Chapter 11: The War Begins
PS: Today's chapter, which was promised to everyone, is now being sent! It's a bit late though......
The war with the Fishmen was sudden and inevitable, so the original expansion plan was going to be accelerated, which was a burden to the City of Light. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Fortunately, one of Elrath's priesthoods is warfare, so most of his followers are warlike.
This time, Du Qian recruited 500 recruits, most of them sentinels, and for a town with a permanent population of just over 1,000 people, 500 people meant that almost all the young people joined the army, and there was no distinction between men and women, which made the city of heroes instantly become a city of old and young.
The City of Light, which belongs to the heart of the castle, is not like the Middle Ages on Earth, where they were still peasants after conscripting from the territory to fight, the soldiers recruited by the City of Light are real professional soldiers, they are well trained and well-equipped, and even if they are dismissed, they need to be paid a disbandment fee.
As a result, the local residents have become vulnerable, the homeless have become the main population, the law and order that had been maintained collapsed in an instant, the crime rate in the City of Heroes has skyrocketed, the production efficiency has declined, and almost no one dares to sell goods here in the market that has been developed with great difficulty.
And none of this had anything to do with Du Qian, because as the lord of the City of Heroes, he personally led an army of 500 people, as well as a group of displaced people who were laborers, to the vicinity of the Holy Light Bay. After the order to set up camp, the originally silent marching army formation instantly made a huge noise, each captain was trying his best to restrain his subordinates, there was no natural grassroots commander such as the guard officer to command, relying only on the better sentry or hunter captain, it was more difficult to maintain a large-scale army, and Du Qian, an impostor hero, had no ability to arrange troops, especially for the soldiers of this cold weapon era.
Fortunately, these soldiers were all trained by the heart of the castle, and they were also believers in the god of war, although except for the first batch of guards and nuns who arrived with Du Qian, the others did not remember the affairs of the kingdom of God at all, but the war and creative talents in their bones still played a great advantage.
Soon the chief of the guard decided to camp under a hill backed by a dense forest, at a distance from the coast, so that when the fishmen attacked, they could give the army some buffer time, although according to intelligence, they generally did not go this far inland.
The attendants quickly set up a tent for Du Qian, in this cold place, it is undoubtedly comfortable to have a tent at night, but the vast majority of people will stay in the field tonight, for tents that need to consume a lot of cloth materials, the city of heroes is very lacking, even among the army.
Rejected the suggestion of the attendants to rest, Du Qian found the chief of the guard, this time the war commander said that it was Du Qian, it was better to say that it was the chief of the guard, from the beginning of the march, the chief of the guard had begun to lead the whole army, when Du Qian found her, she was taking a large number of heralds to check the construction of the camp, one after another orders came out of her mouth, and every time an order was issued, a herald would leave in a hurry.
"Send all our dire wolves, our enemies don't just come from the ocean." Seeing Du Qian's arrival, the chief of the guard issued a final order, waved his hand and asked the heralds to go their separate ways, and trotted all the way to Du Qian: "My lord, what do you command." ā
"I'm fine, I'm just coming to see you." Du Qian looked around, and found that in such a short time, the soldiers were actually busy with the things in their hands in an orderly manner, the wolf howls came and went, a large number of dark, huge jungle dire wolves rushed out of the camp under the leadership of the head wolf, wandering around the guard, some sentry guards were digging trenches hard, and some hunters brought logging axes and entered the dense forest, and after a while, a wolf dragged the lodging to get the trees out of the jungle, although they had seen countless times along the way. But this time, because it is close to the destination, the army needs to build a long-term camp, so the scale is larger, and the procedures required are more complicated, accompanied by the chief of the guard, Du Qian sighed: "It's good to have you on this way, otherwise I don't know what to do." ā
As he spoke, Du Qian touched the wolf squatting on the side of the road, and didn't notice that the head of the guard's neck was red, but quickly disappeared: "It is my duty to serve adults." ā
"Hehe, it's still hard for you, although the city of heroes already has a certain scale, but after all, it is a new city, we have no support, so far we can't even form a decent long-range force, and the lethality of the hunter's short bow is still too weak." Du Qian patted the wolf and said to the chief guard seriously.
The lack of resources in the City of Heroes does not only refer to the lack of resources in the game, in fact, most of the resources in the game have special functions, such as Star Silver, its role is mainly used for the painting of the magic array, and the weapons of some high-level troops are also mixed with some dragon steel, shadow steel or something, such as the Protector Swordsman and Angel.
But most of the troops, what they need is high-strength metal, but the metal hero city is not scarce, after all, relying on the mountains, there are many metal veins, what the hero city really lacks is to be able to refine good steel, and mass-produce blacksmiths! For example, the upgraded Legion Guards of the Sentinel cannot be made in the City of Metal Heroes required for their armor weapons, so this limits the upgrade of the Sentinels. Hunters are the same, there are no craftsmen who are good at making machinery, strong bows and crossbows can't be made, and naturally they can't be upgraded, which is not like a game, you can upgrade if you have resources.
Now the only class of troops that has been upgraded once is the dire wolf, as a beast, they don't need armor weapons, they only need to invest resources in the heart of the barracks, the only thing that limits them is the number, because it's not the same as the humanoid soldiers, there is a population that can be recruited, and the rules of the wolf house are based on the reproductive ability of the breeding wolf, as well as the number of trainers, the wolf house can accelerate the growth and training cycle of the cubs, so now plus the dire wolf that was upgraded from the gray wolf before, but it is only in the early hundreds. Some of the wolf cubs were also trained to be used as mounts for the Scouts. These dire wolves are in a team of ten and are led by a trainer, and there is no wolf king in the city of heroes yet.
"My lord, you don't need to worry about this problem, as a believer in His Highness Elrath, it is not difficult to create, I think the main thing now is to end the war as soon as possible and let the soldiers return home, you have transferred soldiers on a large scale this time, I am afraid that the city of heroes will be chaotic for a long time." The chief guard had completely regained her former composure, and she was silent for a moment before suggesting to Du Qian.
Du Qian nodded, he didn't regret his recklessness this time: "Yes, I know very well, but a creature like a fish-man, if you find it, you must quickly exterminate it, otherwise it will be very troublesome, and you will understand it after you are familiar with this world." ā
"Lord Lord, Lord of the Guard." Just as Du Qian was communicating with the chief of the guard, Harry came here under the guidance of the herald, and after saluting Du Qian, he said, "Lord of the guard, are you looking for me?" ā
His face was a little dull and yellow, and his face was full of exhaustion, although the nun healed his wounds in the City of Heroes, but the blood he lost after his injury, as well as some complications, made him not completely healed like a wound, but the army could not travel without a master builder, otherwise building bridges and paving roads would be a big problem, so he traveled with the army.
"Yes, Mr. Harry." The head of the guard glanced at Du Qian, and when he saw Du Qian take a step back, he said that he had no intention of interfering: "Tomorrow I will send a hundred guards and the same number of hunters, I want you to lead the displaced people to quickly build an easy passage so that the army can successfully land on the island, of course, I will send 3 teams of dire wolves as a guard." ā
"Ahem...... No problem, two adults. Seeing that Du Qian had no intention of objecting, Harry coughed a few times, then agreed with a flushed face, and then hurried back to his tent on the grounds of planning drawings.