Chapter 870 Early Morning

At the same moment, when the magic clock of Fort Domico pointed to 10 o'clock in the night, the 1st Infantry Division, which had already assembled, rushed to the truck on the square guided by the lighting circle amidst the sound of slogans.

The number of infantry divisions that began to transfer here one month earlier has exceeded 4,000. At this time, they are all wearing standard individual combat equipment. Although there are many people and they are trotting, they have always maintained a neat formation. There are more than sixty trucks arranged in four rows on the huge square, with numbers on the bodies. And the team with the platoon as the unit boarded the carriage under the leadership of the platoon leader.

Twenty minutes later, together with the six giant trucks used for combat, the convoy of more than 80 began to drive out slowly. The target is the temple.

Fort Domic's location To get to the temple, you need to go north for 80 kilometers, go around the mountains and then go southeast for 40 kilometers. The total distance is at least 150 kilometers. According to the marching speed of ordinary troops, it will take more than a week. However, it took only three hours for the truck team to transport, and more than 1,600 people could be transported at one time!

In the early hours of the morning, the first batch of loaded trucks returned and began to carry the second batch of trucks.

"Get in the car! Hurry up!"

The engineering company was also in the second batch of transferred teams, and the platoon leader Losak shouted loudly at the soldiers behind him. The young people who were always smiling on weekdays looked tense at this moment, and they all boarded the carriage in silence. Losak confirmed that there were no fewer people in the row, and loudly said to the driver in front: "Boarding is complete!"

"receive!"

The driver also belonged to the Armored Division, so he wore the same standard military uniform. After paying a military salute to Losak, he turned around and boarded the cockpit. The humming of the engine starting was already heard, and Losak turned his head to take a look... Fort Domick in the night still looked like a dilapidated mound, but in stark contrast to it was the seemingly endless neat tent.

Even with the military operations of thousands of people, only the orders of non-commissioned officers can be heard in the entire camp, but there is no noisy conversation. And farther away, there are various materials piled up like hills, and the airport runway is faintly visible in the night. Because there is a bright magic circle on the runway, he can also see a falcon parked on one side reconnaissance aircraft.

More than half of the buildings in this camp were built or optimized by the engineering company. Therefore, Losak couldn't help feeling some inexplicable emotions. But when he turned his head and saw the soldiers looking at him in the carriage in front of him, he quickly suppressed all his emotions, and stepped into the carriage with the help of the soldiers beside him stretching out their hands and dragging them.

The young lads all understood that now they were really going to set foot on the battlefield.

"Sound control, lighting control, everyone can rest if they can,

Everything waits until the destination is reached. "

Losak tugged at his belt, and reached out to hold the railing next to the truck when it started to move, "Don't embarrass me when you go to the battlefield. If anyone violates the order, I won't recognize you as my soldier!"

Hearing the slightly ruffian words of the platoon leader, the soldiers tried hard to smile. But most people still clenched their fingers involuntarily... They don't know what is waiting for them tomorrow, and everyone has the same confusion and fear.

There was a strange buzzing sound in the distance, and Losak turned his head to look out the car window, just in time to see a group of vehicles driving into the Fort Domick camp, and the direction should be led from Paar.

He wondered why the other party didn't go directly to the temple where the main battlefield is located. As a result, the strange sound in his ears became louder and louder. He felt a little familiar, because the "Falcon"'s propeller made the same noise, but it was far less dense. .

Putting his face to the car window and looking up, Lorshak finally found the source of the voice and he, like other soldiers, opened his mouth in a daze at this scene as if he was witnessing a god coming down to earth...

"Goddess Siqi is here..."

At night, the convoys departing from Palling and Fort Domic at the same time transported 5,000 soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division, engineering companies from the 1st Armored Division, and combat trucks to the Temple of Efta within 12 hours. Inside, 6,000 people were stuffed into the originally empty "temple" city.

When the last batch of combat troops arrived at the temple, the soldiers who arrived earlier had already boarded another batch of trucks and embarked on the road to battle.

*****

May 9th, four o'clock in the morning.

Dunkel City.

This is an important city 60 kilometers south of the temple. Before this year, the city of Dunkel was actually not prosperous, because there was the temple in the north and the city of Laena in the south. Its greatest role was to be sandwiched between the two. Become a transit. During the orc war last year, Sauron led his troops directly through Efta and drove straight into the southern part of the kingdom. The territory where Dunkel was located inevitably became the hardest hit area.

Of course, because of the walls of Dunkel City, the losses inside the city were not serious, but the surrounding towns and villages were severely looted or slaughtered. Therefore, it has been plagued by a sharp drop in population and food shortages until now, so when Charles II forced the war assembly order this year, the city was full of mourning.

Because of the prevalence of exaggeration, the data reported by each territory to the royal family has undergone various modifications and whitewashes, which made Charles II inevitably overestimate the population and combat strength in the territory. He didn't know that Dunker City, which reported in the letter that "the number of combatants was 4,000 and 520 knights", actually had only about two-thirds of its combat power.

And these figures are the result of including those old, weak, sick and disabled who have no combat effectiveness at all.

The Viscount Berkeley was guarding the city of Dunkel. According to Earl Harrison's plan, he himself would lead a follow-up army of about 15,000 people to converge and attack the temple from the east.

The Viscount Berkeley will wait here for other noble armies to come and encircle the temple from the south.

The plan is like this, but the southern part of the kingdom is raining a lot now. According to the latest news, Viscount Vasana, who was supposed to arrive here the day before yesterday, is still 30 kilometers away. Given the badness of the road, it is estimated that he will arrive at noon tomorrow.

And in all directions, there are more than a dozen viscounts and barons gathered here. If they wait for everyone to arrive before setting off, it will take about 20 days.

Therefore, the Earl of Berkeley knew that it was useless to be anxious, so he just stayed comfortably in his Earl's Mansion every day. And the people brought by the barons and knights under him were all arranged by him in a camp outside the city because of their scattered organization. The assigned task is to build a camp, level the ground, and make full preparations for the upcoming large troops.

Molik, a city defense soldier standing guard on the city wall, was dozing off with his wooden stick in his arms. In fact, the city defense army originally issued metal sabers. But last year, the orcs looted almost all metal and iron weapons, which caused many insignificant positions to have their quotas for using metal weapons cancelled. Molik didn't care about this. He lived an extremely monotonous life every day. Besides eating, he just had fun and slept. Anyway, as long as the salary didn't make him hungry, who cares about other things?

When it was almost dawn, Polly, the companion who came to change shifts, kicked his ass. Morik woke up suddenly, and then looked at Polly with sleepy eyes: "Huh? It's time?"

"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have come. I think you can still sleep for three hours."

Polly joked that his coming was actually equivalent to sleeping in another place. The two had nothing to talk about. Molik stood up while yawning. He just stretched his waist and suddenly stopped: "What's that sound?"

When the sky is still dark, the birds and insects are almost silent. Therefore, standing on the city wall, certain noises can be heard clearly. Polly frowned and listened, feeling like the sound of some huge creature's footsteps landing, dull and regular, he guessed: "Could it be an earth dragon? Or some large monster?"

"It's possible, the weather is getting warmer, and all these ghosts in the forest will come out and wander around..."

Molik didn't think too much, accepted this explanation, and then said in a serious manner: "Hey, have you heard of it. Dragons appeared here more than ten years ago!"

"Fuck you, I'm going to sleep, I don't have time to talk to you about this!"

Polly waved his hand to let Morik leave, but apart from the two of them, no one else in the city realized that something was approaching the city.

*****

At five o'clock in the morning, it was just dawn.

The city where Earl Harrison is located is called Suvala City, and the army he assembled has also stayed outside the city. More than 2,000 soldiers and knights have lived in the place called "Turtleback Camp" for more than ten days. With the current situation, they all know that there may be a month or so before leaving the war.

Because there was no news of the enemy gathering for a long time, everyone thought that the next battle would be a tough battle. Therefore, before the Earl's military order was actually issued, these soldiers lived very idle every day.

There is a curfew in Suwara City at night, but there are not so many regulations in the "Turtleback Camp". The most important thing is that many caravans have opened pubs, casinos and even prostitutes next to the camp in order to earn money from these big soldiers. After a while, I really made a lot of money. It stands to reason that this is against the rules, but Earl Harrison didn't care about it, and these guys did give the restless big soldiers a place to vent their desire and energy, so they just turned a blind eye.

Just coming out of the smelly brothel, Borda, who drank a little too much, walked unsteadily on the path with his machete slanted. He made a small fortune at the casino last night, spent the rest of the night in the simple tent with the money, and returned to the camp now because all the coins were stuffed into the panties of those girls .