There are only two places to enter the Snowy Federation by land

One is the Plain of Hellasia, located at the northeast end of the Brilliant Continent, which is bordered by the West Lotha Kingdom to the southwest, the Loma Kingdom to the south, and the Snowy Federation to the northwest, but it is the territory of the barbarians, and it is impossible for the Crusaders to attack the Snowy Federation from there, unless the Pope wants to start a war with the barbarians and mages at the same time

The other is the only entrance and exit of the Boundary Mountain Range through the north and south: the Valley of Sin, the West Luo Fei Kingdom is the only Holy Light Sect country bordering the Snowy Federation, and the two countries are bordered by the Boundary Mountain Range, and if the Boundary Mountain Range is regarded as a wall, then the Valley of Sin is the only gate on the wall, and there are two different worlds inside and outside

Many years ago, when the Central Church exiled ungodly criminals to the far north, they had to pass through this 50-kilometer-long valley, which was named the Valley of Sin, and later after the establishment of the Snowy Federation, in order to remember this history for future generations, it was decided not to change the name of the valley

On May 22, 1675, after the Holy Warrant was issued by the Pope, the troops of the eight great powers participating in the Crusader and their affiliated principalities, princely states, and city-states continued to gather to the south of the Valley of Sin, while the Snowy Federation on the opposite side had assembled earlier, and for more than 20 days, the two sides continued to increase troops into this narrow valley, and the mages controlled the entire valley, while the Crusaders were deployed at the southern end of the valley

Finally, at 19:45 on the evening of June 15, 1675, after learning that the battle in the Ice Strait on the Western Front had begun, the Crusader Commander-in-Chief of the Valley of Sin on the Eastern Front gave the order for an all-out attack

Unlike the fierce confrontation on the Western Front from the beginning, the Crusaders on the Eastern Front were quite cautious, led by dozens of angelic mages of different ranks summoned by the priests, and also summoned thousands of summoned creatures of the four elemental systems of air, earth, water, and fire in a-for-tat manner, and a fierce battle began at the southern entrance of the Valley of Sin

Although the number of angels is far less than that of the elementals, the priest frequently casts the expulsion spell to make a large number of elementals disappear directly from the battlefield, but as soon as a group of elementals are eliminated, the mages immediately summon another batch to fill the vacancy, this fierce battle between summoned creatures is to fight for whose magic energy is more, because the number of mages who can use summoning elemental magic is far more than the priests who can summon angels, and the effect of the magic recovery potion created by the alchemists of the Snow Federation is better than that used by the priests, so although the angelic army is menacing, and with the help of the priest's expulsion technique, the balance of victory is still tilted towards the other side step by step

Ten hours later, the priests' magical energy was running out, and they had no more energy left to banish the elementals or summon new angels, while their opponents, the mage's magical energy seemed to be inexhaustible, and a steady stream of elementals were summoned

Finally, the last angel was knocked down and became scattered points of light, returning to the sky, hundreds of elemental people pounced on the trebuchet position at the front of the crusaders, abandoned the equipment and retreated, the crusader commander gave an order, dozens of soldiers operating the trebuchet immediately abandoned their positions, spread their feet and ran to the rear, the soldiers' lives were saved, but the dozen trebuchets they abandoned in front of the position were overwhelmed by the overwhelming elements, and the mages did not order the elementals to win the pursuit, because the farther the summoned creatures were from the summoner, the more mana the summoner was consumed, and the mages had to maintain their mana to cope with the next series of fierce battles

The first battle ended at 6 a.m. on June 16, a miracle in the history of warfare, with no one on either side killed, except for some priests or mages who were wounded by the mana feedback, but the Crusaders clearly suffered a loss, as they lost a dozen trebuchets for no reason

During the day on June 16th, the two sides continued to rely on strong positions to fight, except for scattered boulders and large magic balls bombarded each other, there was no fierce fighting, at about 23 o'clock in the evening, an elite team of griffons quietly approached the mage's camp, trying to take advantage of the evening to sneak attack, but when they came to the sky above the mage's camp, a huge illumination magic rose, more than forty air riders and their griffons were exposed in the night sky, it turned out that the mage commander had long expected the crusaders to come to this hand, and set this trap, countless attack magic from the ground straight into the sky, the griffin air riders were shot down one by one, they organized a counterattack, and the javelins thrown from the air did kill several magesBut in the face of the disparity in numbers, this air surprise attack force could not escape the end of annihilation

The main force of the fast air cavalry immediately set out to pick them up, and the commander of the air force of the crusaders, seeing in the distance that this commando was in danger, gave the order for the air force to attack on all fronts - because it was not the knight's way to abandon his comrades on the battlefield

The sneak attack turned into a strong attack, the sky was covered with hundreds of dense griffins, and the air force of the Snow Federation also dispatched two large floating fleets with the Flame and the Thunder floating fortress as the core, and launched an attack on the air cavalry from the north over the boundary mountain range, and the air force of the Snow Federation was extremely strong, and other countries had no hope that the air cavalry of the Crusader could draw with the mage's air force in the first battle of the Ice Strait, because the Frost fortress spaceship and half of the floating fleet did not fight; However, it was completely different now, the two floating fleets of the Flame and the Thunder showed the strength of the Snowy Federation Air Force, and only one of the main air cavalry units of the Crusaders had lost a third

However, the airhorsemen did not deter from the strength of the enemy, they ignited their courage under the aura of a royal knight, and soon regrouped their formation and launched a new offensive, some of the airhorsemen flew past them with a torch in each hand, and the other airhorsemen put their oil-stained javelins on the torches and ignited them, struggling to fight in the lightning, fireball, Dodge in the dense magical attack of the ice arrow, throw a javelin at the porthole of the float, and the mage standing in front of the porthole is pierced by the javelin, but these losses are insignificant to the huge snowy air force, and the Crusader air force will endure even more brutal slaughter

Seeing that his air force had suffered a great loss, the Crusader commander-in-chief ordered the ground forces to press on all fronts in an attempt to relieve the pressure on the air force. As soon as the infantry rushed up, a large number of soldiers fell before they rushed to the mage's array, the mages used a wide range of fire attack magic to strike at the crusaders who rushed over, the front of the crusader line was burned into a fire array, the smell of charred human flesh wafted in the air, the crusaders' trebuchets let out a roar, one by one burning boulders smashed accurately into the position located at the exit at the southern end of the valley, the mages scattered and fled, thanks to the time when the attack eased a little, some of the Crusader soldiers who paid a heavy price had already stepped on the mage's position, the fragile mages hurriedly retreated, and a group of magic puppets rushed up, followed by nearly a hundred battle mages with swords in one hand and magic wands in the other- -This is the only class of the Warriors in the Federation, and in the narrow valley of crusaders, magic dolls, and battle mages are engaged in fierce battles and chaotic scenes

The terrain of the valley was harsh, which affected the mobility and surprise of the cavalry, so almost all the infantry who now entered the valley did not dare to use trebuchets for fear of accidentally injuring their own people, but some magicians above the sixth ring who were hiding outside the chaotic battlefield could cast precision strike magic and carry out roll call precision strikes on the Crusader soldiers in the melee

A few hours later, the crusaders who entered the valley were almost completely wiped out, and only a few of the elite managed to escape the Crusader forces guarding the southern exit of the valley, trying to block the snowy army in the valley and then use trebuchets to carry out concentrated bombardment, but at this time, several large creatures roared from the valley, and the Crusader soldiers were surprised to find that several huge mammoth war elephants were slowly moving in the valley, these creatures tamed by the mages were as tall as ten knights, their limbs and heads were covered with thick iron armor, and there was a combat platform on their backs, on which sat four, five mages, one of whom is responsible for controlling the mammoth, and the others use attack magic to attack enemies around them

Some of the Crusader crossbowmen fired at the mammoth, but their thick fur blocked the arrows, while others aimed at the mages on the mammoth's back, but when the arrows were about to hit the mage, they were stopped by an invisible air shield that prevented the cavalry and infantry from charging at the mammoth, and all the crusader soldiers who dared to approach them were horribly trampled in front of the mammoth's house-like limbs

Six mammoth war elephants ravaged the Crusaders' positions, inflicting heavy losses on their ground forces

Faced with defeat, the Crusader commander-in-chief had to order all the ground forces and the remnants of the air force to retreat southward, and the victorious mage troops followed the mammoth war elephant to pursue the victory, not only occupying the Crusader camp, but also counterattacking the hinterland of the West Lothe Kingdom, driving the Crusaders all the way south for more than ten kilometers until they drove the Crusaders into the impregnable northern fortress of Lofia, Akron, and did not stop the pursuit

The battle lasted from about 11 p.m. on June 16 to 6 p.m. on June 18, when the Crusaders suffered a great defeat and losses, losing more than half of the griffin air cavalry and losing a large number of experienced soldiers in the army

At 9:30 a.m. on June 20, when two slow-moving Fortress-type airships arrived at the position of the Akron Fortress, the Snowy Federation commander, who was carried away by the victory, thought that he had the upper hand and launched a large-scale offensive against the Akron Fortress

However, the situation of this battle was completely different from the previous two battles, the first battle was magic, and the second battle was fought against the air force, neither of which were good for the Crusaders, but precisely the strength of the snowy region, and the narrow valley severely affected the Crusaders' numerical superiority, but it was different in the open terrain

When the mages unleashed a massive magic attack on the Akron Fortress, the crusaders in the fortress fought back mercilessly, with large magic bullets and arrows, Boulders smashed each other into each other's positions, and at this time, the Crusader soldiers were protected by a high anti-demon wall, but the mage was exposed unhindered in the snowy wilderness, and the mage who was bombarded was blown into a piece of flesh and blood, but the crusader soldiers in the fortress suffered a slight loss, and the floating ship tried to use the combined large attack magic to bombard the fortress, but before the magic of these airships was cast, a super giant crossbow machine fixed on the fortress had already exerted its might, and a super giant arrow several times larger than ordinary giant arrows directly pierced the oiled arrow body of the hit floating flyer, and sparks were generated in the friction, turning into a fire that spread across the entire airship, and these super giant crossbows were developed by the Kingdom of XiluofeiWeapons designed to deal with the Floats: After losing six combat Floaters in a row, the Mage's air force was withdrawn beyond the effective strike range of the Super Arrow

At this time, there was a scream from higher in the sky, more than eighty griffons were divided into two teams to pounce on the Flame and the Thunder, the two fortress-type airships, due to the lack of means of attacking the enemy above, the two floating fleets could not make a strong counterattack, this airhorse force is not an ordinary griffin airhorse, but the special force of the Kingdom of Loma, armored griffin airhorse, they have no javelin for long-range attack, only holding a fighting spear, an armored airhorse flew to one of the portholes of the Thunder, a six-ring mage standing by the porthole sent out a lightning bolt and knocked him to the ground, but this mage was immediately stabbed to death by another armored airhorse flying to the porthole, the airhorse from the back of the griffinGot up and jumped into the floating fortress from the porthole, and used his strong body to make a large hole in the wooden wall, and then the air riders jumped into the floating fortress one after another, and in less than 10 minutes from the big hole, there were already nearly twenty air riders who invaded the Thunder, and they were frantically slaughtering the mages who were concentrating on casting magic on the porthole, and at the same time, the Flame not far away was also treated in the same way

The armored air cavalry force was a clever move, because the core and flagship of the two floating fleets were invaded, the people on the Flame and the Thunder had to deal with the invaders with all their might, and the commander's orders could not be conveyed to the other floating ships, and then the remaining griffon air horses of the Crusaders all took off and rushed towards the mage's air force, and the floating ships could only fight on their own, unable to form an effective cooperation

On the ground, some mages cleverly used spatial magic to teleport some magic dolls into the city walls, but these puppets were broken down into piles of parts by the soldiers inside before they could have done their due role, and they were unwilling to defend the gates of the Akron fortress, and a group of defenders with giant shields ran out, their giant shields tattooed with strange magic symbols - these are not ordinary shield soldiers, but the special troops of the West Lotfei Kingdom: The Demon-Resistant Shieldmen, they did not need the blessing of the priest, they could defend against magical attacks like ordinary arrows, they lined up in a neat queue and advanced towards the mage's troops, and one after another magical energy struck the Demon-Resistant Shieldmen's giant shield, and then disappeared, and could not cause any trauma to the owner of the giant shield

At this time, some mages summoned elemental people, and some manipulated magic puppets to kill the anti-demon shield soldiers, but the anti-demon shield soldiers' knives seemed to have been blessed with expulsion and anti-magic, and the elemental people who were slashed by the knife were directly expelled by the magic puppets, and after being hit by the knife, the magic contact with the manipulator was cut off and paralyzed on the battlefield

The mammoth strikes, and the annoyed mage commander can't wait to show his trump card

The six mammoths moved towards the position of the anti-demon shield soldiers as long as they approached, these anti-demon shield soldiers would be horribly trampled, but this time the crusaders were fully prepared, and the fortress tower suddenly shot out one after another, these arrows were not ordinary crossbow arrows, they were shot out with bows, but they were extremely accurate, some arrows accurately hit the mammoth's head armor, the only giant beast on the armor that was not covered with armor, some of them directly passed through the defense of the air shield, and shot down the mage on the combat platform on the mammoth's back, and the soldiers who fired these arrows were holding 16-meter longbows, they are the characteristic troops of the Sealand Kingdom: the cloud-piercing longbowmen who are known as rivaling the elven magic archers

The first round of attacks by the Cloudpiercing Longbowmen had already made the three-headed mammoth blind, one turned into a one-eyed elephant, and the injured mammoth became frantic under the pain, they slammed around, not only throwing the mage who was riding in the back down, but also trampling a large number of mages and puppet troops nearby, and the commander of the mage hurriedly ordered the two mammoths that walked at the end and were not injured to retreat

Seeing that the opponent's offensive was frustrated, the commander-in-chief of the Crusaders ordered a counterattack, and at the forefront were fourteen chariots with strange styles, each of which was pulled by four war horses, dragging a long carriage, not only the carriages were wrapped in iron sheets, but even the horses pulled in front were also covered with iron armor, these chariots were the characteristic troops of the Rocar Empire: Ironclad chariots, under the cover of the anti-demon shield soldiers, these chariots rushed into the mage formation, leaving black marks on the carriages that were attacked by magic one by one, and suddenly opened several shooting holes around the carriages, like hedgehogs, and constantly shot crossbow arrows in all directions, these ironclad chariots were of little use in the valley attack and defense battle a few days ago due to their large size, but now they have become terrible killing machines on the open ice field

Countless cavalry and infantry followed behind the ironclad chariots and fought their way into the mage's position on the verge of collapse.......