1025, a tragic battle

The Barcelona army advanced about 1,000 kilometers before it encountered stubborn resistance from the Zenits.

Surrounded by his guards, Pedro stood on a high hill, looking at the smoke and battle in the distance, his brows tightly locked together - in fact, he had never felt comfortable all the way.

The battle of the Byzantine harbor, although the Zenit part of the naval force was defeated, but their own losses were several times that of the Zenits, and what made them feel even more vomiting blood was that the Barcelona people who finally killed the land and wanted to slaughter and rob the city with red eyes were extremely disappointed to find that the Byzantine royal city had long become an empty city, not only did there be no people, no treasures, not even a chicken could be caught, and there was a piece of chicken feathers floating in the wide alleys.

The Byzantines have cleared the walls of this place.

For a moment, they couldn't even find the door panel to carry the wounded.

And the Byzantine king Constantine, who was caught, although he was tortured for a day and a night, and all kinds of terrible torture were used all kinds of torture, but he was like a man beaten with iron, and he did not reveal any information from beginning to end.

To be honest, in the end, even the tortured jailers were about to collapse.

They had never seen a person who could be so tough, beaten to pieces again and again, then healed and recovered by a magician, and then beaten to a screed and treated again...... This kind of cycle, even the gods can't stand it, I really wonder if this little king is flesh and blood, what kind of strength and belief support him to survive?

So much so that even Pedro has a hint of admiration for this little king.

The interrogation and torture had to come to an end.

After a brief stay in the Byzantine royal city, the Barcelona army, which had held back its murderous spirit, imagined itself as a tiger wading into the flock, and quickly organized an offensive, driving along the official road and invading the interior of the southern Xinjiang of the Zenits.

They thought they could make it all the way to defeat any Zenit who dared to resist.

However, they thought they were the number one superpower in the mainland, but they suffered a great loss because of their lack of preparation before the war.

The first land contact with the Zenit army took place about two hundred kilometers from the Byzantine royal city.

The Barcelona forward team of about 2,000 people was ambushed by the same number of Zenit southern Xinjiang troops, and the [One-Eyed Dragon] and [Black Pearl] that disappeared before also appeared ghostly.

The hateful Zenit not only took away their own corpses, but also stripped all the armor and weapons of the Barcelona soldiers who died in battle, leaving only a full 2,000 naked corpses.

In the ensuing advance, the Barcelona army met with unexpectedly stubborn resistance.

Although the losses were still within the bearable range, it was simply annoying to be attacked and harassed again and again, and when it advanced to more than 500 kilometers, Pedro had to order the whole army to reorganize and rest temporarily, and postpone the battle plan that had been formulated before.

Most of the Barcelona troops who landed were naval soldiers from the [Spear of the Sea God], land warfare was not good at, there were more than 60,000 people, the equipment was excellent, and the real marine army of the follow-up troops was transported at this time, and it was only at this time that it was worthy of arriving in the Byzantine royal city.

At this time, the Barcelona people in the rear were still dreaming of taking the Zenit Empire within ten days, while the vanguard army in front had already begun to feel the cold of the Northern Regions and the strength of the Zenits.

Along the way, the [Poseidon Spear] legion has been attacked and ambushed no less than 100 times.

Although the battles were all small-scale battles, the losses of the Barcelonans were close to six or seven thousand, far exceeding the previous estimates - of course, the Zenit also paid a terrible price, killing four vassal kings and leaving more than 10,000 corpses, although most of them were not regular troops.

When the [Poseidon Legion] advanced to a thousand kilometers, a large-scale battle finally broke out between the two sides.

Pedro still hasn't figured out exactly what he was up against, Zenit's regular army.

The enemy in front of him, both in terms of number and combat effectiveness, was several times stronger than the miscellaneous soldiers of those vassal countries before the [Poseidon Legion], and in about a quarter of an hour, a frontal charge of the elite battalion of the [Poseidon Legion] could not defeat the local position, and was beaten back, which made Pedro feel extremely shocked.

Even more incredibly, Pedro soon found that his army was faintly surrounded.

This is inconceivable to many Barcelonans, how dare the lowly Zenit have the courage and the courage to react in such a quick time to fight back?

It turned out that the various attacks and harassments of the Zenit people who were not afraid of death before were all to delay time, so that the main battle army in their rear could calmly lay down the encirclement, they ...... It turned out that he wanted to eat the [Poseidon Legion] in one go?

What a big appetite!

What a big spirit!

At this moment in the battle, one of the best graduates of the Royal Military Academy of La Masia also had to admit that he had encountered the enemy, the Zenit side, there must be a master tactician, who was directing the battle situation in southern Xinjiang behind his back, and this lowly first-class empire was prepared!

Pedro also quickly realised that it wasn't just himself, but the whole of Barcelona that was facing an unexpected enemy.

The Zenit people are not as easy to defeat as an ordinary first-class empire, and they have always been arrogant, so that the Barcelona military department did not carry out meticulous intelligence collection and analysis work before the war, and the combat plan and mentality of coping with errands have now made the [Poseidon Legion] suffer a big loss, and if it is not improved, it will also make the follow-up Barcelona main battle legion suffer a big loss in the future.

"If it goes on like this, it won't work, it looks like it's going to be a quick solution!"

Looking at the scorching situation ahead, Pedro finally couldn't help but make a move.

A majestic force surged from his body, sweeping across the battlefield like a hurricane, and the terrible coercion made ordinary soldiers almost unable to stand on their feet, and the Barcelona army began to retreat with great regularity, freeing itself from the dog-tooth fighting situation, so that Pedro could directly attack the Zenit in a large area without fear of accidental injury.

However, almost at the same time, a force no less powerful than Pedro, in the camp of the Zenites, unbelievably appeared.

This power is vague and cold, full of killing and destruction.

Pedro choked slightly.

"How can this be? There is such a master hidden in the enemy camp, why am I not aware of it at all......? Did Emperor Yashin personally go to war?"

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