Chapter 75 The Horn of War
Sarenwell stared at the map silently for a long time, and his fingers suddenly crossed the map, which was the shortest route
He then summoned his generals, ordered his troops to advance as fast as possible, to reach the border line within two days, and then assault the whole army, even to the last man, thirty kilometers into the Crimson Duchy
The black-tailed eagle came out of the clouds again, and in its eagle eyes, the army on land was slowly accelerating towards the borderline
The black-tailed eagle hissed and flapped its wings and flew away, disappearing into the clouds in the blink of an eye, and an hour later, the black-tailed eagle flew to the boundary line, and a split-brained eagle was hovering in the air here, and the black-tailed eagle flew close to the split-brain, and passed on the information it saw to the split-brain, and then turned around and flew away, and the split-brain hovered and continued to exchange information with other split-brains behind, and after a while, hundreds of various birds and beasts appeared in the sky, like a dark cloud, and the black-tailed eagle flew in the direction where the black-tailed eagle flew, and when they were about to reach Sarenwell's army, these various birds were scattered, monitoring all the tens of kilometers away, no matter how Sarenwell below divided his forces, they would be under their surveillance
Sarenwell looked up at the sky, sneering slightly, those generals were also looking up at the sky, if the first black-tailed eagle just looked a little weird, then these strange birds were completely abnormal, and a general asked with a gloomy face: "These things are released by the Crimson Duchy"
"Those are Richard's eyes," said Sarenwell lightly
The generals were shocked and said, "Really, how can we fight this battle?"
"We're scrambling for time, unless Richard's army can fly, or we'll have a good chance of winning," said Sarenwell, waving his hand forward, and the army picked up speed slightly, heading straight for the Crimson Duchy
Moments later, Sarenwell's march route had been transmitted to Richard
At this moment, the generals who had assigned the task had already led their own troops and set off, while most of the followers and constructed knights were still in the Blue Water Oasis City, and Richard casually marked Sarenwell's marching route and speed on the magic map. Sandru and Clark frowned suddenly, and Sarenwell could reach the border of the Crimson Duchy in twenty hours at most at the current rate, while Richard was able to gather no more than five thousand troops in a day, and it would take more than a day for more troops to reach the battlefield, and the question was whether these five thousand people could hold the border with no danger and no way back, and could block the attack of 50,000 enemies
Sarenwell brought all the elite of the empire, although the troops deployed by Richard on the border line are also the elite of the war, but as a strategic mobile force, there are very few knights in the Dark Edge series, and there are only more than two hundred horsemen, and the disparity in power between the two sides makes the defeat of the border line troops inevitable, and even how long it can be delayed is doubtful, when the number of super elite combat arms in the brood is not enough, it is Richard himself, and the military strength will be very difficult in comparison, and Sarenwell's command in battle is by no means weak
And being able to mobilize 5,000 people is only a theoretical number
Richard stood in front of the magic map for a moment, then drew an X on the map, which was the point where Sarenwell entered the Crimson Duchy and where Richard's border troops were assembled
The followers all have some military literacy, and Sarenwell walked in a straight line, so many people can see the location of Richard drawing X, but what they don't know is that when X is drawn, the orders have been passed through dozens of different brains, and in an instant, they were sent to the border line, and after a while, a group of soldiers who had been prepared left the camp on the border and went to the predetermined place at full speed, and a team of 500 people stationed at the predetermined place began to expand the original simple camp with all its might, building a simple fence around it
In the turbulent land, nearly a thousand birds and insects of different sizes and shapes flew out of the nest, gradually dispersed into a huge fan, and flew towards the Iron Triangle Empire, the more they flew, the more scattered, when they crossed many human kingdoms and entered the Iron Triangle Empire from the south, a warning line stretching for thousands of kilometers would be formed, and all the land that flew over would be thoroughly reconnoitred, followed by more than ten distractions behind them, and the reconnaissance situation could be transmitted to the rear in a very short time
In the center of the turbulent land, two huge insect nests hundreds of meters high are slowly opening, like a tide of humanoid knights, but pouring out, they all find their own mounts, and then line up in the open area, every thousand people are a team, and after the assembly is completed, they will be led by a split head to the border with the Crimson Duchy, where Richard has set up two temporary giant armories, and the equipment sent from Norland is being transported here in an endless stream, and a full fifteen thousand humanoid knights will be armed here, and then go north along the way, attack the Iron Triangle Empire from the southern border, and then join Richard's main army in the empire, and the commander of this force will be AnlekalaActually Raymond
The main army that Richard himself will lead has already been assembled, the Crimson Principality has a population of more than 10 million after ten years of development, because most of the population is moved from outside, so the proportion of young and middle-aged people is very high, if the principality is fully mobilized, Richard can quickly form an army of up to 500,000, but limited to equipment and logistics supplies, in the end Richard only mobilized an additional 80,000 reserve soldiers, with 20,000 original regular troops to guard the entire territory of the principality, Richard himself will lead an expedition of 100,000 troops to the Iron Triangle Empire, and the number of supply logistics troops mobilized for this force is more than 500,000
This army of unprecedented size has been marching towards the Iron Triangle Empire, but even if the forward light cavalry is in full force, it will take three days to reach the battlefield that Sarenwell is scheduled to invade, and the thousands of men that Richard can gather on the border will definitely not resist in three days
Sarenwell's abandonment of a trick to march at full speed and fight with Richard for time was indeed the only weakness of Richard
However, is this really Richard's weakness?
Standing in front of the magic map, Richard knew that the war had already begun when he drew the x, and he turned back to the followers without hurrying and said, "This war has begun, now you have two hours to go back and pack your equipment, and after two hours, gather in the square and set off on time."
"Chief, we've been ready for a long time, let's go now, why delay for two hours" It's a long way from Bluewater Oasis City to the border, and neither the Sanctuary nor the Grand Magus can fly long distances, it will take them a day to get there
Richard smiled and slapped his hand on the X mark and said, "Don't worry about us flying over."
Two hours later, all the followers had gathered in the square, in addition to the followers, Richard also gathered a hundred horses, knights and a full hundred or so mages of the tenth level, a huge shadow suddenly swept in the sky, the star chrysalis flew over the square, and slowly landed, some of the followers were used to the star chrysalis, some climbed on the back of the star chrysalis, and some let the star chrysalis's tentacles roll on their bodies, ready to hang below, although the star chrysalis is huge, but there are also mountains and seas among the followers and partners, Tiramisu is such an anomaly, so in addition to the followers, the star chrysalis is already full of hundreds of mages
When the star chrysalis slowly took off and flew to the border, there were dozens of giant chrysalis that were half smaller than the star chrysalis flying into the square, this is the mother nest, referring to the newly hatched troops of the star chrysalis, they have no attack power, the only use is to carry other troops for a long flight, in order to achieve the purpose of rapid transportation of troops, but the star chrysalis is a unique class of troops generated by the use of surplus energy when the mother nest is promoted, the ability is far beyond the ordinary troops, these mass-produced pupae are half of the volume of the star chrysalis, but the transportation capacity is only one-tenth of the star chrysalis, and every hundred kilometers of flight needs to rest and eat, each pupa can carry five constructed knights and all their supplies, and the remaining thirty pupae are additionally mounted with three hundred gloomThe Blade Knight then flew into the sky and headed for the predetermined battlefield
The chrysalis gathered in the air, and the formation turned to the northeast, and at the end of Richard's line of sight, a group of wind snakes flew to join the chrysalis, escorting these non-self-defensible chrysalis towards the predetermined battlefield
In the sky, a large group of flying units gathered together like a black cloud and gradually faded away
This scene is shocking, Richard suddenly felt that he needed to rethink the definition of war, the pupa consumption is huge, the mother nest can only produce one chrysalis per day, and they have many restrictions, the amount of transportation is not very ideal, and the chrysalis on the battlefield is very fragile, a level 10 shooter can shoot and wound it in the air of 100 meters, it is precisely because of so many shortcomings, Richard did not let the mother nest create more zĂ o chrysalis, but used the spare production capacity to produce the best cost-effective humanoid knight
But seeing the troops in the distance, Richard suddenly thought that if the number of chrysalis could reach a new level, such as two hundred, then they could transport a thousand constructed knights, or two thousand elite Darkblade knights, or a three or four thousand formed army with a reasonable size, no matter where it was, it had the ability to determine the local battlefield, and with the cooperation of the star chrysalis and the split brain, it could also transport enough supplies to maintain the scale of the war, which meant that Richard could put an elite army anywhere within 1,500 kilometers in three days
It will be a change in the shape of warfare
ps: It's not neat yet, there is only one change today