Warlords of the witcher world

Chapter 107 The Black Army's New Offensive
Soden, under the background that this kingdom has become the front line of the war between the north and the south, many places have been reduced to no man's land.

Whether it is the Northern Army or the Imperial Army, they will not be kind to the people.

At best, the Northern Army could only rob things without killing people, while the Imperial Army robbed things and killed people, and took people away as slaves.

Under such circumstances, the population of this land was naturally lost crazily. In order to avoid the military disaster, most of the people had already gone north.

As for you asking why they didn't flee to the south, isn't that a death sentence? I'm afraid they will be captured by the Nilfgaardians as slaves halfway.

And here, the only place where a large number of people can be seen is the Nilfgaard Central Military Camp.

As the gathering place of the Nilfgaard Central Group Army, there are more than [-] soldiers, civilian husbands, and various service personnel.

Most of the northerners who appeared here were slaves. In the current situation, it is difficult for northerners to volunteer to work for the Nilfgaardians.

After gathering such a huge crowd, this barracks is undoubtedly as huge as a city.

The strict military customs of the Nilfgaardians are also reflected in this barracks. The tall wooden walls wrap the entire barracks, and the periphery is full of ditches and fortifications. Solid wooden towers can be seen everywhere, and there are always eyes Sharp Nilfgaardian soldier.

Countless people live in it, not to mention the tens of thousands of war horses, and the amount of feces produced every day is an extremely terrifying amount.

However, the well-ordered imperial army is not the northern army. They will transport the excrement to a place far away from the barracks to bury it to prevent the excrement from being too smelly.

The barracks of the imperial army are also more beautiful than those of the northerners. The tents are neatly arranged like a military parade, and neat planks are laid on the ground. Nilfgaardian soldiers clean and wax it every day.

Right now, in the center of Nilfgaard's central military camp, a huge tent is standing here.

The top of this tent has the great sun disk of Nilfgaard, and the tent itself has a beautiful black and gold check pattern, which is very valuable at first glance.

This is the place where the highest officials of the Nilfgaardian Central Army held a meeting.

Right now, they are all gathered here.

Most of the faces were filled with excitement and joy, knowing that, with winter finally over, the time had finally come to strike again.

Although no one has received a formal attack document, but from the recent increase in materials pouring into the barracks and the replenishment of the vacancies that have not been available in their respective troops, everyone can see that the city of the Golden Tower is brewing. A massive offensive.

This is a moment that many people long for. The Eastern Group Army has failed under the leadership of that idiot Adal, and the loss of reputation and strength is indeed the entire Nilfgaardian army.

This made many Nilfgaardian officers furious, eager to fight for the honor of the Nilfgaardian army, and let the northerners know what a real war is.

Marshal Menno Cuhorn is currently sitting at the main seat, and on both sides of him are senior Nilfgaardian officers sitting in order of rank and seniority.

The marshal was wearing an armor with a golden sun wheel, and a chain turban on his head. He always had a serious expression on his face, and he looked extremely mighty and extraordinary.

The generals are also dressed similarly to the marshals, but most of them do not wear chain turbans, but show their heads, and some of them are covered with various badges on their chests, representing the glory they have won.

Although there are more than half of the proud soldiers of the Nilfgaardian army here, they are all very honest in front of the marshal.

After all, Menno Cuhorn was the strongest of them all.

According to tradition, the marshal's guards rolled the names of everyone, and after the roll call was completed, the meeting officially began.

"Everyone, next I want to introduce to you the thing that everyone has been waiting for for a long time, attack."

Hawat Mohan, Marshal's deputy, opened the meeting.

(This person is the Marshal of the Central Army of the Third Northern War. When Master Wizard Sanjie went to see the Bloody Baron, the Nilfgaardian general he talked to was this Marshal.)
"According to the plan jointly formulated by the city of the urn and the frontline command, after a week, the Nilfgaardian army will launch a large-scale offensive along the border of Temeria, striving to win this important northern kingdom at once. It is expected that More than 15 troops will participate in this offensive, and both the Central Army and the remnants of the Eastern Army will join this offensive. The name of this plan is the Temeria Offensive."

Hawat's speech drew applause and cheers from the generals of Nilfgaard.

This is the long-awaited news that everyone can finally launch an offensive against the Temerians.

Some generals realized that this was the largest offensive launched by the Nilfgaardian army since the start of the Second Northern War. It seemed that the city of the Golden Tower was absolutely certain to win this offensive.

And those generals who didn't expect it were immersed in the prospect of attack, and they were eager to make achievements on the battlefield.

Marshal Menno watched the cheers of his subordinates, he did not speak, but raised his hand calmly.

And as he raised his hand, the scene immediately fell silent.

Seeing this, Hawat continued,

"The distribution of forces for this attack is as follows..."

Next, there was a long distribution of troops, and each division and brigade was assigned an offensive position.

It can be said that according to this arrangement, every important town on the border of Temeria will be attacked.

Everyone reacted differently after hearing the news that they had attacked the town.

Some people are very happy, some people are very frustrated. They are happy because they are attacking a rich town, and they will definitely get rich when the time comes.

What is frustrating is that it is the opposite of this situation. They are all worthless cities, and they can't get much from robbery.

In the eyes of these Nilfgaardian generals, as long as the Nilfgaardian army arrives, the enemy will definitely be defeated.

The possibility of failure never appeared in their minds. As for the failure of the Eastern Group Army, it was purely incompetent generals.

After all, the Central Army gathers the most elite troops in Nilfgaard, and they are naturally the proud existence of Nilfgaard's army.

In their view, the previous forced retreat from Maribau was entirely due to logistics.

As long as the logistics problems are guaranteed, then victory is definitely not a problem.

However, there are still worried people here. Most of these people are veterans and remnants of the Eastern Army, and they think more.

After this winter, their Nilfgaard has strengthened, but the same is true for the northerners on the opposite side.

And after this winter, the northerners have completed internal integration, and they must face more enemies.

After the marshal's deputy reported the situation, someone raised a question,
"Who will deal with Anglin?"

There had been skirmishes on the Anglin side this winter, with the Nilfgaardians and the Northmen constantly fighting in the swamp.

In the end, the northerners managed to push the Nilfgaardians out of the swamp.

Livia's prince is indeed difficult to deal with. With the cooperation of Aden's Harkland cavalry, he advances firmly on the one hand and makes a decisive detour on the other.

Under this set of combined punches, the imperial army was finally defeated, and was forced to withdraw from Anglin, a high-quality timber factory, and an important junction between the east and west lines.

The current strategic situation is that as long as Aden and Livia are willing, they can raid the flank of the Central Army.

According to the information collected by Nilfgaard, Aden and Livia are already rebuilding the Anglin road, which has always been to quickly reach the Western Front.

This question caught everyone's attention. Although they were proud, they were not stupid.

Those of you here are well aware of the impact of being flanked.

"Right now, 2 people from the Weeden Army are in charge of defense on the edge of Anglin. In addition, after a while, 2 people from the Weeden Army will go to Anglin. Everyone, there is no need to worry about Anglin. If there are enough troops to deal with it, the people of Aden and Livia will not be able to come over."

Menno Cuhorn assured everyone, and his assurance was also recognized by everyone.

Since the marshal said so, it must be true, so everyone can rest assured.

The next step was to explain some trivial things, which were easily answered by the Imperial Marshal and his deputy.

After completing these answers, this war conference also came to an end.

The generals returned to their respective armies, and they were anxious to bring the good news there so that they could mobilize their troops.

After two months of rest, it will take some time for them to get up and fight again, which is why they are scheduled to attack a week later.

And in that big tent, the Imperial Marshal and his deputy were discussing something that was not suitable for everyone to tell.

"Hawat, this offense, to be honest, I've always had a bad feeling."

As the Marshal of the Empire, Menno Cuhorn dared to speak his mind only at this time.

Hawat didn't answer Cuhorn immediately. As Cuhorn's deputy, Hawat understood that Cuhorn didn't want to discuss anything with him, he just wanted to say something difficult to say.

After listening to it, all I need to do is to shut up and not say what I heard.

And he's doing great.

"Although it is said that the defeat is A'dal's problem, he has been implementing the pre-war war plan and did not do anything out of the ordinary. As a result, a Herme suddenly appeared... Sigh, since this person appeared, Everything feels off course from where it was supposed to go."

"Marshal, in any case, we need to do what we should do now, and fight the current war first, don't we?"

Hawat saw the confusion of the marshal, so he said this.

And this did wake up Marshal Menno, the Marshal of Nilfgaard who commanded the overall situation of the war nodded. He should really focus on the battle in front of him and think about how to defeat the Northern Alliance in front of him.

But before going to study the map, there is one more thing that needs to be resolved

"Yes, I should focus more on the current matter. But, um, Hawat, send someone to the Verdon Army immediately, telling Joachim to let his troops go out as soon as possible, so as to strengthen the flank defense. Let him Don't look for those clumsy reasons anymore, if he doesn't leave again, I will directly dismiss him as the Marshal of the Empire."

"As you order, Marshal."

Hawat immediately went to carry out the Marshal's order
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The Western Front, where the Verden (Western) Army Group is located.

If there is only one word to sum up the Weeden Army, it would be "incompetent".

Although there was only one Cidaris kingdom to defeat on the western front, and the strength of the Verdon Army was crushing the opponent, Duke Joachim de Witte delayed the launch of the offensive as long as possible.

Compared with going north to fight, he is more inclined to concentrate his forces to wipe out the local armed resistance in Weiden, so as to stabilize the rear.

Under his orders, the Weeden Army used brutal methods against the guerrillas, even civilians.The consequences of this are obvious. In winter, the guerrillas were only about 500 people. In spring, the whole of Verden was caught in riots.

In the chaos, King Evel, who had surrendered to Nilfgaard, was murdered, and his son, Prince Christine, became the leader of the rebel army.

After the Skelliges got involved in the melee, the situation became even more chaotic.

For the archipelago, the Vedden army advancing along the coast is simply fish on the chopping board. They can attack the various units of the Nilfgaardian army on the coast at any time, and they can also deliver food to the scattered guerrillas.

Under such circumstances, it is conceivable that the Verdon Army is facing a dire situation, and the plan to penetrate the coastline and attack Temeria and Redania is far from being completed.

Joachim de Witte's original intention was to stir up resistance from the locals so that he could get himself mired in a policing war.

In this way, his own troops do not have to support the Central Army, preventing Emhyr from winning the war.

But up to now, the Weideng army has really fallen into the quagmire of security warfare.

To make matters worse, at this critical juncture, Menno Quhorn had yet to withdraw more troops from them.

Joachim was overseeing the hanging of captured partisans in front of his "Gallows Forest" when the Marshal's letter arrived.

The so-called gallows forest is a "landscape" invented by Joachim to intimidate the local people.

Dense gallows covered the ground, and countless corpses that were either fresh, rotten, or even turned into bones were fluttering miserably in the wind, and new unlucky eggs were constantly being hung on them.

While reading the letter, Joachim was still watching the guerrillas being hanged. Only when he saw these northern barbarians being hanged could he let his tense heart feel some relaxation.

The resistance of the northerners upset him, and these savages came out one after another, as if they couldn't finish killing them.

And most of these hanged team members didn't have any fear on their faces, and they were more relieved.

The Nilfgaardians destroyed the kingdom and their lives.

For these men and women, revenge is the only motivation to support them to live. As for death, it doesn't look so scary anymore.

Anyway, before he was captured, he killed at least a few men in black, so it was all worth it.

"Another 2 people? Great Sunlun, if this continues, I really wonder if my head will be chopped off by the guerrillas here."

Joachim's tone was full of distress and irritability, he wanted to scold Menno Kuhorn angrily, and then refused to carry out his order.

But he knew that right now he couldn't refuse.

After Adal's death, most of the frontline troops fell to the emperor, so the marshal's right to speak increased greatly.

And many troops under his command have become very tired of the long-term public security war. Just chopping off the farmer's head will not gain merit, so many troops began to disobey his orders.

When Marshal Menno put pressure on him for the first time, Joachim originally planned to use the prestige of the ancient family to withstand it, but the fact is that he failed. Some divisions and brigades directly separated from the Weeden Army on the grounds of "responding to the Marshal's order".

Since then, it took him a long time to stabilize the various units in the group army.

It's just that the security battle with no end in sight can wear down his influence on the troops the most.

Joachim knew that if he could not send the troops needed by the marshal in time, the following would "respond" on their own.

"Gather up the remnants of the defeated generals and the troops that have been fighting for a long time, and then send them to the east. Damn it, let them go back to the country and find some mercenaries for me."

After weighing the pros and cons, Joachim decided to send troops there. It was better to be able to choose by himself than to let the people below choose by themselves.

Send some defeated soldiers who were severely damaged and dispersed in the security battle, anyway, enough numbers are enough to deal with the above.

After completing this matter, Joachim began to think hard about how to mobilize the troops in his hand to fill the fronts that lacked troops.

Then, while he was thinking, he got the news that the Skelliges had attacked the general granary of the Verdon Army. He had no choice but to put all his thoughts aside, and then quickly led the troops to support.

If the granary is finished, the Verden Army will have to leave a lot of occupied areas, which will deal a terrible blow to his political reputation.

However, the ensuing battle was another defeat, and when he arrived with the troops that had assembled along the way, the Skelliges loaded their ships with provisions and burned what they couldn't take.

By the way, they also destroyed the fleet that the Nilfgaardians had worked so hard to build out of Anglin's wood.

In this way, the fleet was destroyed by the flames of the archipelago pirates before it could leave the port.

Joachim has only one choice right now, and that is to shrink the front line and reduce the logistics supply line.

And he has indeed done so, if not, the Verden Army will be starved.

The guerrillas who resisted hard suddenly discovered that the Nilfgaardians had abandoned half of Verden and all the occupied areas of Hidaris almost within a few days.

Therefore, on the eve of the opening of the war, the North won an exciting victory.

(End of this chapter)