Human territory is generally divided by provinces, with a province having as many as five or as few as one large city, and each large city with a dozen or so smaller cities, as well as more towns and villages.

Just like Yu Bin's own Naxxramas, each town and village can build a corresponding recruiting building, but the human recruitment building is actually a training place for soldiers, and the source of recruitment is actually the residents of the towns and villages, unlike the undead race, who can recruit soldiers directly by transforming corpses.

But even so, for a town, it is possible to have soldiers of the highest third rank, and for a small city, it is possible to have soldiers of the highest fourth rank, let alone a large city.

Taking the Ashwood Kingdom as an example, the Ashwood Kingdom with five provinces is not the largest of the twelve human countries, but it is not small, the entire Ashwood Kingdom has seventeen large cities, counting the royal capital, it is not difficult to pull up a sixth-order knight of nearly 10,000 people, plus the fifth-order priest (ordinary priest, not the real light priest recognized by the Bright Church) and the fourth-order swordsman, under the premise of not affecting the security of various places, the team of 50,000 people can still be pulled.

If you add third-order griffins, second-order archers, and first-order spearmen, there will be absolutely no problem in pulling up a regular army of more than 300,000, and there will be no material troubles.

And in terms of an ordinary human kingdom like Ashwood, it can have such strength, not to mention the richer Virgil Kingdom, which is also the reason why the Lich Maltan Golden Coffin does not dare to attack head-on, and can only subvert it secretly, because relying on him as a lich and without the cooperation of the undead army, it is impossible to compete with a state machine, unless Maltan Golden Coffin becomes a legendary hero like the original Great Wizard.

In addition, the lord-level characters in each kingdom are basically hero-level existences, in the case of the Ashwood Kingdom, seventeen large cities means seventeen lords, that is, seventeen heroes, pick out five or six at random, and bring an army of more than 200,000 people, which is enough to level Andohar City.

This is what a kingdom is all about.

So why didn't the kingdom of Ashwood choose to solve the problem on its own, but chose to ignore it?

The root of all this lies in the balance of power within mankind itself.

As we all know, the reason why the four major races of humans, elves, undead, and demons occupy a dominant position on the continent of Entagri and become the main forces of their respective camps is that in addition to the vast territory and large population base of these four races, it is actually a balance.

It is precisely with this balance that the confrontation between the orderly camp and the chaotic camp can be maintained for tens of thousands of years, although there have been faction wars from time to time, but no problems have been fundamentally solved, tens of thousands of years ago, and it is still the same.

This balance has led to the principle that each ethnic group is now guarding its own territory and not easily reaching outward, which also makes a large number of neutral areas appear between the various ethnic groups, so that those small and medium-sized races have enough living space.

For humans, the area centered on the Silver Pine Forest, including the Tirisfara Glades, the Hillsbrad Hills, and the Arathi Highlands, has long been regarded as their own territory, but they have not been effectively managed in these areas.

From the outside, the chaotic camp is unwilling to watch humans increase their strength and swallow the Silver Pine Forest and the nearby fertile areas, so they have been secretly obstructing it all along, and even developed to the point that they took advantage of the opportunity of the last camp war to directly summon the evil god Haka, polluting a large area of land with evil power, and completely cutting off the idea of humans trying to control the Silver Pine Forest.

Internally, the other human kingdoms did not want the Ashwood Kingdom to occupy the Silver Pine Forest, so that the national power would greatly increase and upset the current balance within the human race, and Sevani, who was well aware of this idea, was also very interested in not taking any measures against the Silver Pine Forest, but only secretly supporting the human inhabitants who settled in these places.

But at the level of the entire human race, and even the entire Order-Keeping camp, the Silver Pine Forest and the surrounding large areas have always been a place of intent, even if they can't fully control it, they must maintain enough influence in these lands to obtain the resources and materials of these places to a certain extent.

And the destruction of Andohal City, as well as the werewolf attack that occurred in the Silver Pine Forest, have obviously touched this bottom line, allowing the Order camp to see the possibility of losing control of the Silver Pine Forest, so this expedition to the Silver Pine Forest has happened, and at the same time, this is one of the reasons why the elves and dwarves are willing to help.

Therefore, if you analyze it from this reason, it is not difficult to understand why the revenge of the Maltan Golden Coffin has not been able to attract the attention of the entire orderly camp.

A week later, the expedition to the Silverpine Forest assembled in the city of Gabritt in the kingdom of Ashwood.

Aside from the player, this time the expeditionary force is not very many, the Holy See of Light dispatched 2,000 knights, including 500 light knights (6th-order 8-rank troops) and 1,500 attendant knights (6th-order 3rd rank), 500 priests, including 100 monk soldiers (fifth-order and fifth-rank troops) and 200 priests (fifth-order and two-rank troops), and the remaining 200 people are apprentice priests (fifth-order first-rank troops) like Raphael.

Of course, this does not include Raphael and a few NPCs with names and surnames, and Tibest, who is the commander of this expeditionary force, is a hero-level Knight of Light, with a level of 8th and 200th.

In addition, as a support force for the various human kingdoms, the expeditionary force also has a royal warband of the Banster Kingdom (500 royal guards, 4th rank and 7th rank troops), a knight regiment of the Raphinha Kingdom (200 noble knights, 6th rank and 6th rank troops), a griffin regiment of the Almerian Empire (300 golden feather griffins, 3rd rank and 4th rank troops) and a regular Arnas Empire longbowman unit (1000 longbowmen, 2nd rank and 3rd rank troops), in addition to these, As the host, the Ashwood Kingdom will also send a regular army of about 5,000 people to cooperate, but the quality cannot be compared with these elites, almost all of them are ordinary 1st to 3rd order troops.

Please note that the number of these armies is not the core strength of this expeditionary force, even if it is provided by the Bright Sect, to put it bluntly, they are still soldiers trained through the recruitment building, belonging to the kind of aborigines who have no name and no title, and in terms of status, they are actually the same thing as the skeleton soldiers recruited by Yu Bin's Naxxramas.

And the real combat power is actually the famous aborigines who participated in the expeditionary force this time, the number of these aborigines is almost three hundred, including almost all kinds of professions, and the number of mages alone is almost fifty.

Therefore, from the perspective of the aborigines, this expedition was not a very significant military operation, and the total number of soldiers was only about 10,000.

Of course, this includes fifty Elven Ranger provided by the Elves, as well as a hundred heavily armed Dwarven Guardian Warriors and twenty Pazula (as the dwarf mage is called).

However, if you count the players who responded enthusiastically, the number of people on this expedition is quite impressive.

In a week's time, the number of players who came to Gabritt City through the teleportation array to sign up for the expedition exceeded 5,000, especially several famous teams, such as Radiant Watch led by Glass, also participated.

Although these players have different strengths, they are good at cooperating with each other and are also a very powerful force.

The most important thing is that with the supply of materials and intelligence provided by the expeditionary force, players will not be stuck in a situation of fighting on their own as before, so that the players' diverse combat styles can be fully exploited.

Later in the actual battle, the player did become the main force of the expeditionary force, and the aboriginal soldiers were often used to disperse and divide the undead who needed to be cleared, and the player played the role of the main force to destroy these undead.

For the commander of the expeditionary force, Tibest, this method can effectively reduce the casualties of the regular army in his hands, and for the players, this method allows them to gain a lot of experience points and merits, as for the player's death, it can be resurrected anyway, and it will not be completely destroyed after dying once like the aboriginal soldiers.

Such a method of getting the best of both worlds also made Tibest look at Raphael, who proposed this method of warfare.

For Tibest, he was instructed by the Pope before setting off, in this expedition, in addition to protecting Raphael and those princes and princesses, the most important thing is to provide some opportunities so that Raphael Priest can successfully gain enough prestige, which made Tibest feel the need to deliberately mention Raphael at first, so as not to make the little girl at a loss.

But now it seems that this "patron of light" does not need his special care at all.

"Looks like this kid is more sophisticated than we are!" Looking at Raphael, who was busy dealing with all kinds of information and directing those civilians (players) to surround and suppress the undead who were surrounded in front of him, Tibest said with relief to a middle-aged priest beside him.

"She's a genius, and to be honest, I don't have much more to teach her." The middle-aged priest Tadrar, as the leader of the clergy team of the Holy See of Light, also shouldered the heavy responsibility of teaching Raphael about the priesthood, but within a few days, he found that for this smart girl, any priesthood skills were not a problem, but the biggest problem was that her curiosity was so strong that Tadelal had nothing to teach her.

"Let the royal warband of Banster drive the next batch of undead in, and, tell our Royal Highness Prince Rasfil, so that we can leave a few for our little girl to practice, although I understand his urge to show his face in front of this beautiful little baby, but this is not a prairie, we are not those barbarians, and fighting is not everything!"

"No problem, I'll inform Rajev. As for His Highness Rassfair, I think it would be better for His Highness Hubers to admonish him. Tadelar nodded, "It seems that our little darlings are betting much more on those civilians than on a few highnesses, so it's no wonder they want to find those bones and scum." ”

"Hehe, that's a good thing, I don't want to go to Queen Raphael's wedding in a few years!" After Tibest had finished speaking, he took the reins and walked in the direction of the camp in the rear, "Order the First and Third Knights to pack up their tents, and set out in an hour to camp in Malas." ”

On the frontal battlefield, hundreds of teams are encircling the undead who are surrounded by this plain.

"I mean, that Raphael, is he really a player?" A human warrior in the role of a tank asked as he parried the attack of a zombie with a shield in his hand.

A mage player behind him launched a fireball from his hand, then immediately ran away a few steps, gasping for breath as he replied, "Nonsense, didn't you hear what the woman said when she was assembled?" I'm absolutely sure she's just as much a gamer as we are! ”

"Then the gap is too big! We can be regarded as a 1st order who is about to be reincarnated, and we can't play as well as her as a 0th order rookie? Grandma, why do we have to charge into battle, and the woman can sit in the back and drink tea! ”

"Shut up! You think you're more capable than others, so figure it out yourself, I'm not in the mood to mess around with you! Keep your hands in it! ”

On the other side, Glass is leading his Radiant Watch team to kill the sixth gargoyle and is looking for the next prey.

"Huguang, watch your shield durability!" Angel reminded her teammates.

"It's okay, if it's broken, I'll ask Miss Raphael to change a shield, I have already taken a fancy to that shield of protection, as long as 300 merits can be exchanged, I'm less than 50." The paladin Eternal Lake Light replied unconcernedly, holding the somewhat damaged Oath-Keeper's Shield in his hand.

"It's really unexpected, I didn't expect her to be a gamer too! How the hell did she do it? Is it okay to have a high level of friendship with the aborigines? Phelps, the archer, said as he regained his mana.

"I think it's the mad dog prince who has taken a fancy to her!" The flame mage rode a donkey to find the donkey, and as he spoke, he pointed to Prince Rasfil, who was frantically slashing the undead in the distance.

"Whatever, anyway, this event is our best chance, and while the woman is in power, it is the right thing to seize the opportunity to change some good equipment." Eternal Lake doesn't care if others succeed by any means, he only cares if he can benefit from it.