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Under Medici's repeated attacks, the Intis military realized that the Duchy of South Balam was determined to attack their logistics supply line.
Therefore, while continuing to strengthen the defense of the railway line, Intis planned to switch entirely to using extraordinary powers to transport supplies within the next week.
Currently, among the four countries of the Northern Continent, only Loen has extensively adopted teleportation arrays to transport logistical supplies.
When they retreated, no matter how embarrassed they were, they destroyed the teleportation arrays set up on the front line side.
The Loen military is very clear that after the enemy's front line is stretched, the process of transporting supplies will definitely consume a lot of their manpower. If they also master the teleportation array technology, the pressure on the front line will be even greater.
Intis and Feysac also have their own methods of using extraordinary powers to transport supplies to the front line, but that would take up a lot of their extraordinary powers, so they try to use conventional means as much as possible when they can.
But now it's not possible. On these three railways, whether it's supplies or Beyonders, there have already been considerable losses. The military has finally belatedly begun to send angels to protect the railways.
In order to prevent the Duchy of South Balam from attacking the supply lines again with angels or Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts, the Intis military's combat thinking has also changed accordingly. The South Balam army doesn't care about using angels in this kind of place, and they also have to not care.
However, their realization was still a step late. After learning that the enemy had begun to use angels to protect the military trains, the Duchy of South Balam stopped attacking the railways again.
...
That same night, "Weather Warlock" Raymond quietly came to a small mountain outside the Intis camp. Looking out, the foot of the mountain was a sea of tents.
It is said that 300,000 Intis troops are gathered here, and it is also the Intis logistics base. Almost all supplies are transported to the front line from here.
Although it was late at night, there were still many lights in the camp, and many guards were patrolling back and forth in the base.
Raymond suddenly grinned and smiled: "This place has become a weak point again!"
A large number of Beyonders were transferred to the railways, making the power of this rear army base weaker.
At this time, the space beside him suddenly became illusory, and Beverly, also wearing a ring-shaped jade pendant, appeared.
After the siblings looked at each other, Raymond raised his hand, and a white mist suddenly appeared in the military camp, followed by a sharp drop in the temperature of the entire military camp.
It was still late summer, but the temperature of the entire camp suddenly dropped to late autumn.
Beverly used her "Magnification" ability at the right time, dropping the temperature from late autumn to severe winter.
Whoosh~
Suddenly, flames burst out on the roads of the military camp. "Weather Warlock" Celt, who was resting in this large camp, came out of his tent, intending to use flames to raise the temperature in the camp.
Raymond raised his hand again, and hurricanes blew from all directions of the camp. Also under Beverly's "Magnification", the hurricanes turned into a small storm.
Celt in the camp immediately used a ball of white mist with vortexes to fight against the storm.
But the storm still blew away many tents, and blew the flames that Celt had just summoned everywhere.
Under Beverly's "Tampering", the flames ignited many tents around.
At this time, Celt in the camp immediately cast a light rain to extinguish the fire in the camp.
This allowed Raymond to calmly turn a light rain into a snow, yes, a snow.
The temperature in the camp had been very low just now, and Celt's flames had not played much of a role. When he cast this light rain just now, the fire was extinguished, but it immediately turned into freezing rain when it fell to the ground.
So Raymond used the decreasing temperature to make it snow in the Balchis Mountains in late summer.
This temperature didn't have much impact on Celt, but the soldiers in the camp were shivering from the cold and ran towards the outside of the camp.
Beverly immediately used her "Instigation" ability to make some soldiers strongly dissatisfied with Celt and their officers, which almost immediately evolved into a mutiny.
After all, they were sleeping soundly when they were suddenly awakened by the cold. The key was that they didn't have any warm clothes around them. In a bad mood, it was easier to be used by Beverly.
Celt quickly used his ability to control the battle situation to appease the soldiers. At this time, Raymond summoned walls of fire again, and most of the camp turned into a sea of fire.
Celt suddenly felt a little overwhelmed and quickly cast rain again to put out the fire.
Who knew that the rain he cast suddenly turned into a torrential rain under Beverly's "Magnification", which made the surrounding soldiers despair, equivalent to being drenched in a torrential rain in the middle of winter!
At this moment, the spirit world in the center of the camp was suddenly opened, and a young man with chestnut hair and handsome appearance walked out. This was Bornova Gustav, who had come to support.
He raised his somewhat hollow eyes, and the raindrops around him floated up and no longer landed.
Immediately afterwards, Bornova turned his palm over, and a revolver appeared in his hand. Without even aiming, he fired a shot at Beverly and Raymond, firing a fiery red bullet. This bullet turned into a dense flame as it left the barrel, igniting the air along the trajectory.
There was no need to aim at all, the bullet came towards Raymond, and Beverly immediately went to "Distort" the trajectory of the bullet, but found that the bullet could not be shaken by Beyonder power.
Raymond held an orange-red "Blazing White Spear" in his hand and suddenly met it, piercing the bullet with the "Blazing White Spear".
Boom~
The bullet and the "Blazing White Spear" exploded, and the earth trembled.
The next second, the siblings used the method of "Distorting" space to leave.
Celt in the camp finally breathed a sigh of relief, but the entire camp had been messed up by this battle of angels and could only be cleaned up slowly.
Bornova also left after seeing the enemy leave.
Celt knew that this angel of the Steam Church was very indifferent, and didn't take it too seriously that he left without even saying hello.
Immediately, he first used the strong wind to disperse the low temperature in the camp, allowing the surrounding late summer air to return here.
He also ordered the soldiers to immediately chop firewood and make a fire, and ordered them to bake until they sweated to avoid a large-scale cold.
Tens of thousands of people chopped firewood for heating, which was a spectacular sight. In the second half of the night, bonfires were lit in the camp, and the soldiers finally felt alive again.
After making the fire, the soldiers went to clean up the chaotic camp and only had time to rest until dawn.
Just as they were falling asleep, a huge eyeball image suddenly descended on the camp. As soon as the "Hundred-Eyed Devil Monarch" appeared, he "summoned" a tall figure standing on the waves, and a storm suddenly attacked the camp.
Celt immediately responded, reducing the wind speed to a controllable range.
At this time, a pure black female shadow appeared behind the "Hundred-Eyed Devil Monarch". She "Used" Celt's control over the storm to make the originally gradually calming storm rage again.
This storm blew a large number of tents, military supplies and soldiers into the sky.
Celt was very helpless: Why are there two more angels? If you have the ability, fight the angels on the front battlefield! What's the point of always sneaking attacks on the rear camp?
In short, these two angels once again messed up the camp. After the Intis military's angel support came, the "Hundred-Eyed Devil Monarch" and the "Duke of Entropy" withdrew again.
The camp had been cleaned up until the afternoon. Just as it was almost tidied up and the soldiers were about to take a breath, Beverly's siblings came again.
This time Intis was prepared. In addition to Celt in the camp, Hilian, an angel of the Steam Church, was also guarding the camp. In addition, Celt also applied for a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact and handed it over to a demigod to use.
As a result, when they were dealing with Beverly's siblings, Medici suddenly set fire from another direction of the camp.
Beverly's siblings, who originally did not intend to fight Celt and others head-on, suddenly began to attack actively. These two battle-hardened angels easily held back Celt and others.
Medici took the opportunity to let the fire spread, and by the time the enemy's third angel support came, it had burned down about a third of the camp.
At this time, Medici immediately retreated, and Beverly's siblings also immediately withdrew after receiving the signal.
Celt looked at the chaotic camp again, and he had already planned to unite with the Steam Church's angel to sneak attack on the Duchy of South Balam's camp at night, so that they could also taste the feeling of being attacked.
But before they had time to set off, the Duchy of South Balam's attack came again.
Just after nightfall, the "Hundred-Eyed Devil Monarch", "Holy Infant King", and "Duke of Entropy" appeared together in the camp.
Before they could launch an attack, some irritable Celt's "Fireball" was thrown on the faces of these three angels.
The three angels immediately retreated to the edge of the military camp, and Celt, along with Shirley and Bornova of the Steam Church, immediately chased after them.
Suddenly, a black tide emerged in front of them. This was the "Holy Infant King's" "Corruption". Many soldiers in the surrounding area were submerged by the "Corruption" in their sleep, and their bodies and spirit bodies betrayed him, leaving him forever in slumber.
Shirley took out an iron crossbow and shot a blue feather arrow. As the feather arrow shot into the black tide, the black tide actually stopped its momentum of spreading to the surrounding area.
"The state of these three angels is a bit strange." Bornova, whose eyes flickered with strange brilliance, reminded: "Their existence has a time limit!"
As he spoke, he took out a stopwatch from his jacket pocket and turned on the switch with a "snap", and then the "tick-tock" sound of the stopwatch moving sounded around, and the flow of time around seemed to be faster.
At this moment, the Hundred-Eyed Devil Monarch "reproduced" a giant dragon with golden, vertical pupils. The bewitching pupils looked at Hillan and the others, causing them to immediately relax and become unwilling to offer any resistance.
The Duke of Entropy" opportunely "magnified" the effect, allowing the "hypnosis" to last longer.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Holy Infant King uttered a string of gibberish, and Celt and the other two immediately showed expressions of pain.
But soon, Celt pulled a ball of black flame from his ear, the damage from the gibberish. Then, disregarding whether he was in the camp, he summoned dozens of fire crows and sent them flying towards the three enemy angels.
As the fire crows approached the three angels, they suddenly transformed into "blazing white spears," forcing the Hundred-Eyed Devil Monarch and the others to retreat rapidly.
During the retreat, the Duke of Entropy used his ability to "Exploit," causing these "blazing white spears" with tracking abilities to disappear one after another before them.
Bornova and Hillan also regained their senses from their previous state. They seemed to realize that speeding up the flow of time could not affect the state of the three enemy angels, so they began to use other sealed artifacts to launch attacks.
Just as the six angels on this side were fully engaged in battle, Beverly and her younger sibling appeared on the other side of the camp. Celt immediately realized: the enemy's general offensive had begun!
In fact, two angels were also ambushed in the camp, namely the "Death Consul," Dix, and a "Knowledge Magister," Dorothy.
Originally, Intis had gathered five angels tonight, planning to ambush a raiding squad composed of two angels from the Duchy of South Balam, or to cross the Balchis Mountains to launch a surprise attack on the Duchy of South Balam's camp.
But they unexpectedly encountered the enemy's general offensive!
With the emergence of the two angel battlefields, the soldiers, who had been working tirelessly for a day and a night and were very tired, quickly evacuated from different directions under the organization of the Beyonders.
At this time, on a hillside not far from the camp, Medici, with a cigarette in his mouth and arms crossed, watched everything that was happening in the camp.
Seeing that the time was ripe, he casually spat out the cigarette butt and asked Helen, the Demoness of Despair, beside him, "What are you waiting for? Waiting for the enemy to bring you a midnight snack? Send the signal!"
"Yes, yes, yes." Helen quickly took out a signal gun and fired two signal flares.
Gunfire immediately erupted on both sides of the only path for the Intis army to retreat.
In this general offensive, the Duchy of South Balam not only had angels and Beyonders participating, but also asked the Creator to send the newly assembled 30,000 regular troops to different locations on the battlefield.
The soldiers who had evacuated from the Intis army camp were almost simultaneously ambushed.
The Intis soldiers, disheveled and many not having had time to bring their weapons, were immediately beaten to a pulp by the well-prepared army of the Duchy of South Balam.
At the same time, the Beyonders of Intis and the Beyonders of the Duchy of South Balam also began to fight, but because many Beyonders in this camp had been transferred to protect railway transportation and try to use extraordinary means to transport materials, the Beyonders of the Duchy of South Balam had a considerable advantage.
Medici looked at the battle down the mountain, and impatiently put another cigarette in his mouth, lighting the other end himself.
Helen and other members of the 'Venomous Thorn Army,' who were serving as reserves, did not dare to breathe loudly. Since this afternoon, the marshal had been very irritable.
Fortunately, at this time, Hobert came from the spirit world and suddenly appeared in front of everyone. Helen and the others breathed a sigh of relief and saluted one after another.
Hobert waved his hand at them, then smiled and threw a bundle of cigars to Medici: "Smoke this. This is a cigar specially supplied to the Loen royal family. I just got it from King Jevington."
Medici caught the cigar: "Heh heh, so you don't trust me, you have to come and supervise the battle yourself."
"I really don't trust you on this matter." Hobert emphasized again: "You can only injure the enemy's angels at most, but you must not kill any of the enemy's angels!"
He said, "At least not now!"
Because the Creator is not yet a True God, if he really forces the enemy's angels into a desperate situation, the God of Steam and Machinery is likely to take action to relieve the siege, and then the Duchy of South Balam will fall into a very passive situation.
At this time, among the Seven Gods, the Evernight Goddess would definitely not take action. The Lord of Storms and the Eternal Blazing Sun were confronting each other at sea, and the God of Knowledge and Wisdom and the Earth Mother were confronting each other on the western battlefield. The God of Combat was making his final observation.
Only the God of Steam and Machinery had time to help when his own angels were in danger.
In order to avoid a divine war breaking out ahead of schedule at this critical juncture, Hobert drew a red line for Medici today: Do not kill the other side's angels!
This was the reason for Medici's irritability. According to his original combat plan, he had originally planned to kill one or two of the enemy's angels tonight.
"I know!" Medici certainly knew what Hobert was worried about: "I just think it's a pity, there won't be such a good opportunity in the future!"
The Intis people are not fools either. This battle is enough to wake them up and let them know that their opponent is no longer that old gentleman, the Loen people.
So, a victory like today's will only happen now, and it will be difficult to replicate in the future.
"It's just that there's no chance now." Hobert smiled and said, "Do you think that after this world war, the Duchy of South Balam will still be in the corner of this world stage?"
He sighed: "Even if you want to live a peaceful life, they won't let you succeed."
Medici immediately understood Hobert's meaning: "You mean... hahaha!"
He suddenly laughed twice: "I seem to see a war sweeping across the entire continent."
The two looked at each other, but did not continue this topic.
After being persuaded by Hobert, Medici's mood improved a lot, so his scolding voice reappeared in every corner of the battlefield:
"Chase! You idiots! Look at the enemies in front of you, they've even lost their guns!
"Is your brain full of urine? Attack from the side of the enemy! Cut them in half! Those who run past first won't care about the people behind!..."
In Medici's opinion, since the Intis royal family was overthrown, none of them knew how to fight.
But even if the royal family had not been overthrown, even if their king came, he would not be Medici's opponent.
This battle continued until the second half of the night. On the angel battlefield, Celt and several other angels were entangled and could not break free at all. They could only watch helplessly as their regular army and Beyonder forces were severely damaged by the Duchy of South Balam.
When reinforcements from the Balchis Mountains front line arrived, the South Balam army, with the help of the Creator, quickly withdrew, leaving only corpses and a ruined military camp.
Only then did the high-level officials of the Intis military realize the power of the new opponent, and they began to seriously study the tactics of the Duchy of South Balam.
After some research, they discovered that when the enemy first attacked the railway line, their target was actually the rear army camp.
Repeatedly attacking the railway line was just to disperse their forces. When the power of the rear army camp was very weak, they first harassed them many times, and gathered superior forces to launch a general offensive when the soldiers were very tired.
If they had to summarize the enemy's tactics, they initially had a clear guerrilla warfare mode, but because the enemy's overall strength was actually not weak, they later turned it into a large-scale annihilation war.
In this war, the Intis army suffered more than 20,000 casualties! For the next two days, the entire western part of the Tucker Plain was filled with fleeing Intis soldiers.
It took a lot of effort for the Intis Republic to stop them, reorganize them again, and send them back to the battlefield.
It is conceivable that the morale of these soldiers will not be too high for a long time to come.
...
On the Loen Kingdom's side, they were overjoyed. Jevington II greatly commended Hobert, and almost everything that could be used as a reward was taken out.
This victory not only greatly reduced the pressure on the western front, but also greatly boosted Loen's morale.
In fact, before the reinforcements from the Duchy of South Balam arrived, the high-level military officials of Loen had already begun to plan for defeat. Now, they finally felt that they could still fight for it.
At the same time, Hobert suddenly became the object of eager invitations from the nobles of Backlund, and he had to attend balls and receptions every day.
Of course, these nobles did not invite him so frequently because Hobert had won the battle and treated him as a hero. The nobles just realized the power of the Duchy of South Balam and felt that the Southern Continent could also become a way out for them.
Now that the war has reached this point, the nobles are very clear that even if they bring the enemy to the negotiating table, Loen will have to cede huge benefits in order to recover its territory.
In their opinion, the future Loen will no longer be the most powerful country in the world!
...
In late September, the re-integrated Intis army launched another fierce attack on the Balchis Mountains, and the western front was tight again.
This time, they adjusted their tactics and no longer set up rear army camps. All the soldiers entered the Balchis Mountains, and the front-line camps were connected to the logistics camps, so that if the enemy attacked them again, the two camps could quickly support each other.
But what they didn't know was that this arrangement was still within Medici's expectations.
The Intis army seemed to be concentrating its forces, but there was not enough open space in the mountains for hundreds of thousands of people to concentrate together.
They were inevitably divided by valleys and mountains.
This gave Medici another opportunity to concentrate superior forces and attack a certain point of the enemy.
So, for a long time afterwards, at least two Intis army camps were attacked by the South Balam army every night.
The more this war was fought, the more headache it caused the high-level Intis military. It wasn't that they hadn't tried to pursue, but after chasing out, they would definitely be ambushed.
The most laughable incident occurred on a moonless night when the Southern Balam army, as usual, sent out a thousand or two men for a sneak attack.
The Intis army was well-prepared, dispatching three divisions, nearly twenty thousand men, in pursuit northward. After chasing for more than two hours, they finally caught up.
The Intis army, who had been gnashing their teeth in hatred, fiercely fought for half the night, calling in reinforcements twice and artillery support more than ten times. Finally, at dawn, they discovered the flag of the Feysac Empire planted on the opposite position.
It turned out that under the cover of darkness, the Southern Balam army had one unit lure out the Intis army and another lure out the Feysac Empire army, then drawn them together, resulting in the two allies sparring with each other for half the night.
This forced the Intis army to begin studying guerrilla warfare as well, but compared to the Southern Balam army's versatile tactics, they always felt they couldn't quite grasp the essence.
…
Currently, the most elite armies in the world are concentrated on the Northern Continent battlefield. The colonies in the northern and central parts of the Southern Continent are also at war, possibly leaving only the Duchy of Southern Balam appearing prosperous and harmonious.
Construction Square in Angel City was visited today by a handsome young magician with shoulder-length hair and a cloak. His skillful magic tricks elicited gasps of amazement from the citizens of Angel City.
When someone asked his name, he smiled and said, "I am Merlin Hermes."
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