The situation in the basin has been so bad that it could not be worse, because the interior is flat and there are many rivers, so it was originally a naturally fertile land, so most of the population of the eastern border is concentrated here, but now, according to rough statistics, less than 20,000 people in the basin that should have had 60,000 people escaped, and it is natural to see what fate the rest suffered.

However, the fortunate thing in the misfortune is that the three passes leading from the basin to the outside have not been breached, at least this time the Kuroshio has not reached the point of no return, and the lords of the other parts of the Duchy of Tanis are racing against time to rush here for reinforcements, and now at least more than 10,000 troops have been gathered at each pass, of which the most on the Stannis side is 25,000 people.

But while the critical form has been stabilized a little, there is a bigger problem that plagues everyone, and that is ......

"Why did Lord Froude become like this?"

After seeing the Eastern Guardian who has become a dry bone in the grave, this question troubles everyone's hearts, as we all know, Marquis Froude has an iron will, even if he was besieged by three of the four realms in the rebellion fifteen years ago, Frode still fulfilled his oath to Garcia never rebelled, and held on to Baili City for six months without reinforcements, until the news of the massacre under Teist finally dispersed, and the city was even trapped to the point of cannibalism。 But even with all this merit, the Flode family's position did not take another step forward, and the Marquis still ruled the barren East of Tanis, watching the rising families step on his head. It's just that over the years, the Marquis of Froude has been conscientious and has not complained at all, but now the lord who is as steely as iron is as powerless as a baby, and even needs to be fed by others to eat and drink.

And the lords who had seen him began to understand how terrifying the enemy they were about to face, and Stannis showed them the corpses of the scabbed monsters possessed by the Ktony Depp who had been killed at the pass, and the legends that were originally just to scare children finally became a reality, and the Kuroshio finally appeared, and then the destruction of the world!

"Damn, why should we fend off these monsters! Shouldn't this kind of thing be the responsibility of the thousand-year-old empire Elisses, who claims to have experienced the last Black Tide!" Vane grumbled loudly, but Stanis didn't blame him, no one could accept such a threat calmly.

But Seaworth, the chief knight of the Medici family, interrupted him, "The flame of the Holy Dragon of the Ilisses Empire has been extinguished, and now she even has a problem with self-preservation, and she may be destroyed at any time, how can she still have the energy to deal with the Black Tide!"

Indeed, after thousands of years of wind and frost, the great empire that has towered over the human Middle-earth since the Silver Age has finally come to the brink of destruction, and the bloated and huge ancient empire has long been in turmoil, especially after the last generation of emperors died in battle, the military commanders and princes below have long since disobeyed the order, and the imperial decree is not even out of the Golden Bay, and now the outbreak of the Black Tide is undoubtedly a fatal blow to the empire, and it is even rumored that the eternal fire of the holy dragon has been extinguished, and the thousand-year-old empire will eventually withdraw from this stage.

"And what about the Condor Empire! They can't sit idly by! If we're finished, they'll be next!" Lan Dole who spoke this time, he was already going crazy about these Kuroshio corpse tides and the like, and he really didn't want to fight these monsters that weren't human this time.

This time, it was Hillier who answered his complaints, "Erathia's battle for the throne has reached a white-hot stage, the underground emperor of the imperial capital is said to have made every effort to send the second prince of the old emperor to the throne, and all five golden eagle legions of the Rhodok Republic are also marching into the hinterland of the empire, and now it is the last moment to fight for the throne, how can anyone care about our life or death here." ”

"But!" Lan Dole still wanted to continue, but in the end he could only slam the table with his fist in anger.

Although there was already a lot of noise in front of them, Stannis seemed very calm, because he knew that the real enemy they were facing was not the Kuroshio on the surface, but the mastermind behind all the disasters in the past year.

Abyss Lord 'Labyrinth King' Eyhot!

However, Stannis was not ready to tell them the truth now, after all, this kind of enemy was too powerful, and he didn't want his own people to scare half of them away when they heard the name before they even started fighting.

Just when he was still thinking about how to 'coax' his allies into fighting a bloody battle against an unknown enemy, his former university scholar and current advisor Romon said in a somewhat urging tone: "Your Excellency, what are you going to do next?"

Stannis raised his head in surprise, because everyone was already looking at him firmly, to his surprise, although most of them were complaining, but none of them offered to retreat, they all accepted Stannis's command unconditionally, and were willing to follow him to the death.

This made the men standing in front of everyone a little choked, because this battle was not like before, they were really using flesh and blood to resist the wheel of history, that is, the coming of the end times.

Since everyone believed in him so much, and Stannis was determined not to live up to their expectations, Stannis drew his sword and cut off a corner of the table in front of him, although he did not know the use of doing so, and no one advised him not to fight this battle.

"Pass my order, in two days, everyone will prepare and set off, enter the pass and march towards Baili City, this time we will take the initiative to attack, since those monsters created by the black tide can be killed with swords, then there is nothing to be afraid of, the gods are above, long live Tanis!"

Everyone also raised their swords and shouted at the sky, "Long live Tanis!"

With the issuance of the Tanis mobilization order, the whole duchy began to slowly turn like a war machine, and all the peasants began to hand over their summer harvest to the lord, and all sent to the front, and squad after group of soldiers rushed towards the basin in full armor, knowing what they were fighting for, they would never again flee on the way as before, because they knew that if they escaped again this time, they would no longer be able to protect their families. Even the defeated army of the original Garcia, under the organization of the former Marshal Warren, returned to the territory of the Flod family and re-entered the battle.

Soon, one of the largest military operations in Tanis' history will begin, with an army of 60,000 men attacking from three sides.