Chapter 1180 (1/2)
The war in the southern continent, like a sudden storm, broke out unexpectedly.
In other words, no one expected Sean's determination - perhaps this statement is wrong. It should mean that most people didn't expect Sean's determination to go to war, even most of the nobles of the * * * kingdom. The only people ready for war were the wiles family and some garrison nobles located on the border of the * * * kingdom.
As for others, in addition to the signs that the surrounding kingdoms in the other three regions outside the wilderness are ready to move, many people believe that Sean's war posture will eventually give up. After all, with the concession of the kingdom of erkiri, the region of erkiri has completely fallen into the hands of the empty principality. Along with the Millennium covenant area that most people do not know and inexplicably fall into Sean's hands and the Great Rift Valley area occupied from the beginning, Sean has now controlled the normal import and export of the three wild places.
Many lords, nobles, even powerful officials and people sitting on the throne did not think that the void principality would start war at this time.
It is urgent to stabilize the rear first.
But in fact, it is not.
After William led his troops to occupy Ellison District, leaving a force to garrison and build fortifications here, William directly sent vanguard troops to cooperate with the shortcut route left by the void and directly killed the * * * kingdom.
This vanguard army is mainly composed of leopard men, werewolves and centaurs, with a small number of cat people, rabbit people and highland elves.
The size of the army is small, only about 30000 people, including about 15000 half men and horses, 5000 cats, highland elves and rabbits, and 10000 leopards and werewolves. In addition to the highland elves and cat people, both centaurs, werewolves and leopards are proficient in rush combat. In short-range rush combat, leopards have unique combat advantages. Their rapid response ability and combat response are one of the strongest ethnic groups in the orcs; In terms of long-distance attack, werewolves have greater advantages than leopards. Coupled with strong enough strength and good response ability, this group has always been one of the strongest war races among the orcs.
As for centaurs, these guys are well deserved bugs.
The powerful strength, the ability to move like the wind, the accurate medium and long-range strike ability, and the long endurance all make the Centaur tribe always on the list of the strongest ethnic groups of the orcs. If the Centaur troops cannot be killed in the sudden attack, once they are opened enough distance, let alone orcs such as werewolves and leopards, even ethnic groups such as lion and tiger people who can be compared with centaurs are not willing to fight with centaurs.
That's a one-sided killing!
Fortunately, the extremely low fertility of centaurs has limited the development of this ethnic group - all tribes in the whole wilderness are integrated, and the number of centaurs is no more than 200000, of which only 100000 can really go to war.
This time, William brought 50000 Centaur soldiers, and there were 15000 centaurs in this vanguard army alone. It can be imagined how strong the real combat power of this vanguard army is. To this end, William had to assign 1000 cat girls, 1000 rabbit girls and 3000 highland elves to join the vanguard army to be responsible for the melee safety of the Centaur family - the Centaur has strong strength, but their melee level is really terrible.
Cat women, that is, the cat people, this is a matriarchal society. Basically, women can act as soldiers. Although their personal combat ability is very low, cat girls are usually used as guard and patrol arms. Where cat girls are present, it is difficult for the enemy to launch raids and night attacks, because they can smell the smell a few kilometers away, especially the smell of human beings.
Rabbit people, or commonly known as rabbit women, are the same social group as cat women. However, compared with the cat girl, they have no combat awareness and combat ability at all, and they are not even qualified to serve as patrol arms. However, in the orc army, the rabbit girl has always been accompanied by the cat girl as a guard partner. With the cat girl, they can smell the smell a few kilometers away, while the rabbit girl can hear the movement a few kilometers away, which can prevent sneak attacks from all tactics.
As for the highland elves, their best skill is swordsmanship, so they are the personal protector of the Centaur army to prevent the Centaur army from being dragged into the mire of melee. Although the scale of 3000 is very small, as long as it is not besieged by the army, the 3000 highland elves are enough to block a round of charge by about 10000 human soldiers and give the Centaurs enough distance and time.
Once the Centaur force has pulled away enough distance, it is a bloody carnival.
This vanguard army is not only reasonably matched, but also has excellent short-distance attack, long-distance attack and pursuit ability, and even extremely comprehensive medium and long-range attack means, and has sufficient response level in the ability to prevent sneak attack, night attack and close combat.
William has brought into full play the excellent racial ability of the wilderness - this is the level that he has taken over the 300000 troops in the wilderness for less than half a month. If William is given more time to train and understand the troops in these wilderness, his strength will be even more terrible. After all, William can definitely rank among the top five of the top ten in terms of tactical means and adaptability.
When this vanguard force officially entered the border of the * * * Kingdom after three days and two nights of attack, it meant the arrival of a real bloodbath.
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Vangsburg is a fortress of * * * Kingdom at the edge of Rio forest, and it is also the first border guard point bordering the Principality of oekiri. Under normal circumstances, when * * * Kingdom enters the wilderness through erison area, it will make the final supply at this border fortress. Once the slave team belonging to * * * Kingdom leaves erison area and returns to * * * Kingdom, it will also make the subsequent supply here. It can be said that this fortress is the last and initial supply station for * * * kingdom to the wilderness, Even the team going to the Principality of erkiri will rest here.
Therefore, the importance of vangsburg can be imagined.
A class IV army with a scale of up to 50000 will be stationed here all year round. In addition to being responsible for daily border patrol, it also has other tasks such as protecting, sweeping and defending the enemy. Moreover, if it is an invasion war, the invading party must also take the fort in order to ensure the security of the logistics line.
Therefore, this fortress naturally became the front line used by the * * * kingdom to resist the army of the void principality.
Facing the vanguard of 30000 Orc troops, the defenders of vangsburg naturally received the news at the first time and were ready for defense.
However, what the defenders of vangsburg did not expect was that the vanguard army sent by William had no intention to attack the fort at all.
Lu Xiuan, commander of the vanguard army. Bloodhoof simply chose to bypass the fort - the location of the fort is very important, just like a nail nailed to a necessary route. However, this does not mean that the fortress cannot be bypassed. Without worrying about the logistics security line and ignoring harassment, the value of the fortress will naturally be greatly reduced.