Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood's Wolf Mentor

In the city of Shadi, the Sri Lankan army below stood in a neat row, with flags flying and swords and spears waving.

A Swedish officer walked to the front of the battlement, pointed at the tower, raised a finger, and sneered:

"Our Sri Kingdom has conquered country after country. Many countries, like you, think that they can withstand our swords and guns just by occupying the cities?
I really don’t know whether you are brave or stupid!”

Officer Nasri paced back and forth as he spoke, squinting at the top of the city wall, "We gave you a chance to surrender early on—

But you refused.

Now? I can only cower there like a weak quail. It's so ridiculous!"

As the sergeant spoke, the Swiss soldiers behind him banged their shields and made noises.

"Weak! Weak!"

"Surrender! Surrender!"

The Sri people roared, trying to provoke the Shadi people to come out of the city to fight.

……

On the city wall, Shadi's soldiers listened to the insults from below and showed resentment on their faces.

In the corner, Lake and Princess Marin were scanning the Sri people, looking for the possible commander.

"They are trying to provoke us, hoping we will abandon the defensive advantage of the city walls and go down to fight them."

Poro spoke up and explained to Lake, "Even if it doesn't affect our decision-making, it will still disrupt the soldiers' fighting spirit to a certain extent."

Princess Marlene also nodded:
"Yes, their combat experience is not to be underestimated. They must have done this many times. As they said, they have defeated many people in this way."

"They have holy water that can heal injuries, and countless supplies of food, but they still choose this tactic—it's very difficult to deal with."

"Yes."

Princess Marlene listened, narrowing her eyes. In the shadows behind her, strange ripples began to form. "Last time, our Shadi Kingdom was defeated by the army of the Weiser Kingdom."

Princess Marlene spoke slowly as she looked at the shadow behind her, as if she could see something hidden in her shadow, or rather, there was indeed a whole world hidden there.

An entire city that belongs to her.

"But this time, even the Sri Lankans won't be able to defeat us so easily!"

Princess Malin clenched her fists, her eyes fixed on several directions of the Sri army. In each of those directions, there was a Sri officer surrounded by heavy enemies.

These officers, like nodes one after another, command the war legions to run mechanically.

"Found them."

Princess Marlin said.

Poro turned his head and looked at Princess Marlin. He felt a little surprised.

This princess seemed to have changed her appearance since she came out, as if she had really acquired some qualities that could make her the king!

Below, the Sri Lankan army's provocation did not stop.

Princess Marlin waved her hand, and shadows emerged from under her, forming a dark armor on her body.

Then, she found a general named Shadi and looked at him, lowering her slender eyebrows:
"It's time to start the attack."

"now?"

The old general had already known some of the tactics beforehand, so he wasn't overly surprised. "But it's just right, the boys are already eager to fight."

He saluted Princess Marlene, then turned around and ran towards the city.

Soon, the Shadi soldiers in the city had already grasped their spears and swords, and their horses neighed impatiently.

"They want us to leave the city, so let them do it!"

Princess Marlene whispered, her figure blending into the shadows beneath her feet.

……

In the Sri Army, in the center of the formation, the commander of the entire army looked at the Shadi City not far away with some surprise and opened the gate.

Look at those Shadi troops rushing out with horses, swords and guns.

The flag of Shadi spreads out in the wind——

"Are those Safir people coming out?"

He was a little surprised, because in the Sri Lankan Kingdom's war of conquest, after the initial stage, no country dared to take the initiative to fight the same number of Sri Lankan soldiers on the battlefield.

Because the holy water of the Sri Kingdom will completely heal every injured Sri Sri soldier.

As long as they didn't die on the spot, they could become unharmed again in a short time - most kingdoms could only defend the city in despair and then perish in exhaustion.

But now, these Shadi people... came out on their own?!
Apparently, it's not surrender yet?!

"Haha, it seems that I overestimated them!"

Commander Sri burst into laughter, and the staff officers around him also showed a playful expression, "Yeah, how long has it been since we encountered such an ignorant enemy?"

"I heard that these Shadi people haven't fought a single battle since their capital was destroyed by the Kingdom of Weiser?"

"They are so stupid, they haven't even heard of our reputation?"

The commander licked his lips and drew the long sword from his waist, his eyes gleaming with cruelty and bloodthirstiness. "It seems like it's time to let these guys from the remote countryside see what our swords are like!"

"The order from above is to surround the city as much as possible and slowly strangle them over time. Now it seems that it will only take a few days to completely wipe them out."

"kill--"

At a shout from Commander Sri, all Sri's soldiers rushed towards Shadi's army like a torrent of mountain torrents.

They attacked like crazy, as if they didn't care whether they would die or not.

Every Sri Lankan soldier had a small bottle the size of a finger hanging around his neck.

What is contained in it is the holy water of the Sri Kingdom, which can regenerate severed limbs!

"Sadi people, sadi people, if you want to die, it will be much quicker."

"We have God's blessing, but you have nothing. If you can't kill us, your efforts will be in vain. You never have a chance of winning!"

Commander Sri sneered, looking at the approaching troops in front.

"Can you kill all our men? Oh no, you only need to kill us officers - but can you do it? Can you break through our impenetrable defenses?"

Commander Sri commanded the army, thinking with disdain that he had done the same in previous wars, commanding the army and slaughtering those who dared to resist in one country after another.

"Unless you can jump out of the shadows—how is that possible?"

……

In the shadows, Princess Marlene's voice seemed a little trembling.

"We lost our homeland in the royal city. When the gods of death, hanging high in the sky, cast down their deadly flames, everyone, with their weapons in hand, did not know how to stop it."

Shadows formed the illusion of the capital of Shadi in the air. A city that was reduced to scorched earth and burning ruins under the bombing of the Weiser Sky Expedition Fleet.

Princess Marlene was not there when the city was destroyed.

But in the shadows of countless Shadi citizens, she saw it again and again, and that heart-piercing destruction was firmly imprinted deep in her heart!

"We lost our homeland and exiled ourselves in the shadows, but now, we have returned from oblivion, and the enemy is at the gates once again - this time, we have even greater power to protect our homeland and our loved ones!"

Princess Marlene raised her fair arms and clenched her fists in the air.

Below, the shadowed soldiers of the Shadi Shadow Capital also waved their weapons together: "Kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

Princess Marlene listened to the soldiers' shouts and opened her slender fingers again.

In the sky, the shadows became transparent, revealing the scene of the two armies fighting on the ground, and the shadows of swords drew clear trajectories.

"Our sharp swords pierce from the shadows—"

"This time, we will be invincible."

……

In the Sri Lankan army formation, a Sri Lankan officer looked at the front line not far away, which was covered in blood and soldiers, and smiled bloodthirstyly:
"Yes, that's it. Your resistance is meaningless. You can only collapse in despair and die..."

As he was speaking, he suddenly heard a sharp whistle.

"Ok?"

He was stunned for a moment. This was a warning that a commander in the Sri Lankan army had been attacked and killed. "Who was so careless that he rushed to the front and was killed?"

He was thinking this. After all, most of the time, the officer loss rate in the Sri Lankan army was not high.

But then, several more whistles were heard.

"How can it be?!"

He opened his eyes wide in surprise, and finally noticed that not far away, several Sri Lankan military flags had suddenly fallen.

Before the Swiss troops were broken through.

"why is that?!"

He felt a chill in his heart, but before he had time to think, he saw shadows suddenly growing upwards like tentacles from under the warhorse he was riding, trapping the galloping horse's hooves!

"Ok?"

His pupils shrank and he didn't have time to put up any resistance.

In the shadows, several soldiers in silk flute armor jumped out, slashed the commander's arm with their long swords, and the long sword fell.

Commander Sri wanted to struggle, but the several Shadi soldiers that flew over turned into a shadow again, drowning the commander and pulling him down -

The shadow under my feet instantly turned into a bottomless quagmire.

Shadows began to fill the world.

……

"The Sri Lankan soldiers have begun to surrender. No matter how strong they are, they can't offer any resistance now that all their commanders have been killed by us."

A Shadi Shadow soldier said with a smile.

"Well, this is our first victory."

Princess Marlin also smiled. "But fortunately, there are no magicians or devil-like creatures in this Sri army."

"These Sri Lankans seem to have known our deployment before launching the war. Why is that?"

In the palace of the Shadow Shadi Capital, Poro looked at Princess Marlene, took his hand out from the shadow of a captured commander, and finally asked.

"These commanders knew this before they crossed the border."

As Princess Marlin spoke, the shadow under another Sri Lankan was pulled out and spread out in the air, forming a shadow curtain.

Above him, a general in exquisite armor took out a map and threw it over.

His voice seemed a little hoarse:
"Master Sound Tracker, we have already marked the location of the rebels' troops. What you need to do is lead your troops to attack the Shadi Kingdom..."

Seeing this, Princess Marlene fixed the shadow, zoomed in, and revealed the details of the map above.

Then, he took the map he had found in the tent from a soldier beside him:

"Sound trackers? And this map? The way they marked it doesn't look like a scout's survey."

Princess Marlene frowned.

And Poro also felt this:
"So, is this also some kind of magic, or special ability?"

On the map, many of Goethe and Shadi's military positions were marked with punctuation, but some of them were not marked in the city, but in the wilderness.

The marching troops were also marked out?

why?
“Here, they marked it wrong.”

Observing the map carefully, Princess Marlin suddenly thought of something and pointed to an area in the heart of the Shadi Kingdom on the map, where dense dots marked the possible locations of the army.

"No? Isn't there an army there?"

Poro asked.

"No, there are no troops there, or rather, there are not that many troops there. That is where the armory and several blacksmith shops are located."

Princess Marlene hesitated and said.

"Then how do they determine where the army is?"

Poro also began to look at the map carefully, and then really found some clues.

"On this map, the cavalry appears to be larger than the infantry. What does this mean?"

Several people were thinking and looking at the words spoken by the unknown Sri general in the sky.

"Lord Sound Follower..."

"The Sound Follower..."

"Is it relying on sound? He can hear the sound of weapons or horse hooves from thousands of meters away!? In this case, then...

Speculate the location of our troops!?"

"What a terrifying ability..."

Lake and the others all looked solemn.

Even from such a distance, the layout can be revealed by sound. Is this a kind of magic?
What if it's closer?

Will all the agreed-upon tactics be known in advance?
"But thankfully, we now know this. However, the knowledge he gathered from listening probably wasn't too much."

Poro calmed himself down and said, "Otherwise, there's no way we can win this battle!"

"Besides, they certainly didn't expect that our Shadi Kingdom would win so quickly."

Princess Marlin also took a deep breath and drew the attack arrow of the Shadi Kingdom on the map in her hand, surrounding the Sri Lankan army that had invaded the Bell Kingdom area from the rear.

"Besides, our battle is still intact."

"As for the possible existence of the 'Sound Follower'."

Princess Marlene thought for a moment and said softly, "Wrap the horses' hooves and weapons with cloth, then speed up the march—and attack the main army of the Sri Kingdom from the rear to support the army of the Goethe Kingdom!

Then, drive these damn invaders back to their homeland!"

...(End of chapter)