Chapter 8 The Rivalry between the Two Powers

In the year 1687 of the Age of Light, the world of Olopa continued to be in turmoil.

The tragic situation of the Snowy Federation is still not known to the world, the civil war in the north of the West Luo Fei Kingdom seems to be easing, the smoke of the Fayele Empire and the Four Nations Alliance is still filling, the war against bandits in the Pole Kingdom seems to be endless, and the St. Olufe Kingdom is struggling to regain the land from the orcs with the help of the Templar Order.

In order to break the stalemate, the Sealand royal family decided to send two powerful main armies to attack from the north and south, cutting off the support of the defenders of Paris City and outflanking the royal capital of Medin from behind.

The Zoro Plains, located on the northern border of the Kingdom of Medin, is separated from the Troll Plains, one of the top ten desperate realms on the continent, by a narrow swampy area. The Zoro Plain is located within the sphere of influence of the Kingdom of Medin, the area is less than a quarter of the Troll Plain, although there are occasionally a small number of trolls, but the place is not strategically important, and there is also a vast Troll Plain as a buffer zone between the powerful northern neighbor Rokar Empire, so there are almost no military forts built on the Zoro Plain, which is why the "King's Exemplar" legion can drive straight ahead.

"The King's Model" is the elite division with a long history in the Kingdom of Sealand, since its establishment, almost all the wars that the Kingdom of Sealand has participated in, you can see the banner of this legion, "The Model of the King" has made great contributions in the military history of Sealand, never defeated, and the gravitational force of the Kingdom of Sealand has been victorious again and again. In the early days of the war, the "King's Paragon" broke the airtight defenses of the Medin army on the west coastline, and drove all the way into the hinterland of Medin, trampling the two richest provinces of Medin under their iron hooves. Later, due to too much attrition, the "model of the king" had to be withdrawn to the country for recuperation, and after replenishing the source of troops and restoring its vitality, this victorious army returned to the battlefield again after ten months.

And their opponent, the "Eight-winged Golden Eagle", is also a well-known heavy knight legion in the army of the Kingdom of Medin, and half of the Caesar cavalry, the characteristic force of the Kingdom of Medin, is concentrated in this legion, well-equipped and well-trained. What made this legion famous all over the world was in the Fifth Poseidon War, when the "Eight-winged Golden Eagle" charged and smashed the fish-man army five times their size, and since then, no one on the three continents of Olopa knows the resounding end of the "Eight-winged Golden Eagle". However, in this Prune War, the "Eight-winged Golden Eagle" legion has been very aggrieved, but not because of the enemy, but because of its own interior.

Before the western army came to the city, the ruling layer of Medin was divided into three factions: the main peace faction, the main escape faction, and the main battle faction, and the three parties fought endlessly, and the "eight-winged golden eagle" army was in the hands of the main escape faction, and the soldiers were empty of heat, but they could not gallop on the battlefield and kill the enemy for the country, but the important ministers of the fugitive peace faction were deployed in the eastern suburbs of the royal capital, as a bargaining chip to coerce the other two factions to agree to their own claims, and at the same time as the backing of the capital relocation plan. Later, the "Duke of Stag" Paul Abel and Prince Louis jointly launched a palace coup that shocked the world, Prince Louis ousted his father Charles III from the throne, became the new king Louis V, and carried out a bloody purge of the main peace faction and the main escape faction. The commander of the "Eight-winged Golden Eagle" was the confidant of the leader of the main escape faction, and in the absence of a guarantee of his loyalty, even during the most difficult siege of Paris, Louis V did not intend to use this army, which also indirectly preserved the strength of the "Eight-winged Golden Eagle".

In the past few months, the "eight-winged golden eagle" has been relocated to the east coast, which has not yet been affected by the war, in the name of preventing the Sealand landings from the east coast. In fact, it was to cleanse the remnants of the main fugitive faction within the legion. After months of transformation, the day has come for the "eight-winged golden eagle" to return to the battlefield after it was determined that they have been completely loyal to the new king.

In order to achieve the maximum effect of outflanking, the "King's Paragon" had already made full speed in the direction of their destination, avoiding the densely populated cities and detouring the remote Zoro Plain, in order to avoid unnecessary battles, so as to achieve the best effect of the speed of the soldiers, but they did not expect that their whereabouts had already been known.

"Why stop advancing?" said Prince Harunn, the 23-year-old crown prince, and asked the starter.

Since it was named "King", the "Model of the King" legion naturally became a place for the royal family to gild, and every expedition was supervised by a member of the royal family, which has become an unwritten rule of the "model of the king".

"Your Highness, the scouts report that the Medin army was spotted 2 kilometers ahead. "The commander did not dare to slack off.

"2 km, those annoying flies, just drive them away, as for wasting time here?" Prince Harun was very dissatisfied with the herald's explanation, and he turned and walked back, while giving an irrefutable order, "The whole army is advancing, and no one can rest until sunset." ”

After returning to the battlefield, the "King's Exemplar" encountered three harassments by the Medin's guerrilla groups, but they were all annihilated by the soldiers of the Legion, so when he heard the herald say that he had discovered the enemy, Prince Harun naturally thought that it was those small guerrilla forces.

"This ......" the herald was a little confused.

"Not yet!" said Prince Harlan to the squeaky herald.

"Cancel that order. The voice came from the Legion Commander of the "Exemplary King": Duke Candal Hoover.

Harlan looked over and saw a royal knight in his 40s with a graying beard riding towards him at the front of the army.

"Teacher, I don't understand. Prince Harlan said to Duke Hoover in a rather respectful tone. He had been a student of Duke Hoover since he was 6 years old, and for the proud crown prince, even his own father did not speak as much as Duke Hoover.

"Your Highness, before giving an order, you must first understand the situation, a wrong order may cost countless warriors. These enemies were not stragglers, but large and well-organized regular legions. ”

"Regular legion?" Prince Harlan suddenly came to his senses, "Is there still a complete regular legion in the Kingdom of Medin now?"

"That's right. "Duke Hoover said," said the scout, who reported seeing the enemy waving the banner of the 'eight-winged golden eagle'. In order to confirm the information, I went to investigate it myself. With that, Duke Hoover took off the water bag hanging from the saddle and drank it in a gulp.

"'Eight-winged Golden Eagle'?" Prince Harlan was inexplicably excited, "is that the so-called ace army that has been a shrunken turtle since the beginning of the war? ”

"Your Highness, you can't rush in. Our encounter with the 'Eight-winged Golden Eagle' here is by no means an ordinary encounter, I have reconnoitred their formation, the enemy soldiers are all in good spirits, and there are 4 giant trebuchets erected in the position, which shows that it seems that we knew our march route from the beginning, and waiting here for a long time means ......" Speaking of this, Duke Hoover did not dare to continue.

"Teacher, do you want to say that someone has leaked secrets?" Prince Harlan said what Duke Hoover did not dare to say. When the route of the march on the northern battlefield was drawn up that day, only Duke Candal Hoover, Prince Harlan, and several other members of the royal family were present, and if someone leaked the official, the problem would inevitably arise with the royal family, and as a knight, he suspected the royal family, which was not allowed for the commander of the legion named after the "king".

Seeing that the teacher was silent, Prince Harlan confirmed his guess: "Damn, it must be a good thing done by my brothers, they are dissatisfied with the royal father for making me the crown prince, so they try every means to sabotage it! ”

At the same time, in the positions of the "eight-winged golden eagle".

"Report!" a lightly armed soldier rode straight under the command stand, "the enemy stopped 2 kilometers away. ”

"Outside the range of my giant trebuchet? After receiving the report, the commander of the "Eight-winged Golden Eagle" sneered, "Come on." The time has come to wash away the shame. Use the entrails of your soldiers to wash our horseshoes!"

The calm plains of Zoro are faintly filled with the smell of blood. When two world-famous ace divisions meet, what kind of sparks will collide?