Defeated, unsurprisingly defeated.

Even more crisp and crisp than most officers expected, the circle that Stasi's army had managed to build around the Flame Dragon Fortress collapsed after Falkenridge's first massive counterattack. Numerous positions gave up resistance without even waiting for Falkenridge's army to officially attack.

At this time, Weiss knew why Iroh was so confident, and of course, at the same time, his officers and ministers, such as General Igor, who was directly in charge of the front command, were also excited by the king's wisdom.

Looking at these soldiers from the Duchy of Taukaba who were starved and forced into battle with a full stomach of resentment, Igor felt that it was too insulting to describe them as soldiers.

These people were really no better than the peasants and thugs, and Igor probably knew about the situation in Taukaba, but he didn't expect it to be so bad: the food was taken away to support Stasi's own army, the equipment produced was given to the Stasi people first, and the young men were forced to join the war - which is why Taukaba now has nearly 300,000 servants.

Of course, after half a month of war, the 300,000 have lost 50,000.

Most of the most frantic attacks in the early stages were carried out by a few main Stacy forces, with the formidable fighting power of the Knights of the Earthwalkers, who followed behind and were tasked with protecting the flanks from flanking - apparently, these armies were not even able to accomplish this task.

A dozen or so of Iroh's pre-arranged pocket positions played a real role at this moment, and it only took one morning to be tightly tied by the pincer attacks on both flanks of Falkenridge's army, and these Taukaba servants, who had no supplies and lacked weapons, all became the turtles in Falkenridge's urn.

These planned circumstances did not make General Igor feel anything wrong at all, but what made him a little puzzled was that these besieged Taukaba troops raised their hands and surrendered without thinking.

Can you imagine the spectacle of tens of thousands of people surrendering at the same time? General Igor, who is now on the front line and personally directs the counterattack on the border, felt such a brilliant victory. The Stasi army, or the Taukaba servants, to be precise, surrendered in formation, and after a busy afternoon, there were still more than 10,000 troops of the Principality of Taukaba who had left their weapons behind and waited for him to deal with.

In fact, this is also related to the fact that Falkenridge's defensive battle is too good, if everything goes well, it will be fine, but now no one can step through the Yanlong Fortress half a step.

On the one hand, the delay in making a breakthrough at the front line, and on the other hand, the logistics of Stasi were a big problem, and the combination of the two aspects made the Taukaba army completely lose the confidence to fight.

After the Falkenridge army began to counterattack, in fact, the vanguard of Stasi itself became chaotic, with revenge and resentment, and these soldiers, who were not used to seeing the Stasi officers who had been acting as a prestige on their heads, began to take bloody revenge on the Stasi in their own army. By the time Falkenridge actually came to fight, the servants and soldiers of Stacy the Abomination, all in blood, were waiting for Falkenridge's army to take over.

However, it is clear to everyone that although it seems that many small battlefields have quickly come to an end with this large-scale counterattack by Falkenridge's army, the truly difficult battle has only just begun today.

This is not only because Falkenridge is likely to enter Stasi's territory in the future, but also because Stacy will get rid of his previous impetuosity from now on and truly regard Falkenridge as an opponent of the same level.

On this day, the officers and enlisted men of Falkenridge had something truly exhilarating for them.

"Hey, I heard someone in Stasi is starting to surrender!"

"Really, aren't they amazing?"

"Hehe, it looks like we're a little bit better. ”

"Don't say it, it's time to start!"

As the big figures in the distance arrived, several soldiers who were still whispering stopped at once, and they clenched the brand-new weapons that had just been issued with both hands, as they had been instructed beforehand.

In the next moment, everyone tried their best to show their spiritual side, and even the people who usually looked the most sloppy seemed to be the elite of a hundred battles.

Sometimes, the so-called sense of collective pride is so useful.

It's not that they want to perform anything, but because what is going to be done today on the training ground is a surrender ceremony.

To be precise, it was Igor, the Supreme Commander of the Flame Dragon Fortress, who accepted the surrender of the commander of one of Stasi's Taukaba servants.

Supposedly, as a weak man in strength, Falkenridge would rather train more soldiers or build more defensive positions than to have the leisure to do such things.

However, considering the significance of the victory in the first battle, Weiss, after consulting with the ministers, decided to hold a surrender ceremony with great fanfare, on the one hand, to strengthen the confidence of the people and soldiers, and on the other hand, to deal a blow to the Grand Duke Jon.

"General, I surrender to you on behalf of the Taukaba servant army under my command, totaling thirty-five thousand. ”

A commander in Stasi's red armor bowed his head and said helplessly, his words were very slow and lonely, everyone knew why he was so low, no one wanted to watch their relatives and friends being sent to the gallows, and no one wanted his wife and children to be sent to hard work by the enraged Archduke Jon.

However, Archduke Jon's iron-clad tactics have always been like this, and he will hardly give a second chance to those who surrender, are defeated, or do not fulfill his other orders - in fact, Archduke Jon is also a dictatorship in Stasy, but he hides this fact with a high degree of personal charisma.

However, he doesn't have Ello's terrible material base, nor does he have Ello's mind, so his dictatorship is often not as efficient as Ello's.

Of course, Grand Duke Jon would not be unaware of this, but he was also bitter about it. Because Stasi also lacks time, decades of accumulation, it is enough to defeat Falkenridge, but want to compete with Minisk for the position of the First Kingdom?

Not to mention decades, maybe a hundred years is not enough.

So even if his dictatorship only makes it a little more efficient, he will do it.

In short, this unwritten custom has been preserved to the present day, and for more than a decade, it is unknown how many of his opponents and innocents have died as a result of this—not to mention that in order to ensure the smooth running of the war, Grand Duke Jon also set up a special overseer at the front, and a day before someone was hanged for the failure of the attack, and the families of the dead were read out on the spot.

The Stacy officers present who were like mourning were really mourned, and they surrendered for their lives today, and they might have their wives and children go to heaven early tomorrow. But they surrendered in the end, and they surrendered without hesitation.

Finally, amid the cheers of the soldiers, the commander, who had said these words, handed a Stassy flag to General Igor to mark the end of the surrender ceremony.

"Your defense is stronger than your offense. At the time of the disbandment, the commander of Stasi followed General Igor, looking very frustrated, "We wanted to strike first, but now it seems that you were prepared...... Why?"

Igor was very satisfied with the battle of his troops, so he kept a warm smile on his face. He didn't hide it from the defeated general, and replied with a smile: "It's very simple, we know that you will definitely attack, so we decided to consume part of your troops first." ”

"Consume? consume some of the troops, and then?" General Stacy was stunned for a moment, and then continued to ask.

"Of course, the Duchy of Taukaba has been liberated! We don't think everyone aspires to Grand Duke Jon's rule, at least His Majesty believes that the people of Taukaba don't aspire to Stasi's oppression. With that, Igor handed the trophy flag to his men and said as he walked forward with his hands behind his back.

"You're going to fight back?" the general asked, startled and a little trembling.

"We've all been beaten, so we can't pinch our noses and admit it, right?" Igor shrugged, "We've lost a lot of people on our side...... Therefore, from the moment you take the initiative to attack Falkenridge, you must be prepared to bear the revenge of Falkenridge. ”

Then Igor looked to the far east, pointed to the gray horizon and said: "The counterattack has begun, an hour ago, our troops crossed the border area, and we have defended against your attack...... Now, it's our turn to make a move!"

“......”

The generals of the Principality of Taukaba naturally knew where Stasi's weakness was, and it can be said that except for the combat troops on the front line, which were in a real "combat state", more than half of the other rear troops were not ready for battle at all, and most of the rear troops were in a state of extreme confusion "rush".

In fact, as far as the current situation is concerned, Stasi's main army did not arrive in time to join the Taukaba servant army, in addition to the idea of consuming Taukaba's strength, there is also an important reason why it is really difficult to rush over.

So at such a time, as long as the attacking Stacy army was routed, the counterattack of the Falkenridge army was no different from a massacre in front of those defensive positions that lacked manpower.

If it had been the new generation of elite generals in the Duchy of Stacy who had been in charge of the war, he thought he could have avoided defeat somewhat, but now there were a few mediocre commanders, because Grand Duke Jon didn't want his precious generals to mix with the Taukaba army - it was safe to say that it was impossible for Stasi to hold his borders.

However, after thinking of this, the general seemed to have a sense of relief, since the front-line troops were doomed to collapse, then the Taukaba area, which was regarded as the western barrier, would become similar to the area of the Ikut Valley, and become a chaotic area affected by the war. At this time, your family should be able to take advantage of the chaos to protect themselves, right? After all, it is not so easy to find a few people in a war-torn area.

So the general of the Principality of Taukaba took a deep breath, and then said to Igor, who was walking in front: "I still have some value to use......"

"I know, I know you're thinking about your family. Igor nodded and preemptively said, "I promise you, if we arrive in time, your family will be sheltered by Falkenridge." As for the values you mentioned, tell our King His Majesty to go ahead and he will give you a satisfactory answer. ”