Opening an office in Taila

While the celebrations boosted the morale of the army, they also gave the Deep Sea Church a chance to catch its breath. After all, the soldiers at the outposts needed rest on New Year's Eve, which provided the Deep Sea Church with an opportunity to accelerate its advance toward Londinium.

Song Yufeng had naturally anticipated this. Although he didn't have a direct way to contact Grandia, Skadi did. He contacted Grandia through Skadi, and then contacted the Deep Sea Hunters. Thus, while Song Yufeng was holding his celebration, the Deep Sea Hunters were secretly monitoring the Deep Sea Church.

According to intelligence obtained by the Deepsea Hunters, some members of the earliest group of Deepsea Church members who set out have already arrived near Lontinim.

Immediately, Song Yufeng signaled to the Duke's army, ordering them to establish the strictest possible blockade around Londinium. At the same time, Song Yufeng issued Operation Order No. 1: the entire army set off for Londinium!

Although the order has been issued, a series of preparations still need to be made before departure, and it is expected that we will be able to officially depart at noon tomorrow.

Before that, Song Yufeng had Talulah lead 5,000 members of the Netherworld Imperial Guard as the vanguard. At the same time, Song Yufeng dispatched a force of about 10,000 people, consisting of Celestial Masters, Ursus War Sorcerers, Letanian Golden Law Guards, and members of the Netherworld Imperial Guard, to cooperate with the patrol force led by Skadi and the Deep Sea Hunters led by Gladys to launch a full-scale encirclement and annihilation of the remaining Deep Sea Church that was moving towards them.

The reason we didn't launch a full-scale attack before was because we couldn't fully grasp the movements of the Deep Sea Church. But now that we have a complete grasp of their general movements, it would be unreasonable not to launch an attack now.

Because the Deep Pool troops were well prepared, they also advanced ahead with the vanguard.

As for Rhodes Island, they were still traveling across the wasteland. They would not come to Little Hill County, but would go directly to Londinium.

A major battle seems imminent.

At noon on the second day, under Song Yufeng's orders, the million-strong army officially began its march towards Londinium. The vanguard made great progress without any major problems, while the forces responsible for besieging the Deep Sea Church also reported frequent victories. On the wilderness on both sides of the million-strong army were dozens of high-speed warships, which came from the Duke's Army, Ursus, Yan Kingdom and Letania. These high-speed warships, together with the high-speed warships of the Duke's Army that were participating in the siege, were enough to reach a scale of over a hundred. Even a god would be severely injured if hit by a few shells from these high-speed warships.

Song Yufeng suddenly thought of that super weapon—the Shard Tower. If the Sarkaz completed the construction of the Shard Tower, then without a doubt, the blow to the gods would be enormous. Could the gods withstand a catastrophe? Song Yufeng was very curious.

This massive march lasted for more than two months. In fact, if Song Yufeng had ordered the troops to move faster, it wouldn't have taken more than two months. However, on the one hand, the Deep Sea Church had not yet taken action. The sooner they arrived, the longer they would have to fight the Sarkaz army. Although it was a feigned battle, what if something unexpected happened? Moreover, it would consume military supplies. On the other hand, Sea Cat had not returned for a long time. He was worried that if the war started and the gods descended, their chances of winning would be greatly reduced without Sea Cat's help.

By the time Song Yufeng led his army to Londinium, the Deep Sea Church had almost completed its assembly. Song Yufeng's series of decisions had caused heavy losses to the Deep Sea Church, and the number of people they could mobilize was less than half of what they had at the beginning of the assembly. However, they would become one of Song Yufeng's greatest enemies, as they would receive divine power and become demigods like Margaret.

Song Yufeng has also received news from the Deep Sea Hunters that the Deep Sea Church has apparently completed its assembly and could launch a war at any time. The Deep Sea Hunters are doing their best to divide and eliminate the members of the Deep Sea Church.

Song Yufeng gathered all his forces, intending to launch a preemptive strike and wipe out the Deep Sea Church in one fell swoop. However, late that night, the night before the operation was to begin, a soldier from the Duke of Victoria's army bumped into a member of the Deep Sea Church while using the toilet, and a conflict ensued. As both sides called for reinforcements, and the reinforcements in turn called for even more reinforcements, the local war quickly escalated. The Deep Sea Church, believing that its whereabouts had been completely exposed, launched a full-scale attack.

Thus, the battle to change this land officially began on March 10, 1097...