Chapter 174 Battle of the Upper Meilan River

On the border between the Holy Empire and the Lovik Empire, a barracks sentry was monitoring the distance, and two guards were chatting and farting in the grass roots.

"I heard that the Lovik Empire had a famine?" A soldier asked.

"Do you still need to hear? Look at the cavalrymen opposite Lovik, the horses are almost thinner than people, hahaha. Another soldier laughed.

The soldier who asked showed a very helpless smile and said, "The people who are suffering are still ordinary people. What's the good jokes? Maybe it will be our turn next year."

The soldier who was laughing at the opposite cavalry just now nodded and said, "We still don't belong to the category of suffering? The new general heard that he knew tactics very well and concentrated his troops for dozens of miles on the border, leaving us in front of us. If Lovik doesn't want to develop a war, we won't even have a chance to run.

With a deep sigh, the two soldiers continued to look at the endless woodland opposite with long guns in their arms. The forest here extends from the forest of the elf forest, but it is not dense, so it is not the territory of the elves, but it is indeed a natural hiding place. The wide distance between the trees It makes it easy for any arms to pass.

The Holy Empire's new successor to Lingbei Province is John, the grandson of Archbishop Srock, who graduated from the National Command College of the Holy Empire and is an academic representative. His tactics mainly come from the personal examples of famous generals such as Leon Barton. As a young man, his prudence Let some old generals sigh.

Although he is stubborn at a young age and often bullies the children of low-level noble families such as Arcado, after all, it is an immature age. Now John is a senior commander on the northern line of the Holy Empire, but this John is still violent and beats his subordinates from time to time.

When commanding operations, he first advocated the transfer of front-line troops to the second line to buy time for early warning. This idea coincides with Rome Island's tactics. It is a replica of the large depth defense system in modern warfare. The difference is that Rome Island's peripheral alert in exchange for early warning time is a large number of mechanized reconnaissance. Troops, and he relied on the warning time that countless soldiers paid for their lives.

After John came to Lingbei Province, he changed his usual practice of distributing troops evenly on the first defense line of the border. Instead, he retreated all his troops to the second defense line and retained very few troops on the first defense line. He wanted to defeat the possible assault of the Lovik Empire and immediately put them into his hand. The team counterattacked, recaptured the lost land and defeated the Lovik Empire.

Just as the two soldiers of the Holy Empire were worried about their safety on the tower, a huge army was quietly gathering in the woodland a few kilometers away. Countless soldiers led the horses and slowly marched towards the border of the Holy Empire. The horses of these troops were wrapped in thick linen and on their mouths. They are all tied with a rope to prevent these animals from making noise.

When the cavalry approached the sentry tower of the Holy Empire, they turned over their horses and carefully pulled out their swords. Several forward scouts aimed at the two absent-minded soldiers on the tower with Romai's exit crossbow arrows, which could shoot deadly crossbows at any time.

suddenly shouted: "Soldiers! Attack!" From the territory of the Lovik Empire, the Lovik cavalry rushed to the territory of the Holy Empire with their legs on their backs. The Lovik Empire did not declare a war and launched a war of aggression against the Holy Empire. The war in the upper reaches of the Meilan River broke out.

Two crossbows cut through the air and flew to the two soldiers on the tower of the Holy Empire. They instantly penetrated two fragile bodies and took away two poor lives. The tower built of a few broken wood was quickly occupied by the Lovik soldiers who rushed over, and several sacred empires in the dormitory of a small soldier next to it After a few screams, the soldiers ended up in the room. The only proof that they had or evidence was that warm blood flowed from the room to the steps of the room and finally penetrated into the soil under the steps.

While the Lovik Empire launched an attack, the emperor of the Lovik Empire, Gopez, announced to the world in the capital Vito that the owner of Rome Island was officially canonized as the Grand Duke of the Lovik Empire, and Rudolph Arcado would be the best friend of the Lovik people. In this way, he announced to the world that his battle was supported by Rome Island and the Elf Forest, but in fact, Rome Island did not clearly support his invasion plan, but vaguely stated that it would not interfere in the limited attack.

Anyway, the second country in the existing empire to recognize the identity of the Lord Duke of Rome Island has appeared. Now the international influence of Rome Island has reached an unprecedented level, as if all wars in the world need Rome Island to nod to fight, at least to see Romere, otherwise It is possible to become the second eternal night empire, which is obviously not worth the loss.

Lovik concentrated 200,000 cavalry and 400,000 infantry to attack the Holy Empire. Gopez wanted to get rid of the domestic economic crisis, obtain a lot of food and supplies, and force the Holy Empire to compromise and end the war. However, he miscalculated the war situation. What he never expected was that the recruits of the Holy Empire were much stronger than he assumed, and John's command was indeed much more effective than some idiot generals, so the war was deadlocked from the beginning.

The beginning of the Lovik Empire was quite classic. A perfect sneak attack was fought brilliantly. Hundreds of thousands of troops appeared at the border of the Holy Empire without any warning and suddenly launched an attack. However, the defensive operations of the Holy Empire are also absolutely textbook-level. They gave up their front-line positions early, but concentrated a large number of troops on the second line of defense, successfully blocked the attack of the Lovik Empire, and immediately launched a counterattack in some local areas.

Lovik fought to the death, and the Holy Empire did not give up any land. Both sides did not end the war as quickly as expected. Instead, they fell into the quagmire of the war. Both sides did not want to consume like this, but they did not dare to stop first, so they had to keep fighting and bloodshed in the north province for a while.

At this time, there was a sudden fire in the backyard of the poor Holy Empire. I don't know why the news that the senior officials of the Holy Empire framed Lin Feng's family spread. The most terrible thing was that they had noses and eyes, and there was a bunch of speculation and circumstantial evidence as evidence, which made Arnold and Sloc two people for a while. Angered, a large number of divine punishments were sent to investigate the source of rumors, which made the matter more obvious. It seemed that it was only a matter of time before Rome Island knew about it.