"...The situation is not bad. The place where those earth elements are located is a highland, and there are about 130 earth elements wandering around."
"Most of them are small earth elementals, about half the size of a human being, with the instinctive ability to cast stone shields—these mindless earth elementals always have a layer of stone shield effect on their bodies."
"In addition to these small earth elementals, we also found about forty medium-sized earth elementals. The size of these monsters is about the size of a normal human being. In addition to the stone shield technique, we also found medium-sized earth elementals. Elementals have the instinctive spellcasting ability of stone thorns. These medium-sized earth elementals are not easy to deal with, and it takes at least three or four elite soldiers to barely eliminate one."
"The more troublesome thing is that there are four large-scale earth elements among them. Since these large-scale earth elements are in the monster group, it is not easy for us to test them, so we don't know what specific abilities they have, but Come to think of it... it won't be too weak."
Jieer briefly introduced the strength of the earth element cluster standing in front of them.
The others discussed for a while, and quickly reached a consensus: it is definitely inappropriate and cost-effective to send out a large force to attack the earth elemental highlands. The terrain of the highlands cannot accommodate too many fighters attacking at the same time, and if the personnel are too dense, if they are attacked by the ranged attack spells that the earth elementals most likely have, the losses will become quite large.
A more reliable choice is to select the elite from each army to form a team of about 300 people. In this way, on the one hand, they can maintain a considerable advantage in numbers; on the other hand, an elite team can guarantee the elimination of those earth elements, and reduce unnecessary losses.
The rest is to discuss the proportion of troops sent by each family.
Dane made some calculations in his heart, and then made a decision, and said firstly: "In this way, I will take the ranger in my hand to fight together, and I will also choose a team of fighters who are good at using heavy weapons. The total amount is about the same. There will be more than sixty fighters."
This number is almost exactly the same as the proportion of his army in the Eastern Expeditionary Army. The various parts of the entire Eastern Expeditionary Army added up, excluding the auxiliary troops in charge of transportation, there were almost 3,000 soldiers in total.
Dane's army accounted for almost one-sixth of them, or about five hundred people. Half of them are the elites he brought down from the island, and the other half are the motley troops recruited from Shawan Port. The rest, Pure Sword and Smil also have about 500 people each. The two of them are actually the same as Dane's team, at most only half of them are elite troops, and the other half are also mercenaries.
This is easy to understand. Generally speaking, it is difficult for a mercenary group to maintain a size of 500 people anytime and anywhere. General mercenary missions do not require so many people. For those who do not have their own fixed income For the mercenary group, it is quite uneconomical to keep so many people and maintain a huge scale. The vast majority of mercenary groups, including some well-known ones, generally maintain a strong elite team, and then when they receive war missions—such as this time’s Eastern Expedition plan, they will rely on mercenary The Corps' own contacts temporarily recruit a group of troops to expand its strength.
The total strength of the three mercenary regiments accounted for almost half of the Eastern Expeditionary Army. And the rest of the people are naturally all Morno's subordinates. The 1,500 soldiers Morno brought were all elites in his hands. The total strength of the White Wolf Fort was only in the early three thousand. He kept half of it in his lair to guard against Ma Long, and took the remaining half with him.
Regardless of the fact that the military strength of the two sides is about the same, the mercenary regiment has a lot of water, and the soldiers under Morno's command are basically dry goods. Under the same military strength, their share in this Eastern Expeditionary Army The combat power ratio is estimated to be almost 75% or more.
However, the ratio of sending troops is not calculated according to combat power, but divided according to the number of people.
Needless to say, in Schindler, a place where wars are fought all year round, there has long been a set of unwritten rules.
After Dane made his first statement, the other two mercenary groups also expressed that they would come out with a team of fifty to sixty people. The three mercenary regiments were almost 200 people together, and Morno also directly pulled out three elite heavy infantry squadrons.
That's it, such a team of more than 300 to nearly 400 people, led by Morno himself, was formed in this way.
Originally, Moreno didn't plan to go there in person. He wanted to sit in the central army to avoid any accidents, but was finally persuaded by Dane.
"Hundreds of element clusters, only four large elements are not normal. Logically speaking, it is more standard for an earth element of this scale to be equipped with five or six large earth elements and one or two earth element elders. A cluster."
"But Mr. Geer did not detect the figure of the elder of the earth element." It was Irons who said this. This guy also participated in this meeting. He didn't dare to say anything before, but now that he saw Dane talking, he took the opportunity to pick a thorn.
Obviously, this guy is healed of the scar and forgets the pain. But the timing of his choice was not bad. With so many big shots present, he didn't seem to want to make a move. Dane would definitely not be able to attack directly.
However, Dane actually didn't intend to pay attention to this guy who was like a clown at all. However, before he could speak, another person on the field stopped the shield knight directly: "Ains, don't interrupt."
The person who spoke was Alexandrina herself, the head of the Pure Sword Mercenary Group.
I only heard the masked woman continue: "I think what Dane said is quite good, we must be careful. If the elders of the earth element really appear, the situation will be too bad."
There is of course a basis for saying this. The strength of an earth elemental elder can generally reach level 12 or above, and even individual ones may have fourteen to fifteen challenge levels. If such a big guy really appeared in front of Dane and the others, plus the disgusting magic resistance and physical resistance attributes of elemental creatures, as well as the diverse spellcasting abilities possessed by elemental elders, it would not be something ordinary soldiers could bear of.
Among the Eastern Expeditionary Army, the only one who could contend with the possible elemental elders was the fourteenth-level barbarian warlord, Morno himself.
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