At dawn, looking at the dark walls of Blackwood City, Sir Karn could no longer tell what he was feeling like. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Glad? Exasperation? Guilty? Disturbed?

Probably both.

What made Karn feel that the world was impermanent, and he was originally ordered to lead the coalition army to the fir realm, with the goal of 'thwarting the intentions of the kingdom of Hindlaire in the fir realm and eliminating the legitimate successor of Florence, Count Ekra, and fighting for the rights and interests of the alliance'. The Alliance has always been dismissive of the threat of the Church of the Damned, which the Sindelarens have been emphasizing.

But after he came, it was the existence of the Cursed Church that led to the complete destruction of his legion; However, because of the Hindlaires, who were supposed to be enemies, an army was retained.

Scattered and scattered until now, with him, the alliance army that arrived in Blackwood City was only a little more than two thousand people. However, the proportion of elite troops is quite large, more than 300 silver and white knights, and almost the same number of silver and white guards, as well as two brigades of Victorian heavy sergeants. That's about 1,200 people. In addition, there were four brigades of ordinary soldiers.

As for the rest of the troops......

When he thought of this, Sir Karn, who was over fifty years old, felt a pang of sorrow.

Seeing that the city gate was wide open, he packed up his mood and rode his horse first.

Coming on a white camel was none other than the commander of the Sixth Legion, Lieutenant General of the Kingdom of Sindelare, Paland.

Paran opened his mouth first: "Sir Karn, I have long admired the great name. ”

Karn was ashamed: "The general of the defeated army, why worry about it. ”

Paran shook his head and said, "Not a war crime. But now is not the time for us to say more. ”

With that, he looked behind Karn and asked, "Now, behind you, how many troops are left of the Holy Alliance?" ”

Karn said in a dejected mood, "More than two thousand. ”

Palan's mood was heavy, and he said, "As far as I know, the coalition army you led this time should have fifteen thousand people, right?" What about the rest of the troops? Is it all down? ”

"We had nearly 10,000 people before nightfall, and after nightfall...... After nightfall I had no control over my army, and I was scattered with them, and the entire legion was under attack from the undead. Now, I don't know how many soldiers are still alive outside. ”

Palan hesitated, glanced at Firmino behind Karn, and said, "We can't sit here and do nothing. All calamities are easiest to solve at the very beginning of the outbreak. We should be proactive. ”

"Yes, I agree." Firmino stepped forward from behind and said, "The power of the Cursed Church has not yet swelled to its fullest, and if we waste a little more time here, one more creature will be killed, and the enemy's strength will be one more." ”

"Well, I agree." Ser Karn collected his feelings and said, "I will send my troops to fight with you. ”

"Sir Karn, your soldiers are exhausted, so take a break. It's dawn, and my main army is ready to go, so your troops don't have to join in the fun. You can rest in Blackwood and wait until after noon before you set out to support us. ”

Hearing Paran say this, Karn could only agree.

"Okay, that's it. Also, Firmino, you still need to provide me with intelligence support, no problem, right? ”

"No problem."

……

Bidding farewell to Karn, Paran led six thousand warriors to the southwest.

The reason why there were only 6,000 men was because the camel cavalry company sent out earlier had been fighting all night, and they also needed to rest. And there are another three or four thousand people, who will stay in Blackwood City - otherwise, if the retreat of Blackwood City is completely guarded by the Holy Alliance, Palan will not be at ease.

Although they were temporarily on the same side because of the same enemy, and the soldiers of the Holy Alliance were rescued by the Hindlailes and survived from the clutches of the undead, these words alone were not enough for Paran to trust them completely. Leaving a part of the manpower in Blackwood City is also just in case.

Four hours after he had personally led his army, at ten o'clock in the morning, Paran's army had encountered a small force of undead.

More than forty zombies, a squad of ghouls, and a low-level dark wizard.

When they were spotted by the scouts of the Sixth Legion, the undead had just entered a small village. The undead are slaughtering, and the low-level dark wizard is transforming the corpses of the zombies into new undead through a magic circle that has just been carved.

As soon as the news came back, Paran sent a team to wipe out this small group of undead.

However, despite this, they were not able to save everyone. A small village of about 20 families and a population of 100 has become fragmented, with fewer than 40 survivors. Half of those who died had already been transformed into undead, and were eventually killed by the soldiers of the Sixth Legion.

The undead are expanding faster than you think!

Obviously, after defeating the Holy Alliance's army yesterday, in addition to continuing to hunt down the Confederate soldiers, they also sent a large number of small forces like this, plundering everywhere, destroying more human settlements, killing more people, and creating more undead.

Centered on the battlefield where Karn's army fought the undead, radiating around, this large area, according to some data preserved in Blackwood City, probably had a population of more than 36,000 people, and was dotted with a few villages and towns.

No one knows how far the undead have expanded in the past night and almost half a day, how many human villages and towns have been destroyed, and how many humans have been transformed into undead.

Paran was worried.

After telling the rescued civilians that they could take refuge east in Blackwood City, he continued to lead his troops.

And as he progressed, bad news and good news kept coming.

To make matters worse, the undead are expanding much faster than expected. Even, around noon, the scout also reported that there was a town with a population of two thousand, which had been completely slaughtered by the undead, and at least ten low-level dark wizards, led by one or two intermediate dark wizards, were carrying out a large number of undead transformation rituals.

A company of human soldiers raided the place and repelled the undead, but not a single living person was found in the entire town. In the end, in order to avoid the plague and the corpse from being used by the Cursed Church, they had to clean up the corpse and then set the town on fire.

Of course, there is bad news, and naturally there is good news.

The Holy Alliance's armies don't seem to have been completely annihilated, and according to the scouts of some of the scouts who have been scattered, there are small groups of human armies that have been scattered and are still resisting.

It's an exhilarating thing. Paran immediately ordered the army to save the surviving human army if it was found that there were still human troops resisting.

The entire Sixth Legion moved quickly, and at about four o'clock in the afternoon, Karn led the Holy Alliance, which had already recuperated, and also joined Paran's army, sweeping away the raging undead in the southwest of the fir realm, saving the human settlements, searching for and rescuing the survivors of the Holy Alliance, and at the same time trying to find the main force of the Church of the Damned, hoping to completely control the situation.

……

On the 6th of July, after five days of fighting, Paran's army cleared the road to the place where the Holy Alliance had been ambushed.

In fact, from Blackwood Castle to here, with the speed of the army, it can be reached in less than a day. The reason why the Sixth Legion took five days was mainly because it took a lot of time to clear the undead and rescue the survivors along the way.

There is no trace of any living creatures in this place, and there are no undead spirits. Apparently, after that battle, the victorious Church of the Damned, after sweeping the surroundings, left.

And according to the latest reconnaissance information, the main force of the undead also shows signs of gathering.

To the west of the battlefield, in a place called Bear Town in the Kingdom of Pudri and the Fir Lord, a large number of undead gathered. Their number, at least more than eight thousand. At the same time, these undead seem to have begun to invade the west of Raging Beartown, which is the territory of the kingdom of Pudri.

The Kingdom of Pudri has received a letter from Sir Karn, confirming the existence of the undead, and the Church of the Damned. They should have reacted by now, but since Purdry had not recovered from the last war with Hindlaire, he had recently drawn another force, led by Karn, and was ambushed and destroyed. It is indeed a bit difficult for them to pull out another team immediately in a short period of time.

Pudri's Frontier Legion has already fought the undead. Although it has the upper hand, it has somewhat delayed the further spread of the undead legion.

After all, the power of the undead to invade Pudri does not seem to exceed five thousand.

In this way, the undead entrenched in Raging Bear Town should be a main force of the undead.

Paran decided to wipe out the army of the undead.

Kill these 8,000 undead, and then the Pudri people find a way to eliminate the 5,000 undead who entered their territory, then the cursed church should be able to effectively control the disaster in this place.

With this in mind, Paran did not stall. He quickly assembled the Sixth Legion, and with more than 7,000 warriors, plus Ser Karn's 3,000 men, he formed an army of 10,000 men, and on the 8th of July, he began to prepare for an attack on Raging Bear.

The wartime was not difficult, nor was it much smooth.

The undead troops in Raging Bear Town are quite numerous, but their strength is actually not very strong. Ghouls, like ghouls, and higher-level undead creatures, are not very numerous, probably less than two thousand. The rest, all of them are low-level monsters like skeletons and zombies.

On the day of the attack, Paran's forces captured the gates of Angry Bear.

In the midst of a step-by-step battle with the undead, two days later, on the 10th of July, his forces had captured the town hall of Raging Bear. There should be no more than three thousand undead left in the entire town, and I think it will take another day or two to complete the purge of Raging Bear Town.

And while the Sixth Army Corps achieved such results, the losses were not large. Of the seven or eight hundred casualties, less than three hundred were killed on the spot, which was not a bone-wrenching injury for a large army.

However, just when the dawn of victory was very clear, a bad news reached the hands of Palan - a large number of traces of the undead appeared in the Forest of the Four Wilds!

This is what the scouts of Blackwood City have detected!

The Forest of the Four Wilds, just north of the fir realm, leads to the dark jungle at the foot of the central mountain range.

This forest is an important source of timber resources for the Duchy of Florence and the Kingdom of Pudri. In these two countries, in the middle of this forest, a number of logging farms have been established.

And just two days earlier, just after the Battle of Angry Bear, several of the lumberyards that Fir Leader had established in the Four Wild Forests had lost contact with each other at about the same time. And after careful reconnaissance, at least twenty scouts were killed, in exchange for information about the undead riot in the Four Fields Forest.

An undead army of at least 30,000 or more, under the banner of the Church of the Damned, is about to rush out of the Forest of the Four Wilds, aiming directly at Blackwood City!

Paran's face turned pale.

He knew what the news meant.

The troops left in Blackwood City were only about 2,000 people. These are the elite of the Sixth Legion, but the numerical superiority of the enemies they need to face is simply too great! Blackwood City can't hold it!

Within three days, the undead were on the march of the city. How long Blackwood City will be able to hold out is completely unknown. In the worst-case scenario, it could fall on the same day.

And once Blackwood City is lost, the Sixth Army can be said to be cut off. At that time, although they will be able to clean up the undead in Raging Bear Town, there will still be undead in the west, and in the east, the army of the undead who emerged from the forest will inevitably come to trouble Palan after the capture of Blackwood City.

Under the attack from both sides, his Sixth Legion was locked in the western part of the fir territory, and there was no room for even a strategic turnaround, and there was bound to be only one end: annihilation!

Now, there are not many options left for Palan.

Keep fighting, clean up Raging Bear Town, defend it on the spot, and fight to the death against the undead heading west?

Or do you want to go west first, enter the territory of the Pudri Kingdom, find a way to open this road, merge with Pudri's army, and then find a way to deal with that army of the undead?

Or would you just give up the battle in front of you and head back to Blackwood City at full speed?

It's going to be a tough choice.