Section 128 Fadell's Battle Situation and Variables (2)
The pitch-black bird feathers shone a faint silver glow in the silver moonlight, adding a touch of mystery to this ominous bird.
The jackdaw landed on a white hand, "Oh, my darling, you are back, come, let me see what you have seen?"
The one who spoke wore an expressionless mask, and there was an even stranger guy next to him, who was dressed like a polite nobleman, but if you saw his face, to be precise, you would be startled when you saw his right eye, because his right eye was unusually large, and protruding, the size of a baby's little fist, and it was squeezed out of the socket, and the pupils on it were like living creatures, constantly turning.
The masked man gently stroked the jackdaw with his other hand, and his eyes glowed faintly, reflecting the whites of his pupils.
After a moment, as if he had received some information from the jackdaw in his hand, his voice floated out from under the mask: "Evil Eye, the army of the Five Nations Alliance has left their realm and gone to support Lan Fangsuo. ”
"So, we're halfway through our plan?" said Count Evil-Eyed in surprise.
"But there's the stumbling block of the Temple of Mana. The alien invasion can only help us part, and Manna and her high priest are still wary of us. "Masquerade.
"There's really no way Manna can interfere with us directly?" Count Evil-Eye's bewitching eyes stopped rolling wildly, staring at the mask along with the other eye.
"It takes time and containers for a divine descent, and each divine descent consumes a large amount of Mana's divine power, and it has only been five years since her last divine descent. Do you think that she didn't pay a certain price for killing the Dragon Emperor in the first place? She can now divide the Divine Power to create one or two Divine Sons or Sages to stop us. Otherwise, we would have been wiped out long ago. The mage sneered. "This is also our last chance, if we resurrect Mistress Biskla Ullet or get her inheritance, we still have the possibility of confronting Mana, or we will be pinched to death like fleas when she is fully recovered. ”
"If it weren't for that, how could Red Lotus, Obsidian, and that stinky fart who likes to pose all day long be willing to cooperate this time. The Evil-Eyed Count also said in a dark voice.
"Let's get moving, too. Kamen stretched his arms, and the jackdaw flew up, hovering over their heads and flying off into the distance—
Bands of soldiers came out of the fortress of the Mogur Merchant Order. Formed a formation and began to march towards the position of the aboriginal army.
Solomon and the four of them rode the horses equipped by the merchant group, and with the lowering of the teleportation threshold, ordinary livestock could also teleport over, not to mention war horses, but like people, low-level creatures will have a period of discomfort after teleportation.
This is where the establishment of forts and strongholds comes in, which can enhance the security of subsequent teleportations.
Judging from Solomon's experience in leading his own private army, orc troops, and regular Asturian legions in the past few years, these troops are still failing because they are too fast. There is a lack of running-in and a lack of training. There is not much advantage in terms of individual soldiers, at most in terms of personal equipment, the Mogul merchant group has really invested money for this development, and the expanding private army is equipped according to the standard of the imperial infantry.
This is definitely not a small amount, it is not a problem for a country, and it is probably only possible for a free city with a special status like the Free City to supply it, and it is even more difficult for a merchant group.
Solomon's expansion in the past few years has been much easier than that of the Mogul Consultation Order, because it is semi-official, he plays with the white wolf with empty gloves, and after successfully cooperating with the orcs, he not only gets the knighthood, but also gets a blank formation of a legion for him to recruit.
Don't underestimate this, if the Mogul merchant group can't ask for this, if you have it before you enter Fadell, I'm afraid you will laugh crazy. Because of this, Solomon can buy weapons from any armory workshop in Asturias, and the other party must not refuse, because he can buy it in the name of establishing that legion, but in essence, it will be very convenient for Solomon to establish a private army or support a certain force outside of the legion, not to mention that the dwarves have a very good relationship with him.
There must also be preferential prices, which means that the king's purchase has the best price, which is one of the privileges of the royal family.
And Solomon himself also opened a workshop with his classmates from the Academy of Magic, and this kind of relationship is constructed together, and there is already a vague prototype of industrial union, which brings great convenience to Solomon.
The Mogul merchant group does not have such an advantage, and is in a hurry to expand the army, just the armament will inevitably be taken advantage of the opportunity to knock a stroke, the support of the official, the second prince Garon does not dare to be blatant, like now, it is already the limit to secretly send a long empty battalion and one or two high-level soldiers over.
But the Mogul merchant group had to grit their teeth this time, because they couldn't lose. Among the three major business groups in Titania, they have no big people to support, and they have been squeezed very hard by the other two business groups over the years, and there will be no way out if they continue like this, fortunately, there is an opportunity for Fadell, at first I wanted to swallow it alone, and then I couldn't swallow it, so I took the line of the second prince.
In contrast, the Mogul Merchant Order, a large army formed by the merger of its own private army and the mercenary group that often cooperates, may only have a slight advantage over the native army in terms of armament, based on the premise that the Kaos plane is superior to the other party in both smelting and forging.
But such a makeshift patchwork team is too poor in other aspects, morale is not high, and cooperation should not be expected too much.
The best way to fight is to retreat into a fortress, but you can cooperate seamlessly.
However, it is strategically impossible for the Mogul merchant group to continue like this, because they must defeat the aborigines and regain control of this area, so that the mining of black rock can be realized, so that the investment of the Mogul merchant group can be rewarded, and it will be meaningful to the second prince and even the Titanian Empire, and it is worthy of their support for the Mogul merchant group in the future and stabilize their position.
Therefore, the Mogul merchant group must attack, and it must do its best, otherwise if there is an extraneous branch, other opponents will know that the Mogul merchant group has this opportunity to turn over, and they may not find a way to destroy it.
So there is really only a head-on battle like now, because the Mogul merchant group has another advantage in its hands, counting the later high-level professionals, there are at least ten high-level Mogul merchant groups now, which is temporarily incomparable to the aboriginal army.
The combat level of the aboriginal army has been seen in the battle of the fortress, and the individual soldiers are inferior to the second-line army of Asturias stationed in important cities, but the advantage lies in the number, even if the Mogul merchant group sends reinforcements, but it is still not superior in numbers, and the other party is fighting on the own plane, and the reinforcements can be endless; morale and cooperation are stronger than the private army of the Mogul merchant group, because they have a common belief and are defending their homeland.
When the aliens' actions were detected by the spies sent by the natives, the Lord of the Sand Country and the priests of the temple knew about it.
Although Lan Fangsuo did not know that there were five more high-level professionals in the Mogul Merchant Order, the increase in ordinary soldiers was obvious, and it could be seen from the return of the spies that the number of enemies had increased so much, even if it was far less elite than the original guards who guarded the fortress, but it had brought back a lot of numerical advantages.
The natives do not have as many high-level professionals as the other party, and the enemy has at least six or seven high-level professionals (Solomon and the three are counted as one), and Lan Fangsuo is the only one and the legion leader under his command who are at the Zhenguo level and can compete, although there are many temple priests, but most of them are only at the same level as junior mages, and lack attack skills. (In the Manna system of priests, only intermediate priests can master the attack arts, and the junior priests only master the auxiliary effects.)
For the sake of military strategy, Lan Fangsuo did not want to fight with the enemy who rushed out of the fortress, since the last failed attack on the fortress, he positioned his army to contain, so that the aliens did not dare to invade the territory at will or on a large scale, and held out until his friendly army arrived. After the Battle of the Fortress, he had already sent a message to the Mana Central Temple and the other four countries to ask for support.
Whether it was the Temple or the allies of the Four Kingdoms, Lan Fangso was confident that he would regain control of the situation and eventually drive the invaders away, or even destroy them.
However, the priests of the temple did not agree, and they were in a state of flux, refusing Lan Fangso's request to avoid the war and relocate.
Of course, there are many reasons, for the sake of the goddess Mana, for the glory of Fadel, for the courage and reputation, and also pointed out the advantages of his army in front of Lan Fangso, there is still an advantage in numbers, with the blessing of the goddess, with the divine help of the priests, the enemy has been stupid enough to get out of the strong fortress, etc.
Several of Fadel's nations worship the goddess Mana, and the voices of the priests must be taken seriously, and their quarrel with Ranfanso has become known to more people, and the soldiers and generals under Ranfanso's command also consider it shameful to retreat. Although he knew that this might have been deliberately spread by the priests, Lan Fangso couldn't stop it.
In this case, Lan Fangsuo had no choice, the enemy was coming step by step, and there was not much time left for him to think about, whether to fight or retreat, no matter what the choice was, he had to make it as much as possible. And the priests deliberately spread his idea of wanting to avoid war, which has already shaken the morale of the army a little and affected the morale.
Therefore, Lan Fangso finally made up his mind to face the alien army that came out of the fortress head-on.
And so a big war began. (To be continued!)
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