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Twenty miles west of the fort.

The side of the Army of Light.

In the command base at the rear of the battlefield.

Hilbert met with Cardinal O'Balkh and made a request to dispatch the ace troops.

"Your Majesty, that fortress has been blocking us for three months. We can't delay it any longer! I request that the Holy Knights be dispatched to destroy that fortress!"

As soon as he saw the Archbishop, Hilbert knelt down and begged.

Call out the Holy Knights?

Just to capture that seemingly insignificant fortress?

Upon hearing Hilbert's request, Obalhe frowned.

In fact, in the past three months, Obalh had heard this request no less than a hundred times from different generals, and he could hear it at most four or five times a day.

But they were all rejected by him.

He didn't want to use his ace troops so early.

Because the most common common sense is: save the trump card until the end. If you use the trump card from the beginning, what kind of trump card is it?

The more important reason is: the Holy Knights are an offensive force suitable for use on flat terrain, but now they are used to attack cities. Isn't this a good weapon but a cheap one?

Moreover, the casualty rate in siege battles is extremely high, and the training of each paladin is sky-high. It is too luxurious to let the paladin do the work of ants attacking the city.

This is inappropriate.

Therefore, Archbishop Obalh refused to send out the Holy Knights many times.

What about the Holy Mage Group?

Isn’t there a group of holy mages with more than 30,000 people?

The Holy Mage can release a variety of long-range attack magic. Send the Holy Mage to attack and release a few more powerful long-range attack magics in groups. Wouldn't the fortress in front of it be destroyed soon?

The truth is this.

only……

In the fortress opposite, there are also a large number of legendary mages sent by the Magic Association stationed, as many as 100!

With so many legendary mages, the group attacks released by the Holy Mage Group were basically blocked in the sky above the fortress, making it impossible to damage the buildings and personnel in the fortress.

In addition, the terrain of the fortress is condescending, and there are hundreds of artillery installed. The shells fired by each artillery can reach ten miles away. Each of those powerful explosive shells is no less powerful than level 5 magic... And the Holy Mage The body is generally weak. Once the shield is shattered or the defense is not complete, the consequences are not difficult to imagine.

In order to avoid the bombardment of the fortress, the Holy Mage Group was required to release spell attacks ten miles away.

But a spell released at this distance, even the "Holy Light Explosion" released by an eighth-level holy mage, after flying ten miles away, not to mention how much the accuracy drops, how much power is left?

What if the holy mages don't form a group to attack?

That is no match for the fortress opposite. There are 100 legendary mages in the fortress. Dealing with a small number of holy mages is as simple as chopping melons and vegetables.

Therefore, after the Holy Mage Group suffered heavy casualties of nearly 2,000 people, it had to be hidden in the snow.

As a cavalry unit, the Holy Knights are not suitable for attacking cities.

Therefore, we can only use the heads of ordinary soldiers to pile them up and consume the opponent's weapons and ammunition!

But three months have passed. Is this approach effective?

"Mr. Bishop, this can't go on like this! Even if all our troops die, I'm afraid we won't be able to capture the fortress. It's time to dispatch the Holy Knights!" Hilbert said anxiously.

But Obalh still shook his head: "That's not how the Holy Knights are used. We haven't reached the Kingdom of Yadud yet. Let's do this. Let's order the frontline troops to increase the attack. Send 50,000 people every day! Attack for ten consecutive days! I guess That fortress can hardly hold out, and their casualties are at least more than half."

Half casualties?

Hilbert was stunned and asked quickly: "Your Majesty Bishop, who told you that more than half of the defenders in that fortress suffered casualties? Who said that?"

"General Bannon told me." Obarkh said.

"Bannon? That incompetent fool who only flatters others?"

Hilbert muttered, and then said: "Your Excellency, General Bannon is too optimistic. If you believe him, millions more of us will die!"

He solemnly said: "In fact, the enemy casualties in that fortress were less than 10%, if not more than 50%. In the past three months, they have died a total of 671 people! An average of 7 people died every day! "

"But we have to kill more than 10,000 people every day! Calculating 10,000 people, for every unbeliever we kill, 1,428 people will die!"

"Master Bishop, if this continues, we won't be able to take that fortress even if we fill it with 10 million people!"

Hilbert was good at mathematics and immediately calculated the battlefield exchange ratio between the enemy and ourselves. Finally, he knelt down on one knee and cried out in pain: "Your Majesty, please dispatch the Holy Knights!"

What?

Hearing Hilbert's words, Obalhe was shocked!

"They only died 671 people, an average of seven people died a day, and we died 10,000 people a day. This..."

How can this be? !

Isn’t this exchange ratio too ugly?

Although the Holy See of Light has countless believers and the number of troops it can recruit is unlimited, it can't withstand such consumption, right?

Taking down a fortress with a garrison of 10,000 people will result in the death of tens of millions of people. What if there were more such fortresses?

Is the Holy See's human wave tactics still effective?

Thinking of this, Obalhe couldn't help but shudder, and his confidence was shaken violently!

Of course, for that fortress, the defenders only had 671 deaths, and Obalkh also had a little doubt. It was impossible for his opponent to die so many people, right? If the opponent doesn't kill three to five thousand people, how can this war continue?

But through his own observations on the front line, letters sent by his opponents, and statistics from all parties, Hilbert came to a reasonable conclusion: the number of casualties among the defenders in that fortress never exceeded 10%. !

The millions of casualties on our side were only exchanged for less than 10% of the opponent's casualty rate.

Faced with this ironclad fact, Archbishop Obalh fell silent and finally began to consider: Should we use the Holy Knights?

In fact, there is another plan, which is to take a detour, avoid that fortress, take a detour of more than a thousand miles, and take other roads to attack the Yadud Kingdom... It will only take two more months.

However, a small fortress stopped millions of light legions. If this news spread, others would probably laugh out loud, and the Holy See of Light could not afford to lose that face!

In addition, if this fortress is not breached, future military operations will still be greatly affected and constrained. The nails will not be pulled out and the rear will be unstable. The elimination of all the treacherous unbelievers and rebels will become a big and empty talk that will make everyone Ridiculous!

Therefore, no matter what, the fortress blocking the front must be completely removed!

Thinking of this, Obalhe finally said:

"Give the order, dispatch the Holy Mage Group and the Holy Knight Group, do whatever it takes! Destroy the obstacles ahead!"