Chapter 66: The Great Army Moves

  Two Mohe warriors annihilating a small town's garrison was somewhat of an overkill, Liu Yu didn't have to wait long outside the city before receiving the order to enter, his fire unit was responsible for transporting grain for their troops.

  The military rations stored in this small city are definitely not enough for the hundreds of thousands of troops to eat, and Liu Yu estimates that the distributed grain can only be eaten by all soldiers for one day at most.

  As Liu Yu entered the small town that had just experienced a fierce battle and was slightly damaged, he saw a strange scene. At the entrance of the town, which was also the center of the main street, a large number of Fano residents were lining up in an orderly manner like a beast tribe army to hand over something. Upon closer inspection, they were all bags of things, and these cloth bags would spray out a bit of white ash when placed on the ground.

  "Liu Yu guessed that the grain handed over by these residents was mainly flour, as the highland areas around were mainly planted with wheat, so the main grain was flour."

  These humans handed over the grain to Liu Yu without any unexpectedness, and these residents faced the beastly army that had just killed a large number of guards, especially the wolf-like warriors with wolf heads, did not show too much fear. The handover of food was also very orderly, and the wolf-like warriors on the other side simply put up a pretence, everything didn't need their urging at all.

  Re-examining the situation, Liu Yu discovered that at the front of the grain-delivering resident team, there was an elderly man in a green robe holding a staff, directing these residents to do things.

  "The Wind God Temple's Guide" Wei Lin, the instructor who gave a lecture to Liu Yu, said that in the mainland customs, the people of Lein and Sasse, these two provinces, all believed in the "Wind God". The old man's attire is the attire of the lower-level personnel of the Wind God Temple, the "Guide".

  Liu Yu and the other troops were approaching with grain when the residents of Fanode had already handed over their food. The wind god temple guide also raised his hand to bid farewell to the supervisor of the grain collection, a Bimon officer. Then the officer gestured to the wolf tribe soldiers and Bimon soldiers on the side to supervise these residents to head east, everything seemed very natural and completely different from what Liu Yu thought when he entered the city.

  "This is also too fake." Liu Yu muttered to himself, he had thought that the proud Bimon army would not slaughter the city, and even if they didn't, the residents of Lanren City would still suffer some casualties in the war, but now this situation was really strange.

  "Hurry up and move, don't waste time." A nearby traveler saw that Liu Yu and several other soldiers were all somewhat stunned and loudly reminded them.

  "Yes" Liu Yu and several others hurriedly started moving the grain, but the words of this traveler reminded Liu Yu of another problem. The fires and other fires that came to move the grain were all regular standing armies on duty, while the two old soldiers temporarily recruited from the Bi Mong tribe were responsible for attacking Lanren City this time.

  In the past three or four years, the Beastman Kingdom has not sent troops to invade the Fano Empire, so these regular soldiers who are currently serving in the army have never set foot on Fano's territory and therefore did not expect the residents of Fano to be so cooperative with their "work".

  But those old soldiers had seen that six or seven years ago, the kingdom had once invaded Sas Province, and believed that these residents were basically not hurt, and it was also the intention of those attacking warriors.

  "Could it be that the continent of Pilong still has a say in international law?" Liu Yu wondered.

  Outside the small town, in a forest, Gaia wore golden armor and red robes, still eye-catching in the dark night. Beside him stood Tolemmy and Gillen. They gazed coldly at Lantren City, as if waiting for something. Suddenly, a figure flashed before the three of them.

  "It will last for a few more days." The figure finally stopped in front of Gaya and spoke.

  "Enough for two days." The other party also gave a direct answer without nonsense. With the moonlight shining through the top of the forest, it can be seen that this figure has a wolf head, and it is indeed the werewolf tribe leader Erida.

  "Alright, two days is enough. How long has it been since the teams that were first allocated food supplies departed?" Gaya asked again.

  "They set off quickly, almost half an hour ago. As for the garrison and the two elders' investigation, this is a local defense force, directly under the legion, which should have already entered the fortifications." Erda replied again.

  "Haha, see you at Rito's place then, old friend." Gaia heard this and a satisfied smile spread across his face as he said to Erida in a rather affectionate tone.

  "Of course, don't forget to bring me General Da's sword. After fighting for so many years, I still haven't gotten one of those things as a collection, it's a shame to my ancestors." Erida said with a smile after hearing Gaia's words.

  "Good, and if luck is good, I'll get you a governor's cane too." By the time Gaya said this, Erida had already disappeared from in front of the three of them.

  "Ptolemy, you must make sure everything is in order here." Erida said to Ptolemy with a serious face as soon as Gaea turned around.

  "Don't worry, have I ever made a mistake all these years?" Ptolemy replied with confidence.

  "Let's move out, it's about time." This time it was Gilen who spoke. The three Dou Huang exchanged a glance and their figures flashed off in three different directions, with Tolomei heading towards the direction of Lanren City.

  Outside the city, Liu Yu was looking at the white flour in the cloth bag with some confusion. Each soldier had been allocated four or five kilograms of white flour, which actually meant that each soldier would grab two handfuls of white flour from a large cloth bag and put it into their own cloth bag for dry rations.

  "This, this, how to eat?" Liu Yu was speechless in his heart. In such a desolate wilderness, there wasn't even a chopping board, alkali, or salt. Otherwise, he could catch a rabbit and make some rabbit meat dumplings.

  "The whole army sets out immediately, no delay is allowed." A command came to interrupt Liu Yu's wonderful idea of wrapping rabbit meat dumplings.

  When the great army set out again, Liu Yu discovered that this time, only two old soldiers of the Bei Meng division and a wolf tribe battalion were moving with their fourth division.

  The second battalion of the Wolf Tribe, which had been mixed with them before, was nowhere to be found. The other troops of the army also disappeared without a trace. Just now, Liu Yu and his men were distributing food in the forest and didn't pay much attention to their surroundings. It wasn't until they set out that they discovered this situation.

  "These guys, even in the middle of the night, are still being so cautious. And yet I didn't notice them in the forest." Liu Yu muttered to himself as he gazed up at the northern sky.

  Liu Yu was not surprised by the division of troops, as the mountainous area on the border between Sas Province and Wolf Tribe Territory stretched for over 700 miles from north to south. This region had many areas that were easy to defend but difficult to attack, so if the Fano Empire wanted to build permanent defensive fortifications, they would definitely build gates at all the strategic locations, which meant that their three direct subordinates must have been scattered far apart.

  The beast tribe army wants to achieve the greatest results in the first time, and naturally they want to eliminate Farnod's elite troops first. Once the enemy discovers that the beast tribe army is behind them, gathering their troops to fight is their best choice, and the beast tribe army cannot give them this opportunity.

  Liu Yu had heard from his father, Ge Ya, that in the Farnod Empire, a directly affiliated legion of one million soldiers would generally have only about half of its soldiers as fighters, and except for officers, most soldiers were low-ranking fighters of first or second rank. The rest of the soldiers were just ordinary people with strong bodies.

  The reason for this situation is not that the direct troops of Farnode are not carefully selected, but rather that humans are a race with relatively poor innate abilities on the mainland. Most people in the human tribe have an elemental affinity that does not reach the lower level, and those who have spiritual power reaching the lower level are even fewer.

  About half of the soldiers are fighters. Among several human nations' armies on the mainland, Fano's direct military corps is already quite good.

  So three direct legions faced the number and their equivalent, all of whom were warriors of the Mongols and the Wolf Tribe army, how could they withstand a head-on battle. Therefore, they dispersed, and the Beast Tribe army also had confidence in defeating them under the scattered situation.

  However, Liu Yu understood that this was under the premise of the enemy army or the previous three direct military divisions. If they had reinforcements or the Imperial Guard of the Fano Empire, it would be a different story.

  "The Imperial Guard, I've thought too much. If it weren't for the war between two countries, they wouldn't have been mobilized." Liu Yu comforted himself and followed the main army towards the north shrouded in darkness.