Chapter 169 Enlistment
In theory, the Shelley Kingdom still has an army of 100,000 people, and it is not impossible to defend the Shelley Kingdom's royal city. However, in the previous series of battles, the Shelley Kingdom's mage group suffered too much loss. Ordinary soldiers are easy to replenish, but it takes at least three or five years to train a level six mage.
Now the Shelley Kingdom has even recruited apprentice mages of third grade or above in the army to serve as combat mages of the mage group. All mage apprentices of all magic academies below the third grade are sent to Shelley Kingdom's colonies in the New World to continue their studies.
No matter how many ordinary soldiers are, they cannot play a decisive role in the battlefield, and they will play a decisive role in the end.
The mage is undoubtedly the king of the battlefield in this world.
In addition to the greater number of enemies, the number of mages in the enemy's five-nation coalition was more than twice as many as that in Shelley's country.
As one of the seven rich and powerful coastal countries, Shelley's country has similar policies to the State of Zeland and other countries. Since the development of the New World, it has been vigorously cultivating its own mages.
Just like the low-interest student loans from magic schools such as Shelley and Zeland, it is actually a large part of the interest subsidized by the state's finance so that students can get low-interest student loans from the Mage Bank.
In those landlocked countries, the finances are not abundant, but there are no such good policies. Relatively speaking, the number of mages trained is much smaller.
After the war was about a hundred days, the entire Shelley Kingdom lost more than one million troops and young men, but this did not cause Shelley Kingdom to lose too much combat power. The one who lost the biggest combat power was that the Shelley Kingdom's mage team lost three quarters.
Even the mage of Shelley Kingdom died in battle.
However, the enemy's five-nation coalition was not feeling well. Only three dead mages killed two mages on the five-nation coalition and a 500-man senior mage group in the last battle.
In the last battle, the mage of Shelley Kingdom used the forbidden magic space lock to lock the space around the battlefield, which made all the teleportation behaviors of the space gates stop within thousands of miles near the battlefield. In the past, the advanced mage groups of the Five-Nation Alliance always used the large-scale space gate teleportation trick to directly enter the battlefield.
The other three destroyed legions of Shelley Kingdom all died under this move.
In the world of mages, people always say that only mages can fight mages. The one who already has the upper hand on the battlefield suddenly teleports out hundreds or even thousands of high-level mages, and they can instantly reverse the situation.
However, the five-nation coalition forces forgot that there is no tactic in the world that is invincible.
After several losses and losses, hundreds of thousands of people were killed and injured, before the fall of Snow White, the second largest city in Shelley Kingdom, all the remaining mages of Shelley Kingdom and the sixteen magicians of Shelley Kingdom, and the remnants of the other three corpses escaped, set up a net of heaven and earth in Snow White.
When Snow White's defense and offensive battles started as before, the Five-Nation Alliance chose to teleport a 500-man high-level mage group to the center of Snow White at the most intense time.
At this time, the great magician of Shelley, who had long been hiding in Snow White City, also used this trick that was considered useless forbidden spell level nine magic and space lock.
This forbidden curse-level space lock has no damage, and is barely considered an auxiliary magic. Its only function is to block the space thousands of miles around, so that no portals can be opened nearby.
Even the great magician who uses this forbidden spell cannot open the portal during the period when the space lock magic takes effect. This is like many forbidden spell magic, and it does not distinguish between enemies and me.
The moment the space lock was used, the higher mage group of the Five-Nation Alliance felt: this time I was sitting on wax.
The magicians who had long been hiding in Snow City flocked out into the sky and fought with the advanced mage group teleported by the Five Kingdoms coalition forces. There were also various forbidden spells and pseudo-forbid spell magic attacks from the 16 magicians of Shelley. The five hundred high mages seemed very awesome, but under the attacks of thousands of genuine mages, hundreds of high mages and sixteen magicians, they quickly landed from the air like dumplings - landing and death. This is lucky. Some high mages who were hit by the fire-type forbidden spell magic were not even as good as ash.
Feeling the large-scale space lock, the magicians on the Five-Nation Alliance knew that they had fallen into the trap this time. The problem is that even the magicians were helpless at this time. Without calculating the fact that they had already been involved in the siege and the ones who had just teleported, there were obviously thousands of senior mages and thousands of genuine mages on their side.
That is, there is no way to send it to the rescue of its own high-level mage group.
In the end, the commander-in-chief of the Five-Nation Alliance had to send 30 mages from his side to lead a thousand-strong senior mages and five thousand genuine masters to fly from the air into Shelley City to rescue his own senior mage group.
Although it means that only mages can fight against mages, mages are generally not used this way. In order to fight against mage groups flying in the air, the army has bed crossbows launched in the air. The mages are very fragile. The mages flying in the air will definitely be shot into meat skewers.
However, the commander-in-chief of the Five-Nation Alliance was helpless, so we had to save them. These inland countries had not had a good finance and could not train mages on a large scale like the seven coastal countries. Especially the high-level mages, which were very expensive. From the start of the war, although the mages of the Five-Nation Alliance had lost thousands of people, the high-level mages only had more than one hundred people.
The commander-in-chief of the Five-Nation Alliance's front-line army must be rescued unless he does not want to do it and is sent to the military court after returning.
The result was that the five-nation coalition forces, which were originally planning to fight a siege battle in Snow White, were forced to fight a final battle.
When the mage group of the five-nation coalition forces flew to the battlefield with thirty mages clearing the way, the 500-man high mage group had already turned into dust and was spread everywhere.
Fortunately, the Five-Nation Alliance had an absolute advantage in terms of the number of soldiers and mages. After a final battle, the Five-Nation Alliance lost two magicians and killed more than a thousand mages, including about two hundred of the advanced mages. Because the commander-in-chief of the front enemy issued a death order, the soldiers who retreated and those who looked back died, and those who hesitated were hesitant to die. In the end, the soldiers of the Five-Nation Alliance also suffered heavy casualties, with more than 100,000 people killed in battle, and the number of disabled people was also present.
The 300,000 soldiers are either useless or lost.
Shelley's Kingdom was not much better. The remaining troops of the other three legions totaled about 100,000, and they were all sold out in Snow White. The 100,000 guards who had just been filled, but by the time of retreating, there were less than 30,000 left. Even Snow White, local defenders, and young and strong men and mercenaries who were temporarily recruiting for defense operations, died more than 200,000 people.
Snow City only has a population of more than 100,000 households. It can be said that one or two young and strong families died in this battle. It is very appropriate to use the saying that every family has cried to describe Snow City after the war.
The most important thing is the losses of the Shelley mages. The one that caused the biggest losses to the mages of the five-nation coalition was the Shelley mage group. Shelley had all his strength to piece together at the last moment. There were only more than 700 mage groups left, and even the sixteen mages killed three in battle.
Because during the Battle of Snow White, the Shelley Kingdom's mage group was broken, and the remaining planned defense battle of Shelley City naturally ended in vain.
Ordinary warriors of the Guards easily recruited young and strong men around Shelley City to replenish them. But the Mages had no choice.
No matter how tough the Shelley country is, it will not consume its last little strength in a war with no hope of winning. It simply implemented the preparatory plan and retreated the remaining power to the Moor, the neighboring country of the alliance, to form an exile government to continue to fight the invasion of the landlocked fourteen alliance.
Those who have no combat power are even transporting ships to the Shelley Kingdom's colony in the New World, whether it is people or wealth. At this time, sending a little to the New World will be snatched by the Inland 14-Nation Alliance.
Shelley's Kingdom is still planning to come back. At least in the last issue of Shelley's Kingdom's newspaper, the king and cabinet of Shelley's Kingdom said so confidently.
Although the situation in Moore is not very good, it is still better than that of Shelley, which has fallen across the country. With the Shelley government and the Guards Corps, there are 800,000 reinforcements in Moore.
Although the three-nation coalition forces invaded Moor had 1.2 million people in terms of number. However, Moor itself also had 500,000 people after the expansion of the various legions during the war, and the total strength seemed to be dominant.
However, there are more than one million five-nation coalition forces in Shelley, as well as a large number of mages and twenty-eight magicians. As long as the five-nation coalition forces in Shelley go south to fight, it will be difficult for Moore to withstand it no matter how you look at it.
In the past, Moore could withstand it. In addition to reinforcements, Moore only had to fight on the front line. Now that Shelley is defeated, Moore is forced to fight on both sides. Although there are more Shelley's 100,000 reinforcements, the enemy is twice as many. This army is weak when divided, and strong when combined.
With the process of a series of battles in Shelley, it was published one by one in the newspapers of the State of Zeland, and the price of ship tickets to the New World increased by 20%.
The bad news is that the defeat of Shelley's country triggered the second recruitment of the country's country and other countries, and as a senior mage, Link was also within the scope of being recruited.
During this recruitment, the mage was the main force of the recruitment, and the second main force was unemployed people in society. Even if they could not fight, it would be fine to do logistics and move goods to help wash vegetables in the kitchen.
Link's in-laws, Earl Garcia, also wrote magical letters to Link, persuading Link to join the mage group of the State of Zeland. Earl Garcia promised to find a good place for Link.
For Link, if he doesn't want to go, even if the country of Zeland is doing all its strength, he will not be able to beat Link. If Link wants to go, no one can stop him.
Finally, the two sentences on the letter from Earl Garcia touched Link. The first sentence was, just to watch the show. The second sentence was that the seafood company has now stabilized in the State of Zeland, but if the State of Zeland falls, I am afraid that someone will still have to peek at the seafood company. What I have experienced before will have to go to the newly occupied State of Zeland.
After reading the letter, Link also felt that it made sense.
Because seafood companies have strong ability to make money, they have to deal with any problems themselves. The fourteen inland countries are all hungry wolves, and when they occupy this place, their eating habits will only be even more ugly.
If you take action to destroy the country, it will violate the bottom line set by Link for himself.
It is not easy for others to establish and maintain a country, so why bother?
Even if you don’t take action, going to the battlefield seems to be a matter of passing the time. As for the security of Link Port, unemployed people and some temporary workers have been forcibly recruited by the military (catching strong men). The security has been so good recently. Recently, no one has come to collect protection fees for small vendors near Jill City. The guys who used to be responsible for the protection fees are serving the country enthusiastically under the whip of the officers in the army.
In normal times, the country can still tolerate the existence of these underground forces, but during the war, even the survival of the country is threatened. How can it still tolerate the existence of strong labor in society with healthy limbs but no effort to get. In this case, it is naturally to arrest the strong men and serve as the military as a supporter for the military.
As for lazy and dishonest, if you whip dipped in salt water, you will become a model of supporting labor in high spirits. A large number of social experiments have proved that as long as the whip is whipped frequently, humans can be tamed like monkeys.
Link made up, even if he took away the Phoenix Sanctuary where the bed was warmed, there were also two female warriors who were about to be promoted to the Sanctuary.
It doesn't seem to worry too much.
After making the decision, Link responded to the recruitment of the mages of the State of Zeland and joined the military's high mage group in the city of Zeland with his personal maid Phoenix. Because of the personal introduction and guarantee of the magistrate Earl Garcia, Link was appointed as the leader of the fifth high mage group of the State of Zeland.
Link's deputy deputy commander is a level 14 mage. Usually, Link is handed over to the deputy for the matter of the advanced mage group. In the eyes of the deputy commander, this team leader just came here to hang a gilded account because the backstage was strong enough. In a word, he would leave sooner or later.
Anyway, the financial and personnel power of the entire high mage group was handed over to him by the leader, and this deputy leader also lived the life of the leader. There was no difference. If you must want the position of the leader, it would be difficult for the magician Earl Garcia to pass the level.
The fifth-level magic group led by Link, many of the staff were taught instructors at the Magic Academy a few days ago, but now the country is in trouble, so you can stop the course.
Chapter completed!