Chapter 714: Target Waterfall City
Chapter 714: Target Waterfall City
The combined attack of the Entagri Empire and the Rigner pirates quickly plunged the Elven Kingdom into chaos.
The pirates of the three Rigner combined fleets, after the first 6 battles, began to march along the coastline, from the 6th route and the sea at the same time, wantonly plundering the coastal cities of the elven kingdom, the richness of the elven cities, made the pirates completely crazy.
People die for money, birds die for food, the morale of the pirates is high, these ferocious people are aroused to be completely wild and ferocious, driven by **, where they pass, mourning is all over the wilderness, the elven kingdom of those who live in the coastal area, ushered in an unprecedented catastrophe.
On the other hand, the Entagri army that attacked from the northeast of the Tulaglian forest was also triumphant all the way, driving straight into the forest, and the elven armies everywhere could not stop the footsteps of the Entagre army at all, and were defeated by the Entagri army with an absolute advantage, with Tren, the dependence of the Entagre army on the supply line was greatly reduced, and they ignored the jungle guerrilla tactics of some elven armies, and quickly approached a medium-sized city located somewhere in the northeast of the Tulaone forest.
Now that he has been tricked, the elf king Parson is furious.
"Waste is all waste"
In the castle of Navin in Pilbont City, the capital of the elven kingdom, the roar of the elven king made all the elves who were close to the elven king's study tremble, and everyone was in danger.
In the past few days, due to the unfavorable situation in various places, the anger of the elf king has risen to a rather terrifying level, and just yesterday, there was an unlucky elf guard who was put to death by the angry elf king because of a little mistake.
No one wants such a fate to fall on their heads, so now there is a tense air in Navin Castle, and everyone is cautious in their words and deeds, and they are very energetic about the matter at hand, so as not to become the object of the elven king's anger because of careless mistakes.
Of course, Parson also knew this situation very well, and he also understood that his anger would not help anything, but once again planted such a big heel in Chen Jian's hands, he was already prone to anger, and he really couldn't control his temper.
And the performance of the elven armies in various coastal areas is really a reason for him to be angry.
In all his years on the throne, Parson had never been more worried about the scarcity of elven talent.
The last time the big battle that swept the entire Big 6, and the later Doomsday Battle, followed by the Farouk Rebellion, and the battle for Hammondal, which continues to this day, the continuous wars have killed a large number of high-level generals of the Elven Kingdom, including many young and cutting-edge generals, which have caused a fault in the talent of the Elf King.
For this reason, Parson had to use a large number of inexperienced and limited newcomers to lead the army, which caused the overall combat effectiveness of the Elf King's ** team to decline.
Parson is now so dependent on Gru, and the extreme lack of military talent is also a very important reason.
In Palson's opinion, Gru is capable, experienced, and even more rare is loyal, so he wants Gru to be the leader and let him help him bring out a new batch of excellent generals, so he overrides public opinion and entrusts Gru with a heavy responsibility for the body of a half-elf, and Gru's performance also makes him quite satisfied.
But the lack of military talent is not the only reason why the Elven Kingdom is unable to hold off the offensive of its opponents in the coastal areas.
The combat effectiveness of the troops stationed in the coastal areas of the Elven Kingdom is really a bit unsatisfactory.
In addition to the continuous wars, the excellent generals suffered a lot of losses, but also caused the elite main forces of the Elf King's ** team to suffer heavy losses.
Now, most of the elites of the Elf King** team who have survived several wars have been sent by Parson to Hammondale and to Orf, because neither the Erathia Empire nor the Entagre Empire are opponents to be taken lightly, and the war has reached the point where it is now, and Parson does not want to lose to these two opponents.
The rest of the elite team of the Elf King ** are either stationed on the border with Diya, or they are responsible for defending the national capital, and some are responsible for guarding the military points throughout the kingdom.
Strictly speaking, the Elf King's ** team has already begun to have the problem of insufficient troops, since the Doomsday Campaign, the Elf Kingdom's recruitment of new recruits has not stopped, and now, there are a large number of recruits in the Elf Kingdom's army, and some of the reconstituted troops are composed of all recruits.
Such an army is naturally stationed in some relatively inconsequential area, such as the hinterland of the elven kingdom, such as the coastal area.
Parson knows all this, and in fact, he is the one who has been ignoring the security of the coastal zone.
Even after the navy of the Entagri Empire was so active, because of the forest dragons as a shore defense force, because of the long-established strategic concept at work, because of the tie of the Farouk Rebellion, because too much investment was made in Hammondale, because the Entagri navy has been active in the southern waters of the Great 6, Parson has not paid too much attention to the coastal area, and he has made the same mistake as the necromancers in the Titalia region.
So Parson, of course, understands that the war situation in the coastal areas of the kingdom is not an incomprehensible strange thing.
But although he could accept the defeat of those garrisons, and could endure the heavy losses caused by the burning and looting of the Rigner pirates, he could not accept that these garrisons were defeated so quickly in the face of the Entagre army, that it was impossible to delay the enemy army for a little time, and delay the enemy's offensive.
This situation did not even give him time to calmly mobilize troops from other places to respond.
While anxiously waiting for the assembly of troops from all over the country, while watching the enemy enter a no-man's land in the forest, Parson couldn't think of it.
And Parson has always been conceited, but this time he was calculated by his opponent, how can he not be angry?
Parson was not stupid, he soon realized that the Entagre army, who somehow shook hands with the Rigner pirates and joined forces to attack, was his biggest enemy in this war, because although the Rigner pirates also caused great losses to the elven kingdom, they could not shake the foundation of the elven kingdom, while the Entagre army was different.
Because the goal of the Entagri army is quite clear, it is the city of waterfalls.
The Waterfall City is not a big city, and its location is not a strategic location, but the Waterfall City is of great significance to the Elven Kingdom and must not be lost.
Because the City of Waterfalls, a beautiful city in the northeastern part of the Tulaone Forest, is home to the Centaur tribe, who are able to reproduce regularly by drinking water from a magical local spring.
A long time ago, the elves from across the sea defeated the centaurs in the forest and snatched the city of waterfalls into their hands, and then used the control of the supply of those magical springs to successfully enslave the centaurs and make them the pawns and pioneers of the elves, and after the establishment of the elven kingdom, the elves continued this practice to this day.
If the city of the waterfalls is lost, the elven kingdom will lose the means to control the centaurs.
And with the increasingly bad relationship between the elves and the centaurs, and with the ethnically equal founding concept of the Entagri Empire, when the city of the falls falls into the hands of the Entagri Empire, it is conceivable how those centaurs who have long held a deep grudge against the elves will act.
During the Farouk Rebellion, Parlin had already experienced how terrible the centaurs' anger against the Elven Kingdom was, and after hundreds of thousands of years of accumulation, this anger had reached a shocking level.
This stubborn race has never given up the idea of rebellion for so many years, and they will never let go of such a good opportunity to instill their anger and yearning for freedom in their unique way, in their unique way, in secrets from generation to generation, in places that the elves cannot see.
The thought of this makes Parson shudder a little.
Let's not talk about what kind of turmoil the centaurs in various places will cause to the elven kingdom, just the riots of the centaurs in the elf king's ** team are enough to paralyze the elf king's ** team for a while, you know, the army of the elf kingdom has always relied on these centaurs as an important transportation capacity.
If all this is really born, the elven kingdom will be hit harder, and it will definitely be more serious than the Farouk rebellion, and when the time comes, the elven kingdom will not say that it will seize Ofer externally and capture Hammondal, and whether it can keep the original territory internally is a big problem.
If you are pessimistic, you can even link all this to the life and death of the elven kingdom.
Therefore, for today's elf kingdom, the city of waterfalls is absolutely not to be missed.
But the problem is that the Entagri army is also determined to win this battle, in addition to dispatching an astonishing number of troops, they have not left much time for the elven kingdom to react.
Parson knew that he had really fallen into the enemy's trap this time, and now, the elven army of Orf had been stumped by the counterattacking Entagre army, and it was impossible to effectively return to the country in a short period of time, unless Parson was willing to spit out the fat that had eaten in his mouth, and bear the heavy losses that might occur due to the pursuit of the enemy when the army retreated.
It took so much time and energy, but it was ushered in such a situation, and Parson almost didn't vomit blood.
There is also an elven army on the road from Hammondale to the Ofer region, if this army is invested in the Ofer, although it can affect the local war situation, it is not decisive, and it has no meaning at this time, but if this army is recalled and used to rescue the city of waterfalls, the travel time required is enough to make people collapse.
And the army in the Hammondale area, as well as those troops deployed on the border with Diya, Parson also did not dare to move lightly, now that the hinterland of the elven kingdom is under attack, fighting on three fronts, it is difficult to guarantee that the Erathian Empire and the necromancers will take advantage of the fire to rob, Parson doesn't want to encounter that situation, and if he goes to a few more battlefields and a few enemies, he really can't hold on.
It would be a good idea to gather troops in the vicinity and concentrate their forces against the invading enemy, but even then, Parson would take some time.
What made Parson even more annoyed was that because he was caught off guard by his opponent, it was a bit too late for him to use the magic scrolls in his inventory to create magic portals to transport troops between places.
The two-way portal needs to build a portal at the origin and destination at the same time, and there is a limit to the number of people in a single teleportation, which can't cope with the current grim situation at all, although the one-way portal is convenient, but it also needs to set up a magic mark in advance to use, this time it happened suddenly, the elven kingdom was unprepared, and it couldn't deal with it at all, and Parson needed time to arrange all this.
But he didn't have enough time.
Therefore, Parson pinned his last hope on the defenders of the city of waterfalls, due to the importance of the city of waterfalls, there has been an elite army of 50,000 people, all composed of elven warriors, and at the same time, there are 500 forest dragons sent by the cliff of Elry to help.
The terrain of the city of the Falls is also favorable for defense, the elves can use the dense forests of the area to carry out elusive attacks on the enemy, and in order to ensure that the spring that is vital to the centaurs is not lost, the elven kingdom has built a large permanent military fortress in the area that is not commensurate with the small city of waterfalls.
Parson had also ordered all the garrisons in the nearby area to rush to the city of Falls to provide support.
Parson believed, and could only believe, that under such conditions, the defenders of the City of Falls could hold off the enemy's attack for a while.
The setting of the one-way magic portal is already in full swing, and an elite army is escorting the elven mages in charge of this work as close as possible to the area where the waterfall city is located, as long as the local defenders hold on for a while, when the magic mark is set up, Parson will have a way to effectively support the waterfall city.
In this way, everything can be reversed.
It's just that Parson didn't realize that although the Entagrean army was still on the way to the city of the falls, and although the city of the falls was still under the control of the elven kingdom, the elven kingdom's control over the centaur clan had begun to collapse earlier than he expected because of the purposeful actions of the entagrean army and the strength of the entagrean army on the battlefields in various places.
In fact, from the very beginning of the entire battle plan, Morriel had already calculated the possible reaction of the centaurs.
In the Negan Unification War, after appreciating the power of the people's war from Chen Jian's methods, the Dragon Queen Morrill has always been quite interested in this mode of war, and took the time to study it, from Chen Jian, she learned more about this military theory, and this war in the elven kingdom is just a practice of this concept.
In fact, the entire battle plan revolves around the central event of leading the centaurs to deviate from the elven kingdom, and the contradiction between the centaurs and the elves has intensified to the point of being touched, and Moriel has made full use of this to strike at the elven kingdom.
If you want to use the existing strength of the Entagri Empire in the shortest possible time to give the elven kingdom the heaviest blow, the only way to do this is to use such tactics.
And the location of the city of the waterfall gives the Entagre army, which has a powerful navy and mobile portal technology, a huge advantage that other forces cannot have, and can launch a surprise attack on the city of the waterfall.
After entering the forest of Tulaleone, the Ntagrei army did not hide its intention to capture the city of waterfalls, and used the forest dwellers along the way to fight a war of public opinion, and made a considerable degree of propaganda on this matter.
And now, just as Moryl expected, after learning the news that the Entagri army is marching towards the city of waterfalls, the centaur clan began to stir up.
The brave centaurs are not willing to simply wait for the outcome of the battle in Waterfall City before making a final decision.
They are determined to use their own hands, their own efforts, and their own struggles to change the tragic fate of their people for many years, and to welcome back the long-lost free life.
The various centaur tribes who were forced to leave the Holy Land and live in other regions began to communicate with each other, exchange voices, and secretly plan to fight back against the elven kingdom.
Some spies of the Entagri Empire hidden in the Elven Kingdom also took the initiative to find the centaur groups in various places after receiving the instructions of the country, and conveyed the goodwill of the Entagri Empire to them.
"His Majesty the Emperor of our country promises that if the centaur clan is willing to cooperate with the actions of our ** team in this battle and attack the elven clan, then after defeating the elven kingdom, regardless of whether the centaur clan is willing to join the Entagri Empire or not, our country will return the city of waterfalls to the centaur clan."
While most centaurs are skeptical of this promise, it is undeniable that it has strengthened the centaurs' resolve to act in some way.
And it's not just the centaurs who are ready to rebel against the rule of the elves and respond to the actions of the Entagri army.
The Elven Kingdom's high-handed policies towards other races, coupled with the huge impact of the previous Farouk Rebellion, have caused more and more people to be hostile to the Elves in the forests of Turalone and Eremi.
The Entagre's attack on the City of Falls deeply irritated these people.
In addition, the Netnet system of the Entagri Empire was also carrying out different degrees of active actions in various places at this time, and with the coaxing and incitement in secret, this hostile sentiment towards the elven race became even higher.
Seeing the hope of overthrowing the rule of the Elven Kingdom from the actions of the Entagri army, the forest dwarves and forest people also began to make certain moves.
A feverish storm of war is taking shape in the forest of the elven kingdom, and the situation in the elven kingdom has begun to be unprecedentedly fiercely turbulent.