Chapter 694
A dazzling white ball of light pierced through the darkness, rushed to the sky in the wind and rain, burst against the gloomy dark cloud background, and turned into a bright group of light that was clearly visible from a distance.
In the center of a position obscured by terrain and woods in the northwest of Paramel Heights, a huge and oppressive war machine is quietly dormant on the track, and dense rain curtains wash its dark armor plates. , the flash of the Typhonian's signal flare shone on the wet steel surface, and a floating light appeared.
The Iron Throne turned off all the main lights on the outside of the car body, and the windows of each compartment also raised opaque guards. In the darkness, only a few weak signal lights flickered on the surface of the car body, this faint brilliance. It was shrouded in the rain and the dim sky, and it was hazy, and it was almost impossible to detect it from a hundred meters away.
In the tactical section of the armored train, a commander came to Philip: "The Pioneer Knights of the Typhons have signaled."
"They are signaling to the Transcendent Legion on standby at the rear," Philip said calmly, "informing the arsenal section to prepare, and all main guns point to the eastern plains of Changfeng Fortress."
"Yes, General."
Philip turned his head and looked at the holographic projection not far away. Above the crystal emitting faint blue light, the scene outside the train appeared from the external monitor.
The rain is getting heavier and heavier, the sky is getting gloomier, and the cold wind wraps the rain curtain and splashes on the land near the border.
Thanks to the rain, the Iron Throne arrived at the predetermined location in the northwest of Paramel Heights half an hour ago, and then went into a state of silence until now.
In the wind and rain, night has gradually fallen.
Now, just waiting for the Typhonian Transcendent Legion to enter the buffer plain - whether they are the Knights of the Iron River or the Knights of Black Steel, as long as they enter the state of cluster charge, they will have no time to hold up their shields and have no time to resist from the Iron Throne. The bombardment of the main artillery, the bombardment of the four fortress-level main artillery, and the firepower of the light and medium-sized magic-guided artillery currently equipped in Changfeng Fortress, any legion can only fall on the way of charging.
"Unfortunately, this rain also affected our reconnaissance," an officer sighed beside him. "The armored griffins couldn't take off in this weather, otherwise we would have a better grasp of the movements of the Typhons."
"The Typhons are more affected than we are - we have at least the sentry towers on the Changfeng line, but they only have Griffons that can't be lifted into the air," Philip said. "Be patient and wait for the signal of Changfeng Fortress, don't think so much."
Even though he said that, Philip couldn't help but feel a little ups and downs after hearing the subordinate's sigh.
Armored Griffin is a compromise between traditional arms and magic equipment,
However, the limitation of Griffin itself has determined the limit of this compromise plan in advance. The war in the Holy Spirit Plain has proved the important role of air power. It is said that the Institute of Magic Technology has been researching aircraft based on modern technology... I don't know how long it will take for the aircraft to get out of the laboratory...
On the triangular plain in the west of Winter Wolf Castle, the magic flames rising in the distance illuminate the armor and weapons of the knights wet with rain. Turning over, the crash of armor was the only sound in the silent knights.
Quietly watching the magical flames of the distant sky spread out among the clouds, Count Moglock slowly raised his long sword, and the order resounded through the entire knights: "All of them - the third formation, walk slowly. Speed up, move forward!"
No one in the entire knights made a sound, but all the knights and the warhorses under their crotch responded to the command at the same time. With the rumble of horses' hooves stepping on the ground, the phalanx formed by thousands of knights began to move forward.
Under the dark and dreary sky, the silent knights seemed to be 6,000 statues arranged neatly, slowly accelerating in one direction, the armor made of fine steel enchantment glowed a deep color in the rain curtain, gloomy as ink, only When there is lightning across the sky, the steel covered with flesh and blood will have a reflection that is different from the mud and water pools, as if the iron river is surging, quiet and solemn.
With the overall acceleration of the Knights, the ubiquitous flow of magic power suddenly accelerated, and the huge energy was guided by thousands of knights who had been trained, educated and lived together since childhood, and condensed little by little above the array. A fuzzy high-energy cloud, the front of the cloud pointed to Changfeng Fortress.
Behind the Knights, the second troop also began to move forward. This was an army that did not wear any metal armor, but the magical aura in each of their eyes made no one underestimate their role on the battlefield. , This team is all wearing short blue and black robes, wearing mage daggers and mass-produced magic books around their waists, holding oak short staffs, and several black flags are agitating in the wind and rain above their array.
Earl Palin Winterhold was wearing a starry robe and raised his staff high: "Black Flag Magisters, go forward!"
Unlike the mages who are slow to act on the battlefield in the impression of many people, the battle mages of the Typhon Empire also need to receive a considerable degree of riding training - in addition to protecting swordsmanship and a certain degree of physical training. This is because soldierized war mages tend to master only a limited number of one to three combat spells, and additional training is necessary to make them effective on the battlefield.
On the basis of these trainings, the magician group with superb riding skills can completely act together with the knight order-unless the latter launches a charge, the magician group will always keep synchronizing with the knight order to form uninterrupted long-range support .
Andersa couldn't see the movements of the Knights of the Iron River, but she knew that when the signal went up, the Knights of the Iron River and the Black Flag Magician must have already set off.
The Cecilians of Longwind Fortress may have received the news of the Empire's advance, but how are they going to deal with the coming Legion-level spell strike?
The once-steel Eastern Frontier Corps is gone. The cunning Silas Lauren is said to have disappeared on the battlefield of the Holy Spirit Plain. With only a group of Cecil soldiers who have no firm foothold, they must not be able to hold Changfeng Fortress. Yes... If they can hold on, they don't have to set up so many fake positions around the fortress to make things mysterious.
Andersa waved her hand away from the surrounding rain, and felt grateful that her advisors were able to discover the abnormality of Cecil's position in time, otherwise the soldiers of the empire would still be kept in the dark by those bluffing tricks. , the Empire will also miss the best chance to open the portal of Ansu... Cecil...
But just when she sighed like this, a sudden surge of doubt made the young wolf general frown.
It is impossible for a false position to really defend the frontier. You can understand such a simple truth, and the Cecilians can definitely understand it.
They are obviously not creating these fake positions to resist Typhon, but to delay time...
Delaying the time, it is very likely that the Cecil people really have reinforcements - they are not really empty, but the reinforcements need time to reach the border.
It has been a long time since Changfeng Fortress's abnormal "surge" for the first time, so... have the Cecil people actually dragged their time enough, and after dismantling their first layer of falsehood... what is hidden behind Could it be another illusion? !
Many times, a keen mind only needs to open an opening, and naturally it can connect many clues that are easily overlooked. Andersa felt that she was thinking too much and was a little too nervous, but once she started thinking about the conspiracy, she I found that my thoughts couldn't stop at all.
Ever since the Cecil took over Changfeng Fortress, things have been full of weirdness. In this vast confrontation zone, what happened has gradually exceeded the framework delineated by the traditional rules of war, and she suddenly felt that she had to think a little more... ...you must know that between Changfeng Fortress and Winter Wolf Castle, the rules of knighthood have never been taught very much!
A thunderstorm suddenly exploded in the sky, and bright electric light streaked across the sky, illuminating the surrounding undulating stones and vegetation. Andersa suddenly recalled the fake position she had discovered before, and recalled the fake position. A detail of -
The Cecils should have left only a very limited number of soldiers in each false position to serve as observation posts and "actors", so few soldiers were deployed in the Paramel Heights, which is a long distance from the Longwind Fortress. , in the face of a reorganized knight order, it is impossible not to have the slightest panic, even if their will is really as strong as steel, they must at least consider their own safety-unless they have no intention of evacuating alive, but if so, They will not leave the position, but will use the explosives on the position to perish with the Typhon knights!
But in fact, those Cecil soldiers left the position calmly after three attacks on the Typhon Knights—then they had already reached the distance where the Knights could make a short charge.
So calm, there must be a retreat, and the retreat cannot be the distant Changfeng Fortress, nor can it be other defensive positions on the Paramel Heights-even if one or two of those positions are real, they can't stop it. The shock of the entire Winter Wolf Knights.
Their retreat is a battle group with combat capabilities close to Changfeng Fortress, which can ensure the elimination of an entire Typhon Knight Order in a short period of time, and this battle group must be near Paramel Heights!
Andersa's eyes widened instantly, and then she turned around and ordered: "Griffin Knight, lift off!!"
The adjutant next to him was startled: "General?"
"The Cecilians may be hiding a large number of troops that can attack from a distance... This rain has affected our sight!!"
The adjutant was shocked by Andersa's eyes, and immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. Without any hesitation, he ordered the Griffin Knight, who was currently in the best condition, to immediately launch into the air.
In this bad weather, the griffin instinctively refused the command to approach the clouds, and the rider had to stab a hollow needle tube filled with medicine into the back of the griffin's neck, forcibly driving the griffin with potions and special incantations Flying into the sky against the wind and rain, Andersa raised her head and stared at the huge bird of prey flying farther and farther in the dim sky, gradually turning into a hazy black spot, and she didn't wait long after that. The Griffin Knight quickly returned to the ground.
The potion-poisoned Griffin stumbled to the ground, and the lightly armored knight jumped off his mount: "General! To the northwest! There is a very large, strange-looking thing! It looks like the Cecil sold it to Our 'train', but huge and quirky!"
Andersa's heart sank, and after asking about the location of the thing, her previous bad premonition completely became a reality.
With the large army on standby, she brought some of her elite soldiers to a safe observation position pointed out by the Griffin Knight, and saw the war machine hidden between the woods and the boulders.
The huge steel monster lurked quietly on the track, clad in daunting armor, and armed with countless large and small magical weapons.
And the most frightening thing is the huge magic cannon at both ends of the steel monster - Andersa has never seen that thing with her own eyes before, but she has seen it in the report, and some precious intelligence personnel risked sending it out She had seen it in the magic image of , and she knew what that thing could be used for.
Can pry open the strongest fortress in the world.
And those weapons are now silently pointing in the direction of the Changfeng Defense Line - the Knights of the Iron River and the Black Flag Magisters are ignorantly advancing towards its strike range!
Andersa would probably never know that the terrifying war machine had only arrived half an hour early.
Taking into account the time difference between the Iron River Knights' attack and the preparation time for the Iron Throne's artillery bombardment, there was only less than an hour between her and the turning point that could decide the fate of Typhon and Cecil.
"...General, this is a trap!" the adjutant said in a low voice, "We must destroy this thing..."
"It's impossible, unless we have a large siege machine or half a magician..." Andersa gritted her teeth, then suddenly raised her head and looked in the direction of the eastern plain.
The adjutant and several accompanying subordinates also looked in the same direction, and everyone realized the meaning of Andersa's look.
The troops behind must be stopped immediately.
Andersa raised her hand and was about to order a signal.
But she stopped - because she realized that once the signal went out, it meant that her troops would be exposed to the silent war machine.
The war machine should know that a Typhon army is nearby, but it and the people in it still don't know that this trap has been exposed, it is still dormant, and the First Knights of the Winter Wolf has a chance to evacuate.
However, after the Knights of the Winter Wolf evacuated to a safe distance, I am afraid that the Knights of the Iron River have already entered the attack range of the Cecilian trap.
Andersa didn't dare to wait until then to signal, she didn't dare to bet—
No one knows how far the war machine's attack range is, but judging from its deployment location and the information about Cecil's magic weapon, she knows that she doesn't have much time. I am afraid that she has entered the Changfeng Plain, and she must stop the troop and the magician group in the rear within a few minutes.
Therefore, there must be a person here to leave the main force to send the signal, and the rest of the knights quickly shifted their positions - the Paramel Heights range is very large, and the line of sight is extremely poor at this moment, the war machine should only be able to lock the signaler, Unable to lock large units that have been moved.
This is the least costly option.
In Andersa's brief hesitation, a soldier in a short mage robe had come up from behind.
"General, I'll leave a signal, please evacuate as soon as possible."
Andersa stared at the soldier who stood up, and the latter responded calmly: "General, I am an auxiliary mage who specializes in sending signals. I only know all kinds of magic light techniques. It is my duty to send signals."
After a moment of confrontation, Andersa said in a deep voice, "...Soldier, what's your name?"
"Eric Uriah," the mage soldier raised his chest, "from Enchhawk County."
Andersa took a deep breath, stepped forward, and firmly pressed the soldier's shoulder: "Eric, the Empire will treat your family kindly."
"It is my honor to serve under you!"
Andersa nodded, and immediately ordered: "Others, move with me immediately!"
Two minutes later, the entire Winter Wolf First Knights began to evacuate Paramel Heights at the fastest speed.
And shortly after the Knights left the area, a flash of light came from behind the team.
Andersa turned her head and saw a bright red ball of light rising from a distance, bursting into a dazzling and bright blood-colored flame in the sky.
Trap, escape.
After a delay of just a few seconds, harsh screeching and explosions covered where the orb of light had risen.
Ansu 738, the first year of Cecil, the 35th day of the harvest month.
Everyone on the Changfeng defense line passed the blade.
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