Roland has been preparing for a long time to carry out his revenge plan, and he has thought it through as much as possible. \\\ With his current personal strength, frankly speaking, the chances of a one-on-one victory over Dragon King Mars will not exceed 30%.
Fortunately, he is not obsessed with fighting alone, and when necessary, legendary powerhouses such as Prince Carol, Valentina, and Beowulf will respond to his request to rush to help him fight against the dragon king Mars.
As for the half-dragon general beside the dragon king and the unknown number of purgatory demon dragons, Roland can confidently cope with it with his own strength and the twelve quasi-legendary holy warriors summoned by the "Angel Horn".
The only thing that bothered him was Andrea and his dragon legion, and in his heart, Roland didn't want to meet Andrea, but as he had confessed to Palatina not long ago, he was in the rivers and lakes, and he couldn't help himself.
Fate made him and Andrea know each other, both confidants, but now they are forced to go to the hostile camp, have to draw their swords against each other, this is indeed a tragedy, but under the sweep of the tide of war, such a tragedy does not only happen to him and Palatina or Andrea, compared to the general trend of the world, the rise and fall of national fortunes, and personal joys and sorrows.
From the day he succeeded his father in the supreme authority of the "Far Eastern Court", Roland has been conscious, and gradually realized that his fate has been firmly tied to the fate of the country and the nation.
His recent reunion with Palatina at the Turbid River was the first time he had been soft-hearted to the enemy since the beginning of the war, and he secretly told himself afterwards that it would be the last.
In order to free the tens of millions of Far Eastern compatriots from the torment of war as soon as possible, and no longer have to endure the sorrow of the separation of flesh and blood, and the white-haired people sending the black-haired people, his personal feelings can only take a back seat in the case of necessity.
Neither Palatina nor Andrea could stop him until he won the final victory.
At dawn on May 7, the 1st Brigade of the Punishment Knights of the Assanian Empire, led by Major General Palatina, risked the risk of being killed by the torrent and forced to cross the turbid river, which was 1,000 yards wide, and reached the opposite bank one after another.
Palatina made full use of the angelic wings she had acquired after her transformation, and ran back and forth on the wide river, and when she saw the Imperial knights who were rising and falling, she flew down and reached out to salvage them, and sent them to the west bank to return to rescue the other drowning people.
With the assistance of other high-level punishment knights with transformation abilities, after two hours of busyness, Palatina finally salvaged all the subordinates who fell in the heart of the river.
Looking back at the river beach on the west bank, the Imperial knights who had lost their armor and mounts were all "chickens in the soup", shivering in the cold morning breeze and sneezing incessantly, looking embarrassed and pitiful.
Palatina sighed softly, landed on the river beach, and ordered the knights to assemble in a formation and count the numbers.
Counting those who won the red lottery and relied on magical resources to cross the river safely, there were less than 1,000 people gathered on the west bank of the Turbid Wave River at this moment, and the remaining more than 2,000 punishment knights died on the way to escape, and the heavy losses made Paladina's heart ache.
Barely suppressing the urge to cry, Palatina led the force that had escaped death to retreat in the direction of the position on the west bank, but it was unusually quiet along the way, not a single patrol was encountered, and there was no human figure on the morning fog-filled position, only the intricate trenches and the ubiquitous pillboxes were still quietly displayed in front of people's eyes, like a dead graveyard.
Seeing this strange situation, Palatina suddenly woke up after a little thought: Commander-in-Chief Engel and his generals had realized the seriousness of the problem long before the loss of the position on the east bank, and under the deterrence of the Far Easterners' magic fortress, the defensive positions set up by the Imperial Army on the west bank of the Turbid Wave River would also follow in the footsteps of the East Bank position, and instead of sticking to the positions that were destined to fall and sacrificing the front-line officers and soldiers in vain, it was better to take advantage of the fact that the Far Easterners had not yet crossed the Turbidity River, take the initiative to abandon the positions on the west bank, and withdraw the defenders and equipment to the Olevi Fortress.
Regroup your defenses within the encirclement of the Lost Lock.
Palatina acknowledged that General Engel had made a wise decision, but the dead silence of the West Bank position still made her feel bitter and desolate.
Recalling that more than three months ago, when the Imperial Expeditionary Corps first arrived at the Ulino Pass, the position of the Far East defenders on the opposite bank was directly threatened by four imperial train guns, and the commander of the Far East and West Fronts did not want to suffer casualties in vain under the condition that he could not fight back, so he was forced to blow up the bridge on the Zhuolang River and take the initiative to withdraw from the East Bank position that had been painstakingly operated for many years, it is not difficult for Palatina to imagine that the officers and soldiers of the Far East who were ordered to retreat at that time must have felt as depressed as he was at the moment when he saw the empty East Bank position behind him.
However, after only three months, the Far Easterners not only recaptured the eastern shore positions that they had been forced to retreat from, but also forced the Imperial side to relinquish their positions on the west coast without moving a single soldier, and the situation of both sides was completely reversed.
The situation on the battlefield changed so quickly that Palatina, who witnessed it, felt a little unreal, as if she was still in a dream, and she was in a state of confusion.
In fact, the current situation of the Imperial Legion is even more difficult than the garrison on the Far Eastern and Western Fronts three months ago.
The four train cannons that were the strategic threat of the Imperial Army forcing the Far Easterners to retreat no longer exist, and the Far Easterners' strategic weapon, the Magic Fortress, was suspended above the heads of all the Imperial officers and soldiers, and this huge threat made Paladina have to worry about the safety of the Olevi Fortress.
If the fortress locks can't withstand the fierce bombardment of the Magic Fortress and finally collapses and collapses, then the Imperial officers and soldiers who are cowering in the Olevi Fortress will be under the guns of the Magic Fortress, like fish on the chopping board, without the slightest ability to resist, and they can only withdraw from the Ulino Pass and surrender the last military stronghold of the Yashan Empire in the Far East to the Far Easterners.
If the war situation really deteriorated to this point, the Crusade that the imperial government and the opposition had placed high hopes on would also be declared a complete failure.
What happens after that Will Roland and his generals be satisfied with just recovering the entire Far East, will the Far Eastern army take advantage of the victory to pursue, rush out of the Ulino Pass, invade the inland provinces of the empire, and even attack the holy city of Yashan, and establish a new empire belonging to the Far Easterners on the ruins of the Yashan Empire Palatine didn't dare to think about it anymore.
At this moment, she finally deeply realized the fear and anger that the people of the Far East generally had when they learned that the empire was about to launch an eastward crusade, facing the threat of national extinction, and it was no wonder that the whole country in the Far East did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives to resolutely resist the imperial crusade
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