Warhammer

When all the representatives of the rebel army attending the meeting were present, they would close the gate, have the guards take control of the situation, respectfully invite the power of the Four Mothers, and welcome the wind of chaos to blow across the entire venue.

As long as you ignore the shouts of "What are you doing! I'm here for a meeting!", those who soon walk out of this door will be Chaos - believers of the Four Mothers, who have essentially become half-demon creatures.

However, such means cannot be used frequently, especially on a large scale. Those people in the predecessor of the Blood Oath Brotherhood who were forcibly corrupted and whose behavior became extreme were dealt with by Al in various subtle ways.

The most appropriate and best ending for them would be to die fighting on the battlefield and receive the reward from the Blood Mother and the Chosen Ones.

But these people in the allied forces will all return to their families and forces in the future. They come into contact with all kinds of people, and their wills are forcibly eroded and corrupted by force. Their methods are too brutal, and they cannot clean up the mess completely.

If outsiders discover this in the future and further trace the signs of chaos corrosion, it will easily cause huge trouble.

Although the "corrosion" of the Four Mothers is relatively milder and less destructive than the "corrosion" of the orthodox Four Gods, it is still chaos in the final analysis.

Chaos is order, and it is the mortal enemy of all living things today.

Before being pushed to the edge of the cliff, the choice between the two was to face the complete destruction of the Four Vendors on the right, and to grit one's teeth and accept the positive, gentler, less extreme path of chaos that the Four Mothers would bring to all living beings on the left.

I believe that most people in the world would still reject both options.

.........

Here, Al is mobilizing troops and preparing for the Northern Expedition.

His enemies and current "allies" are also not idle.

The warlord realized from the battle reports that had been sent back over the past few days that the Beastman warlord, who was "cunning, despicable, and as treacherous as the most cunning goblin," had begun to turn his attention to the north after seizing the south with a sneak attack of "going around from behind and hitting you with a stick."

Now the enemy is only launching a tentative attack, but it is foreseeable that after those small-scale, scattered attacks and encounters, a long-brewing storm is about to begin.

The greenskins increased their siege efforts.

Bilbarry had almost exhausted all his strength in the long and bloody tug-of-war. Such an intense war had exhausted both the attackers and the besiegers.

Unfortunately, one side in this war is mortal.

The other side is the "monster".

After a day or several days of fierce fighting, even the strongest warriors will be exhausted, their reactions will slow down, their strength will decline, and their agility and strength will be less than before.

The war priests' spells could have made up for all this.

But unfortunately, the number of Her Excellency "Goddess Champion Celestine" and the spellcasters following her is too small compared to the vast battle line that requires high-end combat power and spell support.

Sometimes, except for the Goddess Champion, the Paladin Celestine from the Empire, her devout followers were too tired to fight, and the female knight had to run around on the defense line alone to put out fires, making the body of the Chosen One quite exhausted.

Although the greenskins suffered heavy casualties with every step forward under the walls of Bilbarry, in the ruins, and even in the fallen streets and alleys, their battle line was always slowly advancing. Even if the bodies of their comrades piled up like mountains and blood flowed like rivers, the morale of the greenskins would not be easily shaken as long as they had the upper hand.

It often requires the defenders to concentrate their forces and launch a swift counterattack, or for elite troops to enter the battlefield, such as Celestine riding alone and defeating several greenskin warriors in a row, in order to defeat the greenskins who have also experienced a long battle.

Then Celestine rushed to the next place where a fire needed to be put out, stabilized and counterattacked the front line, and temporarily repaired this place, or the greenskins accumulated strength to launch another attack; the battle situation in Bilbarri was like this, going back and forth.

In the absence of a major warlord willing to personally take the risk, the besieging side had no strong men who could face Celestine. Even the most powerful individuals might play a huge role in a battle involving thousands or tens of thousands of people, but in a large battlefield with hundreds of thousands of people on both sides, their impact on the overall situation would be extremely limited.

Bill Barry couldn't last long.

This is the current consensus between the warring parties.

After all, this is not a modern war. Even if the weakest children, elderly people, or women pull the trigger and throw the grenade, the power is no different from that of the strongest soldiers.

Dozens of untrained militiamen may not be as effective on the battlefield as three veterans who have been through many battles and know how to advance and retreat.

The overall situation was supported by the fiery and brave spirit of fighting to the death. Otherwise, if the battle had reached this point, any indestructible fortress would have been on the verge of destruction.

After their last call for help from the Knights of Carcassonne failed, and they only brought back a hundred or so "foreign-minded" knights-errant who supported the defense of Bretonnia by eliminating potential threats outside the country, the northerners gave up hope on their land neighbor, which had almost gone mad due to its long-term isolation.

Instead, the only lifeline now lies in the Regent King (acting) Al, who had just dealt with the affairs in the south and led some of the main forces to the north, claiming to be "Protecting the Country in the North".

Urgent military intelligence and urgent letters came one after another.

Before this, Al passed by Port Birmoz and rekindled his relationship with Lady Christina, the beautiful widow and wealthy lady. He visited her with only a few servants. The sudden attack made the lady, who had been keeping the door closed and not seeing outsiders since that absurd incident, very confused. In the end, she went to bed with Al in a daze. She had been celibate for a long time, and was fucked by Al for two days. It can be said that all the desires in her bones were aroused.

How could such a mature widow, who had already walked on the edge of fall, resist Al's charm? In the end, she was defeated by the pony. Al spent a whole day and night in Madame Christina's boudoir.

The next day, they came out refreshed, to express their condolences and "incidentally" urge El to speed up the march. Two waves of envoys came to rescue the North. The two sides set out less than a day apart and were both trying their best to hurry on their way. In the end, they arrived at the city of Bermoz almost at the same time to meet El.

By the way, the northerners did not comment at first on the two things that El deposed the leader of the Southern Eagle and was nominated as the "acting regent" by the new leader with an attitude that was almost "flattering". Instead, they pretended to turn a blind eye and only congratulated the coalition forces on regaining the South, the restoration of Margarita, the hard work of the tribe, and El's good command.

The envoys who came later began to congratulate Ai'er for acting as regent and taking care of the military and political affairs of the allies, which was truly what the people wanted. The North fully agreed with the common choice of His Excellency the Eagle of the South and all the people of the South. By the way, Your Highness, when will you send troops to Chiya?

In the end, even the military documents submitted to Al had a blank space at the beginning: "Respectfully asking the Regent King."

I guess in the hearts of the northerners, nothing is more important than life and death. As for the Margaritas pushing their beastman allies to the so-called "regency" throne...

never mind.

They could even surrender to the greenskins.

After all, Al is still their ally, right?

Chapter 100: Eve of the Storm

"Misha."

Al got off the Queen's back, walked a few steps to the side of Niu Niu who was hurrying over, and stood on tiptoes to touch the eldest daughter's cheek.

Niu Niu's body is already three heads taller than his father.

The armor she was wearing was a treasure obtained by sacrificing to the Blood Mother. Its defensive power was second only to El's Cold Love and Alina's dark red armor forged under the Blood Mother's rage. It could even be used to fight on its own without its owner.

Misha was not wearing a helmet or mask. She was beautiful and had a face somewhat similar to Al, but her expression was solemn.

She lowered her head and rubbed Al's palm lightly.

Ai'er felt the smoothness of his palm, and looked towards the lonely city standing on the plain in the distance, and sighed:

"This place looks... even more desolate than when we just avoided the blockade of the Imperials and went deep into the Pina Forest to rebuild our tribe."

"Not angry."

If you only look at the outside of this city, not many people would doubt that it is a deserted city.

The city was dilapidated and desolate. The traces and gaps left by the greenskins' siege had not been repaired even when Aiel's legion arrived here. There were only more than a hundred greenskins, the same number of pirates, and a few hundred militiamen who were temporarily armed to defend the city.

They were easily defeated by the coalition forces.

It is said that those Estalia militiamen who were forcibly conscripted have now learned one thing: to work hard and go wherever they are told before a battle, and when the tribal coalition forces arrive, they will immediately scatter and run as fast as they can once they come into contact with the enemy.

In this way, the tribe will not care about them, and neither the greenskins nor the pirate warlords will have the time to punish them. They will wait until the battle is decided - basically, the tribe wins, and then they will run back to welcome the royal army and accept resettlement and protection.

And if, in the rare case that the tribal coalition lost, they would naturally have run as far as they could. Besides, the current situation in the north is very complicated, with the Bilbarri defending and the greenskins attacking; the tribes advancing and the greenskins retreating.

Even if it was a small defeat, the tribe would quickly call for reinforcements and regroup after retreating, and the big warlords had suffered enough from the pain of dividing their troops, and it had happened several times in a row, including this time when the south was slightly invaded. Despite the tribe's quality advantage, it was twisted into a fist by Ai'er and attacked in all directions. By attacking the edges and corners and using the Tian Ji horse racing method, it had already consumed a large number of the greenskins' manpower.

If the number of greenskins in the greenskin pirate coalition had been doubled during the Battle of Tolosa, and if they had been led by the warlord himself, the results might have been completely different. In the end, the remaining forces were defeated one by one, and Ai'er easily took the south and expanded his army by 100,000.

But now, the top priority for the greenskins is to capture Bilbarri as soon as possible, capture this northern main city, wipe out the Estalia people's resistance center in the north in one fell swoop, and then turn around and fight a decisive battle with the tribe.

The current situation is that if the troops are divided, too few will be useless and will be swallowed up by the powerful tribes. If too many are divided, there will also be risks and it will slow down the progress of the siege. The big warlords would rather ignore it, as the greenskins don't care about these newly acquired territories anyway.

As mentioned before, in the entire green-skin army, perhaps only the warlord Gao Maoliang has the concepts of "rear", "sphere of influence" and "territory".

The other greenskins are typical destroyers. They just smash and destroy things. After looting here, they will go wherever there are enemies.

So losing the occupied territory is not a big deal for the greenskins, and the same is true for the pirates. If they lose, they can just run away. Anyway, they can retreat by sea. If they win, they can come back to attack the city and rob it again...

"Father, look!"

Misha raised her hand and pointed forward.

"It has ended."

Al looked in the direction of Misha's hand, and saw a small group of enemies hurriedly opening a passage and fleeing to the east through the only direction without enemy attacks.

But Ai'er knew that on the way they had to escape, over several hilly areas, there were several legions of Shadow Servants that had been lying in ambush for a long time, waiting for their prey to fall into their trap.

By the time the enemy had received the news that this place had fallen and was recaptured by the Allied Forces, Al had already led his legion to the next, or even several, targets.

In the battle of Aiur, in addition to relying on the beastman army that was as aggressive as fire and as fast as wind, the tribe had a large number of spellcasters. Unlike Estalia, which discriminated against "witchcraft", resulting in the priests and priests being useless and having spell ability as a fatal weakness, they were always able to provide assistance to the army during battles, stalemates, and critical moments.

Another very important point is intelligence advantage.

It is equivalent to others turning on the fog of war, but he is in the total war system. He can see at a glance what the opponent's configuration is, how the troops are mobilized, and when the reinforcements will arrive... Unless there is an "unexpected attack", both sides are completely unaware and do not know that they will encounter each other, without any prior purposeful encounter and battle, otherwise Al can always anticipate the enemy first.

And there may be intervention from forces higher than the blessings he has received, or closer to the Four Mothers, such as the sudden ambush of the Skaven in the Battle of Tolosa.

Another important point in the army's successive victories was to utilize the beastmen's mobility and hunt down the fleeing soldiers, which greatly delayed the enemy's reaction speed in receiving battle reports and making responses.

Often, he had already captured several cities and arrived right under the enemy's nose, while the enemy was still in a daze transporting supplies and sending reinforcements to our strongholds and cities that had become "enemy-occupied areas."

As dozens of pirate enemies fled, this small, yet-unnamed town that blocked the road to El changed its owner.

In the face of the absolute power gap, except for the warlike and brainless greenskins who can still scream and hold on until their morale collapses against an enemy that is ten times stronger than themselves, the pirates obviously do not want to be hanged by the Estalia here.

This city is located in the middle of the northern gateway - Daimonterui to Sahagen. Al personally led the army here because he was confused about the next direction of battle, so he chose to come here between Daimonterui and Sahagen.

He now faced a problem: should he turn around and attack Daimontrey, using this city to completely block the greenskins in the north, or should he march eastward directly to attack Sahagen and go a step further - blocking all the hundreds of thousands of enemies in the area between Sahagen and Bilbali.

This makes it difficult for him.

If you choose to go east to Sahagen, then the next obvious step is to face a decisive battle with the greenskins.

The enemy cannot sit and wait to be attacked from both sides, so he must choose a breakthrough point in the front or back.

Whether to attack the city with all his strength or to leave some troops to surround and monitor the city and then turn around to fight a decisive battle with El, it is not a good option for El.

If the greenskins attacked the city, he would not be able to not help. Otherwise, if he watched their allies perish from a distance or sat beside the battlefield and watched his allies perish, it would cause a huge blow to his prestige.

Moreover, once Bilbarri fell, the greenskins would be able to defeat an army of hundreds of thousands after a little repair, and he would still have to face it alone.

Somehow, the current dilemma suddenly reminded Al of a plot in a war movie, in which a person numbered 101 was struggling and indecisive in the war outside the Great Wall, causing another more remarkable person to say anxiously: "Let him come to me, and I will go to him!"

The situation he faces now is different from that person, but the tangled, repeated and hesitant mentality is the same.

Even more than that.

Because there is an even more powerful person behind One Hundred and One, who is responsible for the entire situation.

But whether on the battlefield or in domestic affairs and governance, Ai'er is a leader who can make decisions with a single word and with a decisive heart.

Correspondingly, everyone's destiny, future, and direction must be carried on his own shoulders.

......

A brief entry ceremony was soon over. El rode on the Queen, and Misha walked in front holding a halberd. Perhaps because of Alina's influence, the descendants liked to use this weapon very much.

Chapter 101: Entering the City, the Widow

Because it was a battlefield, Al did not wear a mask. Instead, he put down his visor and was fully armed, fearing that he would be killed in seconds by any hidden arrow.

As soon as we entered the city, we saw citizens standing sparsely on both sides of the street to "welcome" us, or to watch. They looked confused, as if they were a little uneasy about this army that had driven away the greenskins but had a more ferocious temperament.

Fortunately, human soldiers soon entered the city to make up for this, and the citizens realized that this was their legion.

The crowd began to cheer, and more and more people came out of their houses and into the streets to witness with their own eyes this army that had left a great reputation in the South coming to liberate them.

Al's eyes swept over the roads, buildings, and crowds. It was dilapidated and dark. The greenskins gathered a large army to invade. The war and the subsequent slavery had caused serious damage to all parts of Estalia, especially here near the front line. It was almost impossible to see young and strong men in the city. When he asked, he heard crying complaints. Most of the men were forcibly conscripted and taken to Bilbarri.

Very depressing atmosphere.

Al sighed and said nothing.

We walked to the outside of the town hall, which was already a ruin. It was said that when the vanguard of the pirates entered the city, a group of defeated soldiers lost their way in the hills and failed to retreat to Sahagen and Bilbali in time. They put up a final resistance here and were blown up by cannons by the angry pirates.

Al originally wanted to promulgate a provisional constitution here, just like the story in the South, but when he saw this scene he could only remain silent.

Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a beautiful figure in a white dress sitting on the open space in front of a house that was still burning and about to collapse, at the edge of the ruins of the city hall.

He couldn't help but look over.

A woman whose gracefulness can be seen just from the back.

She was sitting on the ground in a daze, without any image, facing the burning house. It might be her home, but there was no relative around her.

Maybe he's dead, maybe he's been abducted by the invaders...

Al's idea moved, and he called a human soldier and asked him to inquire about the woman's family situation. His colleague expressed condolences on behalf of the coalition forces, and told her that if she had any difficulties and needed help, she could ask, and the coalition forces would help as appropriate.

He himself did not pay any extra attention to it. According to Al's plan, all the residents here would be relocated, and a special force would escort them back into the Pina Forest, so that even if the war was lost they would not face the fate of being enslaved again.

After calming down, Al asked the sergeant to gather the residents to the town hall to listen to the speech.

Although the city hall has been destroyed, it is better. The scene of the former power building being reduced to ruins will allow the people to intuitively understand the horror of war and will make it less likely for them to resist the decision to relocate.

The soldier who was ordered to demonstrate "friendship with the people" ran back. After two rounds of reporting, a human officer came over and saluted Al outside the guard's range.