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

The Principality of Habsburg had rejected Arthas's request for peace talks in strong words early on, so this time Arthas did not hesitate at all and directly launched an attack on the Principality of Habsburg in three directions.

However, Fran had already reached an agreement with the Principality of Habsburg.

Arthas's troops were different from the Feruman army in the past. If Duke Habsburg used his elite cavalry to fight an endless and cheap undead like before, it would be a waste of precious manpower. Therefore, after the two sides discussed it, Grand Duke Habsburg directly chose the strategy of clearing the countryside.

He worked with Fran to relocate a large number of people to the city of Aurora early in the morning, and then burned down the villages and towns along the way to ensure that Arthas could not get any supplies.

The vast underground world has nothing lacking in other things, except for land and jobs. These people who migrated here will not become disaster victims at all, and can even find a decent job here with their skills.

As for the remaining troops of Duke Habsburg, they fought guerrilla warfare with Arthas on the plains of the principality. They did not fight for the gains and losses of a city or a place. Instead, they relied on their familiarity with the terrain of the principality to circle around Arthas, greatly slowing down the advance of the Arthas Empire.

Although the undead army can march day and night without getting tired, they walk on two legs after all. When they encounter cavalry walking on four legs, they have no way to deal with them and can only follow behind and eat dust.

It must be said that this tactic is very useful, because the Habsburg cavalry will take advantage of the night to raid the undead army and throw a large number of flammable and explosive items at them. The undead are most afraid of fire, and they will suffer heavy losses if they are not careful under the attack of fire.

Arthas was troubled by this, but he couldn't get rid of these annoying "flies", so he had to use his other trump card before the war began - the demon army.

Before this, everyone only knew that Arthas had the support of the demon world, but they didn't know what the demon army looked like or how strong it was. However, Arthas was able to defeat the Northern Alliance and the Vienna Alliance with his army of undead, so the other forces were unable to see the current fighting power of the demons.

Arthas also knew that the demon army must win the first battle gloriously! After all, this was the first large-scale decisive battle with the troops of the main plane since the demons were defeated.

So he personally selected more than a thousand death knights. They wore black armor, held black knight swords, and had red eyes like the god of death.

On the other hand, Duke Habsburg was also very clear about the historical significance of this battle. So he did not choose guerrilla warfare as before! Instead, he personally led 800 Habsburg heavy cavalry and prepared to fight a decisive battle with the cavalry from the demon world in the wilderness.

Death Knight versus Spirit Knight.

Demons versus humans.

Historical grievances, racial feuds, and religious entanglements began to compete on this small plain.

The collision of metal and the charge of courage.

War songs, fighting, and horns.

This battle between heavy cavalry is destined to go down in history.

It’s just a pity that the reason they were recorded in history was not because of how fierce their battles were or how much impact they had on the war situation.

Simply because this will be the last large-scale battle between the Knights.

Chapter 193: No Martial Ethics

5 p.m.

This epic war ended hastily.

Although the cavalry of the Habsburg Principality fought bravely, they were outnumbered after all. After several charges, the spiritual energy of the front row of spiritual knights had been lost by more than half. On the other hand, the death knights kept the dark energy in a state where they could fight by constantly rotating.

It must be said that the Habsburg heavy cavalry did a very good job in resisting the elite of the demon world with the power of a small principality. But the strength gap was too big after all. Arthas could gather a thousand death knights with ranks, but it was obviously impossible for the Principality of Habsburg to gather 800 spirit knights.

After fighting for several hours, the Habsburg heavy cavalry were exhausted, and the spirit-armored knights had run out of spiritual energy, so they had to retreat.

Seeing the Habsburg heavy cavalry fleeing in panic, Arthas on the edge of the battlefield laughed happily towards the sky.

A gentleman's revenge is never too late!!

You have to know that in the history of the Feruman Empire, it is unknown how many times it has been bullied by these arrogant Habsburg heavy cavalry. In recent decades, the new and old Habsburg Dukes, plus Margaret, have repeatedly used the Habsburg heavy cavalry to defeat the enemy with fewer troops, and have rubbed the empire's army to the ground without mercy.

Humiliating their dignity

Now, Arthas finally defeated the nightmare of the empire on the front battlefield, which meant that his name would leave a glorious mark in the history books of the Feruman Empire. He had already thought about asking the poets accompanying the army to record this scene and publicize it after the victory of the war.

"Arthas wins the first battle, Habsburg flees in panic."

Of course, Arthas would not let this fleeing army go. Although he killed nearly two hundred heavy cavalrymen in this battle, it was obviously far from enough! He must take this opportunity to eradicate this nightmare of the empire and prevent future troubles. Not to mention the long-term, if they are not completely wiped out, there will still be

Will continue to harass the undead army!

Thinking of this, Arthas immediately ordered people to blow the horn of pursuit.

More than a thousand Death Knights, plus more than five hundred escort cavalrymen behind them, chased after the hastily retreating Feruman heavy cavalry.

In their field of vision, apart from these hundreds of heavy cavalry, there were only a few hundred infantrymen hiding behind the fortifications.

If cavalry fights infantry, isn't that like eating vegetables?

However, just as the ghost horses under their crotch were about to rush to the infantry, they found that the infantry picked up the muskets from the ground, then calmly aimed at the cavalry in front, and pulled the trigger.

bang bang bang!

A series of gunshots caused the Death Knight in the front row to fall off his horse instantly.

After completing the shooting, the infantrymen immediately retreated from both sides, came to the back of the array, and began to reload urgently, while the soldiers in the front row calmly pulled the trigger again.

Bang bang bang bang!

Countless bullets poured down, and as a result, another group of Death Knights fell.

Seeing this scene, Arthas widened his eyes in surprise.

When did the Habsburg Principality also equip itself with so many muskets? He also knew the price of muskets! Could they afford so much money?

Moreover, seeing how they skillfully switched formations, it was clear that they had been training for quite a long time and were not just a musketeer team put together at the last minute!

This is a complete conspiracy!

Fortunately, the Death Knight's ghost horse was not afraid of the deafening gunshots and would not panic, so the cavalry still maintained their charging posture!

Arthas knew that it would take time to reload the muskets! The enemy's infantry was not numerous, and even if they fired in turns, they would not have enough time to reload. As long as they could rush to the front of these musketeers, victory would still belong to them...

Although he lost a lot of death knights, it was worth it to win this epoch-making battle!

It's just that Arthas miscalculated!

Seeing that it was too late to reload, the soldiers in the front row simply dropped their muskets and picked up a new one from the ground.

These people! They are equipped with so many muskets? How rich are you!

But Arthas soon remembered that Fran was behind the Habsburg Principality! Who could compete with Fran in financial power now?

bang bang bang!

Another series of gunshots.

As Arthas watched the death knights fall one after another, he felt his heart bleed. If they continued like this, even if they wiped out all the enemies in front of them, they would not be considered victorious.

The only thing that comforted Arthas was that the cavalry in the rear were finally about to rush to the front of the infantry, and they didn't seem to have any intention of picking up the third gun from the grass.

"Start the slaughter! Start the slaughter!!" Arthas' eyes were filled with scarlet, the scarlet of thirst for killing!

However, at this moment, these soldiers actually took out wooden handles from their waists and threw them at the cavalry who were still charging.

Boom boom boom

Countless explosions broke out along the cavalry's charge, and the Death Knights were blown to the ground.

Having fought with Margaret for so long, Arthas certainly knew what this thing was - a grenade!

At this moment, the heavy cavalry that had just been in a "defeated state" turned around and rushed towards them again!

"Habsburg cavalry! Charge!"

The rumbling sound of horse hooves, led by Duke Habsburg, rushed directly towards the Death Knights like a Great Wall of Steel.

At this time, the number of Death Knights was only one-third of that of the Habsburg Cavalry, and the rest were followers. They were simply unable to withstand the charge of the Habsburg Cavalry and were completely dispersed in just one round! The infantrymen behind them also finished loading their muskets, rushed onto the battlefield quickly, and began to hunt down the scattered cavalrymen.

The killing Arthas had been waiting for began!

But the targets of the killing were not the soldiers of the Habsburg Principality, but them.

"Quick! Protect His Majesty!"

After seeing that Duke Habsburg's cavalry had dealt with the enemy, they actually launched an attack on Arthas.

Arthas' heart suddenly sank, and he stood there at a loss. If the guards had not reacted quickly and immediately helped Arthas onto his horse and retreated, Arthas would have been shot dead by Duke Habsburg.

The guards, along with the remaining cavalry, escorted Arthas all the way back to the garrison, while Duke Habsburg rolled over.

Arthas on horseback felt ashamed and angry, but in the end he could only hold the reins tightly.

He was so familiar with this scene! Because his incompetent father was chased by Margaret in this way and almost died on the spot, and he was so similar to his father.

Duke Habsburg bit Arthas tightly, but his warhorses were not as fast as the ghost horses, so he decisively gave up the pursuit.

However, although they did not catch up with Arthas, they would not let him get away so easily, so they kept mocking him loudly from behind! Until the other party completely disappeared from their sight.

Chapter 194: Let You Spread Rumors!!

In this battle, Arthas undoubtedly suffered a great loss.

However, Arthas obviously did not want to admit defeat, and at least wanted to save the situation in the public opinion field.

So after countless modifications, the original disastrous defeat turned into a victory!

The Death Knight defeated the Habsburg Heavy Cavalry, and the Duke of Habsburg fled in panic. However, it was mentioned later that the Duke of Habsburg relied on conspiracy and ambush to grasp the victory, and Arthas was defeated with honor.

Well! Anyway, Arthas wins.

Such battle reports soon reached Fran's desk. Fran was going to fight back against such absurd remarks.

Soon Arthas found that he was no match for Fran in the field of public opinion. Fran had too many channels to express her opinions. Not to mention the major taverns and markets in the Holy Roel Empire, she also controlled the bulk commodity trading center of Bieson Port. With just a little effort, Arthas's lies could be exposed mercilessly.

Then spread the truth.

Originally, if Arthas hadn't spread rumors, Fran wouldn't have spent so much effort to publicize this matter. But now, the whole world knows that Arthas was killed in a fight with 800 people against 1,000 people, and even tried to confuse right and wrong after the battle.

For a time, the demon army became a laughing stock.

The mysterious demons are not as powerful as imagined!!

This caused some forces to waver, and different voices emerged within the Northern Alliance and the Chinese Alliance.

As more and more information about the undead spread, the generals and officers of various forces also roughly understood the prototype of the undead.

This so-called undead scourge does not have the destructive power they imagined. By understanding their flaws and problems, they can formulate targeted tactics to defeat them. The elves suffered from a lack of understanding before, which led to such a disastrous defeat.

Later, different opinions emerged not only within the Northern Alliance, but also within the elves. Countless elven generals said that if they knew the weaknesses of the undead, they could definitely defeat them easily with their abilities! Some elven officers expressed their desire for revenge! The power of the war faction rose slightly again.

In any case, in terms of public opinion and the battlefield, the Vienna Alliance can be said to have made a good start.

So Fran actively dispatched cavalry to harass the undead's attack. These cavalry abandoned heavy equipment such as armor and weapons, and the only thing they had to do was to set fire, which could be said to have raised the efficiency of harassing Arthas to a higher level.

Arthas suddenly found that his undead troops dared not act alone and had to be equipped with a certain number of living people, otherwise they would be easily dispersed and disintegrated by the cavalry. In desperation, Arthas had to modify his previous strategic plan and no longer sought to encircle the Principality of Habsburg from three directions, but to unite the troops and launch an attack from one place.

This delay bought Fran a lot of time.

However, an army that was united as one was not so easy to harass. The Duke of Habsburg failed in several raids, so he had to temporarily stop and wait for an opportunity to act. On the other hand, Arthas captured cities and occupied the entire Principality of Habsburg at a very fast speed.

However, such an attack was meaningless because the entire Habsburg Principality was deserted, there was no resistance at all, and of course no spoils of war.

Such a victory obviously could not satisfy Arthas, so he continued to march southward without any stop.

That day, when Fran and Christina were on their routine inspection of the fortress, Huang Shang suddenly found them and said, "City Lord, we found a group of elf soldiers outside."

"Elves?" Fran was stunned. She had never thought that at this point in time, there would still be elven soldiers in the Holy Roel Empire?

"They were sent here by Zhu Chongba." Huang Shang said, "They came from the north."

"North? Why are the elves in the north coming to us instead of heading east to go home? Haven't the elves reached peace with the Feruman Empire?"

"I don't know either, but their boss said that he would only answer questions after he saw you in person."

Fran was full of doubts, but she still went with Huang Shang to meet this team of mysterious elves in person.

However, when Fran saw this team of elves, an expression of surprise immediately appeared on her face.

"Are you, Galannodil, the high priest of the elves?"

"It's nice to see you again, Lord Fran."

Galanodier lay weakly in the carriage, her lips were pale and her face looked very haggard. But even so, her weakness did not take away her beauty, but added a different kind of beauty to her. The sickly beauty was pitiful.

"Huang Shang, go call a doctor!" Fulan said hurriedly.

"Yes!"

"Lord City Lord, it's alright. I'm just a little weak...

"This is not a bit weak!" Christina put her hand on Galannodier's forehead, and then said: "I will inject some spiritual power into you first to temporarily prevent the priest's body from deteriorating further."

Galanodier said: "Thank you, Saint Lady."

Then she felt waves of warmth coming from Christina's palms, making her whole body rippling with this warm feeling. Not long after, she slowly closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.