With the lessons learned from the previous few times, Samoel's march this time was much more cautious, step by step, and marched steadily towards the Blood Mist Valley step by step.
The effect of this adjustment is very obvious. After several times of harassing the enemies along the way to no avail, they had to give up. Under Samoel's pressing step by step, the army of the imperial capital did not encounter much resistance and advanced with absolute strength. In the depths of the Montenegro forest, the Blood Mist Valley is ahead.
"Dark Moon has never dared to confront each other head-on, either because of insufficient combat power, or because she wanted to lure us into a trap for an ambush." Samoel said in a firm tone.
"General, with our current strength, if the enemy wants to hurt us head-on, at least the main force of one legion must be dispatched, which is equivalent to one-third of the total strength of the Dark Moon Territory." Liers Frowning, he said, "His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has a million-strong army now, I don't think An Yue will take such a risk, but the enemy is extremely cunning and will definitely use tricks, such as..."
"Fire attack?" Samoel answered, looked at the surrounding dense forest, and shook his head: "Lils, your consideration is good, this kind of environment is indeed vulnerable to fire attack, but this Montenegro forest is not Flame wood, which is extremely flammable, is mainly made of stone birch. Stone birch has a very high ignition point and is usually used to make certain fireproof materials. Burning, so don't worry."
Zeta on the side nodded slightly. He himself is proficient in water magic and air magic, and has a deep research on fire magic, so he knows what Samuel said is true.
"The general is worthy of being a famous general in the imperial capital! It's really impressive to have observed this point." A lord took the opportunity to compliment him.
Another lord also echoed: "This expedition to the dark moon, the general must be the most shining star. It is a great advantage for us to be able to go out with the general."
In fact, Samoel deliberately asked the guide about the characteristics of stone birch before he led the army into the jungle. Of course, Samoel was modest about the compliments like "Shining General", but he thought it was true in his heart , opened the mouth and said: "After uncovering those low-level tricks, An Yue's military strength and combat power are actually nothing more than that! If An Yue really dares to invest one-third of his troops, then I will just eat them all. Here is a great gift."
Just as Samoel expected, the Dark Moon Army who besieged the Blood Mist Valley did not dare to confront the Blood Mist Valley after successive defeats, and retreated one after another. The Imperial Army quickly rushed to the vicinity of the Blood Mist Valley, and saw Surrounded by the dark moon army.
Seemingly aware of the arrival of the reinforcements, there was finally movement from the Blood Mist Valley, and the shouts of killing were getting closer. The Dark Moon Army besieged by Taniguchi saw that they were under attack from the front and back, and they scattered one after another. rushed out.
The light cavalry, round shield, and scimitar are indeed the "besieged" phantom army, led by Nesta and Carnita.
However, before the cavalry approached from a distance, they saw the "friendly army" coming to help, and suddenly shot arrows all over the sky. The cavalry in front were caught off guard, and the arrows fell off their horses.
Nesta was taken aback, and shouted: "Don't do anything! I am Nesta of the Imperial Shadow Legion. Lucifer, which general is in front?"
"Nesta!" Samoel signaled to pause the shooting, and galloped out, his sneering voice resounded through the forest: "Do you still recognize me?"
"Samoel!" Nesta frowned, and shouted: "Thank you for the rescue, it's not too late, let's join forces immediately and break out of the encirclement!"
"To join forces with you?" Samoel's face became more sneering: "Then you join forces with the Dark Moon Army, burn my army rations and kill my soldiers, and finally take my head?"
"Samoel, what do you mean? The situation is urgent now, before the enemy army encircles..."
Before Nesta could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Samoel's loud laughter: "Haha! Encirclement? With so few enemies, can they surround you for so long? Do you think I'm an idiot?"
Nesta said angrily: "Samoel! Now is the time for war, not the time to care about personal grievances! Don't you want to avenge your private revenge? It doesn't matter if I give you my life! But there are more than 4,000 soldiers here!"
"Shut up!" Samoel said calmly, "The Phantom Legion was defeated and surrendered to the enemy. It is an unforgivable crime. I am ordered by His Royal Highness Hei Yao, the regent king, to capture the rebel leader Nesta and destroy the rebel army of Dark Moon and Phantom!"
As soon as these words came out, the cavalry of the Phantom Legion suddenly burst into commotion. Rows of soldiers holding long spears appeared in front of the Hades Legion, obviously setting up targeted tactics. The phantom cavalry were forced to retreat. At this time, Yiqi rushed out from the shadow and shouted: "Don't shoot arrows! I'm from the territory of Chiyou..."
An arrow flew out and hit his chest, the man's voice froze for a moment, and then countless arrows shot him, man and horse into a hedgehog.
With his last breath, the man roared: "We have held on to the Blood Mist Valley for so long, we have fallen countless robes, and almost exhausted all our supplies. We would rather die than surrender to the enemy's strong attack or lure, why... "
Before he finished speaking, he collapsed.
"Carnita!" Nesta cried out in grief.
The one who was shot to death was Zhuoqie's son, Carnita, the heir of the Chiyou domain. Alvin? Samoel was taken aback, but it was irreparable anyway, so he simply kept doing nothing, and wiped out all these people in the name of rebellion!
The shadow cavalry retreated steadily amidst the locust-like arrows. Nesta was hit by three arrows in a row, and cried out in grief: "We did not hesitate to lose our heads and bleed for the sake of the empire. We have stood firm for so many days under the onslaught of the enemy. , I never thought that I would die under the suspicion of my own people today! Why!"
The voice was desolate and full of unwillingness. The soldiers of the Phantom Shadow were all inexplicably sad and angry, even the soldiers of the Hades Snake Legion were touched by it.
"Samoel, you shameless villain, you framed me for a personal grudge!"
"His Royal Highness! You just abandoned the phantom who swore allegiance to you like this? Is this your 'trust' and 'choice'?"
Samoel yelled angrily: "Shut up! You rebel, no matter how clever your words are, you can't change the fact! If you don't fight, you will be arrested! Rebels will be killed without mercy!"
"If we don't resist, we will fall into your hands, and we will die!" Nesta raised his head and screamed: "Forget it, it doesn't matter if you bear the name of rebellion, and it doesn't matter even if you really invest in the dark moon! Today is a fight!" With this life, I will take my soldiers and get out of here alive!"
The cavalry behind them all raised their swords: "Follow the general to the death!"
Samoel didn't talk nonsense anymore, and directly ordered the archers to shoot. Nesta was forced to retreat to the Taniguchi area in desperation.
Samoel was about to lead his army in pursuit when he suddenly felt red light flashing in his eyes, and then the air was filled with terrible heat, and all the trees in front of him instantly burned. Samoel's complexion changed drastically - how is this possible! Stone birch, but even the peak devil emperor of the magic department can't...
Samoel didn't know that his understanding was limited to ordinary peak devil emperor mages. For a peak devil emperor who was proficient in all magic, magic circles and ancient runes, it was necessary for stone birch to burn faster than flames. Wood is still fierce, not only is nothing impossible, but there is more than one way.
The swarthy wand appeared in Zeta's hand, and he slammed on the ground, a stream of pure water elemental power spread forward, forming ice one after another along the way.
It stands to reason that when encountering such a strong power of water element, even the most powerful flame will be suppressed, but a strange thing happened. Adding oil, the fire suddenly became ten times more violent and quickly spread along the ice surface. The fire was so fierce that even the shadow cavalry in the distance did not dare to approach and could only retreat into the valley.
Zeta's complexion also changed, and his figure flashed, and he had already left the range of the flames. The shock in his heart was even more shocking: this is a flame produced by using the principle of compound magic! And it was actually the compound of two incompatible elements, water and fire! Water in the fire! This is simply an incredible method! Dark Moon actually has such a powerful magician!
The horrific flames made the soldiers restless, and Samoel immediately realized the greatest danger, and shouted: "Quick! Get out of the forest immediately!"
Going forward is no longer feasible, so I can only retreat, and behind me is a denser forest. I just hope that I can quickly escape from the dangerous place before the fire breaks out.
However, just like the worst prediction, just as the imperial army retreated hastily, flames began to ignite in all directions, turning into a sea of flames.
Now even Zeta doesn't dare to use magic power indiscriminately, maybe it will add fuel to the fire like just now, and can only use some auxiliary magic on the soldiers. Knowing that he had fallen into the enemy's trick, Samuel felt remorseful and led some powerful officers to open a passage in the front with an attack. However, seeing that the fire was getting more and more fierce, the stone birch seemed to be inexhaustible. The terrible high temperature caused many soldiers to fall one after another.
Perhaps due to the high temperature, in the sight of many soldiers, the road ahead was distorted, as if there was no end.
A few hours later, after the panicked monsters fled in all directions, a stumbling team finally appeared on the edge of the Black Mountain forest.
There are a lot of people in this team, about ten thousand people, but compared with the number when they entered the forest, it can only be said to be very small. All of these people have chapped lips, burns on their faces and bodies, some of them are very serious, but almost all of them have an expression on their faces, rejoicing for their lives after the catastrophe.
They finally persisted to the end and escaped the scythe of death, but several times their companions were buried in the sea of flames. This was the result of Zeta's full protection with magic, otherwise the number of people who came out would be much less .
Samoel's face was full of regret and depression. This was an out-and-out fiasco. He didn't even touch the opponent's main force, and only one-tenth of his troops remained. This failure, I don't know how to explain to His Royal Highness the Regent when I go back.
At this time, Zeta suddenly showed vigilance, and Samoel also felt it, and saw a large number of figures appearing in front of him, roughly estimated to be at least 30,000 people.
The main force of the enemy!
Did it finally show up
If it was a few hours ago, Samoel would only be excited, but now there are only less than 10,000 troops left, and they are still exhausted physically and mentally, with serious injuries...
Samoel showed a rare wry smile. Originally, he had been looking for the opponent's main force, but he unexpectedly encountered him in this situation.
No! This is simply a trap set by the other party! From the initial harassment and arrogant strategy, to the subsequent lure of the enemy, it was for this final fatal blow.
The battlefield is not kind, and tolerance to the enemy is cruelty to oneself. Dark Moon did not give the Hades Legion any time to breathe, and has quickly surrounded the surrounding area, slowly compressing the encirclement.
In the forefront is a large group of cavalry from the Dark Moon Army, wearing cloaks, equipped with scimitars and round shields.
The leader is a knight wearing a cloak and a mask, unable to see his true face, holding a long sword and a square shield in his hand. With the blowing of a strange horn, all the cavalry had a dark red light on their bodies, and their speed suddenly accelerated, and they had quickly narrowed the distance from the Hades Army.
This scene fell in the eyes of Samoel, Zeta and others, and Qi Qi was taken aback. These cavalry were clearly the enemies who burned the rations that night and fought against the Hades Legion in the wilderness of Mordor Town!
"Rebellious" Nesta is currently in the blood mist valley blocked by flames, it is impossible to come here, and the spirit and equipment characteristics of those cavalry can be clearly seen in this broad daylight, which is different from the phantom army in front of the valley just now. There are still some discrepancies.
Many "insiders" looked at each other in blank dismay: From this point of view, the cavalry that night was really not from Nesta!
Nesta and the Phantom Legion were wronged! Could it be that Samoel really wanted to avenge himself and frame him deliberately
This is the truth
Samoel's heart beat violently, and he felt that he had fallen into a bigger conspiracy, but now is not the time to pursue this. In any case, he must break through the enemy's siege as soon as possible and escape from this damned place!
Zeta yelled, floated up, and went towards the cavalry. Under normal circumstances, the devil emperor level powerhouse would disdain to take the initiative to attack the "ants", but now he can't care much about it.
As soon as Zeta flew up, a terrible sense of crisis suddenly appeared in his heart. He didn't care about dealing with the cavalry, and his magic power soared, and four ice shields suddenly appeared around his body, each with several layers.
In the blink of an eye, several layers of ice shields behind him suddenly turned into dust, and the aftermath of the powerful impact made Zeta's eyes go dark, and his figure fell forward, almost falling to the ground.
I saw an extra woman in the air behind her. This woman was wearing a black cloak, a mask on her face, and her legs looked very long, but her chest was not sloped enough.
Zeta's pupils contracted, and he was another mid-level Demon Emperor! Moreover, the aura of strength is faintly above him, and he is only one step away from reaching the peak Demon Emperor! Didn't His Highness Obsidian reach an agreement with the Shadow Empire? Why does Dark Moon still have so many Demon Emperor level powerhouses
The woman didn't give him time to think, and in the blink of an eye, she had already flown to Zeta's body, and her fist came directly with terrifying power.
"Let me turn into a shooting star and disappear! For 10,000 black crystal coins!" Hearing the voice, it was a young girl.
Or, a title of "money fan" should also be added.