Chapter 191: Combat Readiness
Two months later, an urgent report came from the north of the Dawn Kingdom, and from the analysis of the intelligence obtained from the underground trade points, the forces belonging to the Dawn Church in the expeditionary force finally obtained the information of the Church of Light, and the angry priests of the Lord of Dawn shouted that they wanted to start the [Holy War], and immediately mobilized the expeditionary force to attack the Dawn Kingdom.
"It sounds terrifying, but this is the Delanor Continent and not the Old Continent, although the Dawn Church is strong and has a large stall, where can I divide how much power to come here?"
In the temple of the main church city, Shepard met with the commanders of the kingdom and the church's forces, sneered and told the news, and then said disdainfully and analyzed.
The heads of the knights and the leaders of the Divine Guard sat below, and the strongest forces of the kingdom gathered here, although several cardinals and Millie, a saint with special talents, were not here, but with Shepard's doppelganger, it was equivalent to one more legendary-level powerhouse, and among the power of the Dawn Church, only one epic priest could resist, and the rest were only one or two epic warriors.
"Your Majesty, we are ready to face the enemy at any time!" Hunter, who was the oldest of all and had followed the Pope the longest, was the first to stand up and make a statement.
Although the other two epics and the remaining high-ranking knights didn't say anything, their momentum was condensed and their wills were the same, and the meaning of asking for battle had been fully revealed.
Shepard laughed, shook his scepter lightly, and said, "I am very pleased that you are in high spirits, and I have not deliberately hidden the existence of my lord's faith, and I have already guessed that there will be such a day, and now it will only come sooner or later." ”
"My lord has sent down an oracle, and although the gods of the other party are also true gods, since they are enemies, they are incompatible! The kingdom is in need of a great victory, to show the might of our lord, to deter many allies, and even more so to deter those people from other continents, so that they will not dare to start a war lightly! ”
The knights stood up together and said in unison: "Your Majesty, please give an order!" ”
"Okay," Shepard looked up to the sky and laughed: "Issue a first-level war order, count the men and horses, prepare supplies, issue a recruitment order to the tiger people and the minotaur clan, send an invitation to the elf clan to help in the war, and when everything is ready, the whole army will be dispatched, direction, north!" ”
"Yes!" The knights responded with a sonorous voice, and the roar of the dragon roared!
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The launch of the army is not a matter of a day, and now the Dawn Kingdom has five cities, remote control of two countries and three places, and controls a population of nearly 70,000!
Although the Divine Guard Army was slightly expanded, it did not increase too much, and most of the undertrained recruits were left on the garrison, with a total of 4,500 people and a total of 15 columns of the Divine Guard as the main body, the column leader was called the flag officer, with military ranks, plus the members of the three major knights, more than 200 regular knights, nearly 300 knights, and a total of about 500 people.
Together, it is a team of 5,000 people, and the military priests who have been trained for a long time by the Church of Light have finally come in handy, with nearly 100 military priests following, who are not only responsible for assistance and emergency rescue during battle, but also care for the faith and mental health of knights and warriors in peacetime, which is a great responsibility.
Then there were tiger and minotaur warriors who came to join the army, although the number was small, but at least they were intermediate professionals, plus racial talent, they could be regarded as elite, and then the two teams of elves of the elven clan also came, and the leader was Randil's prince Landariel.
After resting for two more days, the kingdom army finally marched north, this time it can be called the Dawn Kingdom's all-out battle, only victory, no defeat, not only the second doppelganger set off with the army, but even the other two clones also began to gather near the expected battlefield, when the three almost legendary sage incarnations appeared, relying on the convenience given by the will of the mainland, it will definitely give the Dawn Church a big surprise.
Although Shepard is considered to be a royal expedition, he has never known much about military affairs, so the command of the march and the arrangement of the camp are all in charge of others, and the speed of the army is slow, but when the kingdom army leaves the central forest and sets foot in the wilderness, even the Ruth clan, which has been changed from a tribe to a kingdom, has not seen the shadow of the Dawn Church.
So as long as the kingdom army was stationed near Ruth first, and the Ruth Kingdom rebuilt Ruth City, which had been besieged at the beginning, it chose the model of twin cities, although it was built with civil engineering, but it was not far away, echoing each other from afar, and there were not many tricky siege weapons in the expeditionary army, so this layout was quite suitable.
The Royal Army is stationed, in the main tent.
Bishop Veronev also followed with the army this time, standing next to the throne in the tent at this time, looking at the knights in front of him, holding a scroll in his hand, his voice was clear and cold, and he read in an orderly manner: "Judging from the collection of news from the north, the plan of the Dawn Church to encourage the people of the other continent to send out the whole army failed, and there were not many churches that came to the Drano continent, and most of them had little reaction, especially the demon projection was still raging, which gave them a headache, and they were not very enthusiastic about the Dawn Church's request to send troops. ”
"But it's not without movement, the Church of Justice has assigned a small number of people as a statement, and there are two other Lords of Dawn who have joined from the small church of God, but the strength is about the same as the manpower of the Church of Justice, and on the big head, it is still the adventurers recruited by the Dawn Church."
"Bishop Veronev, has the Church of the Alien Gods recruited a lot of adventurers?" Freeman asked, looking at the bishop.
Veronev tilted his head slightly, and said with a faint smile: "It's a lot, when the people from other continents first came to Drano, the total number of people in the Dawn Church was only one hundred and ten, of which there were no more than five high-level professionals, and now they have been added several times, and there are less than three hundred, less than fifty holy warriors, no more than twenty clergymen, only one epic priest is a little interesting, and there is also an epic paladin and an epic knight." ”
The Church spent a lot of money and energy collecting information on the expeditionary force, and Veronev was particularly interested in this aspect of intelligence, and at this moment he casually said it, apparently knowing the expeditionary force's military situation.
He looked around at everyone and saw that they were all looking at him, and said calmly: "So in order to make up for the lack of force, the Dawn Church has scattered gold coins and recruited two or three thousand adventurers, which is enough to destroy a city-state on the Old Continent." ”
"But because of this, these adventurers disobey each other, which is extremely difficult to control, and it took a lot of effort for the Dawn Church to finally bring them out, and the speed of the march is unbearable, so the kingdom army has been dispatched for so long and has not seen the enemy, because they are still on the way!"
Many knights laughed, Shepard did not stop it, and after a while, when the laughter subsided, Hunter said very steadily: "Your Majesty, we still have to be on guard, although the Church of Dawn is almost going to attack us alone, but it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no other forces following behind, and they want to wait for us to come out and reap the benefits when we are both defeated." ”
Shepard bowed slightly: "I am also on guard against this, you should not underestimate the strength of the Dawn Church, although their number is much smaller than ours, but the professional inheritance among the adventurers is mixed, many of them have hole cards in hand, otherwise they will not live now, and the Lord of Dawn is very powerful, his priest must have some secret skills, if we are arrogant, I am afraid that we will suffer heavy losses, and when the time comes, we will really be attacked, we will be sinners of the kingdom." ”
In fact, what he didn't say was that the Lord of Dawn was an old and powerful divine power after all, although the name of the god could not be conveyed outside of this main plane, and the former vest had long since fallen, and it was still an existence that had been a god for more than a thousand years, but the Dawn Church had a great cause, and it couldn't spare much energy to come to the Drano Continent.
Since they know that the power that the Dawn Church can mobilize is limited, the Kingdom Army has more space to operate, and first divide part of the military strength to hide, so that the Dawn Church side thinks that they have a huge advantage, and the expeditionary force originally had a natural sense of superiority over the natives of Draenor, and they probably didn't expect that these soft-handed natives killed by the expeditionary force would also cheat.
and sprinkled thieves and spies on the kingdom side, infiltrated the territory of the expeditionary force to find out the news, although the language of the two sides is different, but the expeditionary force side has unconsciously become accustomed to the existence of those indigenous slaves, especially the previous slave camp was all sacrificed, and as a result, after the demon projection summoned from the bottomless abyss, no one dared to build a closed slave camp, in case it was infiltrated by the cultists, it was really certain death.
There are also many adventurers on the side of the expeditionary force, and they also sell their own intelligence and information without pressure, one side is arrogant and empty-eyed, and the other side is cautious and cautious, in the case that the real powerhouse of the Dawn Church cannot come to the Delanor continent, and its own strength cannot reach an overwhelming advantage, the balance of victory has been vaguely foreshadowed.
The Ruth tribe divides most of all those who can fight, both men and women, and the kobold tribe has captured many of the tame mounts and war pets in recent years, and although there is no knight on the kingdom side who is good at riding and fighting, they can also be used as support in the war.
War is a kind of thing, for the old and new continents, there are very few wars of tens of thousands of people, ordinary battles are only hundreds of thousands, the reason is naturally that the strength of the individual is extremely prominent, but also because of the inability to achieve the productive forces, such as in the Xianglong Empire in the East, there are traveling ascetics and merchants who have traveled the golden road to bring back what they have seen and heard along the way.
The most powerful country in the East has not only developed a magic warship comparable to a legend, and even surpassed the ancient floating city, but the system of the gods is also extremely complex and complete, so that it can create the largest empire in the main plane, among which the gods are also powerful gods, but it is somewhat similar to the west coast of the old continent that the sun god that the empire worshiped from ancient times to the present has also fallen in the great disaster of ancient times, and no new sun god has been born so far.
The ordinary people and professionals of the Xianglong Empire have also studied the technology of war to the extreme of social productivity, with simple ladders, siege armor vehicles, and charging earth dragons, and complex ones such as large catapults, elemental siege cannons, magic repeaters, etc., fighting on the plains, and corpses can be piled up in the wilderness; Attacking in the city, blood can flow to the corners of the city, regardless of the scale and tragedy, it is better than the West.
When he was in the game, players naturally knew where the prototypes of the East and West Coasts came from, and since Shepard came here, he was shocked and yearned whenever he thought about it, if it weren't for the boundless desert and distant roads that hindered the communication between the two ends of the continent, he also wanted the clone to go to the East on his behalf, to see how different that country was from the place in his memory.
In addition, in the endless desert, there are also many city-states, countries, tribes, and gods of all sizes, but if they are not medium-level divine power, they can't accumulate divine power to open up the kingdom of God, so they can only hide in the main plane.
It is said that in the western part of the Xianglong Empire, there are thirty-six countries in the desert oasis, although they are all small countries, the combined area is twice as large as the entire territory of the Deranor Continent, especially the kings of each of these countries are demigods or epic legendary-level professionals.
When playing games in his previous life, although the game company was also a big brain, compared to the real universe, it was indescribably scarce, but everything Shepard knew in the main plane set off how embarrassing the game company's painstaking arrangements were, and his body sat in the kingdom of God, and what he saw was already beyond human imagination.
However, although the Xianglong Empire is strong, it has to guard several secret realms and Jedi in the empire, resulting in a strong national power that cannot be used externally, otherwise, most of the small countries in the vicinity will be difficult to survive, whether it is a weak divine power or a legendary mage, it is difficult to stop the magic warship from shooting in the face.
The warrior monk profession on the west coast is said to have come from the east, such as the druid, which is also mixed with the concept of "the unity of heaven and man" in many eastern countries, so that two schools have been added in addition to the original three druid schools, and the relationship between the five druid inheritances is not much better.
There are also a lot of ronins or broken settlers on the West Coast who go all the way to the East Coast to seek a living, because of the different inheritance systems and completely different appearances, but there are also people who have taken root there and made a reputation as the boss.
The system of the Dawn Kingdom is similar to the empire on the east coast, and the origin is known to everyone, so it is needless to say that the civilization level of the Drano continent has been forced to improve rapidly because of the expeditionary force, and now within the kingdom, regardless of the details, it is generally very similar to the style of the expeditionary force.
Especially with the technologies and finished products that the first doppelganger passed back from the Old Continent as a reference, among the five cities of the kingdom, only the three cities of Yanan, the Church and Ahagur still retain a large number of their original features, and the newly built Arnornd and Iruhir are basically completely Old World cities.
In addition to writing and language, even clothing, eating habits, customs, etc., were liberated more and more in the kingdom because of the captives of the expeditionary force, and these people who wanted to make a living reproduced a lot of things that had advantages in the old continent in the continent of Draenor, and sometimes even those adventurers forgot that they were on another continent.