Seven Dragons Ancient October 21, 1033, the Duchy of Tiling, the province of Morpheus

Although it was noon, the sky in the Morpheus province in the eastern part of the Duchy of Tiling was extremely haze. A layer of gray mist completely blocked the sunlight, adding a hint of gloomy climate that should have been very pleasant. The source of the fog was the blue-black four-sided towers on the earth that stood like chimneys.

These towers are not only very common in the province of Mephis, but also in other provinces in the east. As for the ones who built these towers, they are naturally the actual controller of this large area - the Tiling Expeditionary Force of the Republic of Heles.

Since occupying most of the eastern part of the Duchy of Tiling, Gansimona Besto, the commander-in-chief of the Tiling Expeditionary Force and the Field Marshal of the Republic of Heles, began to vigorously consolidate the Republic's frontier base in Tiling, and changed the terrifying image of the cemetery among human countries, strictly enforced military discipline, rectified riots, prohibited any troops from leaving the base without instructions, and prohibited any necromancer from using the undead summoning technique in dense crowds without danger.

At the same time, he also vigorously appeased the local people, promising not to interfere with the dead in the cemetery and not to force the people to change their faith. Although under the pressure of the Spider Temple in China, he had to expel the pastors in various churches, Gansimona still gave the pastors very gentle to the situation, and at the same time he strongly rejected the Spider Temple's order to burn all churches of light...

These measures quickly calmed down many civilians who were in a panic all day long. In addition, a series of historical reasons have made the people of the Duchy of Tiling not more resistant to the undead mage than other countries. For many poor farmers, as long as they can eat enough and have a safe life, they generally don’t mind whether the nobles or the undead mage are riding on their heads. Anyway, the tax is always paid, so who is not paid to? And to a certain extent, the undead mage is much better than the nobles, because they only need taxes and do not require the people to bear military service and hard labor.

Kak~~~

At this time, on the road leading to the west of Barstow, the capital of the province of Mephis, a team that stretched for several miles was moving forward in an unimaginable neat pace, neither fast nor slow.

When the farmers working in the nearby farmland saw this team, they all looked curious and afraid. In fact, they have not seen the army before, but this army is different from any army they have seen. According to the farmers, there are dead people in this army.

"Report to Marshal! General Weilin sent a message that his 17th and 21st Legion arrived on the east bank of the Disnier River yesterday, and is now about 30 kilometers away from Fort Alex (a fortress east of the city of Xuexi, about 100 kilometers from the west bank of the Disnier River). Since Fort Alex's guard has demolished all nearby bridges, General Weilin now has to urgently build a floating bridge and prepare to forcibly cross the river tomorrow."

"I understand, go down."

Sitting on the back of a huge white bone scorpion, wearing a blue-gray spider-bone beast armor, with marble-shiny skin and wise eyes, Gansimona Bestow, after listening to the news brought by the messenger below, he waved his hand gently, then looked up at the continuous team...

"I don't know how many people will be liberated in this battle..."

This team is very different from the traditional troops of Helesh. In the past, Helesh's legions were often known for being huge, scattered, mechanical, fragile, and not afraid of life and death. The structure was relatively simple. The forward was led by a cannon fodder part composed of a large number of low-level skeletons, zombies, ghosts, etc. The backbone of the legion was a legion composed of a number of ghouls, corpse witches, and vampires. The main force relied on death knights, advanced bone beasts, soul warriors, and high-level reincarnation undead, etc. The commander was generally a necromancer. Such legions often had nearly 50,000, and the number was usually two to three times that of the human legion, but most of them were low-level cannon fodder troops.

When the cemetery first emerged, such troops were indeed extremely terrifying to the Yashan tribes. In addition, the magic technology of the Yashan continent had not yet appeared, so it was indeed difficult for the vast Death Legion to fight with a few manpower alone. However, when people gradually became familiar with the Death Legion in the cemetery, a series of shortcomings of this large corps gradually emerged...

The first thing is the issue of supply. Yes, it is supply. Do the undead need supplies? When this answer is proposed, many people chose to shake their heads, but in fact, no army does not require supplies, and the undead is no exception. The low-level undead can not eat or drink, but when they use weapons, the consumption of arrows must always be supplemented? A skeleton with bare hands and a little courageous farmer can easily pick three with a hoe. Coupled with the dullness and mechanics of the low-level undead, the undead mages quickly realized that unarmed low-level undead are almost as fragile as sheep.

Moreover, low-level undead spirits have a very huge disadvantage. Their dead energy consumes very quickly in the sunlight... In fact, any object's movement requires energy. What life needs is heat energy, food, what mechanical life needs is magic energy, crystals, and what the undead spirit needs is dead energy.

Once the dead energy is consumed, the low-level undead will be reduced to a pile of dead bones or rotten flesh again. This is why the commanders of the undead army are mostly undead mages. As long as they can provide a large amount of dead energy to the huge undead army at all times (so there will be some green fog in the wars that appear in the undead army). However, this makes the undead mages take care of the dead energy of the entire battle, and command the legion, and even if necessary, they have to go into battle in person. The consumption is self-evident. Often, after a battle, the consumption of magic materials is calculated by cars, but even so, the daily death energy consumption of the undead army is still a huge pressure for the undead mages.

The second question is command, which is actually easy to understand. Think about it, how much energy does a person who focuses on magic practice have to learn the knowledge of marching and fighting? Looking at the great arcane masters of the Silver Federation, they are all unfathomable, but they are almost all low-minded people in life, you will know what mages usually look like.

The undead legion just happens to have a very troublesome shortcoming. Because the supply of dead energy is directly related to the strength of the undead legion, it means that the stronger the undead legion, the more legion it controls, but the strong undead legion is often obsessed with research, and marching and fighting are not so good...

So, a dead cycle emerged. The powerful necromancers did not know how to command, but controlled the large legion. Many of the weaker necromancers were military geniuses, but could only control small troops. Some people said that the undead magicians could ask the staff to help? But the strict hierarchy of Heles did not allow such "overpower" to happen. In addition, the already extremely mechanical undead legion, if the command power changed again and again, the result would probably be even more chaotic.

The last one is the quality of soldiers. What are the soldiers of the undead army? Skeletons, zombies, ghosts, and most of the undead who are unconscious and can only perform orders mechanically, vampires, corpse witches, and death knights? They are not soldiers, they are warriors and nobles. Although they are strong, they are not invincible and cannot gain any advantage compared to the elite troops of other races.

A battle or a battle may be decided by elite soldiers, but a war can definitely be decided by soldiers. Although the soldiers of the Undead Legion do not know life and death and can absolutely loyally execute any orders, their prerequisites determine that they are not truly qualified soldiers, lack flexibility, execute orders too rigidly, cannot understand overly complex commands, have no concept of friendly forces, are too fragile, etc.

This series of problems was not too serious at the beginning. With the advantage of quantity, the undead often won a considerable victory. However, when magic technology rose, the form of war changed completely. The idea of ​​massing quality by quantity alone has become the past, the terrifying productivity of the Silver Federation, the flowing production line comparable to the undead summoning technique, the amazingly powerful large-caliber magic cannon, the new magic legion with leading tactics, all pushed the ancient sea of ​​undead tactics to the cliff of history...

At first, the necromancers did not take magic technology to heart and still stick to their past experiences. But when a large number of magic weapons entered Heles in the civil war fifty years ago and played a decisive role, the necromancers finally woke up, so the reverse research of magic technology began. This was not a difficult thing for both mages, but when they really understood magic technology, they faced a huge problem... insufficient manpower.

That's right, it's just that there is insufficient manpower. The early magic technology had very huge requirements for human resources. In order to vigorously develop magic technology, the Silver Federation opened countless technical schools and studied golems that can perform complex actions. However, Helesh did not meet this condition because the cemetery was a country with a small population. The number of necromancers was still full of all, and even the apprentices were only about 100,000. The number of high-level undead with independent consciousness was relatively large, but it was only more than 500,000. Compared with the huge population of nearly 50 million in the Silver Federation, such a population base would be somewhat ineffective in vigorously developing magic technology.

Those unconscious undead have too simple thinking and can only move things with simple actions such as walking, holding, waving, etc., but they are far from being qualified workers. So some enlightened undead mages turned their attention to another huge group, middle and low-level undead with consciousness.

In fact, whether the undead possesses consciousness has nothing to do with strength. It’s just that some low-level undeads are born or summoned, they will be in a period of consciousness chaos. Only after a period of time will consciousness awaken. However, most low-level undeads often have not long "lifetime" and are either defeated on the battlefield, or used in various dangerous experiments, or become victims in the battle practice of the undead mages, so the proportion of middle-level undeads who can have consciousness and survive is relatively small, but even so, the number is nearly 10 million at that time!

But at that time, most of the undead with independent consciousness were slaves to higher undead or undead mages. If they wanted to become free labor, they had to be liberated. All of this was the origin of the [Warewell War]...
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