The epic story of green monsters

Chapter 845 Disaster between men and horses
  In the farmland where growth is flourishing, a heavy flow of people flies past, leaving chicken feathers everywhere.

Ahmad and Howell continued to gallop on the human land with the last more than 10,000 soldiers. The magic power from the direction behind them shook, and golden brilliance appeared from time to time. It was the great gods of the Centaur clan who were fighting hard. Cut off the rear for this lone army.

Since the capture and destruction of that prosperous city with an unknown name, the Centaur Legion's leisurely progress has been completely broken.

The losses were so great that the legion could no longer target the huge human cities and could only harvest the sporadic manors scattered around the cities; because the manors were underpopulated, the legion was unable to use the corpses to activate the flesh altar and temporarily escape the interception of human pursuers through teleportation. , able to rest and escape.

Because they could only march on foot, humans, who had been unable to judge the whereabouts of the centaurs, were finally able to calmly adjust and set up a blockade in front of their path, forcing the centaur legions to fight with the human legions again and again.

Even though humans clearly knew that fighting with such an army in an open area like the Central Plains, the human legion would actually suffer more and suffer greater damage, but they still made such a decision just to be able to The effective strength of the Centaur Legion was wasted in the fighting, and also in order to reduce the damage to the people of the empire.

The news of the centaur army's plundering of the empire has already spread throughout the empire, causing turmoil in the people's livelihood within the empire. Countless people in manors, villages and towns dragged their families and families to take refuge in the big cities, just to have more hope of survival.

Compared with the city fortifications in manor villages and towns that are so crude that even bandits may not be able to stop them, the city walls in big cities that look tall and majestic to ordinary people give people a greater sense of security.

But they never thought that the price of shelter in such a big city was beyond what an ordinary family could afford.

The sudden influx of a large population has increased the pressure on the consumption of people's livelihood resources. Driven by profits, businessmen will naturally increase the prices of various supplies needed for daily life without hesitation; and more surplus labor has made the city's residents The few jobs that were available suddenly became popular, which directly drove down the job salary price, but some people still flocked to it.

In just one or two months, many ordinary families with little savings spent all their years of savings in this crowded and cruel urban jungle, suddenly turning from moderately prosperous families into abject poverty.

And those families who had no wealth from the beginning embarked on a road of no return under the oppression of life and hunger.

Some people sell their children and daughters, just to give their family and themselves a chance to survive, even if their lives have no dignity and no future; some people take desperate risks and join the gray industry, changing from a law-abiding good citizen to a dynasty. Beheading thieves and robbers who licked their blood with a knife's edge changed their careers.

The lives of the nobles at the top of the empire will not be greatly affected for the time being, but the luxurious life they maintain depends on the annual taxes paid by their respective fiefdoms. Without the bottom cornerstone of the manor and the common people in villages and towns, the major dignitaries will Income will inevitably drop significantly, which will have a great impact on the powerful in the long run.

However, too many refugees have gathered in the city, which has brought about urban unrest and the destruction of rules, which has an impact on urban development to some extent.

Of course, for some people who are unscrupulous and greedy enough to be powerful, this situation may be an opportunity to take over large quantities of private farmland and cultivated land, and at the same time hire farmers to cultivate it for them at a cheaper price.

But the risk of doing so is not low. As long as the centaur army is not eradicated, no human beings will go to the manors around the city to live in danger, otherwise they will not leave their homes and come to the city.

Therefore, whether it is for the taxation of their own fiefdom, or for converting the frivolous wealth gained during the war crisis into real wealth, the centaur is a hurdle that local powerful people cannot get around.

When the local powerful nobles and the royal family reached a consensus in the alignment of interests, the subsequent problems regarding troop mobilization, material financing and other issues were easily solved.

The loss of the Centaur army in the wild was certainly painful for the empire, but if it could preserve the vitality in the city and gain the support of local dignitaries, then these sacrifices would be worth it.

The Centaur Legion itself went deep alone, and this expedition was an elite warrior carefully selected by the three royal courts. With the total population of the three royal courts being only 50 to 60 million, they lost 250,000 soldiers this time. , it can be regarded as a strain, and naturally there will be no other reinforcements to support it.

Every centaur soldier killed or injured is equivalent to losing a little bit of the legion's strength. After more than three months of fighting and more than a hundred fights, there are still more than 10,000 soldiers left. This is a magnificent event in the wilderness that can be recorded in history books. The war is epic.

According to Ahmed's rough estimate, the cities and manors destroyed along the way involved more than 20 million people. If you include the cultivated land and crops destroyed along the way, there may not be any output this year, and the population involved will definitely be larger.

Anyway, ordinary people in the Dawn Empire will definitely not have an easy time this year.

On the horizon ahead, another huge human army appeared, with dense banners spread out in all directions, extending for ten miles, and the momentum was very scary.

Looking back and looking around, this lone army had not closed its eyes for seven days and nights to rest for a spell. Everyone's exposed faces were tired and desolate. Ahmad finally turned his attention to the last legendary companion, Haowei. In front of you.

"This time I went on an expedition and it was a joy to kill!! My whole life has been worth it!!"

Feeling Ahmed's eyes lingering on him, Howell turned around and laughed freely, and said boldly.

"It's an honor to fight alongside you, General!!"

When Howell's eyes met Ahmed's, he already understood the wordless words contained in the eyes of this senior centaur.

"I am also very lucky to be able to experience such a wonderful event in my old age. I am even more lucky to be able to work with you and the brave warriors of our Centaur family to create a great war!!"

"After today, we may no longer be able to breathe this free and fresh air and experience all the beautiful things in the world!!"

"But!!! We have recovered a little interest in the blood feud for our fellow centaur clan who have sacrificed themselves at the hands of humans for countless years!! At the same time, we have also bought more time for the future continuation of the centaur clan!! "

"The sacrifices we all make today are the price for our children to grow up and roam freely on the grassland of humans and horses tomorrow!!"

"I'm so proud of you all!!" "The blood of the great ranger lord!! Lift your chests and raise the lances in your hands!!"

"Let timid humans taste the taste of blood again!!"

"Blow the horn!! Charge!!!"

"kill!!"

"kill"

In the Insect Moon of 13704 in the Og calendar, the main force of the Human Dawn Empire's army, under the command of the Empire's Grand Marshal Ai Pu, besieged the remnants of the Centaur Legion that invaded the empire's belly in Dongping Province of the empire.

The war lasted for a day and a night, and the entire Centaur army was wiped out. No one was spared. The only two legendary commanders fought to the death and did not escape even if their troops were exhausted. In the end, they were burned by the human Marshal Epp with the legendary fire magic - Burning Flames. When using two magic spells, there will be no bones left.

The incarnation of the centaur god was finally surrounded and killed by nearly thirty legendary and above powerful human beings. The war lasted for four days and four nights, until the incarnation of the god exhausted its divine power, lost all its energy and blood, and finally self-destructed its incarnation to declare the end of the war.

Afterwards, the Dawn Empire summarized the battle damage. A total of fifteen human warriors were killed, more than half a million human soldiers were killed and injured, and nearly 10 million ordinary people were killed or injured. It affected the livelihood of at least 30 million people in the empire for many years, and the empire suffered direct and indirect wealth losses. With more than 200 million gold coins, it is known as the calamity of men and horses in the history of the world.

By the time the news of the annihilation of the Centaur Legion reached the border of the Centaur Grassland, more than ten days had passed. At this time, the Wilderness Alliance was preparing to set out again, to the northern border of the Rose Principality, which had not yet recovered from the previous war.

After fierce competition among several camps, the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces was finally occupied by Aaron, the legendary knight of the kobolds. However, after suffering many hardships and being escorted back by his personal guards, the gnoll Aobong returned to the capital because of Aaron's guilt-ridden mentality. With the support of the demigod of the Bricken tribe behind him, he once again partnered with Aaron.

It was because of the firm attitude and demands of their juniors that the two mainstays Bricken and Da Vinci once again joined forces to promote the appointment and dismissal of the second batch of coalition commanders, so that Aaron and Aocong could get their wish.

Of course, in order to quell the dissatisfaction of other camps, several more deputy commanders were added to the coalition this time. Each of them also firmly controls the military authority of the tribal forces in their own camp. It is no longer possible to have Aaron, Ao, etc. like the last coalition. Collaborate to keep the entire army in your hands.

In two months, the alliance has mobilized more than 30 troops to move south. Next, there will be almost 200,000 troops, which will be assembled in the remaining two months and move south to join Aaron and others.

The Green Field Tribe and other tribes in the Ring of Thorns organization could not escape the troops sent south this time. The six tribes plus the Hogia Drow Federation formed a separate army with a total of 15,000 soldiers and arrived at the Centaur Grassland a month ago. At the front line, join up with Allen.

Because of the pleasant experience of cooperation in the last war, as well as the existence of the elite backbone soldiers who had retired from the coalition forces, Allen handed over the command of this army to Aaron and Aocong, allowing them to re-disrupt the army. This is a mixed army that combines six major races and four or five other races.

After experiencing the last war, not only did everyone get back enough loot, but they also gained a lot from how to arrange their troops and maximize the abilities and talents of the wilderness race warriors.

It is certainly impossible to say that the wilderness has a long history of more than 10,000 years without leaving any experience in how to form a joint army for combat. However, leaving behind knowledge and experience is one thing. As a general, how to display them in actual combat? That's another story.

A rough calculation shows that in the history of the wilderness for thousands of years, it seems that only after the demon tide crisis appeared hundreds of years ago, the wilderness has organized a large-scale joint army.

Now, many years have passed since the two defeats. Most of the commanders who commanded the last war have died. The new generation of legendary knight generals such as Aaron and Aocong have basically gone to the battlefield and commanded such a large army for the first time. Without complete Everything starts from scratch in the wilderness of the military education system.

Aaron and Aocong are both talented generals. Through hard training and learning in actual battles, they began to form their own unique ideas about army formations, professional matching, etc.

For example, for ogres who are tall and tall, with amazing strength and endurance, it is most suitable to make them into a heavy infantry. Wearing heavy armor that soldiers of other races find cumbersome, the momentum of just burying their heads and launching a charge is not as good as General heavy cavalry is weak.

If we can find a suitable mount for such a group of ogres, then the heavy cavalry created with this will probably be able to dodge its edge in despair even if a legendary powerhouse encounters it.

There are also the bloodthirsty gnolls, the brave bugbears and the earth. After the ogres tear through the enemy's formation, it is basically not too difficult to follow up and continue to tear and expand the gap.

As for the trolls with strong vitality and good toughness, the lizardmen who are born with a layer of fine scales and good protection are the most suitable for building a stable formation when they are in a deadlock.

Of course, there are also smaller races such as half-orcs, stone blind savages, and half-elves, all of which have their own advantages.

Therefore, when a mixed army is formed, how strong their actual combat effectiveness is often depends on the generals trained by the commanders themselves, and has a great relationship with the different priorities they want to build the army.

Although Allen understands that the control of the army cannot be easily given to others, he also knows that whether an army is strong or not depends on whether the army is skillfully coordinated and whether the professional mix is ​​reasonable.

Aaron's own abilities have been verified, and at the same time, they now have a backbone of elite warriors who have survived hundreds of battles. Instead of taking the Army of the Ring of Thorns into their own hands and not letting them experience the baptism of real war, it is better to hand over Give it to professional generals and let them train these warriors.

With him sitting in the rear, even if Aaron, Aocong and the others had any evil intentions, they probably would not or dare not pay attention to the troops organized by the Ring of Thorns.

As for normal battles and reasonable troop formations, Allen believed that the soldiers sent by their organization were absolutely capable of doing the job.

Of course, the most important point is that the more than 10,000 soldiers organized by the Ring of Thorns for this expedition were basically recruited from vassal tribes of various races, rather than the elites of their own tribe. Even if they were all sacrificed, it seemed that it would make Alan feel uncomfortable. Feel sorry.

(End of this chapter)