Chapter 18: The Trap of Erne

On the border of the Ernne Empire, the city-state of Herret.

Looking at the endless zombie legions outside the blockade, General Elier's worried eyebrows were about to be wrinkled together.

Although these days, on the one hand, he has strengthened the combat effectiveness of the army and evacuated the nearby people on the other, it is still difficult to stop the pervasive infiltration of zombies.

Fortunately, General Elier dug trenches around the major cities on the Erne border early on and built a series of obstacles, so that he could barely stop a large number of zombies on the Erne border, but with the increase in the number of zombies, this level of defense seems so insignificant.

Not long ago, the city-state of Caldor, next door, reported to him that tens of thousands of zombie legions had broken through the defenses there. Despite the city-state's lords' desperate efforts to stop them, thousands of zombies still flowed into the territory of the Erne Empire.

But now among the four major city-states bordering Ernne and Sada, only the Herrett city-state where General Elier is located has surplus troops, so the task of entering the country to clear the zombies falls into the hands of General Elier.

Looking at the increasingly dangerous scene in the border zone, General Elier hesitated, and now there were only two options in front of him.

If he leads a part of his troops to leave now, it will undoubtedly make the already very critical situation of the Herett city-state even worse, and it may become a breakthrough for the zombie army, so that the long-planned defense line plan will be broken and fall short.

But if you ignore that wave of zombies, with insufficient inland troops and no experience in fighting zombies, within a month, the entire southern part of Erne may repeat the mistakes of the Sada Empire.

After weighing the pros and cons, General Elier finally decided to return to the country and strangle this scattered zombie army in the cradle. Although it was necessary to return for reinforcements, considering the millions of zombies outside, Eliel only took 5,000 cavalry with him.

It's not that General Elier doesn't want to bring more men, but the army on the front line is not very sufficient, and if he takes more people to leave, the front line may soon collapse.

Erne Empire, the city-state of Stanger.

The city-state of Stange was one of the most important frontier fortresses of the Gordon II period, where three avenues leading to the interior of Erne converged. And the establishment of this city-state has strangled the only way to Erne.

When the Saada Empire rose strongly, Sathon I was like a bamboo, and the Ernnes were defeated one after another.

However, Satun I has attacked here seven times, all of which have been in vain, and its degree of ease of defense and difficulty in attacking is outrageous, and it has also become the largest capital of the Erne Empire's unscrupulous attack on the Sada Empire.

It can be said that the city-state of Stanger relied on the momentum of one city to make Satun I's ambition to go north to unify the Miracle Continent to come to naught.

Seven defeats in seven battles have seriously dragged down Saada's national economy and grain reserves, and the glory of Sathun I is no longer there, and Saada is like a bright meteor, which was extinguished before it had time to bloom its own brilliance.

As the Saada Empire continued to weaken, Gordon III's army marched all the way, conquering a large amount of territory in the northern part of Saada, and establishing the current unified defense line of the four cities.

The city-state of Stange retreated to the rear, with less than 10,000 troops stationed all year round.

At this moment, Zorro, the lord of the city-state of Stanger, received a secret letter from General Elier, the roughly content of which was that an army of zombies of several thousand people was rushing here, asking him to defend this place no matter what.

Lord Zorro, though he valued General Ilaire's handwritten letters, was clearly more confident in the defenses of the city-state of Stanger.

Don't look at the fact that there are only 8,000 soldiers in the city, but it can block the attack of 100,000 people, and no one has successfully broken it in at least a hundred years, so Lord Zorro doesn't care much about this matter.

Seriously, at least until the next thing happens, no one can believe that this city can be breached, but fate is never lacking in surprises.

Even when forty or fifty thousand zombies appeared under the gates of Stanger, the only thing that surprised Lord Zog slightly was that the number of zombies was ten times as many as General Elier said.

Of course, this did not make any difference in the eyes of Lord Zorro. Whether it's four thousand or forty thousand, Lord Zorro can guarantee that they won't be able to get by.

That night, when the two huge wings skimmed over the city-state of Stanger, a soldier on the city wall was still urinating on the zombies under the city, laughing at the hot air on the zombies' heads, obviously not caring about these damn devils at all.

Of course, he will soon realize the horrors of the zombies.

Just like the zombies that rested in the city-state of Illeglan that day, the two zombies this time were also powerful high-level Sams before they died.

That time, just one high-level Sam zombie could kill thousands of sergeants in the seventy-thousand-rank Sam army, and this time facing two high-level Sam zombies, Stange's fate was already sealed.

When a high-ranking Sam zombie slaughtered on the city walls, quickly bringing up a large number of followers. Our lord Zorro was still drinking wine and humming a little song in his mansion, so happy.

When the two high-ranking Sam zombies had already swept through the streets with two or three thousand followers, Lord Zorro was so frightened that he hurriedly met the battle with the remaining sergeants.

The result can be imagined, almost one-sided slaughter, the only thing worth mentioning is that although this Lord Zorro is careless, he is also a man, until the battle is a soldier, and he does not flinch from the battle.

Soon, the whole city fell into a dead silence, except for the staggering footsteps of zombies, once, twice...... , sounding the death knell of the city in an eerie silence.

General Elier led 5,000 cavalry to follow the trail of the zombies day and night, looking at the villages that had been swept by the zombies, General Elier knew that he was late.

According to his estimates, the zombie army now has at least tens of thousands of people after sweeping countless villages.

"Hey, I still underestimated these damn devils. Elaire slashed at the top of the head of a zombie next to him, and said angrily.

He now only has 5,000 cavalry in his hands, and he can't stop the advance of tens of thousands of zombies. The only good thing is that judging from the direction of the zombies, they must have headed towards the city-state of Stanger.

Eliel had no doubts about the defenses of the Stanger city-state, and he did not believe that the zombies would be able to break through the Stanger city-state, as Lord Zorro once believed.

In fact, they can't be blamed for this, after all, from a human perspective, that city-state is indeed tantamount to an insurmountable moat. But who would have thought that zombies would fly.

Except for the time when the sergeants of Illegran survived and successfully killed the high-level Sam zombie after seeing it, all the city-states and villages where the high-level Sam zombies haunted did not leave any living mouth.

Of course, thanks to this zombie crisis, the biggest barrier of the Erne Empire was destroyed, and the obstacles were cleared for the rise of the Saada Empire in the future.