Ride and Cut

War is a contest of hard power.

No matter how sophisticated the strategy is, it can't change this major premise. If you can push all the way to win, not many people are willing to bother to arrange too complicated tactics.

The Pompeii Expeditionary Army has a luxurious lineup, and in terms of real strength, it is far stronger than the opponent. If there is no city wall to block, this battle will become one-sided without any suspense at all.

Right now they will be at a disadvantage because the Stuarts' arrangement is really subtle, so subtle that it can temporarily reverse the partial strength balance between the two sides.

But the fact that the Pompeii Expeditionary Force is stronger has never changed. Once they can make a breakthrough, they will undoubtedly have the ability to expand the breakthrough infinitely.

From the Lord Lord's point of view, the value of a dragon knight does not lie in direct attack at all, that is the most stupid and stupid way of fighting.

The sword is the most threatening when it is not out of the sheath, because once it is out of the sheath, the sharpest swordsmanship in the world can always find a way to deal with it. And as long as you hide in the sheath and hold back, that deterrence will never fade.

What the Dragon Knight should do is to get close enough to force the Stuarts to defend. Once the defenders have to mobilize part of their long-range firepower to prepare for the dragon's surprise attack, the pressure on the Pompeii infantry will be greatly reduced, and it is even possible to directly achieve a frontal breakthrough.

Facts have proved that there are far more smart people in this world than the lord of Alpine Fort.

As expected, the two dragon knights did not choose to make a direct surprise attack, but stopped at a high altitude in the distance... It's just that this distance is too far away, and it is roughly estimated that it is at least 3,000 yards away.

Li Cha's teeth ached when he saw it, even if it was a giant dragon, it would be impossible to have any deterrence at this distance. Their defensive posture is too obvious, and a fool can see that they will not really launch an assault.

The sword must be hidden in the sheath to maintain deterrence, and being ready to draw it at any time is a crucial prerequisite. Once it is known that he can't draw a sword at all, he will immediately become no different from a fire stick.

The giant dragon spit two mouthfuls of dragon's breath towards the defenders behind the wall, and even the dragon's breath was powerless in front of too far a distance. The raging flames hadn't even touched the Stuarts, and they were already annihilated in midair, leaving only a wisp of black smoke.

Immediately after driving the giant dragon to hover over the city of Winter, the two dragon knights chose to return directly.

The lord was really curious. Anyway, he has nothing serious at the moment, so he just rushed over to join in the fun.

The place was not far away, and the road was not hindered by sentries. When they arrived, the dragon knights had already landed.

It was the first time for the lord to observe giant dragons up close. These giant beasts with a length of more than ten blades possessed unparalleled majesty and beauty. They are covered with egg-sized scales, each of which is crystal clear and thick like raw gemstones. Thousands of them are stacked together, and a sense of oppression hits the face.

Higuain was sitting on the saddle of the giant dragon, his handsome face was full of sullen anger, obviously holding back his anger, he bowed his head and said nothing. Anyone who took a look at him could tell that trying to get something useful out of him was a waste of time pulling his pants off and farting.

The other dragon knight, Earl Zed, seemed much more mature, and he was describing the experience of the trip to the people around him in a leisurely manner. When Richard arrived, he just caught up with the beginning: "After we approached Winter City, we found that there were dragon hunting crossbows everywhere."

Suddenly there was a sound of gasping all around.

The dragon hunting crossbow is a famous magical weapon, which was created by John Browning, a talented alchemist in San Jose thousands of years ago.

The design blueprint of the Dragon Hunting Crossbow was once the top secret of San Jose, but with the unremitting efforts of generations of spies, it was finally stolen by Pompeii and Stuart. Today, this kind of magic weapon is equipped in all countries, and it has hardly changed from when it was first finalized. It shows how talented Browning was back then.

The hunting dragon is not driven by a bowstring like ordinary crossbows, but is enchanted by a very clever water system, and the crossbow bolts are "squeezed" out of the casing through the movement of water flow. Doing so gives the bolt a speed far exceeding that of the bowstring, and keeps it spinning at high speed the entire time.

At the same flight speed, the high-speed rotating blade tip and the flat and stable blade tip have different armor-piercing capabilities. Combined with the special crossbow arrows engraved with the armor-piercing magic circle, it can pose enough threat to the unreasonably powerful outer scale armor of the giant dragon.

As the name declares, the Dragon Hunting Crossbow has naturally assumed the mission of fighting against giant dragons since its birth. And judging from the historical records, it can be called fruitful.

The wisdom possessed by giant dragons is no less than that of humans. Of course, if you suffer a lot, you can also have a longer memory. Therefore, they are generally quite afraid of the dragon hunting crossbow, and it is not difficult to understand why the two dragon knights returned so quickly.

"It's impossible for Winter City to have so many dragon hunting crossbows. At most seven or eight are genuine products, and the others should be Xibei products." Li Cha shook his head calmly.

Despite its extraordinary effectiveness, no one can deny that, as a powerful and extraordinary magic weapon, the dragon hunting crossbow is also extremely expensive to make, and it is impossible to deploy the entire city as a luxury with your toes.

This is no longer a matter of gold coins or not—the amount of rare magic metals required to manufacture hundreds of dragon hunting crossbows is an astronomical figure, even if all the funeral objects of Stuart's ancestors are dug up, it is absolutely impossible to make enough metals!

The meaning behind his words was understood by everyone present.

It's nothing more than the Stuarts setting up doubts and making a bunch of real and fake dragon-hunting crossbows. Pompeii clearly has the advantage of air cavalry, but it is still difficult to play.

But no one opened their mouths, looking at the sky and the earth, the scene was strangely quiet for a while,

I'm afraid it's impossible to tell whether it's true or false by eyes alone, you have to try it. But no one can urge the two dragon knights to fly over to try out which ones are real and which ones are fake—it’s okay to say if it’s fake, what if it bumps into the real thing?

200,000 beats 30,000 and the dragon knight is folded in. Why don't all the senior leaders of the expeditionary force collectively wipe their necks and hang themselves.

"Can you let the Falcon Knight try?" Someone made a not-so-glamorous but very realistic proposal.

"No." The lord shook his head like a rattle, "The falcon's body is too thin, and it can be shot down with an ordinary bed crossbow. I definitely won't use the dragon hunting crossbow."

The commander-in-chief of Winter City, Seedorf, is indeed an old fox who can become a famous general just by defending.

Thinking about it carefully, since the bombardment of the city wall with full firepower, the response of the Pompeii Expeditionary Army seems to have never fallen out of his control.

Because of the full firepower, the frontline infantry took it lightly, resulting in heavy losses when they were attacked by Meng Ke on the city wall. At the same time, because of the full firepower, the mage group was too consumed, not only unable to support the infantry, but also at a disadvantage.

Dragon Knight was supposed to be the key force to break the deadlock, and Winter City had obviously done its homework long ago.

It is not a very new tactic to use fake products to pretend to be genuine products. Generally speaking, once the tactic itself is realized by the opponent, it will be self-defeating. But the trick that Winter City is playing now is to tell you that there are fakes, but you have to guard against them!

Obviously, the initial full firepower dug a hole for the entire expeditionary force, and many subsequent attempts not only failed to fill the hole, but instead made it bigger and bigger.

Now it seems that there are not enough dragon knights, and it takes the help of the magister to solve the predicament with absolute strength. But there are only two mages of that level in Pompeii. Due to their superb magic power, the royal family's orders have limited restrictions on them. Until the time of life and death, counting on them is as unreliable as counting on gods.

But there is one thing to say, it is not without reason that Pompeii would gather all the fire mages to put all his eggs in one basket at first.

At that time, everyone found that a large number of Stuart soldiers were densely crowded on the city wall, which seemed to be an extremely attractive target. The original words above are "huddled together like quails, I'm sorry for their stupidity if they don't fry them."

Now Li Cha vaguely feels as if he has fallen into the bait set by the other party. If this is the case, it can only be said that Seedorf's calculations are too accurate.