Chapter 70: In the blink of an eye, all the armies were wiped out.
In the southern part of the Tellilia Plains south of the Arnus Hills, an exhausted army was encamping under the setting sun. yznn This is a 30,000-strong Rangers led by King Duran of the Kingdom of Elbe, with the Elbe army as the main body.
They are currently being ordered to attack the Arnus Hills from the south, cooperating with the main force of Emperor Sochar coming over the mountains from the northeast.
The army formed a pincer attack on the outsiders.
At first glance, this seems to be a combat strategy that fully complies with the principles of the art of war, but in practice it is very difficult to implement.
Just looking at the map, the northern border of the Kingdom of Elbe seems to be close to the location of the Arnus Hill.
But in fact, there is still a distance of about 600 to 700 kilometers between the truly densely populated hinterland of the Kingdom of Elbe and the Arnus Hills.
If you want to send troops from the capital of the Kingdom of Elbe to the north of Arnus Hills, you must first cross a steep and rugged mountain range, pass through the Schulz Forest where the dark elves live, and then cross the uninhabited plains of Tellilia.
These are inaccessible and desolate places, and there are no rivers or waterways for boats.
Due to the lack of decent roads, it is also difficult for heavy vehicles to travel here.
There are not even many water sources.
Even in the forest, cleanliness cannot be found everywhere.
Water source.
The Tellilia Plains is a semi-desert area similar to the Mongolian Gobi, with rugged boulders scattered everywhere, similar to a strange rocky desert that has slightly "returned to green".
Whether it is the Empire or the Kingdom of Elbe, there are no decent villages or towns in this land of more than 100,000 square kilometers, only a few border posts, and almost no supplies along the way.
Therefore, although King Duran had considered the difficulty of supply and only brought 30,000 troops northward, due to the extremely harsh natural conditions, he still suffered a lot along the way.
First, in Schulz Forest, the army was actually attacked by Yanlong.
Fortunately, it was only a young dragon as big as an ox or a horse instead of a towering adult flame dragon.
He finally managed to escape after hundreds of casualties and the loss of two transport convoys.
Immediately afterwards, there was no water supply in the Tellilia Plains, and some people even died of thirst.
Thanks to an experienced guide who found a pond, the entire army was not wiped out halfway.
Even so, tortured by hunger, thirst and exhaustion, the army was already haggard, and its morale and physical strength were on the verge of collapse.
As an experienced battlefield veteran, King Duran had no choice but to order the entire army to stop advancing and camp on the spot to rest for a few days.
In fact, although the outsiders who came through the "gate" on the top of Arnus Hill were theoretically neighbors to King Duran, due to the miserable transportation and communication conditions in ancient times, the Kingdom of Elbe also Without a specialized intelligence agency, coupled with the interference of war and turmoil, Dulan did not collect anything accurate and reliable about these visitors from another world.
I only vaguely knew that they seemed to have a large number of people and were able to make exquisite utensils and accessories.
They also once took advantage of the civil strife in the empire to seize the city of Italica and kidnapped an imperial princess.
But this does not explain the power of people from other worlds.
How strong the military strength is, because during the empire's civil war, almost every ambitious prince in the entire continent cut a lot of flesh from the empire.
Even the barbarians and orcs in the high mountains can take advantage of the gaps in the transfer of the imperial border guards to break into the hinterland of the empire and plunder.
Even Duran himself was no exception.
The reason why he was willing to send troops to participate in the emperor's expedition at his own expense was entirely because Emperor Sochar agreed to grant him a large area of land south of the Romanian Mountains, as well as some islands that had been ceded before. , allowing the Kingdom of Elbe to basically restore its territory to its heyday.
As for those absurd and exaggerated rumors like "people from other worlds have huge floating battleships that can fly across the entire continent in a few days" and "people from other worlds built a city more magnificent than the imperial capital in just a few days" , His Majesty Duran naturally wouldn't believe it if it came from " If the aliens behind the "door" really possess such terrifying force, then they should have been sweeping across all directions and killing people.
How could they still be nesting in a desolate place like Arnus Hill where they want nothing, just making sneak attacks?
I would be satisfied with the city of Italica.
In short, according to his experience, his position should be relatively safe now: it is still more than a hundred kilometers away from the Arnus Hills, and it is in an inaccessible and barren wasteland.
No spies were found along the way.
The army has probably not been discovered by the outsiders yet.
Even if the outsiders really noticed his whereabouts and mobilized an army to fight from the north, then after crossing the desolate and empty plains of Tellilia, the outsiders would The army should also be exhausted.
By staying in the camp and having water, he took advantage of being able to wait for work.
Unfortunately, he didn't know that his whereabouts had already been exposed.
As long as he was photographed by the spy satellite above his head, he could see everything in detail.
What's even more regrettable is that due to the huge difference in weapons and equipment, people from other worlds don't need to travel long distances if they want to destroy his army.
When King Duran was sleeping soundly in his tent after his tired horse, several long-range drones had quietly flown over his military camp.
When the first batch of irresistible flames of death just appeared at the end of the night sky in the far north, the sentinels of the Kingdom of Elbe thought they were meteors, but the next moment, they turned into bright flames falling from the sky, bursting out with deafening The roar.
"boom" Accompanied by a loud noise that shook the sky, for a while, thunder thundered and the earth trembled.
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Fires flashed everywhere on the ground around the military camp, and screams continued.
The soldiers who were sleeping in the camp tent were already scorched by the scorching heat before they could figure out what was going on.
The flames turned it into coke Fortunately, despite the laser guidance of the drone, due to some mistakes, King Duran was not blown away by the rocket in the first place, but had time to get out of the fire covered in clothes.
The quilt was carried by a group of loyal guards to escape from the camp.
Despite this, the ignorant His Majesty Duran had only just been carried out by the guards for a few steps when he felt a hot and turbulent wave of air coming from behind, pushing him and the guards protecting him forward.
He fell down on the muddy ground, and his thighs and arms were scratched several times by sharp rocks.
There were blood marks on his face, but his keen intuition honed over many years on the battlefield prevented him from holding onto the bleeding wound and groaning, nor did he look back.
Instead, he quickly climbed up and staggered away into the shadow of a boulder.
Then he rolled over and rolled into a cave that was suspected to have been a beast's den.
At the same time, more rockets continued to fall on the military camp of the Kingdom of Elbe.
The fiery shock wave swept across the ground like a devastation, flattening fences and tents, leaving only burning wreckage and charred and roasted corpses.
There were also several surviving soldiers of the "Fire Man" and "Fire Horse" who were on fire and running around.
Their souls were crushed by fear and were no longer restrained by the officers.
They just held their heads and howled while running away in all directions.
However, even if they ran out of the camp, they might not be able to escape.
Because the rockets from hundreds of kilometers away are still falling, and the hot shock waves that can crush human bones and internal organs are still raging behind them, scorching earth, gravel, ashes and minced meat.
Under the flames of the explosion, It splashed everywhere, and then fell like heavy rain, forming a soul-stirring picture of purgatory.
The enemy's position is still hundreds of kilometers away, and the 30,000-strong army has been destroyed in the blood and fire oshow7: