The Kursk province, located on the banks of the Morro River, runs directly through the central part of the province via the Emperor's Boulevard, and is separated from the capital of the San Jose Empire, Kyoto, by two other counties. It is a large agricultural province that produces one-tenth of San Jose's food.

The entire Kursk province is a plain of the Morro River, with fertile black soil, and here in the countryside there is farmland one after another, and between the farmlands are the characteristic rural farms of San Jose. When the wind is good, you can see the banks of the Morro River in the distance, and a few cooking smoke rises in every farm, peaceful and peaceful.

Farmers in San Jose go into the wheat fields early in the morning to start their day's work and return to their farms in the evening. This is typical of the life of a San Jose farmer.

And all this, this will no longer exist. On the country roads, countless Desiks, strong and savage, armed with weapons, wearing armor, riding horses or Steppenwolves, were scavenging in the fields, scavenging everything they could see, food, household goods, and even women.

As it was during the war, the San Jose garrison reacted quickly enough to assemble a large garrison of San José on the outskirts of Yorkshire, south of the province of Kursk, with the Guards behind them and the Northern Frontier on the west.

The Desiks did not achieve their strategic objectives, and it seemed that they were supposed to completely occupy the province of Kursk and attack Yorkshire further south, but now the Desiks had to stop in the province of Kursk. This time, the San Jose soldiers showed considerable courage and even chose to fight the main force of the Desik attack in the Kursk province.

It may be that for the Imperial Council of San Jose, instead of pulling the battle line to the longest, it is better to have a strategic decisive battle in the already captured province of Kursk. The military family of the Royal Military Academy, and the several strategic points provided to the Imperial Council, were all inclined in this direction.

As a result, the two most powerful countries in the world, the San Jose Empire and the Desik Empire, launched a strategic decisive battle in the Kursk province north of San Jose. Desik's goal was to eliminate San Jose's main mobile force, the Guards and the Northern Border Guards, and San Jose's goal was, of course, to stop the Desiks as best they could.

This battle was the largest decisive battle between the two warring sides since the beginning of the Second Continental War, and its scale even exceeded the strategic decisive battle between the Shang Alliance and De Sik outside the city of Sedan. In total, the Desic sent an offensive force of more than 100,000 men, and under the coordination of Count Mosick, the San Josés organized 30,000 guards, 50,000 northern border guards, and more than tens of thousands of garrisons in the counties.

These people, under the unified command of Count Mosick, fought a rather tragic war in the Kursk province.

Compared to the smooth sailing in the territory of the Shang Alliance, this time, the army of the Desik Empire also did not seem to be fully prepared, and they did not expect the reaction of the San Jose people to be so rapid.

On the hundred-mile plain of Kursk, more than 10,000 Steppenwolf horsemen plus 20,000 rangers served as the vanguard, and behind them were 50,000 Desik light infantry regiments. The remaining 20,000 people are guarding the landing point by the river.

Among the 100,000 invading troops, the Steppenwolf Riders are the remaining part of White Rock City, and the Rangers are from the command of the Northern General, which is the last elite cavalry in Desik. And all the light infantry regiments were newly reorganized, drawn from all parts of the Desik country. It is equivalent to saying that in the territory of Desik, only recruits and private soldiers of domestic nobles are left.

Such a reckless military force, Edward VI also caused many domestic nobles to dissatisfied. However, the tough emperor directly eliminated the opposition with a butcher's knife and blood, and sent his number one henchman, General Hans, to personally command the army.

General Hans, who was the chairman of the Desik Military Joint Council~, personally commanded the battle against San Jose. He commanded three large armies, namely the Southern Front Cluster, 20,000 landing troops and more than 10,000 Desik Navy, and the Northern Front Cluster, where 30,000 Desik light infantry near Hongye Town occupied a considerable foothold. These two battlefields pinned down some of the San Jose defenders. In the eastern cluster, led by General Hans himself, 30,000 cavalry and 70,000 infantry were to be deployed against the 30,000 Guards of San Jose, 30,000 Northern Frontier Guards, and 50,000 local garrisons from several nearby counties.

In terms of troops, San Jose has more advantages in fighting on its own soil. However, San Jose's military strength was dominated by infantry, with only a small number of cavalry in the Guards.

On the Desik side, General Hans, as the commander-in-chief of the campaign, commanded the deputy commander of the Wasteland Samurai Regiment "Manstein", the commander of the 1st Ranger Division "Kimishi", the commander of the 2nd Division "Klug", and the commanders of the seven infantry regiments. The seven infantry regiments were all newly reorganized, and the designations were given to the 1st through 7th Corps of the Eastern Cluster of San Jose. Among them, the more elite are mainly Edward VI's cronies "Storm Bear Regiment", "Eagle Falcon Regiment" and "Frost Regiment", which belong to the first and second two corps, which are equipped with swords and full body armor to strengthen the heavy infantry regiment, which is the main offensive force of Desik.

On the San Jose side, War Secretary Count Mosicke was the worthy commander-in-chief. San Jose's Front Corps at Kursk was organized into the 1st Corps, the Corps near the town of Red Leaves was organized into the 2nd Corps, and the Southern Front Corps was organized into the 3rd Corps.

Unlike Desik, the Royal Military Academy in San Jose trained a large number of talents for the Empire, so in addition to the main generals, the General Staff was the real battle plan, and the Imperial Council was the highest command organ in the country, and Count Mosicke was the supreme general.

In the 1st Regiment of San Jose, in addition to the Earl of Mosick, who was also the commander himself, the chief of operations of the staff was "General Montgomery", the commander of the Guards "Viscount Slim", the commander of the Northern Border Guards "General Auchinleck" and the commander of the Kursk garrison "General George", the chief of the Yorkshire garrison "General Alex", and the commander of the Celtic garrison "General Andrew" were the main commanders.

The command levels of both sides were overflowing for a while. And at the battlefield level, more than 200,000 people, all concentrated on the Kursk Great Plain, are ready to go.

On the opposite side are the murderous Desiks, who have conquered countless cities in recent years, and their fame has spread far and wide across the continent. Fortunately, the commander of San Jose is not afraid, you must know that the people of San Jose have always been famous for the powerful "San Jose Grand Phalanx", which is where their confidence lies in resisting the Desiqs.

The San Jose Great Phalanx is an infantry combat method summed up by San Jose in many years of fighting. Each phalanx numbered about three thousand people, arranged in close formations. Soldiers in the phalanx, carrying San Jose spears, about four grams long, operated with both hands. The spears had round cast-iron counterweights at the ends, which doubled as spare weapons in the event of a broken spear, and each person carried a round shield half a gram in diameter.

The shields in the hands of the soldiers in the phalanx protect the left side of their own side and the right side of the bodies of their adjacent comrades, and once the soldier in the front row falls, the soldier in the second row will quickly fill in the gap left by him. When facing cavalry, the soldiers in the first row generally crouched and pointed their spears in front of them, while the soldiers in the second row rested their spears on the shoulders of the soldiers in the first row, which increased the lethality of the cavalry facing the front.

The essence of the whole phalanx tactic is that all the soldiers work together and march together, and those who escape from the battle will be punished the most severely. This tactical essence was also used by Kerst when he trained Carman's New Sixth Army, and the Royal Military Academy of San Jose implemented this tactical thinking to all the students through teaching.

In previous battles, the San Jose phalanx repeatedly crushed enemy charges, whether cavalry, infantry, or anything else.

In the headquarters of San Jose, located outside Lausanne, Count Mosicke looked at the platoon of generals beside him and said meaningfully, "Our aim is to thwart the Desik offensive against San Jose, and since the northern and southern fronts are still in a stalemate, we must stop the latest 100,000 men crossing the river as soon as possible." Therefore, the decisive battle must be advanced. ”

"Wouldn't it be too risky, my lord!" General Montgomery, the chief of operations of the General Staff, looked a little worried, "We have basically concentrated the local garrisons of the nearby counties and provinces here, including most of the Guards Corps. If something happens, what will happen to Kyoto Castle and the Red Castle?"

The nearby generals all nodded secretly, but Count Mosik didn't buy it, "It's not the safest way to pile all the troops under the Red Castle City, defeat the Desiks here, and the Red Fort City will naturally be safe." It's all given up here, and without thousands of miles of fertile land in the north, Red Fort City won't be able to support it for long. ”

Seeing that the Secretary of War said this, the rest of the people did not dare to say anything more, and General Montgomery continued to introduce the battle plan:

"According to intelligence, the main landing place of the Desiks was near the Lordanmir post on the Morro River, which was originally a guard post of the Northern Frontier Army. After the forced landing there, the Desik left behind a rear guard force of more than 20,000 men.

The main force of the attack was 10,000 wolf cavalry and 20,000 rangers, forming a wedge-shaped protruding formation, and in the rear were five infantry battalions lined up, of which the proportion of heavy infantry was not low. Two other light infantry regiments broke through along the east side to the northeast corner of the Storm Hill on the Emperor's Avenue, and there was no further move for the time being.

At the same time, according to the scout battalion's exploration, among the Desik light infantry, I saw the 'Storm Bear', 'Eagle Falcon' and 'Frost Regiment', all of which are one of the more elite hoplite regiments in the north of Desik, which are quite strong, no worse than the 'Giant Regiment' and 'One-Eyed Regiment' on the battlefield of the Shang Alliance!"

"It's really an elite!" Count Mosik, looking at the placement of various small flags on the military map in front of him, couldn't help but sigh, "Look at the Desiks, they also want to fight quickly. They're trying to break us down all at once!"

"Hahahaha!" The audience burst into laughter, "We're San Jose, not those useless guys from the Business Alliance!" everyone said.

Count Mosik shook his head, "Have you forgotten that there are dark mages among them?" the generals fell silent for a moment, with a dull look on their faces.

"Okay, don't worry, the court magicians are all elite this time, a total of ten high-level magicians, half of the two battlefields in the north and south, and they will be responsible for solving the dark magicians. ”