Chapter 320: Broken Blade Pass (I)

The Tangulas fight like locusts. Kill endlessly. If both sides were a thousand soldiers, the result of the battle would have been the victory of the swordsmen of Saleen, but the soldiers of the Holy See did not care about their own casualties at all, and even if they were victorious, it would be a miserable victory. Now that the enemy outnumbered him several times, the commanders of the two banners immediately made a decision and ordered to retreat.

The fire speed of the crossbow was fast enough, and a thousand people retreated in the woods, and the broken ones shot the enemy's thighs or horses with the crossbows, and the Tangulas, who refused to dismount, soon suffered and all dismounted in pursuit.

In the woods, the horses can only allow the soldiers to maintain an advantage in height, but the advantage in speed is gone.

The people trained by Saleen have a set of skills to escape. The forest was originally very wide, but before the ambush, the two banner commanders asked the soldiers to cut down a piece of the forest behind them, leaving the skeleton warhorse and the necromancer here. That Judy Koko had long since escorted the wounded of the brigade and left without being with them. Now it's the necromancer that can be used.

The role of the woods is to stop the enemy's cavalry, and if it is too wide, it is also a problem to run on its own. In pursuit of speed, these thousand people did not have heavy armor. Only a hundred men were dressed in light armor, the rest were leather. If they were caught up by the Tangulas, they would not be able to carry the heavy scimitars of the cavalry.

The Tangulas were also fast enough, and although they were knocked down by a few hundred people with crossbows, many more chased after them. Although the terrain here is gentle, it is still mountainous, and the speed of skeleton horses cannot be improved, and the riding skills of these soldiers are not perfect.

Therefore, as soon as they arrived in the open field, the 1,000 soldiers automatically divided into five brigades and scattered and fled. Although he was a little aggrieved, he didn't have a hand-to-hand fight, and he lost 200 crossbows, but he was satisfied with being able to shoot more than 300 enemies. More than 600 enemies were wounded by arrows, but they could only consume the energy of some magicians.

The two banner commanders, each with a brigade, fled eastward. Both of them were remorseful in their hearts, knowing that the enemy would not retreat, they would attack the woods and leave Judy Koko behind.

But then it occurred to them that the undead might not be obedient. It's good to be willing to protect the wounded. If it weren't for Judy Koko, they might not have been able to inflict so much damage on the Holy See Expeditionary Force. Because Judy Koko is pestering a large number of magicians among his enemies, they can kill and injure the enemy. Now let that undead be cut off...... I'm afraid that Lord Salin will have to give the order himself.

The soldiers of the Holy See rushed into the woods and quickly passed through, only to see the hateful Qin Yin people riding skeleton war horses and walking away. The powerful Tangulas pulled out the big bow and **** a few arrows. But he was dodged by a nimble swordsman.

"Don't chase it, go back. Seeing this, the officers of the Tangulas Empire gave orders with hatred.

"Sir!"

"Don't say it, the enemy has necromancers, and we can't catch up with the speed of these skeleton horses. Hmph, if you go to level their city, I don't believe it, they can still escape into the sea?"

The ambush of thousands of men with bows and arrows only caused so little damage, and the army of the Holy See still copied the shortcut, missing a few hundred miles of detour, and continued to the east.

After the striker, there were 10,000 regular troops, and then the Chinese army. The troops that were behind had been merged with the logistics army, and Saleen's army attacked and harassed the logistics army, and the results were good. The expeditionary force can only advance at a rapid pace, trying to reach Metatrin before the food is exhausted.

Luckily for Saleen's last two banner commanders, they escaped fast enough. Otherwise, when the 10,000 troops who were moving behind arrived, they would be completely annihilated.

The Tangulas took the western border of Phoenix, and there were no obstacles, but from this line to the east, there were about two thousand miles of small roads, and there were no large towns. After the turmoil in Phoenix, almost all the people in the border cities have escaped. The army of the Holy See marched all the way east, and there was nothing to grab.

After slaughtering a few scattered villages, the Tangulas lost interest in looting. Because it is often turned upside down that a village can only get a few hundred catties of flour, and it is all mixed with miscellaneous grains.

Salin's Sixth Battalion was almost back to Metatrin because of Judy Koco's care, only the two flag regiments that were behind, and the remaining soldiers in their early 1,000s were still riding skeletal horses. They were getting farther and farther away from the Papal army, and in mid-June they reached Saleen's first town in the northern wilderness.

The town had already received news that the devils of the Tangulas Empire were coming to slaughter the city, and both the settled residents and the merchants who ran their businesses hurriedly retreated. The war in Garolan had proven that the Tangulas were inhumane and killed even ordinary people.

The Eighth and Ninth Banner Regiment happened to meet the soldiers of the Fifth Battalion who came to help the retreat, and ran wildly all the way, so that the necromancers in the two flag regiments were also tired enough, so they changed to ordinary war horses to assist the townspeople in retreating.

This town is not far from the border with Phoenix, and more than a hundred miles to the south is Phoenix. It is also the westernmost town of Saleen. Originally, there were merchants passing by all year round, and this place has begun to have some prosperous meaning. But the army is coming, and the people here have to abandon their homes again and escape with soft goods.

For the Holy See, war is a means of spreading the faith, but for ordinary people, war is always a terrible devil and it is better never to show it.

This town, the first stop from Phoenix, is several times larger than other towns and has more than 3,000 permanent residents. Fortunately, in the two battalions sent by Saleen this time, there are a large number of magicians, who can use the equipment in the army to transport their own things for these civilians.

There are more than 100,000 catties of grain in this town, and if there is no great magician, it will be a trouble to get these away. The army helped civilians register supplies, carry food, and a few things of value. The house was about to be abandoned, and the civilians only hoped that the Tangulas would not set fire to them when they passed by.

After a two-day delay, the army in Metatrin cleared most of its supplies and began to move civilians. After the civilians were transferred, the broken soldiers set a fire to the town and burned the town to the ground.

This was ordered by Salin, and it was a big deal to rebuild. But to stay in the house. But it was given to the place where the Holy See army was stationed. In the future, if the army is repulsed, the Tangulas can also use these towns to stop Saleen's pursuit. They were all burned, so that they would not regret it in the future.

Two days later, the army of the Tangulas Empire arrived in this town. Seeing a white field and a burned city wall, the Emperor Tangulas was furious. However, anger alone could not solve the problem, so he had to order his subordinates to be stationed outside the town, so as not to clean up the ruins inside and encounter any traps.

An army of 100,000 drove Salin's army all the way east. On the way, Saleen had the rearmost army burn all the towns where they could garrison them. Not a single grain was left. The captain of the Tangulas Empire Expeditionary Force gritted his teeth, their baggage was burned too much by Salin, and all that was left was the food carried by the cardinal's space equipment. The number of 100,000 troops consumed is too huge, and it can be supplied along the way within the range of Garulan, but when it reaches the edge of the Qinyin Empire, every day's consumption depends on the materials it carries.

The city of Metatrin in Saleen is located in the wilderness, from the seaside to the first town that connects to Phoenix, there are no natural villages in between, all the villages are near the city of Metatrine. Besides, this season, the grain in the north has only begun to be sown, and the soldiers must not go to the soil to dig out the seeds and eat them.

Saleen's soldiers couldn't improve their combat effectiveness much in the short term, but this kind of retreat training was still done well, so that all the towns within a radius of more than a thousand miles were turned into scorched earth, and the Holy See army didn't catch a single hair.

With the Pope's order, these people did not dare to enter Phoenix to plunder, it would take too much time. Besides, the border of Phoenix also seems to be barren, and the rebellion of the Black Mage, coupled with the invasion of Qin Yin later, has greatly damaged Phoenix's vitality.

In this way, the advance of the army of Tangulas accelerated, and finally came to the mountain pass, which was more than two hundred miles from the city of Metatrin. This is the only place to enter the Metatrin Plain, and because Saleen is so focused on Metatrin that he didn't expect a land invasion so soon, the construction here is not sufficient. In just two months, this mountain pass has increased the height of the city wall to more than 30 meters, and with the help of the mountain, it can be said that it can be regarded as a majestic pass.

Saleen's second battalion was stationed here, and then there were several small mercenary regiments. The second battalion, including auxiliaries, numbered less than 20,000, and Salin's auxiliaries were too few, and all the recruits were regular troops. In addition, in the mountains on both sides, there were quite a few Caucasians, preventing the enemy from penetrating in the mountains.

There were no inhabitants in this militarized city. The name is also full of murderous aura - Broken Blade Pass. The food stored here was only for five days, and Saleen was given the task of holding it for three days.

The significance of these three days is to consume the last bit of food in the Holy See Expeditionary Force. If the enemy's attack is not sharp enough, two more days of defense will be a battle achievement.

In the Broken Blade Pass, ten turrets were erected, which were said to be turrets, but in fact they were all large crossbow formations to prevent the enemy's magicians from flying overhead.

As long as they are not ninth-level powerhouses, they don't dare to fly over this kind of large crossbow array, in case there is an alchemy crossbow hidden in it, they will fall to their deaths if they are shot.

The cavalry could not attack the city, but could only sit and wait for the arrival of the army behind. There are nearly 30,000 people in the Broken Blade Pass, and according to ordinary rules, it can withstand the attack of 100,000 people, after all, this is the pass, and only one side can withstand the attack, and the manpower is enough. It's just that there is no magic tower at this pass, and it is very difficult to defend.

The number of trebuchets in the city is only enough to destroy the enemy's trebuchet, but it cannot be used to kill or wound a large number of enemy soldiers.

It is not impossible for Salin to let the Tangulas pass, relying on the city of Metatrin is enough to resist the Papal army. It's just that he has given up so many towns in a row and hasn't won a battle. This has a great impact on morale, and if you can thwart the Holy See army here for a few days, it can just wear down the spirit of the Holy See expeditionary force.