Chapter 830: Chapter 830
Capítulo 830: Chapter 18: Invading the Wilderness, Deploying the General
These laborers will follow the army into the wilderness.
Because the soldiers need to wear armor, carry weapons and ammunition, and maintain timely combat power, they cannot carry too much food.
Each soldier carries a maximum of about five days’ worth of rations, while the laborers in the rear can carry about thirty days’ worth of rations.
Therefore, the sixty thousand troops plus sixty thousand laborers carry enough food for everyone’s consumption for about eighteen days.
If you account for the return journey, the army has at most nine days to penetrate into the wilderness.
Even if they use local resources, hunt wild animals, exotic beasts in the wilderness jungle, gather wild vegetables, and fruits, it can only sustain the army for a few more days at most.
With the complex terrain and harsh environment of the wilderness, the army can march at most a dozen kilometers per day.
In ten or so days, they can only march less than two hundred kilometers in the wilderness.
That kind of distance can’t reach many places.
This is one of the major reasons why the Da Lan Dynasty has never sent a large army deep into the wilderness for so many years.
The logistics problems are difficult to solve, no matter how strong the army’s combat power, it’s useless.
After all, if people don’t eat, they die…
But this time, the Da Lan Dynasty is determined to take the initiative to attack!
The pledge meeting was held at 8:00 in the morning, continuing until after 1:00 in the afternoon, when the army on the plains received all the supplies and equipment.
Over sixty thousand laborers also arrived at the plains, being organized into various teams.
At this time, the so-called one hundred and twenty thousand strong army finally set off.
One hundred and twenty thousand people marched forward mightily, gradually entering an endless expanse of the primal forest.
The quiet jungle suddenly became lively.
The army chose to enter the position, which was the joint defense area of the three major tribes of the Northern Barbarians. All three tribes have now pledged allegiance to the Northern Barbarian King, and together they’ve set up a line of defense in this forest.
Dark sentinels hiding in the shadows, deadly traps, poisonous insects, wild beasts, and even tamed exotic beasts… these make up the characteristic Northern Barbarian defense line.
This is the first line of defense set up by the three major tribes.
If the army were to march normally, the non-combat attrition on the first day would likely be an astounding figure!
However, all the dark sentinels, traps, poisonous insects, and beasts are like bubbles in the face of a blue torrent.
Prince Cheng chose to deploy the most powerful Green Frost Army on the first day of the march!
Six thousand Green Frost Army soldiers jointly activated military formation, transforming into an overwhelmingly powerful blue torrent surging forward.
Where they passed, not to mention traps and living creatures, even towering trees and dense underbrush… everything was crushed!
The dangerous terrain turned into a smooth path where the Green Frost Army passed!
If observed from above, you could see a blue torrent stretching a thousand meters rushing into the green forest.
Where it passed, all green disappeared, leaving behind only a patch of gray-yellow land.
Nature’s craftsmanship created this wilderness jungle, but at this moment, the Green Frost Army was reshaping it with overwhelming force!
After they sprinted a certain distance, the six thousand Green Frost Army soldiers in the rear moved to the front.
The Green Frost Army split in two, advancing in rolling fashion relay-style.
An hour later, the Green Frost Army punched through the wilderness jungle, forging a “highway” a thousand meters wide and a hundred kilometers long!
Twelve thousand Green Frost Army soldiers regrouped and retraced their path.
Behind them, the remaining one hundred and ten thousand troops continued to march slowly.
Under normal circumstances, in the wilderness, you could only manage a tough march of eleven or twelve kilometers a day.
But now, because of the Green Frost Army’s formidable pathblazing, by 8:00 in the evening, in just half a day, the army had already advanced over ten kilometers!
And the entire process was very smooth, without any attrition!
The three major tribes responsible for this defense area were dumbfounded, never expecting that Prince Cheng would choose such a dominant way to clear the path.
This completely disrupted their plans.
The final position of the Green Frost Army was less than twenty kilometers from the main base of the Dream Lion Clan, one of the three major tribes!
At the current pace of the Northern Territory Army, they would strike there in no more than three days.
In three days, the people at the Dream Lion Clan’s main base simply won’t have time to evacuate.
And with just the strength of the three major tribes, it’s simply impossible to stop this Northern Territory Army.
A large number of wooden houses built along the mountain, as well as many treehouses and caves.
This is the main base of the Dream Lion Clan.
Among the Northern Barbarian Seventeen Clans, the Dream Lion Clan is at the lower end in terms of population and strength, with less than two hundred thousand people, and the main base hosts thirteen thousand of them.
Due to the special nature of the Northern Barbarians, the male members of the tribes can be considered qualified warriors upon reaching adulthood.
So excluding the old, weak, women, and children, the main base of the Dream Lion Clan has over forty thousand of the most elite warriors!
However, these elite warriors all wield cold weapons, and the proportion of Martial Artists is not high.
If in a different terrain, these forty thousand Dream Lion Clan warriors facing forty thousand fully armed Northern Border Army soldiers could only face slaughter!
Even in the wilderness jungle, fighting on the home ground of the Northern Barbarian Warriors, after learning about the Green Frost Army’s earth-shattering power, the leaders of the Dream Lion Clan didn’t think their warriors could stop the enemy.
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The Dream Lion Clan didn’t even have time to evacuate.
Fight, they can’t win.
The option to retreat was erased from the start by the Green Frost Army’s own hands.
This is the predicament of the Dream Lion Clan at this moment.
A man over 2.3 meters tall, covered in mysterious tattoos, with long hair, a well-built muscular form, wearing a golden lion head crown, exuding an awe-inspiring presence, walked solemnly to the highest point of Dream Lion Rock.