San Jose South.

Viscount Slim and the Guards soldiers have been busy lately. After being breached and losing their temporary docks, the Desik soldiers of the Red Branch Stone Forest had to temporarily abandon their stronghold in the Patong area and flee westward.

The choice of this direction is quite level, but it is difficult to say that it is a very suitable choice. The Patong area is an area in the south-west of San Jose, the southwesternmost corner of Nanhai County, facing the sea on one side and inland on three sides. To the east it is the great port of Nanhai County, the Port of Minahir, to the north by another province, and to the west is the province of Odenlo, one of San Jose's three special provinces, which is what the people of San Jose call the barren land.

It was a sparsely populated and barren western region of the Gobi Desert and desert, with only a small military presence in San Jose. To his north is the Bloodmoon Province, which has a large San Jose garrison and is itself home to the Western Frontier Guards. But they don't easily enter the barren land, where there is a lack of water and food, and even the temperature is much higher than in other areas. Even in the cold winter months, the desert is still not a place for humans to enjoy.

The Desik army, who did not know whether they were scattered or left on their own, chose to enter the province of Odanlo, that is, the barren land. The San Jose people passed the news to the headquarters of the Merchant Alliance, and the nervous headquarters of the Merchant Alliance immediately sent troops to impose martial law on the border of the Duchy of Tra, for fear that the Desik army would cross the border.

However, the Desik army that entered the desert soon vanished. According to captured captives, those Desik soldiers carried a large amount of supplies, including food and water, before entering the desert, and should have been able to hold out in the desert for some time.

Viscount Slim was not in a hurry, and if he could hold out for a while, he mobilized the local garrisons of the two nearby counties and provinces, set up a series of guard towers along the border of the Badlands, and established a military camp in Nanhai County, where more than 20,000 local garrisons were stationed. Not far off the coast of Mi Harbor, the Royal Navy of San Jose has regained control of the coast of the Long Sea since the departure of the Desik Navy, and many Royal Navy warships patrol the coastline. Desik's navy disappeared into the far open sea, and the Royal Navy, lacking charts, did not dare to pursue it.

Once the fighting had subsided, Viscount Slim returned to the northern front, where Count Mosik was still waiting for him to arrive, and it was said that a winter counterattack against the Desik army would be organized when he returned.

In the province of Kursk, from autumn to winter, the two sides have been in a constant confrontation, and both the Desik army and the San Jose army are stationed in camps in the field. The Kursk Plain was too flat, and the only small towns were destroyed in the previous battles, forcing both sides to camp in the wilderness. Fortunately, in winter, the cold wind blows, and people really don't want to go out.

This unfortunate weather is a common occurrence for the Desik. Most of the northern part of the Desik Empire has harsh winters all year round, and many soldiers from the north have grown up in the ice and snow. The climate in the south is very different from that in the north, even this cold is cold, the cold in the north is dry and cold, and people who are purely frozen are incapacitated. And the cold in the south is more special, not only the temperature is low, but it also rains a lot, wet, and the rain falls on the ground, and it quickly freezes into ice, freezing everything into ice edges.

A small squad of Desik soldiers, leaning in front of the camp wall and doing nothing. Today is their turn, this rotation has been quite boring lately, and the San Jose Guards who have caused a lot of confusion in the defense line before have not known where to go lately, and rarely appear. Many soldiers on duty simply left the camp to freeze for a whole day or a night, and then returned to the barracks to rest. The cycle went on and on, and the entire front line was without any fighting for almost half a month.

A few days ago, a number of large boats came from the Morro River, unloading some large and tight boxes. The soldiers were speculating about what secret weapons had been sent from the country. To be honest, on the battlefield of San Jose, the Desik soldiers were still relatively depressed. Thanks to the national strength and technology, the people of San Jose are generally better than the Desic in terms of weapons and equipment, especially those huge trebuchets, which are thrown fast and far, which makes all the Desiks suffer.

I heard from the officers that it seems that a new weapon has been developed at the Black Harbor Military Factory and will soon be sent to the front, so I hope what they say is true. The Black Harbor Military Factory has developed rapidly in recent years, and it is much more powerful than the Royal First Military Factory in White Rock City.

At this moment, the team leader who was still on duty on the side suddenly exclaimed, "Don't talk about it, come and see, what are those in the distance?" Everyone followed the voice and looked ahead. Not far away, on the opposite side, on the snow, some black figures suddenly appeared.

"Damn, it's San Jose, they want to attack in the cold!" everyone shouted, and at this moment, the trebuchet behind those dark shadows made it impossible not to notice.

The sound of "woo-woo-woo" horns began to sound over the camp.

The San Jose attack naturally began with a long-range attack from the trebuchet, and all the Desik soldiers were already familiar with the enemy's procedures. Seeing that the huge figure in the distance began to swing up and down, and the black stone bullets flew across the sky towards the camp, Desik's officers shouted loudly: "Pay attention to dodge!" All the soldiers hurriedly jumped down the tunnel behind the camp wall, and there were many shields placed next to the tunnel, and everyone raised their shields close to the tunnel wall and maintained a crouching posture. The stone bullet smashed into the camp, jumped a few times, and was blocked by the tunnel and quickly lost power.

In the camp, the Deshiks dug many tunnels in all directions, and these ugly and inconvenient tunnels helped the defenders avoid the initial attack.

The attack of the San Jose trebuchet continued, firing a full fifteen rounds, until the trebuchet's gears were too hot to support it and had to stop. San Jose's mechanics rushed forward and poured ice water on the gears to maintain the machine.

Seeing that the attack stopped, the Desik soldiers hiding in the pit came out one after another. With the protection of the tunnel, only a few of these soldiers were killed in the front because they were so unlucky. Most of them carried it until the end of the attack.

At such times, the commander would order the infantry to go up to the camp wall and prepare for defense. But today is a little strange, after coming out of the tunnel, the soldiers did not hear the delivery of the order, everyone looked at each other, did not know what was happening, and turned their eyes to their leading officers, only to find that the officers were also panicked.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the horn to sound, and the rhythmic command of "Woo Woo Woo" made everyone even more confused, "Stand by the place, open the camp gate?" Everyone wondered if the herald had blown the wrong trumpet, how could the camp gate be opened at this time?

The truth was not wrong, when the camp gate opened, a large number of black shadows began to pour out from the depths of the camp, and a large white mist enveloped everyone. The black shadow was Steppenwolf, and the white mist was the hot breath exhaled by Steppenwolves in cold weather. Desik's pride, Steppenwolf Rider is ready to strike.

Some attentive soldiers found it strange for the Steppenwolf to ride out. Instead of carrying their trademark scimitars, the warriors on the back of the wolves rushed out of the camp with a cloth bag in their hands. "What's that?" the Desik soldiers were all puzzled.

After the ranged attacks stopped, the San Jose soldiers also did not attack. The order given by the General Staff was to maintain the attack of this intensity for five days before launching the attack, and not to fall into a bitter battle. The junior officers had no right to ask rhetorical questions, and since Count Mosik had decided to fight like this, everyone had to do so, even if, no one could understand the thoughts and purposes of the staff.

The soldiers were disassembling the catapults and preparing to leave, as did the infantrymen who had come out to pretend to attack. At this moment, an alarm suddenly came from the observation post, "Desik cavalry! wolf riders are coming!" The observation post exclaimed, and the San Jose aristocratic officers who were in the whole team hurriedly stepped forward, only to see the camp gate of the Desik camp in the distance wide open, and many wolf horsemen were roaring out of the camp gate.

"Don't be nervous, there's still a distance, prepare to line up!" The commanders didn't think about it, instinctively made them choose to engage the enemy. There are not many wolf riders who come out, and their own soldiers must protect the catapults in the rear to buy time for their evacuation. The mechs also increased their speed in their hands, and catapults were the magic weapon of the San Jose army and could not be easily lost.

The speed of the wolf ride is very fast, although it is not as good as the war horse in terms of endurance, but the short sprint, there is nothing on this continent that can compare to the Steppenwolf ride of Desik. Miles of distance passed in an instant, and the wolf rider had quickly approached the San Jose soldiers. For a short time, the soldiers formed a small phalanx, which was an abbreviated version of the large phalanx of San Jose, and had a certain defense against the cavalry charge that engaged in the temporary engagement.

However, the officers of San Jose thought too well, and when the wolves rushed closer, they saw the samurai on the back of the wolf, shaking a black package. That way of throwing the rope is the way the northern barbarians used to hunt a long time ago. At the moment of lightning speed, the package, which was thrown to the maximum speed, flew into the sky with a "whoosh", past the San Jose soldiers in the front row, and flew towards the trebuchet in the back row. The black package landed on the ground and there was no response. The San Jose soldier just wanted to go up and check, "Watch out for the rocket!" The observation post once again shouted a warning, and a large number of rockets crossed the crowd and landed on the black cloth package just now, igniting a fire with a "boom"!

The Desikhs, using the oil they had just obtained, raided San Jose's important weapon, the trebuchet, in the same way that San Jose attacked the mines in the Patong area. Caught off guard, the San Jose trebuchets caught fire, and the mechanics rushed to the rescue. But fire oil is fire oil, and once ignited, not only could it not be extinguished, but even many San Jose soldiers were involved in the fire.

The San Jose infantry in the front row was in disarray, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the Desik wolf riders who had been circling around turned their heads and launched a formal charge again. All of a sudden, the blood flowed like a river.

War is never so simple.