Chapter 174: The Battlefield on the Western Front
At this time, on the western front, the tents of the generals of the frontier vanguard troops of the western front were brightly lit and crowded with people.
Beside the huge war sand table in the tent, there were already more than a dozen high-ranking generals of the frontier vanguard of the Western Front, as well as several middle-aged men in the armor of the knights of the church.
One of them, dressed in the armor of a high-ranking general of the Church Knights, was the commander-in-chief of the Church Alliance, the commander of the Third Knights of the Church Order, Commander Tours Gerard.
Just a day ago, the Bloodfang Tribe, which had been in a passive and obscene defensive state, launched the most fierce attack on the outpost of the frontier vanguard on the Western Front without warning in more than a year.
At the head of the group is the leader of the Bloodfang tribe, Grom Bloodfang, who has not been seen for nearly a year.
When General Ike Lyle received the news and was about to go to support, the undead who had been fighting with their frontier vanguard troops did not interfere with the river water, and without warning, launched an extremely fierce sneak attack on the battalion of the vanguard troops.
Almost at the same moment, the Church Alliance, which was located dozens of miles away, was also attacked by the undead clan.
The Church Alliance, which was already short of troops, was caught off guard by the undead and retreated, suffering heavy losses.
As a last resort, the defeated Church coalition had no choice but to retreat until they joined up with the vanguard of the Western Front frontier troops who were fighting the undead, and then together they temporarily repelled the undead attack.
However, just after the undead were repelled here, there was also bad news from the outpost of the vanguard force.
Of the 300 elite soldiers of the outpost, none of them survived.
Although the outpost force was only three hundred men, they were all once General Patton's personal guard, the elite of the elite.
And they are also good brothers who have been fighting side by side with Ike Lehrer since the beginning of the war on the Western Front, and the relationship between them and Ike Lehrer is naturally needless to say.
Now that they're all gone, Ike Lehrer has put another irresolvable grudge on Grom Bloodfang.
"What do you think of the undead clan and the Western tribal forces jointly attacking us this time?"
Ike Lehrer stood on the side of the war sand table with a calm face, looking coldly at the generals attending the meeting.
The entire outpost was annihilated, leaving everyone like frosted eggplants, hanging their heads, and no one spoke.
After a long silence, Commander Turce Gerard finally couldn't help but break the silence and said angrily: "This time, the undead clan and some tribes in the western tribe must have reached some kind of consensus, so they joined forces to break the balance of the war, these damn beasts, even joining forces with the undead clan, they will become the common enemy of the whole continent." ”
Commander Turce Gerard has been commanding the coalition forces on the Western Front for more than a year, but the support and supplies from the Holy See are very small, which makes him have to passively defend against the attack of the undead.
Fortunately, thanks to the excellent command skills of Commander Turs, he was able to barely stop the advance of the undead on the western front.
Every time he asked the Holy See for support, the Holy See always did not send actual reinforcements to the head of Tours, citing the lack of troops and the need to go around exterminating a large number of undead in the northern and southern kingdoms.
The Fourth Knights, the Sixth Knights, and the Seventh Knights, who came with him, have long been out of organization, and have been broken up and mixed in the Third Knights in name only, and the leaders of the Fourth Knights and the Sixth Knights have been killed in an encounter with the undead half a year ago.
If it weren't for the elite troops of the goblin clan and the elite troops of the dwarf clan to join later, the battle against the undead on the western front would have been defeated long ago.
However, Commander Tours has a very big opinion of General Ike Lehrer.
Although he knew the reason why Ike had been fighting with the Western tribal forces, this kind of disregard for the overall situation made Commander Tours feel very annoyed.
In the face of Tours' complaints, General Ike Lehrer turned a deaf ear, he looked coldly at everyone present, and his tone was as cold as the cold winter of the Winter Springs Wilderness.
"For a long time, on the battlefield of our Western Front, it has been a clear two-front battle, you church coalition forces against the undead, our Western Front Frontier Vanguard Force, to deal with the Western tribal forces that are trying to invade, but now that Grom Bloodfang has appeared in person, presumably the purpose of the Undead Clan in the Western Tribe has been achieved, so since the existing situation has been broken, new hatred and old hatred, we have to calculate it together. ”
After more than a year of war, Ike is no longer the fledgling lad he was with Lance.
Now he has become more mature and calm, and he is more scheming.
The expression on his face did not change at all, but it invisibly revealed a breathless battle intent and murderous aura.
At this moment, Captain Tours Gerard let out a long sigh.
"Hey...... General Ike, if we could join forces to fight against the undead earlier, I'm afraid that the war on the Western Front is definitely not the current situation, today we just repelled the attack of the undead, although the casualties of our coalition army are very heavy, but the undead clan will not be able to organize a decent attack in a short time, I think we must quickly organize a defense"
Just as Captain Tours was about to say something, Ike waved his hand at him, motioning for him to stop talking.
After a pause, he straightened up and said loudly to everyone: "Colleagues here, you must have a lot of dissatisfaction with some of my personal actions in this war, which has lasted for more than a year. ”
After Ike paused again, he looked at the people who bowed their heads and continued to say: "This war was provoked because of me, but I can tell you that even without me, someone will provoke this war, you have been with me for so long, and you still know me a little, although I have selfish intentions, but everyone knows that our vanguard force on the Western Front has tens of thousands of people, but why didn't I enter the territory of the Western tribal forces in one fell swoop to avenge my friends?"
As he spoke, Ike had already picked up a few flags from the edge of the sand table and planted them on the territory of the Western Front.
Ike's rhetorical question still did not receive a response, and I don't know if it was because of the dull atmosphere in the camp tent or because of the unfavorable situation of today's battle.
Ike didn't mind if anyone replied, and after planting the flag, he glanced at the crowd and snorted.
"If we rush into the Western Tribal forces in one fell swoop, then the Undead Clan will break through the under-armed Church Alliance and invade the kingdom territory behind us, is that kind of loss what we all want to see?"
"General, I don't understand, since we can't attack the western tribal forces, why don't we join forces with the church coalition to exterminate the undead first, and then launch a general attack on the western tribal forces with all our might, in that case, I fully believe that our Western Front Frontier Vanguard has the ability to turn the western tribal forces upside down, and at the same time find out the murderer who killed your brother and avenge him. ”
Among the generals, a middle-aged officer in his forties finally couldn't help but ask.
The middle-aged officer's name was Jon, and he had been an ordinary guard under General Patton, and Cadwell had been fighting alongside General Icke ever since General Patton handed over the thousand-strong guard to Ike.
Although at that time, Ike was just an ordinary soldier, but his bravery, and his unwavering affection for his brothers moved this group of elite soldiers of the Guards.
Although little progress has been made in the fighting for more than a year, the vanguard of the western front border defense has been firmly guarding the battlefield on the western front and has not allowed a single enemy to cross their defensive line.
But the situation is different now, and the undead seem to have reached some kind of agreement with the Western tribal forces, which will lead to an attack on both fronts against the Western Frontier troops and the weak and under-armed Church Coalition forces.
Although the border guards only lost 300 elite outposts, the predecessor of this outpost was the Patton Guards who survived after experiencing blood and fire, and in terms of the church coalition army, they suffered heavy losses.
Now that the entire Church Alliance has been reorganized, plus the support forces of the elves and dwarves, there are only two integrated regiments left.
Ike listened to Cardwell's words, and his calm face finally softened a little.
It wasn't until Cardwell finished speaking that Ike continued, "Caldwell, presumably your question is also the question of many people here, even the question of Captain Tours, and now the time is almost ripe, I can tell you about it." ”
Ike grabbed a banner from the sand table again and planted it on the map of the Southern, Northern, and Northern fronts.
"For more than a year, the undead clan has occasionally had skirmishes with the western tribal forces, although on the surface the wars of the various forces do not interfere with each other, but those are only some superficial things, General Patton has been in the western tribal forces many years ago, planted a lot of hidden spies, according to the news they sent back, the blood fang tribe has long been secretly controlled by the undead clan, the tribal alliance led by the blood fang tribe, they are just a pawn used by the undead clan to contain us. ”
"General, forgive me for being foolish, but does this have anything to do with our failure to join forces with the Church Alliance? As Commander Tours said, if we had joined forces with the Church Alliance earlier, the war would never have been as passive as it is now. ”
Cardwell continued to ask, somewhat puzzled.