ebookland Chapter 308: Difficult Blockade
Chapter 308: Difficult Blockade
Reality is like a lousy game.
It’s too easy in the early stage, and then the intensity is immediately increased to force you to spend money.
It was easy for the soldiers airlifted from Abes to clear out the wave of undead in the castle. If it weren't for the fact that magic grenades might destroy the stability of the building structure, the speed of clearing out would have been even faster.
After reacting, Nass's army sent necromancers to help the vanguard troops that were besieged by the undead in the villages around Breland's home. It was a simple matter of turning enemies into friends.
But when the two groups collide, trouble arises.
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Because of what Lord Abes had observed before, after dealing with the undead in the Breland castle, the army of the small kingdom did not immediately disperse to take over the surrounding territories, but instead carried out emergency deployment.
Only a small group of elite soldiers were sent out by Abes, and their goal was to lure Nas's enemy forces to the designated battlefield.
At this time, the time is 11:25 am.
As for Nas's team, they had rested, eaten and drunk well, and the sky was bright.
Although the first wave of 500 vanguard troops sent out suffered some losses, they still successfully occupied the territories in the front and back of the Breland family's territory.
Because of the timely response, the overall loss can even be said to be negative.
Such achievements made Nas's army very proud and complacent, and even the offensive front was expanded from the initial few miles to about twenty miles.
The necromancer's method of turning enemies into friends has indeed increased the number of troops, so it is reasonable to slightly expand the width of the battlefield.
However, it was still a bit exaggerated to expand directly to more than 20 miles, which left obvious gaps between Nas's troops.
If one had a God's perspective, one could be certain that they concentrated almost all of their forces along the line from Breland's home to the highway, and the protection of the flanks was seriously insufficient.
Of course, the general that led Nas on this expedition was not stupid enough to not have flank protection. He still placed two columns and a squad on the flank of the brigade.
The two columns were naturally the few hundred people left from the 500-man vanguard.
Having suffered setbacks, it is understandable that their fighting power is weaker than other teams.
But why do we put a weak team in the important protective work?
It's simple, he was floating.
He felt that he had eliminated all the power of the Breland family.
Even if there was any strength left, he had already found a way to absolutely deal with it, which was to abandon the ordinary soldiers and undead, put the necromancer apprentices who still had some control left at the forefront, and then turn the enemies into friends.
The only thing that the Breland family had achieved was that they were picked off, and the small kingdom of Wommza, which was in the midst of civil strife, had no power to deal with them.
Even if he is really unlucky, there are one or two powerful warlords who are trying to split the land and fight for the throne near the Breland family. They ignore the traditional thinking of defending the country from foreign enemies and insist on attacking him after he seizes the Breland family. At best, they can only protect a safe buffer zone that does not exceed thirty miles of their own sphere of influence.
If there really was such an enemy, then he wouldn't mind fighting a fierce battle on the border between the small kingdom of Wommza and Nas.
You know, seizing the territory of the Breland family has never been the end of the Nation of Nass, but the starting point of the war between the five nations of Vaklia!
If we don't go deep into the small kingdom of Łomza and fight one or two decisive battles with the current warlords in the small kingdom of Łomza;
If Nass were to fight a few decisive battles with other countries within the territory of the small kingdom of Wommza, would it be possible for Nass to swallow up the territory of the Breland family so easily?
Just like if you want to pass the exam, your goal must be a high score; and if you want a high score, your goal must be a full score.
Otherwise, if they simply swallowed it, they would either face a counterattack from the small kingdom of Wommza after the civil strife ended, or "mediation" and "upholding justice" from other neighboring countries known as the Five Kingdoms of Vaklia.
Of the five kingdoms of Vakolia, the small kingdom of Womuza is the largest, and Nas has the highest military investment.
This is what is called militarism.
The cost of silence means that no matter whether it is the lord or the people of Nas, they will never easily accept an outcome like letting go of the flesh they have bitten.
It was with this mentality and arrangement that the Second Army of the Nass Free Territory, led by Nass General Walker Almond,
The small kingdom's righteous army under the command of Abes Grande, whose full name is the Tricolor Justice and National Salvation Army of the Small Kingdom of Wommza, launched a blocking battle.
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Using magic cannons and magic grenades, plus the support of bombs thrown by iron birds in the sky, a huge gap was instantly opened on the flank of the Nass army.
On the front, a team led by Gaviling and other management members valued by Abes infiltrated into the gaps between the defense zones and then attacked from multiple directions.
In many previous battles, the soldiers of the small kingdom's rebel army were actually fighting in a way that had a fixed city wall as their target.
Therefore, this relatively free blocking battle caused some confusion and coordination problems.
But everything is afraid of comparison. Nas's army seemed to have bigger problems after their surprise attack and fell into chaos almost in an instant.
In the melee, the teams led by the two managers, Gawiling and the bear goblin Kurge, quickly broke in.
Logically speaking, the next scene would be that the enemy starts to run around in a hurry, shouting, "Our army is defeated, our army is defeated."
However, the Small Kingdom Volunteer Army and the Second Army of the Nass Free Territory were both taken aback.
The rebel soldiers: Aren’t they just the so-called regular army of the country composed of those officers and superiors, leading a group of pitiful people?
When I was killing people in the royal capital, I saw a lot of trash like this.
Nass Soldier: Isn't it the usual combat method of the small kingdom of Womuza, which uses explosives such as light explosion particles to coordinate with large infantry forces?
The other four of the five countries of Vaklia were all on guard against this move of yours.
however……
A bump and a collision.
Both sides are unexpectedly tough.
Unlike the small kingdom of Wommza, which was ruined by treacherous ministers and corrupt officials, Nas, as the country with the highest military investment among the five countries of Vaklia, coupled with their cold and melancholy character, the combat power of the army cannot be compared with the regular army of the small kingdom of Wommza (except for General Paddy's army).
Coupled with Nas's use of necromancers and undead creatures, the magic cannon bombardment and magic grenade clearing the way that should have had a great effect actually did not produce the damage and effects that were satisfactory.
Nas's army was very tough. The previous attack did cause panic, but it did not cause the expected huge casualties. This was the conclusion drawn by the bear goblin Kurge after several charges.
Nas's army was also particularly shocked.
The light-explosion particles were smuggled in large quantities outside the small kingdom of Wommza by old Winston, and how could Nass, who had the highest military investment, not have purchased and learned about them?
It can be said that among the five countries of Waklia, their understanding of light explosion particles is relatively advanced.
But when did the uses of light explosion particles become so diverse?
Shouldn't that thing be a magical effect that sticks to objects and has an explosion radius of fifteen feet?
How could it be thrown from beyond sight, thrown out by soldiers' hands, and even fall from the sky?
To them, artillery and even the air force, working in coordination with infantry to advance, was still too far ahead of the times.
When did the explosion effect of light burst particles become so exaggerated?
After all, from their perspective, a magic grenade alone has an explosion range that is no less than that of a light explosion particle; not to mention the magic cannon shells that are made by adding more medicine and the bombs dropped from the air by the iron bird.
After this comparison, both sides began to curse the generations of kings of the small kingdom of Łomza.
"Mad dance!"
"How did the regular army/explosives end up like this in your hands?"
In the study in the royal capital, the fake king, who was still wearing a fake appearance, couldn't help but sneeze.
He loosened his fingers that were trying to use basic runes to piece together a set of rune books, and tightened the buttons of his collar.
As a member of the Mage Tower, he was unable to participate in normal learning and improvement after the Mage Tower surrendered, which made him feel particularly embarrassed.
You can't really just keep pretending to be a king and playing poker with women.
But fortunately, Kronos, the daughter of the Myers family is kind-hearted and observant.
She arranged for herself an auditing seat next to the classroom where Hiroki-sama taught every week.
He does not need to take off his disguise as the king. He just needs to enter the corresponding room at the corresponding time and listen to the sound transmitted through the rune group.
This will prevent him from standing still while his other brothers and sisters are making progress.
That was why, now, in the King's study, he was working on the rune book, working on some of the little inventions belonging to Lord Kronos that Hyonagi-sensei had recently talked about.
In the distant house of Breland, some people cursed the king, but when the real king had already died, only he, the fake king, could serve as a place of hope.
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The time lasted from noon to evening.
Abes, who was staying in the Breland family's castle as a commander, became visibly anxious in the eyes of Soran, Bai Renchou and others.
Only half a day had passed, and this was not the longest battle Abes had ever fought.
The longest time was when we recaptured the Mage Tower.
The ceremony started at dawn and ended at sunset when Abes eliminated the gray giant.
Later on, it actually became a one-on-one battle of personal heroism.
Relying on Abes to awaken the third rank and add points to the priest, and using the power of the god of the human race, Sass, to limit the madness of the one-eyed god Gruumsh who took advantage of him, he put together the strongest state, which enabled him to win.
If we do not count this kind of battle and take large-scale wars as the standard, then the longest one was the time when we entered the royal capital.
The first wall of the royal capital alone was charged twice, and later Zhengqi used two main attack directions.
In addition to the battle between Hime and old Winston, there is even a betrayal scene where the "fake king" sends the palace guards to backstab his teacher.
Regular troops, surprise troops, multiple battles, and unexpected situations, this complexity represents one aspect of war.
However, the previous situations seemed like child's play compared to the army that had to deal with Nass this time.
This battle made both Abes and the opposing general Walker feel extremely uncomfortable.
Walker was shocked by the terrifying and intensive firepower at the beginning. In addition, during the first wave of assault, the enemy's shouts and charges were heard from all directions. Even after close combat, explosives and spells were used in large quantities.
Abes was shocked by the opponent's skilled military coordination, recovery and the most troublesome thing... night combat.
Needless to say, the coordination between the services.
By combining ordinary soldiers, undead and necromancer apprentices in different proportions, we can get combat teams with more than a dozen different characteristics, such as obstruction type, offense type, special type, etc.
After the initial panic, the opposing commander used such coordination to glue the divided and gapped front lines back together.
Although Nas's army is now deployed in a state where it is semi-surrounded and blocked by the small kingdom's rebel army, this is much better than being divided one by one, completely surrounded, or being annihilated.
Recovery does not only refer to those who are seriously injured or dead. They will be directly transformed into undead by the necromancers accompanying the army to supplement the troops.
It also refers to the extreme utilization of the undead by the necromancers.
Because they are undead controlled by them rather than naturally generated undead, once the undead are knocked down, the negative energy is more easily collected by their masters than dissipated.
In other words, these energies can flow back to the apprentices, allowing them to once again exert a weaker control and repair on the undead.
In this way, one unit of power can be recycled up to three times.
This is just the case of use against a single undead.
If after three times, the returning negative energy is no longer sufficient to support complete control and thorough repair, different undead can be combined depending on the situation.
For example, if ordinary skeleton soldier A only has a skull left, but if B has a set of arms, C has a pair of leg bones, and D is seriously damaged but the torso and other details are still intact, they can be used to complete the skeleton, and then the negative energy that ABCD can recycle and flow back can be gathered together again...
Then you can use it three more times!
As for zombies or other undead creatures, their usage is similar.
There is no need to say much about night battles.
Night combat is something the undead excel at.
Before, Walker Almond took into consideration that the enemy was the Breland family, who also possessed secret arts, and did not want to create an advantage for the other party, so they did not go there overnight, but waited until noon to officially start.
And now, they are sure that the army coming to stop them is not the Breland family's forces that make use of a large number of undead, but living people, so they will no longer put shackles on themselves.
After nightfall that day, a group of infantrymen lurked to a place two hundred meters or even closer to the enemy's outposts and camps.
On the contrary, they wanted to replicate the multi-point attack launched against them by the rebel army of the small kingdom during the day.
If it weren't for the fact that the soldiers under Abes were well-fed, well-trained, and had advantages like grenades, they might have really taken over one or two camps.
Shocked by each other, worried about each other, scared of each other.
This turned the battle that Abes thought could be ended in a short time into a difficult resistance.
He himself was very clear that war was not a game of house. He had been able to capture cities and towns within a day before, but that did not mean it would remain the same after the snowball started rolling and he took bigger steps.
Once the scale becomes larger, the time will definitely increase sharply.
But this day seems to have come a little too early.
I have just taken over one quarter to one half of the land of the small kingdom of Wommza, and I haven't enjoyed it for long, but now I have to fight a tough battle?
And the soldiers under Abes believed that with the tricolor flag of Wommza in their hands and the flag of justice of opening up the entire continent in their hearts, they should be invincible.
Their mentality of quick victory suffered a setback for the first time.