Castle of Black Iron

Chapter 1306: The Overall Situation Facing the Theater of Operations

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

During the 2 months when Zhang Tie entered closed cultivation in Castle of Black Iron, the battle situation facing the western theater of operations became fiercer. The battle smokes and flames lasted thousands of miles. Many provinces had deteriorated to battlefields. Taixia Country and demons had started to exert their greater force of the attack and destructive power like two heavyweight champions through preliminary tentative attack and defense. Even though Taixia Country was not only defending...

Over the past 2 months, the 11 advanced bases and air battle fortresses of Taixia Country had entered Wuzhou Province, Zhuzhou Province and Yinzhou Province in the west of Helan Mountain and the north of Weishui River. They had completely stabilized the tunnel of evacuation in the above three provinces. Additionally, 1 month ago, the 11 advanced bases surged forward over 3,000 miles in one day through coordination and suddenly joined the frontline where demons were attacking humans ferociously. With the coordination of over 100,000 human knights, the 11 advanced bases inflicted heavy losses to the wing demon vanguards. It was said that they had killed at least 3 shadow wing demon knights and thousands of other wing demon knights. The 11 advanced bases even resumed some cities which were occupied by demons’ vanguards. As a result, demons’ raging offensive was immediately weakened in Wuzhou Province, Zhuzhou Province and Yinzhou Province.

It was the first good news that Taixia Country received since the start of the holy war when Peacewest Military Region was gradually losing its land.

Although the 11 advanced bases’ strike didn’t completely curb the offense of demons, it was of a special strategical significance. This small victory not only boosted the morale of soldiers and commoners across Taixia Country that had been low since the beginning of this holy war, but also won more than 1 month for the soldiers and commoners to evacuate from the 3 provinces.

After this raid, the 11 advanced bases retreated orderly step by step; at the same time, they set traps to eliminate some small teams of wing demon knights who tried to make tentative attacks on the way back. Behind the 11 advanced bases, Taixia Country as a whole had organized over 10,000 airboats and hundreds of thousands of airships to accelerate the evacuation of soldiers and commoners from Wuzhou Province, Zhuzhou Province and Yinzhou Province. Meanwhile, they strengthened the defenses and cleared the fields, making demons flurried.

After suffering a big loss and some small losses, the demon’s vanguard didn’t surge forward anymore; instead, they became very meticulous. After evacuating all the commoners from the three provinces, Taixia Country also evacuated the armies from the three provinces orderly, causing a vacuum region as wide as 600 miles between demons and humans. The vacuum region was actually composed of many deserted cities, towns and villages. The demon’s army was on the west of this vacuum region while Taixia Country’s army was on the east of this vacuum region.

Over the past 1 month, the frontline remained relatively calm. When demons moved forward, Taixia Country’s force retreated. Although there were battles and conflicts every day, none of the battles and conflicts involved over 100 knights. Wing demon knights were passing by that vacuum region and penetrating into Taixia Country in small scale; at the same time, many human knight powerhouses were ambushing in the cities, woods or wild of the vacuum region and sniping those wing demon knights who attempted to pass by that vacuum region.

The battle that Zhang Tie experienced in Xiangshan City today was one of the fiercest battles between human knights and demon knights in Wuzhou Province over the past 1 month.

All the commoners had almost evacuated from Wuzhou Province, Zhuzhou Province and Yinzhou Province. Only a minority of people would like to stay apart from those commoners in the regions occupied by demons.

The highest commander in the entire western theater of operations of Taixia Country was Zuoqiu Mingyue, the military minister of Taixia Country who was known as Military God.

Zuoqiu Mingyue had been in the office of military minister of Taixia Country for over 100 years. In the second holy war, Zuoqiu Mingyue who had promoted to heavenly knight had been one of the pillar generals of Taixia Country. At that time, he commanded Taixia troops to fight demons and killed a heavenly demon knight. This time, at the request of the crown prince, Zuoqiu Mingyue came to the western theater of operations from Xuanyuan Hill as one of the top three chancellors of Taixia Country. As was expected, he stabilized the overall battle situation only in a couple of months. Zuoqiu Mingyue’s popularity and power were definitely the greatest in the western theater of operations.

It was even said that Zuoqiu Mingyue might have long promoted to sage-level knight over the past 100 years. If Zuoqiu Mingyue was there when Xuanyuan Hill was in chaos last year, Han Zhengfang could never escape away from Xuanyuan Hill.

Due to the arrival of the Military God of Taixia Country, the entire western theater of operations had evidently greater morale than that 2 months ago.

Besides, even the top 7 sects’ troops had arrived at the theater of operations and joined the raid together with the 11 advanced bases over 1 month ago.

The above was the changes facing the western theater of operations that Zhang Tie learned in Xiangshan City in the last 2 months.

After that, Zhang Tie contacted Blackwater Base and reported that he had recovered his wounds and had just joined a battle in Xiangshan City. Additionally, he asked for his next mission.

Zhang Tie was not overconfident due to his surging battle strength. Since he came out of the underground space, he had been bearing his duty on the battlefield in mind——a scout dispatched by Blackwater Base!

Blackwater Base soon replied Zhang Tie, which surprised Zhang Tie a bit. Previously, Zhang Tie thought that Blackwater Base would have him continue to hunt demons in the vacuum region between demons and humans as a scout. However, he had not imagined that Blackwater Base told him to stay a few more cays in Xiangshan City and escorted the airship troops in Xiangshan City to return to Helan Mountain Range 3 days later before returning to Blackwater Base for a rest.

Now that he had received this order, Zhang Tie could only follow it.

After knowing that Zhang Tie was going to stay in Xiangshan City for a few days and escort Taixia troops back from Xiangshan City, some knights in Xiangshan City and Xu Baoan the Cheji General of Wuzhou Province went ecstatic. As they had witnessed Zhang Tie’s powerful battle skills. With Zhang Tie’s protection, Xiangshan City would never have any trouble in the following days. Additionally, the garrisons of about 1 million members in Xiangshan City wouldn’t worry about any raid from wing demon knights any more in the process of evacuation.