Heart of Empire Chapter 378: Play too big (2 in 1)
Dyne came up with such a move because he was forced to die. [No pop-up novel network]
He had to admit that he really underestimated the viciousness of Governor Kangli, so that he was blinded by the previous illusion, and Kangli bought time to push himself into such a tragic situation.
But Dane can't be blamed. Who would have thought that Conley would be so ruthless that he would directly slaughter Cinderella, the largest city and super fortress, in two days?
Don't say that Dane couldn't think of it, everyone in Schindler couldn't think of it beforehand!
Actually, until now, Dane didn't understand the significance of Conley's doing so.
Not to mention, looking at it beforehand, Kang Li is actually far from exhausted. His main force, the Northern Army, is still suppressing Ou Ze; But anyway, the city of Cinderella is still firmly in his hands. As far as Dane was concerned, he didn't think it was really necessary for Conley to fight to the death.
Even if he could use this move to turn defeat into victory, turn the tide of the battle, and even wipe out Dane and Ou Ze in one fell swoop, what would he gain?
Things this time are too much to play. Although Schindler is a place where wars happen all the year round, it has never really settled down, but even after the disintegration of the Second Caesar Empire, Schindler It has become a place of chaos. Up to now, any war on the wasteland has never been fought to such a degree.
The total strength of the three parties, plus those miscellaneous warlords, add up to more than 100,000, plus the slaughter of Cinderella, the death and displacement of civilians caused by the war, and the fact that the war has not yet come to an end. In the future, this war-torn land will surely usher in the greatest catastrophe.
After this battle is over, how many living people will there be on the land of Schindler? No one knows.
Even if Kang Li could win the war, what he got would definitely be death.
Cinderella, the capital city, is gone. Under the construction of Dane, the south, which has a prosperous appearance, is estimated to have nothing left after being poisoned by demons; It can't stay; Ice Cave City is about to be smashed. Calculated in this way, on the land of Schindler, several large cities and densely populated places will be completely destroyed by the war. After winning the war, Kangli can only get a piece of death, so why did he come here?
Dyne couldn't figure it out, and even now, he felt a sense of fear in his heart.
He was never afraid of failure, he just thought, Kangli won nothing if he won, so what if he won? Isn't it the same situation?
But this kind of wavering only lasted in his heart for a moment, and was soon blown away by the wind and sand in the wilderness during the rapid march.
It's not that he wanted to go to this point, Kangli's crazy behavior forced everyone to take this path. Dane didn't want to kill him, so he had no other choice if he didn't fight.
At the moment, we still have to focus on the next battle.
He didn't think about the situation in the south anymore, it was useless to think too much, he was beyond his reach. Now, the most important thing is to take down Kangli's Northern Army.
This is not an easy task.
To make a decisive battle decision, one can think of it with a pat on the head, but how can winning be so simple? Judging from the current situation, Governor Kangli's actions were well prepared. Don't think about it, the retreat of the Northern Army and the delivery of the Ice Cave City are probably a cover-up. The main force of the family still exists, and the 40,000 armored men who are serious and well-known, accompanied by the famous Shadow Warlocks, are very powerful.
It's true that Ou Ze's army of more than 20,000 people and nearly 30,000 people is opposite them, but seeing how Ou Ze was suppressed and beaten so badly before, you know that in terms of pure strength, Ou Ze fought hard. All the belongings that he ordered to pull out were not the opponents of the Northern Army.
With Dane's 5,000 troops, can they destroy the opponent? Dane was less naive.
It must be a hard fight, and it is a hard fight with no chance of winning, and it is a hard fight that must be fought.
Since this is the case, there is nothing to say. Instead of going forward indomitably and fighting to the death, is there any other way to choose?
Dane doesn't think so.
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When the bad news came, there was no time to stop.
When Dane led his main force approaching eastward, sitting in the army and galloping forward on a wolf, he received one piece of information after another.
First came from the south.
On December 14th, Mihe City fell. The 500 soldiers defending the city collapsed after resisting for half an hour.
On December 15th, Arnold lost all fronts. Dane's forces left there were equally helpless and completely routed. The only good thing is that Dane can use it to talk about the fact that Conley's army has stopped under Arnold's leadership for a while. According to the news from the front line, it seems that the demon army is showing some signs of being out of control. In Arnold's territory It is said that in two days, Arnold led 20,000 to 30,000 civilians to death. The Arnold leader, which was not bad at first, became a dead place after Cinderella. Two-thirds of the population was slaughtered. It was killed by the rampant demons.
Dane once hoped that it would be a good thing for Conley to be backlashed by the demon army that he seemed to be reluctant to control.
Unfortunately, this hope was a little unrealistic, and it was shattered on December 17th-Kangli's troops arrived at the city of Tiedinggang.
Actually, in comparison, Tiedinggang is not like Mihe City and Arnold Territory. In Mihe City and Arnold's territory, although Dane has some troops, but the quality of the troops themselves is relatively poor, and there are a lot of them. It is very normal that they were destroyed so quickly that they did not form any effective resistance at all. matter. But Tiedinggang was different. The city that Dane took some means to capture was not bad in terms of city defense facilities. The most important thing was that Dane had an organized army here that he could count on.
That's Palan's army.
At the very beginning of the war, this guy who was stuffed into Dane's hands by Verina and led a garrison army as the vanguard did not continue to follow Dane after Iron Spike Hill was captured. go ahead. On the one hand, he was injured during the flame projection bombing of the bat cavalry, which resulted in complete disfigurement, and it took a while to recuperate from his injuries; Take this kind of troops.
The remaining garrison also needed a general to lead, so Dane left Palan behind.
Palan's job is actually not bad. After a short period of recuperation, he quickly started working. On the one hand, he prepared the army he brought from Shawan Port, on the other hand, he also recruited some captured Arnold's army and the local troops of Iron Spike Hill to fill the army.
According to the latest news, Paran has gathered an army of more than 2,000 people to guard Iron Spike Hill. According to the idea of this disfigured general—he had just been promoted to major general by Dane recently—he planned to take the two thousand people in his hand and stand firm at Iron Spike Hill for more than three days.
For this, Dane praised him well, and his words were very warm, which boosted the morale of this ill-fated general. But in fact, Dane had no hope of it.
The 5,000 soldiers led by Kang Li himself, plus 10,000 demons, with a menacing momentum, eager to completely raze Dane's territory to the ground tomorrow, will definitely attack very quickly and fiercely. It's good for Palan to resist, but with more than 2,000 miscellaneous troops in his hands, he wants to block Kang Li outside the city of Tiedinggang for three days?
That is an almost impossible task.
But of course it is impossible for Dane to say these words to Palan. Maybe, that disfigured general will bring a miracle to Dane?
Who can say for sure?
For the time being, let go of your worries about the situation in the south. Dane knew that now he had to put all his thoughts on the next battle.
Ice Cave City is already in sight.
Actually, the situation in Ice Cave City has changed a lot in the early days.
In the "Sindelaire Agreement", the Northern Army will hand over the Ice Cave City with Oze's army. This handover ceremony actually started before. The Northern Army had completely withdrawn from the city at that time, leaving only 1,500 people behind. Ou Ze also stopped the army at the edge of the city and sent 1,500 people into the city.
Then, the news of Cinderella's demon riot came.
At this moment, the situation in Ice Cave City became tense.
After Ou Ze knew that the previous agreement was nothing more than a scam, of course it was impossible for him to continue to have any illusions about it. And the Northern Army Group had premeditatedly restarted the competition for the Ice Cave City as soon as the news came.
Subsequently, a battle broke out as expected.
Around the formation of the ice cave, Ou Ze and the Northern Army have been fighting for several days.
Governor Oze, knowing that he has no way out, has become quite fierce and direct. This is his own combat style. When he was suppressed and beaten before, he felt aggrieved.
Comparatively speaking, the previous substantial concessions under the advantaged situation caused the soldiers of the Northern Army to somewhat lose their spirit. Under the resolute offensive with Governor Oze at the beginning, the Northern Army did not achieve good results as expected.
So, on December 19th, Ou Ze drove the main force of the Northern Army out of Ice Cave City.
The three high-level warlocks, Galvin and Anders, who led the army, and Hackett, who came to help the battle, were not annoyed at the loss of Ice Cave City. After half a year of fierce competition, the Ice Cave City has actually been battered and riddled with holes. After these days of fierce competition, although the city has not yet turned into ruins, it is not much better. As for the three of them, when they withdrew from the city, they acted quite fiercely, quite like inheriting their Governor-General's style.
They directly set a big fire in the urban area to the west of Ice Cave City, and also demolished the city gate and city wall and blew up part of it.
The meaning of this is quite obvious. I can't get the Ice Cave City, and I can't rely on the city to defend it. You can't get one either.
Now, half of the Ice Cave City is worthless to repair. Those destroyed buildings and city defense facilities may not be as convenient as rebuilding them if they are repaired.
And it was against this background that Dane's army arrived.
On December 20th, Dane's army arrived at a location less than a day away from Ice Cave City.
Looking from a distance, if the wind and sand are less and the weather is clearer, Dane sitting on the Wolf Warrior can even see the outline of the Ice Cave City. Of course, he can also see it, stopping between himself and the ice The mighty Kangli Northern Army between the cave cities.
On this day, the atmosphere was actually extremely tense, but unfortunately, none of the three armies staying here chose to strike first.
Everyone seemed to have made an agreement, and regarded the 20th as a truce day.
After setting fire to the city and blowing up the city walls and gates, the Northern Group Army stopped at a position ten kilometers away from the city. The edge also paused temporarily. And Dane, after arriving at the battle situation, also made no further moves, and set up camp to prepare for a night of rest.
However, everyone knows that this is just the tranquility before the war.
In fact, such tranquility may be more exciting than a tragic fight.
When the blood is spraying, maybe the adrenal hormones will play a role, and people will forget their fear and fight bravely, but in the quiet time, looking at the battlefield that will soon become a burial ground, thinking that tomorrow is very likely Losing one's own life on the battlefield, even a seasoned veteran would feel fear.
The fear of death is inherent in living beings.
When the battlefield in the north was temporarily quiet amidst the heavy, the entire Schindler was being poisoned by demons.
In the south, Kangli directly led the army of mixed humans and demons, so I won't mention it for the time being. The scattered demons who ran out of Cinderella, which Kangli could not control, finally found a trace.
Joel is right, this demon army is indeed out of control. They have a number of nearly 20,000, but they are unorganized. After killing and eating every living thing in Cinderella, these tyrannical and never-satisfied greedy demons ~IndoMTL.com~ began to go to the city run outside.
With apparent human intervention, run north.
On the 18th and 19th, traces of demons appeared one after another in the south of the Lost City. No matter whether it is a village or a small town, it cannot escape the evil hands of the demons. On the 20th, the city of Lost City, with a population of nearly 40,000, naturally attracted a large number of demons.
These demons don't care that the Lost City is the lair that summoned them to Kangli on the main material plane. They only smelled the living people in the city, and then, without organization and discipline, , launched a fierce attack towards the confused city.
When Dane got the news, it was the night of the 20th, and he was preparing for the next big battle. Looking at such a piece of news, he really wanted to know, had Kang Li ever considered such a scene of cannibalism when he released so many demons?
He felt that Conley had thought of it, but he didn't care at all.
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I stayed up late yesterday to write it out, and I feel that I am in a good state. But today is a very busy day, and I probably don’t have time to write tonight... (To be continued.)