Chapter 254: The Birth of the Army of the Undead

And Ye Tianlong is now short of soldiers and horses, so after the integration of these necromancers, this restriction was completely relaxed, so that these necromancers can make undead warriors without restrictions, in addition to those corpses collected from the battlefield these days, many of the corpses collected from the ruins of the city have also been concentrated, those necromancers are really not picky eaters, even those incomplete corpses they can use, just like the lowest-level skeleton soldiers and zombies, Many of them were spliced together from parts on different corpses.

Ye Tianlong knew that he would definitely have trouble doing this, but he believed that before the common enemy demon was not defeated, those necromancers would not be so impatient to launch a rebellion, even if those necromancers wanted to make trouble, it would have to wait until the demon was completely defeated, and at that time Ye Tianlong felt that he might have abdicated, and these troubles would be solved by his descendants! lest those guys have no threat at all, and they all start to enjoy themselves, and one by one they have become wasters.

And with Ye Tianlong's strong support, in just over a month, these necromancers have created millions of undead warriors, but it may be because the dark blue star has only been transformed by those dark spires for a few years, and the concentration of magic is not high enough, most of the undead warriors created by these necromancers are just low-level undead creatures such as skeletons and zombies.

These skeletons and zombies are not only ineffective, but also have little self-awareness, and will only act according to their master's orders, and when there are no orders, they will only continue to wander around the tomb until they encounter living creatures.

Therefore, if these undead creatures whose strength is not strong can give full play to their combat effectiveness, someone must command them. But since the number of necromancers under Ye Tianlong's command is limited, it is naturally impossible to let these only dozens of necromancers serve as commanders.

But those brainless skeleton soldiers and zombies can't be commanded by no one, so in the end, Ye Tianlong asked those necromancers to create a magic prop that can transfer the control of those undead warriors back and forth, so that he can transfer the control of those undead warriors to his soldiers, and let those soldiers under him be responsible for controlling those undead warriors.

Those necromancers may also want to behave well in front of Ye Tianlong, the new master, so they attach great importance to the task assigned by Ye Tianlong, and after a month of research, these necromancers quickly researched a prop that can meet Ye Tianlong's requirements.

And the first batch of 10,000 undead warriors has also been armed, and of these 10,000 undead warriors, 5,000 skeleton soldiers, and 5,000 are zombies. Because the strength in front of them is different, so after being transformed into undead warriors, the strength of these skeletons and zombies is also high and low, among those skeletons, some of them are the most basic skeleton soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is not even comparable to a healthy adult man, that is, they can be compared with adult women, it can be said that they are weak to the extreme, plus the body is only left with a skeleton, and there are no muscles and skin, so it is very fragile, and the health value is only about forty points, and it may fall apart if you hit it hard with a wooden stick, So Ye Tianlong didn't expect these guys to go to melee combat, but let those necromancers make them long-range troops, so those most basic skeleton soldiers became crossbowmen, using the winch heavy crossbow that had long been eliminated in the army of the Blue Dragon Empire, and those higher-level skeleton archers were equipped with compound battle bows, which were mainly responsible for long-range firepower output, and the melee weapon was only a straight-edged combat knife.

And although the strength of those zombies is also low, they really have a brute force, and because the flesh and blood on their bodies are still there, their vitality is also relatively high, most of them have more than 100 points. So Ye Tianlong let these guys go to be a melee class, and considering that these guys are very slow, so Ye Tianlong made these zombies become phalanx pikemen, this class itself does not need to have too high movement speed, most of the time it even needs to stand in place and maintain the formation, so it is very suitable for these slow-moving zombies. The ones in these zombies are of better rank. Zombie warriors who evolve in the direction of physical enhancement are generally arranged in the front row of the gun array, and their weapons are not only a phalanx spear more than six meters long, but also most of them will be equipped with a two-handed axe, two-handed broadsword or two-handed broadsword as a backup weapon after the spear is broken.

As for weapons, most of those skeleton soldiers are equipped with a breastplate armor, which is also a eliminated item in the Blue Dragon Empire army, and those zombies are equipped with full-body plate armor, which is made of ordinary steel, which is a thing eliminated by the previous soldiers, and the main focus is a waste utilization, which minimizes the construction cost of these cannon fodder troops.

Ye Tianlong's purpose can be regarded as achieved, through a series of waste utilization operations, the formation cost of these undead cannon fodder troops is extremely low, not even one-tenth of the militia troops, and then there is no need to pay any military salaries, nor do they need to eat, and the maintenance cost is so low that it is negligible. With the current foundation of the Qinglong Empire, tens of millions of dollars exploded in one go, and Ye Tianlong also said that there was no pressure.

To test the effectiveness of the magic item, the necromancers quickly summoned a few soldiers stationed here and handed them a black sign, half the size of a palm, which looked like a token, but it depicted a hideous and terrifying skull, and exuded a cold aura.

After receiving the tokens, the soldiers followed the instructions of the necromancers and tried to touch their divine thoughts with the black tokens, activating the miniature magic array that had been carved inside.

It only took a few seconds for a soldier with the highest cultivation to activate successfully, and then he felt the connection between himself and a hundred undead soldiers, and these hundred undead soldiers all left a trace of soul fire in this token, relying on this trace of soul fire, even if they are far away, the controller holding this token can communicate with those undead soldiers in real time and give them various orders.

And those necromancers call this kind of prop a necromancer soldier card, the reason why each card can only control a hundred undead warriors is also Ye Tianlong's special order, because he feels that if there are too many of them, those soldiers who are not necromancers themselves may not be able to control it, but it will affect their own combat effectiveness, and after his discussion with those necromancers, this hundred is a more suitable number.

In addition, these undead soldiers have some more advanced existences, which can be held by those generals, these more advanced undead war soldier cards, higher authority, once they find that there are soldiers leading the undead soldiers to rebel, they can use their authority to directly seal the function of the cards in the hands of those soldiers, so that they can no longer control those undead soldiers to make chaos.

After a few minutes, several other soldiers who participated in the test also successfully activated their armor cards, gaining control of a hundred undead warriors.

The soldiers, under the guidance of the necromancers, began to try to give orders to the necromancers and learn how to control them.

With the order to assemble, hundreds of undead warriors crawled out of the cemetery, their weapons and armor looked black, as if covered with rust, and had been completely scrapped, but in fact, this was only because of the reason that it had been transformed by undead magic, after all, these equipment were to be used by undead warriors, so naturally they needed to be transformed with undead magic first, so that these equipment could adapt to the cold environment that the undead liked, so as not to be really rusted and scrapped in the end.

Although these weapons and armor don't look very good now, they are actually sharper and stronger than before because they have been strengthened by the undead magic energy.

With stiff and slow steps, the undead warriors quickly formed a fairly neat formation according to their respective squads, with the zombies serving as phalanx pikemen in the front and the skeleton soldiers serving as crossbowmen in the rear.

The zombies then ordered the soldiers to form a phalanx of extremely standard spears. Because there are some plague zombies inside, as these zombies stay here for a long time, they even form a miserable green corpse poison mist around the troops, covering the entire spear phalanx and the skeleton crossbowmen in the rear.

When several soldiers held their breath and forcibly broke into it to check whether the spear phalanx laid by those zombies was up to standard, a major officer who was watching felt that this was also a major feature of those plague zombies, and it could be used as a smoke bomb on the battlefield, effectively covering the specific whereabouts of their own troops, so that the enemy's long-range strike effect decreased, and those plague zombies became stronger and stronger, and the toxicity of the corpse poison emitted by those plague zombies became stronger and stronger, once those enemies couldn't help but take a breath when they were fighting, It will be poisoned immediately, and even if it doesn't kill the opponent, it will reduce its combat power.

Therefore, the major officer felt that he should arrange two or three plague zombies in each zombie pikeman hundred-man team in the future, and also protect them in the center of the team, so that they would not be easily found and killed by the enemy.

The other officers on the sidelines agreed with the suggestion, and the necromancers recorded it as well, lest they forget the request later.

And after testing, the gun array laid by those zombie pikemen is still quite standard, and these zombies will not feel tired, so even if they hold a heavy spear more than six meters long to maintain the gun formation for a long time, these zombies will not lose their combat power because of fatigue, it can be said that although their strength is not as good as the militia troops of the Blue Dragon Empire, but in terms of endurance, it is about to explode.

Those skeleton crossbowmen are the same, as long as the arrows are enough, they can continue to shoot, the only flaw is that those lowest-level skeleton soldiers are not professional ranged troops, so the crossbow arrows shot are not accurate, and can only be covered and shot in a general direction according to the commander's orders, that is to say, these guys are only suitable for large-scale group combat, not for individual combat, fortunately, Ye Tianlong never expected these undead cannon fodder to fight alone, Instead, they were directly organized into squads of one hundred units, and the human soldiers under them were given specific commands.

After passing the test, the first batch of 10,000 undead warriors were transported to the front line by several large trucks, ready to be put into real combat to see how effective it was.

Zhou Xiaoyang is a small centurion of the militia of the Blue Dragon Empire, and on this day he received a notice from his superiors that he would equip them with a special kind of battle puppet to assist them in defending a small town that they had just recovered.

Zhou Xiaoyang has also seen the battle puppet, those magicians from the Xuangu Continent will use all kinds of magic materials to create a roughly humanoid puppet, let them help fight, but those things are not cheap, even if it is only the most basic stone man, the materials that need to be used must be obsidian in the Xuangu Continent, and the other puppets are even more troublesome to make, those mages have basically no chance to create new battle puppets after being forced to surrender to the demons, So now there are no more battle golems left around those magicians. Therefore, Zhou Xiaoyang did not expect the number of battle puppets that could be arranged for them above, and he felt that if he wanted to defend the town in the future, he still had to rely on those human soldiers under his command.

As a Zhou Xiaoyang, who was born in a small mountain village in the former Great Song Kingdom, joined the army of the Qinglong Empire two years ago, he followed the army of the Qinglong Empire to fight east and west over the years, basically what demons and monsters have seen, he feels that his experience in the past two years is even more wonderful than the experience of those old people in the village for decades, in the process of conquest, Zhou Xiaoyang, who was lucky, did not even suffer any major injuries, and his cultivation barely reached the level of chemical strength, plus he was old enough to become a centurion of the militia force, He has the rank of lieutenant and a knighthood.

Although there was no hope for the number of battle puppets that would be sent to them above, Zhou Xiaoyang, who had always been very obedient to orders, immediately asked his soldiers to gather except for those standing guard, ready to announce this matter, so that everyone could prepare to receive those battle puppets, for example, at least have to clear a few warehouses for those battle puppets! After all, those battle golems are all precious things, and they can't be left out casually, and it would be bad if someone picked them up or broke them.