Chapter 320: Blade Blade Pass (Part 1)

The Tanggulas' fighting style was like locusts, and they were killed endlessly. If both sides had one thousand soldiers, the result of the battle would definitely be that Salin's swordsmen won, but the soldiers of the Holy See didn't care about their own casualties at all. Even if they won, they would win miserably. Now the number of enemies exceeds several times their own, and the two flag commanders made a quick decision and ordered to retreat.

The shooting speed of the crossbow was fast enough. A thousand people retreated in the woods. The broken people shot the enemy's thighs or war horses with their crossbows. The Tanggulas, who refused to dismount, soon suffered and all got off the horse and chased them.

In the woods, war horses can only keep soldiers at altitude advantage, but the advantage in speed is gone.

The people trained by Salin have a good ability to escape. The forest was originally very wide. Before the ambush, the two flag commanders asked the soldiers to cut off the woods behind and left the skeleton war horses and the undead mage here. Judy Koko had long left the wounded in the brigade and did not be with them. The one who can use it now is this undead mage.

The function of the woods is to stop the enemy's cavalry. If it is too wide, it will be troublesome to run by oneself. In order to pursue speed, none of these thousand people did not have heavy armor, only one hundred people were wearing light armor, and the rest were leather armor. If they were caught up by the Tanggulas people, they would not be able to withstand the heavy scimitar of the cavalry.

The Tanggulas were also fast enough. Although hundreds of people were shot down by a crossbow, more people chased them. Although the terrain here was flat, it was still in the mountains, and the speed of the skeleton war horses could not be raised. The riding skills of these soldiers were not yet perfect.

So as soon as we arrived at the open space, the thousand soldiers were automatically divided into five brigades and fled. Although they were a little aggrieved, they did not fight in close combat and lost two hundred crossbows, but they were satisfied that they could shoot more than 300 enemies. There were more than 600 enemies injured by arrows, but they could only consume some of the energy of the magician.

The two flag commanders led a brigade to flee eastward. Both of them were regretful. If they had known that the enemy would not retreat, they would have attacked the woods, leaving Judy Koko.

However, they immediately thought that the undead may not be obedient. It is already good to be willing to protect the wounded. If it weren't for Judy Koko, they might not have caused such great damage to the Vatican Expeditionary Force. Because Judy Koko was entangled with a large number of magicians in the enemy, they could kill the enemy. Now let the undead be cut off... I'm afraid Lord Salin would have to issue an order in person.

The soldiers of the Holy See rushed into the woods and quickly passed through, but only saw the hateful Qin Yinren riding a skeleton war horse and leaping away. The powerful Tanggulas people pulled out their big bows and shot a few arrows, but were avoided by the agile swordsman.

"Don't chase after me, go back." The officers of the Tanggulas Empire saw this situation and issued an order hatefully.

"Sir!"

"Don't say that the enemy has a necromancer. We can't catch up with the speed of these skeleton warhors. Humph, if I go to the scale of their city, I don't believe that they can still escape into the sea?"

Thousands of people ambushed the bows and arrows, but only caused such a small amount of damage. The Holy See's army still took a shortcut, took a few hundred miles away, and continued to go east.

After the vanguard, there were 10,000 regular troops, and then the central army. The troops adjourned the rear were already combined with the logistics army. Salin's army raided the logistics army and received good results. The expeditionary force can now advance quickly and strive to reach Metatlin before the food is eaten up.

The last two flag commanders of Salin were lucky. They escaped quickly enough, otherwise the 10,000 troops that were acting later would be wiped out.

The Dongulas walked the border of the western Phoenix, without any obstacles, but from this line east, there were about two thousand miles of paths, and there were no big towns. After the Phoenix passed the turmoil, almost all the people fled the border cities. The Holy See's army advanced all the way east, and there was nothing to grab.

After massacring several sporadic villages, the Tanggulas lost interest in robbery. Because they often turned a village to the top, they could only get hundreds of kilograms of flour, and they were mixed with mixed grains.

With Judykoko's care, Salin's 6th Battalion almost rushed back to Metatlin City. There were only two behind the flag regiments, and the remaining soldiers of a thousand more were still riding on skeleton war horses. The distance between them and the Holy See was getting farther and farther away. In mid-June, they arrived at the first town of Salin in the northern wilderness.

The town has received news that the devil of the Tanggulas Empire is coming to massacre the city, and whether it is settled residents or business merchants, they should retreat quickly. The war in Gallulan has proved that the Tanggulas people are inhumane, and even ordinary people will kill them.

The Eighth Ninth Banner Regiment happened to meet the soldiers of the Fifth Battalion who came to help the retreat. They ran all the way, making the undead mages in the two Banner Regiments very tired, so they changed to ordinary war horses to assist the residents of the town to retreat.

This town is not far from the border of Phoenix, and more than a hundred miles south is Phoenix. It is also the westernmost town built by Salin. Originally, merchants passed by it all year round, and it had already begun to have a little prosperity. However, when the army was about to come, the people here had to abandon their homes again and escape with the soft and soft.

For the Holy See, war is a means to spread faith, but for ordinary people, war is always a terrible devil, and it is best not to appear.

This town is the first stop to leave Phoenix, several times larger than other towns, and there are more than 3,000 permanent residents. Fortunately, there are a large number of magicians in the two battalions sent by Salin this time, who can use the equipment from the army to transport their own things to these civilians.

The town has more than 100,000 kilograms of grain stored in it. If there is no great magician, it would be a problem to get rid of these. The army helps the civilians register supplies, transport food, and some valuable things. The houses are to be given up. These civilians only hope that when the Tanggulas pass by, they will not set fire.

After two days of delay, the army in Metatlin cleared most of the supplies and began to transfer the civilians. After the civilians were transferred, the soldiers who had cut off their backs set a fire and burned the town to flat ground.

This was ordered by Salin, and at most it could be rebuilt. However, the houses were left to the place where the Holy See army was stationed. If the army was repelled in the future, the Tanggulas could still use these small towns to stop Salin's pursuit. They simply burned them all to avoid regret in the future.

Two days later, the army of the Tanggulas Empire came to this small town. Seeing a white land and the burned walls, the Tanggulas Empire officer was furious. But being angry alone could not solve the problem, so he had to order his subordinates to station outside the town so that they would not clean up the ruins and encounter any traps.

A hundred thousand army chased Salin's army and headed east. On the way, Salin asked the last army to burn all the towns that could garrison, without leaving a single grain. The commander of the Tanggulas Empire Expeditionary Force gritted his teeth. Their baggage was burned too much by Salin, and all that was left was the food carried in the cardinal's space equipment. The 100 thousand army consumed too much, and it could also be replenished along the way within the Galloran area. When it reached the edge of the Qinin Empire, every day's consumption depends on the supplies he carried.

Metatlin City in Salin is located in a wilderness, from the seaside to the first town to contact Phoenix, there are no natural villages in the middle, and all the villages are near Metatlin City. Besides, this season, the grain from the north has begun to sow, and soldiers can't dig out seeds from the soil to eat.

Salin's soldiers could not improve their combat effectiveness much in the short term, but this kind of retreat training was still done well, turning all the towns within a thousand miles into scorched earth, and the Holy See's army did not get a single hair.

With the order of the pope, these people did not dare to enter Phoenix to rob, which would have to waste too much time. Besides, the Phoenix border also seemed barren. The Black Magician Rebellion and Qin Yin's later invasion caused Phoenix to be seriously injured.

In this way, the forefront of the Tanggulas army accelerated and finally arrived at the pass more than 200 miles from Metatrium City. This is the only place to enter the Metatrium Plain. Salin has devoted all his energy to Metatrium and did not expect that there would be a land invasion so soon, so the construction here is not sufficient. In just two months, the pass has raised the city wall to more than 30 meters. With the help of the mountain, it can be said to be a powerful pass.

Salin's second battalion was stationed here, and there were several small mercenary groups. The second battalion included the auxiliary soldiers, and the number of people was less than 20,000. Salin's auxiliary soldiers were too few, and they were recruited by regular troops. In addition, there were many Caucasians in the mountains on both sides to prevent the enemy from infiltration in the mountains.

There are no residents in this militarized city pass, and the name is also full of murderous aura - Duanbian Pass. The food stored here is only used for five days, and Salin gave the task to keep it for three days.

The meaning of these three days is to consume the last little food in the Holy See Expeditionary Force. If the enemy's attack is not sharp enough, guarding for two more days will be a military achievement.

Ten turrets were set up inside the Broken Blade Pass, saying that they were turrets, but in fact they were all large crossbow formations to prevent the enemy's magician from flying over the sky.

As long as you are not a level nine strong man, you will not dare to fly over such a large crossbow formation. If there is an alchemy crossbow hidden inside, you will be killed if you are shot.

Cavalry cannot attack the city, they can only wait for the army behind to arrive. There are nearly 30,000 people in the Broken Blade Pass. According to ordinary rules, they can withstand the attack of 100,000 people. After all, this is a pass, and there are only one side to withstand attacks, and there are enough people. However, there is no magic tower at this pass, so it is very difficult to defend.

The number of catapults in the city is only enough to destroy the enemy's catapults, but it cannot be used to kill a large number of soldiers from the enemy.
Chapter completed!