Five days have passed since the day I was blocked in the valley town.
John's life has been very difficult these five days. The water source in the town is only enough for half of the people to drink, and the food is getting less and less. He has nothing to do except direct the soldiers to strengthen the fortifications.
As for breaking out, don't even think about it. With the fortifications and terrain, the Kroland army can still fight. Once they leave, with the current morale and physical strength of the soldiers, they will only be massacred by the enemy.
Today, while John was doing his routine inspection of defense fortifications, cheering up all the soldiers and stabilizing their morale, an astonishing news filled his deeply sunken eye sockets with surprise. The enemy was about to launch an attack!?
He didn't understand why an enemy with such a huge advantage would launch an attack. If the enemy was surrounded for another five days, the entire army would definitely collapse, and there would no longer be the possibility of organization and combat effectiveness.
Could it be that Council sent powerful reinforcements to rescue?
Although John kept scolding those Council insects, John became excited when he thought that they really sent reinforcements to rescue him. Only for this reason did the enemy have to attack.
"Everyone cheer up and hold the front. We are saved. Council has sent reinforcements!" John Regardless of whether his guess is correct or not, he must now boost his morale and hold the front.
John guessed correctly. It was indeed because of reinforcements that Elena had to launch an attack in advance. However, the reinforcements were not sent by Council but by the Altia Empire army.
"How could it happen so quickly, from Monster Queen pacifying Eastern Territory to Krolan Republic surrendering to her? Only more than a month has passed. Did she not consider stabilizing various political situations at all? Did she not care at all about the rear and only lead the army forward?"
Elena is completely unable to understand Chloe's ideas and methods. Altia Empire has just experienced a civil war. According to normal logic, even if Chloe is a wise king who is rare in a century, it will take her at least a year to straighten out the country.
In addition, Kroll Republic also elected her as the king. Taken together, such rapid expansion will lead to extremely sharp domestic conflicts. Let alone taking the initiative to attack and launch a war, being able to hold on to one's crown is enough to go down in history.
But facts speak louder than words. Chloe brought one hundred thousand Altia Empire troops to Kroland's Eastern Territory, and was rushing towards the town without stopping.
Elena, a hundred thousand human army, is not afraid. If it were Krolan's army, she would dare to turn around and come for reinforcements. But after all, she is Astromancer, the red-clothed Astromancer of the Association, and knows some secret things. She knows what Monsters is commanded by Chloe.
In addition, this is not the first time that Swarm Monsters under Chloe has appeared on the battlefield. Elena is also very clear about various combat strength information, so she does not intend to confront Chloe head-on.
The safest choice is to quickly eat the Kroland army in front of you and then evacuate. According to the report of Highlanders's scouts, Chloe's army is so large that it is impossible to march fast, and Elena will have at least five days.
According to the previous combat methods, 60,000 Highlanders will launch the attack first, consuming the enemy's physical strength and ammunition. Thirty thousand Terror Beast will serve as an elite force to conserve physical strength and wait for the opportunity to make the final decision.
It's a pity that the war situation did not develop in the direction Elena imagined from the beginning.
Since the beginning of the war, Highlanders has assumed the responsibility of cannon fodder and attrition of the enemy.
Although the treasures and trophies after the war belong to them, this can only maintain morale for a short time. But after so many battles, Highlanders also understands that only by living can you enjoy the treasures.
Highlanders's first attack was not aggressive, and it did not even rush into Krolan's simple fortifications. It retreated after losing hundreds of people.
Elena looked angrily at the cheering Kroland defenders in the distance and the defeated Highlanders cowards beside her. She was not polite and directly led her subordinates to burn the fastest deserters and the leading commander into cokes with Psionics.
In the second attack, Highlanders's charge was much more determined, and the three thousand vanguards retreated after losing more than half of them.
There are so many Magic Crystal weapons from Krolan, they don't even have crossbowmen, they are all Magic Crystal Gun weapons. The melee troops are also all plate armor, large shields, and spears, which highlights a rich one.
Highlanders's equipment is too crude to look at. Most of them wear leather armor, many of them are without armor, and a small number of armored soldiers are captured. If it weren't for Highlanders's martial tradition, and with such poor equipment, one Krolan would have no trouble beating two Highlanderss.
The third attack was launched, but the result was still not good-looking. The morale of Krolan, which repelled two enemy attacks, became higher. The accuracy of their Magic Crystal weapons became higher and higher. Magic Crystal Cannon, whose hits depended on faith, repeatedly caused heavy casualties to Highlanders.
In this attack, Highlanders suffered as many as 3,000 casualties, and it only caused a few hundred casualties to the Kroland defenders, most of which were caused by bows and arrows.
This time Elena realized the seriousness of the problem. In positional warfare, even without high walls and fortresses, Highlanders is far from being Krolan's opponent. It has nothing to do with courage and morale. This is a generational difference in equipment.
Only an army like Terror Beast, whose morale is completely impossible to collapse, can brave the firepower of Magic Crystal weapons to break through Krolan's front, drag them into a melee, and then defeat them.
The strategic advantage of the Association troops under her command was turning into a disadvantage. Elena originally wanted to destroy the Kroland troops that had consumed a lot of physical strength and morale in one day, then rest for a day and evacuate immediately.
Now it seems that she was too optimistic. Even if she launches a strong attack, she may not be able to quickly eat up these Kroland troops. After all, they have terrain advantages and their numbers are as high as 50,000.
The number of fifty thousand happened to be a very strange scale. If it was more than thirty thousand, Elena would gather troops directly in the wild and eat it up. If it was seventy to eighty thousand, Elena would not think of taking the risk of eating it all, but would only harass or fight guerrillas and consume it.
The term "dilemma" is used to describe Elena's current state. After thinking for a few minutes with a frown, Elena still couldn't bear the meat in her mouth and ran away. She was ready to launch a strong attack.
After all, Terror Beast's combat effectiveness is obvious to all. Even if he is dying, Terror Beast is a terrifying killing machine.
After replacing Highlanders, thirty thousand Terror Beast were ready for battle.
Their mission is to open a breakthrough regardless of casualties and defeat the morale of Krolan. Then Highlanders rushes into the chaotic front, taking advantage of its mobility to divide, surround and annihilate this group of the Krolan Army.