Legendary Hero

Among the three major gateways in the north, the Mosaren Bridge is the most critical.

The other two places, Frost Whisper Canyon and Black Pine Forest, even if they are broken through, there are still natural dangers behind them to continue to retreat. Only this bridge, once it is breached by the undead, there will be a smooth road behind. As long as they rush over, the undead army will almost die Can sweep the North.

Based on this consideration, Luo Lin led 5,000 troops to arrive here, and personally garrisoned the bridge.

Frostwhisper Canyon is temporarily stationed by Joseph Martin. The black pine forest is temporarily defended by Zakro. Of course, this is only temporary. Rollin's plan is for the frost giants to defend the canyon, the orcs to set up checkpoints in the forest, and all the humans to go to the Mozaren Bridge.

By doing this, they can use their respective racial strengths and avoid conflicts with each other.

The Mosalen Bridge is located on the Heishui River, the second largest river in the Principality. The river is nearly a kilometer wide and the water flow is gentle. Because of the depth of the water, the water here is black, hence the name Heishui.

The bridge body of this bridge is entirely made of huge stones, and the construction point of the bridge is selected in the most gentle section of the Heishui River. It was built three hundred years ago. It is said that five great mages and hundreds of high-level magicians were mobilized at that time. The whole bridge was almost integrated. The bridge deck was nearly 20 meters wide and 1,100 meters long. Huge piers, surrounded by tall defensive fortresses.

Such a majestic bridge can be called a miracle of this era.

There are defenders here, but because the Principality has not had a major war in the past ten years, and recently because of the Davik Fortress, the Grand Duke took away a large part of the defenders here, so the defenders on the bridge now There are only five hundred people, and all of them are old, weak, sick and disabled. Excluding the quota for empty pay, there are only two hundred people who can actually fight.

Two hundred people were nothing in front of Luo Lin's five thousand elite troops. As soon as the army arrived, the defenders immediately opened the door to welcome them.

Luo Lin took over the bridge, and immediately began to prepare fortifications. At the same time, he sent envoys to all ethnic groups in the mainland, sent letters of help, and asked the lords in various places for assistance in the name of resisting darkness.

It is impossible for 5,000 soldiers to guard the bridge. In front of the army of undead, whose units are often 100,000, they are as small as ants in front of an elephant.

So the matter of recruiting warriors was immediately put on the agenda by Rowling.

On the third day after Luo Lin arrived at the bridge, Fakes Island sent the first batch of food, enough for 20,000 people for a year, which relieved Luo Lin's urgent need.

The reason that Fakes Island was able to produce so much food was because the Davik Fortress was defeated too quickly. The compensation demanded by the Grand Duke that day had just shipped a batch from Fakes Island, and was about to ship the second batch when the fortress fell. So the second batch of grain was diverted to the Mosalen Bridge.

The situation in Luolin's Maple Leaf County and Levin County is also similar. Only one-third of the support promised to the Grand Duke was shipped that day. gram fortress.

One of the advantages of the Mosalen Bridge has to be mentioned here, that is, grain can be transported all the way by merchant ships, and a ship can transport hundreds of tons of grain, which saves a lot of cost.

Along with the merchant ship were Horn and hundreds of officials. They came to help Luo Lin arrange the refugees who fled from the south.

On the fourth day, the refugee team from the south arrived. The terrain of Frostwhisper Canyon and Black Pine Forest was relatively rough and extremely difficult to pass through, so basically all the refugees came to the Mosaren Bridge.

Standing in the fortress and looking out, Luo Lin saw a crooked team stretching all the way to the horizon on the plain, almost endless. Every refugee who fled was unkempt and weathered. In this early winter weather, they rushed to the north. The environment is really difficult.

Among the crowd, a scout on horseback galloped past the team and entered the fortress. After a while, there was a knock on the door, and the attendants led the scout just now into the door.

"How many refugees are there in this wave?" Luo Lin asked.

"The refugee team is about 30 miles long and has a population of nearly 200,000. Most of the team are young men and women with strong bodies. There are very few old people and babies. The youngest children are over seven or eight years old. They all walk by themselves."

Why are there no old people and babies? Because in the process of fleeing, they couldn't keep up with the team, and their parents and relatives couldn't help them. Everyone was starving to death, and they were on the road day and night. They were afraid that the undead army behind them would not be left behind. It's already very good.

And this is just the first wave. If there is no accident, more refugees will continue to rush over.

It's just that in this way, I don't know how many people were destroyed. Luo Lin sighed, and said to Horn who was standing beside him: "Who would have thought that the situation would become so bad."

It was too fast, nearly two years faster than in the previous life, even Luo Lin was a little unprepared.

Horn was also looking at the refugee team with a serious face: "There are too many people, we can only try our best to save people, but how many people can be saved, who can be saved, and who can't be saved, I don't dare to think about it at all. "

In the process of fleeing, the wives and children were separated, the children were replaced by food, and the epidemic was prevalent. The details are too miserable to bear.

Luo Lin was silent for a while, and then said to the attendant, "Go and call the quartermaster."

After a while, a thin and thin man entered the room. Luo Lin said: "This team is 200,000 people, and there may be more in the future. Can the food in the castle support it?"

Of course, Luo Lin didn’t deliver food to every refugee, but he opened a relief shop on the bridge, distributed some food to each refugee crossing the bridge, so that they could have a full meal, and there would be some food on the way afterwards, I just hope They can go farther north.

Of course, in order to prevent looting each other, there are soldiers monitoring all the way.

The quartermaster looked exhausted, silently calculated, and then replied: "Marshal, if you save a little bit, our food can feed more than half a million people."

Horn said: "The next batch of grain will arrive in about ten days, and it should be able to be picked up. The grain from Maple Leaf County is also going south, and it is estimated that it will arrive the day after tomorrow."

"That's good." Luo Lin nodded, and he looked at the bridge deck again. There were still many priests on it, and Conworth was also here. He was treating the refugees who passed the bridge. Every priest worked very hard and tried his best. Treat every sick or injured refugee.

Because of the excessive consumption of divine arts, they were all pale. Without divine arts, they were treated with medicines and potions, and they have not stopped since just now.

Luo Lin looked at it for a while, then said to the attendant, "Go and call the recruiter over."

There are only 5,000 people on the bridge now, which is not enough. If the undead army is coming, they will probably be forced to blow up the bridge, but this is the last option, and it will never be used unless it is absolutely necessary.

Now that there are so many refugees, of course they must be recruited.

The recruiter also came. He was Long Ergo who had followed Luo Lin all the way from Vendôme Alpine Town. He is now an elite fighter of level 30, and he is really a rare martial arts genius.

"How is the situation? How many people are willing to stay?" Luo Lin asked.

Long Ergo saluted Luo Lin and reported: "Marshal, in the three hours since the arrival of the refugees, we have recruited a thousand young men with strong physiques."

One thousand people in three hours, and recruited according to Luo Lin's high standards, this speed is very good, Luo Lin is very satisfied.

"Very good, you continue, we need to add at least 100,000 soldiers this time."

One hundred thousand people, with the help of the natural danger of the Black Water River, should be enough to defend the bridge.

"Yes, Marshal!" Rangargo turned around and continued to work.

Refugees continued to pour in, as if they were endless, but on the third day, the number of refugees counted by the quartermaster had reached 800,000.

These refugees crossing the bridge must be resettled reasonably, otherwise it will have a huge impact on the original northern border, and even civil strife.

In this regard, Luo Lin relied on a decree on land reclamation. The decree stipulates that whoever reclaims the wasteland in the northern border is the owner of the land. Repay the seeds after receiving the crops in the coming year.

This trick has been used on Ficks Island, and it can quickly allow refugees to find something to do and live a bright life without gathering crowds to make trouble.

Of course, the decree is good, but to implement it in order not to become a bad government, reliable official management is still needed.

For this matter, Horne had gone to the north with the officials he had brought from Fix Island. These officials are very capable and experienced. They arranged refugees in the northern border and helped Luo Lin relieve his worries.

Of course, this land reclamation order would violate the interests of some lords in the northern border, and some lords tried to object, but they didn't have soldiers, and their resistance seemed weak.

Luo Lin didn't force it, he issued an IOU to Iona's dragon treasury, lent 500,000 gold coins, and compensated the loss of the lord one by one, so the lord was satisfied.

This slight wave of resistance was easily suppressed.

By the tenth day, the number of refugees passing through the bridge had reached two million. Judging from the situation reported by the scouts, all those who could escape from the southern border had already escaped, and a small number followed Grand Duke Lehman to Aola. Most of the Kingdom of Ji came to Mosalun. After all, no one likes to go to other countries unless it is absolutely necessary. Besides, there is a huge attraction in the northern border.

The soldiers who were stationed at the lakeside fortress and Swan Castle also came. When Davik Fortress fell, the lakeside fortress was in a deadly battle with the undead army. After receiving the news from Rollin, the commander of the fortress immediately gave up the defense and fled the fortress from the clear water lake with the remaining 12,000 soldiers. Swan Castle, mixed with the defenders of the fortress, a total of 18,000 people, went north together.

These soldiers joined the defense of the Mossalen Bridge, so that the number of defenders on the bridge reached 58,000. Twenty-eight thousand of them are veterans who have experienced combat. Thirty thousand are recruits from refugees these days.

There are too many soldiers, and the lack of weapons and equipment is reflected. Most of the recruits do not have weapons, and they use a wooden stick during training.

But on the tenth day, Luo Lin, who was stationed at the Mosaren Bridge, welcomed the first batch of foreign reinforcements. They were dwarves from the mountains.