Chapter 322: Retreat (I)

Saleen's several attempts, and the pact with the Three Kings, did not produce any reaction. He knew in his heart that the limiting power of this contract had begun to loosen. If the Three Kings consulted with others and calculated themselves, they would not be able to perceive it. This made Saleen completely determined to get rid of the Three Kings.

The rules are not so easy to use, and only the rules in your hands are irreversible. The Three Kings are so strong, and they have been controlled by themselves and Aini for so long, and it's almost over. If it were the other way around, he would have been killed by the Three Kings in the undead plane.

In terms of war, Saleen still has things to worry about, and to the east of the temple, a piece of building has been erected, and these temporary buildings are where Saleen uses to build equipment.

Although Rex took away a large number of mages, he left a lot of magic apprentices and first-level mages to Salin, and these people had low survivability on the battlefield, so Rex didn't take them with him. These people can manipulate the magic array and help refine the armor.

Saleen's soldiers were inferior to the Holy See's army in terms of combat effectiveness, so they had to find a way to equip them. The Demon God Armor cannot be used by humans, but Saleen has some blueprints that Rex gave him. With the addition of your own redesign, you can build a lot of equipment.

Saleen's order to the Broken Blade Pass was to hold it for three days, and the geographical location of the Broken Blade Pass was logically not to be attacked on the back. Still, Khazarin sent his only heavy cavalry and laid a defensive line on the east side of the Broken Blade Pass.

The Broken Blade Pass was built at the break in a north-south mountain range that reached almost the northernmost part of the Myers continent, thousands of miles away from the city of Metatrin. If the Holy See's army wants to bypass the Broken Blade Pass, it will have to travel an additional 3,000 miles inside and out. At the speed of the Holy See army, if all cavalry is used, it will take more than half a month.

Salin was only worried that the light infantry in the Holy See army would cross the mountains and cut off the retreat of the Blade Pass behind his back. Although it was extremely difficult to climb thousands of meters of mountain, Saleen did not want to take the risk. Because the width of this north-south mountain range is less than fifty miles in this section.

Fifty miles of mountain road, if there is a magician to bless the soldier with divine magic, it is not impossible to cross. At most, the loss of soldiers is such a thing that the top brass of the Holy See will not consider at all. Sending 3,000 people over the mountain and surviving 1,000 is a huge threat to the retreat of Broken Blade Pass.

For this, Salin also sent Trays, and with Tracy, it was a newly promoted fourth-level magician. Two hundred heavy cavalry, four hundred light cavalry, plus four hundred Caucasians, patrolled behind the Broken Blade Pass, as long as they were found. They were entangled with light cavalry, and heavy cavalry were charged.

Broken Blade Pass to Xizhen, one hundred and eighty miles, even if they are all infantry, as long as there are enough vehicles, it is only a half-day rapid march. The vehicles were completely destroyed, there were no horses, and the soldiers could retreat in a day's time, as long as there was no enemy attack in between. The first training of Saleen's army was the rapid march.

If you can't fight, you have to know how to retreat, this is Salin's measure to preserve his strength.

Salin's move didn't work, and on the front of Broken Blade, the battle was already indescribably fierce. The Holy See army did not even think of crossing the mountains and sending infantry to attack the rear. 100,000 people attacking a city pass, in the eyes of the Holy See army, is only a matter of time.

In fact, too, the second battalion of Saleen had an absolute topographical advantage. The Caucasians in the mountains on both sides did not find any traces of human infiltration, and the army of the Holy See was violently attacking the front.

Regardless of casualties, this is the only word that can be used to describe the offensive of the Holy See. It is impossible for the chariots of the expeditionary force to suppress the arrow towers at the head of the city, and the two sides shoot at each other, and the soldiers at the head of the city can easily throw feather arrows downward.

The battering ram was pushed under the city several times. On several occasions, the city also sent the Daredevils to destroy the battering rams, and threw stones from the top of the city to destroy the battering rams. Both sides suffered heavy casualties for this.

More than 2,000 soldiers were killed in the battle of the Broken Blade Pass, which occupied the advantageous location, and more than 5,000 people died in the battle for the section of the city gate. This section is less than 500 meters, which shows the intensity of the battle.

Counting the mercenaries in the Broken Blade Pass, the number of people in the early 20,000s was only in their early 20,000s, and 2,000 people died, and they no longer dared to go out of the city to attack, so they had to block the city gate. The gates were blocked, and the army of the Holy See began to press on it in full force, attacking the city with ladders. There was no way in the city, and several times they went out of the city to attack, but they were pressed by the enemy's heavy cavalry, and most of the soldiers who dared to die out of the city were killed. If the city gates are not blocked, such a war of attrition will continue.

In this way, it was a fierce battle for the city wall. The second wall is five meters higher than the first, and the distance between the two is only eighty meters. This is exactly the shooting distance of a normal bow and arrow. The first wall had to be held for a day before it had to be abandoned, and all the troops retreated to the second wall.

Between the two city walls was a closed space, and the Holy See troops quickly poured in, and after the army of Broken Blade Pass and more than 20,000 people entered, they let go of the reservoirs in the mountains on both sides, and poured water into the space that was 80 meters wide and about 2 miles long.

The 20,000 Holy See troops were suddenly drowned and thousands of people were drowned, and these thousands of people could not float at all because of their heavy armor. The rest of the Papal soldiers escaped because of the protection of the magicians. The Holy See quickly cleared the blockage of the gates on the first rampart, and the water in the reservoir was reduced. Attacks can no longer be formed.

Only then did the soldiers of the second battalion understand why Salin had built such a large reservoir in such a militarized city.

When the news reached Metatrin City, Saleen was not very happy. The Holy See breached the first wall at the cost of less than 10,000 casualties. Although there was no time to build large-scale defenses, the expeditionary force did not carry a large amount of siege equipment because of its haste to advance the army. Moreover, the expeditionary force has marched more than 20,000 miles, and according to normal standards, this army has almost no combat effectiveness.

If the Holy See hadn't put all its strength on attacking Qin Yin and sent more troops to come, I'm afraid it would have hit the city of Metatrin by now.

I really don't know how Qin Yin's army blocked the Holy See's attack on the border.

As a last resort, Salin began to send convoys to prepare for retreat. The second wall should be able to hold back two days of attack, and if there is no retreat, the second battalion will be history.

For the next two days, the battle was even more brutal than Salin had imagined, and with the first wall, the Papal army could not use one of the open arrow towers and the second wall to shoot at each other, but the magicians could condescend and cast divine magic on the army below.

The expeditionary force surged up like a tide, and the morale in the Broken Blade Pass was low. Several small mercenary groups were killed or wounded, and according to the contract, they could already retreat. The main forces of the 2nd Battalion are still in good condition. But the auxiliaries suffered serious casualties, and the main corps had to start dividing its troops and acting as simple archers themselves.

Two intact magic stone cannons were erected on the hills on both sides of the east gate of the Broken Blade Pass, and after only a day and a half of holding out, the second battalion in the Broken Blade Pass had to retreat. The expeditionary force pursued like crazy, and was suppressed in the west by two magic stone cannons firing magic stone projectiles.

Immediately, a large number of magicians, with the cooperation of heavy infantry, came to seize the magic stone cannon, and seeing the withdrawal of the army in the city, the soldiers and magic apprentices guarding the stone cannon simply burned the stone cannon. Escaped together.

Having lost the suppression of the Philosopher's Stone Cannon, the heavy infantry quickly pushed to the east gate within the Broken Blade Pass.

From the striker reaching the Broken Edge Pass to the Broken Edge Pass being penetrated, it took only three and a half days before and after. The expeditionary force did not climb over the mountains to attack the rear at all, and broke the interception of the Broken Blade Pass from the front.

After breaking through the Broken Blade Pass, the eastern city wall only lasted for more than two hours, and most of the broken army was killed. The Holy See sent 3,000 cavalry to pursue behind, but was ambushed by a main flag regiment of the third battalion sent by Salin, and retreated back into the Broken Blade Pass.

Three thousand men pursued an army of tens of thousands, and the odds of victory were not great. Moreover, the Holy See has been storming for several days, and the soldiers, even with the help of magicians, should take a rest.

Saleen was very disappointed in the combat effectiveness of his army, and if Rex had the Broken Blade Pass, he would be able to hold it for at least half a month. In the battle for the city wall, as long as the enemy climbs the city, the battle loss ratio is 1 to 1. Every Tangulas who went up to the city wall could pull at least one back.

It stands to reason that the individual combat effectiveness of the two sides is similar, and Salin recruits soldiers who have been trained in swordsmanship, and the enemy's expeditionary force cannot be regarded as a regular army. Twenty-five thousand men of a legion barely took part in the battle. They all relied on new recruits, but as a result, Salin felt that he still underestimated the three empires.

At this time, Sika persuaded Salin: "Your soldiers, just to eat and become soldiers, I don't know why to fight, the Holy See's expeditionary force is to fight to go to heaven, the gap is here." If your kingdom is built and these people have a home, they will fight to the death to protect their home. ”

Salin was silent, what Sica said was right, his Metatrin City was a commercial city, and the surrounding farmers had just begun to farm. Didn't feel like home from home. Soldiers are also recruited for money.

What about the Holy See? Their demagogic methods are not comparable to their own.

Fortunately, there is no way out of Metatrin City, and the people in the city are facing an existential crisis. The city of Metatrin can definitely withstand the attack of the expeditionary force.

There are two ninth-level magicians in Xizhen, and the enemy can only divide his troops and send at least 30,000 people to prevent the Xizhen garrison from rescuing Metatrin City, so that the expeditionary force attacking Metatrin City will be more than 50,000 people.

It's time to dispatch the Three Kings, and before you clean up these three guys, you have to make the most of them.

"Ask Ani to come here, um, and Quaya. "Salin decided to teach the Holy See Expeditionary Force a lesson before shrinking its defenses. However, none of his five battalions could move. Let the nobles send some soldiers to cooperate with the three kings to carry out a real ambush.