Chapter 735: Internal Worries and External Difficulties

"Oops"

As soon as he saw the current situation, Elzak, who had already been disgraced by the enemy's magical attack, knew that something was wrong.

It wasn't that Elzac didn't know how dangerous this battle was, but his thoughts were the same as Inheim's, underestimating the current combat effectiveness of the Harpy Troops of the Ntagree Army, so he didn't expect that he would encounter such a disadvantage.

As an elite of the Angel Clan who had participated in the last war, Elzak knew very well what kind of characters were the characters who were besieging the Angel Legion that he had finally re-established at this time, and these Angel Clan warriors and Demon Clan warriors sent by the Entagri Army were all elite elites - this is also normal, and the top troops that can appear on the battlefield with Chen Jian, the current Emperor of the Ntagrui Empire, how far can they go? The bad guy is also an emperor.

In contrast, the combat effectiveness of the Angel Legion on his side is a bit insufficient, Elzac is aware of his own family affairs, and the split of the Angel Clan has greatly damaged the vitality of the Angel Clan that Elzack now has in his hands, and the elites of the Angel Legion originally formed by Catherine have also gone a lot, and these angels are deeply influenced by Catherine, which makes them have a good impression of Jian Chen and the Entagri Empire.

Therefore, although Elzak formed a new Angel Legion based on the remnants of the original Angel Legion, its combat effectiveness was far inferior to Catherine's Angel Legion due to the quality of personnel, and it was extremely ironic that Elzak saw a lot of familiar faces in the Angel Clan warriors of the Ontagre Army who were attacking, and those were all members of the original Angel Legion, and many of them had fought against the army of necromancers with Erzak in the Tetalia Swamp with Emperor ** not long ago.

But now, they are wearing the robes of the Entagrean army, and they are enemies of the Entagrean Empire and the Elzac and Erathia Empires on the battlefield.

What made Elzak feel even more depressed was that these angels who had just betrayed the Erathia Empire didn't know what method was used by Jian Chen, and they faced their fellow clans on the battlefield, and they were not at all vague when they started, and they didn't have any mercy or unbearable intentions at all, they were extremely ruthless, plus the help of a group of archdemon warriors who could teleport elusively and a large number of strong poisonous manticores that were obviously carefully selected, they were completely pressing Elzac's angel legion, plus the obvious advantage in numbers, soon, The angelic legions of the Erathian Empire, which remained loyal to them, were scattered in the air by the Entagre army and annihilated one by one.

"It seems that there is no escape today"

Thinking a little self-deprecatingly, Elzac began to despair.

Elzac is not a fool, he is actually quite intelligent, and by this time he has naturally understood that whether it is himself or Inheim, he has been calculated to death by the Entagri army, and what the other party has fought from beginning to end is the idea of annihilating the flight unit of the Erathia army.

Inheim, who had been watching the game nervously on the ground, was also desperate.

The performance of the Harpy Banshees of the Ntagrean Army and the plight of the Angel Legion led by Elzak made him understand that if he wanted to successfully kill or capture Jian Chen, it was just his wishful thinking.

After figuring out this layer of relationship, and knowing that if his flying troops were all lost in this battle, then his next situation would not be good, because Haim immediately ordered his own flying troops to withdraw from the battle.

It's just that at this time, the battle situation in the sky has entered a stalemate, and the soldiers on both sides are fighting in one place.

What's more, under Jian Chen's order, the Entagrui Army did not mean to let go of the opponent at all.

In this case, it goes without saying how bad the situation of Elzac's Angel Legion is, and it is also a little difficult for the griffons to get out of the battle, and any attempt to force them out of the battle will cost them very dearly.

The priest troops of the Erathian Army tried to aid the friendly forces in the sky, but at this time, Esreina had already expanded the magic immunity space of the dragon king's divine power to the maximum under the signal of Jian Chen, and the priests' magic could not be used at all; Instead, the Erathian crossbowmen, protected by the Crusaders, began to move on the ground, trying to close the distance between themselves and the enemy, and then used their heavy crossbows to support the friendly forces.

However, the Entagri army did not let these crossbowmen succeed, and after seeing the actions of these enemy troops, Chen Jian simply let those magicians who still retained some of their magical power, as well as Meng Gila's silver pegasus formation, suppress and attack these enemies who dared to leave the barracks.

But this big air battle didn't last long, because soon, Chen Jian gave the order for the whole army to retreat, and took the initiative to break away from the battle with the Entagri army.

The Erathia Army's side was cold because of Haim's fight, and Chen Jian's side of the Entagri Army was actually a little depressed.

The reason why he took the initiative to withdraw his troops, instead of completely annihilating the enemy's flying units in one go, was because he knew very well that if he continued to fight like this, it was not impossible to completely annihilate the enemy's flying troops, but to achieve this goal, the losses of the Entagri army themselves would not be small.

During this battle, Jian Chen experimented with some of his new tactical ideas, such as the segmented shooting of the mage troops, such as the spear charge of the harpy banshees.

The results of these tactics are indeed good, but they also expose several problems in actual combat.

For example, the mana of the mage unit is consumed too quickly.

Because the increase in cast also means that the magic power of the mages will be consumed faster, which causes the mage troops of the Entagre Army to be able to deliver high-intensity and high-density blows to the enemy in a very short period of time, but they cannot last this blow for too long.

And after the lack of magic, the magicians will temporarily lose their effect, and at this time, let these guys who are not good at hand-to-hand combat stay on the battlefield, if there is anything in case, the loss will be too great.

There are also problems with the spear sprinting of the harpys, because the harpies are not a race known for their strength, and air-to-hand combat also has great requirements for degree and dexterity, so their equipment cannot be too heavy, otherwise, these equipment will not only not improve the combat effectiveness of the harpys, but will also have the opposite effect, so that the harpies will greatly reduce their combat effectiveness due to their sluggish body.

Therefore, the equipment used by the Harpy Banshees of the Entagre Army has always been specially made, the chain mail is the lightest one, and the crossbow can only be used with the smallest and weakest one, and the crossbow arrows cannot be carried too much, and the same is true for those spears, in order to reduce the weight, the spear shaft is made of a fairly light wood produced in the Negan region, but the weight reduction makes these spears extremely vulnerable, basically a disposable color, often broken in a sprint.

This makes the harpies in the early stage of hand-to-hand combat, although the use of these spears is amazingly lethal, but after the loss of the spear, the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced, with only their traditional weapons short swords and simple coordination, it is not impossible to want to fight the griffins, but a large number of casualties are inevitable.

All of this made Chen Jian realize that although his flying unit was full of violence, its staying power was embarrassing, so the most suitable tactics for this unit was to use the powerful and unsustainable high lethality and the high mobility brought by the pure flying class to retreat the enemy with one blow.

Then wait for the magicians to regain their magic, and wait for the harpys to change to new spears, and then come back to fight.

As long as this is repeated, if nothing else, with the current situation of the Elassian Army's flying units, it is only a matter of time before they seize complete air supremacy.

With such thoughts, he felt that he should still have enough time, Chen Jian, who considered himself a small family, of course did not want to see his flying troops consuming too much in the hard fight with the enemy, killing a thousand enemies, and losing eight hundred by himself It was too stupid, there was still a lot of war in the future, there was no need to lose more valuable troops in this battle, so he chose to retreat very wisely.

However, even if the Entagrean army retreated early, the damage caused to the Erathian army still made Inheim almost vomit blood out of anger after the count.

The griffin army composed of tens of thousands of griffins, just in this battle, lost nearly one-third of the troops, the griffin knights also died a lot, Elzac's angel legion was almost wiped out because of the enemy's key attack, only Elzac and hundreds of the strongest angel warriors were lucky enough to hold on until the enemy took the initiative to retreat and survived, but by that time, all the surviving angels were already wounded, and Elzac was almost seriously injured.

After the battle, these archangels resurrected some of the fallen clansmen, but even so, after this battle, Elzac's angel army was still reduced by as much as seventy percent.

In contrast, the casualties of the Entagrean army were almost negligible.

When the news reached the imperial capital of Standwick, the regent Kendall was once again furious.

However, anger is anger, after reading Inheim's battle report, Kendall also understands that this defeat cannot be blamed on Inheim's head, the defeat of the Erathia army, in his opinion, the fundamental reason is still not enough understanding of the Ntagrei army.

This is a strange army that never plays cards according to common sense, whether it is on the sea, or on land, whether it is in Over, or in Baildus, whether it is in the elven kingdom itself, or now Hammondal, the strategy and tactics of this army are always so unexpected, they can always use some strategies and tactics that the opponent has never thought of, infinitely magnify their advantages, and also magnify the opponent's weaknesses, and then win in one go.

In this way, each of the three allies of the original Holy Alliance suffered a big loss at the hands of this army, as far as Kendall knew, the Bracada Mage Kingdom lost all its navy in the process of fighting with the Entagri Empire, not to mention, it also lost the latest research on the production technology of air combat ships; The elven kingdom was even more miserable, they were all beaten to their homes, and even the capital city of Pilbont was forced to abandon it, and a kingdom of Nuoda was torn apart, with countless rebels.

In comparison, the situation of the Erathian Empire should not be the worst.

But this is obviously not something that can be comforting to Kendall.

Because Kendall knew very well that the consequences of several battles with the Entagre army and their defeats were far more serious than what could be seen on the surface.

First, it was a serious blow to the morale of the people.

Although Kendall didn't want to admit it, the fact in front of him was that since it had been fighting against the Ntagrean army, the Erathian army had rarely won victories, except for the occasional small victories in the guerrilla warfare in the Bairders area, it is not an exaggeration to describe the Erathian army as a result of repeated defeats, and they were all defeats.

After Catherine's abdication, due to various incidents, the morale of the Erathia army was not very high, and now it has been repeatedly defeated by the little-known Entagre army, and the morale has of course suffered even more.

In the Tethalia Swamp, the Erathian army could not win, everyone can accept it, after all, the strength of the necromancers has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, even Catherine back then, it took a lot of effort to clean up these necromancers, and in the end they were only defeated and could not completely eliminate them, it can be seen that the strength of the undead is not weak, and the swamp is not suitable for cavalry combat, and it is not incomprehensible that it is difficult to fight.

But the Entagri Empire is different, this is just a new country that has just been established, and it is also established in Negan, in the last war, although the coalition army of Lord Negan used trickery to seize the imperial capital of Standwick City, but later it was defeated by Catherine's reorganized Erathian Army, and its strength was greatly damaged, and it fled back to Negan in disgrace, if it weren't for the fact that the undersea tunnel was as complicated as a labyrinth, so that the Erathian army had to give up the pursuit, the Erathian Empire might have killed Negan and pacified Negan in one fell swoop.

And over the years, the Erathia Empire has flourished under Catherine's governance, but the Negan Lords have been at war non-stop, fighting one after another, and the internal friction is quite serious.

However, the Erathia army has been defeated in successive battles at the hands of the army of the empire rebuilt on the ruins, and the navy is inferior to people, and everyone admits it, after all, everyone knows the erosion of the navy, but in Bailders, in Hammondale, the defeat of the Erathia army is unacceptable.

What's more, the reason for these failures is not because the Ntagrean Army uses a mass killing weapon like the magic of Doomsday.

Ordinary soldiers and civilians did not know that there were so many twists and turns in these battles, they only knew that the always mighty Elasia army was defeated by the Ntagrean army in a head-to-head confrontation.

If it weren't for the defeat of the Elven Kingdom, it would have been more conspicuous, and it would have made people understand from the side that the Entagri Empire did have some means, and its strength was not as weak as everyone imagined, and the morale of the people of the Erathia Empire at this time would be even lower if it was not good.

Then there was the growth of the Imperial Resistance.

In the Erathia Empire, the influence of the Entagrean Empire and its espoused racial equality was gradually expanding due to the successive victories of the Entagri army.

The population of the Erathia Empire is dominated by the Terrans, but the Terrans are not monolithic, the huge population base makes the empire have many voices that are different from those in power, and the slogan of racial equality is not that no one has ever shouted, but in the past, except for those who shouted this slogan, no one else should take this slogan as the same thing.

But now it is different, due to the rise of the Entagri Empire, and its constant strength, in all parts of the empire, this slogan is being recognized by more and more people, and many people with other intentions have begun to use this slogan to show their strength and gain more support after this slogan has begun to become useful, and there are cases that some people in the empire are secretly cooperating with the actions of the Entagri army, trying to integrate these forces, although the purpose is not clear, But it's not a good thing after all.

If these people succeed, there will be chaos within the empire.

However, compared with the resistance forces, the growth of another force in the empire makes Kendall more worried, that is, the Catherine faction, this faction after Catherine returned to the Enlos continent, composed of some active or retired imperial officials who were disappointed in Kendall and the new emperor, they secretly planned to welcome Catherine back to the empire, they no longer recognized the current new emperor Lisander, and they were even more dissatisfied with Kendall, these officers firmly believed that it was Lisander's inaction and Kendall's arbitrariness that caused the predicament of the empire today, The only way to change this situation is to try to bring Catherine back and return her to the throne.

In the eyes of the Catherinees, Catherine was the only great man of this era who could restore the glory of the Erathian Empire.

Originally, the influence of the Catherine faction was not very large, and Kendall was still very prestigious in the army, but the unsatisfactory wars in various places made this situation change, and the deterioration of the empire also made Kendall gradually lose his previous aura, which gave the Catherine faction the conditions to show, and the repeated defeats of the Erathian Empire to the Entagree Empire intensified the growth of the Catherine faction, because many officers believed that the Erathian Army could not even win the Entagre Army now, and it was Kendall's misjudgment, This made them very disappointed in Kendall.

Up to now, although Kendall has not been able to grasp more about the Catherine faction, there is already information that there are some high-ranking generals who cannot be identified after the failure of the surprise attack on the Entagri navy and the demonstration of the Entagre army in the coastal area have secretly joined this faction, and then the angel clan defected to the Entagrean Empire, and the Erathian army was turned around by the Entagrean army with guerrilla tactics in Bairdes, which allowed this faction to win over more opponents High-ranking officers and generals who are dissatisfied with the status quo.

Kendall knew very well that this faction was not moving, and a move would be an earth-shattering move, and when the time came, even if they could not succeed, the Erathian Empire would inevitably have another turmoil.

The faction has been very cautious, the action is quite secretive, Kendall sent people to check for a long time, but he has never been able to grasp the exact identity of the other party's high-level executives, the kitten and the puppy know some, he tried to secretly arrest some of his people, wanting to know more about the other party, I don't want these guys to be hard bones, in the end, not only did he find nothing, but he also startled the snake, so that the other party's actions became more cautious.

Originally, Kendall also hoped that the Erathia Army would be able to make a shame in the Hammondale area this time, clean up the Entagre Army, and then help himself regain some prestige and reshape the image of the army, but he didn't want the first battle of the two sides, the Erathia Army was defeated again and suffered heavy losses.

What can I do?

Looking at the map of Hammondale spread out on the table, Kendall, who had finished his temper, couldn't help but feel worried.

There is no doubt that the original tactics are useless, the enemy has no idea of ground war with Inheim at all, and even if Inheim advances at this time, it is useless to take the initiative to invite the Entagri army, because judging from the intelligence, the Entagre army has long been on the defensiveness of the Erathian army.

The Entagrei army from Baildes, where it was stationed at this time, was a hilly area at the junction of the Baildes and Hammondale regions, and the terrain was complicated, and the cavalry that the Erathian army was proud of could not wield its due power in that terrain, and its combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and the huge force could not be spread out, because if Haim led his army there to engage the Entagree army, it would be really boring for himself.

In this way, the only choice left for Kendall is to let Inheim return to Hammondal, and then go to find fighters to fight the Ntagrean army, although the Hammondale area is a basin surrounded by mountains, but the central part is a large plain area, with enough space for the Elassian cavalry to maneuver.

But in this way, Kendall's plan to fight a decisive battle has come to naught, and the regent of the Erathian Empire, who does not know much about the true strength of the Entagrei Empire, now does not know that Jian Chen actually has the same idea of fighting as him, so as to free up more available troops, so he is very worried that in case the Entagrean army will calmly pacify the Tulaone Forest in order to buy enough time, and he will also have a protracted battle with himself in Hammondale like Bailders. Then the Erathian Empire has to invest countless manpower, material and financial resources because of another quagmire of war.

No matter how political idiot Kendall is, he has already understood at this time that the Erathian Empire cannot afford to hurt now, and what the empire needs is victory and results, not one protracted war after another.

"Internal worries and external difficulties" Kendall, who stared at the map for a long time, still couldn't think of any good way, sighed, a little distracted, "Catherine, Catherine, if you were faced with such a situation, what would you do?" ”

(It's a little late today, so I just write more, 6,000 words, and please continue to support me)