Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

#241 - Tragic victory and human revenge!

As the cheers echoed across the mountains and plains, and the triumphant military music resounded over the city, Su Li still couldn't quite believe it. He gripped the warhammer tightly in his hands, exhausted, and slumped down onto the castle terrace.

His performance in this battle had far exceeded his wildest dreams. He had personally slain as many as six or seven harpies, and together with the dwarves, he had killed a powerful wyvern.

Especially when the battery was in danger, he had braved the arrows and stones, personally leading the guard to the battery and defending it at all costs. Actually, the 'guard' no longer had any human members. In the end, he was accompanied only by his two battle pets: Deathclaw and the Lion Mastiff, Jinya.

It was the full bombardment from these two batteries that prevented the complete collapse of the western city's battle situation. Several times, the monsters tried to form warbands, howling and launching attacks in the streets, but they were all blown apart by the cannons.

The powerful firepower of the dwarven war machines was no less than the terrifying fiery breath of a chimera. The monsters' fierce offensive was blasted to pieces by the cannons, and they retreated in dense, disorganized masses.

The Green Dragon naturally couldn't tolerate this unrestrained bombardment and sent in all of its aerial assault forces. The sky was darkened by swarms of harpies, and the huge forms of wyverns crowded around the battery.

Even with the desperate protection of the humans and dwarves, Su Li was once grabbed by a wyvern and nearly carried into the air.

It was Su Li's battle pet, the Golden Lion Mastiff, that desperately climbed onto the wyvern's back, tearing at its wings without regard for its own life, preventing the wyvern from taking off. Then, Su Li, inspired, unleashed unparalleled courage and smashed the monster in the abdomen with his hammer, forcing it to release its sharp claws in agony.

Until the end, Su Li wasn't sure whether his attack at that moment was the ultimate reaction of a human in desperation or the result of the Sun Goddess's intervention.

But he didn't care about such things. Because the gods of this world really would descend personally, granting believers unparalleled power to defeat strong enemies in desperate situations.

Compared to such legendary experiences, Su Li felt that he wasn't receiving the treatment a chosen one should. He had never felt the Sun Goddess bestow upon him any powerful martial skills in battle.

If he were a follower of Redmayne or Yulick, Su Li feared that in this battle, he himself would be comparable to a divine knight, tearing apart wyverns with his bare hands, slaughtering countless monsters, and easily smashing hundreds of enemies.

Of course, it was also possible that the Sun Goddess placed more emphasis on tactics. In the religious texts of the Sun Goddess Church, there were very few widely accepted accounts of knights actually feeling her personal descent.

She focused more on inspiring believers to use more intelligent tactics to achieve victory. At least in this battle, Hilude's scorched-earth tactics had an impact and value no less than that of a powerful divine knight!

Su Li stared blankly at the burning city in the distance, muttering, "Is this hellish scene really our victory?"

A rapid sound of footsteps echoed from the stone steps of the city wall. A moment later, an anxious figure threw herself onto Su Li. The smell of smoke and the strong smell of blood mixed together, making Su Li's brain particularly confused.

But the other party didn't notice at all, instead anxiously stroking Su Li all over, asking with a choked voice, "Young Master, Young Master, are you alright? I saw your armor dripping with blood."

Su Li turned his head in surprise, looking at the thin figure whose face was blacker than a dwarven blacksmith who had been by the furnace for years, his eyes filled with disbelief!

"You are... Avril? How did you become like this?"

Avril was Su Li's most delicate maid. Usually, her cute cheeks were like tender apples, forming a sharp contrast with her current face covered in black soot, with only a touch of red remaining on her lips.

Avril was also full of sorrow. At first, she thought this was just a simple delivery mission. All she had to do was follow the straight street and find Hilude in the familiar streets. If everything went smoothly, she might only need half an hour to return to her most cherished young master.

But the twists and turns and thrills of this trip surpassed all of her previous experiences in her entire life.

She not only fought her way through layers of obstacles but also falsely conveyed orders, forcibly forcing Priest Rongen to set fire immediately, making a champion-level knight give way in front of her.

Then, she personally held the flag and stood on the high building surrounded by raging flames, supervising hundreds of human knights and soldiers in front of the battle line. Any soldier who retreated even half a step was executed on the spot in the name of the lord.

It could be said that her courage and determination contributed at least half of the strength to the stabilization of the western city's front line.

She had never imagined that she, a weak maid, could become so tough and decisive for the sake of the young master's career and for the young master's success.

Even though her legs were shaking with fear, she still bravely held the banner of the Zijinghua family and stood firmly on the tower, supervising the valiant and desperate battle of nearly a thousand human soldiers.

But all of this was over. All she cared about now was whether she could continue to live a stable life with the young master.

Under her anxious examination, Su Li didn't react much, because he could hardly get a clear sense of touch.

So, facing Avril's anxious and concerned gaze, he could only shake his head blankly and said, "I don't know if I'm injured. I feel like my body hurts, but I don't know where it hurts."

"Young Master, this feeling of yours must be an injury, and a very serious injury!... The blood flowing from the armor is yours!"

Avril burst into tears instantly, a large amount of tears welling up in her eyes. She didn't cry when she was alone facing the fierce fangs of the monsters. Facing the violent and fierce fighting between countless monsters and humans, this weak girl still didn't collapse in fear, but when she heard Su Li's answer, she couldn't control her emotions immediately and began to strip off Su Li's armor anxiously.

Su Li lowered his head and saw a hideous and terrible wound left on the right side of his chest. From the everted flesh, the bloody wound was at least a dozen centimeters long and two or three centimeters wide, and he could already see the severed ribs and everted bone spurs.

And in the position of the abdomen that Avril was desperately covering, there was a huge, bottomless trauma on his body, as if something sharp clawed through his body.

These were just the scars that Su Li could see, and there might be more that he couldn't see.

But he really didn't know when these scars were left. He could only vaguely remember that when the wyvern grabbed him, his abdomen was once stirred with severe pain. At that time, he thought he was caught by the wyvern. Perhaps this huge wound was left by the wyvern's claws. But he had no impression of the trauma on his chest at all.

He didn't even know that he had such strong vitality. He could still roar and fight monsters with such serious injuries, and even possibly kill a wyvern with his own hands?

It seemed that it was still effective to eat so many extraordinary fruits, wear so many crimson pearls, dragon blood stones, and various amulets on weekdays. At least even if he was beaten, he could resist a few more times.

Then, Su Li raised his hand and wiped the tears from Avril's face, but it was okay if he didn't wipe it. When he wiped it, mixed with the soot on her face, it made her even more of a painted face.

So Su Li couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth and said, "Don't cry, you don't look good at all when you cry like this. I don't want my last impression of you before I die to be so ugly."

Avril burst into tears instantly, crying sadly: "No! No! I don't want you to be in danger!"

But there were really no potions in the territory. Even if Su Li was the most honorable lord, everyone could only watch helplessly as blood kept gushing out of his body.

The territory's strongest priest, Dietrich, was carried to the city wall. The knight commander of the Hospital Knights was in no better condition than Su Li.

His right arm had been broken by a chain, and the broken arm bone had pierced through the muscle and pierced out from the joint. More seriously, a huge knife wound was cut in the center of his shoulder and neck, and a large amount of bleeding had made him too weak to lift his fingers.

He was helpless when he saw Su Li's injury. His divine power had already been exhausted last night, and he couldn't use any healing techniques.

He smiled miserably at Su Li and grinned, "Lord... Lord, have some wine, it may be effective."

"Wine?" Avril nodded excitedly: "Yes, yes, laurel gemstones are still effective, we can brew another batch of medicinal wine urgently."

Before she finished speaking, she immediately threw herself on the nuns of the Dawn Goddess Monastery who had died in battle around her, groping around anxiously for the wine jugs they carried with them.

Before the war, in order to increase the amount of medicinal wine, the territory had urgently placed laurel gemstones in a large number of wine barrels for a period of time. Although the full effect of the laurel gemstones was not exerted, it was better than nothing.

Finally, Avril found a bottle that hadn't been exhausted on a nun whose head had been bitten off by a monster, and quickly helped Su Li pour it into his mouth, and said, "Young Master, hold on, as long as the blood stops slightly, we will move you to the Sharya Temple. Sharya's idol is not far from here, you will definitely be able to get Sharya's mercy and healing."

Su Li covered the wound on his body and said to her, "I can handle it, and give Dietrich a few sips too."

"Also, how is Hilude?"

Avril quickly directed the slightly injured soldiers around who could move to lift the wounded soldiers and prepare to transport them to the Sharya Temple, while replying with a crying voice: "Hilude she... took the troops to continue chasing the Green Dragon's legion. I don't know how she is. The city is now panicked, and everything is in a mess. Some people say that she was sucked dry by the Green Dragon's magic and became an almost dead mummy, some people say that her legs were torn off by the awakened earth spirit, and some people say that she was cut off her right leg in the state of a god general, and there are different opinions, I don't know which one is true."

"But what is certain is that Hilude must be injured. But she didn't stop, but took away all the soldiers in the city who could chase."

Hilude is still chasing?

This made Su Li's spirit lifted, then he couldn't pass out!

He must adjust his state and realize lying flat easily as soon as possible, Hilude is still waiting for him to support her.

Without his daily intelligence system assistance, Hilude is easily ambushed by the Green Dragon's army!

So Su Li gritted his teeth, climbed onto Deathclaw's back, patted the hard vibranium armor on its back, and said, "My buddy, I hope you can be as sensible as Jinya today, we can persevere and fly to the Sharya idol."

Deathclaw has already proved his nobility and strength in this battle. Although he is still very young in his heart, he did not flinch and fear in the face of a powerful adult wyvern. Wearing the vibranium rune horse gear that Su Li spent a lot of money to build for him, he forcibly tore apart a wyvern and guarded Su Li to kill a large number of harpies.

The price is that his wings may have been broken. The last time Su Li saw him fly was before dawn. Without untying his horse gear, no one knows what he is like.

Even if Deathclaw is physically weak, he still maintains his noble demeanor, holding his head high and chest out, and refusing to reveal a trace of withering.

Hearing Su Li's words, he chirped and fanned his left wing, signaling Su Li to come up.

When Su Li climbed on him, he jumped off the terrace with his limbs. Although his body was swaying, what surprised the soldiers on the city was that he flew up smoothly, drew a not-so-elegant curve in the air, and went straight to the Sharya Temple.

But there are no medical staff here anymore. All the soldiers and priests who could move had already been conscripted to the front line when the battle was at its fiercest.

The wounded soldiers here were even massacred by the harpy, leaving more than a dozen harpy corpses among a large number of corpses.

Su Li didn't know whether the wounded soldiers fought to the death and killed the few harpies. Or the harpies slaughtered all the wounded soldiers here and left with satisfaction.

In short, this temple, which should be full of love and brilliance, is full of splashed blood and scattered corpses. Even the sun can't dispel the despair full of silence in this temple.

After Su Li jumped off Deathclaw's back, he could only cover the wound on his abdomen and walked to the bottom of the religious idol with difficulty, leaning against this magnificent idol, waiting for the next round of divine grace to accumulate as soon as possible and descend on him.

Deathclaw finally couldn't support his body and dignity, weakly drooping his head and leaning on Su Li's legs.

Su Li stroked the feathers behind his neck, tugged the corners of his mouth, and barely smiled and said, "Old buddy, since you are bigger than my bed, we haven't been lying down and sleeping together for a long time."

Deathclaw whimpered, his head rubbed against Su Li's thigh, as if expressing his dissatisfaction with his words.

Griffins are born to be warlike creatures, with an average life expectancy of 5 to 7 years. He desperately hoped that the master could recover his body as soon as possible and take him to continue fighting.

Even if he can't enter the forest, at least let the Green Dragon and his minion legions pay a heavy price.

It's just a pity that they are all too badly injured. Now only Hilude can carry out this revenge mission!

Although the siege of Black Forest Territory had ended, and the Green Dragon had located Marshal Orstein's Knight Legion, it was leading its minions in a frantic return, but this did not mean the war between the two sides was over.

The invaders' atrocities would be settled, and their cruelty and invasion must be repaid with blood!

The fire of human vengeance would never be easily extinguished.

Blood for blood, tooth for tooth!

Even if they exhausted their last bit of strength, humanity would still use the blade of justice to sever the monsters' spines!

To this end, Hildegard almost emptied the city of all mobile military strength, forming a revenge army of over a thousand soldiers, doggedly biting at the heels of the monster army.

The human butcher knives unhesitatingly struck at all the monsters that fell behind, and hundreds, even thousands, of monsters died under the human blades every day.

But the monster legions could not organize an effective counterattack!

The reasons for this situation were far more than just a simple rout due to military setbacks, there were many more important factors at play.

First, the Green Dragon was anxious to retreat and be pursued, and did not arrange for the most elite troops to stay behind as a rearguard.

So-called elite troops should be the first to advance and the last to retreat.

However, the Green Dragon's inherent greed for gold made it unable to make this most reasonable arrangement, so it chose to leave the less mobile, and non-direct line Dryads behind, hoping that these Dryads could use their lives to block the human pursuers.

But the death of Gairleigon caused these retreating Dryads to have no will to fight at all, they did not want to work for the Green Dragon in the first place, so before the human army attacked, most of them dispersed on their own.

The racial conflicts and political struggles from within the forest greatly weakened their overall combat power.

Hildegard decisively seized this opportunity, winning four consecutive victories, defeating the panicked Dryad legions four times in a row in the Central Plains, the Sacred Forest, and on the banks of the Brienne River, completely shattering this legion, turning thousands of monsters into a scattered mess, with no threat to the human pursuers.

It was not until this time that the Green Dragon, Eriaria, realized how stupid a mistake it had made, losing the cover of this Dryad legion, the human soldiers would be able to reach its weak throat directly from behind.

This made it even more afraid to stop even for a moment, paying the price of thousands upon thousands of Dryads, its direct line troops were able to distance themselves from the humans, at this time, if it stopped to fight fiercely with the humans, it would simply be wasting the time that the Dryads had bought for it!

It had to take advantage of the distance it still had from the human pursuers to rush into the forest with all its strength, only by entering the forest would its claws and teeth have a chance of survival, only by rushing into the forest could it catch up with the human knight order in front, and block them on the outskirts of the forest before they threatened its dragon nest, and absolutely not let them reach the core hinterland.

But its roar and urging further exacerbated the collapse of the forest monsters, after two days and three nights of forced marching, even the strong monsters were exhausted from running, and a large number of monsters foamed at the mouth and fell on the march.

And not only did they not widen the distance from the human pursuers, but they were further approached by the human pursuers!

The more they reached this point of challenging the limit, the more the monsters could discover that the resilience of humans was at a monster level.

In the eyes of most creatures, the terrifying human two-legged beasts are also a kind of terrible monster, and more powerful and resilient than most monsters, whoever thinks that humans are gentle and kind is very wrong.

Being able to occupy the most fertile core hinterland of the continent, how could the human species be a good thing? If all the creatures in the world were monsters, then humans must be the most ferocious of the monsters.

Although humans always claim that there are four kinds of demons in the Old Continent, in the eyes of many species, there are undoubtedly five kinds of demons in the Old Continent!

In this long-distance forced march, the terrible resilience of humans unexpectedly crushed most of the monsters in the forest.

And the weak can only be slaughtered by the strong, those monsters who are exhausted, those wounded who fall on the roadside foaming at the mouth, without exception all died under the blade of human revenge!

Humans, whose eyes were reddened by blood debts, had hearts as hard as steel, they saw any monster, and unhesitatingly swung down the butcher knife, the bodies of the monsters stretched along the road, the dead lying on each other.

What made the knights even more excited was that the Sun Goddess greatly appreciated this behavior.

A very important point in Violet's doctrine is to never show mercy to the enemies of mankind.

These monsters committed numerous atrocities in Black Forest Territory, and the Sun Goddess encouraged believers to launch expeditions, sweep the courtyards and lairs, and settle accounts with evil!

So along the way, the knights hunted down while harvesting a large amount of divine grace!

When they set off, only about 60 elite knights followed Hildegard, but after chasing all the way, the number of elite knights had broken through 80 again, and the number was still increasing, and the rate of increase was getting faster and faster!

In this pursuit battle spanning hundreds of miles, the longer the soldiers persisted, the greater the harvest.

This led to a completely different mentality between the pursuing humans and the defeated claws and teeth of the Green Dragon!

Even for their own sake, the human soldiers had to grit their teeth and persevere.

And the large-scale monster legion, like peeling potatoes, was cut down all the way by Hildegard like this, when they withdrew from Black Forest City, their scale may have been as high as tens of thousands, but when they arrived at the border哨所, their scale dropped rapidly to less than 5,000!

Most of the monsters either fell behind, or took advantage of the night to escape into the forest on the side of the road.

After all, humans have only been developing this mountain range for a short time, as long as they leave the sides of the road, there are small forests in both the north and south directions.

For the Green Dragon and the human pursuers, there is only one goal, the Blood Pine Forest in the east, but for the monsters, they have always had three choices!

Whether they escape to the north or escape to the south, this vast and flat land can provide them with greater survival opportunities.

At this time, the Green Dragon Legion, from top to bottom, was filled with an atmosphere of exhaustion and precariousness.

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