431 Chaotic Decisive Battle
Blocking, pursuing, and ambushing, Skyrim Province is like a huge battlefield, leaving traces of battle on almost every piece of land, and for the expeditionary forces from other provinces, this war is a loss-making deal that has to be made no matter how it ends.
For the lords everywhere, this kind of war has no benefit except for some ethereal reputation, and for the generals of the expeditionary force, going to the Skyrim Province to fight in a very unfamiliar environment is simply a torture for them, and for the soldiers of the expeditionary force...... Needless to say.
Except for the Tiger Legion from Aylesville, the soldiers of the other expeditionary forces are not actually concerned about the meaning of this war and the final chance of victory at all, but are worried about their life and death all the time, and some soldiers with weak wills will even sneak away on the chaotic battlefield.
Because the local laws and regulations are very strict on deserters, so these deserters did not dare to return to their original hometowns, after leaving the team, they all abandoned the armor printed with the insignia of the nobility, only one or two weapons, pretended to be refugees to the nearby settlement, incognito, and after a few years of limelight, they may join a caravan to their hometown, to see their former family.
However, for the lords of the major territories of Skyrim Province, this war is a mixed blessing.
Worry, naturally, there is no need to talk about it, whether it is the losses brought by the cultists or the soldiers injured in the war, they are the source of the lords' sorrows.
And the joy is the smuggling joy of making a fortune in a muffled voice.
For the expeditionary force, after every battle, the most they can do is to collect the remains of their comrades, and then soon set off to the north again, as for the corpses of those cultists, and the scattered equipment, there is no time to care.
In order to avoid the occurrence of the plague, the lords of various places must send the people to collect the corpses, or simply send a team of mages to burn them on the spot, and in the process of collecting the corpses, the various equipment left on the battlefield will naturally become the "trophies" of the lords in various places.
As for some of the equipment of the expeditionary force, the lords in various places may return it to the expeditionary force when the expeditionary force returns to their hometowns to form a good relationship, but the equipment of those cultists is a real income.
Although these cultists call themselves "New Dragon Worshippers", and the number of believers is also terrifying, but they can't stand behind the people standing behind a demon god, for their own believers, Mora Hemaius is still relatively generous, at least to ensure that each believer has a set of robes, a bone mask, for the devout believers, each person is guaranteed a standard staff.
Although these equipment are full of Mora's style, it is impossible to take them out and apply them directly, but the materials used are still very good, and when disassembling the equipment, they can also decompose some enchantment materials, which are all golden and shiny Septin.
As a result, before and after this great war, the status of blacksmiths in Skyrim Province, especially arcane blacksmiths, has improved more than a notch, before the war because of the need for a large amount of equipment, and after the war, there is a larger amount of equipment waiting to be disassembled.
Of course, these are just afterwords, and at the moment, the most striking thing is this long-brewing Armageddon.
After three days of "skirmishes" of fighting, the surviving cultists finally converged one after another near the ruins of the original Morning Star City, and the expeditionary forces from all over the country also converged with the local armies of Skyrim Province to surround the cultists' large legions from the east, south, and west.
After three days of fighting, more than 50,000 cultists were killed, and less than 10,000 cultists were captured, and in the end, more than 126,000 cultists converged near the ruins of Morning Star City.
Compared with the huge number of cultist armies, the expeditionary forces in various places and the local armies of Skyrim Province are a little insufficient, these crusading cultist armies have a total number of 170,000 people, which seems to be very large, but in fact, there are only more than 80,000 elite soldiers among them, and the mercenaries and mercenaries gathered from all over the country only have about 10,000 elite forces.
Even if there are elite legions such as the Silent Blade Legion in Silent City, the Tiger Legion in Aylesville, the Ruby Legion and the Battlemage Regiment in Sylodir, the Sword Dancer Legion in Falling Hammer Province, the Wolf Legion in High Rock Province, and the Ancestral Wrath Legion in Morrowind Province, the special combat power of these legions is only equivalent to about 120,000 elite combat power.
If they fight head-on and encounter the cultist army, the victory or defeat will only be five or five, and even if the cultist army is defeated in the end, only one or two of the elite forces in these joint expeditionary forces will be left in the end.
"So, except for the legendary powerhouse, or a higher-level powerhouse, can you only simply hedge?"
In the combat command room, Fei Qi's helpless forehead, here, the generals of the expeditionary force, the head of the large mercenary group, the head of the mercenary corps and other big figures discussed for more than an hour, and the conclusion was directly hard?
Even if the number of people in the war exceeds a certain number, the war becomes a simple numbers game, but you are too simple, right?
It is true that there is an entanglement of interests involving many parties, and everyone doesn't want their own troops to charge ahead, and let other troops suppress them from a distance in the rear, but what do you mean by putting the battle mage group and the tiger man's mage group at the forefront? Also, our Shadow Blade in Silent City is for intelligence work, not for you to send to charge!
Gritting his teeth, Feige finally knew why El threw this thing to him, this kind of discussion is a complete waste of time!
But Feige didn't bother to refute it, you can arrange it however you want, anyway, when the time comes, I will just withdraw my own Shadow Blade team, and when the time comes, I will find Eichner's seniors to take charge, and I don't believe that you guys dare to come and play any coercive measures.
With the same idea, there are also imperial generals from the imperial capital, and leopard commanders from Aylesville, these two people, like Feiqi, casually found a corner to drink hot tea, quietly watching the other people fight red-faced, anyway, they did not plan to arrange their own legion's battle plan according to the results of this meeting.
All in all, well, it's good for you guys to be happy.