Chapter 33: Desert Guerrilla, Ice Altar
Five days after the First Battle of the Emperor's Mausoleum, the Second Army and the Fourth Army arrived at the Emperor's Mausoleum.
Seven days later, a large reinforcement force composed of Chen Yin and many forces in the Valoran Continent also arrived at the Tomb of Emperor Shurima.
Poppy, who followed Chen Yin, took the Sixth Army under her command and joined the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Armies of the Valoran coalition army stationed here.
The crippled Third Army and the seriously wounded Zelos have returned to the desert logistics base of Oseth ahead of schedule with the logistics troops, and the Third Army will not cancel its number, it only needs to wait for another ten days for this army to be replenished with new combat power. Because in ten days, there will be a reserve army of more than 500,000 men here again in Osceth.
After the issuance of Chen Yin's Generalissimo Seal of the Coalition Forces, this newly recruited reserve force was received and confirmed by the Valoran Federal Assembly through the exclusive intelligence channel of the War College, and distributed to all the federations of the Valoran continent, including the newly declared Kingdom of Freljord, although this steppe kingdom has not yet been voted by the Valoran Federal Assembly.
Of course, this recruitment notice was also delivered to Demacia, which had been occupied by the Angel Legion, but this Demacia recruitment notice was different from that sent to Freljord, and it also included a personal letter written by Chen Yin to the Supreme Commander of the Angel Legion in Demacia.
Chen Yin has fought with several high-level leaders of the Angel Legion, and has also seen the attack methods of the angels, which are obviously two extremes with the bloodthirsty, dark and violent style of the Void Monsters, so Chen Yin boldly made a guess, if the Angel Legion came to the Valoran Continent and also to rule this continent, then they and the Void Monsters will definitely be friends and enemies in the future, as the saying goes, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, so Chen Yin's letter is also expressed in this concept, looking forward to joining forces with the Angel Legion, The two sides work together to encircle and suppress the species of Void Monsters, completely purify them from this land, and when the matter of the Void Monsters is resolved, everyone will rely on their own strength and means to fight each other.
However, Chen Yin did not completely pin his hopes on outsiders, after the recruitment notice was issued, his subordinate Valoran coalition staff office has received rapid feedback from the five federations, Noxus, Ionia, Yodel, Zaun, and Pitover issued a statement in response as soon as possible, and began to recruit troops in their respective countries, and the conservative estimate given by the staff office is that the Valorian coalition army will add 500,000 reservists.
At this stage, the total strength of the Shurima Void Front has reached 1.85 million, including 1.5 million people from the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th armies, 200,000 combined troops organized by various guilds in the Valoran Continent, four teams from the War College, 50,000 Dark Guard Legion, 50,000 Dark Arbiter Troops, 50,000 War College Escort Troops, and more than 6,000 mixed cadet troops composed of Grey Robe Guardians, teachers and students, with a total number of more than 150,000 people.
If the Third Army had not been disabled, and the 300,000 allied soldiers were still alive, the total strength of the Shurima front at this moment would have exceeded 2 million.
General Temo of the First Army, General Darius of the Second Army, General Victor of the Fourth Army, General Jace of the Fifth Army, General Bobby of the Sixth Army, two vice-presidents of the War College, Jax, Sun Wukong, Tyrone, Sivir, Tariq and others, the patriarch of the Bearren Clan, Volibel, the representative of the Bidrins family, the first family of the Pittover Federation, Kalmar, the leader of the Ionian Sacrificial Monks, Kalmar, the Assassin Alliance, Representatives of third-party organizations on the mainland, such as the Mage's Guild, the Adventurer's Guild, and the Mercenary Guild, all gathered together at this moment to conduct the most important pre-war mobilization meeting for the upcoming Shurima Armageddon.
The presiding officer and organizer of this meeting is, of course, the generalissimo of the Valoran coalition army, Chen Yin.
In order to ensure the victory of this decisive battle related to the fate of the Valoran continent, Chen Yin did not dare to slack off, and along the way, he deduced various marching plans and combat plans with the instructors of the War College and dozens of staff officers of the Allied Staff, especially the direction of the war after the end of the "Battle of the Emperor's Mausoleum".
At this pre-war mobilization meeting, Chen Yin explained the three plans one by one, and the main purpose was to let the heads of all parties attending the meeting fully understand and resolutely implement them. Although it is said that there are three operational plans, in fact these three plans can be linked together to form a general strategic framework.
It involves the strategy of decoy the enemy on the front line, the strategy of attrition, the strategy of encirclement and counter-encirclement, the strategy of defense and counterattack, the strategy of general attack after the replenishment of subsequent reserve reinforcements, and so on.
As for why there are three battle plans, this is Chen Yin's request, because the current Valoran continent is not monolithic, and these three battle plans are still aimed at the coping strategies of the two forces of Freljord and Demacia who currently have no information feedback, if the two participate in this battle, where is the attack area left for them, if the two do not participate in this battle, which unit will supplement this attack area, if the two not only do not participate in this battle, but also join forces with the Void Invaders to attack the Valoran coalition army, then if the general attack on Shurima is completed in the case of a two-front operation, these three general offensive battle plans have been detailed to the point that there is not a trace of detail missing.
The general attack was scheduled for fifteen days later, during which time the Valoran coalition sent more than 4,000 small teams to roam the desert area of more than 90,000 square kilometers from the Emperor's Mausoleum to the ruins of the Shurima Imperial Capital, searching for and hunting the Void monsters hiding in this area.
Each squad is equipped with 150 people as standard, and there are Pittover soldiers who are responsible for operating cutting-edge scientific and technological instruments, yodel soldiers who are good at tracking traces and laying traps, Noxus and Demacia soldiers who are strong at attack, Ionian monks and priests who are good at healing and powerful magical attack power, and Zaun alchemists who can provide various auxiliary potions to improve the warriors' attack power. The Void monsters that are searched will be exterminated by this squad, and if they encounter a large force of Void troops, these mobile squads can also retreat at the first time, because these squads are all equipped with various high-tech detection products.
After absorbing and summarizing the experience of fighting the Void monsters many times, the Pittover Federation has developed a new type of detection instrument, this hand-held underground detection instrument can continuously emit ultrasonic waves to the ground to locate whether there are lifeforms hidden under the ground, and the red energy mark of the lifeforms displayed by the detector can also see their number, so that the original advantage that the Void monsters can drill into the ground no longer exists; In addition, there are also flying probes that have made great achievements in the First Battle of Etistan, each team is equipped with five, enough to cover the area of 25 square kilometers around each team, and the search range of 4,000 teams has completely covered the area except for the ruins of the imperial capital of Shurima, so that the Void monsters can no longer carry out large-scale troop mobilization.
Every day, the headquarters of the Valoran coalition stationed in the area of the Emperor's Mausoleum would receive telegraphic information from various squads, and the information that some of the Void monsters roaming in the outer areas had been exterminated one after another was also compiled and submitted to the Combat Staff.
In seven days, these more than 4,000 squads have discovered more than 6,000 large and small Void monster lurking points, each of which has dozens to hundreds of Void monsters, and more than 400,000 Void monsters have been exterminated by the guerrilla squad. Of course, these coalition guerrilla squads were also damaged, but the number of casualties was much lower than that of the Void monsters.
Gradually, the number of Void monsters in the wild is getting smaller and smaller, and the vast majority of Void monsters are all crowded into the area of Shurima Imperial Capital Ruins in order to survive, which is also the ultimate goal of the Valoran coalition army, after compressing their activity space, at the location of the final battle expected by the Valoran coalition army, to completely destroy them.
The battlefield situation on Shurima's side, since Chen Yin arrived, has entered a completely controllable situation, and the final victory of the Void War is approaching step by step.
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On the vast Freljord prairie, a convoy stretching for more than ten miles, dragging a luxuriously shaped gold-domed round tent, is slowly approaching the border between Freljord and Demacia, where the Khachidon Mountains and the Serpentine River meet.
As early as a few days ago, a Demacian mission with tens of thousands of people had arrived here in advance, and the leader of the team was the first traitor of the original Demacia, Scott. He was ordered to meet with Queen Ash of the Kingdom of Freljord to discuss the preparation of the Temple of Light into the steppe to establish the Holy See.
Scott had the angelic legion of the Lord God of Light in the Celestial Realm behind him, and before he left, he sent a messenger to the Frjord Grassland to inform Queen Ash that as long as she moved to the border between Demacia and Freeljord, the two sides could use peace talks to solve some problems, and if she didn't come, then Scott would first let Freljord see the strength of New Demacia, or the Bright Realm, and then the two sides would negotiate.
The messenger who sent the letter was an ordinary human diplomat, but the diplomat who followed the diplomat to Freljord were ten angels, these angels did not merge with human bodies, but blatantly showed themselves in front of the grassland humans, and even when the diplomat knelt down to see Queen Ash, they did not have a trace of respect, just waved the wings behind them, and silently soared in the air, which was also a dismount for Freeljord. This plan also came from Scott, but with Gabriel's consent, the angelic warriors naturally carried it out unconditionally.
After the messenger and the angels left, an enraged Queen Ash turned around and smashed her favorite glass bowl.
She was like a mirror in her heart, this was not so much to send an envoy to negotiate, but to surrender, which was also a clear way to tell Ash that the current Demacia had fallen into the hands of more powerful forces, and if she knew each other, she would be ready to prepare, and come to the border of Demacia and Freljord in seven days to surrender.
However, since Ash slaughtered the Sejuani tribe and the berserker tribe and unified the entire Freljord savannah, she has obtained many secret treasures, one of which is said to open the "Icefield Altar" of Freljord, which has been silent for thousands of years, although it is a hole card, but it is an uncontrollable hole card.
Originally, she was going to use this hole card to bargain with the Valoran Federation Council and the War College in order to meet the crusade of the Valoran Continental Alliance, but now she has to use it in advance, even if the use of this hole card may bring uncontrollable results, it is better than relying on other people's snorts to survive in the future.
"Someone! Go inform the Great Shaman, get your hands ready, and follow me on my journey to the Icefield Altar! ”
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