Beacon fire burned throughout the western part of Byzantium, and death enveloped the entire western part of Byzantium.

After Beamon Emperor Iorio led his army into the western part of the Byzantine Empire, the first point of the army was the Syndicate, the most important city of the Byzantine Empire in the west, known as the 'Pearl of the West'.

Since the battle plan of the orc army is to first capture the city of the Syndicate with all its might, and obtain the supplies in the city. Therefore, after the orc army invaded the western part of the Byzantine Empire, most of the cities in the western part of the Byzantine Empire were not actually affected by the war, and in general maintained a peaceful and peaceful situation.

However, everything changed when General Rasmussen, the supreme commander of the western garrison of the Byzantine Empire, mobilized all the military forces in the west and set up camp forty miles outside the Syndicate to stop the orc army from attacking the city, and the orc army was also thwarted in the attack.

Under the Syndicate, the orc army suddenly divided its 200,000 troops into four clusters and launched an attack on the three provinces of Maine, Gakison, Huffington and other cities in the Principality of Iberia.

The four clusters of orcs have passed everywhere, and there are no chickens and dogs, and there are no tiles. These four orc armies do not aim to occupy cities, do not aim to plunder property, and do not take captives and slaves of surrendered and captured humans. They do only one thing: destruction.

Destroy cities, destroy lives.

Every time these four orc armies captured a city, they immediately set fire to it and massacred the city's civilians on a large scale. Since almost all the armies of the Byzantine Empire in the west were gathered under the Syndicate at this time, the military strength of the remaining cities in the western part of the Byzantine Empire had long since become weak. The armed militias that organized themselves to defend the city were vulnerable to the wolf-like orc soldiers.

All of a sudden, the cities of the western Byzantine Empire were filled with smoke and blood. To avoid being slaughtered by the orc army, countless Byzantine civilians fled the city and became refugees. Most of the refugees fled in the direction of the Syndicate City, which was facing the strong pressure of the orc army at this time.

While the rest of the cities in the western part of the Byzantine Empire were plunged into an unprecedented catastrophe, the Syndicate, the brightest jewel of the western Byzantine Empire, the third largest city in the Byzantine Empire with a population of one million, was peaceful and peaceful.

The shops lining the streets of the city are still open for business. The streets are full of pedestrians and traffic, and people don't feel the atmosphere of war at all. Only the faint sound of long trumpets and rumbling drums from the place where the Byzantine army and the orc army confronted forty miles outside the city can make people suddenly remember that this pearl city is actually at the forefront of the war.

However, when refugees from all over the western Byzantine Empire began to pour into the Syndicate with news of the Orcs' mass massacres everywhere, the peaceful city began to become panicked.

There is no other reason than that, because there are still 250,000 orc soldiers outside the Syndicate City. Although under the strict defense of the 600,000 Byzantine army outside the city, the orc army seems to have no way to take the Syndicate City at present, and even the Syndicate City cannot be approached, but people are also thinking about what they should do in case the worst happens!

In the city of Syndicate, where the snow is beginning to shine, you can see citizens with worried faces talking quietly everywhere. Whether in a tavern, a teahouse, a theater, or just down the street, there is only one thing the townspeople talk about: the orcs slaughtering the city.

And in the Byzantine barracks outside the Syndicate, both soldiers and generals were talking about the orc massacre. However, unlike the anxiety and panic of the citizens in the city, the soldiers outside the city were full of emotion and blood.

Most of the soldiers here were natives of western Byzantium. After learning that their homes had been destroyed and that their loved ones had been massacred by orcs, these bloody men all fell into madness. Faced with the orc army not far from the camp, they desperately demanded to go to war to avenge their loved ones.

A Byzantine general walked out of General Rasmussen's tent in a rage. In the tent, General Rasmussen and several other Byzantine generals sat gloomily, and the atmosphere was very depressing.

The generals had come to ask Rasmussen to fight, but Rasmussen firmly rejected their request. A grumpy general even got into a fierce confrontation with Rasmussen because of this, and in his last rage, he threw his hand and left the tent.

"My lord, General Andrew's butler fled here last night and told General Andrew the news that General Andrew's wife and two sons were killed by orcs after the city of Lesotho was breached. It was also because of the anger and sadness in his heart that General Andrew was so out of shape in front of adults today. He didn't mean to ram your lordship, please forgive me!" a Byzantine general said kind things to his colleagues.

"I know I'm not going to take it personally. Rasmussen nodded slightly, but his face was still ugly.

"But, my lord, are we really going to continue to cower in the barracks? If we continue like this, I fear that we will even cause a mutiny! My officers have begun to be unable to suppress the soldiers who have been carried away by hatred. The soldiers also need an outlet to vent their hatred!" said the Byzantine general, worried.

Rasmussen's face twitched violently, and then he fell silent again.

Ten days ago, when he discovered that 200,000 orc soldiers had suddenly left here, a haze hung over him all the time. After that, the orc soldiers who remained here began to attack the Byzantine army camp day after day, although the orc soldiers attacked more and more times every day, Rasmussen was keenly aware that the orc soldiers did not attack with all their strength, and were purely bluffing.

Whenever the orc soldiers charged to the deep trenches and high fences outside the camp, a rain of arrows or a round of stones from the Byzantine camp immediately broke back. And several times, the orc soldiers are like this, and they will collapse at the touch of a button.

Rasmussen was at first puzzled by the orcs' behavior. Later, when he heard more than once a Byzantine soldier say the words "Orcs are nothing more than that" during a tour of the barracks, he realized that the Orcs were deliberately showing weakness and deliberately making the Byzantine soldiers underestimate the enemy.