The battlefield in the forested areas on the eastern edge of the Western Regions ended with the destruction of the Dwarven Legions, at least until the forces of the Holy Light Empire or the Griffin Empire landed in this uninhabited forest area again.

Nearly a quarter of battles and in exchange for not letting the sun never set taste the sweetness of victory, but leaving only endless grief and anger: although the dwarf side did not abuse the corpse of the sunset warrior, but its practice of directly abandoning the corpse of the sunset warrior in the wilderness and making it become crow and wild dog feces also largely angered the psychological bottom line of many sunset soldiers, and according to post-war statistics, The number of Sunset soldiers who could not find a single skeleton in a desperate battle with the dwarves on the city walls alone exceeded 10,000, and because the previous battle situation was urgent, and some of the evacuated troops did not reach the full establishment factor after arriving at the designated place, the number of these Sunset soldiers who did not even have bones may be even higher.

Coupled with the soldiers who died in the previous battle with the dwarven legion, although the side of this battle annihilated at least 150,000 dwarven warriors and human warriors of the Holy Light Empire, the number of people killed in the battle was no less than 100,000, and in addition to the loss of at least 10 sunset legion troops in this battle, the rest of the snake demon warriors who participated in the battle after the battle were also painted, and now it is difficult to extract and organize an uninjured legion from the battlefield.

Even George, as the commander, contracted a strange disease for various reasons after the battle in the forest after the battle, although the pharmacists of the witch clan rushed to the scene to treat George as soon as possible. It also shows that George's illness is largely the same as Sun Lin's, caused by overwork, and can recover as long as he rests for one and a half weeks. But this news is a very unpleasant thing for the sun that is currently slightly missing from the front-line commanders.

And most importantly, although the dwarven legion has been wiped out, it means that the side that the sun never sets basically does not need to arrange a large number of heavy troops to guard the city wall area in the forest edge area of the lower Maginot Line (in fact, even if it is arranged, it is nothing to arrange, after all, more than half of the city wall area has been turned into ruins by the detonation of black powder), and those nearly 30,000 soldiers who are not injured or lightly injured will return to the forest area with the bear monster force of about 5,000 people, and the two snake demon warriors with the strength of the Sun Never Set Legion, Continue to garrison coastal defenses in forested areas, set traps and assume defenses. The idea of preventing the enemy from attacking this area again, but this does not mean that the frontline will be decompressed, because as mentioned above, there are no more troops or experienced generals to move to the front.

Even because of the many things left over from the previous battles. The sun never sets on the area, and more manpower and material resources need to be poured into the area: the areas that have been fought must be cleared to prevent the plague, and the wreckage of broken buildings must be cleared, as there is a high risk that these things will be processed and turned into materials needed for the front line, and the broken roads need to be repaired. After all, the road is related to the logistics of the party on which the sun never sets. And if something special happens again, these roads can also increase the speed of the army's rescue.

Therefore, the final result of this battle did not benefit either side, if you insist on saying one, that is, in the long run, the forest area at the eastern end of the western region of the Central Continent will never be attacked by the enemy in the future, at least this enemy is absolutely impossible to come to the Holy Light Empire or the base camp of the Griffin Empire, because the counteroffensive plan that the sun never sets has already begun to be implemented. For about 1 month, let a large fleet borrow the fog that only appears in the King's Inland Sea during winter and spring. Moved to the designated location - the first port of the Holy Light Empire, and currently occupies the Holy Light Port, the port of the Holy Light that accounts for 40% of the supply transit of the Holy Light Empire.

"Ding! The system enters the state of 10 seconds update, users please wait, 10, 9, 8 .........." The mechanical voice remembered in Sun Lin's mind, which surprised him as a holder, because it can be said that this so-called system as it has not appeared for a long time.

"I remember that this situation has only happened 3 times, the first time was when I stepped into the King Continent, the second time was to agree with the Northwest Continent, and the third time was to incorporate the Xiyi people, I don't know what Lu Dao can bring me this time, I hope it's a good thing." As the countdown to the 10-second update came to an end, Sun Lin immersed himself in his mind while closing his eyes and clicked on the system.

As usual, the system in his brain appeared after clicking on the big golden characters such as construction, recruitment, city, tax, etc., but to Sun Lin's surprise, at the end of this typesetting, there was an option that Sun Lin had never appeared before: religion, and at the same time, under Sun Lin's careful inspection, he found that among the previous options, including the option of recruiting priests and papal guards in recruitment, and the option of building churches under construction, and even the faith value of the people in the city, all disappeared, And all of these things that disappeared happened to be replaced by the new religion.

"I see, it turns out that the system update is because of the factor of religion, let me see.......... it turns out that this is the case, I should have increased the spread of religion before I knew that there would be such a good thing in the Dao, so that I would not have invested so much financial resources before, hey!" After understanding, Sun Lin found that the so-called religious thing that appeared in the system was completely the existence of the Ten Thousand Essential Oil Gang.

First of all, it is the first option in the religion column, and it is also the most important option in the religion column: faith, which was originally the option used by Sun Lin to check the faith rate of Christianity in various regions of the Sunset Empire in this area, but after switching to the new religion, Sun Lin found that the benefits that the original faith could provide were very many, such as when the Christian faith in a map reaches more than 70%, the tax bonus in this area will be increased by 2%, and there will even be things such as people donating materials to churches, At the same time, with the increase of the faith value in each region, including the stability of the city and the construction speed, etc., will also be increased accordingly, and on the contrary, if the faith value is too low, there will be many negative buffs in this area.

As the faith in the first column of faith increases. The next few options in the Religion tab will also be unlocked one after the other, and the first option that is unlocked, the second option in the Religion tab, is called "Religious Facilities", which appears after removing the presence of a church under construction. Something that will appear when the required area has a religious belief of 50%.

As we all know, if you want to build a church, Sun Lin must go through the system, after selecting a location in the area, and then selecting a city or town to choose to build a church, and invest funds, manpower, material resources, etc., but now it is not used, and the option of "religious construction" simplifies the construction of churches: after the belief degree of a population gathering point in a certain area identified by the system reaches more than 50%. The nearest seminary in the surrounding area will send a pastor to the population gathering point to preside over the construction of the church, and the cost and speed of the construction will be determined by the number of believers around and the abundance of materials, which means that the process does not need to be asked by Sun Lin or even the Ministry of Civil Affairs to inquire and invest funds. Of course, if you want to speed up the construction of churches or build churches in areas with less than 50% faith, you need to follow the old method, but this old method is now operated on the side of "religious construction".

In addition to this, "religious construction also provides more advanced religious buildings, including some religious giant stone carvings, religious mausoleums, etc. These things will build and upgrade themselves like churches as long as the area has a buildable point after the faith level of the area increases.

The third option in religion is "believers". In fact, it is also known as troop recruitment. It's just that these Christian-related troop recruits don't need to spend unnecessary money, or at least Sun Lin doesn't need to spend money on obtaining soldiers from now on, of course, it still costs money to equip these newly recruited soldiers with weapons, and the monthly salary also needs to be paid, but it is more than half less than the salary required by the troops of the same class.

And the most important thing, and what surprised Sun Lin the most in this system update, was that the original Sun Never Sets Army belonged to the religious troops, only the Papal Guard and the Swiss Guard, but now there are two more systems with as many as 10 types of troops. These two systems were the Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitaller.

However, because the sun never sets, there are many branches of the army that are no less effective than those of the new ones. So the only ones who can really be looked at by Sun Lin are: the Templars and the Hospitallers (both of which are heavy cavalry units. The attributes are basically the same, the only difference is that the Templars have a trait called fanaticism, while the Hospitaller is rescue, so the Templars may be overperformed in battle, but unwilling to listen to commands, while the Hospitaller has a certain ability to rescue, in wartime the Hospitaller has resistance to the decline in morale caused by casualties, and can enhance the survival rate of the team's wounded soldiers after the war), elite class Holy Sepulchre Guardian and Super Cannon Fodder Religious Zealot.

The first two of these 4 classes are the ones that can replace the English cavalry, and the Guardian of the Holy Sepulchre, as an elite class with only 5,000 people on the recruitment line, and whose combat effectiveness is comparable to the furious Sunset Orc warriors, will be a wonder soldier if it is used well, and the last one can replace cannon fodder when necessary.

As for the 4 types of troops that can be recruited, such as the light cavalry class of the knight servants, it is completely inferior to the existence of the auxiliary cavalry on which the sun never sets, and the same goes for the spearmen of the knights, after all, Sun Lin already has the Yatra crescent spearmen and the papal guards, and even the archers and crossbowmen of the knights are replaced by Reykya archers and sunset strong crossbowmen, of course, Sun Lin will still recruit when necessary, of course, this necessary moment is in the state of extreme lack of troops in the sunset, and now it is obviously not to this point.

And the fourth option is after being seen by Sun, Sun Lin called the existence of a big killer, there are no more options after this option is taken, only a paragraph: "Please reconfirm whether to start a holy war, if you start it, please continue, if you don't want to, please quit." ”

It is worth mentioning that because the religion of the Xiyi people and the sea god are currently under the management of the Sunset Empire, there are also options for "Xiyi Religion" and "Seagod Religion" at the end of the religion column, but because these two religions are not the state religion of the Sunset, they are just developing in the Sunset Empire and do not conflict with Christianity, so Sun; Although Lin can understand the situation of these two religions in their region, he does not have the same control over them as he does with Christianity, of course, Sun Lin can invest money and materials in them through the "Aid" option in these two options, and then get some unique rewards, such as a production and construction bonus in the region, and another reward for the number of troops or recruits in the region.

And after understanding Sun Lin, he finally knew that the Dao system was going to be updated at the time, because by querying Sun Lin, he understood that if he wanted to get this update, the number of people who believe in Christianity in the country must account for 80% of the total population of the Sunset, except for the number of people who believe in the Poseidon Religion and the Xiyi Religion, and because the Sunset Empire has been in a state of external expansion, absorbing the aborigines of the King Continent to increase the population, so that although there are people who have been absorbed by Christianity, there are also other believers who have become the subjects of the Sunset Empire. The proportion of the empire that led to the Christianization of the empire on which the sun never sets has not risen.

It wasn't until the Lower Maginot Line was established that the Sunset Empire stopped absorbing the population, and the proportion of Christianized people began to slowly increase until it now broke through to 80% (incidentally, this growth rate was not calculated until Sun Lin founded the country, because the population that Sunset had before could not have reached the threshold of triggering a jihad).

This situation made Sun Lin regret it very much, because according to Sun Lin's words, if he chose to repair for one year after the founding of the People's Republic of China instead of continuing to invade, then the subsequent consumption of manpower, material and financial resources would be reduced by at least 10%, and if this 10% is exchanged for gold coins, it will definitely be able to fill the treasury of the Sunset Empire.

Of course, it's useless to regret it now, after all, these things are gone after they are spent, and what can comfort Sun Lin's heartache now is estimated to be that after the system is updated, the combat effectiveness of the Maginot Line has increased due to the religious bonus to the region, and the production capacity of the regions of the Sun Never Sets Empire has increased, after all, the appearance of these bonuses represents that the victory rate of the Sun Never Set Empire to win this battle has been raised by a notch. (To be continued......)