Finally, the emergency rescue team led by Liu Yifei finally set off. Although there were also "adjutants" assigned by Rod Hart to ensure Liu Yifei's safety, Liu Yifei was the nominal commander of the rescue team!
After all the hard work, he finally won the independent military power Chaosi dreamed of...
Looking back at Harmondale, where the city is lying, and the "main formation" in the rear, which is hurriedly carrying many necessary supplies to the west, Liu Yifei lightly clamped the horse's belly, but he led a few powerful and strong men around him.
The "Knights" and the Karawa soldiers who had come to Harmondale for help were the first to advance toward the Karawa area.
Liu Yifei's riding skills must be second to none among the current player group!
Most players currently travel on the big map either by Route 11 or by horse-drawn carriage. After all, players themselves will not choose too remote locations for game activities. In addition, long-distance movement can be done by teleportation, so they are very interested in "riding skills".
"The demand is not big yet.
Not to mention in the campaign, most people are still in the stage of supporting themselves and providing themselves with decent basic weapons. Even "big items" such as pack horses are beyond the reach of players...
And Liu Yifei has more than enough financial resources and long-term planning, especially after receiving the talent of [Driver's Heart] and finding an "instructor" among thousands of ordinary draft horses. He dare not say much else. Every day
Walking twice in the morning and evening is a daily routine~
You can't see any effect after a day or two, but with persistent training, even if the training effect on the big map is half lower than that in the battle, Liu Yifei's basic riding skills have still climbed to the intermediate level little by little, and he will be able to do it before his eyes.
It’s time to enter the “actual combat” stage!
At this period, Liu Yifei no longer needs to tie his whole body to the horse with a rope as some people imagine, as long as the horse power can bear it, Liu Yifei's body can also
It can fully bear the cost of long-distance raids.
It's just that in Liu Yifei's small team at the moment, the other four "strong men" who looked to be even bigger than him are the real elites in riding skills!
He is a serious fifth-level [Lancer]. It can be said that he is only "one step away" from the sixth-level [Knight]. Although Liu Yifei, as an experienced person, also understands that this "one step" may be most of the [Lancer].
Lancer] is a hurdle that cannot be overcome in a lifetime, but it is still not enough to cover up the terrifying combat effectiveness of these high-level soldiers at the moment!
A strong body, proficient combat skills, instinctive riding combat ability, coupled with solid armor, sharp weapons, and a majestic and powerful horse...
All of these combined together constitute the true foundation of Erathia that has been proud of the world since the founding of the country!
Entagri's army is number one, perhaps only the legendary war beast Behemoth from Krorod, the nine-headed monster lurking in the Great Swamp of Taitalia, and the wandering wasteland of bare bones in the Land of Death.
Only the death knight can compete with it...
But compared with those "legendary" existences, the cavalry and knights of Erathia are actually born out of the "mortal" army! This has been the pride of the Lionheart Kingdom for thousands of years, and it is the courage of ambitious human beings to challenge all
Aliens swear the foundation of the kingdom's sovereignty! The unparalleled Iron Cavalry who comes from mortals but dares to stand shoulder to shoulder with legendary aliens...
Compared with these real riding masters, Liu Yifei's "skills" are simply not worth mentioning. If you really want to talk about it, Liu Yifei's riding skills are far inferior to those of the fourth-level [Ranger]~
After all, everyone must be able to fight immediately at the beginning, and even complete the operations of cocking the crossbow and aiming and shooting immediately. Now you let Liu Yifei try it? If his hands dare to leave the reins, or if he relaxes even a little, he will probably be killed.
The horse under my seat is flying...
Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention it here. Thanks to Harmondale's "rich wealth", Liu Yifei was able to ride a real war horse for the first time. Compared with the ordinary packhorse ridden by the Kalawa soldiers next to him
, these big guys who serve in the military formation and shine in the war are simply "monsters" among horses!
The volume is about one-quarter to one-third larger than that of a pack horse...
Liu Yifei, who even possesses the "Driver's Heart", can clearly sense that the body of his horse contains a powerful force of flesh and blood that is much stronger than his own, which really makes him feel happy~
(PS: To give you a rough comparison, ordinary humans, that is, "peasants", have strength and body attributes between 5 and 8. If both strength and body are above 10, they basically have "first-order" base strength. If both are above 20,
There are no fatal shortcomings in spirit, agility, intelligence, etc., it is almost "second level". The further you go, the more comprehensive strength will be considered, but a double score of 50 is considered the standard line for warriors to cross the third level threshold.
As long as a pack horse is not old, weak, sick or disabled, its physical strength is between the first and second levels, or even more towards the second level. Therefore, even if it is a pack horse, it is relatively easy to kill a number of "peasants" while sprinting at full speed, and it is relatively easy to injure them.
Not to mention being disabled.
A standard war horse starts at Level 3 Mao, which means that both strength and physical strength must be above 50, otherwise the war horse cannot carry the knight at all. Although these war horses are ordinary creatures, their flesh and blood are very powerful)
Although the process of rushing is boring and boring, even as a daily plot, Liu Yifei can return to the big map and let the system automatically deduce it.
But not to mention whether Liu Yifei would give up such a good opportunity to train riding skills. Just the feeling of getting back on horseback and running at high speed was enough to fascinate Liu Yifei. How could he think of leaving?
Even considering the physical strength of the Kalava soldiers and pack horses, Liu Yifei always stayed with his horses when they had to rest, hoping to gain the "recognition" of the mounts as early as possible, in order to further stimulate [the driver's feelings]
The magical effect of the heart...
However, his "can't put it down" performance has, to some extent, been recognized by the four Lancers around him who have always been inseparable.
After all, as a serious cavalry unit, they have a higher sense of identity with their own horses. Even for the cavalry of Erathia, the mounts have always been their partners rather than mere tools. Seeing Geralt,
Although he was young, he had the courage to lead an emergency team to reinforce Karava when the situation was unclear, and he also cherished his mount so much that he immediately felt closer to these strange soldiers...
A whole day of forced march... Of course, this is from the player's perspective, but in the plot, it's a hard march for several days~
Seeing that Kalava Castle was not far away, Liu Yifei breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, the look on his face as he looked at the soldiers asking for help became increasingly weird——
According to several lancers, although they did not pass many rural farms along the way, there were indeed a few.
However, there are very few scenes of farmers hurriedly preparing to escape, or perhaps the entire village has fled, leaving only a few empty and lonely thatched cottages...
Except for the instinctive avoidance of these rural farmers when they found Liu Yifei and his team of soldiers roaring past, these people did not even show any signs of joy... You must know that this rescue team is specifically responding to their local area.
The "emergency rescue" came days ago!
However, the local people did not show any behavior that "refugees" should have...
When Liu Yifei and others sat down in the Karawa Chamber under the welcome of Morris, Liu Yifei learned that the evacuation information in the "Green Field" area had been conveyed long ago, and even Morris was worried.
They even made people run away a second time, but those stupid farmers did not sympathize with the painstaking efforts of their guarding soldiers. Instead, they repeatedly delayed the already insufficient escape time...
"Then the current situation..."
Faced with Liu Yifei's inquiry, Morrisgues could only say with a grimace that the northern part of the "Green Field" area had indeed been attacked by the undead army. Three villages in front had completely lost contact, and the scouts were sure
There is a large-scale gathering of undead creatures in the local area...
"...The only good news is that the undead monster's reaction was indeed not that alert, so it was not able to completely strangle the local villagers, and less than half of them managed to escape.
Now it is also because of the tragic experiences of these people as a reference that the evacuation work in the central Green Field area is finally in motion. We hope to be able to successfully leave before the subsequent undead troops pursue us and reduce more casualties."
Morrisgues seemed to be a little "pleased" with the current situation, but an old bird like Liu Yifei knew that the Karava Castle was completely "fallen into a trap" when he saw the current situation!
The undead army, especially the low-level undead army, is indeed slow to respond. However, the question is, is it possible that the army of thousands of skeletons and corpses really lacks unified command?
If there wasn't at least a fifth-level undead wizard standing behind this, or even a group of fourth-level and fifth-level undead wizards, corpse witches, etc., Liu Yifei would dare to chop off his head!
However, in this situation, which can be described as "unprepared" and "completely undefended" in the countryside, could the farmers escape the opponent's strangulation?
Stop it!!
Is it true that the leg bone stick in the hand of the skeleton cannot kill anyone?!
Besides, in the regular undead army, how many undead ones don’t hold knives and swords in their hands?
The only way the villagers can escape is if the other party "deliberately releases their lives"!
"In addition to reconnaissance, have you launched a counterattack against the undead army that has occupied several villages?"
"Counter... Counterattack?! How is that possible! Our military strength is several times worse than the other side's. It's too late to organize our personnel to evacuate, so how can we deliberately provoke them? Now, before they can react, we should tighten our defense...
…”
Morrisgues had a natural expression on his face, but it only made Liu Yifei feel helpless~
The Karawa area is completely different from the four-war site of Harmondale.
Although it is located on the border, Dia in the north is not as aggressive towards Erathia as Crurod in the west of the kingdom.
Krorod's wolf cavalry and the orc army will organize several plunders on the western border of Erathia every year in late autumn and early winter to prepare supplies for the winter, and the undead basically do not need to eat, drink or urinate, so under normal circumstances they do not
It will not cause any intrusion to Erathia as a whole.
This makes the Karawa area shoulder the responsibility of monitoring and guarding, but in fact its own awareness of combat readiness and desire to fight are not very strong. Gradually, its performance in all aspects has become slack, so that it was immediately defeated by the necromancer of Diya.
Confused by the "deception"——
The other side spared some local villagers, which not only increased the pressure for the evacuation of subsequent areas, but also paralyzed our own awareness of counterattack with a not so fierce advance, which gave the Diya forces sufficient opportunity to "increase troops".
time and space!
One thing that must be noted is that Diya's "reinforcement" is very different from the forces of other major kingdoms on the continent of Entagre!
As long as there is a powerful necromancer in charge, Dia can use any other type of corpse to "transform" his own army!
From small bone beasts and spiritual evil spirits to powerful "legendary" monsters such as bone dragons and death knights, as long as the "materials" are good enough and the skills of the person in charge are in place, it can almost be achieved.
There is no "remains" that the undead army cannot use!
And there is one very, very important point, and it is also a blind spot that almost no one in the entire Entagri continent pays attention to at the moment!!
In Liu Yifei's memory, "burial culture" is popular among almost all races on the continent...
Burial itself is not a big deal. Even in the real world, from ancient times to modern society, burial is the mainstream custom in every country on the earth.
However, in a civilization filled with magic and terrifying existences such as "undead", burial is really a very terrible "bad habit"!
It seems that Diya's army only occupied the ruins of three villages, and probably killed no more than two or three hundred villagers...
But the problem is that these three villages have been established for several years. How many people are buried in the "mass graves" around the villages?
And how many animal dens, bone burial grounds, and places where the natural undead energy accumulates in the area where the undead army passed by before?
So the undead army is now stagnant, is it because the "sluggish response" gave the local people a chance to retreat?
That's basically the explosive soldiers that people are secretly poking at!!
And it is foreseeable that once the villagers in various places are intimidated and flee hastily, they will definitely not be able to dig out all the countless burial cemeteries accumulated in various places!
And once these places are successively occupied by the undead army, even if there is not a single soldier during the period, the remains of the villagers fall into the hands of the undead wizard, and the other party's subordinates may explode hundreds more skeleton soldiers...
This situation is probably something that Morrisgues, who looked puzzled across from him, would not have thought of for a while.
