In addition to the warships, there were more than 100 clippers, and the loss of the number of sailors also reached nearly 10,000, and if it were not for the cooperation of the coastal defense ships to rescue the sailors who had fallen into the water, this number would have been even greater. Charlie, who was still worried that it would be easy to send God, didn't need to send it at all, and the fleet of the Second Army would withdraw from Fuxing Port, where the shipyard was not yet perfect, and it was difficult to quickly repair the battleship. Therefore, when reinforcements from the First Legion fleet arrived, it was time to take the Second Legion fleet back to its original home port.

The two successive hard-hitting and violent collisions also caused varying degrees of damage to the warships of the Fuxing Fleet, especially the No. 2 battleship was also hit by the opponent's battleship on the port side, but fortunately, the opponent's speed was slow, so it did not cause the consequences of ship destruction and death. Therefore, the revival warship also needs to stay in its own backward shipyard and rest for two or three months.

Although it was a disastrous victory, it was a victory after all, and the morale of the troops of Fuxing City and Colenva was high, and with the support of the sea lifeline, they could finally concentrate on fighting the land defense battle with each other.

The busiest post-war man, in addition to the shipyards, was Daniel and hundreds of new magicians borrowed from Rainbow Island. Daniel watched the wounded being carried down one by one from the harbor, busy directing the magicians to treat them in time. The newly built unfinished Magic Guild became a field hospital, and Daniel became the director of the field.

"Nicole!" Daniel pointed to these injuries and said with a wry smile, "I didn't expect that the three of us would take different paths, I envy you, but I am also worried that you will become one of them one day!" I doubt that I've been with Delonso for a long time, will I become an anti-war person, haha! ”

"No one wants to see war, to see casualties and deaths!" Nicole laughed, "Higg and I have blood on our hands, I hope you will keep that pure heart as always!" ”

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The victory in the naval battle solved several big problems, one was the problem of the survival of the fleet, and the other was the problem of the safety of the shipping routes; Third, the possibility of a beach-rushing landing in the third theater has been ruled out. Therefore, Fuxing City, which did not directly border the Arad forces, sent 40,000 troops to its own coalition base - Misland City, led by Charlie and Rogson, and the Magic Guild also provided a hundred magicians, accompanied by a large amount of baggage supplies. These forces are already the greatest ability that Fuxing City can take out at present, everyone understands the truth of cold lips and teeth, you can bargain at the negotiation table, but if you really want to go to the battlefield, you must not be afraid and delay the fighter.

Colenva didn't make it too difficult to revive the city this time, and let all the 40,000 as a reserve force, with Rogson in full charge, and Shante was still the intermediary contact.

The main defensive area was three, the first was a fortress forty kilometers northeast of Maslet, the capital of Al-Andalu province, from which it was unlikely that the Third Army would attack, but there it was certain that it would send troops to make a feint and contain the forces of Colenva, where he placed fifteen thousand defenders.

The second area is the eastern plains and hills between the city of Misland and the city of Maslet, most of this area is village farmland, the terrain is flat, it is the famous grain producing area of Aylasia, the defense line of this area is more than ten kilometers long, the transportation is developed, the enemy's main attack site is difficult to determine, it is an obviously easy to attack and difficult to defend terrain, Colenwa personally led 80,000 people to deploy here, demolished all the bridges, and set up many obstacles on the road. Most of the farms in the south are paddy fields and fish ponds, and the rivers are densely packed, unlike the plains in the north, which greatly reduces the mobility of the army here, which is why this area is worth defending.

The third area is the old battlefield, the Marshall River Resistance a year ago, and the bones are still sinking at the bottom of the river. The Marshall River was probably the second main battlefield, so Colenwal only deployed 25,000 men here, although it was the same as the number of troops that Higg was defending at that time, but at that time Higg was bringing new soldiers, and the quality of Colenwal's army was much stronger than Higg's troops at that time.

The rest of the place was either forests or high mountain cliffs, which were not suitable for a large army attack.

The other 20,000 people in Colenva were scattered in various key positions on the east and west sides, so except for Rogson's 40,000 elites of Fuxing City, Colenva did not leave any reserve troops for himself.

The importance of Fuxing City's powerful military manufacturing industry was revealed, and workshops with sufficient raw materials were constantly sending equipment, weapons, and baggage to the front line every day.

Colenva requisitioned a total of 20,000 craftsmen, 200,000 men, and more than 20,000 wagons and ox carts to participate in the defense and logistical support, which was also the advantage of the defending side. As long as supplies are continuous, and raw materials are continuous, Colenwal is 50 percent sure that he will be in this area with the enemy for two months, and at worst, at most abandon the long defensive line, abandon the city of Marsert, and redeploy only along the Marshall River to the north and east, trading space for time.

A few days of drizzle, which is normal in the south, and this kind of rainy season, not to think of a few sunny days in a month, caused great trouble for the march of Samp of the Third Army. Colenva and Fuxing City have the right time and place, and Sampu has a large number of soldiers, and no one can say whether they will win or lose without a fight.

On the fifth day after the end of the naval battle, the first to be attacked were the forts in the northeast and the Marshall River Danger. Unsurprisingly, Samp's fort in the northeast was a feint, but at the Marshall River it was a 150,000-strong man. After two days of tug-of-war on both sides of the Marshall River, the Third Army saw that there was no possibility of a breakthrough, and the two sides gradually entered a state of confrontation.

The main battlefield was finally placed on the eastern plains and hills between the cities of Misland and Masult, and the commanders of both sides coincidentally chose this place as the venue for the decisive battle.

The muddy road prevented Samp's baggage from reaching the battlefield on time, but Samp, who was bent on a quick victory, couldn't wait to start a tentative attack.

The traffic here has been completely destroyed by Colenva, coupled with the dense river, Samp's army has been blocked in this area, and the sappers who repair the road need to brave the strong arrows of the ballista and the stone bullets of the catapult, so the progress is slow, and the griffins in the air on both sides are not fully deployed before the ground forces, the main task can only be aerial reconnaissance, and occasionally there will be air chase and fight, but it has not formed a scale, and Colenwa is not willing to fight with each other for the time being.

Although the baggage troops had not yet arrived, Sampu was five times the opponent's strength here, which still made Kolenwa feel a huge pressure, and he could only block the attack layer by layer, trying to slow down the enemy's advance as much as possible, and consume time.

Arad gave Sampu only two months in total to annihilate the Kolenwa Ministry and Renaissance City, so Sampu had to trade the lives of his soldiers for time. In this muddy area crisscrossed by rivers and damaged roads, the 3,000 ballistas provided by Fuxing City played a huge role, and Sampu forced a breakthrough for five consecutive days, with tens of thousands of casualties every day.

Samp's army of more than 100,000 men continued to advance with the dead bodies of soldiers, and the Ballista and Catapult positions in Kolenwa were forced to move backwards every day, and on the morning of the sixth day, Samp's baggage also reached the battlefield. The two sides engaged in a long-range war of attrition between ballista and catapult against catapult. At the same time, Samp's absolute superiority in forces began to move forward, and the pace of advance accelerated. After two days of long-range attrition and troop advances, Samp finally broke through this muddy and waterway area and came to a real hand-to-hand battlefield between the two sides.

It was an open, saline land that was not suitable for farming, so there were no paddy fields that made it difficult to march. But Colenva had already used more than a month to build a large number of wooden arrow towers and nearly ten trenches here, the trenches extended from south to north, and the infantry could freely climb over the trenches, but the cavalry and baggage were much more difficult.

Colenva placed a large number of spearmen and halberders in the trenches, three thousand cavalry were arranged between each two trenches, and each arrow tower was arranged with a dozen crossbowmen, although the cavalry was not easy to cross the trench, but between the trenches the north-south direction could be unimpeded. If the first trench is lost, the defending infantry in the trench can easily return to the second trench.

It took more than a month to complete the defense line of Colenva, which took more than 100,000 men and more than 10,000 craftsmen, and even if Samp could pass it, it would cost him a huge price.

Samp's infantry could cross the trenches, but they had to face the double suppression of the turrets and cavalry, and the first temptation left Samp with thousands of corpses, and had to suspend the attack, and began to send sappers and shields to cooperate with the backfill of the trenches, while the baggage troops destroyed the wooden turrets at the far end.

Not to be outdone, Colenva catapults and ballistae were specially paid for the opponent's engineering troops, coupled with the cooperation of the arrow towers, the spearmen in the trenches and the cavalry on the trenches, which gave Sampu a great headache, in this kind of fortress-like defensive position, there was no space, and no amount of troops could be deployed.

When the drizzle faded away and began to rain every day or every other day, both sides of the Marshall River knew that summer was coming. There are no unpleasant rainy days, sunny days and showers are the greatest boon for the attackers.

The soldiers on the west bank of the Marshall River felt more and more the pressure of the other side's attack, and the banks of the river were full of corpses. The attacking troops on the east bank of the river, day and night, and without distinction of the main attack, feints on a six-thousand-meter defensive line, constantly forced their way across the river to the west bank of the river, as if to fill the Marshall River with corpses. In less than a year, the Marshall River was once again stained red.

The soldiers on the west bank of the Marshall River are not because they can't resist, but because the other party simply has more people and bullies less, and they don't give you time to rest at all, and if this continues, everyone will die of exhaustion sooner or later.

Shante had to throw 10,000 reserve troops and 50 magicians into the Marshall River, and at the same time allocated 50 ballistas, 50 catapults, and more than a dozen arrows to the Marshall River defense line. Since the other party has exchanged his life for position, he will use money for time.