On the land south of San Jose, two fast horses carrying two smudged men were galloping wildly in the direction of Kyoto City. Passing through the town did not attract their attention in the slightest, and the galloping horses' hooves trampled up the dust.

Immediately, the knight's mood was also quite anxious, and the other man, dressed in the appearance of an ordinary soldier, also looked haggard. They were none other than General Wellington and ordinary naval soldier Bing Xia, who had escaped death in the Chizhi Stone Forest area. After escaping in a hurry, the two finally figured out that they were attacked by the super magic of the dark mage of Desik, and under the magic, 8,000 soldiers of the Royal Navy of San Jose were mercilessly slaughtered like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

What's even more terrifying is that the last impression before leaving is that two terrifying creatures, the kind of terrifying monsters that should only exist in myths and legends, actually appeared in front of San Jose's military formation, thinking of them, Bing Xia is still a little trembling. He was the San Jose soldier who remained awake in the midst of the mental storm on the front lines. After Alcmene knocked him away, he fell in front of General Wellington.

And General Wellington saw Bingxia, who was still awake in this situation, and decided to flee with him.

Bingxia didn't understand why she was sober and why General Wellington would flee with her. In the process of leaving, General Wellington's explanation made Bingxia understand that he might not be an ordinary person, or that he might be a magician awakened (Note 1).

And General Wellington, he is indeed a magician awakener. Magical Awakeners are more sensitive to the elements of magic than ordinary people, so under the mental storm, they instinctively resist the attack of magic, thus becoming the only two sober people among the thousands of people in the Desik Royal Navy. General Wellington comes from an aristocratic family and has been in a high position for many years, and it is possible that he even knows that he is a magic awakener, and after discovering Bing Xia, who may also be a magic awakener, the general decides to flee with him.

Although his life was saved, the battle situation became very unfavorable. Half of the soldiers of the Royal Navy in San Jose were unable to stop the Desiks, and under the combined blows of dark magic and dark creatures, almost 8,000 people were torn to pieces by the beasts or became prisoners of the Desiks. The Desik were so scheming that each of the captured soldiers, each of whom was escorted by a Desik soldier, to Patong Beach. There, the Desik transport dropped a large amount of building materials, and it seemed that they wanted to build a dock in the Patong area.

So in the early days of summer, thousands of Royal Navy captives in San Jose had to be stripped of their armor and toiled under the watchful eye of the wolf-like Desik soldiers.

Desik's main army has been holding on to the Red Branch Stone Forest, and has not attacked again, and its behavior is very strange. The magician who performed his magic that day, who had been in the army, was warmly received by General Desik. And those two terrifying monsters, during the day, are always locked in an iron cabinet several people high, covered with a black cloth, and cannot see the situation inside. Only at night there were always terrible screams from that direction, and the next morning, the San Jose captives would find that their companions were much less.

Time passed, five days had passed since the defeat of General Wellington, and the Desiks had welcomed another San José army. It was an army that appeared to be improvised: the thousands of infantry at the head were neatly dressed and well-armed, lined up in neat phalanxes, dressed in conjoined armor, and armed with giant knives twice the length of the gram, while behind them were tens of thousands of men, significantly inferior to the soldiers in the front.

After all, the San Jose Empire is one of the two great empires in the world, and their ability to react is much faster than that of the Shang Alliance. After General Wellington's alarm message reached Kyoto Castle as soon as possible, the Imperial Council made a decision in the shortest possible time, and the War Minister Earl Mosicke personally led two regiments of 6,000 guards to quickly reinforce Nanhai County.

There were a total of 50,000 guards in Kyoto Castle, and under the circumstances of unclear circumstances, they sent 6,000 soldiers from two regiments to cooperate with the tens of thousands of local garrisons in Nankai County. Count Mosik moved quickly, led the guards to the main city of Nanhai County, and integrated the local garrison. However, they were quick, and the Earl of Wellington was defeated even faster, and before the Earl of Mosicke could set out, General Wellington rode a horse and carried a strange soldier, and just fled back to the main city of Nanhaishire.

The two heavyweight generals discussed the door behind closed doors for a full hour, and then the stern-looking Count Mosicke was the first to walk out of the room. "Order, set off at once, to the Red Branch Stone Forest!" With this sentence abandoned, Count Mosik headed south with all his army. And General Wellington, with Bingxia, who had not fully recovered his senses, went to the capital of San Jose, Kyoto City. They must report what happened here to the Council and the court magicians as soon as possible, and seek the help of the Grand Magister Merlin.

Count Mosicke is a veteran general who has served in the San Jose military for thirty years, and has always been a man of his own actions. Whenever there is tension or friction at the border, he always rushes to the scene as soon as possible. Every time he arrived, he was able to calm things down quickly. As a result, people in San Jose often say that Count Mosicke is the true cornerstone of San Jose.

Therefore, when General Wellington brought the news of the defeat, the Earl of Mosickk still rushed to the Red Branch Stone Forest with his army. No matter how horrific General Wellington said, the Patong area is an integral part of the San Jose Empire, and now Desik's brazen invasion is a declaration of war on the San Jose Empire. Such behaviour will not be tolerated. General Wellington was sent back by him to report the news, and as a witness to the battle, he needed to report the situation to His Majesty the Emperor and the Imperial Council in full, so that they could prepare in advance.

And himself, as the Minister of War of the Desik Imperial Council, what he has to do is to block the Desik people, no matter what method is used.

So, after seeing the Desik army waiting in the Red Branch Stone Forest, Count Mosik chose to let all the soldiers camp in front of the Red Branch Stone Forest. There are a large number of construction materials in the main city of Nanhai County, and they have also brought them with them this time. The Minister of War, who had studied the army of Desik deeply, asked the soldiers to set up a fairly tight camp and tightly surround the area of the Chizhi Stone Forest.

Desik's actions puzzled the Earl of Wellington, as did the Earl of Mosick. They chose such an inexplicable landing site as Patong and occupied the strategically important Chizhi Stone Forest, but did not make any further moves. Desik's Rangers blocked the intersection so tightly that none of the San Jose scouts could get through. Out of their sight, the Desik soldiers were building a huge seaside pier with San Jose captives.

Yes, the Desiks, are also going to build a forward base here, like the "Death Knell City" on the side of the Grand Canyon of the Shang League, which is also the embodiment of Emperor Edward VI's strategic thinking.

If things continue to develop like this, it would be fine, at least, the hundreds of thousands of troops in San Jose can be calmly mobilized. Count Mosicke was confident that the San Jose army, fighting on his home soil, could drive the Desic cubs out of the sea. However, at the same time as the Earl of Wellington's Pegasus arrived at Kyoto City, another urgent alert was transmitted to Kyoto City at the same time.

The Desik people, of course, would not and could not have chosen only the Patong area, the only landing area. As the wolf smoke came, everyone realized that Emperor Desik was really crazy and he was going to provoke a war on the whole continent.

The wolf smoke came from the San Jose border, in a small town on the Morro River called "Momiji Town". In those days, every time the Desik envoys went to San Jose, they came ashore from here. The Morro River here has a gentle water system, and boats from the upper reaches reach the San Jose end in no time.

And now, in the vicinity of Momiji Town, there are Desik soldiers wearing wolfskin jackets, holding steel swords, steel spears, and black iron shields, and they are camping near Momiji Town, and the original sheriff and mayor of Momiji Town are trembling and tied aside.

The Desik people took advantage of the night to touch the Morro River, and when all the eyes of everyone in San Jose were attracted by the war in the south, no one thought that the crazy Edward VI would dare to open a second front on the Morro River.

It is equivalent to saying that the Desik Empire began to attack the San Jose Empire from both the north and the south at the same time, and the two major powers of the mainland tore their faces without declaring war, which was not expected by all the nobles on the mainland. Even the Council of San Jose thought that the actions of the Desiks in Nanhai County were their main target.

The San Jose garrisons near the town of Red Leaf were beaten off guard, and thousands of defenders were slaughtered overnight, and the Desik were building a southern landing in the Patong area, while quietly crossing the Morro River on San Jose's northern border to gain a foothold.

At this time, General Wellington had just taken Bingxia to a place not far from the outskirts of Kyoto City. Both horses were already foaming at the mouth and could not hold on. General Wellington's horse was the first to fall to his knees, followed by Bingxia's horse.

But General Wellington didn't dare to stop, he saw that Bingxia could no longer hold on, so he actually bent down and picked up this ordinary San Jose Royal Navy soldier, and ran towards the direction of Kyoto City with his last strength. There is no way, their news is too important, and the faster it reaches the court magicians, they will have more time to think about what to do.

And just as he was about to approach Kyoto City, General Wellington was surprised to see the black smoke in the far north sky, and he, who had served in the army all the year round, immediately understood what it was.

It was the wolf smoke that represented the enemy's attack, "Could it be that there are other places besides Nankai County that have also encountered war?" Wellington thought, and the majestic Red Fort of Kyoto City, not far from the other direction in front of him, shone brightly under the double illumination of the red and blue sun.

Note 1: Magical Awakeners are a term handed down from the Magic Empire era, referring to those who can feel the magical element and have the ability to become magicians.