Chapter 614: Tired and Unloved
Mo Tan didn’t think as much as Yi Zhao. This was not because this guy was generous, but mainly because he was vaguely reminded of some things before setting off. Psychologically prepared, and in addition to the fact that I had more or less investigated the Holy Religion Alliance under other personalities, and learned some inside stories that were not strictly secrets, I felt equally indignant and angry after the incident. He was angry, but he was not carried away by the anger. He just silently recorded this account in his heart.
Although even Yi Zuo could tell who was behind the previous 'accident', Mo Tan had to admit that the other party's method was quite clever, so clever that from the surface, it would be impossible to No one can find any problem.
Even he himself, who had always been wary, only suddenly noticed a clue when half of his feet had already stepped into the 'trap'. In the end, he still failed to bring the team back intact. If it weren't for The moment he discovered that something was wrong, he directly contacted Huo Yanyang through a friend's message, and asked the latter to temporarily organize a group of combat forces to rush to the outskirts of Sumir as quickly as possible, and led everyone to not retreat but to advance, and Instead of retreating to the Northern Expeditionary Army's defense line, which happened to have a fault, as the enemy expected, they directly penetrated the relatively weak left wing of the cultists, opened a gap and fled to the main peak of Sumir. Ten of these twenty people Eighty-nine times all had to be blamed for that ambush.
But even so, when Mo Tan finally successfully reunited with Huo Yanyang, more than half of the nineteen people who had always obeyed his command during the process were killed or injured, including the most powerful high-level paladin. Everyone, including Yi Zuo, was at the end of his rope. The five paladins from the Plenty Sect and the Dawn Sect and two priests from the Justice Sect had already fallen during the breakout process. Six priests from the Sun Sect were helping. After Mo Tan and Yi Zuo reunited with the large army, they resolutely shouldered the task of breaking up the rear. They launched the joint magic [Six Rays of Red Sun Formation] without asking for any opinions from others. They successfully covered the evacuation of everyone who hurriedly responded to the battle and then died as martyrs. .
In the end, the only ones who survived were Mo Tan, Yi Zuo, four Dawn Sect priests, and the youngest member of the team, Sun Sect trainee priest Sheila Chenkobel, who would just turn eighteen next month.
The remaining thirteen people were all killed in the battle, and no one survived.
The defense line changed frequently in the first month, the deterrence was not seeking merit but no fault, the 'crusade' was like military training with almost no smell of gunpowder, the detection sequence was constantly adjusted according to a certain pattern, A mixed support team from four different sects, these appearances constantly paralyzed Mo Tan's vigilance, and finally sent him into a fatal trap.
The cultists’ unexpected rebound, the Northern Expeditionary Army’s second regiment’s logical shrinkage, and the four outer layers of defense’s logical changes created a fatal dead end.
In just ten minutes, the support team, which was originally on a normal mission, lost all cover. They were completely exposed to the sight of nearly a hundred cultists, and were forced to do so under the subconscious restraint of the enemy. The movement speed was reduced, and it was impossible to return to the defense system that the second battle group had rebuilt within the specified time. It was thus left on the defensive line to face the long-awaited counterattack of the cultists.
This was a murder that was so meticulous and meticulous that it was chilling, but it was also a murder without any evidence.
Because the battle situation is transparent to every soldier of the Northern Expedition, and our own adjustments and deployments are also transparent, so everyone knows when they should do what they should do and when their comrades should What is being done is clearly visible at a glance, and the entire command structure is running seamlessly like a precise machine.
And this seemingly transparent system is precisely the most brilliant part of this murder.
Precision and rigor mean a fault tolerance rate that is infinitely close to zero, so this plan is not realistic enough from the beginning, because humans are not machines, and no one can do those things exactly. Everything that can only be established 'in theory'.
But Mo Tan didn't care about this problem at first, because people have difficulty reaching the 'limits' in the theory, but they also have 'elasticity' that machines and theories do not have, although it is inevitable that there will be Omission, but this kind of thing can never be called a problem. Taking the normal handover distance of duty, the person who changes the shift is five minutes late. At best, it means that the person on duty will stand for five more minutes, and you and I will coordinate with each other. Just do it once, after all, rules are dead and people are alive.
However, at a certain point in time, the 'elasticity' that had always run through the strategic structure of the Northern Expeditionary Army suddenly disappeared.
From the moment...the twenty-man team led by Mo Tan left the station!
The structure of the four lines of defense continues to operate according to the established plan, but it has quietly become extremely rigorous under the control of thoughtful people. In this process, a total of sixteen teams participated in defense changes and transfers, truly achieved As precise as a machine.
Of course this is not a mistake, but the Motan team, which had left the main force, did not expect that the originally relaxed 'elasticity' had disappeared the moment after they left. .
Then, the long-awaited backlash from the cultists arrived!
The defense line, which was as sophisticated as a machine, retracted instantly, and Mo Tan's support team was unfortunately left outside the system.
When a team is in danger, the Northern Expeditionary Army headquarters will naturally not leave it alone, but it takes time to allocate manpower on the spot or choose the right moment for support. At that time, it happened to be the turn of the two outermost lines of defense. Leader of the second battle group Warrens Kalleni happened to go to the First Regiment to report on his duties at this time. Although his deputy immediately sent someone to report, by the time Warrens got the news and organized a rescue team, he was far away from Mo Tan and others. A full ten minutes have passed since the person was attacked!
Ten minutes that decide life or death!
If Mo Tan really decided to fight and retreat and wait for rescue, instead of forcing a breakout and attacking the main peak of the Holy Mountain, these ten minutes would have been enough for them to be wiped out twice!
How did the other party do it...
Mo Tan, who first arrived in the holy mountain Sumir, has been thinking about this issue.
The answer was not difficult to guess. Through reverse reasoning, Mo Tan quickly noticed the clue.
On the surface, this accident is just a stack of a large number of accidents, but in fact, the fact that these accidents appeared at the same time is very strange in itself.
So...
The tentative surprise attack by the cultists is fundamental. This situation has actually happened several times, but only this time, the elite scouts of the second battle group did not I haven't received any news, which is a huge doubt.
It is true that it is absolutely impossible for anyone in the Northern Expedition to collude with the cultists, but if it is not collusion, but just deliberately suppressing the information that has been learned, it is not a difficult thing to do.
So, assuming that the officiant of the Golden Crown of Warrens, who obviously has ill intentions towards him, has the relevant information, it would not be difficult to deduce the time of the cultists’ attack. Under this premise, he would probably You can secretly manipulate the randomly adjusted formation plan and let Motan get stuck on that strange creature. Often leaving the station at a dangerous time, and then giving a little push to the people under your command, such as casually inciting morale, or casually saying, "Everyone seems to be slacking off recently," can help them in the next step. Over a period of time, the precision of the entire defense system was greatly improved without leaving any trace.
In this way, the time required to shrink the defense line, which originally took a short period of time, will be greatly reduced. In addition, Mo Tan and others will definitely be entangled by the cultists before everyone else. , so when they retreated to their original outermost defense line, the second battle group, whose execution power had suddenly strengthened, naturally retreated. After designing these contents, Warrens could justifiably delay a few more minutes as long as he knew the time in advance to go to the First Battle Group to report on his duties. Within these few minutes, Mo Tan and others would be dead!
Even if the Dawn Sect is not exaggerating, in this case, no commander can be so miraculous that with twenty average but mid-level combat forces, they can resist until support arrives!
In just one morning in real time, Mo Tan, who had passively switched personalities twice... gathered his own strength to reverse the situation, and realized deeply what a terrible poisonous plan this was.
Maybe it was just that the Bishop of Warrens noticed through the scouts that the cultists were preparing to fight back soon, but he was still so thorough that it was outrageous, not to mention the evidence, even the slightest violation. There is no sense at all. If Mo Tan really died in that accident, after considering the circumstances at the time, there is no need to even investigate, and the word "accident" can be used to deal with it.
"My heart is so tired..."
Compared with the indignation of the half-dragon female knight behind her, Mo Tan only felt tired at this moment. Not very energetic.
Are you feeling uncomfortable?
It was quite uncomfortable. Although I, Yi Zuo and the other five people all survived, the rest of the team fell to the unscrupulous attacks of those cultists. The seven saints who played a decisive role in the breakout were all killed. Almost no body of the knight was left, and the last flashes of the other war dead when their lives came to an end also shocked Mo Tan. Although he has experienced many big scenes, his psychological quality is really average, and he still thinks of those things often these days. People, think of those figures who took the initiative to leave the team and lay behind them.
You must know that he is not the pivotal commander three months ago. The core that countless people have tried their best to protect, he is just an ordinary military chaplain who is said to be very good at commanding.
And those who died in the war did not resolutely come forward to protect him.
The knights of Dawn and Harvest Sect took the initiative to take on the most dangerous mission. They said that they would not let the priests and priests of the same team fall before them. They did it before the last knight fell. , no one else in the team left a drop of blood.
The two priests of the Justice Sect, who were not good at healing magic, quietly took out their maces after the object of blessing fell, took over the task of the knights, and firmly guarded the two wings of the team, using their thin His body bore most of the pressure until the last moment.
The priests of the Sun Sect rationally analyzed the battle situation, and finally agreed that only the [Red Sun Six-ray Formation] could buy enough time to retreat, so they pushed the youngest among them out and used the combined magic to block him. In front of those murderous cultists, he burned out his last bit of strength.
Under the current personality, Mo Tan does not have a firm will and is not hard-hearted enough, so naturally he cannot help but feel uncomfortable.
Do you blame yourself?
Maybe there are some. After all, he knows very well that the other party is actually targeting only himself, and others can be said to be implicated by him, so he often thinks back to the scene when his companions who had not been together for a short time fell down. Looking at the scene, he felt that he had killed the other person.
Before setting off, the Pope of Dawn who called him to the Thousand Lights Dome made it very clear that the Dawn Sect with the emergence of the new God’s Favored Ones had accumulated a lot of strength and had become a lot stronger during this period, and he himself The 'talent' who emerged during the natural disaster in Misha County also aroused heated discussion in a small circle, and was even regarded by many people who participated in that battle as one of the leading figures in uniting the younger generation. The limelight even overwhelmed some The reclusive Saint Son and Saint Daughter also made the Dawn Sect, which had gained two outstanding young people in just a few months, even more limelight, and even had a large-scale influence among the believers.
But this may not be a good thing...
His Majesty the Pope's expression was very heavy at that time.
“The union of the Holy Church is not monolithic. This has never been a secret...”
The stooped His Majesty St. Ambrose Achil sighed deeply and smiled very much. It is bitter: "Where there are people, there will be disputes. Although the conflicts within the Holy Religion Union are 'milder' than many forces, it is only in comparison after all. No matter how pious the clergy is, they will not dislike themselves. The right to speak is too great. In the eyes of many people, things like status and influence are synonymous with spreading the gospel of God. In fact, this is not wrong. Although some sects in some alliances are not interested in this kind of struggle, But Dawn Sect, one of the three major sects, cannot escape this kind of thing. In fact, we don’t mind seeking a higher status for the sect through legitimate means.”
His Majesty the Pope said. There was a slight pause here, obviously to let Mo Tan digest what he just said.
The latter could only smile bitterly. He, who was born in modern times, would naturally understand this kind of thing.
Then...
"I'm sorry, Priest Black Van, we did have some selfish motives in sending you to Sumir."
The old lizard man The Pope looked at Mo Tan apologetically and whispered: "But after Tiphilo disappeared, the Dawn Sect, which has not seen a favored person for hundreds of years, has been silent for too long. We need to let the believers see something. These hopes, and you and Wangyu are one of our hopes, but because of this, it would be okay if Wangyu never wakes up after coming back, even the worst competitors will not have the nerve to use any crooked ideas, but Now... I hope you can understand what I mean, Pastor Hei Fan, please be sure to protect yourself during the days before returning to the City of Light..."
...
"I feel so tired that I don't like it."
Mo Tan took a deep breath of Sumir's cold and thin air, and held his forehead feebly...
"This kind of great responsibility comes from heaven. Can't we leave the drama to others..."
Chapter 607: The End
(End of this chapter)