Chapter 3: Traces of the Dead
Four days later, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Miro Empire finally captured the first undead, and in a small village littered with corpses, dozens of ghouls and an abomination were devouring corpses.
Ghouls are a somewhere between zombies and skeletons, but are much more agile and faster than skeletons and zombies. They barely maintained their human form, but most of the flesh on their bodies had rotted and fallen off, and Sensen's bones could be seen in many places. They have hideous faces and live by devouring corpses, and as long as there is a breath left, they can rely on devouring flesh and blood to recover Liliang.
Abomination is a monster more than four meters tall, with a flat head, an ugly face, a mouth full of fangs, the muscles and fat on the body are also tangled, and the green veins and veins all over the body are intertwined. A large opening was also made in the stomach, revealing the rotting flesh inside. He also has a large naturally occurring bone blade on his hand.
It's just a bunch of disgusting and evil monsters devouring and gnawing human limbs. The stumps, blood, and entrails that littered the ground had turned the entire village into an Asura slaughterhouse.
When General Lupsas saw this scene, he only said one word: "Kill!"
The battle ended quickly, and it didn't take much effort for hundreds of soldiers in iron armor to strangle the ghouls with knives and guns, but the abomination caused a lot of trouble for everyone, and finally killed it after five soldiers were smashed in the head by the giant blade it held, and when it fell, its body was densely packed with knives and spears like a hedgehog.
After dealing with the dozens of undead, Lupsas was about to order the whole army to move on, but Dick suggested: "Marshal, we had better deal with these corpses, the undead wizards can summon skeleton soldiers from inside, and the ghouls can recover their energy by devouring the corpses." ”
Marshal Lupsas mused, "You are right. Charles, you lead the first brigade to cremate the bodies of the undead and the villagers separately. ”
"Yes, I obey your orders!" a short, stocky officer immediately led the soldiers to complete the task assigned by the marshal. They piled up the corpses of the undead and the corpses of the villagers into two hills, one large and one small, and then sprinkled oil slurry and cremated them.
Thick smoke rose behind the advancing army, forming two jet-black pillars of smoke that circled into the sky.
The army continued to advance north, and all the villages and towns it encountered along the way were either slaughtered by the undead or left uninhabited. In short, not a single living person remained in the northern lands of the Empire. In the event of a slaughtered village, the soldiers of the town had to cremate the body.
Along the way, the army also encountered several waves of refugees, and of course many of the former Northern Legion routs and willing to join the army were recruited from them, all of whom were incorporated into the Miró Legion, which now numbered as many as 160,000 men.
On a light moonlit night, the camp tent of the Northern Expedition of Miro.
"Captain Charles, I heard that the undead like to eat human flesh raw, which is very evil and terrifying, we ...... Can you beat them?" asked a recruit who had just enlisted to the captain beside him, his tone full of fear and horror.
Captain Charles picked up the flask and took a sip, glanced at the recruit lightly, and said solemnly: "You can't talk nonsense, if you let the marshal hear it, they will say that you disturb the morale of the army, and a military stick is inevitable." ”
The recruit was so frightened that he hurriedly covered his mouth, but he still couldn't help but say: "Captain, you are a person who has seen the world, is the undead disaster so terrifying!"
Captain Charles took the flask in his arms and said, "You don't have to worry so much, because when the undead eat you, you are already dead." They only eat the dead, and only ogres like to gnaw raw. Look at you like that, it's really a shame for us Milo Legion, look at the soldiers of the Demon Hunting Legion, how fierce and heroic!" Captain Charles said, and stretched out his finger to point at the sentry in charge of the Demon Hunting Legion in the distance. The sentry at the gate of the Demon Hunting Legion's camp stood straight, like a javelin, and his momentum was formidable.
"They're veterans who have seen blood, and I've just enlisted. The recruit said aggrievedly.
Charles took another sip of wine and said, "Actually, you don't need to be afraid at all, do you know who the leader of the Demon Hunting Legion is? That's Lord Dick, he was the one who defeated the Demon Clan with his weak forces, no matter how terrible the undead are, will there be demons in hell to be terrible? With Lord Dick presiding over this battle, we will definitely win!"
Suddenly, both Captain Charles and the recruit stopped talking, for they both saw a cavalryman speeding towards him beyond the tent in the distance.
"Newspaper—" The shouts of the cavalry scouts tore through the silence of the night.
When Dick and the other three generals heard the cheers, they were carefully discussing their strategies in the barracks. Hearing the shouts of the cavalry, they hurried out of the tent.
One of the scouts they had sent out during the day was coming from near and far on fast horses. In the blink of an eye, we had arrived at the door of the tent.
"Report to the three adults, the main army of the undead scourge has been discovered!" the cavalry immediately saluted as soon as they got off their horses.
"Good!" said Marshal Lupsas, stepping forward, "and what the situation is, let's hear it quickly." ”
The cavalry gasped and said: "The main force of the undead natural disaster is about two hundred miles away from us, the number of natural disasters is unknown, but it will definitely not be less than five hundred thousand!"
"Very well, you go down and rest. Lupsas said, waving his hand.
The scout cavalry saluted and withdrew.
"Two, let's go into the account and discuss. Lupsas said, leading the way into the tent. Dick and Longer followed.
In the center of the tent was a large sand table with the terrain of the northern part of the empire. A small white flag was planted in the position of the Northern Expeditionary Army of Miró, and at this time, Marshal Lupsas took a small black flag from the table and planted it somewhere on the sand table.
"Look, you two, this is the current position of the two armies, but what is the best plan?" Marshal Lupsas pointed to the sand table.
Long'er only glanced at it and said: "If there is any way, we have already figured it out in the past few days, and there are no dangerous terrain and cities in our vicinity, so we can only be hard to shake the situation today." ”
Lupsas immediately frowned, "Going head-to-head with the Undead on the Plains?" is this the next resort, Dick, do you have any better suggestions?"
"Marshal, I think we should retreat. Dick muttered.
"Duke Dick, you shouldn't be joking at this time. Lupsas's eyebrows have become the word "Chuan".
"No, marshal, I mean really, we must retreat. Dick calmed down.
Longer pulled the corners of his lips and said with a smile: "Lord Dick, do you know that with your words, I can cure you of rebellion, delay of military aircraft, and dereliction of duty before the war?"
"Listen to me, both of you!" Dick insisted, "Fighting the undead in the plains where there is no danger to defend is tantamount to suicide. And it will be us who will suffer from the night battle with the undead, so we might as well retreat at night and find a city with thick walls to defend it. This may be a bigger win. ”
Lupsas thought for a moment and said, "That makes sense, but which city should we choose to defend it?"
The three heads gathered on the sand table, carefully studied, and then, the three of them said almost in unison: "Andy City!"
Andy City is a big city in the north of the Miro Empire, the city is twelve meters high, three meters thick, with tall towers built at the four corners, and dozens of magic crystal cannons at the head of the city, however, at the first time when he learned of the invasion of the natural disaster, the timid city lord, an earl, used his health to return to the imperial capital to rest, and hurriedly fled the city. Even the city lord ran away, not to mention the citizens of the city, and within a few days, Andy City became an empty city. Now the city can be used to borrow the crowd to fight against the Scourge Legion.
So, taking advantage of the night, more than 300,000 good and bad Miro Northern Expeditionary Army began to retreat to Andy City, because there was no cavalry in the Scourge Legion, so the retreating people had plenty of time to prepare, and they did not need to worry about being caught up by the Scourge.
In the early morning of the second day, the Miró Northern Expeditionary Army finally arrived at their target, the city of Andy.
Dick stood at the gates of Andy's City, personally directing the work of the magicians. Earth-based mages, including the Holy Magister Fario, were gathered together to unleash reinforcement spells on the walls and gates.
The elven mages sprinkled seeds around the city, and then with the gestures of the mystical and the low chanting of incantations, the seeds burst out of the ground.
Some of the seeds turned into vines, clinging to the city wall and growing wildly, covering the city wall in a blink of an eye, adding another layer of solid protection to the city wall. Sharp spikes began to grow on the outer sides of the vines, which carried paralyzing toxins.
Some of the seeds are transformed into War Trees, which have blurred faces on their trunks and automatically attack any enemy that comes close.
Some of the seeds turned into man-eating flowers with hideous fangs.
There are also plants that have little effect on the army of the undead and are therefore not planted.
As for the magicians of other departments, they drew magic arrays all over Andy City, blessing Andy City with layers of magical defense shields. These magical defense shields are mainly used to counter attacks from the air.