October 26, early in the morning.

Although the time has entered the end of October, the climate of the Delong Kingdom is not cold, if it is in the northern region, the morning temperature has reached minus ten degrees, and in the territory of the Delong Kingdom, the stream has not yet frozen.

In terms of climate, the Delong Kingdom has four distinct seasons and abundant products, which is more suitable for human survival.

However, this country is not rich in extraordinary resources, there are basically no natural magic wells in the territory, and the production of magic crystals is not very high. In the otherworld, it is far inferior to the Eagle Mountain region.

At that time, the Orphalan wizarding organization, which controlled the eastern region of the Central Continent, was also centered on the Eagle Mountain Range, the Dragon Canyon, the Silver Wolf Mountain Range and other regions. On the contrary, the kingdom of Delong, the kingdom of Maya, the kingdom of Starck and other countries with large populations are poor and backward agricultural production areas in Ofaland, and their status is far inferior to that of the north.

After the grain route was cut off by Markdean's army, Richard and Harland led the soldiers to launch a counteroffensive against the United Kingdom army on the east coast.

Although the United Kingdom on the east coast has deployed six legions and 120,000 troops on this defensive line, it still cannot withstand the continuous attack of Haaland's army.

In just three days, Richard's troops had already captured five castles and military villages, and advanced more than 30 kilometers to the east.

When the time comes, Haaland will lead the soldiers with stronger field forces, which in turn can cut off the logistics of the United Kingdom army on the east coast.

At this moment, this line of defense is like an egg. Breaking the shell, Richard will be able to lead the commander of the army straight in, and then the East Coast United Kingdom will be like a girl who has taken off her clothes, and can only let Haaland lead this strong man to gallop on his body.

The key to this battle is who can't withstand it first.

After the sun rose, the soldiers led by Haaland came out of the tents, and after they had breakfast, they quietly lined up and began to march.

Lion cavalry, bipedal dragons, and magic hot air balloons have taken to the air to reconnoiter the enemy in all directions.

Eight kilometers away is the enemy's castle, called Aisha Castle, which is already very close to the border between the Kingdom of Delong and the United Kingdom on the east coast.

The castle has been built for 400 years and is said to be named after the original Duke of Hubble's wife, Lady Aisha, and is the centerpiece of the East Coast United Kingdom's defensive line.

According to Haaland's battle plan, Richard was ready to take the city in the morning.

In the afternoon, we will continue to make persistent efforts to defeat the enemy's military station 25 kilometres behind the rear, and if all goes well today, we will be able to break through this line of defense and penetrate the territory of the United Kingdom on the east coast, so as to alleviate the dilemma of food shortage.

Many of the soldiers led by Haaland are veterans who have been in the army for many years, and some officers and soldiers are older than Richard, and have participated in more than a dozen orc invasion wars. They are very experienced, they have long been accustomed to life and death, even in the face of unfavorable circumstances, their hearts do not fluctuate.

Because of the large number of veterans, the new recruits have also undergone rigorous training, plus they have fought several wars, have actual combat experience, and the logistics supply is very sufficient, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers led by Haaland obviously exceeds that of the enemy.

The soldiers were well trained and lined up to leave the camp, and the artillery units began to build positions as soon as they came into range, and the infantry led by Haraland began to approach the enemy.

This time the battle was still lackluster, and it was still the same old routine, artillery bombardment, infantry rush, artillery bombardment infantry rush, infantry charge artillery bombardment.

But this simple routine hit the enemy in a mess, and suffered heavy casualties.

Seeing that the shells landed accurately in the castle, there was a roar of explosions, and broken shrapnel flew in all directions, killing and wounding a large number of defenders.

The commander of the Seventh Legion, Ralde, blushed and did not say a word, at this moment, he could only use the flesh and blood of the soldiers to consume the production capacity of Haaland's artillery shells.

After six rounds of shelling, the Magic Balloon Observer, noticing that the castle defenders were beginning to fall into disarray, immediately notified the artillerymen with a signal flag.

Although Richard had carried a large number of alchemical shells before the battle, a crew of four artillery carts was fully loaded with two hundred and forty rounds of ammunition. But the war has continued until now, Haaland led the army to attack the city with artillery seven times, and the ammunition consumption has exceeded 60 percent, and now the grain supply line has been cut off, and the Haaland territory is not so high in military production capacity, and it cannot be replenished in a short time.

So in battle, if you can save, you must save.

After six volleys, the defenders of the city had suffered more than five or six hundred casualties, and the outer wall of the castle was also destroyed by artillery fire. As it is now, the infantry can already attack.

Seeing that the infantry had already come out of battle and entered the range of the enemy's long-range attack, dozens of fireballs flew out of the castle in an instant, and it was the East Coast United Kingdom Mage Regiment that launched an attack.

The United Kingdom on the East Coast earned a large amount of magic crystals through maritime trade, and trained a large number of magicians by opening a magic academy in the capital Kanas.

Because of the abundance of mages, the main legion of the United Kingdom on the East Coast generally has a squads of thirty magicians, which is almost three times the level of the Grant Kingdom.

In this war, Richard annihilated more than 60,000 United Kingdom troops on the east coast, and captured more than 40 magicians.

It's just that magicians are literate people, these people have a strong national identity, and they have a deep affection for the great nobles of the East Coast United Kingdom who raised them, and it is more difficult to subdue, so they can only wait for the ransom to be paid after the war.

Because of Markion's letter asking for help, the United Kingdom on the East Coast sent 600 mages from Kanas School of Magic to support the front line, and rushed to Aisha Castle yesterday.

Seeing that the mage in the castle released dozens of fireball spells at once, Richard's face changed, and he was suddenly a little surprised.

"It seems that the magician's methods are really powerful, and he can even hide from the aerial scouts, and a bipedal wyvern knight who disappeared yesterday morning is estimated to have died at the hands of this mage group."

Dozens of fireballs are fired at a time, which means that among the enemies, the number of mages with more than three rings far exceeds that of Harland.

Richard discarded distractions and began to observe every move on the battlefield.

Seeing dozens of fireballs coming, Haaland, who rushed to the front, led the first group of soldiers and raised their force field shields one after another.

It's just that the force field shield is a two-ring magic, and it can't block the power of the three-ring fireball. The fireball fell in the formation of the First Brigade, and a violent explosion was heard, and in an instant, even under the protection of the force field shield, the First Brigade suffered dozens of casualties.

Seeing this scene, Sophia found the hiding place of the defending mage regiment through the trajectory of the fireball's flight, and decisively released a starlight bomb.

A brilliant light fell into Aisha Castle, and in an instant, there was a violent explosion in the castle, as if the world was turned upside down, with the explosion point as the center, a large number of houses and buildings were directly destroyed, raising high dust.

When the starlight fell, middle and high-level magicians opened the dimensional door one after another to avoid entering the other-dimensional space, and the third-ring and second-ring mages also used light spirit magic, levitation magic, transposition and other magic to find ways to escape.

Although Sophia's starlight bomb was aimed at the East Coast mage group, it only killed seventy or eighty low-level mages, and most of the middle and high-level mages saved their lives through various means.

On the contrary, an infantry brigade protecting the magician, because of its slow reaction speed, did not escape from the center of the starlight bomb explosion, and suffered more than 1,300 casualties, completely losing its combat effectiveness.

Because of the relatively short development time, the strength of the Harland leading mage is far inferior to that of the enemy.

By October of this year, the Haaland Mage Guild had more than twenty apprentices promoted to the profession, and the number of magicians exceeded one hundred and eighty.

With the continuous success of the Styx Elixir, the spiritual power of the magicians within the Harland Mage Association has also begun to generally improve. With the precious resource of the Styx Elixir, all kinds of precious and transcendent materials can be exchanged.

In the Grant Kingdom, in addition to the royal family and the Harland family, there were originally two great nobles who had some development in the field of magic.

One is the Duran family, whose ancestors were legendary magicians who almost dominated the development of the kingdom of Deron hundreds of years ago, and participated in the war to purify the undead like Grant's first king Wood.

Unfortunately, in this terrible war, the ancestors of the Duran family did not survive. The title of nobility is left to the eldest son, and in terms of magical inheritance, the Duran family is even more profound than the Grant family.

Four hundred years have passed since the War of the Purifying the Undead, and the Duran family, together with the Guise family, took refuge in the Grant Kingdom with their territories, and by the way, brought the legendary magic inheritance to the Grant Kingdom.

Although the magic inheritance is very complete, the level of development of the family's magical power is very average, probably because of its conservatism, there are only more than 30 magicians and more than 100 apprentices. But the Duran family has a high level of refining potions, which can be compared to the Grant Mage Guild.

In the past, the various potions of the Grant Kingdom were mainly provided by the two nobles of Duran and Grant, and now the Harland family has been added.

The three great nobles supplied the potion market, making the supply of potions in the Grant Kingdom more sufficient.

Another great nobleman in the Kingdom of Grant who has developed in the field of magic is Earl Clofford, but unfortunately this family participated in the rebellion and has been removed from the Grant royal family.

In this southern expedition, Richard transferred a total of more than 100 magicians, and the remaining 80 people of the Harland Mage Association remained in the territory.

More than a hundred mages, although not weak, are far inferior to the East Coast mage group. Haland's magic power was not enough, so he naturally couldn't restrain the enemy, so he let the East Coast United Kingdom mage regiment escape.

If the mages led by Sophia and Wendini can restrain the hands and feet of the enemy, a single starlight bomb is enough to wipe out the opponent.

Even so, the mage group on the East Coast drawn from the Kanas Academy of Magic has suffered nearly a hundred casualties, of which more than 20 people were affected by the magic crystal cannon, and the remaining nearly 80 people all died in the starlight bomb.

Such a terrible attack made the East Coast Mage Regiment dare not assemble on the battlefield.

If the power of the spell cannot be concentrated, the killing effect will be slightly worse.

At the same time, Haaland led the flying troops to also participate in the battle, and the bipedal wyvern, the lion cavalry, and the magic hot air balloon troops launched raids at high altitudes. A large number of alchemy bombs, acid missiles, and dragon flame breath descended from the sky, killing and injuring enemy members.

Fierce fighting lasted from eight in the morning to eleven in the morning, and the fighting continues to this day, and the United Kingdom army on the east coast is on the verge of collapse.

The casualties of the Seventh Army were close to 8,000, of which more than 1,000 were killed or wounded by starlight bombs, and more than 2,000 were killed or wounded by artillery fire and air force. Now that Aisha's castle is half lost, the Seventh Legion is on the verge of collapse, despite the support of the Kanas mages.

Sylph rushed to the front with the first brigade, armed with an enchanted bow and arrow, and constantly fired arrows, each arrow was captured, and after three hours of fighting, more than a hundred professionals had died at her hands. Even a magician who is very difficult to kill, as long as her level is not high, she can't stop her arrow.

Seeing that Aisha's castle is crumbling and about to fall. The scouts came with the news that the army led by Mark Dean was not far from the battlefield.

Although Richard arranged a griffin knight reconnaissance in the rear, it was a pity that the lion knight was shot and killed by Markdeon himself, and no information was sent back.

By the time the scout cavalry rushed back to report, the army led by Markion had already appeared in Richard's sight, at most three kilometers away.

The situation took a new turn, and Richard reluctantly weakened his attack and began to withdraw troops from the front line and defend behind the formation. However, the attack on the front line continued, and the command of the siege force was handed over to Soros and Sophia. Wendini, Silf, and their son, together with Richard, prepare to fight Mark Dean.

Sophia wears the Starlight Necklace in this battle, and shortly after the battle begins, she unleashes a round of Starlight Bomb.

Now the situation has changed, seeing that the offensive on the front line is weakening and reinforcements are coming, the defenders of Isha Fort puffed up their last breath, and the magicians also tried their best to release a large number of lethal spells, and the defenders' counterattacks became more and more intense, and in just ten minutes, casualties began to appear in large numbers.

Seeing that the enemy was gathering again, Sophia directly aimed at the area with the largest number of enemy mages and released the Starlight Bomb for the second time.

A second thick starlight appeared in the sky, and in an instant, a violent explosion sound came again, and in an instant, the sky seemed to be torn apart, and a dazzling white light suddenly bloomed, and the center of the explosion, the space seemed to be distorted.

At this moment, Markine led his troops not far from Esacheborg, and was about to launch a final charge to attack the back of Haaland's army, and Richard also began to order the draw, and the formation was a little chaotic.

Seeing that the Starlight Bomb was so powerful, Markian was suddenly a little panicked, and he had a bad premonition in his heart.

If this battle is lost, it will be an irreparable situation for both the United Kingdom of the East Coast and the Kingdom of Delong.

(End of chapter)