"Da, da, da......"

The footsteps of the march, pouring from the Blackstone Mountains to the Kingdom of Hesse. Sensing that something was wrong, the scout horse in charge of monitoring the centipede clan hurriedly lit the wolf smoke.

In the blink of an eye, the news of the invasion of foreign enemies was transmitted all the way back from the Blackstone Mountains, causing an uproar in the Hessian Kingdom.

The worst happened!

Without waiting for the Hessian government to react, the centipede army had already left the Blackstone Mountains and launched an attack on them.

"Kill!"

The shouts of killing sounded, and the barony, which had just evacuated half of it, fell directly. Countless people who didn't have time to leave directly fell into the Centipede Clan Food.

Benevolence, righteousness, morality, courtesy, righteousness, and shame all do not exist here, and some are just endless killing.

Gutland, County Kreston.

As the master, Viscount Pierre was standing on the city wall at the moment, looking into the distance with trepidation.

The small territory did not have the ability to stop the enemy's attack, and was abandoned by the kingdom early. In order to better resist the invasion of the enemy, the royal government ordered a strategic contraction half a month ago, relying on the cities and fortresses in various places to hold on.

After all, the time is too short, and a large amount of population and wealth cannot be evacuated all at once.

With the exception of a once-in-a-decade beast tide, Kreston County had no experience defending against foreign enemies, and was now purely chasing ducks to the shelves.

The footsteps drew nearer, and the earth trembled as thousands of troops marched together.

"Lord Viscount, the enemy is encamped five miles away!"

Upon receiving this news, Viscount Pierre first breathed a sigh of relief, followed by a sigh.

The high-level of the kingdom pinned their hopes on the Alpha Kingdom for the elimination of the geocentric race in the Blackstone Mountains, and did not send a large army to station, but only ordered the nobles in the border area to mobilize.

This kind of coping is naturally enough to stay in the Alpha Kingdom. But here's the problem: Gutland is not a southeastern province, and Hesse is not an Alpha kingdom.

From the discovery of the traces of the geocentric race, it has only been a short month now, and the military mobilization within the province has not had time to complete.

Inefficient mobilization is not only a problem of mechanism, but also of people. Countless noble lords have not taken the invasion of the Inner Earth race seriously at all.

Especially after receiving the news that the centipede army had invaded the southeastern province, everyone relaxed their vigilance. Wishful thinking that the enemy will not dare to provoke the Hessian Kingdom again with the strong enemy of the Alpha Kingdom.

After all, when given a choice, no one will stupidly go around provoking a strong enemy and make himself strategically vulnerable to the enemy.

Including Viscount Pierre also thinks so, but unfortunately he didn't expect it by all calculations, and the geocentric race can't be judged by common sense.

Lacking in information, the fledgling centipede clan has no idea what fear is.

First, he unfortunately kicked the iron plate in the southeast province, and then he was taught to be a human by the monsters. What's even more tragic is that they don't know that the demonic beasts in the surface world are not as simple as they were tens of thousands of years ago.

After receiving the promise of a group of Sanctuary Demonic Beasts, he thought that the Blackstone Mountain Range was safe, and there was no danger of being attacked on his back.

After the southeastern province won a great victory, they did not launch a military counterattack for a long time, which was also interpreted by them as a matter of course: they were afraid of the reaction of the demonic beasts, and did not dare to send troops to the Blackstone Mountains without authorization.

If the demonic beasts of the Blackstone Mountains want to protect them to the death, there is actually nothing wrong with this judgment, and Hudson will not be full of food and support, and run to provoke the powerful enemy of the demonic beasts.

History has long proven that the cost performance of fighting Warcraft is too low.

Even if you can barely win the battle, the Blackstone Mountain Range, which is poor and bad, is not suitable for farming.

Even if there are a lot of cultivation resources, they can't recover the high cost of war.

With the financial resources of the Alpha Kingdom, it simply can't afford to play such a luxury game. The same war funds, everyone would rather spend on orcs.

However, all of this is if, but if you live in the terrestrial world for a few more years, you will know that if you provoke the Azure Beast, the follow-up trouble will definitely be indispensable.

The Azure King's promise could at most represent his own position, and the other Sanctuary Demonic Beasts didn't promise them anything.

The credibility of the Azure Beast is still there, and it may not be possible to blatantly breach the contract, but people are good at being flexible.

Go back and get some sleep, or go out and hang out.

By the time he returned, the battle had already been fought.

Anyway, what they promised was to ensure the safety of the Blackstone Mountains, not the safety of the centipede clan.

"Pass the order, light a fire and cook dinner in advance, and strictly prevent the enemy from launching a night attack!"

Viscount Pierre pretended to be calm and ordered.

Deep down, he had already panicked.

The geocentric race is strong and weak, but judging from the information detected, the centipede race entrenched in the Blackstone Mountains is certainly not weak.

As long as it is a big clan in the inner world, no matter how weak it is, it is not something that a remote border county can resist.

The letter for help, as early as when he found the trace of the enemy, he sent it out.

Neither kingdoms nor provinces have been left behind.

At one point, he also fantasized that with the help of reinforcements, he would destroy the centipede clan in one fell swoop, thus establishing his military position in the kingdom.

The idea is beautiful, but the actual operation is not so easy.

The kingdom's troops are tight, and a large number of temporary conscription regiments are still being trained.

The only thing that can be relied on in a short period of time is the support of the provinces, and how efficient his colleagues are, Viscount Pierre knows best.

It is no wonder that everyone can actively send troops in this kind of military dispatch that does not see benefits and is purely obligatory.

Including Kreston County, which is on the front line, the military mobilization is only half complete.

It's not that you don't want to be fast, it's really that you lack the experience of mobilizing the whole people, so you can't get up fast at all.

At the cost of unresponsiveness, some of the noble territories close to the Blackstone Mountains have now been reduced to hunting grounds for centipedes.

There seemed to be an army of 50,000 in the city, but in fact ninety percent of them were made up, and only less than ten percent of the nobles' private army could see it.

This is already the result of the strategic contraction of the whole county and the concentration of a group of small nobles' private army, otherwise the situation would have been even worse.

Seeing the heralds leave, Viscount Pierre continued to patrol the city defenses. Creston County is his roots, and he can't give up until he has to.

The sky gradually darkened, and Viscount Pierre's expression slowly became solemn.

In order to better resist the invasion of the Inner Race, Viscount Pierre spent a lot of money to collect the combat experience of the Kingdom and the Inner Race.

In the end, it was concluded: the enemy was very fierce and liked to attack at night.

"Boom ......"

Countless flying stones struck the city wall, and the city defense magic array that had already been opened began to play a role in an instant.

With a shocking bang, a large number of flying stones smashed into the magic barrier, and sparked one after another.

The dazzling light blocked the enemy's flying stones, and it also exposed the city's defense magic array.

In the centipede camp, Marshal Howell, who was watching the battle, suddenly sank his face after seeing this scene.

The city defense magic array is not cheap, generally speaking, it is an important defense line and strategic location, so it will be arranged at a bloody cost.

"Break the magic spear!"

Marshal Howell ordered indifferently.

The defeat in the last offensive and defensive battle in the southeast province has already made him lose face, and if he fails again now, his position as marshal will be worried.

Giving up the power in his hands and going into hiding early will become his best choice. If you don't have the opportunity to retire, you will die in office.

The political struggle of the Giantfoot Centipede clan has always been synonymous with blood. The pursuit of Gu cultivation out of the elite, the loser can only be reduced to nourishment.

The geocentric world is rich in mineral resources, but high-end goods are always high-end goods. The cost may be much lower than that of the surface world, but it still hasn't reached the point of rotten streets.

After suffering a loss, Howell became cautious in using the "Demon Breaking Gun".

There are still many cities to be attacked in the future, and this kind of core strategic material must be saved.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"

A rain of gunfire came, and Viscount Pierre, who knew the goods, hurriedly ordered the defenders to intercept it.

If you stop one, it will count as one, and if the city defense magic array is broken, the subsequent defense of the city will be a hell copy.

The magic crystal cannon on the city wall is aimed at the enemy's bed crossbow, and the fire is constantly output.

For a while, the sound of cannon fodder resounded through the world, and countless centipede soldiers had left the barracks and charged under the command of the officers.

Time passed minute by minute, and the battlefield became white-hot, and the city defense enchantment, which was constantly attacked by the Demon Breaking Spear, suddenly set off a big firework.

"Boom ......"

A deafening sound came out, and the original scene of sparks disappearing all at once.

The flying stones in the sky fell directly on the city wall, and the already crumbling city defense suddenly became precarious.

A boulder fell, and before the two defenders could react, they were smashed into meatloaf.

The splatters of blood hit the adjacent soldiers, and a piercing scream erupted on the spot, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.

The poor performance of the recruits immediately aroused the attention of the officers defending the city, and they hurried over to appease the morale of the army.

Similar scenes are constantly playing out in front of my eyes. At one point, Viscount Pierre suspected that it would be a mistake to let the recruits go up the walls.

Anger doesn't solve the problem, and Kreston County has so little money in total. In a situation where the number of troops is tight, it is necessary to use a large number of new soldiers.

For a moment, Viscount Pierre's face was filled with remorse.

If we had known that there was an invasion by a foreign enemy, we should have grasped the training of the reserve forces as soon as possible, and we would not have been in the immediate embarrassment.

Deep down, he had already made up his mind that as long as he could survive this hurdle, he would follow the example of the Alpha nobles on the other side of the mountain range and build a powerful family private army.

"Boom ......"

The loud bang sounded again, and the overwhelmed city wall suddenly collapsed a section, and a gap suddenly appeared in the seemingly strong defensive line.

"The Third Legion will fill it up immediately, and it must be done to plug the gap!"

Viscount Pierre ordered with an almost roar.

These recruits can also come in handy to defend against the enemy outside the walls.

If you lose the protection of the city wall and directly fight the enemy in close combat, the scene is unimaginable.

In the blink of an eye, the two armies collided, and after a brief confrontation, the Third Army fell to the upper hand.

The original gap was not only not plugged, but on the contrary, because the defenders were losing and retreating, there was a tendency to expand.

Realizing that the situation was not good, cold sweat broke out on Viscount Pierre's forehead.

"Chief of the Guard, summon the Governor's Mansion immediately.

Tell the Marquis of Simeone that if reinforcements don't arrive, County Kreston won't be able to hold it! ”

After speaking, he directly took his own soldiers to act as a supervising team and killed the soldiers who tried to escape.

……

Gutland Province, Governor's Palace.

"Your Excellency the Governor, the situation in Kreston County is not good, they are afraid that they will not be able to stop the enemy's troops!"

As he spoke, the military officer, Viscount Pauletti, handed over the letter asking for help.

Less than a day after the fighting broke out, five letters for help were received, and each one was more harshly worded.

"Tell Viscount Pierre to hold on.

Three days.

No, two days!

I only asked him to hold on for two days!

As long as Creston County can hold out for two days, reinforcements will arrive. ”

Marquis Simeone said in a firm tone.

The enemy came too quickly, and the province of Gutlán was not prepared at all.

This is the failure of the kingdom's strategic prediction, no one thought that in the case of a big defeat, the giant foot centipede would dare to provoke a new round of war.

"Your Excellency the Governor, judging from the feedback from Viscount Pierre, don't say hold on for two days, I'm afraid it will be difficult to hold on for one day.

It had only been two hours since the battle began, and the city's defense magic array had been broken, and at this moment the city wall had been torn open by the enemy.

Most of the defenders in the city are new recruits, and their combat effectiveness is very stretched, and they are afraid that it will be ...... if they want to block the enemy's strong attack."

Before Viscount Pauletti could finish speaking, the Marquis of Simeone scolded angrily:

"Stupid Pierre, what a complete piece of rubbish!

When I assigned a military instructor and asked him to develop the reserves, this idiot was completely uncommitted.

Now that something has happened, he wants me to wipe his ass!

An army of 50,000 people sits in the city, and they can't hold on for even two days, what kind of goods are they?

……”

Scolding doesn't solve the problem, but it can vent your emotions.

Looking at the entire province of Gutlan, Viscount Pierre is also an outstanding nobleman, and now being scolded is completely angry.

The front combat readiness is not active, that is, the military mobilization model of the Kingdom of Hesse is problematic and lacks sufficient fairness.

Fortunately, the big nobles have enough right to speak, and they will not suffer too much no matter how they distribute.

The small and medium-sized nobles are miserable.

Whoever has the strongest military will have to bear heavier military obligations, but there is no guarantee of reciprocal returns.

At every turn, he used the righteousness of the human race and the righteousness of the kingdom to kidnap and consume the small and medium-sized nobles.

In this context, in order to save money, non-front-line nobles must learn to be moderately rotten in order to ensure that they do not suffer.

Before the invasion of the Giantfoot Centipede, the threat of foreign enemies in Kreston County was only a once-in-a-decade beast tide.

Most of the beast tides are to consume excess magical beasts and maintain the ecological balance of the Blackstone Mountains. Usually the threat is not great, and high-level demonic beasts rarely participate in battles.

Drill into the castle in the early stage, and after the Warcraft army is dispersed, you can just fight it out and break them one by one.

Without pressure, the motivation to expand the army is naturally insufficient.

The end result is that the upper ruling group of the Hessian Kingdom is extremely stable, and as long as there is no continental war, there is no talk of replacing the old with the new.

The price to be paid is the consolidation of the class and the decline of the kingdom's combat effectiveness.

Similar stubborn diseases exist in many old kingdoms. In fact, the reform initiated by the reform of changing the law and storing the map is only to open up the upward channel.

"Your Excellency the Governor, there is no point in talking about this now, let's wait until after the war!

The immediate priority is to defend the province, and in the event of the fall of Kreston County, the next thing to do is ......"

As soon as the military officer, Viscount Pauletti, finished speaking, the guards outside suddenly broke in.

"The Marquis is not good, the county town of Kreston is broken!"