Chapter 629: Invasion and Massacre
"I agree with the idea of Division Commander Yalin. This world is somewhat difficult for us. After conquering it, just maintaining local rule will be a big problem. Instead of wasting energy and effort, it is better to just massacre and push forward all the way."
Another division commander who was born in the sea tribe also agreed with Yalin's decision. His ideas were even more extreme, and he directly proposed genocide.
No one had any objection to his proposal for the time being. Even though Lin Xiao felt it was a bit cruel, he had no objection.
After waiting for a while, the legion commander Leo, who was sitting in the main seat, said in a deep voice:
"Since everyone has reached a consensus, the strategy for conquering the Grey Crow world this time will be to use an exploitative and plundering approach. I will have my secretary write down the evaluation decision and submit it to His Majesty the Sea King within three days. If you have any other opinions, please let me know within three days."
He looked at everyone. Everyone was silent. The legion commander continued:
"Well, you can prepare for mobilization now. I will send you the action plan in a week. The meeting is adjourned."
Everyone filed out and said goodbye to their colleagues, and Lin Xiao returned to the division headquarters.
After returning, he called a meeting of the centurions and other officers in the division, conveyed part of the meeting to his subordinates, and asked the division to prepare for the expedition.
A week later, the Legion received a reply from His Majesty the Sea King approving the expedition plan, and the huge Legion quickly mobilized to prepare for the expedition.
He doesn't need to worry much about this. As a division commander, he only needs to control the general direction. The specific deployment of troops within the division will be carried out by the deputy division commander and the heads of major battalions.
There were sufficient resources inside the huge fortress, and it only took a month to prepare. Legion Commander Leo officially opened the portal, and the first advance battalion from the Second Division began to enter the world of the Grey Crows.
The Thirteenth Legion has five divisions. The strongest First Division is directly commanded by Legion Commander Leo. Most of the time, it is stationed in the fortress, while other divisions are responsible for external expeditions.
The other five divisions have varying strengths, but their status is not much different. The Third Division led by Lin Xiao ranks third, neither high nor low.
This time, the Second Division took the lead, with a total combat strength of about 130,000 troops, plus auxiliary troops and logistics at all levels, totaling nearly 500,000.
It took them nearly half a month to send this nearly 500,000-strong army to the other side of the portal and successfully establish an expeditionary base.
Next, the Third Division led by Lin Xiao was dispatched, with 120,000 main forces plus auxiliary troops and logistics at all levels, for a total strength of about 450,000.
The space gate located in the center of the fortress is very stable, and even ordinary people can pass through it easily. Lin Xiao crossed the light gate and time gate and it only shook slightly. He did not feel any shaking or instability when passing through the space channel. He quietly crossed billions of miles of void from the world of Poseidon to the world of the Gray Crow people.
As soon as he came out of the portal, Lin Xiao instantly felt a strong sense of malice mixed with pressure coming towards him. This was the resistance of the world's will to these invaders.
Unfortunately, it took them too long to discover this world, and the vanguard army had already arrived and successfully established an outpost. The world will's response to them was too late and was no longer enough to suppress this huge army of nearly one million.
The connection point of the portal in the world of the Gray Crows is located at the edge of the sea in this world, which is perfect for the sea people to perform.
Although the sea warriors have evolved to adapt to the land environment after tens of thousands of years of countless foreign conquests, in fact, strictly speaking, most of the sea creatures are now amphibious creatures, but the most suitable and favorite place for them is still in the sea.
The world was grey and gloomy, the sky was shrouded in thick grey fog. A sun was hanging in the sky but its light was blocked by the fog. The whole world was like a moonlit night, dim but clear.
You can see a short distance through the dim light, and even the sea water is gray.
The huge camp stretches for more than ten kilometers. After coming out of the portal, the Third Division established a new camp away from the Second Division. They formed a corner with each other to surround the portal in the center. At the same time, they sent a combat battalion as the vanguard to leave the camp and head north. According to the detailed map drawn by the exploration team after hundreds of years of exploration, there is a small mountain range forty or fifty kilometers north of the Second Division camp. Behind the mountain is a plain where a powerful Gray Crow lord resides.
The world of the Grey Crows still implements the ancient feudal system. Each powerful Grey Crow lord rules an area without interference from the central government of the kingdom. In fact, it is not much different from the Sea King Empire. The Sea King Empire also has the Sea Emperor and eighteen relatively independent sea king princes.
According to the plan, considering that the world of the Grey Crows is powerful enough, this invasion is a joint action of the legions. They will first jointly destroy the three major Grey Crow kingdoms and the Grey Crows' spiritual belief, the Sethek Temple, before allowing them to disperse and plunder.
But that is the overall plan. Before that, we need to wipe out the small-scale Gray Crows surrounding the base so that they can move freely.
The Second Division that came in first was already attacking a Grey Crow Lord in the south, so naturally he had to change his target as the second one to come in.
According to the information, the Gray Crow lord in the north is much weaker than the Gray Crow lord in the south who was attacked by the Second Division. Not only is the lord much weaker, but the territory is also much smaller. When Lin Xiao arrived after settling the affairs of the camp, the Vanguard First Battalion had already captured a Gray Crow town.
All the Gray Crow people in the town and nearby villages were driven into the town. Lin Xiao observed curiously from close up. These Gray Crow people were like giant crows in human form, covered with layers of feathers. They had a high defense against sword strikes, but could not defend against stabbings.
The hands grow under the wings, with the five fingers like hooks. The arms can be spread out like wings to glide short distances. The bird has feathers behind its head, and the color of the feathers varies depending on the gender. Generally, the feathers behind the head of a male gray crow are uniformly black or gray, while the feathers behind the head of a female gray crow are generally red, blue, and other bright colors.
Excluding those killed during the war, there were now seven or eight thousand Grey Crow people from the surrounding villages gathered in the town.
These Gray Crow people all looked at these murderous aliens with horror, their eyes full of anxiety about their fate.
Lin Xiao inspected it and waved his hand indifferently. The wizards accompanying the army began to set up a soul-gathering wizard formation and another blood-refining wizard formation in the center of the town.
The Soul Gathering Wizard Array is used to collect dead souls, while the Blood Refining Wizard Array is used to refine the essence of flesh and blood and improve the bloodline.
An hour later, screams were heard from the town, and soon a wizard brought a snow-white soul bead and a jar of solidified flesh and blood essence.
According to the regulations, 20% of all their gains in foreign lands will be handed over to the empire, 20% will be handed over to the legion, and the rest will be distributed among the divisions themselves.
The distribution method formulated by Lin Xiao was very simple. Half of the ordinary resources were allocated as public property of the division, that is, used in the name of the division. The rest was divided among the officers according to their ranks, including him for a big share.
Although he does not need these ordinary resources, as a division commander he must have a portion of them. This is the rule.
Apart from this, rare resources depend on the situation. In most cases, they are divided similarly to ordinary resources, unless they are special resources.
In addition, the lower-level officers generally do not participate in the division of harvested souls because they cannot use them.
For wizards who are not level four or above, directly fusing souls will have huge side effects. They are not soul apostles or have similar means to completely fuse souls, nor do they have the magic cube of fortune to completely refine souls. Random fusion will only lead to death.
This soul orb contains the soul power of seven or eight thousand Gray Crow people. Twenty percent of it was handed over to the empire, twenty percent was handed over to the legion, and the remaining sixty percent belonged to Lin Xiao alone.
All he had to pay was to compensate the subordinate officers with some other resources that he could not use.
As for the suffering and death of the Gray Crow people, he didn't care.
Who cares about the life and death of foreigners?
There are insane genocides among human beings, such as the Manchus moving south, some neighbors who lived a good life, the massacres by white colonists in America, and so on.
They can carry out genocide against their own kind, and have no psychological pressure to raise the butcher knife against foreign races.
There is no right or wrong, it's just the survival of the fittest among races.
This Grey Crow lord controls two cities, fourteen small towns, and hundreds of villages scattered over a hundred miles in radius, with a total of more than 100,000 people.
After the first battle camp destroyed two small towns and nearby villages in a surprise attack, it divided its troops into two groups. The left group had about two thousand people, and the right group had about eight thousand people. The left roamed one of the two cities of the Grey Crow Lord, and after the Grey Crow Lord sent troops to support, the main force on the right launched a surprise attack on the main city.
Lin Xiao followed the whole process, but only watched the fight without taking any action.
This Grey Crow lord is only at level two. The first battalion of the division has two level three wizards and more than thirty level two officers. His strength is absolutely overwhelming.
After defeating the main force of the Grey Crow Lord, the next step was to massacre and plunder the city, gathering souls and refining the essence of flesh and blood.
Lin Xiao had already said that he only needed soul beads and flesh and blood essence for this expedition. He would buy at a premium any small amount of soul beads and flesh and blood essence collected by his subordinates outside of the legion's combat, and try to obtain as many soul beads and flesh and blood essence as possible.
The soul beads can strengthen his soul, while the essence of flesh and blood can replenish his true body.
Other division commander-level warriors usually use the soul beads they obtain to refine powerful magic weapons, or exchange them with the Sea Emperor and other sea kings for other precious resources. They rarely refine them themselves, as their methods are unable to completely refine the spiritual imprint in their souls.
The essence of flesh and blood is mainly used for direct devouring and refining to strengthen oneself. This thing is effective for first and second level wizards and is relatively more popular with junior officers.
The reason why Lin Xiao collected a large amount of blood and flesh essence this time was because he was condensing his true body and needed a large amount of blood and flesh essence.
Once he condenses his true body, his strength will skyrocket, directly jumping from level four to level five, or even level six. Of course, he is willing to pay a hefty price.
(End of this chapter)