Chapter 347 (1/2)

It didn't wait until the third day. Before dawn, the whole Ranger flag regiment was ready to go.

Just like at the Legion meeting, the Legion of the whole duanjieshan fortress is composed of two full-size heavy infantry legions and a large number of auxiliary soldiers, of which the most important are the church Knights under the name of the Holy Cross Church and the light infantry voluntarily joined from all parts of the Empire.

In Brandon's words, it is more appropriate to call these people ”crazy believers” - in the history of duanjieshan fortress, we can often read that they shouted the slogan of ”for the Holy Cross”, waved weapons of different shapes, launched a flood of attacks on the demon army with flesh and blood, and firmly believed that their piety can make them ascend to heaven.

In the north, where raids are often encountered, these ”crazy believers” are simply the best source of troops, and can endure all difficult environments. There are few cases of rout and are not afraid of death.

The only disadvantage is that they often don't listen to the command. When they see the enemy, they shout slogans and rush up, causing a lot of unnecessary casualties - only the church Knights of the Holy Cross can restrain them a little.

A large number of fierce and fearless crazy believers and a few but elite church knights are the strength of the Holy Cross Church's voice in duanjieshan fortress and even the whole empire.

This is also why Brandon would choose church knights to join him instead of more efficient and obedient Legion soldiers - the Holy Cross Church in duanjieshan fortress, like other places, is a semi independent and uncontrolled organization, and Conrad is difficult to get involved.

So no matter how tired of the Holy Cross Church, these people are Brandon's best choice - better than being taken control of the team by a group of Legion soldiers who secretly swear allegiance to connord.

Most importantly, Zener, the chief Knight of the church knight, since he dared to contradict Connor in front of everyone at the Legion meeting, it proved that he was not the dogleg of his Royal Highness The Prince of Saxony... Or at least not in the face.

That's enough.

”Your Royal Highness, your team is ready to be ordered at any time!”

On the wall of the fortress city where the north wind roared, the church Knight Naze, fully armed with a Holy Cross Pendant on his chest, stood in front of Brandon, followed by Edward, who was still indifferent, but had become Brandon's guard captain.

Following everyone's eyes, the black haired wizard also slowly turned back and looked at the bottom of the city wall - under the three dragon flags holding the iron crown, there were 300 fully armed soldiers with firm eyes.

At the forefront is still Brandon's guard mobilized from eboden, and 130 Legion soldiers who have experienced camp encounters and are still intact;

Then came the ”light infantry” of the Church of nearly 200 people; Although they use this name, they still have quite excellent protection, and their weapons are like long halberds and Epee like Legion soldiers, but the huge Zheng shield is replaced by a smaller skin round shield; In addition, many people are equipped with war bows.

There are workshops like melting furnace town. Of course, the fortress of duanjieshan can be equipped with heavy crossbows in large quantities, but the problem is that in such a cold place, crossbows, including crossbows, are not useful at all. After a few times, the trigger will freeze and be hard enough to break. In contrast, although the range of the war bow is short, it can at least perfectly adapt to the environment in the north.

In addition, twelve well-equipped church knights who accompanied the church Knight Naze came as the backbone of the trip.

As Loren knows, there are only less than 50 church knights in the whole fortress of duanjieshan. The other party directly sent 12 to join Brandon. A full quarter of the elite are enough to prove the importance of the Holy Cross Church to this trip.

Under the iron crown flag, the soldiers with firm eyes remained motionless from beginning to end, and the floating snow almost dyed their whole body white; If it weren't for the fog exhaled from his mouth, it would make people wonder whether these people are really alive.

The dark haired wizard on the city wall raised his eyebrows. Such quality and discipline, not to mention eboden's mercenary regiment, can't be compared with even lottel ruwen's Knight guard.

What about the elves of the ancient wood forest?

Indeed, the war dancers of the ancient wood forest are also brave and not afraid of sacrifice. Even in the case of one-to-one or even one-to-ten, they can easily trample these ordinary soldiers who can only push forward by relying on the military array and shield wall.

But if the number rises to 100 to 100, or even the Legion to base... It's a completely different kind of devastation.

Moreover, the whole eastern forest can gather up 3000 elf soldiers at most; The Empire does not count the armies of each Archduke. There are ten legions standing alone.

”Hearing that his highness Brandon is about to leave the fortress of duanjieshan to the north, these brave and devout believers are all elated and want to join you!”

Noticing the exclamation in Brandon's eyes and those around him, nazer, a somewhat proud church knight, blushed and spoke impassively in a bell like voice: