By the time the day was about to dawn, the soldiers had come to their senses, and their tired horses had been raised, and they were all assembled and ready to go. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now that the news of their arrival on the western continent has not yet been delivered, they must take advantage of the speed advantage due to the lack of logistical supplies.

It is necessary to strike a surprise effect in the shortest possible time, so that we can gain superiority at the strategic level and must not be dragged into the quagmire of positional warfare.

Before the soldiers set off, Lin Ye, the Duke of the Far East, as the commander-in-chief, summoned all the officers for a routine military meeting.

"The Chaos Domain, a land ruled by the Church of Light, is vast, separated from the western frontier of the Empire by the Grand Canyon of the Holy Relic on the east side, separated from the Dermok Federation by the Holy Relic Heights on the south side, and a savage peninsula frozen all year round on the north, rarely inhabited. ”

Lin Ye pointed out the geographical location of the Chaos Domain on the map with the help of the fire swaying in the wind, and circled several key places.

"But if you remove the first line of the Holy Ruins Grand Canyon, the first line of the Holy Relic Heights, and the Savage Peninsula, in fact, the fertile land in the hands of the Church of Light is only equivalent to about one-third of the empire, and of course this is a number that cannot be underestimated. ”

"After all, this is similar to the area of the Demok Federation on the south coast of the mainland, in fact, although a well-established state has not been formed in this land, both the effective territory area and the number of people are more than the Dmork Federation, and it can be called a papal state. ”

Lin Ye marked the words "Holy See State" on the map with a pen, of course, this is just a title, and there is no actual official document.

After all, in the teachings preached by the Church of Light, theocracy is supreme, and believers give their devotion to the Goddess of Light without reservation.

The state is often equated with "secular," which is contrary to doctrine and is therefore strongly avoided by the Church of Light.

For hundreds of years, there was no so-called papal state, and even if it ran through the empire, it only tried to interfere in the internal affairs of the empire behind the scenes.

The Church of Light held out on this point for hundreds of years, but by the time Gregor became Archbishop of Light, he had a different opinion.

He disputed this, arguing that the development of the Church of Light had reached a bottleneck and that it was necessary to make a breakthrough in its original form.

That is, to establish a new kingdom dedicated to the goddess of light, which is why he took the initiative to attack the empire.

"When the Dark Holy See had not disappeared more than thirty years ago, the two sides each controlled about half of the forces in this land, among which the forces supporting the Church of Light were mainly entrenched in the west and south, which were these two positions, and the support of the Dark Holy See was on the east and north sides. ”

"According to the ancient division, it can be divided into ten large cities, and we can understand one city as a province of the empire, because these cities are much larger and more populous than the cities within the empire, of which the Church and the Holy See each occupy five. ”

"The five cities that the Church of Light has always held in its hands are the Holy City as the core, as well as the Holy Spear City, the Holy Shield City, the Holy Sword City, and the Holy Helmet City, while the five cities in the hands of the Dark Holy Court are the Shadow City as the core of the Holy Court, as well as Huangquan City, Ghost City, Shura City, and Castlevania. ”

Lin Ye marked these cities on the map, and he knew very well that if he wanted to defeat the enemy, he had to know the enemy, and obviously he didn't know enough.

"Originally, the Shadow City of the Dark Holy Court and the Holy City of the Church of Light were separate existences, especially the Dark Tower in the Shadow City echoed the Light Tower in the Holy City, which was called the Twin Towers on the mainland, but due to the sudden collapse of the Dark Holy Court more than thirty years ago, the Shadow City was on fire. ”

"The fire is said to have burned for ten days and ten nights, and the Legion of Light under the command of the Church had no way to enter the Shadow City, so they could only wait for the fire to end, and when they entered the city again, there was only a ruin left in the city, and the Tower of Darkness had disappeared without a trace. ”

Lin Ye had grasped a lot of rumors before this, and at the same time, he also got a lot of news from those three people, and he sighed with emotion.

"Disappeared without a trace, even if the Tower of Darkness collapsed, there should be ruins, right, how could it suddenly disappear?"

Roland was a little puzzled by this, because Lin Ye deliberately emphasized the words "without a trace", and also paused here.

This made him curious, after all, buildings are not people, people can hide and be incognito, but buildings can't do this.

"I'm also puzzled by this, but that's what I've heard, and what's even stranger is that after the Legion of Light entered Shadowcity, many strange things happened one after another, and the Legion of Light was forced to withdraw from the ruins of Shadowcity, but when the church sent a bishop to solve the problem. ”

"The ruins of the entire city have just disappeared, this time not just the Tower of Darkness, but the entire city that was reduced to ruins in the fire, and since then, the ruins of Shadowcity have appeared from people's sight intermittently, and many people have witnessed it. ”

"But when the people of the church got the news and wanted to visit the ruins of Shadowcity again, they could no longer find the whereabouts of the ruins, which also became a mystery, of course, it may have been mixed with rumors, but one thing is for sure that the city has become a cursed place. ”

"It no longer appears in the administrative division, so when considering the top ten cities, it can be crossed out, so that there are only nine major cities left, and except for the Shadow City as the center, the other four cities of the Dark Holy See have been captured by the Legion of Light and fallen into the hands of the Church of Light. ”

In addition to the cities, even the land with its radiating area fell into the hands of the Church, but they did not pay much attention to these four cities compared to the five cities they had run for hundreds of years, and were basically built into fortresses by the Church. ”

Lin Ye crossed out the markers of Shadow City on the map, and used triangles and circles to mark the cities belonging to the Church and the Holy See.

"Fortress, isn't the purpose of the fortress to defend against enemy attacks, but I remember that this land has never been invaded by foreign enemies, and it is strange that they built it to defend against anyone. ”

Roland raised his question again, he was the youngest of the officers, and the most curious.

"I'm afraid they are defending against the believers of the Dark Holy See, after all, the Dark Holy See has also been cultivating this land for hundreds of years, and it is deeply entrenched and will not be easily disintegrated, and the people of the church must station troops around the fortress to supervise these believers with a high-pressure policy. ”

Doragon answered the question in place of Lin Ye.