Dane made his attitude very clear to the outside world through his tough military response: If you want to fight, I will accompany you to the end!
This means that it is obvious that he will never compromise.
The Florentines and Pudrians who have made such a big move now feel a little bit stuck. On the one hand, they really don't have the confidence to lead the coalition forces to attack Schindler.
On the border between the two countries, the deserted uninhabited land two to three hundred kilometers away is already a very difficult obstacle to overcome. Not to mention, in the wasteland, the most important supply point, the wasteland pass, has now been firmly controlled by Dane, and has become an important pass from Schindler to the western human world.
After Dane's two years of management, the current barren land pass is completely different from the one in the hands of 'Papa Im' in the past.
The size of the entire city of the Wasteland Pass has more than tripled in size within two years. There are a lot of supplies stored in it for a long time, not only water and food, but also a lot of military equipment.
A very direct manifestation is that the number of city fire artillery in the barren land pass is already more than sixty! This is a huge nightmare for anyone trying to attack the city.
At the same time, the food, ordnance supplies, etc. in the city are enough to support an army of more than 50,000 people, relying on this place for long-term battles.
Under Dane's direct appointment, Major General Palan, the 'Iron Faced General', has been stationed here for a full two years. Although the border guards he led still belonged to the garrison corps sequence and were not directly under the kingdom, this force composed of four regiments and 6,000 soldiers could almost be regarded as the garrison corps sequence, with the highest combat effectiveness. The strongest team. Even if it is compared with the five major legions directly under it, it may be far inferior to the White Wolf Legion and the Cormyr Legion, and slightly inferior to the Fifth Legion, but it should be stronger than the unformed Fourth Legion, and it is closer to the king. The Guards Corps is estimated to be on par.
Even Dane had an idea to simply reorganize the border guards into a legion on the spot.
But now, in addition to the border guards in Paran, the White Wolf Army and the King's Guard Army have already stationed in the wasteland pass, the Cormyriya Army is also on the way, and the Fourth Army is also preparing to set off.
Such a strong force makes the Western countries feel very difficult.
They originally hoped to use military threats to unite the power of the Holy Victoria Kingdom and the Holy Prome New Empire so that Dane could compromise. Not to mention returning to the way it was before, but at the very least, the current strict quota system of the Hunter Guild and the Mineral Guild should be changed.
However, they now found that if Dane didn't follow suit, they really didn't have much means to threaten Dane.
Their so-called military threats don't dare to really fight, so what's the difference between them and their non-existence
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In the border area, the coalition forces of the kingdoms of Florence and Pudri hesitated for two weeks before finally deciding what to do.
The coalition forces began to advance towards the border area.
It's just that their attitude still doesn't seem so firm. The troops stop and go, dawdling, and the speed is not fast.
Admiral Patience, who was ordered to be in charge of this western campaign, made a decisive judgment.
Therefore, when the coalition forces entered the desert, they were attacked by the Hindlers.
It's not enough for a big army duel, but when tens of thousands of people spread out and walk on the wasteland, as long as the formation is not dense, the mighty width of more than ten kilometers, or even tens of kilometers, must still be large. of.
The first is the encounter between various scout troops. In this regard, the coalition forces are obviously not the opponents of the Schindlers.
The wolf cavalry cruising outside, as well as the desert camel cavalry unit organized by the border guards, are all arms that can make great use of the geographical conditions in this desert.
The wolf cavalry and camel cavalry occupying a favorable location made the western human scout troops suffer a lot.
A large number of scouts were killed, which led to the lack of military reconnaissance and intelligence of the coalition forces, so that they had to release the precious sky knights.
The Kingdom of Pudori and the Principality of Florence also have sky cavalry. Moreover, the level of their sky cavalry is not bad. Among the coalition forces, these two countries have gathered hundreds of griffin cavalry!
This is a team of sky cavalry enough to slay dragons.
However, these proud sky cavalry suffered a big loss in front of Dane's troops during their first lift-off.
A formation of griffin cavalry of the coalition army lost contact with the coalition headquarters after flying a distance of more than 20 kilometers on the day they took off for outward reconnaissance.
This made the commanders of the coalition forces panic. Griffin cavalry, what a precious unit that is? The disappearance of an entire formation is a big deal!
Moreover, there was no news at all.
After two days of silence, the Allied Forces Headquarters decided that it couldn't just let it go. They sent out another griffin troop, consisting of more than forty griffin cavalry, to start scouting around. The main goal is to find a way to find the trace of the missing griffin formation.
A day later, they found the reason for the fall of the griffin formation, and the price was the fall of fifteen griffin cavalry.
That was the Sky Force of the Schindlers.
According to survivors of the coalition's Gryphon Riders, they were attacked by a powerful sky army.
The sky cavalry of the Schindlers, the main members are also the griffin cavalry, the number is more than half of them, there are sixty!
However, this is not the point. The key point is that the enemy's sky troops, in addition to the Griffin Cavalry, also have some other arms.
For example, hippogryph cavalry, lion and scorpion cavalry.
Hippogryph is a huge green bird. The body of this raptor is slightly smaller than that of a griffin, and it is not as powerful as a griffin. However, the flying speed and agility of this sky mount are much better than those of the Griffin. When the hippogryph is equipped with an elite elf ranger, it becomes a unit that can fly and has very precise long-range strike capabilities.
Under the attack of more than forty hippogryph cavalry's fierce gust of arrows, the coalition's griffin troops were hit hard at the beginning of the battle.
However, this is only the beginning.
Sixty griffin cavalry, and more than forty hippogryph cavalry, have already made the sky troops of the coalition army feel irresistible. But in the formation of the Schindlers, there is a more powerful sky troop-the lion and scorpion.
The lion scorpion is a powerful underground creature. On the surface, few people have seen this beast. They have a size larger than that of a griffin, and their heads are very ugly and hideous. Their interlaced teeth and devil-like barb horns on the top of their heads are even more frightening.
These huge guys have long and ugly meat wings on their backs, but don't look at the meat wings as ugly, but they fly very fast.
They usually carry a drow cavalry on their backs. However, unlike the Griffon Cavalry and Hippogryph Cavalry, these drow air cavalry hardly participated in the battle. Their most important job was to control the beast under their crotch.
The reason for this is also very simple-the lion and scorpion are so powerful that they don't need the drow on their back to participate in the battle. As long as the lion and scorpion's combat power can be brought into full play, that is the greatest credit.
Perhaps, the flexibility of the scorpion may be slightly worse than that of the griffin cavalry, but the speed is not slow at all.
The most frightening thing is that the Griffin also has the power that the Griffin and Hippogryph lack—breath.
Toxic breathing, this is the trump card of lions and scorpions! The green poison spewed out from all over the world, and was stuck to the body by this horrible poisonous gas. Maybe the griffin could temporarily rely on its strong body to resist the poisonous erosion, but the cavalry on the griffin were not so good. anti-virus ability.
What's more, in the process of close combat, besides powerful claws, lions and scorpions also have an insidious weapon-their long tail with barbs.
This is the main reason why this creature is called a lion's scorpion.
This scorpion-like tail is highly poisonous. Moreover, the power of this toxin is much stronger than that of ordinary scorpion monsters.
Being pricked by a barb-like needle, whether it is a human or a griffin, is sure to die.
The only consolation is that the number of Scorpion cavalry is not many, only ten.
The sky cavalry formation of the coalition forces, after encountering the attack of the Schindlers, was still very clear-headed. The commander of this coalition griffin cavalry formation issued an order to retreat to his subordinates as soon as he saw the number and types of enemies clearly.
I have to admit that the order to retreat came very timely. If it weren't for this order to retreat, I'm afraid that this griffin formation would all be buried in the desert sky.
However, despite this, there were only more than 20 Griffin cavalry who were able to escape back to the headquarters of the coalition army alive in the end, and fully half of them died under the pursuit of the Schindlers.
After bringing back such news, the griffin cavalry who escaped by chance can finally rest in peace. But the commanders of the coalition forces will have a big headache for this.
On the same day, the coalition forces of Florence and Pudri stopped their operations. They began to camp in place, making an appearance of staying in place for a long time.
At the same time, a fierce meeting is going on at the headquarters of the coalition forces.
In the headquarters of the Florence and Pudri coalition forces, in the central tent, a bald man wearing a Florentine military uniform said: "I suggest that we retreat, this war came too blindly, and we didn't do a good job following up." The Schindlers are preparing for a fight to the death."
The name of this bald man is very famous in the Duchy of Florence. He is the Earl of Sade, the most elite unit of the Florentine public: the head of the Duke's Guard, and also the supreme commander of the army within the Principality. For this coalition, 30,000 Florentines contributed, and all the military supplies were also from the Principality of Florence. The initial station of the coalition was also in the Principality. Therefore, doing my part, Florence's supreme commander also became the supreme commander of this coalition army.
However, since it is a coalition army, it cannot be like the army of a single country. Earl Sade is indeed the supreme commander, but he does not have the kind of power to say nothing.
Among these two armies, there are two people whose status is not lower than him at all.
One is Earl Sneijder of the Pudley Kingdom, and the other is Admiral Mars of the Holy Victoria Kingdom.
Sneijder is a tall old man. He also enjoys a high reputation in the Pudli Kingdom. He is even the teacher of Prince Eastman. This time, the old man brought 20,000 people to the Duchy of Florence, and his attitude was similar to that of Earl Sade.
He said: "Earl Sade's thoughts are right, we really should be more cautious. The strength of the Schindlers is beyond our imagination, especially their sky cavalry... Holy Lord, it's only been two days, We have already lost thirty griffin cavalry! It is hard for me to imagine that if there is a real battle and all our griffins go together, will they be able to hold on for ten minutes under the enemy's onslaught? .”
The words and words of the two nobles revealed that they did not want to continue fighting this war—at least, they did not want to continue fighting under the current situation.
But another person has a completely different opinion.
Admiral Mars said: "My lords, I don't mean to offend, but this time, His Majesty the King sent me to lead a thousand elite Victorian knights to this desert, not for tourism. The battle hasn't even been fought yet, so it just stopped, and even went back in despair... Ha ha."
The two earls looked at each other, and they both saw the same meaning in each other's eyes: 'Fuck him Victorian!'
The Kingdom of Holy Victoria is not a big country, and its land area may not be as large as Pudry. But that doesn't stop them from being a powerful country - especially militarily.
This country has been on the front line against the orcs all year round. The Eastern Wasteland is a very large concept, and Schindler's location is just a small area in the south of the Eastern Wasteland. Across the central mountain range, to the east and north, there is still a very vast land.
That is the real hometown of the orcs, and it is also the place where the big orc tribes are most concentrated.
And the Kingdom of Holy Victoria, right there, has been engaged in endless wars with orcs for many years.
Such wars have been fought for many years even before the collapse of the Caesar Empire.
The famous Victorian Knights is one of the three largest knights in the world. More than a thousand Victorian knights are all out-and-out elites, and their average strength is above level seven. Assemble and charge, even ten times the most elite troops of the orcs—Korkron warriors, can't stop them.
One can imagine how proud these Victorians are.