At dawn, looking at the pitch-black walls of Blackwood City, Sir Kahn could no longer tell what it was like in his heart.
Fortunately? angry? guilt? disturbed
Maybe both.
What makes Kahn feel that the world is impermanent is that he was originally ordered to lead the coalition forces and come to the Firland. Intent to fight for the rights and interests of the alliance'. The Alliance has always been dismissive of the threat of damning the Church that the Schindlers have emphasized.
But after he came, it was because of the existence of the Cursed Church that his legion was completely destroyed; however, because of the Schindlers who were supposed to be the enemy, an army was retained.
Fighting sporadically until now, with him, the alliance army that arrived in Blackwood City has only a little over 2,000 people. However, there are quite a few elite troops among them, more than 300 silver knights, almost the same number of silver guards, and two battalions of Victoria heavy sergeants. That's about 1,200 people. In addition, there are four brigades of ordinary soldiers.
As for the rest of the troops...
Thinking of this, Sir Kahn, who is over fifty years old, felt a burst of sadness.
Seeing that the city gate was wide open, he collected himself and rode his horse through first.
Facing him, riding a white camel, was the head of the Sixth Army, Lieutenant General of the Kingdom of Hindler, Palan.
Palan opened his mouth first: "Sir Kahn, I have known you for a long time."
Kahn was very ashamed: "The defeated general is nothing to worry about."
Palan shook his head and said, "It's not a crime of war. But now is not the time for us to talk about it."
After finishing speaking, he looked behind Kahn and asked, "Now, how many troops of the Holy Alliance are behind you?"
Kahn said in a depressed mood: "There are more than two thousand people."
Palan's heart sank, and he said, "According to what I know, the coalition army you led this time should have 15,000 people? What about the other troops? Have they all fallen?"
"Before nightfall, we had nearly 10,000 people. After nightfall... after nightfall, I couldn't control my army anymore. I was scattered with them, and the entire army was under attack from the undead. Now, I don't know , How many soldiers are still alive outside the home.”
Palan hesitated for a moment, he glanced at Firmino behind Kahn, and said, "We can't just sit here and do nothing. All disasters are easiest to solve in the initial stage of the outbreak. We should Take the initiative."
"Yes, I agree." Firmino stepped forward from behind and said, "The power of the Church of the Damned has not yet expanded to its maximum. If we waste a little more time here, one more creature will be killed. The power of the enemy It will be more points."
"Well, I agree." Sir Kahn calmed down and said, "I will send my troops to fight with you."
"Sir Kahn, your soldiers are exhausted, you should take a rest. It is now dawn, and my main army is ready to go, so you don't have to join in the fun with your troops. You can Take a good rest in Blackwood City, wait until after noon, and then set off to support us."
Hearing what Palan said, Kahn could only agree.
"Okay, then it's settled. In addition, Firmino, you still need to provide me with intelligence support, is there no problem?"
"no problem."
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After bidding farewell to Kahn, Palan led 6,000 warriors and headed southwest.
The reason why there are only 6,000 people is because the camel cavalry regiment sent out earlier has been fighting all night, and they also need to rest. And there are another three or four thousand people who have to stay behind in Blackwood City—otherwise, Palan will not be at ease if the retreat of Blackwood City is completely handed over to the people of the Holy Alliance.
Although they temporarily stood on the same front because of the same enemy, the soldiers of the Holy Alliance were rescued by the Hindlers and survived from the claws of the undead, but just because of these words, it is still not enough to make Palan trusted them completely. Leaving part of the staff in Blackwood City is also just in case.
Four hours after he personally led the army to set off, at ten o'clock in the morning, Paran's army encountered a small group of undead.
More than forty zombies, a squad of ghouls, and a low-level dark wizard.
When they were discovered by the scouts of the Sixth Army, the group of undead had just entered a small village. The undead were massacring, and the low-level black wizard was using a magic circle that had just been drawn to transform the corpses carried by the zombies into new undead.
As soon as the news came back, Palan dispatched a team to wipe out this small group of undead.
However, despite this, they were not able to save everyone. A small village with about twenty households and hundreds of people has become fragmented, and there are less than forty survivors. Among those who died, half of them had already been transformed into undead, and were finally beheaded by soldiers of the Sixth Legion.
The expansion speed of the undead is far faster than imagined!
Obviously, after they defeated the army of the Holy Alliance yesterday, in addition to continuing to chase and kill the soldiers of the Allied Army, they also dispatched a large number of small troops like this to plunder and kill more human settlements and kill more people. More people, more undead.
Taking the battlefield where Kahn's army fought against the undead as the center, and radiating to all directions, in this large area, according to some data saved in Blackwood City, there are probably more than 36,000 people, and some stars are densely dotted. Villages and small towns.
No one knows how far the undead have expanded in the past night and half a day, how many human villages and towns have been destroyed, and how many human beings have been transformed into undead.
Palan was worried.
After telling the rescued civilians that they could head east and take refuge in Blackwood City, he continued to lead the troops forward.
And as he moved forward, bad news and good news also came in a steady stream.
To make matters worse, the expansion of the undead is much faster than expected. Even, around noon, the scouts reported that a small town with a population of 2,000 had been completely slaughtered by the undead. At least ten low-level dark wizards, led by one or two middle-level dark wizards, , a large number of undead transformation rituals are going on.
A regiment of human soldiers raided there and repelled the undead, but no living person was found in the entire town. In the end, in order to avoid the plague and prevent the dead body from being used by the Church of the Cursed, they could only clean up the dead body, and then burned the whole town with a fire.
Of course, there is bad news, and of course there is good news.
The army of the Holy Alliance didn't seem to be completely wiped out. According to the scouts' scouts, some scattered small groups of human troops were still resisting.
It's an exciting thing to do. Palan made a decisive decision and ordered the army to rescue them if any surviving human troops were found to be still resisting.
The entire Sixth Legion moved quickly, and at around four o'clock in the afternoon, Kahn led the Holy Alliance Army, which had been rested, and joined Palan's army to sweep away the raging undead in the southwest of the Fir Territory and save mankind. Settling, searching for and rescuing the survivors of the Holy Alliance, and at the same time trying to find the main force of the Church of the Damned, hoping to completely control the situation.
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On July 6, after five days of fighting, Palan's army cleared along the road to the place where the Holy Alliance was ambushed.
In fact, from Blackwood City to here, at the speed of the army, it can be reached in less than a day. And the reason why the Sixth Army took five days is mainly because it took a lot of time to eliminate the undead and rescue the survivors along the way.
There are no traces of living creatures in this place, and there are no undead. Obviously, after that battle, the Church of the Cursed, which had won the victory, cleaned up the surrounding area and then left.
According to the latest investigation information, the main force of the undead also showed signs of gathering.
To the west of the battlefield, in a place called Raging Bear Town between the Pudley Kingdom and the Fir Territory, a large number of undead gathered together. Their number exceeds at least eight thousand. At the same time, these undead seem to have begun to invade the west of Angry Bear Town, which is the territory of Pudry Kingdom.
The Pudley Kingdom has received a letter from Sir Kahn, confirming the existence of the undead and the Church of the Damned. They should have reacted by now, but since Pudry has not recovered from the last war with Schindler, they have recently deployed another force, led by Kahn, but they were ambushed. off. It is indeed a bit difficult for them to immediately pull out another team in a short period of time.
Pudry's border army has already fought with the undead. Although it was relatively inferior, it somehow delayed the further spread of the undead army.
After all, it seems that the power of the undead invading Pudri will not exceed five thousand.
In this way, the undead entrenched in Angry Bear Town should be the main force of the undead.
Palan decided to wipe out this undead army.
Get rid of these 8,000 undead, and the Pudri people will find a way to eliminate the 5,000 undead who entered their territory, then the curse church in this place and the disaster that caused it should be effectively controlled.
With this in mind, Palan didn't waste time. He quickly assembled the Sixth Army. More than 7,000 soldiers, plus Sir Kahn's 3,000 people, formed an army of 10,000 people. On July 8, they began to prepare to attack the angry bear. town.
The wartime was neither difficult nor smooth.
There are quite a few undead troops in Angry Bear Town, but their strength is actually not that strong. Like ghouls, and more advanced undead creatures, the number is not many, maybe less than two thousand. The others are all low-level monsters like skeletons and zombies.
On the very day of the attack, Palan's forces captured the gates of Raging Bear Town.
In the battle with the undead step by step, two days later, that is, on July 10, his troops captured the town hall of Raging Bear Town. The remaining undead in the entire town should not exceed 3,000. It would take another day or two to complete the purge of Nuxiong Town.
While the Sixth Army achieved such results, the losses were not large. Among the casualties of seven or eight hundred soldiers, less than three hundred died on the spot. This is not a serious injury to the army.
However, just when the dawn of victory was already very clear, a piece of bad news reached Palan—a large number of undead appeared in the Shino Forest!
This is what the scouts in Blackwood City detected!
The Forest of Four Fields is just north of Fir Collar, leading directly to the dark forest at the foot of the Central Mountain Range.
This forest is an important source of timber resources for the Duchy of Florence and the Kingdom of Pudri. In these two countries, many logging farms have been established in this forest.
And just two days ago, when the Battle of Raging Bear Town had just started, several logging camps established by the Fir Fir Leader in the Forest of Four Fields lost contact almost at the same time. After a rigorous investigation, at least 20 scouts were killed in battle, in exchange for information on the undead riots in the Forest of Shino.
An undead army with a number of at least 30,000, flying the banner of the Church of the Damned, is about to rush out of the Forest of the Four Fields, aiming at Blackwood City!
Palan turned pale.
He knew what the news meant.
The troops he left in Blackwood City were only about 2,000 people. These are the elites of the Sixth Legion, yes, but the enemies they have to face have a huge advantage in numbers! It is impossible for Blackwood City to defend it!
Within three days, the undead will be approaching the city. How long Blackwood City can hold on is completely unknown. In the worst case, it may be captured that day.
And once Blackwood City is lost, the Sixth Army can be said to be cut off. At that time, although they will be able to clean up the undead in Raging Bear Town, there will still be undead in the west, and the army of undead emerging from the forest in the east will definitely come to find Palan after capturing Blackwood City Trouble.
Under attack from both sides, his Sixth Army was locked in the western part of the fir collar, with no room for strategic maneuvering, and the only inevitable end was destruction!
Now, there are not many choices left for Palan.
Continue to fight, clean up Angry Bear Town, defend on the spot, and fight to the death with the westward undead
Or go west first, enter the territory of Pudli Kingdom, find a way to open this road, join with Pudry's army, and then find a way to deal with the army of undead
Or, give up the battle immediately and return to Blackwood City at full speed
This will be an extremely difficult choice.