War is a contest of hard power.

No amount of clever planning can change this premise. If you can push all the way to victory, not many people are willing to bother arranging too complicated tactics.

The Pompeii expeditionary force has a luxurious lineup, and its real strength is far stronger than the other party. Without the walls, the battle would have been a one-sided battle where there was no suspense at all.

For now, they will suffer because the Stuart man's arrangement is indeed exquisite, delicate enough to temporarily reverse the local balance of power between the two sides.

But the fact that the Pompeii Expeditionary Force was stronger had never changed, and once they could make a breakthrough, they would undoubtedly have the ability to expand it indefinitely.

In the eyes of the lord, the value of the dragon knight does not lie in direct attack at all, it is the stupidest and most stupid way to play.

The sword is most threatening when it is unsheathed, because once it is unsheathed, the sharpest swordsmanship in the world can always find a way to deal with it. And as long as it is hidden in the sheath and endured, that deterrence will never fade.

What the dragon knight should do is get close enough distance to force the Stuarts to defend. Once the defenders had to deploy some of their long-range firepower to defend themselves against a dragon attack, the pressure on Pompeii's infantry would be greatly reduced, and it would be possible to even achieve a frontal breakthrough directly.

It turns out that there are far more intelligent people in this world than the lord of Alpine Castle.

The two dragon knights did not choose to attack directly, but stopped high in the distance...... It's just that this distance is inevitably too far, and it is roughly estimated that it is at least three thousand yards away.

Richard could see that it was a toothache, and even a dragon could not produce any shock at this distance. Their wariness is so obvious that even a fool can tell that they will not really launch a surprise attack.

The sword is hidden in the sheath and still maintains deterrence, and it is a crucial premise to be ready to unsheath at any time. Once it is known that he will not be able to draw his sword at all, it will immediately become indistinguishable from a burning stick.

The dragon spat out two mouthfuls of dragon breath at the defenders behind the wall, and even dragon breath could not do anything in the face of too far distance. The surging flames had not yet touched the Stuarts, and had already been annihilated in mid-air, leaving only a wisp of black smoke to roll up.

Not long after hovering over Winterfell, the two dragon knights actually chose to return directly.

The lord was really curious, anyway, he didn't have anything serious at the moment, so he just rushed over to join in the fun.

The place was not far away, and the road was not obstructed by sentinels, and the dragon knights had already landed when they arrived.

It was the first time that the lord had seen the dragons up close, and these behemoths with a dozen blades in length possessed unparalleled majesty and beauty. They were covered in egg-sized scales, each as thick as a raw gemstone, thousands stacked on top of each other, and a sense of oppression came over them.

Higuain sat on the saddle of the dragon's back, his handsome little face was full of anger, and he was obviously holding back his anger, bowing his head and not saying a word. Anyone can tell at a glance that trying to get something useful out of his mouth is a wasted effort to take off his pants and fart.

The other dragon knight, Count Zed, seemed much more mature, and was in a hurry to describe the encounter to the people around him, and Richard arrived just in time to start: "When we approached Winterfell, we found that there were dragon hunting crossbows everywhere. ”

There was a sudden sound of gasping air all around.

The Dragon Hunting Crossbow is a famous magic weapon created by John Browning, a genius alchemist in San Jose thousands of years ago.

The blueprints for the dragon crossbow were once San Jose's top secret, but through the tireless efforts of generations of spies, they were eventually stolen by Pompeii and Stuart. This magic weapon is now equipped in various countries, and it has hardly changed from when it was first finalized, which shows how brilliant Browning was back then.

The dragon hunter is not driven by a bowstring like a normal crossbow, but through a very clever water system enchantment, the crossbow bolt is forced out of the casing through the movement of the water. Doing so gives the bolt much more speed than the bowstring and keeps it spinning at high speeds throughout.

At the same flight speed, the high-speed rotating blade tip and the flat and stable blade tip have armor-piercing ability that is not at all a grade. Combined with the special crossbow arrows engraved with the armor-piercing array, it can pose a sufficient threat to the dragon's unreasonable outer scale armor.

As the name suggests, the dragon hunting crossbow has been on a natural mission to fight dragons since its inception. And judging from the historical record, it can be called a fruitful battle.

The wisdom of the dragon is no less than that of a human, and of course it can have a longer memory if it suffers a lot. Therefore, they are generally quite afraid of dragon hunting crossbows, and it is not difficult to understand why the two dragon knights would return so quickly.

"It's impossible for Winterfell to have so many dragon hunting crossbows, at most seven or eight are genuine, and the others should be Xibei products. Richard shook his head calmly.

Despite its extraordinary effectiveness, no one can deny that as a powerful and extraordinary magic weapon, the Dragon Hunting Crossbow is also extraordinarily expensive, and it is clear that it is impossible to have the luxury of arming the whole city with the help of your toes.

This is no longer a matter of gold coins or not gold coins - the rare magic metals needed to make hundreds of dragon hunting crossbows add up to an astronomical amount, and even if all the burial goods of the previous kings of Stuart are dug up, it is absolutely impossible to make up enough metal for large-scale metal refining!

The meaning of his words was understood by everyone present as soon as they heard it.

It's nothing more than the Stuarts who are suspicious and have made a bunch of real and fake dragon hunting crossbows. So Pompey obviously has the advantage of air cavalry, but it is always difficult to play.

But no one spoke, looking at the sky and the earth, the scene was strangely quiet for a while.

I am afraid that the question of truth and falsehood cannot be distinguished by the eyes alone, so I have to try it. But no one can urge the two dragon knights to fly over and try which ones are real and which ones are fake - if they are fake, it is better to say, what if they bump into the real thing?

200,000 to 30,000 and the dragon knight was folded in, and all the high-ranking members of the expeditionary force could not collectively wipe their necks and hang themselves.

"Can you let the Hayabusa Knight try it?" someone made a less glamorous but realistic offer.

"No, I can't. The lord's head shook like a rattle, "The falcon's body is too thin to be beaten down with an ordinary bed crossbow, and it will definitely not use a dragon hunting crossbow." ”

Winterfell's commander, Seedorf, is worthy of being an old fox who can defend himself by defending alone.

If you think about it, from the moment the city walls were bombarded with full firepower, it seems that the response of the Pompeii expeditionary force has never been out of his control.

Because of the full firepower, the front-line infantry took it lightly, resulting in heavy losses on the city walls now. At the same time, because of the full firepower, the mage regiment was consumed too much, not only could not support the infantry, but was also at a disadvantage.

The Dragon Knight was supposed to be a key force in breaking the deadlock, and Winterfell had clearly done its homework a long time ago.

Passing off as the real thing is not a new tactic, and it is usually self-defeating once the tactic itself is realized by the other side. But now Winterfell is playing this hand, which is to tell you that there is a fake, but you have to guard against it!

Obviously, the initial all-out firepower dug a hole for the entire expeditionary force, and many subsequent attempts not only failed to fill the hole, but only got bigger and bigger.

Now it seems that the dragon knights are not enough, and it is only with the action of the Magister that he can solve the dilemma with absolute strength. However, there are only two mages of that level in the entire Pompeii, and due to their superb magical strength, the royal family's orders are limited to them. When it comes to life and death, it is as unreliable to count on them as it is to count on the gods.

However, there is a saying that Pompeii will gather all the fire mages in a desperate attempt at first, and it is not for nothing.

At that time, everyone noticed that a large number of Stuart soldiers were densely packed on the city walls, which seemed to be an extremely tempting target. In the words of the above, "Huddle together like quails, and I'm sorry for their stupidity if you don't blow it up." ”

Richard now vaguely felt as if he had been caught in the bait set by the other party, and if that was the case, it could only be said that Seedorf's calculations were too accurate.