Chapter 457: A Plan Within a Plan

For Lucian, this was also an unforgettable night.

When she saw the soldiers falling in front of her, she couldn't even hold the staff in her hand. It was the first time for her to face such a battlefield. Under the dark night and the firelight, there were shouts and screams. Those soldiers who didn't even have time to put on their armor were ruthlessly killed, and their bodies were thrown aside.

"Bang!!"

Another body fell heavily. Looking at the other's wide eyes and the hideous expression of death, Lucian screamed in fear.

"Hey, there's a woman here! Kill her!!"

At this time, the fortress soldiers who heard Lucian's shouts rushed over and raised their long swords to Lucian. Looking at the ferocious soldiers in front of her, Lucian screamed and stood there stupidly, watching the other's long sword slash down...!

"Bang!"

However, at this moment, the wall next to Lucian suddenly broke, and then a tall steel body emerged from it, completely ignoring the opponent's attack, and punched the soldier on the head. Then Lucian watched the soldier's head being broken directly from his body by this huge fist, just like a ripe and rotten apple was blown away by the wind and flew backwards, and the headless corpse sprayed blood and fell directly to the ground.

"What are you doing here?"

Duanmu Huai turned his head and stared at Lucian fiercely. The latter fell to the ground with his legs softened under Duanmu Huai's gaze. Seeing this familiar action, Duanmu Huai suddenly remembered.

"Oh, you are the slave?"

"Yes, yes... My Lord..."

"Okay, stand up."

Duanmu Huai looked around and then looked at Lucian.

"The battle is almost over. There are only some guys who are resisting that need to be dealt with. Don't stay here, or you will be killed... Forget it, come with me."

"Yes..."

Although Lucian's legs were shaking like a newborn deer that had not had time to stand up, she still gritted her teeth and stood up, following Duanmu Huai.

The entire fortress was in a mess at this moment, with blood and corpses everywhere. Of course, most of them were the bodies of Bonn Fortress soldiers. After all, the ones who raided them were elite soldiers from various countries, and the strength alone was very different.

"... Why do you have to kill people..."

Following Duanmu Huai, looking at the corpses in the fortress in front of her, Lucian couldn't help but ask. When Duanmu Huai heard her question, he just glanced at her.

"Because this is a war, and war will kill people."

"Then... why do we have to fight?"

"As far as the Inquisition is concerned, Herman and the AL Church have joined forces to attack us. They are simply not knowing how to live or die. It is only natural to kill them. Of course, it is even simpler for the rebels. They just want to survive."

"...Survive?"

"That's right."

Duanmu Huai walked out of the fortress and looked at the dark night sky in front of him.

"This country is about to end. The top 1% controls 90% of the wealth. Ordinary people can't even eat enough... Hehe, have you tasted the bread that the civilians eat? It's no different from stone."

"... ... ... "

Lucian nodded slightly. As a slave, she certainly ate that kind of bread. In fact, that kind of bread was just like what Duanmu Huai said. It was just stone. She couldn't even bite it. It made a "dong dong" sound when it was placed on the table, so that people didn't know whether it was bread or stone for a while.

"It's hard for the common people to survive, but the nobles, businessmen and high officials are living a life of luxury. At this point, resistance is almost inevitable. After all, the people of Herman have only two options: either they are exploited to death by the nobles and businessmen, or they fight back."

At this point, Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders.

"Anyway, the worst outcome for them is death. Now, there is no way out for them. They will die sooner or later. It's better to fight, maybe there is still hope."

"…………………………"

Hearing this, Lucian lowered her head, tightly grasped the staff in her hand, and said nothing.

Duanmu Huai didn't care. Now he also believed in Qi'erdi's judgment. This girl named Lucian was probably a noble lady who ran away from somewhere, otherwise she wouldn't even know the basic common sense of such common people.

But Duanmu Huai didn't care.

At this moment, he also came to the square in the center of the fortress and greeted An and Gu Leiya who were on guard there.

"Hey, how's it going?"

"Everything went well, Mr. Knight, but it's still a little too exciting for everyone."

As he spoke, An winked at Duanmu Huai playfully. Following her line of sight, Duanmu Huai saw several girls bending over and vomiting not far away. Well, they were all graduates of Manalia Academy. Obviously, compared to An and Gu Leiya who had traveled back and forth with Duanmu Huai on several planets and participated in many wars, these fresh graduates of Manalia were obviously not used to the real battlefield.

"Okay, cheer up!"

In front of them, Hannah was also encouraging them with a serious look.

"You are the elites of Manalia! This is a battlefield! Not a training ground! If you are negligent here, you will die! You will turn into a corpse! So now, I want you to be more vigilant! Do you understand?"

"yes…………!!"

Although the students' answers were a little weak, they stood up. Seeing this scene, Duanmu Huai nodded and said nothing more. After all, this was their first time on the battlefield, so it was good that they didn't pee their pants.

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai made a gesture.

"Bell Girl."

"Here, meow, bear with me! (>^ω^<)"

As soon as Duanmu Huai finished speaking, Lingnu suddenly emerged from behind him, startling Lucien next to him.

"You take the Valkyrie back and tell Krim that the first phase of the operation has been successful and ask her to send someone over to take over the fortress immediately! It must be completed before dawn!"

"receive!"

After capturing the fortress, what Duanmu Huai had to do was to immediately replace the original fortress soldiers with soldiers from the Fourth Army, pretending that the fortress had not been attacked, to confuse the first and second armies. Fortunately, he had the Night Crow Black Star and Valkyrie gunboats on hand, so it would not be a problem to secretly transport some soldiers over during the dark and windy night.

At this time, Qildi and Uluze also rushed back respectively.

"Sir, someone in our team is missing...ah, he is here."

Qildi, who hurried back, saw Lucian standing next to Duanmuhuai and breathed a sigh of relief. When the latter saw Qildi, she hurriedly bowed her head and apologized.

"Yes, I'm sorry, I used to..."

"It's nothing. This kind of thing happens all the time. In short, let's treat the wounded first."

"yes."

Luxian nodded in agreement, and then looked at Duanmuhuai again.

"Thank you for saving me...thank you very much...!"

After saying this, Lucien turned and left, returning to Kildi's guards to start treating the wounded.

Duanmuhuai just glanced at her, then withdrew his gaze and looked at the night sky.

Next, it depends on how the opponent plans to act.

At the same time, in the camp of the First Army, Kriolev was staring at the same night sky.

"General, it's so late, you should rest."

Adjutant Karl stood behind him and reminded in a low voice, while Kriolev shook his head.

"I'm not tired. Hey...how long will it take for reinforcements from the second army to arrive?"

"It will take at least three days, and we are not very sufficient in terms of supplies."

Speaking of this, Adjutant Carl frowned.

"The council's excuse is that supplies are insufficient, and they want us to find a solution ourselves!"

"snort…………………"

Kriolev snorted coldly. Of course he understood why his adjutant was so angry. Originally, according to Kriolev's idea, the deployment of three legions should be done secretly. After all, the art of war is cloudy and real. , the imaginary is the real. As long as the other party doesn't know how many troops they have in total, they can make a big fuss about this.

But the council was so good that they sold them all with just one mouthful, and they just had to report all their ID numbers to the rebels!

Now the rebels know that there are three legions jointly operating against them, with a total of 100,000 people. Now their side is completely exposed!

Not only that, Kriolev understood better why the council was unwilling to give him more supplies. Because Kriolev's plan was to rely on his own numbers to spread weapons from all directions, so that the rebels would be exhausted. After all, there was only one steel giant, and he could only take care of one direction. If attacked from all sides, the Iron Giant will obviously not be able to catch up with every battle.

However, this tactic consumes a lot of time and materials, and the council does not like it. They are afraid that the other party will ignore it and drive the Iron Giant directly to the front of the royal city, and that will be the end of it.

So they made excuses not to provide sufficient supplies, just to force Kriolev to make a quick decision.

This will of course cause a large number of casualties, but for the Council, they wish that more people from the First Army would die, so that the army would pose less of a threat to the Council...

"Why……………"

Kriolev sighed again. He deliberately gave up the Bonn Fortress in order to use the Bonn Fortress as bait. After all, if the other party wanted to take action, they would definitely not let go of the Bonn Fortress, and as long as they attacked the Bonn Fortress, then they would It's like he has taken the bait. By that time, he will be able to lead the first army, the second army and the fifth army to rush in at one go... maybe there will be a chance of victory.

"There's no news from the Fifth Army yet?"

"………………"

Adjutant Karl shook his head silently. The Fifth Army was originally a guerrilla force. It could be said that they were running around the country. Maybe they would be wandering around when the council issued an order.

If they were blocked by the Fourth Army, that would be a problem.

But now... Kriolev had a bad feeling.

Something seems to have gone wrong.

But forget it, things have reached this point anyway, and we can only take one step at a time.