Aware of the immediate crisis of Ferdinand's army, Yankel could not remain indifferent. The only way now was to divide the city of Hyde and take it to supply the Ferdinand army on the front line, so that they could fight the Fabre army to the death under the city of Serris. Moreover, once the city of Hyde was captured, the crown prince of Fabre, Toc, would no longer have any political influence on the war, just like his father. At that time, the city of Thrys may be defeated. However, how many troops should be allocated to attack Hyde City, and who would be in charge of the battle. Whether it is "Crazy Lion" Kemp or the head of the family Li Yuxuan, they are obviously not such easy opponents to deal with. Perhaps he should not have given Ferdinand the task of intercepting Fabre's reinforcements that day, and perhaps he could have avoided such a situation by leading the army himself.

Due to the lack of generals and the limitations of his troops, Yankel abandoned his plan to divide his forces to attack Hyde City, and set his sights on Fabre's main army in the Solang Valley. For the whole situation, the decisive battle with the main force of Fabre in the valley of Solang is the key to the victory of this war. If this army can be wiped out in one fell swoop, even if its 30,000 cavalry is wiped out, it will not change the superiority and inferiority of both the enemy and the enemy.

At Yankel's orders, the adjutant spread out a topographical map of the Solang Valley in front of Yankel.

The Solang Valley is a large canyon surrounded by mountains on three sides, about 20 li long and 4 li wide, and there is only one exit as wide as 100 steps on the east side of the whole valley. Although the Imperial Army of Newingman had besieged the Fabre army in the valley for about a month, Camp had already withdrawn a considerable amount of grain into the valley beforehand. According to Yankel's estimates, there was enough food for 50,000 Fabre troops for a month and a half, and with 15,000 cavalry in the enemy's army, the horses were enough to support them for another month and a half. Therefore, in the case that it was difficult to quickly solve this main force, Yankel had no choice but to divide his forces and quickly advance into the territory of Fabre, so that the entire kingdom of Fabre could be pacified as soon as possible. It's a pity that Ferdinand ran into Li Yuxuan, a difficult opponent, which led to the uncertainty of the entire battlefield situation.

In fact, during the siege of nearly a month, Yankel also tried to lead his army into the valley several times, but was repulsed by Camp with the help of favorable terrain and suffered heavy losses. In desperation, Yankel gave up his original plan for a quick victory. But now the situation has changed, and if Ferdinand's 30,000 cavalry really suffers a devastating blow under the city of Thrys, and Fabre's main army is still not destroyed, then the whole battle will be in favor of Fabre. Encouraged by the victory and under the banner of Crown Prince Fabre's legitimacy, many local nobles will inevitably form an alliance to support the city of Hyde, which has now been occupied. At that time, it would be absolutely impossible to cope with the two-front battle with only 60,000 soldiers in his hands, and it was obviously impossible to mobilize troops from the Newingman mainland. The 100,000 troops that invaded Fabre included 40,000 Frontier Guards on the Southern Front, 40,000 Frontier Guards on the Northern Front, and 20,000 troops requisitioned from all over the Empire. The entire Newingman Empire now has less than 50,000 troops left, except for the 100,000 regular troops on the northern border of the empire, and it is impossible to send additional troops to the Fabre battlefield. On the northern frontier of the Empire, the Prussian Empire had a permanent garrison of 150,000 troops. It was obviously impractical to redeploy additional troops from the border guards in the north, and the only option was for the emperor to activate the wartime military service law and call up new troops from the entire empire. But once that happens, it will undoubtedly declare war on another empire in the western part of the continent, and war will be inevitable. It can be seen from this that the current Fabre battlefield is a trigger for the Newingman Empire, affecting the future political pattern of the entire western part of the continent and even the redivision of continental power. This is also the fundamental reason why Li Yuxuan intervened in this war, before his "homeland" waved his army eastward, he would never allow a strong opponent as strong as Tianlong to appear in the western part of the mainland.

Kemp must be tackled first!

Yankel made up his mind when he was confronted with a topographical map of the Solang Valley.

Since you, Kemp, are bent on breaking through, then I'm going to make sure you never see reinforcements.

A decisive battle of nearly 100,000 people gradually took shape in the mind of Yankel, the "first general" of the Newman Empire.

Hehe, I'm going to show that kid surnamed Li that this world is not just the world of you young people.

Solang Valley, the royal tent of the Fabre army.

King Camp, with his fiery red hair, is passing the time in his own way, getting angry.

King Fabre's fury in the king's tent burned so brightly that even General Wolfroot, who was patrolling the valley exit, could smell the smell of gunpowder in the air.

It seems that our king is again appearing in the form of a lion of rage.

Wolfroot is one of two generals under Camp and has the trust of Camp. In fact, this civilian-born general is none other than the queen's brother. It is only with the special status of Wolfroot that he can approach the king when the "mad lion" is angry. However, today it was Wolfroot who was in charge of Taniguchi's defense, and it was his duty to return to the king's tent to appease his brother-in-law's anger. All he could do now was pray for his friend General Dakar that he would not be ignited by Kamp's wrath.

Unlike Wolfroot, Dakar was of orthodox aristocratic origin, and his father was the current prime minister of the kingdom. But unlike his father, Dakar liked to fight and kill since he was a child, rejected his father's career and joined the Kingdom Army as an ordinary soldier, and finally became one of the two tigers of the Kingdom Army with his own strength. Dakar, who is full of martial arts, is not afraid of heaven and earth, and even his father is jealous of him. But interestingly, he was terribly afraid of King Kemp. Unfortunately, the current king is a notoriously fiery temper, so the situation of the Dakar can be imagined.

Just as Wolfroot was imagining the bitter gourd face of Dakar in his heart, the battle alarm suddenly sounded.

Standing on the makeshift earthen wall of Fabre's army, Worfroot looked into the distance, and saw a phalanx of nearly a thousand infantry at the end of the valley moving slowly towards the side, and behind it, dusty, apparently with follow-up troops.

After more than ten days of idleness, I can finally move!

Wolvergen was glad that the Newingman Army chose to attack on his duty, and he had not fought a happy fight for more than ten days, and he felt uncomfortable all over his body, and this is also the reason why "Mad Lion" Kemp has been in a bad mood recently.

"Longbowmen prepare!"

When Newingman's infantry phalanx approached the range of the longbow, Wolfgan, who was standing on the earthen wall, raised his sword and shouted, and nearly a thousand longbowmen behind the earthen wall lined up in a neat five rows, bending their bows and arrows, and the arrows pointed into the air, and the movements were neat and uniform, which was very beautiful.

"Ready, put!"

As Worford's sword pointed forward, thousands of arrows flew over the heads of Fabre's infantry on the earthen wall like meteors, shooting into the air, and then raining down on the enemy's infantry phalanx.

As the first volley of arrows from the longbowmen fell, the Newingman army suffered casualties, and many soldiers fell in the array like hedgehogs with arrows stuck in their bodies, while the soldiers behind them did not hesitate to step over the corpses of their comrades and continue forward, without giving a second look at their former comrades. Once on the battlefield, they all know that death will come at any time, and in the face of death, they seem to have long been numb, and only after a battle is over, they can only feel the fear of death when they lie down in the tent again and see the empty space next to them.

The Newingman Empire was indeed a battle-hardened elite division, and although many soldiers fell, the advance speed of the entire infantry battle formation was not hindered in the slightest, and they still took every step with their weapons in their hands, neat and powerful. It is indeed quite difficult to defeat such an iron-hearted army.

In his heart, Wovergan applauded the fighting qualities of the Newman army, and at the same time observed the fear that lurked on Sergeant Fabre's face on the earthen wall. It is no wonder that every time they fought with the Newman army with equal forces, it was always Fabre's side that was at a disadvantage, and it seems that there was indeed a gap in the quality of the soldiers on both sides.

"Vertical shield top armor!"

At the shouts of the commander of the Neuingman phalanx, the soldiers at the front of the phalanx erected a "wall" of shields, while the soldiers in the middle of the phalanx raised their shields above the top to prevent bows and arrows from above, and the whole phalanx seemed to be a beetle in armor.

Seeing that the opponent's formation had changed, Worvergen swung his sword and ordered ten huge ballistas to be pushed up the earthen wall. The arrows of these giant crossbows are wrapped in oil-soaked cloth, which is typical of fire ballista carts.

Now Worfogen uses these ten fire ballistae not to use fire attacks against the enemy, but to use the amazing attack power of the giant ballista to tear through the opponent's shield armor array.

A giant rocket, about two feet long, was ignited, and the cloth soaked in oil made a "clang" sound in the flames.

Two hundred steps, one hundred and eighty steps, one hundred and forty steps.

When the distance between the two armies had been reduced to one hundred and twenty paces, Wolfroot ordered the ballista to be cut off, and ten rockets were fired straight into the opposing phalanx. For a while, he was invincible, and the original ironclad shield array was torn apart.

"Short bow fire intensively!"

Worfordgan seized the fighter plane at the moment when the formation of the Newman army was slightly confused, and ordered the archers who had already lined up on the earthen wall to shoot.

The effective distance of the short bow was about one hundred and fifty paces, and now the distance between the two sides was only a little more than a hundred paces, and most of the arrows were shot at the Newingman soldiers like meteors catching the moon, and a large number of Newingman soldiers fell in front of the two formations. However, the Newingman Army was indeed an iron army that dominated the western part of the continent, and even after suffering such heavy casualties, they were still able to follow the orders of their commander and build a "wall" of shields about one person high a hundred paces away from the earthen wall. Nearly hundreds of archers returned the color to the Fabre archers behind the "wall, and the Fabre army suffered casualties.

However, this was only the beginning, and the "wall" of the Newman army was constantly widened, and finally the "fortifications" were formed as long as the earthen wall of the Fabre army. And between the shields, there is an exit for infantry every dozen paces.

Having fought the Newman army for nearly two months, Wolfroot knew very well what tactics the other side was using, and the longbowmen behind the earthen wall had retreated, replaced by nearly a thousand hoplites, each armed with a sword.

The worst hand-to-hand combat was about to begin, and Worford drew a "ten" on his chest with his right hand, praying that he would be blessed by God in the next battle, and the nearly 1,000 infantry behind him also prayed to the God in his heart.