As they approached the royal capital, the robbers began to disappear, and mercenary-looking people began to be seen everywhere on the road, either galloping in groups of three or five, or walking alone and sluggishly, apparently all of them had come to participate in this crusade.

Li Mengnan also spotted two teams of mercenaries that looked like the Dream Walker team, but since they were both Westerners with the same appearance as the natives, he couldn't be completely sure.

In this world of legends set in the European Middle Ages, Caucasian dreamwalkers have a considerable advantage in stealth.

After paying the entrance fee for each copper plate, Li Mengnan and his party entered the outer city of the royal capital through the guò suspension bridge.

Mercenaries from all over the world have brought significant prosperity to the market, pubs, prostitution halls, casinos and other entertainment venues are full, and these rude and reckless men can be seen everywhere, and the scene of a big fight is also commonplace, and you must be careful of being accidentally injured by the debris flying in the gravel and wooden planks at any time when walking on the road.

Li Mengnan did not check the registration of other dreamwalkers in Huaxia Kingdom at the registration point of the mercenary union, but accidentally found the traces of the two Asian teams of the Wa Kingdom and Russia, but the other party did not leave any address or contact clues, and obviously did not plan to contact other dreamwalker teams.

Li Mengnan is not in a hurry, the purpose of the dream walker is different from that of the natives, and after entering the cursed land, there will always be a chance to encounter it.

The registration time for this crusade is very sufficient, but no matter how sufficient, it will not wait endlessly, as the departure date is getting closer, the mercenaries on the market have also converged a lot, and they have seized the time to make a final check on their equipment and items.

The day of the crusade army is at the beginning of March, which is the beautiful season of the year when the spring is cold and the grass grows and the warbler flies.

After an impassioned departure ceremony, the gates were opened, the drawbridge fell, and the mighty crusading army marched out of the royal capital with surging blood, approaching the cursed land where Dracula's castle was located.

The farmer and peasant woman who were plowing in spring on the side of the road couldn't help but stop their work for a while, looking at the murderous army on the road with a frightened expression, muttering something in a low voice, only the little child who was ignorant of the world looked at the bright armor of the knight in front of him with envy, and chased all the way along the Qianmo path in the field.

There are 800 regular troops of the kingdom in the team of this crusade, which seems to be a small number, but it is already a large number for the Duchy of Grana, you know, the garrison of the entire royal capital is only 3000, and they are not all pure soldiers.

The 800 people who participated in the expedition were the real elite main force, including 200 heavy cavalry.

However, the most conspicuous in the team was not the regular army of these kingdoms, but the legion of paladins sent by the Holy See.

The Paladin Legion represents the highest level of force in the world, and it is the first time that Li Mengnan has seen this legendary class.

The silver armor is outlined with gorgeous and intricate gilt patterns, and the white coat on the back is embroidered with a huge cross pattern representing the Holy See in gold thread.

Wang **** and the Holy Knights walked neatly at the front of the entire crusade team, and not far behind them was the mercenary brigade where Li Mengnan and the others were.

In order to facilitate communication with the crusade team and quickly convey orders, the mercenaries also selected several senior mercenaries who are strong and well-known in the mercenary world as team leaders.

But this kind of nominal leader can't restrain the mercenaries who are used to being loose and free, let alone integrate the team to maintain discipline, and the entire mercenary brigade is completely out of formation, and the scale of less than a thousand people has gone out of the length of two thousand people.

Seeing this scene, Li Mengnan, who was on the edge of the team, couldn't help but shake his head secretly, the miscellaneous army is the miscellaneous army, fortunately, there are disciplined Wang **** and the Holy Knights to open the way in front, otherwise if this mercenary brigade is changed, I am afraid that the enemy will charge the whole team and the whole team will be completely chaotic.

However, it is estimated that no one in the Holy See and the Kingdom expects these scattered mercenaries to act as the main force of the crusade team, and the main purpose of their existence is to disperse the firepower, and by the way, follow behind the large army to clean up the fish that have slipped through the net, and make the best use of them, but there is no need to be too demanding.

About three or four miles behind the mercenary brigade, there was still a team hanging faintly.

This was not part of a crusade army, but a caravan organized by the major trading houses in the kingdom.

In fact, every crusade against Dracula's legion is accompanied by such a caravan, and although the monsters of the Cursed Lands are terrifying, their corpses can be decomposed into many precious materials, and many magicians and warriors are willing to pay a lot of money to buy them.

In addition, they also have the important task of recording the exploits of the crusade, and as a third party, the statistical results given by these merchants are often quite fair.

Although there are many bandits in this world, there is no idea that the bandit would be brainless enough to fight such an army with explosive combat effectiveness, although there are constantly small groups of bandits peeping at them along the way, but there are no accidents.

Three days later, the crusading force of nearly 2,000 men finally entered the confines of the Cursed Lands.

The surrounding colors inexplicably began to become gloomy, as if a cloud of mist that could not be dispersed all year round was always entrenched in the sky, and even the midday sun was covered with an oppressive gray.

A few black crows hovered above the raider's heads, making a disturbing clamour, and a dozen crossbows fired in a volley that quickly silenced the ravens completely.

"Everyone be ready for battle!"

The heavy cavalry took off their tower shields and cavalry spears, the infantry dismounted and lined up, and the mercenaries also drew their weapons, sat up straight on horseback, stretched their necks and watched vigilantly.

Everyone knows that in the Cursed Lands, these crows are Dracula's eyes and ears, and as long as these flat-haired beasts appear, it will not be far from the appearance of those monster legions of Dracula.

In a short time, a fine rustle sounded in the deep and dim forest in front of him, like the wind blowing on the treetops, and like the rain hitting the plantains, and soon, this sound became clearer and clearer from far to near, faintly mixed with a low roar and a strange gurgling sound like a hard object colliding.

Bones.

Boundless white bones.

Countless human skeletons with rusty, broken swords in their hands, flickering light in their empty and deep eye sockets, and with ridiculous but nimble steps, poured out of the trees in front of the raiding party and crashed like a white flood against the phalanx formed by the human infantry.

Skeleton soldiers, the lowest cannon fodder class in the Dracula Monster Legion, are mostly transformed by soldiers and mercenaries who have died in the past generations of crusaders.

The light and heavy bones of an average of more than ten catties could not produce the same powerful impact as a living soldier, and although it seemed to be ferocious, the tower shield phalanx in front of the crusading army only took half a step backwards, and completely carried the impact of the skeleton soldier's forward.

"Attack with all your troops!"

Under the officer's order, Rulin's axe and spear poked out from behind the shield, and the small axe at the top slashed downwards neatly, and a tooth-inducing shattering sound suddenly sounded in front of the battle array, white bone fragments flew one after another, and a large number of skeletons fell in pieces, and were quickly trampled and swallowed by other skeleton soldiers rushing up from behind.