Chapter 308 Slave Soldiers Charge

The Menzoberranzan Dark Elf Crusade and the Revolutionary Army encountered each other in the great cavern south of Guntergrim. The two sides formed military formations like traditional Faerûnian armies.

The Great Cave in the South of Guntergrim is equivalent to the plains of the surface world. It is a giant underground cave covering an area of ​​nearly a hundred square kilometers. The topography here is different from the cramped cave network common in the Underdark. It is very spacious and has a small ceiling. It is very high and is suitable for use as a frontal combat battlefield.

The Dark Elf Crusade was under the surveillance of the guerrillas all the way, but was not disturbed along the way. Luo Feng wanted to draw the main force of the Dark Elf out of Menzoberranzan and proactively seek a decisive battle, and did not want to cause any complications.

Nowadays, the balance of strength between the two sides has changed. The strength of the extraordinary ones in the Dark Elf army, which has temporarily lost the protection of Spider Queen Rose, has been greatly weakened. However, the Red Revolutionary Army has accumulated enough weapons and ammunition, and its morale is like a rainbow. With the remaining power of Rose and Elminster joining forces, they vowed to give a severe lesson to this group of Rose's minions and lackeys who had been oppressing them.

The number of soldiers of the Revolutionary Army facing the dark elves was about 4,000, of which 3,000 soldiers established trench positions on the front and built bunkers, barbed wire and trench fortifications.

The Dark Elf army has thirty thousand soldiers, of which twenty thousand are slave soldiers, and ten thousand are the Dark Elf family alliance composed of private soldiers of each family.

The military strength ratio is ten to one.

Mother Ban Rui stood on the high stone platform built behind the military formation, turned on dark vision and looked at the defense line established by the Red Revolutionary Army in the distance. This 600-year-old grandmother has rich war experience. It was her last time He led his army to conquer Blingden Stone City and sacrificed more than 10,000 gray dwarves and deep dwarves to the great Lolth, gaining great appreciation from Lolth.

This time Rose issued a decree, asking her to form an army to fight against the red believers. Faintly, Matron Baenre felt very uneasy.

The bad omen has appeared. The outstanding warlocks and priests of various dark elf families in Menzoberranzan have lost the spells given by the Spider Queen. Some family members who are not appreciated by the Spider Queen have even lost their spellcasting ability.

The plane merchants brought news from the outside world. Mother Baenre had learned about the believers' record in Amn. It was for this reason that Menzoberranzan had not sent out troops to attack.

Unity is the biggest weakness of Menzoberranzan's family political system. Among the thirteen families, no two families can completely trust each other.

Forcing any family to send troops will be regarded as a way for the first family, the Banrei family, to take advantage of the situation.

As for the Banrei family sending troops alone? The mistress didn't want to weaken the family's strength in vain. She was also worried that the second and third families would unite and take advantage of the Banrei family to attack and replace them.

Killing each other and trapping each other often happened among the dark elf families.

However, after the Spider Queen issued an oracle to all the family matrons, the conflicts between the various families were temporarily put on hold, and the coalition was successfully established. After all, in the eyes of the dark elves, the sky is vast and the Spider Queen is the largest, and the Spider Queen allows them to give birth. , they can live, let them die, they will die generously.

It cannot be said that the dark elves' faith is so devout. It is a kind of instinctive fear, and the servility is engraved in the bones. The dark elves seem to despise all other races and pretend to be superior, but in fact they are the most servile.

Seeing the defensive position established by the enemy, Mother Banre was keenly aware that the opponent might not have many people, and they did not rely on the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain of Bullingdon Stone City, but if they wanted to break through, they would have to pay a bloody price.

Those barbed wire fences and rock fortresses can greatly slow down the charging speed of soldiers. The red soldiers have extremely powerful long-range weapons-guns. The war situation is completely different from the past. I am afraid that many soldiers can't even see the enemy's face. Died on the way to charge.

The arrow was on the string and had to be fired. Even if she knew that there was a mill of flesh and blood ahead, Matron Baenre would not dare to order the troops to retreat. If she disobeyed the Spider Queen's oracle and angered Lolth and ordered the gods to condemn her, the Baenre family would be like the Do'Urden family. Same, overturned overnight.

Fortunately, the city of Menzoberranzan has a large amount of cannon fodder to consume. Bugbears, trolls, gray dwarves, deep gnomes, humans and even elven slaves were all armed, and each was issued a rusty spear. They only You need to rush up to consume the bullets of the red warriors, level the trench with your body, and place it on the barbed wire fence. The agile dark elf warriors can step on their corpses and rush through the blockade.

"Go ahead and ask the slave soldiers to send out two thousand-man teams to test how the enemy's defensive positions work."

Mistress Baenre gave an order to her chief maid.

The slave legion's military formation was arranged in front of the dark elf military formation, with the purpose of using their bodies to help the dark elf soldiers block long-range weapons.

Several dark elf generals led the supervisory army to drive out two groups of slave soldiers, and used scimitars and whips to drive them towards the trench position of the Red Revolutionary Army.

The distance between the two armies was a thousand meters, and the slave soldiers were not charging very fast. The slaves with low morale were armed with the simplest weapons, no armor, and almost no clothes. They knew very well that this was forcing them to die, but If you don't charge, you will still be killed, and you can only drag your feet, helplessly and numbly embarking on the road to death.

The two groups of slaves were driven side by side like sheep, getting closer and closer to the position established by the revolutionary army. However, there was silence on the position, with no gunfire or fire.

The dark elf supervisory team also followed the charge. These drow soldiers were the most disliked mongrel elves from each family and had impure blood. They were incorporated into the slave legion as military police. Their duty was not to kill the enemy, but to kill. Get rid of runaway slaves.

But in fact, they themselves are also part of the cannon fodder. The slave army is often defeated in battle, and the prison army is among the defeated soldiers. There are often not many people who can escape safely. Even if they escape, they will be discriminated against and be discriminated against. Considered a coward and a weakling.

Seeing that the slave soldiers were about to approach the first barbed wire fence, Mistress Banrei narrowed her eyes. She did not believe that the red believers would be kind enough not to kill the slave soldiers who were forced to go to the battlefield.

If the other party wants to shoot, and if it continues to be delayed, I am afraid that it will have to wait until this time. The slaves cannot be in vain to tear down the barbed wire fence and fill in the trench.

The scene of gunshots that Mistress Banre was waiting for did not happen. The slaves actually used their crude weapons to tear down the first barbed wire fence and jumped into the first trench one after another.

"What's going on?" the mistress muttered, "Is this defensive position fake?"

But she knew very well that the revolutionary position could not be fake. Although Matron Baenre was old and the oldest dark elf in Menzoberranzan, her eyesight was getting sharper. She had top-notch heat vision. The thermal energy signals emitted by the soldiers hidden in the position can be clearly seen.

The other generals in the family alliance were also the matrons of other families. Seeing such a strange situation, a matron couldn't help but mocked: "Is it because of the emotions of pity and sympathy for the weak? Fame Fee The red believers in the surface world of Lun are nothing more than this, they are really stupid..."