Chapter 439 Gu Lie's defeat

The state of the Elf Forest in 4 years of the Gregorian calendar is simply different from before. With the support of the Holy Sword Empire, magic cannons, armored vehicles, soldiers' armor and swords have basically reached the top level.

And after more than a year of supplement, the army of the Elf Forest is also unprecedentedly large, and the combat quality of military personnel has also been generally improved. Millions of elites are not boasted. After pre-war statistics, in March of the 4th year of the Gregorian calendar, the main forces of the Elf Forest include: the 1st Army Group, the 2nd Army Group, Stark Defense Cluster, Ladora River Defense Cluster.

The total number of these troops is close to 1.3 million. The 1st Army Group and the 2nd Army Group are still formed according to the military style of the Holy Sword Empire, equipped with a large number of magic cannons and armored vehicles, and the unicorn cavalry of the Elf Forest, which can be regarded as the elite of the elite.

Edward's 3rd Armored Army Group's attack direction is west of Booker City. His troops marched southwest along the foothills of the Sighing Mountains, destroying any resistance along the way and going straight to the rear of the Orcs. Edward couldn't wait. He had to drive there while the navy took Erihal and surrounded all the orc troops he could catch up with.

Along with all the commanders of the Sword Empire, Edward*, a cavalryman known for his offensive speed, is undoubtedly the sharpest offensive knife. He is famous for suddenly appearing in unexpected places of the enemy to disrupt his opponents.

This time, he still fiercely attacked the rear of the orc army at his incredible speed, and his chief of staff described him as "dragging the whole army with his own will."

General Hawke's 11th Army Group detoured southeast, covering the flanks of Edward's 3rd Army Group, and was responsible for attacking Booker City and completing the task of encirclementing the orcs.

The defeated orc troops had no intention of fighting, and the whole line was soon surrounded by a huge encirclement between Booker and Villen.

There are about 740,000 orc front-line defense forces under the command of the orc prince Gu Lie, and the surrounding troops are 110,000, all surrounded by human and elf forces in this huge encirclement.

At present, about 950,000 Orcs are surrounded, and a total of 790,000 troops of the Orc frontline defense forces commanded by Gu Lie are surrounded in Villen.

In addition, about 100,000 troops who had no time to retreat were surrounded in the Booker area. Although they were not far from Willen, they had been surrounded by Hawke's legion and completely lost the possibility of breaking through.

Erihar has also been completely surrounded by human beings. The largest city of the southwest elf clan is now controlled by more than 70,000 orc troops. They try to delay the time and buy time for the Orc Empire to rebuild the defense line between Doss and Yake.

However, Cotula still commanded about 320,000 troops who escaped from the encirclement to stabilize the fragile Yak Zhitos defense line. About 100,000 orc reinforcements from Fick City and Rowe were also deployed to the defense line.

In order to prevent Ariel from becoming another Gstad, the human troops deliberately released a corner of the Ariel encirclement, and about 60,000 orc troops retreated back to their own defense line, but there were still about 10,000 orc troops stationed in Ariel, and they vowed to defend Ariel. Never take a step back.

Then about 100,000 orc soldiers scattered behind the human defense line fled back to the south of Yak City, because the armies of humans and elves were busy stabilizing the defense line, deploying new troops, replenishing supplies and supplies, so they did not launch a large army against these scattered troops. Large-scale strangulation.

And in such a vast orc-occupied area, a large number of orc civilians were captured, and the troops of the Bright Orcs were responsible for appeasing and collecting these immigrated orc imperial civilians and sending them to the elves province of the Sword Empire.

Because the orc empire was friendly to the local elf residents (only massacres broke out at the beginning of the war), the elves were not difficult to treat the people of these orc empires, and even gave these hungry yellow and thin orcs some food.

About 500,000 orc civilians were captured, and more than 40 million elf civilians were liberated. The Elf Queen couldn't believe her ears, and she received a report from the front-line troops: Now Ariel has become a bag that can be captured at any time.

In this huge encirclement, Gulie deployed the defense force into a circle, divided into five directions, first the northern legion deployed around the tributary of the Ladora River, and then the original defense force deployed on the west bank of the Ladora River. The two forces are stationed at the original defense line, with a relatively complete defense body. And relying on the Ladora River, the defense is the most stable.

Close to the southeast facing the beach, where human troops have been fighting for dozens of days in a row, exhausted, and there are not many troops, so the defense line in the southeast is also relatively safe.

The defenders of Booker City in the southwest temporarily restrained the 11th Army Group of mankind, which relieved his great pressure and allowed him to concentrate on deploying his defense circle.

What worries Gu Lie most is the west, which is the offensive direction of the 1st Group of the Elf Army, but his strength here is the weakest.

However, when Gu Lie was busy shrinking the defense line, deploying troops, collecting scattered troops, and deploying more than 700,000 troops in his hand, the 11th Army Group of mankind had begun a fierce attack on Booker City.

The orcs in Booker City finally refused the persuasion of the Bright Orcs and bravely faced the attack of the 11th Army Group of the Sword Empire.

The two sides fought repeatedly around Booker City, and the fierce combat effectiveness of the Orcs played an unprecedented role in the ruins. The human magic cannon poured more than 500 tons of ammunition into Booker City, but still failed to make these tenacious fighters take a step back.

The battle lasted until March 17th, when humans and elves paid about 50,000 casualties (most of which were the first elf infantry) to finally occupy this important city.

After capturing Booker City, Willen was completely isolated. Prince Gulie, who was trapped in Willen, can only hope for the counterattack of the ethereal orc empire, but not everyone is as crazy as him, and many generals begin to despair about the defense war with no future.

Yes, desperate, they don't know what will happen to them. They are more than 2,000 kilometers away from the nearest friendly forces! And they are now firmly surrounded by the elite Elf Forest Force and the 11th Army Group of the Holy Sword Empire.