General Kalinin's views were supported by Marshal Pavel, but the decision to abandon the line of defense along the river was too significant to have an unpredictable impact. After careful consideration, Marshal Pavel decided to submit the "Yelena Plan" and the "Kalinin Plan" to His Royal Highness the Regent for a final decision.

Early the next morning, Pavel received a reply from Roland. His Royal Highness the Regent's decision made him secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and his heart, which had been hanging all night, finally fell back into his stomach.

In the morning of the same day, Marshal Pavel summoned his generals and conveyed the supreme instructions from Krasbourg to arrange the retreat.

That night, with a roar that shook both sides of the river, accompanied by the flames that soared into the sky, the railway bridge that had spanned both sides of the river like a steel dragon for decades collapsed in the explosion that shook the night sky and the fire that soared into the sky! The shattered steel crashed into the river, causing waves to sparkle and disappear without a trace.

A hundred miles away on the other side of the river, the defenders of Fort Olevi were also alarmed by this sudden explosion, and immediately reported the anomalies on the surface of the river.

Just an hour later, on the east bank of the Turbid Lang River in the middle of the night, an orange teleportation pillar rose. General Franz Engel, commander-in-chief of the Reich Expeditionary Forces, accompanied by General Karl, commander of the garrison of the Olevy Fortress, and two young generals, Palatina and Bazel, visited the riverside.

The first thing the imperial generals saw was the completely blown up railway bridge, and the night shrouded in the river, floating with sporadic firelight, like endless fish lanterns.

Through the binoculars, the generals saw that the Far Eastern positions across the river were busy. Troops withdrew from their positions in orderly formations, blew up all the equipment that could not be taken away, and laid mines after the sappers broke off, leaving only thousands of empty concrete pillboxes, standing quietly on the snow, like a gray ruin, which made people feel extremely desolate in this season when the north wind was howling.

Engel, Karl, Bazel and Palatina, looking across the river at this moment, although their thoughts and thoughts were different, their hearts invariably filled with a chill.

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On the other side of the Turbid River, Marshal Pavel personally commanded the engineer regiment to plant bombs and blast the railway bridge. After confirming through the telescope that the bridge had been completely destroyed and there was no possibility of repairing it, he put down the telescope and picked up the magic guide to report the retreat to His Royal Highness the Regent.

Later that day, Roland received a letter from Marshal Pavel at Krasbourg, learning that the bridge over the Turbidity River had been blown up, that the garrison on the riverside had withdrawn on all fronts, that the defensive line had been reduced to the town of Lengxi, two hundred miles away, and that a temporary headquarters had been established.

Roland also specially told Pavel to pay attention to the ideological situation of the officers and men, to explain clearly to the officers at all levels and even to the ordinary soldiers the reasons why they had to shrink the defense, and not to demoralize them because of the temporary retreat. Retreating now is not a sign of weakness, but an attempt to gain greater room for detour in order to accumulate strength and strike at the aggressor more effectively.

Roland was confident that the tried and tested Field Marshal Pavel would be able to handle the ideological work of the officers and men at the front, and that with this calm and calm general in command, he was confident that the offensive of the Imperial Legions on the Western Front would not make much progress, at least until the end of this winter.

But then again, the thought that the Turbidity River Bridge no longer exists, Roland couldn't help but feel a little lost in his heart. When he escorted Archbishop Philip back to his homeland, and later on his visit to the holy city of Yashan, he passed by the railway bridge, which symbolized the actual boundary between the Far East and the Empire, on more than one occasion, and was deeply impressed by its grandeur and solidity. The collapse of the bridge meant that the Far East had completely lost the possibility of peaceful communication with the Empire, and all he had to do now was to mobilize all forces to resist the Imperial invaders from across the bridge until they were expelled from the Ulino Pass. After that, the kingdom of Kolas will be able to truly control the entire Far East, and the railway bridge that was destroyed today will be rebuilt, symbolizing the dawn of a new era.

From the perspective of an onlooker, Roland is overly optimistic about the prospects of the west bank of the Turbid Wave River.

Ever since the Assanian Empire openly declared war on the Far East on 12 February, tensions have reigned in the towns and villages from Krasburg to the rest of the country. As everyone knows, the Far Eastern government's long-planned southward campaign has just begun, and the Southern Army Corps, with the "Shooting Army" as the main force, has already assembled in the Crescent River Valley and is about to advance towards the Twilight Valley.

As soon as the southward campaign began, smoke was burning again on the Western front, and people from all walks of life in the Far East, including some senior cabinet officials of the Kolas government, could not help but feel worried about being forced to fight on both fronts. The governments of Hailan, Fei Zhen, and Bao Shihua are also closely watching the war in the Far East, while the self-proclaimed bystanders in the social and press circles abroad generally hold a similar view: Throughout the ages, most of the countries that have been forced to fight on both sides have ended in a complete rout, and the Far Eastern authorities should avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, decisively suspend the southward campaign, and gather all forces against the imperial army attacking from the Western Front.

In fact, not only did outsiders harbor this pessimistic view, but the top echelons of the Parnia and Canaan governments, who had participated in the southward movement, also doubted whether the authorities in the Far East would be able to stick to the original plan of operations. On the same day that the Imperial Government issued a declaration of war, Roland received letters from Lady Theodora and Colossa, asking him if he intended to postpone the southern campaign and transfer the Southern Army of Kolas to the Western Front for emergency.

Roland did not reply to the above letter immediately, and did not respond to the public until the morning of February 13 through the magic radio network, solemnly announcing that from now on, the Kingdom of Kolas officially declared war on the Assanian Empire, and would not give up resistance until the imperial invaders were expelled from the Far East!

This scathing declaration of war is enough to show the hardline stance of the Koras government led by Roland, and it also responds to the doubts of the outside world: the Far Easterners are capable of dealing with threats from both the Assanian Empire and the Order of Naro, and are confident of ultimate victory on both the Western and Southern Fronts.

Roland's declaration of war came just in time, and Canaan's allies with Parnia were relieved to advance to the Twilight Valley according to their predetermined battle plan. The Southern Corps of the Kingdom of Kolas, from the commander-in-chief Marshal Alexei to the ordinary soldiers, can also put their hearts back in their stomachs, and do not need to be distracted by the war on the Western Front, and focus on destroying the enemy in front of them.

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