The Fierce Battle, Part One

Time flew by, and in mid-June, the Battle of Amboya Mountain began.

The battle was vast in scale. Renard committed everything he had, assembling a full hundred thousand elite troops.

On top of that, he recruited nearly forty thousand adventurers and mercenaries to join the fight. The number of able-bodied laborers tasked with transporting supplies also reached fifty or sixty thousand.

The number of participating races set a new record. Kobolds, goblins, trolls, ogres, lizardfolk, and other natives joined forces, assembling an army of nearly two million to fight alongside them.

The demons were no less formidable. They built defensive fortifications around Amboya Mountain and amassed a million frontline troops, along with tens of millions of cannon fodder.

Later scholars believed that the Battle of Amboya Mountain had changed the course of the Northern Continent's fate. It was also the battle that marked the rise of Renard, the Conquering King.

As soon as the war began, the Anti-Demon Coalition swiftly occupied several mountains and valleys east, northeast, and southeast of Amboya Mountain, surrounding the demons in a fan-shaped formation. The two sides settled into a standoff.

On June 20, Renard reached an agreement with several native chieftains. Each would lead elite troops in a surprise attack against the weak flanks of the demon army.

The so-called flanks were actually the two hilltops to the north and south, near Amboya Mountain.

If they could seize them, the demons would have no choice but to hunker down on Amboya Mountain or retreat farther west.

This battle was of great significance, and Renard dared not slack off. He gathered the Charge Regiment and Death Wish Regiment from all his armies, assembling more than nine thousand soldiers in total.

He would lead this army himself. Ray Dawang, Rollson, Alka, Bennett, Felix, and dozens of