God Of War Dad

The night was as black as spilled ink!

The moon was like a curved blade!

Towering more than ten thousand feet, Hill Riverside was shrouded under the dark night sky like a crouching giant dragon, sitting quietly in place. The dense forests on the mountain rustled from the cold winds, emitting haunting sounds like wailing ghosts. Five hundred thousand troops of the Shirine Empire were scattered within Hill Riverside, lying in ambush and ready to act. The cold glint of their blades filled the already sinister atmosphere with an extremely oppressive aura of death!

Clearly! Everyone knew the importance of this battle!

So! Everyone held the resolve to die and the conviction to be victorious, prepared to sacrifice themselves for the Shirine Empire!

After all! With five hundred thousand troops facing the one million strong army of the North Kingdom, apart from occupying the geographical advantage of Hill Riverside, they had no other advantages. They could only fight to the death, beheading themselves and shedding hot blood, to fulfill the oaths they made when enlisting.

However! Up to this point, they didn’t even know yet that there was chaos in the imperial city. King Roscoe was dead. Sean had occupied the imperial city with his men and seized control of this national war!

At this time! On the official road at the foot of Hill Riverside leading to the North Kingdom, tens of thousands of troops were stationed. The official road was dozens of meters wide, like a great chasm cutting Hill Riverside in half!

This place! Was the necessary path to the capital of the Shirine Empire!

The one million strong army of the North Kingdom would not be able to bypass the hundreds of miles of Hill Riverside during their long march. To charge through, there were only two routes. One was to kill their way down the official road! The other was to climb the mountain and leap down from the peak, threatening the capital from the south side!

It was a pity that Hill Riverside was too high! And too dangerous!

The few dozen meter wide official road was too narrow for the one million strong army of the North Kingdom. It would be like a narrow log bridge, slowing their speed. Not to mention, there would definitely be many Shirine Empire troops lying in ambush on the hilltops and hillsides overlooking the road. Rocks rolled down would not only kill and injure large numbers of North Kingdom troops trying to force their way through the official road, it could completely block off the official road!

Therefore! Charging directly down the official road was the worst plan!

Sending troops to rush to the hilltop and gain control of the high ground overlooking the official road, then safely traversing through, was the better plan. Even if the Shirine Empire troops saw the situation was unfavorable and blocked off the official road prematurely, controlling the high ground meant they could still detour over the mountain!

It could be said to be hitting two birds with one stone!

This! Was the most sensible, and only viable tactic. The North Kingdom generals knew it. The Shirine Empire generals also knew it!

Therefore! The Shirine Empire side left only tens of thousands of troops to garrison the official road, while the rest all lay in ambush in the mountains, to stop the North Kingdom troops from climbing up and seizing the high ground!

Thus! The specific troop deployment of the Shirine Empire troops was especially important!

Therefore! After Luna Porter, Lord Snow, and Lord Fisher worked together to get rid of King Roscoe earlier, the first thing they thought of was to secretly leak the troop deployment of the Shirine Empire forces at Hill Riverside to the North Kingdom side!

This! Was also the reason why Sean left Lord Snow alive!

Executing Lord Snow would cut off the North Kingdom’s source of intelligence. All that was left would be frontal assaults and brute force battles. But by planning things out and using Lord Snow to leak false information, it could easily halve their efforts and reduce casualties on the Shirine Empire side as much as possible!

“General!”

At the foot of the mountain, one of the military tents was the temporary headquarters of the Shirine Empire troops. Over a dozen Shirine Empire generals were inside discussing countermeasures. Suddenly, urgent footsteps could be heard as a soldier outside the tent shouted: “The North Kingdom troops are only twenty miles away!”

They came so quickly!

The dozen plus Shirine Empire generals were all shocked, their expressions becoming even more solemn!

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“Report again!”

The leading Shirine Empire general named Knox said in a deep voice!

These dozens of Shirine Empire generals commanded the five hundred thousand Shirine Empire troops, with Knox as their leader.

“Yes!”

The soldier outside the tent took his orders and left.

At this time! One of the generals couldn’t help but ask: “General Knox, with battle imminent, does the imperial city have any other arrangements?”

“They do!”

Knox said in a deep voice: “Lord Snow personally sent orders, everything is to proceed according to plan!”

“It’s just…”

“After battle commences, there will be a surprise troop passing through the official road, charging straight into the enemy main camp, and launching a decapitation operation against the North Kingdom generals!!!”

An army without a head will fall into chaos!

According to intelligence the Shirine Empire obtained previously, the one million strong army of the North Kingdom this time was led by over twenty Complete Stage generals. The so-called decapitation operation was naturally to assassinate those twenty plus North Kingdom generals!

“Surprise… Surprise troops???”

“Decapitation???”

Knox’s words utterly shocked everyone present. They looked at each other in disbelief, hardly believing their own ears!

“General Knox!”

One of the generals said: “Did… Did you hear wrong? After the battle half a year ago, the old emperor died in battle, over half the royal guards were lost, the imperial city itself was already empty. What surprise troops can they send out?”

“Could it be…”

“That it’s the group of cultivators brought by Lord Snow and Lord Fisher from the border?”

“But…”

“But even if there are over twenty Complete Stage masters among those cultivators, how can they possibly charge into the enemy main camp and behead their generals???”

Although the others didn’t voice it out, they harbored the same thoughts inwardly. Before King Roscoe urgently summoned them back to the capital, they had been stationed outside leading troops for years. Naturally they knew deeply that even though individual Complete Stage cultivators were terrifying, when facing thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of troops, they basically couldn’t accomplish much and definitely couldn’t turn the tide of battle!

Moreover! They probably couldn’t even charge into the enemy main camp, let alone beheading anyone! Would the enemies obediently stand there and wait for them to come kill them???

“I’m not too clear about the specifics either!”

Knox shook his head and said in a deep voice: “Obeying orders is a soldier’s bounden duty! Since orders have come from the imperial city, we shall follow them! No matter how it’s arranged, we’ll give our all!

“Tonight’s battle!”

“A nine in ten chance of death!”

“Here!”

“We’ll be relying on all you generals!”

That’s right! They had all come here prepared to die, not planning to return alive in the first place. Whether there were surprise troops or not, whether they could succeed or not, was already unimportant. As long as they did their part and fought with their lives, it was enough!

“General Knox!”

At this time, the voice of the soldier from before sounded outside the tent again: “The North Kingdom troops are only ten miles away!”

Ten miles! They would arrive any moment!!!

“Alright!” Knox gritted his teeth and snorted: “My fellow generals, prepare according to the plan discussed earlier!”

“Damn them!”

The dozen plus generals looked at each other, their brows filled with resolve. In unison they shouted: “Damn them!”

“Kill!”

“Kill!”

“Kill!!!”

As their voices fell, they turned and left the tent, going to their respective assigned areas. Knox also exited the tent, arriving at the vanguard of the tens of thousands of troops at the foot of the mountain. He stood in the middle of the official road, gazing into the distance. In the dim moonlight overhead, he could faintly make out the one million strong North Kingdom army surging towards them like a tidal wave from ten miles away, covering half the horizon like an enormous black cloud!