Chapter Thirty-six: The Historical Enigma

  Long Hui has also been intensifying his military training in recent days, because Xiao Yu's excellent treatment of soldiers, high military pay, which is several times higher than farming, and the families of those who die in battle receive consolation and are exempt from taxes for life, greatly stimulating young people to join the army.

  Now, Long Hui has more than 1,000 soldiers under his command. However, since many of them are new recruits with little combat experience, Long Hui can only intensify their training to make them qualified soldiers as soon as possible. As for equipment, they don't lack it, as many of the resources Xiao Yu plundered from the bandits were armor and weapons.

  As soon as Xiao Yu arrived, all the soldiers immediately stopped their training and, under Long Hui's lead, gave him a standard military salute. As a professional soldier, Long Hui had extremely strict requirements for his troops' words and deeds, and standard military etiquette and discipline were the most basic common sense.

  After these soldiers gave a standard military salute, each person's eyes looking at Xiao Yu were filled with extreme respect and admiration.

  This morning, those supplies and slaves also saw that the lord went out for a trip and easily brought back so many things, which made them full of confidence in the lord and full of confidence in the future of the territory.

  Xiao Yu smiled and waved her hand, letting them continue training, then called Long Hui over.

  "Uncle Long, what's the situation with Kalu?" asked Xiao Yu. As for gathering information, Dragon Hui was still in charge of that.

  It's not very difficult to go to Kalu now and gather information. Because previously, Kalu's territory had not experienced many wars, so the blockade of news was not very strict, and it would be easy to send a few people disguised as merchants to gather information.

  Although various warlords are now in control of different regions, large-scale wars between them are still not very common.

  "Reporting to Young Master, according to the scout's message, Karu has assembled at least 20,000 troops, including heavy infantry and no less than five mages, as well as no less than thirty warriors. They are currently undergoing combat drills and may launch an attack on us at any time. Because Karu wants to show off his massive military strength and put pressure on us, these messages have not been kept secret and can be easily obtained. They also claim that this time they will cut off the heads of all beastmen and take them back as decorations."

  Long Hui stood up straight, like a javelin, and reported seriously to Xiao Yu.

  Looking at his respectful and serious attitude, it is clear that he has already acknowledged Xiao Yu as the leader. In the past, he only recognized Xiao Zhan Tian as the leader, and regarded Xiao Yu as just a young master, so he never spoke to him in this manner before.

  After the last defense war, and the recent two victories obtained by Xiao Yu from the bandits, bringing back a large amount of supplies, as well as the series of policies implemented by Xiao Yu, Long Hui completely recognized Xiao Yu.

  He thinks that under Xiao Yu's leadership, Lion King may really be able to get out of trouble and prosper.

  Xiao Yu nodded after hearing Long Hui's words, a faint smile appearing on her face as she said, "Let them come, it'll be convenient for us to get some equipment."

  Long Hui looked at Xiao Yu's nonchalant expression and couldn't help but remind him, "Young Master, the army that Karu has brought this time is not to be underestimated. Even if you have a beastman unit, it will be difficult to resist this time. They have heavy infantry, and in history, when humans exterminated the beastmen, they used large-scale heavy infantry, heavy cavalry, and mages. Beastman soldiers are indeed very strong, an adult beastman soldier can take on five elite human soldiers without a problem, but beastmen lack military formations and tactics. Ten beastman soldiers against ten human soldiers would undoubtedly result in the humans being instantly annihilated, but one hundred beastman soldiers against one hundred human heavy infantry in a phalanx formation would end in a stalemate with both sides suffering losses. However, if one thousand beastman soldiers were to face off against one thousand human heavy infantry, the beastmen would be at a disadvantage. If the human army were to also employ heavy cavalry and mages' powerful magic attacks, the beastmen would be completely unable to fight back. They are heroes as individuals but struggle to become strong teams. This time, Karu's army has no shortage of heavy infantry and mages, and they also have warriors and various siege engines. Your beastman unit is too small in number, I fear it will be difficult to resist."

  Listening to Long Hui's words, Xiao Yu naturally knew that Long Hui was worried that the Lion King's army was too small, with only one or two thousand people, and it was impossible to resist the elite troops of more than 20,000.

  However, Xiao Yu was not worried about this at all. His trump card was not just a simple strong beastman infantry, but the coordination of various troops, which is the king's way.

  With the troops he has now, plus the blade carts and catapults, defending the city will be a cinch. As long as he commands properly, taking out 20,000 soldiers won't be a problem.

  The current beastman soldiers and elf archers have made significant progress in their levels. The first batch of 200 beastmen soldiers and 200 elf archers who followed Xiao Yu, as long as they are not dead, have all reached level 3, and some have even reached level 4.

  Up to level 3, the strength of the beastman infantry is increased by at least 30%, and with the effect of frenzy, a beastman soldier can take down seven or eight elite human soldiers without any problem.

  After reaching level 3 on the archer side, they all have accurate shooting skills and can even shoot directly into the eyes of some heavy infantry.

  Although heavily armored infantry can cover their entire body with armor, they cannot cover their eyes. In this way, the enemy's strength is weakened by several points.

  Moreover, Tyrande has acquired a powerful Holy Strike aura, and the range and attack intensity of the archers have been further increased.

  In addition to the newly emerged musketeers, human infantry, blade chariots and catapults, all of which were beyond Kalu's expectations, they can all play a role in catching them off guard. If they come, let them all be buried here.

  Xiao Yu was very confident in his own troops and his own command. However, regarding Long Hui's words earlier, Xiao Yu suddenly became extremely interested.

  However, what he was interested in wasn't how strong Karu's army was, but the history of that year. Had a great war between humans and beastmen really broken out in this world?

  "Uncle Long, in this history, was there really a powerful beastman empire and an elven kingdom? Did human soldiers really defeat the beastman empire's troops?" Xiao Yu took advantage of this opportunity to ask thoroughly and clear up her doubts about what kind of place this world was.

  Long Hui listened to Xiao Yu's question and couldn't help but curl his lips, saying: "Young Master, this knowledge is all in books. You don't like reading, so it's natural that you wouldn't understand these historical events. The Beastmen also had a powerful empire in the past, under the leadership of their beast tribe god Sal. They were extremely prosperous and flourishing, but later on, for some unknown reason, their god disappeared, and the Beastmen Empire began to decline. The Elves are similar, they were also very large at first, with their presence in every mountain range, but later on, their Tree of Life was destroyed, and they never recovered."

  Listening to Long Hui say this, Xiao Yu silently cursed in her heart: "Damn it, there really is a Sal, Thaurissan is the god of the Elf tribe, and Sal is the god of the Beast tribe. So if that's the case, is this world actually the continent of Azeroth from back then? What kind of special change happened later to make it become like this today?"

  Xiao Yu suddenly felt a headache, this seemed to be a very grand historical problem, if you want to unravel it, it seems to need a lot of effort.

  Xiao Yu thought to herself: "I have some free time now, I should go take a look at that book."

  "Alright, Uncle Long, you train them. I'll take care of the city defense. When the time comes, that kid Karu will definitely suffer a big loss again. Don't forget, I am the king appointed by the Beast God, Elf God and Dwarf God together. How could I possibly not be able to deal with just one Karu?"

  Xiao Yu pouted and once again brought out his usual nonsense theories to comfort Long Hui.

  Long Hui listened to Xiao Yu's words, and naturally didn't believe a single word. If the Beast God chose someone like Xiao Yu as the king of this era, they must have been blind.

  But inexplicably, looking at Xiao Yu's confident appearance, he seemed to think that this battle could really be won. Wasn't it the same last time? Xiao Yu had only brought those beastman soldiers and defeated Karu's 5,000-strong army; perhaps they could create another miracle this time too.

  If the 20,000-strong army of Karu is defeated this time, Karu will no longer have the strength to attack the Lion King's territory. In that case, the Lion King's territory will rise completely and will no longer be as weak as before, and can develop step by step from now on.

  The key to everything is to withstand Karu's large-scale attack this time.

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