203. The Battle of the Twilight Forest begins
"Christopher! go pick five hundred soldiers and prepare to enter the battlefield. ”
"Yes, my lord!"
"Cooper, I'll hand over the food and grass to you, and bring enough supplies for them to eat and drink for a month. ”
"Yes!"
In Zhang Li's barracks, he was giving orders, and after he gave a heavy order, a lady next to him suddenly spoke.
"You don't need to bring food and grass, after all, you are fighting for us, and we will provide these things. "But it's Althea, she's been living here in Zhang Li all these days, until not long ago, her family's army finally received the last batch of equipment, and they can't wait to clear their territory, and now, the 30,000 troops are passing in front of Zhang Li's gate.
Zhang Li's relationship with Althea is no secret now, after all, everyone lives here openly, no matter how he says that he can't contribute to this war, so he is now giving mobilization orders.
"It doesn't matter if the food and grass are met, the key is that my army is used to using shotguns and bombs, and you can't always provide these consumables, right?" Zhang Li gently rubbed her little brain melon, and said, "Isn't your fiancé also coming? ”
"He's not my fiancé, so I don't admit it. Althea's little Joan wrinkled her nose and spoke viciously.
At this time, Zhang Li also ignored her and began to order other things, he was destined to leave the territory for a while, and he had to give everything orders.
After ordering everything, Christopher and the five hundred soldiers were already in formation, and it was time for them to set off.
The 30,000 army is not Mao in the history of the Celestial Empire, and the Celestial Empire has a million troops at every turn, and the cattle are not good, but the human living environment here is full of crises, and the total number of races is only 10 million, not to mention the number of troops.
However, the Celestial Empire also has a place that can't compare to here, except for those elite soldiers, there are few troops like them who are each wearing chain armor, and many of the million troops are farmers.
The 30,000 people lined up in a long line, seriously obstructing traffic, and the speed could not be fast, just like a big caterpillar, wriggling forward.
Such a long queue is easy to deserters, there are always those chicken thieves who eat your half a year's military salary, this is going to war, cowardly, directly want to pick a son and leave, when you go, you can also follow your armor and equipment, it's really cool and crooked.
In order to cope with this situation, the knights of the Eberlock family scattered everywhere to overseer the army, seeing this scene, Zhang Li really envied the old nobles, his army of 2,000 has reached its peak, it is not that he is reluctant to spend money to hire more, 2,000 he will not be able to manage.
The first batch of people who followed him at the beginning are now at least at the level of squad leaders, but their qualifications are too shallow, and they have only fought once in total, which has led to many later recruits not obeying them, especially some guys who have been adventurers, and they are even working against their captains, if Zhang Li can have such a group of knights to help him lead the army, he will be much easier.
But then again, he wouldn't canonize knights, and for his ulterior purposes, he couldn't have nobles under his command, which is why he went to great lengths to train those children.
"Is there a strategy already in place?" Zhang Li's troops blended into them, and one of his regular airships had now been requisitioned and used as Garissol's makeshift command room.
Seeing the two people who pushed the door in, most of the people here showed a kind smile, not to mention Althea, their future hostess, Zhang Li was also recognized by them, only one person here had a little green face when he saw Zhang Li and Althea enter hand in hand, and there was another person with a haggard face, so haggard that he couldn't laugh at all.
"Based on the actual situation in the Twilight Forest, we have developed three strategic steps. Garissol explained to Zhang Li, his hand moving across the map.
"It takes at least 10,000 people to win at Vogour, but 10,000 is only evenly matched, so I'm going to go all out from the beginning and gather superior forces to solve this group of troubles first. Then his hands began to move over the various abandoned farms and orchards.
"This place is all controlled by Defiya and has become their granary, Defia is very cunning, they will not fight us head-on, these people are like mice, they will burrow into the ground when they see people, we need the help of "cats" to deal with them, I have long thought of this when I was training the army, I have specially trained a special forces, the soldiers are all adventurers, it will be a good choice for them to deal with Defia. ”
Zhang Li couldn't help but nod in agreement, sure enough, it was not unreasonable for Garisor to be entrusted with a heavy task by Duke Eberlock.
"Finally, and the two most troublesome enemies, the undead and the werewolves. "Instead of pointing at the map this time, Garissol swept straight through all the forests and ravines.
"They are the most troublesome, the undead are good to say, they are mainly concentrated in various cemeteries, especially Raven Ridge, where the corpses of several generations have crawled out, and there are at least 20,000 to 30,000 people who can still move, after we finish solving the ogre, we will directly turn around and march here, kill all the undead, and then disperse and control the various farms and orchards, and start to protect these industries, the producers will be arranged to return to farming here, and all order will be restored, as for the werewolves......"
Garissol frowned: "They are almost everywhere, there is no fixed stronghold at all, and the curse of the werewolf is contagious, and those who are scratched by the werewolf have a certain chance of becoming a werewolf, this kind of infection can't even be solved by the holy light, it is very troublesome, and it will be very long and difficult to clean them up, so they are put last by me, but before that, I will not completely ignore them, didn't the female elf say that the werewolf was made by the luna scythe?" I will send a team of men and horses into the forest to search, Li, I think the commander of this unit is none other than you, if you really find the scythe, those werewolves will attack it in groups, only you have an airship here, only if you go out of the horse, can more people come back alive, but you can rest assured, I will not ask you to bring your own private soldiers to carry out this mission, this is Eberlock's family matter, we will not let our allies get into danger. ”
"No problem. Zhang Li was not hypocritical, and then looked at the haggard elf girl next to him.
Verinde Star Song had a painful year, and she brought the werewolves to the Twilight Forest, which was tantamount to occasionally attracting the undead, which became the last straw that overwhelmed the Eberlock family, and they had to gather their men to survive in Night Town, and if it weren't for Zhang Li, they would have survived for another four years.
So to punish her, they handcuffed her and demanded that she solve the werewolf's troubles or torture her forever.
Poor Verinde was spoken of every day, and even dragged into a corner and beaten, and it was only a year, and this elf girl who had lived for thousands of years was about to lose her appearance.
"Verinde, please advise me on the next. ”