Chapter 357: After the war
Chapter 351: After the Battle
The Empire’s borders were fighting hot, and Owen’s side was busy collecting stragglers, registering minor nobles, and forming the Northern Glory Alliance.
In addition to Owen, the rest of the Northern Glory Noble Alliance is full of small nobles who make up the numbers, the number is quite a lot, the strength is dispensable, after all, by the barbarians in the south sacked a pass, can live is good, so the so-called alliance is an empty shelf.
But don’t care if you can use it in the future, first set up, not to mention that those small nobles are more or less a talent, not only can fill the vacancies in the territory, but also as a layer of camouflage, after all, the territory’s abnormality still needs to be covered up.
Just established on the busy scurrying northland nobles alliance seize the time to ask for support from their own back forces, manpower and property all want, at the same time in the avoidance of the two sides of the big war in the place of the busy city building, also busy flying up.
Although the Northland is plagued with disasters, the problem is that they have no choice, either to return to the Empire as a waste of food and death, or to stay in the Northland to take the risk of becoming a lord.
In fact, it is very good to choose, any war has to calm down that day, there is no party forces can be the war forever, and so on the end of the war, the Northland is still their world, so even if the risk is very big, most of the Northland nobles are still willing to stay and insist.
In fact, the war has begun to enter the end stage, the barbarian kingdom’s army is not all the way rely on looting, long ago can not carry, after all, the base is too thin, coupled with the long road, rely solely on the domestic support simply can not hold out, similarly, the border army is not backed by the empire, also can not hold out for long.
But on the whole, don’t look at the border army has been beaten, the death toll is close to 100,000, civilians are countless, but the final victory always belongs to the empire.
Not long ago, the Empire sent two Legendary Mages, with a Legendary Knight and two Legendary Warriors belonging to the Border Army, to carry out decapitation tactics together, although it did not achieve the goal, but still to the top of the Barbaric Kingdom’s army to cause a lot of losses, and even almost hit the commander-in-chief of the army.
Afterwards, the barbarian kingdom army launched a retaliatory attack, but for the empire these losses are nothing at all.
As time passed, the heavy losses of the border army had been replenished, and the reserve army that had been integrated in the rear alone amounted to more than 100,000 people, not counting the ones that had arrived one after another.
Conservative estimate, within three months, the total strength of the Imperial Border Army can reach half a million people, not to mention how many of them can be called elite soldiers, at least before these people die out, the Empire can still transfer more soldiers, this is the bottom line of the Empire.
Owen once estimated the war potential of the empire, if not counting the cost, the total mobilization of troops can reach more than 20 million, if more, will not wait for the start of the war due to the complete collapse of logistics and collapse.
Of course, only theoretically, because first of all the whole country, including the traditional nobles and the royal family must obey the emperor’s orders in order to realize, and it is obviously unlikely, even if the end of the world, the possibility of realizing it is also pathetic, because the human nature of this thing is actually quite fucked up.
Anyway, with the immense war potential, it’s only a matter of time before the Empire wins, and even the commander of the barbarian kingdom’s army knows this, so he’s already started transporting supplies and slaves to the rear.
Now kill slaves for blood sacrifice has no meaning, after all, several legends in the neighborhood, before there is no legendary mage, legendary knights and warriors afraid of no return, choose to sit back and do nothing, now there is a legendary mage, do not dare to say that come and go as you please, as long as to pay a little price, destroy the blood sacrifice or not much of a problem.
What’s more, it’s not a question of expanding the battle and burning the empire, it’s a question of how much can be gained by paying so much.
The good thing is that the imperial border army is unexpectedly rich, a large number of war preparation warehouses let the barbarian kingdom army without much insight to see is dumbfounded, at the same time painfully, because of the lack of maintenance, a large number of equipment rusting, piles of mountains of food deterioration, the sea of material decay.
These man-made losses alone exceeded the Barbarian Kingdom’s production for decades, thus showing how fat the Imperial Border Army was, and how much the barbarians who saw this scene would be heartbroken, thus grasping at straws to transport to the rear.
Not only did the barbarian army obtain a lot of harvest, the halfway joined the devil’s head and the church of flesh and blood also ate a lot of oil, but in the final revelry, the members of these two evil organizations even disappeared en masse. The commander of the barbarian kingdom army felt bad, compared to the people he brought from the north, he never trusted these halfway imperial barbarians, so he immediately ordered the army to be on guard, and at the same time ordered the rear army responsible for escorting the supplies to depart immediately.
Unfortunately, it was too late, the magic array that enveloped half of the barracks made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice kiln.
With three legendary mages as the core, more than a hundred archmages and senior mages formed a group of mages, jointly casting forbidden spells above the legendary, at one time, countless heavenly fires descended from the sky, the earth crumbled, and the poisonous gas was rampant, burying tens of thousands of barbarians at one fell swoop.
If not for the barbarian kingdom army commander decides on the spot, let 100,000 skeleton soldiers rearguard, all the survivors give up the supplies immediately return, afraid that the loss is still a little more.
This time although gained a lot of supplies, but the loss of 100,000 or so barbarians, only survived 50,000 or 60,000 people, the barbarian kingdom army’s commander-in-chief also don’t know whether it is a loss or gain, but he knows that this is just the beginning, wait until the new batch of soldiers grow up, is the time for them to go south again.
Owen didn’t always pay attention to this battle, especially after realizing that the legend appeared, he even directly recalled the One-Eyed Giant Eagle, and solely relied on the intelligence network set up before to obtain information.
Although there are various defects, but it is better than being discovered, with the perception and intuition of the legend, the one-eyed giant eagle can not hide from them.
The barbarians were defeated and returned, the imperial border troops could not celebrate and were busy rebuilding the border, many mages also stayed behind, they tried to build a magic barrier at the border, used to warn the barbarians who were coming south again, but it was obviously not an easy job.
The Northland nobles alliance also got the support from the empire, not to help the poor, but to build a barrier between the barbarians and the empire’s border, when necessary, the empire ordered, these Northland nobles will have to send troops and food to help the empire’s border army to fight, the empire’s things are not so easy to take.
North city also fell into the eyes of the empire, a battle decapitated tens of thousands of heads, against tens of thousands of southward barbarians, can be said to be the only bright spot in this big war in the north of the aristocracy, naturally be taken as a model, all kinds of benefits have a share.
Of course, with the benefits must be a variety of suspicion and suppression, after all, many forces within the empire in the northern part of the country has invested a lot, there are Hydra so powerful forces in, can not be conducive to their planning, but after seeing the casualty report, these concerns have dissipated.
All the regular army establishment was almost crippled, the temporary conscripted militia also suffered heavy casualties, it can be said that the loss is heavy, even if there is enough population and resources, without three to five years will not be able to recover, because the soldiers are not a click to deduct the gold coins can be sprung up.
Another reason is the high percentage of firearms equipment.
There is a reason why firearms, which everyone knows work well, were canceled again after being equipped on a large scale.
The fear of it falling into the hands of the people and causing a huge hidden danger was only one of them, the biggest problem was the existence of Transcendent Professionals.
Firearms were too easy to target, so although they were good, they were not suitable for large-scale equipment.
(End of chapter)