Chapter 172 (1/2)
Thunder City was located at the edge of the Strait of Thunder The city as only a few kilometers away from the beach It could be said that Thunder City was a naturally exquisite outpost fortress
If the people from the Roland Continent intended to disembark on the Radiant Continent, the most appropriate place would be at the northern coastline outside Thunder City
Perhaps God, in the creation of the world, deliberately gave the Radiant Continent a fine terrain The coastline of the Radiant Continent at the Strait of Thunder had a lot of whirlpools, reefs and steep cliffs There were very few beaches There were even fewer places for landing a big military force But there is one exception Thunder City's beach front is flat and large, a perfect landing spot
The city wall of Thunder City was constructed according to the standard of a first-grade fortress It was a full military fortress There were very few civilian residences in the city The city walls were coe and sturdy boulders about twelve meters tall and four meters ere used to form a circular shape
Thunder City was not large It could only accommodate a maximum of two hundred thousand soldiers At the hts fro God's Whip cavalrymen, and fifty thousand elite heavy arion
Tiger coldly looked at the information in front of hiazed into the distance in the uely see Thunder City
”We must first capture Thunder City” The Supreme Commander of the Roland Continent Southern Expedition Coalition Forces, Tiger, sighed gently The first step of the crusade would be to capture Thunder City
First of all, the coalition aranize their troops They would also need a strong transit station For the expedition to the south with a strong base that was near the coastline, supplies from the Roland continent could be sent to their front lines smoothly
The problehtening even to Tiger He was especially afraid of the Duke of the Tulip Fahout every generation The Radiant Ee and elite army Once the Roland Continent's army was ashore, they hold In case their opponents mobilized their soldiers to recklessly attack, then they would need a strongand breather area
Tiger did not want to encounter the enemy cavalry the moment they reached the shore The soldiers needed to rest for a while After all, the soldiers felt very tired after traveling across the bumpy waves for approximately ten days
Another very important point was that Thunder City had a considerable ae, weapons and a variety ofThunder City would provide them with a lot of supplies
Of course, there was another reason which Tiger did not mention
Tiger was not optiht's Spirit forced hi and the Teht recklessly on land, against the Radiant Empire? The coalition are, but they were not strong Could they really make it?
We hold is closest to the coastline! This is because, in future, if ere defeated, we can use the city to hold off the pursuers from the Radiant Eged military fortress to enable our soldiers to retreat to the ocean
Tiger also knew that, besides hie nuathered in the city Besides that, the troops were the Lightning God's Whip led by the Empire's Duke of the Tulip Family
Tiger looked, fro above the Thunder City He could not see it clearly as he was too far away, but he knew that the banner was the Tulip Family's war banner
After taking a deep breath, the Supreave an order ”Disembark!”
Thesun shone brilliantly on the vast ocean Thousands of large black shi+ps were on the move Half of those warshi+ps were, like what Milo had said, first-grade shi+ps that could accommodate more than a thousand soldiers
They lowered nuether like ants And then they started to swarm to the coast like locusts
The Imperial soldiers on the city wall of Thunder City looked in awe After all, they had not fought a war against the Roland Continent in hundreds of years Although it was a known fact that the people of the Roland Continent were very powerful in the ocean, when they actually saw the huge army, the soldiers of the Empire could only stare blankly
The beach was noisy as countless soldiers froe quantity of materials and equipment into the barracks When looked from atop the city wall, those soldiers were like busy worker ants
”Your Excellency the Duke, do we continue to wait?” Sieg could not help but frown
Rody looked at the sun in the sky and replied, ”We wait! This batch which disembarked was only about one hundred thousand soldiers I ait until at least several hundred thousand of their soldiers have dise I want them to leave their familiar ocean, come onto land and spill their blood dry under our city wall”
A strange scene appeared on the second day of the war
Large groups of Roland Coalition ar However, the soldiers of the Empire in Thunder City did not bother about them Both parties occasionally looked at each other, but they did not fight at all Not even a single arroas shot
The only thing that surprised Rody was the huge fleet in the ocean The warshi+ps had already densely covered almost the whole ocean A steady stream of soldiers reached the shore and disembarked Their numbers increased from two hundred thousand until it was over six hundred thousand
The barracks on the beach, which originally looked huge, now seemed too small to accohs from horses filled the whole beach That could even be heard by the soldiers on the city wall of Thunder City, some distance away
After three full days, the Roland are barracks then looked like a dense forest The only thing that Rody did, every day, was to stand on the wall to observe the landing of his opponent and then mentally count the number of soldiers his opponent had
He was slightly surprised with the results of his calculation There were at least eight hundred thousand soldiers This was a very large number
Are the people on the Roland continent mad? They had sent almost half of their soldiers from the Roland Continent here Did they really think that a doms on Roland continent could defeat the army of the Radiant Empire?
Rody's eyes were very sharp After three days of observation, he could accurately tell the strength of the coalition armies of the Roland Continent
Out of the eight hundred thousand soldiers, only two hundred thousand or less had reached the standards of the elite army of the E They were probably the strongest knights on the Roland Continent However, Rody was not sure if there were any Te them
As for the rest of the are them They were mainly inferior soldiers There were very few cavalries They were reat difference between these infantries and the elite heavy-armored infantries of the Empire
Their soldiers lacked equipood armor Some of them didn't even have proper military uniforms Most of the infantries' armors were simply a few pieces of scrap iron placed at only several vital parts of their bodies They also had a variety of weapons such as swords, broad swords, spears, and lances
There was also a strange arendary war chariot army There were thousands of such theeled chariots Each chariot was equipped with a horse and three soldiers: a driver and twoout of the wheels of the chariot With a glance, Rody could see how terrible that type of weapon was Those chariots were specially made to kill the opponent infantries
However, the shortcos of the chariots were also very obvious Rody sneered and then ignored it
Other than the unexpectedly large number of troops, Rody did not feel uneasy Every day, he routinely visited the barracks After that, he would discuss so However, he rarelyofficers
The only thing that disturbed him was the presence of the Bishop Elder
One day, the Bishop Elder went up the wall When he saw the huge enemy barracks on the distant shore, he exclaimed and immediately turned pale
He ily recommended the Duke of the Tulip Family to request for reinforcements from His Majesty
That was obvious The entire war zone in the North only had four hundred thousand soldiers while their opponents had twice that number
A request to His Majesty the Eather more reserve soldiers in a major way Forced conscription may also be necessary
Rody just looked at him coldly and faintly said, ”I know”
Sieg looked at the Bishop Elder, who had lost his wits and left the wall He then sighed and sneered, ”That fool! Can't he tell that our opponent's are, but they do not really haveweapons and wearing armors, from the way they walked, one can easily tell that they are siroup of farmers who had just put down their hoes”
Milo lightly said, ”There is no need to talk about that garbage However, the two cavalries over there looked pretty capable We just need to pay attention to therind them down slowly
Rody laughed, ”Grind theht a decisive battle in Thunder City”
He then suard this place for ten days After ten days, ill give up Thunder City and then retreat internally towards the Northern Province
Sieg and Milo looked at each other Milo then showed a strange expression and coldly said, ”Seth, you are really cunning You are afraid of the away, so you intend to lure them deeper into the continent?”
Rody nodded and said, ”Thunder City is too near to the coastline They can immediately escape unless they were lured deeper into the continent I want to eliht hundred thousand soldiers in the Radiant Continent”
Rody sighed and whispered, ”This way, there should be a few decades of peace for the Empire”
The calhth day of their disembarkment