Daniel was just bluffing. To extract someone's soul and read their thoughts, he needed to be at least a necromancer of Level Eight and above to barely do it. He was only a Level Five necromancer. While he had ways to torture people's souls, he had no way to obtain accurate information.
However, the two captives knew nothing about magic. They took Daniel's words seriously. If they fought to the death and were still searched for information, they would be looking for trouble. Actually, even if Daniel didn't scare them, the two scouts were terrified when they saw ten mages surrounding him.
The two immediately told Daniel what Nash had done. Daniel frowned. He was blocked by this castle. If he wanted to go to the border, he would have to cross the mountain. One or two people could still take a shortcut, but over five hundred people with heavy supplies would have to take a detour for a thousand miles to find a place that wasn't so steep.
"My Lord, since these people are here to stop the princess, why don't we attack this city and let the princess's army pass through easily." Geyi said from the side. He was the commander of this battle. Daniel only played a supporting role. After killing forty people, his side only suffered a few injuries. This caused Geyi's confidence to swell. The other party was the official army of the Qinyin Empire, not some bandits.
In fact, the 40 scouts of the Qinyin Empire were treated unjustly. There had never been an army that would bring along a few carriages of arrows. The soldiers of the G1 Empire shot out arrows like they were free, and did not engage in close combat with the scouts. Geyi only sent out two hundred men. Relying on the advantage of their weapons, they were able to shoot down all the teams of scouts. If it was really close combat, with the pirates under him, it would be good if he could exchange two of them for one.
Daniel was thinking more than Geyi. He was considering whether attacking the Empire's army would cause any trouble for Salin. After killing this team of scouts, he could turn around and leave. The other party wouldn't be able to get anything on him. If he attacked the city, it would be a completely different matter.
"My Lord, are you worried about Holy Rock City?" Geyi was a very smart person. Otherwise, he wouldn't have grabbed onto the big tree that was Salin and wouldn't let go.
"Yes, attacking an empire's city is very troublesome."
"Sir, this city originally belonged to Phoenix. Moreover, I think Holy Rock City can no longer control the nobles here. Otherwise, Phoenix wouldn't be in so much trouble."
"What do you know?" Daniel rolled his eyes. He had tied his future to Salin's, and did not want to do anything irreversible.
Geyi wasn't afraid and directly said to Daniel: "Sir, although I don't know what nobles are thinking, but among us pirates, if a captain can't protect his own people, no matter what the reason is, he won't be a captain for long."
"Hmm?" Daniel was surprised to hear this skinny pirate talk about the situation, and even use his own origin as an analogy. He asked, "What do you mean?"
"No matter what conflict the princess has with Saint Rock City, she is still a member of the emperor's family. Now that Saint Rock City was doing this to their own people, the nobles here were like little pirates. They would definitely be suspicious. Since Holy Rock City treats its own people like this, who will protect the interests of the local nobles? "
"Yes!" Daniel suddenly understood. He was born a noble, and he immediately understood what Geyi was talking about.
When the Tanggulas Royal Family sold a small noble like him to the Holy Church, he naturally wouldn't continue to be loyal to the royal family. Also, when he was escaping, some nobles who didn't have a good relationship with him helped him in private. This was the reason Geyi mentioned.
If the royal family could sell him out for the Holy Church today, it could be someone else tomorrow.
"But there are 5,000 enemies, and we only have 500." Daniel wasn't arrogant enough to think that he could fight against 10 enemies alone. There were also mages in the enemy's army. Although there weren't as many as Daniel's, as long as there were mages, they would be able to offset his advantage and win by relying on the number of soldiers.
Daniel was someone who had seen a regular army, and he knew that the combat power of an army wasn't something these pirates could compare with. The more well-trained soldiers there were, the stronger their combat power would be. Five thousand soldiers would be considered a huge force in any place. Of his 500 people, not to mention the pirates, the barbarians still couldn't complete the order to fight well.
"Sir, there are magic towers in this city. They are on the west side, and we are on the east side. The magic towers won't be so far away. As long as we can get into the city, we can use the magic war chariots to burn down the military camps."
Strandburg wasn't a militarized city, and there were a lot of residents here. The soldiers who were stationed here had their own barracks. If the magic war chariots rushed into the barracks and released fire magic, it would be a terrifying thing. Even if there were mages in the barracks, they wouldn't be able to do anything.
With two magic war chariots, Daniel and Fareins were equivalent to a level 7 magic shooter.
"Eh, you are right. But how do we get into the city is a problem."
"Sir, after we kill this team of scouts, the enemies will definitely come out of the city to check. The terrain here is narrow, so we should set up an ambush and kill the people who come out to check. We will change into their clothes, and the magic war chariots will wait 500 meters away. After the people disguised as the enemies take over the city gate, we will immediately rush into the city."
Geyi's method was very risky. If the enemies didn't send enough soldiers out of the city, it would be more difficult to take over the city gate. However, Geyi didn't care that much in order to get rich. As a pirate, who didn't risk their lives to make money?
Daniel didn't know what Geyi was thinking. Instead, he admired his bravery. Casually casting Deterrence to knock out the two captives, Daniel and Fareins began to prepare their own magic.
In the barracks on the west side of the city, Rex's soldiers began to prepare for the siege. Rex also brought a war chariot, but the journey was long, so the equipment on her war chariot was stored in the Divine Sieve Ring and had to be temporarily assembled. This kind of four-wheeled war chariot could carry a small magic catapult, which was used to suppress the enemy archers. Small catapults couldn't destroy the city walls.
A large number of Battle Puppets were activated and distributed to the low-level mages. Without the command of mages, these Battle Puppets were about as powerful as skeleton soldiers, except that they were more resistant to attacks. The main purpose of the puppets was to cover the soldiers and push the heavy weapons to the city gates.
If the enemies were determined to defend and block the city gates, the puppets could climb up the city walls first and exhaust the enemy's arrows.
Of course, if Rex had giant Battle Puppets, it wouldn't be so troublesome. They only needed to let the heavy cavalry advance with the Battle Puppets, and when the puppets destroyed the city towers, the heavy cavalry could directly kill their way in.
The Battle Puppets in Holy Rock City were almost finished. They just didn't know whether to send them to Jialou Lan or Lianyun City first.
Before the battle, the soldiers had to tidy up their weapons. Some officers' weapons even had to be enhanced with magic in advance to achieve the strongest effect. The steel crossbows had to be lubricated, and the horses had to be fed some special feed. Not too much, or it would lower the horses' stamina. The armor's leaves had to be checked one by one. Qin Yin's armor also had a lot of leather ropes. The leather ropes would wear out, and it would be troublesome if they broke on the battlefield. Before some important battles, the officers would even give new leather ropes for the soldiers to reconnect the armor leaves.
String openers would wear out after a long time. Normally, it wouldn't affect their use, but if an accident happened, the bowstring would be damaged. Some of the soldiers' gloves were equipped with steel claws. If the city gates couldn't be broken, the magic catapults would smash holes in the city walls, and the soldiers would have to climb up with the claws. Before attacking the city, these claws had to be cleaned and polished.
An army of tens of thousands would definitely have large catapults, but they couldn't be moved. They had to be assembled within five miles of the city walls, which was also within the enemy's attack range. The soldiers were busy making temporary wooden shields to avoid being hit by the fine stones.
There were many types of catapults. One type would throw a large number of small stones, hundreds of them at a time. These small stones couldn't destroy large buildings, but they were very destructive to the infantry. No matter how strong a person was, they couldn't fight if their bones were broken.
Near the walls of the camp, hundreds of crossbowmen looked at the sky vigilantly. If the enemy's flying puppets came at this time, they had to shoot them down. Otherwise, the news of the attack would be exposed.
Every soldier was busy doing some pre-battle preparations. Although they were all small things, they slowly focused the soldiers' attention. This was a way to increase combat power. There were similar ceremonies among mercenaries, but they weren't as professional as the regular army.
For example, if Rex were to judge the 500 soldiers on the east side of Strandburg, they were just a bunch of unruly people. Without the skeleton warhorses, Rex could finish the battle in 30 minutes with half of the soldiers.
On the battlefield, it wasn't individual bravery that mattered, but cooperation between soldiers. The barbarians were strong individually, but they weren't a match for ordinary soldiers on the battlefield. This was also the reason why the barbarians declined. They couldn't organize a strong army at all.
A flash of green light flew across the sky. Rex was meditating in the tent when she suddenly opened her eyes. She said in shock, "They …"
"Princess, what's wrong?" Nania asked hurriedly.
"There's a battle at the east gate. Daniel, that bastard, attacked ahead of time!" Rex cursed unexpectedly. However, she immediately realized that her men definitely hadn't crossed the mountain ridge yet. Daniel attacked first, so he didn't know that she was here.
Wasn't he courting death? 500 people attacking a city with 5,000 people. That was more like it.
However, Rex couldn't ignore it. Those 500 people were trained by Salin. She had to at least cooperate here, or else all 500 of them might be wiped out.
"Guards!"
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