Heart of Empire Chapter 204: Run away

There are three ways for Dane to return to Schindler.

The closest and fastest way is to walk from Shizuipo and go straight west all the way. If there are no obstacles on the road, you can reach White Wolf Fort in a little over a week. But this road is definitely not going to work. Shizuipo is the predetermined battlefield for the battle between the two armies. Unless Dane allows every soldier under his command to have a pair of wings, there is no way to think about it.

The farthest and safest way is to return to the original road and walk from Broken Dragon Peak. Although it is the safest, but it is so easy to run into the orcs defeated by Ou Ze, and it is inevitable to get entangled. The road is still far away, and it will take a month to go back.

Two roads are unreliable, so the third road is left to continue south, bypass Shizuipo, and then go west.

Going this way is much farther than going straight. After all, Shizuipo, as the designated battlefield for the two armies in the next few days, has a large scope. If a detour is necessary to ensure safety, the distance will have to be increased by at least two or three days. The most important thing is that the distance from the battlefield is not too far away, and it is easy to be affected by the war. The two sides add up to a total of more than 30,000 wars, and the formation of troops will occupy the boss's place, let alone the war. After a period of time, all kinds of mobile forces and all kinds of troops who fled the battlefield after being repelled. Not far enough away, easy to run into.

But he had no choice. Considering time and safety factors, he had no choice but to go this way. For this reason, he could only pray that his movements were fast enough.

At noon on January 28th, after retrieving the supplies in the camp, Dane led the troops and began to march westward according to the established route.

In about half a day, they only completed half of the detour. The speed did not satisfy Dane, but it was indeed impossible to go faster. In fact, it might be difficult to cover even one-third of the distance in a normal march, but in order to speed up, he ordered the whole army to march in a hurry.

Today, the battle at Shizuipo has not yet started, and the battle situation is not yet in chaos. Whether it is Governor Oze's troops or the orcs, they are all gathered together and facing each other tightly, and rarely divide or mobilize troops. In this way, this time is the quietest time near Shizuipo, and it is also a good time for them to go on their way. If Shizuipo can be completely bypassed today, it must be the best, and the vortex of the follow-up battle can be perfectly avoided.

Ever since, in the afternoon, Dane ordered the whole army to advance rapidly. Even though he was carrying a lot of luggage, he desperately asked all the soldiers under his command to run as fast as possible.

This kind of rapid march is extremely exhausting, but he doesn't care. After running for an afternoon, he can take a good rest at night, but such a good opportunity to escape from the whirlpool is rare, and if he misses it, he will lose it.

In the middle, they ran into two sword falcon knights flying over. Governor Ozer still didn't know about Morno's death. The two Sword Falcon knights still came with Governor Ozer's order, and asked Dane if he had seen their colleagues. Dane, on the other hand, coped with it with his usual attitude, and at the same time ordered Patience to continue to attack the empty knight after leaving, as long as it could last.

After dark, the rapid march finally stopped.

As far as the team of more than a thousand people ran here, there were only seven or eight hundred people left, and there were two or three hundred people who fell behind one after another during the rapid march. Fortunately, most of these laggards are cannon fodder mercenaries temporarily recruited by Pure Sword and Horror. Their hard power is worrying, and their will is not so firm. Well expected.

Regarding this, he didn't express anything special other than asking Delin, Maca, and the two deputy heads of the Pure Sword Mercenary Group to go to the back to gather up the stragglers. He will take the core team that is following him, rest in place overnight, and wait for the scattered soldiers to catch up. As for how many people will come to meet up tomorrow morning, he doesn't care at all, anyway, he will never wait. , as soon as dawn, he will immediately lead the team to move on. As for the mercenaries who were not gathered by the four of them in the end, Dane didn't plan to wait at all, and let them fend for themselves.

By the early morning of the next day, less than two hundred mercenaries had been recovered. These guys were all formed into a team by Dane, and they ran as fast as they could run behind them. If they couldn't run fast, he still didn't plan to wait.

A whole morning just ran by like this, as expected, there was a time before falling behind

The Co guys were pretty much left behind on this day too. This time, Dane didn't let them run around by themselves, but asked Delin to organize them together, even if they ran slower, they had to maintain formation. Besides them, some other mercenaries also slowly couldn't keep up with the team and fell to the rear, and all of them were incorporated into the reserve group.

The reserve regiment was not set up yesterday because it was not needed, but today, they can still come in handy.

Around ten o'clock in the morning on the 29th, Dane got the news that the battle at Shizuipo had started. In fact, there is no need for scouts to report. When the direction of Shizuipo came, the very violent power fluctuations formed by many powerful characters during the battle ~IndoMTL.com~ so that you don’t need to see it with your own eyes , you will be able to learn the news of the start of the battle. Moreover, this is not just the beginning of the battle, I am afraid it has already reached its peak.

The specific battlefield seen by the high-ranking mage Easterlin with his ultra-far-reaching eagle eyes, and the information that the ranger sent out not long after also returned to report, all confirmed that Dane's feeling was not wrong at all.

I sighed secretly in my heart, the good days of traveling are gone.

The war at Shizuipo entered the final stage, some of the defeated troops fled in all directions, who knows where they would go, and if they didn't keep them together, several troops ran to the vicinity of Dane. If it's an orc team, it's okay to say, he doesn't plan to pay attention to those who dare not provoke them, and those who dare to come up to seek death will be fulfilled. It will be really troublesome if you encounter the rout of the human army.

Fighting is not allowed. This is not a conceptual thing like asking Patience to assassinate the Sword Falcon Knight. When the human army sees their compatriots, most of them will not avoid them, and they will definitely meet them directly.

It's a good thing to be included, but what if it's a big deal and it's brought in and brought to Schindler? But if some officers under Ou Ze's command came across and rushed forward and said that Dane should return to the battlefield, it would be a troublesome matter.

I'm afraid that what will happen, at about noon, there really was such a rout led by Oze's officer, that it came to the vicinity of Dane's army.

Fortunately, he left behind, and the reserve team composed of stray mercenaries can play a role at this time. To be continued.