Cliff Bay South.
On a bare, nameless soil slope.
This is a tragic battlefield, with corpses lying scattered on the ground, and a group of remnant soldiers wearing Lion Retainers uniforms are retreating down the hillside.
Godric stood on the top of the slope, slashed the last enemy's neck with his sword, and then sat down on the ground and gasped.
He achieved another victory.
But he was also covered in blood, his armor was damaged, his sword was blunt, and he was unable to pursue him.
A Raven Territory lord also panted and walked to Godric, and sat on the ground with his sword in hand.
"Why are there so many Lion Retainers? Are there so many Lord Godric, Lion Knight Order? Why do I feel like these people don't look like knight retinues..."
This is Lord Raven Kingdom Falling Bay, Duke Adarian. He is the same age as Godric, and his current status is also the same.
Right now, the two of them are co-directing the war at Cliff Bay.
The combined forces of the Raven Kingdom and Lionheart Kingdom have already fought many battles with the troops of Brennus near Cliff Bay.
Brennus has been losing consecutive battles. It seems that they are losing ground, but new troops are always blocking them layer by layer.
Cliff Bay seemed to have endless troops. A large number of troops wearing Lion Retainers equipment poured out again and again. Although they lost consecutive battles, they successfully prevented the combined forces of the two countries from launching large-scale siege warfare.
Although the Union Army has achieved successive victories, its actual progress is quite slow - so far, the Union Army has not even touched the city wall of Cliff Bay.
Up to now, we have just conquered Amir Village, which can be regarded as removing the last stronghold outside the Cliff Bay peninsula, and completely sealing Brennus's sphere of influence within the peninsula.
After the continuous battles, both Raven Kingdom and Lionheart Kingdom were exhausted and had to rotate their main combat forces - the combined forces of Gregory IV and Leofric have fought several battles and are currently resting and recuperating in the area of Misty Marsh Fortress.
Silver Hand led by Kloze originally followed Godric, but after continuous battles, they had to stay in Amir Village to reorganize.
The current main offensive force has been replaced by Duke Adarian and Godric.
So far, Adarian and Godric's troops have faced three rounds of resistance.
The progress made only pushed the battlefield to the hillside south of Cliff Bay, but it was still twenty miles away from Cliff Bay.
"Lion Knight Order, of course, there are not so many people... These people are not Lion Retainers!"
Godric bit his back molars and pulled out a crossbow arrow embedded in his breastplate. "Lion Knight Order people don't know how to use crossbows... I didn't expect that either, Brennus actually prepared so many weapons and equipment in Cliff Bay... During this period, more than a thousand people died in battle just wearing Lion Retainers equipment, right?"
"You mean these people are temporarily armed? But where did Brennus find so many troops who are willing to fight for him? And... Lion Knight Order hasn't shown up yet!"
Duke Adarian shook his head, looking a little confused.
Godric sighed, "It's because Lion Knight Order has always been in Cliff Bay, that's why so many people will try their best to stop us, and even fight to death for it... These people are just They are just poor people wearing Lion Retainers equipment. Their families must be controlled by Brennus and Lion Knight Order. For the survival of the family and the lives of the whole family, they can only come out to resist us."
"This kind of coercion... sigh..."
Adarian also sighed.
As a Duke, Adarian knew that this method was actually difficult to solve, because those who came out to resist were fighting for their respective families.
If they don't go to war, the whole family will probably die at the hands of Lion Knight Order.
But if they go to war, it will be inexplicable rebellion. Lionheart Kingdom will definitely regard them as rebels. After all, it is difficult to distinguish who is forced to follow Brennus and who is actively following Brennus.
Therefore, they will fight resolutely and will not retreat until the battle situation is irreversible, and will not accept surrender.
And Brennus did it in a very planned way - he probably secretly organized the troops who were forced to go to the battlefield in waves, with five to six hundred people at a time, which was just enough to stop the coalition forces, but not enough to cause the Cliff Bay people to fully resist and cause a riot.
People everywhere have the same bad nature - they won't stand out if things don't concern themselves. Most people will sit back and watch a small group of people being forced into the battlefield. They will just pray that this kind of thing will not happen to them.
The few who resist in advance will naturally be suppressed by Lion Knight Order, and then their property will be turned into Lion Knight Order's military expenses, and their families will be turned into military supplies - so that Lion Knight Order will always maintain morale.
Everyone knows that this is Brennus's final madness.
But there is nothing anyone can do.
"Enemy attack! Sir! There seems to be another enemy coming down the mountain!"
An archer who was observing the movement nearby loudly reported the military situation, interrupting the conversation between the two.
The two tired leaders sighed and stood up.
"It's really endless... They won't force all the men in Cliff Bay to the battlefield, right?"
Adarian pulled out the sword from the ground, shook his head and sighed, "Lion Knight Order like this is indeed not worthy of being called a knight!"
"They didn't deserve it from the beginning... especially they didn't deserve to be called Lion Knight..."
Godric put on his helmet. "Ready to fight!"
"Wait...Godric, something seems wrong..."
Adarian looked straight down the mountain. "Why do I feel like those people are Lion Retainers who just evacuated?"
"Sir, be careful! These corpses... are Fallen One!"
The archer who reported the news made a flying leap and knocked down the bloody Fallen One behind Godric. Then he pulled out his dagger and stabbed Fallen One through his chest, nailing Fallen One to the ground.
Adarian and Godric turned around at the same time and shouted in fear, "Cut off its head!"
These two lords have seen the world...
But this reminder was already too late. A sword thrust through the chest failed to make the freshly baked Fallen One lose its combat effectiveness. Instead, it caused this brave archer to lose his life.
Fallen One grabbed the archer and broke his neck easily, then pulled out the dagger from his chest and stood up again.
Adarian swung his sword with all his strength, but was blocked by Fallen One with his short sword with one hand. This block had no technical content and sparks flew everywhere, but Adarian's sword flew out of his hand instead - the power gap was too big, which was equivalent to hitting a wall.
Godric cleverly moved around and barely cut off the second half of Fallen One's neck with a sword from behind.
The sword was indeed blunt, and even with the full force of the sword, it didn't even cut off the throat.
But fortunately, the sword was struck from behind, and at least it cut off Fallen One's neck bone.
Fallen One shook his bloody head and fell down.
Next to this Fallen One is an almost complete leather.
At this time, Godric heard a chant that impressed him deeply - the prayer of Goddess of Justice.
"Three Prophets!... Retreat quickly! The entire army retreats!"
Godric turned around and took a look, shouted to retreat, then pulled Adarian and started running towards the place where the horses were tied down the mountain.
Around them, in various places on the hillside, one after another the recently deceased bodies stood up again.
There are corpses of enemies and corpses of our own people.
These corpses all began to tear their bodies apart crazily and silently!
"The entire army retreats to Amir Village!"
Godric shouted loudly while running.
He knew that Silver Hand was resting there.
But Godric's heart has completely sunk, because Kloze sent someone to send him a message before, and he knew that Li Ang's troops would not be able to come to the Cliff Bay area in a short time, and Lion Lake City had a large-scale Fallen One.
And now, Cliff Bay has also appeared...
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In the forest to the east of Vulpine Town.
Sir Roland led a team of about two hundred people silently walking through the woods.
This is a troop trained by Roland in Dark Falcon Fortress, and most of them were recruited by Roland in Raven Territory.
This doesn't look like a top-notch unit, because they're not well equipped and don't look very strong.
But they were indeed well-trained - two hundred people walked through the dense forest, but they made almost no sound.
Roland is a strict person. His subordinates lived a poor life in Dark Falcon Fortress, so the equipment is naturally not very good.
Moreover, Roland mainly recruits people based on their character. He will not just accept someone like Andongjia.
So his troops are not large in number.
At the same time, Roland is a person who always sets an example. He is generous, upright, fair and selfless. He will definitely take the lead in the charge when fighting, and he will always be the last one in the queue when sharing supplies.
Such a person will naturally win the respect of his subordinates.
Therefore, the actual combat effectiveness of Sir Roland's troops cannot be measured by their equipment and physique.
At this time Roland is thinking about how to deal with Frey's Oswood.
Roland had already fought against Oswood's troops a day ago. The two sides were of equal numbers. The brief confrontation was evenly matched, and then Oswood retreated into the woods - this is a troop whose combat effectiveness cannot be measured by equipment and physique.
Maybe justice and evil can bring equal faith to people...
Sir Roland already knows that Oswood has caused countless tragedies in this area. When he met Godric before, he learned about Oswood's habits from Kloze.
What this unit did was even worse than what the heretics did - almost everyone, regardless of age or sex, was tortured and killed.
Therefore, he took the initiative to take over the task of hunting down Oswood.
In the past few days, Roland has seen countless tragedies in surrounding villages.
All the female corpses were naked and covered with traces of abuse; while all the male corpses were mutilated.
This behavior deeply angered Roland.
He couldn't understand why a human could have such a perverted hobby.
Roland is Paladin. He will not participate in any war related to the struggle for power. He does not intend to get involved in Cliff Bay's war, but he will never let Oswood go.
Even if he had to abandon his horse and venture into the dense forest to fight, he would still kill Oswood.
In the eyes of this Paladin, it is much more evil than heresy for human beings to commit such evil acts because of personal preferences or desires.
Because this is an anti-human thug who specializes in demolishing the Goddess of Justice ladder.
Roland led the troops to search and advance slowly.
"Be careful!"
A female warrior walking next to Roland suddenly grabbed Roland: "There is a trap here!"
Roland didn't see any trap here at all, but he believed in his partners, especially those recruited by Raven Territory.
One meter directly in front of him, there was a small vine lying under a tree.
The female warrior squatted down and used a short spear to break the vine.
"Whoosh... thump thump!"
On a tree on the side, two sharp wooden spears flew out from the dense leaves, and inserted into the ground where the vine was with a whistling sound.
"Elano, thank you for your carefulness..."
Sir Roland looked around in the direction where the wooden spear was fired, then pointed to a big tree in front of him and shouted, "Oswood is from Oswood, right? Don't be sneaky and hide! Come down and fight me! I am Roland!"
Although he couldn't see the trap, he could see the person who was ambushing him - Roland was the best at dealing with those gangsters hiding in the shadows.
The troops began to move quickly and quickly surrounded the big trees. The operation efficiency was surprisingly fast.
The female warrior named Elano also raised her crossbow, but instead of aiming at the big trees, she turned around and aimed at another place dozens of meters away.
"Sir Roland? Are you Paladin Roland?"
A voice came from the tree. "This is a misunderstanding! Don't do anything! Misunderstanding!"
Then, a man in black slowly climbed down from the tree.
This person had his back to Roland, and climbed very slowly on purpose. After landing on the ground, he stretched out his hands and raised them above his head. He was obviously not hostile.
Roland put down the sword in his hand. "Who are you? Are you not from Oswood?"
"My name is Renard...Fieltzwe people. We have been looking for you, Sir Roland."
The man in black turned around slowly. "My partner and I were once members of Dawn Knight Order."
As he spoke, he slowly reached out and untied the belt of the black hooded coat, revealing the white knight's robe underneath.
This is indeed the robe of the Dawn Knight, but it is different from the one worn by Roland - this is a new style that only appeared after Dawn Knight Order settled in Fieltzwe's Light Roar Bay.
Previously, the Dawn Knight of the Buckley Continent had a black and white plaid robe;
After Dawn Knight Order was expelled from the Buckley Continent, Dusk Knight Order separated from it. Since then, the Dawn Knight has used pure white robes and armor, while Dusk Knight Order has used pure black equipment.
On several other trees, the same five men in black also slowly got off the tree. One of them was even on the outside of Roland's team - he was dozens of meters away and was not discovered by Roland's large army. Only the female warrior named Elano was holding a crossbow at him.
"We heard that there were many tragedies here, so we came here specifically to deal with Oswood. But I didn't expect... ha, we almost accidentally injured - Sir Roland, you came here to deal with him too, right?"
Renard explained awkwardly, "You are indeed the real Paladin!"
"No, it's not just Oswood, there's also something even more terrifying...'The Devourer' Aigrem."
Roland nodded. "But Oswood must be dealt with first, otherwise that Aigrem will continue to get dead souls and corpses full of hostility."
"Wait, ser... I don't believe he is a Knight of the Dawn like you..."
Elano suddenly spoke.
This female warrior looks very young, twenty years old at most, but the look she looks at Renard is a bit stern, or cold. "I think you smell like a thief!"
"You have very good senses, ma'am... I do steal things."
Renard glanced at Elano in surprise, then slowly knelt down on one knee facing Roland, then took out an object from his arms with a slower movement and handed it to Roland: "I stole it, Your Excellency Paladin, please allow us to follow you!"