Chapter 1270 Frontline Blockade

Wolf Heart, the royal capital of Fang City.

This big city that was sacked by the church has still not been able to recover. Standing at the highest point of the castle, you can see that many streets and lanes in the outer city have been turned into ruins. But compared to Broken Tooth Castle, which had been poisoned by the evil disease, it was already much luckier. At least it was not like the latter. You can still see piles of rotten corpses in wells or drainage ditches.

A few months ago, this place was still the territory of the Fang Family, a branch of the royal family. Iron Ax also followed the policy of evacuating the people of small towns and villages first, and then dealing with the nobles, and ignored the struggle between Fang, Token, and the Red Stone Gate. , but the sudden appearance of red mist forced him to make adjustments. After all, no matter how poor Fang City is, it is still one of the most important hub cities in Wolf Heart, and it is also connected to the north-south main road. Only by opening up here can the team evacuating by land in Everwinter enter a safe zone smoothly.

There was nothing noteworthy about the battle. Even without the support of fortress artillery, he temporarily mobilized five teams with a total of 500 people to use mortars and anti-devil grenades to knock out the fangs known as natural dangers. Fortress, and the Tusk City with strong and thick walls. Its city lord, Hibok, was named by a precise shooter when he stepped forward to supervise the formation to cheer up. 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 of Neverwinter's strength improvement. Five years ago, they were still fighting back and forth with Duke Changge. 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 far left others behind, and they are no longer on the same level as those nobles.

But that doesn't make him feel relaxed or complacent.

The greater the difference, the more he understands how astonishing the overall gap between humans and devils is.

Facing the devils supported by the red mist, the First Army could hardly gain a foothold in Eternal Winter. Troops would retreat back to Wolf Heart every day, and casualty reports were uninterrupted. In the absence of a permanent defense line, the enemy's ability to advance and pursue made it difficult for each unit to guard against it. Moreover, intelligence pointed out that the opponent suddenly appeared several times on the only way for personnel to retreat - and it was obvious that the place had been repeatedly investigated before and confirmed that it was safe. That’s right.

This situation of being passively beaten will undoubtedly have a negative impact on morale. The simplest way to deal with it is to immediately transfer all personnel back to the Congshan area to rest and recuperate, but Tie Ax knows that orders and tasks are above all else. Since His Majesty needs the population, he will It is impossible to withdraw all troops due to concerns about casualties.

Then the only way left is to fight back.

Clench your fist with all your strength and hit the devil hard on the face! Only in this way can their unscrupulous pursuit be slowed down and the evacuated troops can vent their anger.

The place he chose to stop the attack was Fang City.

"The devil's defense seems to be weakening." Brian said, holding up the lookout glass. Since His Majesty began to mobilize troops, he rushed to Shenchi Bay with the first fleet from the extreme south. Along with him, there were 1,500 Mojin warriors. This is also the first sand army unit 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's establishment of 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, one can see the blood-like clouds between heaven and earth. That is the ever-expanding red mist, which has now crossed the dividing line between Everwinter and Wolf Heart, and is slowly pressing towards Fang City.

The city located under the clouds is the wolf-hearted Jinshui Town - it has been more than half shrouded in red mist, but there is still no trace of the "fortress-shaped monster". There were very few terrifying beasts hovering in the sky, as if they had been forgotten by the devil.

If it were at the beginning of the red mist, this would be almost impossible to happen.

After this period of fighting, the staff already had a general understanding of the devil's thoughts of action.

In a sense, they actually coincide with His Majesty Roland's strategic intention, which is to control more human cities and drive humans to serve for them. Therefore, they will regard the first army to evacuate the people as a priority. Hit the target.

In order to invade human territory as quickly as possible, they often take the initiative and use fortress-type monsters to create a small red mist area, so that troops can move from one location to another quickly like frogs, and seize the opportunity to get ahead of the red mist. Attack the city before arriving.

But when most of the land in the Everwinter Kingdom fell into the hands of the devil, their advancement speed slowed down significantly. This shows that with the expansion of territory, the enemy has become somewhat overwhelmed.

From the situation point of view, this is also easy to understand.

It takes time to coerce humans and build camps. In the case of insufficient manpower, the larger the land occupied, the less troops can be flexibly mobilized. Another key point is that the devils do not yet need to assemble the main force to fight humans. With sufficient logistics, they can rely on a small force to pose a fatal threat to the evacuating First Army detachment, and dispatching a large army is unnecessary.

Therefore, starting from the Everwinter border, the frequency of the enemy's advance to fight was much less, or they did not reduce the total number of people invested in the attack, but at this moment, the contact point between the red mist and the mainland has changed from the initial "point". The "front line" has been stretched to hundreds of kilometers and it is impossible to cover everything without a large increase in military strength.

Iron Ax was keenly aware of this.

"Sir, all the "goods" shipped from Neverwinter have been delivered outside Fang City. "A soldier ran up the tower, saluted and reported.

"Finally here!" He suddenly cheered up and turned to Brian and said, "Come with me to have a look."

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When a group of people came outside the city, they saw hundreds of iron barrels filled with open space at the city gate. They were almost half a person tall and a cubit wide. They were round in appearance and couldn't even find an opening on their bodies.

"Sir, what is this?" Brian circled one of the iron barrels several times, puzzled for a moment. If it is a container for serving, it must have an opening handle, right? When it comes to weapons...actual combat has proven that fixedly placed explosives are far less efficient than cannons, and it would be too unrealistic to rely on them to defeat the devil.

He pushed it with his hand and found that the bucket did not move at all. It was obviously full of things and extremely heavy. It is not an easy task to transport these hundreds of iron barrels to the front line. It is worth consuming such precious transportation capacity. They must not be insignificant items.

"This is a new idea that His Majesty has come up with. It's just that when you were testing it, you were still in the extreme south to open up territory for His Majesty. It's normal to not know about it," Tie Ax said with a smile. "These iron barrels are the protagonists of this interception strategy. If it works If it is as ideal as in the experiment, then even in mobile warfare, we can catch the devil by surprise!"