Chapter 579: Southwest Strategy (II)
Chapter 579: Southwest Strategy (II)
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It wasn't until the sixth day, when Salin had even refined a set of Qin Yin's equipment, that the demon delivered back a definite message. Pompeii mobilized more than 50,000 troops and marched due east towards New Castlevania.
More than 50,000 troops can only be regarded as a small force for the battlefield between Qin Yin and the Holy See, but in such a narrow combat environment in the southwest, an army of 50,000 people can already be regarded as a large army.
Hearing the information, Saleen didn't bother to leave the Elemental Magic Tower, and he said to the commander of the coalition forces: "Let Neris be responsible for providing the support you need, this is a tentative attack, and at most three or two thousand people will come." β
The officers of the coalition forces are not in a hurry, New Castlevania is too strong,
50,000 troops, attacking such a city, unless there are only 2,000 people in the city, will pay a heavy price for defeating it. The army of the coalition army is about 24,000 people, and there are many demon armies, and there are probably more than 10,000 people who come out of the city every day.
The morale of the army was stable, and Saleen's orders were quickly conveyed, and Neris simply became the temporary marshal of the Metatrin Kingdom, mobilized the demons, and began to organize a battle.
Neris was originally just a little devil who was good at sneak attacks and escapes, but in the battle of Ceylon City, she already had a deep experience and experience in large-scale combat. At that time, Neris was not lacking in generals who could fight in battle, and even the generals of the enemy, she did not kill, but stayed by her side to ask for knowledge of war.
A demon like Nellis, after a few months of training, can handle the general battle well.
What's more, these generals in the Southwest Coalition Army are not stupid, don't look at the fact that there has been no war in the southwest for many years, but in fact, most of these generals have left the southwest and participated in various battles. Most of the mercenaries outside of Skociana came from the regular army. The Qin Yin people did not dare to forget the battle, and sometimes, some conflicts on the border were jumped up by these generals who were eager to practice.
Fifty thousand men marched southwest, because it was from the plains to the difficult terrain, and at a distance of about two hundred miles from the new castlevania, the convoy of Pompeii had to stop, and the whole army was transferred to horses, or on foot.
The demons are high in the sky, and they have already mastered the information of this army very thoroughly, and reported it to Neris, in this army, the proportion of magicians is somewhat high, about a total of five hundred mages accompany them.
However, in Nellis's opinion, these mages are useless, because there is only one ninth-level mage, and most of the mages are below the sixth level.
In the current war, there is no strong man in the army, it is a joke. In the vicinity of Daliang City, the number of tenth-level powerhouses reached eight, and there were four on each side.
If there was no tenth-level powerhouse on the side of the Holy See or Daliang City, the battle would have been over long ago.
Saleen continued to deepen the power of the solid realm in the magic tower, and Sika accompanied him, and Neris, who was in charge of the overall situation, looked a little carried away. It was useless for Shika to beat her, and that was the temper of Nellis.
She was in the hall of the battle command, chatting and laughing with the generals of the Southwest Alliance, and after the demon reported the military situation, Neris pointed to the magic map and said: "Everyone, the army of Pompey City will reach here tomorrow, who wants to go out of the city with me for a decisive battle"
The generals looked at each other, and one of them said: "My lord, we have the city as a support, even if the enemy is doubled, we will not pay too much damage, and we can defend the city." β
What he meant was that it was too stupid to go out of the city for a decisive battle.
Neris sneered: "Fifty thousand enemies, you are afraid? Outside the city of Ceylon, I have withstood a million troops. β
"My lord, if you want to deal a major blow to the enemy, you don't need a head-on battle, we know this land, the enemy is not marching fast, we have time to set traps behind this river, the enemy only has a ninth-level magician, and cannot destroy all the high-level traps......"
Nellis interrupted him and said, "Qin Yinren, don't you have the guts, I personally led the demon to charge in front, you can be behind, if there are the remaining remnants of the defeated army, I don't mind you picking up the cheap." β
The generals were annoyed, but Neris was a collaborator, and she offered to charge forward and take the most dangerous things, so it didn't make much sense to be angry.
"Then listen to your lordship. β
"Hmph, I'm reminding you that in the future, there will be more and more strong people involved, and I'm just giving you a demonstration so that you can see what a real war looks like. Only 5,000 men are left in the city to defend, and the rest will go out of the city with me to meet the enemy."
The generals promised to rally their troops as Neris had instructed. One of them secretly went to the Elemental Magic Tower to ask to see Salin, but Salin was gone, so these people listened to Neris once.
Salin knew that Qin Yin's soldiers were all elites, and they would not lose if they were really tough. And Neris proposed to charge in front, so unless the enemy is another eleventh-level powerhouse, there will be no accident at all.
These generals are also human spirits, and seeing that Saleen does not oppose the arrogant Neris, you know that there is no big problem.
However, the generals still had some calculations, and Nellis named them to take an army of no less than 19,000 men, leaving 5,000 in the city, 5,000 was too little, and the generals placed 3,000 peasant soldiers in the rear, so that the number of defenders in the city reached 8,000.
It's safe that way, Nellis just sneered in her eyes.
It usually takes two or three days for the army to assemble, but if you have a good army, you can start in one day with an order. Logistics troops can also be prepared at the same time.
The battlefield was set about 100 miles away from the city, and no logistics were needed. Before Neris set out for the expedition, she began to distribute her equipment, but it was the Demon God Flying Armor for the generals of the Southwest Alliance.
The defensive ability of these Demon God Flying Armor is definitely not as good as the ones worn by the demons, and the thickness is several times worse. However, the magic circle that transmits the sound in the helmet has been retained, so that these generals can hear Neris at any time.
Neris led her demon army out of the city, arranged the formation on the plain, she turned to look at the Southwest Alliance army doing the same thing outside the city, turned into a demon god, raised the four weapons in her hand, waved them into the sky, and roared.
Ten thousand demons roared in the sky with Neris, as if they wanted to vent their inexhaustible energy.
The Southwest Coalition Army in the rear saw it in its eyes and was also envious. Those soldiers looked at the demons from afar, calculating in their hearts that such a demon, if it was an enemy, it would take at least two or three soldiers to deal with one. If it weren't for a soldier like himself, an ordinary army would have to have thirty or fifty to deal with a demon.
I heard that in the future, there will be demon mercenaries in the southwest, what a luck, from now on, these demons will be Qin Yinnan's comrades.
Neris is a demon god, holding gray memories on each of her four arms, a demigod shield, a sword of rules, and a demonic meteor hammer.
The ten-meter-tall demon god led tens of thousands of demons to run into the wilderness. The earth trembled, and Neris unleashed the skills of the demon god, and the demons trampled on them, and the morale of all the demons suddenly rose to the extreme.
In the past, Neris needed to use this skill on the battlefield, and it was not long before it could be sustained. Now Neris began to perform demonic trampling a hundred miles away, raising the demon's morale to the peak, but the strength was slowly stacking.
The Southwest Coalition Army behind him was all on horseback. These Qin Yin troops followed behind the demon army, and only then did they know that the rumors were true, and these demons ran like humans on war horses.
The swordsmen among these soldiers thought that if they ran with all their might, they could even surpass the speed of these demons, but if they held out for a hundred miles and had to fight when they reached the battlefield, they would not be able to do it. Ordinary cavalry can't keep up with these demons, and only elite troops on first-class war horses can run like this.
Nellis is not blindly rushing, the demon scouts in the sky have not stopped providing news to Neris, at a position thirty miles away from the enemy, Nellis asked the army to stop and rest on the spot.
The demons untied the blood bags around them, drank the blood, and rested while talking about the desire to fight. The scouts in Pompeii City have all been killed, and the demon scouts have also suffered a lot. Neris didn't care, in this battle, there was only Isabella by her side.
There is no normality on the battlefield, when fighting with the Holy See army, the demons will directly eat people, but when fighting with the Qin Yin people, the demons will drink the blood of animals before the battle, stimulating the ferocity.
The army of Pompeii was getting closer and closer, almost three miles or so, and Neris asked the demons to straighten their outfits, take up their weapons, and walk on the high ground in front of them. Climbing over this high ground is a slope all the way down, the angle is gentle, but it is suitable for charging.
Don't look at the arrogance of the generals, she had already asked the demon scouts to draw a topographical map and chose this place as the battlefield.
"Guys, look at how I break the formation. Neris opened the sound magic array of the Demon God Flying Armor and passed her words to all the generals, and when she finished saying this, Neris happened to come to the top of the high ground, and then rushed down with the demon.
The Southwest Coalition Army is two miles behind the Demon Legion, and this distance allows the Demon Legion to slow down its impact speed and get the help of the cavalry. And the infantry behind the cavalry will have time to get off the horses and form a bunch of formations. The cooperation of Qin Yinren's professional army was very smooth, but when the cavalry of the Southwest Alliance Army reached the high ground, they saw a scene that made them unbelievable.
Neris's demon legion has divided the enemy's army into more than a dozen parts, charging left and right.
The enemy's two forward banner regiments have been completely annihilated, and the demon legion is now dealing with the main force of Pompeii, the main force of a total of three battalions. Behind three battalions, there was a battalion of heavy regiments, behind which was a reserve of eight thousand people.
All of this was scattered, and the demon legion was like a sharp knife, and this time it was with the back of the knife, forcibly breaking the hard bones.