Carlos' reinforcements had not yet entered the territory of Al-Andalú Province, and the southernmost defense line of the Fender River in the Fourth Theater was attacked by the full force of Guayada's 400,000-strong army. The position of the fourth theater was originally backed by the third theater, and it thought that the defense area was stable, so the troops deployed were not much, but I didn't expect that since the Xigenan expedition, the fourth theater was first requisitioned 100,000 people to the Luojia River Plain, and now the third theater is almost completely wiped out, and it is okay to lose the backing of the third theater, and it will send 200,000 reinforcements. was crippled once by the devil's sharp knives of Simak and Higg, and now he is not very elite. Now that the division of troops is being carried out with all their might, it is simply worse to be attacked by the Fifth Legion and the Second Legion of Guayada. But the Holy Command could not be disobeyed, and Aradler ordered the Fourth Theater of Operations to reinforce Samp, and they did not dare to disobey them in any way.

Arad was furious, having been disturbed by the Fifth Legion for many years, and now the Second Legion, which had been suppressed by himself for more than two years and did not dare to take the lead, dared to take the initiative to attack him, and in a fit of rage, he ordered the First, Second, and Seventh War Zones to attack Catherine's territory with all their might, in order to deter Catherine and warn her not to act rashly.

Unexpectedly, Catherine, who has always been weak, was very tough this time, and sent all her 150,000 Janissaries to Guayada to make up for the strength of the Second Army in order to deal with the aggressive offensive of the first theater of operations.

But Arad is now more than capable of strength, he knows very well that on the south bank of the Fender River, the disparity between the forces of the two sides is not large, and even at a disadvantage, and he is not fully prepared to launch this campaign, mainly to encircle and contain Guayada's forces with deterrence, to ensure that the Fourth Theater and the Third Theater can contain the Fifth Army in Andalu Province, and then send troops to encircle and completely destroy the main force of the Fifth Army.

However, Catherine was determined to fight hard with Arad this time, and in the face of Arad's attack, she did not back down, insisting on covering Guayada to send troops to reinforce the Fifth Legion.

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Carlos's 200,000-strong army marched south, and as soon as they reached the city of Masult, the forts of Kennier and Ludon in the north of Andalu Province were forcibly occupied by Luphasi and Noah.

Carlos didn't care, his 200,000 army, and Samp's 50,000 army had the city of Masilt as the backing, as long as he dragged the Fifth Army, waited until the 200,000 horses in the first and second theaters of war, bypassed these two fortresses, copied the Fifth Army from the northeast of Andalu Province, besieged the Fifth Army in Andalu Province, and then annihilated it in one fell swoop, it would be considered to have completed the grand strategic goal. If the main force of the Fifth Army is eliminated, it will be equivalent to unifying the north of Aracia, and as for Shante and Colenva, the people of the Arad camp do not pay attention to it at all.

After joining forces with Thomas's vanguard, the main force of Simaks's Fifth Army set up camp northeast of the city of Masult, echoing the city of Misland, and was not in a hurry to attack the city. Because many soldiers are prisoners, many armies are hastily reorganized, and they still need to be trained, especially the newly formed Chinese Guards Battalion of more than 40,000 people in Mevo, which has added elven archers and phantom shooters and some magicians, so that the previous attack method of the Bagua Array has changed from a single spear and spear attack to a multi-purpose attack mode, which still requires a lot of training.

Mastert City is the capital city of Andalu Province, with a population of five or six hundred thousand, the walls are high and the city is strong, the only drawback is that there is no magic guild, otherwise, the Third War Zone would have placed its base camp here a long time ago. Although Sampu collected a lot of supplies in advance and gathered in the city of Masult, the sudden influx of 200,000 people made the city of Masltt feel a huge pressure, and the 200,000 enemy troops stationed outside the city made the whole city deeply uneasy.

Sampu and Carlos were well aware of the combat strength of the Fifth Legion, and the two fortresses in the north were captured by the enemy, although they had more troops than the Fifth Legion, they did not dare to act rashly, so as not to be caught between the Fifth Legion and the north and south of Fuxing City. After entering the city, Carlos, after consulting with Samp, immediately reported the current situation of the two armies to Arad, hoping to get reinforcements and break the stalemate.

However, a few days later, the city of Mastilt received news that the first, second, and seventh war zones had launched a full-scale counterattack against Catherine's camp, and the first and second war zones reinforced their men and horses, and there was another mission, which could not be reached for the time being. Arad also ordered them to contain the Fifth Army Corps, hold out, and wait until the other theaters of operations have achieved strategic results before relieving them. Sampu and Carlos felt the pressure increase dramatically, because if there were no reinforcements, if the enemy's Second Army could break through the Fender River defense line in the Fourth War Zone and enter the province of Andalú, then the city of Masilt would need to face not only the men and horses of the Fifth Army, but also the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Second Army Guayada.

Therefore, Gomez in the Fourth Theater must withstand Guayada's attack, lest Guayada's army seize the defense line along the river and threaten the city of Masult, if the city of Maslete is lost, the Fourth Theater will lose not only the 200,000 horses that went to reinforce it, but also a large amount of territory, and even the entire legion may be wiped out by the combined forces of the Second Army and the Fifth Army.

Obviously, Marshal Gomez of the Fourth Theater of Operations was not prepared for the almost total annihilation of Sampo's Third Theater, because with the backing of the Third Theater, his troops in the southwest of Andalu Province were only about 100,000 people, which was originally enough to defend Guayada, but with the destruction of the Third Theater, this defense line would face the threat of the Fifth Army Corps of Andalu Province and the Second Army of Guayada, and Gomez had no time to make adjustments, nor did he have any extra troops to make adjustments.

Therefore, when Guayada's 400,000-strong army stormed the 100,000 defenders' positions at the southernmost tip of the Fourth Theater, the 100,000 defenders, who had no intention of fighting, withdrew their positions to the north and gave way to the Finder River defense line.

Catherine's sphere of influence once again bordered the province of Andalú, and even for the first time with the territory of Higg's Fifth Legion. Guayada's 400,000-strong army, along the Fender River, compressed the territory of the Fourth Theater of Operations, and finally occupied a small half of the territory of the Fourth Theater, compressed the Fourth Theater near the base camp, and then defended the Fourth Army to the north with 200,000 troops, and the other 200,000 troops came east towards the city of Masult to reinforce the Fifth Army.

At the same time, Guayada also paid a heavy price for his audacity, the division of the Second Army to fight, so that his own defense area was empty, Arad seized the opportunity to use the most elite first theater to storm the territory of the second army of Guayada, the entire defense area only left more than 400,000 people of the second army, had to shrink the defense, to the fourth theater of war to give up a large amount of territory, in order to concentrate forces, fortunately Catherine will be his own 150,000 Praetorian Guard reinforcements, only to gradually stabilize the situation, Catherine's original territory was compressed again.

The spring rain is non-stop, this is the unique plum rainy season in the south spring, which has caused great trouble to the armies of both sides, such ghost weather, muddy roads, and not suitable for both sides to fight, march, especially the crossbow chariots of the Fifth Army can hardly play a role, because the rain will make the bowstrings of the repeater chariots slacken and can no longer be used.

Catherine's camp and Arad's camp, after a month of deploying troops and attacking each other, finally stopped their movements for the time being, and confronted each other again according to the new sphere of influence, everything will have to wait until the spring rain of more than a month has passed.

The 300,000 allied Arad forces attacking the plains of the Rodja River have made no progress at all for nearly two months, and the fortresses of Owala and Giscol have crossbow chariots, which have long proven impossible to break through according to conventional methods.

Throughout the winter, a large amount of territory was lost, and hundreds of thousands of troops were lost, which made Arad particularly annoyed, and the results he achieved more than two years ago thought that the unification of Alasia had been secured, but he did not expect that it was a strong foreign force, and he was turned the tide by the Fifth Army, and everything was in vain. The entire court of Arad was frustrated that they had not completely wiped out Montgosa's Fifth Legion when it was infighting, which had led to endless troubles today.

Arad returned to the starting point almost overnight, and now he has no advantage in terms of strength against Catherine, and the loss of a large territory in the third theater has also made his territory not much more than Catherine, and because of long-term mismanagement, frequent volunteers from all walks of life, coupled with Higshante's constant attacks on the periphery, Arad suddenly felt that the situation was reversed in an instant, and the situation was extremely unfavorable to him. He finally paid the price for the mistakes he had made everywhere but did not completely solve his worries, and in the face of such a situation, the gap between the year before and after made the entire camp of Arad extremely frustrated.

The rainy season in the south was not suitable for large-scale operations, and the atmosphere of confrontation between the defenders of the Third and Fourth Theaters in the city outside the city was gradually subsided.

The most powerful crossbow chariot can not play a role in the rain, for more than ten days, so that the soldiers defending the city feel a lot more relaxed, this annoying return to the south of the sky, people feel that the body has not been dry at all day and night, uncomfortable, can not dry clothes, emitting an unpleasant musty smell, making people irritable, hateful, this nasty weather, at least twenty days, will usher in the sun's smiling face.

"Marshal, Sampu didn't trust me, removed me from the post of general, made me stand by in the army, and didn't allocate any troops to me, I don't dare to act rashly now!" In the city of Marsert, Acorin was in the barracks, and said to Higg, who had entered the city with the defeated army a month ago, "My headquarters has only 200 men now, and I can only barely open a city gate, and I won't hold on for more than five minutes, Lord Marshal, isn't it too risky?" There are 250,000 troops in the city, and even if there are many troops outside the city, there is only one city gate, which can't play too big a role! ”

"General Acorin!" Higg said: "Your night patrol is in charge of the southern city, then the south gate is in charge of you, the fifth legion is in the north gate, then the north gate is enough for me to open alone." We have made a thorough plan, the army outside the city is ready, and after the city gates are opened, we must enter the city within three minutes! We were taken by surprise, and as soon as the army entered the city, it would be difficult to close the gates again! General Acolin, if this battle is won, you will be the first to take the credit! ”

"I was originally a close confidant of General Elva, and the reason why I helped the marshal like this is not for any first credit!" Acorin said, "This is the surrender of more than 50,000 soldiers in Lobit City who have revolted and joined the Fifth Legion!" If this battle is won, I only hope that the Marshal will not have a grudge against Deputy Marshal Elva, and favor one over the other, Deputy Marshal Elva has already put the bet on Lord Marshal! ”

"As long as General Elva is sincere and obedient, it is too late for me to rejoice, how can I favor one over the other?" Higg said with a smile, "After this battle, Elva is still in the position of deputy marshal, in the same rank as Vice Marshal Simak, and all the soldiers are treated and equipped with the same treatment and equipment as other soldiers of the Fifth Army, regardless of you and me!" ”

"When to act?" Acorin asked.

"Based on your night watch!" Higg handed Acolin three magic scrolls and said, "Your night patrol may not be when you will arrive at the South Gate. It's best to act in the early morning of the day after tomorrow, two or three hours before dawn, after you patrol to the south gate, and immediately open these three scrolls, they will shoot three fireballs into the air, and the army outside the city, including me, will receive a signal, and we will act at the same time! ”

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