Purple River

Chapter 63 Counterattack
On January 1980, [-], the seventh day of the imperial calendar, in the middle of the night, a big red moon rose from behind a barren forest. The moon shone with the blood-red refraction of war and fire, and the smoke dimly shone on the white snow on the banks of the Gray Water River covered ridges.

In the middle of the night, the demon garrison stationed at the Waga Ferry on the west bank of the Huishui River felt the ground below them shaking and sinking. The demon soldiers who woke up in their sleep jumped out of the tent with bare feet, and involuntarily let out a terrifying cry. Screaming: "Glushi!" (Help!)
Like a ghost suddenly appearing in the dark night, a phalanx of [-] heavy armored cavalry is rushing towards them!The orderly and dense black armored cavalry is like a steel wall, and like a mountain of swords and swords rushing head-on, the gloomy, black wings spread out silently, eerie and terrifying.The dry and harsh sound of horseshoes came like thunder, and they came like a whirlwind, sweeping and destroying everything.In the face of this terrible torrent of destruction, the fences, tents, houses, and men and women of the Demon Race were crumbling like paper. Flour...

The Sterling Legion launched a counterattack against the Demons!In the early hours of the morning, [-] heavy armored cavalry first robbed the Waga Ferry, and chopped the panicked thousands of demons into pieces.Immediately, next to the remains of the demons, five pontoon bridges were erected on the surface of the Huishui River, and the powerful infantry group quickly crossed the wide and largest river in the Far East.At dawn, Sterling's troops unexpectedly appeared under the city of Pai on the east bank of the Gray River.

The successive victories have dazzled the demon commander Baron Mu Yi. The whole army had just drunk and reveled the night before, so careless that they didn't even arrange a sentry post.In the last dark hour before dawn, large groups of human infantry quietly poured into the sleeping and empty city, and countless spear points shone brightly in the darkness, like sparks on the grassland.They quickly occupied the main traffic arteries in the city, blocked two city gates, and aimed five thousand strong bows and crossbows at the open camp gates.

Everything was ready, Commander Sterling gave an order: "Do it!" The soldiers began to dump fuel and throw torches, and the demon camp suddenly fell into a raging fire.Only a small number of Mozu soldiers who kept awake were able to escape the sea of ​​flames, one by one jumped out from the camp gate and shouted: "Dushara?" (What's going on?) The answer to them was a sharp arrow in the eye . More than 20,000 demons were sealed in the big camp and were burned alive and choked to death. Some managed to escape with bare hands. What appeared in front of them were thousands of human soldiers holding sharp knives and full of hatred—— Sterling originally wanted to stop this fanatical massacre, but it was ineffective. Even the commanders of the divisions who accepted the order on the surface were obedient and disobedient, secretly encouraging the soldiers: "Kill me!" In the end, Sterling could only send His guard went out and snatched more than a dozen demons alive from his subordinates' crazy butcher knives: this is also the last survivor of the Mozu Muyi army.

From the mouth of the prisoner, I learned that three new demon troops of more than 10,000 people are coming. They came to the city of Pai to meet up with Baron Mui, and they are estimated to arrive today.After learning this precious information, Sterling kissed the dirty long-haired demon soldier on the spot, then felt sick again, and ordered: "Push him out and chop him up!" Agni, especially trying to salvage the demon uniforms and armor in the military supply warehouse...

In fact, the prisoner still didn't tell the truth: it wasn't three teams that came, but all ten teams of the Demon Oral Legion!When they came to the city of Pai, they didn't find anything unusual: the city gate was open, there were a few guards standing lazily below, and some were basking in the sun on the top of the city. Everything was normal, except for a Thick black smoke plumes soared up, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt meat - but this was also normal, especially in the area just occupied by the demon army.

Legion Commander Oule frowned: That guy Mu Yi, he hasn't gotten tired of playing for so long!It's really bloody, killing all the human captives, what entertainment do we have here?He was sullen, and he didn't notice that the demon soldiers guarding the city gate kept blinking and making faces at him.Because this is the territory of the Demon Race's rear, and because the invincible Demon Race army has never encountered any decent resistance since the start of the war, Ou Le committed the same problem as Baron Mu Yi, and even sent a leader The marching procedures for the troops to enter the city for inspection were all omitted, and more than 30,000 troops entered the city unsuspectingly. The queue was loose, and the soldiers were talking and laughing, and even put their weapons in their horse bags without taking them out.

Seeing that Ou Le's troops have already entered the city for less than half, even Ou Le himself is about to enter, and the tragedy of closing the door and beating dogs will be repeated again. A very patriotic demon prisoner couldn't stand it anymore and shouted: "Ou Le Master Le, there is an ambush..." A sharp arrow shot out from nowhere quickly penetrated his throat, and he fell down with a "clack" sound from his throat.

The troops were in disarray, searching for the audacious assassin.At this moment, a terrible sound of "creaking" sounded: the heavy city gate suddenly fell, crushing several demon cavalry below into meat paste!At this time, Ou Le himself was also in the city road, and almost became a meat product.He backed out angrily, Ge Zhi yelled: "What's going on up there! You're crushing someone, open the door quickly! Otherwise, I'll shoot you to death with an arrow!" An arrow flew over and shot him to death.

Row after row of densely packed archers appeared on the top of the city, and the arrows poured down on the unsuspecting Ou Le troops. For a while, the people turned their backs, and the suddenly closed city gate intercepted the Ou Le troops. It has become two sections that cannot be matched at the beginning and the end. The army lost its chief and could not decide to advance or retreat, and it was a mess.The same scene is also happening in the city. Human soldiers ambushed on the roofs and in the waterways, and suddenly appeared to shoot arrows and spears at the demon soldiers marching on the street without cover. The demon soldiers fled in panic. , but fell into various traps one by one.

Someone on the top of the city yelled in the language of the demons: "You damn humans want to pretend to be our gods! Let you see how amazing it is!"

The deputy chief of the Ou Le army is the unresponsive [-]. Until now, he thought it was a misunderstanding and shouted: "Don't shoot arrows, we are friendly troops!" The result was more intensive arrow rain and a burst of loud noises. laugh.When he finally understood: "I was fooled! It's a human being!" The anger of being fooled by humans suddenly burned his head, and he shouted: "Revenge for the adults! Kill them all!" Forcibly ordering himself has already suffered heavy casualties The subordinates climbed the city wall and stormed the central army.The only result was that thousands of fallen corpses were left under the city wall, and the opportunity to escape and retreat was missed.When he finally realized that something was wrong, there was a thunderstorm behind him, and a mass of human heavy armored cavalry appeared from the dense forest behind, overwhelming the mountains and seas... In this battle, there is no way the Oral Legion can escape. Not many, especially the vanguard that had already entered the city, not even a single one escaped.

Sterling was still not satisfied. In order to achieve the greatest effect of shocking the demons, he sent his troops out to "demonstrate" all the way and told them to "try as much as possible." Play more flags!"

The quartermaster protested: "My lord, we don't have so many military flags!"

Sterling said impatiently: "Who said it must have a military flag? As long as it is a bamboo pole with a piece of cloth on it!"

Just have your words.In the evening of that day, large groups of humans appeared on several roads in Dusha province at the same time.

In the sunset, the mighty army is as imposing as a rainbow, horses as dragons, and people as tigers. The soldiers are dressed in persistence and murderous. Above their heads, a sea of ​​flags is waving in the wind:
"The first anniversary of the opening of the first department store in Eben City, a big discount!"

"Hematemesis price! Jumping off the building and clearance sale!"

"Liangshi Shampoo, black and shiny, no dandruff!"

"Small pimples are gone! ——White cosmetics series!"

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Along the way, the small troops of the Demon Race were scared out of their wits by the sea of ​​flags fluttering in the distance: according to the practice of the human army, one brigade and one military flag are counted, so there are at least...they put their fingers together before fleeing. I counted and counted my toes, but still couldn't count them, so I had to ask my companions to "lend your fingers and let me count together!"--they ran too early, and they didn't notice these menacing and scary army of empty shells just waiting As soon as the sun went down, he quickly rolled up the flag and ran back to the city of Pai.

When the sun came out the next day, Sterling's troops went back to the original place to wander around again, with many advertising flags flying above their heads, which made the demons tremble with fear: Another reinforcement is coming all the way!

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(Tang Chuan of later generations believes: "The main reason for the success of Sterling's conspiracy is: the spies of the demons are illiterate, and they can't tell the difference between the military flag and the advertising flag! It can be seen that the demon kingdom did not popularize education for all. It is really their failure. The root cause also proves from another aspect how wise and far-sighted our great King of Light’s education policy for all is, at least we won’t be fooled by advertisements—but then again, our King of Light himself The biggest liar in history!")
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The spies went back and described such a terrible scene to the Demon Command: an astonishing number of human troops swooped in, covering the sky and covering the earth.The remnants of the Ou Le army also came to help in order to avoid the punishment of fleeing the battle: "Yes, yes, we fought bravely, but there are too many enemies, so many that the entire Huihe Plain cannot stand. What else can I do?" The more than 200,000 members of the Sterling Army continued to multiply automatically in the layer-by-layer reporting, becoming 300,000, 400,000, [-]... and the number is still rising!

Moreover, according to intelligence, a steady stream of troops are approaching Fenglin Danye, where the Demon God Emperor is stationed!What drove the Demon God Emperor's escort officers crazy was: as long as these large troops approached a certain distance, they would immediately disappear without a trace!This further proves that these cunning human beings have ulterior motives: they must have been lurking in a hidden dense forest, and when His Majesty's emperor passes by, they will suddenly burst out and cooperate with the Sterling army entrenched in Pai City , come back and forth!Isn't it often said in human war books?Capture the thief first and capture the king!First attack the opponent's command center, causing the whole army to shake and collapse, and finally defeat the opponent's peripheral troops one by one!This is the ABC of the art of war!
Tiger of Zichuan, you are so cunning!Fortunately, we have seen through your trick, and your plot will never succeed!

The commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard, Duke Leo, who was in charge of commanding all the guards and horses, pleaded tremblingly to the Demon God Emperor: "At present, the enemy general Sterling is arrogant and his soldiers are extremely strong. Your majesty is in charge of the world. It is really inappropriate to take the risk of arrows. I dare to implore His Majesty to evade first..."

The Emperor of God smiled lightly and said, "I don't need to avoid anyone."

The civil and military officials praised in unison, and said in unison: My emperor is martial, invincible in the world!Sterling is a clown who overestimates his own strength and dares to commit crimes. He will surely kill himself!
Amid the sound of singing praises, the mysterious military master in black clothes and black gauze who stood behind the emperor sighed softly behind the mask: "Your Majesty, if Zuo Jiaming is here, so what?"

The Demon God Emperor turned his head, and his voice was so soft that Xiang Wuyue could only hear: "Even if the King of Ming is close, I will cut him off the horse." The God Emperor smiled lightly, his magnificent eyes were blue, deep and unpredictable as if vast The sea, blurred and like the thick fog in the winter morning, is so beautiful that it makes people intoxicated.

(End of this chapter)