At the beginning of December, the first snow of the year arrives in all parts of the Kingdom of Rodland. Even in Konodia, there is a saying like "the snow is a good year", and the farmers are very happy about it, and they look forward to the snow water to irrigate the land for the next spring; Although the people in the city are not happy with the rain and snow, when the climate turns colder, as agriculture and commerce enter the winter break, fluctuations to other industries also shorten the working hours, the vast majority of people can get more free time, in short, the people of Rhodeland have always loved the winter when the snow is fluttering.

However, it is in this peaceful snow season that the nameless people who have broken free from the shackles and the figures who have emerged from the shadows are ready to move with one evil contract after another. They were buried in the snow, and before they knew it, they were approaching the unsuspecting people.

The war finally began at the moment when the storm swept through Rodland.

245 New Calendar, December 3rd -

The province of Neome, which borders the borderlands of Bald, has been snowing heavily for three consecutive days, and the snowflakes are flying in the icy wind, obscuring people's vision. Fort Krabog, which has been resisting Bod's invasion for many years, has to take shelter from the cold in the ever-expanding snow, and all the scouts scattered outside are recalled. In the minds of the Keeper of Fort Krabog, the snowstorm was the most effective truce, their reconnaissance line needed to be contracted, and it was certainly impossible for Bode's lawless bandits to attack in such weather. This is not the wishful thinking of the Guard, Sir Sir in previous years, when there was a natural disaster, both sides had never used their swords, and the soldiers of Claberg needed vision and protection from the cold, so didn't Bode's group of bandits need to? Moreover, the withdrawal of the scouts did not mean that the defense of Fort Kraberg had been reduced. The defender Sir is very confident in the current situation, but it is just a blizzard, and he can live his life as he wants.

He didn't think about it at all, but he didn't think about it, what if their enemy wasn't Bode?

That day and night, the darkness of the night and the blurred wind and snow were indistinct. Almost everyone was cut off from view, and even if they stood on the city wall with torches, they could only see a few meters away, and even the sound could not be transmitted from a distance. The bad weather made the guard Sir more vigilant, and he strengthened the defense of each level, just in case, but not long after the order was given, the first victim appeared-

Soldiers in thick cotton clothes and thick armor patrol the city walls. muttered about the rotten weather, and thought in his heart that he would go to the tavern to drink him three pounds and five pounds after his duty. At this moment, however, a gentle knock caught his attention in the howling wind, and the guards followed the source of the sound and looked beyond the battlement wall, thinking that it was snow or hail striking the city wall, only to be horrified at a glance. On the city wall, there were dozens or hundreds of white skeletons slowly climbing up the ice-filled wall. To make matters worse, they don't just climb on the edge of ice, but with a scythe instead of an arm that keeps plunging into the wall - that's where the sound of the thump comes from. The one closest to him suddenly raised its head and looked at each other, the skeleton grinning fiercely, and the guard was about to shout to draw his sword. Suddenly, a scythe blade slashed through his throat, blood gushed and froze quickly, and the guard soldier made a "ho-ho" sound and quickly fell.

At some point, another "skeleton" had already reached the top of the city. Silently standing beside the corpse of the soldier. It looked around, and with a wave of its claws, each bone joint moved with it, and the "skeletons" outside the wall immediately turned over and walked quietly towards the two ends of the trail.

No one noticed the soldier's death, because in just a few seconds, all the officers and soldiers guarding the city wall had died under the assassination of this group of "skeletons".

The same situation was played out simultaneously on the other side of the wall.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of guards were assassinated, most of them not even seeing the attackers, and some were sleeping in the sentry while waiting for their shifts, and the strange skeletons slashed their throats and never woke up. These skeletons, which assimilated an entire arm with a scythe, are called [Scythe Skeleton], and they are not cannon fodder troops, but a new type of assassin cultivated by the new Speaker of the Council, although they seem to be weak, but in terms of attack power and speed, they are no less than the backbone of Cronnais: vampires, coupled with their undead vision that is not affected by the environment, relying on the wind and snow that covers the sky and the sun as a cover, and soon, the two fortifications connecting the city gates have fallen, and the next development is like all wars.

The undead have invaded.

Countless skeletons, zombies, ghosts, ...... Rushing in from the gates of Fort Krabog, although some soldiers were shocked to ring the guard bell, but it was too late, the human beings who had lost the most effective defense measures could not match the massive number of undead, even if most of the places were just clumsy and fragile skeleton soldiers, but in such a harsh environment, the undead were almost unaffected, but the human soldiers were low in combat power because of the cold, coupled with the sickle skeleton who was good at assassination, infiltrated the city and picked the commander to attack, and soon the defenders were demoralized and scattered.

The slaughter of the undead began, and their terrible screams swept through Fort Kraburg like a nightmare. Even if it was attacked by Bode day and night, the strong fortress that could remain safe and sound, in this snowy night, it was completely lost, and the guard Sir never expected that there would be an undead sneak attack, he miscalculated the identity of the enemy, naturally he could not make the right decision, and even he could not believe that there would be undead in the province of Neome. And just as he led his men out of the mansion to fight the undead, his shouts and roars stopped abruptly, and a scythe silently swept across his throat, and then immediately disappeared without a trace.

No one knows exactly where these spirits came from, but what is certain is that Craburg Fort is finished. Undead creatures have no intention of taking over the city, slaughtering every living person they see and burning down every house. In the midst of the snowstormy night, the buildings that once stood tall were reduced to ashes in the raging fires, and the army of the dead was like a swarm of vicious locusts, scorching every inch of land it passed, killing countless human beings, and turning the entire fortress into a dead field, shrouded in resentment and grievances.

The war between black and white began on this night. The undead sent by the Parliament of Dia attacked Fort Krabog, slaughtering nearly 10,000 people in the entire fortress.

But that's just the beginning.

Abandoning the White Rock City, the closest to Kronais, and instead attacking Fort Kraberg on the border of the province of Neoamerica, this move of Deya was unexpected by anyone, and with the snowstorm and the complete slaughter of Fort Kraborg. The news of the fall of the fortress did not reach the Blue Fortress not far away until three days later. At this moment, the army of the undead who entered through Bode has taken all the areas along the southwestern border of Neome Province under the leadership of the army commander Nagus, and the defense line built by the entire province to resist Bode is wiped out before everyone can react, and only a lone fortress is left in the entire province to support it, and behind it is the hinterland of Rodland.

On December 7, the ridiculous [Zero Casualty Offensive and Defensive Battle]. It was played out in this fortress as recorded in history.

When thousands of soldiers lined the city walls and prepared to fight against the black and oppressive army of the undead, no one could have imagined that the general who led them to defeat the Bode invasions again and again would secretly put poison in the meal before the battle. The first round of arrows missed, and before the archers in the back could come forward to shoot, they foamed at the mouth and fell under the terrible poisonous effect, and many of them were desperately scratching their throats. The eyeballs almost squeezed out of their sockets, but they could not prevent death from coming. Less than ten minutes. The city walls were covered with corpses that smelled of poisonous gas, and more than 1,000 brave and skilled soldiers were ready to sacrifice their lives for the country, but they ended up like this.

The gate opened, and the general, who had betrayed the trust of the soldiers, stood in the middle of it. Welcome the arrival of the army of the undead. Enraged by the general's betrayal, some of the surviving soldiers tried to kill the traitor, but to their surprise, the robes that had died unjustly rose up like zombies. Tearing at every living person around him, and in a short time, turning those soldiers who were bitten to death into zombies.

The army of the undead entered the city, and it wasn't long before the fortress was filled with zombies like a living hell, and the entire blue fortress was in ruins.

In this defensive battle, on the side of Diya, there were zero casualties.

When the news broke, Manchu was shocked.

Every year, Diya intrudes on the borders of the kingdom, and the people of Rodland have long been accustomed to it, but a war as terrible as this one is unheard of. Many royal nobles accused the general of collaborating with the enemy and treason, but when it comes to the reason, no one can tell how the brave and loyal general suddenly changed his sex, especially when facing an enemy who is not shared by mankind. However, the news of the defeat here spread in the royal capital, and urgent letters from all over the country flew to the capital like snowflakes in the sky.

Since December 3rd, the western and southern border areas of the country have been attacked by the undead of Krones, and although the suffering is far less than that of the province of Neome, it still has a great impact on the normal functioning of the kingdom.

On the morning of December 3, the city of White Rock in the province of Kama was attacked by the undead; In the evening of the same day, the northern city of Rhodeland, Iron Wedge, fell.

On December 4, the famous port "Mall" Charcha was attacked by a large number of water ghosts, and the land troops were ambushed by the undead on the way to reinforce, suffering heavy casualties.

On December 6, a large number of vampires and bone dragon spirits appeared in the sky in the southwestern province of Lorenz, and the entire province was attacked by necromancy at the same time, and has now lost contact.

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It was only at this time that Rodland realized that it was completely different from the "anticlimactic" invasion five months ago, and that the Parliamentary State of Dya was probably determined to attack this kingdom that had just quelled the turmoil. Sefilia, the regent, was furious, and she listened to Green's advice and urged the garrisons to guard against Cronis, but many officers disagreed, thinking that she had read too many ghost novels as a female doll, and did not take the order to heart, but the result was national turmoil. With the support of the sword guard Lowalt, Sephilia personally ordered the dispatch of the Fourth Brigade of the Barron Empire in the eastern part of the kingdom to Neome, responsible for annihilating the army of the undead of Dia, and then sent letters to the nobles and officials stationed in various provinces, urgently mobilized troops to resist the invasion of the undead, and sent documents to the other four major powers indicating the current crisis. Although she intended to send the Royal Anglican Knights to fight into the hinterland of Diya again, this time, the invincible Anglican Knights were unable to fight, not because they didn't want to, but only the part that survived the earthquake in the royal capital was mobilized at present, as for the headquarters of the Red Cliff Fortress located outside the city of Mierte, it had been completely sealed by inexplicable spells for nearly a month, and no one could get in touch with it.

The war between Rhoderan and Diya broke out, and the human army urgently mobilized to reinforce every city where the undead appeared. It stands to reason that although the Dya parliament has seized the opportunity, but after all, Rodland is one of the five major powers, even if the royal capital has just suffered an earthquake, it does not prevent the strength of other provinces, and the undead divide their troops to fight, which is not enough to affect the battle situation, and even has the danger of being gradually annihilated, but what makes people more and more panicked is that whenever the Rodlanders are full of confidence in a battle, there will be generals who rebel against the enemy, and after half a month, there are more than ten times. Although it was only after the death-defying investigation of the Rodlan spies that the general of the Blue Fortress himself had died in a raid half a year earlier, and was replaced by a high-ranking vampire who had undergone a witchcraft transformation and was not afraid of the sun. But this could not calm the hearts of the soldiers, Diya did not know when to set up the situation, which made all the troops nervous, the trust between the non-commissioned officers dropped significantly, and the efficiency of combat command dropped amazingly.

But the nightmare didn't stop there.

The documents sent by Princess Sephilia earlier were sent to the Barron Empire, the Demon Capital of Endymion, the Kingdom of Tania, and the Winter Forest of the Elven Kingdom. The first to reply was the elves of the Winter Forest, they claimed that the forest had been attacked by the Ofer demons, and that only the hellish creatures that had never been left in the Eastern Continent appeared in the Elven Forest, which caught the elves off guard, so far, the Winter Forest was still in passive defense, and they intended to reinforce the friendly country of Rodland, but they must first drive the riotous Ofer army out of the forest. The replies of Endymion and Tania came one after another, and it was surprising that the two countries, which had long since calmed down their hatred, did not know why they were rekindled their anger, and the grudge of the mages enslaving the barbarians a hundred years ago was brought to the stage again, and just after entering December, it was already an inextricable battle, and the current battlefield was concentrated in the foothills of the Suide Mountains, and there was no spare strength to support Rhodeland. These unbelievable situations made everyone's hearts worried, one coincidence after another, but it seemed like a trap that had been arranged a long time ago, dragging Rodland, who was still in his prime, into the quagmire.

And such an idea finally came true when the Barron Empire's letterhead arrived.

The Golden Lion Barron Empire, claiming to be the founding king of the Kingdom of Rodland, the Lord of Iron Claw, and the "Lion-faced Vulture Heart" Rod? Geffenhardt pursued charges of treason, thus formally declaring war on the Kingdom of Rhodesland and rejecting a diplomatic application. Shortly after the war report was issued, urgent information came back from eastern Rhodesland, and the Imperial army was already approaching the border, under the banner of the [Golden Horn] of the First Legion of the Empire, the Knights of the Champions. As soon as the news came out, everyone was dumbfounded, no one was blind, and the blatant alliance between the empire and the Parliamentary State of Dya was already on the surface. Sefilia, the princess, intended to send her troops, but she had to face the fact that several towns on the eastern border were bound to be lost, after all, the Fourth Brigade had just been transferred, and no matter how fast the other armies came, they would not be able to catch up with the Golden Horn Army that had already arrived at the border. She dared to transfer the Fourth Brigade from the eastern frontier, relying on her friend Endymion between the two countries, and she would definitely not sit idly by and watch the Empire send troops, but now Endymion was busy settling old hatreds with Tania and couldn't care about Rodland at all. With Diya's undead in the west and the Imperial Iron Cavalry in the east, what should Rodelan do if he is attacked from both sides?

The Kingdom of Rodland, the human kingdom among the five great powers, seems to be strong yesterday, and today it has come to a strange place.

Before it was twilight, it was like a candle in the wind. (To be continued......)