Who says knights can't backstab

Chapter 514 Mine
"All of this feels unbelievable. I think I am about to experience a battle that will be recorded in history. I will command the Siliki Army and the Northern Wind Crusaders..."

"Mr. Angers, what are you writing about?"

Azike wrote another sentence on the notebook in his hand, then closed the notebook, and looked up at the approaching Miss Mage.

"Miss Christian, I'm just recording some content, so that when I get old, I can recall the passionate deeds of my youth." He nodded slightly, "Is there any news from the scouts?"

"The Northern Wind Crusade has already selected a location, and is now preparing to transport their equipment and set up a position. The view is very good." Mia said methodically, "But I haven't found a huge mine yet, I think it won't take long. Find it - if it's there."

She squatted down, pinched a handful of brown-black soil with her slender fingers, and then fisted her hand, tapping lightly on the ground, as if she could hear the echo from the ground.

"What an astonishing guess, why do you think the undead come down from the ground?"

"Location." Atzke replied, "From the map, the Tower of the North Wind is located in the northeast of the White Flower stronghold, and the undead come from the southwest. I don't think the undead can find a way to bypass all the scouts on the surface. Unless they simply detour into the western plateau, but that means they need to climb a lot of mountains, which is not in line with their quick attack concept."

"And the only long and narrow underground passage, Deep Snow Gorge, although there is no evidence to prove that the undead can move in that special environment of extremely low temperature."

Asc said, he raised his right index finger and tapped lightly on his temple:
"But I trust my gut."

"The intuition of a famous general?"

"Miss Christian was joking. I can't get along with famous generals. If it weren't for the skeleton standing in front of us, which exposed the extremely strong undead elements here, I might not have thought of this." Atzke laughed. , "And I feel that the lord may have found their positions earlier than me—maybe when we are in a hard battle, the lord will bring a group of knights to rescue us?"

"That's really something he can do." Mia was not surprised by Atsk's guess, but answered along the way.

"What about the Ossaint Emma who was by Miss Caroline's side before, she seems useless at all." Atzke still shy away from using the description of "Corpse Lady" to Diana—although these Silikie's old team all have a basic concept of Caroline's abilities, and they all know that Diana is a walking corpse.

Before Caroline entered Burns, she threw aside the corpse girl who had devoted herself to her duty, and put her away by Mia's side.They had tried to count on Corpse Girl to provide them with some clues through their own characteristics, but obviously Diana, who was a beast trainer, didn't have that much thinking ability.

But while they were talking, they heard a rush of horseshoes, and then saw Memphis galloping fast, reining in smoothly when running in front of them, turning over from the horse's back and jumping off. The first sentence surprised the two of them:
"We encountered a group of fleeing monsters in the Frost Iron Mountain. Diana tamed them and wanted to take us to their lair..."

Azike opened his mouth halfway, and smiled wryly after a while: "My mouth...does it have any magic power?"

"If so, I hope this kind of thing happens more often." Mia stood up with a chuckle, and dusted off the mage's robe, "Memphela, has Diana found the exact location of their lair?"

"I think so." Meng Feila nodded, "The location is in the middle of the Frost Iron Mountain, in the middle of the mountain depression. My subordinates estimate that it should be an abandoned mine."

"Col? Mines? Surrounded by highlands?" Azike was keenly aware of it, and at the same time took out a map and asked Memphis to mark the location.

He looked at the point marked by Memphis, and then found the Northern Wind Crusade position on the north side of Frost Iron Mountain, and made an estimate.

"You'll only know after seeing the scene. Let Rhodes and Leonardo lead the troops, and the scouts will first find a slope where we can be stationed. Memphis, take us there."

They soon arrived at the mountain depression that Memphis mentioned. On the high ground beside the mountain depression, a group of giant wolves with an average body length of more than three meters squatted obediently like domestic dogs on a body wrapped in a black cloak, but still uneven. before.

They have long gray hair with a faint metallic luster.The sharp eyes were completely restrained, and the leading wolf even rubbed against the corpse girl from Ossa Emma as if to please.

"These are the Frost Iron Wolves?"

Atzke had no time to think about why Diana's abilities could be brought into play, he wished that more things that would benefit them would happen more.From the high ground, he looked down.

This is indeed a large abandoned mine. The entire mine sinks downward, surrounded by raised highlands.This creates a very exaggerated height difference between the bottom of the mine pit and its surroundings that they can see.

"It seems that the mining of frost iron back then was really crazy." Atzke looked away from the mine pit.

A wide but muddy road connects the pit to the uneven, hilly area outside.Looking carefully, the muddy space is full of traces of being trampled on. Not long ago, a large number of things passed by here - obviously not left by the Frost Iron Wolves who escaped from their lair.

"Have you seen the undead?"

"There were some wandering miner skeletons, which were dealt with first by us. It is estimated that they were the dead who were disturbed by the necromancer and revived naturally."

"So did we miss out?" Mia asked with some concern.

"I don't think the undead can transport all their troops at one time, they must have arrived in batches." Atzke closed his eyes, thinking quickly in his mind, "The question is, how many undead will come from here later?" This opening came out..."

He paused, then continued to ask: "Have you found any other exits?"

"No, the furthest of our scouts has already reached the northernmost end of the Frost Iron Plain, and we haven't found any openings that can provide a large number of troops. Unless their exit is not on the Frost Iron Plain." Meng Feila shook his head. "It should be here."

"This location..." Atsk turned sideways, looking for a hill not far away, "Can the ballista of the North Wind Crusade reach this place?"

"I think the ballista should not be able to launch an effective attack on the exit of the mine." Mia looked down, "The undead can easily retreat into the pit, and the output firepower of the ballista will be easily evaded. We can only launch An effective strike."

"You still know war equipment?" Azik was a little surprised, but Mia said without changing her face: "When I studied the use of spells and equipment in Solkonan, I also involved in war equipment. My teacher has There was a design to improve the trebuchet, but it couldn't be continued due to funding problems... Let's talk about this mine."

"So we have to fight an ambush, at least wait for the undead army to get out of the mine..." Atsk's eyes fell on the muddy and spacious road again.

He looked at the road, and the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he was - the opening out of the mine was narrower than the road, and if a defensive position was established there, their shield soldiers could bear less impact.

If the undead can be successfully trapped on that muddy road, the powerful long-range forces of Siliki and the North Wind Crusade can cause them great trouble.

"But the problem is..."

"How many undead can our people hold?"

Ms. Mage seemed to understand what Azike was worried about. She turned serious and said, "Mr. Angers, this decision will determine the fate of our Siliki."

"I know."

"With the ferocity of the undead, they will never retreat after being ambushed after a battle. On the contrary, they will desperately want to kill us, so as to replenish..."

"I know." Atzke interrupted Mia. He took a deep breath, straightened his upper body, and then slowly exhaled the cold air mixed with the cold wind.

Then he looked down like a torch, and asked in a flat tone:

"If the lord is here, do you think he will choose to fight—"

"In the face of a battle that may determine the direction of the situation in northern Xinjiang, even if he is alone and helpless, will he back down?"

Mia pursed her lips tightly.

She did not answer.

But there is no need to answer.

The half-elf boy who was one or two years younger than her wanted to do what she wanted to do, and she had already had a deep insight into it during the long days of company.

Go away from Amasir, build up your own power, and recruit troops, so that one day, you can lead a force that emerges from the sky to save this country that is precarious in the wind and rain——

Although what is happening in front of him is far earlier than the time point in his plan, and they are also much weaker than they are in the beautiful vision.

But when this moment comes, how can they back down?
"Let Rhodes go to the mouth of the valley to establish a defensive position. Memphis, find the most comfortable position for the archers. In addition, let Leonardo prepare, their sword fighters must be ready for beheading operations."

"The ballista of the Northern Wind Crusade, turn to our side. Let the scouts enter the mine to check the position of the undead."

"There is not much time left for us."

Atzke turned around and walked slowly down the plateau.He reached out and pinched the skirt of his chest, looked at the gray sky, and couldn't help whispering:

"Although I don't believe you exist..."

"But now, Danya, may the stars shine on us."

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This is definitely the most active period in the past six months in the northern part of La Rochelle.On the ground covered with gray and white, the marching army is like the thin ink lines left by a quill pen, writing traces engraved in the depths of history on it.

The graduates of the military academy who graduated three or four years ago have not been able to fully enter the stage of history this year, but there are also a few of them who have been ordered in the face of danger and are already commanding the most important battlefields.

Most of the students who just graduated from Solkonan this year are still flying in the South China Sea in La Rochelle, living a hard life on the desert island, but there are also a few of them who have already sat on the top. Warships are domineering on the high seas.

All of this is different from the history that the boy who was leading a team on the snowy field and riding a black horse knew well.Compared with La Rochelle in this world in another time and space, the tender shoots curled up comfortably in the greenhouse began to grow and grow earlier.

At the same time, in the north of Northern Xinjiang, north of the Maitland Mountains that are isolated from the wind and snow——

Jane Christine washed her bloody face with snow water.She took off the helmet, and the short-to-medium-length hair, which was neatly trimmed for the convenience of movement, was blown into bangs by the cold wind, which made her feel a bit of relaxation at the back of her head, which was a little swollen.

With a sparse cavalry behind her, the number of knights formed by the mountain folk who had followed her to the north had been reduced by nearly half.Although those young people possessed impressive martial prowess, they still seemed too immature in a dangerous place like the Extreme Northern Plain.

But after paying such a price, their victories were extremely rich——

On the neck and buttocks of each horse, there are several ferocious heads, which come from various dark creatures—skeletons, zombies, vampires...

They even defeated a group of abominations by charging in groups. The stench emitted by those monsters alone was enough to make people lose their combat effectiveness. They killed nearly ten of their companions, but also lost half of them.

Of course, the head of the abomination was not hung on the horse, after all, those things are smelly and huge, and they are purely torturing themselves.

Christine sat on the ground, panted for a while, then untied her arm armor, took off her thick breastplate, and exposed her upper arm, which had not been exposed to the sun, where there was another deep tooth mark, which was still flowing at this moment. with blackened blood.

"The Vampire Duke..."

She pursed her lips, pulled off the strip of cloth and bit it in her mouth, then took out the dagger she carried with her, without looking away, the tip of the dagger drew a circle along the tooth marks, and gouged out the piece of flesh together.

The pain made her tremble all over, and she trembled all over in the cold wind.She threw the piece of flesh and blood onto the snow with all her strength, then pulled out the long sword on one side and pierced it hard.But he heard a scream of "ah" sounded from the flesh and blood, and a cloud of black smoke slowly floated up, and then was blown away by the cold wind.

Only then did she let go of the cloth strip in her mouth, and pulled off another piece of inner clothing to wrap up the wound, then put on the armor and arm armor without changing her face, and stood up.

"Captain, your wound..."

"How many of us died?" She interrupted the mountain man behind her, who immediately replied seriously: "Benson, Franklin, Norther, and Morton died in the siege of vampires."

He couldn't hear much sadness in his tone, but his eye sockets were visibly red—he had witnessed the death of too many companions in the past few months, and now only half of the young people from the same village remained...

But it's their choice.

He looked at the silent female knight in front of him, and asked in a low voice: "Captain, our next target is the ghost Jedro knight, which is located at..."

But before he finished speaking, he saw the female knight raised her hand and waved it in front of his eyes:
"no need."

"We should go back."

"Go back?" He froze for a moment, "But there are still..."

"If we can't win after beheading so many legion leaders, then we might as well go back to the south of the mountain earlier." The corners of her mouth curled up slightly, and then she put on the helmet and pressed down the chestnut hair fluttering in the wind again. in the helmet.

"Now, let us return to La Rochelle."

　In the next two chapters, I will sort out the battlefield situation for you in the author's words. If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask questions first.

　　
　
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