Riding and Slashing

Chapter 177 Brainwashing the Elf King

Next morning Seideren returned with the Noldor.

"Your Excellency Li Ang, your plan is very good. I think there should be no enemies around here."

Sedren's complexion is very good, it seems that most of those Jatu people can't escape.

"But I think you may not be able to rest. We should go to the weapons factory you mentioned right away. I hope there is no trouble there..."

Li Ang pointed to the east.

Sedren nodded: "Of course I have no problem, but don't you need to rest?"

"My troops have just slept, so I didn't clean up these corpses... Those wounded are in a valley five miles south, leave your soldiers here, let them clean up the battlefield and take care of the wounded, you go with me Look to the east—if you're not here, I wouldn't dare to get close to your clan's settlement..."

After the lord finished speaking, he began to organize the army, intending to set off immediately.

Of course Li Ang won't stay here for too long, he plans to meet the senior members of the Fenway family.

But if he appeared near the settlement of the Noldor with an army, he would most likely be attacked, so Sedren must be introduced for him.

Sixty miles to the east are deep mountains and old forests. Even with Sai Deren leading the way, it still takes a whole day to walk this way.

It was already afternoon when they arrived near the settlement of the Fenway family.

"I'll be there soon, you wait here for a while, I'll go say hello, so as not to cause any misunderstanding."

Sedren asked Leon to stop first, and then planned to walk into the woods ahead alone.

Of course, this Twilight Knight also knew that if the human troops approached, it would definitely cause misunderstanding, so he had to report first.

But Li Ang raised his head and looked ahead, but frowned, and grabbed Sedren: "Wait!"

Then, he found a place with relatively few trees and looked at the sky.

"Sedren, wait! The Noldor should also use a stove to make weapons..."

"Of course you need a furnace to smelt metal, Your Excellency Li Ang...you mean..."

Sedren then looked at the sky, and turned around with a solemn expression.

"There is neither smoke nor birds in the sky... Sedren! There is a situation here, and it happened not long ago! Everyone, prepare to fight!"

Li Ang commanded the soldiers to gather together and began to put on their equipment on the spot - the troops did not wear armor when marching, otherwise they would not be able to operate in such deep mountains and old forests.

"Who! Come out!"

At this moment, Sedren seemed to have discovered something, shouted into the woods, and then began to observe left and right.

No one responded, but a few seconds later, with a "whoosh", a light and shadow flashed across the forest from the side, and went straight to Li Ang's back.

"Den!"

Li Sadilan stood behind Li Ang with a shield in hand, blocking the light and shadow.

An arrow is embedded in the shield.

"over there!"

Li Sadilan stood still, and the place where the arrow tail was pointing must be where the archer was hiding. Sedren took the bow from his back and rushed into the dense forest in that direction with extremely fast movements.

Li Sadilan glanced at his shield, and instead of rushing forward, he protected Li Ang and took a few steps back.

It was not a Noldor arrow stuck into the shield, but a wooden arrow with patterned feathers.

"My lord, these are Singal arrows...the feathers are made of ostrich feathers."

Lisa Dilan whispered to the lord behind him.

"Singalians? How did they come here..."

Li Ang was quite surprised. Singal was nominally part of the D'Shar Principality, located in the desert in the southwestern part of the mainland, separated from the Noldo Forest by more than half the continent, at least 2000 miles away.

"Probably the Singal slave catchers..."

Lisa Dilan carefully looked left and right, handed the shield to Li Ang, and took off the bow and arrow on his back.

Many years ago, this elf killer made his debut in Singal. His first business was seeing a murder contract publicly posted in the largest tavern in Singal.

Yes, publicly posted murder is like offering a reward, but it is not for the pursuit of the guilty, but purely to put a price on human life.

At that time, Lisa Dilan, who was in urgent need of making a living, brought back one of the heads, and just so openly received his first income after entering human society on the bar counter of the bar...

Risadilan still knows Singal quite well, so he is very cautious.

Anson also seemed to know better - his hometown, Ashcomman, now also belonged to the Principality of D'Shar. He must have heard about Singal's situation, so now his face was full of tension.

Especially after listening to Lisa Dilan talking about the 'Singal slave catcher'.

"what……"

A scream came from the direction of the dense forest where Sedren entered.

Ten seconds later, Sedren dragged a man whose leg had been shot through and returned to where Li Ang was.

"I only saw this person...but there is only one person, why did he attack the army?"

Sedren dragged the guy to Li Ang's side, and slapped him on the head to stop the man's screams.

It was indeed a Singalian, who seemed to be a rider, but he kept silent, just lying on the ground and staring at Seideren with disgust.

"I'll give you a minute to say something useful."

Li Ang looked at the soldiers who were still wearing their equipment, and patted the captive's face with the blade of his sword.

The guy didn't respond.

"My lord, let me do this job..."

An Dongjia picked up her Ravencrow Realm long sword, scraped the blade with her fingers, and chopped at the nearby tree with the sword - she didn't even cut through the bark, and the side blade seemed blunt .

Then she walked up to that Singal without saying a word, just looked at him like that, then stepped on the thigh of the prisoner who was shot by the arrow, and began to cut the prisoner's calf with the blade.

'G... grid...'

The scene of the blunt knife cutting the flesh was quite unbearable, and the prisoner finally said: "Don't...don't do this! Give me a good time!"

An Dongjia was still expressionless, without saying a word, just serious, cutting his calf continuously.

The leather leggings had been cut to pieces, and a blood groove had been cut on the calf, and the bloody flesh was rubbing against the blade of the sword, making a rattling sound.

"I am Lord Feruz's subordinate! I was hired here to capture the Noldor, but I was separated from the army..."

Without asking anything, this guy started to explain himself...

It seems that Misty Mountain's torture method is very good.

"How many people are in your large army? Where did they enter the forest?"

Li Ang started to ask questions.

"A thousand and five hundred men, we came in from the south of Denjil, from a burnt castle... oh, Shieldwind Fortress! That used to be Shieldwind Fortress!"

It seems that this is the aftermath of the burning of the Shield Wind Fortress. Such a large-scale troop passed through the south of the Dengjil Mountains, but it was not discovered by any force.

"Where did your army go?"

Sedren asked.

"Going back to the south, we succeeded the day before yesterday... I was separated, and I heard Noldor's voice, I thought I was discovered, so I shot an arrow..."

"What? Got it?"

Li Ang and Seid Renqi were shocked.

If it was the day before yesterday, it would be one day earlier than the time when the racecourse met the Jatu people and the Misty Mountain people. This should also be the time when Islandil was marching here.

They returned south after the attack, and probably encountered Islandil's army halfway, so Islandil was dragged by the army of 500 people and failed to come here.

"When we got here, the Noldor here seemed to be preparing to move, so we hid in the woods and ambushed them. They were almost defenseless... so they were easily defeated by us, and more than 20 were captured. There are also three girl rangers... that's all I know, please, give me a good time!"

The Singalian's calf bone had already begun to sharpen his sword, and there was a friction sound of "chigga chigga", and An Dongjia's hands didn't stop.

So the Singal spoke so rapidly, that he was trembling now, and wished only to die.

"Okay, An Dongjia, stop and bring him..."

After seeing that the brothers were fully equipped, they hurried to the weapon workshop with the troops.

Not long after, the lord came to the residence of the Fenway family.

Many tree houses were built on some of the outermost trees, but all of them were empty.

Going further inside, it is a place that is wider than the racecourse, and it is a large flat land surrounded by dense forests.

Several large workshops were built in the center, and there was not a single tree within 200 meters around the workshops.

A group of people inspected all the houses and workshops separately, but found nothing in the end-all people and weapons and equipment disappeared, and only a dozen stripped clean corpses remained at the scene.

"How many people should there be here?"

Li Ang frowned and asked Sai Deren.

"There are at least 100 people. They are probably the same as I was at the horse farm, and they are also preparing to transfer supplies to the city... Probably as you said, the enemy is hiding nearby, and when the combatants start to deliver supplies, they suddenly attack..."

Sedren murmured: "I have to find the enemy!"

But now no one knows where the enemy is. The forest is so big, even a large army of thousands of people, it is difficult to find it in this forest.

And since the prisoner will be separated from the main force, naturally he cannot find his accomplice.

Besides, Sedren hasn't slept for two days, and Li Ang's troops have already walked for a whole day, so they can only rest here temporarily.

After half a day...

'Woo...woo...'

A strange flute sounded.

"Our troops are coming!"

Sedren was sleeping, and immediately turned over after hearing the sound of the flute, found a Noldor arrow without an arrow in his quiver, raised the bow in his hand, and shot it into the sky.

It was a ringing arrow, or a whistle arrow, which also flew into the sky with the sound of a 'woo hoo' flute.

It seems that this is the way the Noldor troops transmit signals, and it should be indicating the position of their own people.

Soon a force of the Noldor came here.

Seeing the leader, Sedren immediately lowered his head, put his hands on his chest and saluted: "Your Majesty!"

"Sedren, why are you here? What's going on with these humans..."

The leader was a Noldor who seemed to have entered middle age, wearing a crown in the shape of a wreath of branches and leaves. This was obviously Felgoth'ar, the Elven King of the Fenwe family.

In fact the Noldor are hard to tell their age, for they live so long that they always look young.

In terms of Noldor's lifespan, if he looks like a middle-aged and elderly person, he is probably really old.

"Your Majesty, this is His Excellency Leon from White Hart Castle. He helped me kill more than five hundred enemies. Your Majesty Li Ang, this is our king, His Majesty Felgus Aner."

Sedren began to introduce.

In fact, the lord cannot be called 'Leon of White Hart Castle', because his fief is still only Mai Xiangling.

But Li Ang did not correct this statement, all his thoughts were on the Elf King.

This was his main purpose in the Noldor Forest—he wanted the support of the Elves.

"Leon..."

Felgas Aner looked at the lord, and seemed to think of something, but he didn't show it, he just nodded kindly: "Thank you for your help, kid, I hope my family will have the opportunity to repay you in the future... ...But now, Sedren, we have to rescue the captured clansmen!"

It seems that many Noldor escaped two days ago, and immediately reported the situation to the castle of the elves - this is the correct choice, whether it is for the safety of life or the safety of other clansmen, they can only go to the place where the elf king is run.

If they fled to the racecourse at that time, they would have led the enemy to the racecourse as well.

"Your Majesty, you actually want to personally lead the army to pursue the enemy?"

Sedren looked surprised.

"No, Your Majesty is just here to rebuild the factory... I will lead the troops to pursue it. Those children who were captured are my students."

A female ranger stepped forward, looked at Li Ang indifferently, then turned to Sedren and said, "You shouldn't trust humans..."

This is a mature woman with a beautiful face, but for some reason, Li Ang always feels that the word 'tough' should be used to describe her.

Lisa Dilan shrank her head after seeing the female ranger, as if she was quite afraid of her.

Sedren shook his head: "Wendatier, Your Excellency Li Ang has proved his kindness, you can't treat your friend so rudely."

"friend?"

Vendatil smiled contemptuously, and walked directly in front of Li Ang: "Okay, my friend, why did you come to the Noldor Forest?"

"Just to find a reliable ally for myself..."

The lord shook his head: "However, judging by your current appearance, it seems that you are not qualified to be my allies! I originally thought that an ancient group like the Noldor meant profound wisdom, but what I saw along the way was not the case. ...It's more like a group of incompetent people who will only turn around and bully weak civilians after being bullied."

Of course the lord said this on purpose, this is his usual method, to arouse the other party's interest in the conversation first - dissatisfaction or anger is actually better.

Li Ang's words sounded provocative, and Vendatil was obviously irritated, with a fierce look in his eyes, as if he was about to draw his sword.

But Felgas Aner came over and took a deep look at Li Ang: "A human said that a few decades ago... Son, tell me, why do you think Noldo has lost his wisdom... "

"Thousands of years ago, your civilization was ten thousand times better than that of humans, but you never thought of using knowledge and culture to capture the hearts of humans and make humans one of you, but instead treated humans as wild animals ...Up to now, human beings have created a civilization that is not inferior to yours, but you are still like this..."

"You originally had innumerable advantages, such as strength, longevity, and advanced technological inheritance. In fact, at the very beginning, you only needed to lower your noble heads, and you only needed to regard human beings as equal intelligent life, Not only can you live in peace with them, but you can even make humans worship you..."

"300 years ago, after you defeated the human army that invaded the forest, you already had the greatest deterrent power, but you didn't make reasonable use of this deterrent power. Instead, you killed all those around the forest who originally wanted to maintain goodwill with you. People who have lost their trade routes and communication channels with humans, you have personally destroyed your hope of rising again since then!"

Li Ang shook his head and smiled, but he didn't finish his sentence: "The long life span and the fate of being a servant of the Sindarui elves have made you lose your creativity, and you don't have the ability to learn quickly. Presumably this You haven’t made any new inventions for thousands of years, have you? Probably lost a lot of original ancient inheritance, right?”

"But now, you have turned all your advantages into weaknesses. It is your own arrogance that has caused human beings to love you as a reason to capture you, but you regard it as hatred-you should hate you Myself, with your lifespan, you should have participated in the war 300 years ago, right? At that time, as long as you had a little brains, you should negotiate with humans, agree on a place where the two races can live together, and ask your clansmen to live with you. Human beings treat each other equally and live in harmony..."

"Now you are nothing more than an armed tribe without creativity, quick learning ability, or even any prospects for development. You have been living on your laurels, and you have not changed your mind..."

"To say that you are an armed tribe is a bit high on you - you don't even have a target, you only know to wait, wait and see, or kill civilians to retaliate after being invaded..."

Li Ang finally finished his complaints and spread his hands: "I don't understand, what's the point of living like this? Is this kind of life called wisdom?"

"Your Excellency Li Ang..."

Sedren didn't expect that Li Ang would say this in front of the Elven King of the Fenwei family, and he couldn't accept it.

However, Vendatil, who originally had no affection for humans, frowned and began to think.

But Felgas smiled: "You are right, child, but you don't understand that the older the ethnic group, the harder it is to change... I know what you said is right, but I want to change Human concepts are difficult..."

"It's not difficult, it just requires some sacrifices—unfortunately, you don't have the courage to sacrifice."

Li Ang shook his head again, he was ready to brainwash the Elf King.

Felgas was stunned for a while, then nodded: "Maybe you are right, but we can't afford to sacrifice..."

"The sacrifice I'm talking about is not the dead..."

Li Ang grinned: "I mean, you should let some of your people try to integrate into the human beings who are kind to you. Sacrifice your arrogant character, sacrifice your so-called traditions, and sacrifice those who passed down from the Sindari elves. The so-called pure blood. The inheritance of civilization does not rely on servility and blood, but to connect the interests of humans and elves. In this way, humans will not only protect the Noldor elves, but also naturally help you pass on the elves' civilization. "

(End of this chapter)