Rhodes looked at the huge map of Sylvania and fell into deep thought...
Waldenhof Castle has been captured. I originally thought that I could use this large castle as a springboard to fight deep into the hinterland of Sylvania. But now it seems that the situation has changed dramatically.
On the empire's side, the allied forces of the Ivey, Stir, and Mut territories stopped advancing eastward, and the Wesen and Tara Shell Territory withdrew their troops one after another. To the north, the legions of the Ostermark Territory were trapped in the Ghost Castle.
The situation of the Vampire War is no longer as satisfactory as it was in the early days. On the contrary, there is a tendency to be reversed.
The three armies agreed upon moved south together and pushed across the Land of the Dead. Now, only the Kislev army is still struggling to support itself in the north.
According to the battle reports coming from the front line, the number of undead legions is increasing every day. It seems that the easing of the war in the west has allowed the vampire lords to finally take action and move the main army to the north to block the attack of the northern coalition forces.
Without the support of the empire, the pressure on Kislev suddenly increased.
Castle Drakenhof is right in front, this city at the crossroads of Sylvania. Once captured, the empire and Kislev will join forces at one point and aim at the large territory in the south of Sylvania.
.Moreover, materials from the three parties can also be gathered here to form a strong backbone.
However, the empire stopped at Baylokhov at this critical juncture.
Rhodes could only sigh. He still overestimated the strength of the empire. A united empire could compare to Sylvania. But, when had they ever truly united...
Now, only the Kislev side is left, facing off against the undead army in the north. This is the real undead army.
The Ice and Snow Legion's siege operation against Esh has been going on for a month.
The intermittent war of attrition was unable to capture this small city.
The army rushed into the city during the day and occupied the main streets and castles. However, at night, the undead crawled out of the ground and killed Kislev soldiers in their sleep.
Rhodes could only sigh. His previous guerrilla warfare tactics were now mastered by his enemies.
Even siege tactics have no effect on the Sylvanian army, which is dominated by undead. The most it can do is consume the living defenders in the city at the beginning of the war. However, other undead troops do not need food.
Supplied by water sources. A necromancy spell can command thousands of zombies. When the few living defenders in the city die, their corpses can immediately become the new force of the undead...
This makes siege tactics useless in front of the Castle of the Undead. Although it can be captured by storm, the troops will fall into endless street fighting...
This situation was something that Rhodes had not expected. In other words, this was the worst-case scenario that was expected before the war, but now it has actually happened.
Feeling irritated, Rhodes took another look at the map he had stared at countless times.
Just one more force is missing. As long as one more force goes around the back, penetrates into the hinterland of Sylvania, and attacks Kislev from both front and back, then the war situation may be broken.
However, looking around the map, I could no longer find a second unit that could support them.
The dwarves may be able to do it, but their number is too small. If it were not a threat to life and death, the dwarves would never go out in force. Moreover, this war would be of no benefit to them. If it were beneficial, the dwarves of Torrent Pass and Butcher's Castle would
The dwarves had joined at the beginning of the war.
"Great Lord! A human knight who claims to be the Lord of Terfelheim Castle is asking for an audience."
Just as Rhodes was distressed by the current stalemate, the guard's announcement temporarily distracted Rhodes from the strategic map.
"Tefelheim Castle? Have you heard of it?"
Rhodes turned around and asked his daughter behind him.
Dennis shook his head and said he had never heard of it.
But this is normal. There are hundreds of small castles of various sizes scattered throughout Sylvania, and it is impossible for everyone to be familiar with them.
Except for large castles like Waldenhof and Duncanhof, many small places are unknown to outsiders.
"Okay, have you asked clearly? What does he want to talk to me about?"
Rhodes was lying on the big bearskin chair and casually asked the guard. "He claims to be coming with eight hundred troops to join the Ice and Snow Legion and serve you."
"Interesting, there is such a person, he must have a purpose, or want to trade something with me. No one would bring his men to join other people's camp for no reason, not to mention, I don't know him at all."
Dennis chuckled and agreed with his father.
"By the way, what's his name?"
Rhodes continued to ask.
"Delino von Essek Compton..."
"Okay, I haven't heard of it."
"He also brought a knight friend and a dwarf..."
"The dwarf claimed to be the prince of the royal family of Karak Ungol, and his name was Prince Uther Stonehammer. The other human knight seemed to be named... Talinnam..."
Hearing this name, Rhodes twitched instinctively.
"What did you call the accompanying knight?"
"Talynham, there is no surname, no title...just a first name..."
The guards were obviously very confused by the dramatic change in the high lord's attitude.
He doesn't care about any lord, but he pays so much attention to a little-known knight?
"Take me to them! Now!"
Rhodes almost yelled, and the guards were startled. They hurriedly ran out of the camp to look for the few people who had just entered the camp.
Rhode walked barefoot through the crowd, and all the soldiers looked sideways at this abnormal scene. In their memory, their great lord had never looked so excited, and he was a little lost in excitement.
When Rhodes saw a few people at the training ground, the emotions that had been sealed in his heart for a long time burst out again.
Eighteen years.
Finally, I saw my long-lost old friend here again.
"Lord...Lord..."
Talinnam slowly turned around, and the familiar person in front of him suddenly felt unreal.
It has been more than ten years, and for ordinary people, they have long since turned from middle age to old age. But the old friend in front of me is still the same as before. Except for the slight vicissitudes of life on his face, his appearance has hardly changed at all. It really has not changed at all.
Corroded mortals? Looking at the old knights around him, and then at the familiar old lord in front of him, Talinnam couldn't help but believe in the power of gods to really change mortals.
Rhodes strode forward and hugged Talinnam tightly in front of everyone's surprised eyes.
The sudden scene stunned the soldiers of Kislev, as well as Essek and the Hammer King.
"Do you know each other?"
After a while, after Rhodes and Talinnam calmed down, Essek stepped forward and asked curiously.