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"There are no conspicuous landmarks nearby, and I can't determine the direction. Do you want to calculate?" As he said this, Menggert planned to take out a pen and paper and start calculating.
"Forget it, let's save it for the sake of your hair." Yi Yan waved his hand and pressed down Menggert's just-raised arm again.
"???" Menggert touched his forehead. In addition to the conspicuous cluster of horns, he also had a lot of hair, right?
But since Ember said so, Menggert gave up the idea of calculating the direction.
Although I still have a lot of hair, it is still very hard to think about such things. If possible, Menggert certainly doesn't want to count.
Ember saw this and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he was smart, otherwise the fact that he didn't even know where Feimu Village was located in the east, west, north, and south would have been exposed.
"In that case, let's ask someone." Seeing that the area was deserted, Menggert took action.
In fact, if you want to find your way, the best way is to ask the locals.
"I hope so!" Yu Ember sighed. He seemed to remember that Dao Wife's situation didn't seem to be very good. He hoped to find someone who could ask for directions!
Walking along the coastline, in addition to the beach, there are trees growing wantonly on the side.
There seem to be very few human traces on this island.
This sign did not last long, and finally a ray of black appeared on the yellow and white beach.
When I walked in, I saw that this was a sword that was rusted by the sea water.
"Crack!" Mungert picked up the rusty sword with both hands, exerted a little force with his fingertips, and the rust-covered blade broke into two pieces.
Twisting away the rust in his hand, Mungert observed it for a while. "This knife was inserted here about half a year ago."
Looking up and looking around, Menggert found that there were more than just these weapons on the ground. They are either half-buried in the soil or stuck on the ground, quietly telling what happened here.
Not only that, there are also faint colors on the branches of the vegetation here that do not belong to plants.
Menggert somewhat understood why the vegetation here looked so dense.
"The battlefield is not far away." Menggert looked into the distance. Since it is a battlefield, it means that there is value in fighting here.
No matter which side wins, the land must be occupied by someone. I just don’t know if these people have any business helping people find their way.
"Half a year? Are you still fighting after I left?" Yu Jin compared the time. Half a year ago, he had already left Dao Wife.
"Inazuma is an island country, and it is an extremely rare island country with undeveloped ship technology."
"The battle for the islands is purely based on land warfare... If the gods here don't take action, it will be a troublesome and protracted war for both sides."
Menggert speculated based on the introduction about Rice Wife he read in the book.
Hearing this, Yi Yan glanced at Menggert who was talking. It seems that the border areas don't have the confidence to talk about other people's rice wives like this.
As far as he knew, the shipbuilding technology at the junction..., um..., how should I put it? There is a difference of so much as 100 million.
Ember has a weapon that he snatched from the demi-humans. Its name is the Rusty Anchor.
As for why the anchor became a weapon? That's naturally because the junction can't even build an anchor, so it can only be used as a weapon in the end!
Anyway, it was quite difficult for Yi Yan to know that the shipbuilding technology and war machinery technology in the border area were simply not on the same level.
The former can't even build an anchor, but the latter can build war golems that are tens of meters tall and adaptable to various environments.
This makes Ember a bit unfavorable.
"Drink..."
"kill……"
"What's the sound?" Yi Yan took out his ears. There was something wrong with his ears. Why were mosquitoes buzzing?
"King. It's the sound of slashing. There's a battle ahead!" Menggert's eyes narrowed slightly. It turns out that there is still war in this world. He thought that all the countries here were peaceful.
"Take a sneak peek." Yi Yan said, sneaking into the grass.
Seeing this, Menggert also followed closely and disappeared into the green.
The two of them were walking through the grass, the shouts of killing getting closer and closer, and a slight smell of blood could even be smelled in the air.
When he poked his head out of the bushes, the shouts of death suddenly became louder. Looking down, I saw that the place below had become a battlefield.
In the light of swords and shadows, purple and red soldiers appeared and disappeared. They fought with each other, constantly attacking and defending, not afraid of death, just to fight for this small beachhead.
"Are you still fighting?" Yi Yan looked at it from a distance and suddenly felt his teeth hurt. As Menggert said, the war between the rebels and the shogunate is a protracted war.
The two parties were in a stalemate in the Nashi Beach area for a long time, and no one had the ability to advance the front further.
But overall, the strength of the shogunate army is still stronger. Because they still have the ability to send the team to Ba Ying Island to conduct a series of tasks such as reconnaissance and destruction, but the resistance army does not have this ability.
Of course, Ember didn't think that much - he was thinking about how to make them stop in a big way.
Maybe shoot another arrow? As Yi Yan thought so, a huge black iron bow appeared in his hand. This was the golem bow!
Just when Yi Yan wanted to go out and show off his skills, he suddenly felt a resistance.
Turning around, he saw that it was Mengt who had stretched out his hand. He shook his head, signaling Ember not to be impulsive.
Chapter 400 Small Book
2024-01-07
"Is there any problem?" Yi Yan approached Mengt's side and asked in a low voice.
Mengt did not respond. In fact, with his size, it was not easy to hide in the grass with Ember.
If he spoke again, Menggert was afraid that his aura would leak out and be discovered by both sides of the battle, which would be difficult to handle.
After observing the surrounding terrain, Menggert waved to Ember, and then slowly moved upward.
The vegetation becomes denser the further you get from the beach. Under the cover of green, Ember and Menggert had quietly climbed to the high ground on the edge of the battlefield.
"Isn't that right? Are you so blind? Are you going to fight in the lowlands instead of occupying the high ground?" Yu Yan complained as he looked condescendingly at the crowd of people fighting below in the bushes.
Even though he, a dabbler who didn't understand war, knew the importance of the highlands, why didn't these serious soldiers know?
"That's not the case." Because this place was much further away from the battlefield, and the dense vegetation made it better hidden, Menggert could finally take a breath.
He poked the ground with his cursed sword, and Mengt inserted half of the cursed sword in without feeling any resistance.
Looking down at the two sides fighting in front, Menggert nodded slightly.
"King, please look, this is obviously a small-scale encounter."
"The number of them on both sides is only a few dozen, and their weapons only have swords, shields, crossbows and the like."
"Presumably in normal times, these two teams should perform less combat-intensity tasks such as patrolling and reconnaissance."
"In this case, whether it is to retreat or silence, seizing the high ground is not a good option."
With that said, Menggert inserted himself into the soil and pulled out the cursed sword. He showed it to Ember and then continued:
"Moreover, this place is close to the seaside, and the soil is soft. There are no throwing objects such as sand and stones in it. Neither of the two parties has bows and crossbows, so the advantages of the highlands cannot be used much."
"What's more, Wang Bei saw that these two groups were shouting with great momentum, but they were using defensive formations. I guess it won't be long before they find that they can't bite each other and they will withdraw their troops."
Mengt pointed at the rebels and the shogunate army, and gave a long list of analysis, which directly confused the embers.
"I know I was wrong. I won't comment casually in the future. Can you stop talking?" Yi Yan covered his head and shook his head wildly. He just made a casual joke, but now his head is directly being talked about by Menggert.
"The king should know enough about war." Although Mengt said so, he became quiet.
Sure enough, just as Menggert said before, after the two parties fought for a while, corpses were left on the ground, and then they retreated vigilantly.
The beach fell into silence again, but this time it was not as beautiful and pleasant as before. On the contrary, if ordinary people saw this bloody beach, they would probably vomit on the spot.
"The stalemate between the two parties is deeper than I thought." Menggert saw the scene in front of him and obtained more information.
Only when the battle line is in a stalemate and may change at any time can such a fierce conflict break out between the patrol teams of both sides. If the battle line is stable, patrolling is a bad thing.
"Is this the reason why you stopped me?" In order to prevent Mengt from starting a tirade again, Yi Yan decided to strike first and directly blocked Mengt's mouth.
"No, with the king's strength, the current stalemate can be easily reversed." Menggert shook his head.
"Hey, you're on to the point." Yi Yan stood up in the grass and puffed up his chest.
Unfortunately, under the cover of vegetation, not to mention Mengt, not even Ember could see his movements clearly. He was showing off to the outside world.
"So has the king decided which side he wants to help?" Menggert then asked.
This question immediately stopped Yan Yan. He touched his chin and began to think carefully.
"Forehead……"
Resistance? Ember only knew that they were rebelling against the shogunate, and that they were led by orcs. He didn't know anything else.
If you really want to say it, they are still a rebel force, so it doesn't seem wrong for Inazuma to strike hard at them?
As for the Shogunate Army? As for this..., although it is the official force of Inazuma, Yu Jin feels that Inazuma is not doing well after the country was closed off. It is not as peaceful and prosperous as Mondstadt and Liyue.
Comparing the two, Yu Yan can't figure out why the people at the bottom of Inazuma's country are living in such misery.
Is it because of the financial shortage caused by the shogunate's need to suppress the rebels? Or is it because of the lack of supplies caused by the national lockdown?
"I can't come?" Yi Yan was a little scratchy. Mengt's question was a fatal blow and almost made Yi Yan's brain dry and smoke.
"Or to put it another way, does the king want to get involved? War is certainly cruel, and most of them use the majority to snatch benefits for the minority; but some wars are necessary."
"Blind intervention may lead to more sacrifices." Menggert took a step back and asked after seeing Ember like this.
"In this case..." Yi Yan scratched his head, his mind was spinning rapidly. Indeed, as Menggert said, war is not a child's play.
Whether or not to take care of it, how to take care of it, is a question mark.
Yan Yan's mind was spinning, and he took out a small notebook.
"Shogunate..." Yi Jin turned his pen. He thought of what Jiujin said to him, and wrote "-1" behind Shogunate.
"Resistance army..." Yi Jin thought for a while and put a "0" at the end. After all, if what Jiujin said was true, they resisted because they had no food to eat. Yi Jin thought it was understandable.
"Now the resistance is one point ahead! If the shogunate army doesn't work hard, I will help the resistance!" Ember walked out of the bushes, raised the small notebook in his hand to face the sun, and exclaimed at his genius idea.
As a result, he choked on the blood that filled the air.
"Cough, cough, cough! Damn it, you didn't clean up the corpses after the war. The plague won't seek out you, right?" Yi Yan coughed a few times when he saw the bleeding corpses on the ground.
Then he backhandedly added "-1" to the back of both the resistance army and the shogunate army in the notebook.
"This is indeed a problem. If the body is not disposed of properly, it will be very troublesome." Menggert also walked out.
The pervasive smell of blood did not affect him. On the contrary, he walked to some corpses and closed their unclosed eyes.