Chapter 273: Battle of Feiguang City, Holy Envoy
In one night, he lost most of the control of the border, and was pushed to Feiguang City in just over a day.
As for the outcome of the decisive battle between the two naval fleets, it can probably be guessed, the royal fleet of the Duchy of Reinhardt was either annihilated or fell into inferiority, and the fleet of the Duchy of Bath has gained control of the sea and is able to transport a large number of troops to the coastal hinterland of the principality by sea.
Otherwise, how could there be a formed Bath King *** team in this military camp far from the border?
However, Ji Chen was a little puzzled, although the military strength of the Duchy of Reinhardt was not as good as that of the Kingdom of Bath, it would not be so sloppy.
There are probably some unusual factors in this.
"Is there anything unusual or wrong with these Bath King *** teams?"
"Something is wrong...", the officer thought for a moment, "probably because their weapons and equipment have suddenly become much better, in the past, the quality of our principality's weapons and equipment was much better than theirs, although they were inferior in numbers, they always had a lot of advantages in battle."
"But this time, we found that the weapons and equipment of the soldiers of the Kingdom of Bath are simply different, they are better than ours, and there are even a lot of expensive siege equipment, which makes us suffer a lot."
Ji Chen frowned slightly, the weapons and equipment are much better?
He casually picked up a long sword of a Bath Kingdom soldier and examined it.
The quality is indeed good, even better than that produced by the Crown of the Sea, which has not yet absorbed the Dwarven Forge technique.
Obviously, the Kingdom of Bass probably received a lot of high-quality weapons and equipment from somewhere.
In this war, there are not only two parties involved, but also a third party hidden in the shadows.
Suddenly, Ji Chen saw that the spine of this long sword was close to the sword, revealing a rather secret mark under the sunlight.
A pair of long, narrow and strange eyes.
This mark, he remembers, is a fraudster!
They all have narrow eye marks like this on their masks and foreheads.
He also remembered Tomodo's remark that the Fraudster had obtained the Solar Forge of the Dwarves of the Black Iron Keep, which gave them the ability to produce high-quality weapons in large quantities.
It seems that these are what they offered, but it is not known what role they played in the war between the two countries.
Ji Chen didn't think that these rats hiding in the sewers were simply providing weapons and equipment, and they must have other plans.
But what we have to do now is to help the Duchy of Reinhardt block the attack of the Kingdom of Bath first, otherwise once the former is completely defeated, even with his help, there will be no way back.
As soon as he thought of this, Ji Chen asked the officer.
"Where exactly is the location of Feiguang City?"
"It's on the coast, about fifty kilometers west of here, just by looking at a towering mountain."
Ji Chen nodded, and without delay, with a wave of his hand, he returned to the sea with the army again, and quickly headed towards the west, just as fast as they came.
The officers and many soldiers of the Duchy of Reinhardt watched Ji Chen and them leave in a daze, staring at the mess on the ground.
Although they haven't fully figured out what is going on, they have a vague hunch in their hearts that this powerful army, which claims to have come from the far sea, may be able to salvage the situation that is getting worse and worse...
Ji Chen, who left the barracks, quickly returned to the place where they first arrived, this location happened to be the midpoint between the barracks and Feiguang City, if the dragonblood fishmen who were exploring the left at that time swam farther away, they might have discovered Feiguang City.
Without stopping, the group hit the road again, saying that the coast was heading towards Feiguang City.
The Champions of the Seas are mostly Sea Clans, which gives them unrivaled mobility in the seas, and even the slowest of them, the Elf Shooters and Cancer Guards, are by no means faster than humans.
Fifty kilometers is only half an hour.
Ji Chen turned around a cliff and saw the mountain peaks standing in the distance at a glance, as well as the Feiguang City standing on the coast under the peaks
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Forty or fifty meters high, the thick walls engraved with defensive runes, such as towering arrow towers and spell towers lined with trees, more garrisons than the houses in the city, and tens of thousands of soldiers of the Duchy of Reinhardt stationed in the city, made this military city that had stood here since a hundred years ago like a hedgehog, daring to prick any claws that stretched out to it.
However, this city, which is regarded as the light of the northern shore and is considered a magnificent city in the northern continent, is now shrouded in the smoke and sounds of fighting.
Two days ago, when the entire border was in an emergency and the land forces were advancing rapidly, the Eighth Fleet of the Kingdom of Bath took advantage of the fact that the Royal Fleet of Reinhardt and the army were being involved, and surrounded the city with a large number of heavy weapons and troops stuck like nails on the important route of the army.
As long as the Duchy of Reinhardt reacts to it, then the Kingdom of Bath will firmly occupy the initiative in this war, and the advance can be directed at the capital city of Trins, and the retreat can cooperate with the army to sweep away all blocking forces along the coast, completely leaving the naval power of the Duchy of Reinhardt without a foothold.
Time is of the essence.
Therefore, the supreme commander of this blitzkrieg in the kingdom of Bath, Field Marshal Roussel, demanded that it be taken within two days at all costs, even if it ended up in ruins.
Therefore, the ferocious offensive attacking Feiguang City was far beyond everyone's imagination.
On the side facing the ocean, more than thirty warships of the Kingdom of Bath were lined up across the sea, and cannon fire burst from the deck and rained down on the city walls.
Behind these warships were hundreds of troop transports, which continued to rush out of the opening in the bow of the landing craft, braving the artillery fire of the Phil Light counterattack to send heavily armed soldiers to the beachhead.
A single xenomorph beast in heavy iron armor has been cultivated through a special method, and the rain of arrows thrown from the castle cannot damage them, and they are bounced off the iron armor with a clanging shot, and only a few heavy crossbows and alchemy cannons equipped with heavy armor-piercing arrows can deal effective damage to them.
The small alchemy cannon on the beast's back continued to fire, blasting the defensive runes engraved on the walls of the city into flames.
Bands of soldiers followed closely behind the behemoth's buttocks, cooperating with the attack according to the infantry training siege drills.
In the sky, the Pegasus Knights and Giant Eagle Archers in rune light armor relied on their flexibility and mobility to dodge anti-aircraft artillery fire with limited elevation angles, dexterously found the gaps between the barrages, threw enchanted arrows at valuable targets, threw alchemy bombs one after another, and used their powerful lethality to dive and kill the defenders on the city walls again and again, destroying the city's defense equipment, arrow towers and spell towers, and reducing resistance for the troops who climbed the city.
Soldiers were constantly killed in artillery fire and attacks, both in the Kingdom of Bath and in the Duchy of Reinhardt.
Such a magnificent battle was undisguised in front of him.
At this moment, Ji Chen felt like he had gone to the scene of the World War II landing battle in Blue Star, where the alien monsters were tanks and armored vehicles, the Pegasus knights were dive bombers, and the giant eagle shooters were fighters that rained bullets.
The arrow towers and spell towers at the head of the city are machine guns and anti-aircraft cannons that roar and shoot a rain of bullets in the sky.
As the largest coastal military city in the southwest of the Duchy of Reinhardt, Feiguang City is naturally armed to the teeth, with sufficient ammunition reserves and troops, impregnable walls and well-established fortifications.
The Duchy of Reinhardt naturally knew that after the outbreak of the war outside the city of Feiguang, it would inevitably be attacked by heavy troops, so after the conflict with the Kingdom of Bath, it further strengthened and strengthened the runes of the city walls, allowing them to hold out for seven days under the attack of predetermined fire, which was enough time for them to send reinforcements from all over the city to rush in time.
However, they didn't expect that the Kingdom of Bath would brazenly launch a blitzkrieg, using a lightning-fast offensive to catch the northern frontier area off guard, and there was no way to organize troop support when they were in a hurry, and they also used the advantage of naval strength to involve the royal fleet, and the follow-up fleet dropped and landed a large number of troops on the east coast of Feiguang City, delaying or annihilating the Reinhardt Gong *** team that was originally going to set off for help in the neighboring area. At the same time, a large number of annihilation teams were scattered to block communication between the Feiguang City area and the rest of the world
, making it a dark shadow on the map of intelligence communications, and releasing a number of deceptive actions and targets.
Let the city of Trins hesitate due to the lack of intelligence - will the kingdom of Bath deliberately send a large number of troops to support them, and instead attack the capital directly from somewhere else?
And this moment of hesitation will be the key to the victory of the Kingdom of Bath in this war.
As a result of all this, Feiguang City is now isolated, relying on the tens of thousands of soldiers stationed in the city and the defensive offensive to support it, suffocating and counterattacking the Bath Kingdom's forces that outnumber them by several times.
If that's all there is to it, then there is still a chance of salvation.
As long as the city of Trins reacts in time and sends an elite army from the capital to help, then this city with strong defenses may be able to hold out until reinforcements arrive.
However, the Bath King *** team under the city brought them a surprise.
The fleet, which had been lined up like a battle array, suddenly stopped the bombardment that had been going on for hours, and the sudden silence made the whole sea seem quite silent.
Even the crazy landing force that kept charging stopped at this time, stopping at a distance of three hundred meters from the city wall, the hoplites, marksmen, elite mage regiments, and even the air troops all rose to a higher position, watching from the sky hundreds of meters away, all the soldiers who could still move received the order to stop, and the crazy war maniac held back his restless heart at this moment, obediently hiding behind the xenomorph giant beasts that were crawling down one by one.
The defenders of the Duchy of Reinhardt, whose city wall protectorate was still safe in the midst of the roar of artillery fire, couldn't help but be stunned when they saw this scene, and even the most sluggish people realized that something big was coming.
The huge flagship of the fleet slowly aimed its bow at Figuang City, and with the roar of gears and machinery, an alchemical cannon made of obsidian rose from the bow deck.
Its color was so black that it seemed to be sucked in even the sunlight, and it was able to stuff the thick muzzle of a man's cannon and make all the soldiers on board salute with lofty attention.
In the command room, Shalifa, the commander of the Eighth Fleet of the Kingdom of Bath, looked at the huge cannon that occupied almost the entire bow deck, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.
"Are you sure this cannon can blast through the walls of Figon City?"
"Of course, Your Excellency Khalifa."
The one who opened his mouth was a fraudster with a golden mask, the narrow eyes on the forehead of the mask shone brightly, and the loose gray robe could not hide his fiery body, and under that mask, a pair of eyes that were also golden were like the noble blood of the world, releasing majesty all the time.
Even if Khalifa was a high-ranking nobleman of the Kingdom of Bath and the supreme commander of the Eighth Fleet, he was still full of sisterhood for this mysterious and unfathomable woman, and if it were not for His Majesty's personal instructions, he would never have traveled with such a person.
He remembered that His Majesty had said that this woman seemed to be the Holy Envoy of the organization called the Fraudster?
"The Destroyer Cannon, the only one that was made and existed, was made with enough resources to empty ten cities, and as its name suggests, it can bring destruction and end, and no wall can stop its bombardment."
"With its help, the walls of Feiguang City can be destroyed in just a few clicks, but Your Excellency Khalifa, you don't seem to believe it before, and you have not used it for a long time, allowing so many soldiers to be buried under the city in vain."
The Holy Envoy shook his head, as if feeling sorry for the soldiers who had lost their lives.
Khalifa's eyes became gloomy, and he snorted coldly, "This commander is not your turn to teach you a lesson."
As he spoke, he felt even more jealous of this so-called holy envoy and the organization of fraudsters.
I don't know what they gave His Majesty to eat***, to believe them so much.
Not only were they allowed to participate in this glorious war, but they were also allowed to reside in the royal palace and enjoy a high status as advisors to all parts of the court.
And it was not long after these people appeared in the kingdom that His Majesty suddenly proposed to go to war with the Duchy of Reinhardt to complete the ancestors of the past as well
A long-cherished wish of the kingdom for hundreds of years.
While it made all the hawks, including him, ecstatic, he always felt as if something was wrong — and it was too sudden.
After all, although the kingdom's military strength was much higher than Reinhardt's at that time, the cost of destroying the same level of power must be heavy and expensive, but the appearance of the Fraudster accelerated the process extremely quickly.
This organization, which seemed to jump out of stone, not only brought a large number of sophisticated weapons and equipment, ordnance, and alchemy equipment that were enough to arm half of the kingdom, but also showed extremely high alchemy technology, making the alchemy technology of the Kingdom of Bath directly jump to the top of the four countries on the northwest coast.
What's more, their intelligence capabilities are even more amazing, and the intelligence of the military camps, military forces, and fortifications in the enemy's territory flows in like water, allowing them to be full of information they need to control the war.
At this point, the kingdom is like a fat man who is rapidly gaining weight - although there is inevitably some moisture in it, it does have the power to destroy a country.
As a result, the war against Reinhardt seemed to have become opportune, and under this influence, the city became hawkish, and the hawks became more hawkish.
Then, under a series of overt and covert promotions, the war finally came as scheduled.