Volume 1 The Vanishing Ground Chapter 35
By the time Coren and his teacher arrived at the camp in the southwest, there were corpses strewn all over the place, and all the 50,000 defenders who had been stationed there had been killed, and Blatter could be seen slaughtering the living everywhere.
"It's still late. The old man stood on a high ground and looked at it from afar, and his heart ached terribly.
"Teacher, we only have less than three hundred soldiers, and there are only a few dozen breathers, what should we do now?" Coren faced the endless Blatter, and suddenly didn't know what to do.
"The purpose of Blatter's trip is to open the seal of Tirakus, but it will take some time for them to enter the Temple of Tirakus, after all, there are still four sealers guarding it, hoping to hold back the vanguard troops of the Fourth Legion, so we made a detour from the Filopol Gorge in the south and secretly infiltrated. β
"But it's too close to the Fourth Army, and if we are discovered, it will be difficult for us to break through. When Coren heard the teacher's plan, he did not agree, there was a steady supply of Blatt from the Santo Tomar Mountains, and the southwest camp was captured by them at this time, and the Firopol Gorge was only a mountain away from the Santo Tomar Mountains.
"In this way, Your Highness Cologne, you go to the provinces along the route to gather soldiers, not long ago the bishop also set out from the fortress, you wait for the bishop in the village of Pasha, the nearest to the southwest camp, I will first take a small group of men and horses to investigate, once you converge, you can first recapture the southwest camp and advance towards Tiracus, so that we advance on two fronts, and there is always a team of men and horses who can enter the temple. β
"No, it's too dangerous, so let's wait for the bishop to arrive. Coren was shocked that his teacher was going to cross the Firopol Gorge alone, and he categorically could not agree.
"When did you become so indecisive, Your Highness Cologne, we are all people of the Red tribe, and it is our duty to sacrifice our lives for Red, don't be burdened by feelings, you should know that if Your Highness Victor is awakened, what kind of disaster will we Red and the entire Tremian continent face, is there any point in caring about my life and death at this time!" The old man roared at Coren with all his strength.
The soldiers behind him were infected by the old man's words, and asked to follow him together, Coren saw this, closed his eyes, and nodded unbearably, and the old man selected some soldiers and breathers from the crowd and drove away.
"Your Highness..."Coren stood in place, looking at the figure of his teacher in the distance, he did not leave for a long time, and the soldiers beside him called his name and said, "Your Highness, let's go quickly." β
When the southwest camp was breached, the defenders on the west side of the Santo Tomar Mountains were scattered, and Coren saw many exiled soldiers and civilians along the way, and many saw Cologne's flag and joined his troops, and in just three days, Coren had recruited a huge army of 150,000 men and temporarily stationed in the village of Pasha, not far from the camp in the southwest of the country.
When Bishop Iss arrived, the first battle with Blatter in the southwest camp had already begun, because Coren found that there was not only Blatter's legion but also Brett's secret army at the border, and that there seemed to be some connection between them, so in order to prevent the two forces from uniting together, he ordered the attack first.
"Sister!" After a morning of fighting, Coren captured the eastern barrier of the southwestern camp, temporarily cutting off their communication with the border, and as soon as he returned to the camp, he saw that Bishop Iss was gathering the generals of the troops to formulate tactics.
"Cologne!" Bishop Eth finally let go of his hanging heart when he saw Coren.
"Sister, teacher, heβ" Iss dusted off his shoulders and shook his head.
"I know it all, let's fight the battle in front of us first, so that the teacher's hard work will not be in vain. Looking at the tears in Cologne's eyes, she didn't feel sad in her heart, the teacher grew up with them, and she was also a teacher and father to them, but as Bishop Red, she didn't have time to grieve now.
"Right now, the 150,000 soldiers and civilians gathered by Cologne and the 50,000 soldiers we reinforced from the fortress, there are 200,000, my idea, send 100,000 people to recapture the Dongrin fortress in the south, and then bypass the southwest camp and directly cut off the connection between their Chinese army and the camp, Cologne, you lead 50,000 people to continue to storm the camp fortress, I and the third army will go to the entrance of the Santo Tomar Mountains to cut off their supplies, and Sedo you will lead 3,000 people to reinforce the old priests from the Firopol Gorge, and once you break through, remember to rush to the Tiracus Temple as soon as possible, and set up defenses on the spot. Facing the map, the general's order was given in an instant, and the army had a command, and it immediately took on a new look, and with the order, the various legions began to act in an orderly manner.
"Lord Bishop, the Eastern Front has reported that several of Brett's legions have secretly infiltrated our territory. "On the way to the western entrance to the Santo Tomar Mountains, Iss received news from the fortress.
"Which side of Brett's legion?" asked Iss.
"The royal army's Ares Legion, part of the Chen soldiers border, part of the territory of our territory. β
"Inform Xue Ning, strengthen the defense of the provinces around the fortress, find out their intentions, and if they continue to penetrate deep into the territory, let Xue Ning make their own decisions, and if necessary, they can be secretly killed. Isslet the herald immediately inform the Eye of Tallow and her quinine Edelweiss army stationed in the fortress of her intentions, and this account was remembered by Iss, Blatter's change must have something to do with Brett's royal family, and at this time he risked going deep into the territory of Red, for fear of bad intentions.
Along the way, Yi Si found that there were a lot of Blat, but they were all the lowest, the southwest battalion was easy to attack and difficult to defend, and the Turing Pass on the west side of the camp was the real defense artery, and he had not seen any officers of Blatter yet, indicating that a considerable number of high-level Blatter had entered the Turing Pass to go to Tiracus, and she could only divide Blatter into three parts first, so that they could not reinforce each other, and then break them one by one after occupying the southwest camp. Now she is most worried about the deputy commander of the Fourth Legion, the Berserk Krone, if he has personally led the army into Turing, then the front-line soldiers will inevitably encounter the Berserk Legion under him, then it is not ordinary soldiers who can resist, now the only way is to stabilize the rear first, completely cut off the supply of the Fourth Legion of Blatter, and then go to the front line.
The various barriers of the southwest camp were quickly taken back under Cologne's incessant attacks, but they also paid a lot of price, although they were some low-grade Blat, but their strong bodies and hard skin that were different from humans made it difficult for ordinary weapons to hurt their vital points, but with the help of the breath, soon the Blatter on the periphery of the camp was cleared, Cologne reorganized his men and horses, and continued to attack the camp, but he just crossed the gate of the camp and found that there was already a whole neatly lined army waiting in the camp, this legion was different from those on the periphery who only knew how to kill Blat, they were fully armed, the division of labor was clear, infantry, assault troops, and flying soldiersThe supply corps is clearly hierarchical, and it is already a high-level corps with mature training and good combat effectiveness.
"Humans, stupid humans. The commander of the legion stood in the center of the army, looking at Coren and his army with disdain.
"Bernatham!" Coren recognized the Blatter commander, Bernatan of the Third Army, known as the Red Devils in the Fourth Legion, and in addition to the regular soldiers, there was also a very powerful Blatter squad that used the red breath.
"Come on, turn into a revenant in the wrath of the old gods!" Bernatan raised his Blat's fangs to make a greatsword, raised his head to the sky and roared, his whole body exuding a scarlet aura, and the entire army instantly seemed to be activated, and all of them roared and rushed towards Koren and them.
"Charge!" Coren was not to be outdone, carrying his long sword to the inside of the camp to kill, behind him black, blue, red, white various breath skills instantly bombarded in the Blatter army formation, a large number of Blat's vanguard troops were burned to ashes, through the cover of the breather, Cologne's army kept impacting Blatter's formation, and soon the front row of infantry was slaughtered, the trumpet roared, Blatter's charging troops continued to rush and kill under the increase of red breath, like a loose beast, and the hard impact was blessed with the vanguard of the white defensive breath, the two legions were so deadlocked, once the wounded were immediately replaced, the sacrifice in the rear was immediately treated and recovered, and then re-toppedγ
Suddenly, a squad suddenly appeared from the back of Cologne's troops, it was the red breath troops he had never seen, this group of Blats was able to use the red breath skills, and suddenly the sacrifices in the back row were threatened.
Sure enough, unlike those low-level Blatters, who knew about sneaking up on our back-row healing troops. Coren thought to himself, but he had already prepared, when they approached the sacrificial troops, the black magic circle that had already been prepared lit up, in order to prevent a sneak attack, he let all the black breathers and sacrificial cloth weaken the magic circle before attacking, under the weakening of the black breath, their red breath skill priests can easily deal with it.
Seeing this, Bernatan's original blue-green eyes turned blood-red, and he rushed into the crowd with his skeletal giant blade, constantly slashing, Coren did not show weakness, he came to Bernatan with his sword, and released his own red aura, and for a while, the two red auras collided, and the corpses within dozens of meters around them were instantly evaporated, and the tearing sound like thunder was endless.
"Crimson Blood Blade!" Bernatan exclaimed, the pale and gloomy bone blade in his hand turned scarlet blood in an instant, and he picked up the giant blade and slashed down at Cologne's shoulder.
Level 7 Red Breath Skill, this Blatter in front of him was so terrifying, Coren saw this and immediately rolled sideways to dodge this blow, and where the blood blade fell, the ground exploded.
"Crack and slash!" Cologne, who got up, slashed diagonally with a long sword in his hand, the same red breath skill of breath, Bernatan didn't dare to take it hard, and he also turned over to dodge, and the two fought each other in close quarters in the crowd, and it was inseparable for a while.
This battle lasted until the night, the Cologne legion with a large number of sacrifices and breath gradually gained the upper hand, the Blatter in the camp was almost half lost, but they still kept rushing forward to kill, suddenly a long howl, Coren stood on a high place with Bernatan's head, Cologne's face was covered with blood at this time, his eyes were red at this time, and he saw that his commander was killed for a while, and Blatter, who had lost the blessing of the breath, fled one after another, Cologne ordered to chase and kill, clean up all Blatter in the southwest camp, and leave no one behind. At this time, the main force that crossed the Winter Rin Fortress had also blocked the entrance to the Turing Pass on the west side of the southwest camp, and the two armies were encircled, and Blatter in the southwest camp was tortured and killed.
In the middle of the night, after the battlefield was counted, Coren looked at the casualty figures in his hand, more than 20,000 of the Red Army were killed, 300 of the sacrifices were lost, about 500 of the breathers, and the third army of Blatter was completely destroyed, including the commander of the third army, Bernatan, a total of more than 170,000. This number made Cologne's heart sink, this is not Blatter's elite troops, most of the 170,000 miles are some low-grade Blat, but his own side has lost more than 20,000, if it is not for the support of the main force, the casualties are unimaginable. Coren transcribed the list of the casualties one by one, and when the battle was over, he would be buried in the Heroes' Mausoleum with his own hands, these are the heroes who shed their blood for Red.
Just after a big battle, the snoring of soldiers sounded everywhere in the southwest camp that was still fighting during the day, and when he walked out of the camp, Coren looked at the fellow soldiers who collapsed on each other's bodies, many of them didn't care about the blood all over their bodies, and they didn't have time to take off their military uniforms, and they fell asleep, they understood that the sun would rise tomorrow, and it would be another day of life and death fighting, Coren sat quietly beside them, quietly looking at the starry sky, and thought in his heart: When will the people of Red really enjoy peace.