The Swordsman of Faerûn

When William and his party and the monster came out from the ground, the hall was already littered with corpses.

Hundreds of monsters engaged in the cruelest and most desperate fight in the world in a crowded space. They couldn't even tell which monsters around them were enemies and which monsters were companions, so they could only attack almost indiscriminately.

This fight is like countless Gu worms mixed in the Gu urn to bite, all the monsters lost themselves in the fight.

Most of the monsters were killed or dying in the melee, but the lucky few who are still alive have already fallen into madness. They instinctively look for opponents to fight and continue the meaningless battle, but they don't know In fact, I can leave this terrifying bloody hell at any time.

In the end, William cut off those monsters that were still alive but lost in the slaughter, and purified their bodies with flames.

The impact of this brutal battle in Kagal's lair even affected Yulas's ruins cleaning plan. Most of the monsters hiding in the ruins of Yulas were forcibly gathered by the beholders and sent to Kagal Turned into a corpse in the labyrinth lair.

As a result, during the following expeditions, the expedition work of the adventurers was overwhelming, and soon a large number of buildings that had lost the monsters' entanglement were cleared out.

And with the passage of time, more adventurers came here and participated in the work of exploring the ruins of Yulas.

Since then, there have been basically no major twists and turns in the clean-up work of the ruins of Yulas, and William felt that it was meaningless to stay here any longer. Plan your next trip.

Originally, William went all the way north, but his destination was to go back to Dagger Valley along the Tessa River, and open up the Tessa River-Moon Sea-Rees River-Giant Dragon Bay-Falling Star Sea channel.

Now he occupies the line of Yulas, a distant mountain city, and wants to enter the waterway of the Tessa River, but there are two checkpoints to break through. In the middle of the Shahe River, Taisway, a town controlled by Zhentilbergers, was also the capital of the former valley city of Bangtsen Valley.

In general, William's plan was blocked by the people of Zhentil Castle, but it was not easy for him to break through the blockade of the people of Zhentil Castle.

The people of Zhentil Castle are very strong. Don't look at their army's repeated attacks on Shadow Valley, but it would be a big mistake to underestimate the city because of this.

Take the Zhentil Fort army that was defeated not long ago in front of Shadow Valley Town as an example. That team was just a private army temporarily gathered by priests who followed the Dark Lord. Even though almost all of this army was lost in Shadow Valley, it still In a few days, Bane's disciples could still muster a larger army for the expedition against Tanrith.

By the way, don't think that the official statement that Zhentil Castle has a population of more than 5 people means that there are really only 5 people living in the city. In fact, the [-] people just refer to Those who have the legal status of citizens of Zhentil Keep, more people with lower status, such as slaves, servants, followers, etc. are not actually counted.

A standard Zhentil Castle army will basically have about 2000 orthodox Zhentil Castle citizens as the core, and then recruit five to ten times as many servants as auxiliary troops and cannon fodder.

Notice!If this [-]-strong army is wiped out by the enemy, the people of Zhentil Castle will not count the servants when counting the number of casualties.

Anyone who knows something about Zhentil Fort's military strength will say this: Zhentil Fort has more soldiers than ordinary citizens.

There are actually two explanations for this sentence. One is that the servant army in Zhentil Castle is much more than the orthodox citizens of Zhentil Castle.

Another explanation is that among the ordinary citizens of Zhentil Castle, there are many more citizens who serve as soldiers than those who do not serve as soldiers.

It may be a little too much to describe the people of Zhentil Castle with the phrase that all the people are soldiers, but it is absolutely appropriate to use the poor soldiers to redeem the army of Zhentil Castle.

At a certain point in the future, in order to fight against the sudden invasion of the demon lord Orcas and his demon army, a total of [-] local soldiers died in Zhentil Castle, and the dead servants even died. Ten times more than that.

Moreover, the military strength of Zhentil Castle is not limited to the city of Zhentil Castle. Whether it is Taisway in the west, Raven Fortress in the north, or Fuenla in the south, they are all loyal allies of Zhentil Castle. Most of the cities around the sea also openly or secretly support the Zhentilburg people (of course, many so-called "supports" are actually derived from the efforts of the Zhentilburg people's spies or spies.)
It can be seen from this that Zhentil Castle has a strong foundation, and it is definitely not a small force that William can deal with alone. He wants to break through the obstacles of Zhentil Castle, but he needs some strategies and more background support.

And William's next plan is also very simple and straightforward, that is to take down Fuenla and open up the connection between Yulas and Shadow Valley, so that the shadow valley-Fuenla-Yulas-far The northern avenue with the mountain city as the main line.

The manpower and material resources of the entire valley can be gathered here through the Asaba River and the sea route, and form a fairly reliable closed loop. Next, whether it is rebuilding Yulas or going north to attack Zhentil Fort, you can get strong logistical support. .

Although Fuenla is just a small town with a population of less than 2000 people, this fortress-like town is the biggest sufferer preventing the people of Shadow Valley from going north.

In history, the people of Shadow Valley have organized armies to conquer the north countless times, but most of them fell under the walls of Fuenla.However, in the previous battles between Shadow Valley and Fuenla, people on both sides have accumulated blood feuds that are difficult to resolve.

So much so that the people of Faunla would rather endure the heavy tax plunder from Zhentil Castle than support the various unfriendly activities of the mercenaries in Zhentil Castle in Shadow Valley.

So when Hillen, on behalf of William, conveyed the decision to deploy troops to attack Fuenla to the temporary consul Storm Silverhand who presides over Shadow Valley and Ms. Charenty, the military director, the actual leaders of the two Shadow Valley did not even hesitate. , and directly agreed.

Even when Storm and the others recruited troops, those Shadowvale people who hadn't recovered from the nightmare of their broken homes responded without hesitation. They thought it was a battle of revenge, and any sentimental Shadowvale No one will escape.

Not to mention how many troops Shadow Valley can send to attack Fuenla, the troops led by William are not very satisfactory in terms of numbers.