"One more."
It was a taboo to split up when facing a strong enemy. Great Liang had a hundred and ten thousand elites. Salin had to move fifty thousand and bring twenty thousand reinforcements. Great Liang would only have sixty thousand soldiers left.
Salin wasn't worried. His fifty thousand men were stationed at the Castle of Bones, which could effectively restrain the Cloud Flow people. If he could destroy the Cloud Flow fleet in one fell swoop, he wouldn't even need to use these fifty thousand men.
Rex's main force was strong and had many cavalry. On this flat field, Salin's army couldn't compare to them. Salin himself had brought enough new weapons and armor to equip a battalion. Even if his first battalion was lacking compared to Rex's, they could make up for it in terms of equipment.
The materials needed to build the Castle of Bones weren't limited to necromancers' magic resources. After Rex prepared everything for Salin, Salin set off with his first battalion. He stayed in Great Liang City for no more than two days. Nicholas remained in Great Liang City, but Sue followed Salin to the shore away from the sea.
There was a lake more than two hundred kilometers wide here. In the center, Rex had a small town. Most of the guards had already retreated. Only a flag regiment was left to monitor the movements on the lake.
Although the lake was deep enough, there wasn't a single good harbor on the two hundred-kilometer-wide shore. The ships escorting the ambassadors didn't retreat. Instead, they started digging on the shore to build a harbor that could accommodate large warships.
The Cloud Flow people didn't attack immediately because there wasn't a good place to park their ships on the north side of the lake. Their movements would be restricted if the fleet came. As long as the harbor was built, the Cloud Flow warships could line up and flatten the town with catapults.
Rex didn't send people to attack the army building the harbor either. There were dozens of warships on the lake, aiming at the shore. If a fight broke out, the Cloud Flow people could rely on the warships to have an absolute advantage.
The Cloud Flow people on the shore were only reinforcements. There were even some pure workers who were here to build the harbor. Rex didn't want to send his soldiers into the attack range of the fleet to fight.
Salin didn't station his troops in this town. Instead, he quietly led the army to the east, to the rocky area in the east. The terrain here was complicated, and there were shockingly many reefs in the water. The fleet couldn't get close at all.
Salin wanted to build warships here. If they weren't undead warships, they wouldn't be able to do it. Yun Liu and the others didn't expect that a powerful fleet would appear a hundred miles away from them.
The White Bone Castle was the main fortress of the Undead Plane. As a Level Eight Undead, the Winged Skeletons could not build it on their own. Fortunately, he had already created a large number of modules. Other than the foundation, which could not be omitted and had to be built by manpower, the main body of the castle, the Winged Skeleton, had already been created. That was why Salin said that it would be built within ten days. He dared to guarantee it.
In ten days, a huge castle that could accommodate 100,000 people was built. Unlike human castles, this castle was mainly designed for the undead. There was a huge spiritual pool inside that could constantly release the death energy needed by the undead. For the garrison, the castle had specially designed a human warehouse, a garbage room, and a magic device to extract and purify the lake water.
When the Jade Skeletons went to the depths of the Li Sea to assemble the bone warships, they naturally would not be discovered. However, the construction of the bone castle startled the people of Cloud Flow, who were building the port.
The people of Cloud Flow first sent a team of two hundred cavalry to investigate. In the end, Salin simply sent a mixed group of cavalry from the flag regiment, which completely annihilated the two hundred cavalry. Not a single one escaped.
Apart from the magic beast swordsmen, the people of Cloud Flow were quite strong, but their cavalry could be said to be much weaker than the Qinyin people. The people of Cloud Flow didn't know their limits and sent a mixed group of flags. In the end, they were directly routed by Salin's cavalry. Less than two hundred people escaped.
This time, the people of Cloud Flow became obedient. They desperately built the port, preparing to receive the fleet in the rear. How could the Winged Skeleton let these people live in peace? He annihilated a thousand Cloud Flow soldiers and turned them into Corpse Soldiers, which he used to sneak attack the port under construction.
Under the command of the Winged Skeleton, the Corpse Soldiers all went berserk and blew up the port. The casualties were not heavy, but many port facilities were corroded by the corpse fluid and needed to be replaced.
At this time, the people of Cloud Flow had already received the news that the Metatlin Kingdom had sent a powerful Undead Mage. This attack was clearly the work of the Undead Mage. At this time, the defense facilities at the port were also built, and it was heavily guarded. The people of Cloud Flow were facing a great enemy. Their army was not elite, and they still lacked Mages. If the Undead Mage took the risk, it might even destroy the port.
Rex's four flags arrived soon after and entered the huge bone castle. The coast immediately became tense.
On the last day of October, the wind was already very cold. Salin sent the Winged Skeleton to the shore, and the Winged Skeleton was going to command the Undead Fleet. All the warships were now in the water, and needed to be driven to discharge the water and float to the surface. Only the Undead Fleet could enter the water in this way.
At the same time, twelve submersible warships entered the water. These twelve submersible warships were less than twenty meters long, and their whole bodies were made of expensive metal. Once they were sunk, none of the soldiers inside would survive. Fortunately, Salin hadn't trained the sailors of the submersible warships. Everything had to be replaced by the Undead.
Undead with intelligence were extremely difficult to summon or create. These twelve submersible warships could only exert their power under the command of the Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship. The Winged Skeleton only brought six Jade Skeletons, who were all responsible for commanding the bone warships. The submersible warships were operated by level-three skeleton soldiers.
The Winged Skeleton nodded to Salin and jumped into the water. Kind Tree followed beside Salin and asked with a sad face, "Your Highness, he's gone. What about me?"
Salin smiled and said, "You only need to live in the castle. You don't need to show up in the future battles."
Without the Winged Skeleton, there were no high-level undead in the bone castle. Salin could control some of the undead summoned by the huge magic formation, but most of them followed the Winged Skeleton's orders and guarded fixed positions in the castle.
This was also the power of the bone castle itself. After every undead entered a corresponding position, they would attack any enemy that dared to approach.
After entering the sea, the Winged Skeleton first wandered around the reef area. It felt that even small boats were in danger within a few kilometers of the shore, so it swam deep into the lake.
After swimming for a hundred kilometers, the Winged Skeleton finally contacted the six Jade Skeletons in the undead fleet.
The Winged Skeleton cautiously let all the undead fleet surface one hundred and twenty kilometers away. In a surface fleet, the enemy must have a magic compass. Although the functions of the magic compass were different, the Winged Skeleton still arranged the fleet one hundred and twenty kilometers away according to the safest distance.
At a distance of one hundred kilometers, the magic compass couldn't detect anything. Even if it could feel a moving target, it couldn't be sure whether it was a magical beast or a warship.
The sea area was too large, and the Winged Skeleton didn't let the warships go too deep in case they encountered powerful magical beasts. He drove the Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship with twelve submersible warships and approached the periphery of the port. Then he spread out and observed the enemy every day.
A large number of Bone Spirits were released by the Winged Skeleton. Some of them had broken through the limit of a Bone Spirit and evolved into level-four undead. This level didn't mean that they had any combat power. It just meant that their lifespan had increased.
The lifespan of an ordinary Bone Spirit was a few hours or a few days. At most, it was a month.
These level-four Bone Spirits swam hundreds of kilometers away with the lower-level Bone Spirits in the water to monitor the lake. Only by doing this would he not miss a single target.
The people of Yun Liu were obviously a bit arrogant. On the last day of the first week of November, the Bone Spirits brought back news that they had found the warships of the people of Yun Liu. However, the people of Yun Liu didn't find the Bone Spirits.
The Winged Skeleton immediately ordered three sub-fleets to attack the fleet of Yun Liu from the side, and the other three sub-fleets would face the attack head-on.
At a distance of one hundred kilometers, the magic compass of the Yun Liu fleet found the target, but no one cared. In the eyes of the people of Yun Liu, the whole sea was their backyard. They could go in and out at will, and they had never encountered any attack.
When they were about fifty kilometers away, the people of Yun Liu realized that something was wrong. There were too many targets and they were moving too fast. On the flagship of the Yun Liu fleet, the magic alarm rang.
The fleet of the people of Yun Liu was huge, with more than two hundred ships. The flagship was an ironclad warship that was two hundred and twenty meters long, which could accommodate tens of thousands of people. As soon as the magic alarm rang, the air cavalry of the people of Yun Liu immediately flew up from the deck, searching for the approaching target.
The people of Yun Liu knew how to raise magic beasts, and this kind of flying cavalry was unique to them. They couldn't move on a rainy day, but now it was a sunny day. The people of the Kushui Prefecture dared to attack such a huge fleet. This kind of provocation was intolerable.
The Winged Skeleton observed carefully and found that the people of Yun Liu's fleet didn't specially protect the transport ships. The main warships were all in front, and the transport ships were more than a hundred kilometers behind. There were only a dozen warships that were less than a hundred meters behind.
The Winged Skeleton was overjoyed. The more than eighty transport ships were like food on a plate. The transport ships also had steel armor, catapults, alchemy crossbows, and Mages, but the detection ability of the transport ships was much worse than warships.
The high-level magic compass was extremely expensive. Only the powerful empires would equip warships with it. These transport ships couldn't all be equipped with high-level magic compasses.
The Winged Skeleton knew that most of the enemy's troops were on these transport ships. As long as they sank these ships, at least half of the troops that could go ashore would be gone. The bone warship was still fifty kilometers away. The Winged Skeleton couldn't wait any longer and gave the order to attack.
The twelve submerged warships slowly approached the one mile radius of the transport ship and quietly floated up. The submerged warships were extremely careful, afraid of being discovered by the enemy Mages. They could only sink the ships in front of them and then face the counterattack of the Mages.
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