What's wrong with building a steel torrent in a dungeon?

This made the people look at this force in a different light.

Are they really invaders? Why are they better to them than the original guards?

Not only that, they even distributed food and clothing in public areas to alleviate the hunger of the people in the city, which made the people even more puzzled.

What on earth are you doing here? How can you come all the way to someone else's home and offer them warmth?

A few days later, the soldiers finally gave the people an answer.

On this day! A large number of people gathered in the city square, and on the highest platform of the square, an elf slowly walked out.

When the people saw his gaze, someone immediately shouted.

"It's the traitor chosen by the Queen! The traitor Durreni!" However, right after he shouted, his mouth was immediately covered by his companions beside him, for fear that if he shouted a few more words and was heard by Durreni, he would be sentenced to death.

The tree ship raided the Moon Goddess Fortress. Such a big move naturally could not be hidden from the eyes of the elves. Afterwards, Durrenni, as the honorary president of the Elf Guild, directly stepped forward to admit the incident, took responsibility for it, and criticized the Elf Queen and other nobles.

This action directly made Durrenni the most wanted criminal in the Elven Empire, and his portrait spread throughout the Elven Empire. And Lucy Antiriel even gave him the most notorious title in the history of the Elven - the traitor.

Hearing such shouts, Durrenni just smiled, and then said to the people below: "What the compatriot just said is correct. I am indeed a traitor. But I betrayed the greedy nobles and the arrogant Elf Kings! Not the Elf Empire and our fellow elves."

Is there any difference?

To betray the nobles is to betray the Elf Empire.

Durren continued, "I returned to the Elven Empire this time to help the common people break free from the chains of the nobles, so that the Elven Empire can truly belong to every one of us elves, rather than to anyone else! Not even Lucy Antiriel."

Calling the Queen's name directly, if it was in normal times, I'm afraid nine lives would not be enough for burning at the stake, but now he actually called it out directly. This made the people below suddenly have a hint of rebellion.

It sounds like the Queen's name is nothing special.

Of course, those who think this way are a minority. For most elves, they don’t really care who the rulers are. They are all the same to them, they all have to pay heavy land taxes and rents, and they are all treated as coolies.

Therefore, many elves did not take it seriously. When a new city lord takes office, he will say some nice things to gain the trust of the people so that he can squeeze more wealth later.

If it weren't for the fear of the invaders' military power, I'm afraid not many elves would be willing to come and listen to their speeches.

However, what Durrenni did next surprised all the elves.

He brought up a large pile of documents and contracts and placed them in the firewood pile that had been prepared long ago. Then he said to the people below: "These things are all debts owed by the workers in the city and the land that was taken away from them! Now, I will return them all to you."

As he spoke, Durenne took out a torch and threw it into the firewood pile without hesitation.

The raging fire quickly jumped up and burned the papers directly.

The elves below stared with wide eyes until they saw that the paper, which symbolized a lot of wealth, had indeed turned into ashes. Then someone realized that Durrenni was not just talking, he was really doing it!

"Long live Master Durren!" an elf immediately raised his arms and shouted.

"Long live Master Durrenni!!" Seeing this, the other elves also started shouting.

However, Durrenni pressed his hands, signaling everyone to be quiet, and then said: "I am not a noble, so I cannot be your master. You are not slaves... You do not need to recognize any elves as your masters! From today on, you are your own masters! You are your own masters! "

Chapter 385 I Kill the Elves' Heart

Durrenni's words directly aroused the admiration and love of the common people. How long has it been since they have received the care of the rulers?

Taking advantage of this excitement, Durrenyi immediately announced the management methods and reform plan of Kaguya City.

Of course, the so-called reform plan is actually a copy of the rules and regulations within Fran's sphere of influence, including land, market, taxation, public affairs, etc.... but some improvements have been made based on the local characteristics of the elves.

This method was not new, it had been implemented in the Feruman region long before the war began. After the war began, Fran approached Galanodier, hoping to improve it based on her understanding of the elves, in case of emergency.

But even Fran didn't expect that this plan would come in handy so soon.

In the following days, they helped Kaguya City elect a temporary autonomous committee, which was managed by local prestigious civilians. They then carried out land reform, industrial and commercial reform, and then transmitted these forces to the villages and towns below.

Such a huge transformation certainly cannot be completed within a few days, and may even take several months or even years.

But this policy has given the people hope! In the future, they will own their own land, their own property, and will no longer be exploited by the nobles! Except for paying the necessary taxes, all the money they earn will be theirs.

So even though this policy is still in its infancy, it has already won the support of the public. Sometimes, giving them hope is better than anything else.

The people began to organize themselves spontaneously to help Durrenni and help these "invaders" maintain order around Kaguya City.

From then on, no one called Durrenni a traitor anymore, but called him the president affectionately. The work of the members of the Elf Guild in Kaguya City also progressed very quickly.

Durreni had never seen such great enthusiasm among the people. Seeing the smiles on their faces and their hope for the future, he felt that joining the Elf Guild was the right choice. Taking a huge risk to "betray" his own class was a very worthwhile thing.

However, Durrenyi was also very self-aware. He knew that such reforms would only take a very long time to take effect and could only maintain wartime stability without causing major mistakes.

Although the people have changed their mind about the Elf Guild, they are not willing to sacrifice their lives for it and turn their spearheads against the elves. They are just not hostile to the Durrenni, the foreign invaders. However, this is enough for the Durrenni. After all, the army of Orila City is not large, and it is impossible to send a large number of troops to guard every city they conquer.

After seeing that Kaguya Castle was temporarily stabilized, the fleet continued to advance towards the depths of the Luna River.

For a week in a row, they conquered and captured four cities without bloodshed, and stabilized these cities using the same method as they did for Kaguya City.

They burned land deeds and debts, opened the nobles' warehouses, distributed fuel, food and other necessities of life to the local people, and then took out the gold and silver treasures that the nobles had not had time to take away and exchanged them for food from local shops to continue the disaster relief work.

Finally, land reform was carried out and local autonomous committees were established to further stabilize the vast villages and towns around the city.

Although such measures caused them to waste a lot of time after capturing the city, such waste was obviously worthwhile. A stable rear meant no worries in the front, and most importantly! This method was not only to physically destroy the manpower of the Elf Empire, but also to kill the hearts of the Elf nobles.

The elven nobles still wanted to use the glory of the race and the fate of the empire to inspire the people and use them as cannon fodder to deal with the Aurora fleet. However, with the efforts of the Elf Guild, they could no longer attract many elves.

The people knew very well that once these nobles regained power, the land they had just obtained would be taken back instantly, and the debts that had been burned would miraculously reappear, or even more. In this case, only a fool would help the nobles.

Although they might not necessarily fight to the death with the nobles for the land, they would definitely not help the nobles to deal with Durren.

This is enough.

A month after the Orila fleet entered the Moon River, the Elf Empire finally organized a decent resistance force. They stockpiled a large number of soldiers at a narrow pass in the Moon River and took out the ancient trees around them, vowing to stop the Orila fleet here.

After comparing the terrain, Harald came to the conclusion that the elves were clearly not strong enough to stop them. It was not too difficult to break through this pass, but the difficulty lay in how to break through this pass while preserving strength.

However, Harald and his men are not fighting alone.

In addition to the navy, the ground forces of Orila City also arrived at the Elf Empire one after another.

The troops that were supposed to go to the Troll Empire to support them all appeared in the Elf territory. After a brief rest, they began to move deeper into the Elf Empire along the Moon Goddess River.

According to the concept, the navy and the army should move forward together, but because the entire Luna River was not well defended, the navy's actions were too smooth, and as a result, the army was left far behind. Now, it was finally the army's turn to play a role.

The first batch of land forces entering the Elf Empire was not large, with only about 5,000 people in total. In the past, it would be a joke for such a small-scale force to conquer an entire country. The Elf Empire was vast, and it was said to have a million-strong army (just a claim). These few thousand people would probably become an isolated army under siege in a blink of an eye.

However, when there is a generation gap in the composition and equipment of the armies of both sides, the comparison of quantities has lost its meaning.

Of the so-called million-strong army of the elves, only about one-tenth of them can actually be called elite troops. The rest are a large number of followers, servants, farmers who have to carry their own weight, civilians, and even cannon fodder who are temporarily gathered to make up the number. These 100,000 elite troops had already suffered heavy losses in previous battles.

Olira's army was divided into two teams, one on the left and one on the right, moving forward along the river, and soon caught up with the navy. In front of them was the temporary defense line that the elves had just built.

What the elves are best at is positional warfare.

They used magic to quickly give birth to ancient trees and various vines, and combined with their superb archery skills, they could not break through the elves' position unless they used countless times their lives to fill it.

However, all this changed when artillery appeared.

Unlike the Troll Empire, the Aurora army was equipped with the most advanced artillery. Both the range and power were far beyond what the elves had ever seen. The Aurora soldiers calmly set up the artillery positions and then launched a barrage towards the distant elf positions.

Chapter 386: Space for Time

Just one hour after the battle began, the entire elven position turned into a sea of ​​fire. The elven soldiers on the position fled in all directions, unable to form any effective resistance.

According to the elves' previous strategy, they planned to use their positions to resist the enemy first, attract the invaders' attention, and then organize the unicorn cavalry to quickly attack the flank.

Unicorn cavalry is also a special type of elves. It is not very fast and its endurance is not high, but it is very stable when running, which does not affect the elves on its back from shooting arrows.

In the vast land of Inya, the elven horse archers, with their high mobility and accurate archery, killed the colonial rebels and made them flee in disarray. However, the reputation of the other elves' troops overshadowed the brilliance of the elven horse archers.

The two sides of the Moon Goddess River are all flat land, and you can gallop for thousands of miles. This is obviously the terrain where the elf horse archers are best at playing, plus the home advantage. Therefore, the elves are still counting on the horse archers to turn the tide and snipe the Aurora warriors.

However, plans could not keep up with changes, and the positions originally used to attract firepower collapsed at an astonishing speed, leaving the elven horse archers with no choice but to go into battle.

However, what these elven archers did not expect was that before the battle, the Aurora warriors had already noticed their presence. After all, with the reconnaissance of the Feathered Tribe, any ambush would have no way to hide.

Originally, the Aurora warriors were quite afraid of the elven archers. Although their archery skills were no longer able to compete with the musket troops, they were still very powerful after all because of the blessing of divine arts.

However, when they saw the unicorns under the crotch of these archers, their original fear disappeared without a trace.

Because these unicorns have not adapted to the sound of artillery.

Not long after, the elven archers blew the horn of attack, and hundreds of unicorns rushed towards the Aurora troops frantically.

The commander had already ordered his men to change the direction of the artillery and fire at the elven horse archers.

Boom boom boom!

The artillery did not cause much damage to the loosely-formed cavalry archers, but the explosion from the artillery directly startled the unicorn under the elf's crotch.

Just like when Margaret first went to war, the elves forgot that war horses are just livestock. They simply could not understand the explosions that sounded like thunder.

Although the elves have repeatedly claimed that unicorns are human-like and intelligent.

It’s just a pity... under the bombardment of artillery, they are still like other mounts, they will be afraid, terrified, and finally start to react to stress.

The unicorns tore and screamed madly in fear, and fled in all directions, even knocking the elves off their mounts.

Suddenly, the entire formation of the horse archers became very chaotic, and their speed suddenly dropped. When they calmed their horses and charged again, the firearms troops had already arrived in front of them, and then rows of bullets flew over, continuously harvesting the lives of the elven archers.

In just a few breaths, the horse archers retreated. They didn't fire many arrows from beginning to end.

This carefully planned sniper battle turned into a farce and was directly defeated by the Orila troops.

After defeating the elves with lightning speed, the troops of Orila City once again used flexible infiltration tactics to divide and surround the elven army. As a result, they captured more than 2,000 people in just two days.

You have to know that these are the front-line troops of the Green Sea Legion! Lucy Antiriel was counting on these front-line troops to defend the capital, but they didn't even put up a decent resistance and were all disarmed.

Angry Lucien Tiriel smashed her favorite cup to the ground, and cursed the Green Sea Army for receiving high salaries but being worse than pigs and dogs! Even if there were two thousand pigs, it would take more than two days for the Orila people to catch them.

Listening to the Queen's angry curse, the commanders of the Green Sea Legion could only hang their heads in dejection.

Hundreds of years of peace in the mainland had already made the Green Sea Corps indulge in the gentle countryside. These officers basically focused their skills on social and political skills. As for the ability to fight... there was no war in the mainland anyway, so they had nowhere to go. It was better to learn to rise and fall like politicians and be around the nobles.

Lucy Antiriel wanted to send more troops to carry out sniping, but no general dared to take up this responsibility. Everyone knew that whoever took this job would die. Even if they were lucky enough not to be captured, they would be attacked by their companions when they returned, just like they had attacked the New Leaf King before.

At this time, Lucy Antiriel finally remembered the Empire's God of War, King New Leaf. But unfortunately, King New Leaf had been dismissed as a scapegoat. After being humiliated like this, King New Leaf was naturally unwilling to come out to help the Elf Queen, and just watched coldly from the side.

No one dared to accept the challenge, no one dared to fight back.

Are we really going to let the troops from Orila City march straight in and attack Huanglong?

At the critical moment, an elf who was not a soldier stood up and took on the responsibility.

He is none other than the Queen's Hand of the Elf Empire - McMahon.

McMahon did not understand military affairs, but he had a very deep friendship with the New Leaf King. Relying on this friendship, McMahon successfully invited the New Leaf King's staff to help him make plans and resist the invaders.

Compared to the group of insects in the capital, King Xinye's staff is quite solid.

But there are limits to how strong they are. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been beaten back by the Troll Empire.

After analyzing the enemy's situation, these staff members quickly came to a cruel conclusion - with the current strength of the Elf Empire, it is simply impossible to compete with the city of Aurora. Instead of thinking about defending it to the death, it is better to give up some land and space in exchange for time to lure the enemy deeper.

After the entire elf army has assembled its manpower, they will rely on the Green Miracle to fight a desperate battle. The Green Miracle has a century of accumulated city defense, and is known as a city that never withers. With it, they will definitely drain the city of Orila, just like they drained the demons that were at their peak.

Not long after this battle plan was finalized, it was passed to Fran's desk through the Elf Guild.

After taking a look at it, Fran was quite supportive of the plan.

The elves now have very few chips in their hands, and they were caught off guard. Using space to trade time, and then dragging the city of Aurora into the quagmire of war, is indeed a very pragmatic plan.

But this would put the capital in danger. Regardless of whether Lucy Antiriel would guard the country's gates, the elven nobles would definitely not want to do so. After a large number of dignitaries fled, how many elven soldiers would be willing to defend the capital?

Moreover, they overlooked one very important thing.

The crisis facing the Elf Empire is not limited to this army.

Because in the south of the empire, another war was being fought at the same time. After half a year of confrontation, the Troll War should also come to an end.

Chapter 387: The New Leaf King's Envoy

When the news of the fall of Moon Port reached the battlefield of the Troll Empire, the elven soldiers who were fighting in a foreign country were all shocked.

We were still here trying to break through the opponent's defense, but when we woke up, our home was robbed first.

Soon, the Elf King's reinforcements received orders from their superiors to return to the empire as soon as possible, drive out the invaders, and restore the glory of the Elf Empire.

The elf soldiers were a bit confused as they suddenly went from being invaders to resisters of invasion. The officers were caught off guard, and they didn't even have a plan to retreat. Now they could only rush to pack up their belongings and prepare to return home.

But at this time they also found a thorny problem

What should this expeditionary force do?