While Iroh secretly travels to the Walla Empire to participate in the gathering of the evil camp, the situation in Falkenridge continues to become more tense.

"The situation of the war has not developed as expected. ”

As one of Falkenrich's generals stood on a high hill and watched his troops advance across the vast plains of Taukaba, he realized why the king had consistently disagreed with the strategic plan to attack Stasi's territory, which was favored by most generals.

Brigades of hundreds of cavalry, miles of magical ballista assemblies, and steam chariots aided by the Havar Empire once seemed spectacular to many officers. If you add the infantry corps, as well as the sappers and other logistics units, this army group, which gathers nearly half of the strength of Falkenridge, is simply a behemoth when it is in the territory of Falkenridge.

But now, between heaven and earth, these horses are winding on the muddy roads, and compared to the magnificence of nature, they are as small as earthworms. An army of tens of thousands of people was scattered across the plain, and in an instant it was never to be found again, and the general, who had thought that his troops could control many areas, now seemed to be scattered only to control the most basic defensive areas.

Not to mention, his troops are still only operating in the Taukaba area, and have not really entered the wider territory of Stasi.

Everyone underestimated the iron-fisted methods of Grand Duke Jon, who was able to completely turn Taukaba into a Stasi occupation in the shortest possible time after the start of the war, and almost did not pay any price, and encroached on Taukaba's last autonomy.

So now, the enemy territory that Falkenridge's army has to face is already the sum of the two countries of Stasi and Taukaba.

Don't look at the area of just two principalities, in fact, Stasi and Taukaba are quite powerful principalities, and the combined area is no less than that of Minisk, a country whose territory is close to the four empires.

Compared to this, Falkenridge really doesn't have enough to see......

In the beginning, several senior commanders were mobilizing their troops in large groups, but later because the battle line was too long and the terrain was too large, they began to be forced to fight with squadrons as the basic unit, and later there was even only one small squad of troops attacking, which undoubtedly represented a stalemate in the war for a group army.

Although reinforcements were still being brought in from the rear, at least the commanders of this army group now had more than 10,000 more troops at their disposal than when they first entered the Taukaba area, but after these troops were sent to various attack points, everyone still found that they were still too small to attack the land.

The battle was unusually strange, and Falkenridge's attacking force was actually not very large, only about 100,000 men were engaged in the first counterattack, and then these troops were reinforced to 150,000, but this offensive force was not huge compared to the combined forces they had to deal with.

In an encirclement of more than 30,000 Falkenridge troops that took several days to assemble, the Stasi had about 40,000 troops. However, due to the lack of weapons and the lack of rear support, these troops were unable to break through the originally loose defensive line formed by the Falkenridge Infantry Regiment.

Hundreds of soldiers from Taukaba could be seen throwing their hands up and surrendering to dozens of Falkenridge soldiers everywhere on the battlefield. Everywhere you go, dozens of Falkenridge soldiers with guns in their hands attacking nearly a thousand troops carrying Stasi's banner.

The current order from King Weiss is to have Falkenridge's army advance as fast as possible, to occupy as much territory as possible before Stasi's real main force reacts, and to annihilate all the Taukaba field forces in the area.

The results were not bad now, Falkenridge had encircled most of Stasi's servants within a week of the counterattack officially beheading, excluding a few units on the northern front, and the rest of the Stasi army, to be precise, the Taukaba servants, had fallen into a total collapse.

A team of Falkenridge's scouts appeared at the edge of a town that morning, and two human scouts who had been adventurers stopped in a wheat field not far away, while a steam chariot was more daring, and it crossed the wheat field and stopped at the side of the town's street, and the two orc soldiers sitting in the cart jumped down and cautiously advanced against the wall to the first intersection where they entered the town.

A few surprised Taukaba women were hurrying down the street with baskets on their shoulders, and when they saw the Falkenridge soldiers who had broken into their town, they said something to them in a hurried tone, but neither orc could understand them, and could only lean against the wall and watch the chattering alien women warily.

Although the main language on the Western Continent is the lingua franca, there are different languages even in different human countries. There are many small places where ordinary people don't even know how to speak the lingua franca, such as the people in this small town of Taukaba.

Soon the roar of the steam chariot engine caught the attention of the locals, and several cavalrymen who followed them also rushed into the town, one of whom shouted to the two orc soldiers who arrived first, "Safety, there are no Stasi soldiers nearby." ”

"I want to know more now, what are they talking about?" a bear orc asked his companion as he nervously guarded his surroundings.

"I want more than you, trust me. The human soldier on the horse spread his hands helplessly, "I just heard them talking about Stasi, leaving, eating, or something." ”

"They're going to invite us to dinner?" the other tiger beastman laughed, and uttered the most unlikely guess, "I think if they're inviting us to dinner, I'll give the captain all the candy I just got today." ”

"I'm afraid you won't be able to keep your sugar. A thin man pushed aside a few of the Taukaba women, came to the Falkenridge soldiers, and said in a half-baked lingua franca: "You, hello, my name is Nanbo, and I am a ...... Uh, school teacher, I speak the lingua franca. ”

"Hello, what the hell are these girls talking about?" asked the first veteran, who also walked up and pointed to the Taukaba women.

"They say thank you for being here and saving them from the clutches of the wicked. They were willing to make dinner for you, and they said there were no more Stasi soldiers here, and they had withdrawn this morning. The teacher calmed down a little and spoke much more fluently.

"......" thought of what he had just said about giving candy because of his cheap mouth, and the young tiger orc soldier was very speechless - at present, sugar can be regarded as one of the few luxuries on the front line, although the sugar that is now distributed to the soldiers is quite inferior, but it is also regarded as a treasure by many people.

"That...... Mr. Banbo ...... "The old soldier of Falkenridge was very embarrassed that he didn't remember the other man's name, and he embarrassedly continued to ask, "Are you sure there are no Stasi soldiers here?"

"Yes, sir, they are not welcome with us, so you can rest assured. The teacher didn't mind, he nodded, "The direction they left seemed to be east, and they walked in a hurry. ”

"You two, go to the east to be on alert, and if you find a situation, you will immediately raise the alarm. The veteran nodded, and began to assign tasks to a few of his men, "The steam chariot team is on standby in the south. The rest of the people continued to search forward, expanding the search area to about three kilometers, and let's get moving. ”

It didn't take long for a vanguard of Falkenridge to arrive in the abandoned town, and two steam chariots like steel monsters passed through the city, followed by about a hundred heavily armed soldiers, instantly filling the town with the atmosphere of war.

I have to say that this kind of chariot with the assistance of the Hawar Empire is really deterrent, and the residents of these small towns are just hiding behind the windows and peeking, and they are frightened by these two big guys.

Although they didn't know that these steam chariots were obsolete models of the Havar Empire, they could only bully the infantry.

Regardless, the expected catastrophe did not come, and the Falkenridge soldiers were quite disciplined in not attempting to invade the locals, not even the goblin and orc soldiers who were most likely to do such a thing.

As time passed, more and more officers arrived and their rank became higher, and the locals realized that it had been used as a temporary front-line command for one of Falkenridge's army groups.

The teacher, Nambo, and two good-looking Taukaba girls were chosen to represent the locals and were cordially met by the front-line commanders. A few people chatted enthusiastically about the local customs, and after the atmosphere became eager, Nanbo also pointed to a beautiful local girl and introduced their clothing characteristics and customs.

When several officers assured them that Falkenridge would only collect a tenth of this year's crop as a tax, the screams of the Taukaba girl could be heard far away from her mouth.

Then the town boiled over, for the Falkenridge promised to return the captives of Taukaba to the locals, who would return to their homeland safely as long as they worked for a year in the rear, the construction corps on the other side of the Icourt Valley.

People sang and danced to celebrate the arrival of the Falkenridge army, and the identity of the "Falkenridge Occupation Army" began to sublimate to the "Falkenridge Liberators" who were more than a little exalted.

A dozen men hiding in the wheat fields were persuaded by Nambo to return to the town, but the Falkenridge people did not bother them, and even a young man wearing Stasi's red light armor was ordered to be pardoned. Thus the Falkenridge people once again jumped from "liberators" to "messengers of the gods".

Voices of gratitude to the Falkenridge for driving out the "Stacy Villains" were everywhere, and the residents of Taukaba even offered to provide Falkenridge with a lot of clean houses, saying nothing that would allow the officers to sleep in tents around the town.

It was the first town in the war to welcome Falkenridge into Taukaba so far, and of course it was taken seriously by all sides, and in the city of Zakif, the generals were once again stunned by the young king's foresight, for Vis had thought that Falkenridge's attack would be welcomed by the local people of Taukaba when he had drawn up his plans.

And this is also the beginning of the differentiation plan.

Subsequently, the front commander, in the name of the king, issued a temporary legal regulation for the occupying forces, prohibiting the Falkenridge soldiers from disturbing the lives of the locals. They must strictly enforce this regulation and exercise the utmost restraint towards the friendly local Taukaba residents.

In fact, the guerrillas that Falkenridge feared did not show up for resistance and hatred, on the contrary, more Taukaba people did not have any special feelings for the arrival of the Falkenridges, and they numbly watched the Falkenridge army walk in front of them, neither cheering nor hating.