It's a mess, a complete mess -

Saiyin fulfilled his boast. When the Fourth Army arrived at the Shitan Camp, all the defense facilities and tents in the Woye Army camp were almost burned to ashes. In this battle, the Left Army with less than 20,000 troops defeated the Woye Army of more than 37,000 people, killing and wounding more than 10,000, capturing more than 4,000, and even capturing alive a number of commanders including Howell.

After the Fourth Legion arrived, Saiyin generously gave half of the captured food to Toyide. After accepting it calmly, Toyide left 2,000 people to help Saiyin build the Xingoukou camp, and led the rest of the troops to Kayikede...

At this point, the first hole in the Assyrian defense line was torn open.

Before the good news came back, another change occurred in the Hongguwan Fortress area - the Hulit Seventh Legion of nearly 40,000 people abandoned the city and marched more than 200 miles. They ignored anyone's dissuasion and rushed through seven camps and smashed the four gates of their own fortress. When Trajan, who was patrolling the defense dozens of miles away, received the news, they had already rushed out of the fortress and launched an attack on the Hongguwan Fortress...

Trajan was furious. At this critical moment, they still disobeyed orders and acted on their own. How was this different from mutiny? The first thing the angry Trajan did after he rushed back to the fortress was to gather the military law team. This team of 100 brave soldiers was Trajan's private soldiers and his greatest guarantee for maintaining military discipline, because these soldiers would only obey the orders of Trajan alone. In the past years, they had caused trouble for the soldiers of the First Legion.

"Listen!" Trajan had just uttered these two words when the messenger's urgent report sounded.

"Report to General Trajan, the Seventh Legion has burned down the three main gates of the enemy's fortress and is now charging the enemy!"

"The main gate of the enemy fortress was attacked?!" Trajan was shocked, then happy, but also afraid that he had heard it wrong.

"Yes, General, the enemy is in chaos." The messenger could not hide his joy.

"Beat the attack drums!" Trajan waved his hand and gave the order. He then waved to the two bodyguards, "Bring me my armor and weapons!"

"yes!"

…

If only Hurlit's Seventh Legion was attacking, then the enemy might not be able to successfully capture the Red Valley Bay Fortress even if the main Assyrian Third Legion and the assisting Fourth Legion were able to break through the fortress gate. However, Hurlit's Eighth Legion and the most powerful First Legion had also arrived.

In terms of numbers, the Third and Fourth Legions were at a disadvantage. With the main gate of the fortress broken, they lost their most critical and effective defense. As a result, the camps of the Third and Fourth Legions behind the fortress were immediately exposed to the enemy.

After the fierce battle lasted for a day and a night, the casualties of the Third and Fourth Corps exceeded 60%. In desperation, the two armies had to choose to retreat to Menia, but retreating was no longer an easy task now - as soon as they withdrew from the battlefield, Hulit's Eighth Corps "bite" them.

While Huriot's Eighth Legion was pursuing, Trajan, looking tired, gave an order - half of the Seventh Legion, in conjunction with the center of the First Legion and 20,000 Kimoan troops, attacked Seneca.

"After taking Seneca, leave 10,000 people to defend, 3,000 to 4,000 of them to collect as much food as possible, and the rest of the troops will go straight to the Katti grassland. We don't have to attack Katti City for the time being, but we must get as many horses as possible from the grassland. The better our mobility, the greater our chances of winning in the future." Trajan ordered.

After the officers and soldiers who were about to go to the battlefield with blood on their armors were ordered to leave, Trajan glanced at the commander of the Seventh Legion, Guterde, and said, "Let's go and see how the fortress gate is being repaired."

Goodold hesitated and nodded.

As they walked, Trajan asked, "Goodold, I want you to tell me why the Tianjuan Army would help you." He knew very well that without the Tianjuan Army's trolling train, the three main gates of the Red Valley Bay Fortress would never have been so easily breached. If the main gates were not opened, how could the Hulit Army advance straight in? " General Trajan." Goodold stopped, "Let's talk about this here."

"Okay." Trajan nodded and waved his hand. The dozen or so guards who were following them immediately retreated twenty steps away and became alert.

"General Trajan, you have seen the power of the Tianjuan Army's firearms. They can easily break through the main gate here, and they can also easily break through the gate of any city in the Hurlit Territory." Goodold sighed heavily, "General, the pace of the Tianjuan people can no longer be stopped, and our Hurlit Territory..."

Trajan waved his hand fiercely, interrupting Gutelde's words: "Gutelde, you don't need to lay the groundwork for this, just tell me directly what the Tianjuanjun told you."

Goodold hesitated for a moment and said, "General Trajan, the Tianjuan Army said that if we want to preserve our strength, we should go to the Assyrian territory to preserve it. If we continue to stay in the Hurrian territory, then all the Hurrian cities that resist them will be razed to the ground. If we are willing to come to Assyria, they can give us a month, yes, starting from yesterday."

"So you just agreed to it?" Trajan frowned.

"General Trajan, this may be our only chance to preserve our strength and keep the Hurrian bloodline. Just think about it, if we confront the Tianjuan Army head-on, the consequences will be..." Goodold sighed. He knew that Trajan knew what he wanted to say.

"Humph, this is a trick of the Tianjuan Army. By doing this, they can not only take the remaining territory without bloodshed, but also let us consume the Assyrians' manpower for them, because they know very well that we Hurlites and Assyrians are natural enemies who will never give up and will never reconcile!" Trajan became more and more annoyed. At the end, he stretched out his arm and pointed at Goodold's nose, "And you, Goodold, have now become an accomplice of the Tianjuan Army!"

"No, I'm not!" Gutold frowned. "General Trajan, if I were, I would sell out my compatriots for wealth and glory like Jiachi and his men did, instead of fighting bloody battles for the Hurrians' future like I am doing now."

"I know you didn't betray your compatriots! Otherwise, how could I have allowed you to live until now?!" Trajan almost roared, "Don't you know how important the position you abandoned is? Once the Seventh Legion leaves, the right side of the Second Legion will be left with a big gap. The enemy can completely bypass the Second Legion and attack our canyon fortress!"

"I have thought about all these, but the Tianjuan Army gave us a month..." Goodold quickly explained.

"Shut up! The Tianjuan Army, the Tianjuan Army, they are not friendly forces, but enemies who have annexed our territory, enemies with the greatest ambitions!" Trajan interrupted Guteld again, "How can you trust our enemies?"

"What should we do now?" Goodold frowned.

"Alas..." Trajan sighed heavily, "Now our forces are once again being pulled away by the Tianjuan Army. Apart from obediently following their intentions, what else can we do? Give up this fortress that we have conquered with great difficulty?"

Although Goodold remained silent, he was quite unconvinced in his heart. In his opinion, since the Hurlit territory could not be defended, it would be better to defend Red Valley Bay. With the current military strength, there would be no problem in firmly occupying the large tracts of land of Qati, Seneca and Menia. Anyway, the Tianjuan side needed time to consolidate the newly occupied territory, and the Assyrians have always been short of military strength. What's more, there is the Fourth Legion heading towards Caiked, which can constantly harass the Assyrians, hold them firmly and reduce the pressure here.

After a moment's silence, Trajan sighed and said, "Goodold, after we capture Catti and Seneca, my First Legion will attack Menia together with the Eighth Legion. You will be the one guarding this place. As for the Second Legion, I plan to have them guard the fortress on the other side, leaving a way for the Hurrians who do not want to be enslaved by the Tianjue people to flee to us."

"Okay, I will definitely hold on here firmly. If the Second Legion is in danger, I will rush over to reinforce them as soon as possible." Goodold nodded in agreement.

"I am old. Whether Hurlit can revive in the future depends entirely on you." Trajan sighed and turned his gaze to the continuous cliffs on the opposite bank.

…

For the Assyrians, the flames of war were like pouring a bucket of oil on a bonfire that was already burning.

The Woye Army suffered a crushing defeat, and dozens of villages and towns in the Kaiked city-state were massacred and looted. However, the Kaiked defenders of the Second Legion did not dare to engage the enemy, because their mission was to defend the city of Kaiked. Moreover, the enemy's strength was twice theirs. Although they were not good at siege, they could easily form a pincer attack on the Kaiked garrison of the Second Legion if they fought in the field. By then, I'm afraid nothing could be saved.

The disastrous defeat of the Woye Army was also the beginning of bad news. In the following month, the cities of Seneca, Katti, and Menia fell one after another. The Fourth Army was completely annihilated in the Battle of Menia. The First and Eighth Hurriyet Army galloped towards Titania, a major city guarded by the First Assyrian Army. The Second Assyrian Army, which was assisting in the battle, failed to stop them halfway...

In another direction, Hulett's Fourth Legion continued to march through Kayiked, destroying horse trails, looting people, and burning villages and towns, intending to turn Kayiked into an isolated city.

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Assyria panicked. After two large holes were opened in its defense line, nearly 35% of its territory fell into the hands of the enemy. Nearly 100,000 of its own soldiers were killed or fled, and nearly a million people were affected. The panicked carriages and people became the most heartbreaking scenery on the horse road...

Compared with the chaos in Assyria, the Hurrian territory was peaceful. The Tianjuan Army did not attack the last fortress of the Hurrians, even though hundreds of Hurrians fled to Assyria with their families every day...

Helen was very busy every day, because although the situation was getting better and better, there were always a lot of things that needed to be decided by her as the emperor. Every day she had to review a lot of memorials, issue many orders, and discuss matters with ministers after dinner until late at night. Soon, the names of the Chimo Territory and the Hulet Territory disappeared, and were replaced by the Chimo Province and the Hulet Province...

Another month and a half later, the Hurrian First and Eighth Corps finally stopped their offensive. Although Titania was not conquered, the villages and towns around it had been completely destroyed. Nearly 100,000 men, women, old and young were abducted to Menia and became slaves of the Hurrians. When the Hurrian army retreated, they destroyed the horse trails along the way. The interruption of these roads, the result of hundreds of years of hard work by the Assyrians, was a mixed blessing for both sides.

It is worth mentioning that Trajan was also trying to bribe the Assyrians. After the nobles of the three cities of Menia, Seneca and Catti donated part of their family property, they not only saved their family's lives, but were also allowed to form a new aristocratic council to manage the territories together with the Hurrians.

The Fourth Hurlit Army and Sein also gave up the plan to stay in Kayikede, because there was an army that was not very large in number and not particularly strong in combat, but had amazing mobility and a very rogue style of fighting. They kept harassing them. Yes, they harassed them - they never fought head-on with the Fourth Hurlit Army or Sein's left army, but divided into several small teams to fight on their own. When the Hurlit Army robbed food, they ambushed the food carts. When the Hurlit Army looted people, they killed the escorting soldiers to rescue them. From time to time, they also sneaked into Sein's gap camp to ambush and set fire...

After suffering many losses in succession, Hulett's Fourth Army finally found the stronghold of this force, West Point Village, and launched a surprise attack. In the end, the Fourth Army with more than 30,000 people failed to encircle and annihilate this army - nearly half of the West Point Military Academy stationed at about 5,000 soldiers successfully broke through.

At this time, the Fourth Legion of Hurlit learned the name of this army - the Salt Marsh Army. With such a difficult character, and the fact that almost all the places in the area of ​​​​Caikede had been damaged, the Fourth Legion of Hurlit and the Sein Army decided to leave Caikede and go to Armenia to join Trajan...

The successive defeats on the battlefield created an unbridgeable rift between the highest decision-makers in Assyria. As soon as the Hurriyet army withdrew, Qiyuan Duncan launched his own plan. After the main force of the First Legion was withdrawn, it set out at full speed to Longvington. Connor, who was in charge of the battle, joined forces with the temple's High Priest Saint Lean, but the troops they could mobilize were soon stretched to the limit, because the Shuman family combined the Second and Third Legions after their successive failures and rushed to Kayikede.

They were not going to fight the Fourth Legion of Hurlit, but were planning to use Kayikede as a base to build their own territory. Assyria had already reached a point where it was difficult to deal with. If the Duncan family could do it, why couldn't the Shuman family do it? The most miserable person was naturally Gosmondo. The tragic defeat of the Woye Army not only destroyed the hard work of several generations of Mondo Woye, but also made him lose his voice - the world is so chaotic now, what's the point of having money? People are willing to talk nonsense with you only if you have soldiers on hand.

"Just wait, wait for Tianjuan..." After being given the cold shoulder by Connor again, Gosmondo couldn't help but mutter in his heart.

…

The heavy rain not only hindered the pursuers, but also caused considerable difficulties for Wu Lai and Shelley who were fleeing, especially since Wu Lai was injured.

When she ran to the foot of a big mountain, Shelley fell heavily, but she endured the pain and climbed up quickly because she didn't want to make Wu Lai worry about anything anymore.

"Shelley, there is a mountain path here. Keep running up and don't stop no matter how tired you are. The Athanasius River should be on the other side of the mountain top. I seem to have heard its roar." When Wu Lai stopped, his body shook involuntarily. He quickly used the sword in his hand to lean on the ground to stabilize his body.

"What about you?" Shelley asked.

"I'll cover you. There are only a dozen soldiers chasing you now. The terrain around here is good. I'll ambush them. After I've taken care of them, I'll chase you." Wu Lai replied with a smile.

"Really?" Shelley ran back to Wu Lai and looked at his left waist.

"Don't look." Wu Lai pushed Shelley away. "You are my woman, you must be reserved and stay away from blood. Go, follow the mountain path up, quickly."

"Are you going to be okay?" When Shelley asked this question, his nose felt sore and tears immediately rolled out of his eyes.

"Don't worry, the person who will kill me, Wulai Grindo, hasn't been born yet." Wulai grinned, revealing two rows of neat teeth...