As soon as I finished speaking, a sudden strong wind blew and almost knocked to the ground several people who had no martial arts to defend themselves. A green light, accompanied by a small horizontal tornado, swept towards the spy who was already on his horse.
Almost instantly, the horse suddenly fell to the ground, and a fountain of blood spurted out from behind the horse’s buttocks. … … … … The spy seemed to be stupid and didn’t even dare to move. He just stood there stupidly beside the dead horse. … … …
"Come on, go around both sides and bring that unlucky guy back to me." After hearing Pavel's words, I was able to calm down a little. What the hell is this? Why is it so scary? From my telescope, I measured that the distance from here to there is about 900 meters. What kind of magic can attack so far? If so, wouldn't my giant crossbow be useless
"Hanlong, it seems you have picked up a treasure again. The Feng Shui dual-element great elves, plus the wind elf arrows, are indeed extraordinary. It is worthy of being called a super combination of magician killers. Incredible, incredible!"
Sack's words made me turn my attention to Yaruo. As expected, Yaruo was still in the posture of drawing the bow and arrow, and her entire body, including the bow and the arrow on the bow, was shrouded in a whirlwind, especially the magic crystal on the arrow's tip, which seemed to be flowing with a shining green light.
"Don't touch her. She's locked onto that unlucky guy. It would be troublesome if we interrupt her." Sack slapped my hand away, and explained the reason. No wonder that guy stood there stupidly. That's what happened.
"It's bad..." Thacker's cry startled me. The person was already caught, so how could it be bad? Was he worried about alerting the enemy
But soon I knew why Thacker said it was bad. When we pushed the spy back, we were facing a dead body. From his appearance, everyone could see that he committed suicide, but if he wanted to die, why didn't he try to escape? Even if he was shot to death by Yaruo, wouldn't it still be death? Even if there is only a 1% chance, it is better than no chance at all, right
"Sir, he committed suicide as soon as we approached him. We failed to complete our mission, please punish us, sir!"
"It's none of your business. This guy has a strong will. He would rather commit suicide than fall into our hands. It's a pity to waste a magic arrow." Sack waved his hand and asked the guards to retreat.
"Sir, why didn't he run away at the beginning? Even the smallest chance of escape is still a chance, right?" A young magician who saw the situation and came over to watch the fun asked the question I was originally going to ask.
"Hey, running away from an elven archer with wind magic arrows? Not to mention running away, even how he wants to die is not something he can decide. Before he wanted to swing the knife to commit suicide, his hand that wanted to commit suicide was probably gone first. So he lured our people to catch him, and then committed suicide when our people got close. This will not only relax Yaruo's attention, but also make her hesitate for fear of hurting her own people. This way, his chances of committing suicide will be at least half higher. Someone, check his identity. We will set off early tomorrow morning. I hope we can pass through here smoothly." As he said that, Sack pointed his hand at a point on the map... . . . . .
From the death of the spy that afternoon until the next morning, there were at least 20 spy incidents in the entire military camp. This was simply unbelievable to me. Such an arrogant action was like two countries going to war openly.
The next morning, the whole army broke camp and set out. There was no major change in the formation, except that it was compressed a bit. The troops on the left, right, front and back were only a few hundred meters away from the center, and Carsent's unarmed soldiers were sandwiched between two heavy cavalry. My army lined up and followed the heavy cavalry's pace. 200 meters behind me, a reorganized light cavalry unit was cruising there.
Sitting on a temporary stand on a carriage, I carefully observed the surroundings with a telescope. After watching the magicians' light detection magic just now, I was disgusted and immediately built this seven or eight meter high stand and began to observe with a telescope. The ripples produced by the light detection magic were like the worst display screen in history, shaking non-stop. It might be okay to take a quick look, but it was a joke to observe the details clearly.
Soon, I found an area with problematic soil. Although I didn't know if there were soldiers inside, there was definitely something wrong there. After I passed the signal to Thack, I felt something was wrong. What went wrong there
Suddenly, a question occurred to me: what if the target of those guys was not our entire army, but only a part of it? A cold sweat quickly seeped out from my forehead.
"Matthew, you and the second and third battalions will take half of the instant-fire crossbow carts to the front and block the advance of the front army. The crossbowmen of the fourth battalion will provide defense for the second and third battalions... No, I will go to command, Matthew will stay here..."
As I said that, I rushed towards the front troops like crazy with 500 carriages, hoping that Thak would listen to my advice and change his strategy, otherwise the magician troops would be in trouble.
"You mean, the enemy might be detrimental to the magician's army? And the enemy's possible target is not our entire army, but only the magicians?" Sack frowned slightly and felt a little embarrassed. He agreed to my strategy before, but now suddenly changed it. Isn't this contradicting himself
"Sir, this can be understood as a plan before we find the enemy's hiding place. Since we have already found it, why don't we take the initiative? Even if the enemy is not there, I think we are not afraid of a head-on conflict with them. What do you think?"
"..."
A few minutes later, 200 meters away from the suspicious location, nearly a thousand mages and 500 instant crossbow carts lined up in two rows, and the magician troops in front began to launch their most powerful light spear array. When the first batch of magic descended on that area, the unfortunate ambushers were doomed to fail.
The pit roofs that were originally used to prevent the heavy cavalry from passing through became a burden to them. Large pieces of support and earthwork were collapsed by magic, making it extremely difficult for the soldiers in the pit to climb out of this terrible place, let alone attack quickly.
After the attack of the magic, although no one knew how many people were ambushed in the hundreds of meters long pit, only one large group was able to escape from this unfortunate place. The rest of the soldiers were either killed directly by the magic or buried by their own traps.
"Don't chase him. It's impossible that everyone in the pit is dead. Find a living person. I just need to know if he is the one behind this. It's not our responsibility to eliminate him."
At Thacker's command, the cavalrymen who were preparing to attack immediately stopped under the command of their respective commanders. The Eastern Leader soldiers, who were originally lacking even weapons and equipment, immediately began to dig out living people from the graves.
When we started digging, there was movement on the surface of the ground nearly a kilometer away from the "burial grounds". Thousands of infantrymen emerged from the ground and began to retreat quickly. At this time, the sound of a large group of cavalrymen galloping in the distance came. Everything was exactly as I expected. But I couldn't let the magician troops take risks. On the surface, Thacker's Flame Legion even came to protect the magician troops. If something went wrong with them, Thacker's victory in this battle would not only rot, but he would also be blamed when he returned. That was absolutely inevitable.
I stayed at Thacker's place for less than half an hour when intelligence from all sides came in. As expected, from the pit, 1,000 meters ahead and about 700 meters on each side, there were a large number of tripwires, dozens of them densely packed together, which was even more perverted than I had expected.
"My Lords, we have just roughly counted the enemy's situation. In the pit we attacked, there were originally 4 infantry divisions. They were ready to attack us immediately after we passed by, but because of our advance action, they were almost annihilated, and less than one battalion (1,000 people) escaped. In the pit behind them, there are probably 2 divisions of infantry, but because our advance action disrupted their plans and they retreated quickly, they did not suffer any losses. Our spies also discovered a large number of cavalry units on the periphery, including one heavy cavalry division and two light cavalry divisions. If we are encountered by those three cavalry units after the melee, we may suffer great losses..."
"It's not that the possibility is very high, but it is possible that the whole army will be wiped out! These guys want me dead, but unfortunately they underestimated us. In this case, I have to teach them a lesson, otherwise they will think that I, Thacker, am made of paper." Thacker interrupted his subordinate's report and then started to ask questions after he got angry, "Have you found out where those guys are stationed? Even if I can't wipe them out completely, I will teach them a lesson."
"Sir, our light cavalry and magicians are tracking them. We will report back as soon as we have any news."