Alien Knights

Handing over the popularization of abilities to Emerson, Todd began to focus on the war in the east.

According to the feedback from the Muxi Knights, the church coalition forces have already assembled on the border and plan to launch an attack in late autumn.

There were two things about this war that Todd cared about.

First, after Muxi City released "Justification by Faith" to attack the church and completely torn it apart, in just half a year, the church has integrated the crusade army of 20 kingdoms. This kind of speed and scope of the army is unique in the history of the entire church's foreign wars. The only explanation is that the Church had been secretly planning a crusade against Muxi City a long time ago, and this time it was able to integrate such a huge army so quickly.

Second, the attack time launched by the church coalition forces was chosen in late autumn and early winter. From the perspective of warfare, it is not a wise choice to choose such a time to launch an attack. Cold weather and snow on the roads will greatly detrimental to the morale and logistics of the attacker. Regarding the second point, after thinking and analyzing Todd, he believes that the reason why the church took the risk and chose to launch an offensive at this time is entirely because it was disrupted by the throne of the Holy Acropolis.

In the church's original plan, after Sinclair won the throne, the church regained control of the Holy Acropolis and included it in the encirclement against Muxi City. This plan should have been a sure thing.

But the intervention of the Presbyterian Church, Leoric's ambition, and the appearance of the fake Felicity completely disrupted the overall plan of the church, and sent a person they never thought of—Mary, to the throne of Queen.

Therefore, after some weighing, the church decided to capture the Holy Acropolis as soon as possible while the new king had just appeared and the foundation was not stable, and re-established the encirclement of Muxi City. This became their only choice.

Wanting to understand these things, Todd began to focus on the war.

In terms of military strength, the Muxi Knights have 300 heavy armored knights, all of which are equipped with top-level equipment.

In addition, there are scout successors, sniper successors, and elemental successors. These military forces can play a great role in defending the city.

But the crux of the problem lies in the army of the Holy Acropolis.

Those armies that originally belonged to different families in the Holy Acropolis, although the patriarchs of the families they belonged to were basically killed and injured in the turmoil, but it is difficult to guarantee that other members of these families will not give up, and they will be snakes and rats in the battle of defending the city.

Therefore, in Todd's view, Queen Mary has just succeeded to the throne, and whether she can hold these military forces tightly in her hands may be the key to the victory or defeat of the Battle of the Holy Acropolis.

Todd, who returned to the audience room, finished the work at hand one by one. Looking at the gradually darkening sky outside the window, he summoned Huggins and asked him, "According to the results of the last meeting, the troops of the church alliance should have arrived at the battlefield of the Holy Acropolis today."

Huggins nodded and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty."

Todd tapped the table with his fingers: "Have a meeting with St. Acropolis after dinner."

After a simple dinner, Todd dug out the city defense map of the Holy Acropolis and the surrounding maps. After careful inspection, he opened the soul space and summoned Cumberland and Mary first.

Cumberland was wearing knight armor, and he held the helmet in his arms. After seeing the king, he saluted first, then looked around the room, and finally remained silent.

Mary put on a women's chain mail, and when she saw Todd, she just nodded coldly.

Todd sat on a chair in the conference room of the research institute, motioned for the two to sit down, then pulled Huggins into the soul space, and asked, "How is the situation on the battlefield?"

Cumberland didn't speak, but turned on the 3D projection and played his memory fragments.

In the 3D holographic movie, the sky on the Yuexi Plain is gloomy, and the cold wind in late autumn blows grass leaves and branches around.

A distant drum sound came from a distant place.

At first, dozens of fully armed knights appeared in sight; soon, thousands of cavalry climbed over the mound and came to the plain near the Holy Acropolis.

Todd looked at the cavalry with various flags in the picture, and said with a solemn expression: "These are the troops of the Church Alliance?"

"The Kingdom of Silka, the Principality of Fenton, the Kingdom of Slobi, the Kingdom of Morroerik..." Cumberland looked at the flags in the picture, counted them one by one, and finally sighed: "I forgot, I haven't seen such a big battle for many years."

As the cavalry began to investigate around the battlefield, the enemy's infantry regiment slowly appeared in front of the defenders.

Nearly a hundred phalanxes, carrying the flags of different kingdoms, entered the battlefield one by one.

Taking a rough look, the mountains and plains are full of enemies, the protruding human heads have completely covered the grass, and the fierce drums have drowned out the whistling wind.

Todd looked at the enemy's army in surprise, and said hesitantly: "At first, I thought that the number of the enemy's troops would be exaggerated. From this point of view, I may be wrong."

Pointing to the formation in the picture, Cumberland said to Todd, "This phalanx is Adlan's spearmen, and here is Milanco's longbow regiment...Although the enemy's total strength is claimed to be 15,000, it looks like a lot of people, but if you look carefully at the flags and equipment of the army formation, you can find that most of them are farmers and soldiers in charge of logistics and miscellaneous affairs."

Todd said to Cumberland, "Extract the peasants and other non-combatants, and how much is the enemy's strength?"

"There are about 10,000 more." Cumberland shrugged. "I admit that this number still sounds huge, but the enemy's weaknesses are also reflected in the army formation."

Todd wondered: "The enemy's weakness?"

Cumberland stretched the model with both hands, changing the entire 3D battlefield into a bird's-eye view mode.

Todd saw some clues at this time.

The enemy's army formation seemed to be compact, but it seemed that it was faintly divided into three group phalanxes.

Two group phalanxes are in front and one behind.

"This is……?"

"The enemy army is not monolithic. The two phalanxes in front are the troops of the secular kingdom. They come from the Central Parish and the Eastern Parish respectively. The phalanx behind is directly under the church."

Todd looked carefully at the battlefield map, and said after a while: "The army directly under the church is at the rear, and it looks a bit like a supervisory team."

"That's right." Cumberland enlarged the image to the back half of the battlefield, pointed to the church square and said, "The Knights of the Stigmata, the Knights of the Baptist, the Order of the Marderines, etc., these troops have the strongest combat effectiveness, but in my opinion, their main purpose is not to participate in the battle, but to monitor."

"Surveillance?"

Cumberland stroked his chin and said to Todd: "Your Majesty, think about it. In just a few short years, the three major kingdoms of Silver Ring City, Muxi City, Holy Acropolis, and the Western Diocese have defected and separated from the church. For the church, this battle is not only to regain the lost land, but more importantly, to detect whether there are any disloyal people in the remaining kingdoms."

Todd understood the deep meaning of the other party's words.

"So, it can be seen from the military formation that there is a contradiction between the secular kingdom and the church in the coalition army, and according to my guess, the contradiction is not small. The specific reason should be related to the religious reform initiated by Your Majesty. The abolition of religious taxes and the protection of royal power. These two items alone will allow these kings to re-examine their relationship with the church." Cumberland raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "If this contradiction can be magnified, or the balance of the contradiction can be completely broken, we can win this battle with minimal losses."

When Cumberland said this, he suddenly remembered something. He frowned and asked Todd, "Your Majesty, although the enemy has weaknesses, our army, as the defender, also has weaknesses. Do you know where our weaknesses are?"

"We also have weaknesses?"

Todd was taken aback for a moment, and then said in a deep voice, "Are you referring to the army of the Holy Acropolis?"

Cumberland nodded happily. The king's gradual maturity and wise insights gave him a feeling of watching his disciple grow up.

"Your Majesty, you are right. Our weakness lies in the unstable troops in the Holy Acropolis. If I were the commander of the church coalition forces, I would try my best to contact the nobles in the city, ambush the internal response, and mutiny during the battle."

Todd asked with a solemn expression: "So what do we have to do?"

Cumberland nodded: "There are several ways. First, after the battle begins, I will divide and isolate the Holy Guard and ensure that their combat positions will not affect the battle situation; second, Queen Mary persuaded Lord Gordon, as the lord of White River City, who has a high reputation among the nobles, and he can help us monitor the restless people in the city at all times; as for the third..."

Seeing Cumberland's hesitation, Todd was a little anxious: "What is the third?"

"Although I don't want to admit it, Rachel, the leader of the Alien Association, is indeed a resourceful commander. Under her command, all the aliens in the city can know exactly which brick is hiding a mouse..."

Todd was a little surprised by Cumberland's slightly mocking tone: "Isn't it a good thing that Rachel can activate the Alien Association to collect intelligence in the city?"

Cumberland sighed softly: "Your Majesty, you can take this as the stubbornness and prejudice of an old man, but I always feel that that woman is hiding something. To be honest, I don't believe her."

Todd shook his head helplessly and said: "The battle at the Holy Acropolis is very important to the kingdom. Any force that can help should not be ignored. I know that Rachel does show some "mystery" at certain times, but her loyalty to the kingdom can be trusted. But, Cumberland, you are the commander of the battlefield, and I respect your judgment and opinion. If you think Rachel's subordinates cannot be trusted, then use this power as an auxiliary and use it carefully."

Cumberland chewed on Todd's words, and after a while, nodded solemnly: "Your Majesty, I understand what you said. I am going back to the Holy Acropolis to prepare the battle plan. After the war starts, I will report to you the results of the day at this time every night."

Todd nodded, and ordered Huggins to copy down some supplies that Cumberland needed, and watched the two leave the soul space.

"Your Majesty, do you have time?"

The melodious female voice in his ear surprised Todd, he turned his head with difficulty, and saw the beautiful face of Queen Mary.