Spread out the "Domindun Morning Post", the headline content in bold is obviously bold:

"The victory of the Heishui River on the front line, the Domindun gentry celebrate!"

Lin An swept over at a glance, and the whole page was full of descriptions of which nobleman in Domindun donated how much money to the church, and which rich man opened the granary to help the poor, and what was really about the great victory, Lin An searched through all the texts under the subheadings, and only then did he mention one or two sentences in the speech of a retired government official who was transferred to another position-

The Teutonic Crusaders attacked Blackwater, an important port on the Blackwater River, and Perret's coalition forces were attracted to the attention of the Templar Knights, who led the Crusade to seize the river, and flanked the front and back, causing Perret to be defeated.

Perret's side suffered more than 5,000 casualties, the biggest victory in the two months since the war began—of course, as proclaimed by the Holy Empire itself.

But Lin An knew that judging from the real battle situation obtained from the Lancet side, this great victory of the Holy Empire was a little watery.

Perret's casualties were less than four thousand instead of five thousand, and the casualties of the Teutonic Crusaders and the Crusade would not be less than this number, after all, in this battle, Perret was on the defensive, and the Holy Empire was the attacking side, if it were not for the front and rear attacks, the Holy Empire's casualties would have been even heavier, and it was not surprising that they were one or two times more.

The real result of the Holy Empire's victory this time was the change of hands in Blackwater Harbor.

After crossing the river, the Holy Empire Crusade that broke through this fortress was faced with a plain with almost no natural barriers, and after crossing this plain, the Holy Empire Crusade Force would truly reach the border of Perre.

This situation disrupted Perre's military plans.

According to Lancet, he had scarcely time to rest for several days, and the young emperor summoned him for advice more than a dozen times a day.

"It's really weak, I only think about how to defend all day long, I don't want to counterattack at all, do you really think that if you keep the other party out of the gate, you can rest easy?"

In terms of the quality of the soldiers, the Perret coalition army is no worse than the Holy Empire, but the conservative thinking of the commander makes Lin An feel aggrieved for those soldiers.

With the complexity of the composition of Perre's coalition army, even Lin An, an outsider, could see that they were not the kind of fortitious and united city defense army that could resist the enemy with tenacity and endurance.

The nobles on Perre's side, including the new emperor, were not fools, and they were not unaware of this.

One of the reasons for this is that the main battlefield is in Little Perre, and the nobles of Pere have no pain, and in addition, Lancet also revealed the real difficulties:

In the previous civil war, the radicals who were bent on the main battle were almost killed, so the conservative forces in the coalition had the absolute upper hand;

Those conservatives were not interested in the war that could not take the land for themselves, and were unwilling to pay too much to defend Perret, not to mention that they still had doubts about Merlin and the two vassal states of Ponto and Ryan, and were unwilling to consume their strength alone, and wanted to wait for their allies to make a move.

The new emperor was far away in Dandong, far behind, although he had a lot of prestige, but the power of the upper echelons was still too thin, and when faced with this kind of situation beyond the reach of the whip, it revealed that he had the disadvantage of hasty succession -- too few people in the upper nobility were on his side.

And Merlin's reaction to slowly assembling an army also made Jupiter a little uneasy.

Although the young emperor's trust in Ranster, and the royal envoys' stay in Dandong, Jupiter did not doubt the sincerity of Merlin's alliance, but it did not mean that he would not be dissatisfied with it.

"Our esteemed Majesty Alabam should not think that if he throws his sons and daughters into the hands of the other party, he can empty the white wolf without a single soldier!" Lin An muttered to himself.

If the previous emperor's layout was ingenious and successful, then his subsequent actions were undoubtedly anticlimactic, wasting the balance that had already been dumped on his side, and Lin An couldn't figure out what the emperor was thinking:

"What is Merlin doing?"

……

Ice field.

A team of 1,000 people slowly moved along the edge of the ice cliff.

They were surrounded by mirror-smooth ice cliffs on one side, bottomless, wind-howling crevasses on the other, and narrow paths of less than three feet underfoot.

Crash!

In the cold wind, the sound of gravel falling suddenly sounded!

"Ahh Save-"

A dark shadow scratched at the protrusions and crevices that could be clinged to nearby, but the smooth ice was like the coldest murderer, mercilessly accelerating the runaway to slide deeper.

The huge ice crevasse kept rolling down the broken ice, and the caller for help had no time to shout out the full cry for help, and it had completely disappeared into the ice crevice!

The comrades who got along day and night died in the blink of an eye, and the soldiers who remained above were deeply frightened and uncertain, and the same bad luck befell others one after another.

"Ahhhh

One soldier was lucky, and after falling a few feet, he was stopped by a protruding ice rock and hung on it.

His comrades were overjoyed, and they were about to drop the rope to save the man, but they found blood foaming from the soldier's mouth, and a sharp ice spike peeking through his chest, and he saw that it was impossible to save him.

"Hansen!"

The cry of grief reached the front, and the middle-aged officer who led the army felt a pain in his heart.

Half a year ago, no one would have thought that in the face of the terrifying ice and snow undead army of the demons, they could only rely on the steep terrain and mountains to avoid the attack.

Otherwise, marching on the relatively flat ice field, the demons will only be haunted by the ice and snow undead, and they will be able to sneak into their close range and attack;

On the relatively sloping iceberg, the stiff bones of the ice and snow undead are difficult to climb, and they can easily detect approaching enemies from a high position, and since one of the staff officers of the Command Department proposed this method, the front-line troops have suffered much fewer losses when marching and moving than before.

The middle-aged officer felt heartache that these soldiers who endured the cold and held the line at the cost of their lives deserved to die on the battlefield of protecting the empire and die with the demons, instead of being so aggrieved and buried in the abyss of the ice and unable to find their bodies.

"My father died on the battlefield, and my son did not survive from the front, so what else do I have to fear?"

The middle-aged officer was already determined to die, this time he heard that the military situation on the front line was different, and there were signs of the movement of the demon undead army, as if there was a tendency to attack Ma Pei, so he immediately took the initiative to ask for battle and asked to lead troops to help.

Stick to the bridgehead for nearly a thousand years, the symbol of eternal standing in the hearts of the human race, bloody to sweep Ma Pei, must not be lost!

Suddenly, a voice came from ahead, "Ma Pei has arrived!" ”

Before you know it, the ice cliff has come to an end, climbing over the steep slope, the ice on the peak whizzes by, and the blue-black fortress appears far away from the end of the sight.

"It's finally here!" The middle-aged officer's heart was overjoyed.

Suddenly, his face changed slightly.

The snow near the fortress in the field of vision was slightly reflective, and it seemed that it was not static, but trembled slightly like the surface of the water, like a neat legion under the ice and snow, slowly approaching the blue and black fortress.

Of course, the middle-aged officer knew what such a sight represented, but he couldn't believe the facts in front of him, wondering if there was something wrong with his eyes, because of reflections and double vision.

Millions of ice and snow spirits make Ma Pei feel like an isolated island at sea.

“…… No, how could it be gathered so quickly, so much! …… Ma Pei, Ma Pei is finished! ”

……

Surrounded by the army of the undead, Mephissod was hidden among the countless undead, and looked at a steep ice peak behind him.

"What's wrong, Mephissord?"

"Boom, another pathetic worm has come to die, Your Majesty." Murphysold said respectfully as he said with respect to the image on one of the ice mirrors in his hand.

"Your army of the undead has blocked all the paths, has it come from the side of the Ice Peak? They are also venerable warriors, so give them a ride! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

A small group of the undead army had no effect on this million-dollar army of the undead, and when Mephisod ordered, he didn't even look behind him - the outcome would never be beyond his expectations, and soon, those people would also become a member of the demon army.

"Allow me to present you with a feast, the great emperor to whom I am allegiated—this fortress, where the blood of countless people of our people is buried, will henceforth disappear from this world to pay tribute to the heroic souls of our warriors!"

"Want to raze Ma Pei? You don't deserve it yet! ”

An old voice sounded in the wind and snow, resounding through the snowfield, "Even if you lure out the Azure Spear and Mourinho, don't forget that Ma Pei and I are in charge!" Mephisold, do you dare to come out and fight me? ”

"Doyev, stubborn old dog! Since this is your last request, I will grant your wish and let you be buried with this bloody fortress! ”

"Haha, Ma Pei already has a tomb of a legendary powerhouse, in order not to let it be lonely, Mephissod, you can accompany him!"

In the sky above the army of the undead and the fortress, there were powerful magic fluctuations at the same time, and the two old opponents entered a state of death battle in an instant without the slightest temptation, and the army of millions of undead also began a crazy siege!

……

On the east coast of Perre, Porto Oliferre.

A striking five-masted galleon slowly lowered its alum and sailed into the harbor like a gallant general.

Dressed in a long cloak of the floor, Lenster disembarked from the carriage at the reminder of the chief attendant.

The city officials of Port Olivere, who were clustered around the carriage, looked out of the way with interest, and Lenster happened to see André and the others, who had not been seen for a long time, stepping down from the dock.

Lancet hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, talking to Andre and Salin, who were at the helm, and carefully noticed Sidney's sudden movement of covering his chest with his hands in the back.

"Are you unwell, Sidney?"

"No, there isn't."

Sidney couldn't explain the sudden strong feeling of depression just now, if Lin An was there, maybe he would ask her to help with divination, because he seemed to be faintly uneasy in his heart, as if he had suddenly lost something.

"Ann has already told me everything about your journey to the sea, what you get from the island is very important, and the task of studying it will be entrusted to you, Sidney."

Because there are outsiders, even if they use vindictive spirit to transmit sound, Lancet is also vague.

Sidney's eyes lit up and he nodded slightly, ignoring the inexplicable sadness in his heart.

(To be continued) RS