After careful consideration, Yun Xiaohan still decided to give up continuing to go north and go deep inland, but turned south, returned to the coastal area, and continued to march southwest to capture the coastal cities. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The advantage of this is the convenience of transportation, there is no need to occupy too many troops of Yun Xiaohan to escort prisoners and supplies, and there is also a very important benefit, that is, it can reduce the pressure on the operation of Cassis City.

After this period of transshipment, Cassis City has hoarded a large amount of supplies at this time, but the supplies for the first three villages and a trading post have already been moved, and the materials in Cassis City do not know when they will be moved.

Although these materials have been transferred to Cassis City, as long as they are not transported to Cagliari City, they cannot be regarded as the actual capture of this battle, as long as the enemy recaptures Cassis City, these materials can be recaptured.

Of course, Yun Xiaohan could also choose to burn or destroy these materials, but that would be too wasteful for the financially struggling Duchy of Sardinia. And as long as the supplies are still in Cassis City, Nelson's Thunderstorm Legion and the main force of the fleet have to stay in Cassis City, unable to attack flexibly, which undoubtedly limits Nelson's play.

The most important thing is that although the location of Cassis City is not close to the front line, it is not particularly far, and it is very likely that the enemy will rush back after receiving the news, and Cassis City will bear the brunt of the attack at that time, so the sooner the supplies of Cassis City are moved, the less likely it is to be threatened by the enemy.

However, Yun Xiaohan did not regret transporting all the supplies to Cassis City before, because those villages were even more unable to withstand enemy attacks. And at this time, many civilians in the villages were already attracted by the material reward and ran to the city of Cassis to help carry the supplies. Although the additional civilians increased the transportation capacity, the requirements for the docks also increased, and the small docks in the village could dock too few ships at the same time, and the large number of people was useless, so the transfer of supplies to Cassis City was an inevitable choice.

Now that there is no shortage of manpower to carry it, Yun Xiaohan can't greatly speed up the transportation efficiency of Cassis City, what he can do is not to increase the transshipment pressure on Cassis City, and quickly capture another coastal city so as to open up a second maritime transshipment point.

Yun Xiaohan's troops marched towards the third coastal village they had captured, but when they were still about a minute and a half away from that village, a series of signals from the signal spell suddenly appeared in the sky above the direction of Cassis City. Although Yun Xiaohan couldn't understand these signals, didn't there be two military mages sent by Nelson beside him, they would be able to signal spells, so they could naturally understand the meaning of what this signal could represent.

The two military mages told Yun Xiaohan that there were two kinds of signals, one was a warning signal, indicating that a large number of enemies were approaching, and the other was a distress signal, hoping that nearby friendly troops would come to support. Now that they are deep into the enemy's hinterland, the only ones who can support Cassis City are Yun Xiaohan and the troops under his command, and this distress signal must be sent to Yun Xiaohan.

Just after a little hesitation, Yun Xiaohan decided to save Cassis City, although he said that he would not save it, with Nelson's ability, the Thunderstorm Legion and some of the troops sent by Yun Xiaohan to escort would definitely be able to withdraw to the ship before the encirclement, even if it was a little loss, the loss would not be too great, it can be said that it can be saved or not.

But there are still quite a lot of supplies in Cassis City that have not been transported, and the enemy will not stop there after taking Cassis City, they must continue to track Yun Xiaohan's department, maybe they don't have much advantage in terms of movement speed, but it takes time to attack the town and transfer materials, unless Yun Xiaohan gives up the follow-up raiding operation, there will be a battle sooner or later.

In this case, it is better to fight late than early, there are many Yun Xiaohan's troops in Cassis City, as well as Nelson's troops to help in the battle, and it is even possible to get the support of naval artillery, which is more beneficial to Yun Xiaohan's side.

The most important thing is that it is only 20:51 now, and the third act of the battle has only officially started for less than 1 hour, even if the marching distance in the battle has been greatly shortened, it is impossible for the 150,000 Shang Alliance troops on the front line to come back so quickly, so the enemy that Yun Xiaohan faced is a combined force composed of left-behind troops, and it is very likely that it is led by the city of Marset, plus several towns on the east and north sides of the Marset.

In the face of such a ragtag army, even if there are more troops than his side, Yun Xiaohan is still confident of fighting against it, so he immediately asked the military mage to send a signal to Nelson that they would go to support, and then Yun Xiaohan turned his troops and marched towards Cassis City, and asked Garibaldi to take back the large army of Red Shirt scouts and prepare for the next battle.

Yun Xiaohan's current position is not far from Cassis City, otherwise he can't see the spell signal, but even if it is not far, it will take 2 to 3 minutes to rush back, it stands to reason that with Nelson's ability and the strength in his hands, as well as the advantage of city defense, it is impossible for the enemy to enter the city in such a short time, but because he doesn't know the specific situation on the side of Cassis City, Yun Xiaohan is still a little anxious, so he took the fast-moving guards cavalry and the redshirt army to rush back first, and the redshirt Yun Xiaohan can't command, So Garibaldi had to accompany him, and Morris was behind with the main forces.

It took more than a minute, Yun Xiaohan and the vanguard troops rushed to a short distance outside Cassis City, the actual situation was better than Yun Xiaohan imagined, when they arrived, the Shang Alliance troops had not yet started fighting.

The east and south sides of Cassis City are facing the sea on both sides, so there are only two gates, the West Gate and the North Gate, Yun Xiaohan rushed from the west, naturally at the South Gate, while the Shang Alliance troops came from the north, but at this time most of them gathered at the West Gate.

But it's not surprising, the previous signal spell was so conspicuous, and the NPCs of the Shang Alliance are not stupid, seeing the two signal spells before and after, they also know that there may be imperial troops on the west side, even if they don't know the specific meaning of the spell signal because the spell signal of each unit represents a different code, but it's okay to take precautions in advance, and it doesn't take much time to move from the north gate to the west gate.

At this time, it is estimated that the Shang Alliance troops outside the West Gate are at least about 10,000 people, while Yun Xiaohan has less than 8,000 people in his hands, and the vanguard troops who arrived first are less than 2,000 people. Moreover, it is impossible for the Shang Alliance to put all the troops on the side of the West Gate, and in case of emergency, the North Gate side must also put at least 2,000-3,000 people. That is, the enemy's strength is probably between 13,000 or 14,000 men.