from the front to break through the steel wings and others protected by the impact shield. I'm afraid that the casualties of Iron Wings will be even greater. The battle situation at this time is obviously caught in a short-term stalemate. It's just that whether it's Steel Wings or William. Or this mysterious enemy army. Everyone knows that this stalemate will not last long, and a new round of deadly fighting will soon break out.

And every time this deadly battle breaks out, it will cause a new round of shocks to both sides.

From the beginning of the battle to the present, the two sides have officially entered into a fierce battle from the very beginning, and after each short stalemate, a round of deadly battle will break out. The reason why the two sides left so many corpses was because there had already been two rounds of death battles - this had become a tacit agreement between the two sides in this battle.

So at this time, this round of arrow rain and short spears attacked each other. After the two sides lost more than a dozen lives, both sides had a tacit understanding and did not continue to throw short spears or shoot arrows again. And there was a sound of footsteps coming from a distance, which also seemed to confirm the tacit understanding between the two sides, and a new force was entering the battlefield. At this time, a horn sounded outside the town, and the steel wings already in the town began to retreat in an orderly manner at this time, and a new batch of steel wings began to slowly enter the field at this time.

However, this new batch of steel wings is not much different from the previous number, and it still only has a size of nearly 200 people.

It wasn't that William was unwilling to invest all four thousand steel wings in one go. It's just that this difficultly created battlefield cannot accommodate so many people.

As for opening up a new entry point to the battle situation and launching an attack with a pincer attack, William never even thought about it.

The reason is simple.

The entire town has been completely remodeled, and there are even many sentry towers that did not exist before. The enemy army just stood on it and launched an attack condescendingly. If you want to deal with these sentry towers, you have to forcibly go to the bottom of this sentry tower and completely push it down. So it is just to open up such a vacuum area within 200 meters at the gate of the town. Steel Wings paid nearly a thousand casualties, if another battlefield was opened up. I am afraid that there will be thousands of casualties.

With steel wings of only 4,000 people, open up two battlefields at the same time. The troops will be reduced by half. However, the threat of death they faced would not be reduced because of the two battlefields, because the tactics of the multi-layer defensive array structure originally had many battlefield environments that completely overlapped. Therefore, unless the entire town can be surrounded and launched a full-scale attack, the more battlefields are opened up, the greater the casualties for the attacker will be.

At this time, William frowned when he heard the sound of the horn and was located in the temporary command post about 100 meters outside the town.

"What's wrong?" Roti Kabas saw William frowning, and Dang even asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

At this time, Rotikabas had several scars on his body. Although they were not fatal, they looked quite embarrassed, and they also had a little impact on the display of strength. At the very beginning, he participated in a round of battles. In fact, if it weren't for him, this war would not have been opened up so quickly. It's just that he was also under the key care of the enemy at that time, and there were even three gold soldiers. The powerhouse cooperated with the battle formation to launch an attack on Rotikabas. As a result, although the three gold powerhouses were all killed, Rotikabas had to temporarily withdraw from the battle to rest.

"The other party and us have been here for several hours. Even if I don't want to admit it, they still have the upper hand." William didn't look back, but still stared at the town, "This time At that time, they still had a residual strength of close to 1,500 people. Although we all know that once the opponent's arrows are used up, it is not a problem for us to wipe them out, but according to my assessment, they are the last At least four more hours to go."

"What do you mean?" Rotika Bass didn't quite understand.

"It means that they can last at least another four hours, and the only thing I can do during this time is to use my life to fight the opponent's consumption, and they will not fight until all the strategic materials of the opponent are used up. Let's start the final decisive battle." William said in a deep voice, "In this situation of exhaustion, I estimate that at least one or two thousand people will die, but now the opponent has directly launched a decisive battle. It's very unreasonable."

"It can save one or two thousand people from dying. Isn't this a good thing?" Roti Kabas said involuntarily.

"The opponent has spent so long with us, and the casualties caused to us are obvious to all. All this proves that the commander of the opponent is obviously a very calm and excellent general." William finally looked back at Rorty this time. Kabas glanced at him, but his eyes were unusually indifferent. "So do you think such an excellent general will make a mistake at such a critical moment? You know, if you don't take advantage of this town's geographical advantage, if you really fight with Iron Wings, the opponent will not have any advantage. Said...the other party is courting death!"

"You mean...the situation has changed?"

"Unless the other party has achieved the strategic goal they want, so..." William's eyes flashed, "This is destroying evidence. Of course. Another possibility is that the other party has already prepared to give us A plot to inflict greater casualties."

Rotikabas's face became gloomy, and he said in a deep voice after a while: "Hmph, no matter what conspiracy the other party has, as long as they are not in that small town, the other party will not have any advantage in defensive formation... I will kill them It's like chopping melons and vegetables! Let me continue to fight!"

William pondered for a moment, then nodded in agreement: "Then be careful!"

"Okay!" Roti Kabaslang laughed, then raised the heavy gun and charged forward.

A distance of 100 meters is for a powerhouse like Rotikabas. It's just one or two breaths of effort. But when he rushed to the gate of this small town, what he saw was the two sides that had already started fighting.

The scene in front of him seemed to be exactly as William had predicted, the opponent was no longer fighting to the death like in the previous two rounds. Instead, he launched the final charge as if to determine the outcome of a battle. It's a shame that Iron Wing was unprepared for a while, but was bitten by the prepared opponent and then slowly withdrew the remnants of Iron Wing from the town. He was caught off guard severely, and directly dropped hundreds of corpses.

And the enemy's attack. But it didn't make any stop because of it.

Hundreds of people in front were still risking their lives to charge, regardless of whether they could break through the shock shield that was set up. The only thing they knew was to rush forward desperately, and then smashed the weapons in their hands into the bodies of the northern barbarians. The battlefield at this moment is completely chaotic, and there is no fighting situation like that of an elite soldier.

Those archers in the rear of the enemy, regardless of whether there were any of them in the enemy's formation, all of them threw their bows and arrows into the camp of steel wings without hesitation. Perhaps because of the lack of the advantage of condescending archery, this kind of projectile attack method is difficult for the rough-skinned northern barbarians to kill with one arrow, because the threat is naturally much smaller.

But the amount that accumulates is still not to be ignored.

Under this kind of impact, the town gate of the town quickly fell into chaos: Steel Wings can't be as unreasonable as the enemy army, even facing their own people, they can't hesitate. Attack. Therefore, the attack method of short spear throwing is naturally meaningless-short spear throwing is no better than bow and arrow, even if it is thrown by means of projectile, but the foothold will not be too far away, and there is a great possibility in the end that it will hurt one's own people.

It is precisely because of the taboo, so in this situation where the outcome is clearly determined, the one who suffers a lot and even faintly shows signs of defeat is naturally the steel wings.

When Rotikabas arrived, what he saw happened to be that the steel wings were about to be unable to block the enemy's impact, and the front line faintly showed signs of collapse.

Without the slightest hesitation, Rotikabas immediately let out a long roar, and directly unfolded his power as a domain expert, then floated up into the air, swept directly into the small town, and fell into the rear of the enemy army. He slammed into it like a cannonball, and a strong impact burst out from his body, directly shaking dozens of enemy troops within the range of his foothold to death.

Afterwards, with a sudden swing of his knight spear, he turned into a Shura and launched a massacre in the rear of the enemy army.

Seeing Rotikabas, the strong man in the sanctuary, showing his might, Annuo also immediately raised the spear in his hand. This time, he simply discarded the impact shield in his hand, and then stabbed fiercely. Entered the body of an enemy standing in front of him, and then let out a roar. Relying on strong brute force, he began to rush forward. The spear immediately pierced through the body of this enemy, and then pierced into the bodies of the second and third persons. And after the three of them were strung together into candied haws, they still couldn't stop An Nuo's charge. Being knocked back violently, the formation of the enemy army also became chaotic.

"Steel Wings! Let's fight together with the Patriarch!" Abaza, who had been standing side by side with Annuo, saw Annuo break away from the formation and rushed out, just like Alfred's habitual fighting method Abazadang even let out a roar, then also abandoned the impact shield, and rushed out behind An Nuo with only a spear, assassinating several enemies who tried to attack An Nuo for An Nuo.

As the soul and mind of the Iron Wings Legion, when Annuo and Abaza charged bravely without fear of death. All the steel wings also abandoned the impact shield without hesitation, and charged forward with only their long spears. With the arm strength of the barbarians in the north, they could hold the shock shields and fight freely on the battlefield. Now that they gave up the shock shields, their powerful strength, which belonged to the barbarians, was fully displayed.

Such a crazy army also launched a counterattack in a fearless way, which seemed to be completely unexpected by the enemy.

So for a while, the enemy army was completely in chaos.

In an instant, in this kind of battle situation, it can be said that a front and back attack has been formed. Even if it is a desperate battle to start a decisive battle to determine the victory of the enemy, naturally it will not be able to obtain any benefits. Therefore, the formation was quickly and completely cut apart, and the terrain in the town was not that generous, so it was a crowded street fighting situation. For the northern barbarians who left their shock shields and spears and started fighting with their bare hands, they had an advantage.

Hence the situation. Disruptive developments soon began to take place.

But when Rotikabas, Annuo, Abaza and others completed the confluence, the mysterious enemy army occupying the town had already begun to evolve into a complete defeat. It's just that even if you know that the general trend is over. But this enemy army of unknown origin didn't even have the idea of ​​surrendering, they were still fighting back risking their lives. As long as they are not completely killed, they will try their best to launch a counterattack. For this reason, Abaza simply ordered that no one should be left alive.

This final fight lasted for an entire afternoon, and it was finally officially over when night fell.

The entire town was full of corpses, densely piled up, and many of the corpses could not even tell which side they belonged to. It can be said that the whole town was completely submerged by the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood, like a picture scroll of extremely tragic purgatory on earth. And under this kind of suicidal fighting, Iron Wings naturally paid the price of hundreds of casualties again, and this is still with Rotika Bass, the sanctuary powerhouse, sitting in charge.

Otherwise, even if the enemy army is hotheaded and engages in such a meaningless and advantageous battle, Iron Wings will have to pay at least a thousand people to wipe out the entire enemy army.

But even so, the 4,000 steel wings brought by William now only have more than 2,000 left, and the death toll exceeds 1,500. And even if they survived, there are as many as hundreds of people who have completely lost the ability to fight again, and there are as many as thousands of people who are seriously or slightly injured. It can be said that in this battle, the steel wings brought by William could not be regarded as a complete victory, but only a miserable victory.

This is the third battle with such huge casualties since the formation of Steel Wings.

But until now, William still doesn't know the true purpose of the outbreak of this war. Originally, he was still wondering why the enemy commander, who hadn't made any mistakes since the beginning of the war, would instead make such an idiot move in the final stage? As long as the opponent continues to stand firm for more than four hours, William is sure that the number of Iron Wings who can survive in the end is definitely less than 500 people.

However, the opponent did not choose this kind of fight to the end, but ended this completely unpredictable war with a kind of suicidal charge.

William was very puzzled.

So after the war, he immediately ordered a thorough investigation to see if there was anything hidden in this small town, and even he himself went deep into it to participate in the investigation.

But in the end, there was still nothing.

Rubbing between his tired brows, William knew that he would probably never know the answer. But it's really because there is no way to know the answer and result. This made him even more annoyed that he was so inexplicably put on. It is completely conceivable how angry William was. He has decided that no matter what, he must thoroughly investigate who is targeting the Duchy of the Void. And what is the purpose of this battle.

Because according to the information coming from the rear, the surprise move that William regarded as a foreshadowing did not appear, and everything was so calm that he felt incredible.

"Pick out the corpses of your own people and send them back for burial." William glanced at the environment of the whole town again, and said with a tired expression, "As for this town, let's just burn it down and leave nothing behind. .”

"Yes." A soldier with dark wings who was in charge of serving as William's messenger nodded in agreement. Then turn around and leave quickly.

"Let's go too." Sighing helplessly, William also turned and left, walking towards the gate of the town.

But when William walked to the area where the final death battle broke out in the afternoon, several corpses that had fallen on the ground were suddenly lifted away, and several figures hiding under the corpses immediately erupted with terrifying strength, and then Attacked towards William!

"Protect your lord!" The three black-winged soldiers beside William shouted immediately.

But there were only three of them, but there were five of these figures!

Moreover, the strength each of these five people displayed at this time is truly golden!

Five Shadow Assassins of the Gold Realm Powerhouse level!

In this instant. William immediately understood all the enemy's plots!

Sneaking into the Void County secretly, at first William thought the enemy was targeting the Void City, but with their strength, how could they possibly attack the city? So their goal is the military research institute and the armory workshop. all the time. William thought that was the opponent's main target, but now he finally understood that those two places were the enemy's target. But it is only the second goal of taking advantage of the trend.

Whether they succeed or not is irrelevant to them.

real target. It was William!

In this way, it can also explain why the surprise soldiers that William was deeply wary of did not appear?

Because the surprise army prepared by the opponent is not a surprise army to attack cities and loot villages. But these five shadow assassins in front of him!

Their goal is themselves!

As for the suicidal decisive battle that seems to be made by the enemy commander in a fever, it has finally been proved at this moment. The Shadow Assassin offers a great hideout! As for why it is a gold-level powerhouse and not a sanctuary powerhouse, the reason is even simpler, because no matter how hidden the aura of the sanctuary powerhouse is, as long as there is a slight movement, it will be captured by other sanctuary powerhouses.

And if he knew that the enemy had a sanctuary strongman, would William still walk around the battlefield with only a few guards?

The answer is obvious.

At this moment, William had a clear understanding of the enemy's actions.

But, what if you fully understand it?

Even at the moment when these shadow assassins moved, a large number of soldiers rushed over, and even Rotikabas immediately floated into the air and then flew over. But William still could only watch helplessly as these shadow assassins easily killed his guards, broke through the defensive circle, and then got closer and closer to him!

For a moment, William felt that death was so close to him.

But in the face of this kind of death, William surprisingly didn't feel any fear or fear, but his heart became extremely calm. He knows that the Void Principality is too strong for the outside world today: whether it is a famous general, the strength of the legion, or the class of the strong, it has far exceeded the foundation and level of a principality. It has reached the level of a kingdom.

And a kingdom, even if it's just a third-rate kingdom, is a kingdom.

Therefore, there are definitely not a few people who want him to die. Because as long as he dies, the Principality of the Void will fall into temporary chaos due to the loss of the famous general, at least the military system that has been established with great difficulty will definitely face collapse. Once caught in this predicament, the Void Principality will naturally show its flaws soon, and it is not surprising that there will even be splits and civil strife.

It's just that these are the enemy's speculations.

Facing the attack of death, William smiled very calmly: "A bunch of trash, who knows that even if I die, the growth of the void will not stop."

"Protect Lord William!" The guards roared one after another. 〖To be continued〗【】