Chapter 323: The Secret of the Expeditionary Force (Part 1)

Salin intends to let people eat insects, and there is no way to do so. As the battle is about to spread to the entire continent, at most three years, all countries will be involved in the war of the Holy See. At that time, it will be more difficult to buy food than now. Without stable logistics, what else can I fight?

The soldiers in the city didn't know that Salin was worried about their food. Salin quietly adjusted their diet to increase the proportion of fish and shrimp. The nutrition of this thing is not worse than that of beef and mutton, but it is just a question of whether the taste is appropriate.

Salin arranged a team of 20,000 people on both walls. Metatrium's wall is quite special and very thick. Don't expect to use magic or magic to bombard the couch. The upper half of the wall and the Dante sequence are different from the style of any country on the Meles continent.

A maze-like corridor, a building made of rectangular stone strips, sixty meters thick in front and behind. The city gate is divided into two layers, occupying hundreds of meters wide. Even the small gate has not forgotten this way of construction. This can be understood why Salin used it for so long to build the city wall. He has tens of thousands of undeads as coolies.

These undead spirits helped him build the city day and night, and the walls were the most time-consuming.

People can live on the top of the city. Not to mention a city wall of eight miles can live on 20,000, even a hundred thousand can live on. There is a horse road in the city, which leads to the city wall as high as 30 meters.

Salin originally wanted to build a higher city wall, but he couldn't do it, but if the city wall was built too high, it would surpass the magic tower.

The magic tower is six meters high on the first floor and fifty-four meters high on the nine floors. Only the walls of the Holy Rock City can be built more than 100 meters, but that is because the Holy Rock City itself was carved out on the mountain, and the height of the base is not less than 60 meters.

The thirty-meter-high city wall was climbed over with a cloud ladder, and there were many casualties. The Broken Blade Pass was not guarded because Salin did not send too many mages and he did not want the mage to lose there.

The walls of Metatlin City are built with a thickness exceeding the height, and are actually an eight-mile-long house. The city is fifty meters wide, and on the outside, there are ten-meter-wide horse paths and soldiers' fortresses. If the enemy climbs over the city, they may face the impact of the cavalry on the city.

The cavalry attacked horizontally on the horse path, and the infantry climbing the city wall could not organize formation defense at all. There were magic turrets in the city, and the trenchers on it were difficult to destroy each other under the protection of the magic circle.

There is no magic tower in the city. The only building similar to the magic tower's effect is Salin's Temple. However, the temple is located in a remote location, about five miles away from the city wall. There is no link to the magic tower in the middle, so it will not have any offensive effect for the time being.

Fortunately, there are many low-level mages in Salin's hands, all of which are left by Rex. The intermediate mages were taken away by Rex, and this low-level mage has become the main force of the battle.

When the three kings came back, Diabinas and Banchagana were responsible for each, commanding thousands of undead, mixed with soldiers to assist in defense.

Skeleton soldiers can shoot arrows, but at long distances, you don’t have to consider accurate heads. Moreover, the strength of the skeleton soldiers will not be exhausted. Salin has prepared a large number of inferior bows and arrows for the skeleton soldiers to use. These bows and arrows have a great force and are extremely long range. The accurate heads are sad and are only suitable for covering scattering.

Every two hundred meters, fifty undead war cavalry are arranged. Of course, these undead war cavalry are not as good as death knights, but Salin has equipped the undead war cavalry with heavy armor, so it is still easy to attack infantry on the top of the city.

During the intense preparations for the war, tens of thousands of people flocked to Metatlin, all of which were the leaders of nearby nobles. From the Blade Pass to Metatlin, there were more than a hundred miles away. There were many villages and fortresses on this land. Salin had issued the final order to allow these nobles to take refuge in the city. Their fortress could not stop the Holy See's army at all.

These nobles had to obey because they had been in Metatlin City for too short time, had not yet recruited enough soldiers, and had few people to lead. Although small fortresses are easy to defend, they are insufficient in staff and cannot defend them for a day in the face of the impact of the army.

The Expeditionary Force rested at Broken Blade Pass for three days and set off again. The vanguard had swept the Metatrian Plain and did not grab the food. He was also blocked in Xizhen. A flag regiment of Rex came out of Xizhen with thousands of mercenaries and attacked the three thousand light cavalry of the Holy See from the Holy See.

Rex's flag regiment was all covered with three layers of armor. Although it was not heavy cavalry, its impact was almost the same.

As for the less than four thousand mercenaries, they just followed them and arranged hundreds on both wings to form a double-team, as if one of Rex’s heavy flag groups was a blade, and the more than three thousand mercenaries were steel with blades.

This time the impact was like a swordsman who swept a man's neck with a long sword, and with a click, it cut off the three thousand cavalry of the Expeditionary Force from the middle. This attack was straightforward and did not give the Expeditionary Force a chance to change its formation. There were not many enemies killed, only more than 200, and most of the Expeditionary Forces were just hit by a crossbow and were not seriously injured.

However, Rex's flag regiment turned around and came back. This time, he had already changed his spear in his hand. After a brief charge, he tore off a piece of meat from the flanks of the enemy cavalry and killed more than 200 people. Rex's flag regiment then left. He lost nearly 500 people in two battles, which was definitely a heavy blow to the vanguard cavalry of 3,000 people.

Those who wanted to pursue but did not have Rex were familiar with the terrain. In the narrow area, the mercenaries threw down the carries of caltrops and sharp antlers, reducing the speed of the cavalry to the extreme. This time, the cavalry of the Expeditionary Force woke up. This was not the Tanggulas Empire.

When the magician who was ambushing in the hilly area saw this scene, the three kings sighed even more. If they cooperated with each other, all three thousand cavalry would be left here. However, the order given to them was to attack the large army behind the cavalry. The vanguard of the Vatican Expeditionary Force was the vanguard of the light cavalry, and there were 10,000 people behind.

The three kings were going to attack this ten thousand people and they wanted to leave the battlefield before the large troops behind arrived.

The vanguard of the Expeditionary Force retreated, and it was estimated that he would join the 10,000 troops behind him soon and enter the Xizhen area. Banchagana flew to the battlefield, grabbed a dead body, sniffed it, and looked a little bad.

Seeing Banchagana come back, he is holding a dead body in his hand, and the other two undead kings also smell a strange smell. It looks like the smell of a god, but it is not, because there is some evil that is beyond the scope of the rules.

"These people..." The three kings looked at each other and looked at the soldiers behind them. The soldiers were recruited by the nobles, and not everyone in Salin's five battalions were taken. Some of these soldiers had good combat power, but they were older and were all abandoned. There was no place for them in the regular army, so they surrendered to the nobles of all sizes.

Judy Coco said, "Let's go back, no ambush."

The officers leading the human soldiers were in a dilemma, but the three undead kings did not dare to talk to each other. Judykoko released a undead magic, which acted on the corpse, and the corpse burst out with a bang.

Diabinas also shook his head. There was a magical effect in the corpse, and the undead magic could no longer be used. This situation was more serious than at the beginning. When the Expeditionary Force first entered Phoenix, the soldiers' bodies were not as serious as that.

Thousands of troops lying in the hills retreated, leaving only a small number of Caucasians and barbarians, continuing to observe the enemy's situation. Judykoko flew to the battlefield, destroyed all the bodies, turned into a pile of rotten flesh and blood, and then took the army back to Metatlin City with his army.

Judykoko came to see Salin in person, and he was also afraid that Diabinas or Banchagana would say something wrong, so he annoyed Salin. It was not that he refused to execute the order, but that the order was no longer meaningful.

In the temple, Judy Koko felt an inexplicable pressure. Salin was just a level six wizard. Despite his rapid progress, he should not put pressure on the undead at the king level?

Judykoko did not think about it, and he said to Salin: "There are problems with the soldiers of the Vatican Expeditionary Force. Neither the corpse explosion nor the magic of the corpse soldiers can act on their bodies."

"Oh? I don't know much about undead magic and magic, wait a moment." Salin said, and ordered someone to call Nania, then continued to ask Judy Koko.

"What the hell is going on? You didn't have an ambush?"

"The soldiers of the Expeditionary Force were hit by a vicious magic technique. I don't know what it is. However, within one year, these soldiers' combat ability was forcibly improved and their physical fitness was also enhanced. No matter how serious the injuries were, they could recover quickly under the action of the magic technique."

Nania nodded and said, "There is indeed such a magical technique, but it is only at the cost of consuming the lives of soldiers."

"Yes, when I was at the border, I could still use the soldiers I killed. Now it's not possible. It's less than a month. In other words, the magical arts hidden in the soldiers' bodies are slowly accelerating. I estimate that these soldiers, even if we don't kill them, will not live for half a year. The shortest one may have two or three months of life."

Salin gasped and said that the Tanggulas' lifespan was slightly shorter, but they could reach eighty or ninety years. The expeditionary force would not be more than thirty-five years. The Holy See concentrated the lifespan of these soldiers forty or fifty years and burst out with powerful combat power. Even if these people occupied Metatlin City, they would die quickly.

What else is more cruel than this? For the sake of faith, these soldiers went to Metatrim for more than 20,000 miles. What was the result? Before they set out, their fate was already destined to die in a foreign land.

"Where is the main force?"
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