Chapter 90: Sweeping
From the assembly to the departure, it took two days for the entire Yorkshire army to complete the integration of the huge army and assign the task, slowly left Yorkshire, and sailed to the northwest of Yorkshire, which is the beginning of this operation, the northernmost part of Yorkshire in the Thunder Mountain Range, they need to clean up the demons along the Thunder Mountain Range in a month's time, until the boundary of the next county will stop, the total length of the line exceeds 600 kilometers, that is, in 30 days, they have to travel 20 kilometers a day.
Of course, with such a huge army mobilization, in addition to the Demon Beasts, the wisdom of the Demon Beasts will naturally retreat, so most of the cleanup is still the Demon Beasts.
The Thunder Mountain Range covers a huge area, and the total area has even reached half of the Holy Forest Empire, and there are countless demons living in it, from low-level to high-level, among which the strongest demonic beast is completely unmatched by one of the strongest human beings, and among the demon beasts, the most powerful demon beast wisdom is not even inferior to humans, which can be seen.
They occupy such a vast territory, how can they not be tempted by the human realm, every spring, some demons will wake up from hibernation, go down the mountain to find food, this is also their characteristic, the spring hunting operation is actually aimed at these demons, otherwise after the winter hunt is over, how can there be demons down the mountain.
These are all the things that Rowan has learned, since the army was launched, they were divided into several parts, a section of assigned tasks, to advance into the mountain, advance about ten kilometers, will withdraw, change places to continue to advance, on the one hand, it is to exercise the soldiers' mountain warfare ability, on the other hand, it is also in the mountains to find useful things for human beings, each team before entering the mountain, will send a manual, which is a variety of rare animals and plants, according to this collection.
Of course, Rowan didn't need any of this, he had memorized everything he needed and just waited to go into the mountains.
The procession was very long, forty or fifty thousand people in a long straight line, slowly advancing over the vast land, quite slowly, but even so, on the fifth day, they reached their destination this time, the boundary of Storm City, the northernmost part of Yorkshire, the closest place to the Thunder Mountain Range.
Stationed along the border of Fengyun City in the Thunder Mountain Range, resting for a day, and at the same time discussing this year's countermeasures, Rowan is not involved, he only needs to follow the Sakura Mountain family.
Early the next morning, Viscount Daley took his mission and came back from the Storm Legion, his luck was not very good, because this time it was a co-subordinate mission, mainly from the Yorkshire garrison, not the main force this time, to put it bluntly, it was a logistics force, no wonder Viscount Daley was a little unhappy.
With the Storm Legion as the main body, the Imperial Garrison as the auxiliary, plus the private soldiers of the major nobles, there are more than 40,000 people, forming more than 40 thousand teams, with a thousand people as the theme, according to the terrain along the Leishan Mountain Range, each of them is assigned a piece of land to sweep into the mountain.
Before leaving, Daley gathered everyone together and talked about this matter, and everyone was immediately discouraged, what does Xiecong mean, Xiecong is standing behind, engaging in service, doing logistics, as for participating in the war, just take a look.
However, they made a request to ask Rowan to be with the garrison, which made Viscount Daley unhappy, but he didn't dare to say more, just came back and asked Rowan's opinion.
When Rowan heard this, he was a little speechless, he had a contract with the Sakura Mountain family, not with the garrison, what was the matter with him, he turned around and left.
This matter is definitely a blow to Daley, but he is not discouraged, because there are still many days ahead, everyone should watch other people's exercises, learn from experience, and be able to enter the imperial garrison, they are all the elite of the elite, and the tactics they learn in the empire are very useful to Daley, so he doesn't have many complaints, anyway, there will definitely be opportunities later.
After eating in the morning, Daley took the men and horses, followed the back of the garrison, and set off, he followed the second squadron of the first brigade of the garrison, the squadron leader is only a master at the level of a war division, and the other personnel range from senior fighters to intermediate soldiers, and they look almost the same as the private soldiers of each family, but they are highly disciplined, starting from the whole team, the whole team does not say a word, silently sorting out the equipment, everyone's face is a little heavy, it looks very imposing, full of anger, just from this, it will blow up their aristocratic private soldiers, looking at them, one by one, and thinking that this is an outing。
After they sorted out their equipment, they began to set off and came to their own location, because the Imperial garrison was not the most important combat force, so they were assigned to a place far away from the starting point, and the front was occupied by the Imperial Storm Legion, so they walked for half a day before reaching the predetermined location.
The Holy Forest Empire is dominated by cavalry, and occasionally practices bows and arrows, swords and shields, swordsmanship, etc., and the main body is still mainly cavalry and swords, but before entering the mountain, they have all changed their equipment and replaced them with heavy swords and big shields.
Arriving at the intended place, after everyone had sorted out, the team assembled, they held their shields on their chests, looked straight ahead, and stood still.
Looking at Daly and other aristocratic teams, there is no discipline at all, except for the private soldiers of the Daly family, which can be a little better, and others such as mercenaries are very scattered.
Of course, these are all things that Rowan sees occasionally, his main thing is to follow Daley, protect him, and at the same time play a warning role, and don't care about anything else, when he was notified to leave, it was almost eleven o'clock at noon, and the entire garrison squadron had set off, slowly moving forward, they were slowly following behind, and at the same time doing everything in logistics, such as collecting what could be used, collecting the corpses of demons they killed, and so on.
This is the plain area at the foot of Lei Mountain, all kinds of grass and trees are overgrown, messy, there is still some distance from Lei Mountain, but it is already inhuman, there is no road at all, if you want to go over, you need to cross this wasteland, and the troops are all pushed over.
The large army set off, but Rowan found that they did not walk in a row, but in a group of five people, more than a thousand people were divided into more than two hundred squads, scattered in their defense area, lined up in two rows, one in front and one in the front.
Each team is led by the person at the front, clearing the grass and looking for a place to walk through, while next to him there are two people to protect him, and the remaining two are alert and ready to move forward, and the team behind is just following, observing the surroundings at any time. Soon, there were more than 100 trails in the plain.
In such a vast plain, there will naturally be all kinds of small animals infested, for a while, the plain is full of chickens and dogs, all kinds of things appear, some of them scattered and fled, some directly attacked the soldiers, and then were killed.
This place, but this place doesn't seem to have too high-level demons, some are just ordinary beasts.
Daley stood at the back of the line, quietly watching the garrison push over, with a slight resentment on his face, but when he saw the appearance of the army in the past, the expression on his face seemed to soften, after all, this is the Yorkshire garrison, good at using various tactics, many times stronger than their private army.
Next to Daley was Erwin, who also saw this situation, and whispered something to Ezer next to him, seemingly very serious.
However, with such a big movement, although there was a lot of harvest along the way, most of them were wild beasts, and it was rare to see magical beasts.
At this time, Rowan saw that in the distance, several squads might have encountered demons, and in the midst of shouts, at the foot of the overgrown mountain, all kinds of fighting spirits could be vaguely seen, screams, roars, one after another, but soon, the battle subsided.
There was such a small episode, no one felt surprised, and soon, the captain Oliver gave the order to enter the mountain in an all-round way.
At this time, a herald came over and said a few words to Daley, Daley nodded, and said to himself, "Okay, we are also going to start working, along the direction of the squadron, collect and collect what the empire needs, and collect all the corpses." ”
That's what they complied with.
In fact, this matter is not difficult at all, but it is very irritating, after the garrison walked over, the stalls left behind were very large, and it was necessary to pay attention to the medicinal herbs and other minerals hidden in the grass, for a combat professional, it was very unpleasant, but if it was not happy, it was unpleasant, and this thing had to be done by himself.
Luo Wen naturally didn't have to do it, he only needed to release his spiritual power and guide them, and when he encountered useful things, he would personally collect them, such as hemostatic grass, blood living grass, yuan flower grass and other medicinal materials that could have an effect on the alchemist, so he would step forward and collect them personally.
It is barren and inhabited, all kinds of weeds are overgrown, and no one has ever taken care of it, but there are many low-grade medicinal materials, but there are no high-grade medicinal materials.
He once read a book that said that the higher up this world goes, the more active the magic elements become, and those medicinal herbs or minerals that contain high energy can often be collected in the mountains.
Obviously, this is a false proposition, the magic element cannot be understood in this way, but Rowan can only understand it this way now, sometimes, it is true that the more active magic element can be felt in a high place, this is true, as for why, he still does not understand.
Those family warriors, with bags and various tools, cleaned all the way along the road, and soon came to the foot of the mountain, at this time, because most of them had already entered the mountain, opened the road in front, but everyone did not dare to relax at all, who knows if something will emerge from the ground or the sky.
When they were about to enter the mountain, Daly gave everyone some advice, put down some goods and resources, and began to follow the path they had opened up, towards the mountain.
Rowan came to this world, it was the first time to climb a mountain, there was still some novelty, the grass inside the mountain was different from the outside of the mountain, and the road needed to be opened, because of various trees in the mountain, the tall canopy blocked all the sunlight, so there were no plants on the ground, only a thick layer of fallen leaves, and where there were no trees, the brown land was exposed, and only occasionally some small grasses could be seen on the ground, or moss on dead trees, and almost nothing else could be seen, and even various low shrubs were quite few, so it was easier to walk, but this forest was quite dense, even if someone walked in front, be careful around。
Rowan is naturally not afraid, with a mental power scan, everything within a radius of thirty meters is hidden.
"Rowan, it's up to you next. Entering the mountain, Daley stood next to Rowan and said with a serious face.
Rowan nodded, took out a large porcelain bottle, and handed it to Daley, "This is a medicinal powder to repel ordinary mosquitoes and poisonous insects, let everyone rub a little bit on their bodies, especially on their feet, although it is unlikely that there are poisonous snakes here, but be careful."
Poisonous snakes are often found in places where species are more abundant, and this land is quite desolate, so there should be no such things, but there should be no shortage of spiders, scorpions, caterpillars and other things.
Daley turned around and sent the thing down, giving him a careful advice.
Daley looked at Rowan and raised his eyebrows, "Why don't we follow up and see what's here?"
Rowan nodded, he also wanted to follow and see what good things were in this mountain forest. The two hit it off, but Rowan made his own request, because it might be a little slower to collect various medicinal herbs.
Daley said it didn't matter, the people in front of him couldn't be fast anyway. This mountain forest is very lush, and they may be very careful, and in general, such places are infested with large beasts or demons.
As they walked, they carefully observed the surroundings, and soon caught up with the garrison squadron in front, at this time, their personnel had already begun to have casualties, and the people behind had already followed, and began to replace the personnel in front, and at the same time remove the corpses that could be moved.
Rowan saw a few corpses, it was the corpse of a wild bear, it seemed to be just a first-level strength guy, this kind of thing was distributed throughout the Thunder Mountain Range, and there were quite a lot of them.
(End of chapter)