The weather in July is very dry, and all creatures deliberately hide from the sun, either in the shade of trees or in shady corners.

In a shady corner, George and a few people were working on how to enchant a crossbow.

"Ivan, the powerful crossbow you made according to my graphics is of moderate weight, very good! It seems that your technique has not regressed at all!"

"Lord Duke, it's still your drawings that are creative, I added a gear device to the original strong crossbow to make winding very easy, even an old man like me can easily wind it!"

"Ivan, very good, when this war is over, I will promote you to the knighthood again, and you will also recruit more excellent craftsmen and continue to produce more high-quality weapons. ”

According to the previous record of the mecha puppet on the gear, George made a powerful crossbow arrow that uses the gear to wind, and after attaching a certain magic pattern to the crossbow, George named this crossbow arrow [Magic Strong Crossbow], the strong crossbow is very accurate and powerful, and can penetrate two iron shields.

After the experiment was successful, George arranged for Ivan to produce 2,000 magic crossbows and let all the magic archers change their outfits.

Unlike Salivan's crossbowmen, George's crossbows were fast-winding, and all knights were able to shoot crossbow arrows on their horses, and more importantly, because the crossbow arrows were geared, they did not require much effort to wind, greatly increasing the soldier's combat time.

In order to be able to restrain the opponent's heavy cavalry, George trained a force of 8,000 Changge hands, Changge can effectively attack the horse's legs, as long as the appropriate terrain is selected to limit the speed of the heavy cavalry, and then use the Changge soldiers to attack the war horse, then the heavy cavalry no longer poses a threat.

Marnssim-von, a distant relative of Pierre Von, was a pragmatic nobleman and an excellent general who was very good at training the Chang Ge soldiers, and George appointed Mar Thime as the Earl and appointed him as the chief general of the Long Ge Soldiers.

Andamon Gordon, an outstanding graduate of Crescent Academy, was particularly adept at leading multiple arms in battle, and George appointed him to lead 12,000 pikemen, mixed with Marnssim's troops, and served as a lieutenant general under Marnssim.

After the magic bow that had been eliminated before, George asked Rodina to set up an elite magic bow knight composed of outstanding children from the Western Regions, led by Rodina and appointed her as the lieutenant general of the archer army.

Nina Ferrer is another female general recommended by Pierre who is good at cavalry combat, because Nina has a violent personality and will not please Shangguan, so she has been at home, George inspected Nina and found that Nina was an excellent cavalry general, and appointed Nina as the chief general of the Lancers.

After a series of mobilizations, George led the army to begin the first assault on Fort Gale.

"Alexa, haven't you heard from Tina yet?"

"Brother George, it would be nice if you could write a letter to Sister Tina yourself, I'm sure she'll be here right away, she's just angry. ”

"Alexey, will you write me a letter?"

"Brother George, that's not good! you come by yourself, otherwise Sister Tina won't be able to feel your sincerity!"

"Okay, I'll write, and when this battle is over, I'll write!"

Shaliwan saw that George was leading a large army to attack, and he also wanted to test the strength of the other party.

The two armies began a standoff on the plain between Gale Fortress and Snail City.

Rodina led 5,000 archers to attack the flank of Salivan's army, and Salivan erected a large shield outside the military formation, allowing the strong crossbowmen in the middle of the army to return fire at the archers, and Rodina could not bargain and began to retreat.

Ignoring the harassment of the archers, Salivan let the army advance slowly, and George dispatched a mixed formation of longbowmen and heavy infantry to move towards Salivan's army.

The two armies came into contact, each side suffered damage, the longbowmen could not reach the light crossbowmen, and George's heavy infantry suffered heavy losses.

In order to expand the results of the battle, Saliwan dispatched 5,000 spear knights to assault the infantry positions.

George saw that the other side sent cavalry, and was not in a hurry, so he asked Rodina to lead 5,000 archers to support, and the spear knights began to retreat after losing 1,000 men.

"Alexay! Now you lead 500 magic crossbow knights and start shooting the opponent's crossbowmen! Withdraw as soon as you complete the mission! Remember, you must not lose a single person!"

"Brother George, don't worry!

Shaliwan saw a few hundred soldiers in the distance, who were not wearing any armor, moving towards his army formation with a strange crossbow, and began to shoot from a distance, each crossbow arrow taking away a strong crossbowman.

"Someone! Send out a giant crossbow force and shoot those crossbowmen on horseback in the distance!"

"Lord Shaliwan, it's too far away! Our giant crossbow can't shoot that far!"

"Move the giant crossbow position, mobilize 5,000 light crossbowmen and 2,000 heavy armored cavalry guards, and move the giant crossbow position forward!"

George saw from a distance that Shaliwan's giant crossbow position began to move forward, and ordered: "Lanya, lead 500 powerful crossbow soldiers to snipe the opponent's giant crossbow controller!"

"George, I don't think we need to sneak attack each other, we can temporarily deflect the formation, avoid the giant crossbow strike, and then send archers to attack the position that the opponent's giant crossbow can't defend!"

"Well, it's also a good way, Hao Lanya, you lead 5,000 archers to raid the opponent's flank, remember that there must be danger and retreat immediately, you can't easily lose your troops!"

Lanya led the archers and began to attack the relatively weakly defended positions of the Saliwan army.

"Lord Shaliwan, the flank of our army has been raided, and the soldiers have suffered heavy losses!"

"Oh, these horse thieves are really fast! It seems that they are indeed very mobile! They can quickly withdraw from the range of the giant crossbow! Send out strong crossbowmen! Support the flanks!"

The armies of George and Salivan attacked and slaughtered, winning and losing each other, until the evening when both sides withdrew and returned.

Shaliwan lost 2,000 light crossbowmen, 3,000 spear knights, and 3,000 infantry, compared to other losses, Shaliwan was most concerned about the loss of strong crossbowmen, these strong crossbowmen were one less dead.

George lost 10,000 infantry, 40,000 hoplites, and 500 archers, the opponent's crossbow arrows were too fierce, and the number of strong crossbows in his own troops was not much, and he could not form a formation for the time being, so he could only be beaten passively, and the giant crossbows were mostly used for defense, and the number of giant crossbows that could be used as attacks was limited, and they could not provide support to a certain extent.

The situation of the war is gradually becoming ossified, and if it continues like this, the two armies will form a situation of confrontation for a long time, and the result of the confrontation will be that the two countries will consume food and grass to support the consumption of the army.

The land of the Golden Lion Kingdom is fertile, as long as the upper and lower efforts take longer, the more beneficial it will be to the Golden Lion Kingdom, and the Crescent Federation can only rely on the support of Ammesvalon and Budavis, and the Crescent Federation cannot afford to drag it out.

Although Shaliwan couldn't help George in the field battle, Shaliwan was confident that as long as George was stuck in Gale Fortress, sooner or later the Crescent Federation would be defeated because of the exhaustion of national strength!