Chapter 83 The loss was not unjust
“Hey, Mr. Jose will definitely be able to win this time!” Snow Chicken held a glass of wine in both hands, nodding and bowing to praise.
"Hmm..." Heleti was noncommittal, staring at the fire in trance.
At this moment, the closed door suddenly opened with a bang, and "Iron Shield" Eugene stumbled in with blood all over his body. He knelt down in front of Heleti with a bang and burst into tears: " Lord Sand King, Lord Sand King..."
"What happened? Why did you come back alone, where is Jose?" Heleti's heart tightened.
It didn't matter if he didn't ask. Eugene cried louder when he asked.
Heleti rubbed her temples and ordered: "Snow Chicken, help him up."
"Yes..." Snow Chicken intuitively felt that there was nothing good going on here, but he still had no choice but to obey his orders. He stepped forward and supported Eugene: "Commander Eugene, please get up quickly. Lord Shah is still waiting for your reply..."
Eugene slowly raised his head, revealing a ferocious face stained with dried blood: "...It's all because of you!"
He suddenly grabbed Snow Chicken by his collar and lifted him up. He threw it to the ground hard and kicked him one after another: "You bastard, piece of shit, you bastard who deserves to go to hell!!"
The hard iron boots kept kicking the snow chicken, and blood overflowed from the latter's mouth, and he wailed: "Commander Eugene, spare your life... spare your life!!"
"Sir King Sand, save me!!"
"That's enough..." Heleti ordered in a low voice.
Eugene continued his atrocities as if he hadn't heard.
“I said, that’s enough!” Heleti raised her voice and her tone became cold and solemn: “Eugene, you don’t even listen to my words?”
Hearing these words, Eugene rolled his eyes with his lowered head, threw himself on the ground and cried loudly: "Master Sand King, it's miserable, it's so miserable!"
"One hundred and sixty brothers, A total of one hundred and sixty! Only seventy-eight of them came back alive! There are only forty brothers left in the main camp, and everyone is injured!"
This level of loss is completely unexpected. His face turned livid in Heleti's anticipation. Incomparable: "What's going on? How could the damage be so great? Where's Jose, let him come over to see me!"
"Jose...Jose, he..." Eugene suppressed the smile at the corner of his mouth. Meaning: "He died!"
"What!?" Heraiti thought it was Jose who did not dare to face responsibility and pushed Eugene up. Now he knows that his most valued confidant is dead. , and everything suddenly went dark.
After a long silence, Heraiti opened her lips with difficulty: "... Where is his body?"
Heraiti's tone was not serious, but Eugene couldn't help but feel nervous, with a chill. Rushing straight to the top of his head from behind, he didn't even dare to cry: "...stuck in the enemy's formation and couldn't get back."
"Good, good...very good!!" Helai Ti spit out a few words from between his teeth, the veins on his face throbbed, and the corners of his mouth kept twitching.
José is his confidant, and he is the old man who fought with him from the bottom, and he is also the only one who is still alive today!
Anger, hatred, regret, regret... a lot of emotions suddenly surged in Heleti's heart.
His breathing became extremely heavy, and he suddenly grabbed the gold wine glass and threw it to the ground, smashing it into a gold cake.
Eugene lowered his head, not daring to look at it, preparing to face the coming storm.
Snow Chicken also stopped moaning, holding his head and shivering, for fear that the anger would be poured out on him.
But to their expectation, Hleti's breathing gradually calmed down, and her voice was hoarse than ever before: "Tell me, Eugene, what exactly happened?"
< br>For the first time, Eugene discovered that even after following Hleti for so long, he still could not see through this "Sand King", and he immediately gave up the idea of passing all the responsibilities to Jose.
He straightened up, gave Snow Chicken a hard look, and said in a deep voice to Heleti: "The most important factor in this failure is the intelligence error!"
"Xue Ji said Kazuo The actual performance of the Eagle Army is completely different. They are not the same army at all."
Hleti's eyes fell on Snow Chicken, who quickly fell to the ground and shouted: "Sand King! Sir, I can swear to the Lord of Light that everything I said is true, and there is no lie! The hatred between the Eagle Leader and I is as deep as the sea, how could I provide false information?"
" Oh, it’s impossible?” Eugene gritted his teeth: “Didn’t you say that Eric is the only one of them who is a first-level transcendent?”
“Yes!” Snow Chicken looked confused.
"It's a head!" Eugene stretched out four fingers and slapped Snow Chicken in the face: "They have more than one first-level transcendent, there are four of them that I saw! And Eric himself, even more Reached the second level!"
Snow Chicken's expression froze, and then turned to Heleti: "Master Sand King, I really don't know this!"
"You don't know! I'm afraid things Too many?!" Eugene raised his voice: "Not only are their numbers extraordinary, but their equipment is also amazing. Eric not only has an enchanted plate armor, but also has at least two enchanted weapons, as well as a Enchanted shield."
"The four extraordinary ones are all equipped with enchanted weapons!"
Snow Chicken was so frightened that he couldn't say a word.
However, Heleti's attention was not on him: "But this does not explain why this battle will be lost. Even if they have five extraordinarys, their equipment is not bad, but we only have more extraordinarys than them, let alone , Jose is also the second level!"
"...This is about Eric's brilliant tactics." Eugene said in a timely manner. A little responsibility fell on himself: "His tactical arrangement was completely beyond my expectations. I have an unshirkable responsibility for this failure!"
"Oh?" Hleti knew Eugene well. He is very professional in training and marching formations. Otherwise, Heleti would not promote Eugene as his confidant.
This was the first time he heard Eugene admit that his tactics were inferior to others.
“Tell me more about it.”
"Yes, sir!" Eugene stood up and began to tell the story of the previous battle, telling exactly how they marched, how he saw that Eric had a plot, and how Jose decided on the tactics.
Heleti closed her eyes and thought: "Jose's decision is correct."
"It should be so." Eugene sighed: "But three rounds of galloping have no effect. , the leather armor on the Eagle Army has such high protective power that most feathers The arrow can't penetrate at all and can't cause any damage!"
"I worked hard to capture this on the battlefield, please take a look!"
Eugene clapped his hands, and someone immediately said it! He held a set of dirty leather armor in front of Heleti.
The latter took it and didn't care about the blood stains on it. Instead, he stretched out his hand to touch its surface and even tore it twice. The look on his face became much more solemn:
"No wonder the arrow can't shoot. Wear it, this leather is tough, and its surface has been hardened by a special process. Even if it’s not as good as Warcraft leather, it’s not much different.”
“This Raven, Where did you get such a good thing?”
The snow chicken immediately crowed: “Master Sand King, I really don’t know this. When I saw it, the Eagle Army was equipped with Ordinary leather armor!" Hleti believed this, because the scout he captured was equipped with ordinary leather armor. If there had been such good leather armor, it would have been impossible for Raven not to give it to the scout.
But now, he had no intention of paying attention to this snow chicken.
Heleti looked at Eugene: "Continue."
"Yes..." Eugene swallowed: "Next, Jose will lead the team to attack the Eagle Army. In this formation, by the time he completes the charge, our team has already lost more than thirty people!”
Hleti was keenly aware of the details: “They dug a trap? No, now? Cold weather The ground was frozen and as hard as stone, and they didn’t have that much time!”
“You’re right,” Eugene sighed: “So they just dug many gerbil-like holes on the plain. A war horse would break its hooves if it stepped into such a small pit, and Eric also revealed the crossbowmen hidden in the snow, using three-stage shooting, and using enchanted crossbow arrows!”
"Three-stage... shooting, what is that?" This was the first time Heleti heard this term.
“The team of more than 30 crossbowmen is divided into three groups to shoot, and reloading is started immediately after each period of shooting, which can ensure that the firepower of the crossbow will not be cut off.”
"It is indeed an unprecedented tactic." A dark cloud appeared on Hleti's face.
Continuous enchanted crossbow shooting, even if he led the team, he could not avoid casualties: "But it is not enough to make Jose fail."
"Indeed not!" Eugene He praised his dead colleague: "Jose was very brave. He led the team into the Eagle Army's main formation and caused a lot of damage!"
"Then how did he lose?" Heleti was puzzled: "Even if the opponent's equipment is not bad, they can barely catch up with us. What's more, even if there is a loss, we still have the advantage in numbers!" < br>
hear this Asked a question, Eugene glared at Snow Chicken again: "Lord Sand King, this is why I think he is a dead soldier who deliberately deceived us!"
"Soldiers of the Eagle Army are basically Not a new recruit!"< br>
“Although they are not as good as the Iron Legion, the discipline and quality they have shown can serve as elites among the Earl family’s private soldiers!”
“It’s not like we don’t have problems with ordinary nobles. private When the soldiers fought, no matter what formation the opponent put up, they would be scattered as soon as they got in the face, but these Eagle Army managed to maintain their formation! They fought in a melee with our people and refused to retreat! "
Speaking of this, Eugene seemed to have returned to the battlefield just now, with the taste of blood in his mouth: "Those first-order extraordinary people were hiding in the crowd, Lawson, Binrui... were all besieged and attacked to death by them! ”
“José Being entangled with Eric, Eric was clearly a man of steel and vindictiveness, but he was evenly matched with Jose!"
"José's trusted cavalry was defeated by that Raven alone! was stopped, the blood Yonggen who showed It has nothing to do with 'greed for life and fear of death'!"
Eugene took a breath and calmed down a little. Seeing Heleti's livid face, his expression became sad: "Even so. , Jose still seized the opportunity, but just when he was about to kill Eric, the extraordinary ones hidden among the ordinary soldiers surrounded him."
"I was also at that time! Only then did I discover these extraordinary existences!”
"I wanted to rush in and pick him out, but I encountered extremely stubborn resistance. When I broke through the defense line, those extraordinary ones had already surrounded Jose. He was one against five, but in the end..."
"Okay, don't say it It's over..." Heleti waved her hands tiredly and closed her eyes: "In this battle, our intelligence was insufficient, and we lost...unjustly!"
The air fell into a dull silence, even if it was snow. Even a chicken can feel Heleti's helplessness.
Hleti was in a very low mood.
The loss of dozens of men is not a big deal. The most indispensable thing in the bloody highlands is horse thieves who rob families and homes. He can pull up another group at any time.
But a second-level extraordinary, especially a loyal second-level extraordinary, is not so easy to cultivate in the bloody highlands.
"Whose hands did Jose die in?" Heleti's voice was low and majestic.
It was too far away and the environment was too noisy. Eugene actually didn’t know the name of the man who stopped Jose, but at this time he had to give a clear answer: "...Eric!"
Eric is far superior to Eugene in terms of personal strength and battlefield command. He provided this name not only to be reasonable, but also to cut off the possibility of Heleti recruiting him.
"Eric...!" Heleti opened her eyes and burst out with strong murderous intent: "I will personally cut off his head to pay tribute to my dead brother!"
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"Then... let's gather all the troops tomorrow and set off immediately?" Eugene asked tentatively.
“No rush.” Herleti remained calm at this time: “...Although they performed very well, such an arrangement can kill Jose, but it cannot defeat me. They must There is also a backup plan! ”
“ Let me get all the scouts out, I want to see what other tricks they are hiding!”
At the same time, in a cave three kilometers southeast of the Scorpion Nest, what Heleti said: Backhand", that is, Raven and the others settled here.
“Hey, I didn’t expect this guy Heleti to be so timid. He didn’t even dare to come out by himself. The wind blew me for so long. Damn it!” Nancy complained as she warmed herself around the fire pit. .
"Sir Eric is still awesome." Volaf grinned and added fuel to the campfire: "Hey, more than 160 people went out and less than 80 came back. What a great victory!"
"That's all thanks to me!" Nancy took the photo He patted his chest and said proudly: "If I hadn't advocated keeping Mary, they wouldn't have been able to fight so smoothly. You think so, right?"
Leaven rarely agreed with Nancy: " Yeah, if it weren't for Mary Given the specific personnel composition, Eric could not make any targeted arrangements."
Mary, who was cooking the food, lowered her head shyly: "Thank you, Lord Baron."
“Which You won the prize, that's not enough!" Nancy smiled proudly: "If you hadn't led the way, we wouldn't have been able to come here so early. If Heleti went out in person this time, we would have missed the opportunity greatly. ! ”
Hearing this, the soldiers all nodded in agreement.
Mary provided a lot of help along the way. Not only did she introduce and use the flora and fauna in the Bloody Highlands, but with the crows around, she could always find the hard-to-find paths, and she also found many things on the map. There is no place, but it is enough for them to be stationed.
Even Volaf, who has always been wary of Mary, had to admit that without her help, they would probably still be eating snow on the road, and they would not even be able to contact Eric. Not to mention sneaking close to the scorpion nest.
"Mary, thank you for your hard work on this journey." Raven stood up and walked to the "black pearl" and put his hand on her shoulder.
A blush spread across Mary's cheeks: "...It is an honor for me to serve the Baron!"
"Our goal is the same, to kill Horati." Raven's cheek slowly touched Mary's ear: "But before that, there is one more thing that needs your help."
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(End of this chapter)