In order to strengthen the defense of the reclaimed land and compress the space for Iwabeard's movement, Ninia also did a lot of other work.

The bandits are fierce and have self-produced weapons, and it is not enough to rely on stratagem and main surprise attacks, so Ninia, with Vincent's permission, also organized a volunteer army in the mountains.

The Volunteer Regiment is a permanent militia officially authorized by the lord, which is different from the temporarily recruited militia, so the participants are carefully selected young people.

Some of them were woodcutters, hunters, medicine pickers, and miners, but all of them had a blood feud with the bandits.

Receiving the honor equivalent of a soldier made the young people extremely excited, especially when the medal was worn, everyone felt the supreme honor.

However, as Ninia said, a person who cannot contribute absolute loyalty in battle is not worthy of becoming the elite of the lord, so if you want to join the Volunteer Corps in the field, you must wear a blood curse when performing tasks.

From the point of view of doing what she says, Ninia is a general that even Cana admires, and every time she fights, she has to sign a blood spell with the lord's lich, but this blood curse can be controlled remotely by Vincent.

The Skava people are relatively late in civilization, and it is common for them to use low human rights to manipulate the army during wars, and even means such as sitting on a poisonous oath to supervise the war collar are not new to them, but he took the initiative to ask for the blood curse of the demons, and Shiv dared to swear that it was the first time he had seen it.

In a sense, the reason why this woman is awesome is not because she is strong, but because she dares to put herself in a position where there is no way to retreat, and she really dares to fight.

"The master said that if you don't succeed, you will become benevolent, that is, if you don't win, you won't survive." Ninia also explained to Jana once, "Actually, I'm more afraid of him making me do things that make me shy, like dancing in strange clothes, like wearing strange clothes......

"Aren't you afraid of death?" Jana asked worriedly, "Or aren't you afraid that the lord will control you?"

"I've been controlled by him for a long time." Ninia said amazingly, "In this world, there is no one who is not controlled by others, and the master is actually really good to me except for the strange ideas sometimes."

"How nice?" Jana's gossip got the upper hand, "I don't see that he loves you very much, but he's just making you tired."

"He's grinding me, in a way that no one else understands." Ninia smiled slightly, "A woman who just wants to be pampered is the easiest to fall out of favor...... Don't look at me like that, it's what my father told me."

Cana vaguely remembered that Shiv seemed to have said that Ninia's father was also an earl, and that he had been exiled to demon territory because of Herode's political struggles.

The fallen nobles became villagers, so Ninia's temperament had nothing to do with the ladies of the noble family.

On the surface, she obeyed the lord's words, but Cana could see that Ninia was still very wild in her bones.

If the lord knew that she recklessly jumped from the cliff into the enemy's fortress, he would probably be surprised.

With Ninia's demonstration, the young people of the Volunteer Legion of course did not want to show weakness in front of the beautiful general, and expressed their willingness to sign a blood curse in order to protect their hometown, and they would die in front of the bandits.

Next, Ninia organized the hundreds of battleable militia into ten squads, each assigned a chief, and most of them were scattered in the mountains to patrol and defend, and the rest were rotated.

Of course, this is not to send young people with little combat experience to death, but to complement the advantages of undead creatures.

When the militia and the lord's skeleton soldiers are stationed in the mountains together, it can effectively compensate for the clumsiness and slowness of the skeletons, and at the same time, the sleepless nature of the skeletons can also give people a rest, and can also allow them to free their hands and feet, and expand the scope of reconnaissance and vigilance.

Life and death match, work is not tiring.

As long as there is a blood curse on the body, the undead and monsters will regard it as a demon dependent, and all hostility will disappear, and naturally it will not look hideous and terrifying.

The militiamen, who were reluctant to get along with the undead in the past, also realized in the mission how reliable these hard-working skeletons were, and in a sense, they were also brave enough to make the Terran embarrassed.

thereupon

Within a few days, the demons and the human race fought side by side, slowly occupying the key places marked on the sand table, forming an encirclement of the mining town.

Mountain warfare is different from the plains, even if there are a large number of people, it is difficult to accumulate enough impact power in a feint, and a small number of troops can occupy dangerous ground, which can make it difficult for more enemies to break through.

Needless to say, now that Iwasaki's troops have lost more than half, he may not have the courage to rush to the ground, even if he has the courage, he has to consider time and cost.

If you can't defeat the strongholds of those lord armies in a short time, the other party will not only reinforce them, but also may take advantage of the empty town to carry out a sneak attack, which is what really worries Iwasu.

After all, after hearing about the crazy and deadly tactics of the other heroine, everyone must pay more attention to her follow-up, not daring to take another large-scale adventure, but also must beware of her pressing step by step.

Each of the mountainous areas was carefully selected to effectively threaten the access roads of the mining town, including not only the territorial army and militia, but also various supplies.

There are low-level monster warnings around, and the Harpy flies around these strongholds all day, making it very difficult to sneak attack.

In addition, the stronghold has been reinforced by soldiers, so not only can it be held, but in the event of a large-scale attack, it can be called for support by lighting a beacon fire.

Originally, the roads in the mountains were not suitable for rapid support, but the demons had the advantage of flying units and could play airborne combat, and Ninia had a mobile team of twenty harpys, who could not only conduct reconnaissance, but also transport supplies.

After rescuing Elsa, Ninia became the first person to be parachuted into the territory of Harpy, she found that Harpy was too light, the load was not enough, and it was barely enough to carry a skinny girl like herself, but the armed man was no use at all - this is why she used two Harpys in the surprise attack fortress.

Transporting people is not a problem, but carrying skeletons without muscles is not a problem, and in a mountainous environment, Harpy can save his stamina by gliding to carry skeletons and weapons to other mountains.

No matter how fast the dwarf's little short legs are, they can't be faster than the harpy's wings.

So, even if the mountaineers can't quickly reinforce military points that are far away from each other on their feet, Harpy, who is always on standby, can throw skeleton reserves into any stronghold at any time from the commanding heights.

From the sandbox, as more and more banners appeared outside the mining town, the dwarven stronghold became more and more isolated, and even if the cavalry team couldn't engage in mountain warfare, a separate stronghold made it difficult for Iwawhisker to easily overcome.

What's more, Ninia also asked the necromancer to work overtime, working on all kinds of corpses in the mountains, and increasing the number of skeletons everywhere - no matter how many skeletons there were, they wouldn't eat or drink, and even if they increased, they wouldn't be burdened with supplies.

In order to reward his team of mages, Vincent said that the subsidy for magic stones would be doubled for those who accompanied the army, and if they made a great achievement, the lord would also build them a black tower of no less scale than the Dark Tallinn, for them to study magic.

Don't look at the lich and necromancer brought from the Demon Domain at the beginning, they are all Demon King's people, but under the inspiration of Wen Sen Xiaozhi to move the magic stone and move the gold coin, this group of demon intellectuals who can't even touch the lowest black tower in the Demon Domain have also signed allegiance to the lord.

In the territory, Vincent eats everything in black and white in the mage business, relying on the prestige and arrogant financial resources of the lord, he can make the magicians of the two clans who are not at odds elsewhere turn enemies into friends, and often hold experience exchange seminars.

As a former intellectual, Mr. Wen has never been ambiguous in implementing intellectual policies.

As the territorial army strengthened its strongholds day and night, the mining towns had been sealed off with the exception of the large fortresses on the second line of defense, and the noose around Iwasu's neck was getting tighter and tighter—if the dwarves had a neck.

The nimble and creative tactics make up for the difficulty of maneuvering in the mountains, which is praised not only by the upright Cana, but also by the well-known Shif, who admires Ninia's commanding skills.

"Actually, I didn't come up with it, it was the master who told me all kinds of war stories that inspired me." Ninia explained to the two of them where she came from, "He said that in some countries, people can make machines that can fly into the sky, like this...

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As she spoke, Ninia borrowed a small toy from the children who had just played with her, and explained it to Jana and Shiv while gesturing and explaining.

Jana leaned over and saw at a glance that the wooden toy consisted of two parts, one was a long handle, which was sharpened into a long handle with a piece of wood, and the other was a wing, with a slender piece of wood less than a foot long, with a small round hole in the middle, and the long handle was firmly inserted in the middle.

It didn't seem like a big deal, Jana thought to herself, it was just a small trick for the lord to curry favor with the locals, and I heard that wherever he went, the toys were delivered.

It's nothing, in order to be kind to the people, Miss Cana herself, who used to be able to stop the night crying of children on the grassland, now also puts down the shelves and often plays games with the children on her back?

The lord thinks long-term, and this point Cana has to admire, if you want to change the vicious impression of the demon clan, you should start with the child......

As the blonde girl grabbed the long handle with the palms of both hands, rubbed it vigorously and quickly, and at the same time released both hands, the toy actually spun its wings and soared into the air, flying straight into the sky.

It certainly wasn't magic, and it didn't look like it was pushed by force alone, and Jana looked at it for a moment until the toy "snapped" to the ground.

"The huge machine that the master said has a larger propeller than this 'bamboo dragonfly' that can take off on the spot, take a lot of people directly into the sky, and then send them wherever they want to go."

"What kind of machine is that, it sounds a little powerful...... Schiff asked with a wink, "Sounds like a dragon."

"The owner said that the machine is called a "helicopter", and the principle of flying is the same as that of this toy, which uses the pressure difference between the upper and lower surfaces caused by the rotation of the blades to create lift to fly, but the machine can make the propeller rotate all the time, and can also control the machine to take off and land. As for the dragon ......" Ninia paused before smiling bitterly, "The master said it was very unscientific, he couldn't understand it but was shocked."

"There are no such machines in the Magic Academy, they can make golems walk and fight at best." Schiff nodded and said, "But that machine is definitely a good thing, especially in war, if the lord can build it......

"That's the air cavalry that doesn't ride horses." Ninia said firmly, "The master said that the cavalry was destined to be eliminated by technology."

"That sounds sad, but I also believe in the wisdom of the lord," Jana said, lowering her ear, "Is the lord a prophet?" How could he know what hadn't happened at all......

"Don't worry, Sister Jana, it may be a long, long time before that happens." Ninia hugged Jana affectionately and comforted, "The master is the true Chosen One, and I believe that his wisdom is not below any wise man in the mainland, and he is ......."

Perhaps not entirely sure of her thoughts, Ninia paused, looked at the two Skava men, and said to herself:

"My master is like a god to me......

Although he had seen many people who worshipped some great people as gods, Schiff was a man of extreme intelligence, and he knew that it was nothing more than a vulgar expression of ignorance, obedience, helplessness, or ulterior motives.

It is absolutely extremely rare for people to truly believe in people as gods.

However, Ninia was an exception, and his loyalty to Vincent was not due to the slave girl's fear of her master's inferiority, but from the heart of her faith, and she rarely prayed to the god of light and order, but when she prayed, she asked God to bless her master.

Although it is strange to say it, Schiff has always had the feeling that Ninia Wald is not because the lord is stronger, but because the lord forces herself to be stronger.

I really don't know what kind of magic this demon lord has that can make the God of Light choose to follow him with all his heart.

But one thing Schiff was sure of, and that was that his allegiance to the lord was never a bad thing, and he told others more than once that Vincent, the lord of the Maritime Realm, was by no means an idle man, and that he was destined to become a legend in the future.

No one knows what will happen to Lord Vincent, but now everyone is sure that Iwashu Zark's life is getting harder and harder.

After a tentative attack, Iwasu's remaining bandit forces stormed

The pass controlled by the territorial army was unsurprisingly met with a head-on attack.

Originally, this small stronghold, which had less than ten people with skeletons, was determined to be the weakest after reconnaissance, and Iwasu's subordinates gathered fifty people to open the road, but the people above resisted to the death and insisted on not retreating, to be honest, the bandits had never seen such a tenacious militia.

The people inside lit a beacon fire, and soon the territorial army in the mountains discovered the military situation, and sent ten skeleton soldiers into the battlefield with the on-call Harpy to block the bandits attacking below.

As the number of skeletons increased, the people below felt more and more difficult to succeed, and almost climbed into the stronghold a few times, but they were still blocked by the skeletons who were not afraid of death, and the people inside kept throwing stones downward, and the bandit army killed and wounded twenty people and still found nothing.

In the end, because there were too many people in the stronghold and there was no place to put their feet, Harpy, who no longer sent skeleton reinforcements, took fire in his mouth and directly threw more than a dozen bottles of "Molotov Happy Bottles" in the crowd, burning the bandits gathered below and running around, making them completely dead.

The territory continued to send war materials to the mountains, and the lack of morality became more and more fancy, and the remaining outer fortresses made the people inside nervous breakdown with air strikes and cold guns day and night.

Every day there was either fire or cursed smoke from the fortress, and the dwarves were strong and resistant, and no one dared to peek out from behind the pits and stone walls.

However, Commander Ninia was not in a hurry to attack, the fortress was already in the bag under siege, and she also hoped that Iwasu would send more people to clean up and relieve the pressure of the general attack.

It would be great if Iwasugh was reluctant to give up the fortress and continue to let his men die inside!

During these days, she ordered more people to expand patrols and searches on the perimeter, gather intelligence, find routes, and prepare for a general attack on the town.