Chapter 658: I had to fight
Chapter 658 had to fight
Of course, this kind of behavior of the undead creatures was not within Chen Jian's expectations, according to Chen Jian's original idea, these undead creatures should stay in Hammondale after losing their target as they did when they were provoked by the crystal dragon.
For this reason, Jian Chen, who was complacent about his ability to trigger a wave of undead to attack Hammondale, and had found some necromancer feelings, was puzzled.
"How is this going on?"
With such a question, Chen Jian reviewed the events at that time again, only to realize that he had made a mistake.
When these undead creatures returned to the periphery of Beards due to the uproar of the crystal dragons, it was not as he mistakenly thought that they stopped moving forward after losing their target.
The truth is that Morrill and the crystal dragons had already thrown off these tails long before the undead creatures entered the periphery of Baildus, that is, the undead creatures behaved the same as they do now, and after losing their tracking target, they still continued to move forward for a while, until they reached the perimeter of Bairdus, they seemed to lose all momentum and stopped.
Judging by the situation at that time, Jian Chen estimated that these undead creatures would have to continue to advance in the direction of the Erathia Empire for at least two days before they stopped moving, and this was on the premise that they were not stimulated again, if they were stimulated by other stimuli, what would the situation become, Jian Chen didn't know.
Having come to such a conclusion, Jian Chen couldn't help but be depressed, because due to this mistake, his plan had been disrupted, if the undead creatures continued to advance in the direction of the Erathia Empire, then although the Erathia Empire would be entangled by these undead creatures, the Elf King ** team could take advantage of the situation after the undead creatures left the Hammondale region.
Intentionally or unintentionally, Jian Chen has fulfilled the elven kingdom.
This result was obviously not what Jian Chen wanted, but now that the undead creatures had entered the Hammondale region, he didn't dare to risk sending people to lure the undead creatures back under the noses of the Erathia Army and the Elven King**.
So this wave of undead rushed in the direction of the Erathia Empire.
Now that the undead creatures actually pointed the finger at themselves, the Erathia Empire hurriedly began to deal with it, and Kendall, who got the news, was furious again, and issued several orders in succession, asking Inheim to block the undead creatures no matter what.
"They must not be allowed to enter the Empire"
The categorical order shows the anxious mentality of the imperial regent, of course he has reason to be anxious, a series of events make Kendall, the regent, sit more and more unstable, and there are more and more doubts from all sides, recently, Kendall feels more and more that he is sitting under his ass, not like the regent's comfortable throne, but more like a volcanic crater that is about to move, and he doesn't know when it will start to erupt, and then let his own bones sitting on it be gone.
His mastery of the army has long since begun to decline, and Kendall can keenly notice that the attitudes of the senior generals who originally supported him have begun to become a little ambiguous, and he also knows that there seems to be someone in the army who is planning something, and the target of the plan is himself.
Even the new emperor Lisander, who has always been obedient to him, has recently begun to change his attitude towards Kendall, although it is not very obvious, but Kendal knows that this young emperor who has been supported by himself has begun to question his own ability and has some ideas.
Kendall couldn't figure out what he had done wrong to get to his current predicament, he reflected deeply, but he didn't find the answer, he felt that everything he did was right, all for the sake of the empire.
Accustomed to being arbitrary, he can't listen to other people's opinions at all, so he can only go further and further down a wrong path, and finally become a cocoon.
The Hammondale region has always been a problem for Kendall, because the land that Catherine had worked so hard to get the Empire back in control had been lost to him.
This is quite an irony for Kendall, who is bent on making the empire strong again in another way, and thinks that what Catherine is doing is harmful to the empire.
It made him very uncomfortable.
And after losing Hammondal, Kendall began to suffer a string of defeats, and it has been the case until now.
It was one of the biggest turning points in his life.
Therefore, when the Farouk army was defeated and the empire recaptured Hammondal, he would be so excited, and after the elven kingdom tried to get his hands on Hammondal, he would be so angry and brazenly ordered an attack.
Kendal was even more angry at the moment when the Entagrean Army was luring the undead creatures to attack the Hammondale region, he didn't know how the Entagrean Army could do this, and he also had a lot of criticism about Inheim's abandonment of Fort Werning, if it weren't for his military acumen to make him understand that Inheim's decision was correct and wise, he would almost have lashed out at Inheim.
Holding back the unhappiness in his heart, Kendall acquiesced to Inheim's actions, and began to prepare to watch the drama to see how the elven kingdom was overwhelmed by the attack of the undead wave, and lost its troops in vain, but the unfolding of things made him crazy.
"Jian Chen, you despicable person, one day, I will let you know that betraying the empire is the most serious mistake of your life"
More than once, Kendall was secretly ruthless in his heart, he cursed the insidious, shameless, daring to challenge the authority of the Erathia Empire again and again, but never daring to fight him head-on, he now completely hated Jian Chen.
But no matter how angry he is, no matter how angry he is, Kendal also clearly knows that at the moment he has no other way to think about it than obediently walking into the trap set by the other party and letting the emperor ** team fight with the undead creatures at the border of Hammondal, he can't just watch this wave of undead rush into the empire in order to preserve his strength.
I don't know that all this is actually not deliberately arranged by Chen Jian, in addition to letting Inheim fight with all his strength, he also mobilized the army around Hammondale to support Inheim, and at the same time, he also urgently sent additional priest troops to the local area, dealing with an astonishing number of low-level undead creatures, and magic that can kill and injure the enemy in a large area is the most effective means.
Then, on the border between the northern part of the Erathian Empire and the Hammondale region, a great war between humans and undead creatures officially began.
The beginning of the war was born on a sunny afternoon.
As the weather began to turn cooler, the autumn sun was actually very comfortable, at least for the flesh-and-blood human soldiers of the Erathian Empire.
But of course, the undead creatures can't enjoy all this, and under the influence of magic, they have long lost their flesh and blood, and they can't feel the cold and warm of the weather.
The nearly a million low-level undead creatures that were lured out of Bairdes by Jian Chen walked firmly in the sun on the desolate land of Hammondal, which had long been trampled by war, and they were indifferent to the changes in the environment, just kept moving forward, forward, and moving forward according to their instincts.
They are anxious to find the enemies who provoke their anger, and the enemies must be destroyed, because the presence of the enemy is not allowed, and their anger must be vented.
Skeletons and zombies scattered across the hills, like a huge carpet of white bone and rotten flesh, wriggled on the ground, and above their heads, an astonishing number of ghosts as black as dark clouds followed, and from time to time zombies or ghosts let out a series of meaningless howls.
When they entered a relatively flat area, the undead creatures were suddenly annoyed, and there were some beings who blocked their continued advance, and the other party even attacked.
A large expanse of colorful attack magic suddenly exploded in the cluster of undead.
The magic was followed by an overwhelming rain of arrows, formed by a large number of sharpshooters of the Erathian Empire using heavy crossbows.
Countless undead creatures fell in this first wave of Emperor **'s attack.
The sudden change caused a huge commotion among the undead creatures, and then soon, these undead creatures who had already been provoked by Chen Jian's monster attraction troops began to run wild.
An inconspicuous skeleton raised its head high, its mouth was wide open, as if it was roaring silently, and the red glow in its eyes skyrocketed in an instant, and then it viciously raised the tattered long sword in its hand that was made in an unknown age, ancient and rusted, and pointed hard at the emperor ** who was attacking itself in the distance.
Then, beside it, countless undead creatures began to charge in the direction it pointed, wielding their various but equally tattered weapons.
The same scene was born from time to time in this wave of undead, and more and more undead creatures began to attack.
"They're coming"
Seeing the movements of the undead creatures, many of the Erathian army, who had been waiting for a long time, couldn't help but exclaim.
Most of these were new recruits, and as the Erathian Empire was mired in war in both the Tetalia Marshes and Hammondal, the problem of the Elassian army was becoming more and more serious, and the death of a large number of soldiers left many newly drafted soldiers rushed into battle before they were adequately trained.
Most of the recruits are just honest farmers, although most of them have a certain concept of war after the baptism of the last war that almost destroyed the Erathia Empire, and many of them have seen some large-scale wars in their homeland, but before joining the Erathia Army this time, they are still just farmers who have not touched weapons, and they have various equipment and weapons that represent the glory of the Erathia Army, although they look majestic, But that doesn't hide the fact that they're rookies.
At this time, seeing the undead creatures in the distance rushing over the mountains and fields, many of these recruits were terrified.
That's an undead creature, or an undead creature that is too numerous to count, and the legend is that it is extremely powerful.
In folklore, the legends about undead creatures have always been linked to fear, and the evil, horror, and cruelty of undead creatures are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the Erathia Empire and even most of the Erathia continent, and those recruits, of course, are also the same.
Their bodies trembled with fear, and some even lost their weapons by mistake.
Seeing this, the officers couldn't help but shout loudly, and the veterans uncharacteristically did not laugh at these rookies, but prepared to fight with a solemn face - in the current situation, they really didn't have the heart to make fun of others.
In the Erathian army led by Inheim, there are a large number of veterans who have experienced the last war, and most of them have had such and such experience with undead creatures, so these veterans know very well that these scary-looking undead creatures in front of them are not as powerful as the legend, their combat effectiveness is actually very poor, under normal circumstances, a qualified ordinary soldier of the Erathian Army, as long as they do not make mistakes, can easily clean up two or three skeletons or zombies.
However, this experience is obviously not suitable for the current warfare, because the number of undead creatures is so great that even the most humble troops, if they make up enough millions, their combat power will become enough to make their opponents dare not take it lightly.
The veterans, and of course their commander Inheim, rode his horse on a hill, observing the changes in the tide of battle, and watching the undead creatures in front of him react to the attack of the Essian army, Inheim was solemn.
These undead creatures had given him a lot of surprises from the start.
He gave up Fort Werning, just because he didn't want to fight with these incredible numbers of undead creatures.
In order to recapture Hammondal, Kendall sent him to fight Hammondale at the beginning of the war, giving him a total of 200,000 troops.
In order to compete for one Hammondal, so many troops were invested, and Inheim once felt that Kendall was a bit too much.
But now, of the 200,000 troops in his hands, there are less than 130,000 left.
Against the Farouk army, the Blade of Doom caused his army heavy losses, and against the elven kingdom, the tragic war of attrition also broke his army.
In fact, his army had already been replenished once, and the recruits had been brought in from the country, otherwise Inheim would have had even fewer troops.
As the elite veterans continued to die, Inheim knew that his army's combat effectiveness was weakening, and the soldiers replenished in the country were too much to use, so he didn't want to use up his precious forces in vain in the battle against these undead creatures from Baildus.
But what he never expected was that he couldn't escape the fifteenth when he escaped the beginning, and these undead creatures still came to the door, so he couldn't even think of fighting if he didn't want to.
Like Kendall, Inheim cursed Jian Chen's insidiousness and viciousness.
What made Inheim even more depressed was that the direction in which these undead creatures were moving was still off the road, and they managed to bypass those fortresses and castles in important locations, that is, he could not use the extremely strong military facilities at the junction of the Herthian Empire and Hammondale to fight a defensive war against the undead creatures.
In order to prevent these undead creatures from rushing into the hinterland of the empire, he was forced to go out into the wilderness to fight these undead creatures.
Without the fortress and castle to rely on, the battle would obviously be even harder.
But Inheim is Inheim after all, he is a famous general of the Erathian Empire, and although he is a master magician, he is full of tactical strategy.
Inheim decided not to fight the undead creatures head-on, and he didn't know how the Ntagrean army had attacked Hammondal, but he thought that what the Ntagrean army could do, he should be able to do.
He plans to use the diversion tactic to lure these undead creatures to turn around and return to the Hammondale region, first relieving the crisis of these undead creatures attacking the empire, and then trying to slowly eliminate them.
Although the number of undead creatures is really amazing, but Inheim is still very confident in his plan, in the last war, he has a wealth of experience in fighting with the undead army, he knows that these undead creatures from Bailders do not have a unified command, he feels that he has to clean them up, as long as it takes a little thought, takes a little time, and does not feel the loss of troops, it can still be done.
So Enheim chose this flat area as the battlefield, which was open enough for the Elassian army's proud cavalry movement, and he had plenty of room to maneuver, which was also helpful for the Yin* undead creatures to turn around.
He lined up his army on the left flank of the undead creatures' direction, and he planned to use his attacks to attract the attention of the undead creatures, and then he would move his army towards the Hammondale area, and the undead creatures would change direction and try to get rid of the annoying creatures later.
It's just that at this time, the accident was born again, and these undead creatures once again made Inheim feel depressed.
In desperation, although he had gathered all the mages and crossbowmen in his army to launch a large-scale long-range attack on the undead creatures, the results were not as good as he had thought.
Nearly a million undead creatures, attracted by the attack of Emperor ** and changed their direction, although they looked like a lot, but in fact, they only accounted for less than one-third of their total number.
The rest of the undead creatures, in places that the Erathian army could not attack, are still firmly moving in the direction of the Erathian Empire and continue to advance.
(The two chapters are together today)