Chapter 1194

"My... my lord, the vanguard troops led by Kalathos have been wiped out."

Hai Lie, who was contemplating how to win a siege battle, suddenly got bad news from his subordinates.

"What did you say?"

Hailie came back to his senses, although he heard what he said just now, he couldn't believe it.

The army went out of the valley, and the whole army advanced. After traveling for half a day, they suddenly lost track of the vanguard.

At first, Hai Lie thought that the vanguard ran too far and didn't send someone back to make contact in time, so he sent out a sentry to take a look.

The subordinate faltered: "The sentry sent out just reported back, and the vanguard that has not heard of it has fallen into the enemy's trap and was completely wiped out."

"All dead?!"

Hearing the news, Hai Lie felt dizzy and unstable.

The vanguard he sent out was an elite unit in the army directly under him, all composed of awakened people, and it was rare that they were not irrigated. Although the strength of each soldier was only around the third level of the elementary level, There is no doubt that the combat power is stronger than those who have reached the middle level after being filled with water.

Barely standing still, Hai Lie, whose face was as dark as ink, asked, "How did you die?"

The subordinate pulled the sentry behind him and asked him to explain.

"Tong... Shuai Da... man, after I get there..."

The sentry agent described what he saw.

He received an order to look for the vanguard. He also found the vanguard at a place ten kilometers away from the army, but what he found were not living people, but people lying in the earth pits created by the explosions one after another. The dead bodies seemed to have entered a trap together, and they were all killed when the trap exploded.

"Everybody's dead, and most of them are dead, vomit."

Sentinel's face was very pale, recalling the scene he had seen before, his stomach rebelled and retched.

"Take me to have a look." Hai Lie said in a low voice.

The subordinate was startled, and stopped him: "My lord, it's too dangerous, let's wait for the army to go together."

After hearing this, Hailie scolded: "Let's go together, you're out of your mind, aren't you? If it's really like what he said, what do you think will happen if the soldiers see it? And those useless wretches, how dare they continue to fight?" Are you going to fight with us in that city?"

The subordinates froze, but also realized that if the soldiers really waited for the army to pass together, the soldiers' morale and fighting spirit would directly drop to the bottom when they saw the terrifying scene of the Shura field.

Moreover, if the people sent by those Hucheng big families saw it, they might get scared and run away with their own family's army.

After Hai Lie finished speaking, he ignored his subordinates, took his subordinates with him, led the way, and arrived at the scene where the vanguard was martyred.

Just like what the sentinel had described, the ground was in a mess, full of pits from the explosion and corpses with missing limbs and missing components. The scene was extremely bloody and tragic.

After seeing the scene, Hai Lie gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it, what they're doing is a trick to make our army lose fighting spirit."

Hai Lie guessed that the other side must have spent a lot of thought and expense in creating such a scene, in order to make the soldiers on his side afraid after seeing it, so that they would not dare to go south to fight with them.

"Bury it right there."

Naturally, Hai Lie would not allow the opponent's scheme to succeed, and ordered those corpses to be pushed into the nearest pit and buried.

Under the order, the soldiers he brought started to bury the corpses. During the process, the soldiers' expressions were not very good, but as Hai Lie's soldiers, they were also veterans in the battlefield and had seen various scenes, so they could bear it. Come down and complete the task.

One after another, the remains were pushed into the pit, covered with soil and buried. After more than forty minutes, there were no more corpses here, only the ground mixed with blood, declaring that a tragic battle had taken place here.

"Damn it, what method did they use to wipe out two thousand people at once?"

On the way back to the army, Hai Lie racked his brains thinking.

Unexplained loss of 2,000 people made Hai Lie very angry, but it was still within his tolerance.

However, what concerned him the most was what method the other party used to wipe out two thousand people at once.

Is it a group skill attack?

Hai Lie shook his head.

If it is a group skill attack, if you want to eliminate 2,000 people, you need at least 1,000 awakened spells above the third level of the intermediate level to be able to do it.

But the problem is that the range of skills awakened by the skill position can be up to 100 meters.

Hai Lie didn't believe that the vanguard on his side would be so stupid that the enemy would release their skills in front of them and stand still, just like that.

And near the scene, he didn't see any traces of thousands of people standing still, which further showed that the opponent didn't use a thousand-person magic group to kill his vanguard, but used other means.

Hai Lie pondered.

Looking at the situation at the scene, Hai Lie felt that the vanguard on his side must have been ignorant, did not find any enemies, gathered together, and were wiped out when they were defenseless.

So the attack should not come from the ground, but from the ground, that is, the trap.

It is very likely that the opponent has buried a large number of triggerable ground explosion traps in this area.

Recalling the explosion craters he saw before, Hai Lie thought of a possibility.

The ground explosion trap is a kind of trap that adventurers often use when hunting mutant beasts.

But this kind of trap has a big flaw, that is, it is easy to be detected as long as you pay attention.

And look at the scene before, the ground is riddled with holes, and the area covered by the explosion is very large, at least no less than a thousand bombs can reach it.

Where there are so many groundburst traps, the energy fluctuations emitted can't be paid attention to, unless the vanguard is full of ordinary people.

But this is obviously impossible. All the vanguards sent by Hai Lie are awakened. Although they are all smuggled goods, they are also awakened. They must be able to sense energy fluctuations.

What method did the other party use?

Hai Lie had a splitting headache.

He couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't figure it out, which brought him great psychological pressure.

If you can't know the opponent's means, then you can't take precautions and eliminate it. If you accidentally get hurt, it will be miserable.

Even if nothing happened to me, if this happens again, it will be difficult to hide it from others. When the people sent by the big family see the tragedy, needless to say, they will continue to follow the army. They must be scared and retreat directly. .

"Damn it, this is both murderous and heartbreaking, shameless and despicable."

The more Hailie thought about it, the more he understood, and couldn't help but curse.

Whether it was the previous two sneak attacks or the trap this time, there were only two main purposes of the opponent's battle.

Weaken the strength of one's side little by little, and at the same time create psychological pressure on one's side, causing the soldiers to lose their fighting spirit, which leads to instability of the army and greatly reduces the combat effectiveness.

But even if he understood the enemy's intentions, Hai Lie couldn't come up with a good countermeasure.

At this time, one of the subordinates who led the people to bury the corpse came to ask Hai Lie in a panic.

"My lord, the body is buried, but there are many traces that we can't deal with. This is a place where the army must pass through. Except for the recruits, the veterans can tell that there has been a battle here. In addition, Lord Kalashos has not returned. I'm afraid People from the big families come to see what's going on."

The subordinate paused and then said: "With their cowardly courage, they will definitely seek the truth from the adults. With their virtue of keeping their mouths open, if they get news, it will definitely spread throughout the army and cause turmoil in the army. What should we do?" ?”

Hailie was also thinking about this matter, and in an extremely bad mood, he subconsciously cursed.

"Don't keep asking me what to do. Shouldn't you help me figure out a solution for you, you fools and rice bags? You are always waiting for my advice. What's the use of you?"

The subordinate was scolded, obedient, afraid to ask any more questions, returned to his colleagues, and started whispering.

"You said, my lord has always been unparalleled in wisdom and courage. Why don't you have any ideas recently, and feel like a fool being played around."

"If you want me to say, it's not that adults are like fools, it's that we are all fools in front of him. The other party is too smart and courageous, and it's scary."

"How to say?"

"If it were you, would you dare to lead someone to sneak attack on an army of 250,000 people? Surely not, do you think you are brave?"

"It's really big, so what about being smart?"

"You don't talk nonsense, do you need to talk about it? Counting yesterday, we were attacked three times, one night attack, one ambush, and this time a trap. Tell me, if we can think of something to do, we will lose With so many soldiers, is this kind of person smart?"

"Well, there's no way to refute this, what about the horror? Oh, it goes without saying, I can feel it."

"Yeah, I feel like we are being led by the nose, step by step towards destruction."

All the officers recalled what happened yesterday and today, and they couldn't help but fight coldly.

"Why do I have a premonition, if Lord Hailie doesn't think of a way to deal with that person, then going south this time to deal with that city will be more or less auspicious."

"Oh, yes, I really don't know if I continue to follow, if there will be another problem and I will lose my life. No, I have to find a way to see if I can be transferred to the rear army, so it will be safer."

"I don't think it's safer, but to run faster in the future."

"Don't tell me if you see it through."

The attacks again and again made Hai Lie's subordinates feel fearful of their enemies. At the same time, they questioned Hai Lie's ability to deal with the current situation, and they were not very optimistic about this southward siege.

Hai Lie didn't know that his subordinates had become cowardly. After thinking about it, the only way he could think of was to raise the vigilance of the whole army, and send troops to patrol the periphery continuously when the army was resting.

And no longer send vanguard troops to explore the way, so as not to catch the opponent and eat them.

Of course, he wasn't so stupid that he didn't even send soldiers to scout the road.

At the same time, in order to avoid encountering the same situation as the vanguard led by Kalathos before, which would disturb the morale of the army, he ordered the army to carry out sweeping attacks on the ground to eliminate any possible dangers when advancing forward.

Although doing so will slow down the advance of the army to the extreme, and it will certainly not be able to walk much in a day, it is better to be safe.

After receiving the order, the army began to execute Hai Lie's order.

Sure enough, nothing happened after that, and there was no attack.

Hailie was a little relieved.

It's just that the army could reach Nirvana City in one and a half days, but now it is estimated that it will take five days to arrive.

And because the marching speed slowed down, they brought out with the army this time, and the materials that were originally enough to support Nirvana City were not enough.

Fortunately, there was a steady stream of supplies from Hecheng in the rear, so the soldiers would not be interrupted.

But the good times didn't last long. After three days of slow speed on the road, and two days before Nirvana City, Hai Lie received a news that nearly broke him.

The rear supply line was attacked, and the food could not be delivered.

"What's going on, we didn't encounter or let go of any enemy troops along the way, how long has the rear supply line been attacked." Hai Lie said angrily.

The soldier who sent the news replied tremblingly: "It's a group of troops riding flying beasts, and they attacked the transport troops."

Hailie and the officers present were shocked.

"Flying beast troops, how is it possible, that city has the strength to raise flying beasts."

"how much?"

"A lot." The soldier bowed his head and said.

Hailie kicked over and shouted angrily, "How much is a lot?"

The soldier said with a mournful face: "Master Commander, I really don't know. They are attacking fiercely. We don't have many people to transport supplies. We didn't have time to retreat. Many people died in one fell swoop. I was lucky to escape and report. It was too late." See how many of them there are."

Hai Lie's face was gloomy. He originally thought that the supply line was safe behind the army, so not many people were sent to deliver food and supplies. Unexpectedly, the enemy actually possessed flying beasts, bypassing the army and directly attacking the supply line.

I have to say, this is too deadly.

Hai Lie asked in a deep voice: "How many days can we last for the remaining food in our army?"

"My lord, it's only enough for two days." The officer in charge of the army's supplies replied.

Hai Lie immediately ordered.

"Casali, you take 30,000 Awakened troops to secure the rear supply line, and when you meet those flying troops, be sure to keep them for me."

In order to ensure the lifeline, Hai Lie had no choice but to send 30,000 Awakened troops to escort the food and grass, and at the same time see if he could deal with the flying troops.

The officer who was named came out to receive the order, and then went to gather 30,000 horses and left in a hurry.

After watching the troops leaving to secure the supply line, Hai Lie gave another order.

"There is no need to execute the previous order, the whole army is advancing at full speed."

The attack on the rear supply line made Hai Lie feel a sense of crisis in his heart.

All the way down from Hecheng, what he encountered made him feel that if he was passive, he would give the commander of the army in that city a hard time. , his army will be distracted and unable to fight.

Therefore, the only correct way to do it now is, don't worry about this and that, rush to that city at the fastest speed, and win the victory with the fastest speed and the most violent offensive, so as to avoid being passively attacked step by step by the opponent. Calculate to die.

So under Hai Lie's order, the Hucheng army accelerated its advance, and at dusk they approached the city of Suzaku, the north guard city of Nirvana.

At this time, on Suzaku City, the army of Nirvana City stood ready.