18th century total war

Chapter 395 Deserters and Massacre
"Your Majesty, can I, the humble one, ask a question?"

Merlin said to Li Wei, listening to the constant roar of explosions coming from the sky.

Perhaps because of the first large-scale annihilation of an alien army, Li Wei came to North Africa to personally command the "Private Conquest", which was unprecedented.

Of course, Li Wei's main purpose is to see for the first time what human beings from other worlds look like.

After all, this is a war that must be won. There are hundreds of thousands of troops in front of Li Wei who have been stamped with ideological stamps and equipped with the latest military equipment of the empire. Li Wei naturally does not need to worry about his own safety.

Moreover, apart from this battle, Levi estimated that he would never be able to get close to the front lines of the alien battlefield again.

Unless the enemy hits the mainland of Europa, but Li Wei thinks that is almost impossible.

On the premise of ensuring his own safety, Li Wei is still willing to feel the atmosphere of war and satisfy his vanity and curiosity by the way.

"Go ahead."

Li Wei said lightly.

"Your Majesty, we can choose not to start a war and throw the Xuanwu Legion's millions of troops directly into the depths of the Sahara Desert instead of near the edge of the Atlantic coast.

It is impossible for the Arigado Empire to waste too many magic stone resources to equip the Xuanwu Army with enough food and logistics supplies.

According to my estimation, a cannon-fodder unit like the Xuanwu Legion probably only carried water and rations for three days.

They are all carried by a single soldier and no independent logistics team is prepared.

If they were thrown into the depths of the Sahara Desert, it would only take three days for the Xuanwu Legion to fall into a situation of killing each other. "

Li Wei glanced at Merlin, and replied flatly:
"If our enemy is an army composed of ordinary people, your method is naturally the best.

But I remember you told me in detail that the Xuanwu Legion recruited many great warriors and even mercenaries and outlaws with the strength of sergeants and knights.

These people are all unstable factors.

The Sahara Desert is really too big. If the Basalt Army is thrown deep into the Sahara Desert, my army will not be able to complete the encirclement.

Yes, the Xuanwu Legion with a scale of one million will fall into self-destruction, but this also means that for the strong in the Xuanwu Legion, they have a spare ration of millions of human figures!

With such ample 'food reserves', do you think those strong men whose physical fitness has surpassed that of ordinary humans will not be able to get out of the Sahara Desert?
What's more, there are still a few oasis strongholds in the Sahara Desert.

These people may not be able to form a large army together, but their high individual strength and physical characteristics that are no different from European whites are enough to allow them to easily integrate into the society of the Europa Empire.

After these people learn the truth, do you think they will retaliate against me and my empire?

This is not the revenge of a group of ordinary people, but the revenge of 'superhumans' whose bodies have been transformed!

They may not be able to break into the heavily guarded Palace of Versailles, but it will not be difficult to destroy a few arsenals.

I don't want to leave these hidden dangers to be cleaned up within the empire.

I would rather spend some more ammunition and annihilate all these enemies on the Gobi Desert! "

"I'm so sorry, Your Majesty.

Your wisdom is like the bright stars in the sky, as small as I can never reach your footsteps. "

"I've heard this kind of words. My ears are so calloused. As the minister of the Ministry of Magic and the highest individual combat power in the empire, you don't need to do things like those ordinary cabinet ministers. Do your job well and assist me well, you No one can move your position!"

"Thank you Your Majesty for your grace, your will is the guiding light in my life."

While Li Wei was chatting with Merlin, the Xuanwu Legion was suffering the second round of bombing!
This time, General Michael and several senior military officers of the Black Tortoise Corps finally figured out the approximate source of the enemy.

For superhumans with strong physical fitness, it is not difficult to judge by listening to the sound.

What worries General Michael is that he finds it difficult to gather the remaining troops of the Black Tortoise Legion now!
When the sound of the artillery stopped and his orderlies began to gather the rout troops, new strange flying objects would appear above them, and then a new round of shelling would arrive as expected, blowing up the troops that had just gathered into the sky...

Unlike the first saturation bombing, the second bombing was obviously more scattered and carried out in waves.

This is mainly because after more than [-] troops were killed in the bombing, the surviving people learned to behave well, and all stayed away from the alien portal.

Many corps disbanded on their own, ignoring the messengers of the Xuanwu Legion, and fled in all directions on their own.

When 10 people were killed in the bombing, there were at least 30 troops from the Xuanwu Legion fleeing for their lives!
As for the troops who have just stepped out of the alien portal, after seeing the scene of the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood, even if the herald sent by General Michael to guide them with the command flag, the formation will quickly disperse and fall into chaos .

By the time the chaos was over, if there had been no artillery bombardment, the troops would have been dispersed by [-] to [-] percent deserters.

If a shell just happened to fall, basically half of the troops would not be able to keep them, they would either be killed or run away...

No way, this is the fate of filling in a large number of motley troops.

In addition, in order to control the miscellaneous army, the Xuanwu Legion divided the original direct troops into the miscellaneous army one by one, acting as military police and military judges. As a result, these direct troops were all led away by the chaos of the miscellaneous army. Rhythm, either you will be killed together, or you will run away together...

In this way, the Xuanwu Army was suddenly bombarded by 150mm howitzers for a whole day!
Until the night fell, the alien portal completed its mission and disappeared. General Michael only gathered 23 troops of the millions of troops that had been teleported...

The only good news for General Michael is that there is no need to worry about insufficient equipment.

After realizing that they would not be bombed in the dark, the gathered army of 23 began to search for useful supplies and weapons in an organized manner on the sandy ground full of corpses.

Originally, due to the rapid expansion of the Xuanwu Legion, the armor coverage rate was less than half. The armor coverage rate here even includes light chain armor!

Not even one piece of that kind of soldier wearing heavy armor or multiple layers of armor!

This is not to say that the smelting system of the Arigado Empire is not perfect. After all, they are a magical civilization, and they can use magic means to help smelt iron, and they can even refine a small amount of enchanted armor.

However, the Xuanwu Legion, as the last of the four major legions, the actual imperial security brigade, has always had a very low armor rate, and it is not comparable to the other three major legions that are all armored.

Among the three armies of Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Suzaku, even ordinary long-range units would wear a set of light armor.

But in the Xuanwu Legion, only the main melee fighters in the direct descendants are eligible to wear iron armor!
Fortunately, when the Xuanwu Legion expanded, many mercenaries and desperadoes recruited had their own armor, which greatly increased the armor rate.

When General Michael organized his men to search for armor and equipment from the mountain of corpses of his own army, among the tens of thousands of people who fled, the fastest-running group had already touched the periphery of the first line of defense established by the Imperial Guards.

For the deserters of the Xuanwu Legion who were at least awakened to the rank of Warrior Seed of Fighting, the night was not an obstacle to their escape.

A team of hundreds of people, under the moonlight, is scattered but running forward efficiently. The front is a scout with a very strong ability to survive in the wild. He used to do this when he was in the mercenary group.

They quickly led their team to the Gobi Desert. According to their own calculations, they should be able to see the source of water at dawn!

The team of hundreds of people originally belonged to the same mercenary group, which belonged to the upper-middle mercenary group in the mercenary circle of the Arigado Empire, and the name was the Black Bear Mercenary Group.

The reputation of the Black Bear Mercenary Group is very good in the mercenary world, and the atmosphere within the group is excellent. The leader even regards not abandoning any partner as the motto of the mercenary group.

It's not just empty talk, but it's actually done!
The family members of every comrade who died in the mercenary group can receive a pension from the public assets of the mercenary group.

In the Arigado Empire, the mercenary groups with good reputation basically have a similar system.

This also guaranteed the combat effectiveness of the mercenary group.

In the face of foreign wars, the nobles and royal families of the Arigado Empire like to hire such reputable mercenary groups to fight.

The black bear mercenary group was lucky. When the first round of artillery was shot down, they had already rested in the desert away from the alien portal, and no one died in the magical artillery fire.

After the initial panic, the Black Bear Mercenary Group learned that this attack was not caused by magic, because the mercenary group happened to have an object specially designed to test magic energy, and learned that there was no magic energy in this new world!

This is a magic energy tester with a not too complicated structure. It is a rarely used auxiliary device on the Macabaka continent. However, when the coordinates of the new world were discovered, it immediately sold out!

Groups and even individuals who have the strength to go to the new world hope that they can accurately measure the amount of magical energy in the new world.

"Captain, there are lights in front, there should be people there.

According to those officials in the empire, this new world is a world dominated by humans.

In this world without magical energy, human beings can't cultivate at all, and they must be as vulnerable as weak farmers. "

The scouts who explored the way ahead came to report to the head of the Black Bear Mercenary Corps.

Since leaving the Xuanwu Legion and becoming a deserter, the Black Bear Mercenary Corps has restored its original 'organization'.

It is difficult for the self-contained black bear mercenary group to have a sense of belonging to the empire. Their purpose of joining the Xuanwu Legion is only to leave the Makabaka continent that is about to perish.

Most of them even accepted the harsh conditions of not bringing their families with them.

Of course, there were also members of the mercenary group who wanted to die with their families and did not join the Xuanwu Army.

This is not to say that those who choose to join the Xuanwu Legion are all ruthless, many of them were persuaded to join by their family members.

No one wants to face death, and no one wants their family members to die with them...

The scene of the whole family hugging to meet death is not because of no choice, but because of the artistic effect of film and television dramas...

In true human nature, most people are still willing to let their family members who are able to survive live as much as possible, instead of facing death meaninglessly with themselves!

Of course, because of this, most of the expanded members of the Xuanwu Legion cherish their own lives even more, because they are carrying the hard work of their family members to live on!

Therefore, after seeing that the Xuanwu Army was torn apart and suffered heavy losses under the bombing of the invisible enemy, many people chose to survive and flee instead of dying with the Xuanwu Army.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the bombing intensity was no less than that of the mage regiment. Without the help of mages, the Xuanwu Legion, which didn't even have a decent cavalry regiment, was no match for them at all.

Rather than follow the large force of the Xuanwu Army and be wiped out by the main force of the enemy, it is better to escape with people you know well.

The glory of the Arigado Empire is far less important to them than survival!
Take your family share and live together!

The leader of the Black Bear Mercenary Group licked his dry lips, called all the leaders of the mercenary group over, and told everyone: "Let everyone stop saving water, we will get enough supplies tonight!"

The members of the Black Bear Mercenary Group never thought that they would fail. After all, they were facing a group of 'weak humans' who hadn't even been bathed in magical energy.

In the Arigado Empire, an official warrior, even if he has never been on a battlefield, can easily defeat three or five ordinary adult men!
After simple mobilization, the black bear mercenary group began to quickly approach the target lights.

They walked slowly at first, and their speed continued to increase. Only when they were close to the enemy did they suddenly accelerate, leaving enough energy for fighting.

However, they have just come to the 400m range.

When they came to a distance where even the most accurate marksman in the mercenary regiment could not hit the enemy, several bright lights suddenly rose in the sky.

That was a flare fired by the imperial guards!
Under the reflection of the flares, hundreds of strong men from the Black Bear Mercenary Corps were exposed to naked gunpoints.

Before the Black Bear Mercenary Group figured out what was going on, there was a fast-paced rattling sound from the opposite side, mixed with a messy and very heavy muffled sound.

Immediately afterwards, the members of the Black Bear Mercenary Group found that the people around them and even themselves fell to the ground one by one!

"hidden weapon!
This is the enemy's hidden weapon! "

"Where are they?

There are no enemies around us approaching, where did these hidden weapons come from? "

"Everyone, look at the enemies in the distance, they are spraying flames (actually tracer bombs used at night)!"

Shouts, cries for help, and wails all joined together, and within a few minutes of shooting, no one in the hundreds of black bear mercenaries stood still...

(End of this chapter)