Chapter 436 Crazy Rhythm! (Five Thousand Words)

Being able to become a natural barrier separating two defense zones, this mountain range is naturally vast and towering! Such an environment would help Tang En and the others break through the barbarian defense line outside the level, but the time required would naturally be extremely long. .

Okay, while Tang En and his people continue to drill into the ravines for several days, we will first shift our attention to the east, all the way to the defense zone of the Cang Yan Legion...

The battle situation here is still as tepid as before due to the opinions of a certain supreme commander of the barbarian army. Judging from the advancement distance, this place is also far inferior to the barbarian's victory over the Thunder Legion. However, the generals of the Cang Yan Legion who knew the inside story would not think so. They looked at the barbarian advance route on the defense zone map, their faces were tangled, they shook their heads and were speechless...

It is really too stable, impeccably stable, and hopelessly stable!

On the map, the barbarian branch armies occupied various important places, almost forming a horizontal line. Attack, then the hidden thunder will be silent, move forward together! If you keep them, they will be connected with each other and become impregnable!

They don't pursue results, and they don't care about marching speed. Choose a target and take it down gently. A short buffer to fully digest the results without leaving any flaws. Such an attack method is of course extremely slow in terms of advancement speed. But if the situation changes, with this solid rear, it will never turn into a major defeat.

If we use an analogy, the barbarian army here is like a towering ancient tree. It is difficult to see its growth on the surface, but the root system below has been firmly rooted deep into the core of the earth, spreading endlessly...

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Three days later, at noon.

In the center of many barbarian branch armies, the large group of barbarians here successfully occupied a small town.

The city gate did not collapse, but a gap was forced into the northern city wall. There is no doubt that the barbarians officially entered the town from here. Lying under the wall were corpses of various shapes, including barbarians and more of Bran soldiers wearing standard armor.

There was some black smoke rising from everywhere, and occasionally there were some pitiful howls and groans. The battle was now coming to an end. The barbarians who invaded here from the north have opened the city gate from the inside to welcome the large army behind. Outside the towns in the south, the few remnants of Bran's soldiers were staring blankly at the town that no longer belonged to them, lowering their heads and leaving in grief and indignation.

At this time, outside the north city gate. About dozens of blood-stained barbarians formed a circle and were driving something away. The so-called towns naturally have civilians. It is true that this is a precarious battlefield, but there are always some civilians who will stay for various reasons. Maybe you are old and don’t want to die in a foreign land, or you have relatives who are serving as soldiers in the city defense and are worried and don’t want to leave...

Those now surrounded by the barbarians were hundreds of civilians driven out from the city. Most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, but there were also some young and middle-aged people. They held farm tools such as sickles and iron forks tightly in their hands, with frightened faces, and kept retreating to protect their relatives behind them.

Bran's propaganda department and other departments have done a good job in converting the barbarians into black people. Therefore, in the minds of ordinary civilians, barbarians are usually associated with violent, ignorant, barbaric, cannibalistic and blood-drinking behaviors. This kind of description can certainly make civilians curse and despise barbarians in ordinary times. But when we actually face it, these exaggerated words and actions will amplify the fear in our hearts.

Farm tools are naturally unlikely to hurt barbarians. But now these hundreds of civilians can only rely on this thing for comfort to barely maintain the fear in their hearts and avoid collapse on the spot.

Of course, the barbarians outside would not care about this. They looked at these toy-like things with a playful expression and grinned. However, it was not because the rumors were wrong or because they had other plans. These barbarians did not go on a killing spree, let alone eat people on the spot. At most, he would just suddenly make a ferocious expression, lick the blood from his mouth, and intimidate the weak opponents in front of him to put down his farm tools.

At this moment, click click click...

The sound of horse hooves sounded, and dozens of slowly walking horses appeared among the large group of barbarians leading to the city gate. The first person was an old man with a calm expression, with frosty white temples, wearing a large leaf dragon scale armor.

The barbarians who gathered around the civilians just happened to bump into them, so they did not dare to neglect and saluted in unison: "Commander An!"

The old man known as An Shuai glanced over, nodded slightly, then looked at the hundreds of civilians who were being driven away, paused, and then calmly said in standard Bran language: "Ten seconds! Put down your hands within ten seconds. If you get something, you won’t die.”

After finishing his words, he withdrew his gaze and no longer looked at the civilians of Bran who were looking at each other. He tightened the reins and rode the horse into the city.

At this time, a middle-aged barbarian officer behind him seemed to have received some news and came closer: "Commander An, the town has been completely occupied. About five hundred Bran soldiers escaped from the south city gate. They came from the front and asked if they wanted to pursue and annihilate them. ?”

"No need." Anshuai echoed quietly in the messy city gate corridor, "What we need to do now is to consolidate the town's defense. Well, we will first let the hundreds of Bran people just repair the northern city wall defenses later."

As soon as the words fell, clang clang clang... there was a messy sound of metal falling to the ground behind him. Apparently, the gathered civilians in Bran finally chose to throw the farm tools on the ground.

"Yes." Without turning around to look, the middle-aged barbarian was not surprised at all and nodded in response.

"Oh, by the way." An Shuai seemed to have remembered something, and turned around and asked, "How is Tiu going? Has Yuan Fang sent any news?" As mentioned before, the reason why he let Tiu lead the army alone was because Of course, this was due to Tiwu's status, but the main reason was because Yuan Fang, a steady veteran, also came with him.

"Indeed, I just received the news yesterday." The middle-aged barbarian looked a little strange when he heard this, and touched his chin, "The reason why I didn't tell the marshal immediately was because... Well, they are now outside the Zichen Legion's defense area. , about twenty military strongholds have been removed."

"Still in the Zichen Army's defense area?" An Shuai frowned, "Didn't they already arrive there a week ago? Why haven't they evacuated now?"

"Well, I heard it was because Tiu was unwilling..."

"Bastard!" An Shuai's face darkened, and the surrounding environment became a little quieter. This is the unique power of a veteran who has fought in hundreds of battles. "Who does he think he is? He won't leave even if he takes advantage. He has to wait for Zi Yi to take action. Are they all going to take care of them? How on earth does Yuan Fang supervise the army!"

Upon seeing this, the middle-aged barbarian officer immediately bowed: "Commander An, calm down."

"Hmph!" An Shuai snorted coldly, but An Shuai still had a sullen face, still angry, "Ignorant and arrogant, I think it's because he hasn't learned a lesson!"

After a pause, he let out a deep breath, and Shuai narrowed his eyes and waved, "Give the order, let the army on the far left approach the Zichen Army's defense area as quickly as possible, and launch a probing attack. Humph, this bastard, could it be that he thought he was holding a hand? With that trump card, you can be arrogant and domineering? Huh... the Queen is the same, she has to let this bastard follow her, it's really..."

He hesitated to speak at this point, but the angry expression on his face undoubtedly said something.

The middle-aged barbarian was frightened when he heard this. He was not Marshal An, so naturally he did not dare to have any disrespectful thoughts towards the Queen. He quickly changed the subject: "Actually, Tiwu has already suffered a loss before."

"Huh?" An Shuai raised his eyebrows, his angry expression lessened, and turned his head in surprise, "What happened?"

Everyone, including An Shuai, knew that although Tiwu was acting crazy, it gave people a very unstable feeling. However, since the army went on the expedition, whether under An Shuai or leading the army alone, it has not suffered a single defeat. This is also an indisputable fact. It is because of this that An Shuai and other talents are more and more eager to let him learn a lesson and know that war is a matter of life and death and should not be trivial.

After hesitating for a moment, with an expression that seemed a little distressed, the middle-aged barbarian officer spread his hands and said, "It's true that the news came from Yuan Fang, but this thing sounds quite incredible. I haven't figured it out yet, so I haven't." Report to the marshal immediately..."

"Well, this is what happened. When they were heading to the Zichen Army's defense area, they encountered some strange places while passing through the wilderness. There were more than a hundred corpses of our soldiers on several mountain roads, and the time of death was not long, so they speculated that the front There should be an elite team of Bran with about a thousand people. Well, at that time, Tiu was proposing a strategy to launch a wild attack on all the strongholds and checkpoints in the wilderness, so I guess this elite team happened to go out on patrol and was blocked. You can’t go back if you live on the back road.”

"Tiwu and the others didn't pay too much attention when they saw this, and they dispatched teams to encircle and suppress them. However, these two strangulations ended in failure. The latter time, the opponent pulled out the sentry and jumped out directly. Then the opponent came again. Not far from the rear of Tiu's army, they killed more than a hundred people on our side again, as if they were provocative... Tiu couldn't bear the humiliation, and impulsively stopped the army, sending tens of thousands of soldiers to attack the rear more than a hundred miles overnight. Surrounded."

"Stop the march? Tens of thousands of people surround more than a thousand soldiers? Ridiculous! It's a shame he can do it." The corners of An Shuai's mouth twitched a few times, not hiding the sarcasm in his words.

The middle-aged barbarian looked even weirder when he heard this. He lowered his head and continued: "That's the problem. Tens of thousands of people, and even all the soldiers were sent in. It took a day and two nights, but they still couldn't find the other party. ..." Looking up at An Shuai, he frowned again and opened his mouth to speak. The middle-aged barbarian seemed to know what he was thinking. He took a deep breath and continued, "I am sure that the other party is in this encirclement. Because during the search, the opponent quickly killed more than a hundred people on our side again, and then climbed up the surrounding mountains. Then, in full view of everyone, when the soldiers gathered on our side rushed to the top of the mountain, the opponent disappeared again , as if it had never appeared..."

He opened his mouth, then closed it without saying anything. The previous angry look on An Shuai's face disappeared, replaced by frowning and thinking, and he fell into deep doubts. The same was true for the middle-aged barbarian, even to a deeper extent. He had been thinking about it for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out. I believe that if he were not convinced that the news came from Yuan Fang, and that the other party was not a person who knew how to joke, he would just think that he was reading a ridiculous story...

Some things do not need to be explained in detail. No one is a fool, not Tiwu, not Yuan Fang, nor those tens of thousands of officers and soldiers. Therefore, there is no need to doubt whether Tiwu and the others used the wrong search method, or whether there were some hidden places that they failed to find, etc. These can only be regarded as flukes. There is only one reason for such an incredible result, and that is that the opponent's officer does have unpredictable methods!

After a while, An Shuai's brows were still furrowed, and he finally gave up thinking and turned around and asked, "What happens next? Still not found?"

Shaking his head, the middle-aged barbarian showed a wry smile: "No, I haven't found the other party from the beginning to the end, and I don't even know how many people there are... Tiu was going crazy, and he tried all kinds of methods but found nothing. In the end Yuan Fang wanted Ti Wu to learn a lesson from this, so he did not conduct a forced search, but evacuated with his troops. Alas..."

Amidst the long sigh, the middle-aged barbarian could not help but shake his head and was speechless. Not to mention Tiu, who was there in person, even he, a bystander, wanted to go crazy when he saw it now!

An Shuai nodded slowly, but did not comment on Yuan Fang's decision. Instead, he frowned and said: "There are such people in Bran's army... There are more than a thousand people, is he the leader? Well, pass the order and send out the Dark Snake. Wei infiltrated into the Thunder Legion's defense area. No matter what, you must find this person for me. It's best if you can tie him up, if not, kill him on the spot!"

After a pause, he looked solemn and said, "We can't see another miracle-creating Zi Yi appear!"

"Uh..." The middle-aged barbarian was stunned for a moment. Although he already valued the opponent's officer Bran's ability, he did not expect that in An Shuai's heart, this person actually had the shadow of Zi Yi... After coming back to his senses, he subconsciously responded. , but then he couldn't help but smile bitterly, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "Shuai An, it's not over yet."

An Shuai's body trembled when he heard this, he slowly turned his head and said one word at a time: "Really, are you?"

"Yes." The middle-aged barbarian nodded bitterly, "Do you still remember that we have an entire Wilderness Wolf Cavalry brigade in the Thunder Legion's defense area. Because the recent battles there have been tough battles, you ordered them to be transferred here a few days ago. ?”

"That's true. Well, does this have anything to do with the other party?"

"Yes. The Wild Wolf Riders want to come over to us, and they need to pass through the outer wilderness on the way. Tiu didn't know where he found out about this, so he wrote a letter and sent 600 Wild Wolf Riders to continue chasing those people."

"This bastard...elite vs. elite? He does have some brains."

He said he was a bastard, because Tiu dared to rob the people he ordered to transfer, which was really audacious. However, An Shuai's reaction was so quick. After thinking for a moment, he understood Tiu's intention. I have to say that to deal with the opponent's small elite team, using the elite Steppenwolf Cavalry here who are also good at tracking is undoubtedly the best way, so I still gave it a thumbs up.

"I hope he's not smart enough..." The middle-aged barbarian twitched the corner of his mouth a few times and spread his hands. "Three days later, six hundred wild wolves successfully tracked the opponent. By the way, only then did we know that the opponent only had about six hundred People. Then the Wild Wolf Cavalry took action, and the other party escaped, and both parties entered a dense forest. As a result..."

At this point, there was a clear pause in his words, and the middle-aged barbarian officer's face became increasingly bitter.

An Shuai didn't notice this. He frowned and murmured the word "dense forest" and subconsciously glanced to the west.

"Yu, in the end, the other party set off a fire, igniting the entire dense forest... The six hundred wilderness wolf riders were almost wiped out, and only a few people escaped..." He pursed his lips and swallowed extremely dryly. After a moment, he said again with difficulty, "The surviving Wild Wolf Riders were divided into two groups, and one person went back to report for reinforcements. Fortunately, if this person hadn't come back, we probably wouldn't have known about it... As for the other few who were following the opponent. If there is no news about this person, he must have been killed by the other party..."

After passing the city gate, as far as the eye could see, scattered corpses and fragments of city defense equipment were in a mess. The middle-aged barbarian was riding on the horse, holding his hair, with an expression that seemed to be crying and laughing, extremely strange: "Oh, six hundred wild wolves riding, six hundred... In the end, five hundred and ninety-nine were killed! Huhu... "

"..."

The scene was silent, except for the biting cold wind passing through the city gate corridor, making a sad and whimpering sound. An Shuai didn't say a word, his figure looking to the west was like a weathered sculpture, standing still.

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The two people here are feeling Tiu's previous madness and panic, but now Tiu is close to the edge of madness again...

"Let me rub it... can you have some courage? Can you be tough like a man? Can you have a good fight with us? Ah? Can you..."

"I don't understand! Your Zichen Legion has such a great reputation, right? Zi Yi is even known as the God of War, and is powerful throughout the Xize Continent, right? I'm just a nobody, and I came here to ask for advice. Can’t you satisfy even this small request?”

"Hey, don't go, I haven't finished saying this yet... Please, everyone, please be sure to tell Ziyi Army God when you go back. Even if I beg him, you must come..."

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This is a battlefield that has just ended. There are not many corpses on the ground, but more of the level building materials that have been pushed down. Broken wood, gravel and other things are scattered all over the place.

But it is a battlefield after all, and there is still the solemn, iron-blooded and chilling atmosphere that it should have. But now the atmosphere was completely destroyed by the heart-rending roar that resounded across the sky.

Threatening, provoking, pleading...a long roar, an emotion.

After the roar, the battlefield fell silent for an instant, and the dark barbarians nearby had extremely strange expressions. The target of the roar, the soldiers of the Zichen Legion wearing standard armor in the distance, suddenly didn't hear it and retreated in an orderly manner.

"Why are you still standing there? Gather up the corpses of Bran soldiers on the ground, and find a way to put them together if they are missing arms or legs. By the way, find some wild flowers to scatter on them, and finally carry them to the Zichen Army's defense area... That attitude must be respected, just say that I, Tiwu, want to invite the Ziyi Army God to come over and have a chat. Well, that’s it, go ahead and do it..."

Waving his arms randomly, Tiwu rubbed his hair on his forehead and walked back quite depressed.

Seven days, a whole week! Their army wandered back and forth around the perimeter of the Zichen Army's defense area, and they swept away more than twenty military strongholds alone. Among them, Tiwu also continued to use various strategies such as group ridicule, ridicule, provocation, and even pleading. But until now, the Zichen Legion still has not sent out even a single team to challenge! How can this not make Tiwu, who is full of ambitions, crazy and depressed, and want to die? He can accept any form of failure, but he cannot accept being nakedly ignored!

When he ran into Yuan Fang, who was walking in a hurry, Tiwu suddenly burst out: "I can't stand it anymore... I want to attack, I want to break into the hinterland of the Zichen Army! I warn you not to stop me, otherwise I will lose face. I won’t give you… uh, anything?”

…………(To be continued.)