Chapter 475: Mixed Legion (II)

Under the introduction of the middle-aged young general, when they arrived at the camp where the mixed corps was located, Li Qing and the others had roughly figured out the composition of the mixed corps.

In addition to the 800 Empire's Wooden Wolf Riders and 500 Celtic Longbowmen, the rest of the soldiers were: 200 crossbowmen, 3,000 hoplites, 2,000 traps, 1,000 mountain infantry, 600 odd soldiers, and 20 spellcasters.

Those 200 crossbowmen came from the Hort Kingdom, which had been destroyed by the Holy Light Alliance. It is a group of short, thin, agile and nimble men. They are weak in frontal combat, but they have superb stealth skills.

Its primary weapon is a two-handed trap repeater.

The repeater holds the bolts in a crossbow box, and one box can hold thirty arrows. After opening the repeater frame, all 30 crossbow bolts can be fired in one go in three seconds.

The crossbow bolts are extremely powerful. Within twenty meters, the fine knight's plate armor made of pure steel can be easily pierced, which is a melee weapon like a submachine gun, and it is a large piece of it when swept away.

However, long-range shooting is powerless, once the optimal range of 20 meters is exceeded, the crossbow bolt will be fluttering, regardless of the accuracy and strength, will be greatly attenuated. At a distance of thirty meters, he could barely penetrate the leather armor.

This kind of mechanical crossbow is a specialty of the Hult Kingdom, which is famous for its mechanical skills. The core component is a small alloy spring. And the manufacturing process and alloy formula of this alloy spring are all secrets of the Hult Kingdom. Without a manufacturing process and alloy formula, even if a mechanical repeater is captured, it cannot be copied.

Of course, now the empire has mastered the core technology and alloy formula of this kind of mechanical repeater, but due to the complexity of the process and the high cost of materials, it cannot be popularized by the whole army for the time being. Only available in some of the most elite units.

As for the mechanical repeaters used by the two hundred Hot crossbowmen of the Mixed Legion, it was obvious that they brought them with them when they fled to the Empire.

In addition to the main weapon, the crossbow, the two hundred Hot crossbowmen are each equipped with an assassination short sword - although the Hot are weak in frontal combat, they can play the role of assassins well in melee because of their agility and agility and excellent stealth. They can often assassinate strong enemies by surprise when their powerful fighters are engaged with the enemy in the melee.

Those 3,000 hoplites came from the Kingdom of Tailong.

Although the name of the Tailong Kingdom has not perished, the current king is a puppet supported by the Holy Light Alliance.

The Kingdom of Tailong originally believed in the "God of Mountains and Strength".

However, after the puppet king came to power, with the support of the Radiant Holy Cult, he vigorously promoted the belief in the Lord of Radiance, and frantically attacked the faith of the god of mountains and power. This led to a split within the kingdom of Zhì, which eventually led to a civil war ten years ago.

The puppet king, supported by the Holy Light Alliance and the Radiant Holy Sect, naturally won without any suspense.

The church of the god of mountains and power was declared a cult, the church was destroyed, and the statues of the gods were torn down. All believers were required to convert, or they would be condemned as "cultists" and subjected to the Radiant Cult's religious trial - either burned, hanged, or sent to the mines to labor until death.

Under the cruel religious purge/cleansing, a large number of believers in the god of mountains and power who refused to convert fled the kingdom of Tailong. And with the help of the dark line planted by the Eastern Empire, as well as some forces close to the Eastern Empire, he traveled all the way to the Eastern Empire.

Among the Tailong exiled to the Eastern Empire were royalty, nobles, clergy, merchants, artisans, and commoners...... And so on, there are also the regular army of the original Tailong Kingdom, and the armed forces of the Church of the God of Mountains and Power.

The 3,000-strong hoplites of the Mixed Legion are composed of the regular army of the former Tailong Kingdom and some church warriors.

The appearance of the Tailong people, like the generally short and thin Hott, is also very ethnic.

Like this 3,000-strong hoplite, they are all bald men with a height of about 1.6 meters. However, although they are not tall, they are all muscular, with arms as thick as ordinary thighs and thighs as thick as ordinary people's waists. It looks like a boxy muscular mussel.

A strong body gives them great strength. Each Tyrone hoplite is equipped with more than 100 kilograms of Tyrone infantry plate armor. Each person has a heavy shield, the long weapon is a pure steel axe gun with a handle length of 2.5 meters, and the short weapon is a hand axe or mace.

They are extremely capable of close combat, forming dense battle formations and being able to carry heavy cavalry.

However, although the Tailong hoplites were a good hand in the front, due to their short stature, short legs, and heavy equipment, when attacking and advancing, they were only suitable for slow advance in formation, and could not charge quickly. They are useless when it comes to chasing down remnants of the enemy, or advancing quickly to take up positions.

And the 2,000 "trapping soldiers" from the Maple Danlu Kingdom are a useful supplement to the Tailong hoplites.

The Kingdom of Maple Frost Dew is known as the "hometown of mercenaries" in the Western world. Every male citizen, and even many female citizens, has been a mercenary for generations. They began learning to fight at an early age, and in their teens they went into battle with their parents and grandparents to earn money to support their families.

The vast majority of the mercenaries in the Maple Delu Kingdom can be said to have spent their entire lives in various battles. Even in old age, few people died on the bed, and most of them died on the battlefield.

Since ancient times, whether in the East or the West, most of the people who do mercenaries are generalists.

Like these two thousand trapped soldiers, everyone knows how to use all kinds of long and short weapons. Swords, guns, halberds, clubs, hammers, bows, crossbows, whips, shields, daggers...... Wait a minute. There are almost no weapons that they won't use.

They can be used as ranged troops, and although they are not as skilled as professional crossbowmen, they can also be a useful complement. It can also form a large formation to fight in the corps, and face the enemy head-on.

Because these two thousand trapped soldiers are very good at small team cooperation of three or five people, and their melee ability is extremely strong, they can also quickly disperse the formation, charge and grab the formation, or chase and destroy the remnants of the enemy. It can effectively make up for the shortcomings of the Tailong heavy infantry.

Due to the mountainous and forested geography of the Southern Theater, there is also a 1,000-strong mountain infantry in this mixed army.

They are from the Principality of Montenegro and are good at jungle warfare, mountain warfare. Equipped with short knives, short spears, hand shields, hand crossbows, blow arrows and other weapons suitable for jungle and mountain warfare. With or without leather armor.

This thousand-mountain infantry has a weak positional combat capability. But in the mountains and forests, all of them are excellent hunters and killers. It can be used as a useful supplement to the Eight Hundred Wood Wolves to ride.

As for the 600 "strange soldiers", they were the "Deadpool" troops that Li Qing and the others had seen on the way here, which originally belonged to a certain evil god church. Their leader is the saint who has fallen into the Church of the Evil Gods.

Due to the fall of the evil god, 600 Deadpool lost many supernatural abilities. Now it's just an agile warrior with a slight ability.

However, the Holy Maiden of the Cult of the Evil God, after the death of the Evil God, inherited some of the powers of the Evil God. With her blessing, six hundred Deadpools can have the power of their heyday in a short period of time, gaining extraordinary abilities such as shadow shuttle, soul impact, and rapid regeneration. At some point, it can be used as a "surprise soldier". If you put in the right words, you can even have the final word.

In addition, there are twenty spellcasters in the mixed legion - a mixed legion of 10,000 people, there are twenty spellcasters, which at first glance sounds quite awesome, but in fact it is not like that at all.

Because the twenty or so spellcasters are all kinds of dark wizards, voodoo shamans, Gu masters, spell masters, head lowering masters and other strict partial spellcasters.

They may have all kinds of weird, insidious and vicious spells, but because their spell attributes are dark and evil, most of them are strictly restrained by the positive energy magic of the priests, priests, and holy warriors of the Radiant Holy Sect.

Therefore, in the battle against the large legions of the Holy Light Alliance's forces, these spellcasters are actually not able to count on it.

The significance of their existence is more reflected in the defensive aspect. With them, they can prevent some similar spellcasters who have taken refuge in the Radiant Holy Sect and use all kinds of insidious and vicious means to plot against the generals and troops of the imperial side.

Of course, if there are no priests, priests, and holy warriors of the Radiant Holy Sect, these twenty or so part-way spellcasters can still play a lot of roles.

The above combat force totals more than 8,100 people. The remaining nearly 1,900 people are all kinds of logistical, medical, engineering and other support personnel of the mixed corps.

In all fairness, this mixed army of 10,000 people, although the origin of the soldiers is complicated enough, if the introduction of the middle-aged major general is not discounted, then the strength of the legion is indeed not weak. It can even be said that they are all elite soldiers.

Li Qing knew that such a mixed army composed of elite soldiers and strong generals, if he relied solely on his identity and background, it would not be his turn to lead it anyway.

Not even with the little dragon girl - the little dragon girl is the future dragon king of the East China Sea. However, the East China Sea Dragon Clan has always been in charge of the East China Sea, and it is a traditional naval general, and it has its own deep-rooted traditional power in the East China Sea Navy, but on the southern land, the influence of the East China Sea Dragon Clan is far from enough.

Therefore, Li Qing knew very well that the reason why Commander Mu handed over this mixed army composed of elite soldiers and strong generals to him was purely because he had the great god Su Su standing behind him.

It was precisely because of Su Su's strength and achievements that he, Li Qing, had the opportunity to lead such a mixed army to garrison important places.

Of course, Li Qing has nothing to complain about this.

He and Su Su are connected to each other's souls, life and death are one, and they are not separated from each other. Su Su is valued, he is too late to be happy, how can he be dissatisfied?

He will only become more combative because of this, and he can't wait to become as strong as possible to live up to Su Su's attention to him.

Otherwise, Su Su will be able to conquer the world alone, so what else do you want him to do?

Since he is Su Su's chief guardian knight, he must always have the qualifications to fight side by side with Su Su, stand in front of her to shield her from the wind and rain, and charge for her.

"Leading the army this time and sitting on an important defensive line is the best time for me to become stronger. The Holy Light Alliance is launching a massive offensive against the Empire's southern defenses, with fierce battles every day and a large number of enemies to slay every day. There are also the powerhouses of the five major knights, and even the Thunder Hell General, one of the thirteen Brilliant Knights, may appear on the battlefield at any time...... There are many goals, and there is no chance to be missed! ”

Li Qing secretly made up his mind to show his skills in this big battle and preach by killing.

Entering the camp, Li Qing and others, accompanied by the middle-aged major general, went through the handover procedures. Later, Li Qing and the others came to a large conference room, waiting for the generals of various ministries to come and meet.