Chapter 129: A Possible Threat
“…… The situation is not bad, the place where those earth elements are located is a high ground, and there are about one hundred and thirty earth elements wandering. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Among them, most of them are small earth elements, only about half a human in size, with the instinctive spell casting ability of stone shield magic - these brainless earth elements have a layer of stone shield effect on their bodies at any time."
"In addition to these small earth elements, we also found about forty medium-sized earth elements. These monsters are about the size of a normal human. In addition to the Stone Shield, we also discovered that the Medium Earth Elemental has the instinctive ability of the Stone Thorn. These medium-sized earth elements are not easy to deal with, and it takes at least three or four elite soldiers to barely eliminate one. ”
"What's a bit of a headache is that there are four large earth elementals among them. Since these large earth elements are in the monster group, we can't test them, so we don't know what kind of specific abilities they have, but I want to ...... Not too weak. ”
Jerle gave a rough introduction to the strength of the earth elemental cluster that stood in front of them.
The others discussed it a little, and soon came to a consensus: it must be inappropriate and cost-effective to attack the Earth Elemental Heights and dispatch large troops. The terrain of the highlands can't accommodate too many warriors to attack at the same time, and if the personnel are too dense and attacked by those area-of-effect attack spells that the earth elemental is very likely to have, the losses will become quite large.
A more reliable choice is to select elites from various armies and form a team of about 300 people. In this way, on the one hand, it is possible to maintain a considerable advantage in numbers, and on the other hand, the elite team can ensure that those earth elements are eliminated, not to mention, but also reduce unnecessary losses.
The rest is to discuss the proportion of troops sent by each family.
After a little deliberation in his heart, Dane made a decision, and took the lead in speaking: "In this way, I will take the rangers in my hand to fight together, and I will also select a small team of warriors who are good at using heavy weapons." That adds up to more than sixty fighters. ”
That's about the same amount as his army makes up the crusade. The entire Eastern Crusade Army combined, not counting the auxiliary forces responsible for the baggage, almost totaled more than 3,000 soldiers.
Dane's army made up almost one-sixth of it, or about five hundred. Half of them were the elite he had brought down from the island, and the other half were ragtags recruited from Shawan Harbor. The rest, Pure Sword and Smir, are also about the size of about five hundred people each. The two of them are actually the same as Dane's team, at most half of them are elite troops, and the other half are also mercenaries.
This is very easy to understand, normally speaking, it is difficult for a mercenary group to maintain such a large scale of five hundred people anytime and anywhere, and ordinary mercenary tasks do not need so many people at all, for a mercenary group without its own fixed income, it is quite uneconomical to maintain so many people and maintain a huge scale. The vast majority of mercenary groups, including some well-known ones, generally maintain an elite team with good strength, and then when they receive a war mission, such as this crusade plan, they will rely on the mercenary group's own connections to temporarily recruit a group of teams to expand their strength.
The total strength of the three mercenary groups accounted for almost half of the Eastern Expeditionary Army. And the rest of the people, naturally, are all Morno's subordinates. The 1,500 warriors that Morno brought were all the elite in his hands. The total strength of the White Wolf Fort is only in the early 3,000s, and he left half of it in his lair to guard against Ma Long, and the remaining half was all with him.
Don't look at the proportion of military strength on both sides, but the mercenary group has a lot of water, and the soldiers under the command of Morno are basically dry goods, under the same military strength, the proportion of their combat effectiveness in this Eastern Expeditionary Army is estimated to reach more than 75%.
However, the proportion of troops dispatched is not calculated according to combat effectiveness, but is apportioned according to the number of heads.
Needless to say, in Schindlaire, a place where war is fought all year round, there has long been a set of unwritten rules.
After Dane made the first statement, the other two mercenary groups also said that they would come out with a team of fifty to sixty people. The three mercenary groups have almost two hundred people, and Morno has directly pulled out three elite hoplite squadrons.
That's it, such a team of more than 300, nearly 400 people, led by Morno himself, was formed.
Originally, Morno was not going to go in person. He wanted to take control of the Chinese army to avoid any accidents, but was eventually persuaded by Dane.
"There are hundreds of clusters of elements, and only four large elements are not normal. It stands to reason that an earth elemental of this scale, equipped with five or six large earth elements, and one or two earth elemental elders, is a relatively standard cluster. ”
"But Mr. Jerle didn't find out about the Earth Elemental Elder." It was Irons who spoke this. This guy also participated in this meeting, and he didn't dare to say anything before, but now that he saw Dane talking, he came to pick a thorn when he found an opportunity.
Obviously, this guy is healed and forgot about the scar. But the timing he chose was not bad, with so many bigwigs present, he didn't have anything to do, and Dane definitely didn't want to attack directly.
However, Dane actually didn't plan to pay attention to this guy who was like the jumping clown. However, before he could speak, another person on the field directly stopped the shield guard knight first: "Irons, don't interject nonsense. ”
The person who spoke was the leader of the Pure Sword Mercenary Regiment, Alexandrina herself.
Just listen to the masked woman continue: "I think what Dane said is quite good, we have to be careful. If an Earth Elemental Elder did appear, it would be too bad. ”
There is certainly a basis for this. The strength of an Earth Elemental Elder can generally reach level twelve or above, and even individual ones may have fourteen to fifteen challenge levels. If you really want such a big guy to emerge in front of Dane and them, and then count the disgusting magic resistance and physical resistance attributes of the elemental creatures, as well as the diverse spell-casting abilities possessed by the elemental elders, it is not something that ordinary soldiers can bear.
Among the Eastern Crusade Army, the only one who can compete with the possible elemental elders is the fourteenth-level Barbarian Overseer, Morno himself.
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