New calendar year 618, late January.

The kingdom army stormed the northern city, and the 2,000-strong magician troops performed the fireball technique together, as if the stars were falling from the night sky, and the joint chanting of such a scale was basically only human beings had this level of organization and coordination ability, and in terms of effect, the power was extremely close to the super magic meteor fire shower.

As the flames lit up the night, the walls on the south side of the northern city collapsed, and the various troops rushed into the city, and since the kingdom's army was mainly composed of nobles, few people could resist the temptation to sack the city, and even if a few nobles did not want to act so rudely, they could not resist the almost crazy soldiers and knights.

Even the warrior commander Gurdjief was helpless about it.

However, the First Prince's think tank soon discovered the anomaly, the number of sub-people in the city was far less than expected, weapons, daily supplies and food were gone, and the fire in the city was spreading at a rapid pace, and it was obvious that this was a trap.

The Asians had learned enough from the Battle of Lookout to gamble heavily, like the Scarlet Earl, on one side of the scales.

The northern city is an important defense node of the future subhuman empire, but in the face of a hundred thousand troops, forcibly garrisoning is like letting people slaughter and bleed, rather than dying slowly, it is better to give the enemy a head-on blow at this price, this bridgehead that should be the focus of the two sides has become a bomb that has buried countless soldiers in the blink of an eye.

After receiving a reminder from the think tank, the first prince immediately ordered the entire army to shrink.

It's a pity that the subhumans learned the essence of the Scarlet Earl, and the weapons and materials were transferred, leaving only those gold, silver, jewelry, and valuable antique paintings, in addition, there were a large number of human women captured in the process of sweeping, in peacetime, a scroll of ancient paintings can make ordinary soldiers become small landowners, and under the stimulation of war, people's desires are infinitely magnified.

Tens of thousands of soldiers are trapped in the sweet trap woven by the subhumans, and even if they are dying, they do not want to wake up from their sweet dreams.

The ambush came as a matter of course, and more than 10,000 six-legged beasts rushed out of the bushes and jungles behind the side to attack the mage troops of the kingdom army, not hiding in advance, it was impossible to hide the magic detection at all, the main force of this cavalry had just arrived, and the controller of the plan was full of confidence in human greed, and did not care at all whether the actual implementation would cause deviations, which would affect the results.

Hundreds of fireballs rose into the air again, not only the number was cut in half, but what was even more terrifying was that there was no command at all in casting spells, and the fireballs could not form a cluster effect, which was naturally difficult to compare with superposition magic.

The six-legged beast cavalry rushed into the mage battle array, brutally crushing the bodies of this group of precious talents, and the clueless release of magic was like a blow of self-harm, exacerbating the chaotic scene.

Half an hour passed, the resistance of the kingdom army completely collapsed, the battlefield was cut into large and small areas, and one of the two real main forces of the subhumans, the snake infantry unit, completed the encirclement.

The situation collapsed, and the Kingdom army successfully recaptured the target city to achieve its tactical objectives, but was strategically defeated.

The strength of the warrior commander loaded with the heavy treasure is comparable to that of the abnormal, but after killing hundreds of snake-headed people and six-legged beasts, he used up the blue amount in his body, and he could only reorganize the warrior group and protect the first prince to break through.

The battle continued until dawn, when the warrior commander Gurdjieff stunned the first prince, took away the command, and set up an interception line in the southern part of the battlefield, both to collect the rout, and to prevent the sub-people from going straight south to sweep the royal territory and attack the royal capital.

It was winter, and the warrior commander ordered the warriors and magicians to fetch water and build the city, which was enough to undo the disastrous consequences of the total annihilation.

But the rout is already an indisputable fact.

In this battle, the royal army suffered 60,000 casualties, collected more than 30,000 remnants of the army, and nearly 10,000 were missing, or became exiles and thieves.

The Commander-in-Chief of Operations of the Subhumans [the Serpent King] shattered the Kingdom's room to interfere in the buffer zone, while the Northern City was completely irrelevant, as the Kingdom Army lost the courage and courage to start a war with the Subhumans.

The king urgently ordered that the knights of the eastern and western sides immediately support the "Frozen City" and be sure to block the enemy's southward movement, but at this time, the army of the Runners had already turned their spearhead and attacked the lord city.

Conquering the north and then taking the northeast would be a sweeping force that would annex at least two-fifths of the kingdom of Jestijah in one fell swoop.

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Early February.

The plan to attack Anna was forced to be put on hold for the time being, because neither Priscilla nor someone expected that the Kingdom Army would not even be able to break through the border, and it should not be like this anyway, and it was almost a fiasco.

And the price of the rout on the main battlefield is the unimaginable pressure on the flanks.

20,000 snake troops and 10,000 six-legged beasts surrounded the lord city, due to the success of the battle, the sub-people adopted a defensive posture in the border Great Wall area, if they can storm the kingdom and have enough strategic depth, the holy kingdom is likely to choose to give up the recapture target, after all, the sub-people with both mobility and endurance are stronger in the wilderness.

In short, the 30,000 Snake Men and the 40,000 Bear Men were on their way to the like coyotes tempting to bite off a lamb, and the subhumans apparently spotted the weakness and weakness of the kingdom and turned their attention to the tasty but thornless fat.

Castle city, city walls.

In the gatehouse made of refined steel in the rear, Priscilla was holding a meeting with the officers of the Order.

As one of the six nobles, Urowar commanded 50,000 troops, but three or four percent of them were untrained semi-professional soldiers, who were responsible for security and the arrest of thieves.

At this moment, 13,000 people are defending the city, and a stalemate is not a problem, but the enemy's army is already on the way, and the situation must be broken in a short time in order to keep the territory.

Someone leaned half-on the battlements, occasionally picked up a hunting bow and killed a few sub-chieftains, with a dozen quivers specially prepared for him at his feet, and since one man could withstand a brigade of archers of a hundred, it was not surprising that he had such treatment.

"Don't go down and try it." Jiang Yuan asked.

Under the battlements, the vicious man is slowly biting the meat chop, he is a transcendent of the comprehensive level LV73, and he is almost invincible in the kingdom, the premise is to fight one-on-one, and the reason why it cannot be said absolutely is because a certain adventurer in the territory has a set of mobile armor of level 80 in his hand.

"If you fall in, you can't get out, and the more spacious and crowded the place, the more weak I will be, and I can only kill a few important leaders at night." The vicious man replied helplessly, it was a blow for him to kill steel-level adventurers, and it was also a blow to kill ordinary subhumans, which was the limitation of the assassin's excessive bias, especially as the strongest assassin in the original empire, and the accumulation of countless subtle injuries in the face of siege was very unfriendly to the elderly, and the current situation was not impossible for him to exaggerate as tens of thousands of steel-level.

"Your Excellency should have a way."

"Nope." Jiang Yuan replied that he didn't think about the problem of consuming his energy now, the main tone of the trip had been set from the beginning, and he was just a swordsman.

Vicious: "......"

Okay, so good (stroking the palm)

(End of chapter)