Chapter 1562: Preparation for War
When the Marquis of Balaan made his rounds of the hospital in a suit of fear, everyone was terrified as if they had seen death. For fear that the other party would stop in his bed and shake his head again.
But as long as the marquis can pass, everyone is inexplicably at ease. It's not okay if you haven't seen it, you have to be shaken at it, and this feeling of peace of mind will fill your heart.
Therefore, the use of this marquis's stay is greater than everyone imagined. Moreover, it has also greatly strengthened the defensive line on the south side of the Wind Emperor Mountain Range, and the field hospital lineup in the base camp. And in a fairly short time, let the wounded in the hospital return to the battlefield.
In the past, injuries were healed purely by magic or magic. In the face of serious injuries, the consumption of magic and magic may be multiplied or even failed due to various unknown reasons. This is also the difficulty point of using these supernatural powers.
However, with the use of medical skills, the injured body can be repaired perfectly. Magic and magic are only used for the final stage of accelerated recovery, and do not involve the healing part, so the cost of both will be greatly reduced.
This is like why it is important to use resurrection to keep the body intact and not to be desecrated, that is, to be in a state of fragmentation or missing hands and feet. Because it is the most labor-saving to use the resurrection technique in the complete situation.
If there is only one palm or one head left, and you want to use the resurrection technique to resurrect people completely, it is not impossible to do it. But it may be a miracle that can only be produced by the coming of the Lord of Life himself.
In this way, with magic and magic as a whole, and with medical skills to solve the treatment part, it can be said that as long as people are not crushed on the spot and die so that they can no longer die, they will not need to cultivate for too long before they can return to the battlefield.
This is a good thing for both the soldiers and the generals.
The importance of veterans is mentioned in many ways. For generals, it is more important than anything else to ensure and sustain the combat effectiveness of the army.
What they are going to fight is not a battle, and it is to be expected that it will be one continuous battle after another. It could last for decades, even the last drop of human blood.
As for collecting the remains of corpses, cutting off intact parts, sewing them into a "whole" person, and then using resurrection. Such an idea has been proven unfeasible for a long time.
Because it won't be a specific person who comes to life. Rather, it is the result of the original owner of all the limb parts, and his memory and personality are blended with each other.
Most often, the person who comes back to life becomes a madman. In other words, it does not belong to resurrection, and should be classified as necromancy, i.e., stitching corpses.
The details of this involve the doctrine of the soul of the Lost Land.
All bodies retain memories of their lifetimes. Giving a crippled living person a limb to someone else is like adding something to his complete soul that is not his own. But because the soul of the living person is intact and in a strong position, it will not be easily polluted by foreign objects.
But sewing up a corpse is not about creating an empty shell and stuffing a whole soul into it. Things like ghosts and ghosts belong to undead creatures in the classification of the Lost Land, and they are completely different things from souls. In more technical terms, ghosts and ghosts are flawed souls.
And when the corpse pieces are stitched together, the soul also becomes mixed. It is not said which part of the original owner can dominate the resurrected sutured corpse.
In order to control the stitching of the corpse, the necromancer usually destroys the sanity of the soul in the corpse and then uses the spell order to control its movements. Therefore, it is not stupid or crazy to stitch up the corpse, and it is impossible to have the consciousness equivalent to that of a normal person.
Of course, when the suture corpse wakes up, their consciousness is trained to gradually return to normal. But how long you have to train and how you can count as "normal" is not easy to define.
Take Fen, the original lich and former demon king, as an example. Of the stitched corpses she made, only the stupidest Stone is still loyal to her.
The other stitched corpses who had been leaned on as arms and appointed as guards had all betrayed. It's because Fen has given too much wisdom to the other suture corpses.
This is also why the use of resurrection is the rise of medicine
In this era, it is still prudent and cautious. It's not just a matter of finding some parts, and after restoring the integrity of the corpse, you can resurrect the person.
Back to reality, in fact, at the beginning, the old Kavi Gong was against his granddaughter staying on the battlefield. Even if the base camp belongs to the rear, it is still not safe enough in the eyes of the elderly.
However, before he had touted his granddaughter's reputation too much, with the Marquis of Balan in charge, and without, it was like two extremes in the morale of the soldiers.
Not to mention the people brought by his granddaughter, he does have real skills. Compared to the minor doctors who also bear the name of doctors, the Marquises's team is more knowledgeable and can use their skills more flexibly to treat all the wounded.
And most importantly, her granddaughter seems to have stepped out of the trap of what is called the "past" and reintegrated into the society that interacts with others. At least, doing these things didn't make her resistant, and it satisfied her self-confidence.
Isn't this better than being alone for a lifetime?
So if it is such a trivial matter as whether it is dangerous or not, it should be the person who is the grandfather to replace her dead father and clear all the signs of danger for him.
After weighing the pros and cons, old Kavey agreed to his wish to let his granddaughter stay. Of course, there is also a lot of security and protection. At least the Marquis Guard of the Baran Territory, which had not been useful since it was formed, was directly pulled over.
In addition to the number of people who must be strictly established, their training requirements and equipment standards are all handled by comparison with the Duke's Guard. And the requirement of their first mission is that it doesn't matter if people die, their families have their own families to take care of them. But the Marquis must not be damaged in the slightest!
But the old Carvey's worries, and most people's fears of both expectation and fear of being hurt, ultimately did not materialize.
Winter passes, spring arrives. As everything recovered, the snow began to melt in the area around the Wind Emperor Mountains.
Perhaps because of the proximity to the mountain range, or simply because of the high altitude, the snow does not begin to melt as soon as spring begins. Instead, it dragged on for some more time.
However, the areas where the snow melts are all outside the curse's range, that is, at the foot of the mountain. All the defensive lines that have been built, the tall gates, and the magic towers that stand are all within the range of the snowmelt.
And the cursed mountainous area, it is a year-round wind and snow. Even in summer, when the weather on the flat land is the hottest, the wind and snow are still howling on the Fengdi Mountain Range.
But compared to winter, the power of wind and snow is still much weaker, and snow is more like it is non-existent. As long as the wind and snow in the sky fall to the ground, it will not take long for it to melt, and finally converge into a gurgling stream, and then into a stream, into a river, down the river, irrigating the land downstream.
Therefore, if the demon and orc alliance wants to choose a good day to fight, it will be fine in the spring. Because if you continue to wait, you won't be able to wait for the day when the snow on the mountain will stop.
However, the guarded old Kavigong and all the sergeants and officers and soldiers up and down did not wait for the enemy's attack, but waited for a news that surprised them.
The demons and orcs joined forces, but not in the direction everyone had guessed.
They did not cross the Wind Emperor Mountains again and attack the defense line dominated by the Gwana Empire, nor did they turn back and kill in the direction of the still cold Sulitan Empire. Instead, choose to go west!
Judging by the geography of the demon-occupied area, to the north is a large area of land with inhabited land and still in a cold winter climate. To the south is the densely populated but well-run defensive line of the Gwana Empire with the Perilous Mountains.
Fighting northward will not be beneficial to demons and orcs, and they will have to fight against an empire. Playing southward, perhaps the most profitable, but also the most costly. Because it's not just a hard hit, it's just a kick in the iron plate.
However, the directions they can go are not only north and south, but also east and west.
Whether facing east or west, they may have to cross large areas of uninhabited land, as well as some treacherous terrain.
To the east, for example, is another small mountain range that stretches from the Wind Emperor Mountains, which is shorter in height, but this small mountain range has no curse power. To the west, you will encounter a large river that goes out to sea. No boat ferry
, is impossible to pass.
But as long as you pass these topographical difficulties, you will be followed by a large area of land with rich human resources. The nations of these lands are the same as they were in the area they now occupy. There are many small countries, and there is no strong unifying force.
The reason why the west is not chosen is because the east cannot fight a long distance, and it will run into a third empire. i.e. the Haider Empire!
Because of the small buffer zone in between, the Haider Empire sent men into the war early on, hoping to draw the enemy in other directions, or at least keep them out of its borders.
[In view of the general environment,
If you go to the west, you will eventually encounter the Vader militarists, which are also in the imperial sequence, but the number and population of the small countries in the middle are more than several times that of the east. So in terms of resources and difficulty, it is very reasonable for the demon and orc alliance to choose to march westward.
So are the people in the west prepared?
The actions of the combined forces of demons and orcs are the news that has been discovered by the new fast airship unit that regularly ventures across the Wind Emperor Mountain Range. I'm afraid that the human kingdom in the west, they don't know such news yet.
Although as soon as he got the news, he passed the news through the forum and sent an official envoy on an airship to deliver the news to the small country west of the demon-occupied area. But no one can guarantee how much it will play a role.
These small countries have not been completely inactive in the more than a year since they started the war.
The country's regular army may not dare to move. But the young people in the country, as well as some adventurers, as long as they have the heart, joined the original Southern Front of the Sulitan Empire early, and then suffered a big loss.
If it weren't for the great river on top of it, I'm afraid that in that great retreat, the combined forces of demons and orcs would have extended the battlefield to their doorstep.
Now the demon alliance is on the Wind Emperor Mountain Range, blocked by the defense line dominated by the Gwana Empire. Then they will try to find a breakthrough in other directions, which is very reasonable.
In this case, of course, it can no longer be regarded as a natural danger that cannot be broken. And those small countries that had lost their strength before, can they shoulder the heavy responsibility of blocking the demon alliance after a short period of recuperation. It can be said that no one is optimistic.