Tauren Overlord

Marshal Selron's deployment was naturally made before Nagis's failure.

At that time, Selron was still adhering to the principle of giving the enemy a light blow and planned to let the Tauren Overlord be caught in a pincer attack by the two Lords' armies.

Who knew that plans could not keep up with changes.

But Marshal Selron really can't just consider the local battlefield of the Beast Suppression Province for everything.

The Imperial Emperor cannot just take care of the battle situation of Marshal Selron, he must consider the whole situation.

Attacking the Sea Alliance has been the Empire's plan for many years, and it is difficult to change it temporarily just because of a sudden appearance of a Minotaur Overlord.

So the situation has become what it is now.

Edric was also floating in the sky with a face stretched to be almost transparent, observing the progress on the battlefield.

He really didn't expect that the times would change so much, and so quickly.

So he quickly called on the great enemy, Ser, to rescue him, so that he could run away!

When it comes to fighting, of course let our allies do the fighting.

In fact, running away was not a sudden idea of ​​Edric. He was deeply shocked when he fought with the Minotaur Overlord last time.

Even though he also has that tough face and would tell his subordinates "We must live and die with this city."

But he was not stupid enough to believe his own lies.

The governor had long realized that the Empire really wanted all the people of Taimenia to die.

Now the Empire still needs the Taimenians to help them conquer the world, so they can survive for the time being.

Once the Empire really destroys the Sea Alliance and the Minotaur Overlord, will the people of Taimenia still have a chance to survive?

Edric already had the answer in his mind—the worsening quality of troops in the provinces of Temenia was the best evidence.

Even in the Kingdom era 30 years ago, the people of Taimenia had a large number of Pegasus cavalry and griffin cavalry.

For example, a kingdom army of 20,000 people would have at least 1,000 flying troops.

Even though infantry still accounted for the majority, their main strategic significance was to provide certain assistance to the cavalry.

On the contrary, during the era of the Taimenian Provinces, the Taimenian troops became less elite.

In other words, the Empire deliberately turned the power of the Taimenians into cannon fodder.

Precious Pegasus were often given to the Imperials, and even the Empire's miscellaneous troops were equipped with a certain number of Pegasus.

From this we can see that when the Empire truly wins a complete victory, will the current strategy of coexistence with the Taimenians be continued?

I'm afraid by then they will do a U-turn and kill all the people of Taimenia?

At least from the perspective of personal interests, Edric didn't think there was anything he could do as governor at that time.

So of course he should run as far as possible. As for helpless sacrifice, that should be done by a die-hard guide like Ser Disway.

As for his wife and daughter, as well as his elderly parents who were still in the Taimenia area... just abandon them, the important thing is to run away.

If we really take them all with us, it will definitely cause other Taimenians to inform on us, and then it will be difficult to escape.

So let them die if they deserve to die. The governor has long awakened to the spirit of self-interest above all else.

He would never make any unnecessary sacrifices for the sake of burdens such as the elderly, wife and children.

What's more, when he reaches middle age, isn't getting a younger wife what people like him always want to do?

As for his daughter… Although his daughter Amelie has indeed reached the prime of her life, how could a father have any bad intentions towards her?

That girl was also raised by Edrick. How could he, as her father, not know what kind of person she is?

Like father, like daughter. Edrick knew it very well. Taking a fellow like him with him on the run would be more dangerous than running away alone!

The only thing that surprised Edric was that the Minotaur Overlord had become so powerful in such a short time!

As a result, he had to start his escape early, even though he had originally planned to escape a few days later...

However, when the governor turned his attention to the ship he was using to escape, he found that the abominable ship had actually set sail first in an extremely despicable manner.

How could this happen? Could it be that the soldiers below also wanted to escape?

That’s not right. A ship can’t just sail away whenever you want. There needs to be some preparation time.

Seeing as they have already set sail, maybe they were preparing to escape before the city gate was blown open!

Who made them run?

A cowardly nobleman? Or a sailor with no sense of noble honor?

How wicked of them to not hold their ground at this time?

The more he watched them run away, the more angry Edric became.

The more angry he became, the more he pulled down the King Kong face floating in the sky and blew at the fleeing ship.

The strong wind was indeed powerful, and it immediately blocked the fleeing ships that had already set sail at sea, and even blew them back to the port.

Some clever sailors quickly lowered the sails, but it was still difficult to overcome the wind and waves brought by Edric by human power.

Edric doesn't necessarily have to use a boat to go to the sea. As long as he is thick enough and has a big enough skin, he can use it as a boat.

The power problem is not unsolvable. Just build a huge King Kong face to blow it up in the back.

But this consumes a lot of spiritual energy.

Now that Edric has decided to betray the Empire, there's no telling how many battles he'll have to go through along the way.

Exhausting spiritual energy too early would undoubtedly lead to one's own death.

What's more, if he ran away alone without bringing more food and water supplies, his spiritual energy would only be depleted faster.

Only with sufficient supplies could he maintain his spiritual energy and explore a distant place that the empire could not catch up with.

He might start his life over there, king of the hill without anyone to restrain him.

It would be even better if he could meet some natives. With his strength, he could completely rule over the barbarians in the marginal areas and let them provide him with spiritual energy...

But it was obvious that someone did not even give him the chance to fight, but instead fled on a ship ahead of time. How could the governor tolerate this?

Of course he had to blow these fleeing ships back to the city of Thessaloniki.

Even if I have to let them die together, I can't let my chance of escape be monopolized by a shameless traitor!

Now, the leader of the escaped ship, Amelie de Porporo, was in a panic.

She was the daughter of the governor. Since the governor's son Gertulet was really murdered, her status in Thessaloniki had risen.

Many people believed that she would become the governor's key training target, or even the next generation of family head, and gradually began to surround her.

As a powerful woman, she planned to flee in advance, but she originally planned to flee at night, but Lu Heng blew up the city gate early in the morning...

This affects her plans!

However, Amelie has inherited the spiritual qualities of her father, the Governor, and she has planned to abandon her father and run away!

After all…what bad intentions could a daughter have towards her father?

But with her father's tireless boasting, Amelie's escape fleet was increasingly blown back to the port of Thessaloniki.

This loving father and filial daughter...are about to be reunited!

The author says:

Author's words: Thanks to [Opposition] for 100 coins ww

277. The Governor's Wife's Clever Plan

While the father and daughter in Thessaloniki were busy running away, Thul Diswe was still foolishly preparing to catch the Minotaur Lord off guard.

Lu Heng’s Shanhai College is just to the west of Jinglei College where Searle is located. There is a big river separating the two colleges or provinces.

But the two sides of the river are not inaccessible. In addition to sea transportation, people can also communicate with each other through suspension bridges built on both sides.

The rivers here are either wide or narrow, and the lengths of the suspension bridges vary. Most of them are products left over from Lunayuan State's past era of large-scale infrastructure construction.

Today, the suspension bridges can at least swing happily and automatically, even if they are not blown away by the wind.

Many suspension bridges are in disrepair and are not suitable for walking on - unless people really want to create a scenic route of jumping into the river.

However, there are also some suspension bridges that were built relatively late and with high construction quality, and they still stand safely and steadily across the wide river.

One of the suspension bridges is famous for its good quality. Even the monastery near the suspension bridge is affectionately called the Suspension Bridge Monastery by the Luna people.

Ser didn't know about the Suspension Bridge Monastery, but he asked his officer to scout the terrain on Pegasus in advance and found the best breakthrough point.

Choosing this location happens to cut off the rebel area's Qunshan Territory and Aicao Town in the middle, which is great!

No matter from which angle, Ser felt that he was a strategic genius!

He led his troops far away from New Luna City and stationed behind this river.

A small number of advance troops had crossed the drawbridge and established a small bridgehead.

As for why the large force was passed over, of course, Ser had his own calculations.

What if the Tauren Overlord ignores Thessaloniki and brings his main force to attack him, wouldn’t he suffer a great loss?

Therefore, he wanted to place the main force behind the suspension bridge, which was also an advantage for defense.

As for when to attack, of course it will be like now, Edric has already used the psychic scroll to ask for help from him before charging.

It was at this time that Searl gave the order for his army to move out immediately and prepare to cross the bridge.

Of course, Searle did not place all his hopes on that lonely suspension bridge.

He came prepared and built pontoon bridges on both sides of the suspension bridge to allow more troops to pass through faster.

In this way, even if the Tauren Overlord tries to fight for control of the bridgehead with the Thrall troops, Thrall will not be at a disadvantage.

And in terms of the timing of the attack, Ser did take advantage of an opportunity.

Lu Heng’s most elite troops—the Rat-Lin machine gun squad and the Niu-Lin machine cannon soldiers—were not placed here.

Those who remained in the Suspension Bridge Monastery were mainly relatively weak rat militia and rat artillery.

Especially the Rat People Militia, which can be said to be Lu Heng’s weakest force in terms of equipment level and training degree.

They were so weak and helpless that when Thrall's forces began to cross the bridge, they could only summon three white dragons to deal with them.

This ability to summon a white dragon is a simulation of the harpy witch Helena's unique skill.

The Rat People's militia are generally at level zero, and they can often only cast magic with the power of psychic batteries.

It took three companies of rat militiamen a lot of effort to use collective summoning to summon three white dragons.

But the efforts of the rat militia alone were enough to make Ser exclaim, "How could the main force of the enemy be here!"

Why dragons? Even a front commander like Thrall never used high-level units like dragons.

I never expected that the Minotaur Overlord would use the great dragon clan to defend a suspension bridge!

There is no way around it. Even for Lu Heng, it is impossible for all his troops to be equally strong.

But even his weakest troops can collectively summon a white dragon to offer some resistance to the enemy.

The summoned adult white dragon also understood the collective will of the rat people's militia.

They flapped their huge wings and flew towards the enemy's bridgehead.

There are also many armored cavalry and infantry attendants in the Lord's army of Threl. From the perspective of the Taimenians, they are already quite elite.

But unfortunately, not only did they seem insignificant in front of the white dragon, they didn't even have any weapons that could effectively attack the white dragon.

The poor peasant archers couldn't even make up the numbers, because the white dragon could patiently fly high into the sky and then launch breath attacks at them.

Following deafening roars, the three white dragons opened their big mouths one after another, and the rolling cold current immediately swept across the entire battlefield like a blizzard.

The bridgehead troops of Threl were easily frozen by the white dragons summoned by the ratmen militia, who "frozen the entire row" and "frozen the entire column".

The other soldiers who were crossing the bridge were even more concerned about Bai Long.