Salin tried a few times, but the contract between him and the Three Kings didn't produce any reaction. He knew that the restrictions of the contract were starting to loosen. If the Three Kings were plotting against him with others, he wouldn't be able to sense it. This made Salin completely determined to get rid of the Three Kings.
Rules weren't that easy to make use of. Only the rules in one's hands were irreversible. The Three Kings were so powerful, but they had been controlled by Salin and Ainphent for so long. If it were the other way around, he would have been killed by the Three Kings in the Dimension of Dead Souls.
Salin still had things to worry about regarding the war. To the east of the divine temple, there was a building. These temporary buildings were used by Salin to forge equipment.
Although Rex took away a large number of Spellcasters, he left many Magic Apprentices and Level One Spellcasters for Salin. These people had low survivability on the battlefield, so Rex didn't bring them along. However, these people could control the Magical Spell Formation and help forge the armor.
Salin's soldiers weren't as strong as the army of the Church, so he could only think of ways to improve their equipment. The Demon God Armor couldn't be used by humans, but Salin had some blueprints given to him by Rex. Together with his own designs, he could forge a large number of equipment.
Salin's order to Duanren Pass was to defend for three days. With the geographical location of the Duanren Pass, they shouldn't be attacked from all sides. But Salin still sent out the only heavy cavalry he had, and set up a defense line on the east side of the Duanren Pass.
Duanren Pass was built on a broken part of a north-south mountain range. This mountain range almost reached the northernmost part of the Myers Continent, and was more than a thousand miles away from Metatlin City. If the army of the Church wanted to go around the Duanren Pass, they would have to travel an extra three thousand miles. With the speed of the army of the Church, if all of them used cavalry, it would take more than half a month.
Salin was only worried that the light infantry of the army of the Church would cross the mountains and cut off the retreat of the Duanren Pass. Even though it was extremely difficult to cross a few thousand meters of mountain, Salin didn't want to take the risk. This was because the width of this north-south mountain range was less than fifty miles.
If there were Divine Spell Masters to buff the soldiers with Divine Spells, it wasn't impossible to cross the mountain range. At most, they would lose some soldiers. The higher-ups of the Church wouldn't even consider this. Three thousand men were sent to climb the mountain, and if one thousand survived, it would be a huge threat to the retreat of the Duanren Pass.
For this reason, Salin even sent Trish over. Accompanying Trish was a newly advanced level-4 Magician. Two hundred heavy cavalry, four hundred light cavalry, and four hundred Caucasian soldiers patrolled the area behind Duanren Pass. As long as they discovered an enemy, the light cavalry would entangle them and the heavy cavalry would attack.
The distance between Duanren Pass and West Town was one hundred and eighty li. Even if all the soldiers were infantry, as long as there were enough vehicles, it would only take half a day of rapid marching. The chariots were all destroyed, and without horses, the soldiers could still retreat within a day, as long as there was no enemy to disturb them. Salin's army was first trained in rapid marching.
If he couldn't win, he had to know when to retreat. This was Salin's move to preserve his strength.
Salin's actions didn't have any effect. The battle at the front of Duan Ren Pass was already indescribably fierce. The army of the Church had never thought of crossing the mountains and sending infantry to harass the rear. In the eyes of the Church's army, it was only a matter of time before a hundred thousand people attacked a city pass.
In fact, Salin's 2nd Battalion occupied an absolute advantage in the terrain. The Caucasians in the mountains on both sides didn't discover any signs of infiltration, and the army of the Church fiercely attacked the front.
This was the only way to describe the Church's attack, disregarding casualties. The siege towers of the expeditionary army couldn't suppress the watchtowers at the top of the city. Both sides fired at each other, and the soldiers at the top of the city could easily throw arrows down.
The siege hammers were pushed to the bottom of the city several times, and the city also sent out brave warriors to destroy the siege hammers. They also threw rocks from the top of the city to destroy the siege hammers. Both sides suffered heavy casualties because of this.
Duanren Pass, which had the geographical advantage, had lost more than two thousand soldiers. The Church had lost more than five thousand men in the battle at the city gate. This section was less than five hundred meters, a testament to the intensity of the battle.
There were only about twenty thousand people in Duanren Pass, including the troops. With two thousand dead, they no longer dared to attack outside the city, and could only block the city gate. With the city gate blocked, the army of the Church started pressing forward, using ladders to attack the city. There was nothing they could do inside the city. They tried to attack outside the city a few times, but were suppressed by the enemy's heavy cavalry. More than half of the brave warriors had died in battle. If they didn't block the city gate, this war of attrition would continue.
This way, it would be a desperate battle for the city wall. Duanren Pass had two city walls. The second wall was five meters taller than the first, and the distance between the two was only eighty meters. This was exactly the shooting distance of an ordinary arrow. They had no choice but to give up on the first city wall after a day. All the troops retreated to the second city wall.
There was a sealed space between the two city walls. The army of the Church quickly swarmed in. After the twenty thousand people had entered, the army of Duanren Pass opened up the reservoirs in the mountains on both sides, filling the eighty meters wide and two miles long space with water.
Thousands of the twenty thousand soldiers of the Church drowned in an instant. These thousands of people couldn't float because they were wearing heavy armor. The rest of the Church's soldiers survived because of the protection of the Divine Masters. The Church quickly cleared the blockage at the first city gate. The water in the reservoirs decreased, and they could no longer attack.
The warriors of the second battalion finally understood why Salin had built such a large reservoir at such a militarized city gate.
When the news reached Metatlin City, Salin wasn't very happy. The Church had used less than ten thousand soldiers to break through the first city wall. The Duanren Pass didn't have the time to build large defensive facilities, but the expeditionary army had been formed in a hurry and hadn't brought along many siege equipment. Moreover, the expeditionary army had already marched over twenty thousand miles. According to normal standards, this army had almost no combat power left.
If the Church hadn't focused all their efforts on attacking Qin Yin and sent more troops, they might have already reached Metatlin City by now.
He really didn't know how Qin Yin's army had managed to fend off the Church's attack at the border.
Left with no choice, Salin began to dispatch the carriages and prepare to retreat. The second city wall should be able to fend off two days of attacks. If they didn't retreat, the second battalion would become history.
In the next two days, the battle was crueler than Salin had imagined. With the first city wall, even though the army of the Church couldn't use the archery towers to shoot at each other, the Divine Masters could cast Divine Spells on the troops below from above.
The expeditionary army swarmed forward like the tide. The morale within Duanren Pass was low. More than half of the small troop teams were dead or injured. According to the contract, they could already retreat. The main force of the second battalion was still in good shape, but the support troops had suffered heavy casualties. The main force had no choice but to split up, with the soldiers acting as simple archers.
Two intact Magic Stone Cannons were set up on the mountains on both sides of the east gate of Duanren Pass. After only holding on for a day and a half, the second battalion within Duanren Pass had no choice but to retreat. The expeditionary army gave chase like crazy, but were suppressed to the west by the Magic Stone Cannons' Magic Stone Cannons.
Immediately, a large number of Divine Masters came forward with the help of the heavy infantry to seize the Magic Stone Cannons. Seeing that the army within the city had retreated, the soldiers and Magical Apprentices guarding the Magic Stone Cannons decided to burn the cannons and escape together.
Without the suppression of the Magic Stone Cannons, the heavy infantry within Duanren Pass quickly pushed to the east gate.
From the moment the vanguard reached Duanren Pass to the moment the Duanren Pass was broken through, it only took three and a half days. The expeditionary army didn't even cross the mountain range to attack the rear. They forcefully broke through the blockade of Duanren Pass from the front.
After breaking through Duanren Pass, the east city wall only held on for two hours. More than half of the troops guarding the rear had died in battle. The Church sent out three thousand cavalrymen to give chase. They were ambushed by the main force of the third battalion sent by Salin, and retreated back into Duanren Pass.
Three thousand people chasing an army of ten thousand, the odds of victory were not high. Moreover, the Church had been attacking for a few days. Even with the help of the Divine Masters, the soldiers needed to rest and reorganize.
Salin was very disappointed with the combat ability of his army. If Rex had the Duanren Pass, he could at least defend for more than half a month. In the battle for the city wall, as long as the enemy climbed the top of the city wall, the casualty ratio would be one to one. Every Tangulasian who climbed the city wall could at least bring down one enemy.
Logically speaking, the individual combat ability of both sides was similar. The soldiers Salin had recruited were all soldiers who had undergone sword training. The enemy's expeditionary army couldn't be considered a regular army. An army of twenty-five thousand people had barely participated in the battle. They had all relied on new recruits, but this was the result. Salin felt that he had underestimated the three empires.
At this moment, Sicar advised Salin, "Your soldiers are only soldiers to make a living. They don't know why they are fighting. The expeditionary army of the Church is fighting to go to the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the difference. If your kingdom is built and these people have a home, they will fight to the death to protect their home. "
Salin was silent. Sicar was right. His Metatlin City was a commercial city, and the surrounding farmers had just started farming. They didn't feel like they were home. The soldiers were also recruited for the money.
What about the Church? Their methods of bewitching people were not something he could compare with.
Fortunately, Metatlin City had no way out. The people in the city were facing a crisis of life and death. Metatlin City could definitely resist the attack of the expeditionary army.
There were two level-nine Magic Shooters in West Town. The enemy could only divide their forces and send at least thirty thousand people to prevent the garrison of West Town from helping Metatlin City. This way, the expeditionary army attacking Metatlin City would only have fifty thousand people.
It was time to send out the Three Lords. Before dealing with these three guys, he had to make use of them as much as possible.
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