Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 309 Chapter [-]
December 94th, [-] Imperial Calendar.

It was exactly nine o'clock in the morning.

Chief of Staff of Frost Maple Ridge Sean Mountbatten received the Dark Moon Glazed Telescope from a trainee staff officer, and looked at the distant mountain top through the lens tube.

The constantly waving red flag is really alluring in a silvery white world.

"My lord!" Mountbatten put down the binoculars and reported in a deep voice, "Our scouts have sent back the news—the orc camp stationed on the opposite side of the mountain still has no intention of leaving camp."

Alan Hotelling picked up a dip pen and wrote down the time in a leather notebook:
"They broke camp and set off at [-]:[-] yesterday—it seems that these orcs have been tortured by the cold weather, and they got up much later."

"The snow has stopped..." Knight Commander Cousins ​​scratched his head and said, "They must want to wait until noon and the weather is warmer before leaving - when I first arrived in the Land of Soul Breaker last winter, I was also terribly cold. "

Allen, the old native of the Land of Splitting Souls, shook his head: "But this year is really unusual. It wasn't so cold here in previous years..."

"It can only be said that even the Supreme Holy Spirit is not on the side of the orc bastard!" Knight Commander Cousins ​​gloated.

Everyone in the tent unanimously cast contemptuous glances at this Frost Maple Ridge Knight Commander, who was obviously only cast aside by the Supreme Holy Spirit.

——Now, it is the second day after the large troops of the Pioneering Army assembled and set off from Shuangfeng Ridge.

The orcs who are different from "Hammer of Purgatory" are struggling with high altitude, cold wind and rugged trails. It can only be said that the journey from Frost Maple Ridge to the eastern part of the wasteland is smooth - plus the few "Lion" vehicles in Frost Maple Ridge The "Roaring Seventh Style" ballista is equipped with a wind system rune array inside. With the continuous energy supply of elf mages, it is directly hung on the carriage by Shuangfengling and used as a black advanced personnel carrier. On the next road, go all the way and go on a rampage.

As a result, the 86 vanguard troops of the Pioneering Army, who traveled both day and night, even rushed to the east side of the Land of Broken Soul in just one day and one night, and the marching speed was as fast as the AE[-] on Qiuming Mountain.

It stands to reason that such a quick and reckless marching method undoubtedly violated the taboo of military strategists:

On this road, Shuangfengling didn't even send out a scout cavalry to scout the way!If it is a conventional war, doing so often results in a sudden ambush and a banquet.

However, the wretches in Shuangfengling are too familiar with the three-acre land of the Soul Breaking Land!
There are many bandit comrades who have been recruited in the pioneer army and have advanced ideological consciousness. Before they defected to the revolution, their main business every day was to beat sap sticks on the wasteland-in the eyes of the orcs, there was no grass, no grass, and no traffic. To these locals, the wilderness of the road is as intimate as their own backyard.

Despite the heavy snowfall, the vanguard of Shuangfengling still relied on the guides of the local fellows, and arrived at the destination extremely skillfully in this white album season;

Of course, the reason why Igor's pioneering army is unscrupulous is mainly because they have nothing to fear.

Because in the early morning of No. 13, one night after the pioneering army set off from Phoenix Terrace, the secret sentry stationed in the east of the territory reported the exact whereabouts of the orc army with winter embracing pigeons.

——The orcs who are used to fighting in the warm east, of course, can't tell which stone hides a warm Shuangfengling secret cave under the pure white of a sea of ​​stones and snow!
The head of the "Hammer of Purgatory", Gurlit Gale, probably never dreamed that not only the orc's southern raid plan had already been deciphered by the Whitehall of Rose City, but even from his first step on the wasteland, the entire orc The divisions have also been completely under the surveillance of Shuangfengling.

Now, the small cowhide book in Alan Hotelling's hand not only records the time when the "Hammer of Purgatory" division broke out, ate, and set up camp yesterday, but also clearly shows the size of the army and the structure of the troops obtained by visual inspection. Chu:
All of them were sent back by flying pigeons from Shuangfengling Dark Whistle.

The intelligence from the east also affirmed the previous judgment made by the Imperial Army:
Indeed, the size of this orc invader army is about 1, which is exactly the size of a regular federal division-it is not conspicuous on the frontal battlefield of the Eastern Border, but it is in places like the Land of Cracking Souls. It seemed very powerful.

Compared with the entire 2000 elite orcs, the [-]-member Shuangfengling Pioneering Army is as small as ants.

What's more, the vanguard of the Igor Pioneering Army that has arrived so far is only a mere 500 people.

In addition to the cavalry from Shuangfengling and the pseudo-mechanized infantry in the "Roaring Seven" chariot, the infantry that constitutes the main body of the pioneering army are still wandering on the wasteland behind—according to the plan, they will be at least until today In the afternoon, they were able to catch up with the vanguard.

In particular, the heavy equipment that Frost Maple Ridge relies on, including the imperial military industry's crown "Cromwell Annihilator" and the Frost Maple Mountain earth-made mass killer "Kill You 3000" ballista, all fell to the team's at last.

——It is worth mentioning that when I set off from the Phoenix Terrace that night, I witnessed the craftsmen of the "Manhattan Laboratory" dismantling and packing the soldiers of the "Cromwell Annihilator" fluently. A few days ago, the lord asked the craftsmen to disassemble and reinstall the fixed ballistas around the Phoenix Terrace——

The co-author is his mother's practice hand!
It stands to reason that our scouts have found the enemy, which is undoubtedly a good thing.

However, the fact that there were only 500 people on hand made the Shuangfengling staff in the tent a little overwhelmed.

The current 500 people include almost all the elites of Frost Maple Ridge. Whether it is the death knight Clement or the imperial champion Alice Comstock, they are all masters who can fight one hundred against one on the battlefield. Masters, not to mention the mage group led by Master Laurie and Spiritual Song Master is still grinding their sticks and eager to try!

But the problem is that the orcs on the other side of the hill are also not idle people.

In the empire, even a big territory can produce three pounds of nails. Who can survive on the Haven continent?When she was in the imperial capital, Alice Comstock, who was the most skilled in martial arts in the Duke of Igor in the western region, even encountered more than one unknown master in the arena, and she almost failed!
And if you think about it with your ass, you know, the elite sent by the Eastern Federation to raid the empire, how can they be fish and meat to be slaughtered?

Yes, the orcs do not have magicians, but the number of shamans in this orc division must be more than an order of magnitude higher than the two or three kittens in the "Northern Blizzard Mage Group"!
Unlike the demon priest known as the "mage killer", the shaman, the main elemental user of the orcs, may not be so aggressive, but their blessings and curse witchcraft are the best support for soldiers in battle !

As for the fighters—the federal orcs who were already famous in the Haven Continent for their physical strength and unparalleled physical strength, they would definitely not be as easy to touch as the shameful bandits in the land of cracked souls!
To be honest, the lord wants to give up the defensive advantage of Shuangfeng Ridge, and use 2000 people to take the initiative to attack the bad luck of these [-] orc elite soldiers—even if there is undead magic, this kind of overly aggressive behavior is already in the eyes of the young staff. It's brave enough to border on insanity;

At this moment, the front and rear teams of the Pioneering Army have not even joined up, and a mere 500 people bumped into an army of tens of thousands. I'm afraid they don't even know how they died!

The only thing that makes the staff feel very fortunate is that this blizzard, which no one expected, just gave the elf frost mage Calvino Spiritual the space to show off his magical talents:
The newly appointed deputy head of the "Northern Blizzard Mage Group" took advantage of the strong ice magic power in the air after the heavy snowfall, and led a few apprentices to arrange a "Pale Elegy" temporary barrier around the small 500 people—— Under the protection of the magic barrier, this camp will be integrated with the pure white snow scene in anyone's field of vision. This is also the greatest reliance for the vanguard of the pioneering army to dare to face the orc army across the mountain.

So now, should we stay still and wait for the rear team to catch up before making calculations, or simply retreat first, so as not to be discovered by the orc army when they break out of their camp?

——Even so, just use the courage of these 500 people to fuck his mother first, and then let's talk about it?
Facing the pressure of the orcs, even Sean Mountbatten could not decide the fate of the territory.

So, from Sean Mountbatten, Alan Hotelling, Chris Mann and other senior leaders of the pioneering army, to ordinary staff officers sitting around the map table, a group of officers in the tent stared at each other in unison. To the key person huddled in a corner of the tent——

——His Majesty Basil III, Lord Shuangfengling, "President of Southern Military Affairs" under the order of His Majesty Basil III!
I have to say that for this expedition, the lord's outfit is quite novel:
He didn't wear the goshawk pattern short gown that he usually wears, let alone the duke's red military uniform for the occasion, but put on a dirty navy blue mage robe in a weird way—according to the regulations of the Magic Association, blue Color-based mage robes can only be worn by at least the fourth-level senior mages, and it is undoubtedly "exceeding the rules" for a guy who hasn't even got a diploma to wear it like this.

But no one can control it.

What made Shuangfengling's staff even more puzzling was that although the lord was very agile, he was sitting in a wheelchair in the tent at this moment, as if he had become paralyzed overnight;

Moreover, on this cold day, the boss is actually still copying a goose feather fan, shaking it again and again when he has nothing to do, and sometimes stroking the long beard that does not exist on the lower jaw.

Ever since the troops set off, all the pioneering army officers stared at the boss, as if they were watching a psychopath.

And the contempt of this group of bumpkins from other worlds can only make Xiahou officials roll their eyes wildly while going out to pay tribute to Prime Minister Zhuge and seek the blessing of the sages of the Wu Temple, just like the second stinging ape who went to the comic exhibition cosplay Reimu Hakurei, I was asked, Auntie, which character in "○God" are you playing?
But at this moment, at [-]:[-] a.m. on December [-], [-] in the imperial calendar, in the face of everyone's inquiries about the military situation, the Lord Shuangfengling, who was dressed in a strange attire, just looked at the silver-clad plain outside the account. Wrapped in a snow-white world, a long and leisurely sigh:
"The wind today is very noisy..."

The staff members of the Pioneering Army were full of question marks.

However, three seconds later, on the other side of the mountain, the sound of howling wind actually came.

(End of this chapter)