Chapter 319: Crazy Expeditionary Force (Part II)

Salin would rather stay with the Brontosaurus every day. I don't want to do any of these things. But the current thing has a lot to do with the contract he signed with the goddess Myers. The Holy See must be destroyed, so Salin must do it head-on, and he must do it well.

A large amount of combat equipment was distributed, and Salin thought about something else, he recruited Banchagana and Diabinas, the two undead kings are now living well in Metatrin City, and only need to summon a large number of undead from time to time for Daniel to drive.

Daniel himself is already a sixth-level necromancer, and under his command, there are more than a dozen low-level necromancers, and there is no need for the three kings to drive the undead.

What the Three Kings are doing now is often searching for materials in Saleen's library. Are the masters of the year dead or hidden? If they can't find their masters, they won't be free.

If the master is not dead, with the master's power, he can easily break the contract trap between Saleen and the damn necromancer, and it is better to follow the original master than to follow Saleen.

Summoning the two kings, Salin carefully instructed them what they were to do this time. Saleen is on the way to Phoenix. Every 100 miles, a small town is set up so that the vendors on the land road have a place to rest. These small towns now have a bit of scale, and each town has almost two or three hundred households, and the permanent population is almost more than 1,000.

If all these people were slaughtered by the Holy See troops, Salin would have to rely on sea to maintain the city, but his city was closed to ships for five months of the year.

It was not enough to protect the city of Metatrin, and Saleen could not send a large army to face the Holy See Expeditionary Force now, and he believed that even if he won, the result would be terrible. If there are too many dead and wounded, Metatrin City will be finished.

The best thing to do is to get the people out of the town first.

Salin now had four battalions of troops on hand, and the Caucasians could not organize yet, so they had to let Shika lead the defense of the city. The four battalions were only 40,000 men, and with the barbarians who could be mobilized, it was only 50,000 men. Salin now knew that with these 50,000 men, it would be impossible to stop the footsteps of the Holy See Expeditionary Force in a field battle.

The fourth and fifth battalions were sent out by the Salin platoon, each with a large number of vehicles, as well as magicians. The task of the 20,000 men of these two battalions is to get to these towns as quickly as possible. Get everyone back to Metatrin City.

On the border of Phoenix, two banners of the 6th Battalion of Metatrin City lay in ambush on the side of the mountain road, waiting for the Holy See's army to pass by. There is only a road more than four meters wide, and on the other side of the road, there is a huge slope. The two regiments had intended to withdraw to Metatrin City, for they had been reduced by more than twenty percent, with one thousand and six of the two thousand remaining, more than six hundred wounded, and one thousand more capable of fighting.

However, instead of taking the main road, the army of the Holy See was going to take a shortcut, and the scouts discovered this information, and the commanders of the two banner regiments exchanged opinions before deciding to carry out an ambush here.

The attrition was severe, but the soldiers did not abandon their weapons, and most of the skeleton horses were concentrated in these two banner regiments, and they should have been the last to retreat. With these skeleton horses, the soldiers basically carried their weapons with them, as well as the equipment discarded by the previous flag regiments.

Out of a thousand men, there were two hundred crossbows.

The big crossbow is not a heavy crossbow, mainly because it lacks long-range damage, but it has good penetration at close range. The price is also cheap.

Two hundred large crossbows, one small crossbow for each person, these thousand soldiers lay in ambush on the side of the road, just waiting for the Holy See troops to pass by, shoot the crossbow arrows and retreat.

The two banner leaders are both senior swordsmen of Shrieg Island, brave in their charges, miraculously uninjured until now, and the two of them are carrying small alchemy crossbows. The alchemy crossbow has good penetrating power and is accurate enough, and there is even a chance to shoot the opponent's magician.

Those magicians are so annoying, as long as they are undead soldiers, they can almost be saved. These soldiers, regardless of their injuries, will be able to fight again in three or two days.

With this kind of treatment, after the soldier returns, a twenty-year-old person will definitely not live to be forty years old, and if he undergoes divine treatment many times, he will not be able to live to be thirty years old.

The problem is that this skill is so effective, the battle of the sixth battalion is mainly based on bows and crossbows, if there is no large number of magicians among the enemy, the death cost of more than 1,000 people in the sixth battalion has killed more than 10,000 enemies. Unfortunately, the Tangulas who were shot with crossbows often went into battle a day or two later.

After two battles, the sixth battalion began to block the enemy's magicians, but the number of alchemy crossbows was too small and the concealment was not strong enough, and the Holy See army was in battle. Warriors use their bodies to block crossbow arrows and protect the magicians.

"Captain Banner, they're coming!" a scout rode a skeletal horse and sped into the woods by the roadside.

"Ready!" the commander of the Ninth Banner gave the order, and all the people stopped what they were doing. Pack your armor, carry your quiver, taut your boots, change into a crossbowman's gloves, and wind the crossbow.

Don't look at the loss of more than half of these two flag regiments, the psychological quality of the soldiers is still excellent. After all, with skeleton war horses, it is more likely to escape from the battlefield. This time only archery was fired, and the soldiers who were familiar with the battle knew that this battle was just to slow down the enemy's advance speed.

It's not desperate, so everyone's movements are slow and steady.

There was the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and the Holy See's army and war horses were all metal horseshoes, unlike Salen's army, which used Warcraft materials. The sound of the metal horseshoe was very loud, and it was heard from afar, and thousands of war horses ran at the same time, as if the ground was thundering.

This is the vanguard of the Holy See. In general, there will be three thousand cavalry. Of the three thousand cavalry, there were a hundred heavy cavalry wearing sacred armor. The so-called heavy cavalry refers to the ability to defend, and the sacred armor is like the magic armor, which is extremely light and suitable for wearing for a long time.

Most of the remaining cavalry were light armored cavalry, and the fighting method was also a portable bow and crossbow, and the main weapon was the Tangulas scimitar. The heavy cavalry needs to be assisted by auxiliary soldiers, and the equipment is pulled by large carts, and generally follows the Chinese army. The same goes for infantry. Tangulas had a lot of horses, and the infantry could also get inferior horses to ride.

There were too many soldiers on this expedition. The Pope's orders were extremely tough, and the expeditionary force was almost one horse per man. In addition to the infantry advancing in chariots, each cavalry was assigned two horses.

Before entering Phoenix, the losses of the war horses of the Holy See army were extremely staggering, because many of them were exhausted due to the high speed of advance. Only a place like the Holy See would issue such an order, which is extremely hated by the soldiers.

The expeditionary force continued to advance only after Garolan had replenished its horses, and lost a lot of horses in the confrontation with Rex's army. No matter how strong a magician is, he can't even treat people and horses together. Many war horses died because of poor treatment.

Even so, this huge army is still maintaining a rate of advance of more than 100 miles a day. If it were only cavalry, it would have been a turtle march, but this was a mixed expeditionary force with more than two-thirds of the infantry.

These people have only one goal, Metatrin City. The Pope's order was also very simple, go there, destroy that city.

It is actually very dangerous for a thousand men to ambush three thousand cavalry on the side of the road. However, only a hundred of this cavalry had divine armor, the rest were light armor, and the number of magicians was small, so they happened to be the target of ambushes by crossbowmen.

The advance of the Tangulas cavalry rushed to this mountain road, maintaining a speed of about twenty miles. This speed can also maintain the physical strength of the war horse, if it is increased to sixty miles, only the skeleton war horse can gallop for a long time. Even a skeleton war horse, a long march at a speed of sixty miles must be abolished.

The front two hundred cavalry saw that they had entered the ambush range, and the commander of the Ninth Banner did not give the order to attack, but let the two hundred cavalry pass, and the brigade behind quickly poured into this narrow passage, and at this time, the personal soldiers of the flag commander sounded the horn of war.

"Shoot!"

Two hundred crossbow arrows flew out of the air, and the soldiers of the sixth battalion had been training for several months, and the main training subjects did not include fighting, but the crossbow arrow battle formation shooting method of intensive training.

Three seconds later, the second round of crossbow arrows was fired, another three seconds. The third round of crossbow bolts attacked.

The two hundred people in front used a big crossbow, and they directly shot over more than a hundred people, and the people in the back used hand crossbows, and the effect was much worse. Those more than a hundred people must have died, and those who were hit by the crossbow would not be lucky even if they didn't have the healing of the magician.

The greatest damage was caused by falling from a war horse and being trampled by the war horse behind it.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"In the woods!"

The cavalry of the Holy See began to panic, but the officer reprimanded, and the cavalry behind immediately took off their round shields, blocked them, and rushed into the woods. The woods are not dense enough, but they are not for horses to gallop on. These cavalrymen entered the woods, immediately dismounted, drew their scimitars, and held shields in one hand, and surrounded the Qin Yin people who were ambushed in the woods.

Waiting for them is the shooting of crossbow arrows, although the range of hand crossbows is short, but places like the woods happen to be the battlefield where hand crossbows can be played. In the field army, the hand crossbow is not fired continuously, so the lethality is much stronger than that of the repeater.

The Tangulas cavalry were armed with round shields, unable to protect all positions on their bodies, and the soldiers of the 6th Battalion fired at their lower bodies. The distance of the battle was only a few tens of meters, and these dozens of meters directly caused huge casualties among the Tangulas people.

The first wave of crossbow shots killed more than a hundred cavalrymen, and the following crossbow shots, wounding more than five hundred cavalrymen.

"Retreat, retreat!" shouted the Commander of the Ninth Banner, and his own soldiers immediately blew the horn of war in another rhythm.

The Tangulas frantically rushed into the woods, they still had the advantage in numbers, and the forward and rear troops were at most two hours away, maybe an hour, and if they were entangled, the thousand soldiers of Salin would be wiped out.

The approach of these Tangulas people to the crossbowmen regardless of casualties made the two banner commanders immediately think of fleeing. Before the expedition, Saleen told the commanders of the ten banners to reduce casualties, familiarize the soldiers with the battlefield as much as possible, and bring them back to Metatrin City.

If there were no magicians, the enemy's retarded way of fighting would have led to the death of all three thousand cavalry. However, the existence of the magician made the more than 500 cavalrymen who were injured behind, at most a hundred dead, and the rest could be treated. The same is true of continuing the battle, where the cavalry shields the vital points with round shields and the superiority in numbers is relied upon to close in. None of Saleen's soldiers had a chance to kill the fallen Tangulas with their daggers.