I'm bad, but players love me

The entire battlefield was engulfed in flames and smoke. The roar of the successive mine explosions shook the ground. The air was filled with the smell of smoke and blood, making it almost impossible to breathe.

As the aftermath of the explosion gradually subsided, all that was left on the battlefield was a mess and groans.

The dead naturally lay down peacefully.

But those who were missing arms and legs were not so lucky. They could not help but let out shrill screams. The pain tore at their nerves. Reason was gone at this moment, and only the instinct to roar and struggle remained.

Many people's clothes were set on fire, and the raging flames licked their skin. They immediately ignored everything and just slapped the flames on their bodies or rolled on the ground, trying to relieve the burning pain.

Before the captain could come to his senses, he was suddenly knocked to the ground by a guard.

As the dust flew up, she inevitably ate a mouthful of dirt, and her entire body was covered in thick dust. Fortunately, she did not suffer any substantial injuries.

She pushed away the bloody body of the guard that was pressing on her, struggled to get up from the ground, casually wiped the dust off her face with her hand, and shouted, "What's going on?"

"Report..." A soldier tried to report the current situation to her, but just as he started to report, ELO's bullets arrived right after him.

Bullets rained down recklessly like a torrential rain, turning the already shaky Kori army into a complete mess.

The soldiers were already in a panic, packed together like sardines, and now they had nowhere to escape or hide.

There was no cover to use as cover, and the situation was one of high attacking low. Even if there was a blind man in the ELO team, he could probably easily destroy a few unlucky targets.

The regiment commander was extremely anxious and fired warning shots repeatedly, trying to use the harsh gunshots to awaken the soldiers' reason and stabilize the out-of-control situation.

However, her efforts were in vain. There was no supervising team here, and the sound of her gunfire was lost among the sound of ELO's gunfire.

Faced with such a fierce attack, the soldiers were already panicked and were only concerned with escaping, and were unable to form an effective resistance.

The commander knew that if this continued, these people would not be able to survive, so she decisively gave up controlling these hundreds of soldiers who had fallen into chaos.

The most important thing is to survive first.

She simply lay down on the ground, picked up the guard's blanket and covered herself with it, then hid in the pile of dead bodies, waiting for the sound of the horn after the successful counterattack of the more than 2,000 Kori soldiers hiding in the dark.

Her breathing became unusually light, for fear of attracting other people's attention.

Until now, she still couldn't figure out why the situation suddenly changed from "everything was going well for me" to "taking a sharp turn for the worse" like it is now.

Everything happened so fast that there was no time to react, and hundreds of people were scattered.

The rate at which their "baits" died was so fast that her, the team leader, had no idea what else she could do for a moment.

Were the Kori troops fighting this kind of force before? Even if they were outnumbered, even with the ELO attack, annihilation would only be a matter of time.

The team leader tried his best to suppress his inner fear and anxiety, not daring to let himself fall into pessimistic speculation.

At this rate, if the Cori army in the forest cannot achieve high-mobility combat, then what can they do even if they detect the specific location of ELO in time?

After all, judging from the current alarming death rate, I'm afraid that before the main force of the Cori army could surround ELO, they would have already called off their troops and the place would be empty.

As a result, they lost hundreds of people for no reason.

She was extremely anxious and bit her fingers under the corpse, thinking to herself: What should I do when Lord Setashi blames me?

The team leader finally came to his senses at this time. Setash's understanding of ELO was definitely deeper than her, who had fought with ELO in real combat.

The reason why ELO dug so many mines outside the village was because they had long expected that we would leave the village.

It can also be understood that they will definitely force us to leave the village and step on these mines.

From the beginning to the end, her judgment that ELO would adopt a "sweep all" approach was wrong, and she should not have withdrawn at all!

Now, the only possibility of winning is to ask Lord Lumi to deal with these rebels!

Only in this way can I avoid being killed by the city lord.

At this moment, she finally realized that she had only been "borrowing the power of the tiger" all along. Without the noble Lumi, they would never have been able to defeat ELO.

Gouzi finally won a game and immediately started bragging in the live broadcast room, "Look, what strength is!"

[He actually installed it. Where's Lumi? Let's give him a couple of slaps to wake him up!]

"What's the point of Lumi coming? None of us have shown up yet. If they really want to fight, we'll just run away."

Gouzi grinned and said playfully, "Anyway, our goal is to kill these hundreds of Kori soldiers. Even if we can't wipe them out in one fell swoop, it's okay. Anyway, we won't lose anything!"

He planned to wait until most of his men were dead, and then quickly run away with his team.

As long as there is no Kori soldier standing on this land, the village will be truly defended.

However, just as he was secretly feeling proud of himself, sharp gunshots suddenly came from behind.

The dog widened his eyes in astonishment, staring at the "attack warning" flashing on the screen, and an ominous premonition arose in his heart.

He hurriedly turned his head and began to check the situation of the team.

On the screen, the team was surrounded by enemies, and Gou Zi's heart sank.

He flicked the mouse, relaxed his wrist, and his expression became serious.

"It's over, I'm trapped," he muttered to himself. "There's no way to escape this time. If I can't break out, I'll have to fight again. Someone come and save me!"

However, the focus of the comments was completely shifted, and no one thought about helping the dog at all.

What do you mean by "the enemy has over 2,000 men"? How can this small place hold over 2,000 men? Is the ground ugly and has a bug?

[It's just a game, don't take it seriously. Two thousand versus eight hundred, isn't this really a plot-kill?]

[Why didn't Gouzi choose to "retreat" this time? Is it because he didn't want to? ]

[No, it's because Di Chou directly removed the "retreat" option, leaving only "breakout" and "surrender."]

Hearing the gunshots gradually decreasing and then suddenly becoming dense and chaotic, the commander of the Cori Army felt relieved - it seemed that ELO's hiding place had been found.

She hurriedly crawled out from under the corpses and took a quick breath of the air filled with the smell of gunpowder.

The ELO members are now in a difficult situation, so they naturally have no time to care about how a "dead man" lying on the ground like them came back to life and shot themselves again.

She rushed straight to the carriage where Lumi was, not caring about etiquette for a moment, and lifted the curtain without hesitation.

With his face covered in dust, he panted and shouted into the car: "Lord Lumi, we were attacked by ELO, and hundreds of people have died!"

Lumi sat there quietly, holding the bow and arrow tightly in her hand, as if the outside world's troubles had nothing to do with her.

After a long moment, she slowly raised her head and glanced at the captain's face, which was distorted with fear. Her voice was as calm as if she was talking about something that had nothing to do with her. "What does this have to do with me?"

She was not deaf, so she naturally heard the fierce fighting outside at the first moment.

But the problem is not this. The important thing is that the team Ella entrusted to her actually got out of her control, which was undoubtedly a provocation to her authority.

I may not care about you, but you have no right not to care about me.

Her voice couldn't help but take on a hint of chill as she said with a half-smile, "Aren't you supposed to obey Setash's orders?"

The leader was stunned when these words came out. She opened her mouth involuntarily, wanting to say something to defend herself.

But Lumi interrupted her without hesitation, his voice cold and firm: "No need to say more. I will report this matter to Lord Ella."

If Lumi hadn't suddenly discovered that the team said they were going to "massacre the village" and a large number of people were running towards the mountains, she really would not have associated Setash with the real controller of this team.

It seems that Ella has been hiding a lot of things from herself, including the fact that the Kori Army is not completely under her control.

Lumi narrowed his eyes. No wonder... no wonder Ella asked him for help.

Chapter 114: How come this tree can talk?

A surge of anger welled up in Lumi's heart, but she was certainly not angry at the fact that these Cori soldiers were acting secretly without her knowledge. After all, she was a foreigner, and she had only come to help for two days for Ella's sake.

What really made her indignant was that the person secretly manipulating the actions of these troops was not her good friend, the city lord Ella, but the unknown nobleman Setash.

Although Setash was also favored by the gods, and it was said that his strength was only slightly inferior to Ella's, his identity and status destined him to be a noble who obeyed the city lord for the rest of his life.

He should be fully aware of his identity and status, instead of harboring ambitions that do not belong to him and boldly reaching out to the Kori Army.

What? Could it be that Setash was planning to rebel against Ella, overturn the order of the city, and try to be the city lord for a few days?

Although Lumi felt a little disappointed with Ella's concealment of everything, she quickly suppressed this emotion.

After all, Ella was the mayor of Cori City, and her every move affected the safety and stability of the entire city. And she, Lumi, was a foreigner, so it was absolutely impossible for her to share everything with Lumi.

Lumi glanced coldly at the captain who was still standing there, his hands moving without stopping for a moment as he continued to carefully wipe the bow and arrow condensed from divine power.

The corners of her mouth curled up slightly, revealing a hint of disdainful sneer, and she asked calmly, "I remember our troops numbered nearly 3,000, and we panicked so much just because a few hundred people died. Is this your first time on the battlefield?"

Lumi's words were actually just a casual sarcasm, and there was no real intention to hold the leader accountable between the lines.

She also planned to take this opportunity to give the captain a light but not too heavy a warning, which would not only demonstrate her authority, but also invisibly help Ella to subdue these soldiers who were not standing in the right position.

But when the captain heard these words, his back suddenly felt as if being blown by an icy wind, and beads of sweat oozed out and slid down his spine.

She lowered her head, her eyes flickering like a frightened mouse. She hurriedly met Lumi's gaze, but as if burned by flames, she quickly shifted her gaze to the ground.

Lumi may have said this unintentionally, but it hit the captain's guilty conscience - this was indeed her first time stepping onto the battlefield.

Before the war, she was born as a servant of a noble. Coincidentally, the Cori army was short of men, so she was given an important position as soon as she joined the Cori army.

All along, her superiors had required her to just stay in the rear and issue orders based on the intelligence from the front.

After the war broke out, the Setash faction and the ELO organization were allies, so the two sides had always been in a state of "I'm good, everyone is good", and there was no chance for them to go to the battlefield. They just sat there all day, wandering around with a bunch of people.

It wasn't until Lumi took over the entire unit that they truly experienced the bittersweetness of battle. As new recruits, they should have been crushed by ELO, but with Lumi, the noble, there to support them, they had always maintained the upper hand and suppressed ELO from all sides for so many days.

They even directly adopted the tactic of comprehensive firepower coverage, completely suppressing the front battlefield, leaving the opponent ELO with almost no chance to breathe, let alone room to implement tactical strategies.

Under such absolute advantage, any tactical arrangement seemed so pale and powerless, and was directly crushed by firepower.

Therefore, the regimental commander, as a commander who could sit quietly in the rear, had never seen or even thought that he would face the hail of bullets like today.

The sight of countless bullets flying towards her was enough to make her legs go weak in an instant and she could hardly stand.

This was the first time that she did not hide at the back, but stood at the forefront of the team, leading her soldiers to charge into battle.

However, the result of this first battle was that he was beaten and fled away in a miserable state, completely losing the demeanor that a regimental commander should have.

The captain weighed the pros and cons in his mind, watching Lumi still sitting there motionless, without any thought that those Kori soldiers were his own soldiers and he had no intention of taking care of them.

After much hesitation, she finally chose to speak directly with tears in her eyes: "Sir, we really can't hold on any longer!"

Hearing this, Lumi, who was wiping his bow, suddenly paused. He slowly turned around and asked coldly, "Even if hundreds of people died in the battle, you still have at least two thousand soldiers, right? Why did you collapse? Can't you, with thousands of people, even deal with a bunch of ELO stragglers?"

The leader's face was filled with bitterness as he retorted, "Sir, it's really ELO that can ambush! They have an absolute advantage in numbers, and it's really difficult for us to deal with them."

In fact, the team leader did not have an exact count of how many people there were in ELO, but judging from the opponent's aggressive attack posture and overwhelming bullets, there were definitely no less than 1,500 people.

So, she went all out, gritted her teeth, and more than doubled the number of people, saying firmly, "Based on my experience, ELO's size is at least over 3,000."

After hearing this, Lumi couldn't help but frown, pursed his lips, and a hint of doubt appeared on his face.

We have two thousand people and the other side has three thousand, so this is heading straight for five thousand people.

She turned to look at the leader, pointed in the direction of the forest, and questioned, "Five thousand people are huddled in such a small place? Are you sure they can fit?"

Looking at a place where 2,000 people can barely stand, you just ask for 5,000 people? Are you guys stacked up with the ELO guys?

"Yes!" Facing Lumi's questioning, the captain naturally knew that his nonsense was really outrageous.

But at this moment, the arrow is on the string and has to be shot. Now that the words have been spoken, I can only grit my teeth and stick to it.

She straightened her back and explained calmly, "This mountain only looks small. In fact, the area above it is very large."

He prayed in his heart, hoping that this reason could convince Lumi to join the battle, because she was really worried that the Cori army could not defeat ELO.

It was no big deal for him to obey Lord Setash's orders. After all, the two families had become one now, and no matter how much Lumi complained to Ella, he would not be punished too severely.

But if an entire regiment - more than 3,000 lives - were lost, then she would really have to prepare and have a good "last meal".

Lumi stared at the captain's confident face suspiciously. She kept examining and exploring him, until the captain felt guilty, his body became stiff, and his back was completely soaked with sweat.

After a long while, so long that the leader had already prepared a draft of his suicide note, she finally sighed and said compassionately, "Let's go. But after this, I hope you'll remember this lesson."

What kind of memory does he have? Of course, it's that she, Lumi, saved people, while he, Saitai, hurt people.

Let’s see who dares to obey Setash’s orders easily in the future. Otherwise... if they are in trouble again because of Setash’s orders, there will be no second Lumi to help them.

Although Lumi didn't really believe that ELO would really deploy 3,000 troops here, he also didn't think that an organization like ELO, led by uncivilized civilians, could really defeat the battle-hardened and well-trained Kori army.

But she couldn't just pretend to be indifferent and watch the soldiers die here in vain. After all, this was still Ella's army, and she should bear some responsibility...

The captain's words unexpectedly hit the nail on the head.

The endless mountains in front of us are stacked up layer by layer. Looking from a distance, they do look a bit low and ordinary.

But when you really walk in here, you will find that its interior is far more complex and vast than what you see on the surface.

This land is covered with dense trees. They are lush and similar in shape. Once you step into it, you will lose your way in this vast forest if you are not careful.