If we say that under the city of August, the expeditionary force is sweeping thousands of troops; Then the battle on the Great Plains of Warhammer is a piecemeal art performance.

By taking advantage of the high mobility of the cavalry, it can gain superiority on local battlefields, accumulate small victories into big victories, and gradually gain the strategic initiative.

In addition to the hundreds of thousands of troops in the headquarters, the Ancient Relic Alliance also has a southern expeditionary army, which has not yet reached the end of the mountain.

But far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and the war of the Great Plains of Warhammer has been reversed. The Terrans, who had been crushed for thousands of miles, have now been pushed back.

This strategic reversal has greatly boosted the morale of the countries of the northern continent. However, before everyone was happy, the bad news followed.

Perhaps it was the battle report from the front line that stimulated the elves. The ruthless elven army set off the most fierce attack.

The Duchy of Usda and the Duchy of Fike, which had become unlucky products for the venting of elven anger, were destroyed on the same day, and for a time the Northern Continent collectively lost their voices.

Including Hudson, after seeing the battle report, they all shouted:!

The battle situation is so ferocious, and the elves are completely bullying. In one day, the Elven Mage Regiment unleashed fifteen forbidden spells on the battlefield.

The countless defenders of the Duchy of Usda and the Duchy of Fik, who didn't even know what was going on, were sent directly to meet the Lord of the Dawn.

Forbidden spells have become wholesale products, and this level of battle used to occur only when the two big clans were fighting for supremacy.

After a brief period of distraction, Hudson quickly recovered. The minimum requirement for a forbidden spell is that three of the same archmages join forces.

If the quality is not enough, you can also use the quantity to make up. Several mages with a group of mages can also cast forbidden spells.

The more people who can't participate, the more difficult it is to control the magic array, and once it is interfered with, it is easy to backlash.

With the family background of the elven clan, Hudson didn't think it would be difficult to gather forty-five archmages.

If it is calculated according to the minimum standard, it is not impossible to say that fifteen forbidden spells are released in a day, even if the number is multiplied several times.

Hudson didn't know how thick the family background of the elf clan was, but he knew the family background of the Alpha Kingdom.

There are definitely no forty-five eighth-order Great Magister kingdoms, and it is almost the same to be replaced by a Magister.

All the eighth-order powerhouses in the kingdom combined, including those recruited from the outside world, were less than forty.

It is still barely possible to reliably pile up the number of people, concentrate the magicians of the whole country, and release ten or eight forbidden spells at the same time without external interference.

It seems to be very weak compared to the elves, but this is only a Terran kingdom, and it is still a terran kingdom with a lot of vitality.

Looking at the entire human race, this base has increased by more than ten or twenty times, and there is no difficulty at all.

According to the proportion of four or five percent of the number of strong people of the human race, Hudson also roughly calculated the family background of the elven race.

Of course, this estimate is not necessarily reliable. People take the longevity route + talent route, and it is normal for more groups of old people to not die.

If the number of strong people is not enough, why does the small number of the Light Elf Clan dominate the Aslant Continent?

Vaguely, Hudson found himself playing big. Counting the previous elven mage group, the elven army lost in his hands is probably close to eight thousand.

For a race with a population of only a few million and low fertility, such a loss is enough to make a family angry.

The Duchy of Usda and the Duchy of Fik are now completely on his behalf, and if the Elven Queen's anger is not exhausted, there will be other Terran countries that will suffer next.

The Duchy of Orton can basically be declared cold, and the Duchy of Moxi will be miserable if it is not good. When encountering a crazy elven army, there is no one in the countries of the Northern Continent who is not afraid.

The thought of being remembered by the elves made Hudson's heart a little apprehensive.

In my mind, I couldn't help but think of the three elf queens with the masters of the clan who came over to surround and kill, and the picture of forbidden spells flying all over the sky.

After taking a sip of herbal tea and calming down, Hudson's hanging heart slowly calmed down again.

The probability of this happening is still very low. It's not that the elves don't want to get rid of him, it's that the plan isn't feasible.

If you can't win, can't you win?

Hudson had never heard of the dragon knights who were bent on running away, and some of them were besieged and killed.

The biggest reason for the tragedy of the Duchy of Usda and the Duchy of Fik is that they are too weak.

Not to mention confronting the enemy head-on, even interfering with the opponent to release the forbidden spell, he is not capable of doing it. The strength of the two sides is not at the same level at all.

……

In the camp of the expeditionary force, a group of high-ranking officers gathered together and looked at the battle report with solemn expressions.

"What do you think about the current situation?"

Hudson asked routinely.

"Marshal, the elves are going to fully intervene in the war!

The next development of the situation depends on the strategic choice of the elves. ”

Count Ebert, commander of the First Army, replied.

He didn't say anything about the consequences, but his face already revealed his unoptimism about the situation.

Referring to the previous orc empire, you can know that it is rubbing on the ground according to the three major powers of the Northern Continent.

Now there is no Alpha Kingdom in front, and it is completely the elven army that attacks whichever country is finished.

"Marshal, the direction of the elven army's attack, we are powerless. If you want to influence their decisions, you can only rely on the efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Now the trouble is the chain reaction, receiving the news of the elves' full involvement in the war, the orcs on the prairie will definitely not be able to bear it.

The pressure on the northern frontier has increased greatly, and the kingdom is likely to demand a quick victory.

A single alliance of the Ancient Relic is enough, the problem is that the elven army may also be killed at any time.

For now, we can only quickly eat the enemy army in front of us, and then turn around and enter the Duchy of Orton to participate in the defense battle, hoping that there is still time! ”

The commander of the Second Army, Marquis Medel, added.

Immediately after that, a group of officers expressed their opinions, and everyone was as pessimistic about the current situation as Hudson.

It's just that everyone's pessimism can be said, but Hudson can only pretend to be full of confidence.

Entering the Duchy of Orton to participate in the defense of the war is too optimistic. It is estimated that by the time the battle in the Great Plains of Warhammer is over, they will already be cold.

When the expeditionary force is rested, there is a high probability that it will be able to participate in the defense of the Duchy of Moxi.

Even Hudson guessed the battlefield, it was the defense of Dapeth again.

The western defense line of the Principality of Moxi was all temporarily used to make up the numbers, and only the king could be called easy to defend and difficult to attack.

"Well, don't be too pessimistic. The situation in the northern continent collapsed, but the situation in the southern continent was very different.

Even if all the countries of the Northern Continent fall, the kingdom will definitely survive until the continental war is won. Now what we need to do is to weaken the enemy forces and wait for the turning point.

The units then took turns harassing the enemy troops, not seeking mass destruction, but only interfering with their advances and constantly demoralizing the enemy.

Remember, defeating the enemy is not the goal, dividing the alliance of the ancient remnants is our strategy! ”

Hudson reassured.

From defeating the enemy army to dividing the alliance of the ancient relics, the strategic plan has changed, and the style of play is naturally different.

Of course, if you can completely annihilate the enemy's top ranks, it is naturally the best choice.

However, this is too idealistic and not very feasible.

……

In the Emerald Palace, Caesar IV once again convened a high-level council of the kingdom.

Recently, he has had a hard time. With the outbreak of war, the military became more and more powerful, and he, the king, was about to lose his sense of existence.

In fact, it's just an illusion. It is an inevitable consequence that resources were tilted towards the military during the war years.

The king was not consulted, on the one hand, because the war needed efficiency, and on the other hand, because he was not at ease with his military capabilities.

In the event of a discrepancy between the king's decision and the military's decision after the report, who will listen to it?

In order to avoid embarrassing things from happening, the departments simply cut them first and then reported to Caesar IV when they were done.

The problem is solved, but Caesar IV is not happy!

It's all an established fact, and not being able to get involved in it is like marginalizing him.

It doesn't matter once or twice, if it happens more often, everyone will find that whether there is a king or not does not affect the operation of the government.

This is definitely not a good thing for the royal power.

It's useless to know, the general trend is like this, and no one can change it.

If there is a stir now, it will only leave the impression of a faint monarch who ignores the overall situation to the domestic aristocracy.

There may be a powerful minister to overthrow the king, so wait until it appears, at least among the current princes and nobles, no one wants to turn Caesar IV into a rubber seal.

Caesar IV, who has received a royal education, is not stupid, and naturally will not make a fuss at such a time, but the work of consolidating royal power still needs to be carried out.

The elves entered the war in an all-round way, and Caesar IV, who realized the great changes in the international situation, decisively chose to come out to brush up on his existence.

"The battle on the Great Plains of Warhammer has entered a critical moment, and Marshal Hudson can't leave now, and this meeting will not wait for him.

Gong Xiang recorded it with a photo stone, and then turned around and forwarded a copy of the meeting materials to him.

Now that the situation is tense and we don't have time to waste, let's get straight to the meeting!

Archduke Ephiero, first of all, tell us about the current pressure on the kingdom and the most likely change in the situation of the war in the future. ”

Caesar IV said calmly, as if everything was in order, but the faces of the great nobles were not good-looking.

At the speed of the Dragon Knights, it would not be long before they could return from the front, and Hudson's absence was naturally taken out for political interpretation.

Whether it was really impossible to leave, or whether the king deliberately chose a time point that he could not leave, the meaning of the meeting was completely different.

The high singing on the battlefield made Hudson's prestige in the kingdom soar, and with great power in his hands, he has become a de facto powerful minister.

If it is not suppressed, Hudson will enter the central government after the war, and it is very likely that he will directly take the position of prime minister.

A prime minister with great military achievements can speak more heavily than a prime minister with outstanding political achievements.

From the local to the central, the whole kingdom is the old part of his army, where does the king be placed?

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Archduke Ephiero replied.

"After the destruction of the Three Kingdoms of the North Sea, the elven army has not stopped, and the army is advancing towards the Duchy of Orton.

If nothing else, now their vanguard has completed the meeting between the Principality of Orton and the Southern Expeditionary Legion of the Ancient Relic Alliance.

The total strength of the two sides together is not less than 500,000, and the pressure on the front line of the Principality of Orton is very great, even if the Principality of Moxi sends the main force to support, I am afraid that it will not last long.

What's even more troublesome is that the elves don't only have this 100,000 army, if they mobilize the clan, they can roughly pull up 500,000 troops.

This 500,000 is still 500,000 as the standard of elves. This number could continue to increase if restrictions are eased.

Unlike our human race, elves can be soldiers of both men and women as long as they are adults.

In order to ensure the reproduction of the population in the clan, the conscription of the elves is mainly middle-aged and elderly people whose physical strength has not yet declined.

In the kingdom, perhaps only the Expeditionary Legion can compete with them head-on, but we have too few such elite troops.

The pressure on Field Marshal Hudson will be very strong next, and if he does not win quickly, the enemy is likely to send reinforcements.

For a short period of time, the main military pressure on the kingdom was the northern frontier. After the orc empire destroyed the Seven Kingdoms of the Grassland, it couldn't bear it anymore.

The lords of the north know best that border friction has been happening almost every day in recent days.

The opinion of the military is that on the Western Front: diplomacy is primary, military is secondary.

The expeditionary force has already created some favorable conditions for diplomatic negotiations. We annihilated an army of 8,000 elves and captured a group of magicians of several hundred people.

The elves have seen our strength, and the next key is how to dispel their concerns. ”

It's easy to throw out a problem, but it's a headache to solve it.

Whether or not the Principality of Mossi can be kept will be directly related to the safety of the rear of the kingdom.

As for the northern front, there is no need to discuss it at all, just hit it directly. The enmity between the Alpha Kingdom and the orcs is as deep as the sea, and there is no room for relaxation at all.

Everyone can tolerate the kingdom compromising with the elves, because it is not their own interests that are lost, and there is no pain.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been in contact with the elves, but Marshal Hudson fought too the front line, and the three elven queens are angry.

The tragedy of the Duchy of Usda and the Duchy of Fik is that the elves are venting their anger.

If you want to negotiate, you have to wait for their emotions to vent before they start.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been closely monitoring the development of the war situation in the southern continent recently, and according to the information we have gathered, the Frankish kingdom is about to win the war.

The victory of the Southern Continent will surely stimulate the alliance of the alien races, and they will help us convince the elves.

As for how to reassure the elves, there is a high probability that a binding contract will be signed. There is a high probability that everyone here will be asked to sign the contract. ”

The Foreign Secretary's explanation made everyone breathe a little sigh of relief.

If nothing else, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also been in contact with the Interracial Alliance in secret, and has achieved certain results.

Otherwise, Count Francis was not sure that the Interracial Alliance would help convince the Elves.

No one objected. If you want to survive in the continent of Aslanth, this kind of thing is inevitable.

You can do anything that is secretly traded, and it is naturally not a problem to sign a secret contract.

As long as the secret covenant is not leaked, it is equivalent to the secret covenant does not exist.

It's a big deal that in the middle and late stages of the war, the kingdom concentrated its troops in the northern frontier and made a posture of smashing the orcs to the death.

……

The change in the strategic plan is directly reflected on the battlefield. The expeditionary force did not seek to defeat the enemy, but deliberately provoked contradictions on all sides.

The specific operation is very simple, use the mobility of the cavalry to pull out their strongholds in one step and cut them off from obtaining logistical supplies.

The expeditionary force is not alone in its early days. After successive victories, the resistance forces, not only scattered on the Great Plains of Warhammer, took the initiative to come forward; Even the Warhammer nobles who fled to the Duchy of Moxi came to vote.

Those with a little bit of political acumen knew that they had to participate in the war of restoration. Otherwise, even if they regain the lost territory, they will have nothing to do.

I don't know if the expeditionary force can help them restore their country, but it does not affect Hudson to play such a political banner.

With the cooperation of the Ground Snake, Hudson brought the mobility of the cavalry into full play. Even if the enemy set up a stronghold in the castle fortress, he would not be able to resist the original owner leading the way.

The rout, when fighting with the army of Moxi, was a burden; But when I returned to my hometown and wanted to regain my homeland, it was a different state.

The Front-Time Expeditionary Force was at a disadvantage, and it was a burden to bring a rabble with them, and Hudson did not gather these forces, but now the situation is different.

The reversal of the initiative on the battlefield, the scattered resistance forces in various places, suddenly became active. Many of the enemy's weak strongholds were attacked by the resistance.

If it weren't for these people taking the initiative to contact him, Hudson wouldn't have known that there were so many armed forces hidden in the Warhammer Kingdom.

Regardless of the quality, the total number of resistance forces is actually hundreds of thousands.

From the data alone, it can be seen how weak the control of the Ancient Relic Alliance is over the local area.

Of course, it's not surprising that this happens. The Warhammer Kingdom has millions of square kilometers, how can it be possible to take care of the small number of troops of the Ancient Relic Alliance.

Even if it were to commit genocide, it would not be possible to kill all the people in just a few months.

The plains were unsafe, the nobility and the populace had largely fled, and there were only sporadic resistance groups.

The noble lords of the mountains were one step late when they received the news and missed the best time to escape, so they could only stay and hold on to resisting.

If you can't keep the city, you will go into the ravine. Most of the resistance forces are struggling in the mountains and forests.

Fortunately, these people were closed to news, and they didn't know that the elven army swept the three kingdoms of Beihai, otherwise they wouldn't be so active.

The direct consequence of the wolf smoke everywhere is that it has broken the hope of the Ancient Relic Alliance to gather defenders from all over the world.

……

"Marshal, I just received news that the elven air force airdropped a batch of food to the enemy, which once caused chaos in the enemy camp."

Hearing this, Hudson did not react at all. It's not a world of technology, and the materials that flying mounts can carry in the era of cold weapons are limited.

No matter how much the elves helped, the materials that could be transported were still very limited, and they could not meet the daily needs of hundreds of thousands of troops.

"Tom, pass the order, let the griffon dragoons continue to keep an eye on the enemy camp, and find out as soon as possible whether these elven air forces have also taken some of the elven wounded when they leave."

Intuition told Hudson that the reinforcements of the Elven Air Force were not as simple as they seemed, and it was likely that the Elven Legion in the coalition wanted to withdraw from the battlefield.

A mature race must learn to stop losses. The alien coalition forces on the Great Plains of Warhammer are not only short of reinforcements, they are also severely short of food.

In particular, the food shortage is even more severe, and if this problem cannot be solved, it is irresponsible to the soldiers to send reinforcements rashly.

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