212: Attila's ambition

In the early hours of the morning when the main force of the defenders of Pera began to break through with all their might, an extremely fierce large-scale battle began in the center and southwest of the city at the same time.

To the southwest, the elite forward troops, commanded by Pera's fierce general Antigonis, swooped down towards the end of the weaker encirclement of the HRE. The battle began with the central floating fleet of Pera, which, under the command of Acting Commander Pythia, centered on the floating carrier Gaia, bombarded the enemy positions with unprecedented artillery fire. At the same time, the heavy magic cannons equipped by the vanguard army also opened fire in unison, and the earth-shattering explosion continued to echo throughout the battlefield, and the flames burst into the sky!

After about an hour of artillery preparation, Antignis led an elite force of 30,000 people, with the Thessalian Cavalry Regiment, the Agmar Legion, and the Silver Shield Infantry Regiment as the core, divided into three routes and attacked from a frontal battlefield about ten kilometers wide.

At the same time, the defense line of the encirclement in the southwest of the HRE side was still in disarray.

The troops that had been stationed here until now were composed of the armies of Holy Rome, Nicaea and the Golden Horde, of which the Golden Horde had the largest number of troops, so the commander of the army was the Grand Prince Attila of that country.

Attila was only twenty years old at the time, young but ambitious. Unlike the old khan, who was loyal to Holy Rome and did not dare to betray him, this great prince thought day and night about how to shake off the shackles of the suzerainty and rebuild the grace of his ancestors who once ruled the entire endless steppe and crossed the world between the east and the west! Attila has always secretly preserved his strength and will never fight to the death.

At the end of the encirclement in the southwest, the defenders of Pera, reinforcements from the southern city-states, the Golden Horde, Holy Rome, and Nicaea fought together. One side wants to break the encirclement. The war lasted for more than two years, and the Golden Horde suffered minimal losses, but the supporting forces of the Shinra and Nesaea suffered extremely heavy casualties.

Due to the selfish and passive sabotage of the commander Attila, although the forces of the HRE and Nicaea coalition were intermittently invested on this front, the battle situation was not as good as it was, and they could only barely prevent the enemy's large forces from entering and leaving the encirclement. But there is nothing that can be done about a large number of infiltration squads, spy scouts, small transport troops, etc., sneaking in and out of the wilderness paths.

It was in this way that the city of Pera was able to continue fighting under heavy siege for more than two years. It hasn't been conquered yet. It was also for this reason that Doshi was able to follow the convoy from Pera and venture through the encirclement into the mountains of Illyria

When Emperor Saint-Ro and Marshal Wallenstein determined the plan for the breakout of Pera's defenders, the situation in the southwestern encirclement was very bad. The Golden Horde army was confined and refused to fight in the large camp, and the armies of the HRE and Nicaea were severely insufficient after a long and bitter battle. Many of the 1,000-strong detachments were actually less than half of their strength. The 10,000-person team is even more lacking. The rest of the equipment, weapons, ordnance, etc. were damaged, and many soldiers had to go to the battlefield with broken swords and wear single clothes.

As for the mages, the situation is even more difficult, they have exhausted their magic power in successive battles, and they lack replenishment, all kinds of magic stones, scrolls and magic items have been depleted, and they can only continue to fight, causing a large number of unnecessary casualties. The positions and defensive facilities on the front were better than nothing, and there were very few permanent fortifications such as pillboxes and fortresses that had been erected in the past two years. Not to mention a consolidated system of multiple defenses.

Such a bad situation, once Pera broke out on a large scale. The south-western encirclement must be difficult to intercept. Frederick I and Wallenstein were well aware of this, so they sent their younger brother Prince Eugen with an army of 100,000 to support before the battle broke out. However, although Prince Eugen had no shortage of combat talent, he was as young and vigorous as Attila, and soon after the two began to cooperate, Eugen was not used to the negative expressions of the Great Prince of the Khan, and the two sides had a great conflict.

Due to the lack of cooperation from the commander of the Southwestern Front, Eugen's reinforcements not only faced the difficulty of insufficient supplies, but also did not even have a relatively stable position. The young prince had no choice but to temporarily disperse his troops into the camp of the original HRE army, and then organize men to urgently build barracks, dig trenches, and build fortifications day and night. But how can such a large amount of work be arranged in such a short period of time?

By the time Pella's army began to break through, the reinforcements were still in disarray, and a large number of fortifications were only half completed. Heavy artillery fire poured down on the heads of the HRE warriors who were huddled together, and large numbers of warriors were blasted to pieces in droves, and those who managed to escape the fire were buried by the collapsed buildings and dust excavated from the trenches. For a while, the severed limbs and wreckage on the battlefield flew everywhere, the meat sauce blood and water gathered into a stream, and the screams and cries for help rang out!

Immediately afterwards, Antignis personally led a large army and attacked in three directions. However, the Golden Horde could not hold out under the strict orders of Attila, and in the name of key defense, in fact, it allowed the enemy to pass through. Prince Eugen had no choice but to continue to ask for help while sending people to mobilize troops to prepare for a counterattack. However, his army was scattered throughout the battlefield, suffering heavy casualties in the bombardment, and the organization was scattered, unable to assemble quickly, and the shape shì was extremely passive.

At the same time, the battle situation in the center of Pera City was even more unfavorable for the HRE.

At the beginning, HRE gathered the power of the seven electors and killed the regent of Pera on the spot in the magic duel, the chief priest Eurymedon was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and the star traveler Aristotle lost his trace, and none of the seven electors suffered any casualties, which can be described as a complete victory. However, immediately after that, the shape shì suddenly reversed, and the black dragon Ellens of the Pera side took advantage of the exhaustion of the magic power of the seven Electors to suddenly kill, and joined forces with his demon pet Ancient Bone Dragon Seymour to defeat the seven Electors in one fell swoop!

After this battle, among the seven electors, the Archbishop of Mainz, Kleske I, the Archbishop of Cologne, Bruno I, and the Marquis of Brandenburg, Waldemar I, were killed on the spot, the Duke of Saxony, Georg IV, and the Archbishop of Trier, Vioman I, were seriously wounded and fell into a coma, and Ludwig VI, Count of the Rhine, was captured, leaving only Wenceslas III of the Kingdom of Bohemia to escape......

(To be continued......)