Chapter 350: A war without moral principles (Part 7)
The National Garrison of Dutata City is organized into a regiment, with a total of 1,500 heavy infantry, 200 light cavalry, and 400 heavy armored cavalry.
Since there is no need to go on long expeditions like the Cult of the Fiery Sun, the National Garrison does not need to equip professional soldiers with auxiliary troops. When it is necessary to leave the garrison and fight in away battles, local lords will usually recruit civilian militia to fill the auxiliary troops quota, and disband them after the war, thus saving the cost of maintaining auxiliary troops during non-combat periods.
Yes, that's right, the four civilian heroes in "The Legend of Susan" are auxiliary soldiers...
In addition to the National Garrison, another standing force in the city of Dutata is the Ezekiel family's legion... Because their family is the lord, this legion barely escapes the category of private soldiers and can be regarded as a regular army.
The name of this legion is "Red Flame Snake" - this style of name comes from the predecessor of this legion, a mercenary group that was once famous in the southern part of the Rhine Kingdom.
This is also the ultimate goal of most mercenary groups on the continent of Nabarron. By completing commissions for the nobles, they gain the favor of the nobles, and all members are "regularized". They go from being free mercenaries who have to sleep in the open air and are unloved by their parents to private soldiers of a certain noble. From then on, they live a smooth life with a stable income, a family and a career, and the hope that the next generation will inherit their father's business. They can be called the winners in the mercenary world.
Of course, the "Red Flame Snake" has served the Ezekiel family for hundreds of years. The soldiers on the staff are no longer the ancestors who experienced the precarious life of mercenaries. Many of them are even recruited from civilians like the city defense forces of the Bartles family...
Upon learning that the central city had been captured by the Undead, the National Garrison was anxious but was still able to methodically deploy personnel to continue defending the city gates. The Scarlet Flame Snake Legion was extremely anxious and immediately abandoned the southwest gate and turned back.
After all, the National Garrison belongs to the regular army of the kingdom, and no lord can easily disband them; the private army legions like the Red Flame Snakes will not have such a good fate. Once the Ezekiel family collapses, many of them may be eliminated from the sequence of professional soldiers and return to the old path of their fathers to survive.
The first garrison to rush into the central city to defend was the Red Flame Snake Legion, which was eager to rescue their lord.
As they anxiously passed through the unguarded inner city gate, the legion officer who led the troops back to defend the city yelled, "The city police chief is a bunch of useless pigs. He didn't even care about the inner city gate. No wonder the undead were allowed in!"
The furious officer drove his horse into the inner city. After walking a few steps, he saw the undead running in the streets and alleys. He pointed his whip at them angrily and said, "Go, some people, kill those dirty undead!"
Several legionnaires responded and rode their horses into the alley.
After walking a few steps, the officer saw a group of undead coming from another street. He roared with veins on his forehead: "Go! Kill them!"
A small group broke away from the main force and rushed forward aggressively.
The undead were startled and turned around and ran away...
After walking a few steps forward, the officer saw hundreds of undead running out of a private casino , openly shouting and pointing at them.
The extremely angry officer roared and sent a team to clean up those dirty guys, but he couldn't help but feel nervous.
Sure enough, after advancing a few dozen meters, before all the soldiers of the legion had entered the inner city, he saw hundreds of undead appearing in the carriage parking lot on the side of the street again.
"How many undead have entered the inner city?!"
The organization of the Scarlet Flame Serpent Legion is more complete than that of the National Garrison. Because they are needed to inspect the entire territory on behalf of Count Ezekiel before and after the autumn harvest every year, they are all configured as cavalry, just like the city defense forces of the Bartles family, with a total of 2,200 light cavalry and 800 heavy cavalry.
The officer was hesitating whether to allocate more troops to eliminate this group of undead. Before he made up his mind, he saw that the group of undead had already run out from the carriage parking area in a menacing manner, rushing towards the Red Flame Snake.
The blood vessels on the officer's forehead almost burst, and he shouted an order: "Crush them--!!"
The heavy cavalry phalanx, which had been trotting forward, accelerated and crashed into this group of ignorant undead.
Amid the waves of white light
“What the hell!!”
The slow players were startled, and with even more chaotic and unsystematic movements than when they charged into the formation, they scattered like flowers scattered by fairies, running for their lives...
The players who have come all the way to South Street are those who came online relatively late.
When these players come online and form a group, they find that the lucrative "battle zones" are already occupied, so they can only explore the periphery and pick up some bargains.
It was also because they had to watch others eat meat while they could only lick the plates that this group of players instantly lost their minds after discovering a large group of red-named elite monsters. They rushed forward without even considering the difference in numbers between the two sides... and only after half of their teammates were killed by their horses' hooves did they come to their senses.
After escaping with his flexible turning speed, the players in this group started to curse: "Are you kidding me? How can infantry fight cavalry?"
"It's gone once you go up!"
"Either you can't find the monster, or if you find one, you'll get your face smacked by a horse's hoof!"
The leader of the solo group cleared the team channel and shouted with the leader's authority: "Alright, alright, I don't think any group can defeat this group of monsters. Everyone, hurry up and call for help. Call your relatives, friends and masters!"
Immediately, individual players who knew him spoke up one after another: "My master is from the blood alliance of Vanilla Boss. Leader, can I ask my master?"
"I know someone from Lahong's blood alliance..."
"Call for help! Call for help!" The leader of the group was quite open-minded and shouted, "Don't forget to say this when you call for help. Don't engage in any internal fighting at this time. There are thousands of fully-equipped elite monsters, which is enough to share! Let's take down the battlefield first!"
The captain of the team was an old player and was very clear about the combat effectiveness of the large army of elite humanoid monsters in the game. He knew that if he didn't pull out a super large team, he wouldn't be able to deal with these monsters, and he wouldn't be able to grab equipment or even drink soup - after all, he had been trampled by the horseshoes of the Cult of the Fiery Sun, the horseshoes of the Innadri City Defense Forces, and the horseshoes of Lionel's army, and had gained experience from all of them.
If the leader of a solo group can have such insight, let alone the blood alliance among the old players.
When Qin Guan and Brother Lahong were leading their team towards South Street, the military strategist players in the two Blood Alliances - Miao Bi Shenghua on Qin Guan's side, and Ming Feng Chunpu on Brother Lahong's side - were taking the time to communicate in private chat.
Qin Guan and Lahongge don't have any good friends, but their friends all have friends with each other, and they often go on quests and kill monsters together when they have nothing to do. It didn't take long for Miaobishenghua to agree on the terms of cooperation with Mingfeng Chunpu, and they informed each other's brothers, and while on the way they pulled together a large group on the battlefield.
The two blood alliances merged together, and players who were friendly with the other blood alliances also contacted their relatives, friends, mentors and apprentices. Anyone who knew them and had formed a team and was willing to merge together joined together...
On this side, the players relied on the private chat function provided by the Brand Matrix, which imitated the online game mode on Earth, to unite flexibly at a speed beyond the imagination of the people in the alien world; on the other side, the Red Flame Snake Legion, which kept bumping into scattered undead teams and had to stop from time to time to drive away and kill them, finally rushed into the central avenue.
Before the lord's mansion came into sight, the officer leading the troops back to defend the city felt his heart tremble...
Why are there more undead the closer you get to the core area of Midtown?!
There were dozens, hundreds or even thousands of undead souls scattered all over South Street, the crossroads and the central avenue. Along the way, the officers couldn't remember how many groups of undead souls they had driven away and dispersed!
"Shouldn't there be only about 3,000 Tarantan Undead? The ones we encountered along the way must be more than 3,000! No, there must be at least 5,000 or 6,000!"
The officer was sweating profusely. He urged the troops to catch up while anxiously thinking about the strange situation. "Even if the Nightmare Butcher has been promoted to Legendary, there should be a limit to the number of summons, right?! I have never heard of a black magician being able to increase the number of summons infinitely!"
This hereditary military officer, whose grandfather was "recruited" by Ezekiel's family and awarded the family knighthood , had been wealthy for three generations and was able to provide his descendants who inherited the family business with a better education than that of the middle-class families.
The officer does not think that spellcasters are omnipotent like ordinary people do. He knows very well that spellcasters have their limits.
Even high-level spellcasters who can rely on the Mage Tower to fight at home cannot withstand the siege of more than three spellcasters of the same level, let alone the bombardment of the Kenyan Empire's mechanical alchemical cannons. When Kenya invaded Middle-earth, it used saturation artillery fire to blow up the Mage Tower of Middle-earth's high-level spellcasters.
All heirs born into military officer families on the continent of Nabarron will inevitably have access to battlefield data from the bombing of Middle-earth countries by the Mechanical Alchemy Unit of the Kenyan Empire...Understanding the combat mode of the monster in the north is a compulsory course for all professional officers.
The Black Mage is known as the king of the battlefield who can fight against the regular army on the front battlefield, but this claim is exaggerated; a high-level Black Mage can only summon up to ten high-level monsters and demons at the same time, and the summoning time can not be sustained for too long.
The so-called Undead Army summoned by a corrupt black magician that caused the fall of the city actually numbered only one or two thousand; and it was not the low-intelligence Undead Army that captured the city, but the army summoned by the noble who hired the corrupt black magician - this statement was spread only because the noble did not want to gain the notoriety of starting an dishonorable war.
It was not beyond comprehension that the Nightmare Butcher, who had been promoted to Legend, summoned three thousand undead; but it was extremely incredible that the number of these undead, which could stay in the material plane for a long time and had intelligence no less than that of ordinary people, suddenly doubled!
The officer's mind was full of the lawsuit when he heard a commotion coming from the rear.
"What the hell?!" the officer turned around and shouted angrily.
Just as he was about to continue yelling, the officer's eyes suddenly widened.
The streets in the central city were very spacious and could accommodate six carriages running side by side; but no matter how spacious they were, they were still streets within the city, and the moving legions were restricted by the road surface and had to stretch their carriages longer.
This kind of fat long python formation can be said to be a breakthrough point for players...
The officer turned around and was shocked to find that countless undead rushed out from the alleys on both sides of the central avenue, interspersed in the long army formation, and cut his troops into pieces...
What was even more horrifying was that the officer, who was riding on a tall lizard horse and had a good vision, saw with horror that the number of undead pouring out from alleys and even buildings on a street of at least 200 meters seemed to be much greater than he had expected - at least tens of thousands!
The entire Red Flame Snake Legion returned to defend, but was almost instantly overwhelmed by Undead that outnumbered them several times!
"-Where on earth do all these undead come from?!" the officer roared with a ferocious look on his face.
