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"Okay, I'll go ask."

Zhang Mu got up and rushed to the royal capital, while Domit concentrated his mind and prepared to speed up the pace of the war, striving to defeat the coalition forces before Gangnuo intervened.

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On the way to the royal capital, Zhang Mu kept wondering why the coalition forces only sought help when the situation was irreversible.

According to common sense, when Lake launched a counterattack, or when they were defeated in Lake, the coalition countries should have contacted Gangno for help.

why?

What was the reason why they did not send the mission until recently?

Zhang Mu was completely puzzled, and this was not the only thing that confused him.

Since the delegation has entered Gangnuo for half a month, if Gangnuo agreed to provide support, the legion should have set out by now, and if the speed was fast enough, they should have joined the battlefield.

But in fact, there was no movement at the front line. Not only was there no sight of Gangnuo's army, but the visiting delegation also did not return.

Did Gangnuo reject the coalition's request?

As soon as this guess came to his mind, Zhang Mu immediately denied it.

It's impossible. If Gangnuo really didn't want to intervene in the war, the coalition forces should either recall the delegation or send more delegations to try again. It's impossible to act as if nothing had happened.

"The intelligence department is still not strong enough. I don't know how well Soran is preparing."

Troubled by the lack of intelligence gathering, Zhang Mu thought of Sauron, whom he had sent to set up relevant institutions.

"I'll go check on him when I get back to the capital. If he has any difficulties, I'll send him some more people."

Zhang Mu’s actions in this department are not minor.

In the future, as the territory continues to expand, it will be of great use whether in detecting information about hostile forces or monitoring internal instability factors.

Especially the latter. In the highly developed Blue Star, there is still a saying that "the mountains are high and the emperor is far away", not to mention the Sol Continent, which is larger than the Blue Star but has far inferior information transmission.

For example, the kingdom city that has been captured. Although Zhang Mu has never paid special attention to it, he still heard that the order was in chaos due to the replacement of the city lord and the garrison, and a group of dark organizations that relied on illegal means to make profits were spawned.

The most important thing is that these organizations were not formed spontaneously by people living in poverty, but were invested and developed by the former royal family or the former city lords to harass Lake and increase the cost of Lake's rule.

Zhang Mu actually doesn’t care much about these flies. As long as the legion is strong enough and the Sol Continent does not have the “GM” soil, they won’t be able to make much waves.

However, letting flies fly around your ears is always annoying, and you still have to deal with it.

While he was thinking, he had already arrived outside the gate of the royal capital.

Zhang Mu seldom appears in public. Apart from the First Army and Avril, few people have seen his appearance. The guards in front of the city gate are naturally among them.

The guard dutifully reached out and stopped Zhang Mu for a routine inspection.

Zhang Mu did not put on airs. He accepted the inspection according to the regulations, and then walked through the city gate step by step.

"Soren and Mih seem to be doing intelligence work on East Street?"

He entered the royal capital from the South Gate. The East City District was right next door, closer than the royal palace in the central area.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Mu decided to go to Dongcheng District first and then rush to the palace to avoid taking a detour.

Chapter 387 Flying Dragon

The battle lasted for half a month.

front.

As the night deepened, Lake's soldiers stood on tiptoe, and a pair of eyes emerged from the trenches, looking into the distance.

There are thin dark clouds in the night sky, and the hazy moonlight shines through the clouds and spreads across the wilderness.

"Strange, why didn't you come today?"

In the past, the coalition forces would launch a charge at this time every day, regardless of whether they could break through the position or how much success they achieved, they would always fight.

But tonight there was strange silence.

The soldier retracted his head, straightened his crooked helmet, and said to his comrades: "Are they scared?"

The comrade-in-arms had his arms around his rifle, leaning against the trench wall with his eyes closed. When he heard his question, he replied without opening his eyes, "Are you scared?

You mean the group of coalition soldiers who charged at us with bullets?"

The soldier probably realized that his question was a bit stupid, so he smiled awkwardly, sat cross-legged on the ground, and tried to explain himself: "It's hard to say, after all, so many professionals die every day."

The comrade opened his eyes and said, "Speaking of professionals... my grandmother would never have expected that her farmer grandson would be able to fight against professionals and kill more than one of them."

When he learned that his enemy was a professional, the fear that surged in his heart almost swallowed him whole.

This fear comes from parents' warnings "Don't mess with professionals" and the power of professionals.

Ordinary people seldom see high-level professionals, but low-level professionals are very active among the people, and even farmers who work in the fields all year round will occasionally encounter them.

In the eyes of ordinary people, lifting a hundred-kilogram stone is considered a supernatural power, so it is not an exaggeration to praise the professionals who can easily do the same thing with one hand as "great power".

In the past, they had to be extremely respectful when facing professionals, for fear of angering the adults and being punished. But now they are asked to fight with the "adults", so panic is inevitable.

But when he barely overcame his panic, picked up the gun and shot, and saw with his own eyes the adult's "divine body" being pierced by the bullet and the corpse fell powerlessly to the ground, all his fear disappeared automatically.

The comrade raised his head, and the dim moonlight fell on his face: "If I kill one more professional, I can be promoted to squad leader."

“Hahaha…” The soldier laughed triumphantly, and stopped after a while, “That’s enough!”

The comrade was a little surprised: "When?"

It was a good time to show off, but the soldier said sullenly, "It doesn't matter."

"what?"

After looking around to make sure no one was approaching, he leaned over to his comrade's ear and whispered, "Have you heard the recent rumors?"

The comrade thought for a moment: "Will the Empire join the war?"

"Yes."

"I thought it was just a rumor."

"I think the same thing, but..." The soldier leaned back against the earth wall and tightened his arms around the rifle, as if this would bring him a sense of security. "Think about it carefully. Even if this rumor is just a lie, it's only a matter of time before the Empire joins the war."

The comrade squatted down: "So, you plan to escape?"

"Don't joke, deserters will be shot." The soldier looked around nervously, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his comrades in the distance were not paying attention to him.

"Don't be afraid." The comrade smiled and comforted him, then said, "In fact, we all know that the Lake Kingdom will eventually perish."

“Well, after all, the opponent is the entire continent.

I heard from my father that there is an empire above the kingdom, and there is a stronger empire above the empire, and there are also those powerful foreign races, and they are all believers of God. "

His comrade looked at him and suddenly asked, "Why did you join the legion? Don't you want to live?"

"Why should I join the legion..." The soldier muttered for a moment, then raised his head, "We can't escape anyway. Even if we succeed in escaping to another kingdom, we will be captured by the nobles and made into slaves.

In this case, we might as well give it a try. Even if we die in the war, at least we can have enough to eat before we die."

Talking about food, the comrade smiled happily: "The food in the army is very good. Every meal is delivered on time, and there is meat and soup."

"Right, so you have to eat more while you're still alive."

"Are you so sure that you will die? Our weapons are not weak."

The soldier was stunned for a moment, his expression depressed: "The gun... is very powerful, but it can only hit a few hundred meters... The shells can hit far, but they can't do anything to the sky. I heard that the Empire has flying dragons."

The comrade scratched his head: "Maybe... maybe we have a secret weapon?

Didn't the captain say that Lake's strongest army is the First Army? They must have a way to deal with the sky."

"If that's the case then the best..."

"gather!"

The squad leader shouted at a nearby intersection, and the two soldiers quickly stood up and ran over, lining up with the other soldiers in the squad.

"Receive the order, immediately set out to attack the coalition position!"

The order was given very suddenly and the soldiers were a little confused. Finally, they collected their equipment and set off at the urging of the squad leader.

Our side was caught off guard, and the enemy was naturally even more so.

The front camp of the coalition forces, which planned to let the soldiers rest for a day tonight, was shocked to find that a large number of Lake soldiers appeared around the camp.

The commandos moved quickly and reached the camp gate before the guards could issue a warning. They then jumped over the wooden fence and threw grenades inside.

The flames and explosions awakened the sleeping coalition soldiers.

Perhaps they were paralyzed by the active attacks in the past few days. They subconsciously believed that the initiative of the war was in their hands and that we had the final say on whether to fight or not. They completely forgot that Lake could take the initiative to attack and were all sleeping soundly on the warm bunk beds in the tents.

They completely lost their vigilance, and even after being awakened by the explosion, they were still confused and did not immediately think of the possibility of a surprise attack.

What's wrong? What happened? Are the professionals sparring? Is the noise a bit too loud?

It was not until they heard the cry of "enemy attack" that they came to their senses and hurriedly climbed out of bed to look for weapons.

By the time they finished everything and rushed out of the tent, there was chaos outside. There were flames everywhere and soldiers running with weapons in their hands. It was impossible to tell who was friend or foe.

Don't underestimate the harm of not distinguishing between friend and foe.

On the battlefield, mistakes such as mistaking friendly forces for the enemy and launching attacks occurred frequently, and even the annihilation of friendly forces in an organized manner was not uncommon.

Therefore, the coalition soldiers did not dare to attack at will, but it was difficult to find their superiors in the chaos. They were forced to retreat to the rear, hoping to get rid of the enemy first.

Seeing some people running away, more bewildered soldiers thought that an officer had given an order and immediately followed.

As a result, the situation that had been expected to be stabilized completely collapsed, and the front camp of more than 100,000 soldiers was defeated by a commando team of about a thousand people.

The commando team did not stop there, but continued chasing in the cover of night, and only retreated at dawn.

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Allied Forces Command.

"Defeated?" Novak received the battle report and was somewhat incredulous. "There are only a few thousand people on the Lake front line, and our front camp has 100,000 soldiers, including a large number of low-level professionals. How could we be defeated in one night and even lose the main camp?"

Although Novak was mentally prepared for the defeat on the front line, the incident happened so suddenly that he was caught off guard.

"What's going on?" Novak asked the former battalion commander who had fled back in a panic in a sharp tone.

The head coach lowered his head in guilt: "I was careless and Lake attacked the camp late at night."