Chapter 665 The Situation on the Frontline
"Go to hell! Witch!"
The tall armored sergeant with a ferocious face assumed a roof-like stance and slashed the heavy sword in his hand towards the slender witch in front of him.
This witch looks to be around twenty, has short brown hair, wears a thin iron breastplate, and holds a slender stabbing sword in her hand.
On this city wall covered with the red light of the sunset, the light around the witch ripples like water waves, and even if she gets close, she can feel a heat rushing towards her face.
Stepping on the sandstone walls of Sola Castle, and stepping over his seriously injured and convulsing companions on the ground, the heavy two-handed sword in the armored sergeant's hand cut through the air, and even the hilt of the sword was slightly bent due to the huge force.
The sound of breaking the air lifted up the witch's short brown hair.
The witch with her back to the sergeant seemed to have heard the sound of the giant sword piercing the air at this moment, but she didn't even look back. She just turned the stabbing sword in her hand into a stream of light and penetrated the throat of the sergeant in front of her.
"Ignore me?! Witch!" In anger, the sergeant's sword moved a little faster, and it fell on the witch before his eyes. "Okay! Well..."
"When--" The sword edge hit the ground and splashed out a few sparks.
The familiar feeling of the sword cutting into the flesh did not come. Instead, the imbalance caused by the loss of strength made the sergeant almost fall to the ground.
His body swayed and he stepped forward, finally regaining his balance.
"Erikson, you've cut the ground crookedly!" The companion who was dueling with other Black Snake Bay warriors on one side turned and shouted angrily towards Erikson.
"Impossible!" Looking at the witch who only suffered a slight injury on her arm, Ericson even became distracted for a moment on the battlefield.
He had clearly hit the witch just now. According to common sense, he should be able to split the witch in half directly. Why did he only leave a scratch on his arm?
When the witch turned around, something even more desperate happened. Under the sunlight, the thumb-long wound actually sprouted a row of granules.
These granulations adhered to each other, and within almost a breath, the original wound was almost healed, and not even a few drops of blood flowed.
"The power of the devil, the power of the devil, you will be cursed sooner or later!" Erikson screamed, raised the sword in his hand again, and slashed at the witch randomly again.
"Hmph."
With a sneer, the witch shrouded in distorted light gently raised her hand, and a black mist suddenly appeared on her fingertips.
The black mist rotated, as if absorbing the pale golden red light of the sunset, and the rippling light on the witch's body stopped for a moment.
The next second, before the sergeant could even see the shape and size of the black mist, he felt his eyes blur and a burning and tearing pain came from his chest.
He lowered his head, and the hot light melted the weak points of his armor in the blink of an eye. The molten iron dripped down and fell on the chest with a wide open heart.
Bystanders could even see a beating heart among the bloody flesh.
"Devil, devil!"
"It's the witch pretending to be Phoenix!"
"Singer? Singer! Why are you just watching!"
Abandoning the corpse in front of her, the witch Thelomis, holding the bayonet sword, rushed towards another wall where they were fighting.
Taking Ericson with her, more than twenty corpses fell around the Phoenix Witch, most of whom were the great swordsmen of the empire who had broken through to the city wall.
On such a warm and clear evening, it would have been a good time for a walk and a chat.
But on the city wall of Sola Castle in the southern county, there were thousands of Black Snake Bay warriors and battle mages holding obsidian swords and scimitars, fighting with the soldiers who climbed up the city wall along the ladder.
The city walls were covered with towering heads and waving swords. Empire soldiers in silver armor held square shields and struck against the skinny Black Snake Bay warriors.
Jars filled with poisonous insects fell at the feet of the imperial soldiers, and the flames and poisonous smoke of red dragon's breath and green dragon's breath rose one after another.
Standing next to the prayer carriage, the monks chanted scriptures loudly, suppressing the use of magic by the wizards.
The ladders of the imperial soldiers were overturned again and again and fell to the ground with a deafening roar.
The soldiers who climbed halfway fell down and fell screaming in mid-air. Their spines were broken on the spot, or they were smashed into the spear phalanx of other soldiers.
Under the distortion of the light, Thelomis' stabbing sword seemed like a stream of light, and each thrust was accompanied by a short scream.
But even so, more guards and sergeants climbed up the ladder, waving their swords, and surrounded her back.
"Damn."
Pulling the rapier out of one of the guards' necks, Thelomis cursed angrily. She could feel the ripples of light on her body slowly dissipating.
Fortunately, before the sun completely set, the retreat horn sounded from the Imperial military camp. Looking at the Imperial army retreating like a tide, Thelomis showed no expression of joy on his face.
Since the invasion of Black Snake Bay in January, the situation on the frontline has been retreating steadily, and a large number of secret parties and wizard families have surrendered and become the leading party.
The battle line retreated all the way to Fort Sola, and then stopped. The siege of Sola Fort lasted for more than half a month. Although the tens of thousands of troops in Lilac Corridor failed to break through Sola Fort, they caused considerable casualties.
In the vast land outside Sola Castle, the secret party villages and strongholds in the southern county are being cleared away bit by bit by the church.
In order to prevent morale from continuing to decline, Thelomis had to personally go into battle to stabilize the front. After all, she was the only witch in Sola Castle who could fight.
"How long can the food and grass last?" Thelomis looked at the sunset and asked the adjutant next to him in a low voice.
"It will take up to five days before the new batch of food and grass arrives." The adjutant's voice was hoarse and low. "Our warriors have been fighting continuously for fifteen days."
Thelomis closed his eyes. She could feel the rapier in her hand trembling slightly.
Seeing that Thelomis did not reply, the adjutant bravely whispered: "Do you want to ask reinforcements from the Northern County or Qianhe Valley to help?"
Thelomis opened his eyes and glared at the adjutant: "What are you doing? Luring the wolf into the house? We only lack weapons, equipment and food, and he refuses to give it.
Not only did he refuse to give it, but he also watched the battle line advance to Sola Castle. Didn't he just want us to beg him? I prefer not. ”
After taking a deep breath and instructing him to set up defenses, Thelomis wiped his sweat with a towel and walked towards the command post in the city.
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Entering the command post, Thelomis sat down on the cushion, picked up the fruit wine and took a big gulp before asking: "How is it over there in the northern county? Have the food, grass and weapons arrived?"
"Not yet, they are still busy with the affairs of the Northern County Council." Istria, as his partner, smiled, "The first meeting of the Northern County Secret Party Council was held not long ago, and the hundreds of secret parties were reduced to just one. There are 25 large and medium-sized secret parties and small secret party alliances left.”
"What the church has not been able to accomplish for hundreds of years, this holy grandson accomplished in just one month." Thelomis snorted dissatisfied, "Instead of engaging in such nonsense, it is better to find a way to send some food and grass quickly. ”
Istria talked lightly about the successful convening of the parliament in the northern county, but anyone who has actually read the intelligence knows that it is not that simple.
From the middle of the year, Horn, Solan, and Lulesi began to find the secret party and talk to the village elders to explain one by one, and held many meetings with the wizard family.
Even two days before the parliament convened, Horn had to perform a griffin cannon bombardment of the castle in public.
Under the carrot-and-stick policy of griffin cannons in one hand and food in the other, the secret parties succumbed and handed over part of their power.
"I have to say that they actually used this method to estimate and control the approximate population of the northern county." Istra's long and thick white eyebrows were brought together, and no one could see her pupils clearly. .
Istra is different from Meliati's white hair. Her white hair is caused by congenital albinism.
After awakening as a witch, the magic power transformed her body and greatly improved her health. However, the amblyopia caused by albinism was congenital and could not be complemented and cured through the magic transformation.
After hearing this, Thelomis picked up the information on the table and began to read it silently.
According to the information obtained, there are 52 seats in the Northern County Secret Party Council, which means that the northern county has a population of at least 1.04 million, which is almost more than 200,000 households.
After the formation of the Northern County Secretariat, the first two resolutions passed were the appointment of county commissioners.
The important position of Northern County Sheriff naturally aroused competition among many parties, and the process was very suspenseful.
After the vote, Lulesi became the county commissioner and Solan became the county sheriff.
The whole process was fair, just and open, and no one expected it at all.
After the Northern County Council was convened, Horne immediately used the original Red Copper Fortress as a commercial port, and 30,000 tons of grain that had been prepared in the warehouse were sent directly down the river.
A steady stream of grain started from Fort Joan of Arc, passed through the Horn Town and the Red Copper Fortress, and entered the Long Beach City.
30,000 tons of grain quickly filled the originally hungry Changdi City, and the Holy Scythe Monastery that followed borrowed this grain and began to sign a treaty with the village community of Black Snake Bay.
The content is nothing more than that the Holy Sickle Monastery signed an agreement with them to plant cash crops such as sweet branches and purchase them after the rainy season.
County Sheriff Lulesi used Horn's classic work-for-relief method and began to use the food to hire wild people to repair rivers, docks and roads to facilitate future material transportation.
At the same time, due to the integration of the secret party's power, the alchemists who were originally scattered in the countryside began to move into the towns, gathered together, and borrowed money from the Queen's Bank to open alchemy workshops.
There are also a large number of young alchemists who, after being recommended by the monks from the Order of the Holy Fathers who assist in administration, take boats towards the Dragon Language Alchemy University in the Holy Artium.
Even Thelomis had to admit that after Saint Sun's transformation, the previously lifeless northern county actually had a lively and prosperous atmosphere.
In this series of complicated events, two things made Thelomis look solemn.
The first thing was that the county government began to learn from Qianhe River Valley's assessment and review system, and attracted a group of wizards who were either talented or resourceful into the county government.
The first thing that the new County Sheriff Lules did when she took office was to appoint eight township sheriffs, who also served as tax collectors and local recruiting officers.
The second thing inevitably made Thelomis frown.
The Northern County Assembly passed a resolution: to establish the Northern County Sacred Axis Guard, with a total of 4,500 people. Food and wages will be provided by the rich areas, manpower will be provided by the barren areas, and the Sacred Axis will provide officers, training, weapons and armor.
Northern Counties to form its own standing army?
(End of chapter)