The capital of the huge puppet empire, the strangely laid out Centipede City Bulklan, huddled up in a desperate situation surrounded by mountains and rivers, forming a huge circular city.
The head of Centipede City is the center of the city, and then surrounding the head, the long centipede body coils up in circles, and the tail becomes the outermost hard line of defense.
This line of defense is very distinctive. The huge centipede legs are arranged neatly, making the city look like a super huge gear from the outside.
Travesh's last resort, the city guards of Bulkland, and the last magic legion of the puppet empire, are building fortifications outside this huge gear, although everyone knows that this is just a useless death struggle.
That’s all.
Not to mention the terrifying artillery fire and powerful ground forces of Elanthir, the sky fleet was enough to make Travesh despair, with no way out.
Without the help of the devil and the vast strategic depth, Travish, who was fighting alone, was now at the end of his rope, with no possibility of turning around.
It's just that he himself was unwilling to admit this. He gathered all the troops he could find and pushed his so-called secret weapon to the front line.
In fact, the level of confidentiality of this so-called secret weapon is not too high. Many people know that this secret weapon is the Archon of the Holy Demon Empire who was fooled and lost his body.
He, or rather it, was made into a huge god puppet using the technology provided by the devil.
The god puppet of this puppet empire has a huge body, can carry more magic energy, and can naturally use more powerful magic.
To put it bluntly, this is a puppet empire version of a super god puppet. It does not have a powerful central processor and does not have core computer auxiliary functions. The super god puppet of this puppet empire can only increase its size through the most primitive method.
own fighting ability.
Similar improvements are actually very limited. The huge body allows the former Archdeacon of the Holy Demon Empire to have more powerful power and magic reserves, but it also leaves behind the drawbacks of huge targets and slow movements.
In addition to the 40,000 miscellaneous puppet soldiers, more than 30,000 city guards, and more than 20,000 so-called magic legions - the total adds up to a puppet empire force of 100,000, and they are facing an imposing force like
Rainbow's march south leads to a million-strong army in Ellandhill.
Previously, when it completely suppressed the frontline troops of Elanthir in terms of military strength, the puppet empire did not gain the initiative on the battlefield.
Nowadays, they only have one-tenth of Ailan Hill's combat troops. If they want to stop Ailan Hill's footsteps, it can be said to be a dream.
In an inconspicuous tent, two of Travish's apprentices were holding wine bottles and drinking heavily with pale faces.
They have lost confidence in this war and can only use alcohol to numb their nerves so that they can sleep for a while on every night that is not cold but makes them feel the biting wind.
"Drink! Drink! We will die here tomorrow! Hiccup... we... will be blown up to the sky by a big bomb! Boom! Boom! Boom!" The eldest disciple carrying the wine bottle looked at those people with drunken eyes.
He couldn't understand the sketch of the defense line at all, imitating the sound of explosions and complaining.
The second apprentice sitting opposite him was also very drunk. He was holding an expensive, cheap glass produced by Ailan Hill that was smuggled into the puppet empire through unknown channels. He had a bitter look on his face: "Back then... you said that I
Why didn't you learn magic from Magister Marvin back then? Haha! If I had followed Marvin... I wouldn't be waiting to die here now!"
Both of their tongues were numb and their speech was unclear. In addition, they were very drunk, so they were not chatting with each other at all, but talking to themselves.
Although neither of them was willing to come to the front line to command the last troops of the puppet empire, and although neither of them could be considered "the hope of the whole village," they were eventually sent to the front line by Travish.
Because Travish doesn't have any cronies to rely on, only students like them are left who can barely trust him.
Travish also knew that the two of them were incompetent and had never commanded an army. Letting the two of them lead the last troops to resist Elanthir would be a recipe for suicide.
So Travish still handed over the troops to the original commander whom he did not trust very much, but he sent two of his apprentices to monitor the commander to ensure that he would not betray Travish and take him with him.
These troops surrendered or fled.
Therefore, these two Travish apprentices have no command authority, and they do not need to participate in the deployment and command of any troops. They are only responsible for keeping an eye on the commander of this unit and judging whether the other party has different intentions. This can be regarded as making the best use of everything, which is just right.
Already.
Unfortunately, as time goes by, Eiland Hill's pressing steps are getting closer and closer - two days ago, Eiland Hill's bombers greeted Bulklan who could no longer move.
After a limited attack, destroying some of Bulkland's "centipede legs" and ensuring that Bulkland could no longer move, these bombers locked their targets on the puppet imperial troops deploying defenses outside the city.
These bombers often visited the positions and destroyed any targets they considered suspicious. Before the two sides actually fought, the puppet empire had already lost tens of thousands of troops.
Yes! This data is correct, it is indeed tens of thousands! On the one hand, this loss reflects the large scale of the Air Force bombing and the intensive bomb dropping. On the other hand, it also shows the low quality of the puppet empire's troops.
In fact, it is easy to understand. The troops concentrated here by Eiland Hill are the 3rd Army Group and other subsequent combat units. The Air Force has more than 2,000 bombers of various types.
On average, for every 50 soldiers of the puppet empire, there is one bomber dedicated to dropping bombs. This ratio is already exaggerated.
On the other hand, on the side of the puppet empire, not only do they not have any decent air defense weapons and equipment, they even no longer have the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns they used to equip!
The composition of the troops stationed on the position is extremely complex. The tens of thousands of puppet soldiers are actually temporarily armed production puppets. Such puppets have low combat capabilities. Without relevant experience and skills in combat, they will suffer a large number of losses in bombings.
Surprising.
In addition, the city guards of the puppet empire are also ordinary civilians who are just pretending to be numbers. Most of them have not undergone strict combat training, let alone a strong will and fighting spirit.
It's barely okay to let them stand in the city to maintain law and order, or put on a show to support the scene. It's a bit natural to let them participate in the battle and compete with the battle-hardened Airan Hill troops.
As for the Magic Legion... this army was not even at the level of an ordinary regular army in the puppet empire army two years ago! Calling it the Magic Legion now only refers to its framework, not its combat effectiveness...
There are very few magicians in this army now, and even fewer can adapt to high-intensity combat. Once it encounters losses, it will be difficult for this army to even replace ordinary soldiers, let alone magicians.
For such a unit, although it has air defense awareness, its air defense capability is almost zero, it has no camouflage experience, and no suitable bunkers - so it suffered heavy losses immediately after being bombed, and lost one-tenth of its troops before engaging the enemy.
troops.
This afternoon, Eiland Hill's ground troops approached for reconnaissance, and a small-scale battle broke out between the two sides.
A reconnaissance platoon from Eiland Hill accidentally ran into the station of a thousand-man legion of the puppet empire. Although the thousand-man legion was not fully staffed due to the end of the puppet empire, it was still a relatively capable "main force".
More than 700 soldiers of the puppet empire besieged less than 30 Ailan Hill scouts. After a fierce battle, the enemy retreated, but caused heavy losses of more than 70 casualties to the legion of the puppet empire.
As a result, there were no decent results on the puppet empire's side, except for a pile of bullet casings...
Such a huge gap in combat power made all the senior commanders of the puppet empire despair. Under the cover of night, the commander-in-chief of the puppet empire ordered to shrink his defense line, abandoning the two outer lines of defense originally planned to guard, and shrinking his troops to
Within the core position.
Moreover, the general personally returned to Bulkland and asked Grand Magister Travish to continue recruiting troops, mobilize everyone in the city, strengthen defenses, and deal with the enemy as much as possible.
Travish, knowing that the situation was over, issued an order for all the people of Bulklan to fight, but no one carried out this order.
Many residents left Burkland from the other side, and those who remained were in a state of chaos and disorder, unable to control or direct at all.
Before Elan Hill could attack, wisps of black smoke rose up in the city - robberies and fighting broke out in many corners of the city. Once a magician enters the state of an anarchic organization, his destructive power is greater than that of an automatic rifle.
The number of rebel troops was about the same.
At night, the two people, who had long since given up hope, just sat in the tent and drank away their sorrows. They didn't even dare to use oil lamps, for fear of attracting a bomb from Eiland Hill.
Just like that, under the moonlight, the two drunkards fell unconscious one after another, and one-third of the "last armed force of the puppet empire" they supervised fled in one night!
The officers of the restrained troops fled together with the troops under their command, one centurion after another forming an organized escape position.
The commander-in-chief who discovered that the army was losing control, the general who was not trusted by Travish, did not even issue any orders. He just stood in the moonlight and watched his adjutant leading most of his personal guards.
Disappeared into the distant night.
Farther away, it had never been so dark, and without even a few decent lights on, Bulkland lay under the night sky, lifeless and hopeless.
