Arthur's army had nothing to say about military discipline and management. He completely used the power of the Prince of the North Sea and the terrifying name of the Temple of Punishment to frighten the ordinary people who were forcibly recruited into the army. www. QUAbEn-XIAoShUo. cOmSo you can imagine what kind of chaos his army camp was like.
Just because his camp was in a mess, the large group of troops led by Long Li, Yun Tianyi and Karls Chenxi did not alert anyone and smoothly merged with the Longshan family's army led by Lin Qi.
Facing the three people's questions, Lin Qi simply made two excuses and completely dispelled all their doubts.
For the three of them, with the help of these powerful mercenaries, dwarf warriors, and Warcraft knights brought by Lin Qi, they will definitely be able to earn greater benefits from this operation. They also have greater confidence in destroying Arthur's plot. No matter from which point of view, cooperation with the Longshan family is beneficial and harmless.
So after spending more than an hour packing, Lin Qi personally led the team and entered the cave passage with the mighty Longshan family members. Mr. Mo was actually very good at marching formations. He sent the dead men under the command of Paradise to patrol around, and sent a large number of mercenaries with strong field combat experience to act as scouts. Then the dwarf warriors acted as the vanguard and entered the cave.
Dwarves have deep feelings for all caves. In the beliefs of many dwarves, they are even the sons of rocks. Therefore, the dwarf warriors brought by Lin Qi were happily looking at their big pipes, drinking barley wine, and marching forward happily.
Lin Qi placed the dwarf king, Wine Barrel, in this dwarf army. With Wine Barrel in charge, the dwarves with rough personalities did not cause Lin Qi any trouble similar to the one at Vias Port. The large group of people advanced smoothly through the cave, and soon arrived at a cave with a radius of several miles.
There were corpses everywhere here, and the dried blood dyed the rocks a weird purple-red color.
Dozens of magic torches were suspended in the air, illuminating the cave. At least three thousand soldiers died here, and those who killed them were a group of cave rats with long black manes that were the size of domestic dogs.
This kind of cave rat is between a monster and a beast. An ordinary human warrior can easily kill several of these creatures. But the people who entered the cave early were a group of ordinary people. Common people who have just received a few months of training. Their fighting power is pitifully weak, facing the surprise attack of these cave black-maned rats. It was inevitable that there would be more casualties.
The soldiers who died in battle were neatly piled together, and the ice magician cast frost magic on their corpses. In this underground cave, an ice magic was enough to ensure that their corpses could not survive for several months. It will rot and become corrupted.
This is a cave. The conventional method of burning bodies to collect ashes would not work. If the corpses are left to rot, it is likely to cause a large-scale plague among the subsequent armies. Therefore, ice magic has a great use here, and all the corpses are concentrated and frozen.
Lin Qi couldn't help but frowned as he looked at the corpses of the soldiers covered by thin sheets of ice.
The thin leather armor and weapons of these soldiers were stripped off, and even their clothes were in a mess. It was obvious that they had been searched carefully after death. Lin Qi's mental power swept through these corpses, leaving not even a copper coin on them.
There is no doubt that the meager military pay given to these soldiers by Arthur, who was short of military resources, was plundered back after the death of these soldiers.
"The guy who makes money from dead people!" Yun clenched his fist fiercely: "What a despicable bastard."
Kars Chenxi frowned, and he muttered in a low voice, wrapped in a thick black cloak: "What a shameful person. The honor of the Temple of Punishment will be lost by him. However, Fortunately, what he ruined was the honor of the Temple of Punishment. Let him continue to ruin it!”…,
Kars Chenxi and the several divine descendants from the Temple of Dawn around him laughed at the same time. Their actions this time were originally intended to destroy the profits that Arthur and the Temple of Punishment might get from the Fourth Abyss, and at least share some of them. Profit matters. So they are happy to see Arthur take any irrational actions. The more irrational and the more excessive things, the better for the Dawn Goddess.
The large group of people continued to move forward, with blood stains everywhere along the way and corpses that had not been cleaned up everywhere.
The caves here are as complex as spider webs. Countless strange cave creatures live in the huge underground caves. Warcraft and poisonous insects are the rulers here. The harsh environment is the biggest enemy here. Even among the brave mercenaries in the surface world, no one dares to try to enter the Fourth Abyss from this entrance to the highlands. When these ordinary soldiers under Arthur enter here, a large number of casualties are inevitable.
What is gratifying is that the caves here are very spacious. Any cave, even the narrowest one, can easily accommodate hundreds of people walking side by side, and many caves can easily accommodate tens of thousands of people. Fortunately, Lin Qi dared to enter here with a large group of people. If it were replaced by a small corridor where two people could not move if they were side by side, even Lin Qi would not dare to take such a risk.
But the spacious cave made it very convenient for the army to march, and it was even more convenient for those huge monsters.
Lin Qi and others traveled quickly along the green passage marked on the magic map for several hours. After bypassing several dangerous areas, they finally arrived at an underground cave with a diameter of more than twenty miles.
As soon as he entered the cave, Lin Qi saw the scene of blood and flesh flying in front of him. Nearly ten thousand peasant soldiers under Arthur formed an awkward formation that looked like a square formation, but also looked like a circular formation, as wriggling and changeable as a slime. The huge formation was being attacked crazily by more than thirty black dragon lizards and evil lions. With every attack, a large number of peasant soldiers died tragically on the spot.
The dragon lizard is a strange monster that is a hybrid of three creatures: an earth dragon, a lizard, and a manticore.
Their heads are like lizards, but there is a sharp dragon horn on the top of their head, their lion-shaped bodies are covered with scorpion-like cuticles, and their sharp tails carry a huge stinger, which is extremely poisonous.
They are just hybrids of manticores, so they have no wings, but their strength and vitality are more powerful than manticores. They ran like the wind, and the single horn on their heads could often pierce the bodies of several soldiers. With a paw, more than a dozen wooden shields were easily shattered with one blow.
Occasionally, there will be a few dragon lizards and evil lions that are addicted to killing, and when they open their mouths, a black fire will spurt out.
The thick, stinky, poisonous breath wrapped around the thinly-armored soldiers, burning their bones and flesh into ashes. Only the black skeletons fell to the ground with a clanging sound. Black flames continued to spurt out, and there were at least two thousand black skeletons on the ground.
"Damn Arthur!" Yun clenched his fist tightly: "As long as a few heavenly warriors accompany them, these dragon lizards and evil lions can be easily killed!"
Lin Qi narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice: "The Heavenly Soldiers are all elites, and they are all in his direct lineage heavy armored legions. Among the soldiers who were sent to explore the road and die, he was willing to distribute the Heavenly Soldiers." Only a warrior has a ghost!"
Lin Qi snorted coldly and waved his hand: "Save these poor people and tell them clearly that it was the magnanimous, kind, generous and benevolent Earl of Longshan of the Longshan family who saved them. Well, give it to each of them. Send some silver coins to calm the panic and let them follow us."...,
Everyone looked at Lin Qi in shock. Only Mr. Mo and Yun suddenly laughed.
Mr. Mo nodded in admiration and said: "This is a good time to win the hearts of the family. If we can save more people and take more people out of the Fourth Abyss, then no one can shake the reputation of the family in the five major northern provinces. .”
Mr. Mo's words were a bit ambiguous, as if the Longshan family wanted to poach Arthur and the Gallic Empire, and wanted to cause uprisings and riots in the five northern provinces. Lin Qi just smiled and said nothing, while Karls Chenxi and several other young people from the divine family could not wait to rush forward with their people: "The almighty God of Dawn will protect you, recite the name of my god, you and others will Will be sheltered!"
Without Lin Qi's men taking action, Karls Chenxi and others had already led a large number of Dawn Knights to chop more than thirty poor dragon lizards and evil lions into meat paste. A very beautiful girl raised her long staff and recited a few spells in a low voice, and a large piece of bright light fell from the sky above the cave.
The soldiers who had been so frightened that their hands and feet were weak and almost fainted were shocked, and their courage and strength returned to their bodies at the same time.
They looked in awe at Kars Chenxi and others who were shrouded in bright light. For a time, the reputation of the Dawn Temple was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Those around Lin Qi gave them rations and silver coins, and told them to follow Earl Longshan's army and continue to advance. After Earl Longshan's army protected them, the beautiful image of the Longshan family was also established in the hearts of these soldiers.
After resting for a while, Lin Qi led a large group of people to break through the lair of the dragon lizard and evil lion and continued to go deeper.
The rolling flow of people continues to move into the cave, and they will discover a large number of new forks every day, and Arthur will drive these soldiers into these forks to explore the road without mercy. There were thousands of casualties every day, and on several days they encountered great dangers, causing legion-level damage.
Everyone's corpses were frozen in the remote cave, and Arthur's army still followed the cave firmly and continued to penetrate deeper.
Gradually, a month passed by. (You are welcome to come. Your support is my biggest motivation.)