As he walked along the way, he walked slower than expected. He marched only more than 200 kilometers a day. Occasionally, Danny would conduct exercises during the marching, such as marching attacks, camping night attacks, and he would have to do one or two times every few days. As a result, the originally planned marching for twenty days only took three-fifths.

Fortunately, the notice from the Imperial Army requires arrival within three months, and the time is absolutely fine, but the food brought has been exhausted. However, this is also a small problem. With the notice from the Imperial Army, you can collect grain nearby. Along the way, you can always see the brigade's grain transport fleet. With the notice, you can collect grain from the grain team. Moreover, the Duchy of Delan has money and can also go to nearby towns to buy some delicious food to reward the team that performed well in the exercise.

The entire marching process was both tense and relaxed. From Danny to every soldier below, he knew that Bear City was five hundred kilometers away from the front line and had a large number of troops defending. The Mayan Empire itself was not as strong as the Auckland Empire. The front line had already had a tight force, so it was impossible to mobilize a large army, escape the army on the front line, and penetrated deep into the rear base of the empire's 500 kilometers, so it seemed very relaxed.

It took a month and a half to arrive at Little Bear City. Although it was fifteen days slower than the plan, it was one and a half months earlier than the Empire's announcement.

Following the instructions of the guide officer, the team entered the Little Bear City. As everyone thought, there was a calm singing and dancing, so where was there a tense atmosphere of war?

After arranging the camp, Danny went to meet the commander of Bear City. The others could move freely for half a day before receiving the order. Most of the Delan soldiers were tired for more than a month and made an appointment to go to the city to play, eat, drink and shop, just like they were here to travel. The Delan Duchy of Delan is relatively rich, not only with a generous military salary, but these soldiers are also well-off, so they have spare money on hand, so they just want to relax.

Half a day later, Danny returned to the camp with a relaxed look on his face. There was a division of the Empire's regular army, and the person in charge was Vero Tahan, the third-class major general of the Empire. In addition to the two principalities, there were five thousand troops each. In addition to the Delan army, there were three principalities who had not arrived. Among these seven armies, except for the Delan Duchy, there were more than five thousand people. If all arrived, the total army could reach more than 43,000, plus the original security army of the Bear City.

The twelve warehouse bases are five kilometers outside the Bear City, not far apart. Two hundred soldiers are arranged to guard each warehouse base. Eight military camps are established around the warehouse base to protect the warehouse base in the center. Even if they are attacked by sneak attacks, they can respond in the shortest time.

The regular troops of the empire were indeed different. After reading Major General Vero's defense map, even Ferig, who did not understand military, believed that even if the Mayan Empire could really send tens of thousands of troops, it would not be possible to resolve the battle before the support troops arrived. You should know that one hundred kilometers away from here, there was another storage base city, with the same number of troops there, and the cavalry marched quickly and arrived in half a day.

Half a month later, the troops of the other three Principalities arrived one after another, bringing the total military strength of Little Bear City to 48,000. All the barracks were already full. Fortunately, the troops of the Principality of Delan lived in the city, so it did not seem crowded.

There were 40,000 troops stationed outside the city, and 8,000 in the Little Bear City. Although it was only a medium-sized city, the city walls were tall and could basically rest assured. In addition to receiving the food transported from the rear every day and providing military rations to the front line, there was nothing to do all day long.

Of course, Feleg would not be as leisurely as those soldiers. He was also very satisfied with the defense here. However, as a magician, he needed a lot of time to meditate.

Due to his talent, Merlin could only rely on the elemental ore provided to him by Filig. Filig didn't need this. Of course, using elemental ore to practice faster, but Filig has not yet been extravagant to that level. Fortunately, he is the only magician in the entire Bear City, so there is no need to worry about others competing for magic elements in the space with him.

Unfortunately, the density of magic elements here is too low, and it cannot be compared with the forest in the Magic Realm. It originally only took two hours of meditation, and Fellig would take more than three times the time each time. Fortunately, there is no war here, and it is not his turn to meditate, the magician, who has plenty of time to meditate.

Felleg has worked very hard, but it is still much worse than Merlin. Since entering Bear City, Merlin has not walked out of the room apart from solving personal problems, and even solved it in the room for eating. As for sleeping, it is optional for the magician.

The two magicians refused to let go of any time and practiced quickly, but Danny was idle. The security in Little Bear City was very good, even better than the capital of the Duchy of Delan. Not only was the security good, but because of more than 40,000 troops stationed in, there were many more business opportunities, many caravans followed and specialized in military business.

This is different from the front line. Except for Vero's ten thousand regular imperial troops, which always maintained a strict military law, the troops of the other six principalities were much worse. Those with rich food, drink and have fun, and those without money also found ways to have fun, or go out to hunt, or force buying and selling. Most of the security cases in the city came from these principalities' armies.

Vero was very dissatisfied with the army of these six principalities, but the war reports from the front line were pushed forward by the Imperial Army for about 100 kilometers, and most of the controversial peaks had fallen into the hands of the empire. The three consecutive battles were all the Auckland Empire that won.

This time, Emperor Wu Tian made a lot of money for the elemental mine. He drew more than 2 million regular troops from the left, center and right. In addition, the troops of more than a dozen kingdoms and hundreds of principalities had a total military strength of more than 4 million, while the Mayan Empire army was less than half of the Auckland army.

The Auckland Empire has an absolute advantage in terms of national strength and military quality and quantity. Therefore, although Major General Vero is dissatisfied with these priestly armies, he is not worried about the security issues here. It is said that the frontline army has already discussed whether to move the logistics base forward. After all, the logistics base cannot be too far away, otherwise problems will be prone to occur.

On this day, Major General Vero arranged all the escort work and even sent out several groups of far-distance sentries. The rewards received were all safe, but he was always a little uneasy. Although the Mayan Empire was not as good as the Auckland Empire, victory should not be so easy. After all, the elemental mine was discovered for the first time. The importance of elemental ores, let alone an empire, even ordinary civilians knew it.

"Report."

"Come in." He shouted with the teacup in his hand. For half a year, it has been very peaceful here, but he dared not take it lightly. Military rations are the lifeblood of the army.

"Report to General Jaden, General Jaden, Black Wolf City, sent people to send a war report. From noon yesterday, fifty kilometers away from Black Wolf City, Mayan troops were found, with unknown numbers."

"Oh?" Vero stood up and came indeed. This was exactly what he had been worried about. The army was not as good as the Auckland Empire, so the best way was to lose food. However, what the Mayan Empire could think of, the commander of the Auckland Empire also thought of.

Behind the three armies, there are four storage bases each, each with a distance of not far or near, and it is half a day away, which is convenient for mutual support. In addition to the regular imperial army, there are also reinforcements from several principalities, and these armies have ordinary combat power and considerable numbers.

After crossing the front line, there could not be too many Mayan troops here. Major General Luo Wei not only had the confidence to defend the base, but could even fight back.

Major General Vero was not afraid of head-on combat, or even the Mayan army's sneak attacks or night attacks. In these directions, he had already taken various countermeasures, and even released eight thousand troops in Little Bear City. With such a force, the Mayan army would not be able to attack the city.

But the army has no constant power, and no one knows what means the other side will use. One side is always passive in defense. If he can take the initiative, he will have one more chance of winning. After all, the military power available in his hands is much more than the other side. Major General Luo Wei does not believe that the Mayan army has a way to let 30,000 or 50,000 people cross the front line together without being discovered. According to his estimate, the number of opponents will not exceed 10,000, which is already the limit.

Although the number is not large, the quality must be excellent. In order to ensure the success of the operation, the Mayan army may have sent out their ace troops. Every soldier in the army is an intermediate warrior above level five. Such strength is much stronger than the 10,000 regular troops under its command.

Even so, he did not think that the opponent would attack hard. After all, the defense side was good, the right time, place, people and all, and there was almost no possibility of successful head-on combat.

"Report." While thinking, another battle report came.

"Last evening, the Mayan army began a tentative attack, with a number of about 3,000 people. It is an elite Mayan army. Our side lost more than 2,000 people, the enemy lost two hundred, and temporarily retreated, with unknown direction."

After reading the battle report in his hand, Luo Wei frowned even more. As expected, as he imagined, all the people who came from Maya were the best soldiers. Two hundred for two thousand, the 10-to-1 loss sounded really terrible.

However, Luo Wei knew Jaden, the defender of Black Wolf City, very well. They were comrades-in-arms, and Jaden's command ability was not worse than himself. The losses should be the army sent by the Principality. If it were a regular army of the Empire, even if it encountered the Mayan cavalry, it would not be possible to suffer such great damage.

Three thousand people? Are there only three thousand people? This is Luo Wei’s most concerned issue. The battle last night was just a test, and the real battle has not begun. There are four warehouse bases behind, which one is the opponent’s target? Or are they just testing now, and where is easier to succeed?
Chapter completed!