Chapter 856: The Battle Begins
When the Imperial Army was stationed in Greendon, several large tribes of the northern alien races had already felt Wen Sa's murderous intentions, and the Auckland Empire had not conquered them once or twice, and they also had corresponding countermeasures.
But this time, the patriarchs of the major tribes vaguely felt a huge crisis, a crisis that was really about to face death, and the smell of blood was permeating the entire northern highlands.
Instinct prompted these alien tribes to unite, and they united a dozen small and medium-sized tribes in the northern highlands to form a 200,000-strong barbarian army to confront the Oakland Empire.
Of course, there are some small tribes that dare not offend both sides and hide scattered, and there are also those who remain neutral or biased towards the Oakland Empire, they all belong to the existence of a little strength but cannot affect the overall situation.
For these alien tribes, Wen Sa didn't take it to heart, his goal was to swallow the 200,000 barbarian army of the alien alliance in one bite, as long as the 200,000 barbarian army was completely swept away, then the scourge in the north would be enough to be stable for a hundred years even if it could not be eradicated.
However, although these alien armies are equipped with garbage, they are physically gifted and strong, and under the harsh natural environment, their strength is far greater than that of ordinary imperial warriors.
Moreover, there are many priests and wizards among the various alien races, who, unlike ordinary magicians, possess a kind of mutated magic that can unleash various large-scale curses or boost morale.
According to the legends of the aliens, these are the powers bestowed by the gods believed in by the aliens, and they have been passed down for hundreds of years.
Although the absolute strength is definitely stronger than the Auckland Empire, Wen Sa and Rhodes still have to deal with the upcoming crisis of the Eight Kingdoms, and the time is not particularly abundant, so they must try to preserve their living strength, eat the 200,000 barbarian army at the lowest cost and the fastest speed, and even completely exterminate and subdue the alien races in the north.
In this way, the battle is a bit tricky.
Of course, there is no need for Wen Sa and Rhodes to think about these problems, there are many talented people in the empire, and if the order is conveyed, for the sake of glory and interests, there will naturally be countless people who will solve it for them.
Ten days later, the trumpet of war was finally sounded.
In the early days of the war, neither side directly dispatched large armies, but sent scouts and small groups of vanguards to probe, and the conflict broke out, with casualties on both sides.
However, the casualties of the Imperial Legion were much smaller than those of the alien race, because after each confrontation, the Imperial Legion basically sent the wounded directly to the Taoist side and asked the Taoist priest for treatment.
It's not that the Imperial Legion doesn't have a priest, it's just that the three hundred priests who came from Taoism have too strong healing ability, and after several conflicts, the Imperial Legion found that the priest they carried was not comparable to Taoism's healing ability, so they simply asked Taoism to be a professional medical team, and the original priests were on the side to help.
Of course, this is not to say that the priests of the Church are far stronger than the priests of the Empire, but because Rhodes intends to take over the territory and carry out the mission after the war, the priests who come with him are naturally the tallest of the tall.
So with the help of Taoism, the combat power of the imperial soldiers became more and more fierce, and after those soldiers saw that their injured brothers just went to the rear and returned in a full state of blood, they were as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and they were extremely brave on the battlefield, not afraid of being injured at all, and frantically beheaded people and seized meritorious deeds.
After all, they are trying their best to protect the vital point, anyway, as long as they don't die, they can fight again if they go to the rear for treatment, so are they afraid of an egg?
As a result, the alien army began to tragedy, and the soldiers of the imperial army seemed to have all become berserkers, one by one more fierce than the bravest of them, and they were completely death squads.
In just ten days, the 200,000 barbarian army has lost 30,000, and there are tens of thousands of wounded soldiers, in this case, the masters of the barbarian army finally can't sit still, and they have jumped out to resist the attack of the Auckland Imperial Legion.
However, the alien race is an alien race after all, they don't have a systematic cultivation method, their number of masters is not many, and there are few powerhouses with terrifying strength.
In the absence of super-strong people, it was difficult for them to pose a threat to the Imperial Legions, so the barbarian army began to shrink the scope of defense, penetrating deep into the back of the northern highlands, relying on the harsh climate and geographical advantages to passively defend.
Seeing that the barbarian army could no longer bear it and lost its sharpness and sharpness at the beginning, Wen Sa also officially launched his second step of deployment, and a large number of envoys set out from Grandon to recruit those small tribes of alien races who were neutral and close to the Oakland Empire, and promised many benefits, intending to make those small tribes the vanguard of the empire's conquest and development of the northern land.
In fact, the explanation is to let these small tribes be cannon fodder to reduce the casualties of the Imperial Legion.
This meaning is obvious, and Wen Sa has no intention of hiding it, so the patriarchs of these small tribes can be vegetables, but there are still many tribes who accept Wen Sa's recruitment.
After all, this war is unprecedentedly grand, and it is an indisputable fact that the alien alliance has been defeated and retreated, and even the powerful big tribal alliance in their eyes is not an opponent, do they need to think about anything?
The strong are respected, this has always been the thinking of the small barbarian tribes!
Even if they are cannon fodder, it is a tragedy for their low-level slaves and warriors, and the high-ranking and nobles of these tribes only need to follow behind the Oakland Empire to carve up the interests of some large tribes.
Even if this idea is like a snowball, it came from a sporadic but large number of small tribes, and it got bigger and bigger, and in just a few days, there were twenty-four tribes who accepted the imperial recruitment, and the number of barbarian troops formed was 50,000, which was named the brave army by Wen Sa.
With the surrender of foreign tribes, the vanguard of the imperial conquest was replaced by the brave warrior army, whose terrain and environment in the northern land were no worse than that of the barbarian army, and the environmental impact that originally hindered the empire was reduced to a minimum.
In a few days, the empire stormed the alien alliance more than a dozen times, taking away 50,000 soldiers of the alien race, blood flowing on the ice and snow, and the hot temperature melted the pieces of blood, but it turned into a scarlet river of blood, exuding a pungent fishy smell......