"Stop! You are the bravest warriors of Stasi, the pride of Grand Duke Jon! You can't retreat! If you don't continue to charge, you will be judged for treason! If you retreat, we're not welcome!"

Just as everyone was relieved that the battle was about to end, someone at the back of the Stasi line shouted out the Stasi phrase through a megaphone device.

Of course, the Falkenridge army did not understand what they meant, but then they understood the meaning of the sentence from the way the other party did. Because the Stasi soldiers in the rear were raising their weapons and aiming at their own soldiers, driving them to continue their desperate attacks.

"Am I right? they're slaughtering their own people!"

A Falkenridge army soldier looked at the farce unfolding on the opposite side in amazement, a little unbelieving what his eyes saw.

"Damn, get ready for battle! Check your weapons, and the magic ballista! Hurry up! Move fast! They're rushing again!" a veteran reflexed, quickly warning his comrades in a loud voice.

Everyone got busy, and the Stasi attack began again, and hundreds of Stasi soldiers joined the attack as the attacks became more and more frenzied. The Dragonrider, who had been at the end of the line, also began to drive his mount to speed up at this moment, and rushed towards the position of Falkenridge's army.

Of course, he wasn't just alone, and farther behind him, a large amount of dust was rising.

"Steam Chariot Team! Prepare for battle! Stasi's Earth Dragonriders are coming! Be careful!" a soldier lying on his stomach shouted at the approaching behemoth on the opposite side, "Attention, all of you!

'It's almost time for us to play. ”

Ninel climbed down from the treetops and said to the chariot crew beside him, his eyes a little cold.

From his position, it was clear that the Stasi's heavy forces, under the cover of a large group of infantry, were attacking the positions of Falkenridge's army, but he still did not order his steam chariots to fire back.

With such a large-scale infantry attack, it is logically impossible not to arrange more Earth Dragon Knights to cooperate with the attack, but so far he has only seen one Earth Dragon Knight in front of him, which exudes a lot of dangerous aura.

To put it bluntly, you can tell that there is an ambush at a glance, because the other party's acting skills are too poor.

So he'd just secretly contacted the mixed spellcaster troops who were engaged head-to-head, and let them deal with the Dragonrider who was leading the charge. The ambush position on Ninner's side remained hidden, waiting for the Stasi to come up with a killer weapon first.

He bet the commander on the other side of Stacy must have been annoyed that if the defenders had not fled the night before, they wouldn't have had to fight so desperately to snatch the place that belonged to them from the Falkenridge army.

Unfortunately, he didn't have time to laugh at the Stasi commander on the other side, because from his point of view, the second round of attacks on the Stasi had crushed at least seven hundred, and the number of attacking troops had increased by more than a hundred. Among them were nearly 300 defeated soldiers who had just been driven back to the battlefield, and there were several new squads that had entered the battle, totaling more than 400 people.

It seems that this town, designated DX-076 by the Falkenridge army, is more important to the strategic deployment of the Stasi than expected. Thinking of this, Niner became more and more determined to defend the town.

"It's a bad country, but it's ...... This is my motherland after all!"

......

"Bang!"

With the sound of slapping the table hard, a high-ranking Stasi general hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to look the man in front of him in the eyes. Because he knew that if he didn't bear that person's wrath with the most humble attitude, then his situation would only be worse.

"Failed...... It's a failure again! Those idiots, none of them can make me worry!"

Once again, Grand Duke Jon's roar came from the chamber of the Duke's Palace, so loud that the guards outside the hall could hear what he was saying.

"Passing the buck all day long...... Well, now that we are surrounded to the west and south, it is only a matter of time before Taukaba falls completely...... Are they going to wait for the Falkenridges to hit me outside the ducal palace before they are willing to do something serious?"

Tearing the front-line report from his men to shreds, Grand Duke Jon no longer wanted to see the document that had made him angry.

That town itself has said to his subordinates more than once that it is a key strategic goal and must not be lost. First, the defenders were frightened by Falkenridge's troops and fled directly, and then the troops who rushed to regain the town were desperately blocked out.

Grand Duke Jon's heart was dripping blood, the war had been going on for three years, and the number of Earth Dragon Knights was getting smaller and smaller, but this time in front of that damn town, due to the covering blow of the ultra-long-range magic cannon, a full ten people were lost at one time......

Waving his hand angrily, signaling his trembling men to get out of his sight immediately, Grand Duke Jon sat down and sighed heavily.

He had never seen a traverser as sloppy as himself. It took nearly thirty years for him to break through to the demigod level, and it was just that he failed to collect countless beauties and younger brothers...... Now, even the wars with the tailwind, which seemed to be nine out of ten, have inexplicably been beaten into a headwind.

How can this not make him feel guilty?!

"If you go on, it's the rhythm of losing......" Now in his heart, only this thought remained.

Archduke Jon has been a bit overwhelmed lately, and he finds that his rule in Stacy has been shaken and challenged like never before as the tide of war has eroded, so he urgently repatriates a part of the army that is ready to go to the front and station it near the capital to consolidate his position

On the other hand, the news that the two empires had formed camps with each other and officially started a war had become a household name, and the arms and supplies from Tadoya had also dropped a lot because of the empire's participation in the war.

After all, the Tadoya Empire is in full mobilization, and of course there are no more supplies to support the distant Stasi. Fortunately, Gregory XV did not go too far, and only slightly cut off some of the building materials and the supply of munitions.

This time, you can't blame this thigh that has been hugged recently for not being righteous enough, because the battle situation between the two empires is not optimistic to be honest, and the Hawar Empire itself is not weak, and even after coming to its senses, it broke out with a combat power that the Tadoya Empire did not expect.

In just a few days, not only did Tadoya's vanguard in the territory of the Havar Empire fall into the quagmire of war, but the Havar Empire relied on its outnumbered numbers and even launched a large number of battle groups composed of adventurers in the name of militia.

The horror of adventurers is almost universally known, but this is the first time that Havar has applied the power of adventurers to national warfare on a large scale. Although this behavior has been criticized by the Adventurers' Association and some countries, the Havar Empire has forced them to shut up with money and economic sanctions.

Even the top echelons of the Adventurers' Association, which professed absolute neutrality and had the most hard-line attitude, had several elders at the moment expressing their acquiescence to the actions of the Havar Empire.

In short, under the fierce attack of the Havar Coalition Army, even the ace of the Tadoya Empire, the cardinal-turned-General Prit, had to flee in a hurry, losing one line of defense after another.

Although the Grand Duke Jon is not a top strategist, he can also see that it is obviously not good for Stasi to continue to fight in this situation, but if he takes the initiative to ask for a truce, the little king of Falkenridge, or the Ello behind him, will inevitably make a lot of excessive demands - these demands will obviously affect his authority in Stacy.

But things still have to be done, at least on the surface, otherwise even if he wins, there won't be much left of Stasi's face - but he said bold words to expand the territory, and the result is a crushing victory or even a defeat?

In that case, he, the Grand Duke, will probably come to an end.

After a few days of wrangling with the Archduke Jon, he and his diplomatic advisers finally came up with a countermeasure, which was to openly sign a non-aggression pact between the two countries to give both sides a decent ending before the war really became out of control. And the bottom line of this new treaty is that Stasi relinquishes jurisdiction over Taukaba.

"You'll have to fight for some other terms on top of that. Grand Duke Jon slapped the table and said to his men, "For example, return our prisoners of war, and return to us all the weapons and equipment that we have captured, and so on." ”

"Dear Grand Duke Jon, we will do our best to negotiate these terms at the negotiating table, but you know that in these circumstances, our demands are not guaranteed to be successful. A Stacy diplomat under Archduke Jon bowed his head and whispered.

Grand Duke Jon didn't blame the other party too much, after all, part of the reason for the mess in front of him was due to his sloppiness: "Try to fight for it, after all, the Falkenridge people have a weak foundation, and they prefer to stop the war now, as long as we grasp this point, we can defeat those hateful guys at the negotiating table!"

This Stasi leader made a few Stasi diplomats sweat profusely with a single word - your army didn't help you with something, and now it's a mess and you let our group of diplomats settle it...... If we can get back the land and persuade the enemy to reap the benefits, why do we need so many troops to do? How good would it be to disband and go home to study and prepare to become diplomats?

And so these poor Stasi diplomats hit the road with the ardent hopes of their homeland. What they had to face was a set of negotiation documents carefully prepared for them by Saramondo and others, including the handling of Taukaba, including the issue of prisoners of war, including the redemarcation of the border area between the two countries, and so on.

"Hmph, Iroh......"

It was evening again, and this time Grand Duke Jon did not meet with any military personnel or diplomats, but secretly met with a middle-aged man.