The battle was indeed over quickly.

Even faster than anyone imagined, in less than ten minutes, those crazy monsters reluctantly retreated - although they were crazy, they were not here to die. After determining that the enemy that appeared this time was not as easy to deal with as before, these chaotic monsters obeyed their instincts and quickly evacuated.

The monster lord ran away after taking a volley of fire from Iona's flagship cannon... To be honest, Fang Zheng was surprised that it didn't die on the spot. He had to admit that these troublesome guys seemed to be quite durable. Of course, if Fang Zheng said so, the small size of the target might also be one of the reasons.

After all, there are always some fish that slip through the net when cleaning the floor.

At this time, the reinforcements from the rear finally arrived, and they began to quickly hand over to the defenders on the city wall. After all, the soldiers in the front had suffered severe losses in the previous battle with the Chaos monsters, and many of them were seriously injured. They had only managed to hold on until now. Now that the outcome of the battle was decided, many people fainted on the ground without even having time to relax.

The wounded were naturally taken to the rear for treatment as soon as possible, and the children brought by Fang Zheng also joined the team to help. So at this moment, a series of funny scenes were played out on the battlefield. Those petite girls held up soldiers who were taller than themselves and flew quickly between the front and the rear. Some children even turned on the variable wing system directly, flapped their wings and flew directly into the air to lift these people to the gathering point of the fortress in the rear.

“What on earth is…”

When Knight Commander Wells arrived with his men, he saw this incredible scene. As an experienced old paladin, Wells had been through many battles. But he swore on his honor that he had never seen so many children on a battlefield.

At this moment, the children had already evacuated from the city wall. They gathered in twos and threes, chatting excitedly, and some of them shouted something to the side from time to time. Then I saw a few girls running over and started to chatter about something. The others stood quietly by the side holding the strange weapons in their hands, without saying a word. Occasionally, a girl would curiously look at Wells and others, but no one came up to talk to them.

"Mr. Fang Zheng..."

"Ah, Lord Wells, hello."

Seeing Wells coming, Fang Zheng, who was chatting with Cui, also stood up. He reached out and gently rubbed Cui's little head, then looked at the old paladin in front of him with a serious expression.

"Fortunately, I have accomplished my mission. Although it was a little dangerous, it seems that my reinforcements have arrived in time."

"This is... the reinforcements you mentioned?"

After taking a look at the girl who was standing obediently behind Fang Zheng, Wells' expression became much more serious.

"Although this is not what I should say, Lord Fang Zheng, I hope you can understand that we are here to fight those abominable Chaos monsters to protect our home and our children. Although these children have indeed shown very strong strength, but... letting a group of children who are less than ten years old go to the battlefield... Frankly speaking, I personally cannot accept it. We old bones are not all dead yet, so we can't let a group of children stand in our way."

"...I can understand your thoughts."

Fang Zheng nodded to Wells's slightly dissatisfied accusation. He could certainly understand Wells's thoughts. To be honest, although the tone of this old-fashioned paladin was a bit bad, his words were not wrong. Frankly speaking, if Fang Zheng did not have enough capable soldiers, he would not be willing to let the cursed children take risks.

Not only that, this also proves that the old paladin in front of him is an upright person with conscience. For Fang Zheng, this is obviously a good partner.

As for whether the soldiers of the Temple are willing to fight alongside the Zerg... well, let's talk about this question later.

"But I can assure you that their lives are safe, and now is an extraordinary period, and..."

Having said this, Fang Zheng paused.

“…This is also their responsibility.”

"That being said..."

Knight Commander Wells naturally saw those girls flying around with wings of light. Fang Zheng did not directly tell Knight Commander Wells the identities of the cursed children, but it was obvious that the old paladin had already figured out an answer in his mind. However, even so, he still seemed a little hesitant.

"Perhaps we can cooperate. As you can see, my children mainly use weapons to launch long-range attacks, and the paladins and spellcasters may be able to cooperate with them in combat. In this way, we can cooperate with each other and minimize the possibility of loss."

"Well... this is indeed a good idea."

After hearing Fang Zheng's suggestion, Knight Commander Wells's frown finally showed some signs of loosening. The reason why he couldn't accept these children fighting before was, on the one hand, because in his opinion, children are just children, no matter what kind of power they have, they should not appear on the battlefield.

On the other hand, as Knight Commander Wells said, they are paladins, warriors, and men. No warrior would tolerate hiding behind a group of children, let alone these paladins.

However, if, as Fang Zheng said, the Temple was responsible for the vanguard and support, and these children were only responsible for long-range attacks, then it was barely acceptable. Even if they encountered any danger, at least they should be able to protect these children from the battlefield.

"And you may not know, Knight Commander Wells, that these children are equipped with very sophisticated equipment. Not only that, if they are seriously injured, they will automatically be teleported back to our camp to recuperate, so you don't have to worry too much."

Fang Zheng certainly didn't want to see these lovely children under his command die on the battlefield, so he chose to bring the cursed children out for ground battles with the support of starships. After all, in Fang Zheng's mind, these children were "militiamen", and most of them just had to live happily in the academy and Tiandao Palace on weekdays. Unless they were needed to guard their homes, or like now, Fang Zheng would not send these children out as consumables - that kind of work was usually done by the Zerg.

In fact, Fang Zheng brought a lot of aliens on Iona's flagship just in case. Although the Unicorn's carrier-based aircraft and the Protoss's detectors can complete the reconnaissance mission to a certain extent, if they want to drill into the dark underground caves, monsters such as aliens and hydralisks are more suitable.

"Well, Lord Wells, I think we can talk about our next steps."

Fang Zheng came here, of course, not just to help the Northland Fortress repel an attack by Chaos Monsters. This time the attack of Chaos Monsters was quite abnormal, and if they wanted to solve these problems, they had to find the source of it all and then destroy it completely.

Of course, in the past, this might have been a very dangerous task, but now...

Fang Zheng silently glanced at the metal warship floating in the sky.

It seems that there should be no problem with this mission.