Four Hundred and Thirty Cheated
"One more support, the devil's reinforcements are coming." Travish sat in his seat and looked at everyone in front of him who was devastated and panicked.
These great magicians have never experienced such a heavy loss, nor have they seen such a terrifying failure. Their current situation is like a dead father.
Although Travish's prestige still exists, the current situation is indeed not optimistic. The original puppet empire never thought that they would fail in the process of fighting a mortal empire. And now, they have to face the fact that it makes them uncomfortable.
What is even more depressing is that at this moment, there is a problem more serious than depression waiting for them to deal with, and this problem is: who will stop the march of the Alan Hill army!
The Marun River is the boundary river between the original puppet empire and the eternal empire, and this big river has been rushing westward into the Central Inland Sea.
Now, this has become the most important line of defense that the puppet empire is unwilling to give up. All the new puppets produced in the rear, as well as the new war machines, were piled up here and began to build a solid line of defense.
This is no way to do it, but everyone knows that whether this line of defense can work depends on how determined Alan Hill is to attack.
If Ailan Hill dispatched the new floating warships, and even put other follow-up war machines in this direction, the puppet empire might not be able to resist.
Once Ailan Hill crossed the Marun River, the most prosperous place in the puppet empire, the Sanhe Plain, which is full of fertile and fertile fields, is like a beautiful woman who has taken off her clothes, and is left to Ailan Hill's disposal.
Standing among the magicians, Magister Franzberg was almost the only one with a normal face.
He has reflected on his past, and feels that standing here now is completely wasting his life, so he no longer recognizes the puppet empire as the path he pursues, and therefore ignores the current dilemma of the puppet empire.
So, he just stood there, looking at the magicians around him with great interest, watching them like a mourning concubine, watching them nervous and helpless.
"Your Excellency the Great Magister! When will the demon's troops arrive? If their floating city can help us transport General Goosen's troops back, we can still hold on for a few more months..." One wearing armor, The general-looking magician spoke up.
Grand Magister Travish waved his hand, motioned for the other party to stop, and then said: "It will take another month for their floating castle to reach the line of the Marron River. During this time, it is up to us. already."
"This... Your Excellency the Great Magister, our army has collapsed now, and even the newly replenished army has very limited combat power. In this case... defending the Marun River, it may not be possible." The general continued after hearing this. Complained.
He was ordered to reinforce the Maron River line of defense, but the number of troops in his hands was small, and his combat effectiveness could only be described as general. In this case, he didn't want to be a sinner through the ages and become the first fool to put the enemy into the puppet empire.
So he wanted to drop the commander, but apparently Travish couldn't find a better candidate. I only heard Travish sighing and comforting: "We still have time! Within ten days, I will give you 300,000 puppet soldiers! Strengthen your troops!"
After all, this is transporting puppet soldiers in the puppet empire, and it is not as difficult as transporting them to the front line in the eternal empire.
For some reason, the Airland Hill Air Force has not yet bombed the puppet empire on a large scale, so everything here still looks good.
Because the transportation and manufacturing links have not been damaged on a large scale, the puppet empire seems to have the confidence to continue to replenish some equipment and personnel to the front line.
However, even so, compared with a year ago, when the puppet empire dispatched nearly ten million troops to sweep the eternal empire and support the holy devil empire, the puppet empire today can only be described as a dying struggle.
"Then, Your Excellency... Dongjin Corps..." The general asked the Dongjin Corps, which had actually been surrounded, and seemed unwilling to give up.
Travish waved his hand again, he was no longer caring about the Eastern Army Corps. The only function of those hundreds of thousands of troops now may be to hold back the enemy and buy time for the puppet empire to build the Marun River line of defense.
Who would have thought that the Gushan Fortress was captured by a floating battleship that was born out of the sky without even holding on to it for a month.
In this battle, the puppet soldiers suffered heavy losses, the magician army had collapsed, and the troops of the puppet empire on the front line had entered a rhythm that they did not like, but the Alan Hill Empire liked very much.
The current battlefield situation is that Alan Hill's armored forces have broken through the defense line of the puppet empire and entered the mode of rapid assault and large-scale movement annihilation that they are good at.
In this case, the troops of the puppet empire were basically wiped out by the formation or surrounded in mobile warfare. The puppets responded slowly, and their slightly cumbersome shortcomings were exposed, and they were easily defeated by the Alan Hill troops.
On April 25th, Alan Hill's tank vanguard arrived at East River City, which was already an important city hub in the southernmost part of the original Eternal Empire.
On April 26, the northern main army of the puppet empire had to abandon the Calamix and retreat to Dorai desperately.
The commander of this unit, Gu Sen, has already learned the news of the collapse of the Gushan defense line. He also knows that if he is leading the troops to retreat from the original capital of the Eternal Empire, Calamix, it is too late to cross the horse before being encircled. Lunhe has returned to the territory of the puppet empire.
If he forcibly went south, he would likely be attacked by the main force of Ailan Hill in the wild, blocking his way, and it would be even worse.
Therefore, he decided to defend the port city of Dole, which is backed by the Central Inland Sea, and then gradually transported the troops back to the puppet empire on the opposite side of the Central Inland Sea through the port.
Of course, he also took into account the terrible air dominance of Ailan Hill, and he also knew that Ailan Hill's air force could not watch him retreat calmly by taking advantage of the Central Inland Sea.
But he has no other way, this is the best retreat route he can find now.
As for whether everything will develop according to his vision in the end, it depends on Alan Hill's response and the enemy's response, not Gu Sen, the general of the puppet empire, can control.
General Gu Sen retreated to Dorai with the few remaining main forces of the puppet empire, and the situation of the eastward army of the puppet empire was too bad.
After all, the troops commanded by General Goosen in the north also control the vast territory of the Eternal Empire. Their retreat is relatively calm, because they have the support of the rear city of Trier, and they still have a lot of room for choice.
But the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Dongjin Corps did not have such good luck. Once the Gushan defense line was lost, they were surrounded in the wilderness. There was no way for them to take Normagas, the capital of the Norma Empire, and there was no way to retreat. The way to go back to Gushan, and even take a detour to return to Donghe City directly, has no hope.
After all, Ailan Hill's troops have already appeared near the East River, and they are still hundreds of kilometers away from there.
At the same time that Travish had neglected the Eastern Army Corps and ended the routine war meeting, inside the Eastern Army Corps, a group of magicians were also holding their own meetings.
"We have no way out. Although there are no large-scale enemy troops on the west side, our scouts have encountered Alan Hill's reconnaissance troops more than once." A magician stunned and raised the topic.
Another magician shook his head and said, "There is still some food, but the other supplementary materials are basically exhausted. The puppet soldiers can't be repaired, let alone new soldiers replenished, and even the parts can't be delivered."
"Who would have thought that things would get to this point..." Their words made a few magicians even more aggrieved and sighed.
"Don't talk about it, all I can think about now are Travish's words to persuade us to return to the origin of magic." One of the magicians impatiently mentioned the events before the outbreak of the war: "He said that there is no hope for mankind. , Only by obeying the origin of magic and surrendering to the devil can we survive."
"I also felt that in terms of magic, we have no way to fight against the army of demons, so we betrayed mankind and stood on Travish's side." The magician who spoke first nodded and said, "But, At that time, no one told me that Alan Hill is so strong! If I know that there is still hope for mankind, why should I be a traitor?"
"Yeah, why should we betray our own race? We knew we couldn't beat it before, but now... I think if we humans stop fighting internally, there is still hope for victory!" Several magicians nodded in agreement.
"There is more than hope... I think that although the devil is strong, the cute Lanhir is also strong, right? Who wins and who loses... It's hard to say!" Suddenly, a few people seemed to want to understand something.
"We...were deceived?" A younger magician said the conjecture in his mind.
As a result, a strange emotion spread in the crowd.
Sixteen hours later, under the predicament of being attacked from the front and back, with no way to go to the sky and no way to go to the ground, this army of hundreds of thousands of people surrendered to Ailan Hill and the Norma Empire...
On this day, the Norma Empire regained all the lost ground on the west side, and the 5th Army Group began to move south, joining the battlefield between the Kasik Empire and the Norma Empire.