The high command on the front line could not refuse the "good news" from the empire. Moreover, whether it was the clergy of the church or the magician team of the magic union, they could bring good morale and uplifting spirits to the soldiers.
In particular, the comfort of the clergy helped the majority of soldiers eliminate their fear of becoming enemy food after dying in battle.
After the first batch of clergymen arrived, they were immediately sent to the grassroots defenders on the front line of defense. After listening to the prayers of those soldiers, the clergy's propaganda stated that the empire's army was under the blessing of the gods and against evil.
Even if the enemy fights and dies on the battlefield, as long as he fights bravely, his soul can return to the embrace of God after death. This statement greatly eased the panic of the soldiers.
As for the magician team... Ordinary grassroots soldiers absolutely welcome the arrival of the magicians. Everyone believes that with the joining of these extraordinary and powerful men, the war should become easier.
However, Rostock and other senior generals did not think so. Unlike ordinary soldiers, these senior generals welcomed the magician's joining with reservations.
These generals have all dealt with magicians before, and they know what these magicians are like! These guys are weird, unruly, and do not obey orders. They participate purely based on their own interests. If you are happy, they may do more for you.
It would be nice if I put in some effort and don't cause any trouble for you if I'm not happy.
The most annoying thing is that these guys are still a privileged class, and military orders cannot order and direct them. Therefore, although they are powerful, but a force that does not obey orders at all and does not know how to cooperate at all, how useful is it?
What's more, the first batch of students from the Magic Academy have graduated. They are the real team of magicians trained by the empire, who obey orders obediently! In contrast, the senior generals on the front line think that those trained in a militarized manner are
The magician is even more worth looking forward to.
As for...the mobilization of the Knights Association...in the eyes of Rostock and other generals, it is simply a joke!
Knights Association? What can they do? A half-lived and half-dead "one of the three major organizations in the former mainland"? Apart from a brand, what else does the Knights Association have?
And that call for orders and employment orders are simply a joke!
For Rostock and other Storm Legion generals who were born in the regular army and were the most elite landlord war corps in the north of the empire, they looked down on those so-called "mercenaries" from the bottom of their hearts, especially those hired after the call of the Knights Association.
Most of the soldiers are members of the original smuggling mercenary group.
As for the Storm Legion, it can be said that they have been dealing with these smuggling mercenary groups all their lives! On one side are the official troops guarding northern Xinjiang, and on the other side are the armed smuggling gangs in the poaching areas. There have been minor frictions between the two sides for many years, but there is no big hatred.
Yes, but there are a lot of petty feuds!
However, my inner grievances remain my grievances. After all, the contribution of the three major organizations of the empire to the war is good publicity news worth writing about for the empire’s top brass. Therefore, an order from the imperial capital came down, requiring the front line to be as active as possible.
Cooperate.
Therefore, although Rostock and others were dissatisfied, they could only do as they were told: the clergy, which could reassure the soldiers, received the greatest welcome and were immediately taken to the front line and sent to the frontline army grassroots to quickly soothe the morale of the soldiers.
And those magicians with high status were also treated like VIPs, but they were kept in the main fortress. They were well enshrined. The Storm Legion followed four words for these magicians: keep a respectful distance.
As for the mercenaries recruited by the Knights Association... Well, they were kicked far away near the second-line air force garrison base in the rear, and they were euphemistically called: Reserves. Who said that among the three major organizations, the Knights Association has the lowest status?
As the leader of the Storm Legion, he must give face to the church and the Magic Union, but he does not have to give face to the Knights Association.
After the first battle, the 20,000 vanguard of the orc army carefully retreated a certain distance and then began to work.
The human army behind Kaspersky's defense line had no intention of leaving the city to fight, and the orc army began to build their camp.
Large quantities of wood were transported up. Ten days later, groups of orc troops arrived at the front line one after another. According to visual inspections on the city wall and news sent by airships from the Air Force, they were now gathered about 100 kilometers north of the defense line.
Three kilometers away, there are already more than 50,000 orc troops. These orcs seem to have made plans for a long-term war. They cut down the woods, and with the work of strong orcs, camps were set up one by one.
In just a few days, on the city wall, I could clearly see with a telescope that the wooden wall in the distance was getting longer and longer, and simple wooden watchtowers were erected one after another. Every day, standing on the city wall
The soldiers on the ground could clearly hear the busy work in the enemy's camp on the opposite side. The sound of trumpets, shouts, chopping, and piling.
According to the observation information, large groups of orc troops came out of the frozen forest and gathered here, like small streams, finally converging into a terrifying sea of ocean beasts!
Ten days later, what appeared in front of the Kaspersky Defense Line soldiers was the outline of a large-scale camp in the north.
The front is a wooden wall with a height of more than two meters, and is also decorated with sharp wooden thorns. On the lookout, there are orc soldiers carrying iron bows on their backs to guard. Barracks have also been built one after another, densely packed... According to the air force report
According to recent observation information, the area of this camp extends all the way to the north and has reached an area of tens of miles! It can accommodate hundreds of thousands of enemies. This is just a conservative estimate.
The orcs made various tools out of wood, and teams of carts loaded with heavy supplies were brought up from the rear. There were grain, wood, and various forage plants... and more of various warcraft.
Dried meat made from corpses!
Several groups of orcs have quickly dispersed, searching all nearby villages and towns that have been abandoned by humans within hundreds of miles. They have collected all the materials they can: stones, tools, and even a grain of wheat.
Spike, a sack!
The orcs were not in a hurry to attack... This surprised the humans. In their opinion, these monsters should be creatures with simple minds and well-developed limbs, but this kind of patience shown... is it ignorance or deliberate patience?
But human beings don't know that... After waiting for ten thousand years, the sinners are not lack of patience! It can take ten thousand years, so what does it mean to wait a few more days?
"These monsters are looking for death." At a military meeting, most human generals made this assessment.
Moreover, this concept has become the mainstream, and most generals think so.
"These monsters are simply crazy. They actually fight a protracted war and a war of attrition with us... Don't they know the consequences of this? We have the entire empire behind us as our strategic backup. But what about them? Behind them are only a few
To a thousand square kilometers of land, and this is the northern border of the empire, the climate is cold and not much food can be grown. Then there is the frozen forest. Even if they can get part of the food by hunting Warcraft, but this way they can only rely on hunting Warcraft.
It is simply impossible to maintain the consumption of an army of this size! We don’t know where their rear is now, as if they appeared out of thin air. But the only thing that is certain is that their rear is very, very far away from here!
This means that if they want to provide supplies to this army, the supply line will be so long that it is almost impossible to complete. If these guys really have advanced intelligence, they should attack us as soon as possible and try to break through our defense lines and run to the mainland.
They must go inland to seize supplies. Otherwise, they will consume them here and sooner or later they will all starve to death."
The views of the officer who spoke were mostly agreed with, and in the end people couldn't help laughing: "I bet they won't survive this winter and will starve to death here."
"Unless they can eat snow and northwest wind, hahahaha..."
Looking at the attitude of the generals, Rostock frowned deeply: "Everyone!"
The old general raised his voice and shouted, and everyone fell silent immediately.
"I think we cannot be blindly optimistic." Rostock said slowly: "What is in front of us is a race that we don't know at all! We lack understanding of them. But the problem is. From now on, they are intelligent and understand
Craftsmanship, understanding of tactics... The situation in which they are now confronting us here is not that they are stupid, but... I'm afraid there are other reasons why we can't relax. And... Duke Tulip once said to me that he doubted
.These alien races may have some aerial races with the ability to fly.”
"Duke Tulip?" The generals were silent for a while, but most of them still looked disapproving. The fame of Duke Tulip is enough to shock the ignorant civilians. But for the most elite generals in charge of the empire,
He said that he was just a child under twenty years old.
"I have decided." Rostock suddenly stood up: "Twenty days! After twenty days, if they have not launched an attack, we will attack first! We cannot expect to wait until the cold winter and let the weather kill them. The fate of the empire
, should be in our own hands! After twenty days, if these guys are still here and want to make their home here, we will drive them away with our own hands."
It has to be said that Rostock's decision was a bit hasty. However, the most senior front-line general in the empire, there is always a faint uneasiness in his heart. It seems that there is always a layer of uncertainty surrounding these strange enemies.
The fog makes it impossible to see clearly.
Mercenaries who signed up from all over the mainland crowded into a temporary military camp located 20 kilometers south of the Kaspersky Defense Line.
The Knights Association offered a bounty of one gold coin for a monster's head, allowing those mercenaries whose business was sluggish and had nothing to do to find a way to survive. Moreover, from the current news, although the bounty is not high, it seems that those monsters'
The combat power is lower than that of ordinary Warcraft.
We can even kill monsters, so it shouldn’t be difficult to kill dozens of monsters and make a fortune!
Of course, there are a few knights who sign up, who are the kind of warriors who still hold the faith of knights and serve the country and the people. But such people are in the minority after all.
One kilometer away from this temporary military camp is the Imperial Frontline Air Force Base.
Rostock almost dumped these recruited mercenaries to the second-line General Andre like garbage. This approach made Andre a little dissatisfied, but facing his former boss, he could not refuse.
The mercenaries from the mainland slowly came to the temporary military camp to report. They did not need the weapons and armor provided by the empire. As mercenaries and knights, they all had their own equipment. After arriving at the temporary military camp, they registered at the registration office
After that, many people shouted anxiously: "Where can we kill those monsters?! Where can we find those monsters? When will we go to the battlefield?"
In less than ten days, more than 3,000 people had been packed into the temporary military camp. General Andre did not bother to care about these rabble. He only sent 300 soldiers to maintain order and several clerks to register and register these people.
The people were organized into an infantry battalion-level organization and left there temporarily.
As time went on, the mercenaries who had been waiting in the temporary military camp for a few days became a little restless. Many of them started to yell and went to the registration office every day to ask. Some of them were impatient and even took people there consciously.
North, trying to go north. But without exception, they were blocked back by the Imperial Champion of Kaspersky Defense Line.
On this day, there was a rapid sound of horse hooves outside the military camp.
Outside the camp gate, more than a dozen strong horses galloped towards the gate. When they came to the gate, the first knight on the horse stopped and made a difficult emergency stop. The war horse immediately neighed and started to pull up.
The man on the horse looked at the "busy" military camp in front of him, his thick eyebrows immediately knitted together, and he muttered in a low voice: "Damn, this is also called a military camp? It's just a market!"