Chapter 848 How could this be

Gru's elven forces launched a surprise attack on Standwick City, which continued until the second half of the night. XT eBook Download**

In the end, Standwick was not completely lost, at least, Geffenhardt Castle was not broken, and the fortified castle that meant the royal power of Erathia was still firmly controlled by the defenders inside until the elven forces withdrew.

However, there will be such a result, but it also has a lot to do with the fact that the elven forces did not launch a formal attack on this castle.

But apart from this castle, the rest of Standwick really can only be described in terms of hell on earth.

Because the elven troops sent by Gru that day focused on the civilians living in the city.

After rushing out of the rain of fire on silver flying horses, the fully armed elven warriors began to slaughter the city in a planned manner, and under the cover of the Doomsday Blade, they scattered into small detachments in a good time, and then searched and killed the local residents door to door in the city.

On the one hand, there are well-trained, well-equipped and experienced professional soldiers, who come prepared; On one side was a mass of scattered sand, defenseless and panicked civilians, and they were also frightened by the blade of doom.

Although the number of people on both sides is very different, the combat power is completely different from the same level, and the process of slaughter is unusually smooth and the speed is unusually amazing.

Regardless of men and women, young and old, without saying a word, they will kill people when they see them, this night, countless elven warriors, under the leadership of Gru, collectively incarnated into the most cold-blooded spokesman for death in the world, harvesting countless lives, and Standwick City was bleeding.

In the process, the Erathian army stationed in the imperial capital could only watch the brutal violence of the elves, they had the intention to kill the enemy, but they were unable to return to the sky, they could not rush out of Guffenheart Castle, because while the elves slaughtered the city, the fire and rain in the sky were still falling.

There was a time when the rain of fire stopped, which made the defenders overjoyed, but this was only Gru's strategy, when the defenders thought that the Doomsday Blade had run out of magic power and had no threat to attack boldly, Gru launched the Doomsday Blade again, so that the defenders lost some manpower, and then the defenders were very aggrieved, but they never dared to take half a step out of the castle.

So much so that in the second half of the night, when the elves finally collected their troops and left, the defenders were also very cautious and did not dare to launch a pursuit, but sent scouts to follow them, and at this time, the once prosperous and famous Standwick City on the continent has become a huge, burning, thick black smoke, corpse-strewn ruins, Doomsday Judgment magic ignited the fire caused by the wooden buildings and the fire deliberately set by the elves, which burned for two days and two nights, and launched the Doomsday Judgment magic for a long time. The weather in and around Standwick was altered, and the thick rain clouds disappeared, and without rain, the man-made fire almost wiped the city off the ground.

Killed by the magic attack of the Doom Blade, killed by the brutal slaughter of the elven warriors, and died in the fires that followed, no one knows how many Erathians died in this battle under the butcher's knives brazenly sacrificed by the elves, people only know that the damage caused by the elves to Standwick City this time is far deeper, heavier, and more than what the Negan Lord coalition did back then.

The news was of course passed on to Catherine, who was fighting in Arissanrhett, by the defenders of Geffenhardt Castle.

"How so?"

No matter how calm Catherine was, in the face of such news, she was also shocked and messed up.

Catherine didn't expect Standwick City to be attacked, and made some corresponding arrangements, but she never thought that it was not the Entagre army that attacked Standwick City, but the elven troops, and she didn't expect that the attackers would not attack Gfinghardt Castle, which was fully prepared, and instead of fighting the defenders in a dignified manner, they would brutally kill civilians.

What's even more terrifying is that the elves also used the Blade of Doom!

Although the army of Enlos has shifted its main target to the side of the Bracada Mage Kingdom, the attack on the Eremilin has not been relaxed, and in this case, the elves dare to transfer the Doomsday Blade from the main battlefield and draw an elite army to attack Standwick City?

What is it all for?

A terrible thought crossed Catherine's head.

Are the Elven Kingdom and the Entagri Empire secretly teaming up?

Catherine thought about it and felt that this was the only conclusion that could give everything a reasonable explanation.

But how did Jian Chen get those extremely racist elves to be willing to cooperate with his race-equal Entagri Empire? The thing itself is so unreasonable.

She had imagined all kinds of possibilities, but the Elven Kingdom and the Entagri Empire joined forces, she really didn't even dream about it, this thing was really incredible, she didn't understand how this kind of thing could be successful.

How paradoxical it is to use an unreasonable conclusion to explain what is happening, and Catherine finds that for the first time in her life, her head is not enough.

"How so?"

Over and over again, Catherine asked herself in her mind.

She now has a helpless feeling that the house leak is falling in the overnight rain.

And the bad news is not only from the enemy's side, what makes Catherine very disturbed is that the reinforcements of the Enroth Empire, who are constantly relied on by her as a last resort, have also had an accident.

The war situation was rotten, and of course she had come to the aid of the Enroth Empire, but to her great annoyance, she was unable to get the strong support she hoped for from the Enlos Empire.

Deep in Arissanret, in an underground hall used by Catherine as a command center, a lone tent was very conspicuously planted in a corner of the hall.

It is a very strange thing to have a tent underground, because there is no weather change in the underground world, and there is really no need to use a tent used in the field to shelter from the wind and rain.

But Catherine still had her tent set up for years.

No matter what, she is also a woman, she also has her weak side, and she doesn't want her weak side to be exposed in front of others.

It's not because she's thin-skinned, it's because of her identity that makes her unable to freely show her weakness in front of others.

And staying in a familiar environment, it is easier for her to calm down and think about some of the questions she has to think about.

At this time, Catherine stayed in the tent.

The inside of the tent was still as simple as ever, and if Jian Chen appeared at this time, he would definitely be surprised to find that the furnishings in the tent were not much different from when he first came in Hammondal.

An ordinary, large wooden table that can be found everywhere on the continent of Erathia, an equally common wooden chair, a large wooden chest that is still beautifully styled but slightly old, used to hold personal belongings, and a standard marching bed used in the Erathian army.

On a wooden armor stand in the corner, there was also a very good full-body steel armor that had been maintained, but this shining steel armor was also the same as the other objects in the tent, it was a certain number of years.

And the owner of all this, of course, is not young for more than ten years, and the perennial military career, as well as countless troubles and sad things, have left a ruthless trace on her once beautiful face.

Even her eyes, the bright eyes of the past, now seem to be a little dull like a haze, in addition to the inherent strength and persistence, there seems to be a trace of helplessness and dazedness, as well as undisguised anger.

"How so?"

Looking at a handwritten letter from Roland, Catherine only felt a surge of anger rise in her hand.

The Entagree were unexpectedly strong, and she confessed; The Entagrean army may have secretly joined forces with the elven kingdom, she admitted; The strategy of holding on to Arissanret was used by the enemy in turn, and she confessed; Even the imperial capital of Standwick City was accidentally destroyed by her opponent, and she admitted it.

But when she found out that Roland was secretly making small moves from herself, Catherine was still angry after all.

She couldn't accept such a reality.

In this world, anyone can treat her badly, and everyone can let her down, but how can Roland do the same?

After the start of this war, she continued to regard Roland as her most powerful and reliable backer, and she continued to believe that as long as Roland and Roland's Enroth Empire stood behind her, no matter how difficult the situation was, she would always find a way to resolve it in the end.

It was Roland who gave her that glimmer of hope.

For this reason, she gave Roland full support and trust, and when Roland decided to transfer the main target of the Enloth Empire to the Kingdom of Bracada without telling her, she still chose to remain silent, even though she knew that Roland's move would put the Erathian Empire in a rather unfavorable situation.

She just asked Roland to reserve a mobile force for the Erathia Empire in case of emergency, what made her very pleased was that Roland agreed to her request very happily, and swore that no matter how the situation develops, he will not sit idly by and ignore the danger of the Erathia Empire, a large army with a total strength of nearly 100,000 troops, mainly formed by flying arms, will be waiting on the Enlos Continent, ready to aid the Erathian Empire at Catherine's request, at the same time, Units already fighting on the Elassian continent can also be redeployed as needed.

But now, things are far from what Roland had promised.

According to the content of the letter in her hand, Catherine was annoyed to find that Roland's response at this time was that an Enroth army with a total strength of about 30,000 and only half of the flying arms was urgently assembled in the territory of the Enlos Empire.

In addition, according to Roland, if necessary, more reinforcements will be gathered in the future, and as for the mobilization of those troops who are already fighting on the continent of Erathia, Roland does not say a word.

In other words, it will be four days later at the earliest, and Catherine will be able to get seventy percent less than originally planned from the Enroth Empire, and the combat strength is still to be discussed.

As for the other reinforcements in the future, Catherine didn't dare to count on it, if it was necessary, what would it be, and she was still saying that if it was necessary?

Catherine knew that with Roland's character, she dared to boast to herself at the beginning, so the support army in his mouth must exist, but now, needless to say, this support army must have been used by him in advance on other battlefields, and the most likely of them is of course the Bracada battlefield.

Judging from the information obtained by Catherine, the Enroth army did fight well in Bracada, with the level of Estchel's internal response, the Enroth army was invincible in the territory of the Bracada Kingdom, and the Bracada army relied on the mobile magic portal almost completely functioned, unable to respond to the battle in a timely and effective manner, and could only be beaten passively and collapsed.

On the other hand, in the Tetalia Swamp, the local Bracada army was also entangled by the army of Enlos, unable to get out and unable to return to the country.

But all this did not mean that the Enroth army could easily win this war, and after Magnus ordered the Bracada army to voluntarily abandon a large part of the country, exchange space for time, and gather the remaining forces to shrink their positions, the Enroth army began to run into trouble.

The Bracada army, which was already good at defensive warfare, and had reached the end of the road, had to fight against the water, finally burst out with strong combat effectiveness, and at the critical moment, Magnus no longer continued to hide his armpits, and all kinds of war materials and magic props accumulated over thousands of years were put into the army by him in a rather luxurious way, and then they were used on the Enlos army in the battle as if they didn't need money.

It has to be said that this kind of money-burning tactic is quite effective, after occupying more than 90% of the territory of the Kingdom of Bracada in a flash of lightning, the Enlos army finally began to shed a lot of blood, and the battle situation began to develop from a one-sided situation to a stalemate, and the two sides fought fiercely near the city of Celeste, the royal city of Bracada.

In this case, the Enroth Empire, which wants to end this war as soon as possible, will of course increase its investment in Bracada, and the elite troops that Roland originally planned to leave for Catherine were withdrawn, so it became a matter of course, after all, according to Roland's considerations, the use of this army will not affect the balance of strength on other battlefields.

So Catherine can't understand why Roland did this, no matter what, Roland is only the emperor of the Enlos Empire, and he can't think too much about the Erathia Empire because of the interests of the Enlos Empire, even if his wife is now the empress of the Erathia Empire, not to mention, in Roland's opinion, with his own wife, the Erathia Empire still has considerable strength, and resisting the attack of the Entagri Empire is not a big problem, at least not a big problem in the short term, besides, While completing the cooperation, it is also more in the long-term interests of the Enros Empire to weaken the power of the Erathia Empire as much as possible.

Catherine just can't understand why Roland's personality has changed so much, Roland was not such a utilitarian person in the past, and the more than ten years of captivity of the Caligans had such a great impact on him?

The current Roland is both so familiar and so strange to her.

But after being angry, Catherine also understood that she had to face the reality, and if the external force was unreliable, she could only rely on herself.

After spending some time alone in the tent, Catherine finally calmed down again.

Regardless of whether the Elven Kingdom can join forces with the Entagri Empire, no matter how many reinforcements the Entagri Empire can send, this battle will still have to be fought, and her biggest problem at the moment is how to solve the situation laid by the Entagri Empire.

The army of Entagre, which had broken through from the western border, had urgently mobilized the emperor **, which was originally stationed in the direction of Bracada, to intercept it; On the eastern border, she has also mobilized troops from nearby places to help in the war; In her opinion, the elven army that attacked Standwick should not stay in the empire for too long, she believes that the elven kingdom will not risk getting the Doomsday Blade in order to further expand the results of the battle, so the elven army may already be retreating, she doesn't have to mobilize another army to deal with this enemy army, she doesn't have many fighting armies to fight, and there are not too many war materials supported by the Enloth Empire, she can't be all-encompassing, good steel must be used on the blade, The troops and supplies she saved were also to be used to defend some strategic points in the territory, and also to snipe the Entagri army that had invaded the empire from the direction of Arissanret, and to be ready to use the battlefield as needed.

In the end, there is Arissanret, and in Catherine's opinion, the biggest key to breaking the game laid by the Entagre army should still be Arissanret.

Catherine didn't know the full extent of the battle plan of the Ntagrean army, but she believed that the Ntagrean army must have set up such a large battle on the Arissanret side for a purpose.

She intuitively thought that as long as she could destroy the enemy's plan, the trend of this war would be completely different.

Catherine couldn't tell why she had the gut this way, but she trusted her instincts, which had been honed in one war after another, and had always been accurate.

So she plans to launch a large-scale counterattack against the Ntagrean army in Arissanret, and she wants to use this counterattack to disrupt the rhythm of her opponent's attack, make her opponent suddenly show flaws, and find out the opponent's potential Achilles heel.

Of course, this is not an easy thing to do, but Catherine has been prepared, because from the beginning, she did not intend to be just passive defense in Arissanret, and attacking instead of defending, which is also a method of defense, is it?

The Erathian Army has always been an offensive army, and so has Catherine.

Attacking, attacking, attacking again, is the style of the Erathian Army, is the style of her Catherine.

After some careful consideration, Catherine finally stepped out of the tent and returned to the underground hall where she was the command center, and returned to her army.

She began to set up her preparations to find a way to launch a fierce Jedi counterattack against the Entagrean army.

But Catherine never expected that fate's trick on her did not end there, and when another day passed, before her counterattack plan was fully formed, bad news came again.

"How so?"

Catherine, who originally thought that she had clearly judged everything, was confused again.

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