The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

The way to win the game is also very simple, either annihilate the opposing army, or behead the enemy's king or queen. There are four hills on the chessboard, two for each of Hermione and Tom. As for the plain in the middle, it was naturally the place where the two armies fought.

"Who goes first?" Tom gathered his chess pieces together and looked at Hermione. Hermione took out a gold galleon.

"Heads you go first, tails I go first."

The gold coin came up heads, and Tom struck first. But before starting, Hermione stopped Tom.

"Just playing games is no fun. Do you want to add some luck?"

Tom coughed, "In this kind of atmosphere, the plot usually involves playing billiards and cards..."

Hermione:?

"If you lose, bring me some of that chocolate back from Hogsmeade."

"Oh...that's right." Tom nodded, "Then what if you lost?"

"There's no way I can lose," Hermione puffed up her chest proudly, "If I lose..."

A famous scene suddenly flashed through Tom's mind.

"——Then I will grade your homework three times for you!"

"Are you serious? Great, deal!" Tom agreed immediately. Although he had established the position of teaching assistant, he could not force the teaching assistant to correct homework, but if the teaching assistant volunteered, of course Tom would have no objection.

After the bet is made, the game begins.

As the first to attack, Tom placed the ordinary Guards pawns in the middle of the team and asked them to defend the king. Then he divided the cavalry into two teams and placed them on both wings, with the chariot at the front. The chariots in this set of chess pieces are also very beautifully made. Each chariot has four horses and two soldiers, and the manes of the horses are fully visible.

According to Tom's idea, he thought that the two armies were facing each other on the plain. He would use his cavalry to contain Hermione's cavalry, and then the chariot would rush directly into the formation. If he could overwhelm Hermione's army, he would be able to win the battle. victory.

Now that you have a strategy, let’s implement it. Tom ordered the original chess pieces - he preferred to call them "centurions" and "chariot captains" - to line up his men. Naturally, there was a lot of excitement during this period, and Tom didn't expect it to be so troublesome. He felt bad for a while: if Hermione rushed over with her cavalry and chariots while he was setting up his formation, his military formation might suddenly collapse.

But the strange thing is that when she was arranging her troops, Hermione didn't seem to do anything.

"What is Hermione doing?" Tom asked a little strangely.

"I'm about to leave," he kindly reminded Hermione, "You should also be prepared."

Hermione glanced at Tom, her slender eyebrows raised slightly, and a faint smile hung on her lips. She nodded, "I'm ready." At the same time, she changed her position on the seat, no longer sitting upright. : She closed her legs and changed her body to a side-sitting position, with her feet raised and the toes of her shoes lightly touching the ground. Then she put her arms on the table and held her chin with one hand.

"Let the attack go, Professor Yodel."

Seeing that she was confident, Tom couldn't help but have a bad feeling.

He directed his army of chess pieces to move forward slowly, stopping to reorganize their formation every few dozen centimeters. He stopped and walked around, making Hermione almost fall asleep.

"Can you hurry up? Soldiers are very fast." She urged with frowning eyebrows.

Tom stared at Hermione's big eyes. In the black eyes under the long eyelashes, Tom saw a hint of cunning. It seemed that he was not facing a witch, but a little fox.

What worried Tom most happened: his army advanced all the way to the foot of the mountain, and Hermione didn't even launch an attack.

"Why don't you attack?"

"Because I am the defender!"

Tom:…

"Come down!"

"Come up here!"

Hermione smiled happily. She had no intention of confronting Tom from the beginning. She felt that she could not match Tom, the game designer, in micro-management, so she chose to use terrain.

At this time, Hermione's army retreated to the flat ground on the top of the hill - or rather they were already on the hill. Hermione placed the cavalry and chariots at the outermost edge. The purpose was clear at a glance: didn't Tom want to attack? Then she placed the cavalry on the top of the mountain, effectively took advantage of the mountain's strength, and accelerated directly to sprint down.

If Tom wants to attack, he needs to attack from his back. Through a simple force analysis, it can be concluded that Tom's chariot and cavalry troops cannot take advantage of their speed and are likely to be overwhelmed by Hermione's soldiers.

Tom's face darkened: If in reality, Hermione dared to deploy her troops like this, Tom would laugh to death. He would directly cut off the water source on the hill, and Hermione's army would collapse without a fight. But this is wizard chess. At least the setting of losing morale due to lack of water has not been made by Tom yet.

Tom was silent for a moment, feeling that there seemed to be no good method. After all, he was not a master tactician. He could only let the chariot troops retreat and let ordinary soldiers attack the mountain. Of course, he didn't send these infantry to die. He decided to let them dig tunnels while advancing upwards, which could effectively delay Hermione's mobile troops.

But after this order was issued, the infantry centurions shouted: "This is sending us to die!"

"Let's dispatch the chariot troops and let the chariot troops send these rebels to the sky!"

The chess pieces of wizard chess have a very interesting setting: if they judge that they may be "eaten" after the next move, they will loudly protest to the chess player, and then propose their own plan to the chess player—— Some of them are similar to the "tips" in Landlords, which are often useful for novices, but for high-end players, they are better than nothing. If you happen to be undecided, you may be confused by the noise of these chess pieces.

Tom felt a headache, and he firmly ordered the chessmen: "Line up the entire army and follow me to defeat the enemy! When the three armies advance, dig more trenches and use trenches against the cavalry. The advantage is mine!"

A centurion said to his colleague next to him in a desperate tone: "Weird talk, full of farts!"

Tom vaguely heard this sentence, and he couldn't help but be very curious: Did this trigger some rare hidden voice?

"What did you say?" he asked the centurion. This kind of hidden voice must be heard several times.

"I say, please give me your advice."

Hermione beside her was already overjoyed.

Tom took out his wand, "Since you are huddled on the mountain, can you dig trenches when I advance?"

"A very reasonable idea." Hermione was not embarrassed, but when Tom raised the wand to draw a ditch on the hill, she directly signaled her cavalry unit: "Cavalry unit, move out! Mr. Knight, please also invite your troops Let’s take the lead!”