Mastering Thunder from Hogwarts

"I can't tell. You are observant and listen carefully."

Seeing Snape's rare interest in the battlefield dungeon, Anduin took the initiative to explain it to him.

"The reason why you think that when the two sides are fighting, the defender will have a great advantage, in addition to the fact that they have a lot of equipment to restrain the attacker, it is probably also because they have a considerable geographical advantage."

"That's right." Snape nodded, and then looked in the direction of the screen, "Look, not to mention the walls occupied by the defenders and the defensive equipment that can be used for a long time, even the resurrection location is much closer than the attackers.

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"If the attacker wants to reach the city wall again after being resurrected, they have to advance at least 100 meters, and they have to withstand the opponent's firepower. As for the defender... they support their own city wall, and the distance is less than 50 meters. The route is safe and convenient.

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"From this perspective, it is indeed true." Anduin did not deny the other party's point of view, "However, this disadvantage is not irreparable. Didn't you see that the attacker has such a convenient device as a temporary resurrection point?"

"But their fragile devices can be easily destroyed. This is what the defenders did before." Snape retorted, "So I always feel that apart from the cheaper weapons, the attackers are completely unable to compete with the defenders.

confrontation."

"So you are more optimistic about the defensive side?" Anduin did not answer directly, but just asked with a smile.

"Well..." Snape nodded without hesitation, "Before, the defenders only lost because of their waste of military supplies. Now Wood has obviously learned his lesson, and now the two sides have opened up a big gap.

It seems to me that the attackers are at the end of their rope."

"I see." Anduin nodded slightly, then said seriously, "It seems that you don't have much experience in this kind of large-scale battle."

"How do you say that?" Snape raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then put on an expression of listening.

"This kind of battle with a large number of people is completely different from the usual single-person duel, especially among the wizards."

Anduin took out his wand, rubbed it slowly and continued.

"Using such a small wand, a wizard can turn water into wine, turn rocks into sand, and even penetrate steel effortlessly."

"And in war, the extremely destructive nature of wizards can be fully demonstrated. When dozens of wizards gather together, their power is even more amazing."

"So in front of wizards, the so-called terrain and distance advantages are actually not that big of an impact. The reason why these children fight so hard is mainly because they are too young."

"Can they be considered young?" Snape rolled his eyes speechlessly, "Those little wizards are now stronger than many adult wizards, right?"

"Having said that, there is still a big gap between them and becoming a real soldier, at least in terms of tactical diversity." Anduin said calmly.

"In the Wizarding War, the decisive factor is actually the winning conditions of both parties. These conditions will directly affect their opportunity costs!"

"Opportunity cost?" Snape frowned in confusion. To be honest, he didn't understand what Anduin meant at all.

"Yes, like in this battlefield dungeon." Anduin pursed his lips towards the big screen, "The biggest obstacle for the defenders is actually that the failure conditions are too simple."

"As long as the attacker can break into the enemy's command post and occupy it for a period of time, they can win this stage."

"With this goal in mind, as long as the attacking wizards are given enough time to try and make mistakes, they can always seize the chance of victory."

"In this kind of offensive and defensive battle, even if the defender wins a hundred times, it doesn't mean much. As long as the attacker can seize one opportunity, even if he cannot completely control the situation, he can still achieve the final victory."

"So that's it." Snape suddenly realized, "So you limited the time for the president, are you actually increasing the cost of trial and error for the attacker? If they fail to seize the chance of victory in the limited time, they will

Totally defeated."

"Well!" Anduin nodded, "No matter how strong the defender's city wall is, it is meaningless in front of creatures like wizards. Even if it is simply filled with human lives, the wall can be destroyed in one attack after another.

For a flat earth.”

"Wood and the others were obviously aware of this, so they didn't plan to rely entirely on this seemingly solid level from the beginning. Instead, they tried to gain an advantage for themselves by widening the resource gap."

"So, from a strategic point of view, the defensive side has the upper hand in this confrontation." Snape nodded clearly.

After Anduin's explanation, he had a clearer understanding of the battle between wizards.

But soon Snape looked at Anduin with a slightly surprised look. The longer he stayed in contact with him, the more he felt how unfathomable Anduin was.

The guy in front of me doesn't seem to be that old. How come he has such a profound understanding of war? He didn't participate in the Wizarding War back then. Where did he get so much theoretical knowledge?

Shaking his head violently, Snape temporarily suppressed these doubts in his heart, and then curiously asked Anduin, "In this case, if you were to command the attackers, how would you break the situation?

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"With the current staffing, there are actually many plans." Anduin grinned, "If I use the safest method, I will not let my wizards attack rashly at the beginning."

"On the contrary, I will direct everyone to dig a trench directly to the city gate through soil work, and dig to both sides at a distance of forty to fifty meters from the city wall to extend a frontline position that can accommodate all troops.

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"With the support of transformation, it only takes ten minutes to complete the corresponding work, and you don't have to worry about interference from the opponent during this period. After all, it is outside the opponent's attack range. If the defenders immediately attack the city wall, they can wait for work.

Convert offense to defense.”

"Then find a safe location on this front and deploy a temporary resurrection point. In this way, won't the problem of resurrection distance be easily solved?"

Nice romance

"Ah? How can it be like this?" Snape was stunned when he heard this, "What if the defenders use lava cannons to attack."

"wrong!"

Before Anduin could reply, Snape retorted, "Such an attack will have no effect. Using expensive shells to kill the enemies in the bunker is a complete loss-making business. The attackers are even happy to see the results."

"That's right." Anduin nodded with satisfaction when he saw that Snape had learned to draw inferences. "And this tactic can actually be extended. For example, send a small team to focus on digging underground and directly dig a tunnel.

Underground tunnel to enemy headquarters."

"And the main force is fighting the opponent head-on, destroying the city wall on the one hand, and covering the underground troops on the other." Snape took over the conversation and added.

Then he couldn't help but take a breath. This tactic was too insidious. He originally thought that attacking from the ground and the air would be very oppressive. Who would have thought that he could attack from the ground?

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Although the two people in the conversation were far away from the crowd, there were still some young wizards around them. After hearing what Anduin was talking about, they all held their breath, raised their ears, and began to eavesdrop.

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Anduin on the side paid no attention to everyone's actions and just continued, "Furthermore, under long-term high-pressure combat, there is another factor that must be taken into consideration, and that is the consumption of physical strength and magic power."

"In this siege, in order to defeat the enemy at a relatively small cost, the defenders did not use a large amount of military equipment. As a result, they were actually using their own magic power to exchange the number of enemy resurrections. If this goes on for a long time, it will actually be useless.

Not worth it.”

"When resources are dominant, the correct solution is to make appropriate use of armaments for defense and balance everyone's consumption. I don't know when Wood will realize this."

Snape nodded slowly, then focused his attention on the screen again, "It seems that the direction of this battle is still confusing. Look, Percy and the others are making moves again!"

Sure enough, as soon as Snape finished speaking, the attacking wizard on the screen immediately started a new action.

However, Percy didn't seem to realize that they could launch an attack from underground, so they still chose to break through from the front.

However, this time the attacker did not rush forward blindly like before. Instead, they repeated their old tricks and used lightless talismans similar to smoke bombs to create a passage from the front that could not see the internal situation clearly.

Faced with this familiar old tactic, the defenders didn't have much to do for a while. After all, the first 50 meters were already beyond the range of the magic spell. Attacking with a longer-range lava cannon or ballista would be a waste of ammunition, so

Now I can only quietly watch my opponent's actions.

Fortunately, the defenders had completed the repair work on the city wall during the previous offensive vacuum period. The first-floor walls were all patched up, while the second-floor walls were transformed into a hollowed-out upper half.

Because their opponents had shown them the power of aerial bombardment before, the main forces were not all deployed on the top level as at the beginning, leaving only some wizards operating anti-aircraft weapons.

After the black mist passage gradually spread close to the city wall, the wizards on the defensive side finally couldn't bear it anymore, and they tentatively began to fire magic spells into the smoke.

However, most of the magic spells shot were as unresponsive as a mud cow entering the sea. Only a few magic bullets made a "pop" sound when they hit something, but the sound did not sound like it hit a wizard.

After discovering this, Wood did not sit back and watch the opponent continue to approach, but ordered the release of several tire snakes that could automatically seek out the enemy and explode, allowing them to explore the truth for his own side.

Such an attack was indeed effective. Not long after the tire snakes rolled in, they exploded one after another. Many wizards hiding inside were knocked out of the smoke range by the huge impact.

However, seeing such results, Wood and the others felt at a loss. The price of these self-destructing snakes was not cheap. It would be too wasteful to release a few to kill less than ten people.

But there was obviously something fishy in that smoke. If the other party was allowed to continue to approach, it might cause serious consequences.

So the defense decided to release a self-exploding snake every few seconds. Anyway, the smoke would only last for a few minutes. As long as it could prevent the opponent from getting closer, there was nothing wrong with wasting some resources.

After the attacker discovered the opponent's intention, they did not think about stopping the self-destructing snakes from breaking into the black mist. However, when they were in the black mist, the attacking wizards could not see the situation clearly, so if they wanted to destroy the self-destructing snakes, they had to walk out.

category of smoke.

But how can the wizards on the defensive side agree to such a thing? As soon as they see someone showing their head, they will immediately shoot out several magic spells, killing them on the spot before they can take action.

After the attacker discovered this, he also knew that he could not continue to approach. This was a bomb that no one could withstand.

As a result, both the wizards in the dungeon and the people watching the live broadcast outside heard a dull banging sound, as if some giant creature was running fast.

But soon everyone figured out what was going on. It was a poisonous horned beast with big eyes, more than four meters tall, and a sarcoma-like horn on its head!

The poisonous horned beast rushed out of the smoke when it was about thirty meters away from the city wall, and hit the city gate in the center.

Faced with this scene, the defender's wizard immediately launched a counterattack, trying to use magic to stop the running giant beast, but the opponent had already started running for a long distance, and its huge size made it impossible to stop its speed.

Come down.

The next moment, the poisonous horned beast slammed the sharp horn on its head into the city gate. At the same time, there was a puff sound, and the deadly liquid in the sharp horn was poured into the city gate.

What everyone saw immediately was a violent explosion, and the power of this explosion was completely unmatched by the previous high-altitude bombings.

The entire city gate, along with the three-meter-wide walls on both sides, were blown off on the spot, and a huge gap four to five meters wide was blown out of the entire city wall.

And the poor poisonous horned beast was also blown into white light by the explosion he caused. This was completely a one-time suicide attack.

What followed naturally was a full-scale attack by Percy and his team. They had already spent a lot of resources on this wave of attacks, and they had a desperate attitude.

However, the defender is obviously not a vegetarian. They have earned so many meritorious deeds, and the combat effectiveness that they can unleash after exchanging them should not be underestimated.

Soon, four stone soldiers more than three meters high emerged from the city wall. They were holding the same huge melee weapons and blocking everyone's way with a slightly stiff pace.

At the same time, the self-exploding snakes and lava cannons that everyone had seen before also appeared one after another, launching a double attack from both near and far against the attacking soldiers who were about to rush into the gap.