Refining the Heavens 4 (炼天四)

Chapter 48: Blitzkrieg against a Cliff

White Emperor, Reynold Lambert Siegmund, was aroused from his rest by his personal guards.

Without anyone seeing him move, the man already disappeared from sight, and the next moment he appeared on top of the southern walls dressed in full armour.

His long silvery hair danced in the air as his feet lightly landed on the parapet.

"A Blitzkrieg formation against a cliff? How odd..."

The way the Saint Empire Vanguards are positioned looked like the letter 'W' from the top. Behind the vanguards, the second, third, fourth groups, and so on, are all in the 'V' position.

This formation is good for hitting an enemy hard to penetrate their lines and cut them into three groups.

Following that, the soldiers will encircle the middle group and isolate them.

It's a good tactic on an open field with two armies facing each other but using it in a siege is unheard of.

While the army charged, the Frosthral defences were activated.

Cannons were pushed out of port holes in the body of the cliff and they fired without aiming.

Each cannonballs is inscribed with runes that increases explosive radius and noise amplification as traditional ones will have. When a cannonball hits, it aims to cripple as many enemies as possible. A dead soldier means a single enemy neutralised, but an injured one will require friends to bring him home, medics to heal him, and that isn't even counting the dread and anxiety he will create from looking at him as a product of strife.

The Snowdrifts and their army are located at the middle of the 'W' formation. Looking at them leading at the foremost, the White Emperor's lips curled up into a vicious smile.

"Looks like that traitor had been telling the truth."

The 'traitor' is of course the charred man who left the Snowdrifts in the night and secretly joined the Ku Kang Camp.

When Tommy completed the traditional promotion trial, he became bound under the Superior Pact whereby he must follow Tommy into battle as a Warrior Lesser. Instead, he scurried away to join an opposing faction, thus any warrior worth their two grams of salt would be ashamed to associate with him.

That man might have brought back valuable war information but he is nevertheless a betrayer.

Saint Empire citizens might find it hard to understand, but the Feudal State still considers Tommy who came out of Avalon as one of their members and a Warlord. In fact the Snowdrifts' participation in this battle is recognised as an internal strife among the Frosthral warlords.

Of course, the Saint Empire troops commanded by Esley are still invaders.

This sounds complicated, but the Feudal State is ruled by tradition and the Superior Pact is absolute.

As long as Tommy's background is recognised and he did not become a traitor, he is a member of their nation. Therefore, the despicable one is the charred man.

As for why he and his Warrior Lessers aren't considered traitors despite attacking the Ku Kang Camp together with Esley's soldiers, it is all because of what Tommy said as he took his trial.

His intention, as declared, is to unite Gaia. This is an ambition respected by the fellow warriors, and it makes everything different.

If Tommy had fought as a soldier of another nation, Frosthral will resist until the end. But, as long as he does not intent to harm a single non-combatant – those who had yet to pass through their adulthood ceremony or those who retired as warriors due to childbirth, age, or other infirmities – he will be respected as a Warlord, a Warrior Superior. In the future, if he manage to defeat all the others and conquer the whole north, he will be their new Great Khan that replaced Yesugei-in Temujin.