Setie took Pete and Angelina, and the three mages rushed back to the San Jose barracks as fast as they could. There seems to be no dark mage on the edge of the sea cliff, and in the face of ordinary people, these court mages of San Jose with profound magic have ten thousand ways to easily escape.

The process of leaving was easy, but the mood of the crowd was not easy. The Patong area, where the Desik people landed, actually produced fire oil, and looking at the barrels they carried to the ground, the output of those fire oil was not small, and it was very likely that in just a few months, they collected more fire oil than San Jose could produce in a year.

"How could they be so coincidental that they discovered the existence of fire oil at the landing site?" this was the question that haunted the minds of the three mages. When Mage Setty returned to the barracks, he summoned several high-ranking magicians, including the commander of the San Jose Army on the front line, to listen to Setty's account of the great discovery.

At the meeting, several people discussed endlessly, and Seti immediately sent a message to the court magicians who stayed behind in San Jose, conveying the news to the Imperial Council and the Emperor of Benin. The Desiks themselves have such a sharp weapon as the Steppenwolf Rider, and once they get a large amount of fire oil, the balance of victory in the war will inevitably tilt in the direction of Desik.

"No, this must not happen!" was the thought of everyone present.

Autumn is the harvest season in the mainland, and people will celebrate the Double Day Festival to give thanks for the harvest, and this year's Double Day Festival is no longer as lively as it used to be because of the war. The arrival of autumn marks the end of the hot summer and the cold winter is not far off, and at the Imperial Council in Kyoto, the capital of San Jose, the cabinet ministers began to discuss the direction of the war.

The Chief Minister Dirk was very old, and in the war era of more than a year, even if an old man like him was well maintained, he could not avoid the devastation of exhaustion, and in this autumn, Minister Dirk finally died of illness without resisting the invasion of time. The former Minister for Affairs, Berish, took over as Chief Minister, and the Imperial Council did not recruit any new Cabinet Ministers.

Count Mosik, Minister of War, had returned to the city of Kyoto from the defensive line on the Kursk Plain in the north. Since the beginning of autumn, the fighting on the northern defensive line has gradually begun to become sparse, and the two sides have turned to defensive battles, and neither of them is willing to start the battle in person. This situation was actually very unfavorable for the people of San Jose, after all, the invading army of Desik was able to occupy the most fertile area of the Morro River Plain.

As you can imagine, San Jose's fiscal revenues have plummeted this year. If this situation continues for another two to three years, the royal family of Lane and the Council of the Imperial Council will have to declare bankruptcy.

But none of this was the most difficult thing, the most intractable was the news from the southern front line from the court magicians: the Desik had discovered a fire oil mine in the Patong area, and they were frantically collecting the fire oil. Perhaps soon, in the future, on the battlefield, the valiant soldiers of the Guards will also be attacked by the fire oil.

The news shocked the ministers of the Imperial Council, and the Earl of Mosik lamented again and again. It would have been nice if he had initially followed his plan to go south and then north, and deal with the Desik invasion army in the south first. However, after going around in a circle, everyone came back again, and the early elimination of the invading army in the south was put on the agenda.

"Count Mosic, let me tell you about the previous stage and the plan for the next one. "It is still the Emperor of Benin who is presiding over the meeting, and this year's war has made this emperor, who has always been slack, have to brace himself up to preside over the imperial meeting.

Count Mosicke brought with him a new military map, the result of research by the Royal Military Academy of San Jose, which used a special annotation to indicate the situation between the enemy and the enemy in the war. Count Mosik pointed to the map with a baton:

"At present, our war in the north is almost over, and we are not in a position to immediately drive the Desiks back north of the Morro River, and certainly not to take a step out of the Kursk province.

The Desiks seem to have seen the situation clearly, and by the time they began to build a series of strongholds between the town of Red Leaves and Kursk in August, it was basically impossible for either of us to engage in a large-scale battle in the north in a short time.

The Desik soldiers in the direction of Red Leaf Town have not made too many moves recently, and I expect that in the northern front battlefield, we will retain about 100,000 to 150,000 troops, which can fully cope with the current battle situation.

And now the battlefield on the southern front is the top priority. ”

Count Mosik turned his words, and the baton drew a large arc along the map, moving to the bottom of the map:

"The court magicians found out in the Patong region that the Desik had started digging for oil, and I don't care how they learned about the oil in that mine, or maybe they were lucky enough to find out about it. All I know is that the Desic now get ten barrels of fire oil from there every ten days, and that used to be our production in the first three months of San Jose's war.

At the same time, the Desik army nailed to the south is like a fish in the throat for us, and if we don't pull them out, our entire Southern garrison, Western garrison, and Royal Navy in San Jose will face a situation of being attacked on the back. Although they were blocked in the Red Branch Stone Forest by the Guards and the Nanhai County Garrison, this was mostly their own choice.

Therefore, I am going to launch a large-scale autumn offensive in the Chizhi Stone Forest at the end of autumn, and call it 'Nemesis Project'. I hope that with a force of about 50,000 men, I can break through the Desik defenders in the Red Branch Stone Forest, force my way into the Patong area, destroy their landing docks, and stop the Desik from plundering the oil and oil. ”

The words of the Count of Mosique did not win the expected applause, and several cabinet ministers, including the Emperor of Benin, were silent. After a long time, the Emperor of Benin spoke: "It hasn't been long since I miss Dirk a little." If my former chief were still around, he would have said, 'Oh, Lord Count Mosic, you're taking a lot of risk.' ”

Everyone present understood what the Emperor of Benin's joke meant, and this was how they felt. This plan was too bold and risky, and it was not at all like the work of Count Mosick, who had a wealth of military experience.

The new Chief Berry stood up, pointed to the Red Branch Stone Forest area on the map, and said, "Intelligence shows that there are 20,000 Desik guarding here, as well as the existence of dark mages and strange beasts. If we invest 50,000 people, we may not be able to break through. ”

"The dark mage is fine!" said the Archmage Merlin on the side, "We court mages can deal with it, but those beasts are a little troublesome." ”

"No", unexpectedly, Count Mosicke looked very tough, "At this time, it is not the time to discuss losses, even if the 50,000 men are exhausted, as long as we can bulldoze the Desik defenders in the Patong area, it will be worth it." In addition to the big losses, we will solve two problems:

First, all the Southern armies could be freed up to do more in San Jose.

Second, the Desiks will not have access to fire oil. Aren't these two things worth the risk for?

The Imperial Council ended very quickly, and the words of Count Mosik convinced everyone. Yes, he was right, if the Desikhs in the South were not exterminated, San Jose would always face a two-front battle. Even if San Jose outnumbered Desic in terms of supplies and soldiers, even though the latter had already acquired a large area of land from the Merchant Alliance.

So whether it's 50,000 or 100,000, San Jose has to accept it. If you have rotten sores on your body, you can still live if you scrape them off and bleed a little, but if the rotten sores persist all the time, it is not good.

The Council agreed to Count Mosic's request, and the Northern Front would be temporarily taken over by General Montgomery, who would personally direct the execution of his "nemesis plan". This plan is expected to completely solve the Desik people in the southern battlefield before the arrival of winter.

It was a counterattack against the invading army of Desik. The Imperial Council unexpectedly not only agreed to the plan of 50,000 troops of Count Mosik, but also prepared to draw some additional troops from the Western Frontier Army to strengthen the attacking force.

Counting the troops on the front, the San Josens would mobilize more than 70,000 soldiers and ten court magicians to fight on the southern front. At the same time, the Royal Navy will be dispatched in its entirety to break through the Desik Navy's blockade of Minasil Harbor and attack the Patong Coastal Docks from behind.

In order to successfully complete the attack, the San Jose military took out the savings of many years, and all the material reserve warehouses across the country were opened, and all kinds of weapons, armor, and ammunition materials were gathered on the large and small roads of San Jose, all the way to the south, towards the San Jose military camp on the edge of the red branch stone forest.

Count Mosik even transferred Viscount Slim to the south. However, the cavalry of the powerful Guards remained in the north, and the battle line in the north was too long, without the protection of cavalry, and General Montgomery's side would have a hard time coping.

It seemed that sensing the movement of the San Jose military, the De Sik army in the Patong area of the southern front also began to prepare for battle. The special terrain of the Chizhi Stone Forest is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Desik people have built arrow towers and lookout posts at all the commanding heights, and a large number of troops have marched into the stone forest defense line.

Lan Lan and Blake, the two mages of the Rise of Darkness, have been staying here for some time, and Alcmene and Amut, under Blake's command, have made several sorties, causing considerable damage to the San Jose army.

And Master Lan Lan has been planning something, and even Blake doesn't know what his bewitching female companion wants to do.

"Blake, the people of San Jose are probably going to attack, and all the plans are being carried out exactly according to the plan of the Patriarch, and it seems that the Patriarch has calculated the people of San Jose to death. ”

"It's a pity that these Deciks are much more likely to lose this time. Blake sighed.

Lan Lan smiled, "We are just partners with the Desik, what do you care about them?" After speaking, he swayed his body without looking back, walked to the stone tower, jumped over, and disappeared into the darkness.

This stone tower is the most remote stone tower in the Chizhi Stone Forest, and far away, the Desik people are doing the final reinforcement project of the defense line.