Chapter 294: Driving the Tiger and Devouring the Wolf

Shaman's aunt smiled wryly, "He's a magician. Since you have already agreed with him, if you regret it, your sister will not be able to help you. ”

Sharman was shocked and said, "What do you mean?"

"You can only trust him now, unless he does something to hurt you, and if you repent, he will be bad for your sister and even the entire Roland family. ”

"Brother Salin isn't that kind of person, is he?"

"You know what? The dignity of a magician is inviolable. Shaman's aunt sighed.

"My sister is also a magician, and she is higher than him!"

"High, what level do you think Tracy is? What level is Sue?"

Shaman was speechless, but she immediately became happy again, and said, "If Salin's strength is really so strong, it would be much better to follow him than in the family." ”

"Of course, as soon as the Emperor died, your sister's status declined. If she hadn't been made a baron, she would still be able to become a descendant power in the family, and now the old guys are worried that your sister's relationship with the emperor will affect the ...... between you and Holy Rock City Forget it, I don't say you know. Since your sister is going to Metatrin City, she plans to set up her own door. Aren't all the children of the other families the same? You can follow Salin. Maybe even better than your sister. ”

Shaman's eyes rolled, and he asked suspiciously, "Auntie, why do I feel that he values me and doesn't care too much about my sister?

Shaman didn't understand this feeling very much, in the Myers Continent, even if you were a Black Iron Sword Saint, you could suppress a fourth-level mage, or even a fifth-level mage, you wouldn't have the same respect as a fourth-level mage. A mage can lead everyone in the team, while Juggernaut will not have this effect unless he reaches the silver level.

"Silly boy, you've been living in Metatrin for a few months, don't you see that there is no shortage of mages in Metatrin at all. Shaman's aunt replied with a wry smile.

Clean up the battlefield, and Aini himself went to keep an eye on it. The ironclad lizard was dug out of ninety-three fourth-level demon cores, and Salin didn't ask for this magic core, and promised it to Aini earlier. Even if he took these demon cores, he wouldn't be able to withstand the loss of a seventh-level scroll. The skin of the ironclad lizard is burned extensively, but it can still cut a large amount of material to make high-grade leather armor. The defense of this high-grade leather armor is no different from that of ordinary metal armor, and it is lighter.

Saleen even has dragon skins, and of course he doesn't look down on these broken materials. If you want ingredients, you might as well go and hunt red krill in the frozen sea. Red krill have better carapace defense, are lighter, and are easier to enchant.

There were also more than five hundred corpses, relatively intact, and Aini had all left. Slowly create corpse soldiers. The benefits of corpse soldiers are incomparable to skeleton soldiers, if they are not hastily used to fight, and if they are cultivated for a period of time, they can take human weapons. After the rage, it can be used to attack the fortification.

These corpses act more than skeleton souls, and can climb over obstacles, vertical walls, and can also be clasped with their fingernails to climb up. When the corpse soldiers attacked the city, they could not defend it with bows and arrows, and they could only use boulders or pour fire oil on the city. However, the speed of these two attacks is too slow, as long as the number of corpse soldiers is enough, the final solution is to fight hard at the head of the city.

The armor of the heavily armored knights was also torn, and some of them were melted in large areas, and Aini also put them away. Cleaning up the battlefield is a meticulous job, and there can be no omission. It is necessary to make up for the battle losses as much as possible. The worst material of these armors is also refined metal with refined copper, pure steel as thick as a finger, even if it is melted and recast, it is equivalent to hundreds of gold coins.

In comparison, the thief's loss was far greater than Salin's, who only consumed two scrolls and the thief lost three would-be Juggernauts. One hundred heavily armored cavalry and ironclad lizards, and more than a thousand casualties. After this battle, the thieves besieging the caravan lost more than one million gold coins. Those three would-be sword saints weren't counted in yet.

But war is destruction, not construction. The caravan didn't do much good. The Iron Lizard's magic core sells for a maximum of 400 gold coins, which is less than 40,000 gold coins together, and if you count the other materials obtained, it is only about 60,000 gold coins. More than forty people died in the caravan, and the pension was more than 10,000 gold coins.

Aini's demon wolf was transformed into an undead demon wolf by him, and it was already difficult to sell, this thing was very bad for necromancers, and elemental mages didn't like it. Ani had no choice but to keep it for herself, and let a batch of goods go to waste.

But this loss is also something that cannot be helped, no one knows that those thieves will retreat, continue to fight, continue to increase the number of men, the thieves will still be able to rush into the camp. At that time, Aini would not be able to escape with the demon wolf at all, so he could only abandon the goods. If that's the case, even these undead demon wolves are gone.

Salin's loss was two scrolls, plus some arrows for Aini, and as for the people, none of them were injured. And the two scrolls made Sharman look at it differently, and the abduction was successful, and Salin actually earned it.

If Sharman is more mature, Salin still needs to pay a lot of conditions if he wants to pull her into his camp unconditionally. A sixteen-year-old quasi-sword master has an unlimited future.

Speaking of which, it is also the Roland family's own problem, even if Sharman was only a sword master before going to Metatrin City, but her sister is already a fourth-level magician, the Roland family is worried about the attitude of Saint Rock City. And let such a person leave.

In Saleen's barracks, a map is laid on a table. The map is not very detailed, and none of the magic maps drawn back then cover the area that is now north of Phoenix.

There are three roads from the town of Terensu to the man, and Salin chooses the middle one, and two hundred miles ahead, it is a relatively large city.

"We're going to have to choose a new route, and my flying golem has been chasing me for two miles, and I can't tell where the thieves are going. Saleen gestured across the map, and the people who were called in again were a little confused.

"You're going after the thieves?" shouted Shaman. She had already lost some soldiers and did not want to fight any more pointless battles.

"No, no, no, these thieves' battering ram chariots are destroyed here, their goal is to attack the city, and without the chariots, more soldiers will be consumed. We're just going to follow up and see what we can do for the nobility of Phoenix. ”

"It's not the same. Sharman muttered.

"No, if these thieves attack the city, we will follow up and help the nobles of Phoenix take revenge. If they fail outright, we can ignore it. ”

"You want to occupy the city, we don't have that many men!" said Aini cautiously, he also wanted to occupy the city of Phoenix, and the place where Salin occupied would be hiding, and the caravan would be more profitable in the future. But now is clearly not a good time to take the city. The caravan consisted of less than a thousand slaves, and a small city within a radius of one mile was under pressure. That's even counting the necromancer himself.

"Why is there such trouble, I have sent a message to Rex, the following three roads, no matter which city is attacked, are two thousand four hundred miles away from Metatrin City. From Metatrin to here, it takes six days for the light cavalry and more than ten days for the infantry (in order to avoid being sprayed, it is mentioned here that the elite infantry in the book is still on horseback, but the quality of the horses is not good.) There is also a lot of equipment, vehicles are needed, and in good road conditions, it is necessary to march with cavalry for almost half the time). ”

"It won't take ten days for thieves to attack the city!" Ani still didn't understand.

"That's why I'm going to go with them, and drive them out of the city while they're breaking down. We don't defend the city when we turn around, just let the golems and undead destroy the city's defenses. When we are almost destroyed, leave immediately, if the thieves return, there will be no time to repair the fortifications, Rex's cavalry will arrive. Without the city to rely on, Rex's two flag regiments can deal with more than 10,000 such thieves. ”

It dawned on Aini that many ideas were derived. Saleen destroyed the city because no one in the entire north had yet been able to defeat Rex's cavalry forces in a field battle. Rex helps the nobles of Phoenix retake the city, and Holy Rock has nothing to say.

If the Phoenix nobles want to come back, they have to pay Rex gold. The city was not destroyed by Rex, and Rex did not have to compensate, took the money and left. But the city without walls, the nobles of Phoenix were powerless to defend. This place, sooner or later, is still Sarin's.

Saleen's calculations are linked and tightly matched. If those thieves had any plans, they would come back sooner or later, and after repeating it a few times, it is estimated that the nobles on the northern border of Phoenix will be killed.

The Phoenix nobles who can fight have long since gone to Metatrin City, and the rest of the nobles are all struggling to survive.

Thinking clearly about Salin's intentions, Aini sent fifteen cavalrymen, divided into three groups, to chase the thieves. Just follow a few miles away and figure out which city the thieves are attacking.

Shaman saw that Aini and Salin were very close to each other, and thought to himself that he had to make some expressions to defect to Sarin, and all of Aini's soldiers could be mobilized by Sarin, his own ......

"Brother Salin, since I'm ready to follow you. I still have more than a hundred soldiers here, and I'm not good at commanding, so you should come. ”

Salin was not polite and nodded, but according to the army establishment, he only needed one hundred and twenty soldiers, that is, three squads, and the remaining thirty or so soldiers still followed Shaman to protect this young lady of the Roland family. No matter how brave the generals of an army are, when they go to the battlefield, they are still protected by their own soldiers.

The general situation is that an officer with a strong force carries two hundred personal soldiers by his side as the core combat strength. In the front were death squads, with light cavalry on both flanks, infantry in front, and heavy cavalry at the end. The officer's personal soldiers are the core of the battle, and no matter how high Shaman's martial arts are, Salin will not let her fight alone.

The tactics led by the heavy cavalry of the thieves can be said to be invincible against a single army, but when they encounter a regular army, they will be unlucky.

Salin took over the Sharman soldiers, the vehicles were gone, and the slaves followed. In this caravan, only fifty of Aini's personal soldiers rode real war horses, and the slaves' horses were not used for battle, but could only be used as tools for travel.

Even so, Salin was very satisfied, and he equipped all of them with steel crossbows, and the steel crossbows of the soldiers were pedal crossbows, which could be hung on stirrups and wound, but the steel crossbows of the slaves were manual, with jingcha, and the winding was more than twice as slow. There were still more than 800 people in the caravan, almost all of them armed with a pair of steel crossbows, and if they were charged by the thieves, they would not be as busy as they had been at the beginning.

Shaman's aunt didn't have a problem either, and Saleen's action made her realize the wealth of Metatrin City, and the eight hundred steel crossbows, each worth only a hundred gold coins, were also equipment for eighty thousand gold coins.

Raising an army is burning money, and although the Roland family is rich, the real elite soldiers have not exceeded the upper limit set by the empire. This kind of steel crossbow is used by elite soldiers, and ordinary soldiers are mostly hand crossbows, or short bows. Without a steel crossbow, you can only watch as the enemy's heavy cavalry rushes in front of you, waiting for the engagement.

Aini knew that if Saleen was doing business, ten of them together would not be his opponent, but he was inferior to Saleen when he led the troops to fight. As a necromancer, he now has twelve bronze zombies, eighty undead demon wolves, more than five hundred corpse soldiers, and more than fifty skeleton soldiers, so he doesn't have to worry about guarding at all.

But Aini doesn't have too many green ghosts, and it's embarrassing to care about Salin, who also has a necromancer under him. And Aini knew that Saleen had an undead contract creature that was intelligent and could use undead magic, and also needed a green ghost.

So Aini had no choice but to drive the corpse soldiers, the undead demon wolf, and his skeleton soldiers with the caravan.

Now it was no longer possible to call a caravan, all the carts were destroyed, and the group rode slowly south. In a short time, a team of five people had returned, and it was clear that the thieves had split into two groups, one heading towards the middle road, and the other, apparently preparing to attack the city on the left.

"Don't worry about the city in the middle, you can hold it, the thieves divide their troops, they don't want the city in the middle to support and contain it. Saleen quickly made a judgment, left a few of his minions, and hurried back to meet Rex's army. He took two caravan soldiers and hurried to the city on the left.

Side Star City was originally the domain of a viscount, and there were several small towns around, but in the rebellion of the black magicians and the invasion of Qin Yin's army, the nearby towns were destroyed, and the nobles here were unable to recover, and even the side star city was not rebuilt.

It was already October, and the wheat harvest should have been finished, but Salin saw that in the fields far from the road, some crops were as low as the barren grass.

The originally prosperous Phoenix, after two rounds of war, is now dilapidated.

Saleen had been commanding a flying golem to act as a scout at a distance of two miles, and five miles ago, ten light horsemen were scouting. There's no way, Saleen is only a sixth-level magician, and controlling the flying puppet at a distance of two miles is already the limit.

Generally, when an army marches, it will leave at least one flag regiment at the rear, so as not to be copied from the back road. The thieves were put together on an improvised basis, and although there were many of them, there was no unified command, and Salin's team was so far behind, and they followed all the way to Side Star City, and they were not discovered by the thieves.

Salin simply camped fifty miles outside the Side Star City, waiting for the thieves to attack the city. This time, the task of surveillance was directly handed over to Aini, who sent a second-level skeleton soldier to the front to observe the battlefield.

The jealous necromancer, through the magic array on the undead's body, can create a temporary teleportation image, and the distance that can be detected is fifty miles as the limit. Of course, this consumes a large amount of magic cores, and the so-called large amount is also a drop in the bucket for Salin. He only went to the Frozen Sea once, and the demon core he hunted was enough for him to use for a few years.

Although there were sixth-level magicians among the thieves, they didn't expect to be followed by an undead spirit, and they didn't look at the back of the thieves' camp at all. The thieves are facing a small city, the square side star city is not a city wall is a point and two miles, fortunately, there is already a gap in this city wall, which was temporarily blocked by the lord of the side star city with mud. The soil in these gaps, despite the binder, is still the most vulnerable part.

Unfortunately, only these gaps can be attacked, and the gates of Side Star City are still unusually strong. More and more thieves have surrounded Side Star City, and it has reached more than 8,000 people. Among these thieves were mercenaries, as well as private soldiers and slaves abandoned by down-and-out nobles. On the contrary, few farmers joined.

Of the more than 8,000 thieves, only a little more than 1,000 had horses, and most of them gathered here on their feet. These people obviously didn't want to take the city, they just wanted to storm the city and loot it, and then leave.

Salin waited in the distance for a day before the last thousand thieves arrived. This thousand thieves are the chief of all thieves.

Even the people of the Black Dragon King's thieves sent their leaders to this thief's tent to wait for dispatch.

The last thousand thieves to arrive were clearly dressed and armored, and the team was also formed according to Qin Yin's banner group. If the team were to wear a badge, you would be mistaken for a private soldier of a First Earl. The thousand thieves did not look poor at all, and all of them were dressed in full body armor. Even their horses were dressed in vests, and even a thousand thieves, there were hundreds of slaves, driving carts and carrying siege equipment and materials.

This form is like the style of the Tangulas Empire. Qin Yin was not allowed to have slave soldiers, only servant soldiers, that is, auxiliary soldiers, except for the slightly worse treatment, the pension of the auxiliary soldiers was the same as that of regular soldiers. If you are like a slave, you will die if you die, and you can buy it again.

The last thousand thieves came, and the thieves who attacked the city were about 10,000, and they also had the backbone. And the thieves began to assemble trebuchets, which, if not magic trebuchets, were enough to destroy the already damaged walls.

In the side star city, there are no more than 100 elite soldiers, and less than 1,000 peasant soldiers. The peasants of the north, though fierce, were untrained and helped to defend the walls at most. Once the thieves broke through the city, it was impossible to fight in the streets of the peasants who fled into the city.

The news came back from Aini's skeleton, and Saleen felt bad, and in such a situation, I am afraid that the city would be broken in one day. Moreover, the trebuchets destroyed the city walls, and the thieves could not consume much troops to enter the city.

"Sue, take ten cavalrymen and protect this apprentice. Salin pointed to the magician-turned-swordsman in Ani's own army and said, "I'll give you the materials for five flying golems, touch the back of the thieves' camp, and use the flying golems to attack their catapults." Then you withdraw from it. ”

These cavalrymen are worthy of being born as personal soldiers, and ten people are not afraid of tens of thousands of thieves. And Salin just let them sneak up the trebuchet behind their backs and blow them up with flying golems, which is not much difficulty. What's more, there is also a Silver Sword Saint who will not be left behind by the other party's magician.

Because once the magician finds the Silver Sword Master, he will hide in the camp and will not come out to pursue.

"Take a hundred servants, light horsemen, with only bows and swords, and lie in ambush twenty miles ahead, and if anyone pursues, shoot arrows on both sides of the road. Shoot a box of arrows and retreat. ”

Salin pointed to a high-level swordsman and gave an order, and then he said to the fifth-level magician: "Mr. Mage, this is a sixth-level scroll, you are ambushing ten miles ahead, if the enemy catches up, you can use this scroll when you consume one-third of the magic string." ”

The fifth-level mage glanced at Shaman, but Shaman just didn't see his eyes, and the fifth-level mage had no choice but to take the scroll, which was equivalent to approving Sarin's order. No way, who let Saleen have a more obedient Triss by his side. He's a mage who can use seventh-level scrolls!

This fifth-level mage mistook Trith for a sixth-level mage, and he didn't know that that delicate beauty was actually a male demon.

"Aini, you let the corpse soldiers lie in ambush five miles ahead, if those thieves can break through the mage's defenses, then block all the corpse soldiers, and we will retreat for the time being. ”

After Salin finished arranging, he took out the five flying golems, assembled them first, and added several boxes to the belly of the flying golems, which were full of magic powder that could explode. When the magic powder explodes, it forms dozens of fireballs that burn everything around it that can ignite.

The five flying golems are not fragile and can be hung directly from the saddle. Ten horsemen protected the magic apprentice and left first. The leader was Su, who brought an extra bow in addition to two swords. Although Su's archery skills are not as good as Zola's, the range of the Silver Sword Master can threaten all mages below level seven.

Twelve people got on their horses and hurried towards the side star city, followed by two hundred servants, who rode forward.

Because there was no baggage, the distance of fifty miles could be reached in more than an hour for the cavalry. The magic apprentice reached the rear of the thieves' camp, but he was overjoyed. Because the thieves' camp was a little loose, it was built according to the original division of forces, and was not connected together.

Su was not small, leaving the war horse outside the thief camp, and twelve people carried the flying puppet and touched it through the gap in the camp.

Saleen's intention was simple, it was to destroy the siege equipment of the thieves, without which the thieves would have to exchange their lives for the defense of the city walls. As long as the nobles in the city are not too cowardly, a thousand people can defend it, and they can kill five times as many enemies. Let the nobleman's soldiers drain the thief's power, and it would be much easier for Saleen to turn back and take the city.

With Su's leadership, the remaining eleven people did not encounter the patrolling thieves, and easily came to a distance less than a mile away from the trebuchet. Su only cautiously probed at this time, and was very lucky, there was no magician nearby!

The accompanying apprentices immediately began to inlay the magic core, sending the flying puppet more than two meters long into the sky.

At a distance of 800 meters, against a trebuchet fixed to the ground, this apprentice will not miss even if his mental strength is poor. The five flying golems flew extremely fast, swept through the sky with afterimages, and crashed down without warning, and the magic powder carried by the golems also exploded, fireballs flew everywhere, and the wood-based trebuchet instantly burst into flames.

"It's so easy, let's retreat. Su saw that the five trebuchets were not saved, so he left with eleven sword masters. What puzzled Su was that until now, no thieves had discovered them. Su calmly returned and found the war horse. Saleen's original intention was to let them chase after another group of thieves, and then set up an ambush on the road to eliminate some of the thieves' forces.

Fortunately, he had destroyed the enemy's trebuchet, and the enemy had not yet discovered who had done it. If he leaves, I'm afraid the thieves will have to study for a long time before they can find the clues they left behind.

What is this, a bunch of rubbish!

Su was furious, and he instructed the eleven swordsmen: "You go first, and I will lead some thieves to chase after you." As he spoke, he didn't care whether the eleven swordsmen objected or not, and alone, riding a war horse, rushed into a separate camp of thieves.