Chapter 162: Soldiers Descend on the City

After flying into the blue sky again, Chang Le's face was full of happy smiles.

Regaining his old love and reuniting with the broken mirror, Fanny is back in his arms, and he almost wants to roar at the earth and let the whole world know.

In addition to the excitement, he has even more to do.

Fanny wants him to "get a job", he can't marry her as a robber, and the wedding has to be grand, which is understandable.

If it is replaced by a girl who is really greedy for vanity, there is no need for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to chase for a few months, and he will take the initiative to give him a hug, but Fanny is just moved by the sincerity of the other party and is a little hesitant.

Fanny has a good face and pays attention to what others think of her, and Changle knows her very well when he knows her, and he is willing to satisfy her.

It is also the ideal of every man to make the beloved woman beautiful and proud of her husband.

So Chang Le decided to change his original plan, he couldn't just attack behind enemy lines, he had to achieve a greater victory and play a more important role in this war, so that even if he was not rewarded after the war, at least he would be a hero praised by the people.

Now he had cut off the enemy's supply lines, and he did everything he could to provoke them, but the enemy remained motionless, responding to all changes without change, not wasting time in circles with him, but advancing firmly towards the east.

Chang Le was actually a little dazed, and couldn't figure out what he should do next.

Only one thing is certain, and the Armageddon around the city of Sessnek will probably determine the course of this war.

No matter how they ultimately influence this battle, the prerequisite is to bring troops over in order to play a key role at a critical moment.

To do this, you must first understand the battlefield terrain and the enemy's disposition, and this return trip is the best opportunity for reconnaissance.

Chang Le therefore chose to take the "zigzag", preferring to spend several times more time looking for the enemy's traces in the vast land, and repeatedly figuring out the deployment of troops and the plan of action according to the size of the enemy's camp and the direction of his advance.

From the ground, the necromantic bird was not much different from a giant eagle, so it did not cause any alarm, and the enemy's movements were still in order, and it seemed that the advance had reached Sesnek, but the whole army had not yet been assembled and besieged.

Due to the strong winds blowing in his face during the flight, Changle would occasionally land in a secluded place to restore the strength of the necromantic bird, and at the same time take out his own military map, determine the direction against the mountains and rivers, and write and draw on the map to mark valuable topographical information.

In the blink of an eye, a whole afternoon was consumed, and until it was dark, he did not give up reconnaissance, but took advantage of the cover of night, and instead rode forward, waiting for an opportunity to capture the enemy's heralds and scouts, and after some torture, he obtained a lot of information.

The most shocking news for him was that the enemy soldiers confessed that the Marquis Philip, the defender of Sessniek, was going to surrender!

The Marquis had sent someone out of the city a few days ago to raise the white flag and talk with the commander of the coalition forces, King Elliot, the content of the conversation was not clear, but the intention was obvious, and a fool could guess it!

Chang Le immediately informed Lan Yue of this news, and asked her to tell Marshal Fontaine that she must stabilize Sesnek immediately, otherwise once the Marquis surrenders the city, countless grains will fall into the hands of the enemy, and he will also fight hard to cut off the enemy's supply line, which will become a joke!

Fortunately, Philip's surrender must have been conditional, such as retaining his title and fief, and swearing allegiance to King Fisher instead, and Elliot, King Fisher, would never easily agree.

The scale of this coalition invasion was so huge and so well equipped that it was because of a pre-agreed agreement to divide all the land of Havilland, in exchange for the full support of the powerful nobles of the three countries.

If King Fisher, as the commander of the coalition forces, accepted Philip's surrender and allowed him to retain large chunks of rich fiefdoms, it would inevitably need to redistribute the spoils, causing internal discord.

King Fisher's greatest concession may have been to allow Philip to retain the title, but change the fief to some backcountry.

In this way, Philip will never accept it, unless he faces strong military pressure, and if he does not surrender, he will be killed.

It was at that moment that King Fisher forced the other side to surrender, while Philip relied on his 50,000 troops, including the elite Fifth Guards Division, convinced that he could inflict heavy losses on the coalition forces and force the other side to accept his terms.

Without a fight, this negotiation is doomed to be fruitless.

According to Changle's judgment, at least five days, that is, before August 30, Sesnek will not open the city and surrender.

At this point, Crown Prince Frank also contributed to some extent, although he led a temporary rabble of 80,000 people, still hesitant to wait and see, bent on retreating north.

After all, it was 80,000 troops! Forty kilometers east of the city of Sesnek!

King Fisher had concerns about the crown prince's subordinates, so he would not rashly plunge his entire army into a siege battle, and a scattered besieging force would be in danger of being attacked by a sudden attack and being attacked on the back of the enemy, making it difficult to line up and exert all its combat strength.

Therefore, King Fisher is still waiting, waiting for the 8,000-strong cavalry of the Hanhai Kingdom, which is the most powerful mobile force in the coalition army, and the best force to defend against Frank's sneak attack.

The Hanhai Iron Cavalry was still busy looting in the northwest of the empire, and it was also necessary to sort out and transport the booty, so that the whole army could advance lightly, and only after five days could they come to rendezvous, which was the explanation of the enemy herald, and also became the basis for Chang Le to judge the situation.

What if the Hanhai cavalry can't come and there is an accident on the way?

Chang Le thought of this question, stroked his chin with his hand, and couldn't help but show a wicked smile.

Of course, he didn't think that he could confront the Hanhai people head-on, more than half of the thousands of men and horses under his command were recruited from refugees, and they had just learned to listen to the command to stand in formation, and if they saw the momentum of the eight thousand iron cavalry charging, they would be scared to death.

You can't fight head-on, but you can make trouble, you can harass, you can lure them to run around, in this regard, Changle has a way!

And when he deliberately changed his route and approached the Hanhai people's activity area in the dark night, Chang Le had a new harvest.

The steed Dire stumbled and nearly threw him out.

After Changle dismounted, he found that the grass under the moonlight seemed to be flat, but in fact it was very wet and soft, and it was not enough to say that it was as sparse as a swamp, but in many places people could walk, but the horses with heavy loads would be trapped in the mud.

There is no description of this place on the map, just a blank space, and the only thing that can be used to describe it is "the source of the Nagwa River".

Springs from the nearby mountains flow out and converge here into small lakes, which then flow eastwards and some tributaries to form the raging Nagwa River, which rushes for a thousand kilometres before joining the sea.

To be exact, it is a "wetland", which Changle named "Heyuan Wetland" and marked it on the map.

After all, the current version of the map is 100 years old, and it took 10 years for the great-grandfather of Duke Stennis to lead people to survey and map the whole country.

When this battle is over, he hopes that these markings can be drawn into a new map and enter the Royal Military Academy, so that the next generation of soldiers can better understand the country they want to defend.

Unconsciously, Chang Le's mentality has changed from a green forest bandit back to a soldier, and back to the top student of the Royal Military Academy, the unruly bandit has returned to order, and when he realized it, he also sighed with a wry smile.

Of course, his transformation is to "seek a half-official position" and give Fanny a decent wedding, but also to relieve the suffering of many people and expel the iron hooves of the invaders, so it cannot be regarded as a surrender to the nobles.

Relying on horses and horses, and his own legs and feet are fast, Chang Le completed the preliminary survey overnight, not only marking the location of rivers and lakes, but even noting where water birds flock and where there are many poisonous insects, and this information is useful when marching.

As for the contours of the lake, the exact mileage, etc., can only be left to be carefully measured by professionals at a later date.

When the sky was slightly white, he finished this hard work, and a bold battle plan was formed in his heart, perhaps, this place would become the burial place of the Hanhai cavalry!

He then summoned the necromantic bird Bald and told him to find his way up the Starr River and back to Fort Stanley.

He himself had to be lazy, fixed the "anchor point" beast soul bell on the saddle, and then flashed his figure and returned to the beast soul space.

The parallel space was safe and comfortable enough, and the soul minions were almost all gone, just in time to sleep quietly, and by the time they opened their eyes again, they should have returned to their troops.

But his good wishes were soon dashed, and the cause was a message from Pabadua's mind.

Before going to bed, he was not very reassured, so he specially contacted Pabadova and ordered him not to just stare at the grain ships with the flag of the coalition forces, because the enemy army suffered several losses, and probably would not plant the flag again.

The overriding task now is to completely cut off the enemy's supplies, and for this purpose it is better to kill innocents by mistake than to block all ships heading east along the Starr.

In addition, it is advisable to capture the attacking ships and dock them at the edge of the forest on the south bank, covered with haystacks, which may be useful in the future.

With a vast area full of enemy troops, the most discreet way to march east was to float by boat at night.

Pabadova had no objection to this, and took orders one by one, but he finally asked a question, what to do with the elven ships?

The Necromantic Cavalry of the Demon Dragon Clan patrolled the Starr River for several days, intercepting the allied supply ships according to Chang Le's orders, and the other party was suddenly attacked by the air, and there was no resistance at all, and the battle was very smooth.

However, there were a few encounters with elven ships, and the rain of arrows suddenly struck, and the knights could not dodge, and some casualties occurred.

Since Chang Le had ordered that no more invasions of the elves would be allowed, the necromantic cavalry did not dare to continue to entangle, gave up avenging the casualties, and quickly flew away from the battlefield.

But when everyone returned to the Misty Mountain, they were all indignant in the face of the widow crying who had lost her husband, and hoped that the patriarch Chang Le would give an order to allow the clansmen to fight back when they encountered the elves' active attack.

"The Demon Dragon Clan already owes the elves a blood debt, so take care of their own losses and don't cause trouble!"

Chang Le responded solemnly, still forbidding the clansmen to clash with the elves.

However, he soon figured out what was unusual:

"Wait, you just said that the elves are on the boat, not in the forest on the shore?"

"Yes, Patriarch. The elves didn't have ships and couldn't sail them, but they captured the ships of the Cayenne, as well as the Cayan sailors. ”

By the way, it's that battle! The people of Cayan attacked the elven royal capital by water, and Chang Le even intervened to help the elves!

The elves had a boat and went down the Qingshui River, naturally leaving the Great Forest and entering the Starr River.

Now the question is, why did the elves drive the boat to the Star, and what were they going to do?

These boats are constantly going back and forth between the Starr River and the forest, are they transporting troops?

Chang Le broke out in a cold sweat, the elven army slaughtered out of the forest and landed on the north shore, does it have anything to do with me?

It is impossible for the elves to go to trouble the Fisher-Zaran coalition, not counting the Cayan people in the south, in the north of the Great Forest, across the Starr River, the entire human world, and the elves have a feud, except for him Changle, I am afraid there is no one else!

Because he refused to give the life of the Demon Dragon Clan as a gift, Chang Le's alliance with the Elves did not negotiate, but instead aroused the anger of the queen and threatened him with cruel words, Chang Le also expected that the queen would not give up.

But instead of attacking the Misty Mountain of the Demon Dragon Clan and avoiding a difficult fight with the dark creatures, the queen came to land on the north bank of the Stara River, and the target of revenge was Chang Le and his human troops, this move was too ruthless!

The elves can't do anything with the necromancy birds in the sky and the evil spirit insects that pop up underground at any time, but the rain of arrows of the elven female warrior is simply a nightmare for human soldiers!

Of course, the queen may not have come to fight, but was just bored and wanted to take the army to the human world for a stroll and have fun.

But Changle must prepare for the worst.

He immediately contacted Ricky, the soul servant of Fort Stanley, and asked her to inform Lola to immediately close the city gates and be on strict guard, but fortunately, the elves lacked siege experience and did not entangle them in the wild.

In addition, it is necessary to send people to find the thin monkey, so that on the one hand, it will continue to attack the supply of the coalition army with cavalry, and on the other hand, it will be careful to avoid strange troops of unknown origin, and never approach rashly.

If the troops that have worked so hard to train are confused and strayed into the firing range, and let the elves dry up a round of arrow rain, it will be too late for Changle to cry.

About two hours after his order was given, Ricky sent back a report:

"Master, General Phil sent someone to reply, saying that he took the scout cavalry to find a strange army approaching, and he also found that there were many beautiful female warriors on the other side, saying that it was a peerless beauty army, General Phil said that no matter how dangerous it was, he was willing to go to the other side of the army to talk about it, and die without regrets. ”

"Fart! Tell him to stay away! Let Lola put all the equipment on the city wall! Also, the soldiers on the wall hide and don't show their heads!"

Chang Le gritted his teeth and got out of the beast soul space, grabbed the reins of the "bald man", ordered it to fly at full speed, and immediately rushed back to Fort Stanley.

In any case, this battle must not be fought, he still has to go out to negotiate in person, except for the lives of the Demon Dragon Clan, which cannot be handed over, the rest of the conditions are negotiable.

"What's this called! I went to the forest to get some help, but instead I got a strong enemy! Sessnik is not doing much, my Fort Stanley is surrounded!"

Chang Le couldn't help but scold, and he was a little helpless to cry and laugh.