While the armies of several great families were besieged in the kingdom of Krissan, Marek's army was also in trouble. Since he had a complete falling out with several major families, Marek left the garrison overnight with his direct army, and he knew that the major families would not let him go, so he deliberately arranged an ambush on the way to escape.

Marek's prediction was really good, several major families learned that Marek had escaped and immediately led the army to chase and kill overnight, and happened to step into the ambush set by Marek in advance. How do you know that Malek is extremely cunning, not only set up an ambush, but also set up suspicious soldiers all the way, guiding the pursuing army to the wrong direction, and when they noticed it, Malek had already broken out of his shell and completely escaped from the vision of several major families.

Although Marek temporarily escaped the threat of several major families, his injuries caused him to be in a coma for many days, and he finally survived the most dangerous days. At the same time, the armies of several great families had already moved west of Pesanese, burning and looting all the way, making great noise and attracting the main attention of Pessanis, which gave Marek a chance to breathe.

Marek and his army hid in the mountains for a while, and although they escaped the encirclement and suppression of the Holy Cult Army, their rations were almost exhausted, and if they didn't find a place to stand, they were afraid that the army would collapse. Deserters also began to appear, and although they were not many in number, they were enough to alert him.

The Correans, who have always been brave, despise deserters very much, and the soldiers will not do such a thing until the last resort, and the appearance of deserters means that the army has reached a precarious time. In desperation, Marek had no choice but to lead his army out of the mountains and forests where he was hiding, and this time he chose to go south.

Marek made this choice because of his considerations, it was impossible to go north, not only was there many obstacles on the way, but he also did not have the confidence that he could defeat the Holy Cult Army and the Elsira Army that had joined forces, and to the east, he would inevitably capture the royal capital of Pesanis, and the success rate was also extremely low, so he could only go south, he hoped to take advantage of the opportunity of the Holy Cult Army to encircle and suppress several major families, he could quietly cross the border and make a detour from the north of Hieronis to the east.

Having made up his mind, Marek led his army and began to march south, at first he was extremely careful, trying to rest during the day and march at night. But the crisis of military rations has always plagued him, and he has always been disciplined and has to rob his troops to relieve the tension of military rations. However, Pesanis was so badly harmed by the Correa army that the populace had already become frightened birds, and fled as soon as they found the army, regardless of the country's army.

By the time Marek's army reached the southern border of Pesanis, his army had been reduced by a quarter, deserters were on a daily basis, and the morale of the remaining men was extremely low. Marek could only use lies to encourage morale: "Don't worry, everyone, as long as we cross the border and enter Hironice, our military rations will be solved immediately." The granaries of Hierones are full, and grabbing one is enough for us to eat!"

Not many people believe that, but it's better than hopeless. Marek had no other choice, he only hoped to get out of Pesanis as soon as possible, and wait until Hironis could find a way. Unbeknownst to Marek, however, Hortz's Second Legion had been waiting for a long time on the border of Hieronis.

The current Second Legion of the Holy Cult is the largest of the four legions, with a total strength of more than 60,000, of which Hortz has left 25,000 men in the Duchy of Pheros, while the rest of the army is deployed on the border between Pesanes and Hironis. Although Hortz was eager to participate in the war, he obeyed Savin's orders and remained firmly on the border in the endurance of his conflict.

Although Hortz had also imagined that Corre might run here, he also felt that the possibility was actually very low, so he did not have much hope. However, Hortz sent a large number of scouts around every day to scout the situation, and when Marek's army quietly approached the southern border, the scouts quickly discovered the whereabouts of this army.

Hortz was overjoyed when he received the scout's report, he didn't expect that he would really wait for the Correa Army, and finally have the opportunity to compete with the strongest army on the mainland. The Second Army, which was waiting for work, was immediately mobilized, and Hortz's mind was that Correa was the most formidable opponent, because the whole battle preparation work was extremely solid, and the soldiers of the whole army were also agitated, and everyone was gearing up to fight Correa to the death.

Hortz sent scouts to closely monitor the movements of Correa's army every day, so he knew every move of the enemy, and he saw the intention of the enemy, which was to cross the border into Hieronis, then obtain supplies, and then make a detour back to Correa to the east.

In response to the enemy's intentions, Hortz quickly formulated a strategy, he deliberately left a small city on the border, evacuated all the people in the city, and then the soldiers pretended to be civilians, and still pretended to be sunrise and sunset every day, so as to confuse the Correa army.

Hortz himself led a large army to ambush around the town, and he could only bite the bait so that he could besiege Correa's army in the town. This is not a clever strategy, but Hortz believes that the other side will definitely be fooled, and the current Correa army must be in dire need of supplies, even if they know that there may be a trap in it, they will not wait to take the small city.

Hortz's guess was correct, the current Correa was like a very hungry wolf, where there was a smell of meat, it would pounce without thinking, even if the meat was poisonous, it would swallow it first.

When Marek's scouts reported that there was a small city ahead, Marek ordered the vanguard to take the town without thinking. The occupation process naturally went very smoothly, and as soon as the Correa army arrived, the people in the city were immediately frightened away, and they didn't even have time to pack up their things, and an unprepared small city fell into the hands of the Correa army.

Correa had not encountered such a place for a long time, and before they had almost been empty and there was nothing everywhere they went, and in this unknown small city, the people had no idea that Correa would come here, so they were unprepared. Marek was also glad to hear the news, and although he also wondered if there would be an ambush, his men couldn't wait any longer, and urged their horses to rush to the town.

Marek couldn't say anything when he saw this situation, the soldiers had been in trouble for a long time, and it was really unreasonable not to let them have a full meal. So Marek didn't say more, and even he didn't bother to think about it anymore, and followed the group into the town. Although the small town is not large, it has no problem accommodating 20,000 or 30,000 people.

The soldiers who arrived first had already collected a lot of food and meat from each house, and all of them were gathered together and piled up like a small mountain. The quartermasters first set aside half of it as military rations, and distributed the rest to the ministries to eat and drink. During this time, Correa was really hungry, and in a short time he saw that the sky over the town was full of cooking smoke, and the bustling noise could be heard from miles away.

Hots, who had been ambushed nearby, looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but laugh secretly, he didn't expect the enemy to be fooled so easily, it was even easier than he imagined, it can be seen that this army is indeed in an extremely difficult situation. In order to achieve the goal more easily, Hortz specially prepared a lot of wine in the city, presumably the Corre runner-up will be drunk tonight.

Although some people suggested to Hortz that he poison the wine and directly poison Corre's army to death, Hortz did not take this suggestion. Hortz's purpose is to take this army into his own possession, and it is not cost-effective to poison Naman, if he can collect these tens of thousands of soldiers, his second army will be even stronger, not to mention that this is the Correa army, which is the best educated army on the mainland.

The thought of this made Hortz feel as comfortable as having eaten a big meal......

(End of chapter)