After more than three years of war, Sutton and the Empire of Light finally defeated the orc coalition forces with the help of the magic fleet of the Alvindale Empire and drove these barbaric creatures back to the Wild Plateau in the north.
This war was a terrible disaster for the countries in the central plains, causing the loss of tens of millions of people in the central plains.
After the war, Sutton and the Empire of Light carried out a large-scale purge of Bann's believers. In this purge, people found that in the small countries around the central mountains, the evil god Bann's faith was very eroded. Many lords had thrown themselves into the arms of this evil god who supported tyranny.
Not only the central mountains, but also some remote territories in the three empires were eroded by Bann's faith.
After Villar withdrew from the Riptide Castle, he took his legion into the territory of the Kingdom of Brest. After fighting and escaping, he finally escaped back to the Sutton Empire, but he was immediately arrested and thrown into the military prison.
In the post-war liquidation, Villar was sentenced to hanging for leaving his post without permission.
With the help of his men, Villar escaped from the prison.
Villar's territory was located on the border between the Sutton Empire and the Kingdom of Brest. In the war, a group of ogres visited this territory and turned all the people in the territory, including Villar's family, into rations for the ogre army.
Villar, who had no one to rely on and was wanted, could only bring along a few of his trusted subordinates who helped him escape and fled to the Alvindale Empire. In the end, they wandered to Tailun City and followed an old pirate to become a pirate.
Not long after Villar became a pirate, he was kidnapped by Feng Chou and brainwashed to become the boatswain of his next ship.
Villar's highest position in the Riptide Castle was the second-class legion commander.
A legion was a basic independent combat unit in this world. Its status was similar to a regiment on earth. It was a combat unit that could form an independent army.
The number of people in a legion was about 2,800, including three infantry battalions and a cavalry brigade.
An infantry battalion included an infantry phalanx composed of three spearmen squadrons and a halberd squadrons, supplemented by two shooting squadrons and a sword and shield squadrons.
The number of people in an infantry squadron was about 120.
A cavalry brigade included five cavalry squadrons, and a cavalry squadron was 50 people.
There was no fixed military structure above the rank of legion commander. Those who led two legions were brigadier generals, those who led three or more legions were generals, and those who led ten or more legions were marshals.
The second-class legion commander referred to the second-class legion led by Villar.
According to the standards of the Sutton Empire, the first class legion was the main force. The ordinary soldiers were all warriors above the sixth rank, and the elites were above the eighth rank.
Second-class legions were also known as auxiliary legions. Most of the ordinary infantrymen were 4th rank warriors, while the elites were 5th rank and above.
In an army, the elites included all the cavalry, all the sword and shield wielders, a portion of the halberd wielders, and the spearmen in the front row. The elites made up about one-third of an army.
Third class legions were the local City Guard Legions, which were not part of the Empire's war plans.
As a corps leader who had climbed up from the bottom, Villar could easily lead about 1,000 native soldiers, not to mention that many officers in this army were Villar's former subordinates.
Feng Chou's organization of the native army was similar to that of the Sutton Empire's regular army, but the scale was smaller and there was no cavalry.
It had to be said that there were no horses on Hunter's Island.
In order to form a cavalry one day, Feng Chou had begun to breed warhorses in Qiankun Pagoda.
In addition to warhorses, Feng Chou also bred a batch of Shire horses and Loktar cattle in Qiankun Pagoda, in order to prepare for large-scale farming on Hunter's Island in the future. Although there were bison on this island, they were small and bad-tempered, so it would take a lot of effort to tame them into cattle.
Feng Chou was absolutely assured to let Villar lead the army on land, even more assured than himself. At least Villar was a professional.
Considering that marching on land, especially in the jungle where there were basically no roads, the speed was definitely not fast, so the oar fleet led by Feng Chou set off a day later.
The short-distance sprint speed of a sailboat was not slow. If the wind was favorable, it could reach about 13 knots. However, in terms of long-distance sailing, a sailboat was not as efficient as a sailboat. Its long-distance sailing speed was only 4 to 6 knots.
The waterway from Kandyvana to the target Kamek tribe was about 60 kilometers. The fleet led by Feng Chou set off in the morning of the second day. The journey was smooth sailing, and they arrived at the target sea area around two in the afternoon.
After a day of marching, the army led by Villar arrived at the scheduled campsite last night. After a night of rest, they arrived at the scheduled attack position in the forest ten kilometers northeast of the target Kamek tribe this morning.
After communicating with Villar through a short message spell, the fleet took a short rest and rushed to the shoal of the lake west of the Kamek tribe.
The terrain around the Kamek tribe had already been thoroughly explored by the scouts sent by Feng Chou, and even a detailed magic map had been drawn. The section of the lake shore that Feng Chou chose was a stretch of beach, so the sailboats could safely go ashore.
As the sailboats approached the shore, the oarsmen began to exert force, and the sailboats gradually accelerated.
In the end, six large and small sailboats rushed to the shore of the lake at a speed of about 10 knots, and grounded themselves in the shoal.
When the ships hit the shore and stopped shaking, it was like a silent order. The soldiers kneeling at the front of the battle deck loosened their hands that were holding the fixed ropes and grabbed the spears that were inserted in the gun holes beside them. At the same time, they stood up straight, pulled out the spears, put them on their shoulders, and jumped off the bow in an orderly manner. They quickly formed a square formation of spears on the beach in front of the bow. The six sailboats formed two square formations.
When the soldiers formed the square formations, the sword-and-shield soldiers and crossbowmen at the rear of the sailboats also rushed off the bow in an orderly manner.
These sword and shield soldiers and ballista soldiers formed two smaller square formations on the two sides of the square formation. The front of the square formation was wider, but the depth of the square formation was relatively shallow. In the square formation, the sword and shield soldiers were at the front, and the ballista soldiers at the back.
In the distance, the guards of the Kamek tribe were at a loss as to what to do. They didn't understand what was going on, and why these huge ships wanted to ground themselves.
Many children even came out of the gate to watch the show.
The two square formations were formed very smoothly. After another ten minutes, they pushed to the west gate of the Kamek tribe. Only then did the Kamek tribe's prophet and chief wake up from their daze and rush out of the gate with the hunters to confront the two square formations.