Chapter 501: Lure the Enemy Deep (I)

[The third shift, tomorrow's fourth shift, and the second shift, the backstage is stuck, so it's late. It's not a problem that old D can solve, but I'm sorry]

No matter how good the equipment is, it must be of the corresponding level to exert its power. After admiring it for a moment, Saleen put away the Silence Seal and refined the next piece of equipment.

Although Salin knew that his own strength was more important, the problem was that he was not only a magician, he was also a king. He is responsible for both his followers and his men's equipment.

For the first time since becoming a magician, Saleen felt like a coolie. Truman couldn't help him too much, but fortunately, Salin was full of mental power and could teach Truman experience while refining equipment.

It was the first time since Truman followed Salin that he was taught so patiently, he almost didn't eat or drink to accompany Salin to refine equipment, and the magic strings in his body grew unconsciously.

His qualifications are much better than Saline's, but unfortunately not as good as Saline's. When he was on Shrieg Island, he was overwhelmed by the many talents and did not gain the favor of any magician, and he was even a little depressed.

But after arriving in Metatrin City, Saleen handed over the miniature magic cannon to him to manage, which made Truman feel valued, and his mood was very different, and later Saleen accepted him as a student, and the mustard in Truman's heart disappeared completely, and he devoted himself to practicing magic.

There is no substitute for knowing that you have a bright future. The speed of Truman's advancement became terrifying, and it was only then that Jason discovered it. The increase in the strength of the plane has the most obvious effect for a highly talented mage like Truman. He was a fifth-level great magician, and after working with Salin for six days in a row, Truman advanced.

The only things that hindered him were some perception issues, and his magic strings grew several times faster than Salin. Sarin's water elemental body made his advancement difficult.

Salin didn't expect Truman to enter another level so quickly, originally he planned to let Truman comprehend alone for a few years, and then instruct the method of advanced magicians, but in the current situation, Truman can continue to learn from him.

In six days, the magicians of Metatrin City arrived at Port Royal, which is not fast, but considering that the magicians also brought a group of warriors, and many great magicians, and used three warships, this speed is already amazing.

Metatrin City also brought Rex a large amount of supplies, mainly in terms of materials. Rex doesn't have many magic cores right now, and the magic cores that Saleen gave her are not enough to set up coastal defensive positions. Thanks to the Ancient Warship, the clone of the mechanical undead can take a lot of trouble off Rex.

The twelve magicians stayed in Port Royal for half a day, helped Rex set up a large number of magic arrays, and then quickly set sail and headed straight for Ceylon City.

The border of Ceylon City, less than a hundred miles away from Yaoyang City, has now been stationed close to 50,000 troops. Salin put all the outcasts and unproductive people in Ceylon City into the army, and arranged them here. And his demon legion, with two thousand elite soldiers, is constantly swaying outside the Shining Sun City.

I have to say that the combat power of the demon legion is not as strong as their deterrent, and the demons more than five meters tall wander in the sight all day long, making the soldiers of Shining Sun City panic. Such an enemy made them feel a little hopeless.

Shining Sun City is not a major town, there are no more than a thousand elite soldiers, and the rest are ordinary soldiers and low-level mercenary groups.

Su Fangso also knew that if this continued, the soldiers would collapse, and I was afraid that before others came to fight, his city would be finished. But he couldn't escape, Shining Sun City was the family's residence, and all his relatives were here. If they fled, the minor nobles and lords would rebel completely.

If the great nobles fail to hold their territory, the consequences are terrible.

In the midst of anxiety and helplessness, the imperial capital finally had a message. His Majesty Downey gathered twelve mercenary groups, as well as 10,000 royal iron horsemen, to support Shining Sun City. These twelve mercenary groups are not garbage, each of them is above level six, with more than 10,000 soldiers, this time, the twelve mercenary groups have dispatched a total of 100,000 soldiers, plus the royal iron cavalry and the private soldiers of more than 30 local nobles, a total of more than 150,000 people, who came to support.

His Majesty Downey spent a lot of money to mobilize these mercenaries, he can no longer sit idly by, if it continues, the nobles will really rebel one by one and defect to Saleen. And Donnie also knew that Saleen would not take the initiative to destroy his city now, otherwise it would cause a huge panic.

On the continent of Myers, there are no more than ten cities that can withstand the blows of metal flying machines.

Metal flying machines are not a formidable piece of equipment, but they kill and injure both ordinary soldiers and civilians. No city can afford such an attack.

In addition to these soldiers, there are also the surviving magicians of Iron Wall City, all of whom also came to Shining Sun City with the army. They want to wash away their shame, and when the Elemental Magic Tower came, these people chose to shrink. If you fight back, Iron Wall City will at least be able to escape with a few more people, right?

Donnie himself also sent three court mages, a total of six ninth-level magicians, which can be regarded as an extremely powerful force in the Scochenian Empire. At the same time, Donnie sent a mercenary group to contain Rex in Port Royal, and if Rex divided his forces to support Salin, it would become a formal attack and recapture Port Royal.

Downey sent out the army so late to contact the Holy See. Pope Dinisio got the news and agreed to send warships to attack Ceylon City on the coast.

Downey's final decree was that any mercenary group, if they breached the city of Ceylon, would be the lord there, and would be exempt from taxes for ten years.

It was a tempting poison, but all the mercenary groups were excited. Because Salin had integrated all the minor nobles in the vicinity of Ceylon City, the area of Ceylon City was now so large that if he could obtain this territory, it would be equivalent to having a private state.

The eighth-level and ninth-level mercenary groups are ready to move, and many lower-level mercenary groups take the initiative to contact the powerful mercenary groups, and the small mercenary groups know that with their own strength, they can't defeat Ceylon City. What they want is also very simple, cooperation, and sharing the spoils.

In this way, when the 150,000 reinforcements arrived in Yaoyang City, hundreds of mercenary groups in the rear moved, and under the leadership of six large mercenary groups, they killed Ceylon City. Some of these mercenary groups have only more than 100 people, and many can reach more than 3,000 people. Together, more than 400,000 mercenaries gathered in the north of Scochenia, and there were many more small mercenary groups, only three or five people, all rushing to Ceylon City, wanting to pick up a bargain.

Everyone didn't think that Ceylon City could not be defeated, on the side of Port Royal, the huge ancient warship did not hide its body, Port Royal was expanding, the city was re-established, and the number of soldiers could be estimated. Most of the troops attacking Ironwall City remained in Port Royal, and no one knew that Salin had 100,000 demons in his hands.

In the eyes of the mercenaries, if Salin had the power to destroy Shining Sun City, he would have done it a long time ago. The cause of the conflict between Count Sufonso and Salin is unknown, but Salin's troops are certainly not here for sightseeing. To the south of Shining Sun City, there were already sixty or seventy thousand troops.

When Salin heard the news, he rejoiced, if there were fewer people coming, he would not be able to fight back. With so many troops arriving, Shining Sun City couldn't fit it, so it could only attack its own territory directly.

Salin hurriedly ordered the demon legions on the front line to retreat moderately, and once the enemy was strong, immediately flee back in the direction of Ceylon City, without entanglement.

As for the more than 50,000 recruits, Salin also arranged the vehicles as much as possible so that they could retreat.

The equipment of these recruits is not pitiful compared to the low-level mercenaries, it is the paper armor that Saleen brought with him. The materials of these paper armors are all waste products derived from magic apprentices and low-level mages practicing magic, and their defense is equivalent to leather armor, but there is no good way to repair it, and it is a one-time equipment.

But Skochenya's low-level mercenaries even regard this kind of paper armor as a treasure. These paper armors look very majestic, and with a small amount of honor guard armor, Saleen will not cost much gold to arm these recruits.

Expecting these recruits to kill the enemy is a bad brain. Less than a tenth of these recruits had experience as mercenaries.

However, the people who led these recruits were generals from the Kushui Prefecture. The order given to them by Saleen was to lure the enemy deeper.

The generals were puzzled by this vague order and asked Salin where to lure the enemy to. At that time, Salin pointed to the new city wall that was still being built, and said, "Bring it here and give you credit." ”

Then the orders given by these generals to the soldiers were somewhat strange, and the first military law that the recruits received was that they were not allowed to throw away their equipment.

Saleen didn't want these recruits to die, but the escape of throwing away their armor would not help the growth of these recruits, and would only produce a group of soldiers. Once these people discard their weapons and armor, there is little hope for the future. All the recruits were lightly armed, and Salin gave them paper armor, crossbows, short spears, and swords, just because they were afraid that the soldiers would be overwhelmed.

It wasn't until June that Shining Sun City suddenly launched an attack. The heavy armored cavalry attacked the demon position, and unlike Count Su Fangsuo thought, the combat effectiveness of those demons was not very good, and under the contact, they were killed by the same number of heavy armored cavalry.

This heavy cavalry is also Donnie's elite army, although Salin ordered the demons to release water, but if it wasn't for this army attacking the demon position, the demons would have no way to pretend to be defeated.

Count Su Fangso was overjoyed, His Majesty's iron cavalry was indeed invincible. Regardless of the dissuasion of his subordinates, he led his private army, as well as 2,000 auxiliaries, a total of 3,000 people, to kill out of Shining Sun City. It's not that Count Su Fonso is mentally retarded, he is already a Golden Sword Saint, and of course he doesn't feel that his life is in danger.

Now that His Majesty has given the order, the attack on the city of Ceylon is the time to establish meritorious deeds. The 150,000 troops outside the city are only considered to be the vanguard, and there are hundreds of mercenary groups behind, but how many troops are there in Ceylon City? 20,000?

What if Salin was a ninth-level magician, he was a Golden Sword Saint, and if Salin was alone, it would not be impossible to kill him by himself.

Nazarin destroyed the Iron Wall, killed it, and promoted himself to Duke in no time.