Give Me the Name of God

Although Shuanghua City is on the border, the territory in the north is small and the roads are relatively flat. It is only five days away from the battlefield.

After receiving the news, Rungersen led the cavalry to gallop day and night, arriving at the battlefield in just over three days.

Denke personally went to greet Lungerson and prepared bread and salt as he would a guest.

"General, I didn't expect your vanguard to arrive so soon." Denke saw that Rungesen only brought a thousand cavalry and thought that this was not the main force.

Longgesen shook his head and said: "Sir, all the troops I brought are here."

Denke was a little embarrassed, and the faces of the other lords were also a little ugly.

Isn't it a bit childish to bring a thousand men to support the coalition forces of tens of thousands?

Longgesen wanted to explain that Frost Flower City was on the border and he had to leave enough soldiers to resist foreign enemies, but Denke did not continue to ask. He prepared a banquet and invited Longerson to sit in the camp.

Before Rungersen arrived, the enemy's harassment never stopped. From the more than 8,000 people killed at the beginning, to the 15,000 people lost in the battle with Bucken, to the 2,000 people lost during this period. There are many people, and the coalition's battle losses have been nearly half.

Denke felt very depressed: "Until now, the shameless enemy forces have been sneaking up on me in dirty ways. Until now, the shameless enemy forces have not had the guts to fight me openly!"

The more Denke talked, the more excited he became, and he broke two wine cans one after another. The lords sighed and comforted each other, but Longessen remained silent throughout.

Denke has fought in a war and should know the rules on the battlefield. He should not say such childish words.

Sneak attack is the most common tactic on the battlefield, and it is not even considered dirty.

As for the so-called open and honest battle, that is, the two sides issued a declaration of war, formed a formation, and charged at the same time, fighting hard on the battlefield.

Such wars do exist, but not all wars follow the same rules.

The enemy does not want to fight with you, and there is no judge on the battlefield. You cannot accuse the enemy of crimes according to your own rules.

Denke drank too much and lost control of his emotions. He first scolded his enemies as cowards, then scolded all the lords as weaklings, and finally even Lungerson was spared.

"You are no longer the general of the royal capital, you are a wanted fugitive! Who took the risk to take you in? Who returned the fiefdom to you? I am so sincere to you, and when I ask you for help, you You brought a thousand people here, are you humiliating me? Bring your thousand people and get out! Don't let me see you again!"

The drunken Denke was sent back to the camp. Kalyan quickly came to comfort Longerson: "We have suffered too many defeats, and the Grand Duke is a little irritable. You must not take your words while drunk seriously."

Longsen sighed softly and said with a smile: "Why are you still telling me this? We haven't wasted enough time? Let's do serious things quickly!"

Kalyan brought Longson to the camp that was attacked last night. There were only 400 people in this military camp. Last night, the entire army was wiped out, and even their lord was not spared.

It was exactly the same as the previous battle. There were only corpses of the coalition forces on the ground, but no corpses of the enemy. There were footprints everywhere around the camp, and it was unknown where the enemy came from.

Lungerson examined the wounds on the bodies. Many were sword wounds, proving that most of the men died in close combat.

Rungesen looked at the number of footprints on the ground again, and could guess that the number of enemy troops was more than two thousand. He counted the corpses on the ground and found that there were more than four hundred corpses.

The enemy used five times its strength to sneak attack a camp. They came and went without a trace, annihilating more than 400 soldiers in hand-to-hand combat, but no one was killed. This is a mystery that has troubled the coalition forces since the beginning of the war.

The rotting smell of the corpses was very strong, and Kalyan didn't want to stay here any longer, but Longessen was very patient. He carefully inspected the corpses in key locations, near the center of the army, under the sentry tower, near the camp gate... Finally, he A special body was found under Gong Tower.

This corpse had no arms and one leg, and was covered with arrows. Judging from his movements, he had been crawling towards the bow tower when he was dying.

Longerson felt that there was something abnormal about the body, so he called the general responsible for the on-site inspection. This general was named Xia Kesuo, who was very good at investigation and was highly appreciated by Denke.

Xia Jisuo looked at the corpse on the ground and made the following inference: "This soldier was shot by the enemy with many arrows and also fought fiercely with the enemy. He was seriously injured and his hands and feet were broken. , he wanted to climb under the bow tower to seek cover, but he couldn't hold on and died on the way."

This inference is in line with the actual situation on the battlefield. Injured soldiers often seek cover under the bow tower.

But Longesen raised a serious doubt. There were also many feather arrows stuck around the corpse. Judging from the direction, these feather arrows seemed to have been shot from the bow tower.

Faced with this doubt, Xia Jisuo gave a new inference: "At that time, the Gong Tower had been taken away by the enemy. The soldier wanted to recapture the Gong Tower, but there were still many enemy troops around. A soldier was seriously injured under the siege and died on the way to the charge."

This inference has some elements of artistic sublimation. A soldier, faced with the enemy's siege, was seriously injured and had his hands and feet broken, but he still tried his best to recapture the bow tower. Such a brave and loyal soldier Soldiers can be written into "Ode" and become heroes of the classical era.

How could we meet such a great hero by chance? Lungerson feels he is not so lucky.

He took out a dagger and cut open the body. The blood had completely solidified and the flesh was highly rotten, but there was not a single maggot on the body.

Longerson looked up at Xakisuo and asked, "How many days do you think this person has been dead?"

Xia Jisuo looked at it for a moment and said: "There are no maggots on the body. He naturally died last night."

"Are you sure he is from this camp?"

"His military uniform has the emblem of the coalition forces. You may not be familiar with the emblem of the coalition forces," Xia Kesuo pointed to the left shoulder of the corpse, "It's right here, the same as our flag."

Longson said: "I know he is from the coalition, but are you sure he is from this camp?"

Xia Jisuo frowned and said: "This is a brave warrior. He still wanted to take back the Gong Tower when he died. Do you suspect that he was a spy or a defector?"

Longerson nodded and said no more.

General Sharkisso has a very lovable trait. He knows a certain amount of common sense, has strong reasoning ability, has rich imagination, and is very good at expressing himself.

More importantly, he knew how to guess the Grand Duke's thoughts.

Denke didn't like Longerson, and he noticed this, so when talking to Longerson, he was sarcastic from time to time.

The soldiers had already dug a pit and were preparing to bury the body, but Rungersen ordered the soldiers not to bury it yet.

"Count the number of corpses and check them one by one according to the roster!"

Xia Jisuo frowned and said, "Sir, I don't understand the meaning of you doing this?"

Longeson said: "I want to see if the number of killed and corpses are the same."

Hearing this, Xia Jisuo showed a slightly contemptuous smile: "General, you may not know our enemies. They are followers of the devil. They have many incredible skills. Some can use fire, and some can use physalis." , some can even use lava. You haven't seen their general yet. He can use the abyss. Our soldiers may be burned to ashes, or melted into water, and some may simply be eaten by them, or they may fall off. When you enter the abyss, it’s normal for some bodies to be missing.”

"What if there are more corpses?" Longgesen smiled.

"How is this possible?" Xia Jisuo thought this question was too stupid.

Longesen stood up and repeated the order: "Please check the corpses one by one against the roster, focusing on the one under the Gong Tower. If you are unwilling to do it, I will ask the Grand Duke to find someone else to help me."

Longerson seemed to be very interested in the corpse under the bow building. Kalyan pulled him aside and said: "Stop worrying about these corpses. What we need to find out most is how the enemy came here and how they left." of."

Longesen lowered his voice: "This is something that is impossible to find out. The enemy may only have two people. Two people mixed into a team of tens of thousands of people. How do you want to find out?"

Kalyan said in shock: "Are you crazy? How can there be only two people?"

Longerson said with a straight face: "Because the enemy's leader is Brayton, and I know this person very well."