The second worker’s aunt smiled bitterly! , he is a magician, since you have already told him "Xiaxia", if you regret it.WWw,QuanBen-XiaoShuo,comYour sister can't help you."
Shaman was shocked and said, "What do you mean?"
"You can only trust him now unless he does something to hurt you. If you regret it, he will be detrimental to your sister and even the entire Roland family."
"Brother Salin is not like this, is he?"
"What do you know? The dignity of a magician is inviolable." Sharman's aunt sighed.
"My sister is also a magician, she is on a higher level than him!"
"High? What level do you think Tris is? What level is Su?"
Shaman was speechless, but she immediately became happy again and said: "If Salin is really that strong, it would be much better to follow him than to be in the family." "Of course, once the emperor dies, your sister's status will be changed. It has dropped. If she had not been made a baron, she could still have become a direct force in the family. Now the old guys are worried about the relationship between your sister and the emperor. It will affect the relationship with Shengyan City. "Forget it, you will understand even if I don't tell you. Since your sister went to Metatrin City, she planned to start her own business. Aren’t all the children from other families the same? If you can follow Salin, you may be more successful than your sister. "
Shaman rolled his eyes slightly and asked doubtfully: "Aunt, why do I feel that he values me? But he doesn't care about my sister very much? My sister is a fourth-level magician!"
Sharman on this. I feel very incomprehensible. In the continent of Mels, even if you are a black iron sword master. You can suppress a fourth-level mage, or even a fifth-level mage, but you won't get the same respect as a fourth-level mage. A mage can lead everyone in the team. Unless the Sword Master reaches the silver level, he will not have this effect.
"Silly boy. You have lived in Metatrin City for several months. Haven't you seen that Metatrin City has no shortage of mages at all?" Sharman's aunt replied with a wry smile.
Clean up the battlefield. Ani went to watch it himself. Ninety-three level four magic cores were dug out of the armored lizard. Salin didn't ask for this magic core, he had already promised it to Aini. Even if he takes these magic cores, they are still not worth the loss of a seventh-level scroll. The armored lizard's skin was burned over a large area, but a large amount of material could still be cut out to make high-grade leather armor. The defensive power of this high-grade leather armor is no different from ordinary metal armor, and it is lighter.
Saleen even has dragon skin. Of course I look down on these broken materials. If you want materials, it's better to hunt red krill in the frozen sea. Red Krill's carapace is more defensive, lighter, and easier to enchant.
There were also more than 500 corpses, which were relatively complete. Aini stayed behind and slowly created corpse soldiers. The advantages of corpse soldiers are incomparable to skeleton soldiers. If they are not used for fighting hastily, and they are cultivated for a period of time, they can use human weapons. After going berserk, it can be used to attack the enemy.
The movements of these corpse soldiers are better than the souls of skeleton soldiers, and they can climb over obstacles and vertical walls. You can also use your nails to climb up. When corpse soldiers attack a city, they cannot defend themselves with bows and arrows. You can only use boulders or pour fire oil on the city. But the speed of these two attacks is too slow. As long as the number of corpse soldiers is sufficient, the final solution is to fight head-on on the city wall.
The armors of the heavily armored knights were also damaged, and some were melted over large areas, and Aini also put them away. Cleaning the battlefield is a delicate job. There can be no omissions. We must try our best to make up for the battle losses. The worst materials for these armors are refined metals with refined copper added. Pure steel as thick as a finger, even if melted and recast, is equivalent to hundreds of gold coins.
In comparison. The thieves' losses were far greater than Salin's. Saleen only consumed two scrolls. The thieves lost three would-be sword masters. One hundred heavily armored cavalry and armored lizards, and over a thousand additional personnel were lost. After this battle, the thieves who besieged the caravan lost more than one million gold coins. The three quasi-sword masters are not included yet.
But war is about destruction, not construction. The caravan did not lose much benefit either. The magic core of the armored lizard can be sold for up to 400 gold coins, which is less than 40,000 gold coins in total, including the additional materials obtained. It's only about 60,000 gold coins. More than forty people died in the caravan. The pension is just over ten thousand gold coins.
Ani's demon wolf was transformed into an undead demon wolf, which was already difficult to sell. This thing was very useless to the necromancers, and the elemental mages didn't like it. Ani had to keep it for himself. Let a batch of goods go to waste for nothing.
But there is nothing we can do about this loss. No one knows that the thieves will retreat and continue to fight. If we continue to increase our manpower, the thieves will still be able to break into the camp. At that time, Aini could not escape with the magic wolf at all and could only abandon the goods. If that were the case, even these undead demon wolves would be gone.
Saleen's loss was two. reel. In addition, some arrows provided to Aini, as for the people, not a hair was injured. Moreover, the two scrolls made Sharman look at him differently. The abduction was successful, and Salin actually made a profit.
If Sharman were more mature, Salin would still have to pay a lot of conditions if he wanted to pull her into his camp unconditionally. A sixteen-year-old would-be swordsman. The future is limitless.
Speaking of which, it is also the problem of the Roland family itself, even if Sharman was only a swordsman before going to Metatrin City. But her sister was already a fourth-level magician, and the Roland family was actually worried about the attitude of Holy Rock City, so they allowed her to leave.
In Salin's barracks, a map is spread on the table.
The map is not very detailed. None of the magical maps drawn at that time covered the area now north of Phoenix.
There are three roads leading from Telunsu Town to Nan. Salin chose the middle one. Two hundred miles further, there is a relatively large city.
"We have to re-select the route forward. My flying puppet chased them for two miles and couldn't tell where the thieves were going." Salin compared with the map. The people who were called in again were a little confused.
"Are you going to chase those thieves?" Shaman shouted. She had lost some soldiers. I don’t want to fight any more meaningless battles.
"No, no, no, these thieves' battering ram chariots were destroyed here. Their goal is to attack the city. Without the chariots, more soldiers will be consumed. We are just following them to see what we can do for the nobles of Phoenix. Something."
"It's not the same." Shaman muttered.
"It's different. If these thieves attack the city, we will follow up and avenge the nobles of Phoenix. If they fail directly, we can ignore them."
"You want to occupy the city? We don't have that many manpower!" Aini said cautiously. He also wanted to occupy the city of Phoenix, where Salin took refuge. The caravan will make great profits in the future. But now is obviously not a good time to occupy the city. There are less than a thousand caravans including slaves, and it is stressful to defend a small city with a radius of one mile. This does not include the Necromancer himself.
"Why bother? I have already sent word to Rex. There are three routes below. No matter which city is attacked, it is 2,400 miles away from Metatrin City. From Metatrin City to here. The light cavalry takes six days. The infantry takes more than ten days. Let me talk about it. The elite infantry in the book are mounted on horses, but Xi and Dong quality are not good. There is also a lot of equipment and vehicles are needed. When the road conditions are good, In this case, the cavalry will also spend nearly half of their time marching.
"It will definitely not take ten days for the thieves to attack the city!" "Aini still doesn't understand.
"That's why I'm going to follow and drive the thieves out of the city while they're breaking through. We won't defend the city anymore, just let the puppets and the undead destroy the city's defense. When we've almost destroyed it, Li Hai leaves. , if the thieves come back, there will be no time to repair the defenses, Rex's cavalry troops will arrive. Without the support of the city, Rex's two flag regiments can deal with more than 10,000 such thieves."
Only then did Aini suddenly realize it, and many ideas derived from it. Saleen destroyed the city because no one in the whole north could defeat Rex's cavalry in a field battle. Rex helped Phoenix's nobles retake the city, and Holy Rock City has nothing to say.
If the nobles of Phoenix want to come back, they have to pay Rex gold coins. The city was not destroyed by Rex. Rex does not need to pay compensation, just take the money and leave. But in a city without walls, the nobles of Phoenix were unable to defend it. Sooner or later, this place will still belong to Salin.
Salin's calculations are linked together, and they fit together perfectly. If those thieves had any plans, they would come back sooner or later. After several repetitions, the nobles on the northern border of Phoenix would probably be killed.
The Phoenix nobles who can fight have already defected to Metatrin City, and the remaining nobles. They are all the dying people.
After thinking clearly about Salin's intentions, Aini sent fifteen cavalrymen divided into three groups to chase the thieves. Just follow them a few miles away and figure out which city these thieves are going to attack.
Seeing the close relationship between Aini and Salin, Shaman thought to himself that he had to show some signs of defecting to Salin. Can all Aini's soldiers be mobilized by Salin
"Brother Salin, I'm glad that I'm ready to follow you. I still have more than a hundred soldiers here. I'm not good at commanding either, so you should do it."
Salin was not polite and nodded. However, according to the army establishment, he only needed one hundred and twenty soldiers, which was three. There were more than thirty soldiers left in the team, still following Shaman to protect the young lady of the Roland family. No matter how brave the general of an army is, when he goes to the battlefield, he is still protected by his own soldiers.
That's generally the case. The powerful officer is accompanied by two hundred soldiers as the core combat force. In the vanguard were kamikaze troops, with light cavalry on both wings. On the front is the infantry. The heavy cavalry was at the end. The personal soldiers brought by the officers are the core of the battle. No matter how high Shaman's martial arts skills are, Salin will not let her alone. People go to fight.
The thieves' tactics of heavy cavalry can be said to be invincible against a single unit of arms, but they will be unlucky when encountering regular troops.
Salin took over Sharman's soldiers, the vehicles were gone, and the slaves followed. In this caravan, only Aini's fifty soldiers rode real war horses, and the slaves' horses were not good enough for fighting. It can only be used as a tool on the road.
Even so, Salin was very satisfied. He equipped everyone with steel crossbows. The soldiers' steel crossbows were all pedal crossbows. It could be hung on the stirrups and cocked, but the slaves' steel crossbows were manual, had thorn wheels, and were wound more than twice as slowly. There are more than 800 people in the caravan, almost everyone armed with a steel crossbow. When facing the thieves' charge again, you won't be as confused as you were at the beginning.
Sharman's aunt no longer had any objections. Salin's intervention made her understand the wealth of Metatrin City. The eight hundred steel crossbows were only worth a hundred gold coins each. It is also equipment worth 80,000 gold coins.
Raising an army is a waste of money. Although the Roland family was wealthy, the number of truly elite soldiers did not exceed the upper limit stipulated by the empire. This type of steel crossbow is used by elite soldiers, while ordinary soldiers mostly use hand crossbows or short bows. No steel crossbow. You can only watch helplessly as the enemy's heavy cavalry rushes towards you, waiting for combat.
Ani knows about Salin's business. All ten of them together are no match for him, but he can lead troops in battle. I am not as good as Salin. He simply handed over all his soldiers to Salin. As a necromancer. He now has twelve bronze zombies, eighty undead demon wolves, more than five hundred corpse soldiers, and more than fifty skeleton soldiers around him. There is no need to worry about guarding at all.
But Ani doesn't have many green ghosts. Besides, Salin was too embarrassed to ask for it. Salin also had a necromancer under his command. And Aini knows it. Saleen has an undead contract creature that is intelligent and can use undead magic, and it also requires the green ghost.
So Aini had to drive away the corpse soldiers. The undead demon wolf and his skeleton soldiers moved forward with the caravan.
It was no longer possible to call a caravan, all the carts were destroyed, and the group of people rode horses and walked slowly south. Not long after, a team of five people returned and reported clearly that the thieves were divided into two groups. One group walked towards the middle road, and the other group seemed to be preparing to attack the city on the left.
"Don't worry about the city in the middle. It can be defended. The thieves divided their troops because they don't want the city in the middle to support and contain them." Salin Xun made a judgment, left a few slaves behind, and rushed back to the distant place. Go meet Rex's army. He took two caravan soldiers and rushed towards the city on the left.
Side Star City. It was originally the territory of a viscount, with several small towns around it. However, during the Black Magician Rebellion and the invasion of Qin Yin's army, the nearby towns were destroyed, and the nobles here were unable to recover. Side Star City has not been rebuilt.
It was already October, and the wheat harvest should have been finished long ago, but Salin saw that in the fields far away from the road, some crops were as low as grass.
Phoenix, which was originally prosperous, has gone through two rounds of war. Now it is dilapidated.
Saleen had been controlling one. The flying puppets acted as scouts at a distance of two miles, five miles ago. It's ten. Qingqi explores the road. There is no way, Salin is only a sixth-level magician, and the distance of two miles is the limit for controlling a flying puppet.
Generally, when an army marches, it will leave at least one flag regiment at the end to avoid being cut off from the retreat. The thieves were improvised, and although there were many, there was not one of them. Unified command. Saleen's team was far behind. He actually followed him all the way to Side Star City. It was not discovered by the thieves.
Salin simply camped fifty miles away from Side Star City, waiting for the thieves to attack the city. This time, the surveillance task was directly handed over to Aini, who sent a second-level skeleton soldier to the front to observe the battlefield.
The jealous necromancer passes through the magic circle on the undead. It can create a temporary teleportation image, and the detection distance is limited to fifty miles. Of course, this consumes a large amount of magic cores. The so-called large amount is just a drop in the bucket for Salin. He only went to the Frozen Sea once, and the magic core he got from hunting was enough for him to use for several years.
Although there are sixth-level magicians among thieves. But he didn't expect that there was an undead following him, and he didn't even check the back of the thieves' camp. The thieves were facing a small city. The square Side Star City had only one city wall.
Liuyiyu. Fortunately. There are already gaps in the city wall. It was temporarily blocked by the Lord of Side Star City with mud. The soil in these gaps is still the most fragile part despite the addition of adhesive.
Unfortunately, only these gaps can be attacked, and the gates of Side Star City are still extremely strong. More and more thieves surrounded Side Star City. It has reached more than 8,000 people. These thieves originally included mercenaries, as well as some private soldiers and slaves abandoned by the down-and-out nobles. On the contrary, few farmers joined.
Among the more than 8,000 thieves, only about a thousand had horses, and most of them traveled by foot to gather here.
These people obviously did not want to occupy the city, they just wanted to invade the city, plunder it, and then leave.
Salin waited in the distance for a day before the last thousand thieves arrived. These thousand thieves. But he is the leader of all thieves.
Even the Black Dragon King thieves group sent their leaders to the thieves' big tent to wait for their orders.
The last thousand thieves who arrived were well-dressed and their troops were organized according to Qin Yin's flag regiment. If so, the team hangs the badge. You would mistake this for a private soldier of a first-rate earl. These thousand thieves did not look poor at all, and all of them were wearing full body armor. Even their horses are wearing vests, even a thousand thieves. There were also hundreds of slaves. Driving the cart. Bringing equipment and materials for siege.
this form. It's also like the style of the Tangulas Empire. Qin Yin was not allowed to have slave soldiers. There can only be servant soldiers, that is, auxiliary soldiers. Except for slightly worse pay, the auxiliary soldiers have the same pension as regular soldiers. Not like a slave. Die engraving, die, buy engraving again, okay.
The last thousand thieves arrived, and the number of thieves attacking the city was almost ten thousand, and they also had a backbone. Moreover, the thieves began to assemble a trebuchet. Although it was not a magic trebuchet, it was enough to destroy the already damaged city wall.
There are no more than a hundred soldiers in Side Star City, and the total number of peasant soldiers is less than a thousand. Although the farmers in the north are tough, they are not subject to training. At most, they help defend the city wall. Once the thieves break the city. It was impossible to rely on the peasants who fled into the city to fight on the streets.
Aini's skeleton sent back the news, and Salin felt bad. In such a situation, the city might be destroyed within a day. Moreover, the trebuchets destroyed the city wall, and the thieves could not use up many troops to attack the city.
"Su, bring ten cavalrymen to guard this apprentice." Salin pointed to the magic apprentice-turned-swordsman among Aini's soldiers and said: "I will give you the materials for five flying puppets. If you touch them, Behind the bandit camp, use flying puppets to attack their catapults. Then you will retreat."
These cavalrymen are worthy of being soldiers. Ten people faced tens of thousands of thieves and showed no fear. And Salin just let them attack the trebuchet secretly from behind. It's not that difficult to explode with a flying puppet. What's more, there is a Silver Sword Master accompanying him, who will not be left behind by the other side's magician.
Because once the magician discovers the Silver Sword Master, he will hide in the camp and will not come out to pursue him.
"You take a hundred servants and light cavalry. You only bring crossbows and daggers, and ambush twenty miles ahead. If someone pursues you, shoot arrows on both sides of the road. After shooting a box of arrows, retreat slightly."
Salin pointed at a senior swordsman and gave an order, and then he said to the fifth-level magician, "Mr. Mage. This is a sixth-level scroll. You ambush ten miles ahead. If the enemy catches up, you will be on the magic string." When one-third is consumed, you can use this scroll."
The fifth-level magician glanced at Shaman, who just pretended not to see his eyes. The fifth-level magician had no choice but to take the scroll, which was equivalent to recognizing Salin's order. There is no way, who can let Salin have a more obedient Tris by his side. He is a mage who can use a seventh-level scroll!
This fifth-level mage mistook Tris for a sixth-level mage. He didn't know that the delicate beauty was actually one. Male devil.
"Aini, you have the corpse soldiers ambush five miles ahead. If those thieves can break through the mage's defense line, block all the corpse soldiers and we will retreat temporarily."
After completing the arrangements, Salin took out five flying puppets, assembled them first, and added several boxes to the abdomens of the flying puppets. The boxes were filled with explosive magic powder. After the explosion of these magic powders. Dozens of fireballs will be formed, burning all surrounding objects that can ignite.
The five flying puppets are not fragile and can be hung directly next to the saddle. Ten cavalrymen protected the magic apprentice and left first. The leader was Su. In addition to two swords, he also carried a bow. Although Su's archery skills were not as good as Zola's, he had the shooting range of the Silver Sword Master. But it can threaten all mages below level seven.
Twelve of them got on their horses and rushed towards Side Star City, followed by two hundred servants riding lightly.
Because there is no radiation weight, the cavalry can reach the distance of fifty miles in more than an hour. The magic apprentice was overjoyed when he arrived at the back of the thieves' camp. Because the thieves' camp was somewhat loose, it was built according to the original forces and was not connected together.
Su had the guts not to leave his war horse outside the bandit camp. Twelve men carried the flying puppet. He reached through the cracks in the camp.
Saleen's intention was simple, to destroy the thieves' siege equipment. Without the siege equipment, the thieves would have to sacrifice their lives for the defense of the city wall. As long as the nobles in the city are not too cowardly, a thousand people defending can kill five times the number of enemies. Let the noble's soldiers consume the thieves' power. It would be much easier for Saleen to turn around and capture the city.
With Su's leadership, the remaining eleven people did not encounter the patrolling thieves and easily arrived less than a mile away from the trebuchet. Su then cautiously explored it, and was very lucky. There are no magicians around!
The accompanying apprentice immediately began to inlay the magic core, allowing the two-meter-long flying puppet to fly into the sky.
At a distance of 800 meters, against a trebuchet fixed on the ground, no matter how weak the apprentice's mental strength is, he will not miss it. Five of them, flying puppets flew extremely fast, passing through the sky with their afterimages. Knocked down without warning. The magic powder carried by the puppet also exploded. Fireballs flew everywhere, and the trebuchet, which was mainly made of wood, burned instantly.
"It's really simple, let's retreat." Su saw that the five trebuchets were hopeless, and then left with the eleven swordsmen. What puzzled Su was. Until now, no thieves have found them. Su unexpectedly returned calmly. Find the war horse. Salin's original intention was for them to lure another group of thieves to pursue them, and then set up an ambush on the road to eliminate some of the thieves' power. It's better now. He has destroyed the enemy's trebuchet, but the enemy has not found out who did it. If so, leave. I'm afraid the thieves will have to study it for a long time. Only then can you find the traces of sister you left behind.
what is this. A bunch of trash!
Su was angry, and he ordered the eleven swordsmen: "You go first, I will hunt down some thieves." He said. He didn't care whether the eleven swordsmen objected. Alone, riding a war horse. Rushed into one. The thieves are in a separate camp.