Schindler's diplomat Allen, a series of political actions in Bauhinia are very effective.
Not to mention anything else, just the name in righteousness, it stands firm.
Although, Parrot claimed to inherit the title of Grand Duke of Florence a few days later than Eclair. However, one is in the fir collar and the other is in the Bauhinia Castle, both claiming to inherit the title of Grand Duke, but it is obvious who is more powerful.
The only place where Ekla can be regarded as an advantage is his status as the eldest son of the Grand Duke. In this capacity, she is more or less more popular with the traditional aristocratic forces than Parrot as a daughter.
However, the power of the Black Hand Academy in Florence has now been mobilized. They frantically spread all kinds of news all over the Principality.
If it is more reliable with the facts, it is said that Ekla is in collusion with the Church of the Damned, that he has been corrupted, and that he is mixed with evil forces such as demons and undead; unreliable rumors, then there is no limit.
What to say that he is full of evil, he is a murderous maniac, he likes to imprison young children, rape and kill young girls. Also say that he is gay, or simply say that he has an Oedipus and has an affair with his biological mother.
All in all, it doesn't matter whether rumors are true or not. Anyway, as long as it is a bad reputation and a shit bowl, it is always right to put it on his head.
The spread of these bad reputations, Ekla himself, and his forces, including the Church of the Damned, have no way to clean him up.
It's hard to say how effective the rumors are, but in any case, it dragged down Ekla's appeal in Florence to a certain extent. The result of public opinion will directly determine the future struggle situation.
If the whole territory of Florence supports Ekla, then Paran, who is caught in the vast ocean of the people's war, will definitely have to flee back to the wasteland pass in desperation; and if the whole territory of Florence supports Palo If you are a real monarch, then recruiting soldiers and manpower here will become a very simple matter.
Of course, neither of these two extremes is possible in a short time. And what Allen did was to try his best to pull the facts to his own advantage.
To a large extent, this solved Palan's worries. Allen did a pretty good job in the City of Bauhinia, so now he can completely relax and put all his energy into the next battle.
Two days after deciding to continue marching into the fir collar, Palan's army had already arrived outside Blackwood City.
The past two days have not been peaceful. Halfway through, the Fir Leader rebels still put up quite a tight resistance. Several small towns and outposts in the middle of the road were occupied by the rebels and became positions to block Palan's advance.
Thousands of soldiers guarded those small towns and outposts, but in the end they were all pulled out one by one by the army led by Palan within two days.
The troops of the rebel army were quite desperate to resist. However, among them, there are no further traces of more demons, so with the original strength of these resistance forces, it is basically impossible to compete with Palan's elite vanguard.
Therefore, even though they have the terrain advantage and occupy the city defense, they still have no way to form an effective resistance to Palan's offensive. This allowed Palan's vanguard army to attack the capital of Fir Tree in two days. Under the gate of the wooden city.
Blackwood City is not too big a city. Originally, it was just a small town relying on timber resources as its main industry. The surrounding area has the best and most easy-to-exploit timber resources in Shino no Mori.
Later, the development of the town became better and better, and the proportion of timber resources in the economic output of the fir territory was also increasing, so the city was simply built here.
Today's Blackwood City, as far as Palan knows, should have a population of about 20,000 to 25,000. It's not a small city, but it's not a big city either.
And now, according to the information provided by Firmino, there should be 3,000 soldiers guarding Blackwood City. However, among these 3,000 people, it is conservatively estimated that there should already be more than 1,000 demons.
Such an army is not so easy to fight—at least, it is not like cutting melons and vegetables like the few battles fought on the road. In addition, there is a sixteenth-level dark mage in Blackwood City, making it very difficult to attack the city.
Palan himself is not much of an expert, and he has only reached ten professional levels so far. Among his men, only the high-level elf mage Banks and the half-orc swordsman Bartyn died in battle, and he also suffered heavy losses among the top experts.
Now, what he can really take out is nothing more than the human high-level mage Miller, the drow high-level mage Apus, and three other high-level fighters in the army who have reached level 14 .
Such a high-level combat power is actually not weak anymore. But to fight against a level 16 dark mage... Palan still felt a little guilty.
The mage can play a great role on the battlefield, especially in defending the city.
Given that the army's own advantages were not too great, and the opponent still had such a hard-to-handle archmage, Palan felt that it would be a very bad thing to forcibly lead the vanguard to attack the city.
Launched a tentative offensive, leaving around twenty corpses in exchange for more than a dozen dead people on the opposite side. After some smoke and fire appeared on the outer city wall, Palan stopped attacking.
He was waiting for his army to arrive. The vanguard he brought this time only had two regiments with 3,000 soldiers.
Behind, there are seven thousand people on the way.
Do the math, at this time, the main force of the Sixth Army should have already entered the fir collar, right
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On June 29th, the troops of the Sixth Army gathered together and formally launched an offensive against Blackwood City.
Palan was already mentally prepared that this battle would be very difficult, and at the same time, he was also prepared that he would be bombarded by the dark mage in his city and suffer heavy losses.
But despite this, he decided to attack.
The 10,000 elite soldiers of the Sixth Legion, no matter how desperate they are, as long as they dare to fight and charge, Blackwood City will not be able to stop them.
With a numerical advantage of 7,000 soldiers, and with no other elite forces in the enemy's formation other than the fir columns and those transformed demons, a Dark Mage could cause heavy losses to the Sixth Legion. But it is absolutely impossible to block the attack of the entire legion with one's own strength.
In the final analysis, the Archmage is not a god. It can be icing on the cake, but it is a bit difficult to give charcoal in the snow. If you want to change the outcome of a war by yourself... Even if it is a legend, it will be difficult.