Rena led the main force of the Qingfeng Legion. Even if it was mixed with some infantry transferred from the Knight's Wind, the average level was above 5.6.
There is no way, the Qingfeng Legion has experienced many large army battles such as Count Aini, the underground city, and the orc army, and they have all won great victories.
Although a large number of new recruits were added later, they were all transferred out after simple training, and even the establishment of the regiment was not greatly affected.
Qingfeng Legion’s two great achievements, Xu Lai was specially rewarded with a dragon meat feast, and his qualifications were extremely high.
For ordinary people, if their qualifications are not very good, they can basically reach the top at level 5.
This is also the reason why many of the main soldiers of the large legions are at level 5.
But Qingfeng Legion does not have this concern. As long as they have enough experience, they can at least be promoted to level 6, and most of them can be promoted to around level 7.
After reorganization, the Qingfeng Army became a large army mainly composed of infantry.
However, Xu Lai left Yan Feng to Reina. Yan Feng was originally a seventh-level hero and could no longer be promoted.
Now that he has been promoted to a general, the experience points he had previously accumulated have been put to use, and he has been directly transferred to a senior general.
The ranger unit is relatively comprehensive, running fast, having strong long-range capabilities, and possessing the charging capabilities of the cavalry.
Except for the weaker armor and lower ammunition reserves, there is no problem in protecting the army from being harassed by fast units.
Herdsmen on the grassland basically have long-range weapon skills, and their levels are generally not low.
Therefore, it is easier for Qingfeng Legion to train rangers. Yanfeng has 1,000 heroes, 5,000 rangers and 3,000 mercenaries.
Nearly 10,000 cavalry archers with a minimum level of 5 can directly destroy mobile troops that far exceed one's own, even without contacting the enemy.
In addition, Lena can also take advantage of the water and use transport ships to help transport siege weapons and supplies.
If the battle site is not far from Hanjiang River, Reina can still enjoy the artillery support from the river.
Compared with the long-range missiles and long-range artillery fire in the technological world, even the farthest magic cannon is much inferior.
However, the cruiser's magic cannon will certainly help Reina in her siege.
At least when Reina encounters any difficulties, these magic cannons can help cover her retreat.
In terms of military strength, even excluding Yan Feng's horse archers, pure infantry, spearmen, crossbowmen, and archers, there were more than 100,000 troops.
Except for the Royal Griffins, which have less than 3,000 flying units and are slightly weak, Rena's Qingfeng Legion basically has no weaknesses.
Besides, Rena has a special skill in defense. Even if she really can't defeat the enemy, at least she won't suffer much loss.
Therefore, Xu Lai has nothing to worry about Reina attacking the Berk Territory.
On the contrary, it was himself. The target of his attack was the Marquis of Casse, which was five times the size of the Brilliant Territory.
According to the information provided by Eric and others, Xu Lai knew that the person in charge of this marquis territory was the female devil Ferris of Hell.
Unlike Matthias, a relatively ordinary demon hero, Ferris is still somewhat famous in hell.
This female devil is a hell hero with special abilities, good at controlling and manufacturing ballistas.
Not only does she have many high-end crossbows in her hands, the crossbows also have a range and power that far exceeds that of ordinary crossbows.
The phantom shooter is very strong, but no matter how strong it is, it is still human power. Since the opponent is good at controlling the ballista, ballistics must also be one of the compulsory specializations.
Ballistic skills plus archery skills, and with the help of city walls, even the phantom archer is difficult to resist.
Xu Lai's main force is still a group of cavalry, and without long-range artillery support, the difficulty of siege has simply increased dramatically.
Unless Ferris is stupid enough to be like Mathias and plans to fight Xu Lai in the wild, then he is really asking for his own death.
However, given Matthias’s experience, and Xu Lai’s failure to annihilate all the demons in the Brilliant Territory, Ferris should already have relevant information about Xu Lai.
Xu Lai judged that Ferris would not fight with him in the field, so what he mainly needed to deal with was siege warfare.
Therefore, he kept Eric and Emilia's team with him.
Not only that, he also deliberately brought over 500 phantom marksmen from the Coast Guard and the phantom archers from the Qingfeng Legion.
Including these two weeks, the number of phantom shooters that Giselle had just trained for him was about two thousand.
But even so, the certainty of attacking the city is still not very high.
The good news is that in the territory nearby, Hell has not had time to completely transform, and most of the cities are still imperial cities.
In this way, Xu Lai at least doesn't have to deal with the magma river in hell.
Because the territory of the Marquis of Casse is vast, Ferris still has two subordinates.
One is a descended hero from hell, not high level, but I heard he is a talented pagan.
The other one is still somewhat famous among humans, especially in the Western Empire. Most people know that he is a human hero who defected.
After entering the Marquis Territory, Xu Lai did not head towards the Paphex Plains immediately.
The castle of the Marquis of Casse, whose whole family was taken away, is in the very center of the plain, and Ferris is now stationed in this castle.
If possible, Xu Lai still wanted to lure the devil out to fight in the wild.
The reason why he personally led the team here was because he took a fancy to the plain terrain here.
On the plain, his knights can spread out as wide as possible. With a wave of charge, even Sellon's demon army will fall when they come.
For this reason, he did not directly capture the thieves and capture the king like he did in the Brilliant Territory.
Killing the leader will turn the others into a piece of loose sand, which is very easy to deal with, but killing the leader is undoubtedly the most difficult.
Therefore, Xu Lai planned to clip his wings first to weaken Ferris's power and strengthen himself at the same time.
Either Ferris will watch his cities being conquered by Xu Lai one after another.
The demons he assigned to these cities were killed one by one by Xu Lai.
Either Ferris can only lead troops, or let others bring troops to support.
This is exactly what Xu Lai wants. He can surround the area to provide reinforcements and eat up the troops sent by Ferris.
It doesn’t matter if Ferris remains unmoved.
By capturing these surrounding cities, at least more humans can be rescued and more demons can be killed.
The troops he led were not of a high level, so he took advantage of this opportunity to annex more rebels and upgrade them to a higher level.
As for Ferris, if there is no other support, food and supplies will only become less and less, and morale will only become lower and lower.
When the time comes, this will undoubtedly give Xu Lai more confidence and certainty.
The first small town Xu Lai went to was less than ten kilometers away from the border of Brilliant Territory.
Jian Yuan led a group of cavalry and set out early to explore the road. As a result, he quickly sent people over to report that the demon had already abandoned the towns along the way.
Now, these villages and towns have been taken back by the resistance forces of the Marquis.
Unlike the Brilliant Territory, which relies on the cold river and hills, Ferris has more troops and less cover in the plains.
In the entire Marquis Territory, there are only two or three active resistance armies.
However, although there are more rebels in the Brilliant Leader, they are not large in scale, and the good and bad are mixed.
There are dragon knights like Eric, and there are also original villagers who work part-time as bandits after the whole village fled. As for the resistance forces in the Marquis of Casse, although there are only two or three active groups, they all still have some reputations.
Especially after Xu Lai liberated the Brilliant Territory, Ferris decided to abandon all surrounding towns and resource points and shrink his troops as much as possible.
The two rebel armies were able to react immediately and seize nearby villages and towns as strongholds before Xu Lai sent troops.
"Your Majesty, when I was in the Brilliant Territory, I had contact with the rebels in the Kasai Territory.
How about I go talk to their leader first."
Xu Lai nodded and said: "It's okay to go and talk first. Your First Deng Camp currently only has 1,500 people, and it still needs to be expanded.
You can take the First Deng Camp with you, and finally So that all the nearby resistance forces can be gathered in.
You all know the treatment I give to those who first enter the camp. It is exactly the same treatment as my two main legions.
If they are willing to come over, they will be treated the same, and all officers can agree to go out as long as the number of officers does not exceed the existing number.
If we can't reach an agreement, I can give them half a day to pack up and leave.
In short, I want to keep the nearby towns as a bridgehead, and I cannot leave them to them. "
Eric held up his hands, thought for a moment, blew the dragon whistle hanging around his neck, summoned his black dragon, and then led the first camp towards the nearest town.< br>
The town has no walls. Even if these rebels do not leave, Tahan can crush them all with one charge.
It’s just that the population is precious now, and Xu Lai is willing to give them time to think clearly. Even if the negotiation fails, he doesn’t want to hurt them.
Without a city wall, it would be dangerous to accumulate supplies.
So the bridgehead that Xu looked at was still a fortress-level city on the edge of Paphex.
The news came back from Jian Yuan, saying that a small amount of demonic activity had been found on the city wall.
Ferris has shrunk his troops, but there are many humans imprisoned in every city.
Ferris doesn’t want to release these humans, let alone hand the city over to humans in vain.
Therefore, she left a small number of demons in these cities.
First of all, these demons can still play a certain role with the help of city defense facilities.
At least those rebels dared to rob villages and towns, but did not launch an offensive against the fortress.
Secondly, they also wanted to wait for the human army to arrive and let these demons execute all the remaining humans imprisoned in the city.
Jian Yuan only brought a small number of reconnaissance knights. In addition, the number of demons was not large, and he knew that he was abandoned, so he patrolled casually.
Fortunately, these demons were passive and slow in their work and did not discover Jian Yuan and the others.
Otherwise, when regular human knights appear, these demons will have to carry out their orders.
Ferris didn't leave any food for them, they could only eat those humans every day.
Ferris gave a death order and they were not allowed to leave under any circumstances, so if they killed all the humans in advance, they would have to starve to death.
Xu Lai didn't know there was such an order, but it didn't matter.
After he received the news from Jian Yuan and learned that there were not many demons in the city, he simply asked Elvi to take the archangel and set off.
The Seraphs can no longer be promoted, so there is no need to bring them with them to share experience.
A fortress-level city with a small number of demons is really not worthy of a large army.
The Knight's Wind and Qingfeng Legions still maintained their marching posture, but directly skipped the villages and towns along the way.
Even the fortress city, Xu Lai simply skipped it and let Elvi lead the archangels to liberate the residents of the city.
A mere fortress city cannot contain Xu Lai's hundreds of thousands of troops.
They want to go straight to the next city without losing any time.
Every additional day of delay means one more day for hellish transformation to enter the city, and the risk increases.
He didn't know yet that Hell had sent reinforcements. If he had known, he might not be in a hurry and would wait for Reina to lead the team to join them.
Beyond the fortress city is a base camp-level city.
According to the construction blueprint of the base camp-level city, it is eligible to build a moat.
But because it was a plain city and there were no threats nearby, we did not dig a moat on purpose.
By the time Xu Lai's army approached, it was already evening.
There was no way. Although Xu Lai had the ultimate logistics skills and the talent of speed, he brought a large number of infantry with him.
This does not include the logistical baggage. With the ring in the warehouse, Arvid and the others do not need to raise funds for the time being.
But catapults and catapults are necessary.
It’s just that these things have not been shipped yet. They will not be shipped until Xu Lai captures several cities in Kasai Territory.
The fortress city Ferris is not willing to give up directly, let alone this base camp.
But obviously, there are not too many demons in this relatively large city.
Elvi and Eric's Xianden camp are not here, and even if they are, Xu Lai has no need for them.
With a wave of his hand, Giselle came forward with the phantom shooter, using ultra-long range to suppress the demons on the wall.
There were not many demons on the city wall to begin with, only about two or three hundred, but they were almost all shot to death this time.
The remaining demons quickly fled the city wall, and no new demons wanted to board the city. They actually simply abandoned the city wall.
The flag was waved again, and accompanied by the drums of the attack, Brandi personally carried a seven-eight-meter-long ladder and rushed to the bottom of the city wall.
After winning battles one after another, the already highly motivated infantrymen followed Brandy and rushed up the city wall without any hesitation.
The raging special smoke began to drift from the city and went straight into the clouds.
On the turret of Kasai Castle, the demon responsible for observation hurriedly rushed to report.
When Mendis, who was talking to Ferris, heard the news, he stood up suddenly and said with a ferocious smile:
"Feris, our guests are here, have you thought about it?"
The female devil raised her scarlet eyes and said: "I have mobilized many warriors from various cities.
I can hand over all these soldiers to you, but none of the soldiers in Kasay City can be moved.
Anyway, you have the Gate of Hell in hand, as long as there is enough cannon fodder for you. Buy time, and you will have a steady stream of warriors. I have not been of much help to you in the past.
On the contrary, humans are cunning. If they make some attacks, occupy the city of Kasay, and destroy the altar, you and I will be the same. It’s hard to explain to His Majesty Kerrigan.”
Mendis was breathing heavily, and from time to time, bursts of thick smoke that was not fully burned came out of his nostrils.
“It’s up to you, I don’t want any credit for free work, hum.”
Although Kerrigan gave him command, Mendis also understood that the transformation of hell was equally important. , the altar cannot be missed.
With their current financial resources and manpower, they don’t know how much more effort it will take to build another altar.
Without transforming the terrain of hell, demons like them would have no way to truly obtain supplies, let alone rule. (End of chapter)