Chapter 875: Shrinking and Groaning

After Operation "Iron Hammer" ended in a disastrous defeat, Vasili, at Mond's suggestion, vigorously touted El's heroic deeds in Operation "Iron Hammer" to divert the attention of the citizens and ministers. Downplay the fact of the fiasco.

It is precisely because Vasily spared no effort to promote El's heroic deeds that El's name has been widely spread in the country and even spread to foreign countries.

At present, although El's name has not yet become a household name, it is already known to everyone in the military.

Some ordinary soldiers even know that a young man named El Bernard made a great contribution in the "Hammer" battle that is enough to be called a hero.

It is precisely because of this that there are many admirers of El in the army now.

And Kuci is one of El's admirers.

It is precisely because he admires and admires El so much that he does his best to complete every task assigned by El.

El didn't know how many times he had to explain to Kuci that he was not a hero. He had not achieved any great achievements in the "Iron Hammer" battle and could not afford the name of "hero".

But Kuci seemed to be deeply "poisoned" by the empire's propaganda. He firmly believed that El was a hero. The reason why he said that he did nothing during the "Iron Hammer" battle was just being modest.

El had no choice but to let Kuci call him a hero.

El, who didn't want to discuss this topic too much, said vaguely:

"If we encounter any big crisis, I will do my best."

Speaking of this, El seemed to realize something and quickly added:

"But don't expect too much from me, after all - I'm not a god."

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The 50,000-strong army rescuing the western battlefield galloped westward.

The Eastern Route Army of the Britannia Army also marched all the way east.

Judging from the position and march direction of the two armies, the 50,000 rescue troops of the Holy Hiran Empire are bound to be the first to confront the Eastern Route Army of the Britannia Army.

But everyone in the Eastern Route Army, including Su Cheng, did not know that the Holy Hiran Empire had sent reinforcements to stop them.

After taking the position of commander-in-chief of the forward troops, Deng Jiaer spent almost every day working diligently.

In order not to disappoint Su Cheng and not let other colleagues think that she is someone who can only rely on connections to get to the top, Deng Jiaer has always worked hard to do everything well in the army.

Perhaps Deng Jiaer's efforts worked. The vanguard unit she led has not encountered any accidents so far.

After taking terrorist measures against Ulan City, the advance of the vanguard became much smoother.

After learning what kind of treatment Ulan City had received for choosing to resist to the end, all the cities to the east of Ulan City turned their backs.

As soon as they learned that the Britannia army was approaching, they immediately opened the city and surrendered, without even waiting for Deng Jiaer to send them a letter of surrender.

It was precisely thanks to their awareness of current affairs that the East Route Army's marching speed became very fast.

In the blink of an eye, the Eastern Route Army had captured 14 cities, and there were only 10 cities left from Ariel, the capital of the Holy Hiran Empire.

These 14 captured cities were all captured by Deng Jiaer's vanguard troops.

However, although it was called an "attack", in fact, only the first city of Ulan suffered the baptism of war, and all the subsequent 13 cities surrendered obediently.

It is precisely because Deng Jiaer led the vanguard troops to clear all obstacles on the way forward,

As a result, the main force led by Su Cheng has never experienced a main force, and it has remained full and uninjured until now.

For these cities that chose to surrender obediently, the Britannian army treated them leniently and only plundered the property in the city without harming the lives of the civilians in the city.

However - the Britannia Army was not so kind to the villages along the way.

Villages are the key targets of this "Aurora" offensive.

Regardless of whether these villages choose to surrender or not, they will be wiped off the map...

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"All the villagers in this village have also fled..."

Darlene murmured as she looked at the deserted village in front of her.

The vanguard of the East Route Army encountered another village just now.

Since they encountered a village, there was no reason to let them go. Deng Jiaer immediately ordered an attack on the village.

However, after entering this village, I found that all the villagers in this village had already fled.

The Britannian army launched a massive attack, burning, killing and looting everywhere - such news had already spread everywhere.

Therefore, from now on, the vanguard rarely encounters villages that are still inhabited.

In order to escape the military disaster, the villagers packed up all the things they could take away early and hid in the nearby mountains or in the nearest city.

After seeing that all the villagers in the village in front of her had already run away, Darlene actually felt a little lucky.

Although their commander-in-chief had given an order that they were only allowed to rob the village of property and were not allowed to kill villagers at will, it was still not uncommon for soldiers to accidentally kill them.

Although the village has long been deserted, the destruction of the village continues.

Under the order of coach Deng Jiaer, they first went from house to house to search.

Search the house for belongings and if there are any living people in the house.

If you encounter any property, you will immediately take it away.

When they saw hoes and other farming tools, they gathered them up and destroyed them together.

When they saw people who were still in the village, they gave them some dry food and let them escape.

The reason why they let these villagers live was not because they were kind-hearted, but because they wanted to leave more refugees and displaced people for the Holy Xilan Empire to deal with.

This village was very large. In order to save time, even the Delan Undead Team where Darlena was was pulled in to search for property and living people in the village.

After a search, no living people were found, but there were quite a lot of property, farming tools, and livestock.

For these livestock, their method of dealing with them was to turn them into food.

As for those farming tools, they just set them on fire and destroyed them all.

In addition to looting all the property in the village, they did not forget to destroy the farmland in the village.

Under the charge of the cavalry, pieces of fertile land were trampled into pieces of wasteland.

While the cavalry was busy, the infantry were not idle either.

The infantry sprinkled kerosene on every house.

After each house was sprinkled with kerosene and the soldiers withdrew from the village, they set the village on fire and completely wiped it off the map.

After the farmland was destroyed and the village was burned, the vanguard troops left in a swagger and continued to march eastward, heading towards the next city or the next village.

After the vanguard troops left, it suddenly rained.

Although the rain was not heavy, it still successfully extinguished the fire in the village.

It was a pity that the rain came too late, and the village no longer looked prosperous as it used to be.

The air was full of burnt and unpleasant odors.

There were farmlands trampled into wastelands everywhere, and houses burned everywhere. Some tiles and brick walls were still blue-black.

A few rays of sunlight indifferently passed through the thick dark clouds, and sprinkled on a few tender buds on the grass like light dust.

The ruins near and far all shivered and groaned in this spring when everything should be revived and full of vitality.