Wolf Heart, the capital city of Fang.
This big city that was looted by the church has still not recovered its vitality. From the highest point of the castle, you can see that many streets and alleys in the outer city have been turned into ruins. But compared to the Broken Tooth Castle, which had been poisoned by the evil disease, it was already much fortunate, at least not like the latter. Today, you can still see piles of corpses in wells or drains.
A few months ago, this was the territory of the Fang family, a branch of the royal family. Iron Axe also followed the policy of evacuating small towns and villages first, and then dealing with the nobles, and ignored the struggle between Fang and Token and Red Stone Gate. , but the sudden appearance of the red mist forced him to make adjustments. After all, even if Fang City is in a down state, it is still one of the most important hub cities, and it is also connected to the north-south arteries. Only by opening up here can the evacuated team from Yongdong land smoothly enter the safety zone.
There is nothing worth mentioning during the battle. Even without the support of the fortress artillery, the five teams he temporarily mobilized totaling 500 people used mortars and anti-devil grenades to knock out the fangs, which are known as natural dangers. Fort, and the fortified city of Fang. Its city lord, Sibok, was named by a precise shooter when he stepped forward to supervise the formation. The final counterattack was not launched, and it was declared disintegrated. The remaining nobles surrendered one after another, and one of the three major forces of Wolf Heart was destroyed.
As the first person in the military who has followed Roland since the first battle in Border Town, Iron Axe is the one who has the clearest understanding of the speed of Neverwinter's strength improvement. Five years ago, they were still fighting back and forth with Duke Changge. And now, as long as His Majesty is willing, it will not be a problem for the First Army to penetrate any kingdom.
It can be said that their growth has left other people far behind, and they are no longer on the same level as those nobles.
But that didn't make him feel at ease or complacent.
The greater the disparity, the more he knew how amazing the overall disparity between humans and demons was.
Facing the devil with the support of Red Mist, the First Army was almost unable to gain a firm foothold in Eternal Winter. Every day, troops would retreat back to Wolf Heart, and casualty reports were never interrupted. In the absence of a permanent line of defense, the enemy's rushing and chasing capabilities made it difficult for each team to guard against it, and there was information that the other party suddenly appeared on the only way for the personnel to retreat several times. That's right.
This passive beating situation will undoubtedly have a negative impact on morale. The easiest way to deal with it is to immediately transfer all the staff back to the Longshan area to rest, but Iron Axe knows that orders and tasks are above everything else. Since His Majesty needs people, he will It is impossible to withdraw all troops for fear of casualties.
Then the only way left is to fight back.
Use all your strength to clench your fists and hit the devil in the face! Only in this way can their reckless pursuit be suspended, and the evacuated troops can be relieved.
The place he chose to block was Fang City.
"The devil's defense seems to be weakening." Brian said, holding the lookout mirror. Since His Majesty began to mobilize troops, he rushed to Shenchi Bay with the first fleet from the extreme south, and 1,500 Mojin warriors were transferred with him. This is also the first Sandman troop in the history of Greycastle to be recruited in the form of reorganization.
"It started from the frontier of Eternal Winter." Iron Axe nodded, "Edith is right, the devil's establishment of the obelisk on the ridge of the continent is a double-edged sword. Although it is hidden there, it also hinders They go south."
Looking north from the castle tower, you can see the blood-like cloud between heaven and earth. That is the red mist that is constantly spreading, and now it has crossed the dividing line between Yongdong and Langxin, and is slowly pressing towards Fangfang City.
The city under the cloudy cloud is the Jinshui Town of Wolf Heart. It has been shrouded in red mist for more than half, but there is still no trace of the "fortress-type abnormal beast". There are also very few terrifying beasts hovering in the sky, as if they were forgotten by the devil.
If it was placed at the beginning of the red fog, this would be almost impossible.
After this period of confrontation, the staff has a general understanding of the devil's action ideas.
In a sense, they coincided with His Majesty Roland's strategic intention, that is, to control more human cities and drive human beings to serve them, so the first army that evacuated the people was regarded as a priority by them hit the target.
In order to invade human territory as quickly as possible, they often take the initiative to attack, using fortress-type monsters to create a small area of red fog, so that troops can move quickly from one place to another with light equipment like frogs, grabbing the red fog. Attack the city before arriving.
However, when most of the land of the Kingdom of Eternal Winter fell into the hands of the devil, their advancing speed decreased significantly. This shows that with the expansion of the site, the enemy has been a little busy.
From a situational perspective, this is also understandable.
It takes time to coerce humans and build camps, and in the case of a shortage of manpower, the larger the land occupied, the less troops can be mobilized flexibly. Another key point is that the devil does not need to assemble the main force to fight against the human beings. With sufficient logistics, they can rely on a small force to pose a fatal threat to the evacuated First Army unit, and dispatching a large army is unnecessary.
Therefore, starting from the Everwinter frontier, the frequency of the enemy's advance to fight is much less, or they have not reduced the total number of people invested in the attack, but at this moment, the contact between Hongwu and the mainland has been from the very beginning "a little", It is impossible to stretch to the "front line" that is now hundreds of kilometers long, and it is impossible to cover everything without increasing the number of troops.
Iron Axe was keenly aware of this.
"My lord, all the "goods" from Neverwinter have been delivered to the outside of Fang City. ' A soldier ran up the tower, Salute reported.
"It's finally here!" He suddenly cheered, turned to Brian and said, "Come and see with me."
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When the group came out of the city, they saw hundreds of iron buckets on the open space at the gate of the city. They were about half a person tall, one cubit wide, and round in appearance, and they couldn't find even a single opening.
"My lord, this is... what?" Brian circled around one of the iron buckets a few times, puzzled for a while. If it is a container for holding, it must have a handle to open it, right? If it is a weapon... It has been proved by actual combat that the efficiency of fixed explosives is far less than that of cannons, and it is too impractical to rely on it to defeat the devil.
He pushed it with his hand and found that the barrel was motionless, apparently full of things and extremely heavy. It is not an easy task to transport these hundreds of iron barrels to the front line. It is worth spending such precious transportation capacity. They must not be insignificant.
"Your Majesty came up with a new idea, it's just that you were still in the extreme south to expand territory for His Majesty. It's normal if you don't know," Tie Axe said with a smile, "These iron buckets are the protagonists of this blocking strategy. If it is as ideal as in the test, then even in a sports battle, we can beat the devil by surprise!"