Warhammer Seal

Chapter 339 Heading South to Talabheim

Karl's injury was not serious, and he could fight again after simply stopping the bleeding.

But the current situation is not optimistic.

A gap had been opened in the direction of the eastern city wall by the Chaos Demon. Edbrand Ludenhof, Elector of Hawke Province, was surrounded by a group of Nurgle zombies and died of exhaustion. A group of zombies gnawed him to death.

Fortunately, the troops of Sylvanian Elector Wende just passed by the eastern city wall and successfully drove out the intruding Chaos Demons. The war economist is rushing to repair the gap in the city wall.

"The empire needs reinforcements, and it is absolutely impossible for the empire to fight against chaos. It needs to unite the forces of all order camps to fight against chaos, just like what Magnus did 300 years ago."

During the Chaos Invasion 300 years ago, Magnus successfully unified the empire during the Three Emperors' Split, and united the Dwarves, Bretonnia, High Elves, and Kislev to fight against Chaos, and successfully killed the previous empire. The Eternal Chosen.

So this time, Karl sent rescue letters to the elves, Bretonnia, dwarves, and even Kislev, which was split into fifteen city-states.

Bretonnia replied the fastest, and their pegasus cavalry immediately brought back the attitude of the whole Bretonnia.

The content of the letter was very simple, but it made Carl's heart sink.

Because the goddess of the lake they believed in exposed her true identity-Lilith, the dream goddess of the elves.

The deceived Bretonnians must declare war on the entire elf race for the hatred that the elves have misled for 600 years.

Athel Loren will be reduced to scorched earth under the Iron Riders of Bretonnia, not a single living elf will be spared.

As for chaos?Bretonnia is confident that after the elves are eliminated, they will come to support the empire. There is blood and sweat between them and the elves. Unless one side is completely destroyed, this hatred will never disappear!
There was no reply from the dwarves, but the most elite witch hunters in the empire brought back news of the dwarves' mountains.

The Ratmen of the two clans jointly attacked the capital of the dwarves. The High King Thorgrim Grudger died in battle. Fortunately, the patriarch of the Moss clan, Gnodor, and the acting warlord Quek were killed by Thorgrim. The capital of the dwarves Did not fall.

The dwarves who have lost the High King are now leaderless, not to mention supporting the empire, they can't even protect themselves, and even need the empire to send troops to aid the dwarves, but how can the empire have extra troops to mobilize now?
Malekith, the eternal Phoenix King of the elves, also refused to send reinforcements to the empire.

First of all, the population of the elves after the Maelstrom War has been reduced to one out of ten, and secondly, Malekith has to lead an army to support the dwarves to prevent the dwarves from being completely destroyed by the ratmen.

He himself wished to apologize to King Raun of Bretonnia through the mouth of Emperor Karl Franz.

The gods of the elves are indeed idiots, especially Lilith, the goddess of dreams, is the idiot among idiots. I hope Bretonnia can restrain the anger in her heart and the despair after the collapse of faith. Now is the critical moment to fight against chaos, and Magic Eight Feng didn't know why there were four missing.

It was even worse for Kislev. Empress Katrin was nowhere to be found. Kislev, which was split into fifteen parts, had no way to provide any possible support to the empire. Now there was only one last way left.

Exchange space for time, withdraw troops to the south, the city wall can no longer stop the Chaos Demon.

Damn it, this is just the first wave of Chaos Demons attacking!
"Withdraw the troops, we can't continue to hold on."

Carl thought over and over again, and still gave the order to retreat.

Although the city walls are tall, supplies need to be transported from the south to meet the demand. The artillery and weapons of the industrial town of Nun take a long time to be transported to the northern front.

Moreover, the provinces of Ostermark and Oster are both great plains, and there is no natural danger that can defend the counterattack of the Chaos Demon.

The finger immediately drew a new line of defense on the empire's territory, extending from the central mountain range all the way to the city of Talabheim, and then connected to the mountains of Sylvania.

The city of Talabheim is located inside an extinct volcano, and the surrounding towering mountains are equivalent to a very strong city wall.

This is also the upper reaches of the Rick River, which can ensure that strategic materials can be quickly transported from Rick Province and Wissen Province to the frontline battlefield.

There are hills between Hawk Province and the central mountain range, and the demons cannot break through quickly.

Sylvania was also blown to nothing because of the last gunpowder explosion, and the demons were unable to resupply.

Although this strategy is perfect, Karl still has no idea how long it will take for such a chaotic invasion to end?
According to past experience, after beheading the Eternal God's Chosen, it will take many years to completely eliminate the demon's influence.

Now just the first wave of Chaos invasion caused the empire to lose two provinces, what about the subsequent battles?
Regarding the news of the withdrawal of the troops, the Elector of Oster Province did not have any objections. He saw with his own eyes how the troops of Nurgle's demons broke through the city wall, and he also saw with his own eyes how the Elector of Hawke Province died tragically.

Most of the residents of Oster Province live in the south, and they can migrate to live in the south at the fastest speed, and there is not much time wasted.

Elector Hertwig of the Ostermark Province also agreed. Of course, he who defended the western city wall had seen how the Chaos Demon attacked the city, and no amount of human soldiers could resist it.

When fighting against demons, spearmen and swordsmen were easily crushed by demons like ants, and only the elite giant swordsmen in the empire could barely hold on for a while.

The empire needs a huge mechanized force to stop the demons!Flesh and blood are useless at all.

Ordinary mortals are not suitable for this kind of battle at all, and the poor province of Ostermark is full of spearmen, archers and swordsmen, and sending them to the front line has no role other than serving as cannon fodder for meat shields.

The attacks of the Chaos Daemons are not constant, and the Daemons and their Norscan servants also need time to rest and recuperate.

Soon the empire's defense line began to shrink, and the main force moved south to the central mountain range to build further defense facilities.

Of course, this section of the northern city wall has not been abandoned. Sylvania's Elector Wende still stands firmly on the fortress, looking firmly at the endless Chaos troops in the north.

His task was very simple, at least he had to delay the chaos army for a month, use the fortress as a base, and rely on only 3000 people in his hands to resist the chaos demon for a month.

The soldiers under him still thought that this was just a simple battle to hold on, and reinforcements would definitely come.

Only Wende himself knows that this task is called a tenacious defense, and it gives time for the large troops in the rear to create a line of defense.

(End of this chapter)