The steel jungle made of reinforced concrete by humans is not much stronger than real wood in the face of the behemoth known as war. As a result, Rakvere, once the eastern hub of the three Baltic states, was doomed to ruins.

The third day of the Battle of the Baltic.

The Bunitanian Empire, with the third and sixth knights as the seven knights, a total of three knights of the round table, and a small number of floating Knightmare raid troops, bypassed the EU's first line of defense, and successfully raided Rakweire, the fulcrum of the EU's middle defense. However, the 521st Brigade of the EU Lakwere Defense Force did not collapse quickly after suffering a heavy blow and losing most of the Knightmare, but launched a bloody and fierce resistance to the surprise of all Imperial troops.

Same day, 1825 hours.

The 215th Brigade and the 331st Brigade of the 3rd EU line were successively reinforced by Rakweire, and according to the official EU propaganda: the Imperial Army led by the Knights of the Round Table retreated in a hurry when they saw the situation.

However, the Imperial side announced that the Knights of the Round Table had successfully destroyed the fulcrum of the EU's Sixth Army's defensive line, Rakwere, and had inflicted heavy damage on the 521st Brigade, and had made a predetermined strategic turnaround, which had pierced the EU's first line of defense, opening a breakthrough for the Imperial Army.

The fourth day of the battle.

The Imperial Army, which was not in a hurry to attack, began to annihilate the divided EU forces in the rear,

And in order to cover the retreat of the divided defensive forces, the EU Baltic Fleet poured more than 2,400 missiles and more than 5,300 shells on the front line. The extended overlay artillery and missile attacks succeeded in forcing the pursuing Imperial forces to retreat after suffering some heavy losses, but this result, in addition to plowed all the frozen ground along the way, directly led to an ammunition clearance of all the Baltic Fleet's warships.

The troops of the Eastern Defense Line were not so lucky, and when the 5th Knight Lukkaard von Fabre advanced all the way and completely collapsed the retreating 196th Brigade of the EU, the troops led by the 10th Knight Blandley, who was also in pursuit, showed a spicy method that was shameless with his fellow troops.

Instead of letting the troops advance with Luka's troops of the Fifth Knight, Brandley spread out his troops in a fan-shaped formation after the route of Luka's troops, and then gave the order in extreme cold-blooded manners to leave no one alive.

This order led to the slaughter of nearly 9,000 EU soldiers who had completely lost the will to fight, and the legend of the Bunitanian vampires filled another page of dishonor.

The fifth day of the battle.

The vanguard of the Imperial Army and the main force of the EU Sixth Army encountered at Tapa east of Rakwere, and under the special arrangement of the EU commander General Balklai, the Sixth Army did not quickly annihilate the vanguard of the Imperial Army, but deliberately showed a posture of equal strength, gradually attracting nearby Imperial troops to help. By 1620 p.m. on the fifth day, the number of the Imperial Army had increased to 42,000 men, 243 Knightmare, and armored vehicles.

At 1700 hours in the afternoon, the Sixth Army suddenly launched a fierce attack, and finally realized that the Imperial Army, which had fallen into the trap, had to abandon the attack and switch to defense on the spot.

In 1900, some of the Imperial troops who came to help the friendly forces break through the siege, but they had to stop before the Sixth Army was greatly disadvantaged.

In 2015, when he got the news, he realized that the current Imperial Army was in a situation of scattered forces, and knew that a forced decisive battle could only become a war of attrition, so he decisively threw all 5 Knights of the Round Table into the Tapa retreat, and at the same time, Xiunzel also ordered the Imperial Army to assemble in Rakwere.

From 1,700 p.m. to 2,330 p.m., after six and a half hours of fierce fighting, the Imperial Army finally completed its retreat after leaving more than 20,000 corpses and more than 350 Knightmare and armored vehicles in the city of Tapa.

"Your Excellency, the Imperial Army has retreated."

"Hmm." Admiral Barklay stared in the direction of the flame-red night sky and nodded invisibly.

"Do you want to pursue?"

"The five Knights of the Round Table of the Empire and the troops directly under them have personally broken off, and there is no opportunity to take advantage of it." Admiral Balklay shook his head.

"And most of the main forces of the Imperial Army did not join the battle, even if it was a parallel pursuit battle, there was no point."

"What about the losses of our army?"

"So far, 42% of the casualties of the 512th Brigade and 42% of the casualties of the 196th Brigade have been killed," the staff officer suddenly muttered, and then a suppressed anger was revealed in a deep voice, "83% of the casualties, of which 9,000 were killed without resistance." ”

Not surrendered, not killed, but slaughtered after losing the will to fight. Such a situation is unacceptable in any way.

On the side of the Imperial Army, Honazel was also suffering from this problem, although he knew the consequences of Brandley's unauthorized actions, but the Knight of the Round Table was directly under the Emperor, and even as the second prince of the Empire, the Prime Minister of the Empire, and the commander-in-chief of the army, he could not actually punish Brandley's behavior. In a way, this is also a drawback of the imperial system.

Thinking that in the face of the EU's political offensive, this will become another endless war of words, Schunazel can't help but sigh secretly.

Of course, there was another person here who was furious for Brandley's actions.

"Doesn't that make it seem like I'm also a companion to this murderer!?" As the fifth knight who indirectly led to this result, Lukka almost got into a fight with Brandley at the battle meeting on the spot.

"Transfer the wounded to Tallinn and let the Baltic Fleet transport them from the sea to Stockholm (the capital of Sweden) for treatment."

"Yes."

Sweden across the sea was safer than the rear of this battlefield, and most importantly, Admiral Balklay finally made an extremely bold decision at this moment.

"But Your Excellency, in this way, the plan for the defense of the deep array is completely in vain."

"Then there's no need to defend yourself." Admiral Balklai's answer gave the officers a look of surprise.

"What are you talking about?"

"I've had enough of this passive defense." Admiral Barklay flicked his fist into the air.

"Inform Estonia and even all the cities of Lithuania that they have the right to renounce resistance if necessary."

"Your Excellency!?"

"Rest assured, Chief of Staff. I'm not crazy yet. Admiral Balklay patted the chief of staff on the shoulder and laughed, "Assemble all the mobile forces, and from now on, I will let the Imperial Army know that I will be called the Ice and Snow Vulture for what." ”

"Oooh oh !!" The officers who heard this first looked at Balklay with reverence and excitement.

In the early morning of the sixth day of the Battle of the Baltics, the war took a bizarre turn.

The EU Sixth Army completely abandoned the layered defense in depth and switched to a mobile defense, launching an unprecedented large-scale fight-and-run tactic on the territory of Estonia and Latvia.

The vulture itself is a large, carnivorous bird of prey that soars over plains and mountains. And Admiral Balklai, known as the Ice and Snow Vulture, was no longer bound by the defensive line and no longer cared about the gains and losses of a city or a place, and finally completely liberated the aggressiveness that he was born with.

General Barclay, who concentrated most of the Knightmare and armored forces of the Sixth Army, took advantage of his familiarity with the geographical environment and maximized the mobility of the EU-based Knightmare. The ferocious assault on the tundra maximizes the destructive power.

The first to feed on this ice vulture was the Knights of Shydeka, who were heading for Kehra from the Bunitanian Empire.

Although Honazel had anticipated the possibility of an attack and was ready to support the operation to the greatest extent possible. But the Knights of Shydicka, with more than 3,000 soldiers and 52 Knightmare, suffered a devastating blow in a battle that lasted less than an hour.

When reinforcements arrived, all they saw was the wreckage of armored vehicles and Knightmare, as well as hundreds of lost Imperial soldiers. And just a dozen hours later, the Knights of Wilbrook suffered the same fate.

After never encountering the EU Sixth Army and losing two knights, the Imperial Army soon realized that Balklay was leading the entire Sixth Army's mobile forces to fight the largest guerrilla war in the world.

Over the next two days, as the Imperial forces were shrinking, many small units were still attacked, and the supply lines were in jeopardy.

And when the main force of the Imperial Army successfully advanced to Tallinn, the capital of Estalia, after receiving the declaration of non-resistance and neutrality sent by the Tallinn City Government to the Imperial Army, the face of Shonazel, who knew more clearly than everyone what this act meant, was filled with an unprecedented frost.

Regardless of whether the EU Republic can win this battle or not, Admiral Balclay's political future can be concluded to be over. But what Balklay sacrificed for his future was a nightmare for the Imperial Army.

"It has to be resolved as soon as possible." After crumpling the information in his hand, Shonazel whispered to himself with a serious face.

"Send all the AWACS aircraft out, as well as the military satellites, and be sure to keep track of all the actions of the Sixth Army."

Unlike those small-scale guerrillas or terrorists, the fight-and-run tactics of an entire army's mobile units dispersed are extremely deterrent.

If you want to rely on the method of compressing the living space of the guerrillas, you can't use it here, and the troops that are too small will be eaten, and if you want to mobilize a sufficient number of troops for encirclement operations, Xiunzel does not have such a large force in his hands at the moment.

"Invite Shumuqing here, I have a separate task to him." After Honazel gave the order, he turned to Karnon and said

"I didn't expect EU to have such an interesting character, so it's a shame to let him die like this." Kamiyu, who also witnessed the whole process of the battle, said with emotion.

"Is Kamiyu-sama trying to dig into the wall again? Above. ”

"That's good advice, but Balklay must die." Kamiyu's answer was unexpected.

"The EU has to lose, and in fact I don't think the Royal Brothers will lose. It's just that"

Kamiyu paused.

"Although I'm sorry for the Imperial Brother, I don't want the Imperial Army to win too much."

"So?"

"Let's get the Free Army moving, it's always just a bunch of rookies if you don't get involved in combat, and"

Kamiyu walked out the door.

"Musashi, let's go be pirates."