Chapter 169 (2/2)

The bloody battles continued for several days The Northwest Legion lost nearly twenty thousand excellent infantry soldiers, while Reuenthal's cavalry had also lost a lot of men in the death trap

Fortunately, Elliot did not have enough e to the fortress He placed all of hisThe Northwest Legion had expanded and the number of soldiers had reached two hundred thousand, like that of the previous Northar However, Elliot had to leave behind fifty thousand soldiers to guard the Watt Fortress That meant that he only had one hundred and fifty thousand e

However, that subtle trap allowed the Northwest Legion of one hundred and fifty thousand men to trap Reuenthal's two hundred thousand cavalrymen inside the Trier Fortress

All the water in the city was poisoned and as a result, Reuenthal's arh food, they did not have water

The first day they unknowingly drank the poisoned water Thousands of soldiers died and tens of thousands were sick As the days passed, due to the lack of water, even more of Reuenthal's soldiers were incapacitated

Finally, after being besieged for five days, Reuenthal desperately ordered the soldiers to break out of the encirclement at all costs

Elliot knew that his lack of soldiers would not be able to stop Reuenthal He wisely decided not to face the opponent head-on He ordered his soldiers to open the blockade and let the enemy break out of encirclement After that, he led his troops to chase the enemy for over a hundred miles and killed as many as he could

Reuenthal's soldiers had already been weakened froe As a result, they suffered heavy casualties as they retreated to Redwood in defeat

In that battle, the Northwest Legion lost nearly thirty thousand soldiers More than twenty thousand of these people perished as hue On the other hand, Reuenthal's Great Moon Kingdom had sent out two hundred thousand troops but only less than one hundred thousand returned Thirty thousand soldiers were lost in the initial days of fighting and another thirty thousand soldiers were lost while they were being chased by the Northwest Legion Over ten thousand soldiers were also captured by the Northwest Legion Besides that, over thirty thousand soldiers ere still in the fortress could no longer fight or were sick from the poisoned water These people were abandoned by Reuenthal

After evaluating the result of the battle, Elliotdecision

The thirty thousand sick and injured soldiers in the city along with the ten thousand captured soldiers were all ordered to be executed by Elliot This ruthless decision caused an uproar in the Imperial Capital

This action was immediately criticized by the scholars of the E and civilized country Massacring prisoners and civilians were sharassland How could the brave warriors of the great E defenseless prisoners of war had tarnished the nareat Empire

Elliot was hard-headed He ignored all the criticisms and attacks and simply sent the Emperor a report

The report was very siraph which Andy appreciated a lot

”The Great Moon Kingdom is vast but sparsely populated, with less than a rasslands had several hundred thousand people in their prime For each death, there would be one less! Theth becomes I did this to help the Empire remove the hundred years of threat in the Northwest!”

Andy immediately ordered the newspaper to write about Elliot's victory in the Northwest and avoid writing about the slaughter of prisoners They were asked to praise Elliot and his Northwest Legion for the victory He relied on the power of the newspaper to control public opinion to think favorably of Elliot while preventing more ion a commendation reward in the name of the Emperor

Andy sighed when he looked at the Northar report and said, ”Rody, this Elliot has so that you currently lack the most Ruthlessness!”

At thatdepressed in the North

Nearly four hundred thousand soldiers had gathered in the North The Northern Legion's two hundred thousand soldiers were alreadythe incident at the palace, Milo had already made preparations Unfortunately, Milo's preparations were totally unnecessary thanks to Andy's sudden appearance

However, the sudden war that broke out did not put his efforts to waste

One hundred thousand of the Flaion also arrived in the North The Regihts was a cool and detached ed man, named Guddu He had the appearance of a devout hts under his gray robe That ion The only thing he waswas a staff

If it were just Guddu, it would have been acceptable, as he was indifferent and did not speak much However, the other person dispatched there, a Bishop Elder, made Rody sick

Because of that incident in the court, the relationshi+p between the Church and the Duke of the Tulip Family was strained As a result, the Bishop Elder was not too friendly with the young commander

However, the Bishop Elder was a religious fanatic The battles had not started Every day, he would take a bunch of ious belief To publicize their religious belief, they praised God's greatness and how the religion acted as God's spokesed Rody to order the ar time to pray to God That made Rody very uncomfortable, but the Bishop said, ”This is a crusade A crusade to fight the heathens That hy they y of God before the war That could enhance the soldier's faith and devotion in God Through devout faith for God, the soldier's morale and combat effectiveness will improve”

If it were not because of his current identity and the pre-war unity, Rody would have already kicked him out of the barracks

We cannot iu God If it were not because of the hatred between the continents, Rody would think that this guy was sent by the Church to cause disturbance in the military

Translator's Thoughts

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1 The monk here refers to Roman/ Catholic Church styles They are a type of h not to be considered totally bald (having hair that is 1mm or shorter)