Three days later, on the great plains only a dozen kilometers away from Yelan Tyr, the armies of the Kingdom and Empire finally began to form formations.
The highly professional Empire dispatched an army of 60,000.
Among them, 30,000 are traditional infantry and 20,000 cavalry. The remaining 5,000 Royal Guard and 5,000 Musketeers are the real main force of this war.
In contrast, although the total number of people participating in the war on the Kingdom's side was as high as 200,000, in fact, the number of real professional soldiers was less than 30,000. The rest were either farmers recruited temporarily, or aristocratic private armies with no guarantee of combat effectiveness.
After all, the biggest feature of the feudal system is that King cannot interfere with the specific affairs within the aristocratic territory.
In addition, Allen had recently purged a large number of nobles and noble private armies, resulting in a lack of middle and lower-level officers, and the overall organizational structure was completely outclassed by the opponent.
Due to the lack of effective command, some troops fell into chaos before the fighting even started, and the soldiers did not know what to do.
"It's so ugly! No wonder you want to start a Great Purge against the upper ruling class of this country. They are already rotten from the root." Sakura commented while watching the situation of the Kingdom army.
Just as the girl said, compared with the Empire, which has completed centralization and is now revitalizing Infinity, Kingdom is like a twilight old man who cannot even coordinate his hands and feet.
In particular, the royal family, as the supreme leader, has long lost the prestige necessary to rule.
Allen smiled and shrugged his shoulders and said, "Being born in sorrow and dying in happiness is the most appropriate way to describe Kingdom Kingdom.
This country was founded more than two hundred years ago when Thirteen Heroes quelled the chaos of gods and demons. Its royal family is most likely the descendant of a certain hero.
So they have a good relationship with Council Nation that Platinum Dragon King, and there has never been a war on the northern border.
In addition, it is surrounded by the Empire and Theocracy, who are both human beings. It is the only country that does not need to worry too much about being invaded by Alien Race.
In the long-term peaceful environment, its ruling class nobles have gradually become greedy and arrogant, and have long forgotten the darkness and suffering that mankind experienced before the arrival of the first players.
He even forgot that outside, there are countless Alien Race and monsters waiting to come back in and turn humans into their slaves again.
Look at other human countries in the world, whether it is Holy Kingdom, Theocracy, or Empire, Dragon Country, which upper-level ruling class has fallen to such an irredeemable level.
This is what I have often mentioned to you. If a country, civilization and race want to remain strong, they need a powerful enemy from the outside.
Because only in this case can it be easier to unite and unite people and ignore internal contradictions.
At the same time, the ruling class will also suppress their subconscious greed and allocate more resources to suitable places instead of secretly stuffing them into their own pockets. "
"So you deliberately left Great Tomb of Nazarick behind just to make them become that powerful foreign enemy?" Sakura showed an expression of interest on her face.
"Yes! There are indeed considerations in this regard.
But the most important thing is to weaken the number of Alien Race and monsters.
You have to understand that the guy who changed his name to Ainz Wuer Gong, in addition to desperately denying his past self, subconsciously did not regard the world as real, but stayed in the wrong perception of himself in the game.
In other words, his behavior continues the rules of the players in the game.
For example, if you regard life as a series of meaningless numbers, you can order the massacre of thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands or millions of civilians without any scruples in order to achieve a certain goal without any guilt or guilt.
Because in Game World, the players called Fourth Great Calamity are such a scary group without any bottom line.
As long as they are given a target and a little reward, they don't even mind destroying the entire world.
I believe you can already feel this a lot from the hunters in the Hunter Association.
If I hadn't used the rules to prohibit them from obtaining Experience Points from humans, I'm afraid these guys would start killing each other without hesitation.
Therefore, according to the behavior of those evil NPCs of Nazarick, they will not care about the life and death of Alien Race and monsters, but will only treat them as a consumable resource and exploit and exploit them to the maximum extent.
In this way, humans no longer need to spend a lot of time and energy to collect them in inaccessible forests and wastelands as before. They only need to kill them in large numbers on the frontal battlefield.
As for the most troublesome search and arrest, the other party will complete it for us. "
Allen gave a meaningful and detailed explanation.
In fact, with the exception of the first six players who crossed over to get married and have children, all the players who crossed over later had very obvious symptoms of this kind.
This is true for the wanton Eight Greed Kings, and the same is true for Thirteen Heroes who regards his second life as an adventure journey.
"That's it!"
The girl nodded in understanding.
Just when she was about to say something, the Kingdom army, which had the numerical advantage, finally began to take the initiative to attack.
I saw the Chinese infantry Phalanx holding spears and began to stride forward while shouting slogans.
The cavalry on the left and right flanks also moved slowly, ready to engage the enemy's cavalry at any time.
There is no doubt that this is a quite satisfactory tactic. There are no eye-catching operations, but there are also no obvious weaknesses.
After all, in the eyes of the commander-in-chief of the Kingdom army, the number of soldiers in his army is several times that of the opponent's. There is no need to take risks and play those little tricks. The battle can be won by just spending money.
Looking at the oncoming infantry Phalanx, a mocking expression appeared on Bloody Emperor's face. He raised his hand and ordered his commander Firearm Troops: "Go! Teach these stupid Kingdom people a lesson. Times have changed."
"As you wish!"
The commander put one hand on his chest and bowed, then immediately raised the signal gun in his hand and pulled the trigger.
Accompanied by a piercing scream and red tracer bullets streaking across the sky, five thousand people Firearm Troops, who had experienced the baptism of blood and fire, finally came to the front of the formation at extremely fast speeds, holding Black Hole's thermal weapon to aim at the opponent.
"What is that?!"
An Kingdom Nobles officer who was commanding the infantry Phalanx frowned and asked the deputy next to him.
The latter shook his head slightly. "I don't know! It may be some newly developed secret weapon. I heard that Empire has invested a lot in magic, so it is not surprising to develop several new weapons. However, magic has always been famous for being expensive, and we will still have to fight hand to hand after one round at most. There is nothing to be afraid of!"
"That's right! Let the royal family's troops go first!"
The noble officer rolled his eyes and immediately raised his hand to signal his private army to slow down and allow the infantrymen belonging to the royal family on both sides to pass.
It has to be said that this coquettish act not only made old King almost explode with anger, but also made Empire look surprised.
What's even more frightening is that his selfish approach caused many nobles to imitate him, instantly causing large and jagged gaps to appear in the originally neatly advancing front.
"Hahahaha! This is really a God-given opportunity! Everyone listens to the order! Raise the gun! Aim!" Commander Empire Firearm Troops laughed wildly.
There is no way not to laugh!
If the opponent directly presses the entire front line, the five thousand people under his command may not be able to stop it.
But if we send them away in waves like now, they will definitely die as many as they come.
When the first wave of Phalanx came into range, this old man who looked to be in his fifties finally gave the attack order with a wave of his hand.
"Fire!"
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang...
The musketeers who remained in a half-crouched position did not hesitate to pull the triggers in their hands. A row of white smoke suddenly floated in front of the Empire position, and a crisp sound echoed over the battlefield.
Although they did not use any skills such as spikes, Concussive Shot, Arcane Shot, hundreds of people fell to the ground in response, and the spectacular scene was like cutting wheat.
Since these guns were designed to attack huge targets, such as Ogre, Orcs and large monsters, the caliber of the barrels and bullets are both scary.
On Earth, a well-placed shot could kill an elephant.
Therefore, these unlucky guys who were shot basically had a huge blood hole, and the surrounding muscles, bones and internal organs flew out.
In less than five minutes, five thousand people fell on the path of the charge.
The horrific scene of corpses strewn across the fields crazily stimulated the most sensitive nerves of everyone in the Kingdom army.
Because even after paying such huge casualties, they still failed to get close to the special force standing in front of the formation holding muskets.
What's even more frightening is that the wounded soldiers who did not die immediately struggled to crawl out of the pile of corpses and let out heart-rending screams, which caused an unimaginable blow to morale.
"Sorcery! Empire is performing sorcery! We can't win! Run away! If you don't want to die, run away!"
I don't know who shouted first, and the attack formation formed by the Kingdom collapsed instantly.
Thousands of infantrymen turned around and ran back like crazy.
A few noble officers stepped forward to try to turn the tide and prevent this disastrous rout.
But many soldiers had mental problems. When the nobles raised their swords to kill the deserters, they pounced on them, pulled the nobles off their horses, and then cut them into pieces in an extremely brutal way.
In the end, it even turned into a riot where whenever a noble was encountered, they would be killed without any explanation.
Although Warrior Chief Gedō and Marquis Raven, who led the cavalry, joined forces to suppress the riot.
But just when they were about to succeed, Empire finally sent out all its cavalry to launch a tsunami-like attack, which was the last straw that broke the camel's back.
As a symbol of the era of hot weapons, the appearance of the musket in the world's first regular battle completely shocked everyone.
Especially Theocracy, who didn't think highly of this kind of weapon before, after seeing the footage from the battlefield, he immediately held an emergency High Priest meeting in less than three minutes and made a plan to purchase 100,000 Hunter Association.
"Haha! This victory came much easier than expected."
Seeing that his army easily defeated the army of his old rival Kingdom, and even his own casualties were negligible, Bloody Emperor finally showed a satisfied smile, and even began to imagine the wonderful scene of sweeping through those non-human countries in his mind.
No Emperor can resist the temptation to expand territory!
What's more, through this war, he has completely understood how lethal weapons like muskets are to ordinary soldiers.
Almost no army can withstand such horrific casualties without collapsing, even the fierce Orcs army that is about to destroy Dragon Country is no exception.
"Your Majesty, Script and the actors are already in place. It's time for the show to begin." A royal mage reminded in a low voice.
"Well! Let's see together what's so special about this King Arthur."
As he spoke, Bloody Emperor turned his attention to the figure emerging from the crystal ball next to him.
"Your Highness! Quick! Get on this horse!"
Chiare found Artoria in the chaos and handed the reins of a white horse without any stray hairs to the opponent's hand.
Although she knew how dangerous the current situation was for a young girl, she still did not run away alone.
But Saber just touched the girl's hair and shook his head with a smile, "No! Chiare! I don't plan to run away! Let alone run away!"
"Huh?! What!" The girl's eyes widened in surprise.
"Because the more times like this, people will long for the appearance of heroes, expecting heroes to lead them out of trouble. Didn't you say before that it would be great if I could become the king of this country? Now, I am going to fulfill the responsibilities of a king and save this country that is in dire straits."
After that, Artoria picked up the girl and placed her on the saddle, then pulled out the golden holy sword that was carried behind his back. Under the gaze of countless deserters, he resolutely faced the oncoming Empire cavalry.
"Then... isn't that His Majesty King's illegitimate son Arthur? Is he crazy?" A soldier couldn't help shouting.
"Maybe! But at least compared to us cowards, he is a warrior, isn't he?" Another person next to him showed an extremely complicated expression.
Just when everyone thought that this behavior was tantamount to death, Saber raised the holy sword in his hand high and suddenly released Noble Phantasm's true name.
moment!
The dazzling golden light fell from the sky, covering her whole body with a sacred aura.
This is no longer a simple light, but Holy Light energy from Paladin. Everyone who is exposed to it feels an inexplicable warmth, and at the same time, the injuries on the body heal quickly.
Before Empire's chasing cavalry could realize what was happening, Artoria finally swung the sword.
boom!
Golden beams of light spurted out from the sword, splitting the earth like divine punishment, leaving a huge ravine on the ground that was ten meters wide and three or four meters deep, stretching for several kilometers.