Chapter 49: The Battlefield Behind Enemy Lines

The year 802 of the Guangming calendar. Summer.

More than half a year after the Sea Clan landed on the Beland Continent, the war inexplicably turned into a phase of stalemate between the parties.

After the Sea Clan occupied half of the territory of Rouge and Locke in one fell swoop, they were forced to switch from strategic offensive to defensive due to the desperate resistance of the Terran countries and the gradual tightening of their forces.

Although the Isaac Kingdom had piled up four or five hundred thousand troops on the front line, it still did not dare to fight to the death in the face of the Sea Clan and Norman armies that had established a defensive front. Straych's concern is that even if he wins the battle with the Sea Clan, it will be a disastrous victory, and the remnants of the army after the victory will definitely not be able to face the Imperial army, and the bigger danger is that there are two orc tribes in his northwest and southwest borders, the Golden Lion and the Bloody Flame Blue Wolf.

Because of the battle in the early stage, the two orc tribes hindered each other, so they did not take advantage of the chaos to attack the human border like the Azure Eagle. Although the two major tribes were not involved in this war for the time being, Streich did not dare to relax in the slightest, and not a single soldier of the three field legions of Wind and Snow, Frost and Thunder, and War Song was not deployed, and the inland areas of the kingdom also secretly organized 200,000 noble private troops, which could be pulled into the battlefield at any time in the event of an orc invasion.

The situation of the Kingdom of Kildan is similar to that of Isaac, the southern border of the kingdom borders the Elven Kingdom, and Filimondo is also afraid of a sudden invasion of the Elves, so he does not dare to devote his entire military strength to fight the Sea Clan.

The Empire of Light had the opportunity to unite Isaac and Kil'dan to defeat the Sea Clan and Norman armies in one fell swoop, but the Imperial Family was worried about weakening its own direct army and allowing the two opposing countries to take advantage of the opportunity to grow. Therefore, the imperial family delayed the troops on the grounds that the previous two wars had suffered considerable losses and needed time to replenish and train new soldiers.

As for the Holo Kingdom, hundreds of thousands of orcs of the Azure Eagle have already been killed under the royal city. From King Timothy to the common people, all of the people in the Kingdom of Holo are brave and unyielding, and they rely on the defense of the royal city to fight the orcs to the end.

The defense of the royal city lasted for three months, and hundreds of thousands of human warriors and civilians died in the city, and they withstood the attack of the Azure Eagle Tribe with the strength of the whole country. When the Empire's Northern Legion and Mixed Legion rushed to reinforce it, the orcs hurriedly withdrew, but relied on the terrain to establish a defensive line and swallowed up one-third of the territory of the Kingdom of Holo.

Because each had their own concerns, the war artificially entered a stalemate.

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Although there were no major battles in the main battlefields, the war did not stop there.

A secluded trail, a long convoy of transports slowly moving along.

The soldiers escorted on both sides of the convoy were both Sea Clan and Norman soldiers, and since the Sea Clan forces began to be overstretched, more and more operations required the participation of Norman warriors.

A sharp whistling sounded, and a squad of cavalry suddenly rushed out of the woods on the oblique side.

The warriors of the Sea Clan and the Norman immediately stopped and lined up for battle, with the warriors of the Sea Clan in front and the Norman warriors on the left and right flanks.

As the cavalry drew closer, the warriors of both clans began to become unsettled. Each of the cavalrymen was wearing a blue cloak, and the weapons and armor on their bodies shimmered with magic, and it was none other than the Blue Enchantress Cavalry.

The Marquis of Jennings can bring people back to the imperial capital, but Arthur and his Blue Enchantress cavalry cannot, if he dares to return to Arantis, the imperial family and the church will swallow him alive!

Therefore, while Isaac's army had been reorganized by the Empire, Arthur and the mercenaries still chose to stay behind enemy lines and continue to fight.

In the past month, the Blue Enchantress Cavalry has gradually gained fame with the cooperation of dark mages. Almost all the warriors of the Sea Clan and the Normans knew about this terrible Terran cavalry roaming the northern region of Locke, and the dead and infernal creatures walked with them, and meeting them was the same fate as meeting the Grim Reaper!

When the warriors of the two clans guarding the convoy saw that the incoming cavalry was the blue enchantress, the Norman warriors turned and fled, while the Sea Clan warriors roared and pounced. Because they know that they can't escape, and it's better to fight to the death than to do so!

There were only more than 50 Sea Clan soldiers escorting the convoy, and they couldn't even do their best in front of the cavalry regiment of nearly 1,000 people.

The Sea Clan warriors fired sharp arrows and spears while desperately rushing towards the Terran cavalry. The Blue Enchantress suddenly split in two, dodging the frontal onslaught of the Sea Clan warriors, and attacking them from both sides at a distance.

The attack of the Terran cavalry was too dense, and neither side had close contact, and one after another the Sea Clan warriors fell one after another. Every fallen Sea Clan warrior was filled with arrows and spears, but his head was not harmed. Because the Blue Enchantress not only wants them dead, but also their corpses!

As soon as the last of the Sea Clan warriors fell, a group of mercenaries dismounted and pounced, seized their valuable booty, and piled up the corpses by the way.

The mercenaries excitedly drove the front foot of the transport convoy before leaving, and a small black mist rose from the place where the corpses of the Sea Clan warriors were gathered, and the Sea Clan warriors who had just died stood up one after another.

Although the mercenaries accepted the fact of cooperating with the dark mage under the leadership of Arthur, they were sometimes not able to accept the way the dark mage fought, so Arthur tried to reduce the direct contact between the two sides as much as possible in combat cooperation. As for where the Fisca family got the corpses, Arthur never asked.

The Blue Enchantress Cavalry Regiment had only been driving the transport convoy for more than an hour, and a large group of Sea Clan cavalry had appeared behind them.

A head-on encounter is definitely not the way Arthur and the mercenaries fight, the mercenaries quickly pick out the most valuable things from the loot, gather the rest together and burn them directly, and then quickly flee.

The Sea Clan cavalry chasing behind was obviously prepared, and they clung to it, and after more than an hour, they chased after the Blue Enchantress Cavalry Regiment. The Terran wildebeest has no advantage over the Seahorse Beast of the Sea Clan, and will be able to attack from behind in a few moments.

Arthur, who was running at the front, let out a roar, and led the cavalry regiment away from the road towards the hill on the diagonal side. The mercenary behind him desperately whipped the wildebeest under his crotch, and his speed increased again, pulling the distance that had been close again.

The pursuers of the Sea Clan are also accelerating, and they will not give up until they catch up with the Terran cavalry.

The Blue Enchantress Cavalry Regiment ran forward for three miles and plunged headlong into a mountain col. The Sea Clan cavalry did not follow the guidelines of entering the forest and the mountain at all, and rushed in with it.

Although the mountain level in this col is not high, the gradually rising mountain road is still rugged and difficult, and the narrowest point can only accommodate two horsemen in parallel, and the speed of the Terran cavalry's escape immediately slowed down, and the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and a contact battle is close at hand.

Just as the Sea Clan cavalry was about to catch up to the end of the team, the mercenaries of the Blue Enchantress suddenly dismounted one after another near the halfway point of the mountain, turned around and lined up in battle formation.

The horn of the charge sounded in the Sea Clan cavalry array, and one by one the Sea Clan warriors waved their blades and rushed up.

Facing the hideous-looking Sea Clan warriors, the blue enchantress mercenaries had calm expressions, and even had a sneering look in their eyes, this battle was by no means as simple as it seemed......