0165 Counteroffensive and preparation
"Not necessarily!"
Jialan smiled, "Guess your Excellency, or the razor crown he relies on, did you know that we killed an entire army of goblins last night?"
Captain Kenmet was stunned for a moment, and said thoughtfully: "Last night's attack happened too suddenly, and it ended too quickly, theoretically there should be no goblins escaping halfway, right?"
Fort Doom is just a war fortress that has been abandoned for I don't know how many years, and it has been converted to civilian use, and it does not have any city defense equipment, and it does not have the attack and defense power of a real war fortress at all.
In addition, the "civilian army" stationed in the Doom Fort is only the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Regiment, which has a combat strength of only 1,600 people, and when facing the attack of the 100,000 goblin legions, even the mercenaries themselves who are responsible for guarding the Doom Fort are already desperate.
Lacking in strength and expecting reinforcements, they were unlikely to be able to withstand the goblins' attacks from any angle.
The golden skeleton made a stunning appearance at the last moment, and the supernatural event of completely destroying the 100,000 goblin legions in a short period of time was difficult for them to accept, and the outside world would definitely not have imagined that Castle of Doom would suddenly emerge with such a high-end combat force.
In other words, the Golden Skull Legion is currently "invisible" in the outside world, and no one knows about their existence!
"Yes, while cleaning up the battlefield, my brothers scouted the surrounding area and did not find any scattered goblins escaping. ”
Hugo interjected: "And this time the goblin invasion seems to be the main army with the razor crown of the Lukatash clan as the main army. Responsible for attacking major cities in major city-states. The other lowland goblin clans of the Gardar Emirate serve as auxiliary legions, attacking small and medium-sized gathering points such as towns and villages around the city. ”
"According to intelligence, these auxiliary legions operate in clans. Half of the proceeds from the battle went to the clans, and half were handed over to the Lukatash clan as war supplies. So, I'm sure there should be no connection between these clans and legions that don't belong to each other and fight on their own!"
Hugo explained: "As far as the razor crown of the Lukatash clan is concerned, these vassal clan legions are just servant armies used to sweep away the surrounding small forces and raise food and supplies, and they are not worth paying attention to, even if they are connected. It was also Razor's Crown that unilaterally gave the order to attack the target......"
After listening to Hugo's intelligence analysis, Captain Kenmet also understood why Jialan would ask this question, and his eyes lit up and said, "What do you mean." Take advantage of the fact that the other side is not clear about our situation and carry out an ambush on them?"
"It's not enough to just ambush!"
Jia's dark eyes flashed with a faint blue light: "If I hand over this 'Knights of True Knowledge' to you to lead, you are sure to raid the Dragon's Lair Adventure Hall and liberate the besieged President Clarke." Are you waiting for an opportunity to counterattack the city of Koran?"
The mercenaries were all stunned. And Captain Kenmet almost split his eyes, and handed over this Knights of True Knowledge, which is composed of golden skeletons, to him to lead? Although these "Knights of True Knowledge" do not have mounts for the time being, even if they are used as hoplites, they are definitely an invincible super combat force!
As far as he knew, even in the regular army, the lowest gold-level warrior was the commander of a unit of more than 1,000 people, according to the decimal ratio of each profession, in an army of 100,000 troops. It can have one thousandth, that is, a hundred golden combat power. It's a very powerful legion.
An army of all-gold-level warriors?
Not to mention the mercenary world, even the regular city defense armies of the major city-states can't do such luxury, right?
Only those religious people can squander the contributions of believers and form high-end combat forces such as the so-called Knights of the Protectors, the Holy Knights, and the Knights of the Holy Light.
Just thinking about it makes your whole body feel hot!
Captain Kenmet almost trembled with excitement, the main force of the goblins had left the area of Koran City and was heading northwest for the city of Surebal.
Although there are a lot of Golden Power Clan's private army and goblin clan legions left behind in Koran City, if they mobilize troops to attack Doom Castle, the defense strength in Koran City will be reduced, and with the help of this Golden Skull Legion, it is impossible for the other party to withstand their sudden attack.
As long as you regain control of Coran City, and mobilize the arms of the major professional guilds and business guilds in Corland City, there is no chance to unite to block the back path of the goblin invasion!
"But if the gold ......"
Kenmet frowned, "Uh, this 'Knights of True Knowledge' has been transferred out of Doom Castle, how can we resist their attacks?" He didn't think that this young magician would give up his estate to save Coran City.
"We don't just have the 'Knights of True Knowledge'!"
Jia Lan smiled slightly: "Have you forgotten those goblins, kobolds, and lizard-people in the Underworld?"
After Kenmet was stunned for a moment, he reacted, before Jialan, as the "Director of the Faculty Supervision of the Student Self-Supervision and Management Department", summoned a large number of magic apprentices to the Doom Castle to participate in the "extracurricular practice mission", and took advantage of the situation to eliminate the three underground races in the entire underground world.
Except for a very small number of lizard-hunters of the Cold Spring Tribe, who escaped from the secret waterways, the total number of nearly 120,000 underground races has all regained their allegiance to the "Holy Land" under the ravages of the magic battle array.
It's just that because of the lack of trust in the 120,000 surrendered underground race population, they have been kept in the Underground World Realm in an interned nature, responsible for rebuilding the Holy Land and developing the Underground World.
Out of fear of the "Holy Land", these underground races have behaved quite honestly during this time, so at a critical moment, it should still be possible to temporarily transfer them to resist the attack of the invaders.
Moreover, Captain Kenmet suspected that the mysterious young magician might have some other magical means to deal with the invaders who were attacking Doom Castle.
Kenmet nodded decisively: "Then I'll go and gather the personnel now!"
If you want to cooperate with the gold-level "Knights of True Knowledge", the mercenaries below the silver level are useless at all, so Captain Kenmet plans to only bring the gold and silver mercenaries in the team.
Jialan took out the statue of the "Summoner of Death" and communicated silently with the "black-robed mage" beside him for a while, and as it waved the white bone staff, thousands of "True Knights" equipped with the Goliath War Giant Armor were divided into several thousand-person battle groups, which were led by several gold-level deputy regimental leaders under Kenmet's command.
Under the orders of the Death Summoners, those silver-level mercenaries were appointed as the captains of the hundred-man clan to ensure that these high-level undead could obey their orders during the battle, and would not go berserk to kill the creatures closest to them.
In order to avoid the invaders' army, Captain Kenmet led the "Knights of True Knowledge" out of the castle of doom early, and lurked near Koran City on a long detour, once they saw that the goblin legion and the Golden Power Society's private army left Koran City, they would attack the goblins who surrounded the Dragon's Lair Adventure Hall and rescue the large number of mercenaries and adventurers who were besieged.
Before leaving, I had already communicated with President Clark and others who were trapped in the Dragon's Lair Adventure Hall through the Communication Mirror, and they would try their best to persuade those mercenary groups and adventure groups to cooperate.
After all, Koran City is a place for these people to eat, and the stations and networks that have been operating for many years are all in Kolan City, and it is understandable to preserve their strength in the case of force that cannot be resisted, but no one wants to survive under the rule of a group of goblins in the future.
According to Jialan's analysis, whether it is Baron Jin Quan or the Goblin Legion, I am afraid that there is a covetous heart for Doom Castle, what Baron Jin Quan wants is naturally a potion production line that can generate a lot of wealth in Collei Elixir, and what the goblins want is probably something in the underground world.
Therefore, in addition to the goblin legions left behind, I am afraid that there will be a large number of private armed forces who cooperate with Baron Jin Quan's rebellion, as well as people who have taken refuge in Baron Jin Quan's mercenary groups, street gangs, smuggling alliances and other underground forces.
Since the Goblin Legion and the Golden Power Guild were powerful, neither side knew what the other party wanted, so it was naturally impossible to allow the other party to unilaterally attack Doom Castle, lest what they wanted fall into the hands of the other party.
In this way, when the time comes, the strength of attacking Fort of Doom will definitely be the vast majority of the strength that the opponent can take, and the strength of the remaining forces in Kolan City will definitely be weak, so as long as Captain Kenmet and their actions are fast enough, after recapturing Koran City, they will still have time to bring men and horses back to aid Fort Doom.
The premise is that Jialan, who stayed behind in Doom Castle, can lead nearly 3,000 dwarves, more than 1,500 mercenaries, and the three underground races that are huge in number, but their combat power is worrying, and hold on until they return!
Seeing Kenmet and the mercenaries leave in the twilight, Jialan placed a small number of "True Knights" on the city wall as sentinels.
At night, the necromancer's sensitivity to the breath of living beings is far more effective than that of mercenaries using the naked eye to detect in a dimly lit environment, and although it is impossible for mercenaries to be incompetent enough to detect the movement of a large army, those thieves who rely on stealth and stealth skills to act in the dark of night always need to be especially guarded against.
The work of arranging personnel to defend does not need to be completed by Jialan, the spellcaster, naturally, experienced mercenaries are in charge, and he took the Death Summoner into the ruins, although the time is very short, but Jialan feels that he may be able to find some "help" in the ruins.
For example, among the four "Asadrons", in addition to the "Death Summoner", there are "Dragon Power Gatekeepers, Fire Summoners, and Night Dragonwrangers". (To be continued......)