Chapter 323: The Secret of the Expeditionary Force (I)

Saleen intends to have people eat bugs. There is no way to do this, seeing that the battle is about to spread to the entire continent, and in three years at most, all countries will be involved in the war of the Holy See. At that time, it will be even more difficult to buy food than it is now. Without stable logistics, what else to fight?

The soldiers in the city didn't know that Saleen was worried about their food, and Saleen quietly adjusted their diet to increase the proportion of fish and shrimp, which was no worse in nutrition than beef and mutton, but it was just a matter of whether the taste was suitable.

Salin arranged a team of 20,000 people on each of the two walls, the walls of Metatrin are more special, extremely thick, don't expect to use magic or magic to bombard, the upper half of the city wall, Dante's sequence of buildings combined, and the style of any country on the continent of Mels.

The labyrinthine cloister is a rectangular building made of stone strips, and the front and back are sixty meters thick. The urn castle inside the gate is divided into two floors and occupies a width of several hundred meters, and even if the gate is small, this method of construction has not been forgotten. This is understandable why Saleen took so long. Before the city wall was built, he had tens of thousands of undead as coolies.

These undead worked day and night to help him build the city, and the part of the city wall was the most time-consuming.

The head of the city can live in people, not to mention 20,000 on one side of the eight-mile city wall, even 100,000 can live. There are horse paths in the castle that lead diagonally to the walls of the city that are thirty meters high.

Salin originally wanted to build a higher wall, not that he couldn't do it, but if the wall was built too high, it would surpass the magic tower.

The first floor of the magic tower is six meters high, and the ninth floor is fifty-four meters high. Only the walls of the Holy Rock City have been built for more than 100 meters, but that is because the Holy Rock City itself has been carved out of the mountain, and the height of the base is not less than 60 meters.

The thirty-meter-high city wall, climbed over with a ladder, suffered heavy casualties, and the Broken Blade Pass was not defended because Salin did not send too many mages, and he did not want the mages to be damaged there.

The walls of the city were built thicker than the height, and were actually an eight-mile-long house. The head of the city was fifty meters wide, and on the outer side, there was a ten-meter-wide horse road and a fortress for soldiers. If the enemy climbs the city, he may face the cavalry charge at the head of the city.

The cavalry charged laterally on the horse road, and the infantry who climbed the walls could not organize a formation defense at all. There is a magic turret in the city, but the trebuchets on it are under the protection of the magic array, and it is difficult to destroy each other.

There are no magic towers in the city, and the only building that resembles the utility of a magic tower is the temple of Sarin. It's just that the temple is remote. It is about five miles away from the city wall, and there is no link to the magic tower in the middle, so it will not play an offensive role for the time being.

Fortunately, there are many low-level mages in Sarin's hands, all of which are left by Rex. The mid-level mages were all taken away by Rex, and this low-level mage became the main force of the battle.

When the three kings returned, Diabinas and Banchagana were in charge of one side, each commanding thousands of undead, mixed with soldiers, to assist in the defense.

Skeletons can shoot arrows, but at long distances, they don't have to worry about accuracy. Moreover, the strength of the skeleton soldiers will not be exhausted, and Saleen has prepared a large number of inferior bows and arrows for the skeleton soldiers to use. These bows and arrows are not small, have an extremely long range, and are pathetic in their accuracy, suitable only for covering scattering.

Every two hundred meters, fifty undead warriors are arranged. Of course, these undead horsemen are not as good as the death knights, but Salin equipped the undead knights with heavy armor, and it was still easy to attack the infantry at the head of the city.

In the midst of intense preparations, tens of thousands of people poured into Metatrin City. These are all the lords of the nearby nobles. There is still a distance of more than a hundred miles from the Broken Blade Pass to Metatrin, and there are quite a few villages and fortresses in this land. Saleen had already given the final order for these nobles to take refuge in the city. Their fortress could not stop the army of the Holy See at all.

These nobles had to obey because they had not been able to recruit enough soldiers and have few people in the city of Metatrin, and the small fortresses, although easy to defend, were undermanned and could not hold on for a day in the face of the onslaught of the large army.

The expeditionary force rested for three days at Broken Blade Pass and set out again. The Strikers had already swept across the Metatrin Plains, but had failed to grab food, and had been blocked at Westtown, where one of Rex's bannermen came out of Westtown with thousands of mercenaries and flanked the Holy See's three thousand light cavalry.

Rex's banner regiment was all clad in triple armor, and although it was not a heavy cavalry, the impact was almost the same.

As for the less than four thousand mercenaries, they just followed behind and arranged hundreds on both wings, forming a trapping momentum, as if one of Rex's heavy flag regiments was a blade, and the more than 3,000 mercenaries were steel with blades.

This time the impact was like a swordsman's powerhouse, sweeping a person's neck with a long sword, and with a click, the three thousand cavalry of the expeditionary force were cut off from the middle. The blow was crisp and clean. The expeditionary force was not given the opportunity to change its formation at all. There were not many enemies killed, only more than 200, and most of the expeditionary force was only hit by the crossbow and was not seriously injured.

However, Rex's banner regiment reflexively killed again, this time, the spear had been changed in hand, and in a short charge, a piece of meat was torn off from the flank of the enemy's cavalry, killing more than 200 people, and Rex's banner regiment was gone. In two battles, nearly five hundred people were lost, which was an absolute blow to the forward cavalry of three thousand people.

Wanting to pursue, but not as familiar with the terrain as Rex's men, the mercenaries threw down their cartles and sharp antlers in the narrow area, slowing the cavalry to the extreme. At this time, the cavalry of the expeditionary force was alert, this was not the Tangulas Empire.

When the magician who was ambushed in the hilly area saw this scene, the three kings sighed even more, if they cooperated, all the three thousand cavalry would be folded here. It's just that the order given to them by Salin is to attack the large force behind the cavalry. The vanguard of the Holy See Expeditionary Force was the light cavalry as the vanguard, and there were 10,000 men in the rear.

It was these ten thousand people that the three kings were going to attack. And to get out of the battlefield before the arrival of the large forces behind.

The vanguard of the expeditionary force retreated, and it was estimated that it would not be long before it would converge with the 10,000 troops behind it and enter the range of Xizhen. Banchagana flew to the battlefield, grabbed a dead body, sniffed it, and looked a little bad.

Seeing Banchagana come back, he still had a dead body in his hand, and the other two undead kings also smelled a strange smell. It's like the smell of gods, but it's not, because there's something evil that is out of the rules.

"These people ......" The three kings glanced at each other and looked at the soldiers behind them. The soldiers were recruited by the nobles. Sarlin's five battalions were not all collected, and some of these soldiers had good combat effectiveness, but they were too old and all of them were abandoned. There was no place for them in the regular army, so they took refuge with the nobles, big and small.

Judy Koko said, "Let's go back, no more ambushes." ”

The officer leading the human soldiers was very embarrassed, but the three undead kings, they didn't dare to talk to each other at all. Judy Koko casually unleashed a necromantic magic, which acted on the corpse, and the corpse snapped and exploded.

Diabinas also shook his head, this corpse has the effect of divine magic, and necromancy can no longer use it. This situation was more serious than it was at the beginning, and when the expeditionary force first entered Phoenix, the soldiers' bodies were not so serious.

Thousands of troops ambushed in the hills retreated, leaving only a small number of Caucasian and barbarian people, who continued to observe the enemy's situation. Judy Koko flew to the battlefield and destroyed all the corpses into a pile of rotting flesh before returning to Metatrin with his army.

Judy Koko came to see Saleen in person, and he was afraid that Diabinas or Banchagana would say something wrong and annoy Sarin. It's not that he refuses to carry out the order, but that the order doesn't make much sense anymore.

Inside the temple, Judy Koko felt an inexplicable pressure, Salin is only a sixth-level mage, even if he makes rapid progress, he shouldn't put pressure on the king-level undead?

Judy Koko didn't think about it, he said to Salin: "There is a problem with the soldiers of the Holy See Expeditionary Force, whether it is corpse explosion or corpse magic, it cannot be applied to their corpses. ”

"Oh, I don't know much about necromancy and magic, you wait. Salin said, ordering Ania to be called, and then continued to ask Judy Koko.

"What the hell is going on, you didn't carry out an ambush?"

"The soldiers of the expeditionary force have been hit by a vicious magic, and I don't know what it is. However, within a year, these soldiers' combat ability was forcibly improved, and their physical fitness was also strengthened, and no matter how many injuries they had, they could quickly recover under the effect of divine magic. ”

Nania nodded and said, "There is indeed such a magic technique, but it comes at the cost of consuming the lives of soldiers. ”

"Yes, when I was at the border, the soldiers I killed could still be used, but now I can't, it's been less than a month. In other words, the magic hidden in the soldier's body is slowly accelerated. I estimate that these soldiers, even if we don't kill them, will not live for half a year, and at the shortest, they may have two or three months to live. ”

Salin gasped, the life span of the Tangulas is slightly shorter, but they can also reach **ten years old. The average age of the expeditionary force will not exceed thirty-five years old, and the Holy See has condensed the life span of these soldiers in the next forty or fifty years, and burst out with great combat effectiveness. Even if these people had taken the city of Metatrin, they would have died quickly.

What could be more cruel than this? For the sake of faith, these soldiers traveled more than 20,000 miles to Metatrin. The result: Before they set out on the expedition, their fate was already predestined, and they were to die in a foreign land.

"What about the main legion?"

"I haven't been in contact, there are Sword Saints in the main legion, and there are magicians above level eight, I don't want to risk it. Judy Koko replied honestly.