Salin planned to let people eat worms. There was no other way. The war was about to spread to the entire continent. In three years at most, all countries would be involved in the war with the Holy See. At that time, it would be even more difficult to buy food than now. Without a stable logistics, how could they fight?
The soldiers in the city didn't know that Salin was worried about their food. Salin secretly adjusted their diet to increase the proportion of fish and shrimp. The nutrition of this thing was no worse than beef and mutton. It was just a matter of taste.
Salin arranged a team of 20,000 people on each side of the city wall. Metatlin's city wall was special. It was extremely thick. Don't expect to use magic or magic to bombard it. The upper half of the city wall was built with Dante sequences. It was different from the style of any country on the Myers Continent.
There was a maze-like corridor and a rectangular building made of stone strips. It was 60 meters thick from front to back. The barbican inside the city gate was divided into two layers and occupied a width of hundreds of meters. Even the small gate had not forgotten this construction method. This explained why it took Salin so long to build the city wall. He had tens of thousands of undead as laborers.
These undead helped him build the city day and night, and the city wall was the most time-consuming part.
People could live on the top of the city wall. Not to mention 20,000, even 100,000 could live on an eight-kilometer wall. There was a horse path inside the city that led diagonally to the 30-meter-high city wall.
Salin originally wanted to build a higher city wall. It was not that he couldn't do it, but if the city wall was built too high, it would surpass the magic tower.
The magic tower was 6 meters tall, and the nine floors were 54 meters tall. Only the city wall of Holy Rock City was built more than 100 meters, but that was because Holy Rock City itself was carved out of the mountain, and the height of the base was not lower than 60 meters.
The 30-meter-high city wall could be climbed with ladders. There were many casualties. Duanren Pass was not defended because Salin didn't send too many mages. He didn't want mages to die there.
The thickness of the city wall of Metatlin exceeded the height. In fact, it was an eight-kilometer long house. The top of the city wall was 50 meters wide. On the outside, there was a 10-meter-wide horse path and a fortress for soldiers. If the enemy climbed the top of the city wall, they might face the attack of the cavalry.
The cavalry attacked horizontally on the horse path, and the infantry who climbed the city wall could not organize a defense formation. There were Magic Cannons in the city, and the catapults were protected by magic arrays. It was very difficult for the catapults to destroy each other.
There was no Magic Tower in the city, and the only building that was similar to a Magic Tower was Salin's temple. However, the shrine was located in a remote location, about five miles away from the city wall. Without the connection of the Magic Tower in the middle, it could not play any offensive role for the time being.
Fortunately, Salin had many low-level Mages under his command, all of whom had been left behind by Rex. The mid-level Mages had all been taken away by Rex, and the low-level Mages had become the main force of the battle.
When the Three Sovereigns returned, Diabinus and Banchagana were each in charge of one side. They each commanded thousands of Undead and mixed with the soldiers to assist in the defense.
The skeleton soldiers could shoot arrows. In any case, there was no need to worry about accuracy at a long distance. Moreover, the skeleton soldiers would not run out of strength. Salin had prepared a large number of inferior bows and arrows for the skeleton soldiers to use. The strength of these arrows was not small, and the range was extremely long. Their accuracy was pitiful, and they were only suitable for area shooting.
Every two hundred meters, there would be fifty Undead Cavalry. Of course, these Undead Cavalry could not compare to the Death Knights, but Salin had equipped the Undead Cavalry with heavy armor. It was still very easy for them to charge at the foot soldiers on the city wall.
Amidst the tense preparations for war, tens of thousands of people poured into Metatlin City. These were all the citizens of the nobles nearby. There was still a distance of over a hundred miles from Duanren Pass to Metatlin. There were many villages and fortresses on this land. Salin had already given the final order for these nobles to seek refuge in the city. Their fortresses could not stop the army of the Church at all.
These nobles had no choice but to obey. Because they had only settled in Metatlin City for a short time, they had not recruited enough soldiers, and the number of citizens was small. Even though the small fortresses were easy to defend, they did not have enough manpower. Against the attack of the army, they would not be able to hold out for even a day.
The expeditionary army rested for three days at Duanren Pass before setting off again. The vanguard had already swept through the Metatlin Plains, but did not manage to steal any rations. They were even blocked in West Town. A group of Rex's banners led thousands of mercenaries out of West Town and attacked the Church's three thousand light cavalry from the side.
Rex's banners were all clad in three layers of armor. Even though they weren't heavy cavalry, their charging power was almost the same.
As for the less than four thousand mercenaries, they only followed behind. Several hundred of them were deployed on both sides, forming a pincer formation. It was as though Rex's banners were the blade, and the three thousand mercenaries were the steel between the blades.
The attack this time was like a swordsman slashing a person's neck with his sword. With a crack, the expeditionary army's three thousand cavalrymen were cut in the middle. This attack was clean and efficient, not giving the expeditionary army any chance to change their formation. The number of enemies they killed was only two hundred or so. Most of the expeditionary army had only been hit by crossbows and were not seriously injured.
However, Rex's banners turned around and charged back. This time, they had switched to long spears. After a short charge, they tore off another piece of flesh from the enemy's flank and killed over two hundred people. Only then did Rex's banners swagger away. They had lost close to five hundred men in two battles. To the three thousand cavalrymen at the vanguard, it was definitely a heavy blow.
They wanted to give chase, but they weren't as familiar with the terrain as Rex's men. In the narrow area, the mercenaries threw down the caltrops and sharp antlers that they had brought with them, reducing the cavalrymen's speed to an extreme. This time, the expeditionary army's cavalrymen were alerted. This wasn't the Tanggulas Empire.
Salin and the Spellcasters lying in ambush on the hills saw this scene, and the three lords sighed. If they had cooperated, the three thousand cavalrymen would have all died here. However, Salin's order was to attack the main force behind the cavalrymen. The vanguard of the Church's expeditionary army was made up of light cavalry, and there were ten thousand people behind.
The three lords wanted to attack these ten thousand people, and they had to leave the battlefield before the main force behind them arrived.
The vanguard of the expeditionary army had retreated. It wouldn't be long before they met up with the ten thousand troops behind them and entered the vicinity of West Town. Banchagana flew to the battlefield and randomly picked up a corpse. He sniffed it, and his expression turned ugly.
Seeing Banchagana return with a corpse in his hand, the other two Undead Lords also smelled a strange aura. It smelled like the aura of gods, but not, because it was evil beyond the scope of the rules.
"These people …" The three lords looked at each other, then at the soldiers behind them. The soldiers were recruited by the nobles. Salin's five battalions didn't accept just anyone. Some of these soldiers had decent combat ability, but they were too old, so they were all abandoned. There was no place for them in the regular army, so they turned to the nobles.
Judy Coco said, "Let's go back. There's no need for an ambush."
The officer leading the human soldiers was in a difficult position, but he didn't dare to speak to the three Undead Lords. Judy Coco casually released a necromancy spell. This necromancy spell acted on the corpse, and it exploded with a bang.
Diabinus also shook his head. This corpse had the effect of divine spells, and necromancy spells could no longer be used. This situation was more serious than at the beginning. When the expeditionary army first entered Phoenix, the soldiers' bodies weren't this serious.
The thousands of troops lying in ambush in the hills retreated, leaving only a small number of Caucasians and barbarians to continue observing the enemy. Judy Coco flew to the battlefield and destroyed all the corpses, turning them into a pile of rotten flesh. Only then did he bring the army back to Metatlin City.
Judy Coco personally came to see Salin. He was also afraid that Diabinus or Banchagana would say something wrong and anger Salin. It wasn't that he refused to carry out the order, but that the order didn't have much meaning anymore.
In the temple, Judy Coco felt an inexplicable pressure. Salin was only a sixth-level Mage. No matter how fast he improved, he shouldn't feel pressure from a Lord-level undead.
Judy Coco didn't think too much about it. He said to Salin, "There's something wrong with the soldiers of the expeditionary army. Neither Corpse Explosion nor Corpse Soldier magic can be used on their corpses."
"Oh? I don't know much about necromancy and divine spells. Wait a moment. "As Salin spoke, he ordered someone to call for Nania before continuing to ask Judy Coco.
"What's going on? You didn't carry out an ambush?"
"The soldiers of the expeditionary army were hit by a vicious divine spell. I don't know what it is exactly, but these soldiers' combat abilities have been forcibly enhanced within a year. Their physical qualities have also been strengthened. No matter how serious their injuries are, they can quickly recover under the effect of the divine spell."
Nania nodded. "There is indeed such a divine spell, but it costs the lives of the soldiers."
"That's right. When I was at the border, the soldiers I killed could still be used, but not now. It hasn't even been a month. In other words, the divine spell hidden in the bodies of the soldiers is slowly accelerating. I estimate that these soldiers, even if we don't kill them, won't live more than half a year. At the shortest, they might have two or three months left. "
Salin sucked in a breath of cold air. The Tanggulas people had a short lifespan, but they could still reach eighty or ninety years. The average age of the expeditionary army wouldn't exceed thirty-five. The Church condensed the remaining forty or fifty years of life of these soldiers to explode with powerful combat abilities. Even if these people occupied Metatlin City, they would die quickly.
What could be crueler than this? For the sake of their faith, these soldiers traveled more than twenty thousand miles to Metatlin. And the result? Before they even set out, their fates had already been decided. They would die in a foreign country.
"What about the main army?"
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