Lin Zhongke stayed with Thunder Dragon every day and didn't want to do anything unacceptable, which had a lot to do with the contract he signed with the goddess Myers. wWw.QUaNbEn-xIAoShUO.CoMThe Holy See must be destroyed. So Salin had to bite the bullet and do it, and he had to do it well.
A huge amount of combat equipment was distributed. Salim was thinking about other things and recruited Panchagana and Diabinas. The two undead kings are living quite happily in Metatrin City. They only need to summon a large number of undead from time to time for Daniel to drive.
Daniel himself is already a sixth-level necromancer. He has more than a dozen low-level necromancers under his command. It is no longer necessary for the three kings to take action to drive the undead.
What the three kings do now is often look for information in Salin's library. Is the owner of that year dead or hiding? If they can't find their master, they will never be free.
If the master is not dead, with the master's power. You can easily break the contract trap between Salin and that damn necromancer, and follow the original master. Better than following Salin.
Summoning the two kings, Saleen carefully told them what to do this time. Salin set up a small town every hundred miles on the road to Phoenix to give vendors on Route 6 a place to rest.
These small towns are now somewhat large. Each town has about two to three hundred households. The permanent population is almost more than 1,000.
So many people ensure the stability of this trade route. If all these people are slaughtered by the Holy See army, Salin will have to rely on sea transportation to maintain the city. However, his city is closed to ships for five months of the year. .
It's not enough to just protect Metatrin City. Salin can't prepare a large army to face the Holy See Expeditionary Force now. If they go head-to-head, he believes he will win. The results will also be disastrous. If there are too many casualties, Metatrin City will be doomed.
The best way is to evacuate the people from those small towns first.
Saleen now has four battalions of troops on hand. The Caucasians were still unable to organize themselves and could only let Sikka lead the defense of the city. There are only 40,000 people in four camps. Including the barbarians that can be mobilized, there are only 50,000 people. Salin now knew that with these 50,000 people, it was impossible to stop the Holy See Expeditionary Force in the field.
The 4th and 5th Battalions were driven out by Salin. Each battalion brought a large number of vehicles and magicians. The mission of the 20,000 people in these two battalions is to get to these small towns as quickly as possible. Take everyone back to Metatrin City.
On the border of Phoenix, two flag regiments of Metatrin City's Sixth Battalion were lying in ambush beside the mountain road, waiting for the Holy See's army to pass by. The road here is only more than four meters wide, and on the other side of the road is a huge slope. These two flag regiments originally planned to withdraw to Metatrin City, because their strength had been reduced by more than 20%, with only 1,600 people left from 2,000, and more than 600 injured. In fact, there were still one person who could fight. thousand.
However, the Holy See's troops did not take the high road. But to take a shortcut, the scouts discovered this. Intelligence, the commanders of the two flag regiments exchanged opinions before deciding to conduct an ambush here.
The attrition was serious, but the soldiers did not abandon their weapons. Most of the skeleton war horses were concentrated in these two flag regiments. They should have been the last to retreat. With these skeleton war horses, the soldiers basically brought their weapons with them, as well as the equipment discarded by the previous flag regiments.
Among the one thousand people, there were two hundred large crossbows.
The large crossbow is not a heavy crossbow, mainly due to its lack of long-range damage, but it has good penetration at close range and is cheap.
Two hundred large crossbows and one small crossbow in each hand. These thousand soldiers were lying in ambush on the roadside, waiting for the Holy See army to pass by, shoot all the crossbow arrows, and then retreat. The two flag captains were both senior swordsmen from Srig Island. They charged fiercely and miraculously were not injured until now. The two of them carried small alchemy crossbows. The alchemy crossbow has good penetrating power and is accurate enough. It may even be able to shoot the opponent's magician.
Those magicians are so annoying, as long as they are immortal soldiers, they can almost be revived. No matter how injured these soldiers are, they can fight again in three or two days.
With this kind of treatment, after the soldiers return, a twenty-year-old will definitely not live past the age of forty. If he undergoes many magical treatments, he will not survive until the age of thirty.
The problem is that this skill is so effective. The battles of the Sixth Battalion are mainly based on bows and crossbows. If there were not a large number of magicians among the enemies, the death cost of more than a thousand people in the Sixth Battalion would have killed more than ten thousand enemies. . Unfortunately, those Tangula people who were shot by crossbows often returned to the battlefield alive and kicking a day or two later.
After two battles, the Sixth Battalion began to block the enemy's magicians. However, the number of alchemical crossbows was too small and their concealment was not strong enough. During the battle of the Holy See army, the soldiers would use their bodies to block the crossbow arrows. Protector's spell
"Captain of the flag regiment, they are coming!" A small scout rode a skeleton war horse and rushed over. He dived into the woods on the roadside.
"Get ready!" the commander of the Ninth Banner ordered. Everyone stopped what they were doing. Put on the armor, put the quiver on your back, tighten your boots, put on the crossbowman's gloves, and cock the crossbow.
Despite the loss of more than half of these two flag regiments, the psychological quality of the soldiers is still excellent. After all, with the skeleton warhorse around, the possibility of escaping from the battlefield is greater. This time they only shot arrows. The soldiers who were familiar with the battle knew that this battle was just to slow down the enemy's progress.
It’s not like trying your best, so everyone’s movements are slow and steady.
The sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance, the troops of the Holy See. The horseshoes on the war horses were made of metal horseshoes. Unlike Saleen's army, the horseshoes were made of Warcraft materials.
The sound of the metal horseshoe was loud and could be heard from afar. Thousands of war horses ran at the same time, as if the ground was thundering.
This is the vanguard of the Holy See, usually with three thousand cavalry. Among the three thousand cavalry, there were one hundred heavy cavalry wearing sacred armor. The so-called heavy cavalry refers to defensive capabilities, and sacred armor is like magic armor. Extremely light weight, suitable for wearing for long periods of time.
Most of the remaining cavalry are light armored cavalry, and their fighting style is also carried with crossbows. The main weapon is the tangulas scimitar. Heavy cavalry requires the cooperation of auxiliary soldiers, and the equipment is pulled by carts. Generally follow the Chinese army. The same goes for infantry. Tanggulas has a lot of horse-producing areas, and infantry can also get bad horses to ride on.
There were too many soldiers on this expedition, and the Pope's orders were extremely tough. The expeditionary force had almost one horse per person. Except the infantry advanced in vehicles. Each cavalryman is assigned two horses.
Before entering Phoenix, the losses of the Holy See army's war horses were extremely shocking. Due to the high advance, many war horses were exhausted. Only a place like the Holy See would issue such an order that soldiers hate so much.
The expeditionary force continued to advance after Garulan replenished its war horses. In the confrontation with Rex's army, many more war horses were lost. No matter how powerful the magician is, he cannot treat people and horses at the same time. Many war horses died as a result of poor treatment.
Even so, this huge army continued to advance more than a hundred miles every day. If it were just cavalry, this would be a simple advance, but this is a mixed expeditionary force, with more than two-thirds of the infantry.
These people have only one goal, Metatrin City. The Pope's order was also simple, go there and destroy that city.
A thousand men were on the roadside, ambushing three thousand cavalry. In fact, it is very dangerous. However, only a hundred of this cavalry have sacred armor, and the rest are light armor. The number of magicians is not large, so they are just the target of an ambush by crossbowmen.
The vanguard of Tangulas cavalry rushed to this stopping road. The speed is maintained at about twenty miles. This speed can also maintain the physical strength of the war horse, even if it is increased to sixty miles, only the skeleton war horse can gallop for a long time. Even a skeleton war horse would be useless if it marched for a long time at a speed of sixty miles.
The two hundred cavalrymen in front suddenly entered the ambush range. The commander of the Ninth Banner did not issue an order to attack, but let the two hundred cavalry pass. The large group of people behind them quickly poured into the narrow passage. At this time, the soldiers of the commander of the banner blew the war horn.
"shoot!"
Two hundred crossbow arrows flew out of the air. The soldiers of the Sixth Battalion had been practicing for several months. The main training subjects do not include fighting. Instead, he concentrated on practicing crossbow formation shooting.
Three seconds later, the second round of crossbow arrows was fired, and another three seconds later, the third round of crossbow arrows attacked.
The two hundred people in front used large crossbows and shot down more than a hundred people, while the people behind used crossbows. The effect is much worse. Those more than a hundred people must have died. Those who were hit by the crossbow, even if they were not treated by the magician, would not be in trouble if they were lucky.
The greatest casualty was caused by falling from the horse. Trampled by the horses behind.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
"In the woods!"
The cavalry of the Holy See began to panic, but an officer scolded them. The cavalry behind them took off their bucklers, blocked them in front of them, and rushed into the woods. The woods were not dense enough, but they were not dense enough for horses to gallop either. These cavalrymen entered the woods, immediately dismounted, drew their scimitars, held a shield in one hand, and surrounded the Qin Yin people who were ambushing in the woods. What awaited them was the firing of crossbows. Although the range of hand crossbows was short, places like the woods were exactly the battlefield where hand crossbows could be wielded. Field troops are not even equipped with hand crossbows. Therefore, its lethality is much stronger than that of a repeating crossbow.
The Tanggulas cavalrymen held round shields, which could not protect all parts of their bodies. The soldiers of the sixth battalion shot at their lower bodies. The fighting distance was only a few dozen meters, and these few dozen meters directly caused huge casualties to the Tanggulas people.
The first wave of large crossbow firing killed more than a hundred cavalry, and the subsequent hand crossbow firing injured more than 500 cavalry.
"Retreat, retreat!" the leader of the Ninth Banner shouted loudly. His soldiers immediately blew the war horn of another rhythm.
The Tanggulas rushed into the woods crazily. They still had a numerical advantage, and the distance between the forward and the rear army was at most two hours, possibly one hour. As long as they were entangled by them, Salin's thousand soldiers would be completely annihilated.
These Tangula people approached the crossbowmen regardless of casualties, which made the two flag captains immediately think of escaping. Before setting off for the expedition, Salin told all ten banner commanders to reduce casualties, try to make the soldiers familiar with the battlefield, and bring them back to Metatrin City.
Without the magician, the enemy's mentally retarded fighting style would have resulted in the death of all three thousand cavalry. However, the presence of the magician meant that among the more than 500 injured cavalrymen behind, at most a hundred died, while the rest could be treated. The same was true as the battle continued. The cavalry used round shields to protect their vital points and relied on their numerical superiority to close in. Salin's soldiers had no chance to kill the Tanggulas who fell to the ground with their short swords.