Chapter 553: Everything Has a Cause
Isn't the artillery powerful?
Absolutely tough.
Especially when facing a dense formation, the lethality is definitely one by one, it is not a one-by-one kill, but a piece by piece, regardless of whether it is an ordinary soldier, or a knight in heavy armor, a back or a big knight, as long as it is within the absolute killing range, it can also be blown into the sky, including the champion knight.
As for the Great Knight and the Champion Knight who opened the absolute barrier, it is not known that the Eternal Night Commander cannot be mad to test his core force.
Not to mention large fixed-point targets, it is definitely an excellent choice for tackling tough problems.
But once you face the stragglers, it's a little bit less useful.
No matter how accurate the aim is, one shot will only blow up one enemy at that time.
How many artillery pieces and mortars were there that were equipped to the Third Army?
And how many shells of various types are there?
Although Marshal Erikson had not heard of the adjective "golden taels" when the cannon sounded, judging from their workmanship and materials, it would definitely not be cheap, and the actual combat training of their artillery was very little, and most of the training was carried out in the consciousness space of the mage tower.
There is only one reason why the lords who have always attached more importance to actual combat training have become so stingy, and that is that the cost is expensive, and the current finances of the Eternal Night Army are a little unbearable.
This new weapon must be used on the tip of the knife.
"But we can't just be pressed and beaten by them, aren't their cavalry chasing our sentinels? Find a way, use the conventional tactics of the past, eat them in a wave, if there is no cavalry cooperation, simple infantry, the threat they pose will be much smaller. "In the news that Sean came back from the front, he saw the new warplane.
These monsters have become smarter, and there are advantages to becoming smarter, as well as disadvantages of becoming smarter.
They're now proficient in tactics, but they're also prone to tactics.
The cavalry was separated from the infantry and was easily broken by each one.
Marshal Erikson bowed his head and pondered for a while: "It's a little difficult, but it's not impossible to think about. ”
"I will send the Guards Legion, the Second Army, and the Shuangjiang Navy to support as soon as possible, but according to their current marching speed, I am afraid that they will not be able to catch up, and I will mainly rely on your Third Army and the Explorer Navy in the early stage. Sean said.
The most passive thing about the Eternal Night Leader this time is that the Crane tribe's movement is too sudden, and their main forces are scattered in various defense areas, and it will take nearly a week to mobilize them at the earliest.
But the Crane tribe is rushing forward day and night, not to mention those bone knights, even those undead Klein soldiers, within three or four days, they can come to the city.
"Understood. "Even if Sean doesn't say it, Marshal Erikson has already considered this, but the undead Klein tribe is no longer at its peak.
At first, it was weakened a lot by the Eternal Night Army, and then an army of more than 50,000 died headlong under the walls of Brother Harbor.
In the past two years, the Eternal Night Commander has been implementing a new force plan in the Swamp of Despair, and the priority to evacuate is the crocodile people around the Crane tribe, and the undead Crane tribe has no chance to replenish its troops.
No matter how demonic and powerful the magic energy is, it has no ability to create something out of nothing.
According to the rough estimate of the Eternal Night Commander, it would be quite remarkable that the undead Crane tribe could cobble together another army of 50,000, and on this basis, it was possible to float two to three percent, which was prepared for those who were indiscriminately replenished by the old, weak, sick and disabled.
Even so, the Third Army still suffered a big loss in numbers, the number of enemies was several times that of itself, and although there was still an explorer navy, it couldn't drag them to land, right?
The main thing is to provide transport support on the Danube River, to ensure that the Third Army can appear in any position and launch an attack on the enemy,
"What about the scholars?" asked Field Marshal Erickson.
Sean's series of decisions did not mention the scholars of the scholars' conference.
"There are too many of them to evacuate, and the Shuangjiang Navy must give priority to transporting the Guards to support. Sean couldn't help but sigh and said, "The Death Channel is not only the enemy's Death, but also our Death, and it will limit our transportation capacity at a critical time. ”
"That's because our power in the Swamp of Despair is too thin, and some of us are too dependent on the output in the Andes Basin, and it will be better to relocate some non-core industries to the Swamp of Despair when some non-core industries are relocated. "Field Marshal Eriksson apparently thought about something similar and found the crux of the problem.
"I don't know about this, but if I don't solve the Klein tribe, how dare I move our pillar industries here? If it weren't for secrecy considerations, the Scholars Conference would not have been placed in Brother Harbor, but in the Andes Basin. Sean frowned and said, "We are a bit of a tiger now, and we should have made up our minds to cut it down regardless of casualties." ”
"If the lord makes that decision, he won't be the lord. Field Marshal Eriksson replied.
Even if he did it all over again, he didn't believe that Sean would do that kind of thing regardless of casualties, after all, until now, their understanding of the black fog area that covers the sky and the sun is still very limited.
This kind of enemy is easy to take advantage of, and once you transform your own people into that kind of monster, it will be even more unbearable.
"That's right!" Sean said.
According to the special circumstances they were in at the time, and with the fact that they had enough good cards in their hands, it was really not appropriate to make that kind of risky decision.
Overall, they have no problem with the Klein Tribe's decision-making.
The problem is that there have been a lot of extraneous complications recently, which has put their original plan back and forth, otherwise the entire Klein tribe will be bulldozed by them, where is there so much going on?
There is no regret medicine to take in this world, and the most important thing now is to find a way to solve it.
Before more news arrives and the Soul Golden Eagle arrives, Sean has no plans to think about.
After a few laps, Sean suddenly asked, "What do you say is the purpose of these monsters? Obviously they have already hit their heads in Brother Harbor once, why are they still hitting here this time?"
This question stunned Field Marshal Erikson. I couldn't help but ask, "Do these monsters have a purpose? They can't be measured by common sense, right?"
"Everything happens with a certain purpose, and these monsters are no exception, there is no way to measure it with common sense, it's because we don't know what they need. Sean apparently didn't think so, "Didn't they go for the Dragonwreck Battleship on the Danube in the first place, and the expansion after that was also to capture more people...... How did I forget it?"
"What's the matter, does the lord make any new discoveries?" Marshal Erikson asked hurriedly.
"The first two abnormal reactions of these monsters are directly related to the Dragonwreck Battleship, the first time is to intercept and snatch the Dragonwreck Battleship, and the second time is after the Dragonwreck Battleship was transported into the Black Mist Region by them, do you say that their abnormal behavior is related to the Dragonwreck Battleship?" Sean felt that he had grasped the key point of the whole matter.
"This ......" Marshal Erikson obviously had no way to interject on this point.
Sean didn't expect to get any enlightening advice from Marshal Erikson, not so much to analyze him, but to sort out his own thoughts and say: "The reason why these monsters attach so much importance to the dragon wreck battleship must have a direct relationship with the magic energy, the other party has been living in a place for a long time without moving, just sending these puppet-like monsters to plunder around, could it be because its situation is more special, just like himself, his body is trapped in the mage tower, unable to move, and he has to borrow this method?"
The more I think about it, the more I think it's possible, and it's very big.
The other party's purpose in wanting the dragon wreck battleship may be to help him get out of trouble.
By this, Sean naturally refers to the manipulator behind the undead Klein Tribe soldiers.
At the beginning, Sean had already analyzed the situation of the Crane tribe.
Their condition does not fit a set of characteristics of mutation and rejuvenation.
Their anomalies are mainly due to the magical energy of ultra-high negative attributes flowing in their veins, transforming them into monsters between death and life.
In other words, the condition is typically man-made.
There was once speculation that this was a means of this tribe Klein.
But it was quickly rejected.
Klein is not the kind of martial arts cultivator of Great Elder Nitya, he is an out-and-out champion knight, and he was still struck by Sean's manipulation of the thunder golden eagle, and even if he didn't die, he was seriously injured.
said that he did this earth-shattering thing, and he really looked down on him.
Behind this matter, there must be other behind-the-scenes masterminds, who are proficient in the manipulation and use of magic energy.
Sean also once guessed that the other party had an existence similar to an energy reaction chamber in his hands, and the black fog area that covered the sky was the most obvious sign.
This is not ordinary black smoke or black fog, but a magic energy filled with the smell of death, strictly speaking, this magic energy is not in the category of the six basic elements that are often said.
At first, Sean simply thought that the dark attribute spell energy, or the variant of the dark attribute spell energy, but with the large-scale development of soul consciousness this year, after more in-depth research, he has a deeper understanding of this spell energy.
This kind of magic energy that is filled with the smell of death is simply a mixture of soul consciousness being crushed and fused with the dark magic energy.
This is no longer pure magic energy, what it is, Sean can't say.
That's why when you're in the middle of it, there's always a coldness of facing death.
Because they themselves are a fusion of death.
As for the source of the soul's consciousness, it goes without saying.
The monsters between the living and the dead, each representing a living person, a soul.
Obviously, those poor crocodiles, not only have their bodies been transformed, but their souls have also been extracted, crumpled into pieces, mixed with magic energy, and re-injected into their bodies.
This hybrid spell energy, temporarily named death, is certainly not naturally formed, but is outright artificial, and requires a lot of spell energy in the process.
If there were no large-scale devices such as the Energy Reaction Room that gathered magic energy, with only manpower, even if it was a master-level warlock, let alone one or two, even if there were ten or eight, they would not be able to make such a big move.
Sean prefers the former to the latter.
Of course, it is not excluded that natural coincidences have been used.
This year's series of events have broadened Sean's horizons, and he will naturally be more daring when speculating.
At first, they guessed that this mastermind behind the scenes had been looking in the direction of people, what if it wasn't people?
Gods and monsters are only one aspect, Sean is still more inclined to be artificial, but this human factor can be expanded more extensively, after all, old monsters like the ancestors of the Seven Apostles exist, maybe there are other people who break the rules?
Therefore, the Eternal Night Army Leader has made a certain degree of adjustment in the direction of the investigation of the mutation of the Crane tribe, and has collected some strange tales about the local customs from the crocodile people.
Not to mention, there are indeed some clues that are not clues.
The crocodile tribe near the Klein tribe has always had a kind of death worship, they believe that the death of people is only the death of the body, and the soul will not die, but will enter the world of the dead to live, and this world of the dead has gods, if they can serve him in faith before death, when death comes, after entering the world of the dead, they will have a higher starting point, and even become the messenger of this god.
And the Klein tribe is the hardest hit area of this death cult, and their elder Klein is a devout believer, and has always claimed to be the spokesman of the god of death in the world.
This mixed rule model of leaders, beliefs, etc., made Grand Elder Crane control the Crane tribe far above that of ordinary tribes.
This is why, when the entire crocodile tribe is at stake, the Great Elder Crane only needs one sentence to call all the soldiers of the Crane tribe back, even if it is a break with the Council of Elders representing the entire Crocodile tribe, the entire Crane tribe has no second word.
That's why, when he saw the undead Klein tribe soldiers, Grand Elder Nitya scolded what this bastard had done to his own people.
Apparently, Grand Elder Nitya linked this undead spirit to the Klein tribe's death-cult god of death.
Sean does not know whether the god of death exists or not, and it is a wrong choice to deny or admit it in a hurry without verification.
It also can't rule out the possibility that someone is pretending to be a ghost.
It doesn't matter if it's a human being, or a god, or a ghost.
As long as you have wisdom, you will definitely have your own purpose.
If you take apart the behavior of the undead Klein tribe, there are indeed many things that are difficult to understand.
If you look at it in series from beginning to end, there is a certain context to be found.
These undead Klein tribe soldiers who suddenly attacked looked like they were playing cover.
Cover what?
Of course, it is to cover the actions of one's own creator, one's own God.
The Eternal Night Leader sees the undead as a threat to the Crane Tribe.
If the Undead Crane tribe really had a wise leader in charge, as speculated, they would not have seen the Eternal Night Leader as a threat, especially since the main army of their own organization had been wiped out in just a few weeks.
Don't look at the Eternal Night Army leading the destruction of the undead and think they are vulnerable.