Release that Witch - Chapter 1305

[Chapter 1270]
Wolf Heart, Fang City, the capital of the king.
This big city that has been looted by the church has not yet recovered its vitality. It can be seen from the highest point of the castle, and many streets and alleys in the outer city have been turned into ruins.
But compared to Broken Tooth Fort, which was ravaged by evil diseases, it is already considered much luckier. At least it will not be like the latter, where you can still see piles of decaying corpses in wells or drains.
A few months ago, this was the territory of the Fang family, a branch of the royal family. Iron Ax also followed the policy of evacuating the small towns and villages first, and then dealt with the nobles, ignoring the struggle between Fang, Token, and Hongshimen , but the sudden appearance of the red mist forced him to make adjustments.
After all, no matter how desolate Fangfang City is, it is still one of the most important hub cities in Wolfheart, and it also connects the north and south arteries. Only by opening this place can the team evacuating from Yongdong land can enter the safe zone smoothly.
There was nothing worth mentioning about the battle process. Even without the support of the fortress artillery, he temporarily mobilized five teams with a total of 500 people, and used mortars and anti-devil grenades to knock out the fangs, which are known as natural dangers. Fortress, and Tusk City with strong and thick walls.
Its city lord, Hiberk, was called out by accurate shooters when he stepped forward to supervise the battle, and the final counterattack collapsed before it was launched. 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 Ax is the one who has the clearest understanding of the speed at which Neverwinter’s strength increases. Five years ago, they were still fighting back and forth with Duke Longsong. But 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 been far behind other people, and they are no longer on the same level as those nobles.
But it didn’t make him feel a little relieved or complacent.
The greater the disparity, the more he would understand just how astonishing the overall gap between humans and devils is.
Facing the devils backed by Red Mist, the First Army could hardly gain a firm foothold in Eternal Winter. Troops would retreat back to Wolfheart every day, and casualty reports were never interrupted.
In the absence of a permanent line of defense, the enemy’s advance and pursuit capabilities made it difficult for each unit to defend against, and intelligence pointed out that the enemy suddenly appeared several times on the only way for the personnel to retreat – and it was clear that the place had been checked repeatedly before to confirm its safety. That’s right.
This situation of being passively beaten will undoubtedly have a negative impact on morale. The easiest way to deal with it is to immediately transfer all the personnel back to the area around Cage Mountain to rest, but Iron Ax knows that orders and tasks are above all else. It is impossible to withdraw all troops due to concerns about casualties.
Then the only way left is to fight back.
He clenched his fist with all his strength and hit the devil hard in the face!
Only in this way can their unscrupulous pursuit be suspended, and the evacuated troops can also vent their anger.
The location he chose to stop was Fang City.
“The devil’s defenses seem to be weakening.” Brian said holding up the binoculars.
Since His Majesty began to mobilize his troops, he rushed to Shenchi Bay from the extreme south with the first fleet, and there were 1,500 Mojin warriors with him.
This is also the first sand people army recruited in the form of reorganization in the history of Graycastle.
“It started from the border of Everwinter.” Iron Ax nodded, “Edith is right, the devil built 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 top of the castle tower, you can see the bloody cloud between the sky and the earth.
That is the ever-spreading red mist, which has now crossed the dividing line between Yongdong and Wolf Heart, and is slowly pressing towards Fang City.
And the city under the cloud is Jinshui Town in the heart of the wolf—it has been covered by red mist for more than half, but there is still no trace of the “fortress-type monster”.
There are also very few scary beasts hovering in the sky, as if they were forgotten by the devil.
If it was placed at the beginning of the appearance of the red mist, it would be almost impossible for this to happen.
After this period of fighting, the staff already had a general understanding of the devil’s thinking.
In a sense, they coincide with His Majesty Roland’s strategic intention, which is to control more human cities and drive humans to serve them. Therefore, the first army that evacuated the people will be 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 and use fortress-type monsters to create a small area of red mist, so that troops can quickly move from one place to another with light equipment like frogs, and grab the red mist. Attack the city before arriving.
But when most of the land of the Eternal Winter Kingdom fell into the hands of the devils, their speed of advancement dropped significantly.
This shows that with the expansion of the territory, the enemy is already a bit overwhelmed.
From the perspective of the situation, this is also easy to understand.
It takes time to coerce humans and build camps. In the case of insufficient manpower, the larger the occupied area, the less troops can be flexibly mobilized.
Another key point is that the devils don’t need to gather the main force to fight humans yet. With sufficient logistics, they can pose a fatal threat to the evacuated First Army detachment by relying on a small group of troops, and dispatching a large army is superfluous.
Therefore, starting from the border of Eternal Winter, the frequency of the enemy’s forward combat is much less, or they have not reduced the total number of people involved in the attack, but at this moment, the contact surface between Red Mist and the mainland has changed from the initial “point”, Stretching to the current “front line” that is hundreds of kilometers long, it is impossible to cover everything without a large increase in troop strength.
Iron Ax was keenly aware of this.
“My lord, all the “goods” brought from Neverwinter have been delivered outside Fang City.
A soldier ran up the tower and saluted the report.
“It’s finally here!”
He was shocked immediately, UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com turned around and said to Brian, “Come and see with me.”
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When the group came outside the city, they saw hundreds of iron barrels on the open space at the gate of the city. They were about half a person tall, one cubit wide, round in appearance, and there was not even a single opening around them.
“My lord, what is this…?” Brian circled around one of the iron buckets a few times, unable to understand it for a while.
If it is a container for decoration, there must be a handle to open it, right?
If it is a weapon… actual combat has proved that fixed explosives are far less effective than cannons, and it is too unrealistic to rely on them to defeat the devil.
He pushed it with his hand, and found that the bucket was not moving at all, obviously it was full of things, and it was extremely heavy.
It is not an easy task to transport these hundreds of iron drums 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 the territory for Your Majesty during the test. It’s normal if you don’t know it,” Iron Ax laughed. “These iron buckets are the protagonists of this blocking strategy. If it is as ideal as in the experiment, then even in mobile warfare, we can catch the devil by surprise!”
[End of this Chapter]
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