Hunter’s Blade - Chapter 161

[Demon Hunter’s Blade Chapter 161]

Gillen looked at Ciel with admiration: “You saved everyone.”

“It’s not enough.” Ciel tapped his fingers on the table. “The main force of the king’s army is cruising nearby. Within a few days, the entire countryside will be wiped out in the flames of war, and one castle after another will surrender.”

“We could have won!” Gillen gritted his teeth, “Duke Gregory turned around and ran.”

“What?” Ciel frowned, and the front line was broken in an instant that day.

“He planned to retreat temporarily and lead the king’s army to the place where the horses were rejected for defense, so he issued an order to retreat, hoping to retreat the front. Lord Rocher’s opinion is to resolutely fight back, two different opinions. The army staggered, and the troops of the nobles in Yuwan Hall on the right retreated quickly. When the others saw this, they thought that the Duke was about to retreat, so they quickly ran back, and the situation turned into a major rout.” Gillen’s tone of hatred.

“So there is a problem with the command.” Ciel pondered, “It is still too difficult to get the armies of two different nobles to act together, and there are so many uncertainties…”

“We agreed in advance that Lord Rocher would take the overall command, but at the fatal moment when the front line loosened, Duke Gregory did not believe Lord Rocher’s judgment, and the army in Rain Bay Hall and the army in Ash Tree Hall were disconnected.” Gillen shook his head. .

“Take the things, we’ll find Rocher,” said Charles.

They emptied the cellars of the tavern, and loaded the sacks of dried meat, wine, vegetables, and flour on horses, and the charr, calling for wrath, rode with them on black horses, and they hurried in the dark through the lush fields , and gradually headed to a hidden forest valley, where Rocher hid her army in this small crack, which was impossible to find from a distance.

Ciel got off his horse and approached the forest valley. The soldiers set up countless tents, sitting or standing, wandering or talking, making a lot of noise.

He saw Rocher, standing alone at the entrance to the camp, just as they had first met, her face indifferent.

“Rocher.” Charles walked towards her.

“His Excellency Charles, your presence reassures me,” Rocher said.

“What’s next?” Charles asked.

Rocher stared at Ciel for a long time, and this gaze made Ciel feel cold all over.

This is the look of lifeless, determined to give up life.

“I’ll do my best,” Rocher said briefly.

She decided to die in this war, and Ciel instinctively realized Rocher’s attitude. She wanted to fight another decisive battle. This time, she would take the risk herself and fight to the death for the meager chance of winning.

“No.” He took her hand, “Don’t do this.”

“This is the last thing I can do.” Rocher said lightly.

She shook off Ciel’s hand, turned and walked into the camp.

I can’t…I can’t let Rocher die.

Charles looked at her back.

Chapter 204 Relay Point

“Hello.” Gladiu made a strange voice.

“I’m not good,” Charles whispered. “We have nothing to say.”

“We’re constantly being screwed.”

“Tighten?”

“Like a wet cloth, someone keeps grabbing both ends of it, spinning in opposite directions, squeezing out the water inside… This is our current state, we are suffering from oppression…” Gladiu Whisper.

“Then what should I do?” When was the last time I asked the Blade Demon for ideas.

“Tell you the correct answer: I don’t know.”

“Then stay alone.”

“Of course, I don’t need to take action, as long as you keep killing people, keep going in and out of places where people live and die, I can keep eating, go, kill, kill all the people you don’t like, kill those People who make you unsatisfactory, you have to keep climbing up to the top, until there are no more people in the world that you can’t kill, that’s happy.”

“happy……”

“Slit the throats of all your enemies, play with and collect all kinds of women, fill your house with treasures, move anywhere in the world with a single thought, and at the same time live extremely long, almost immortal… that’s how you should be .”

“Hunting demons…”

“Of course, the devil must also be dealt with. The devil is also the original force that arouses your anxiety. As long as you have the power to defeat the devil, even hell will crawl in front of you.”

“Why are you suddenly so excited?”

“Because I have eaten enough these days… Like a funnel, the 11,000 souls of the dead from all directions have entered my belly… I just need a chance, a chance to leave your body, and the blade demon will run amok in the world!” Diu roared furiously.

“You long for freedom.”

“Of course I need freedom, Ciel, small, pathetic Ciel, you are getting closer and closer to the right path, you don’t need anyone to guide you, especially not me, because you have become more and more with me Like, you’re the other me, you’re me a million times smaller, take a good look, what’s the difference between you now and me? You’re working against me, but that’s useless, as long as you’re doing it right You’re just imitating me, because the blade demon never makes mistakes…”

“Enough.” Ciel let it stop, he had been sitting in the camp for a while, his mind clouded.

This is not the Ash Tree Hall, it is far away from the Hunter’s Sanctuary, away from the friends and associates he is familiar with, and away from his sweethearts.

I gotta win, I gotta get this thing out of here and go back, ASAP…

However, the day did not go according to plan, and time passed, day after day, and the situation continued to deteriorate.

Rocher had to rest before moving on, she dispatched messengers and spies to gather intelligence about the surroundings and take all the supplies that could be collected before the king’s army arrived, in other words, looting.

She gathered seven hundred people in this forest valley, most of whom had already escorted Garnier back to Ashtree Hall.

Duke Gregory closed the Yuwan Hall, refusing to continue fighting with the king’s army, letting them show off their power and spreading the good news of the victory, burning, killing and looting along the way, the nobles in Yuwan Hall shivered and did not dare to interfere.

With the loss of Yuwan Hall’s help and the heavy losses in the battlefield, Ash Tree Hall’s military strength is now even weaker, worse than before the war.

“There may be only three or five hundred people who died directly on the battlefield,” Rocher and Charles strolled in the forest. “Most of them were killed on the way to escape, trampled to death from behind. How sad, as a Leader, let the soldiers waste blood and lose their lives in the chaos.”

“Is there a problem with the unified scheduling? As long as the soldiers persist for a while, I can kill Doria.”

“In the judgment of the moment, I disagree with Duke Gregory.”

“But you’ve been appointed supreme commander, and he should listen to you.”

“If the military tradition is so advanced, Luoman should be the leader of the surrounding countries, sweep the barbarians in the east, the peninsula in the south, and the empire in the mountains should also retreat. It’s a pity that the dross etiquette is deeply rooted, and I don’t want to share with Your Excellency Charles the bad situation in the past few days. , Everyone in Yuwan Hall secretly accused me of questioning my ability to rule.”

“Just because you’re a woman?”

“Countess Pingping, how can you command an army of tens of thousands? There is no one in the Ash Tree Hall, so you need a woman to lead the army to meet the enemy? The sneering and ridicule are endless. Even so, I don’t want to change the conditions. For the sake of victory…defeat is defeat, and if I can’t convince everyone, it means that I lack the ability to rule.”

“As the only talented person, everyone doesn’t want to listen to you.” Ciel sighed.

With his hands behind his back, Rocher sat down on a rock: “If you can’t repel the king’s army, everything will be over.”

Charles pondered, recalling what he had seen and heard in the past few days, the king’s army… they must have weaknesses, and there must be a way to defeat them.

On the battlefield, they didn’t use how exaggerated magic or how powerful demons, they just sent Doria, the king’s special envoy with excellent martial arts.

As Luana said, Doria once suffered so much damage in the Knights of the Hammer of Loman, but now she is charging with them, tsk, this kind of thing…

What is the most critical constraint on military operations?

What can I do with it?

Can I stop the overwhelmingly dominant king’s army with one power?

Ciel frowned deeply, Rocher’s eyes were calm, and he was thinking constantly.

At this moment, Ciel heard a burst of laughter that broke the silence, and he saw the brothers and sisters Loic and Evrey approaching.

“Are you here?” Ciel was a little surprised.

“Of course, Chief Intelligence Officer,” Avrey bowed to him and let out a heartless laugh, no matter how indifferent Rocher’s eyes were, she seemed to be in a good mood.

“This is the map you ordered.” Loic handed a piece of parchment to Rocher.

Rocher unfolded the map on the rock, and the whole map exquisitely mapped the nearby terrain. The Rain Bay Hall was in the upper right corner, near the Deep Bay, and several castles were scattered on the adjacent fields and hills, protecting the surrounding agricultural towns.

On the left and lower left are the topography of the Van Mountain and Redwood Hills areas, with rolling hills and aboriginal inhabitants that obstruct passage.

The king’s army entered the boundary of Rain Bay Hall from the coastal area on the upper left.

On the roughly right side of the map, the border defense situation of Ash Tree Hall is drawn. Hundreds of soldiers are stationed in several earthen forts that can support each other. Facing the onslaught of the king’s army, they are nothing more than waiting to die.

“The West Coast army is located here, they are moving fast, Yuwan Hall is now neutral, and they don’t want to waste time attacking the port, because there are several unfallen castles on the road, and they must be besieged one by one to break.” Loic pointed to There are several nobles on the map, “Villon de Dergon and his two thousand men were stationed at Dergon Fort, and he released news that if the king’s army dared to advance towards the Rain Bay Hall, he would give them a slap under the family castle. A tough lesson.”

“Vilun’s three children are studying at the university on the west coast, and they all disappeared. He won’t bow his head to the king, he is the hard bone among the nobles in Yuwan Hall.” Evrey said with a smile, “It really helped us, forcing West Coast troops have to concentrate on their journey, and if they bite off the Rain Bay Hall in one go, it will be fun.”

“I’m not familiar with Doria’s fighting style, but if I were her, under the circumstances, I wouldn’t continue to provoke the dignitaries in the Yuwan Hall, but would only continue to loot the village, while replenishing supplies and entering the Ash Tree Hall.” Luo Thorough contemplation.

“At that time, they will dig the Ash Tree Hall three feet into the ground to find food.” Avrey said briskly, “The nobles of the border will be in bad luck.”

Ciel looked at the entire map, where the red lines drawn the route of the king’s army, extending from the west coast to the depths of Upper Loman, all the way to Ash Tree Hall.

A way to incapacitate an entire army.

“Supply.” Ciel stared at the entire map, “Their food… If they scavenge the villages, they will not be enough.” He thought of the slow food and grass that followed the army.

“I kept sending small teams to fight with them for food. Doria didn’t forcibly blackmail the nobles of Rain Bay Hall, and her supplies would definitely not be able to be self-sufficient on the spot.” Rocher said.

“Where did the food come from?”

“Transported from the West Coast.”

“Is it just such a long queue? Such a long road, and the food transportation team is in a row, lining up to chase after the king’s army to supply it?” Ciel asked.

“The king’s army has its own logistics scheduling, first set up a supply camp, hoard a large amount of grain from the west coast, and then dispatch it when needed, avoiding the cumbersome supply of continuous supply from the west coast.”

“Where will it be?” Charles breathed rapidly.

“This is a military top secret, and the intelligence is covered in layers and cannot be detected.” Rocher shook his head.

“Can you…” Ciel turned to Loic and Evrey.

Loic shook his head: “It will be very dangerous.”

“My lord doesn’t want to make fun of our lives.” Avril waved her hand, “That’s cold-blooded.”

Charles looked at Rocher.

“This is the only way to change the course of the war, Rocher.”

“Your Excellency Charles intends to attack the logistical camp of the King’s Army? But we don’t know its exact location, so we’ll just miss it.”

“Guess.” Even Ciel felt a little helpless when he said this. “Can you guess where they will store the supplies? We have such a detailed map…”

Rocher stared at the map, examining every inch of the map with her cold eyes.

Charles held his breath.

After a long time, she moved her finger and clicked on a position on the map: “Balmoda Village, if I were the commander of the West Coast Army, I would set this place as a logistics relay point. During the Barbarian War, Gerald I have set up a military camp here, and the huge warehouse prepared for the imperial expedition has survived to this day. There is a half chance, Your Excellency Charles, that I am only half right.”

“Enough, regroup the army in Ashtree Hall and instigate Duke Gregory to continue fighting.” Charles hoarsely raised his grey knife.

We lose the battle, but we will win the war.

Chapter 205 Balmoda Village

As Ciel walked, he examined all the abilities he possessed, one item after another, he counted them in his mind, and then thought about how to use them and when to use them most properly.

The gray knife is the sharpest melee weapon, and he also has knife skills that are suitable for it. From the inheritance of Ci, the technique of solemnity, the skills in memory are always internalized, and gradually become part of his own ability.

There are three different slashes, the first slash is used to restrain the opponent’s attack, the head-on slash is used to interrupt the opponent’s rhythm, and the direction slash is a fierce attack that tests the opponent’s combat experience.

The Demon Crossbow is heavy and sturdy, and its accuracy is high, not at its best, but perfectly adequate against long-range targets.

Marksman’s Amulet is unavailable most of the time. If worn at any time, it will affect melee skills. Charr has his own attack intentions. If he wears the Amulet, the spell will correct his arm and force him to launch normal attacks. It is easy to be attacked by opponents. Take the opportunity to fight back.

Therefore, the talisman can only be used for long-range projection, with the crossbow to achieve ultra-high-precision shooting, and with the knife to form a deadly mid-range throw.

Then there is the Charred Ring, which has always been an extremely powerful and reliable spell item, capable of destroying ordinary people and multiple targets in an instant.

In terms of protection, the black magic armor can protect the torso, and the cloak stitched with white deerskin can provide flexible defense while resisting attacks from behind.

Ciel pondered, as long as he covered his face, he would be fine most of the time.

[End of This Chapter]