Lord: Starting from the Northern Frontier
Chapter 1069

The river crossing battle (part fourteen)

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News of the changing situation on the front line immediately reached Heshima, who was commanding the battle from the rear. He grew deeply anxious when he heard it. He had never expected the reinforcements to arrive so quickly.

Fortunately, according to the reports from the front, there were not many of these newly arrived enemy troops. Had there been any more, he might have lost confidence in his ability to take the camp.

Heshima understood that now was the time to stake everything. If they dragged things out too long and more reinforcements from the Northern Alliance Army arrived, they really might fail to take the camp.

Heshima immediately ordered the four Commanders of Ten Thousand to lead their elite troops in a fierce assault. They could not give the enemy a moment to catch their breath.

They had to take the camp within an hour. Otherwise, once another wave of enemy reinforcements arrived, the Barbarians would lose their chance to seize it altogether.

Yet Heshima was also filled with hesitation and doubt. The Barbarians had already broken through at two landing sites along this defensive line, so why had the Northern Alliance Army's mobile troops still not been tied down?

How did they still have so many elite troops available to join the fighting?

Heshima did not know that the enemy facing him was one of the Arctic Alliance Army's deputy commanders-in-chief. Most of the Arctic Alliance Army's forces had indeed been tied down by the Barbarians' two advancing forces, but as a deputy commander, Count Benjamin still had an elite guard under his command, and he had committed all of them to this battlefield.

Most of the troops he had withdrawn earlier remained on standby as a mobile force and had not accompanied Count Benjamin here.

However, Count

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