Sword of Daybreaker

Duke Baldwin still remembers the spirited look of the gray elf leader when he met with Ms. Wenna last time. It was after the official launch of the Alliance Circum-Continent Route. On behalf of Moss Woodlin, this lady came to negotiate with the Empire about trade quotas around the Continent. At that time, she represented the most savvy merchant group in the world, holding in her hands the direction of the rise of an ancient kingdom in the new era. She was confident and full of fighting spirit. Although she was petite, she was overflowing with everyone in the negotiation. An aura that can't be ignored.

  But today, she looks particularly haggard and tired. As one of the "Five Kings" of Ogure, this tribal leader has not had a good rest for some time, and even made Baldwin worried about her health.

"You may need to take a good rest first," said Duke Baldwin, who personally led his army to support him. "Our reconnaissance troops have not yet returned, and the main army is still gathering. You can lie down for a while. ."

"I've rested but it's hard to fall asleep completely," Wenna waved her hand, her voice a little hoarse, "Gray elves are a nervously sensitive race, which is easy to do under pressure, but our physical resistance is actually Very strong, you don’t have to worry about my body."

While talking, she walked to the side of Baldwin and climbed up to a chair by the tactical table with some effort. Her gaze was cast on the topographic map of the mountain forest projected by the magic crystal, and at the same time she said casually: "I have brought The troops of Windsong City, including the orc mercenaries and gray elf hunters I have on hand. Our soldiers may still lack combat effectiveness, but if you want to operate in the mountains of central and southern Ogure, you still need The locals helped."

"Oh, we are short of help in this area," Baldwin said immediately. "The situation south of the mountain is still unclear. We have set up a high-power call station on the high mountain at the intersection, but we still can't reach Helm. We have dispatched reconnaissance troops at the forwarding station, but now ground reconnaissance and aerial reconnaissance have just started, and there is no effective intelligence return for the time being..."

Wenna nodded slightly. She had already understood the wonderful "holographic sand table" of the Cecilians. The sand table displayed on the sand table started from the moss forest and extended towards the southern area of ​​Ogure. An overview of the terrain, but except for the mountain pass where the main army is currently located, which has a brightly colored and shaped sign, all the terrain extending to the south is in a gray-white model state at the moment. This shows that the maps of these areas are available, but the real-time situation Completely unknown.

"Our current location is here," the gray elf leader pointed to the "junction plain" marked with a green triangle camp on the map, and then pointed towards a stretch of open road to the south. "This is the'Ancient Commercial Road' I mentioned. Since hundreds of years ago, this has been the main road for transportation between the gray elves and the Ogure merchants between the moss woods and the central mountains. In the past two years, with the prosperity of new businesses, we gray elves have launched You should have noticed the renovation and widening of the ancient business road. From here to the south, there is a very straight and wide new road, which is the unfinished'Tribal Road'...

"This road can extend to Kelin Mountain Road, and further south is the old mountain road that has not been repaired. Your tanks cannot enter. Ordinary infantry and your kind of light towed artillery can enter the mountain.'Five Kings' One of the human kings, Wycliffe, should be stationed on the eastern line of defense in this area...at least this was the case before the communication was interrupted.

"There is also a branch on the Klin Mountain Road, which extends to the southeast. This road leads to the Red Jade City, which is the main city of the orcs and the largest city in the central region except for the Helm. The east side of the Red Jade City is the orc’s. The'Holy Land' Hongyu Forest Sea, crossing the Hongyu Forest Sea, is the main defense zone of the Ogulei tribe towards the wasteland. It consists of several lines of defense such as Wolfridge Mountain-Echo Valley, Dark Stone Crossing-Wind Erosion Valley, and Mountain Barriers. It is composed of natural ridges and mountain roads, as well as a large number of tunnels and cave systems. The main border of Ogure and Gondor Wasteland is at the far east of this deep defense zone. Big Cat and her friends are guarding there..."

   "Big cat?" Duke Baldwin was taken aback for a moment and asked subconsciously.

"Ah, sorry, I'm a little confused," Wenna patted her forehead immediately, as if she had just realized that Duke Baldwin Franklin was in front of her. "I'm talking about the orc chief, one of the five kings. Ms. Camilla Big Cat is her nickname. This is what I call her privately. Please don't mind."

   "Oh, I understand that I've heard of that brave warchief," Baldwin nodded and said, "So what's next? What else?"

"I don't know that Camilla and her mountain warriors can support this line of defense for a few days... But if the Ruby City is still there, then this place can become a fulcrum," Wenna continued, "We can rebuild here. The defense system, and then advance eastward...

"...From here to the west, you can reach the peak of the ancestors. The fairy king Stella and her golem army have guarded the sacred mountain for generations. At the same time, this is also the home of the spirit race. The entire sacred mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the city of Helm is more On the west side of the sacred mountain, even if Camilla’s line of defense has collapsed, it is impossible for those monsters to hit Helm at this time..."

Wenna looked serious, and she said all the information she knew and what she had speculated in the past two days in detail, while Duke Baldwin listened very seriously, without missing a word, until the gray in front of her eyes. When the elf leader's voice fell, he said thoughtfully: "It sounds like the terrain on the east side of Ogure itself is very suitable for defense..."

"Yes, it is a natural barrier. Even if the aberrations come to climb, the piles of mountains will be exhausted to death on the road, so that we have gradually become accustomed to these'protection from the mountains' for hundreds of years. I didn’t expect the monsters that would emerge from the magnificent wall one day after a big hole was broken in an astonishing scale," Wenna sighed and shook her head. "A splash of water may not break through the gully on the beach, but a huge wave hits it. I don’t care about how many ditches and ridges there are along the way, not to mention that there are still people commanding behind this huge wave..."

Ms. Gray Elf's tone contained unconcealed self-deprecation and annoyance, but the complicated thoughts in her heart at the moment were difficult to talk to others. What she annoyed was not just the decline brought about by the peace of the Ogure tribe in the past hundreds of years. .

When Cecil rose rapidly in the north of the mainland, when the two human empires changed drastically under the competition and pressure of the new era, when elves, dragonborn and even dragons all appeared on the stage of the mainland, Ogure in the mountains However, it is as slow as ever, but in this slowness, the gray elves are not unresponsive, and even the Ogure humans and fairies are not unresponsive. She and other "kings" have begun to introduce technology and begin to buy the Northern Empire. They began to learn the modern military organization and tactical maneuvers. They joined the alliance, and joined the continental route and land transnational business circle...

But all this still failed to stop the natural disasters that broke out in just a few days after the magnificent wall was extinguished. The advanced equipment purchased was not fully applied to the border defense line, and the foreign experts hired could not save the eastern mountainous area. The limited advancement and prosperity of the Orc Corps, Helm City and several tribal main cities have not changed the overall backwardness of the tribal state. Even now, after the domestic communication is paralyzed, the tribal state can only do nothing from top to bottom. More than 80% of the spare parts of the system are imported, and cannot be produced in China.

  Rely on buying, we can’t buy national defense and people’s livelihood. Unfortunately, the price of this principle is really heavy and terrible.

   "Ms. Wenna?" Duke Baldwin's voice suddenly came from the side, awakening Wenna Baizhi who was in a trance, "Are you okay? Are you uncomfortable?"

"I...no, it's nothing, I just got a little distracted suddenly," Wenna woke up quickly, and she took a shot of a cleansing technique on herself, and her eyes refocused on Bedvin Franklin's face, "Sorry, you just said Where is it?"

"About the current communication environment in the Ogure area," Baldwin looked at Wenna twice before continuing. He raised his finger to the Monet for communication terminal placed on the edge of the tactical table. "Now we have confirmed. A large area from the moss woods to the south is in a state of'communication pollution'. The powerful energy released when the magnificent wall fluctuates is still rebounding and undulating among the mountains. Although there have been signs of decline during this period, this It may take some time for this kind of interference to disappear completely. But our technicians have just discovered that this kind of interference is stronger in the area closer to the surface, and as the height increases, the interference will also weaken...

"In view of this, we plan to temporarily set up an air relay system and try to install a series of floating communication stations at high altitudes to see if communication in the Ogure area can be restored. But this first requires your permission, at least It's yours...because we will keep this system close to your sacred mountain in the future."

"Can it really be done?" Wenna slowly widened her eyes as she listened to the bold plan of the Grand Archon Cecil in front of her. "Set up a communication network in the air and in such a short time? Ah, I know. Your dragoons, but the dragoons seem to..."

"It's not dragoons," Baldwin laughed. "It's another thing that can float in the air for a long time and serve as a stronghold in the sky, or it can be landed as a ground fortress when the situation requires. In addition, they have a permanent float. In the center of the sky..."

Duke Baldwin described the "air and sky battle group" with the "Earth Dawn" as the core and a large number of Gorgon combat platforms as wingmen. However, to Ms. Wenna who has never seen the real thing, she seems to be in Ting Fang Ye Tan: "...Huh?"

  Bedwin thought for a while, and was considering how to explain this to the other party, but soon he no longer needed to explain.

Above the holographic sand table projected by the tactical table, a specially marked golden shadow appeared abruptly on the edge of the map, while a low, strange whimper like a giant beast whimpering in the night sky was transmitted from nowhere. Entering the command post, the humming sounded from high above, and Wenna Baizhi's ears stood up almost instantly.

She vaguely perceives a huge existence, a magical system that is hard to ignore. The huge magical power cycle like a city stimulates her sharp nerves as a mage, causing her to stare at herself as she sits. The Duke Baldwin next to him, but the latter just suddenly smiled and smiled friendly to her: "Ah, this is Ms. Wenna, just right, I will show you the main force supporting the Ogure front this time. The most powerful aerospace fortress in the empire."

Wenna got up in confusion, climbed down from the chair, and followed Duke Baldwin with her short legs. They left the command post and went to the open space in the camp. The cold wind under the winter night was blowing from a distance. Come, let Wenna excite the spirit, and then her mind will become more sober. The next second, she followed her feelings and looked to the far northeast.

  A shimmering city slowly flew towards the moss woods in the night sky.

It is as huge as a mountain, but it is obviously not a "mountain" floating in the sky. It has a roughly hexagonal outline. Below the main body made of steel are dozens of huge luminous rings neatly arranged to support the reflection. The convex structure of the gravity engine is arranged along the central axis of its bottom, releasing dim brilliance in the night sky, and around the floating "steel land" are countless ferocious cannons, neatly arranged projectors, and A small object like a bird attached to a giant beast hanging under the supporting structure on both sides of it.

  Wenna opened her eyes in the night to distinguish for a long time, and then realized with horror that the tiny objects hanging on the edge of the "steel land" turned out to be densely packed Dragoon fighters.

She opened her mouth wide, and at this moment, the behemoth was still approaching. She could not see the upper structure of the thing from the surface, but she could still see some towering towers and walls standing on the surface of the thing, and the light was there. The giant beast wandered around, illuminating its own steel body and the buildings on its back, and also shone toward the jungle and plains below, and a low buzzing sound came from the giant beast's body.

  The behemoth is so awesome, and it has such a sense of presence in the night sky that it almost completely attracted the attention of Wenna Baizhi. It took a long time for her to realize another thing

  That thing is not flying alone in the air. There are still a dozen anti-gravity platforms floating in the night sky next to it that are much smaller than its scale, but still ten times or even dozens of times larger than the common dragoons.

  On each platform, different things are placed. There are modular buildings made of steel, weird weapon systems, towering communication towers, and huge factories and military stations.

  In this cold winter night, the gray elf leader was greatly shocked.

  At the same time, the pungent gunpowder and disgusting smell of corruption once again spread among the mountains in the deep defense zone in the central and eastern part of Ogure.

  War drums rang in unison, thunder and flames reveled on the earth, the mountains would fall into a sea of ​​fire, and the filthy monsters had come back.

Those deformed bodies that once receded have been reorganized and reorganized under the control of the commander behind them. Before the early morning sun shines on the mountains of Ogure again, these civilized enemies that have emerged from the wasteland have launched from here. The largest offensive since the outbreak of the war.

The battle reports from various fronts made the commanders behind these monsters realize where the biggest breakthrough point is in the wasteland defense line. They are focusing their huge superior forces on the western front, and the ancient mountains and mountains of Ogure The forest... is already the fattest meal in their eyes.