Chapter 337: The tasteless supplementary army, Grotto Hills

The entire camp fell into a carnival, and the nobles gathered with friends to celebrate this hard-won happy event in their free time.

Even Weilin, the legion commander, received many invitations, but he rejected them all.

The deadline given by the corps headquarters is to arrive at Grotto Hills before December 25th. There are still more than 20 days before the deadline. It would be a good idea to rest here for a few days to let the army officers relax.

In the camp, Verin prepared a private banquet for his subordinates, the attendant Kyle, the commander of the Praying Star Camp Cassius, the two brothers Orlando and Hebrew, as well as Pastor Lavia, plus himself, Six people in total.

Three days later the army regrouped and marched toward Grotto Hills.

During the march, the dwarf villages and towns encountered were empty, and there was basically no trace of dwarf activity.

This is the cruelty of the war. The province of Sigas was basically destroyed. It is basically impossible to recover without thirty or forty years.

As for the Xiqiu Province in the northwest, it is contaminated by the aura of death. Even if it is finally purified by the priest, it will basically be impossible to use it within thirty years.

In addition, the Xiqiu Province has also become a natural barrier. The kingdom only needs to send troops to guard the area on the east bank of the Dwarf Stone Pass, which basically eliminates the possibility of the dwarves sneak attacks from the Gray Mang Wasteland.

While passing through the Iron Tower City in the southern part of Sigas Province, Weilin received the supplementary troops dispatched from the Sixth Headquarters, as well as a batch of supplies escorted by them.

"Lord, there are 5,500 reinforcements in this batch. There are three silver knights, five silver warriors, twenty-six bronze knights, and sixty-three bronze warriors. The rest are warrior apprentices. Ninety percent They are all just entering the warrior apprenticeship stage and are not of much use."

Kyle checked it out, came to Weilin's side, and reported the report respectfully.

"Normally, the logistics force only has the task of transporting supplies. Even the combat troops are responsible for protecting the army along the way. I don't have high expectations." Weilin shook his head and explained to Kyle.

The capable troops are basically in the combat troops. The logistics troops, to put it bluntly, are a group of civilians who have just put down their hoes, and there are even serfs and slaves from other countries.

The Kingdom has shown its favor by sending Kingdom Legion officers to teach and spread the simplest warrior breathing techniques during the training period, allowing them to step into the door of warrior professions.

Ordinary people don't have too much talent. As long as someone teaches them, they can enter the warrior apprentice level in three months.

It's a pity that extraordinary knowledge is in the hands of nobles. It's not just a matter of simply getting a breathing method and dreaming of embarking on the extraordinary road.

A warrior breathing method with only a few dozen pages may have two or three related extraordinary books behind it, recording breathing methods, operation methods and precautions.

It's not enough to get the Warrior Breathing Technique. If you want to go further, you need to have the corresponding exercise method.

Some warriors' breathing methods and warrior exercise methods do not match, and they can easily die suddenly.

Of course, there are also civilians who use their innate talents to create their own path.

Such people are so rare that a kingdom cannot even produce one in a hundred years.

This is also the reason why Devonshire gained such great prestige in Cardro Province when he taught civilians and lower-level nobles for free.

"How to deal with this group of people?" Kyle asked.

Verin thought for a while, and then asked Kyle to invite the other eight viscounts and other barons.

"Legion Commander." Everyone came to Weilin and beat their chests in salute.

Weilin pointed at the group of supplementary troops in front of him and said, "Everyone, these are the supplementary troops assigned to our legion by the Corps. You can select some if necessary. I plan to form a separate battalion of the rest to be used as a logistics force."

"The eight viscounts will be selected first, followed by the barons."

"Follow your instructions."

Subsequently, the eight viscounts took their guardian knights and subordinates into the supplementary army, selected qualified soldiers, and added them to their own army.

Verin even saw two viscounts arguing loudly over a silver knight.

In the past, other nobles were guaranteed to stand by and take advantage of this situation, but now they have no intention of secretly selecting qualified warriors.

The two argued for a few minutes. When they saw the actions of the others, they immediately stopped, snorted, and immediately joined the fight.

In the Battle of Aishikou, the Qixing Camp suffered few losses, with 335 people killed and 186 wounded, who have basically recovered.

Half an hour later, the eight viscounts picked and finally picked away 1,500 people.

In their eyes, the remaining 4,000 supplementary soldiers are only better than the young and middle-aged farmers who have just put down their farm tools. If they are incorporated into their own army, they are really afraid that problems will arise when their own army fights.

After the selection of the viscount was completed, Verin asked the baron to come forward to make the selection.

In the end, 2,500 supplementary troops were left.

"Cassius, organize this group of people together with the disabled soldiers. The disabled soldiers will serve as officers at all levels and put them under the command of Viscount Edgar. They will be responsible for transporting military rations from now on."

"In addition, you ask people to pay attention to these people. If they find talents worth cultivating, they can be recruited into Qixing Camp after inspection."

"Yes, my lord."

Cassius beat his chest and saluted, then strode towards the rear of the army.

After resting for three hours, the legion continued to set off.

Marching in the Kingdom of Ilia usually takes two days and one night, followed by one night's rest.

This marching code was basically adopted by other noble armies.

The more elite kingdom army, the soldiers are naturally stronger than the soldiers of the noble army, and can basically march for four days and three nights, with one night's rest.

What's more, it can achieve a march speed of five days and five nights, but generally no commander will do this unless there is a very urgent situation.

Although the Qixing Battalion under his command can do this, other noble armies cannot.

Naturally, Weilin could only follow the marching pace of two days and one night.

Five days later, the 55,000 troops of the 135th Army arrived at the Grotto Hills in the central area of ​​Xigas Province.

Weilin patted the red phosphorus horse and led more than a dozen guards to a hill more than thirty meters high. From here, he looked at the entire grotto hills.

Grotto Hills was the active mining base of the Ironforge Dwarf Mountain Kingdom thousands of years ago.

After eight hundred years of mining, it was finally depleted two hundred years ago. The place became deserted and gradually became a habitat for various plants and beasts.

However, after the devastation of the war, the Grotto Hills are now basically bare, and everything that can be burned has been burnt. It is probably the work of the previous clearing troops.

Verin pointed to a huge pothole more than ten kilometers away and said to Kyle: "There should be the work of the 128th Legion of the 26th Corps. Five thousand mages jointly cast a large-scale strategic magic [Flame]. Storm] directly changed the terrain here."