Chapter 319: Crazy Expeditionary Force (Part 2)

Salin would rather stay with Thunder Dragon every day than do these things. However, the current situation has a lot to do with the contract he signed with Goddess Meles. The Holy See must destroy it, so Salin has to bite the bullet and do it well.

A large number of combat equipment was distributed, and Salin was considering something else. He recruited both Banchagana and Diabinas. The two undead kings are now living in Metatlin City, and they only need to summon a large number of undead from time to time for Daniel to drive.

Daniel himself is a level six necromancer, and his subordinates have more than a dozen low-level necromancers. The three kings no longer need to take action in such a thing as driving the undead.

What the three kings do now is to often search for information in Salin's library. Did the masters die or hide them? If they could not find their master, they would not be free.

If the master is not dead, with the power of the master, you can break the contract trap between Salin and the damn necromancer. It is better to follow the original master than to follow Salin.

Summoned two kings, Salin carefully instructed them to do this time. Salin set up a small town every hundred miles on the way to Phoenix to give a rest to the vendors on the land. These towns have now reached a certain scale. Each town has almost two or three hundred households, and the permanent population is almost one thousand.

So many people ensured the stability of this trade route. If these people were slaughtered by the Holy See's army, Salin could only rely on sea transportation to maintain the city, but his city was closed to ships for five months a year.

It is not enough to only protect Metatlin City. Salin can no longer dispatch the army to fight against the Vatican Expeditionary Force and fight head-on. He believes that even if he wins, the result will be very bad. If there are too many casualties and injuries, Metatlin City will be over.

The best way is to evacuate the people from the town first.

Salin now has four battalions of troops, and the Caucasians cannot organize them, so they can only let Shika lead the city. The four battalions have only 40,000 people, and the barbarians that can be mobilized are only 50,000. Salin now knows that with these 50,000 people, it is impossible to stop the footsteps of the Holy See's Expeditionary Force in the field.

The Fourth and Fifth Battalions were dismissed by Salin, each battalion brought a large number of vehicles and magicians. The mission of these 20,000 people from these two battalions was to arrive at these towns as soon as possible and take everyone back to Metatlin City.

On the Phoenix border, two flag regiments of the Sixth Battalion of Metatlin City were ambushed by the mountain road, waiting for the Holy See's army to pass by. This is only a road of 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 from Metatlin City, because their staff had been reduced by more than 20%, and there were 1,600 people left, and more than 600 injured people, and in fact, there were still 1,000 people who could fight.

However, the Holy See's army did not take the main road, but wanted to move forward in a shortcut. The scout discovered this information, and the commanders of the two flag regiments exchanged opinions, and then decided to carry out an ambush here.

The number of troops was severely reduced, but the soldiers did not discard their weapons. Most of the skeleton war horses were concentrated in these two flag regiments, and they should have retreated in the last. With these skeleton war horses, the soldiers basically brought their weapons with them, as well as the equipment discarded by the several flag regiments in front.

Among the 1,000 people, there were a total of two hundred large crossbows.

Large crossbows are not heavy crossbows, mainly because they lack long-distance damage, but they are very penetrating at close range and are cheap.

Two hundred large crossbows, small crossbows with one hand, these thousand soldiers were ambushed by the roadside, waiting for the Holy See's army to pass by, and then retreated after shooting crossbow arrows.

The two flag captains are senior sword masters on Srieg Island. They are brave in rushing and are still uninjured until now. They are carrying small alchemy crossbows. The alchemy crossbow has good penetration and accurate enough, and they even have the chance to shoot and kill the other party's magician.

Those magicians are so annoying. Any soldier who is immortal can almost be rescued. No matter how serious the wounds are, these soldiers can fight again in three or two days.

After the soldiers return, the twenty-year-old will definitely not live to the age of forty. If they undergo divine therapy many times, they will not be able to survive even at the age of thirty.

The problem is that this skill is so effective. The battles of the Sixth Battalion are mainly bows and crossbows. If there are no large number of magicians in the enemy, the death price of more than 1,000 people in the Sixth Battalion has killed more than 1,000 enemies. Unfortunately, the Tanggulas people who were shot by the crossbows often jumped to the battlefield one or two days later.

After two battles, the Sixth Battalion began to block the enemy's magicians, but the number of alchemy crossbows was too small and the hiddenness was not strong enough. During the battle, the soldiers would use their bodies to block the crossbow arrows and protect the magicians.

"Captain of the Flag, they are here!" A scout rode a skeleton war horse and arrived quickly, and drilled into the woods on the side of the road.

"Preparation!" The Ninth Banner Commander issued an order, and everyone stopped their movements. They carried the armor, carried the arrow bag, tightened their boots, put them on the crossbowman's gloves, and turned the crossbow strings.

Although these two flag regiments have lost more than half, the soldiers' psychological quality is still excellent. After all, with skeleton war horses, the possibility of escaping from the battlefield is higher. This time, only shooting arrows. The soldiers who are familiar with the battle know that this battle is just to reduce the enemy's advance speed.

It’s not hard work, so everyone’s movements are slow and stable.

The sound of horse hooves came from afar. The Holy See's army and war horses were all metal horseshoes. Unlike Salin's army, horseshoes were made of monster materials. The sound of metal horseshoes was extremely loud. From afar, thousands of war horses ran at the same time, just like thundering on the ground.

This is the vanguard of the Holy See. Generally speaking, there are three thousand cavalrymen. Among the three thousand cavalry, there are one hundred heavy cavalry wearing sacred armor. The so-called heavy cavalry refers to defense ability. The sacred armor is like magic armor, with extremely light weight and is suitable for long-term wear.

Most of the remaining cavalry are light armored cavalry, and their combat methods are also carried with crossbows. The main weapon is the Tanggulas scimitar. Heavy cavalry needs the cooperation of auxiliary soldiers, and their equipment is pulled by large chariots, which generally follows the central army. The same is true for infantry. Tanggulas produces a lot of horse land, and infantry can also get rid of inferior horses.

This time, there were too many soldiers going on the expedition, and the Pope's orders were extremely tough. The expeditionary army almost had one horse per person. In addition to infantry advancing in chariots, each cavalry could be assigned two war horses.

Before entering Phoenix, the losses of the Holy See's army's war horses were extremely shocking, because they were moving forward at high speed, and many war horses were exhausted. Only places like the Holy See would issue such orders that soldiers hated them extremely.

The Expeditionary Force only continued to advance after Garroran added war horses. In the confrontation with Rex's army, it lost many war horses. No matter how strong the magician was, he could not treat people and horses. Many war horses died because of poor treatment.

Even so, this huge army is still maintaining a speed of more than 100 miles a day. If it is just a cavalry, it is simply a snail's advance, but this is a mixed expeditionary army, with the number of infantry exceeding two-thirds.

These people had only one target, Metatlin City. The Pope's order was also very simple, go there and destroy that city.

One thousand people were on the roadside and ambushing three thousand cavalrymen was actually very dangerous. However, only one hundred of this cavalry had sacred armor, and the rest were light armor. The number of magicians was not large, and they happened to be the target of crossbowmen ambush.

The vanguard of the Tanggulas cavalry rushed to this mountain road and maintained its speed at about twenty miles. This speed can still maintain the physical strength of the war horse. If it is increased to sixty miles, only the skeleton war horse can gallop for a long time. Even the skeleton war horse will be ruined if it is marching at sixty miles for a long time.

Seeing that the two hundred cavalry in front had entered the ambush range, the Ninth Banner Commander did not issue an order to attack, but instead let the two hundred cavalry pass by. The large group of people behind quickly poured into this narrow passage. At this time, the personal soldiers of the Banner Commander sounded the horn of the war.

"shoot!"

Two hundred crossbow arrows flew out of the air. The soldiers of the Sixth Battalion had been trained for several months. The main training subjects did not include fighting, but concentrated training of crossbow arrow battle formation shooting methods.

Three seconds later, the second round of crossbow arrows shot out, and another three seconds, the third round of crossbow arrow attacks.

The two hundred people in front were using large crossbows, and they shot over more than 100 people directly. The people behind were using handbows, and the effect was much worse. Those more than 100 people must have died. Even if the person hit by the handbows was not treated by the magician, they would not be lucky.

The biggest killing is because he fell off the war horse and was trampled by the war horse behind him.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

“In the woods!”

The cavalry of the Holy See began to panic, but some officers scolded him. The cavalry behind immediately took off their round shields, blocked them, and rushed into the woods. The woods were not dense enough, but they could not be allowed to gallop for war horses. When the cavalry entered the woods, they immediately dismounted, pulled out their machetes, held the shield in one hand, and surrounded Qin Yinren, who was ambushing in the woods.

What awaits them is the shooting of crossbow arrows. Although the range of crossbows is close, places like the forest are just a battlefield where crossbows can be used. Field troops and crossbows are not fired continuously, so the lethality is much stronger than crossbows.

The Tanggulas cavalry held a round shield and could not protect all positions of their bodies. The soldiers of the Sixth Battalion shot at their lower bodies. The combat distance was only a few dozen meters, and these dozens of meters directly caused huge casualties among the Tanggulas people.

The first wave of large crossbows killed more than 100 cavalrymen, and the following hand crossbows shot, the number of cavalrymen injured more than 500.

"Retreat, retreat!" The Ninth Banner Commander shouted, and his personal soldiers immediately blew another rhythm of war horn.

The Tanggulas rushed into the woods frantically, and they still had an advantage in numbers. Moreover, the forward and the army behind were at most two hours away, which might be an hour. As long as they were entangled, the thousand soldiers of Salin would be wiped out.

These Tanggulas approached the crossbowmen regardless of casualties, which made the two flag commanders immediately think of escaping. Before going to the war, Salin had instructed all ten flag commanders to reduce casualties, try to familiarize the soldiers with the battlefield, and bring them back to Metatlin City.
Chapter completed!