Chapter 176: The First Black Bone Swamp War

"What? The entire Blackbone Swamp is at war?"

After hearing these words from Busak, Horn almost fell off his horse.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Busak, who had rushed to Daze Township and then returned, shook his head and smiled bitterly, saying, "Originally it was just a small-scale conflict between the two kingdoms, but now it has affected the entire Black Bone Swamp."

Under the gloomy sky, dense Metasequoia trees and endless puddles are intertwined, and the forest is like a maze. Both water snakes and water voles gradually fall into hibernation.

Slimes of all sizes no longer had the desire to go out and sank to the bottom of the puddle to hibernate.

This caused great trouble for the Savior Army soldiers who went out to find food and cut wood, as they often slipped because of stepping on the slime.

On the road sandwiched between Metasequoia trees and puddles, there was a long queue stretching for four or five miles.

The refugees were moving forward with numb steps. At the front of the long line, the Salvation Army members were slowly walking into the designated camping site.

In this desolate swamp, there is a circle of open area surrounded by bushes and mounds.

The first group of people who passed through left behind tents, straw houses and some firewood, so Horn didn't have to set them up again, saving a lot of time.

In fact, Horn was planning to build outposts on these natural camping sites.

It is possible for the knights to charge into the Wild Spider Forest, although it is unlikely for the knights to charge into the Wild Spider Forest.

However, considering that he always gets into accidents, Horn still thinks it is better to be cautious.

The 25,000 Salvation Army soldiers set out in four batches. The first batch, led by Busak and totaling 5,000 people, entered the Wild Spider Forest to clear the way.

The second group was led by Madeleine with 8,000 people, the third group was led by Thomas with 8,000 people, and the fourth group was led by Horn himself with 4,000 people.

However, after making sure that everyone had gotten rid of the Order Company, Horn handed the fourth team over to Armand.

He went forward alone, hoping to reach the front as soon as possible and discuss the resettlement of these 25,000 people with the beastman kings.

After three days of hard work, he finally caught up with the second team led by Madeleine today.

However, as soon as Horn arrived and entered the campsite, he saw the figure of Busak, the leader of the first team.

Horn was originally wondering, since he was not in the front team, why was he staying here? Was he injured?
But as soon as he got closer, Busak told him a piece of news that was as shocking as a bucket.

"No, I've only been gone for a month, how could a war of a hundred nations come about?" Horn really couldn't understand it. How could such a tiny place have a war of a hundred nations?

Beside him, the refugees from Jeanne d'Arc were following him step by step forward. Some of the old, weak and sick were placed on the carriages, leaning tiredly against the side of the carriage.

"Tell me carefully, what happened?"

Busak recalled and explained to Horn: "Actually, this war has something to do with you."

"What does this have to do with me."

"It's like this. The queen of Osha Kingdom and Hela Kingdom are from the same dynasty. When you arrived, the queen of Hela Kingdom died during the attack on the Imperial Order Company, and she had no children to inherit the throne.

With the help of your canonized legitimate throne, Queen Jilarimi of the Osha Kingdom returned first and used this prestige to unite the Hela Kingdom.

But in fact, the Kingdom of Hela and the Kingdom of Hiden belong to the same swamp island. They were originally one kingdom, but were split by the queen of the previous generation and the dynasty changed.

The Hidenians wanted to take advantage of the opportunity when Queen Hiden welcomed back the El Empire to recapture the Kingdom of Hela and unify the twenty nations of Hiden, but they were taken advantage of by Jilarimi.

A female Hidian warrior was so enraged that she hid in the crowd with two divisions and shot Queen Osha with a slingshot while she was on her way to tour the Kingdom of Hela.

Seeing that the situation was irreversible, the Kingdom of Hiden launched a blitzkrieg and captured the Kingdom of Hela in one hour and twenty minutes, completing the unification of the 1.5 million square meters of territory of Swamp Heart Island. This move quickly aroused the dissatisfaction of the dynasty family behind Queen Jilarimi of the Kingdom of Osha. They demanded that the Kingdom of Hiden return the Kingdom of Hela, but Queen Hiden ignored them.

The constant diplomatic game between the two sides' envoys, the constant intervention of surrounding powers, and the outbreak of geopolitical and resource conflicts led to the two sides forming their own alliances.

They are the Terror Alliance led by the Kingdom of Hiden and the Fierce Alliance led by the Kingdom of Jorg.

The Terror Alliance has 85 divisions, and the Fierce Alliance has 122 divisions. The two sides have been fighting until today, and the entire Daze Township has been flooded with blood. "

"Where is our first team now?" Horn asked, rubbing his forehead.

Busak shook his head. "Your Majesty, the first team has stopped advancing. The beastmen said that there is a war zone ahead and we are not allowed to move forward."

"Two hundred people are fighting in a group, and a war zone has been set up?"

Horn thought that after the Battle of Jeanne d'Arc, he would be able to stay away from these insects.

But he never expected that there must be a phoenix chick within ten meters of Crouching Dragon. There is always a mountain higher than the other.

But now he was faced with another problem. Before taking over the swamp lowlands, he needed to disperse the 25,000 Saviors into the beastman villages.

They can't stay in the Wild Spider Forest forever, right?

Even if the bone flute could be played by the saintly ones in turn, the line was too long. Even if a new bone flute was found in the church, it would not be enough to cope with the crowd.

In the past four or five days, dozens of people have been killed by monsters and giant spiders.

As for the long-haired monsters in the lowland swamp, Horn still took the route of the Blue Blood Orphanage this time, so he did not encounter them for the time being.

After all, they are bringing more than 20,000 people with them. If they are not properly settled and rush into the territory of the hairy monsters, wouldn't that be asking these refugees to serve as food for the hairy monsters?

Thinking of this, Horn looked around. A new batch of chariots picked up from Jeanne d'Arc surrounded the entire open area in a circle to guard against monsters that might appear at night.

Many of the refugees still had sad looks on their faces. After all, if they took this road, they would have to pass by the Blue Blood Monastery, which was a good opportunity to get some hatred education.

Horne had not gone when he came, but he would go again if the day came.

Bonfires were set up one after another, rice crackers and bread were carried out from carts, and a dozen peasant women from the logistics team kept stirring the colorless rice cracker porridge in a large pot.

The journey started from Joan of Arc. Due to the problem of carrying capacity, Horn only carried basic rations for nearly two months.

In other words, the remaining month's rations and the extra food for training the soldiers would have to be provided by the Beastman Kingdom.

For this purpose, Horn also obtained a large amount of jewelry, brown sugar blocks and dyes, hoping to exchange them for supplies.

But now the beastmen are at war, and they probably don't have the energy or extra food to give to Horn.

He also planned to take a thousand cuirassier spearmen, twenty holy musketeers, as well as Jeanna, Pasrick and others to the lowland Autumn Island before the entire army arrived, and spend about three days to clear an area.

After all, Jeanna's lightning is invincible against unarmored units. Not to mention the long-haired monsters, there is no need to say more about the level of those beastmen who are called barbarians.

Everything is planned well, why do things always go wrong at the last minute?

"How about this." Horn opened his tightly closed eyes and tapped his forehead with his knuckles. "Tomorrow I'll go with you and see if we can make them reconcile. Where is their front line?"

"It's a place called Suomu River, at the junction of Shangbei Ze and Zhongbei Ze, not far from here. I'll take you there tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)