Heart of Empire Chapter 262: The Lost Legion

"General, don't we continue to step up our attack?"

"No need, the soldiers are very attentive today, marching and fighting again, this whole day has passed, if you don't rest, I'm afraid they won't be able to take down the opponent, and if you don't say anything, it will delay tomorrow's attack."

The two people who were talking were naturally the two members of the Marlon Legion who had stormed towards the north gate of Shawan Harbor for a long time. The person who asked the question was Nathan, a high-ranking warlock, a senior advisor to the Malone faction. And the one who answered was none other than Ma Long himself!

Ma Long attached great importance to this battle, and it could even be said to be his most important battle in recent years. In this way, of course he was worried about handing over his entire family fortune and such an important battle to others.

Morneau once commented that Malone was an idiot. He had his own opinion, but Malone would never admit it. In fact, this is also the case. How can this middle-aged man be a real idiot if he can pull up such a large force from scratch in ten or twenty years?

In the early years, Ma Long would often lead the army to fight everywhere—didn't it be him himself who subdued the Red Scarf Sand Pirates back then? Although disgraced, but after using some methods, the sand bandits were still brought under his command.

Although, in recent years, Ma Long has been a bit greedy for stability, his personal strength has stayed at the tenth level for a long time, and he rarely leads troops in person, but no matter how you say it, he is an experienced veteran of the battlefield. Will.

Originally, their plan was to quickly break through Verina's defense at the north gate under a sudden attack, from the inside and outside, under two sides of attack. But Verina's reaction was fast enough, and the defense line that was set up in a short period of time was quite complete, and the violent assault did not achieve the effect they wanted.

The plan was thwarted, but the scheming Malone did not lose his mind. After fighting for a day without any results, and after all the sharp weapons he used to deal with the city gate—the ramming cars were all destroyed, he calmly ordered the team Back to rest and plan to fight another day.

But this is not in line with their previous plan to take Shawan Port as soon as possible, so there was an initial dialogue.

Nathan asked: "If the north gate of Bay Harbor cannot be taken as soon as possible, if it takes a long time, will Dane come directly from White Wolf Castle to support? The distance is not far, from getting the news to starting, quickly It takes almost one day to arrive, even if you count the time for receiving information and preparing luggage, two days is the most."

"Hehe..." Ma Long smiled, obviously talking about a very important question, but there was no worry on his face.

For direct competitors, they have also heard about Dane's military expansion plan. With the rebuilt two regiments of 3,000 soldiers, plus the strength of the garrison army, in terms of military strength alone, White Wolf Fort has already surpassed Malone Manor as a whole. Obviously, if Dane's main elite support came to the battlefield, with the strength Ma Long now possesses, it is estimated that he would not be able to beat him no matter what.

But his appearance of not being worried at all made his senior advisor Nathan feel very strange.

"General?"

"Don't worry." Ma Long patted the other party's shoulder and said, "Dane won't be able to come, at least in a short period of time, and it might even happen. When we hear from him next time, he will Maybe it has turned into a corpse."

"Oh? Is there another arrangement?"

"Hehe, otherwise I would be so reckless to attack Shawan Harbor?"

"The general is wise and mighty!"

……

That night, Verina was having a headache because of the lack of food reserves at the North Gate's defense line. When Malone and Nathan looked indifferent and didn't take Dane's support troops seriously, Dane was bringing his own The army marches across the wilderness.

When the news came that there might be a battle at Shahaiwan Port, Dane immediately ordered the whole army to prepare, assembled the army as quickly as possible, and set foot on the road to Shahaiwan Port for support. .

Therefore, at night, the army led by Dane had already traveled almost one-third of the distance.

It is impossible to finish the rest of the road tonight, but according to this speed, they will definitely be able to reach the outside of Shawan Harbor by tomorrow afternoon

The battlefield.

After all, the distance between White Wolf Fort and Shahaiwan Port is still a bit far, unlike Malone Manor, where you can get there in a morning if you run fast.

But it doesn't matter, Dane believes very much that it is unrealistic for Verina to repel Malone's offensive with the strength of 2,000 garrison troops in her hand, but relying on the city defense, it shouldn't be a big problem to defend for two or three days . What he needs to consider more now is how can he arrive at the battlefield within the expected time during tomorrow's march?

This was originally a question that did not need to be considered. According to intelligence, all of Ma Long's troops were under Shawan Harbor, and it was impossible for any force to stop him halfway.

As for the possibility of a small group of troops intercepting, Dane didn't care at all: with the strength in Malone's hands, pulling all of them out might not be able to stop Dane!

Tactics like ambush are not realistic. On the land of Schindler, the bare barren land is better than the Eastern Wasteland, but it is actually an endless area, and there are basically no complicated terrains that can be used for ambushes~IndoMTL.com~Dain The worry is not from Malone's obstruction. The source of his worry was the piece of information he had just received.

Beside the bonfire, the dancing flames made Dane's face very solemn. He threw the text message in his hand into the fire, and said: "This is a bit troublesome..."

"Then... what should we do?" It was Chapple who asked, and his face was also very serious.

The information Dane read just now was handed to him by Chapple himself. This is the news from Tiedinggang. The army stationed in Tiedinggang suddenly lost 3,000 people four days ago.

This is very important news.

Iron Spike Hill is not a big place, it looked like about twenty years ago, it was just a military outpost established by a small warlord, the purpose of course was for war. Later, both sides of the war perished with the passage of time, but this military outpost was not abandoned. Instead, it attracted many homeless people and gradually developed into a small town.

As of today, Tiedinggang is already a small city with a population of 4,000 to 5,000. It is not considered developed, but it cannot be said to be poor.

And this city was ruled by a warlord named Haman before that, and in the past, he was a staunch supporter of Governor Bernier and a person who resolutely resisted Governor Conley.

At the same time, he was also one of the first small warlords to be dealt with by Kang Li. (To be continued.)