Chapter 87 Desperate(1/2)
.Did the staff officer do nothing after he appeared?
This is absolutely impossible!
Lin Ke stood in front of the map, looking at the partially enlarged map, and at the top was an endless ocean of ice.
"Does they have no possibility of taking a detour to Bingyang to attack?"
Lin Ke asked Lao Qiao.
"It's not impossible at all, but I think that as long as the other party is not a pure fool, they will never do this. Even experienced herders will be lost under that blizzard, and the ice field tames have always protected there, and they will not allow any creature to fly over their heads."
Old Qiao said.
"What if they won't get lost? Also, can I avoid the Icefield Tamer?"
Lin Ke asked two questions.
"They won't get lost? I don't know this. However, the alert range of ice field animal taming is very large, but it is not without shortcomings. If they can master the rules of ice ocean taming, it is not impossible to bypass it. However, unless they bribe our herdsmen, how could men in the north be bought by them?"
Old Joe laughed.
"If they have something like a compass, they may not be lost. As for your trust in your people, it is good, but in my opinion, anyone can be bought. In the face of the threat of death, not everyone can give up their lives. What if the other party really holds an experienced herder with a few lives?"
Lin Ke said cautiously.
"If that were the case, Bingyang would be unsafe."
Old Qiao is not a fool, of course he can't estimate the situation of the war with his wishful thinking. After all, he is also the one who participated in the war in the past. He knew that only by making the worst plan is what a war commander must do.
"Master Lord, I need your help, you need a little trick. I want to go to the other party's camp for close investigation, and anyway, I must get a reliable news today."
Lin Ke said.
In fact, Lin Ke was right. A day ago, the Lord of the Oriental City, who had already made all the preparations, took advantage of the night to bypass the scout's surveillance and quickly merged into the vast snow sea of ice. And in the spot, they left enough camouflage tents, and the scouts could not accurately determine the number of people.
Because they had to be sudden, they gave up all communication methods. They would go deep into the ground alone. According to the plan, the remaining soldiers would stay in place for a while to confuse the scouts of the North and make them mistakenly believe that all the people here were staying here. When they reacted, it was time for everything to end.
Just when they were still recuperating, that night, an unusual element condensation suddenly appeared above the originally calm Wanli Snow Mountain. This time, without the interference of rain and clouds, everyone noticed that this time was unusual. The two city lords were even more alert at the same time. They quickly issued orders to calm the soldiers. After a few minutes, the element condensation became more and more obvious, and a large-scale element outbreak occurred on the Wanli Snow Mountain ahead, but the specific reason was too dark and it was impossible to find out.
However, everyone knew what the other party was going to do.
On the originally clear night, a large amount of ice chips and rain suddenly fell over the sky. Although the ice-shattered skin was not as large as last time, it was enough to cut open the tents and reveal the appearance inside. On the small hills not too far from these camps, several black shadows flashed by. The black shadows quickly approached the camp in the chaos of hail. The strong elemental aura in the hail covered the direction of their advance. Among the black shadows, one of them was lurking with another person, and he himself took advantage of the no one's attention and sneaked quietly to a broken tent. A soldier was about to leave the tent, and his clothes were even messy. When he saw a black shadow standing up towards him, he instinctively wanted to shout, but the black shadow suddenly stretched out his hand and printed it on his chest. He immediately felt a chest tightness, and his breathing and heartbeat stopped almost at the same time.
The black shadow resisted the man on him and quickly left the scene.
Soon, the hail disappeared again. When counting the number of people, a tent reported that one person was missing. Kazan told the two city lords that the missing person was in danger. Perhaps it was taken away by the other party's scout. The two city lords were shocked at the same time, and they both realized something.
Their plans have been exposed.
That night, Lin Ke tortured the soldier overnight. During the torture process, even Joy, who was known as the God of War in the north, felt his scalp numb, but he got a piece of news. A considerable group of people disappeared from the original troops. At the same time, scouts along the direction of the Bingyang also reported and found traces of the advance of the large army. This trace was not footprints, but traces left in the air after the elemental flight.
The soldier didn't know much about it, but this information was enough, and he could never get more information from him, so Lin Ke left him to others, and he returned to the barracks by himself.
"I told you that they really tried to travel through the ice ocean, and the worst thing happened. The outsider really had a compass, and they were not worried about getting lost in the blizzard."
Lin Ke quickly marked some traces on the map.
"If I were the commander, my only requirement was that the troops could stay away from the coast and stay able to land at any time to avoid worm attacks. In this way, their range would definitely be inseparable from here."
Lin Ke scratched a trace with his fingers.
"At the speed they are moving now, they have begun to approach the worm's position, and we have to act."
Lin Ke said urgently.
“What are we going to do?”
Lao Qiao was also very anxious. He was first-class when he asked him to fight, but he couldn't come up with any advice.
"It's not us, it's me. I want a thousand people, no, only five hundred people! They set off with me immediately, and I will leave all those guys on the Bingyang."
Lin Ke said.
"No, I'll go. I know Bingyang's situation better than you."
Lao Qiao insisted on going by himself.
"No, you need to stay here. Tonight's things are exposed, they will definitely attack the front, which will put pressure on us to divide the troops. You must sit in the main battlefield and be with Awen and Saipan. You can't leave you here, and for those guys with compass, it's enough for me to go alone."
Lin Ke showed great confidence in his language, and even Lao Qiao was less worried.
"Anyway, if you find that the situation is bad, please come back immediately. Death is not a way to prove your courage. Only by surviving can we seek future victory."
The lord of the northern city looked into Lin Ke's eyes and said.
"Don't worry, I have more important things to do. Until then, I will never die."
Lin Ke smiled.
He went to the training ground overnight and selected 500 soldiers from all the Ice Wind Divisions and went to Bingyang.
The Lord of the East never felt so confident, because this time he not only had a compass to indicate the direction, but also held a herdsman hostage. The herdsman was with his son, and as a result, he fought with the lives of dozens of warriors. The Lord of the City captured the father and son. Under the threat of his son's life, the father surrendered and he showed a safe road for these invaders. Although the road looked very winding, it was really not attacked by worms. This made the Lord of the East feel unprecedented satisfaction. He even had the illusion that the Bingyang was conquered by him. Of course, he could not believe this illusion. But he believed that victory might really not be far away from him.
His compass has always been working well, and it accurately indicates their direction whether it is a storm or a sunny day. On several occasions, the old herder even expressed doubts about the compass, but the Lord of the East quickly discovered that it was just a trick played by the herder.
He firmly believed in the metal product in his hand.
It has been a few days since they entered the ice ocean. The food they prepared was almost exhausted, but they still did not see a way out. Of course, the Lord of the Eastern City also knew that on this ice ocean, unless they were very close to the land, they could not see any difference at all, and they were covered in white. However, after a few days, they found that the surrounding environment had never changed much. On several occasions, they even discovered an iceberg that they had left behind!
That is to say, they have been going around in circles!
But how is that possible?
The first thing the Lord of Dongfang thought was that the hunters were playing tricks on them, but he quickly denied this idea because they were following the compass, and the pointer of the compass never deviated, so naturally the herdsmen could not do anything.
At this time, his soldiers had lost all their food. Every day they needed herders to drive the beasts in the ice ocean to make some things, but these things were very small for troops of this size.
They are lost!
How is this possible!
Hunger tortures everyone, whether it is a warrior or a commander, on this vast ice field, no one can help them get food except for the ice field taming beasts. Occasionally, you can see some wildlife, and you know that even the fragrance cannot be spread, it will be quickly divided into people's noses.
Things began to become unusual.
Lost, of course, was caused by Lin Ke. One of the simplest knowledge of electromagnetics allowed Lin Ke to know how to make the compass mistake. He made himself a magnet large enough to point the compass pointing at him all the time. That is to say, since they entered the ice field, they have been following Lin Ke.
They didn't know at all that someone would use the principle of the compass to deal with them.
The Lord of the Oriental City was very sad, and Lin Ke was also very anxious. He had been away from the city for three days. According to his estimate, the war in the rear must have begun. If possible, he hoped that he could end the battle here as quickly as possible. The main battle in the rear was very needed.
But he also faces two options.
Either the soldiers led by the Lord of the East will starve to death without any loss, but it will take a lot of time. Or you will fight to the death with those people, but there is no possibility of doing this with only 500 people.
In fact, Lin Ke had another choice, which was to introduce everyone to the extreme north. However, they held a very experienced old herdsman in their hands. For the sake of their children, the old herdsman would definitely put the other party in danger.
If you can't fight, you can't drag, you can only take a risk once.
The weather of blizzards is most common in the endless ice ocean, and there is a period of time almost every day. The Lord of the Oriental City and his soldiers complained, and he even regretted that he actually chose this place. This time, they encountered such bad weather, and this time it seemed even more violent. Everyone along the way had to use elemental shields to protect themselves, but the consequence was that their vision was greatly hindered. The two people at close range could not see each other clearly even more than five meters.
Everyone was flying with difficulty, and the storm blew them around. No one noticed when there would be one more person around and when there would be one less person. Lin Ke led a small team of only twenty people to hide in the mountain they would inevitably reach, and secretly mingled into the chaotic army as they passed by. There were a few more people in such a large-scale team, and no one would see them.
Lin Ke spent a few minutes traveling through the entire team. With the help of this large-scale blizzard, no one noticed his behavior. The blizzard gradually decreased, and all of them left the team. From beginning to end, no one noticed an abnormality.
"Sir, they guard the herders and herders' sons separately in front and behind the team, and each of them has a team of hundreds of people guarding each other. It is not easy to seize it forcibly."
Several soldiers who came back from reconnaissance summarized all the information and said.
"Where is the Lord of Dongfang?"
Lin Ke asked.
"He is always with the herdsmen. Although he is protected by the ice wind, he is still alert to our proximity, and we dare not be too close."
A warrior said.
"Then, we can only make the decisions from his son."
Lin Ke also had a headache. Although the strategy can achieve a certain goal, the strategy loses its meaning in the face of absolute power. After all, he only has five hundred people, and although the other side only has a hundred people to guard the hostages, the guard of the hundred people is a team of eight thousand people!
Lin Ke had thought of some extreme methods, such as killing the herdsmen directly. But after thinking about it, he gave up this plan. The people in the north are the most affectionate, and they would never agree with this plan.
However, Lin Ke also knew that the northerners were the most bloody. As long as the herdsman’s son was rescued, things would not be so difficult.
How to save it?
“We need other herders to help us.”
Lin Ke ordered the 50 soldiers to leave the team immediately, and in one day, to find as many herders as possible. He wanted to formulate a large encirclement and annihilation plan, which required the help of herders and their worms.
Every extra day of delay, the soldiers' period will be low for a day, constantly opening the elemental shield, constantly flying, and the cold climate will greatly consume the soldiers' physical strength. At first, the soldiers had time and strength to curse, but now they are not even willing to move. Some soldiers began to question the city lord because it was because they followed the city lord to fall into such a difficult situation. The soldiers would rather fight with others on the battlefield than freeze to death here for no reason.
The Lord of Dongfang obviously knew the soldiers' wishes, but he also wanted to see the enemy? But who would suddenly appear and fight to the death with you?
However, this time, maybe it was the gods' appearance? The prayer of the Lord of the East City was really done. Just as the march ended, a small group of soldiers from the North and suddenly entered the flanks and fought fiercely with their own soldiers. Both sides had their own victories and losses, but no one died. The soldiers of the North who had failed to attack quickly retreated, which gave the Lord of the East City, a good interface for him. He used this incident to inspire the warriors. He claimed that they were about to approach the enemy's territory, because they saw the soldiers and they were completely scared.
Maybe it was because I hadn't heard good news for a long time. The soldiers in Dongfang City were indeed much more excited and they continued to move forward. But at this time the old herder was very impatient. He kept warning the Lord of Dongfang to pay attention to his feet because he discovered the activity of a large number of worms. How could the Lord of Dongfang tolerate the words that shake the morale of the army at this time? If the soldiers heard this, they would definitely feel afraid. What's more, the Lord of Dongfang City no longer trusts the herders anymore. He does not believe the navigation for him. He only asked the herders to help him avoid worms. Because he believed that the old herders actually spoke intimidation because he was close to the north.
On the other hand, at the Wanli Snow Mountain, the war between the coalition forces and the northern country has officially begun. Because the vertical drop of the Wanli Snow Mountain is as high as 10,000 meters, although the coalition soldiers can fly, they cannot easily cross it. They must land on the mountain many times to allow their bodies to adapt to the new element concentration before they can take off again.
This problem has long been included in the Northern Kingdom's plan. The Northern people used ice and snow to cover up all the original hillsides, making it impossible to see the exact situation here on the surface. When all the soldiers landed and were about to sort it out, a group of northern warriors who had been lurking for a long time suddenly emerged from the snow pile. The soldiers slashed and slashed all the way and fled quickly. Although the casualties caused were limited, they still frightened the soldiers who had been scared by the conspiracy of the Northern Kingdom.
Kazan, the staff officer of the coalition forces, was not worried about this, because the strength of the two sides was too different. As long as they adhere to the strategy of slow overall advancement, they would not need to touch too much. Moreover, Kazan could not touch that brain at all, because he was just an embroidered pillow, and his mouth was much easier to use than his brain.
To be continued...