The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 772 Outpost Battle

William's army has a total of less than 2000 people, and most of the soldiers' fighting will is not very firm, because most of these soldiers were still loyal to another lord a month ago.However, these soldiers are not without advantages. Their combat skills are relatively good, and their individual combat power is very outstanding.

In fact, only some members of the elite team from Dagger Valley, some cloud giants, and some former Setheren soldiers from Deep Forest Valley were the ones who were really willing to fight to the death for the leader William.

Of course, the Frost Giant Cubs who are loyal to Phinea will follow their grandmaster Phinea to fight to the end for William.

William knew very well that if he wanted to completely integrate an army into a whole with combat effectiveness, he could not create differences because of his origins, but had to take "the capable go up and the mediocre go down" as the most fundamental rule.

Because the military is the most direct violent organization, the ability of the individuals who are its components is also the most intuitive.When they entered the battlefield, everyone's standard of survival was the same.Those who are capable win, and those who are mediocre lose; the winner lives, and the loser dies.

Therefore, the army is the place where seniority is the most important, and it is also the place where seniority is the least.

William broke up all the non-cavalry humans, and then mixed them into a standard battle group, and appointed those who had a better reputation in combat as the head of the battle group.

In order to effectively organize these unreliable soldiers, William had to use many people he did not trust as officers, such as Storm Silverhand, Charenty, and some elites from the Harper Alliance.

Of course, many people William was willing to promote also got the opportunity, such as the two sons of Boros Habershield's family, Jieer Liangge, the priest of Alyosha of the Golden Wheat Sheaf Monastery, and the former high-ranking officer of Sethren Valley. Warrior Marvell Sherwood and more.

There is no doubt that the newly reorganized legion is a piece of cake, but as long as they are operated well, they still have the opportunity to grow into a powerful battle group.For example, winning a few battles to boost morale, and then engaging in regiment building to unify the thinking of the soldiers can basically bring this army together.

But the most reliable is not the legal army under William, but the castle under construction in front of them.

With the help of Xiaomi Luna, William can almost open the gate of flames for a whole day, and then the labor and material resources from the flame world are almost fully utilized.

The flame giants poured a 20-meter-high obsidian foundation. The reason why obsidian was chosen as the foundation material is because obsidian has the characteristics of glass, which is very resistant to water erosion and relatively stable in a humid environment.

In fact, if the time is not too tight and the construction period is too tight, the engineers from the flame world would like to choose another kind of rock as the material of the foundation-quartzite, which is what we usually call crystal.

The hardness of crystal rock is second only to diamond, corundum, and topaz, and its hardness is far superior to the most refined steel. Unlike those precious stones whose ingredients are scarce or have complicated causes, crystal rock itself is the oxide of the most silicon element in the world. ——Perfect crystals of silicon dioxide.

How common is silica? The earth we step on, the soil, rocks, and magma are mainly composed of silica. Therefore, if you want to prepare crystal rock, the raw material is not a problem, the key is the preparation technology.

Because it is not easy to perfectly crystallize the molten silica, even if the temperature control masters from the flame world have the technology in this field, it will take enough patience and time to complete the real operation.

The loyal Flame Engineers claim that when this war is over, they will definitely build a real crystal castle for their lord on the Prime Material Plane, Faerun.

In this regard, William can only say, as long as you are happy.However, this time is indeed not a good time to build a crystal city. After all, even if the value of crystals is slightly lower than normal gems, it is a bit too extravagant to build such a castle, and it is easy to cause public outrage.

After the foundation was completed, the engineering team began to pour the outer defensive wall.The height of the defensive wall is compared with the height of the cloud giant, at least as high as two cloud giants.

The wall is two feet wide, that is, six meters, and there is a parapet about a person's height on the outer edge of the wall.The so-called female wall is the thin low wall on the top of the city wall on the outer edge to cover the bodies of soldiers defending the city wall. Usually, the female wall also has crenels for watching the enemy shoot arrows.

After asking William's opinion, the engineers who built the city wall still chose obsidian as the base material of the city wall, because the origin of this obsidian is very simple, and it only needs to cool the semi-liquid magma extremely quickly.

In this way, the construction speed of the obsidian city wall has been greatly improved, because the engineering team does not need to wait for the rock to cool naturally in order to ensure the perfection of the city wall material, which is an advantage that many other rock materials do not have.

It's not that William can't help with the pouring of the city wall. After all, his fire control ability is top-notch even among the flame natives.However, as the lord of all flame creatures, the flame engineers would absolutely not allow him to do such tasteless work, because it would mean their incompetence and shame.

So after William opened the Flame Gate, he became a little idle?
Of course it was impossible to be idle, and in fact William became busier.

There is a crucial problem that William has never resolved, and that is the problem of intelligence.The time for William's rise was too short, and coupled with the fact that he was in a hurry, he never made any arrangements for the intelligence work of his own army, and it should be said that he didn't care at all.

There is a saying that goes well, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.

In the way of war, intelligence comes first.William's understanding of the surrounding kingdoms and city-states mainly comes from several aspects.One is the hearsay from the surroundings. Caravans often pass by the city-states in the valley, and they can always bring you the latest anecdotes and news. Can find something really useful.

The other one is a suggestion from some "well-meaning people". For example, Elminster once analyzed the status quo of the city-states in the Valley and their surrounding forces for William. He denied it, but he helped William establish an overall overview of the situation in the entire Sea of ​​Falling Stars area.

Others, such as Dove, Storm, Charenty, Boros, etc., were all asked by William about their views on the surrounding city-states. As the saying goes, one person counts on one's shortcomings, and everyone counts on one's strengths. With the help of these people's respective perspectives, William almost completely grasped The situation in the entire valley was overwhelmed.

William also has an unexpected source of information, which is the devil lurking along the coast of the Sea of ​​Fallen Stars.There is an essential difference between these evil guys from hell and those chaotic demons. They basically come to Faerun for some purpose.

As the best of the devils, Sophie Manaso, the Pleasure Demon, has been trying to show William her worth.The information provided by the devils and their allies lurking in human society has almost continuously gathered in Ms. Sophie's hands.

Then this very scheming devil took this information as his own promotion chip. When William went north to Shadow Valley, Sophie Manasuo brought him the most important information, about the enemy gathering in Feather Valley news.

One thing that is quite surprising is that the initiator of this coalition was not the leader of a certain valley city-state or a prominent figure in the surrounding kingdoms, but a priest named Aldan Ambrose, who was said to be from the southwest Amn, by the way, he's the priest of Tempus.

This is interesting.

Generally speaking, it is rare for a Tempus priest to initiate a war like this.

Although Tempus is the god of war, the priests of Tempus usually don't start wars easily. They will only join the war that is bound to happen or is happening according to the situation, and then join the righteous (usually weak) side.

However, William's journey to unify the valley, in a conventional sense, does not matter the distinction between justice and evil. As long as William does not kill innocent people indiscriminately, and does not extort money, no one can blame him.

In terms of legal force, William is not the dominant side compared to the kingdoms around the valley.Of course, if William can't use the Flame World Flame Army, he must belong to the side that crushes the enemy.

William now has six reorganized infantry regiments, each with about 300 people, consisting of Storm Silverhand, Charenty, Harper Ranger Doria Harker, and the new deputy captain of the Dagger Valley Elite Team——Leopard Girl Eva , Alyosha, the priest of Tangia, and the high-ranking warrior Marville Sherwood served as the head of the battle group, and some elites or people with outstanding talents, including some elite harpists and Jieer Liangge, served as the deputy head.

There are also two cavalry regiments, the Orthodox Mist Knights led by Weslifus Habershield, and the miscellaneous cavalry led by Holfast Habershield.The so-called miscellaneous cavalry does not mean that they are a rabble, but that their sources are rather mixed. There are some cavalry from Shadow Valley, Deep Forest Valley, and Bow Valley, and some unorthodox Mist Knights from Misty Valley.

Their strengths are indeed mixed. There are elites who are not even weaker than the selected Mist Knights, and there are also rookies who can't draw a bow or lift a gun on horseback, and can at best run fast on horseback.

William did not dislike these followers who brought their own horses, but organized them into a scout cavalry team.

Of course, William also has two troops as trump cards, the giant siege brigade composed of cloud giants and the frost battle group composed of frost giant cubs.The leader of these two teams is Phinea, William's most loyal woman and general.

As the second son of the Habershield family, Holfast has been in charge of running the White Hart Hotel, the ancestral property of the Habershield family, but it doesn't mean that Holfast doesn't know how to command the cavalry. The experience of being greeted and sent to him in the hotel made Holfast better at observing words and demeanor and listening to information.

Holfast cherishes the opportunity William gave him to lead troops very much. He has always hoped that he can command the cavalry to charge on the battlefield like his father, but it is a pity that he has a better brother above him, and Misty Valley does not have one. A second mighty cavalry was at his amusement.

Even if there were, the council of six would not allow the Habershield family to have two more powerful cavalry commanders.Therefore, before William conquered the Misty Valley, Holfast could only hide in the White Hart Hotel to spend time, such as listening to the exaggerated adventures of those brave adventurers.

When William recruited cavalry in Misty Valley, Holfast saw the opportunity and even changed his name to apply. When his identity was exposed by those familiar fellow villagers, William did not drive him away, but After listening to his ideas, he entrusted this ambitious young man with a heavy responsibility.

Since the entire scout cavalry team was good and bad, after discussing with William, Holfast made two different groups. One was to use an elite cavalry as the squad leader to lead a group of rookies to be responsible for the surrounding areas of the Three Rivers. Touring and training.There is also a real scout horse scout composed of all elite cavalry, responsible for armed exploration of the Essebra area of ​​the Battle Valley and the junction of the Battle Valley and the Feather Valley.

As the head of the scout cavalry, Holfast must personally lead the elite scouts into the danger zone.

On this day, Holfast led a group of seven elite scouts to sneak into the outskirts of Essebra. Each of them had three of the best fast horses, which allowed them to easily complete the long-distance raid. scouting tasks.

As he approached Essebra, Holfast left two men behind a grove to look after the extra horses, while he and five other riders rode a fast horse each and sneaked into the In front of a mound less than one kilometer away from the city of Essebra, we made a close observation.

At noon, when Holfast was about to retreat with his scout cavalry, he saw an infantry team of more than 80 people coming out of the gate of Essebra.This infantry looks quite extraordinary. Each soldier has a good chain mail. They hold spears, swords, maces and other melee weapons, and some also carry longbows and feathered arrows. There are also some with one-handed crossbows hanging from their waists.

When they formed a battle formation and marched in the wild, there would never be any insidious monsters or robbers daring to disturb them.

In fact, Holfast didn't dare either.He waited until the infantry had gone far away, and then he led his soldiers and rode away quickly, preparing to go to William to report the matter.

A well-armed infantry in the field is a threat to anyone.

Holfast met William before he returned to the Land of Three Rivers. At this time, William was leading two infantry for field training, but he happened to run into Holfast.

After hearing Holfast's report and inquiring about some details, William couldn't help but rejoice and said, "Haha! The fat meat delivered to your door! But you can't let it slip away!"

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