Chapter 304: Restarting the War
Ten days before the war was scheduled to begin, Roland and Hela returned to the border of the War Council in time.
When Roland returned, the logistical supplies and legions from the front had all arrived, and the construction work of the spellcasters in the Dead Land had basically been completed. The five roads that traversed the Dead Land and connected the War Council and the Greenskin Warlords had all been paved.
Countless military camps were built along the border, and a large number of legion soldiers were ready to fight the green-skinned orcs.
After the war council resolved all their worries, they were all in high spirits and eager to take revenge on the green-skinned orcs.
Next to the military camps, logistics camps were built. A large number of weapons and equipment and various supplies were piled up in the logistics camps. A large number of logistics personnel were busy counting the inflow and outflow of all materials.
Next to these ordinary logistics camps, nearly thirty tall trees are growing around the logistics camps.
As one of the achievements of the botanical garden, these tall trees are hollow and can store and preserve huge amounts of food.
And, the most important point is that these trees are not afraid of fire, and their bodies maintain low temperatures for a long time, making them difficult to ignite.
And around these tall trees, a large number of extraordinary plants responsible for transporting food are densely rooted in the land and resting quietly.
On the other side of the extraordinary plants, a large number of undead creatures piled up into small hills, sleeping silently, waiting for new orders.
The Executive Committee and the military have completed all pre-war preparations. Once Roland takes office and signs the war order, the newly established war machine of the War Committee will be officially launched.
On the border, in the central camp, except for its location, its appearance is no different from other camps.
Roland sat in the main seat in the military camp and calmly read through the war plan submitted by the military.
This final plan was not much different from the one that was decided upon at the beginning.
Although Roland encouraged military members to use their talents, almost no one in the military could come up with a good war plan.
As a result, the war plan drawn up by Roland had almost no modifications.
Even people like Tula and Odin, who had fought in the battlefield and commanded armies, had no objection to the war plan drawn up by Roland.
Although Tula was promoted to the head of the legion by Roland's headquarters, he had never received any military education and had to rely on his own exploration and learning of command techniques.
Odin, who was born into a noble family, received a complete aristocratic education and inherited the family's command skills. However, Donnar's traditional command skills focused on small and precise victory plans.
But even if she was the most outstanding Odin, she could only command an army of less than 10,000 people at most. She would not be able to command more than that. This was only after she had experienced the baptism of the Green Tide. The previous Odin could only command two to three thousand cavalry at most.
Therefore, compared to this group of people, Roland, who had fought in countless professional games in his previous life and commanded countless battles in the virtual world, became the most experienced person in the War Committee.
Roland put down the war plan in his hand and looked up at the people in the barracks.
At this time, all the senior officials of the army, several executive committee members, all the legion commanders and primarchs gathered in the military camp.
Under the gaze of everyone, Roland calmly signed his name on the war plan.
Then, Roland looked up at everyone and spoke.
"Everyone, the war has begun. Go back and prepare. We will move camp and march tomorrow."
"Yes, Chairman."
Everyone responded in unison.
Afterwards, everyone said goodbye one by one and left the military camp.
The next day, it was dawn.
At Roland's command, all the soldiers who were ready at the border began to move.
Legion soldiers walked onto the road to the death land in an orderly manner and began to shuttle through the death land.
As the legion soldiers advanced, the Wood Apostle also awakened the extraordinary plants that took root in the border land, driving them onto the road of death and transporting food supplies along with them.
Behind the extraordinary plants are a large number of ordinary undead. Under the control of the undead tools, the logistics personnel command the undead, carrying various weapons and equipment, logistical supplies, and silently following behind the army.
Since the establishment of the War Council, the first war against the greenskins has begun.
After passing through the road of death, the legion soldiers quickly dispersed in groups of thousands.
After the War Council's unstinting cultivation and training, even ordinary legion soldiers can now easily deal with several green-skinned orcs.
According to the military's conservative estimates, if a team of 100 people carried sufficient logistical supplies, it was entirely possible for them to defeat a greenskin tribe of 1,000 people on their own.
Therefore, under the stranglehold of the thousand-man teams, the greenskin tribes living near the death zone quickly pulled out one by one.
Following the War Council's order to kill all the green-skinned orcs, the area near the death zone was quickly cleared.
After the legion soldiers quickly cleared an area, the logistics personnel who arrived a little later also began to build a logistics base for storing food and supplies.
Under the command of the logistics personnel, the undead cut wood on the spot and began to build a wooden logistics camp.
Some wood apostles found the area they were responsible for according to the design of the logistics base. They planted the trees from their pockets and then cast spells to induce growth.
The large trees used to store food sprouted and grew rapidly, and in less than a day they grew into their full form.
The Wood Apostle drove the magical plants to transport the food into these trees, and then drove the magical plants back to the other side of the dead land to continue transporting the food stored in the logistics base on the other side to this side.
Thanks to the tireless work of the Undead and the efforts of the logistics personnel, the logistics outpost on the front line was completed in less than three days.
While the logistics personnel were busy building logistics strongholds, the troops on the front line were not idle either. After clearing the area near the death zone, teams of thousands of people began to assemble. Several teams of thousands of people united and began to encircle and suppress the large greenskin tribe.
The commander of the ordinary legion led a team of seven or eight thousand people and began to attack the core areas near the three greenskin warlords from different directions, while the Primarch Legion began to concentrate on fighting, acting as a sharp blade, breaking through the core areas and being responsible for strangling the greenskin warlords. The intermediate-level extraordinary people accompanying this military operation also followed the Primarch Legion to strangle the greenskin warlords together.
Since Roland also ended this military campaign, the Primarch Legion and the mid-level transcendents were divided into two groups. They launched raids on two greenskin warlords, while the other one was dealt with by Roland himself.
After being promoted to a fifth-ring spellcaster and a fourth-ring knight, Roland's strength has greatly increased, not to mention that he also has the Crown of Domination and the Black Crystal in his hands. Now, Roland no longer needs to exploit himself like before to kill a greenskin warlord.
As the commander-in-chief of this military operation, Roland directed twelve thousand-man teams to raid a greenskin warlord, while also keeping an eye on the situation on the other two fronts through communication devices.
However, Roland only kept an eye on the other two fronts and did not interfere.
After all, Roland couldn't always be in charge of military command, so he had to train a few qualified military commanders.
Therefore, unless there was a particularly serious mistake or the battle situation was deteriorating, Roland would only delegate power to the commanders of the other two sides and would not easily interfere with their command.
Roland rode on his warhorse, absorbing a large amount of battlefield information through the communication device in his hand, while calmly commanding the army to crush all the green cities that blocked his way.
After two years of development, the military strength of the War Council has grown by leaps and bounds, and conventional greenskin cities can no longer stop the advancement of the legion soldiers.
The city that was once able to stop the rebel soldiers for several days or even more than ten days, now, facing the legion soldiers, can't even stop them for half a day.
They only had low city walls about five or six meters high, and the legionnaires could jump up directly, but the fragile walls could not withstand the legionnaires' attacks.
Moreover, the original average quality of the legion soldiers was higher than that of the green-skinned orcs. After all members received military training, the average quality was even more far ahead of the green-skinned orcs.
Ordinary greenskin orcs are no match for the legion soldiers, and regular greenskin warriors are easily slaughtered. Although low-level greenskin transcendents can still fight with the legion soldiers.
However, with their tattered equipment, they could hardly fight against the fully armed legionnaires, not to mention that the number of legionnaires was much greater than that of the low-level greenskin transcendents.
This is true even for mid-level greenskin transcendents. A mid-level greenskin transcendent who has not been sublimated cannot defeat an organized group of legionnaires. A dozen first-ring legionnaires plus a team of a hundred men can kill him without any interference.
In front of the legion soldiers, the green-skinned orcs had only one advantage, which was their huge numbers.
If the population of each greenskin city was not so exaggerated, it would not take the legion soldiers half a day to break into the city.
The main reason was that there were too many greenskins. Even if their morale was destroyed by the legion soldiers, they were completely defeated and fled in all directions. It would take them a long time to escape in such a crowded situation.
If it weren't for this, the legion's advance would be even faster. After conquering another city, Roland calmly commanded the soldiers to advance to the next city.
He then set fire to the green city in front of him.
Under Roland's control, this ball of fire will burn the entire greenskin city to ashes.
On November 11th, after twenty days of attack, attack, and attack again, at the cost of hundreds of deaths, the army led by Roland arrived in front of the greenskin warlord.
Due to the extremely fast and frantic attack of the army commanded by Roland, and the backward and almost non-existent communication system of the greenskin warlords, the city where the greenskin warlords are located is still a greenskin-style peaceful place.
Outside the city, a large number of green-skinned orcs were fighting fiercely. The green-skinned warriors on the city wall were sitting lazily on the ground, watching the fighting below and laughing.
Some greenskin priests in charge of patrolling also huddled in the shade and played with the heads in their hands. The poor greenskin priests carved the heads with stones, while the rich ones carved them with knives.
As the warlord city where the greenskin warlords are located, it has never been invaded by foreign enemies since its establishment and it is now in a peaceful state.
However, this peace did not last long, so Roland came with his army.
On the horizon of the warlord city, dense black dots are rapidly emerging.
Because there was no one on guard, the black spots approached quickly, and the golden, black and red cavalry galloped until they were within a hundred meters of the warlord city, only then did the green-skinned orcs notice something was wrong.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
As the ground shook, the green-skinned orcs on the outermost edge of the fighting outside the city raised their heads and saw the cavalry charging not far away.
The mixed light of gold, black and red covered his final vision.
The intertwined and mixed lights passed through all the green-skinned orcs outside the city and slammed fiercely into the city walls.
"boom!!!"
This wall of the warlord city was blown away in an instant, and countless pieces of rubble shot towards the interior of the city. The greenskin warriors and greenskin priests on the city wall were also turned into powder under this violent attack.
After breaching the city wall, the light also covered a chaotic residential area behind the wall.
However, at this time, the green-skinned warlords in the city finally reacted, and visible vitality appeared in the city, blocking the light.
"boom!"
The two forces collided with each other, causing waves of energy storms.
As the impact spread in all directions, a large number of intact houses and green-skinned orcs were destroyed and killed by the impact.
After the light was blocked, the green vitality visible to the naked eye quickly disappeared, and a tall green-skinned orc jumped out from the center of the city.
"boom."
He landed on the open space that was flattened by the light, and smashed a big hole straight down.
Opposite him, the charging cavalrymen also stopped steadily at a distance of one hundred meters from him.
Behind the cavalry, a large number of infantry were also catching up quickly.
Roland rode his warhorse, stood at the front of the army, and calmly looked at the greenskin warlord in front of him.
This greenskin warlord was promoted from a greenskin warrior, and is much easier to deal with than a greenskin priest.
Without hesitation, Roland flew off his horse and rushed towards the greenskin warlord.
The cavalry and the infantry that arrived later were divided into two teams, bypassing the battlefield between Roland and the greenskin warlords and rushed into the city.
Looking at Roland rushing towards him, the green-skinned warlord showed a cruel smile, drew out a heavy sword stained with blood and hung with various head ornaments, and rushed forward.
Roland was naturally more than capable of dealing with a greenskin warlord who only had the combat power of a high-level transcendent but not the essence of a high-level transcendent.
The greenskin warlord accelerated his charge and appeared in front of Roland in the blink of an eye. Then, he swung his heavy sword, which flashed with a blood-red light and smashed towards Roland.
Roland looked at him expressionlessly, ignoring his attack, and stretched out his right hand. Black light gathered on his right hand and shot straight into his body.
"boom!"
After the heavy sword smashed down, the shields beside Roland quickly shattered layer by layer.
The moment Roland cast the spell, his three layers of shield were easily shattered.
Although the shield was easily shattered, it still bought Roland enough time. Dozens of black beams shot out from Roland's hands and disappeared into the body of the greenskin warlord.
After the heavy sword shattered another layer of shield, Roland raised his head, looked at the falling heavy sword, and raised his right hand to aim at the heavy sword.
Then, layers of bright golden small shields appeared in Roland's hands.
These small golden shields were unable to block the attack of the heavy sword and almost collapsed at the first touch.
However, when the small shield was shattered, Roland also borrowed the power of the heavy sword, and his body fell rapidly, avoiding the attack.
After the sword swung in the air, the greenskin warlord did not continue to pursue, but touched the place where Roland had just attacked him with some suspicion.
He didn't feel any discomfort.
Since he couldn't understand it, he didn't bother to care about it and continued to chase Roland with his heavy sword.
As Roland fell rapidly, the magic book also flipped rapidly, and golden light began to gather.
When Roland landed gently on the ground, a total of seven layers of golden shields, from small to large, blocked him and the greenskin warlord.
After landing on the ground, Roland continued to cast spells calmly, and a large number of spell runes quickly formed beside him.
In mid-air, the greenskin warlord looked down at the huge golden shield in front of him, tightly gripped the heavy sword in his hand, and a monstrous blood shadow burst out from his body.
Then, he transformed into a huge blood-red vortex and rushed straight forward.
Compared to the previous shield that collapsed at the slightest touch, the defensive power of the golden shield this time was obviously much stronger. The blood-red vortex kept spinning on the golden shield, but it was unable to break through the defense of the shield.
However, as the energy fluctuations of the vortex became stronger and stronger, cracks gradually appeared on the golden shield.
Seeing this, the green-skinned orcs increased their output.
When he was excited to see more and more cracks, he didn't notice that in the place where Roland had attacked before, some black spots were spreading rapidly with his movements.
"boom!"
After holding on for a few more seconds, the golden shield finally broke.
After the first golden shield was breached, the remaining golden shields could no longer hold out. All together, they couldn't even last for thirty seconds.
When the greenskin warlord tore open the last golden shield, as the shield fragments scattered, a ready rune array appeared in front of him.
Roland stood at the lower right side of the rune array and calmly met the ferocious eyes of the greenskin warlord.
Sixth-ring spell—Golden Storm.
When the shield fragments scattered, Roland also activated the rune array. Then, countless dazzling lights covered the greenskin warlord's entire vision.
(End of this chapter)