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Chapter 184 Let You Come
Although Rohan has the best cavalry in the entire continent, and has the support of the more powerful Ents, all the main forces are deployed at the border of Isengard, fighting fiercely with the zombie orc army of the white-robed wizard Saruman who has mastered part of the power of death. They are busy with their own affairs and have no spare energy to deal with another new war. Moreover, although the scale of the coalition is not too exaggerated, it is composed of well-trained regular troops and their combat effectiveness is by no means weak.
Ninety percent of the "army" that Rohan used to resist the multinational coalition forces were believers of the Sea Temple who came voluntarily. Although they had firm beliefs and absolute loyalty, they had no weapons and armor, no horses or food, no logistical supplies, no systematic training, and even no one to command them. Many of these people were even children in their teens and elderly people in their sixties and seventies. Although their number was more than ten times that of the coalition forces, and their fighting spirit was a hundred times greater, there were some things that "momentum" could not make up for. When a group of hungry peasants holding pitchforks and hoes launched a disorganized charge against the regular army that was like a torrent of steel, the result was naturally horrible.
Rohan was losing ground on the battlefield and the situation became precarious.
When the two tree ladies and tree shepherds who followed Lin Yu first anxiously reported the situation to Lin Yu and sought the latest instructions, the response they received was simple and straightforward, which was shocking.
Lin Yu sat quietly on the slightly worn-out chair, playing with a small object in his hand. His face was like a mysterious mask, showing no emotion. He raised his eyes slightly, slowly cast his gaze at the two tree shepherds, and said slowly with a tone as calm as the calm lake water in autumn: "Don't they just want this country and want to drive away my believers? If so, why not satisfy them?"
The arrival of victory was completely beyond everyone's expectations. For the multinational coalition forces, Rohan, which had transformed from the "Kingdom of Cavalry" to the "Kingdom of Sea God", and their so-called "army" composed of 90% refugees were like soft persimmons that could be squeezed at will in the eyes of the coalition forces.
For any general of the multinational coalition, this is their favorite war. Imagine that after several major battles, the army's casualties are minimal, but in the battlefield recorder's notes, everyone can leave a record of their achievements that will make them proud for a lifetime and boast for generations.
The impressive numbers and the exciting-sounding achievements, the precious military merits were within easy reach like ripe fruits. And all they had to do was to leisurely arrange their battle formations when the scouts found a large group of ragged and almost unarmed refugees rushing towards them like crazy. After the archers destroyed most of the beggar army on the opposite side, they sent out the cavalry to charge and trample them, and finally the infantry to finish off... Yes, it was that simple. No need for pre-war mobilization, no need to deploy troops, no need to worry about traps, no need to fear ambushes... The commanders of the coalition forces didn't even need to use their brains, they just needed to order their troops to swing their swords and chop happily as if it was a child's play.
It is not surprising that this situation has occurred. These fanatical believers are almost all homeless refugees who have lost all their relatives. They can be said to have nothing. But no one is afraid of death. It can even be said that almost everyone is looking forward to death. Under such a strange mentality, they deliberately put themselves in a disadvantageous situation almost like self-abuse, and even actively refuse the assistance from the regular military of Rohan. And as long as they find the whereabouts of the coalition forces, these "suicides" will rush forward regardless of everything, waiting to be killed with joy, and then their souls can leave this painful world and go to the joyful heaven - Lin Yu's heaven.
Although the results were brilliant, the killing was extremely joyful, and the front line was advancing step by step, the multinational coalition forces actually did not really think about destroying Rohan and occupying this land. It was not that they did not have this ambition, but because there was no need for it.
Although Rohan is a vast country, most of the area is plateau and mountainous, with poor land and no crops to grow. What's worse is that Rohan has never had true peace since ancient times. The barbarians who were driven out of their homes by Rohan's ancestors, the orcs in Mordor in the southeast, and Isengard who has now betrayed the light. The war between Rohan and them has never stopped. In other words, Rohan has always been like a great wall, protecting the safety of these small and medium-sized principalities. No matter how stupid the lords of those principalities are, they will not attack Rohan.
In their original plan, the coalition forces only needed to fight their way to Rohan's capital, Edoras, completely destroy the foundation of the Sea Temple, capture and kill the greatest pope, Lin Yu, and if possible, plunder a small amount of wealth and capture a few Ents, the tree-herding female slaves... That would be enough. At that time, they would be able to support a royal descendant with the blood of the Rohan royal family as the successor king as a dignified army of justice, and let Rohan completely return to the way it was before Lin Yu came here, and continue to be their umbrella, and then the coalition forces would calmly withdraw their troops amid applause and flowers. Of course, from then on, there would never be another Lin Yu, and no more "Sea Temple".
Considering that Rohan's main forces were all tied up at the border by Isengard's orc army and unable to extricate themselves, such a strategic goal did not seem difficult to achieve at all.
In fact, the supreme commander of this multinational coalition was actually the long-missing former prince of Rohan, His Royal Highness Xiyoude, who had committed the crime of patricide. And this unprecedented multinational military intervention against the Temple of the Sea God, starting from the bizarre riot in the Principality of Rowei, and then to the consensus of more than a dozen principalities to jointly form a multinational coalition to fight... All the behind-the-scenes black hands pointed to His Royal Highness the prince.
It was he who first keenly sensed the threat that the unusual speed of the expansion of the Sea God Temple brought to the surrounding royal nobles. It was he who displayed extraordinary eloquence, united vertically and horizontally, and persuaded each short-sighted, timid and stubborn principality leader one by one, telling them that if they did not take action, then his subjects would only have the Pope in their eyes, not the lords... If it were not for Prince Xiyoude, even if the Sea God Temple would eventually stand on the opposite side of these royal nobles, it would never be so fast.
But, everything went so smoothly...