[My computer kept crashing today, so I'm in a bad mood. Also, the backend was down for a while, so I thought I wouldn't be able to update anymore. Mm, four updates tomorrow.]
One of the generals suddenly spoke, "Your Highness, the princess sent us here to listen to your commands. Even if it's a battle to the death, we won't retreat. The enemy is strong, and morale is useless. This is what the military books say, so please give the order. "
Salin was stunned for a moment. Then, he remembered that the four battalions that Rex had handed over to him were all experienced soldiers. He didn't need to inspire morale, and the generals would naturally do it. The most important thing now was to announce the strategic plan, so that the generals could prepare well.
The enemy was strong, and morale was useless. There was one more sentence that the general didn't say — fight to the death.
The Skokenya people didn't have such feelings, but to these generals of Qin origin, dying on the battlefield wasn't something to be afraid of.
If they won, they would gain fame and riches. If they lost, they would gain glory.
"Since that's the case, I want to launch a surprise attack on land while the enemy hasn't stabilized their footing. The purpose of this surprise attack is to let the enemy know that we have elite soldiers in the Castle of Bones, and they can't ignore it. "
The generals nodded in agreement. Although this was risky, Salin was right. First, they would give the enemy a blow, and make them nervous. That was the true purpose of building the Castle of Bones here.
"This attack will take place thirty hours later. My first battalion will send out two thousand heavy infantry. The four of you, take one heavy cavalry from each battalion and change them into skeleton warhorses. I've prepared a hundred chariots filled with kerosene, and a hundred ballistae. "
"Your Highness, only two thousand heavy infantry?" One of the generals thought he'd misheard. With only two thousand infantry, it would be very difficult to break through the enemy's defensive line. If the cavalry couldn't break through, it would be useless.
"Mage Mu En will accompany us. When the time comes, ten Giant Bone Demons will be responsible for destroying the enemy's outer defenses."
Mu En hurriedly nodded, indicating that he had a card up his sleeve.
"My two thousand heavy infantry will all wear magic armor and wield magic weapons. They can fight for more than six hours without rest." Salin explained to the generals. Not only did magic armor provide defense, but it was also the driving force of a soldier's battle. A light slash of the sword would be powered by the magic array, and the effect would be similar to a heavy axe slash.
The generals of the Kushui Commandery looked envious. Their soldiers were wearing semi-magical armor, which had excellent defense. It was almost completely sealed, and they were not afraid of low-level magic attacks such as poisonous fog.
Following that, Salin raised more than ten requests. He transferred infantry units of various skills from the four main battalions of the Bitter Water Prefectural Kingdom, forming a mixed battalion of ten thousand men.
These battalion generals immediately went to make preparations, transferring manpower from the various flag regiments.
A day quickly passed, and when night fell, 10,000 soldiers gathered in front of the White Bone Castle. In front of these soldiers was an Undead army.
The Undead at the front were ten Giant Bone Demons, followed by Undead Knights, Skeleton Soldiers, Zombies, Fangs, and Giant Bone Apes.
The Winged Skeleton summoned most of the land undead and formed an army of five thousand undead.
Even so, in the eyes of the soldiers of Kushui Prefecture, there was still an expression of bravery. With only five thousand undead attacking a battalion of over a hundred thousand people, no one had any confidence that they would win.
Salin also did not try to boost morale. He waved his hand, and Kind Wood smiled bitterly. He led the Winged Skeleton and three Jade Skeletons into the undead.
The troops slowly set off. Because there was no road, the temporarily assembled chariot moved very slowly. The Winged Skeleton knew that there was a level-eight Magic Shooter among the enemy, so he did not release flying undead to scout the enemy. The troops slowly approached the port. With the speed of an infantry, they could only advance ten miles per hour.
This was to prevent the cavalry and infantry from getting separated and taking care of the chariot. Otherwise, the skeleton warhorses could reach a hundred miles in two hours at most.
Before leaving, every soldier drank Restoration Water to refresh themselves. When the troops approached the port, it was exactly two hours after midnight. The camp in front of the port was sparsely lit. Only the periphery was illuminated by magic lamps. On the tall watchtower, the soldiers vigilantly observed their surroundings.
Salin was not worried about this attack. He was in the middle of the army, protected by Sue and the four demons. Eleanor was also by his side, carrying that god-like longbow on her back. In the quiver behind her were twenty-four arrows that Salin had personally forged.
Elven Spatial Arrow, Elven Life Arrow.
Salin's badge did not recover its attack power, but his Water Puppet had completely recovered and could use its crystal finger.
With no worries for the middle of the army, the rest was up to his own heavy infantry. The heavy cavalry was the best choice to kill the enemy's scattered soldiers. The skeleton warhorses could instantly increase their speed. Even in a narrow area, these heavy cavalry still had a strong impact.
As for the Mages? Salin had already prepared a trap for the enemy Mages. It was now up to them to step into it.
The people of Cloud State did not set up sporadic outposts a mile away from the main camp like Qin Yinren. Everyone hid in the main camp. The main camp had three layers of walls.
When the undead scouts reported back, Salin sighed. The Cloud State's navy and army were two completely different creatures. The navy was ridiculously strong, but the army was a mess. It would be a waste not to be ambushed in this kind of camp.
Salin did not know that he was too picky. The people he came into contact with were all elites from Qin Yinren or Bitter Water Prefecture. These kinds of troops were rare even on the entire continent. Cloud State's main camp was like an iron bucket. There were people observing with alchemy binoculars on the tall archer towers. Near the walls, a group of soldiers would pass every ten minutes without rest.
Salin's ambush could also be considered an open attack. His troops had already been exposed when they were a mile away from the main camp. Salin pointed at the soldiers on the archer towers in the distance, who were about to sound the alarm. Eleanor, longbow in hand, shot an arrow through the air.
Almost instantly, the arrow pierced the throat of a Cloud State soldier and pierced through his neck bone.
The soldier's windpipe was broken first, so he could not sound the alarm. Then, his neck bone broke, and he was completely paralyzed. His body went limp, and unfortunately, he knocked over the crossbow beside him and fell head first off the archer tower.
Soon, patrolling soldiers rushed over and found the body of the sentinel. This time, the alarms in Cloud State's main camp rang.
This arrow, however, provided Salin's army with an extra minute. The undead army in the front had already started moving and was advancing at full speed. How far could these undead charge in a minute?
The Giant Bone Demon in front had just run a mile, and the undead knights behind it were even faster. They just slowed down and followed. When the alarm rang, the Giant Bone Demon's bone blade had already cut through a layer of the camp wall.
The Giant Bone Demons were extremely powerful, but they did not have much intelligence. They had deformed forelimbs, and their three-meter-wide bone blades were fiercely slashing. The Giant Bone Demons created a ten-meter-wide gap in the middle of the red copper wall. The ten Giant Bone Demons continued to hack and widen the gap. The undead had already swarmed in and attacked Cloud State's tents.
Giant Bone Demons moved slowly. Apart from their great attack power, they had no other advantages and were extremely easy to kill. The Wing Skeleton, on the other hand, took advantage of the Giant Bone Demons' only advantage and quickly cut through the camp wall, buying time for his undead army.
A large number of guards were stationed at the main gate of the Cloud Flow people's camp. When they heard the alarm, before the magic apprentices could give them specific orders, a deafening sound erupted from the east side of the camp. It was the sound of the Giant Bone Demon's slashing. Hundreds of soldiers picked up their weapons and charged at the gap in the camp.
These few hundred people encountered an undead army of five thousand. Like a black cloud, the five thousand undead army charged into the depths of the camp. More than two hundred soldiers on duty were swept by the black cloud and turned into meat paste.
Cloud State's fleet had actually arrived, but because the fleet was too large, most soldiers on the warships didn't disembark and were still waiting at the empty port. There were exactly a hundred thousand soldiers in the camp, and the camp on the other side of the port was still empty.
When the undead army charged in, most of Cloud State's people were still asleep. Only one-tenth of the army didn't take off their armor according to Cloud State's laws. After hearing the magic alarm, these ten thousand people picked up their weapons within half a minute.
Salin's ten thousand soldiers charged into Cloud State's camp from an even wider gap. The first to arrive were the dismounted heavy infantry. These heavy infantry were far more powerful under horses than on horses.
The heavy infantry's weapon was a halberd, which weighed seventy-two kilograms. Without the help of magic armor, most heavy infantry couldn't last more than three minutes.
To build his heavy infantry, Salin had put in a lot of effort. Each heavy infantry carried dozens of magic cores, including four sets of low-level magic cores, one set of mid-level magic cores, and a few replacement magic cores. These magic cores were used to embed in the magic arrays on the armor to provide the soldiers with combat power.
Many noble mages didn't receive such good treatment, so one could imagine how powerful such heavy infantry would be.
The two thousand heavy infantry destroyed tents along the way, opening up a ten-meter-wide path for the cavalry. Salin brought his two hundred bodyguards and followed closely behind the heavy infantry. After following for a while, he realized that there were no magicians in the camp who came out to stop his infantry!
This meant that the enemy's powerful mages were still on the ship. Salin immediately gave the order to start a fire.
The way to start the fire was very simple. The infantry set up temporary catapults outside the camp. These catapults' attack range was probably less than one kilometer, and there were only four of them. The four catapults were throwing leather bags filled with kerosene. Salin had added magic powder to the kerosene. Once the kerosene caught fire, it couldn't be extinguished even with water.
The catapults threw the kerosene to the sides, and the archers quickly shot fire arrows to ignite the kerosene. The two sides of Salin's sneak attack path were immediately set ablaze. The camp was filled with heart-wrenching screams.
Woo woo …
A low bugle horn came from afar. The people of Cloud Flow had already organized a team of more than ten thousand people near the port and were charging over. In the sky, a Magic Shooter wearing a black magic robe flew towards the fire. He didn't fly very fast. Below him, a group of soldiers on warhorses rushed through the chaotic barracks. Every one of them wore magic armor and held short golden spears in their hands.
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