Xiang An's offensive line starts from Topeka, while Edison's offensive line starts from Des Moines.
Both men are attacking eastward, but due to geographical reasons, Edison's offensive route will change at Lake Michigan, moving towards the south, and eventually join Xiang An to launch an attack in the direction of Washington.
But now, both men's offensive rhythm has been seriously slowed down.
The problem is actually very simple, that is, insufficient troops.
Even if Edison fully exerted his capitalist nature and asked the rear to work overtime to make mechanical soldiers from the factory and transport them to the front line, the number of troops was still not enough.
As for Xiang An's side, he has almost wiped out all his troops with only 3,000 Yin soldiers. Now there is only a group of more than 900 Yin soldiers left. These Yin soldiers are basically missing arms and legs. status.
Queen Maeve has the Holy Grail as a base of troops. It is too easy to manufacture these mass-produced items, but Edison and Xiang An have to consume a lot of labor and pay hard-to-replenish resources for these mass-produced inferior products. cost.
Being able to hold on to Chicago and East St. Louis respectively is already the limit of the limit. Even Xiang An was forced to retreat part of the way because of the enemy's shadow followers.
The situation got better after Arturia came to his side to support him.
"Will these dark soldiers of yours still exist after you leave?" Artoria cooperated with Xiang Anqing to take down a new batch of Celtic warriors.
"Yes, but there is a limit to the distance. If you want the orphan to go back and forth to Shreveport to deliver information, it is unrealistic." Xiang An's voice sounded a little tired, and he shook his masked head.
Although it is true that they both ride horses, in terms of leg strength, Artoria is completely different from Xiang An as a Rider. Although she can temporarily levitate due to the magic of the storm when she releases the Noble Phantasm. In the air, but that doesn't count as flying in the air, and it can't move at all. Xiang An can directly let the big white horse run into the sky, and then move quickly in a straight line.
"It's troublesome." Artoria frowned slightly.
It would be unrealistic for Xiang An to leave and stand here alone. Although her Noble Phantasm is a high-level city-defense Noble Phantasm that can deal with a wide range of targets, it would be a bit cumbersome to use it on these Celts. It was like killing a chicken with a knife, not to mention that she couldn't clean up these Celtics with just one treasure. Her job was Lancer, who was better at single combat.
Xiang An was also a little silent.
Even though he planned strategies and fought in all directions during his lifetime, even in the end he was only defeated by Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty. He still felt very difficult to deal with the current situation.
We have never fought such a difficult battle!
Although those Celtics were only mass-produced items, they were definitely not something that ordinary people could handle, so he couldn't even recruit troops to stand on the front line.
At this moment, Xiang An thought of his Northern Chu army. At its peak, his Northern Chu army had a total of 300,000 troops. In that era of poor population, this was almost the limit.
Xiang An shook his head again and sighed.
What are you thinking about? An army of 300,000 people is not what he wants at all.
He knew that later generations would even rate him as "militant", and he had indeed done so. However, Xiang An himself did not actually like war. The reason why he mobilized so many troops was just to make the war faster. Give the world peace.
Of course, it is useless to say so many whitewashing words, because Xiang An is a "military" king, and it is absolutely impossible for him to bend the knee to Liu Bang.
While Xiang An and Artoria were repairing in a dull atmosphere, there seemed to be some movement in the wasteland in the distance.
It was the wildly rising sand and dust, which pulled out a huge and eye-catching sand wall on the ground.
Something is approaching.
Xiang An picked up his big beryllium, while Artoria set up her spear and looked at the direction of the dust rising vigilantly.
But after the figure in the wild sand approached, both of them put down their weapons.
The person who came was Jimia.
There is also a Robin Hood lying on Jimia's shoulder.
After Gumiya completely condenses his own bone plates and bone spurs, his appearance will become more ferocious and many times closer to the image of a monster, and at the same time, his size will also become very huge, a full twelve meters, allowing two people to The three people standing on top of him felt no pressure at all.
It’s hard to say who looks more terrifying between Jimia, who has completely transformed into this state, and Cu Chulainn, who has released his Noble Phantasm, but they definitely don’t look human.
Robin Hood turned over and jumped down from Jimia's shoulders. The bone plates and bone spurs on Jimia's body also quickly retracted into the body. This state consumed his magic power very much and could not be maintained for a long time.
"Robin Hood brought information." Without any greetings, Jimia said directly to Xiang An and Artoria with a solemn expression.
"Geronimo, Billy the Kid, Scathach, they... died in Washington." With a painful expression on his face, Robin Hood said with difficulty.
".Tell me in detail." Xiang An and Artoria looked at each other, and both saw the surprise and heaviness in each other's eyes.
"We conducted reconnaissance around Washington and determined that Cu Chulainn was not in Washington and the surrounding areas, so we entered Washington and tried to find traces of Queen Maeve."
Robin Hood sat slumped on a stone and told Xiang An and Artoria everything that happened in Washington.
".Then, after McCarty exited, I escaped with the Map and headed back to Shreveport."
"Scathach, on the other hand, chose to take the rear position so that I could escape successfully."
The atmosphere was somewhat dead.
There is no need to say what the outcome will be when facing such a monster-like Servant and the Queen holding the Holy Grail alone.
"In fact, Artoria and I also encountered that thing on Montgomery's side." Jimiya sighed and said in a dull voice, "He almost defeated Artoria and me with an absolute advantage. The mouse scurried away with its head in its hands.”
"Such a monster" Robin Hood opened his mouth, but nothing came out.
He wanted to say whether we really have a way to defeat that kind of thing, but he felt that it was not hopeless.
The composite demon dragon and the evil dragon, the Hunnic King Atila who holds the Holy Grail, the Greek hero Hercules, and the magician who can lay out a magic position covering the entire London level, these difficulties have been overcome The little girl made it through.
This time.
(End of chapter)
