The iron armored paladin is a heavy cavalry unit, and the holy armored soldiers are a heavy infantry unit. The cost of these two units is extremely expensive.

Not only is it expensive, but it also has extremely slow speed in replenishing combat losses.

During the "Storm" battle six years ago (that is, the rescue battle of the Lund Kingdom of the Britannia Empire), the Frank Empire lost 4,000 armored paladins.

It took the Frank Empire many years to get the armored paladins back to 20,000, because it was too difficult to find the right soldiers and the right horses.

The iron-armored paladins and horses were all wearing heavy armor - you can imagine how elite soldiers and how good war horses this requires.

In this battle of Rhineland, the Iron Armored Paladin lost half of its combat power, and the Holy Armored Soldiers also suffered a lot, which made Walter feel hurt.

After suffering such huge losses, I don’t know how long it will take to restore the original combat power of the Iron-armored Paladin and Holy Armored Soldiers.

However, judging from the current results, the losses of the Iron Armored Paladin, Holy Armored Soldiers, and other troops are worth it!

They successfully completed the planned goal of the Nibelungan plan! They surrounded Issel and his army!

While cleaning the battlefield and counting casualties, although many knights were found, no bodies of Issel and Albert were found.

It seems that Isel and Albert were not killed on the spot, but were besieged in the basin of the Rhineland Plain with the other defeated troops.

Although it was a bit regretful that Issel and Albert were unable to kill on the spot, Walter and others, they did not feel too sad.

Because Isel and his defeated troops have been trapped in the basin heavily, and it is only a matter of time before their complete destruction.

Before the Battle of Rhineland began, the Frank army grasped the total military strength and force composition of the army brought by Issel through scouts and spies - the generals and soldiers of the Gabriel Knights, plus the generals and soldiers of the Rachel Knights.

Now, half of the 300,000 troops have been wiped out by the Frankish army, and the remaining half have been driven into the basin that had been selected by the Frankish army, preparing to wait until the remaining half of the Britannian army cut off the supply supply before launching a general attack.

At present, everything seems to develop as planned by Nibelungen's plan - after Issel's army was defeated, he was driven into this basin of the Rhineland Plain.

The next thing the Frank army had to do was to wait for Issel's remaining troops to cut off supplies, and then they could be wiped out without any effort.

The total strength of the four major knights of the Britannian Empire is only 770,000.

If the 300,000 troops of Issel were successfully annihilated in the Rhineland Plain, the total military strength of the Britannian Empire would be lost nearly half.

What this means for the Britannian Empire or the Frank Empire is self-evident.

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Britannian Empire, Rhineland Plain, Frankish Army Main Formation.

After completing the encirclement of Issel's 150,000 remnants, Walter and Bazer finally met Otto von Holwig, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Fleet.

This is the first meeting of the three people after the Nibelungen Project began.

The Franks won a big victory this time. The three men at the highest command level of the Nibelungen Plan should have met once to celebrate the big victory together.

As soon as the three generals met, Otto said to Walter and Bazer in an arrogant tone:

"General Zimmermann, General Rudendolph. He fought beautifully in this battle!"

Although Otto's sentence is a complimentary sentence, his tone doesn't sound happy.

Bazer's face suddenly turned ugly.

Fortunately, Walter was more experienced and quickly chuckled a few times, and smoothed the scene in a gentle tone.

"General Holvig also played very beautifully and came in a very timely manner. If you slow down for a few days, Issel might have speculated about our army's true intentions."

As soon as Walter finished speaking, Otto smiled with a "hum" on his nose, showing a disdainful smile:

"Ha, I don't believe that Issel has such great ability to infer the true intentions of our army."

"General Holvig." Walter said in a helpless tone, "You have not fought with Issel, so you know Issel's strength."

"I had a desperate battle with Issel, so I've experienced Issel's strength. With Issel's ability, it is not impossible to speculate that our army's true intentions in this battle."

The "death battle" that Walter mentioned refers to the "Four-Star" offensive 11 years ago by the Britannian Empire.

In that battle, Issel, who was at an absolute disadvantage, miraculously defeated Walter.

Otto disagreed with Walter's words, shrugged with frivolous expression, Otto continued to ask Walter:

"General Zimmerman, what will we do next?"

After pondering for a while, Walter said:

"From the current situation, we do not need to change our plans now, so let's continue to act according to the original plan."

After saying that, Walter blew his mouth towards the basin:

"First, the remaining troops that have been besieging Issel and Albert, and when their supplies are completely cut off, then launch a general attack to wipe out them completely, and then rush the troops westward to attack Pandragong!"

"General Holvig, for the next period of time, I need your landing force to help strengthen the encirclement of the 150,000 remnants of Issel."

"Please."

At this moment, Bazel, who had been silent since the beginning, suddenly spoke out his opinion on the current situation:

"Walter, although this battle of Rhineland was a great victory for our Frankish army, the Britannian Empire did not completely lose its strength to resist."

"In the north of the Britannian Empire, there were 120,000 troops of the Knights of Michael, 150,000 troops of the Knights of Uriel in the center, and 100,000 troops of the Knights of Rachel in the south. There were still many troops left in the remaining strongholds on the Rhine Front."

"And, the Britannian Empire still has that Su Cheng."

"That Su Cheng is best at fighting more with less, and all of his well-known battles won more with less."

"If Ilsa from the Britannian Empire sent Su Cheng to deal with us, even if we could win, we wouldn't have won too easily."

"Although we won a great victory in this battle, we also paid a lot of money. We lost 100,000 land military power."

400,000 land forces (including 100,000 landing troops) plus 100,000 fleet sailors - this is the combat power invested by the Frank Empire in this Nibelungen plan.

Now, the 500,000 troops of the Frank army are only 400,000 after the Battle of the Rhineland.
Chapter completed!