Chapter Forty-Eight The Death of Cold Iron
The messenger flew high with three people and rushed to the next battlefield at full speed.
On the way, Richard also met several small-scale harvesters, but Richard was not interested in consuming time on them, but rushed directly to the core battlefield. When Richard arrived, the situation on this battlefield was already in danger. Two of the three legendary powerful men were seriously injured, and more than half of the casualties in the holy realm were killed. After a hard battle, Richard finally eliminated the harvesters here.
There are also the fourth and fifth battlefields, but there is no need to go. Before he set out, Richard received news that these two battlefields, mainly the coalition forces of the human nations, had fallen and the army was wiped out. Even the hundreds of Anfeng Knights sent by Richard to support were not spared. Only a small number of strong men escaped and were rushing towards the turbulent place where Richard was.
The harvesters on these two battlefields were continuing to go deeper, and all Richard's troops were exhausted and had to rest for at least a day before they could catch up and eliminate these harvesters. Before that, the people on the marching journey of this group of harvesters could only seek blessings.
What surprised Richard the most was the offensive and defensive battle of the Cold Iron Throne. Salonwell, surrounded by the superior enemy, commanded without any leakage, and repeatedly counterattacked, and actually successfully defended the Cold Iron Throne.
This was originally very good news, because Richard did not provide much support to Salonwell, but when Richard learned about the specific battle, he was completely unhappy.
Saronwell gave up all the defense lines on the periphery and shrank all the troops into the city. He sent a strange device to all the soldiers under his command over ten levels. This device was invention of Saronwell. It looked like a barrel that could be held in his hand. Each barrel contained three pieces of reaper's power metal, and there was a magic circle responsible for detonation.
After the war began, a large number of harvesters poured into the Cold Iron Throne, and the complex terrain in the city forced the harvesters to disperse, and then entered the cruel street battle.
The soldiers who obtained the explosive device waited for an opportunity to rush towards high-level reaper land units such as spider warriors, mechanical warfare elephants, and tried their best to install the sent out device on the reaper, and then activate the magic array. When the magic array in the barrel was activated, the power metal was strongly stimulated, resulting in a violent explosion.
These explosive devices are extremely powerful. Even if the mechanical war elephant is blown up by three or five times, it will turn into scrap iron, while the spider-turned warrior only needs one.
But the power of the explosion means that the warriors who rushed up to place the explosive device would also be crushed to pieces in the explosion. They used their flesh and blood and life to fight the Reapers.
Fighting with the Reapers will always lead to heavy casualties, so Saronwell made up his mind to let these soldiers who were destined to die in battle carry explosive devices with great power to die with the Reapers.
Even if they failed to hit the high-value target, even if they knocked down a piece of flesh and blood warriors, they would be considered profitable.
On the front battlefield, these ten-level primary knights have at most comparable combat power to one flesh and blood warrior. In actual combat, due to the rigorous tactical planning of the Reaper, their combat power is actually greater than the strength of the human army at the same level. When fighting against the Reaper in an open field, humans are always at a disadvantage.
Even in the turbulent Western battlefields under Richard's command, the Reapers would not be at all inferior. If the Reapers had not taken over the command of important local battlefields, the Reapers would have even gained the upper hand.
Shan and Hai opened their mouths and couldn't speak.
Richard knew that she had just woken up and was still confused about many things, so he patted her on the head and took her to Saronwell on the other side of the square.
Saronwell threw the wreckage of the harvester in his hand onto the pile of wreckage before coming to Richard, and said with a wry smile: "I didn't expect that I would win here."
"I really didn't expect that there were too many harvesters than I had expected."
Saronwell sighed and asked, "How is the situation on other battlefields?"
"There are all annihilations on the battlefield No. 4 and 5, only some strong men escaped, and the other three battlefields were defended, but they also won terrible."
"So, our military power has been lost half."
Richard shook his head and said, "Two-thirds."
"You should have the greatest pressure there, how many harvesters have come."
"Probably three times that of here."
Saronwell was stunned, then sighed and said, "There shouldn't be much left in the crimson army."
Richard nodded and said, "The main force has lost 80% of it. Next, we will transfer the second line or even the garrison troops to come. In addition, I will recruit soldiers from the southern countries and mobilize all their elite troops to Crimson to enrich the garrison forces."
"Those kings and grand dukes won't agree."
"I have some time left. If any kingdom dares to disagree, I will send someone to kill all their royal families." Richard said that the tone of slaughtering a royal family was like saying that he was killing a few sheep.
Saronwell looked around at the ruins and said, "Richael, you have seen the situation here too. If there is no reinforcement, we can't stand the next battle anyway. What are you going to do?"
Richard pondered, but did not answer for a moment.
The most realistic approach at this moment is to bring all humans together, but this is just an ideal solution and is not feasible.
If the civilians of the Cold Iron Throne want to move to the Crimson Kingdom, they will have to walk on the road for several months. Not to mention a few months, even if it takes more than ten days, they may be intercepted by the harvesters halfway through the road. At that time, they will inevitably be wiped out. It is better to defend in the strong city of the Cold Iron Throne.
The war with the Reaper has only been more than twenty days since now. The plane passage leading to Green Forest and Liujin Valley has not been fully built. The time flow rate of Liujin Valley has been accelerated by Richard to the same level as Green Forest through sacrifices. Gonde was transferred to Liujin Valley, and together with Seldon, he was responsible for clearing out the giants there and opening up enough living space for the subsequent humans.
In order to achieve this goal as soon as possible, Richard gritted his teeth and allocated fifty constructed knights, three hundred night elves, and four powerful people in the holy realm.
But if Faro's surviving humans were not concentrated, it would mean that they would invest enough troops into the Cold Iron Throne. Now, after the second round of war with the Reaper, although the high-end troops under Richard were still strong, most of the ordinary military power had been lost and the troops were seriously insufficient. In this case, it was obviously a taboo to divide the troops again.
The most rational way is to give up the Cold Iron Throne, let the people here die and concentrate their troops, so that they can withstand the third round of offensive by the Reapers.
Richard glanced at Saronwell.
In the eyes of this empire puppet emperor, he did not see hope or anxiety. There was only peace in Saronwell's eyes, calm and calm.
Chapter completed!