Chapter 483: The Situation Is Erosive

On March 5, 4018, the father of Xianghime, Count Marcus of the Holy Laurent Empire, led 30,000 soldiers to raid the Penlin Fortress in North Luo County of the Red Demon Empire. As a result, the defenders of the Red Demon Empire launched a suicide arcane explosion in Penglin City, turning the historic city of Penglin City and the 30,000 troops of the Roland Empire into dust!

Also on March 5th, the Roland Emperor St. PePaul, who learned that Marcus had been completely annihilated, decided to lead his army to conquer Beiluo County in a fit of rage! On March 12th, the Roland Emperor St. Peppo led a rebel army composed of 100,000 Heavenly Knights and 100,000 Roland Royal Infantry, and one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Holy Light Knights, led the Holy Light Knights to accompany the expedition, with the same number of 200,000.

On April 12th, the rebel army arrived at Shuangma City, a military center at the southwest exit of Valhalla Canyon, and together with the lord's private soldiers from the surrounding counties, the total number of rebels gathered around Shuangma City reached 700,000!

To everyone's surprise, on the night of April 14th, an arcane explosion occurred in Two Horse City that shocked the entire Dawn Valley, destroying the entire Two Horse City in the explosion, and the Roland Emperor St. PePaul, who was stationed in the city, and the Knight of Light, Sandrella, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, were nowhere to be found!

In this regard, the outside world almost unanimously believes that the Roland Emperor St. PePaul, and the Knight of the Holy Light, Sandra Leia, have been blown to pieces along with Shuangma City! Of course, the specific facts still need to be rigorously verified, but one point that cannot be ignored is that the northwest region of the Roland Empire, which has lost the military town of Shuangma City, has been exposed to the Holy War Kampra Empire and the Red Demon Empire without defense!

The Kampra Empire did not let go of this great opportunity, and almost on the day when it was learned that the city of Shuangma was blown up, the Roland Emperor St. Pepale was missing, and the Knights of Light were destroyed, the current Holy War Kampra Empire's Supreme Emperor, and the Holy Pope of the Crucifixion, Arnold Khan, launched the highest war order of the Kampra Empire on the same day - the Holy War Order!

Not only that, on the same day, Arnold personally led 300,000 Khan guards to the battle, and directly used a long-distance large-scale teleportation magic array, and arrived at the military town of the Kampra Empire located at the northwest exit of Valhalla Cross Canyon - Martyrdom in the evening of the same day!

After a full night's rest, the 300,000 Khan Guards showed the most unmatched aspect of what makes it possible to shock the Valley of the Dawn - speed!

Just as the famous military generals in history estimated, it only took seven days and nights for the 300,000 Khan Guards to cross the Roland Empire's Shuangma County and Jerez County, and reach the hinterland of the Roland Empire, and surrounded the most sacred place of the Roland Empire, the imperial capital and the holy land of the Inquisition!

This approach undoubtedly seems a bit risky, although the Roland Empire has lost the barrier of Double Horse City, and Roland City is now extremely empty, but after all, there is still a huge area between Roland County and the Kempra Empire, two large counties! And the Knights of Redemption, one of the four major knights of the Inquisition, are stationed in Jerez County! While the follow-up troops of the Kempra Empire are far from arriving, Arnold is undoubtedly equivalent to putting himself in an extremely dangerous situation!

But then Arnold proved his unparalleled talent in military command with Xuanhe's achievements - after besieging Roland City, the 300,000 Khan Guards did not rush to attack Roland City, but first used the unmatched mobility of the Guards to clear the surrounding area of the imperial capital.

Then, on 25 April, the first encounter took place between the patrol of the Khan's Guards and the vanguard of the Knights of the Redemption who had arrived from Jerez County to rescue. However, the battle only lasted about two hours, perhaps because of the arrival of reinforcements from the Knights of Redemption, the Khan's Guards finally chose to withdraw from the battlefield.

On 28 April, the Khan Guards of the Imperial Khans of Kampra fought again with the Knights of the Redemption, each losing hundreds of men.

Later, on May 1 and May 4, there were also battles between the Khan's Guards and the Knights of the Redemption, but as in the previous two contact battles, the scale of the battles was not large, and neither side suffered major losses.

The turning point occurred on May 5, when the vanguard of the Knights of the Redemption had advanced deep into Roland County, and Roland City was less than three days away. But on this day, more than 250,000 Khan's guards unbelievably appeared on the border between Jerez and Roland, and engaged in a fierce confrontation with the rear army of the Knights of the Redemption!

In this battle, which took place in the Aofeng Plain of the Roland Empire and is now known as the Battle of the Aofeng Plain, all the 150,000 rear troops of the Redemption Knights were killed! Even Adams, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, was beheaded by Arnold Khan, who was holding the Kampra Empire's national treasure, the Cross Holy Moon! In this battle, the Khan's guard led by Arnold only lost less than 20,000!

In this battle, the Aofeng Plains was stained red by the blood of 150,000 redemption knights and knights' followers, and the Inquisition, after the death and death of the Holy Light Knight Chief Sandra Lea was unknown, once again lost another of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse - the Redeeming Knight Chief Adams! Not only that, but also more than half of the Redemption Knights!

In less than a month, the Inquisition lost the Knights of Light and the Knights of Redemption, which was definitely the worst loss the Inquisition had suffered since Nicholas the Covenant started a new era!

However, at the same time, the vanguard of the Redemption Knights, 50,000 Redemption Knights, was also able to enter Roland City smoothly. Although even with the addition of these 50,000 redemption knights, the strength of the Khan's Guards besieging the city is still more than four times that of the defending troops; after all, the siege of the city is not a field battle, and it is not so easy to defeat the imperial capital of the Roland Empire with four times the number of troops! Not to mention that the Khan's Guards of the Kampra Empire have never achieved any proud results in the siege of the city.

However, Arnold's goal was never Roland City, and after killing most of the Redeemed Knights' troops, it meant that there was a serious shortage of troops in Jerez County, where the Redeemed Knights were originally stationed!

Arnold's first target was Avila, the city of redemption in the heart of Jerez County and previously garrisoned by the main force of the Knights of the Redemption - after the defenders of the city went to the rescue of Roland, when Arnold's troops came to the city, there were only 10,000 defenders in the city!

In the end, with the absolute superiority of 150,000 troops, Arnold conquered the city of redemption in less than two days! In this battle, none of the defenders of the Inquisition in the city finally chose to surrender to the Kampra Empire, and all of them were killed in battle! For this reason, including the wounded soldiers, the 150,000 Khan guards led by Arnold also suffered a loss of nearly 20,000, which was comparable to the battle of the Aofeng Plain!

At the same time, the other three directions, the 40,000 Khan's Guard, led by the three Crusader Paladins, also conquered the three large cities around the City of Redemption - Salamanca, Zamora and Talavera, forming an offensive and defensive situation with the City of Redemption in the center!

However, at the same time as this series of great results, Arnold's initial 300,000 Khan Guards, including the wounded, had already suffered losses of as high as 130,000 troops!

And in the other direction, a huge stream of crusaders is gathering from most of the Kampra Empire to the southwestern border of the Empire!

In this blitzkrieg storm caused by Arnold, it is worth noting that Duke Marion, who had survived the arcane explosion in Shuangma City, the military minister and who has always been known for his bravery and iron blood, did not lead the 300,000 private troops of the lords gathered around Shuangma City to defend Shuangma County, or return to defend the imperial capital Roland City, but pulled these lords' private troops to Gradana County, west of Shuangma County! This approach gives people the feeling that they took the initiative to make way for the Khan's Guards who suddenly attacked Roland City later!

Of course, the statement given by the Minister of War, Duke Marion, was that he had received an alarm that the Misty Mountain tribe was very likely to attack on a large scale, so he made such an arrangement. But anyone with a discerning eye knows that since the successful construction of the Great Wall of Augustus, those barbarians in the Misty Mountains have not been able to cause any substantial damage to the Roland Empire......!

It is worth mentioning that even now, the Duke of Marion still has no intention of defending Shuangma County, but continues to deploy the 300,000 private soldiers of the lord in his hands in Gradana County.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the Kampra Empire has undoubtedly begun to launch an all-out attack on the Roland Empire, so the county of Gradana, which is also in the border between the Roland Empire and the Kampra Empire, is naturally also within the scope of Kampra's attack, so the Duke of Marion seems to have a reasonable reason for choosing to arrange the defense in this way.

But for the Kampra Empire, it is undoubtedly the primary goal to conquer Shuangma County first and join forces with Arnold Khan, who has already occupied part of Jerez County! Therefore, it should be a better choice to deploy Shuangma County, join the War Knights stationed in Vervin County between Shuangma County and North Luo County, and the reinforcements that are coming from other counties of the Roland Empire!

So now in the Roland Empire, there have been many voices questioning Duke Marion, and even Cromwell, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Knight Captain of the War Knights, has directly and publicly accused Marion of having untold ambitions!

And in the other direction, the Red Demon Empire, located in the center of the Valley of Dawn and rising suddenly, is also not idle!

(End of chapter)