Heart of Empire Chapter 525: Catastrophe Battle (2 in 1)
At dawn, looking at the pitch-black walls of Blackwood City, Sir Kahn could no longer tell what it was like in his heart.
Fortunately? angry? guilt? disturbed?
Probably both.
What makes Kahn feel that the world is impermanent is that he was originally ordered to lead the coalition forces and come to the Firland. Earl Clark's intention to fight for the rights and interests of the alliance'. The Alliance has always been dismissive of the threat of damning the Church that the Schindlers have emphasized.
But after he came, it was because of the existence of the Cursed Church that his legion was completely destroyed; however, because of the Schindlers who were supposed to be the enemy, an army was retained.
Fighting sporadically until now, with him, the alliance army that arrived at Blackwood City has only a little over 2,000 people. However, there are quite a few elite troops among them, more than 300 silver knights, almost the same number of silver guards, and two battalions of Victoria heavy sergeants. That's about 1,200 people. In addition, there are four brigades of ordinary soldiers.
As for other troops...
Thinking of this, Sir Kahn, who is over fifty years old, felt a burst of sadness.
Seeing that the city gate was wide open, he calmed down and rode his horse through first.
Facing him, riding a white camel, was none other than the commander of the Sixth Army, Lieutenant General of the Kingdom of Schindler, Palan.
Palan opened his mouth first: "Sir Kahn, I have heard of your name for a long time."
Kahn was ashamed: "The defeated general is nothing to worry about."
Palan shook his head and said, "It's not a crime of war. However, now is not the time for us to talk about it."
After finishing speaking, he looked behind Kahn and asked again: "Now, how many troops of the Holy Alliance are behind you?"
Kahn said in a depressed mood: "More than two thousand people."
Palan's heart was heavy, and he said: "As far as I know, the coalition army you led this time should have 15,000 people, right? What about the other troops? Could it be that they have all fallen?"
"Before nightfall, we still had nearly 10,000 people. After nightfall...after nightfall, I had no way to control my army. I was scattered with them, and the entire army was being attacked by the undead. Now, I don't know how many soldiers are still living outside."
Palan hesitated for a moment, he exchanged a glance with Firmino behind Kahn, and said, "We can't just sit here and do nothing. All disasters are easiest to solve in the initial stage of the outbreak." .We should take the initiative.”
"Yes, I agree." Firmino stepped forward from behind and said, "The power of the Cursed Church has not expanded to its maximum. If we waste a little more time here, one more soul will be killed. The enemy's strength will be one point more."
"Well, I agree." Sir Kahn calmed down and said, "I will send my troops to fight with you."
"Sir Kahn, your soldiers are exhausted, you should take a rest. It is now dawn, and my main army is ready to go, so your troops don't have to join in the fun .You can take a good rest in Blackwood City, and then set off to support us after noon."
Hearing what Palan said, Kahn could only agree.
"Okay, then it's settled. In addition, Firmino, you still need to provide me with intelligence support, is there no problem?"
"No problem."
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Farewell to Karn, Palan led 6,000 warriors and headed southwest.
The reason why there are only 6,000 people is because the camel cavalry regiment sent out earlier has been fighting all night, and they also need to rest. And there are another three or four thousand people who have to stay in Blackwood City—otherwise, Palan won't feel at ease if the retreat route of Blackwood City is completely handed over to the people of the Holy Alliance.
Although they temporarily stood on the same front because of the same enemy, the soldiers of the Holy Alliance were rescued by the Schindlers and survived from the claws of the undead, but just because of these words, it is still Not enough for Palan to trust them completely. Leaving part of the staff in Blackwood City is also just in case.
Four hours after he personally led the army to set off, at ten o'clock in the morning, Paran's army encountered a small group of undead.
More than forty zombies, a small team of ghouls, and a low-level dark wizard.
When they were discovered by the scouts of the Sixth Legion, the group of undead had just entered a small village. The undead were massacring, and the low-level black wizard was using a magic circle that had just been drawn to transform the corpses carried by the zombies into new undead.
As soon as the news came back, Palan sent a team to wipe out this small group of undead.
However, despite this, they were not able to save everyone. A small village with about twenty households and hundreds of people has become fragmented, and there are less than forty survivors. Among those who died, half of them had already been transformed into undead, and were finally beheaded by soldiers of the Sixth Legion.
The expansion speed of the undead is far faster than imagined!
Obviously, after they defeated the army of the Holy Alliance yesterday, in addition to continuing to hunt down the soldiers of the alliance army, they also dispatched a large number of small troops like this to plunder and kill more human settlements. Kill more people, create more undead.
Centering on the battlefield where Kahn's army fought against the undead, it radiates to all directions. According to some data kept in Blackwood City, there is a population of more than 36,000 in this large area. Dotted with some villages and small towns.
No one knows how far the undead have expanded in the past night and half a day, how many human villages and towns have been destroyed, and how many human beings have been transformed into undead.
Palan was worried.
After telling the rescued civilians that they could head east and take refuge in Blackwood City, he continued to lead the troops forward.
And as he moved forward, bad news and good news also came in a steady stream.
To make matters worse, the expansion of the undead is much faster than expected. Even, around noon, the scouts reported that a small town with a population of 2,000 had been completely slaughtered by the undead. At least ten low-level dark wizards, led by one or two middle-level dark wizards, , a large number of undead transformation rituals are going on.
A regiment of human soldiers raided there and repelled the undead, but no living person was found in the entire town. In the end, in order to avoid the plague and prevent the corpse from being used by the Church of the Cursed, they could only clean up the corpse, and then burned the whole town with a fire.
Of course, there is bad news, but there is also good news.
It seems that the army of the Holy Alliance has not been completely annihilated. According to the investigation of some scouts scattered, there are some small groups of human troops that have been dispersed and are still resisting.
This is a very exciting thing. Palan made a decisive decision and ordered the army to rescue them if any surviving human troops were found to be still resisting.
The entire Sixth Legion moved quickly, and at around four o'clock in the afternoon, Kahn led the rested Holy Alliance Army and joined Palan's army to mop up the raging undead in the southwestern part of the Fir Territory. , to save human settlements, to search and rescue the survivors of the Holy Alliance, and at the same time, they are also trying to find the main force of the Church of the Damned, hoping to completely control the situation.
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On July 6th, after five days of fighting, Palan's army came to the place where the Holy Alliance was ambushed along the way.
In fact, from Blackwood City to here, at the speed of the army, it can be reached in less than a day. And the reason why the Sixth Army took five days is mainly because it took a lot of time to eliminate the undead and rescue the survivors along the way.
There are no traces of living creatures in this place, and there are no undead. Obviously, after that battle, the Church of the Cursed, which had won the victory, cleaned up the surrounding area and then left.
According to the latest investigation information, the main force of the undead also showed signs of gathering.
To the west of the battlefield, which is a place called Angry Bear Town between the Pudley Kingdom and the Fir Territory, a large number of undead gathered together. Their number exceeds at least eight thousand. At the same time, these undead seem to have begun to invade the west of Angry Bear Town, which is the territory of Pudry Kingdom.
The Kingdom of Pudley has received a letter from Sir Kahn, confirming the existence of the undead and the Church of the Damned. They should have reacted by now, but since Pudry has not recovered from the last war with Schindler, they have recently deployed another force, led by Kahn, but they were ambushed. off. It is indeed a bit difficult for them to immediately pull out another team in a short period of time.
Pudry's border army has already fought with the undead. Although it was relatively inferior, it somehow delayed the further spread of the undead army.
After all, it seems that the power of the undead invading Pudli will not exceed five thousand.
In this way, the undead entrenched in Angry Bear Town should be the main force of the undead.
Palan decided to wipe out this undead army.
Get rid of these 8,000 undead, and the Pudri people will find a way to eliminate the 5,000 undead who entered their territory. Then the curse church in this place and the disaster that caused it should be effectively controlled.
With this in mind, Palan didn't waste time. He quickly assembled the Sixth Army. More than 7,000 soldiers, plus Sir Kahn's 3,000 people, formed an army of 10,000 people. On July 8, they began to prepare to attack the angry bear. town.
The wartime was neither difficult nor smooth.
There are quite a few undead troops in Angry Bear Town, but their strength is actually not that strong. Like ghouls, and more advanced undead creatures, the number is not many, maybe less than two thousand. The others are all low-level monsters like skeletons and zombies.
On the very day of the attack, Palan's forces captured the gates of Raging Bear Town.
In the process of fighting against the undead step by step, two days later, that is, on July 10th, his troops captured the town hall of Raging Bear Town. The remaining undead in the entire town should not exceed 3,000. It would take another day or two to complete the purge of Nuxiong Town.
While the Sixth Army achieved such a result, the loss was not too great. Among the casualties of seven or eight hundred soldiers, less than three hundred died on the spot. This is not a serious injury to the army.
However, just when the dawn of victory was already very clear, a piece of bad news reached Palan - there were a large number of traces of the undead in the Shino Forest!
This is what the scouts in Blackwood City detected!
The Forest of Four Fields is just north of the fir collar, leading directly to the dark jungle at the foot of the central mountain range.
This forest is an important source of timber resources for the Duchy of Florence and the Kingdom of Pudri. In these two countries, many logging farms have been established in this forest.
And just two days ago, when the Battle of Angry Bear Town had just started, the several logging camps established by the Fir Fir Leader in the Siye Forest lost contact almost at the same time. After a rigorous investigation, at least 20 scouts were killed in battle, in exchange for information on the undead riots in the Forest of Shino.
An undead army with a number of at least 30,000, flying the banner of the Church of the Damned, is about to rush out of the Forest of the Four Fields, aiming at Blackwood City!
Palan turned pale.
He knew what this news meant~IndoMTL.com~ The troops he left in Blackwood City were only about 2,000 people. These are the elites of the Sixth Legion, yes, but the enemies they have to face have a huge advantage in numbers! It is impossible for Blackwood City to defend it!
Within three days, the undead will be approaching the city. How long Blackwood City can hold on is completely unknown. In the worst case, it may be captured that day.
And once Blackwood City is lost, the Sixth Army can be said to be cut off. At that time, although they will be able to clean up the undead in Raging Bear Town, there will still be undead in the west, and the army of undead emerging from the forest in the east will definitely come to find Palan after capturing Blackwood City Trouble.
Under attack from both sides, his Sixth Army was locked in the western part of the Fir Territory, and there was no room for strategic maneuvering, and the only inevitable end was destruction!
Now, there are not many choices left for Palan.
Continue to fight, clean up Angry Bear Town, defend on the spot, and fight to the death with the westward undead?
Or go west first, enter the territory of Pudli Kingdom, find a way to open this road, join with Pudry's army, and then find a way to deal with the undead army?
Or, give up the battle in front of you immediately and return to Blackwood City at full speed?
This will be an extremely difficult choice.
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