The leader of the Shang Alliance~ Xi Hui is still discussing the planning of the war, but the army of the Shang Alliance does not dare to slack off.

Opposite the Grand Canyon of Desik Chenbing, 20,000 mercenaries of the Shang League, they did not dare to make any moves, always guarding against the surprise attack of the Desik army, for the wasteland warriors who invaded South Madur, the Shang League urgently mobilized the new Third and Seventh Armies of the Northwest Three Kingdoms and the new First Army stationed in Manning City, a total of more than 30,000 people, and rushed straight to the border of South Madur at the fastest speed.

The general who led the team was General Guo Lao of the newly formed First Army, he was fifty years old this year, he was a middle-aged soldier in the prime of life, from the Manning Kingdom, and he was himself the commander of the newly formed First Army.

Two years ago, after the Manning Incident, the Merchant Alliance formed 40 new brigades and regiments throughout the territory, with a total of 13 corps. Among them, except for the familiar Sixth Army of Kaman and the Ninth Army of Mosat, the rest of the merchant alliance countries are distributed. For example, the New Third Army and the New First Army were both stationed in Manning, while the New Seventh Army came from the Kingdom of Carthage. These are the closest troops to Southern Madur.

In this, the New Third Army is actually provided by the Southern Madur Kingdom. However, because it was too cold in Southern Madur, this force was stationed on the border between Manning and Southern Madur. The New First Army, the only reinforced army with four brigades, was supported by the Manning Kingdom, so it was also the most powerful part of the New Army of the Shang Alliance.

General Guo, standing beside the three armies marching together, rode a handsome tall horse and wore a black armor. The armor is a special type of armor made up of a large number of rectangular pieces of rope strung together. This kind of armor, unlike the plate armor worn by ordinary knights, is extremely protective against bows and crossbows, but it cannot prevent swords and swords.

However, since the invention of this armor by Mossat's craftsmen two hundred years ago, few officers or knights on the mainland have chosen this armor. Because this kind of armor is really ugly, pieces of rectangular rope pieces, strung together like dominoes. It is also impossible to paint the armor with silver decorations, which is not in line with most aristocratic ideals that pursue luxury and ceremonies.

But General Guo didn't think so.

General Guo's figure is not tall, and he looks a little thin when he gets older, his hair is thin, he doesn't wear a mask, and he has a few hairs, which are meticulously combed behind his head. The eyes are bright, and the serious face is not angry and arrogant. The lieutenants who followed him were mostly native Mannings.

Different from ordinary Shang Alliance soldiers, General Guo Lao was not born in the nobility, his family is actually an ancient family with a long history, and it has been in business all year round, which can be traced back to ancient times. After an entire era of the Magic Empire and the history of the merchant alliances, the family is still active in Manning.

And General Guo, who was born in this family, somehow chose the profession of mercenary when he was young, and later paid out of his own pocket and donated a large sum of money to buy the identity of a knight lord from King Manning, and then was admitted to the Royal Military Academy of San Jose to study military command.

In the decades that followed, he grew from an ambitious young man to a highly regarded general. Maybe it's because of your origin. General Guo Lao is very different from the concept of ordinary nobles, the most typical thing is that he never wears luxurious knight armor, that is, plate armor.

He once complained to other officers in private, and the noble officers were all dressed in gorgeous clothes like "golden chickens" (Note 1), and they were afraid that the enemy would not see him. As a commander, you must stay in the most correct position to dispatch the whole army, and the armor piercing must also be dominated by armor that can protect against stray arrows, such as armor.

Not far away, several fast horses were hurrying over, and General Guo squinted his eyes and turned the horse's head. The few on the horse were knights, and the silver armor shining in the red sun was very eye-catching.

"Old General Guo!", "Old General Guo!" people stopped their horses and saluted General Guo, and General Guo also returned a salute. They were Simpson, the commander of the New Third Army, and Christopher of the New Seventh Army, one Southern Madur and the other Carthaginian.

Commander Simpson was a short, middle-aged man, dark-skinned, typical descendant of an alpine tribe, with red eyes, and when the tragedy of Southern Madur reached the army, he used great endurance to control himself from returning home immediately. And Captain Christopher is a tall and thin veteran, and the armor is a little loose on his body. It is rumored that he was the elder brother of the king of Carthage and a great nobleman.

Old General Guo didn't say much nonsense, "The latest information, the Desik people who came are the most elite Desik Wasteland warriors, they are the pro-army of the Desik Emperor, 5,000 people and 5,000 Steppenwolves, and their combat effectiveness is extremely amazing." ”

"General Guo, don't say so much, let my Third Army go first, I'm going to kill them all!" General Simpson was extremely angry.

"Can your 10,000 men beat the warriors of the wasteland? Don't say it's 5,000 wolves, even if it's a thousand wolves, you can't be underestimated. General Guo said slowly.

"Then, what is your opinion, General Guo?" asked Christopher, who was on the side.

"The top priority now is to keep the front in Southern Madur and buy time for the Merchant Alliance headquarters in the rear to mobilize more troops. At the same time, you must also guard against these wolf cubs and dogs jumping off the wall, they are too mobile. So go to the southwest, Christopher, and block their escape to Carthage, and the First and Third Armies, following me, will surround them from the south and southeast, and try to drive them back to the snowy mountains. ”

"Yes!", "Yes!" the two generals answered, climbed on their horses, and hurried away. "Hey, Simpson, don't rush in!" the uneasy General Guo shouted in the back.

The offensive went extremely well.

The country of Southern Madur, as a kingdom, has a high status as a king, which is inseparable from the founder's nobility in the Magic Empire at that time and his contribution during the First Continental War.

But in essence, the Southern Madur people, who were originally a mountain tribe, were not suitable for the existence of a country, and after a large number of mountain tribe natives came out of the mountains, they chose to settle in the city of South Madur, and only a small number of outsiders would reclaim the wasteland and form settlements.

Therefore, mainlanders used to call the kingdom of Southern Madur the city-state of Southern Madur, and the rest of the country was dotted with only a few small villages.

After the Shang Alliance's army entered the territory of Southern Madur, it spent most of its time marching in uninhabited areas, and there was an eerie silence in the air, and occasionally a few Desik rangers could be seen (Note 2), but the infantry could not outrun the wolf cavalry, and the scouts who chased after them were not tough enough, so for three days, the Shang Alliance army did nothing.

General Guo has been thinking about it for the past few days, he was born in the mercenary army of the Shang League, and in his thirty years of military career, he has fought against the Desik more than once. The soldiers of this country are vicious, fierce and cunning, and if you want to describe it as an animal, General Guo is willing to choose poisonous snakes.

The poisonous snake, always spitting out the letter slyly, stood up vigilantly, with a slight cool light in his eyes, staring at the grass in front of him. The whole body, like a tightened bow. The movement in the grass was getting closer and closer, and it seemed to be able to see through everything, opening its two blue and white fangs, the tips of which were dripping with emerald venom, and suddenly swished and rushed out.

And the same is true of the Desik army, they come and go like the wind, where they hide cunningly, and then suddenly give a hard blow, General Guo suspects.

"I can't go any further!" Looking at the map carefully, General Guo made up his mind, turned around and said to several of his lieutenants, "The city of Southern Madur is irretrievable, and our task is to maintain the battle line in the territory of Southern Madur, and we can't give the Desik people a chance to take advantage of it." General Simpson of the three armies is going too fast, you go and inform him and ask him to stop for a while. ”

Another lieutenant general worried, "General Simpson is vengeful, and the herald's orders may not be believed, General." ”

"So, there is really a problem with our military system, hey", General Guo sighed, "Although I am the commander of this reinforcement army, I am just the commander of the new army, Simpson and Christopher, they obey my orders, they give me face and do not obey me, and a sentence that the battlefield situation is complicated can explain the past." Hopefully, the Desik people don't take the initiative. ”

General Guo's worries are not unreasonable. Jim Guderian, who had captured the city of Southern Madur, watched his army withdraw from the city with high spirits, and the backpacks on the backs of wolves were full of bulging bags. After so many years of accumulation of the Alpine tribe, except for a small number that turned into ashes with the fire, the rest were cheaper than the group of wasteland warriors under their command. There are still pieces of blood and flesh at the corners of many Steppenwolf's mouths, no need to ask, Jim also knows what those are, war, collateral damage is inevitable.

According to the strategy of the base camp, after capturing the city of Southern Madur, the warriors of the wasteland should quickly evacuate and avoid the advance of the Shang Alliance's reinforcements to the west. But the news that the scouts brought back in the past few days gave Jim a new plan.

Judging from the military flag, the commander of the Shang Alliance who came to aid was General Guo, a veteran of the Shang League, and this person has always been old and serious in intelligence, but the military information found by the scouts showed that the reinforcements were divided into three on the border of South Madur and surrounded South Madur from three directions.

With a blink of an eye, Jim thought of a plan in his mind, maybe before leaving, he could bite off a large piece of meat from the merchant alliance reinforcements. However, after thinking about it again and again, thinking of the plan of the base camp, Jim still struggled to hold back his thoughts, "Hmph, it's cheaper for you." ”

"Come on, let the first and second regiments stay, and the rest of the people will gather at the predetermined location. Jim commanded the officer behind him.

The Steppenwolf rode into two lanes, the larger one, which went westward, and a small group, bypassing the ruined walls of Southern Madur, and heading south.

Note 1: The golden pheasant is a kind of ground-walking bird with colorful feathers, in addition to the colorful feathers, it also has a long tail, which is a symbol of beauty.

Note 2: The scouts of the Steppenwolf army, commonly known as the Rangers, are the most elite part of the Desic army, and there are also some Rangers in the Steppenwolf Cavalry. It has the ability to fight independently and collect intelligence for a long time.