The Imperial Capital Arch Temple and the Southern Temple remained strangely silent, completely different from their previous strengths, and only asked the Brando City Temple to exercise as much restraint as possible and save the believers.

On the afternoon of November 40, the Marquis of Silver Snake, Augsge, and his two sons, who had been guarding the West City Gate, were all killed in battle, and the Three Masters of Brando City existed in name only, and there was almost no meaning for reconstruction.

At this point, the door to the southeastern frontier of the Wardsmann Empire was completely opened.

No one expected that among the three major military cities, Brandor City, which had the smallest defense area, would be the first to be breached.

Although there are only three divisions under one corps here, and the total number of troops is the smallest, if you look at the density of troops in the unit defense area, this should be the most stable one, so this has not been the main battlefield for a long time.

What's more, he is adjacent to the city of Vila Di in the south, and theoretically, it only takes half a day to hold out for the city of Vila Di to transport reinforcements here by train.

But unfortunately, the sequelae of excessive troop attrition in the early stage ruined everything, and the long defense area of Villadi City made this huge military city overstretched, and in a hurry, only two batches of reinforcements could be sent successively, with only one team of more than 2,000 people each time.

Although the number of reinforcements disappointed the Marquis of Silver Serpent, Augsig, he was helpless, this was a problem faced by the three legions, and the unexpected fall of the Brandocity defense did not leave enough time for anyone to react.

Reinforcements from these two teams fought with him on the western walls of Brando City until the last moment.

The invading steppe people went directly south and forced the city of Verladi.

The city of Vila Di finally transferred back the main force from the front line, and intercepted these people in the green ridge, more than 30 kilometers west of the city of Vila Di.

In the first battle of Green Ridge, six disgruntled brigades of the division directly under the Dragon Lance Regiment intercepted the main force of the invading steppe wolves, and the battle lasted for two days and one night, eliminating 1.1 million steppe wolves, including an elite Axun regiment.

However, the battle was so fierce that the Marquis of Nathan, the first heir to the Lamande family, and his eldest son, Jonas, were both killed in battle.

At the same time, after this battle, the 32,000 casualties of the Empire's feared First Heavy Armored Knights were as high as eighty percent, and at least one-third of the knights died of exhaustion in the absence of reserves and friendly forces.

If there are enough other units to cooperate tactically or rest and rotate, they are more than capable of annihilating more than twice as many steppe people on a frontal battlefield.

It wasn't until decades later, when the surviving veterans revisited their hometown, that they could still hear the roar of "Dragon Lance, Charge!" echoing through the hills.

But this is already the limit of the dragon lancers, and the huge strength of the steppe people makes these predators not even see the hope of returning home, so they can only numbly wait for the steppe people's next Ouroboros to chase and kill.

At the critical moment, Anne, the youngest granddaughter of the Duke of La Mande, who had not loved red clothes and arms since she was a child, inherited the legacy of her father and brother and went into battle in armor, and led 14,000 female iron horsemen hastily formed after the Red Rose Knights.

With their desperate response, more than 4,000 dragon lancers returned to Vila Di City and wiped out more than 200,000 steppe people.

Because the armor and cloak were all green, for a while, the title of the Green Goblin Knights resounded throughout the continent, and countless strong women in Veradi City joined in, most of them were family members of the Dragon Lance Legion.

On the one hand, they want to avenge their father, brother and husband with their own hands, on the other hand, the three major military cities at this time really can't get many men in their prime.

Even the children of the junior college have made an exception to set up martial arts courses, at least half a day of martial arts training classes every day, not for them to go into battle to kill the enemy, but in the hope that one day they will be able to protect themselves when the situation is at its most critical.

The tragic loss of Brando's city sent chills down the hearts of all frontier soldiers.

In stark contrast, the top ten military academies in the imperial capital headed by the Royal Academy, the cadets from the southeast have long returned to their homeland to prepare for war, while almost a quarter of the remaining cadets chose to drop out or suspend their studies within one day for various reasons, and more than half of them are from noble families at all levels in the imperial capital.

Comparing inside and out, this resounding slap suddenly hit all the men of the Wardsman Empire in the face, and also hit the face of His Majesty the new Emperor Gulliver, and hit the faces of all the people in the imperial capital.

The Wardsman Empire became the laughing stock of the entire continent for a while, and even the Wardkud Empire and the Wardleman Empire sent diplomatic notes asking if they needed to send troops to help, so that Philip's uncle White Lawrence scolded in the office, and he didn't know who he was scolding.

But that's all, the defeat in the Battle of Green Ridge meant that the southeast defense line completely gave way to the passage.

The city of Veradi was only barely defended, and it lost the ability to fight and attack in the field in a short period of time.

In the besieged island, Brando's movements are constantly reported, and in addition to asking for troops to be rescued, more and more steppe people are constantly repeated.

In just a few days, the total strength of the steppe people has exceeded 26 million, and they have begun to move closer to 30 million, among which the steppe people on the periphery of Verati City have moved to Brandor City in large numbers while maintaining pressure, and from here into the southeast of the empire.

And the most critical situation at present is precisely Gaokan City.

The steppe people, who also suffered heavy losses after the Battle of Green Ridge, seem to be uncertain about breaking through the tall walls of Vila Di City, or perhaps because the troops on the periphery of Vila Di City have already entered through Brando, so that the eastern defense line has extra troops to move into the city.

Therefore, the remaining more than 2 million steppe people began to move further south, and Bingfeng directly pointed to Gaokan City, which was also in poor condition but under great pressure on the outer defensive line.

Gaokan City is only 300 kilometers away from Vera Di City in a straight line, even if the road is mountainous, at the speed of the steppe cavalry, it only takes one day and night, plus half a day at most, to arrive.

Compared with the relatively strong and powerful Vila Di City, the war potential of Gaokan City has been tapped to the limit after several increases, and in addition to the 5,000 recruits who are being trained, only the personal guard of less than 3,000 people led by Marquis Nuo himself is left.

This is a drop in the bucket for the city of Gaokan, which is more than two kilometers long on the western wall, and it is almost equivalent to being undefended.

The entire southeast defense line gradually formed a domino-like collapse, the earth-shattering explosion was only the last straw that broke the camel's back, in the final analysis, the strong strength of the steppe people is the external cause, and the cold eyes of the southeast capital of the city of Caloste are the real internal cause.

Perhaps sensing the crisis at last, or perhaps feeling that the three major military cities had lost enough strength, the southeastern province finally sent its own troops on November 40.

This group of troops consisted of seven divisions and regiments, with a total strength of 240,000 troops.

Two of the second-line divisions rushed to the aid of the city of Viladi, one rushed to the city of Gaokan, and the remaining four divisions were divided into two groups to establish a blocking line in the cities of Ferretti and Nopua between the southeastern border and the city of Calotte, blocking the claws of the steppes reaching out to the southeastern hinterland.

These four divisions include two elite divisions directly under the Hurricane Corps, and the Snow Bear Division and the Golden Eagle Division directly under the Hurricane Corps, and at the same time ordered the surrounding towns to shrink and move to the two cities.

At this time, the Ministry of Defense of the imperial capital still did not negotiate a more suitable plan to send troops after the shock, and the officials and masters made trouble in the palace with their own calculations, arguing in front of the new emperor Gulliver, who had succeeded to the throne for less than half a month, and even fought red-faced.

And His Majesty Gulliver didn't know who to listen to in the face of this chaotic situation, and even his eldest son, Winston, who had always relied on him, had no opinion, but just stressed at a loss that the treasury was abundant, and the treasury was abundant.

He tried to find his youngest son, Osborne, hoping that he, who was familiar with military affairs, could give some advice, completely ignoring how his eldest son had suppressed this biological brother in the past two years.

But it wasn't until they met him that he realized that his youngest son, who had not been seen for more than half a year, had been overly addicted to hype lace news and pleasure in the past two years, and his whole body was like a swollen balloon, twice as wide.

Although Osborne was resolute in his desire to go on the expedition, and repeatedly emphasized that he was not as weak as he looked, and even made a military order not to break the wolf and not return the capital, His Majesty Gulliver only had a brief chat with him and refused, much to Osborne's disappointment, and it is said that after His Majesty the Emperor left, he smashed the fountain in the garden.

It wasn't until the 42nd, the last day of November, the third day of the Brando's break, that the 119-year-old Imperial Duke Jacob Strongwall Belen dragged his old sick body to the palace and beat a group of deputy ministers and chiefs of staff of the Ministry of Defense to the ground.

After all, Jacob still looked at Gulliver's face, and did not trouble Reginor Rossi, who had been promoted to minister, so that he retained the last bit of aristocratic decency.

The next day, on the morning of December 1, the second batch of six second-line divisions of the imperial capital's formed reinforcements were divided into two groups and embarked on the long journey to the southeast.

Back to the Southeastern Line.

On the evening of November 38, Matthew on the New Red Moon Pass and Philip, who was trapped among tens of thousands of prairie people, did not know that in another hour, the defense line of Brando, which was more than a thousand kilometers away, would come from the fateful loud noise, making their dozens of days of bloody battles and sacrifices a comma.

At this time, they were still worried about their predicament.

Philip was still struggling with the vertigo caused by the concussion and blood loss, and he looked at the steppe people who were constantly trying to get closer, and he couldn't think of anything for a while, but he could clench the cold neck on his right hand, which could be dragged for a while.

He believed that someone must have seen that Minger was already dead, and that a stiff corpse and a fainting were two different things, especially since the characteristic red skin of the steppe people would look extraordinarily pale after death.