Chapter 294: Destroy the tiger and swallow the wolf

Shaman's aunt smiled bitterly and said, "He is a magician. Since you have agreed with him, if you regret it, your sister will not be able to help you."

Shaman was shocked and said, "What do you mean?"

"You can only trust him now unless he does something that hurts you, and if you go back on your word, he will be detrimental to your sister and even the entire Roland family."

"Brother Salin is not such a person, right?"

"What do you know? The dignity of a magician is inviolable." Sharman's aunt sighed.

"My sister is also a magician, higher than him!"

"Gao? What level do you think of Trisi? What level is Su?"

Shaman was speechless, but she became happy again and said, "If Salin is really so 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 decline. If she is not named a baron, she can still become a direct force in the family. Now the old guys are worried that the relationship between your sister and the emperor will affect the relationship with the Holy Rock City... Forget it, you understand. Since your sister goes to Metatrium City, she plans to start her own business. Isn't the children of other families the same? If you can follow Salin, you may be more promising than your sister."

Shaman's eyes rolled and asked in confusion: "Aunt, why do I feel that he values ​​me, but I don't care much about my sister? My sister is a level 4 magician!"

Sharman was very confused about this feeling. In the Meers Continent, even if you are the Black Iron Sword Saint, you can suppress a level 4 mage or even a level 5 mage, and you will not be respected like a level 4 mage. A mage can drive everyone in the team, and the Sword Saint will not have this effect unless he reaches the silver level.

"Silly boy, you have lived in Metatlin City for several months. Haven't you seen that Metatlin City has no shortage of mages at all?" Shaman's aunt replied with a wry smile.

When he cleaned up the battlefield, Aini went to stare at it himself. The iron-armored lizard was dug out with ninety-three level 4 magic cores, and Salin didn't want this magic core. He had promised to give it to Aini long ago. Even if he took these magic cores, it would not be as much as the loss of a level 7 scroll. The iron-armored lizard's skin was burned on a large scale, but it could still cut out a large amount of materials to make advanced leather armor. The defense of this high-level leather armor is no different from ordinary metal armor, and it is lighter.

Salin even has dragon skin, so of course he doesn't like these broken materials. If you want materials, it's better to hunt red krill in the Ice Sea. The red krill's carapace has better defense, lighter, and easier to enchant.

There are also more than 500 corpses, which are relatively complete. Ani stays behind and slowly creates corpse soldiers. The benefits of corpse soldiers are that skeleton soldiers cannot compare with them. If they are not used to fight in a hurry and cultivate for a period of time, they can take human weapons. After the violence, they can be used to attack the tough.

These corpse soldiers are more active than the soul of the skeleton soldiers. They can climb over obstacles, vertical walls, and can also climb up with their nails. When corpse soldiers attack the city, they cannot defend with bows and arrows, and can only use huge rocks or pour tinder oil under the city. However, the speed of these two types of attacks is too slow. As long as the number of corpse soldiers is enough, the final solution is to fight hard on the top of the city.

The armor of those heavy-armored knights was also damaged, and some melted on a large scale, and Aini also put them away. Cleaning the battlefield is a meticulous job, and there is no omission. We must try to make up for the combat losses. The worst material of these armors is refined metal with fine copper, pure steel that is as thick as a finger. Even if it is melted and recast, it is equivalent to hundreds of gold coins.

In comparison, the losses of the thieves are far greater than that of Salin. Salin only consumed two scrolls. The thieves lost three quasi-sword saints, one hundred armored cavalry and iron armored lizards, and the other personnel lost more than a thousand. After this battle, the thieves who besieged the caravan lost more than one million gold coins. The three quasi-sword saints were not included.

However, war is destruction, not construction. The caravan did not lose much benefit. The iron-armored lizard's magic core sold at most 400 gold coins, and the addition of less than 40,000 gold coins. Including the additional materials obtained, it is only about 60,000 gold coins. The caravan died more than 40 people, and the pension was more than 10,000 gold coins.

It is difficult for Ani’s demon wolf to be transformed into a deceased demon wolf by him. This thing is very useless for the undead mage, and the elemental mage does not like it. Ani had to keep it for himself and let a batch of goods be ruined in vain.

But there is no way to lose this loss. No one knows that the thieves will retreat, continue to fight and continue to increase their manpower, the thieves will still rush into the camp. At that time, Aini will not be able to escape with the demon wolf at all, and can only abandon the goods. If that is the case, even these undead demon wolf will be gone.

Salin's loss was two scrolls, plus some arrows provided to Aini. As for the human, no hair was injured. Moreover, the two scrolls made Shaman look at him differently. After the abduction, Salin actually made a profit.

If Shaman is more mature, Salin will still have to pay a lot of conditions to pull her into his camp unconditionally. A sixteen-year-old quasi-sword saint has an unlimited future.

Speaking of which, it is also a problem with the Roland family. Even if Shaman was just a sword master before going to Metatlin City, her sister was already a level 4 magician. The Roland family was actually worried about the attitude of Holy Rock City and allowed such a person to leave.

In Salin's barracks, there are maps on the tables. The map is not very detailed, and the magic maps drawn back then do not cover the area in the north of Phoenix now.

There are three roads from Tronsu Town to Nan. Salin chooses the middle one and then moves two hundred miles ahead, which is a relatively large city.

"We have to choose the route again. My flying puppet chased me for two miles and couldn't tell where the thieves were going." Salin gesturing on the map, and the people who were called in again were a little confused.

"You're going to chase those thieves?" Shaman shouted. She had lost some soldiers and no longer wanted to fight meaninglessly.

"No, no, no, these thieves' siege hammer chariots are destroyed here. Their goal is to attack the city. Without the chariots, they will consume more soldiers. We just keep up and see what can be done for the nobles of Phoenix."

"It's not the same." Shaman muttered.

"It's different. If these thieves attack the city, we will follow in and help the Phoenix nobles avenge. If they fail directly, we can ignore it."

"Do you want to occupy the city? We don't have that many people!" Enni said cautiously. He also wanted to occupy the city of Phoenix. If Salin occupies the place to hide, the caravan will make a lot of profit in the future. But now it is obviously not a good time to occupy the city. The caravan includes less than a thousand slaves, and there are pressure to guard a small city of one mile. This is also considered as his own necromancer.

"Where is it so troublesome to use it? I have sent a message to Rex. The following three roads, no matter which city is attacked, are 2,400 miles away from Metatlin. It takes six days to get from Metatlin to get here, and more than ten days to infantry (to avoid being criticized, let me say here that the elite infantry in the book are still riding horses, but the horses are of poor quality and equipment, and need vehicles. In the case of good road conditions, they also need to use cavalry to march for nearly half of the time)."

"It will definitely not take ten days for thieves to attack the city!" Eni still didn't understand.

"That's why I have to follow me and drive the thieves out of the city when the thieves break through the city. We don't defend the city when we turn back, just let the puppets and the undead destroy the city's defense. When we've almost done it, leave immediately. If the thieves come back and want to repair the fortifications, there is no time for Rex's cavalry troops to arrive. Without the support of the city, Rex's two flag regiments can deal with more than ten thousand such thieves."

Aini then suddenly realized, and thus extended many ideas. Salin destroyed the city because no one in the north could defeat Rex's cavalry in the field. Rex helped Phoenix's nobles to regain the city, and there was nothing to say in Holy Rock City.

If those Phoenix nobles want to come back, they have to pay gold coins to Rex. The city was not destroyed by Rex, and Rex doesn't need to compensate and leave. However, the city without a wall is not able to defend the Phoenix nobles. Sooner or later, this place is still owned by Salin.

Salin's plan was closely linked. If the thieves had any plans, they would come back sooner or later. After repeated several times, it was estimated that the nobles on the northern border of Phoenix would be killed.

The Phoenix nobles who could fight had already gone to Metatrium City, and the remaining nobles were all those who were surviving.

After thinking through Salin's intention, Aini sent fifteen cavalry to divide into three groups to chase the thieves. Just follow a few miles away and figure out which city these thieves are going to attack.

Seeing that Aini and Salin were very close, Shaman thought to himself that he had to express something. Can Aini's soldiers be mobilized by his own soldiers?

"Brother Salin, since I am going to follow you, I still have more than a hundred soldiers here, and I am not good at commanding, so you should do it."

Salin was not polite and nodded, but according to the army, he only had 120 soldiers, or three teams, and the remaining thirty soldiers, still followed Sarman to protect the lady of the Roland family. No matter how brave the general of an army was, he was still protected by his personal soldiers when he went to the battlefield.

Generally speaking, the officer with strong force is accompanied by two hundred personal soldiers as the core combat power. The vanguard is a suicide squad, the light cavalry on both wings, the infantry on the front, and the heavy cavalry is at the end. The personal soldiers brought by the officer are the core of the battle. No matter how high Shaman's martial arts are, Salin will not let her fight alone.

The tactic of a thief with heavy cavalry headed by the thief can be said to be invincible against a single army, but when encountering a regular army, you will be in trouble.

Salin took over Shaman's soldiers, and there were no more vehicles, and the slaves followed. In this caravan, only Aini's fifty personal soldiers were riding real war horses. The slaves' horses were not good enough to fight, so they could only be used as tools to rush.

Even so, Salin was very satisfied. He equipped everyone with steel crossbows. The soldiers' steel crossbows were all pedals and could be hung on stirrups, but the servants' steel crossbows were manual, with thorn wheels, and the winding was more than twice as slow. There were more than 800 people in the caravan, almost all of whom had steel crossbows. When they faced the thieves' charge, they would not be as busy as they were at the beginning.

Shaman's aunt had no objection. Salin's actions made her understand the wealth of Metatlin City. The eight hundred steel crossbows, each worth only one hundred gold coins, was equipped with 80,000 gold coins.

Raising an army is just a burning money. Although the Roland family is rich, the real elite soldiers do not exceed the upper limit stipulated by the empire. This kind of steel crossbow is used by elite soldiers. Most ordinary soldiers are hand crossbows or short bows. Without steel crossbows, you can only watch the enemy's heavy cavalry rush in front of you and wait for the battle.

Aini knew that if Salin was doing business, the ten were not his opponents, but he was not as good as Salin when he led his troops to Salin. He simply handed over all his personal 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, so he didn't have to worry about guarding at all.

But Aini doesn't have too many green ghosts, so I'm embarrassed to care about Salin. Salin also has a necromancer. And Aini knows that Salin has a undead contract creature, who is wise and can use undead magic, and also needs green ghosts.

So Aini had to drive away the corpse soldiers, the undead demon wolf, and his skeleton soldiers to advance with the caravan.

Now the caravans can no longer be called. All the big carts were destroyed. The group of people rode their horses and walked slowly southward. Soon, a team of five people had returned and reported clearly that the thieves were divided into two groups, one towards the main road in the middle, and the other, which seemed to be preparing to attack the city on the left.

"The city in the middle is not to be cared for. If the thieves can divide their troops, they don't want the city in the middle to support and restrain it." Salin made a quick judgment, leaving a few slaves behind, and rushed back to meet Rex's army. He led two caravan soldiers to the city on the left.

The Bianxing City was originally a viscount's territory, and there were several small towns around it. However, during the Black Magician Rebellion and Qin Yin's army invasion, the nearby towns were destroyed. The nobles here were unable to restore them, and even the Bianxing City was not rebuilt.

It is October now, and it should have been harvested long ago, but Salin saw that in the fields far away from the road, some crops were as low as weeds.

The originally prosperous Phoenix has now been ruined after two rounds of war.

Salin has always controlled a flying puppet to act as a scout at a distance of two miles. Five miles ago, there were ten light cavalry exploring the way. There was no way, Salin is just a level six magician, and controlling the flying puppet to be two miles away is already the limit.

Generally, when the army marched, it would leave at least one flag regiment's power at the end, so as not to be trampled by others. However, the thieves were temporarily pieced together. Although there were many people, there was no unified command. Salin's team was so far behind, and they followed the side star city, and were not discovered by the thieves.

Salin simply set up camp fifty miles outside the Side Star City, waiting for the thieves to attack the city. This time the surveillance mission was directly handed over to Aini, who sent a second-level skeleton soldier to the front to observe the battlefield.

The jealous undead mage can create a temporary teleportation image through the magic array on the undead, and the distance that can be detected is 50 miles as the limit. Of course, this requires a large amount of magic cores, and the so-called large amount is a drop in the bucket for Salin. He only goes to the Ice Sea once, and the magic cores he hunts are enough for him to use for several years.

Although there are level 6 magicians among the thieves, they did not expect that there was a dead soul behind them and did not check the back of the thieves' camp. The thieves were facing a small city, and the square side star city wall was only 1.2 miles away. Fortunately, there was a gap in the city wall, which was temporarily blocked by the lord of the side star city. Although the soil in these gaps was added with adhesive, it was still the most fragile part.

Unfortunately, only these gaps can be attacked, and the gates of Fangxing City are still extremely strong. More and more thieves surrounded Fangxing City, with more than 8,000 people. Among these thieves, there were mercenaries, as well as some private soldiers and slaves who were abandoned by the down-and-out nobles. On the contrary, few peasants joined.

Among the more than 8,000 thieves, only more than 1,000 horses were most of them rushing on their feet and gathered here. These people obviously did not want to occupy the city, but just wanted to invade the city and rob and then leave.

Salin waited a day in the distance before the last thousand thieves arrived late. These thousand thieves were the leaders of all thieves.

Even the people from the Black Dragon King Thieves Group sent their leaders to the thief's tent to wait for the dispatch.

The last thousand thieves arrived were clearly clad in armor, and the team was also composed of Qin Yin's flag regiment. If the team was hung with badges, you would mistakenly think that this was a first-class Count's private soldier. These thousand thieves could not see the slightest miserable appearance, and everyone was wearing armor. Even their war horses were wearing vests. In addition to the one thousand thieves, there were hundreds of slaves, driving big chariots and carrying equipment materials for siege.

This form is like the style of the Tanggulas Empire. Qin Yin was not allowed to have slave soldiers, but only servant soldiers, that is, auxiliary soldiers. Except for the poor treatment of auxiliary soldiers, the pension is the same as regular soldiers. Unlike slaves, they die if they die, and they can buy them again.

The last thousand thieves arrived, and the thieves attacked the city had about 10,000, and they also had their backbone. Moreover, the thieves began to assemble trenchers. Although they were not magic trenchers, they were enough to destroy the already damaged city wall.

In the Side Star City, there are only a hundred elite soldiers, and less than a thousand peasant militias gather together. Although the farmers in the north are fierce, they are not trained and can only help guard the city walls. Once the thieves break the city, it is impossible to fight by the peasants who escape into the city.

Aini's skeleton sent back the news, Salin felt something was wrong, and such a situation would probably be broken within one day. Moreover, the catapult destroyed the city wall, and the thieves attacked the city and could not consume much troops.

"Su, bring ten cavalry to protect this apprentice." Salin pointed to the sword master who was transformed into a magic apprentice among the personal soldiers of Aini and said, "I will give you the materials for five flying puppets, touch the back of the thieves' camp, and use the flying puppets to attack their catapults. Then you will retreat."

These cavalrymen are worthy of being personal soldiers, and ten people are not afraid of tens of thousands of thieves. Moreover, Salin just asked them to attack the catapult behind their backs and use flying puppets to bomb. It was not much difficulty. What's more, there was a silver sword saint who would not be left by the opponent's magician.

Because once a magician discovers the Silver Sword Saint, he will hide in the camp and will not come out to pursue him.

"You bring a hundred servants, light cavalry, only bows and crossbows and short swords, and ambush twenty miles ahead. If someone pursues you, shoot arrows on both sides of the road. After shooting a box of arrows, retreat."

Salin pointed to a high-level swordsman and gave an order, and then he said to the level 5 magician: "Mr. Mage, this is a level 6 scroll. You are ambushing ten miles ahead. If the enemy catches up, you can use this scroll when the magic string consumes one-third."

The fifth-level magician glanced at Shaman. Shaman pretended not to see his eyes. The fifth-level magician had to take the scroll, which was equivalent to approving Salin's order. There was no way, who made Salin have a more obedient Tris beside him. He is a mage who can use the seventh-level scroll!

This level five mage mistakenly thought Cui Si to be a level six magician. He didn't know that the delicate beauty was actually a male demon.

"Ani, let the corpse soldiers be ambushed five miles ahead. If those thieves can break through the mage's defense, they will block all the corpse soldiers and we will retreat temporarily."

After Salin finished the arrangement, he took out five flying puppets, assembled them first, and added several boxes to the abdomen of the flying puppet. The boxes were filled with magic powder that could explode. After these magic powders exploded, dozens of fireballs would form, burning all the surrounding ignited objects.

The five flying puppets are not fragile and can be hung directly next to the saddle. Ten cavalry protect the magic apprentice and leave first. The leader is Su, who has brought an extra bow in addition to two swords. Although Su's archery skills are not as good as Zola, the range of the Silver Sword Saint can threaten all mages below level seven.

The twelve men got on the war horses and rushed towards the Side Star City. Behind were two hundred servants, light cavalry moving forward.

Because there was no baggage, the distance of fifty miles could be reached in more than an hour for the cavalry. The magic apprentice arrived at the rear of the thief camp, but was very happy. Because the thief camp was a little loose and was built according to the original force and was not connected.

Su was very brave and left the war horse outside the thief camp. Twelve people carried flying puppets and touched them through the gaps in the camp.

Salin's intention is very simple, which is to destroy the thieves' siege equipment. Without the siege equipment, the thieves have to exchange their lives for the defense line of the city wall. As long as the nobles in the city are not too cowardly, one thousand people can defend, and they can kill five times the enemy. Let the noble soldiers consume the thief's power, it will be much easier for Salin to turn back and seize the city.

With Su's leadership, the remaining eleven people did not encounter patrolling thieves and easily came to less than a mile away from the catapult. Su only then carefully investigated it. Fortunately, there was no magician nearby!

The accompanying apprentice immediately began to inlay magic cores, allowing the flying puppet more than two meters long to the sky.

At a distance of 800 meters, against the trencher fixed on the ground, the apprentice would not hit the wrong side even if his mental power was poor. The five flying puppets flew extremely fast, swept across the sky with afterimages and hit it without warning. The magic powder carried by the puppet also exploded, and the fireballs splashed everywhere, and the trencher dominated by wood burned instantly.

"It's really simple, let's retreat." Su saw that five catapults were helpless, so he took eleven sword masters away. What made Su puzzled was that until now, no thieves discovered them. Su actually returned calmly and found the war horse. Salin originally meant to let them lure another group of thieves to pursue, and then set up ambush on the road to eliminate the power of some thieves.

Now, I have destroyed the enemy's catapult, and the enemy has not yet discovered who did it. If I leave like this, I am afraid that the thieves will have to study for a long time before they can find the clues left by themselves.

What is this, a bunch of waste!
Chapter completed!