"Hahh..............."

It wasn't until she saw that the barrier in front of her was covered by the tumbling flames that Li Jie let out a long breath, and then sat down on her knees weakly, although strictly speaking, the scene of this battle did not look very intense and tense, but after all, this was the first time that Li Jie was responsible for formulating the battle plan, and now she finally entered the last step, which also made Li Jie can't help but settle down. At this time, Joey and the others had also come to her side, looking at the girl sitting on the ground with strange expressions.

It's no wonder they have such expressions, although these cavalry don't know it, but as participants in it, Joey, Lando and Marfa know that the tactics laid out by Lijie are not just about ambushes and raids. For the first time, the young girl showed an unparalleled, nuanced sense of observation in terms of tactics. In this ambush battle, Lijie did a lot of things, she first divided her spirit master team into four teams, one of which was responsible for unleashing the shining light at the beginning to blind the other party, and the other team was responsible for maintaining the sluggish aura. And Li Jie personally led the other two spirit masters to be responsible for activating the "Holy Guardian Enchantment" this time. In fact, the core of this ambush war is also here.

Lijie never thought of relying on Marfa's swordsmen and Lando's rangers to complete this mission, after all, there were too many opponents, and relying on them, even if the enemy didn't resist and stood there and killed them, they couldn't finish killing. But fortunately, Lijie has been with Rhodes for so long, and she is not living in vain. She has followed Rhodes through many battles, many of which are more than less, and Lijie is also keenly aware that in such battles, Rod generally does not use melee units to charge, on the contrary, he always puts spellcasting units on the front line of the battle first, whether it is a mage or a spirit master. And fought for so long under the command of Rhodes. As a result, Lijie also began to try to emulate Rhodes' use of the caster as the primary attack unit. Eventually, she devised this ambush.

Use the burst of light to disrupt your enemies' formation, then force them on, use the aura of sluggishness to hinder their movements, and buy time for your own worst "Holy Guardian Barrier". Meanwhile, the Rangers harass the enemy to prevent them from breaking through the Sluggish Aura, while the Swordsmen ambush the Spirits who unleash the enchantment, acting as the last line of defense to avoid any surprises. And at the same time. Thieves quickly roam around, scouting the front and back, and reporting anything unexpected as soon as possible. And when the "Holy Guardian Enchantment" is completed, Seven Love will descend and use her trump card to deliver the final blow to those enemies who have nowhere to escape.

Frankly, Lijie's tactics weren't very pretty. It can even be said that it is ugly and very afraid of death. Anne is responsible for protecting the spirits who are the first to face the enemy and maintain the aura of sluggishness, but there are at least two other spirits in ambush on her side, and will immediately put on the protection of their companions when the momentum is not right. to evade and defend against the opponent's attacks. The rangers and thieves also lie in ambush in the woods, trying not to confront the enemy head-on, and once the enemy enters the woods then they must retreat immediately, and never fall in love with the battle. It's like a person who is afraid of death looking around in the woods. At the same time, wrapping himself in a sturdy tortoise shell, he would jump up in fright and run away if there was any wind and grass......... It's not really anything worth putting on the table.

Not only that, but in order for this battle to go smoothly, Lijie had even spent the night before telling the others what they should do under what circumstances. She knew that she wasn't Rhodes' kind of person who was good at commanding on an ad hoc basis, so she simply took all the contingencies into account before the battle began, so as not to be in a hurry when things came about. What to do if the enemy stops, what to do if the enemy continues to charge, what to do if the enemy breaks out of the encirclement. What to do if there is an unexpected master among the enemies. What if they get caught in the front and back, what if they want to destroy themselves first. Even what to do if the mission failed at the end of the day, Li Jie carefully explained and explained to all the team leaders, and because of this, after the battle began, those team leaders did not seek Li Jie's instructions at all——— what to do in the face of what situation she had already said very clearly.

It's cumbersome, dogmatic, and even very rigid.

Lijie herself knows this, but she doesn't care, even after listening to the opinions of Qilian, Lijie didn't give up her thoughts, she is a very stubborn person after all, but this stubbornness is transformed into a person who can not die in battle, and if she can not be knocked down by the other party, she must do a good job of defense, and all she can do is to consider all the possible situations in the battle through her experience of following Rhodes for so long, and at the same time give the correspondence within her ability.

To tell the truth, if this is a death stumbling between the two armies, then Lijie's idea is a fatal weakness, the so-called narrow road meets the brave wins, many times there must be such momentum to be able to reap the victory, and there are often situations where it is impossible to win without letting go of everything. But fortunately, Lijie doesn't need to fight each other at the moment, and at the moment, most of the people in her team are combat professionals like rangers and thieves who are not good at head-on confrontation. Although Marfa led fifty elite peak-level swordsmen, he certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to ask Lijie to let him lead fifty brothers to fight against the three thousand Iron Hoofs on the opposite side——— it wasn't a hero, it was purely a matter of IQ.

"Wow, that's a ..............."

Looking at the flames tumbling in front of him, roaring in the enchantment like a giant wolf's furious waves, Joey couldn't help but smack his lips and glanced at Lijie with palpitations. It's no wonder that the [Seven Hells] of Seven Loves was originally the product of the combination of constantly emitting huge fireballs and firelight, and now it is even more powerful after being confined to this enchantment, and for a while, listening to the dull explosions that can't stop coming from the enchantment, the rolling firelight, even if you can't see the situation of those cavalry inside, it is enough to easily imagine their tragic situation. Under such an attack, even the most well-equipped soldiers may not escape death.

However, what Joey sighed was not just the fire elemental lord's powerful combat ability, on the contrary, he looked at Lijie on the side with palpitations, and at the same time glanced at Lando. Lando shook his head slightly, then sighed and said nothing.

To be honest, this battle brought them a lot of shock.

Lijie was so preoccupied with how to protect everyone around her, and at the same time she had to work hard to complete the task of preventing the cavalry of the Southern Legion from breaking through the defenses, so she didn't even notice what she was doing, she just tried to win the battle in a way that could protect everyone around her, even if it was ugly, and she could protect everyone around her and win. But in the eyes of people like Joey and Lando. After witnessing and participating in the battle, they found that they knew too little about the girl who had always stood behind them silently, gently, and submissively.

Force the opponent to disperse the formation by laying traps, and not only that, but due to the peculiarities of those traps. As a result, these cavalrymen had to pay attention to their front and back, which had invisibly slowed down their speed. Later, the harassment and attack of Lando and others made these cavalrymen realize that the threat of the other party was not as big as they imagined, and chose to ignore them and continue to advance, so they fell headlong into the trap of the sluggish aura. And after that, the other party's reactions and movements did not escape Lijie's expectations at all, and those cumbersome wordies before the battle now seemed to them to be completely anticipating the enemy's opportunity, although Lijie was not like Rhodes who could make a fatal blow in the battle, but her strength that had determined the entire battle process before the battle started was also shocking!

Of course, this plan was not done by Lijie alone, and she also asked Lando and Marfa what they could do when they were facing. But in the eyes of the mercenaries, it is not difficult for them to know what they can do, but it is difficult to know what to do under what circumstances. And Lijie's pre-battle command was very good at integrating this into it, which is also the reason why in the battle, although these cavalry reacted more than once, but the mercenaries did not panic at all. Because Lijie had taken everything into account before the war, they only had to make changes according to what they were supposed to deal with.

And in this way, there is a very interesting reaction——— Lijie is so focused on how to successfully hold this line of defense, and she basically has no time and energy to think about other issues. But in the opinion of Joey et al. Lizzie had been secretly calculating these poor Southern Legions from the very beginning. She eats the other party to death almost step by step, and she is familiar with her. I don't know if I think about it because she has some kind of revenge against her father and mother with the Southern Army, and she wants to kill them all.

After five or six minutes, the fire inside began to weaken, and the original golden barrier flickered for a moment before turning into bits of golden light and disappearing into the air. Soon, the smoke and dust cleared, revealing the battlefield that had been covered in flames again. And after seeing the scene in front of them clearly, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

The originally green grass was full of traces from the explosion, and the soil was turned over in large areas, and wisps of black smoke rose from it. And on the ground in front of them, half of the people standing could no longer be seen at the moment, and there were corpses of war horses and cavalry lying on the ground everywhere, although the [Seven Hells] of Seven Loves looked magnificent, as if even the entire world would be completely melted by her flames, but after all, she only had the same strength as Rhodes at present, even if she used her own core spells, it would inevitably weaken the power. Therefore, these cavalry did not really completely melt into the flames, but even so, the repeated bombardment within the enclosed environment of the "Holy Guardian Barrier" caused them to suffer a lot of damage.

"Hoo ..............."

After seeing this scorched earth-like scene, Lijie sighed deeply, and she didn't know whether she should be happy or sad. Soon, however, Lijie pulled herself together, stood up again, and then turned to the crowd around her.

"Mr. Marfa, please lead your men to clean up the battlefield, Mr. Lando, please gather our men and count the losses. Joey, go see if there's anything unusual elsewhere. ”

This time, in the face of Lijie's order, the mercenary captains finally no longer had the previous hesitation and uneasiness, but nodded, and then quickly took the order to leave. Go on your own mission. It was only at this time that Li Jie relaxed her shoulders, she raised her head, looked at the blue sky in front of her——— and the dark and dense smoke slowly rose, smearing a shocking scar on the originally beautiful sky.

"Well done, little Lijie."

With this crisp and beautiful voice, Seven Love landed from the sky with a grin, and she came to Lijie's side. Looking at her with a hint of a funny smile.

"Your maiden battle was a great success, to be honest, I didn't expect you to be able to think of so much, but now it seems that the master's expectations for you are still very correct."

“……………… Is that really good? Miss Seven Love? ”

Hearing Qilian's words, Lijie's eyes had a little more confused and complicated expression. She frowned, and looked back ahead, where corpses lay on the ground, with faint moans and screams everywhere, like hell............

"What I did ..............."

"Oh, Xiao Lijie, now that the battle is over, what do you want to do so much?"

Lijie's words were not finished. Interrupted by the smile of the Seven Loves, she reached out and put her arms around Lijie, and then whispered in her ear.

"Okay, okay, don't think about these things, you have been by the master's side for a long time, you haven't seen such a scene once or twice, what else can't you let go? It's war, little Lijie, you're doing a good job. No one will scold you for that. Relax and don't show such an expression in front of your subordinates. If you feel guilty, then they will be upset too. ”

“……………… Well. ”

Hearing Qilian's words, Li Jie nodded instinctively, she felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the fox-eared girl's words, but for a while, she didn't know what Lu Dao was for, and in fact, now Li Jie's own mood is also very complicated, on the one hand, she is very excited and excited, after all, this is the first time that the battle plan she came up with has become a reality. On the other hand, Lijie felt that she was very hateful like this, and now there were so many people dying because of her battle plan, but she was so excited and excited——— which made Lijie very difficult to accept, although she also knew that these people were her enemies, and it was her duty to defeat them. But looking at the scene of corpses in front of her, the girl couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. But soon, she forcibly suppressed the panic in her heart and regained her composure.

"Now that our side has succeeded, I don't know what the situation is on the other side of the road......... Miss Seven Love, the one you are talking about............ Is there really no problem? ”

"Huhuhu, don't worry, Xiao Lijie."

Hearing Lijie's somewhat uneasy rhetorical question, Qilian chuckled, she stretched out her right index finger and gently scraped Lijie's nose, and then continued with a smile.

"I can assure you, there's no problem at all, hehehe, some people just can't put their faces down, and they have to be given a stairs down to be interesting."

“？？？”

Hearing Qilian's words, Lijie turned her head to look at the fox-eared girl beside her with some curiosity, but this time, Qilian didn't say anything more to her, but smiled and narrowed her eyes, looking at the sky meaningfully.

Almost, it's time.

The cavalry captain raised his head and looked at the black smoke that appeared in the sky in the distance, and a trace of vigilance and worry flashed in his eyes. Of course, he knew very well what was in that direction, and that was the most important part of this battle plan, which was originally in General Dade's plan, the cavalry regiment was divided into two routes, and when the others held back the fortress forces, they broke through the defense line as quickly as possible, and then converged in the rear, and then attacked the city of Parfield, as long as they could make a successful surprise attack, then it meant a complete victory in the battle plan. Originally, for General Dade, she was very confident in this plan, before the operation, General Dade sent scouts to carefully investigate the strength of the fortress of the top of the clouds, they simply could not spare manpower to resist their own attack, and according to the intelligence network of the reformists, the royal family in the rear of the top of the clouds did not mobilize any troops, if they can really break through this line of defense, then victory is imminent!

But what's going on now? The flickering fire and dull sound just now vaguely lingered in the ears of the cavalry captain, which made him a little anxious, but now he had no way to get in touch with the other party, although the other cavalry regiment was personally appointed by General Dade and was deeply trusted, and the cavalry regiment did not expect to encounter sporadic resistance when breaking through the defensive line.

But this movement ......... It doesn't look like a ............

“——————！！！”

The thoughts in the cavalry captain's mind were not finished, suddenly, a harsh, sharp sound suddenly broke out, and the dull sound was like an invisible giant hammer hitting his chest heavily, which made the cavalry captain subconsciously snort, and almost turned over and fell off the horse, fortunately he was experienced in a hundred battles after all, and he hurriedly pulled the reins and stopped. But beside him, at this moment, dozens of soldiers had already turned over and dismounted, paralyzed to the ground.

And at this moment, the cavalry captain noticed that not far in front of them, a girl with long black hair was half-sitting on the ground, she was stroking a tall harp in her hand, and looked at the people in front of her with an indifferent face. Strange to say, there was only one person on the other side, but when the cavalry saw her presence, they seemed to feel the coercion of thousands of troops on the other side. Even the horses began to neigh uneasily, and though the cavalry pulled the reins hard, trying to control the horses beneath them, it was in vain. Seeing the ugliness of these cavalrymen, the black-haired girl frowned slightly.

"It's ugly."

Her voice was not loud, soft, ethereal, but it appeared clearly in everyone's ears, as if the girl was not standing in front of them, but leaning over to whisper to them.

"This is the ugliness of the weak, and it's really unbearable......... As for me, I didn't intend to have any interaction with you people, but now that I've been ordered, I'm going to have to complete the mission......... But now, the mercy of the strong for the weak is also taken for granted, so I will give you a chance to turn back at once, and go back to where you came from, this is my compassion and mercy for you. And this is your only chance. ”

After the girl said this indifferently, she closed her mouth and was silent. Hearing her speech, the soldiers were stunned——— they didn't expect that in the face of the thousands of cavalry in front of them, this lonely girl would dare to make such a naked threat.

She shouldn't be in her right mind!

Hearing the girl's speech, the cavalry captain's brows furrowed slightly, although he also felt that the girl's speech was very strange, but he didn't think that the other party was just bluffing, the strange voice just now was still clearly in his ears, and the dull and uncomfortable feeling on the body still did not dissipate——— which showed that this girl was not so simple as it seemed. But.........

But will they stop there?

"We will not retreat!"

Thinking of this, the cavalry captain suddenly drew his long sword and pointed at the black-haired girl in the distance.

"We are fighting for the freedom of the people of the South! We will defend and protect our families with our lives! We will not once again submit to the rule of an evil tyrant! The whole army marches! We don't give up!! ”

As he spoke, the captain of the cavalry whistled, and then he shouted angrily, and rode his horse and whipped forward. And with his order, the cavalry who followed him also raised their weapons and followed their commander closely, rushing towards the black-haired girl in front of them, and for a while, the entire cavalry team seemed to turn into a crazy hurricane, roaring forward, trying to crush all the existence that dared to stand in front of them.

"Humph..............."

Seeing their actions, the girl frowned slightly, and a trace of unhappiness appeared on her indifferent face.

"Obviously just a weak person, how dare you defy the will of the strong and revel in your own stupidity? It's disgusting and disgusting! ”

Saying this, the girl's eyebrows were raised high, and at the same time, her fingers also stroked the slender strings. (To be continued)

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