Chapter 95 The Battle of Cartier
The Knights of Judgment suffered heavy losses and the witch hunters were all destroyed. Such a huge loss can be said to be the first time since the establishment of the Eternal Fire Church.
Therefore, the Eternal Fire Church was very angry. They did not believe that such serious losses were done by the witches who were like wrecked dogs. According to their intelligence, those witches did not have such strength at all.
Since the witches do not have this strength, who is the power that is capable of doing this? The northern countries are their allies, and it is impossible and will not do such things. Then there will be only one, the southern countries!
They have the strength and reason to do so. When they think about it, they realize that the Eternal Fire Church, who really thinks about things, is so angry that they are determined to take revenge on the southern countries.
To achieve this goal, the Eternal Fire Church began to shrink its power and stopped the attack outside Cartier, but instead turned into a confrontation state. At the same time, the Eternal Fire Church began to draw power from other places.
This process lasted until two months, and when the Eternal Fire Church completed all the deployment, the time had entered winter.
There was no war for two consecutive months, and the southern countries felt that the war was about to end, and the confrontation for two consecutive months also made these people relax their vigilance. Usually, the war usually begins in autumn and then ends in winter.
In spring and summer, due to the busy farming season, there is no time to go to war. In autumn, after the grain harvest, the war horses are fat and strong, and the weather is not too hot, so it is naturally a good time to fight.
Moreover, if an offensive is launched, you can directly grab the enemy's food before the enemy can react. In winter, the weather is cold, and the war is usually ended.
According to previous thinking, the southern countries felt that the war was basically about to end, but when they did not expect, the northern countries and the Eternal Fire Church spent two months mobilizing troops, accumulating supplies, and then suddenly launched an attack at dawn.
There was no war for two consecutive months, which had already made these defenders relax their vigilance. Even the soldiers who were watching were doing it. They would hide in the leeward to sleep in the second half of the night. When the Eternal Fire Church and the northern countries launched an attack, they did not play any early warning role.
Thousands of soldiers took advantage of the darkest moment before dawn to launch a sneak attack. The Judgment Knights of the Eternal Fire Church launched the attack as a sharp knife. After arduous training, these Judgment Knights used witcher potions. Their physical fitness has long surpassed ordinary people, and it is not a problem to treat one hundred.
The ten-meter-high city wall could not stop them. The ladder mounted the city wall. The judges' knights rushed up with just a few breaths, without giving the defensive party time to react. Hundreds of judges launched together, and the city wall was completely lost in just half an hour. The troops guarding the city had just gathered together to come here.
The city wall was lost, and the continuous soldiers climbed up the city wall. It didn't take long for the time that the north gate of Cartier City was broken. The army, who had been waiting for a long time, rushed into the city directly, and the subsequent battle basically lost its suspense.
The loss of the city gate basically means failure to defend the city. The subsequent battle is as expected by the Eternal Fire Church and the northern countries. After seeing the city gate being broken, the morale of the soldiers of the southern countries plummeted and had no fighting spirit. Under the leadership of the judges' Knights, tens of thousands of troops from the northern countries were unstoppable and completely shattered the defense of Cartier.
The troops of the southern countries retreated, and the entire city of Cartier was full of chaos. Fires soared into the sky, and the shouts of killing resounded through the sky. After dawn, the entire city of Cartier had been completely occupied by the Eternal Fire Church and the coalition forces of the northern countries.
Because the retreat was too fast, many soldiers from southern countries had no time to retreat and were trapped in the city. At the same time, there were a large number of nobles and generals were blocked in the city because the battle happened too suddenly and they had no time to escape.
Finally, after Cartier was occupied, only about one-third of the nobles escaped, and the rest were captured by the Church of Eternal Fire and the coalition forces of the Northern Kingdoms.
The sudden fall of Cartier City shocked the southern countries. You should know that the two sides of the Civil War had fought no less than five times, but Cartier City was never compromised. This time, the Northern Alliance actually captured the city in just one day, and there was no time for the southern countries to respond.
After breaking through Cartier City, the coalition forces did not stop and began to move forward to the south. Fortunately, because the weather was cold, the advancement of the Northern Alliance was not fast. In addition, the willingness of the wealth distribution of the city of Cartier City involved a lot of energy from the Northern Alliance, which gave the southern countries a chance to stick to it.
As a hub in the north and south, Cartier City has a prosperous business, not only very important in military affairs, but also an important commercial city. The northern countries all want to grab this city. If it weren't for the southern countries, these countries themselves could fight for the spoils.
Don’t take these countries too high. Whether it is the southern or northern countries, there are basically a lot of problems in their homeland, and both sides are completely competing for bad things.
For example, in order to gain a higher voice, the Kingdom of Northrend directly blocked the food supply, causing the Kingdom of Rohan to be cut off even further north, forcing Rohan to almost turn against each other. In the end, it was the persuasion of several other countries, which temporarily suppressed it. For example, the Principality of Montre directly robbed Cartier City.
In this case, do you expect the coalition forces to work together and continue to attack? It is impossible not to distribute the spoils well. In the end, the magical thing is that the several parties can't argue, and in the end the city can only be divided temporarily according to their respective occupied areas.
What's even more strange is that several countries have declared ownership of Cartier City, and all caravans passing here need to pay taxes to these countries. It takes five or six times to pass through a city...
The southern countries suffered heavy losses in Cartier City and were unable to attack and recover lost territory. In the end, the war between the two sides temporarily stopped.
However, both sides understood that the war was far from over, and the southern countries could not give up Cartier City. The location of Cartier City was too important. As long as Cartier City was occupied, it would be even more open to the southern countries.
The coalition of the northern countries can launch an attack on the southern countries at any time, while the southern countries can only passively defend. At the same time, it occupied the city of Cartier, and the trade between the north and the south was controlled by the northern countries, and they could easily obtain a large amount of tax revenue.
Chapter completed!