Chapter 363: What to Fight For
The appearance of Eryu's incident was a small episode.
Greed is the original sin, the night will not let her grow to a certain point at all, what has been done to her, if this ghost has the capital to resist, let alone be freed, it is the moment when it is completely free, the first living person to die is none other than the owner of this oil-paper umbrella.
Not a single one of these ruined fortresses has died, those who lie on the ground can still catch their breath, and the Grim Reaper has taken away what the goddess of life should have taken away, and the rest are the people favored by the goddess of life.
The sound of the battle on the front line has completely become lower and farther away, I don't know whether the Empire of the Undead won, or the Empire of Light completely gave up the attack, and carried the dead bodies for four days in succession, this fortress city finally ushered in a scorching sun in the terrible rain.
The sun dispels not only the cruel war, but also the depression in my heart!
When the war stopped, there would be no deaths, and the mountain pass entered a busy intermittent time, and a large number of supply convoys from the rear came to the fortress city, unloading countless military supplies, including food, medicine, battle armor, and of course, brand new broadswords to replace the old weapons that had been cut off from the teeth, and carried away a large number of wounded.
The goblin cannon is wiping his strategic weapons, the earth mage is still trying his best to strengthen the more dilapidated fortress city, the archery army is excitedly rummaging for new arrow feathers in the distributed supplies, and the heavy stone gate in front is slowly opening one by one, this time it is not the wounded soldiers who are screaming in pain, but the light cavalry who are stepping on the muddy water and shaking the ground under their feet.
The third-level red flame horse is a mount, wearing half-body leather armor, and the weapons in hand are bows and arrows and swords, this is the most common type of military in the human empire, the equipment is not luxurious, but it is better than high mobility, such a large army covered in blood and with countless hideous heads hanging on its waist passed through the defense city and did not stay in the city for a moment at all, and stopped on the pile of low dirt bags where the corpses were buried in the night.
What kind of expressions would they have if they knew that they were once the same comrades at their feet?
The night is not boring to tell them about it.
Five horses in a row, whistling endlessly, after passing five incomplete cavalry regiments, a rare cavalry regiment was ushered in behind him.
Imperial Heavy Cavalry Regiment!
This team moved very slowly, just now five war horses passed through the thick city gate in a row, and this army can only be two fifth-level demonic beasts side by side, a group of slow-moving earth dragons entered the city, the time of the day has reached dusk, and the stone roads on the ground are sunken for three points, which shows the fierceness of this team.
A kind of imperial army second only to the combat effectiveness of the orcs, before the undead empire has no elite orcs, this class can be regarded as the most powerful army in the empire, there is no one.
After returning to the city, it was not all the troops in the front, but only a small part, usually incomplete, and the worst was an infantry regiment, which was less than 2,000 people when it came back, which shows how many brothers lost their lives in the front in these few days of fighting, which was repaired by returning to the rear.
But this legion, which has only more than 2,000 people left and has not dispersed the army formation, can be seen to be definitely a trump card, but it is not known which one it is.
With a portion of the legions that had suffered heavy casualties being withdrawn and large quantities of supplies being transported to the front line, it was only through this gate that the darkness had the privilege of seeing the world ahead.
The group stayed in the fortress city for three days in a row, and did not hear the sound of the desolate and hurried trumpet, during which more than 3,000 people were pulled up to repair the fortress city, which could never be completed.
And he's not one of them!
I was very confused! The dark night didn't believe that he came to this place to carry the corpses, it was too overkill, and it was possible to repair the city wall, but the fortress city here was not very big, and the defensive walls that expanded on both sides were quite long, and the third defensive fortress chain that the Empire of Light had left was just that the fortress city was breached, and the defensive extensions on both sides were not taken into account by the Undead Empire at all.
Another three days!
The night looked at the group of people walking towards them, as if they knew their fate next.
"Stand up, stand up! Don't be like being beaten by frost, the Empire is not defeated, and you don't have to put on such a face. ”
After hearing this voice in the night, he stood up numbly with the general stream, and pouted in this city wall for so many days, it is estimated that no one will be much better, except for going to the wounded barracks every day to get a mouthful of food, this place is the only place to stay, or go to carry the dead body, the dead body is gone, and can only return to this place to continue to wait for orders.
"Let me introduce myself, Quartermaster Commander of the General Logistics Department of the Southwest Theater of Operations, Algernon! I don't have a surname, I was a pariah back then, and now I can say that you are under my control. ”
The dark night looked at the left arm of the gold-inlaid black armor, and the symbol representing the rank of captain was not obvious on it, if he didn't describe his position, he didn't know that he was actually an important member of the Southwest Theater.
And wearing battle armor, it seems that this person should be a swordsman of the lowest advanced rank.
"The war of the empire does not need you imperial seeds, even if you are brutally beaten to the destruction of the country, the empire will not use half of you, not to mention that the empire will take the three defensive fortress cities of the Bright Empire. ”
A group of frost-beaten eggplants finally had a little more light on their faces when they heard Algernon's words, regardless of the fate of the next, but at least they were sure that they would not be pulled to fill the blood-eating land in front of them.
"But it won't pull you to this place for no reason, you may not know that you are in this place, and now the eyes of the entire West Continent are focused here, and do you also have questions, why is our empire and the Empire of Light peaceful for so many years, why did they fight?
The reason given by the empire to the West France Continent is that there is a mercenary group lost in the huge Amethyst Mountains and wants to rescue it, of course, you just listen to it, this reason I feel like.
To fight, you just need a reason, maybe the emperor feels that this reason is very good, and those generals also feel good.
That's enough!
Of course, this is not the real purpose, as long as you are not a fool will know.
No need to ask, because I'll give you the answers you want!
There is one thing I can tell you in advance, the third fortress defense chain of the Empire of Light under your feet is the last one attacked by the Empire, and the army of the Empire will not move forward again, you know what my words mean, right?"
How could the night not know!
This defensive city will be the next frontier battlefield, and the Black Armor Army of the Undead Empire, which has been attacking like a bamboo in the past few days, has actually started a defensive battle, and he knows why.
"It's enough here, in the future, it will completely provoke the anger of the Empire of Light, that kind of situation is not what our empire wants to see, of course, it is also what the West Continent does not want to see, if I understand the strategic intentions of the empire, I can tell you clearly, this time is just an expansion of battlefield space, if you want to say that it is a border friction, but the scale is a little larger.
Our empire has suffered more than 500,000 casualties so far, and their Bright Empire is twice as large as ours!
Do you wonder that the Empire died for the sake of three useless broken forts?"
The night was also a little confusing, as if this result was the same as he had guessed, but when he heard that so many people had died, he completely didn't understand it.
"That's it!
It's for these three broken fortifications, or more precisely for the one you stand on.
You know what this thing is, right?"
Algernon held a few black stones in his hand and said to them.
The night jumped up on his toes and glanced at it, knowing what was in his hand.
Amethyst!
Three or four pieces of amethyst, too familiar, cooked can't be cooked.
"On the right side of this defensive city is the eastern section of the Endless Amethyst Mountain Range, do you know why the mountain on the right is called the Amethyst Mountain Range?"
Rumble!
After listening to Algernon's words in the dark, he felt that his mind suddenly opened up, and if he was not wrong, he finally knew why the Empire was at war with the Empire of Light.
Because amethyst is abundant!
The output ranks first in the entire West French continent.
is the lack of amethyst, in the first ten years of the empire, the exchange of gold coins and amethyst was one hundred to one, one hundred gold coins for one amethyst, and now, it is a thousand gold coins for one amethyst, and the price has increased tenfold, even in the dark night, I feel a little useless, so I can only gnaw on the spirit bead.
The price of amethyst soared, gold coins began to become worthless, everything was rising in price, all magic items began to become unaffordable, and in the end, even the cultivation became an economic problem.
This is a war that has to be triggered because of amethyst!
It's not that the Undead Empire doesn't want to fight forward, it's that the Undead Empire has reached the foot of the eastern section of the Amethyst Mountain Range, and the purpose of the war has been completely achieved, and there is no need to consume indifferent casualties.
It's a blitzkrieg, a raid!
When the Empire of Light lost three fortresses in succession and the defense chain was completely awakened, the Empire of the Undead had already fought again.
The war has gradually subsided in the past few days, and it may be that the Empire of Light has really guessed the intention of the Empire of the Undead.
The dark night never thought that this sudden war was caused by the amethyst thing, but a small stone triggered another major war between the two empires of the West French continent, and the casualties on both sides were about to exceed two million.
Something more sinful than war may be something like amethyst.