Chapter 597: Big Strokes

Magnus's declaration of battle and his next plan will bring great changes to the continent of Erathia, in this late spring and early summer, no one knows for the time being, but in this increasingly hot season, the continent of Erathia seems to be affected by this approaching heat wave, all kinds of dazzling events have happened one after another, so that this land, which has only been quiet for a few years since the end of the last war, is once again in the boiling water.

After the Emperor of the Tetalia Marshes was unexpectedly hit hard at the hands of the local rebels, the disgraceful performance of the Elasia Imperial Navy caused an uproar among the major forces on the continent, and then the much-anticipated naval battle between the Hammondale Race Alliance and the Kingdom of Bracada ended in a situation unimaginable to the world, and all of these events made the entire continent uneasy.

Corresponding to the emperor's unsightly performance, the Hammondale Race Alliance, as an emerging force, is showing its strength to the world little by little, and is getting more and more attention from the traditional forces of the mainland, and among the civilians everywhere, the topic of this alliance is also being talked about by more and more people, which is a normal thing, an emerging force that can make the Erathia Empire avoid fighting and make the Bracada Kingdom suffer a big loss, is enough to arouse people's curiosity, Ordinary people don't know the difference between a battle on land and a battle on the sea, they only know that the Erathia Empire is known as the strongest country on the continent, and the Kingdom of Bracada is a country of magicians, both of which have a long history and strong strength, and now, they have been defeated by a new force, and this emerging power, the name of which is the Hammondale Race Alliance.

As a result, some things related to the alliance have also begun to attract people's attention, such as the past of Chen Jian, the ruler of this alliance, such as the relationship between this alliance and Hammondal, such as the resurrection of the famous dragon queen, such as those warships at sea that do not use sails, and of course, the ideas advocated by this alliance.

Racial equity.

What a new word

But how can there be equality between races? Most people don't understand this, how can different races, different body shapes and appearances, and different physical strengths be equal? Could it be that a mighty dragon can have a good time with a weak goblin? Could it be that the Titans, who are invincible on the battlefield, have the same treatment as the halflings who can only throw stones with their ropes in the army? It's unthinkable.

Most people think of racial equality as a joke.

But not everyone thinks so.

It is the nature of all intelligent beings to pursue good things, and there are many who agree with the idea of racial equality.

Under the influence of this word, a new trend of thought is slowly emerging on the continent, and the seeds have been planted.

It's just that at present, this seed is still deep in the ground, and it still lacks enough nutrients to take root and sprout, so not too many people have realized what kind of new pattern this seed will bring to the mainland, such as those traditional forces on the mainland, and they have not realized how much trouble these four words will bring to them in the future.

What happened to Negan was considered by these traditional forces to be just an accident, they didn't think it was a success of the idea of racial equality, it was just a coincidence, Chen Jian was just a shit luck guy, he was able to succeed because of luck, no one noticed that the thinking of the Negan people was being turned upside down, except for a certain ambitious woman who was far away in the Rigner Islands.

The major forces only noticed that the alliance led by Chen Jian had an unexpectedly strong strength, which made them start to list the alliance as an opponent worth paying attention to, although they didn't know where Chen Jian got this powerful strength, but there were some people with rich imagination who attributed all this to the ambiguous relationship between Chen Jian and the Elemental Clan, they thought that everything in Negan was caused by the Elemental Clan's secret intervention, a castle that could be moved, a warship without sails, who could guarantee that there was no unknown connection between the two?

The details of the battle on the sea are too clear to the major forces, but after this battle, the Bracada Navy is gone, and it is an indisputable fact that the Alliance Navy continues to show off its might in the southern waters of the mainland, and the major forces have strengthened their respective coastal defenses, among which the Elven Kingdom is the most tense, the Elven Kingdom has a long coastline, and recently they are working on a plan that requires them to enter the ocean, and now Chen Jian, who has a holiday with the Kingdom, has returned with his powerful Alliance Navy, It's not for the elves to be worried.

In this way, the mainland sent away this noisy spring in the commotion and ushered in the summer of this year, which was obviously not peaceful, because on the first day after entering the summer, another big event happened on the mainland that everyone did not expect.

The expeditionary force sent by the Erathian Empire into the Tetalia region was trapped by an army of the undead commanded by the Death Knight Hart, one of the Triumvirate of Deya, and was on the verge of annihilation.

Since the emperor ** entered the swamp, he has been passively defending, and the army of the undead, who have behaved quite low-key, has finally begun to act, and if they don't move, they will be earth-shattering.

Just as the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, Mrlak, had anticipated, the commander of the Army of the Dead. Hart has been planning a huge conspiracy, he took the initiative to avoid the war, gave up a large area of land, and led the emperor ** into the depths of the swamp, in order to eliminate this imperial expeditionary force with a total strength of hundreds of thousands in one fell swoop.

Mrak guessed that the enemy had a conspiracy, but guessed the enemy's tactical layout wrong, he thought that Hart wanted to lead him into an ambush circle laid by the undead army in the depths of the swamp, which was indeed part of Hart's plan, but Mrak really underestimated the death knight who had participated in the succession war on the land of Enloth, Hart had cunning and military talent that he could not imagine, and he also had rich experience, although he had not been in charge of the necromancer's army for a long time, he already knew the advantages and disadvantages of the undead army, And he has developed a set of effective strategies and tactics, and his familiarity with the emperor has made him well aware of the enemy's weaknesses, and after such a long time, he has learned how to fight in the swamp from the war with the Titarians.

From the very beginning, Hart did not intend to fight head-on with the emperor, he knew very well that although he had an advantage in terms of strength, the combat effectiveness of the undead army was not comparable to God**, because the number of high-level undead creatures in the undead army was too small, and the main components of the undead army were those low-level, self-aware undead creatures, which were so unsatisfactory in terms of speed and combat effectiveness.

So Hart's plan was to trap and drag the emperor to death, the Death Knight led the enemy into the depths of the swamp, tried his best to extend the enemy's supply line, and made the magic mark required for a one-way portal near the supply point that the enemy might set up early - in terms of magic strength alone, on the continent, except for the Bracada Mage Kingdom, there is no force comparable to Diya's necromancers, and Hart is a good use of this advantage of the necromancers, he is indeed an excellent general, This is also an important reason why Sandru did not give up on him after the defeat and turned him into a death knight.

The next thing is very simple, Hart continued to contain the enemy in the depths of the swamp, using the tactics he learned from the swamp people to play hide and seek with the enemy, yin* The enemy continued to go deeper, while secretly gathering heavy troops elsewhere, and then on the first day after entering the summer, he launched a lightning raid on the logistics line of the emperor.

Dozens of one-way magic portals were opened by necromancers with magic scrolls, and Hart's most elite warriors rushed out of these portals in a steady stream, ghost dragons, bone dragons, dark knights, lichs, vampires, and a large number of ghosts, zombies, and skeletons, all of whom targeted more than a dozen important supply points on the emperor's logistics line, such as Ai and Waters City.

The undead army washed these supply points in blood, used the corpses of the fallen emperor ** soldiers as raw materials for making undead creatures, and burned all the piled up emperor ** materials in the supply points, and then these undead armies were assembled in two directions and divided into two groups, one went to the border between the empire and Tytalia, ready to snipe the reinforcements that the empire might send, and the other group attacked the back road of the emperor ** according to Hart's plan, and completed the siege of the emperor ** together with the army led by Hart himself.

It was only then that the overconfident Mlak realized that he had made a big mistake, and he wanted to lead his army to break through and reopen the supply line, but it was too late, and Hart was unwilling to give him such a chance.

The army of the undead in the Tytalya region almost poured out, surrounded Mlak's expeditionary force from all sides, and what was even more terrifying was that Hart did not fight with the enemy, he surrounded but did not fight, the enemy advanced and I retreated, and the essence of the tactics represented by the eight words of the enemy retreated and I advanced was vividly interpreted by him in this battle, nearly a million undead army formed a moving encirclement in the swamp, with the emperor ** as the center of the non-stop movement, trapped in the emperor ** who rushed left and right, the emperor ** wanted to fight, They avoided the battle, the emperor ** accelerated his speed, they began to harass the battle, in short, they successfully dragged the enemy in the swamp, so that hundreds of thousands of emperors ** became a veritable deep war swamp and could not extricate themselves.

Seeing that this was not good, the Imperial side sent an army to try to rescue the expeditionary force, but their actions did not go well, and on the border, the reinforcements were met with stubborn resistance from the undead army, and although the emperor ** was victorious, he advanced slowly.

The Imperial Expeditionary Force, which could not wait for reinforcements, quickly consumed most of the supplies in the enemy's encirclement, and the rations of hundreds of thousands of people were not a small number.