Chapter 119: The Battle of Victory Pass
Having already achieved a great deal of military merit, Sean didn't want to give up here, so he decided to continue fighting.
As for these two slaves......
Looking at the well-behaved No. 1 and No. 2 on the side, Sean sighed.
He left this time to fight, not to travel.
Although these two little guys have been following him for a month, they definitely can't stay in the current situation, and they don't have the ability to survive on their own, so they can only be disposed of as soon as possible.
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After sorting out the various belongings in the house, Sean left the Broad Manor with them directly.
He didn't have much when he came here, and when he left, he was naturally light, and all the money he had earned in the past two months had been converted into resources and invested in the reincarnation staff, hoping to get higher returns in the future.
Originally, Sean's plan was to sell the two cat girls to slave traders, but this kind of non-first-hand slaves are generally not wanted by rich people, so they are usually sold to some places for male *** to earn gold coins.
But after spending time with them for a long time, a trace of emotion rose in Sean's heart.
Even though Number One and Number Two were entirely his, and he hadn't even touched them, the possessive Sean didn't want them to end up like that.
After thinking about it for a while, Sean decided to send them to a small nobleman he knew, and although this kind of slave was not worth much, it was still very popular if it was given away for free.
It didn't take long for Sean to make a verbal agreement with the nobleman, and after the other party promised that he would never sell No. 1 and No. 2 to slave traders or use them for profit, he gave them their identification documents, slave cards, collars, etc.
After everything was settled, Sean was finally able to leave Theresa City in peace.
Although it took a little time to deal with the two cat girls, luckily some of them were slower than him, so no one said anything.
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Once the army was in order, Sean once again mounted his Scarlet Horse and set out on his arm, aiming to cross the vast mountain range that ran north and south of the province of Belloc before reaching the Battle of Victory.
In the end, the news of the early start of the First World War is not known to be good or bad for the Karis Kingdom's side, but it has to be said that this situation is conducive to the Silver Eagle Legion to avoid risks, so as not to go to the battlefield at the beginning of the war to clash with the enemy, resulting in a large number of casualties.
It is very difficult for the Silver Eagle Legion to cross the mountain range, and it will definitely not be able to complete it in more than ten days, coupled with the huge logistical pressure, Sean estimates that after he and the others reach the victory pass, the war will be more than half of the war.
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The truth is indeed not what he expected.
On July 3, the combined forces of the Kingdom of Karis and the Kingdom of Connery launched an attack on Victory Pass, and the order for the movement of the army was transmitted to the city of Teresa, and the Silver Eagle Army set off.
On July 4, the first day of the siege ended, with about 30,000 soldiers dead on the side of the Kingdom of Karis and about 10,000 soldiers on the side of the Kingdom of Wagner.
On July 5, 50,000 people died on the side of the Karis Kingdom and 20,000 on the side of the Wagner Kingdom.
In the five days from July 6th to July 10th, 300,000 soldiers died on the side of the Karis Kingdom, barely failing to rout under the pressure of the official and master levels, and about 100,000 soldiers died on the side of the Wagner Kingdom, which was still within the acceptable range.
On July 11th, the war took a turn for the better, the Karis Kingdom planned a week of large-scale ritual magic, a large number of corpses were sacrificed, part of the city wall of Victory Pass fell, and the Wagner Kingdom was mobilized to the rear to carry out tasks due to a large number of spellcasters, resulting in the failure to discover the enemy's conspiracy in time, and the city wall was completely lost due to the lack of reinforcements.
On July 12, the war entered the stage of street fighting, and the Wagner Kingdom had already laid a large number of traps at the Victory Pass, but the effect was not good, and the elite of the Karis Kingdom was dispatched in large numbers, and 40,000 people died after a day, and 70,000 died on the Wagner Kingdom side, and the battle losses on the Karis Kingdom side were lower than those on the Wagner Kingdom side for the first time.
From July 13th to July 15th, the battle was stalemate, with heavy casualties on both sides, but no one retreated under the pressure of their respective strong men.
On July 16, the Silver Eagle Legion arrived at the forefront of the battlefield and officially entered the war.
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"I'm fed up with this broken mountain road, and if it weren't for the orders from above to get there as fast as possible, we should have bypassed this damn place from the edge."
"Anyway, it won't take a few more days, and it can reduce a little bit of logistical pressure, so why bother like now."
Nolan complained to Camillo on a blood-colored warhorse, "Even if we go to the front line, rushing to the road will lead to a decrease in combat effectiveness, why don't we rest in place for a few days and wait until the soldiers are all recuperate." ”
"If it weren't for the importance of the distribution of resources involved in this war, I would have wondered if Lord Mikhaili had secretly placed us so far away to avoid too many casualties."
"Don't talk nonsense." Camilo frowned.
"Who knew that the gang of Connery Kingdom had done a big thing behind Wagner so quickly, and it was rare for the Connery Professional Mixed Formation to work neatly, and they also disrupted the arrangement of their own people, I really don't know what to say about those guys."
"And their means, how to say it......"
"Although anything that is beneficial to the war can be done now, it is still a bit too much to be associated with the Endless Abyss."
"If you accidentally get away with it, maybe even our side will be unlucky, and those guys really don't know the severity."
Sean also rode beside them, and although he didn't comment on this, he couldn't agree with what Camilo said.
The Kingdom of Connelly shares a large number of borders with the Kingdom of Wagner, and although it is impossible to send troops on a large scale due to the mountain range, it is still convenient to sneak past a few professional squads to interfere with the enemy's rear.
Originally, this war had been started for so long, and the people sent by the Connery Kingdom had been ineffective, and the Karis Kingdom was still a little anxious.
I didn't expect that group of guys to really make a big deal, and even almost attracted the intervention of strong people from other countries, if it weren't for the five countries on both sides of the war to stop and say that it would definitely be solved, maybe this gamble would have ended early.
Offering sacrifices to the Abyss, thus opening the gates of the Abyss, is what Connery's Mixed Formation of Professionals uses in the hinterland of the Wagner Kingdom.
Unlike Sean's previous transactional sacrifices to the Will of the Abyss, the Unrestricted Abyss Gate is strictly forbidden in almost all places, and its harm is far greater than that of other abyss-related rituals, and it can even be said to be the biggest threat to the survival of life on the Faeron plane.
Once the door to the abyss is opened, a steady stream of creatures from the abyss will run out of the door, the most representative of which are demons and evil spirits.
They will slaughter all life in the Faeron Plane and sacrifice to the Will of the Abyss to gain greater power and extend the scope of the Calamity.
This is because when the Abyss Gate is first opened, it will only teleport creatures of the same or lower level as the Abyssal Gate, but as more and more sacrifices are killed, the Abyss Gate will gradually become stronger until it snowballs across the world.
The powerhouses of the Wagner Kingdom naturally would not have imagined that the opponent would dare to use such a desperate means in the war.
Although it was only a few small towns that were slaughtered for sacrifice, because it was not discovered in time, the expanded Abyss Gate needed to mobilize a large number of professionals to destroy it, otherwise they would have to admit defeat and take action in person.
Fortunately, the armies of the three kingdoms on Wagner's side were all gathered, and after receiving the news, a large number of professionals quickly withdrew from the front line and moved to the rear to prevent this disaster from happening, especially the mage, a profession that is very useful for destroying the Abyss Gate, and there are not a few left in the victory pass.
It was by taking advantage of this opportunity that the Kingdom of Karis was able to use the corpse to induce a large ritual magic to destroy the city walls, so that the enemy would not rely on the strong walls to massacre their own warriors.
Of course, after a series of operations in the Karis Kingdom, it can be regarded as a tie with the Wagner Kingdom at most, after all, they were in a hurry when they attacked, and the state of the troops who came after them declined a little, plus the victory Guanzhong is still the home of the Wagner Kingdom, even if it has a slight advantage in combat power, it has not achieved too good results.
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Amid the discussion between Camillo and Nolan, the Silver Eagle Legion also rushed to the front line of the battlefield overnight.
Even in the early hours of the morning, the war in the Victory Pass was still in full swing.
The forces of both sides are too large to be put into the battlefield at once, and the strong men in command behind the scenes have invariably chosen to fight in shifts throughout the day, trying to make the enemy's logistics problems.
As the attackers, the Kingdom of Karis and the Kingdom of Connery are naturally quite strong, which also leads to a great advantage in terms of army quality and logistics supply.
Coupled with the large number of prisoners previously captured in the province of Beroc, the defense line of the Wagner Kingdom defenders began to become difficult to maintain, and gradually retreated in street fighting.
This is especially true when the Silver Eagle Legion arrives, as one of the elite troops in the Karis Kingdom, the combat effectiveness of the 50,000 soldiers led by Camillo is naturally extremely strong.
Especially the carefully cultivated heavy infantry of the Silver Eagle Legion, when they first appeared on the battlefield, they immediately set off a bloody storm.
Strength potions, stamina potions, energy potions, etc., were frantically consumed by 20,000 soldiers as if they didn't need money.
They are physically strong, determined and have a lot of experience, even away from home.
As these ruthless killing machines swung their weapons forward, on this day alone, the number of dead on the side of the Wagner Kingdom reached 100,000!
The morale of the already thwarted army was once again severely damaged, and the defenders even broke up locally.
The heavy infantry of the Silver Eagle Legion only paid less than 5,000 dead and 10,000 cannon fodder, although it was also a little injured, but the effect was extremely significant.
As a mage of the alchemy department, Sean was staying in the rear at the moment to repair all kinds of war equipment, and did not venture deep into the front line.
Although he could not witness the battle with his own eyes, Sean felt the cruelty of the war from the number of wounded brought back and the condition of the injuries.
A large number of soldiers are injured and killed every day, and even a midship-level professional will not survive for long once he is trapped in that huge flesh mill.
A large amount of military supplies were brought from the rear and from the hinterland of the province of Bellok to the victory pass, and the morale of both the attacking and defending sides was not as strong as before, and the soldiers at the bottom were reluctant to continue the war, but in the face of the pressure of the official professions, no amount of protest could be helped.
On 17 July, some of the defenders who were fighting fire in the rear of the Wagner Kingdom finally solved the problem and returned to the front line, barely stopping the decline when Victory Pass was about to be captured.
On July 18, a large number of hallucinogenic and addictive materials and drugs were used in the army by both sides, which were contraband that were not allowed to be used in normal times, but in the eyes of the high commanders, it would not hurt to do even a little too much for the sake of victory in this war.
As of July 20, more than 1.5 million soldiers had died near Shengli Pass, and the ratio of battle losses on both sides was comparable, and it seemed that the victory and defeat could not be separated in a short time.
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"Nolan, how's the situation now?"
Wiping the sweat from his head, Sean turned his gaze to Nolan, who had just retired from the front line, and he was wiping his weapons and armor with a rag he had found somewhere, with a solemn look on his face.
"It's troublesome." Nolan sighed, "The other party still has no intention of retreating, since their high-level professional returned a few days ago, our casualties have been much greater. ”
"Those cunning guys will hide among ordinary soldiers and suddenly attack when we are unprepared."
"Not long before I retreated, I slaughtered two apprentice-level assassins who tried to sneak attack, but this didn't help the battle situation at all, and ordinary soldiers were still dying in large numbers."
He looked at Victory Pass with some apprehension.
"The Silver Eagle Legion has been dispatched except for the cavalry, but despite this, we still lost more than 10,000 hoplites and 10,000 archers, the worst battle fought since the formation of the Legion, with almost half of the total number of casualties."
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"What about the pros?" Sean was silent for a moment and asked.
Nolan rubbed his temples, looking preoccupied, he didn't care and sat directly on the ground to rest, and used the perfect cultivation method to restore his qi and blood power.
"The death rate of the professional is a little lower than that of ordinary soldiers, but it is still down to seventy percent, and your thirteenth detachment is even worse, except for you and Billaire, it seems that only the female priest survived."
"Now think about it carefully, compared to the situation inside the Victory Pass, the Lane City side is really nothing."
"Mountains of corpses clogged the roads, and the ground was covered with coagulated blood, and if it weren't for the help of those adults in the sky to remove it, let alone fight, ordinary soldiers wouldn't even be able to walk."