The reason why Feng Chou wanted to split up and attack together was mainly because he had already divided the army under his command into two armies, it was impossible not to divide them.
Feng Chou left half of his army to guard the base and left the rest to a grand knight named Villar.
Grand Knight was an honorific title for a Master Knight.
Villar was once a professional military officer of Sutton Empire. He graduated from Sutton Empire Military Academy and later became an officer of Riptide Castle.
There was a huge mountain range in the north of Sutton Empire and Radiance Empire, which separated the fertile plains in the central part of the continent from the barren Wild Plateau in the north. It also blocked the ferocious and powerful wild intelligent creatures in the Wild Plateau in the north.
Sutton Empire named this mountain range after their god, Hedegar, the God of War. Radiance Empire called this mountain range the Guardian Mountain Range.
This great mountain range gradually flattened in the central part of the mountain range. The lofty mountains expanded into a large area of hills. There were even some fragmented mountain plains in the central part of the hills. A river from Wild Plateau rushed out a river course in this mountain range where hills and fragmented plains intersected. It also created a wide valley plain on both sides of the river course.
Because there was a huge drop between Wild Plateau and the central plain, the river from Wild Plateau was very rapid in this valley. Therefore, people named this river Riptide River. Of course, the valley became the Riptide Valley.
This wide valley and the fragmented plains in the hills on both sides of the valley were once the birthplace of barbarians, namely the ancestors of Sutton people.
This stubborn people walked out of here and finally gained the entire Star Plateau, which was the eastern part of the central plain.
In the arcana age, the high elves living in the western part of the central plain, which was the area of Sutton Empire, were driven to the South Continent by Arcane Empire. The orcs living in the eastern part of the plain, which was the area of Sacred Light Empire, were driven to the Wild Plateau in the north.
After the arcana age ended, the orcs gradually recovered their vitality after hundreds of years of cultivation and a series of reforms.
Naturally, they started to try to take back their rich homeland and return to the central plain. However, Sacred Light Empire and Sutton Empire who had already occupied the central plain certainly wouldn't agree with that.
Therefore, a long-lasting war broke out.
And the focus of the war was naturally the Rapids River Valley, the only passage from the Wild Highlands to the Central Plains.
In order to prevent the orc army from tormenting the two empires, guarding the Rapids Valley became the only way. The Sutton Empire and the Radiance Empire joined hands to build a giant castle in the narrowest area in the middle of the Rapids Valley, blocking the orcs' path to the south.
For hundreds of years, the two sides had fought countless times under the walls of the Riptide Castle, leaving enough blood to fill the Riptide River.
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After serving in the frontline of the war with the orcs all year round, Villar grew rapidly. In just more than 10 years, he had grown from a newly graduated level 7 knight to a level 16 grand knight. His position had also been promoted from an official knight to a legion commander. Because of his military exploits, he had received the title of a knight and a decent territory in the border area.
In the second year after Feng Chou left the Sutton Empire for the Southern Continent, the Orc Empire joined forces with the Ogre Kingdom and several giant kingdoms to launch an attack on the Riptide Castle. Compared to the past, this attack had a completely different strategy.
In order to avoid friction between the Sutton Empire and the Radiance Empire, and also to avoid conflicts with the dwarves, pygmies, and halflings living in the central mountains, that is, the Moradin Mountains, some small countries were kept around the Moradin Mountains and in the large plains and hills between the Moradin Mountains and the Hydegaard Mountains.
Of course, there were also such buffer countries between the Sutton Empire, the Radiance Empire, and the Alvindale Empire.
In this large area around the Moradin Mountains, more than 95% of the independent kingdoms and duchies in the Northern Continent were concentrated.
Among these dozens of independent kingdoms and duchies, the most powerful ones were undoubtedly the Brest Kingdom and the Augsburg Kingdom, which occupied the large plains between the Moradin Mountains and the Hydegaard Mountains in the south of the Rapids Valley.
The Brest Kingdom was located on the west bank of the Rapids River, bordering the Sutton Empire. The Augsburg Kingdom was located on the east bank of the Rapids River, bordering the Radiance Empire.
The difference between the orcs' attack this time and the previous ones was that they had a spy this time!
It turned out that the kings of the Brest Kingdom and the Augsburg Kingdom had long become believers of the evil god Bann. The upper echelons of these two kingdoms were almost completely infiltrated by the evil god Bann.
It was said that the current kings of Brest and Augsburg were secretly helped by the evil god Bann to ascend to the throne through the despicable means of killing their brothers and kings.
These two kingdoms that were on the frontline of the war against the orcs naturally could not escape the responsibility of fighting the orcs. Therefore, these two kingdoms had a large number of troops stationed in the Rapids Castle.
One night after the battle broke out, the army of the Brest Kingdom took advantage of the opportunity of being on night duty to open the north gate of the Rapids Castle and let the orcs into the city!
The purpose of the existence of the Rapids Castle was to use the high walls of the fortress to block the orc army. The absolute strength of the garrison was in fact far inferior to the orc army. When the orc army poured into the castle continuously, the traitors of the Brest Kingdom and the Augsburg Kingdom set fire everywhere to create chaos. Soon, the Rapids Castle fell into chaos.
As the commander of the legion, Villar quickly judged that the Rapids Castle could not be defended!
In order to preserve the strength of the orcs, Villar made a bold decision. He led his legion to withdraw from the Rapids Castle.
After the Rapids Castle was lost, the orc army passed through the Rapids Valley. With the cooperation of the Brest Kingdom and the Augsburg Kingdom, as well as some of the smaller kingdoms around them, they stood firm in the south of Mount Hedegar and used this place as a bridgehead to launch a fierce attack on the Sutton Empire and the Empire of Light at the same time.
With the army of the Ogre Kingdom and the Centaur Khanate as the core, mixed with some two-headed giants, cyclops giants, hill giants, and forest giants formed an alliance to advance towards the Sutton Empire in the west.
With the army of the Orc Empire as the core, they led the surface Taurens, Fire Giants, Stone Giants, and Storm Giants to attack the Empire of Light in the east.
The Sutton Empire and the Empire of Light were not prepared for the loss of the Rapids Castle. By the time they sent their armies over, the two barbarian armies had already broken into the interior of the empire.
These two barbaric armies caused terrible disasters within the borders of the two countries.