Chapter 1564: Counterattack Time

There are a total of five mountain passes that can safely cross the Fengdi Mountains. Advance through the five passes in front of the five levels and cross this cursed mountain.

Although you can cross mountains in other places, the level of safety and danger is different from these five mountain trails.

The orc army chose these special routes to cross the mountains in order to conduct a sneak attack. Even if all the troops sent were elites, after successfully crossing the mountains, only half of the troops that could fight were left. The missing half was either seriously injured or lost in the process.

For humans, there is no need to take risks at the moment, so they naturally choose a safe route to pass.

After the preliminary plan was finalized, the army began to take action.

Although this war is not a tense battle against time. But if everyone wants to reach the Gate of the Abyss before the orc army returns to defense, they must move faster. Instead of taking action after everything is fully prepared.

As you can imagine, when the orc army returns to defense, it will take several times more effort to achieve the same goal. Therefore, even if the action is a bit hasty, as long as the supplies can keep up, even if there are some omissions, the front-line commanders below will find ways to overcome them.

The first group of troops that crossed the Wind Emperor Mountains met up with the vanguard of the outpost. The first thing they did was to build a supply camp.

The cursed Fengdi Mountain Range is a natural difficulty. Even if you choose the safest route, it is still difficult to climb.

In comparison, although the terrain after crossing the Wind Emperor Mountains is mainly hilly, it is still passable by vehicles such as carriages and cars. This means that the speed of marching will be greatly increased, but the difficulty of transporting supplies will not decrease relatively.

The faster march meant that the supply team had to cover longer distances to catch up with the leading troops. In other words, although the supply team no longer has to cross mountain roads, they have to travel farther to complete their mission.

Therefore, it is very important to establish a supply station on the north side of the mountain range. Divide the supply route into two sections and hand them over to the team that is good at each. One section is responsible for browsing the Fengdi Mountains, and the other section is delivered to the troops from the supply depot.

What the first batch of troops and outposts did was establish supply depots. And an endless stream of supplies are also sent forward from the base camp in the south of the mountain range.

Soon, the follow-up troops also quickly followed. And according to the division of five checkpoints and five mountain roads, five routes were simply formed to march north.

Anyway, there are not many troops that can go through the mountains at the same time. Even if they stay in the supply camp in the north to repair for a period of time and gather enough teams before setting off, the number of troops is still limited.

Therefore, the young officers on the staff did not deliberately find more marching routes to the north. At most, they could order certain troops to branch off the route and deal with some enemies who were still in their original positions and not moving.

When only the defenders maintaining the defense line were left in the south and most of the troops crossed the Fengdi Mountains, the base camp followed suit and moved to the north of the mountain. And after that, the old Duke Kawei will lead his own army and also march towards the north instead of staying in the rear.

The existing command system in Lost Land is not sufficient to allow commanders to stay far away from the front line.

No one would want to use magic to deliver those large and cumbersome military orders, because the cost of doing so would be too high. The magicians are not willing to let themselves be reduced to messengers.

You can use the forum. But Mr. Kaweigong, who was well aware of the forum's confidentiality shortcomings, didn't want to put this crucial task on a flawed tool.

Therefore, in order to ensure smooth flow of orders, he still followed the old method and followed the large troops forward. Even on the front lines when necessary.

The Twin Griffins were not idle during this period either. Ezio, who did not belong to the airship force of the Haider Empire and did not need to defend a certain line of defense, and also had a ground force, was incorporated into the force directly under the old Kawei Gong.

The regular legions affiliated with the Gwana Empire still maintain their organization and have a certain degree of independence. These ten armies, which are recognized as the most powerful, are all placed at the forefront of attacking the enemy according to their respective characteristics.

The Chinese army directly under the old Duke Kawei was composed of private soldiers of some nobles who were friendly with him, and most of them were small nobles.

On the one hand, it is because the great nobles will not easily submit to others. Instead of using power to pressure them to submit, it is better to maintain a certain degree of independence. Furthermore, if the army of the small nobles does not have a capable person to lead it, it will be as difficult to command as loose sand.

Therefore, every 'army' preparing to counterattack is composed of one or two big nobles leading a group of small nobles. Nobles from the same country are not limited to forming an army. Anyway, for nobles, sometimes status is more important than which king or emperor they belong to.

Almost all of Ezio's team came from elementary schools and were members of the fraternity. This kind of unruly team will hardly be favored by the nobles unless they have outstanding achievements. After all, not being of noble birth sometimes means a lack of resources.

But unfortunately, Ezio's team was one of the main forces in the retreat. In terms of merit, there are not many people who can surpass this team.

Even the regular legions of the empire are only well-equipped and well-trained. In terms of actual military exploits, the long-lasting peace in the lost land did not give these elite legions any room to perform. It is normal for them to be inferior to those teams that have fought in battles and escaped unscathed.

Therefore, when reorganizing the legion, Ezio's team had many powerful nobles reaching out to recruit them.

However, the airship Twin Griffins, which is also in Ezio's team, belongs to the family of the Grand Duke of Kavi. Old Princess Kawei took the initiative and assigned the airship to Ezio's command. This is considered a loan, but not just a gift.

Coupled with the relationship between the old man and the magician, as well as the debt between the person from the elementary school and the magician, the old Kawei Gong easily brought Ezio's team into the direct system.

Ezio was not dissatisfied at all when he was incorporated into the central army, which seemed unlikely to stay at the front line. This is not to say that he is content to stay in a safe place, but that damn intuition has given him another warning.

The old tactics of the orcs are to attack in the east and west, divert the tiger away from the mountain, and then attack the enemy's weak spot with the main force to expand the results in one go!

This series of combos is certainly useful, so the orcs use it again and again. Sometimes it's okay even if you are discovered, then the sheep attack becomes the main attack, and the main attack becomes head-to-head confrontation. When the time comes, the brave one will win.

Among the orcs, there is no shortage of people who are single-minded and would rather die in battle than retreat.

Of course, that was in a state of madness. If morale collapses, half-orcs will also be the fastest to flee. Orcs are such an extreme race.

The current actions of the human side seemed to Ezio to be part of a strategy to lure the enemy deeper. I just don’t know where the enemy is ambushing.

You know, in the 'Alliance of Demons and Orcs', the demon is the protagonist and the enemy! Orcs are just scraps, even if they are indeed more numerous.

But since the great retreat, Ezio has rarely seen demons on the battlefield. Including the attack on the south side of the Fengdi Mountains, the defense line established under the leadership of the Gwana Empire was also dominated by the orc army.

Although demons also appeared, the types of demons and the number of casualties were just for decoration. It has nothing to do with the overall situation.

Even in subsequent airship rescue missions, either no enemies were encountered, or they were encountered by orcs. The most unlucky thing is that a team like his own met a master of the level of a strong orc.

So, where did the devil go?

Ezio didn't think that the demons passed through the gate of the abyss and went back to the abyss for vacation.

The demon's ever-changing abilities are the real thorn in his side!

I still remember that the most dangerous battle in the retreat was when a group of invisible demons attacked my team from the side. If the people from the Brotherhood hadn't stepped up to the plate, and the attacking demon wasn't a high-level and powerful enemy, perhaps there would have been nothing to worry about after that battle.

So during the period of moving the base camp, Ezio handed over the ground troops to the Brotherhood's deputies. He himself stayed on the Twin Griffins and kept circling, trying to find out where the enemy might ambush, or how to launch a surprise attack.

In the previous rescue mission, the airship troops in the sky were attracted to a distance by the orc team, and then the orcs semi-individually attacked the airship team that landed on the ground. Not only did he kill a lot of people, but he also exploded an old main airship of the Hydel Empire.

This is just the method of half-orcs. In terms of cunning and scheming, the devil is definitely better than him.

So this time when the enemy is lured deeper, how will the demon alliance fight?

Or is this all just the unfounded worries of a young man suffering from paranoia?

Staying in the control room of the Twin Griffins, Ezio, who had been restless, laughed at himself.

In fact, in the eyes of others, he acted as if the injury on his body had not been completely healed, although this was also the case. But compared to the hidden wounds on his body, the worries that Ezio found difficult to tell others were the source of his real troubles.

In the distance there are the plans of the magician and the World Trees, and in the near side there are the evil plans of the demon alliance that I don’t know whether they have or not. No matter which one, Ezio was troubled, but no one could share the burden with him.

The former cannot be spoken. The latter said that only a few people knew about it because he was afraid of affecting morale, and he and Ezio looked for possible clues. But these people are not as worried as Ezio.

However, some people are just like crows, with good but bad spirits. Ezio's worries were finally confirmed to be not unfounded, and the enemy who showed his fangs had indeed thrust his sword into the weakness of the human army!

After setting off from the base camp, when the Chinese army led by Old Kawei moved north, they suddenly discovered that they were surrounded by enemies!

Ravaged by the flames of war, enemies appeared from nowhere on the land that was supposed to be uninhabited. They were huge in number, several times the number of troops that had finally set out on the human side, and they were encircling them from all directions.

Ezio was the first person to discover the enemy, and he also knew why the arcane eye on the airship had not detected the enemy's existence before. Because the enemy comes from underground.

I don't know if it is another dug space to hide soldiers; or if it is an underground world space that already exists, but someone just dug another passage to the ground.

Gray dwarves, join the fight!