Chapter 540, The Battle of the Tess River
Jaeger, the ancient god of death, the present Lord of the End of All Things, the Singer of Death, the servant of Shirek, and the servant of the God of Hades.
It's a little strange that Jaeger would be here, and it's even stranger that he'd ask this question.
Especially now that the war is imminent, why is Jaeger at this time?
Aaron thought about it, he stretched out his hand, and the pattern of the golden law ring appeared in his palm, and after Aaron's many supplements, the golden law ring was complete, and he formed a system of himself.
"This is my way of life and death." Aaron said to Jaeger, "Look at my law, which controls life and death, and the end of all things is the golden tree, and the golden tree accepts everything, and the golden tree reincarnates everything, and life is death, and death is life, and purity is filth, and filth is purity, and life itself is a cycle and cycle, and when every cause leads to every effect, the fate of the soul is decided."
"Good." There was little expression on the face of Jaeger's mummy: "You have shown me your golden law, the ruling of life and death, very good, I have one more question."
"Please." Aaron sighed, "I'm short on time."
"I want to ask, the Golden Tree and the Golden Law can certainly reincarnate life and death, and judge sin and evil, but once the Golden Tree is in your control, how can you ensure that you will not interfere with cause and effect and reincarnation too much?" Jaeger said in a low voice.
"There is no way, just as mortals cannot refuse the temptation of the soul, so is God." Aaron shook his head, he stretched out his other hand, and the white fire from the Emperor appeared in his hand, forming the shape of Destiny Death, standing side by side with the Golden Law Ring: "There are many things in Hades, and not all of them can be judged by simple good and evil, right and wrong, and when souls flow to the other end of the multiverse, of course I have a responsibility to maintain this system, and the way to maintain this system is to maintain it."
Aaron lifted the white flames: "Death of destiny."
"Sometimes the ideal and the reality are always different...... Thou shalt answer, I know." Jaeger nodded slowly, and the mummy left outward: "We will meet again one day in the future, the four gods from beyond the multiverse, may you do it yourself."
"Let's go!"
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Sea of the Moon, on the banks of the River Tes.
Fiorina, the vanguard of the Western Army, led 500 Cormier's Imperial Knights, ticking and galloping across the land of the Moon Sea, each of them wearing brightly colored robes and holding mounted spears, but the armor under the robes was not so neat, some knights were wearing enchanted Mithril armor, and the feathers on their heads moved with the wind, which was not beautiful.
Some knights' robes have simple scale armor or chain mail, and there is a foul smell, and there are no irises on their heads, so they use antlers, horns, or even branches instead, which is also unique and majestic.
The vanguard general is Fiorena, a knight of the Guards from the palace of Obeszir, and Aaron's decision has upset many people, especially Aaron's cousin Robert, Doherty of the Orc Great Sword Battalion, and the white-robed Hafdan of the Bedean Barbarians.
But Aaron chose Fiolena as the vanguard for multiple considerations, first of all, because he didn't trust Alice Serre before, so he hung Fiolena for a long time, until the two sides really opened their hearts to Fiolena and was reused, and secondly, after all, the Salian shogunate was born out of the Cormir Purple Dragon Country, and the vanguard let the Cormier nobles fight first has a strong political significance.
Fiorina also held her breath fiercely, it was finally time for her to fight on the front line and show her strength with the Purple Dragon Country.
"Report to Your Excellency, there are Eastern Army soldiers ahead!"
"Oh?" Fiolena nodded excitedly, "How many are there?" Which unit is it from?"
"It's an orc! But three hundred men, some wolf cavalry, are in the upper reaches of the Tess River...... Plunder!" Scouts report back.
Fiolena immediately rode to a slightly higher place, and she took out her binoculars to look into the distance.
This sight made the knight of the guard grit his teeth.
A group of orcs, not many, and without any special banners, should have just plundered nearby villages and towns on the way to the army.
Dagger Falls
The gateway to Fort Santil is the River Theis, which is home to dozens of villages along its banks and has been inhabited by the civilians of the Moon Sea for generations.
But today, the orcs are coming.
The farmland was trampled by the iron hooves of the orcs, the houses were burning in flames, the limbs of the villagers were hung from the branches of the trees by the orcs, and the heads of desperate human males who were still dripping blood rolled their eyes and tossed up and down on the grill, and the orc officers ransacked the village pub and delivered barrels of inferior ale to the orc officers.
"Damn, isn't the Santarin Society going to do it any further?" Fiorina put down her binoculars and slapped her thigh in anger: "Orcs, orcs, orcs are here, can the civilians here still have a way to live?" Santil Fort doesn't care!"
There was a large chorus of harmony around, and it was clear that the knights of the edict were also very unhappy about this, and for these Cormier nobles, it was only natural that the lords paid taxes for the lords, and the lords provided shelter for the lords.
As a knight of the guards born in Cormier, Fiolena herself has a very strong sense of justice, and after scolding angrily, Fiolena reluctantly changed her state from a righteous knight to the logic of a vanguard general, and she suddenly realized the fighter: "Very good, the first blow of this battle is my Fiolena's people, the knight of the edict, assault!"
"Obey !!"
Knock knock ~ The sound of huge horses' hooves came from the ground, swept across without concealment, and the orcs who were plundering in the village heard the movement and hurriedly picked up their weapons, only to see the Fiolena knight's long sword pointed, and the knights were skillfully outflanked from both wings, and only twenty or thirty horsemen followed closely behind Fiorena and advanced from the middle lane.
The orcs searched for weapons in a panic, and when they saw Fiorina killed, they fell to their feet under the spears, and the knights of the Edict who rushed past threw away their broken spears and suddenly pulled out their firecrackers.
Moradin's Spearhead!
Bang ~ Bang ~
A row of white smoke swept over the orc's location, and the orcs in twos and threes hit one after another, and thirty or forty people fell at once.
But the orcs were worthy of the orcs, and instead of being defeated, they raised their battle axes and roared through the field.
"G-U-sh!"
"Geush can't save you!" Fiorena sneered, took out the grenade of Hex's military industry from her bosom, and in one round of throwing, the orcs were blown to a blur of flesh and blood, and the knights of the edict surrounded the orcs, surrounding the remaining more than three hundred orcs in the burning village.
The first credit is mine! As Fiorena thought this, the knights on the left heard the sound of arrows and arrows, arrows and crossbows coming like locusts, knocking many knights from their horses.
In the shadows, skin-hugging dark leather armor, long white hair, and cruel faces, bear goblins and ogres protect a squad of elves in it.
Drow!
Oh no, it's in ambush!
Fiorena immediately signaled the knights to retreat, but fortunately, although the noble children of Cormier were not very strong in combat, they had undergone sufficient military training and quickly retreated at the moment.
This was not the end, piles of Santarinhui soldiers immediately appeared in the woods next to the Taith River, the trigger of the steel crossbow was pulled, the trebuchets wrapped in flames smashed out patches of fire, and more importantly, the Santalim Society's Sky Lord troops arrived.
Fiorina hurriedly ordered to retreat, and the knights of the edict couldn't do so much at this time, and the grenades on their bodies were thrown out in a puff of smoke, and the mages on the Sky Lord's mount threw daggers, lightning chains, and magic missiles down like raindrops, beating the knights of the edict so that they couldn't raise their heads.
"Knights, dismount!" Fiorena hurriedly signaled the knights to dismount, and after a little hesitation, many of the nobles of Cormier showed painful expressions on their faces, because the war horse is the knight's half life, and there is no way at this time, the knights quickly dismounted, gathered together to form a shield array, and when the orcs and drow rushed up, the knights made a move.
The Chaos Firebolt that protruded from between the shields was no match for the Grey Dwarf Firebolts of the Dark Regions, and a volley of specially enchanted projectiles smashed the approaching Drow and the orcs into a sieve.
Fiorina fought herself
Fighting on the front lines, with a knife wound and a gunshot wound, her presence boosted the morale of the knights of the Edict, and the Cormiers fought desperately, and her combat prowess made Drow realize that even if they could win it today, they would have to pay a great price.
Drow was reluctant to continue fighting on the spot, and ordered to retreat, and the orcs were so angry that they scolded that the pointed ears should be damned, and sooner or later we should have everyone have an elven ear necklace, and they also began to retreat.
When the soldiers of the Santarin Society approached, the knights of the Imperial Decree drew their swords one after another, how could the mercenaries of the Santarin Society be the opponents of the children of the Komir nobles? After a close fight, the troops of the Santarin Society were somewhat unable to support it, and when they saw the orcs and Drow retreating, the soldiers of the Santarin Society also retreated.
At that moment, Fiorina ordered the remaining 300 or so knights to retreat, so that they could retreat calmly and calmly.
This kind of behavior angered the vanguard of the Eastern Army on the spot, thinking that our 2,000 people ambushed you and 500 people, and we still couldn't gnaw it, which is simply a great shame for the Santarin Society!
Wanting to continue the pursuit, the sharp whistle came from afar, and the Santalin people who heard this whistle showed a look of fear.
Black Road! A hundred years of blood debt! The Bedei Knights of the Great Desert of Enoch are here!
More than 800 horsemen in black clothes and black robes, riding camels and war horses, were killed under the personal leadership of Harald the Ruthless, and the vanguard of the Eastern Army finally couldn't resist this time, and was completely defeated, and the Bedai knights cut down more than 130 Santarinhui soldiers, and by the way, all the 200 orcs who could not escape were cut into two pieces.
The Battle of the Tess River came to an end, with Fiorena and Harald the Merciless each leading their knights back.
The Western Army won a small victory.
"Bastard!" When the general headquarters of Santil Fort, the lord of the Santarin Society and the chief lord of Santil Fort, Mansu got the news, and was furious on the spot, and scolded his subordinates: "2000 people didn't eat 500 people, and I also sent the drow of the Ban Rui family to you, so you can't beat it?"
On either side of the long red carpet table sat a large number of people, Kuncer, the mother of the Ban Ray family, the mage lord of the Ban Ray family, Gunf Ban Rui, the orc commander Goguz - Skull Hunter, the high priest of Shirek, the Supreme Commander of the Santil Castle, Serula Dark, and the twenty or thirty generals of the Santarim Society.
Mansu scolded his subordinates for their poor fighting, and Celula next to her was secretly frightened, the Santarin soldiers she sent were not trump cards, but they were also elites, and they had been fighting against the Bedeh on the Black Road for a long time, and with the assistance of the Sky Lord Mage Regiment, coupled with the support of Drow, they couldn't eat the vanguard of the Western Army.
Celula realized early on that both the orcs and the drow were brave and warlike races, but the orcs could not control them, and the drow did not obey orders, so she devised this plan to eat the vanguard of the western army first, on the one hand, let the western army see the power of the eastern army, and on the other hand, strengthen the commander-in-chief position of the Santarin.
I didn't expect it to be successful.
When the Ninth Shepherd Legion, the Silver Hand Army, the Half-Griffin Knights, and the Dwarven Artillery join the fray, the battle will be hard to fight!
After Mansu scolded a few words, Celula hurriedly spoke out to appease everyone, saying that the knights of the edict had also lost more than a hundred people, and the enemy's vanguard general Fiolena was injured in many places, and this battle was won by our eastern army.
In this way, the first collision between the Eastern Army and the Western Army, both sides declared that they had won a complete victory, killed countless enemies, and severely frustrated the enemy's intention to invade, and the Eastern Army announced that more than 300 knights of Cormyr's Edict were killed, and the commander Fiorina was seriously injured.
As for the side of the Western Army.
Aaron immediately received Fiorena who was injured and retreated, and the Knight of the Guards apologized to Aaron for taking the lead in his light attack.
Eleanor hurriedly released the healing spell on Fiorina, and after listening to it, Aaron gently encouraged Fiolena, telling her that she had no problem, and that this was Aaron's tactic - fishing nobush.
He took out the pure gold coins of Waukin, and gave a bag to Harald and Fiorena the Heartless, and Aaron summoned Egil, Ilminster, Black Rod, and others to discuss the matter.
Dorne, Thompson, and Orps, the Prince of Comets, also came to listen.
"If our army continues along the River Teswell, they will reach the city of Tesway." Aaron
Pointing to the map, "You see, to the north of Tesway is the Dragon's Spine Mountains, to the south is the Great Forest of Comanso, and the River Tess is running through it, making it a very suitable location for a decisive battle."
"You're right, young man, but the old man thinks that the Eastern Army should have taken the lead in gaining a foothold, and if we are to fight the Eastern Army in Tesway, should we consider the enemy from the south from the Great Forest of Comanso? And the Raven Fortress to the north, there must be a heavy garrison of the Santarim Society."
Ilminster pointed to the map and said, "It's kind of like a pocket, waiting for us to drill into it."
Everyone nodded one after another, the vanguard is a pocket formation, and the Western Army should not make a second mistake.
"Great Sage, I always thought you were a mage!" Aaron looked at Ilminster playfully, "Could it be that your training in the Comanso Empire also included military courses?"
"Hehe, that's not it, it's just that the old man has seen a lot of battles, and when I participated in the Weeping War, your ancestor Lyudorf was still alive." Ilminster said with a smile that he liked to rely on the old and sell the old the most.
In fact, as a Goddess of Magic Electorate, Ilminster can keep himself young, but he likes to show himself as an old man.
"Yes, you're right." Aaron pointed his finger at Testeyway, "But what if I'm going to break through the pocket formation of the Eastern Army and hit the Eastern Army camp?"
"Huh?"