The battle at the Kanya Pass began with a head-to-head confrontation between the two armies at about 8 p.m. on May 4 and ended at about 4 a.m. the next day when the Barbarian Vanguard was completely annihilated.

Sir Ike was the temporary commander of the Fortress of Coron, completing his first glorious victory.

At the same time, it was also recognized by the officers and soldiers of the fortress.

As soon as the battle began, the barbarians made serious mistakes, and their arrogance, which did not match their strength, cost them blood.

But this price did not make the barbarians realize the reality.

Or maybe they're too eager to prove to the Locke Empire that he's mighty.

At Kebot's suggestion, the vanguard commander Sando insisted on storming the defensive line set up by the Locke Empire at the Cannia Pass, despite the dissuasion of his subordinates.

He ordered all his men: "The Southerners' positions in the Cannia Pass must be captured before dawn." ”

To this end, Commander Sandor pressed all his forces.

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In charge of commanding the Imperial Army of the Cannia Line of the Locke Empire was the Knight of Alfred, who did not get carried away by the victory achieved at the beginning of the frontal charge, he knew his mission very well.

Therefore, after the barbarian vanguard began a large-scale attack, he decisively ordered the advancing two centurians to withdraw to the defense line and fight with the barbarian soldiers on a relatively strong defensive line.

This is undoubtedly a wise decision.

This could not help but inflict heavy losses on the barbarians' initial attack, forcing them to engage in the bloodiest war of attrition with the Imperial soldiers outside the position, and at the same time, it also provided a lot of time for Sir Ike to deploy his main forces in the future.

The battle lasted until two o'clock in the evening...

Sir Ike was overjoyed to learn of Alfred's battle at Canya Pass, and he even changed his plan to change the siege from three to four!

He took advantage of the amount of time Alfred's gain to have a large group of Imperial soldiers climb over the left peak of the Canya Pass and throw themselves into the rear flank of the Barbarian Vanguard, for which he consumed almost all the mental power of all the magicians in the Wizard Squadron.

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On the other hand, in the late stages of the attack and defense of the Cannia Watchtower, the Imperial soldiers were defeated and retreated under the onslaught of the barbarian vanguard army regardless of losses, and until the end, the knights of Alfred, as commanders, had to fight in the front line in person.

More than 1,200 troops, who lost more than half of them in these hours of fighting ...

But the Barbarian Vanguard suffered more losses, about three times more than the Imperial soldiers.

After several hours of fighting, the entire battlefield became like hell on earth, with blood, stumps and broken arms everywhere, and the sound of crying and fighting never stopped.

Such battles exhausted the fighters on both sides, especially the soldiers of the Imperial Army, who barely stopped for several hours...

To the end, the Imperial soldiers didn't even have weapons to use!

Because, the spears in their hands had long been broken in the battle, the gaps on the bloodstained short swords were visible to the naked eye, and the shields had been shattered by the unfathomable charge of the barbarian totem warriors at the beginning.

The barbarians have been waiting for this moment for a long time, and they have paid more than fifteen hundred casualties for it!

Sando's heart was tormented when he heard this number, and he was full of rage, and he gave the order for a general attack, and told the soldiers who killed the red eye: "Today we don't want prisoners, we don't need ransom from the southerners, what we need is... Revenge!"

However, just when Sandor thought victory was in his hands, he was startled by the earth-shattering shouts of slaughter in his rear, and when the scout told him that he was being attacked by at least a thousand-strong Imperial army in his rear, he fell into an ice cellar.

Most of the wounded soldiers and logisticians in his rear ...

Just as Sandor was about to turn his army to meet the troops that had attacked his rear, on the frontal front, a large group of Locke Imperial soldiers burst out from the dark mountains on both sides, flanking and surrounding the main force of his vanguard army.

At the same time, hundreds of exhausted Imperial soldiers who retreated step by step to the mud wall of the watchtower after being surrounded by the main force of the barbarians, led by the knights of Alfred...

They had changed into brand-new spears and shields in their hands, wore brand-new ring armor on their bodies, and with resentful killing intent on their faces, they took firm steps to mercilessly strangle the barbarian soldiers who surrounded them.

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The battle reports everywhere made Sandor's face pale, and he understood that he had fallen into a trap set by the Locke Empire in advance.

The moving torches shook his eyes, and the relentless shouts of killing in his ears made him feel the cruelty of reality, and in the distance, the warriors of the tribe fell one by one in a pool of blood, which made his heart twist.

"Ahh

His heart is dripping...

Because, the warriors here are nearly two-thirds of the warriors of his tribe!

At the very beginning of this war, it was all buried in his hands.

How do you explain it to the patriarchs? How do you explain it to their families?

"Commander, break through!" Commander Reilly was covered in blood, and after he found out that something was wrong, he immediately found Sandor, "The army of the southerners has not completely surrounded us, with the strength of your personal guard and you, you are fully capable of breaking out!"

"What can I do when I go out?" said Sandor mused, "You go," he suddenly thought of something, "take Prince Meru with us, although he is not the one we support, but now he is our prince, we cannot let him die at the hands of the southerners, in my army, it will give the king an excuse..."

"Where to find Prince Meru now, our rear has long been destroyed by the southerners, and if the prince is, I'm afraid—" Reilly's face was not very good, and he did not dare to imagine the picture of His Majesty's wrath flooding the tribe of the mountains and lakes.

Sando raised his eyes in despair, he looked into the distance, and saw the surging torches, and then he looked back at Reilly, "Then don't go!"

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Later in the battle for Canya Pass, the vanguard commander Sando led his guards on a rampage through the Imperial formations, inflicting heavy losses on the Imperial army.

In the end, thanks to the arrival of Sir Ike, he used his holy power to suppress Sandor's totemic power.

According to post-war statistics, the Imperial soldiers lost less than 800 in this battle, of which 700 were killed in the battle at the outpost tower in the early stage to attract the main force of the barbarians, and most of the ordinary people died under the last crazy counterattack of Sandor and his personal guards.

That is, in the later siege, the casualties of the Imperial army were almost incalculable.

And the annihilated barbarian troops, including all the officers' logistics units, totaled more than 5,400 people.

Ike also won the respect and recognition of the generals of the fortress because of this battle.

The Knight of Alfred also proved himself in this war, for which he lost an arm, and almost all of the watchtower officers except for the patrol captain Pate were killed.

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At eight o'clock in the morning, when the first rays of sunlight shone through the narrow slit in the Canya, the Imperial army had finished its formation.

The identity crystals of the soldiers who died in battle were all kept in the safe of the logistics office, and the corpses were cremated together, whether they were barbarian or imperial army.

Sir Ike was involved in a real war for the first time, and he looked at the mountains of corpses, the blood-stained ground, the smell of killing and death in the air, all of which were so strange and familiar.

This was what he expected, and he joined the army of the Koren Fortress to prove his strength, but the bloody battlefield still made him in a trance.

From the end of the war, he prayed to the goddess for spiritual comfort.

It wasn't until Alfred's appearance that Sir stopped praying.

"Sir, what shall we do next?" the knight asked.

"Return to the fortress and meet the wrath of the main barbarian forces!" Sir Ike grinned, revealing a row of white teeth.