About an hour later, the fire completely engulfed the entire forest. The flames shot into the sky, turning the dark night sky red, and when viewed from above, it was as if a huge red patch had appeared on the ground.

And three or four kilometers east of the woods, the soldiers who had escaped death gathered there, watching the fire from afar, and their hearts palpitated.

“...... Let's count the number of people. ”

After an hour of desperate rescue, Benjamin was also tired enough, his whole head was dizzy, and he stood in the crowd with his knees on his knees, saying this to the system.

After a while, the system said: "There are 20,000 soldiers who successfully escaped, and more than half of the entire army was lost in the woods. However, the number of mages remained at around two thousand. More than half of the ordnance and materials were destroyed, and it was barely enough to support the current broken army. ”

Benjamin heard this, nodded, and didn't say anything.

At that moment, heavy emotions welled up. In any case, it was he who set up the ambush plan, and the spontaneous combustion of the bishop and priest was also directly triggered by him. He suddenly realized what it was like to be a decision-maker.

Even General Kent seems to have died in this ambush......

"Don't feel guilty about it, it's an amazing ambush battle. But the president suddenly spoke at this moment, "Annihilate tens of thousands of knights and thousands of priests in the Kingdom of Hori in one fell swoop, and kill three bishops at the same time." This is a heavy blow to the church. You have defended the dignity of Ikor and the sacrifice of all is worth it. ”

“...... Thanks a lot. ”

Benjamin took a deep breath and gradually came back to his senses.

"Let's go, let's get out of here as soon as possible. The president continued, "The Kingdom of Horry may send more pursuers, and we need to join up with the other armies as soon as possible." ”

"Of course. ”

With that, after a moment of silence in the firelight, the president led the remnants of the army out of the area and continued towards Locke City to the east. On the way, Miles also explained a little about his rescue of the president.

When the Regina coup began, Miles had just infiltrated the palace - don't ask him what he was doing in the palace. At that time, the bishop happened to be torturing the president, and Miles had been lurking in the shadows. When the president was put in a sack and dragged out of the city by a few mercenaries, he quickly followed from behind, and at the same time sent the message to Benjamin.

Because of this, the message was mixed with the sound of hurried footsteps.

After that, the mercenaries mixed in with the fleeing crowd and headed north, and Miles was not easy to start. It wasn't until they broke away from the main road and began to make a detour to the border that Miles jumped out and rescued the president.

The rescued president was so anxious that he didn't even have time to go back to Regina to report his safety, so he wanted to rush to the border to alert the defenders there. However, as Benjamin knew, the defenders had been routed, and instead they found Benjamin lying in ambush in the woods.

"How did you find out that we were in such a good ambush?" Benjamin felt strange when he heard this.

"Normally......" Miles said, shrugging his shoulders, "there are so many signs of activity near the woods that it's easy to spot if you look closely." After that, I sneaked into the woods and found out that it was you, and we were shocked at the time. ”

"As for why dig holes. The chairman continued his words, "It was still too dangerous to ambush people in the woods, and I thought that the enemy might set fire to the forest, so I did not rush to show up, but made other preparations. ”

“...... All right. ”

After listening to the storyline on Miles' side, I don't know why, Benjamin has a faint sense of helplessness in his heart.

If he had known that he would be saved, he wouldn't have had to work as desperately as he does now, right?

But...... In any case, it's okay, Benjamin can be regarded as letting go of a big stone in his heart. As long as the chairman returns to Regina and presides over the situation with the executive prime minister, the situation will definitely be much better than it is now.

Two days later.

"No problem, our soldiers have been stationed in Rock City as much as possible. Now that the city has reassembled an army of 70,000, it should be able to withstand the enemy for a while. ”

Half a day ago, Benjamin and the president returned to Regina. At this moment, in the royal palace, they are discussing the current countermeasures with other officials and officials.

"What we want is not to resist for a while, but to completely repel the enemy. The Executive Prime Minister shook his head and turned to the debriefer, "What about the Kingdom of Hori, and what are they doing?"

"At first, they breached several cities in succession, and met little resistance, but for now the main force is still stationed in the Morant Heath, and they have not continued the attack. ”

"Morant Wasteland......"

Benjamin couldn't help but frown.

It was a fairly wide area of terrain in the west-central part of Ikor and was bare all around, but it was the closest route to Regina. From there to Regina, there is only a small hilly area in between, and Rock City stands in the middle of it, which is almost the only level with a defensive advantage at the moment.

And once Locke City is also breached, Regina is in danger.

In this way, the situation is still very serious.

"How many people have been dispatched from the Kingdom of Hori, have you investigated their armaments?" asked the Executive Prime Minister, who also took a deep breath.

"The details have not yet been investigated, but, judging by the size alone, the enemy's army is at least 200,000. Powerful siege machine ...... Probably already sorted, with three digits. ”

"Three-digits, hundreds of Holy Light cannons?"

"Excuse me, my lord, we can't be sure, but ...... It's still possible. ”

The crowd was in an uproar.

"Hundreds of Holy Light cannons...... Let's surrender, Locke City can't stop it. One of the officials looked desperate and said in horror, "If they fire at the same time, even Regina will be razed to the ground in an instant." ”

"What nonsense!" the chairman immediately retorted, "the situation has not yet been decided, so why do you just want to surrender?"

"You're a mage, there's the church over there, and of course you can't surrender. But Ikor is a place where people live and work in peace, and if it is destroyed, what will you mages do......? Besides, we don't have to surrender, all the church wants is to preach, we can make peace!"

"What are you asking for, get out of here if you're afraid of death, we don't need waste like you!"

"I'm not afraid of death, I'm just thinking about Ikor's people......"

Because of the terrible disparity in strength, even serious divisions have arisen among officials. For the first time, the main battle faction and the peace faction began to split from here, and the voice on the side of the peace faction was not even small.

Sue for peace......

Benjamin clenched his fists.

There's no rapprochement between them and the church, sending a bunch of stuff and signing a bunch of shameful treaties?

Besides, if Ikor sued, he would have to throw the Academy of Magic out - remember, the Church went to war to reclaim their keys. These peacemakers want to get people out of the army, unless they can send Benjamin out in a big way.

And what would an organization like the Church do if it withdrew for a while? Will they really let Ikor go?

"Enough!"

Eventually, the executive prime minister waved his hand and forcibly put an end to the argument at hand. Then, he turned his head and suddenly looked at Benjamin, who had been silent.

"What do you think, Dean Benjamin, and how can we resist the invasion of the Hori Kingdom?"