Twenty miles west of the fort.

On the side of the Legion of Light.

In the rear command base camp of the battlefield.

Hilbert met with Cardinal Obarkh and made a request to send in the trump card troops.

"Lord Bishop, that fortress has been holding us back for three months, and we can't delay it any longer! I ask that the Holy Knights be dispatched to level that fortress!"

As soon as he saw the archbishop, Hilbert knelt down and pleaded.

Dispatch the Holy Knights?

Just to capture that seemingly insignificant fortress?

Hearing Hilbert's request, Obarge's brow furrowed.

In fact, in the past three months, Obalkh has heard such requests no less than a hundred times through the mouths of different generals, and at most four or five times a day.

But he vetoed them.

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

Because the most common sense is: the trump card should be left until the last shot, and the trump card should be used at the beginning, so what kind of trump card is it?

The main reason is that the Paladins are an offensive unit suitable for use on flat terrain, but now they are being used to siege cities, isn't this a good weapon?

Moreover, the casualty rate of siege warfare is extremely high, and the cultivation of each paladin is sky-high, so it is too extravagant to let the paladin do the work of the ant attachment siege.

It's not appropriate.

So Archbishop Obarkh repeatedly refused to send the Holy Knights.

And what about the Holy Mage?

Isn't there still a group of more than 30,000 holy mages?

The Holy Mage can release a variety of long-range attack magic, send the Holy Mage out of the horse, and release a few more powerful long-range attack magic, and the fortress in front of him will be finished soon?

The truth is this.

It's just that......

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

There were so many legendary mages, and the mass attacks released by the Holy Mage Regiment were basically blocked in the sky above the fortress, resulting in the inability to damage the buildings and personnel in the fortress.

In addition, the terrain of the fortress is condescending, and the hundreds of cannons erected, each cannon can shoot cannonballs that can hit ten miles away, and those powerful flowering shells, each of which is no less powerful than level 5 magic...... The body of the Holy Mage is generally relatively weak, and once the shield is shattered or the defense is not thorough, the consequences are not difficult to imagine.

In order to evade the bombardment of the fortress, the Holy Mage Regiment was required to unleash a spell attack from ten miles away.

But the spell released at this distance, even if it is the "Holy Light Explosion" released by the eighth-level Saint Mage, after flying ten miles away, not to mention how much the head drops, how much power can be left?

What if the Holy Mages don't attack in groups?

That is not the opponent of the fortress opposite, there are 100 legendary mages in the fortress, and dealing with a small number of holy mages is as simple as chopping melons and vegetables.

Therefore, after paying nearly 2,000 heavy casualties, the Holy Mage Regiment had to be hidden in the snow.

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

So you can only use the heads of ordinary soldiers to pile up and consume the opponent's weapons and ammunition!

But three months later, does this work?

"My lord, this can't go on like this, our men and horses won't be able to take that fortress even if they die, and it's time to send out the Holy Knights!" Hilbert said with an anxious expression.

But Obarkh still shook his head: "That's not how the Holy Knights are used, we haven't hit the Kingdom of Adud yet, so let's order the front-line troops to increase the attack, send 50,000 people every day! Attack for ten days in a row! I estimate that the fortress should almost be unable to hold on, and their casualties are at least more than half." ”

Half of the casualties?

Hilbert was stunned and hurriedly asked, "Lord Bishop, who told you that the defenders in that fortress suffered more than half of the casualties?"

"General Bannon told me. Obarkh said.

"Bannon, that incompetent fool who can only slap horses?"

Hilbert muttered, and then spoke, "Your Excellency, General Bannon is too optimistic, if you believe him, we will die millions more!"

He said solemnly: "As a matter of fact, the casualties of the enemy troops in that fortress are not more than 50 percent, but less than 10 percent, and in the past three months, they have lost a total of 671 deaths! An average of 7 people died every day!"

"But we are going to die more than 10,000 people every day! For every 10,000 people we kill, 1,428 people will die!"

"Your Excellency, if we continue like this, we will not be able to take that fortress even if we fill in 10 million people!"

Hilbert's math was good, and he immediately calculated the exchange ratio of the enemy battlefield, and finally got down on one knee and exclaimed bitterly: "Lord Bishop, please send out the Holy Knights!"

What the?

Hearing Hilbert's words, Obalkh was taken aback!

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

How is this possible?!

This exchange ratio is too ugly, isn't it?

Although there are countless followers in the Holy See of Light, and the number of troops that can be recruited is also unlimited, it can't withstand such attrition, right?

To take a fortress with a garrison of 10,000 people would cost tens of millions of deaths, so what if there were more such fortresses?

Does the Bright Sect's crowd tactics still work?

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

Of course, for that fortress, the defenders only had 671 dead figures, and Obarkh also had a trace of doubt, the opponent could not have died so many people, right? If the opponent did not die three to five thousand people, how could this war continue?

But Hilbert, based on his observations on the front line, the letters sent by his opponents, and the statistics from all sides, came to a reasonable conclusion: the number of casualties of the defenders in that fortress was never more than 10%!

The casualties of millions of people on their own side are only exchanged for less than one percent of the casualties of the other side.

Faced with this ironclad fact, Archbishop Obarge was silent, and finally began to think: should the Holy Knights be used?

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

However, a small fortress stopped millions of Legions of Light, and when the news spread, others would probably laugh off their big teeth, and the Holy See of Light would not be able to afford to lose that face!

In addition, if this fortress is not breached, future military operations will still be greatly affected and constrained, and the nails will not be pulled out, the rear will be unstable, and the elimination of all the rebellious unbelievers and traitors will become an empty word, making everyone laugh!

Therefore, in any case, the fortress that stands in front of us must be completely uprooted!

Thinking of this, Obalkh finally spoke:

"Pass the order, dispatch the Holy Mage Regiment and the Holy Knights, and do whatever it takes!