Chapter 457: Bad Situation
To King Rex's surprise, the Elok Empire was furious throughout the country at the declaration of war. Cecil suddenly felt a strong pressure on the front. The soldiers of the Arrow Empire on the other side turned out to be more and more every day. Soon the 5 knights on the opposite side were already in place. Moreover, in the process of increasing the number of troops, the other side began to carry out tentative attacks on the border. Cecil was outnumbered and forced to defend, and the mercenaries were overstretched. Very embarrassed.
The Elok Empire mobilized an unexpectedly large number of troops this time, and the declaring ones, who should have been underprepared, turned out to be the one who took the initiative to attack, and the Saurolan Kingdom, as the party that took the initiative to declare war, could only do passive defense, and this battle made Cecil himself very breathless. Now the other side is only making a tentative attack on the long front, and his two corps are exhausted. The other party is still increasing its troops, and once the other party attacks on a large scale, I don't know if I can stop this tidal attack.
Cecil hurriedly sent a message to the king, asking the king to promise his Golden Knights to come over as soon as possible, although even if the Golden Knights rushed over, the strength of his side was still at an absolute disadvantage, but it was better than nothing, and now Cecil was even a little lucky, King Rex let the Great Knight of Osmond as the commander of the Eastern Front defend It is not a good thing for him, please, such a long pressure on this front, if he picks the beam, he may not be able to bear it.
However, the news from the king's side made Cecil half angry, and the Knights of the Golden Radiance and the Knights of the Praetorian Guard were transferred to the central front of the province of Aikra, that is, the western part of the province of Samara, for defense, so King Rex appointed Cecil as the commander of the Eastern Front, and now he is in charge of all battles on the Eastern Front.
Cecil scolded his mother angrily, the king had a good calculation, and when he had nothing to do, he pressed a big butler like a boss on his head, and now the enemy soldiers pressed into the dark cloud cover but appointed himself as the supreme commander of the Eastern Front, and then did not send any soldiers to himself, and even wanted the resources of Samarra Province to resist the Eastern Front army of the entire empire of the El Luk Empire. Isn't this a fool's dream?
He didn't know that King Rex's pain was no less than him now, and the king's heart was also ten thousand points of resentment and anger, in fact, the king was not a reckless man, and before the war was declared, he had already connected the attitudes of many powerful nobles of the Arrow Empire, and they all seemed to be uninterested in this kind of war. To fight for the emperor, they can push and dodge, and if they can't dodge, they will symbolically send some troops, and with this attitude, King Rex dares to rashly declare war with the Elok Empire. As a result, as soon as war was declared, it was found that it was not the case at all, and the nobles of the Elluk Empire were as enthusiastic as if they had fought a chicken. Soon the forces gathered on the border were far beyond the Thorolan Empire. The king's forces were completely insufficient, so he had to tear down the east wall and make up for the west wall.
He saw Cecil's strength, although he was very jealous, but Cecil was still on his side, and now he could only transfer the Golden Radiance Knights to strengthen his strength in the middle line, because the middle line might directly face the most powerful Griffin Knights, the Dragon Eagle Knights and the Holy Sword Holy Knights, the three ace knights of the Ayluk Empire. Therefore, King Rex had no choice but to send all the troops that were originally prepared to deal with the major lords to the front, and further compromise with the major nobles and deputies in order to gain their support.
Cecil has been observing in the past few days, and the enemy's strength on his front has grown to more than eight knights, close to 50,000 people, and there are still nobles from the Iruk Empire from all over the country who have come to report. Even Cecil wondered why the nobles of the Erruk Empire were so concerned about the war this time to contribute to Emperor Roland. Maybe it was an agreement between the Grand Prince of Monshua and Emperor Roland, but this time the unity of the Elder Empire had hurt Cecil, and now he had ordered the troops to retreat to the rear. In fact, there is not much room to retreat, and if you retreat again, you will reach the line of the border city, and behind it is the manor of the Soloran Kingdom.
The Frontier City is not a place to be, and this fortified castle can be bypassed. Once they only left two knights to watch over the main force of the knights in the border city, and the other troops infiltrated the province of Samara to attack, the entire province of Samara and even the northeast of the kingdom were equivalent to opening the door, and all the doors were opened to the army of the Elok Empire.
Thinking of this, Cecil was so anxious that his head was about to be big, but he didn't dare to rashly go out of the city to fight with the other party, the strength of the two sides was too far apart, the other party's eight cavalry regiments were not only fully loaded, but also well-trained at a glance, they were all elite troops of the empire, and his two cavalry regiments, one had just been formed and had little experience, and the level was still very low, and the other had lost nearly half of the combatants in the kingdom's repeated fires and battles. Anne has started to train the mage army in the past few days, but with little success, Anne has made amazing achievements on the road of magic by relying on her talent, but she is not a good teacher, and she does not have much patience to guide those magic apprentices who are not even one ten-thousandth of her talent, and these apprentices can't even release a fireball technique for a month.
The entire border city is shrouded in a gloomy cloud at this time, if the enemy continues to squeeze his strategic space like this, the bad situation imagined before will happen at any time, but in the face of this situation, there is nothing everyone can do, Cecil is very confident in his ability to fight alone, but he can't challenge an army alone. Anne had also proposed to let Cecil take the two of her out to fight, she had mastered a lot of large-scale magic, which could inflict a lot of damage on a large number of troops, in fact, in this kind of battle, the so-called troops were instead dragged down by Cecil and Anne. But this opinion was directly rejected by Cecil. He went to great lengths to find Anne back in order to treat this girl who had paid so much for himself, not to let her be a thug for himself, although Anne was extremely powerful, but anything could happen in the battlefield, let her go deep into danger, Cecil would never want to do such a thing even if he died.