Chapter 591: Entering the Tunnel
As an intelligent creature, as long as the brain is developed and sound, there will definitely be selfishness, of course, the kind of intelligent creature whose head itself is sound but has become brain-dead under the erosion of various knowledge, culture, and religion does not count. And the human race in the most intelligent species, their selfishness may not be comparable even if the selfishness of all races combined, just like the greed and desire of human beings, these are one of the fundamental reasons why human beings can have the shadow of human race in all corners of the entire King Continent today.
After discovering that the Sunset army is in trouble, Leo seems to be a righteous and awe-inspiring figure, willing to go to serve as a bait to attract the attention of the Serpent forces for the victory of the Sunset army, but think about what will happen to Ao if this battle fails?
Not to mention the myth that the sun never sets and the army is undefeated, the death of the 100,000 soldiers who never sets the sun alone is enough for Sun Lin himself to cut down Leo directly regardless of his past friendships.
Although this matter is not Leo's fault in a fundamental sense, because the fundamental reason for Leo's own misjudgment is that the sunset side did not do a good job of pre-war intelligence work, and his own misjudgment is just an underestimation of the speed of the main force of the snake people; Of course, if you agree to this matter, you can't blame the Western Regions Division of the Continent in the Sunset Intelligence Network, because the Sunset Intelligence Network is built by human beings, and the objects and sources of intelligence collected by this intelligence network are obtained from the power of the human race, and the Sunset Intelligence Network Division in the Western Regions of the Central Continent has not been established for a few years, and it is not up to standard in terms of talents, facilities, etc., and it is already very difficult to collect intelligence from human beings in many cases, how can the intelligence network have the ability to deceive intelligence from the brains of aliens?
But the problem is that the sun does not set, and the people only look at the results, not the process and the cause! In such a situation, even if you Leo have 100 ways to explain, do you think that Sun Lin and the military department that are under the pressure of hundreds of millions of people are likely to listen to the one-sided words in your Leo's mouth? Even a fool knows that this is definitely not going to happen.
Besides. If you carefully observe the equipment of Leo's army, then some people will be surprised to find that it seems to be the least 30,000 troops in the 3rd Route Army, but in fact it is equipped with 10,000 Atlantan crescent spearmen and Lancester hammermen with armor-piercing ability, in addition to 5,000 English foot knights and 5,000 sunset crossbowmen, and the rest are 3,000 members of the Papal Guard. 3,000 Nishiyino Taiken warriors and 2,000 elite of the Sunset Army: The members of the Swiss Guard, the fighting power of the Imperial City Guard, are the more than 3,000 griffin knights and hundreds of Greek firefighters that Sun Lin assigned to Leo this time.
This is a unit dedicated to dealing with snake warriors! If anyone finds out, then they will understand why Leo has no worries about turning himself into bait, because this army is dealing with twice as many snake warriors. Defeat is not guaranteed in a head-to-head situation.
It is precisely because of this that when the original 10,000 or so snake people, who had been closely following the ass of Leo's army, met the 30,000 army that turned around and broke through and fought each other, the dense military formation on the snake people's side would be cut off almost every second; On the other hand, the sun does not set, but because there are English foot knights and wild sword warriors as assault troops. Members of the Swiss Guards flanked the mountain paths, and thousands of sunset crossbowmen took advantage of the terrain to tilt their crossbow arrows at the snake warriors below. So that the sun does not set, it has even reached a speed of half a meter per second.
Meantime. One-fourth of the strength of the main army of the snake people who finally caught up with the rear of the Sunset Army, but because of the Atlantan Crescent spearmen and Lancester hammermen from the Sunset, these two types of troops that pose an equally great threat to the Snake Man warriors are guarded, and they can't move forward at all, and they can not move forward at all, and they can only watch their comrades in front of them being repelled and defeated by the Sunset soldiers.
Part of the forces has been routed. The momentum of the flanking attack has been broken by the sunset, and the snake people who were supposed to come to their own side have not appeared until now (in fact, those snake people have already collapsed and cowered in the cave after some of them were killed and wounded).
Although the sun never sets, the army can now be described as a tired division. But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, the camel is bigger than the horse, and at this time, the sun does not set on the side seems to have combat effectiveness, and the most important thing is that its number is still more than its own side, in this case, if you continue to fight with the sun does not set army, then it is very likely that the final destruction will not be human soldiers but your own side, so this snake warrior army blocked by the sun never set Atlantan spearmen and Lancester hammer soldiers, quickly retreated back into the cave.
Looking at the snake warriors who were driven away, the more than 20,000 soldiers who survived the sun never set all let out a righteous cheer, and Leo, as the commander-in-chief, learned from the griffin knights that the troops with 3/4 of the main force of the snake people were all cowered in the cave after being rained by a carpet pour by the griffin knights, Leo finally breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the soldiers who never set to use the rations they carried for the second time, and let everyone present perform the cremation ceremony for the corpses of their comrades.
And Leo himself put the map of the Niria Mountains that had been stained with some blood on his body on a boulder, and thought about the next action: the safest way is of course to choose to order the commanders of the two armies that the sun does not set without turning around to help, and then turn around again and break out of this mountain road to meet the other two armies of the sunset, after all, the snake warriors have been scared by the sunset army on this mountain road, and they do not have an absolute advantage in terms of strength as before.
However, if you want to choose this path to go on, there will be two problems that Leo needs to think about how to deal with them: First, in order to speed up the movement of the Sunset army led by Leo, there is no Sunset Heavy Army, which means that the Sunset soldiers not only cannot get the replenishment of arrows, but also food and drinking water. And because of the rush of the previous breakthrough, in fact, there is not much fresh water to drink on the soldiers in this army that never sets, and there is only one ration left in terms of food, but the amount of arrows and Greek fire and other baggage is quite sufficient.
Second, it is at least a week away from the exit of the Nirya Mountains, and if you choose to go down, the soldiers will have to endure a lack of food and water for at least five days. Third, what would happen if the snake troops fought back during this period?
It is precisely because of this that Leo finally decided that since he had already turned back once, there was no point in turning back again, and it was very likely to hit the morale of the army that the sun never set, so it was better to go all the way back in the direction he was moving now, and return to the place where the army was stationed before to replenish fresh water. In addition, if the tunnel used by the snake tribe can be found in the cave, wouldn't it be lucky, maybe this time the army of the snake tribe can be completely underground, of course, before this, it must not be possible to let the two armies of the sun never set back, after all, it is very good that nearly 70,000 soldiers of the sun never set fled from the Nirya Mountains, and if they are allowed to return, it will not let them go to the Niriya Mountains to die, so Leo led the troops to arrive again before the sunset army stationed, Now that there are only a lot of corpses lying in the ruins of the camp here, let the War Eagle pass on the next step of the two-way sunset army to the commanders of the sunset army: set up a camp in the territory of the snake tribe and guard it to resist the attack of the snake tribe, and use the presence of the griffin knights to get in touch with Sun Lin's crown and let the crown increase his troops in the direction of the Nirya mountain range.
As for Leo's explanation of the next steps for himself and the more than 20,000 Sunset soldiers in his hands, Leo only told those legion commanders to reassure them, and informed them that the snake army had been defeated one by one, and Leo himself was now chasing the news of the snake people's remnants, and did not tell the Sunset Legion Commanders about the current plight and course of action of Leo's Sunset army, the main reason for this was because Leo was afraid that this information would spread and cause the 70,000 Sunset soldiers to fluctuate. In this state, the soldiers of the sun will be defeated if they fight against the snake people who come to attack the camp without an effective type of troops, and now only by letting these soldiers who do not set the sun continue to maintain their hope for this battle can it be possible to make this poisonous needle on the edge of the territory of the snake people tribe play its best effect.
"So this tunnel in front of you is the only way you found to the underground tunnel?" Looking at the tunnel ahead that was not only damp, but also covered with moss and algae, Leo's face showed doubt: "This entrance is big, it can fully accommodate all of our 20,000 soldiers who never set the sun in one night, but this ......... Isn't this the course of the underground river? ”
"Lord Leo, you don't know the road, in fact, this underground river has two channels, during the day this underground river flows through this channel, and at night there is indeed another one, and the tunnel in the middle of these two rivers is probably the tunnel used by the snake warriors when they move in the Nirya Mountains, our soldiers now only need to cross this river to reach the interior, and there will be a hillside that allows our army to reach the tunnel."
"I hope so.......... whole army, forward!" (To be continued.) )