The first battle of the San Jose Fall Offensive was fought somewhat inexplicably. Although the Minister of War, Count Mosic, and the rest of the cabinet ministers were quite determined, but when it really started, the commanders on the front line were a little dumbfounded, "He can't fight this battle." ”

The first wave of the offensive was tasked with the two regiments of the Guards, who had been stationed in the barracks in front of the Chizhi Stone Forest since the beginning of June. So they watched as the Desik soldiers built a large number of arrow towers and other defenses in the Red Branch Stone Forest.

The two regimental commanders of the Guards had to fight their horses and return to the headquarters to report to Count Mosick.

"Earl, I personally recommend that you start with a three-day ranged attack. Those fortifications and arrow towers are condescending, we have no way to withstand the attack, the losses are too great!"

Count Mosik did not object, and the imperial council made it very clear that this battle must be won regardless of losses, so there is no need to care about those attack materials after three days of long-range attacks.

San Jose's so-called long-range attack was to erect dozens of catapults to frantically drop stone projectiles on Desik's fortifications. The number of these trebuchets actually exceeded the number of trebuchets that had been put into San Jose during the Battle of Kursk not long ago. The special terrain of the Red Branch Stone Forest makes it impossible for either cavalry or crossbow to fully function, and only trebuchets can send stone projectiles to the top of the stone tower.

However, for the Desic, the condescending defensive style made it easy for them to attack the San Jose soldiers from above, but each individual stone tower was still far from each other, and during this time the Desic only connected a few drawbridges with cork ladders between each tower. The load-bearing capacity and width of the drawbridge were limited, making it difficult for Desik to deploy troops.

At first, the officers of both sides just wanted to test it, but they didn't expect that three days passed in a flash, until the trebuchets on the San Jose side had to withdraw from the battlefield due to considerable wear and tear caused by the huge projection.

During these three days, San Jose did not send a single infantryman, and all damage to the Desik army was inflicted by trebuchets. The massive amount of stone bullets transported from the interior of San Jose were poured into the bare free-standing stone towers of the Red Branch Stone Forest by the San Jose mechanics. Stone bullets flew indiscriminately, shattering all the towers, sentry posts, and arrow towers into pieces.

Countless Desik soldiers were blown away by the boulders, fell from stone towers tens of grams high, and fell to pieces. However, the screams and exclamations did not make the Desik officers and soldiers frown more.

After three days, the Desik soldiers finally survived the purgatory-like attack, and when the last trebuchet in San Jose was also reimbursed, a large number of Desik soldiers emerged from the tunnels and caves in the rear and climbed several stone towers on the front line as fast as they could.

This battle, which was a little strange from the beginning, began to develop in an even stranger direction.

The commander of San Jose began to direct the infantry regiment to attack the Red Branch Stone Forest, and in front of them was the guard troops on the stone tower. These soldiers fired condescendingly, causing considerable casualties to the San Jose infantry, and even the steel shield could not fully resist the bows and arrows that fell from the air.

The San Jose commander had to direct his own soldiers to begin climbing the stone tower. The stone towers were not walls, and each stone tower was full of potholes with plenty of places to step on, and the brave San Jose soldiers climbed to the front row of the stone towers despite the danger. Naturally, the Desik soldiers on the tower would not let go of this opportunity, and they set up arrows one after another, shooting the San Jose soldiers hanging in the air into a sieve.

Of course, the archers of San Jose were not polite, and those Desik archers who leaned out to shoot also became the prey of hunters, and many of them were pierced through the heart by the bows and arrows flying from below before they could shoot the arrows in their hands, and they fell down.

So, from the beginning of the battle on the fourth day, the Red Branch Stone Forest began to fight for stone towers one by one. Under each tower, San Jose had to leave a squadron of soldiers behind in order to take a tower. However, neither side dared to relax, and still threw themselves into the battle for the next stone tower without looking back. San Jose's soldiers began to gather on the stone towers that had been taken by the San Josens, and they could quickly charge the next stone tower through the wooden bridge that the Desiks had connected to the stone towers.

This reckless charge caused another casualty. When the murderous Desik soldiers saw the San Jose people rushing towards them, they turned and cut the rope of the wooden bridge. The wooden bridge, which was built by the power of ropes, instantly lost its support and quickly fell to the ground. For both San Jose and Desik soldiers on the bridge, what awaits them is a close encounter with the earth. In addition to the heavy "Peng" sound, there is also blood and brain~ pulp sprinkled all over the ground.

Count Mosik of the command showed no mercy and sent an infantry regiment to the Red Branch Stone Forest, and the battle line began to advance towards the heart of the Stone Forest. By the sixth day, half of the outer stone towers of the Chizhi Stone Forest were already under the control of the San Josens, and the San Josens had also suffered heavy damage, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed and wounded, which was already half of the original Nanhai County garrison.

Yes, Count Moxique is not stupid, and the elite San Jose Guard, for sure, will not be involved in such hand-to-hand combat.

And on the other side of the battlefield, the Royal Navy of San Jose is doing their job. Because of the loss of more than half of the navy soldiers, the fighting strength of the Royal Navy of San Jose has been greatly reduced, and for this period of time, it can only sit in the interior of the rice harbor and watch the De Sik Navy cruising on the sea. The transports of the Desikhs came from the long sea, without regard to the Royal Navy of San Jose.

General Wellington had returned to Minethil Harbor, bringing with him thousands of experienced warriors, all drawn from the eastern San José garrison. These soldiers lived on the Morro River or the Long Sea all year round, and most of them were sailors who lived by the sea before they became soldiers. The arrival of this group of manpower greatly complemented the strength of the Royal Navy in San Jose.

After the first stone bomb in the Chizhi Stone Forest area was thrown by a catapult, the Royal Navy's first oar-block clipper also rushed out of Mineshir Harbour. The main job of the Desik Navy warships was to protect the shipping routes, so they docked a little further away from the port of Mýnail, and when the San Jose Navy warships rushed out of the offshore waters, part of the Desik Navy did not react.

The "Royal Oak", which had been in Yhamie for a long time, took the four large warships of the San Jose Navy and rushed through the open sea defense line in the first batch and plunged headlong into the hinterland of the Desik Navy.

The huge Royal Oak stood out from the crowd of Desik ships, and the "Warrior", "Resolve", "Revenge" and "Guard" behind it lined up in front of the Desik Navy in the light of the lighthouse fire outside Mýnhaven. The other San Jose navy, in a detour, surrounded the entire Desik navy in a semicircle. The ships on both sides had a slight advantage over San Jose, but because many of the ships had just left the port of Myadon and had not yet had time to form a formation, it was the Desik ships that had a slight advantage in this regard.

"Don't be in the mood for war, our mission is to hold back the Desik navy, and then send out some of the landing ships to sneak up on the Desik dock in the Patong area from the rear. When General Wellington returned from Kyoto Castle, he regained his vigor and confidence, and conveyed orders to his adjutant.

The night's naval orders were not well transmitted, and in the face of the Royal Navy of San Jose that pounced on them, the Desiks were completely unprepared and had to rush into battle. Their flagship was not here at all, and the leaderless Desik ships were fighting with the San Jose ships in the dark, unaware that some of the San Jose ships were escorting some of the other ships, and were leaving the battlefield and sailing westward.

That's right, in the "Nemesis Plan", Count Mosicke almost copied the strategy of the Desikhs to invade San Jose, first using the main force to contain the strength and attention of the Desikhs in the frontal defense line, and then transporting landing troops with the navy to attack the Desiks' docks from the rear. San Jose's goal was always twofold: to wipe out the Desik army on the southern front and prevent the oil from leaving the Patong area. In order to achieve these two goals, the only way to do this is to completely destroy the dock built by the Desik in the Patong area.

The Royal Navy of San Jose sent a total of 50 warships and a number of transports to transport soldiers transferred from other parts of San Jose to the waters off Patong in the dark. The makeshift dock here is already in good shape, and some of the Desik transports are staying in the harbor, swaying and sinking with the waves. The lights of the port are not particularly bright, after all, it is a makeshift harbor, and it is far worse than the port of Minahir.

The dim light gave the attacking San Jose people a chance, and the navies of the two countries fighting on the outskirts of Mýnhaven were still some distance away from here. Neither the soldiers on the docks nor the sailors on the ships were aware of the impending catastrophe.

General Wellington aboard the Royal Oak did not leave the battlefield off the coast of Mýnhaven, and it was Viscount Slim of the Royal Guard of San Jose who commanded the raid. He hid on the landing ship with thousands of elite Guards soldiers. Count Mosik made a bloody investment for the "Nemesis Plan", and if the landing operation did not go well, these thousands of Guards soldiers would be buried in the sea.

However, according to what Count Mosique told the Emperor of Benin and his cabinet ministers at the Imperial Council, the autumn offensive had only one goal, which was to destroy the Deciks on the southern front and turn the tide of the war in San José, at all costs.

Looking at the dimly lit temporary harbor in the distance, Viscount Slim on the San Jose transport ship rode a tall horse, holding his giant mace, slowly lowering the mask armor on his face, he glanced back, and the guards behind him were all ready. The ships farther away could not be seen clearly in the night, but he knew that the San Jose soldiers on it were also ready: "Listen to my orders, prepare to land!"