In fact, Dane received the news very quickly.
Half an hour after the incident, he had already received an urgent report, and at the same time, the report also included the opinions of Firmino and Palan.
Consistent with Palan's judgment, Dane also felt that there seemed to be serious problems with Florence.
The main reason is this time mark, the identity of the curse church, these things add up, it is too sensitive!
He immediately issued an instruction, asking Paran to use the fastest speed to dispatch his manpower and march towards the fir collar. Regardless of whether the opponent really cursed the church, or whether their follow-up plans were carried out according to their own guesses, in short, the big loophole of the fir collar must be plugged.
At the same time, Dane also issued an order requiring the Fourth Army Corps stationed at the barren land pass to prepare for battle immediately. Once the situation got out of control, Major General Pandorf must immediately march towards Florence.
Regardless of whether this will cause tension in the Holy Alliance, everything is based on maintaining the interests gained in Florence during the war half a year ago.
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After getting the order, Palan's actions could not be described as unpleasant. He immediately assembled a vanguard team consisting of two high-speed mobile units. Under his personal leadership, he left the city of Bauhinia in an emergency in the early morning of the second day after the incident and rushed to Fir collar. At the same time, the entire Sixth Army Corps was also gathering urgently, and set off at the same time at two o'clock at noon that day.
And those who moved faster than them were Firmino's men.
As the head of the Black Hand Academy in Florence, Firmino is also very sensitive to the current situation. Last night, he hurriedly led his elite men to the fir collar first, and it is estimated that he has already arrived by now.
The news came back quickly, and Alak showed up earlier than expected. He arrived at the fir collar very quickly, and he had no intention of hiding his identity, so he directly summoned the nobles in the fir collar to ask for their support.
Firmino also tried to organize his agents and carried out an assassination operation against Alak. But the assassination was unsuccessful, and seven elite agents were killed on the spot.
Sure enough, just as they expected before, the Church of the Damned must have been deeply involved in this matter, protecting some strange faces of Ekla, and using negative energy.
Without being able to solve the problem as quickly and directly as possible, Firmino could only give up the plan to continue the assassination—that would be useless except to waste precious agents on it one by one. Aikela's defense forces were quite cautious, and they hardly gave them any chance to take advantage of it.
He could only take his own men and go into the dark to collect information and provide intelligence support for the army's actions.
Ekla's movements were much faster than expected.
On the third day after the incident, when the vanguard of Paland was still some distance away from the border of Fir Nation, Fir Nation declared 'independence'.
Earl Ekla appeared publicly and announced that he would inherit the title of Grand Duke of Florence. At the same time, he claimed that the Hindlers were enemies and invaders, and called on the entire territory of the Duchy of Florence, and all people, to join Among the teams resisting the invaders.
At the same time, with the support of the nobles of the fir collar and the Sade family, Ekla gathered more than 4,000 fighters to form a resistance army.
As soon as he received the news, Palan realized that Ekla must be suppressed politically.
He directly conveyed the order to the confidants who stayed behind in the city of Bauhinia.
A day later, the vanguard he led reached the border of Firland and fought the rebels for the first time.
There is no doubt that he has won.
The Sixth Legion he brought out with one hand has a good combat power, not inferior to the kingdom's main force like the King's Guards, and may even be stronger than Pandorf's Fourth Legion.
And the rebels on the opposite side
To be honest, the rebel army with a total of more than 4,000 people is not enough for Paran's Sixth Army.
How much combat power can this army composed of the original noble private soldiers, militiamen, and other temporarily recruited and newly armed soldiers have? I'm afraid it's no better than the Garrison Legion!
Of course, among the rebels, there is still a very powerful force. That is the personal soldier of the Sade family, the fir column. However, among the coalition forces, the fir column had already gone to hell with Earl Sade, and there were not many dead left. Only a remnant of the fir collar remained, less than a thousand people.
However, compared with their opponents, in the hands of Palan, the elite Sixth Army has already exceeded 10,000 troops, and at the same time, he also holds the Florence Garrison Army consisting of 20,000 soldiers.
This kind of power is simply not something that Ekla and the fir collar can fight against.
In fact, not to mention the Sixth Army and the larger garrison, just the vanguard led by Palan is enough to wipe out Fir Shan.
But Palan still dealt with this war with a very cautious attitude.
It's not a big problem just for Ekla, or the unwilling little nobles, and the resentful Sade family.
But it's just a group of jumping clowns, and if you want to destroy them, it's easy to do.
It is very likely that there is the support of the Church of the Damned behind them, and there must be a conspiracy by that notorious cult force.
If you act recklessly, you are likely to fall into a trap. Palan did not want to risk the lives of the soldiers of the Sixth Army he had trained.
It has to be said that Palan's caution was very justified, and he soon ran into his first challenge.
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New Caesar calendar 222, June 25th, fir collar.
At the border of the Fir Collar, Palan led the vanguard, and after defeating the first rebel army, he did not rush to move forward. Instead, he sent some elite teams to the front to see if they could get inside the Fir Collar. Build some outposts.
Soon, however, he received word that the outpost under construction had been attacked. And before he could send reinforcements, the news that the outpost had been pulled out came back immediately.
This speed is a bit too fast.
Then, it didn't take long for him to understand why the outpost had been taken down before it could be built: because the enemy was really strong!
It was a demon army.
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In the last chapter, I had a brain twitch. At first, I thought that the one kneeling was Banks, an elf mage. Later, when I was writing, my brain twitched, and somehow there was an image of a dead human mage... It has been corrected.