Since the end of Emperor Karl's speech, the entire continent has entered a state of combat readiness, during which some people raised the question of why not send a large army to smash the Yellow Dragon, directly supporting the battlefield in the Chaos Wasteland, this question was immediately rejected by all the staff, except for the soldiers of the empire who believe in Sigmar, the rest of the races simply can't withstand the corrosive impact of the chaotic breath, and can't fight for a long time, if they really want to enter the Chaos Wasteland, the emperor ** team is fighting alone, not to mention, but also by the crazy attack of the Norsca and the troll army, That's not as simple as being attacked by the enemy in the back, how many troops will go in at that time, it will be meat buns and dogs, and they will never return.

At the same time, the Empire's armies began to converge on the five fulcrum cities of the Great Wall, where they would begin to defend the entire Great Wall, from north to south, the only coastal city of Norden, the closest to Kislev City, von Raulken Castle, the only road from Kislev to Ostmaq Province, Ottoman City, the second largest city in Ostmäv Province, and Waldenhof City, the easternmost province of Vampire Eastern Silvania.

In addition to Waldenhof City, the remaining four fulcrum city empires will deploy 800,000 troops (land and ranged troops), except for 500,000 regular troops, the remaining 300,000 are all composed of excellent militia, and they will be supplemented with any unit in the future. The five cities were not all commanded by the Empire, with Norden and von Raulken Castle being defended by the Empire, Ottoman being dominated by the Dwarves, Waldenhof being the exclusive preserve of the vampires, and the nearby Gubar Mountains being given full control to the Treants.

As for Bretonnia and Tyrell, two countries with long coastlines, they simply can't send another soldier, although the border prince has supported 200,000 troops to the two countries, but it is still a drop in the bucket, this is really because Bretonnia is very damaged, there are not so many people to arm, even children who have reached the age of fifteen are issued weapons at the first time, so Zhang Hao can only let Grimug wait on the border of the southern wasteland, if he enters the two countries at this time, it will inevitably cause panic, Therefore, we can only stand still for the time being and continue to recruit more tribes to prepare for war.

Now in the entire area of the Great Wall of the Empire, there are 1.5 million allied troops of various clans (including the undead army of the Bal Mountains but not counting the vampires), the total number of reservists is 3 million, 500,000 in Bretonnia, Tyrell, and the Prince of the Border, and 800,000 in reserve. There are 50,000 new strongholds of wood elves along the coast of the Southern Wasteland, and there are no reserves. Now more than eight million soldiers across the Imperial Alliance are waiting for the moment when darkness falls.

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Three months later, Slughof Fortress, Petrov looked at the official letter in his hand with an angry face, this letter came from his superior city Osdrosk Fortress, although I don't know if it was written by Holden himself, but the content on it was the same as dozens of previous replies to it, refusing to provide the Slavkhov Fortress with the necessary food and cold materials that need to be replaced, in the north, a perennial frozen place, no meat, no wine, no cold clothing is simply not able to continue even the minimum life, The food here is ten times the price of other local vegetables, but relying on the various rare animals and plants in the forest, you can still eat it a few times a month, plus the supply from the southern provinces, there is still a rare shortage of materials in the northern provinces, but this kind of thing happened to Petrov just a month and a half ago, after there were no more animals in the frost forest.

All kinds of signs show that the war is approaching, but no matter how elite the soldiers are unable to fight hungry in this cold weather, the cold weather will not only affect the soldiers' movements, but also make their thinking sluggish, and once the war breaks out, the soldiers who expose their bodies to warm clothes are easy to frostbite, especially the hands, once the treatment is not timely or there is no good environment to cultivate, then the soldier will basically lose combat effectiveness. So when he sent a letter to the Osdrosk fortress for the tenth time, Petrov showed that he had admitted defeat, and at the same time asked nearly a thousand residents to go with the letter, hoping that Holden could take them in first, but unexpectedly, Holden drove them back without even opening the city gate, and the letter was passed by the hanging basket on the city wall, and the residents who had no choice but to endure hunger and return again.

The content of the letter ordered him to hold the fortress, and did not order anyone not to leave, once it was found that it was punished as treason, just when Petrolev wanted to contact the palace directly through the communication crystal, the court took the lead in sending an image, strongly condemning Petrov's idea of escaping, and also ordered him to hold the fortress until the last moment, otherwise all the people in the fortress will be punished for treason, Kislev's treason is not just as simple as killing your head, they will take off your clothes and drive you to the ice and snow, let the giant bear prey, And whether you live or die, you and your family will have a sign of shame engraved on your face, even children.

After the palace envoy finished speaking, he turned off the image without giving Petrov any chance to defend himself, which made him fall into despair, how could Holden, as a prince, have no one to take care of in the court? Unless he went directly to the palace to meet the king, with the communication crystal, his words could not reach the king's ears at all. If he was the only one, it would be easy to say, it would be a big deal to run directly to the empire, but now there are still 50,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of residents in the fortress, and they believe that Petrov stayed, so after a short disappointment, Petrov reinvigorated, on the one hand, he sent his soldiers out to look for food, on the other hand, he asked for help from other cities, and after he was trusted to let people take it, the reply came from the Osdrosk fortress, and Petrov's people couldn't even go out of the fortress at all, and they were completely controlled by Holden.

Non-violent non-cooperation, Holden faced dozens of replies from Petrov, and always insisted on replying to the letters, but he just did not give any support, and threatened Petrov that if he dared to take people out of the city, he would be attacked immediately, which made Petrolev really have no choice, the warehouse was empty, and the only food was all distributed to the residents, and the soldiers who went out couldn't even bring back a bird feather, so they could only eat leaves every day to satisfy their hunger (northern vegetation, similar to pine trees), you said that if this Holden ignores it, then Petrolev also has an excuse, But he replied to every letter seriously, but in addition to all kinds of nonsense, it didn't mention food and supplies, which gave Petrolev some hope, and made him always think that Holden was just angry, after all, the Slavhof fortress was full of elite soldiers from the north, so it would be good for him to vent his anger, but every reply ended in disappointment, and it took until the time of the Chaos invasion three months later. Read the latest chapters, stay tuned