The mountains were overturned and flattened by the air waves, the fields were smashed into big pits by falling rocks, the rivers boiled in the sea of ​​fire and lava, and the city was destroyed into white land... Tens of millions of lives, hundreds of famous towns and countries, countless famous legends, and the material wealth accumulated over many centuries were all gone in this moment! Every piece of land affected by this unprecedented explosion seemed to be plowed by thousands of tropical hurricanes, and it would never be possible to survive a trace of vitality.

Even the dark areas covered by deep rock layers were not spared from this catastrophe. In the mines and new dungeons built by the Naserel Empire, dozens of Miser energy nuclear detonated at the same time, not only razed dozens of mining-developed dungeons to the ground in an instant, but also destroyed the load-bearing structure of the cave where the city is located, triggering the largest terrible landslide in history...

The aftermath of the explosion air wave hitting the cave walls further spread along the rock formations and soil, causing the entire underground world of the Feren continent to fall into great panic due to severe earthquakes and the erupting volcanoes.

——Although Ms. Elaszhuo had already taken some precautions for this matter before the split between the north and the south. In the western border, the northern region and most countries within the northern army camp, their floating city and Miser energy nuclear were not detonated. The places that really encountered the catastrophe of destruction were mainly the neutral faction during the division period, and the allies abandoned by the southern army. But from any perspective, this was still an unprecedented catastrophe of doomsday.

What's worse is that with the self-destruction of the empire, the invaders of the East who were ready to go also entered the land.

2. The invasion of the nomadic tide

In fact, more than two months before this incident, a gloomy web symbolizing destruction and killing had risen from the East.

——drOn September 9, 1995, the Hongpao Mage Association, which had been dormant for many years, secretly united the Dragon Witch Cult and the Tukan Khanate to launch a military coup in the city of Eltaber, the capital of the Serb Federation, the largest country in the Near East. It defeated the Federal Senate in just half a day and controlled the capital and its surrounding areas.

The next day, Han Daer, the former head of the federal government of Serre and the chief mentor of the Undead Department of the Red Praise Master, convened ambassadors from various countries and announced that the federal system would be abolished from then on, and the former rule of the Red Praise Master in Serre was restored. He was collectively led by the Supreme Committee composed of the chiefs of the eight universities and served as the interim chairman.

Then, Sel will also establish a "strategic partnership" with the grassland overlord Tukan Khanate to deal with the counterattack of other members of the former federal government.

On September 15, more than 200 members of the federal Senate who escaped from the war and took a boat north to take refuge in Leatherman gathered in Moshantiel, the southern city of Leatherman, and announced the establishment of a federal exile government. They also issued an order to suppress the rebellion and attack, calling on the governors, generals and commanders of various provinces to send troops quickly to fight against the "pseudo government" of Eltabo City to restore the sacred legal system of the Federation.

But the Red-Board Mages were significantly faster in action. On the third day after the coup, a huge army of 100,000 people stepped into the territory of the mountain country Lesserman. At the same time, the Serre Federation faced the eastern border of the Tukan grassland nomads, and instantly opened under the rebellion of the Red-Board Mages. Timur Khan, who had been preparing for a long time, took the opportunity to personally enter the federal territory under the guidance of the Red-Board Mages who had mastered the Eastern Frontier Forces, and easily captured the border fortress Lesserman Fort on the eastern foot of the Sunrise Mountains, crossed the mountains and inserted into the central hinterland of Lesserman. The other road, Tukan Iron Cavalry, sneaked through the empty grassland north of Lesserman, and under the guidance of a large number of traitors, directly attacked Lesserman's capital Imilma City.

At this point, a huge army with a total strength of 500,000 was poured into the narrow land Leatherman from the east, north and south at the same time, and cut this country that had not had time to mobilize war or gained support from warlords from all over the country, and was cut into pieces in an instant.

In early November, Moshantiel's city fell, the remnants of the old federal party were destroyed, and Lesserman, who supported it, was basically on the verge of destruction.

——drOn November 11, 1995, Timur Khan led 300,000 grassland cavalry to cross the Sunrise Mountains, and with the support of the Red Painting Mage, he stepped onto the edge of the civilized world of the Feren continent. Then he immediately divided his troops out. With the cooperation of the Red Painting Mage and the rebellious slave workers, he quickly shattered the despair of the Leathermans, and then attacked the surrounding countries such as Seske, Nafer, and let the wolf flags sweep across the entire Near East.

A few days later, another larger Tukankhan team also bypassed the Sunrise Mountains from the south and entered the southern provinces of the Ser Plateau. With the assistance of the Red Robe Mages, they began to further south invade the two countries of Muhan Reed and Enthus, who had actually been separated from the Federation for many years.

Facing the fact that the Red Robe Mage and the Dragon Witch Cult are also as high as 700,000. The Tukan army, which is known as the one who is a leader, has been fighting for many years. The warlords and vassal states in the Near East are unable to resist under such a storm-like blitzkrieg attack, and they are soon defeated by each one, or simply surrender.

By the end of November, the vanguard of the Tukan Khanate had already traveled through the disintegrated Near East countries, reaching the east coast of the Moon Sea, and looking at the "Gladiators" of the Second Legion stationed in Santilburg, thus knocking on the eastern gate of the Faren overlord Naseril Empire.

At this moment, the largest invasion and most widespread nomadic wave in the history of the Feren continent finally broke out in full swing.

Next, the most tragic killing in history came to the Near East countries that have suffered many disasters since modern times.

——According to the terror theology instilled in Timur Khan by the alliance of Dragon Witchers and Harpists, the main reason for so many unrest and pain in this world is that there are too many people. As long as you kill all people and turn the continent into a wilderness, the world can be quiet and maintain wonderful peace and tranquility forever, and there will be no more war or blood - how can you fight after all people die?!

Under the rule of Timur Khan, the political philosophy of the entire Tukan Khanate was based on the main work of killing. The focus of the country's work is to study how to kill more efficiently and more and better. Wherever the Tukan iron cavalry stepped on, only ruins and corpses were left behind. Even if some people were left unslaughtered, they were still allowed to be cattle and horses and serve the Tukan army to continue to kill.

Therefore, the Tukan Khanate is equivalent to three times the local area of ​​the Naseril Empire, but the total population is less than 50 million. This country does not have much ability to make blood on its own. It must rely on continuous wars and plunders to barely maintain the huge war machine.

Therefore, even if it is just to support the war, Timur Khan must burn, kill, kill, loot along the way to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army.

3. First battle with the shadow sea

In the doomsday catastrophe of the fall of the empire, about 400,000 Northern Army gathered on the Imperial Capital and the Stony Plain in the northern capital, and thousands of great arcane masters, all of which were destroyed with the fall of the floating city. Near the imperial capital, only Marshal Fili Taylor, who had previously camped on the southern bank of the Shadow Sea to supervise the movements of the remaining southern army, and his commanded air combat ships, the Silver Trojan Horse, and nearly 30,000 troops, were barely able to remain intact.

In the desert opposite him, there were the coalition forces of the 30,000 Tukan Khanate and the Kingdom of Cormier, and the two sides confronted each other far away through a sand dune.

——From before the catastrophe broke out, due to the introduction of wolves from the senior leaders of the Southern Army, a Tukan cavalry with a total number of about 50,000 to 70,000 people had crossed the sea to land in Sambia, and with the cooperation of the traitor (Korir Kingdom), they easily suppressed this country that also belonged to the Southern Army camp.

Next, this brutal barbarian cavalry ravaged the entire Sambiya and most of the valley, creating countless bloody massacres and tragedies. After erecting a skeleton pillar outside the gates of each village and town, about 15,000 people were divided into crossing the valley and continuing northward, and in the desert on the southern bank of the Ghost Sea, they met with the remaining troops of the Kingdom of Cormier in the desert.

Before the catastrophe broke out, they had been confronting Feili's Giant Bear Legion for many days, and there were frequent skirmishes, but no decisive battle broke out.

It was not until December 18 that the coalition forces began to take action after confirming the catastrophe encountered by the imperial capital.

The specific process of the Battle of the Sea of ​​Shadows is tactical and is nothing more than the simple-minded Tukan people who immediately rushed forward as soon as they saw an opportunity. The conservative Cormiers have not participated in the war for a long time and have been holding their troops in the rear, watching the development and changes of the battle.

At this time, the giant bear army camp located on the banks of the shadow sea had just been attacked by the earthquake and tsunami accompanied by catastrophe, and the soldiers and weapons and supplies were lost a lot. As the two floating battleships as firepower support platforms, one was paralyzed, and the other was ordered by Feili to drive to the north to observe the movements of the imperial capital. Therefore, in the early stage of the battle, the giant bear army was beaten very embarrassed by the Tukan cavalry, but at least it could hold on.

Then, Feili, with the Xiangrui floating battleship and about 11,000 remnants of the Third and Twelfth Legions rescued from the ruins of the imperial capital, hurried back to the battlefield and defeated the Tukan cavalry, which was already at the end of his strength. The King Cormier team, who was huddled in the rear, did not dare to respond and retreated slowly.

The only thing worthy of praise in the entire battle was the "Tensure Girl" Angela's Arcanist who came to help with the battle, throwing some kind of pink smoke at the Tukan cavalry - this made the Tukan barbarians who lacked arcane resistance take off their pants in a daze on the battlefield and fall into the terrifying hell of "infinite stamina". It also made every healthy man who saw this scene feel chills on his butt and infinite pain...

4. Fight against Santilburg

Almost at the same time as the Battle of Shadow Sea broke out, Timur Khan, who had invaded the border of the Naseril Empire, also led his main force to launch a general attack on Santilburg, the east gate of the empire, the sea of ​​moon.

Before the outbreak of this battle, the "Queen of Storm" Xinbu was leading 15,000 regular troops and 30,000 auxiliary troops of the Second Legion "Gladiators", stationed in Santilburg, and repaired and strengthened the fortifications here, claiming to be impregnable.

However, when the catastrophe broke out, although Queen Xinbu's floating city had not been detonated, it was implicated by the floating city of two nearby valley arcanes, causing her floating city to unfortunately crash in the turbulent waves. Only Xinbu herself escaped by chance and was seriously injured, while the most elite guards and mages under her command, as well as the entire staff, were destroyed with her floating city.

Moreover, even the fortifications of Santilborg itself were seriously damaged in this sudden disaster.

What's worse is that in order to seize this strong fortress that has been famous since ancient times, Timur Khan not only invested 300,000 troops of his tribe, but also recruited 1.8 million to 2 million vassal troops and trenches from the newly conquered Near East countries to facilitate the development of the tactics of the sea of ​​people.

Since the nomadic tide invaded the hinterland of the Feren continent, almost every village and town passed by was burned down on the march route of the Tukan army, and all the people there were driven into the army. The strong man was forced to be conscripted to the frontier battlefield as cannon fodder, and the families of women and children were taken to the backyard like hostages to sew clothes and wash items for the Tukan coalition forces.

Although Santil Fort was strong in defense and was renovated by the imperial government to a new type of bastion that was more adaptable to modern warfare, it was not very suitable for the ancient sea of ​​people-sea tactics if the enemy was willing to pay 1 million lives for the fortress, plus 100,000 bone dragons, but only to exhaust the defending ammunition stock.

Therefore, from December 18 to January 5, the 23 consecutive days of hard fighting not only gradually exhausted the ammunition in Santilborough, but more than half of the 45,000 defenders had also lost. The new forces that should have been replaced as soon as possible and the combat materials transported there were no traces since the rear had not yet recovered from the catastrophe.

In addition, in addition to the crazy attack on the front, the Tukans also sent troops to the upper reaches of the Thies River to find a ferry. Once they were allowed to successfully cross the Thies River and detour to the rear of Santilburg, the few remaining remnants of the Gladiator Legion would really fall into a desperate situation.

Therefore, late at night on January 5, according to the orders of Queen Xinbu, the exhausted remnants of the Gladiator Army and the family of the army began to pack up, preparing to give up the Santil Fort that had been in stagnant for many days, cross the River Thees behind the fort, and follow the Moon Sea Highway to rest in the Shadow Valley in the south.

However, this army, which had been almost broken up by hard battles for several days, had extremely disordered internal order and could not be enforced. The various noises made during evacuation were soon discovered by the sentries of the Tukan people, thus leaking information.

Timur Khan, who received the information, immediately dispatched the most elite 12,000 Xue Guards to raid the horses and raid at Santilburg. He successfully intercepted the gladiator army with his family near the ferry outside Santilburg and slashed and slashed. What's even more terrifying is that when he hurriedly resisted the raid of Tukan cavalry, Queen Xinbu, who had already been physically exhausted, unfortunately fell into a coma. The entire gladiator army immediately fell into command paralysis - first from retreat to a defeat, and then from a defeat to a massacre...

What's worse is that another Tukan cavalry who had set out earlier had already crossed the River Thes from the upper reaches before, and went around the south bank to block the retreating fortress defenders. So in the end, only a very small number of people from the Second Legion escaped from the battlefield, and Queen Xinbu was also missing.

dr In the early morning of January 6, 1996, the Battle of Santilborg, which lasted for 24 days, was declared to end. The 45,000 Naserir defenders were basically destroyed, while Timur Khan paid the price of 1.5 million to 1.8 million deaths for this. As for how many, even the Tukan people themselves were too lazy to count, because in this battle, the vassals and men of the Near East countries were basically consumed, and no one felt sorry for them no matter how many deaths were.

However, the practice of treating allies as consumables and burdens to fill trenches over millions is really mean too cold. The major forces in the Near East, which were originally kneeling down in front of the Iron Cavalry of the Tukan Khanate, regretted it after learning about such tragic casualties and injuries, and all gave up the idea of ​​taking advantage of the chaos to make profits and follow the Tukan people to get a share of the pie - such a tragic battle with huge casualties. If you come to such a twice, these small countries with poor land and small populations will be really going to be destroyed.

——For small countries, although a chaotic era means opportunities, when their own strength cannot reach the control of their destiny, opportunities also mean risks and disasters.

Relying on the corpses of the vassals and the civilians, Timur Khan won the Battle of Santilbor without basically damaging his elite. However, it also led to the disintegration of the allies in the Near East, which laid the groundwork for the subsequent large-scale betrayal and turn against each other.
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