120 The Beginning of the War (Part II)
"Fila, are you okay?" Zhang Yuan smiled and gave Fila a hug. Fila smiled bitterly: "It's not good at all, the Southern Legion is facing the threat of a large army of undead, and now the barbarians of the Victory Barrier Fortress are desperately attacking our Northern Legion like crazy. According to the information we have received, the follow-up barbarian army will soon arrive at the front, and the front line is tight. If it weren't for the help of the natural clan in the south, and the support of a large number of magicians sent by the Holy Land of Order in the north, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to withstand it now. ”
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Prince Bolton is one of the strongest marshals in the kingdom, even if he can't annihilate these barbarians, it is not a problem to defend the border. After all, your legion is the strongest and most numerous of the legions of the Kingdom of Erathia. An army of hundreds of thousands, supported by dragon knights and dragon mages, heavy cavalry, and mages. It will not be easy for barbarians to overwhelm your defenses. ”
Fila smiled bitterly: "The point is that there are too many barbarian armies, and this time they are sending troops from all over the country!" The army of the undead in the south is also very large, and in addition, they have annexed the people and horses of the swamp tribes, and now our shape is extremely unoptimistic from the overall point of view. ”
"Oh? What is the situation in Erathia now? We are allies, you can tell me about the current situation, and I will see what we can do to support and help you. Zhang Yuan was still very impressed by Filla's attainments in the art of war and his excellent view of the overall situation, so he asked.
Fila walked over to the table beside Zhang Yuan and pulled out a sheepskin drawing from her bosom. Phila pointed to a place on the map and said, "Look, this is where our Northern Army is located, and you can see that these circles I drew represent the place where the barbarian army is rapidly assembling. And the arrows are the direction in which their troops are now attacking. You're right, our Northern Legion has a lot of troops, and its combat effectiveness is also the strongest in all aspects of the Elasia Legion. However, this time the barbarian offensive was so fierce that they launched an onslaught almost regardless of losses. Although it could not break through our defenses, it dragged the entire Northern Army of hundreds of thousands of troops to the border, and could not detach a single soldier to help the other sides of the battle. ”
Zhang Yuan nodded and said, "The troops dispatched by a victory barrier fortress alone are not enough to threaten the Northern Legion enough, but if you add these subsequent reinforcements to the barbarian troops, the Northern Legion will be a little stretched." It's good to be able to stay on the defensive and not be breached by the opponent. The north must not be chaotic, once your northern army is defeated, the situation in the real northern plain will collapse, and the national capital will be threatened! Once the kingdom is destroyed, the entire Elasia Kingdom will face defeat in all aspects of its army. ”
Fila nodded, frowning, "Exactly. Therefore, the northern legions of Erathia can only defend here. According to the strategic deployment of the original kingdom, such a situation would not have occurred at all. Although we have a strong enemy in the north, but the north and the south have two allies to help, although the barbarians are strong, they have no magicians, and individual combat power cannot play a sufficient role in a large-scale war, we only need 200,000 men to hold the northern defense line. But now, with the integration of the tribes of the barbarian kingdom and the remote barbarian tribes to wage war, and the deterioration of the situation in the south, the situation of the whole continent has changed. Not only have we had many more armies of distant barbarian tribes as enemies, but at the same time, we have also added the great trouble of the undead country in the south. The presence of two enemies at once really makes the situation in the kingdom extremely unoptimistic. ”
Zhang Yuandao: "Judging from the unprecedented alliance and unified actions of the barbarians, we are almost certain that all the tribes of the barbarians must have reached some agreement with the kingdom of the undead. Otherwise, there is civil strife on the mainland, how can they abandon all defenses between the two countries and attack Erathia with all their might?"
Fila smiled bitterly: "The undead kingdom is too deeply hidden, and they have been holding back all this time. But the expansion of strength that has been deliberate over the years caught us off guard. The kingdom has relaxed militarily over the years, but this cannot be blamed on the kingdom. After all, there is a deterrent to the Holy Land, but what you don't know is that just before they started the war, the Holy Land was suddenly declared closed? I'm afraid that the Kingdom of the Dead knew many years ago that the Holy Land would be closed to the outside world in the near future! Naturally, they were extremely well prepared, and the annexation of the Swamp Clan, the defeat of the defenses and invasion of the Land of Nature, coupled with the alliance between the Barbarians and the Undead Kingdom, had already put the Kingdom of Erathia in a critical moment of survival. ”
Zhang Yuan said in surprise: "What? The Holy Land of Order is closed? So what is the shape of war on the frontal battlefield between Erathia and the Kingdom of the Dead now? Isn't there Marshal Lionheart over there? ”
Fila sighed: "The Southern Legion of our Elasia Kingdom is far away from the Undead Kingdom, but because of the threat of the Holy Land, the Undead have not started a war, and the Southern Legion has not been at war for almost many years. Their combat effectiveness was not comparable to that of the Northern Army, and their number was less than half a million men. We have now mobilized 100,000 elites from the royal capital and forcibly requisitioned 400,000 new troops from the country and sent them to Marshal Lionheart, which has temporarily stabilized the situation. ”
Zhang Yuan was shocked in his heart and said, "That is, there are a million troops?" What about the Kingdom of the Dead? How many armies are there in the Kingdom of the Dead?"
Fila said in a deep voice: "The Kingdom of the Undead has been preparing for many years, and has dug up a lot of ancient tombs and ancient battlefields to prepare for the undead army. In this war, they have already deployed a full 1.5 million troops to the border. At the same time, the country is still summoning an army of the undead, and the detailed number is not yet known. The kingdom of the dead is not plagued by population restrictions like the barbarians, as long as the resources are sufficient, their armies will continue to spawn, and they will attack the southern front of Erathia with all their strength, and the war will continue for a long time. Therefore, I am not optimistic about the war in the south. After all, only a small number of our million-strong army can really be called strong, and the newly mobilized 400,000 new troops cannot compare with those skeletons and walking corpses in the Kingdom of the Undead. If it weren't for the fact that Prince Lionheart was very powerful, I wouldn't dare to think about how long the Southern Army would be able to sustain it. ”
Zhang Yuan took a deep breath, although he also knew that the Undead Kingdom must be prepared to launch this war on the entire continent, but he didn't expect that the shape would actually be so bad.
Zhang Yuan took a deep breath and said, "The form has reached such a nervous step, what about the natural kingdom?" You must know that the number of their ethnic groups is not large, and now many of them have fled to Sword City for refuge. ”
Fila sighed, glanced at Zhang Yuan deeply, and said: "The natural clan is already small in number, their dwarven infantry, elven horsemen cavalry and elven pegasus cavalry combined are less than 100,000, and in the face of countless undead armies, they are also defeated and retreated!" Moreover, just south of Xikun Mountain, a surprise barbarian army with a total of 100,000 elite troops had already fought with our border garrison troops, and at the first contact, they ate more than 30,000 people of our garrison troops. Even though we can't hold out now, we have been pressed into our territory by the barbarian army. The combat strength and number of the armies of the two sides in the south of Xikunshan are completely inferior to us, and even if we rely on the city to hold on, within three months, the battle line will inevitably be lost. Now the country has devoted all its efforts to recruiting troops, but whether it can be in time is still a question. Moreover, untrained soldiers forcibly pulled to the front can only be sent to death. Zhang Yuan, standing on the side of the alliance and fellow human beings, I beg you, save Erathia! After all, you also hold the title of Duke of the Kingdom of Erathia. ”
Since the establishment of Zhang Yuan's record of three victories in three battles, the king of Erathia, the griffin, made Zhang Yuan the duke of the kingdom and gave Zhang Yuan the entire Xikun Mountain and all the territories west of the Xikun Mountain. Of course, none of those places belonged to Erathia, they belonged to the barbarian kingdom.
Zhang Yuan sighed and said, "Although I knew that Erathia's shape was not optimistic, I didn't expect it to be so critical. The war has just begun, and Erathia is already at an absolute disadvantage, and the collapse of either side will lead to changes in the entire battle situation, or even a thousand miles. ”