With General Elaire's strategic retreat, the defensive chain of the "Four Cities and One Line" that Erne had been operating for many years completely collapsed, and it would not be long before the zombies broke through the defenses and reduced all the areas south of the city-state of Stanger to a no-man's land.

Of course, General Elier can't take care of so much, and if he doesn't retreat, all the remaining Ernn elites will be buried here, and Ernco will really be seriously injured at that time.

Not to mention whether the Erne Empire will be captured by zombies, that is, the major empires that have been strongly suppressed by Erne in recent years will attack it en masse, swallowing the Erne Empire to the bone.

It's like in front of a wounded lion, a group of jackals who are usually submissive also have the courage to provoke, and the most terrifying thing is that they still have a good chance of success.

This was what General Elier was really worried about, so he immediately abandoned the army of the city-state of Ngilli and quickly returned to the country to stabilize the situation.

But now General Elier has the most serious problem before him, how can he get past the city-state of Stanger, which is known as the moat. It's a big problem, after all, our General Elier doesn't have wings like those high-ranking Sam zombies.

Erne Empire, the city-state of Stanger.

After three days of traveling, General Elier finally arrived near the city-state of Stanger with 70,000 men of the city-state of Herit, where he successfully joined the army of the city-state of Gadaq.

Now, General Elier's men have a team of nearly 100,000 people, and they have the capital to break through to a certain extent, of course, it is not yet known who will die.

These days, more and more zombies have begun to break through the border defenses, and the zombies gathered under the city-state of Stanger have reached as many as seventy or eighty thousand.

General Elier knew that there would be no chance if he didn't break through now. Once the defense line is completely breached, then he will face a wave of millions of zombies.

Although it was already afternoon, and it would inevitably drag out the battle until the evening if he fought the zombies now, General Elier had no choice.

He quickly gathered his army, lined up, and was ready to charge and send the damned demons back to hell.

"Soldiers, we have no way back, fight for survival, fight for Erne!", shouted General Elier, and rushed towards the city-state of Stanger.

The 100,000 army behind it also poured down like a flood, and the huge charging sound attracted the attention of all the zombies under the city. They bared their teeth and charged towards the Erne army, and in an instant the two teams were intertwined, and a fierce battle began.

Fortunately, General Elier's army had an absolute numerical advantage, and by evening it had basically cleaned up the zombie legions outside the city-state of Stanger.

However, due to General Elier's quick victory, Ernne's army also paid the price of tens of thousands of people. Of course, this is just the beginning, and clearing the outlying zombies is only the first step in General Elaire's quest to cross the city-state of Stanger.

Looking at the fading sunset, General Elier knew that they were going to climb over the city walls by night, and the walls were full of unknowns, unknowns that even General Elier feared.

The towering walls of Stange are beyond the reach of almost all conventional siege equipment, which is one of the important reasons why the city-state of Stange has stood for a hundred years.

If it was in the face of a garrison city-state with a garrison, even if it was a thousand people, General Elier would not dare to say that he would be able to break through in a short period of time, but the current city-state of Stange is not only zombies but also zombies, which also creates a chance for General Elier to break through.

Since the walls of Stange could not be reached by conventional siege equipment, the most primitive ropes were used to climb over them.

In General Elier's plan, he first sent 5,000 vanguards to climb over the wall with ropes, and then opened the city gate to enlarge the troops into the city, and concentrated superior forces to destroy the zombies in the city. Finally, he repaired in the city for one night, and the next morning he went north to help the country.

Of course, this plan can be said to be decent, there are no bells and whistles, but it is better to be steady. But fate is such a thing, you can often only guess the good beginning, but you can't guess the damn end.

As soon as he said it, dozens of huge ropes were nailed deep into the city wall by siege crossbows, and five thousand soldiers began to climb the ropes in an orderly manner, and it didn't take long for all of them to enter the city-state of Stanger.

Then General Elier heard the sounds of battle coming from within the city, mixed with a lot of screams. The voices grew quieter and quieter, and finally they all became quieter, dead silence.

Beads of sweat the size of beans gradually formed on General Elaire's forehead.

An hour earlier, inside the walls of the city-state of Stanger.

Commander Mike had just stepped onto the city wall, and saw that there had been some contact battles on the city tower, and thanks to the small number of zombies on the city tower, they quickly occupied the city wall.

"It seems that there are not as many zombies in the city as expected, and General Elier is too worried. Thinking of the general's thousands of instructions to him before the siege, Mike thought to himself, but he didn't dare to let his guard down at all.

Since Commander Mike had been stationed at Stanger for a while, he knew the structure of the city well, which was why General Elier had him take the lead.

The switch of the city gate has a special control room, which is on the left side of the city gate corridor. To get to the control room, you have to go through a narrow stairwell, go down to the city wall, and then capture the corridor, enter the control room, and open the city gate.

Now Commander Mike is leading the vanguard army in the stairwell, because the stairwell space is small, and it can't accommodate 5,000 people to enter at the same time, which means that they are divided into small teams to enter in batches, and Commander Mike carefully arranged himself in the middle of the squad.

It's not that he's cowardly, it's that he knows he can't take any chances, and if he dies here, the whole team will be in chaos and everyone will be buried here.

One by one, the team entered the stairwell, and despite the lighting of the torches, a large area of the passage was still in darkness. This means that at any moment, a zombie may suddenly jump out of the darkness somewhere, or suddenly grab your ankle from underneath and tear you down to hell.

Anyway, there are at least a few squads and thousands of soldiers who have died in this way, and this stairwell is like an endless abyss, and the people waiting outside have no idea what is happening inside except for the silence after hearing the screams.

So when Commander Mike stepped into this familiar stairwell, he could clearly hear the "thump" of the soldiers' heartbeats, especially after several soldiers were killed by the zombie sneak attack, panic quickly spread in the ranks, and everyone's pace was chaotic.

However, with years of experience in leading troops, Commander Mike successfully stabilized them, and the whole team did not collapse in fear. After that, he relied on the structure of the stairwell to accurately avoid the raids of several groups of zombies.

Coupled with the pathfinding of the previous teams, all the teams after Mike's command successfully passed through the stairwell. Even so, when he arrived at the bottom of the city, Mike only had more than 3,000 people left.

And all this has just begun, and everything that happens next will become the last nightmare of Mike's military career.