Chapter 600: The Beginning of Troubled Times
On the third day after the military meeting, the temperature during the day began to drop suddenly, announcing that autumn had officially entered the world.
Early the next morning, three legions in Ningqiu City left the city and marched in the east, west, and north directions.
These three legions, the First Army, of which Liu Lin was the commander-in-chief, consisted of warriors and archers; The Second Army, of which Shaw was commander-in-chief, consisted of druids and magicians; and the Third Army, with Chu Chen as the commander-in-chief, consisting of knights and assassins!
The Third Group Army, Chu Chen did not order Zhang Min and Chang He to lead the troops to set off until he left the city, and the purpose was naturally to prevent the news from leaking.
A few days ago, Chu Chen learned from the 'Hidden Sect' that Chen Feng of Dongzhou Province, together with several survivor bases including Beixian, had integrated an alliance army of about 200,000 people, and was ready to attack Ningqiu City after the hot summer had passed.
If Chu Chen led the troops to hold on and wanted to defend Ningqiu City, it would naturally be an easy matter, but in this way, most of the time was wasted, not to mention, the buildings of Ningqiu City would also be destroyed a lot by the alliance army, and if there was any major mistake, there would even be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of survivors.
Such a consequence was naturally something Chu Chen didn't want to see, so he decided to personally take 30,000 Holy Knight attendants to make a surprise attack on the way from the alliance army.
If they can be beaten back to Dongzhou Province, it will naturally be the best, even if they can't be beaten back, it will definitely be able to hit them hard, and after they come to Ningqiu City, the pressure on Ningqiu City will be much smaller.
If that Chen Feng is really powerful, and he can't even hit the Alliance Army and Chu Chen hard, then it's okay, Chu Chen himself has a bone dragon, and Zhang Min and her Holy Knight Squire also have mounts, and it is easy to get rid of the pursuit of the Alliance Army.
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Early in the morning, Liu Lin and Zhang Shulin led the warrior corps and the archer corps and left Ningqiu City.
They marched westward, and finally arrived at Ningxi County before seven o'clock in the evening.
Ningxi County is a small county town, and in the aftermath of the disaster, a small survivor base was established here on their own initiative.
The first place to rest was in Ningxi County, which was decided by Liu Lin, Zhang Shulin, and several fellow regiment leaders the day before departure.
If it was only a few dozen or a few hundred professionals, it would naturally be possible to find some mounts to travel and rush to Fengzhou City in one day, but with 80,000 soldiers, it would be impossible to be so fast.
In their plan, they planned to travel in three days, arriving in Ningxi County on the first day, Dicheng Town on the second day, and Liuxian Township on the third day.
After that, he rested for a night in Liuxian Township, and continued to march for half an hour on the fourth day, and then arrived in Fengzhou City, and then directly attacked the city!
After arriving in Ningxi County, Liu Lin and the others were given a grand reception, because there was a vanguard army that arrived here first and notified the managers here.
The manager of Ningxi County is a middle-aged man named Liu Ran.
As soon as he received the notice, he immediately arranged for his subordinates to prepare dinner, prepare a banquet for Liu Lin and others, and at the same time let the soldiers who arrived here be able to eat a hot meal.
However, Liu Ran's move was stopped by the vanguard.
Rest for one night in Ningxi County, just because the terrain here is flat, which is conducive to setting up tents, if you have a meal here, but make some accidents, so that the military situation is delayed, then Liu Lin himself can't spare himself.
Due to politeness, after arriving in Ningxi County, Liu Lin took Zhang Shulin and a guard team of about 100 people into Ningxi County, and had a sumptuous dinner accompanied by Liu Ran.
As for the 80,000 soldiers outside the city, all of them set up their own tents, and each group cooked their own rations.
Military rations, as the name suggests, are the food carried by soldiers when they march and fight.
The military rations prepared in Ningqiu City were flatbreads made from potato flour, as well as dried squid, animal meat and other meat.
Beast jerky is made of mutated beasts killed by the city guards when they go out, and dried squid is made of mutated squid caught by the survivors in Longgang City.
Although these jerky foods are not as good as fresh meat cooked directly, they have a very significant effect on replenishing physical energy, so they are selected as military rations.
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When the sun had just risen, Xiao Qi and He Xing, together with 60,000 druids and 15,000 magicians, left from the north gate of Ningqiu City.
"Whew~!"
After all the soldiers gathered outside the city gate, Xiao Qi, who was in the lead, directly turned into a gray wolf and howled.
"Woo~Woo~Woo~Woo~!"
The scene of 60,000 druid beasts turning into gray wolves is absolutely unprecedented, and it can make the blood of the people who see it boil, and they also lie on the ground and learn to howl a few words.
The gray wolf that Xiao Qi had turned into a beast walked up to He Xing and prostrate down, and He Xing rode up while arching his hand and whispered, "Accuse." ”
After He Xing rode up, the fifteen thousand magicians behind him also found a gray wolf and rode up.
"Whew!"
After a relatively short howl, Xiao Qi led 60,000 gray wolves and galloped north.
The beast skills of the druids, because of the different levels, so the duration is long and short, and half an hour later, a druid's beast time is almost up, and he howls.
The druids beside him heard his howl and followed suit, and in a short time it spread throughout the legion.
After a few dozen seconds, the druids all stopped, and all of them canceled their beast skills.
After resting for a few minutes, Xiao Qi, who was in the lead, used the beast skill again, and the beast turned into a white tiger, and roared: "Roar~!" ”
Soon, 60,000 druids followed Xiao Qi, turned into 60,000 white tigers, and continued to gallop north.
The wolfification and bear skills are the standard configuration of almost all druids after they have been promoted to a few levels, and there are very few druids who have not mastered these two skills.
And the druids in Ningqiu City are different from other druids, their standard skills, and a tiger beast turned into a white tiger.
This is because Zhang Shulin in Ningqiu City, she has a white tiger as a pet, so that the druid army that is close at hand has mastered the tiger transformation skills.
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Sitting behind Zhang Min, Chu Chen smelled a faint woman's fragrance, and was a little uneasy.
They were the last to leave Ningqiu City, and it was not until they saw Liu Lin, Xiao Qi and the others leave that Chu Chen came to the East City Gate and ran to the east with the Holy Knight attendants.
Because Chu Chen was preparing to surprise attack the alliance army coming from Dongzhou Province, he didn't dare to release the bone dragon to hurry, so he could only take Lin Manyue, Chang He and others, and trouble Zhang Min's knights to hurry away.
The route of the alliance army, the Yin Sect did not detect, but the army of about 200,000 people, the target is extremely obvious, as long as Chu Chen goes to the east, it should not be difficult to find the target.
And the reason why Chu Chen dared to use 30,000 cavalry to sneak attack the 200,000 alliance army was naturally because these 30,000 cavalry were all extremely sophisticated holy knight attendants.
Each of the 30,000 Holy Knight Squires is equipped with a mutated wild horse, and at the same time, they are all equipped with light armor, round shields, and spears.
In addition, the other equipment on their bodies was also quite complete, not only the rings that Chu Chen ordered in the Business Alliance, but also the gloves, helmets, boots, necklaces and bracelets that Wei Shuo had kindly sponsored.
Each person has a helmet, a necklace, a pair of gloves, a pair of bracelets and a pair of boots, and it is enough to prepare 30,000 sets of such equipment, Wei Shuo can be regarded as a lot of money.
But even so, when Chu Chen resigned, Wei Shuo still sent it over categorically, saying that it was the first victory officially commanded by Chu Chen, and he Wei Shuo also had to do his 'small strength'.
If it's just well-equipped, it's not a well-equipped cavalry unit either.
But Zhang Min took these 30,000 holy knight attendants, and when he was in Ningye Horse Farm, he was on horseback and trained them for two or three months.
In the past two or three months, they were not only catching horses, Zhang Min took them with them, but also often went out to hunt mutant creatures living in groups, and even defeated several invading force legions.
Now, although they are not experienced in a hundred battles, at least, their professional levels have reached the intermediate level, and their strength after condensing them is extraordinary!