Chapter 33: Phantom War (3)
Ning Yuan, or the current "Fan Xiu", had an intuitive understanding of his own situation after digesting the memory information, and also had a vague guess about the next situation.
This war in the "sand table" enchantment, if you are not mistaken, is a real city-state war on the continent of Nieno.
In the sand table enchantment that will appear in this war, Ning Yuan estimates that the ending in history should not be good.
The reason why Ning Yuan appeared here was probably that the designer wanted Ning Yuan to avoid the direction of this war, or to deviate from the unhappy ending as much as possible.
According to Ning Yuan's guess, the real Fan Xiu should not have died in this war, which means that the worst outcome of Fan Xiu in this war should be captured. But whether he was captured in the next battle or captured in the later war, Ning Yuan couldn't guess.
According to the available information, the general direction that Ning Yuan deduced with the "Yanyan" and Qimen induction was nothing more than two kinds.
The remnants of the "Xiuyuan City" were surrounded and annihilated here, and Fan Xiu and others were captured.
The remnants of the "Xiuyuan City" were defeated again, and the city in the rear was reversed, resulting in the city being directly occupied and Fan Xiu and others being captured.
Ning Yuan deduced that the latter was more likely.
With the military strength of the "Iron Childish City", even if it is not so much effort, it can easily capture the "Xiuyuan City". It's just that in the case of "Xiuyuan City" refusing to defend the city, it will cause damage to the city wall. There were mountain-destroying wrestlers and siege beasts, and Ning Yuan estimated that this damage should be irreversible.
So why did the "Xiuyuan City", which could be captured no matter what it did, as a medium-sized city-state with an overwhelming advantage in resources, military strength, or others, so why did it not hesitate to lure the "Xiuyuan Army" out of the city with 5,000 elite soldiers as bait?
Further, what is the reason for this city-state war?
In Fan Xiu's memory, Ning Yuan didn't find an answer. "Tiezhi City" only issued a war notice to "Xiuyuan City", and then directly sent troops to "Xiuyuan City". Fan Xiu even wanted to find a third party to mediate the war during the buffer period, but he didn't know how to mediate. It seems that the "Iron Childish City" wants to destroy the "Xiuyuan City" for no reason. In the information that Fan Xiu collected later, there were even rumors that the "Iron Childish City" was going to slaughter the "Xiuyuan City", which rarely appeared in the city-state wars.
"Why?" These are the three words that have been in the minds of Fan Xiu and the staff of "Xiuyuan City" since the declaration of war in "Tiezhi City". It is also a question that everyone is puzzled by.
It wasn't until he received the information about the four special forces that Fan Xiu's mind seemed to flash a flash of inspiration, and he had a vague guess. But for many reasons, I didn't think carefully about that vague thought.
However, Ning Yuan, who digested Fan Xiu's memory, faintly speculated about the hidden veil in this somewhat confused war because of the influence of his talent.
Based on what I learned from memory. "Iron Childish City", which can only be regarded as an ordinary mid-level city-state among medium-sized city-states, should not be able to have four relatively special troops at the same time. Especially the Wood Spirit Force, a pure warlock cultivator or a pure wood spirit clan cultivator, and a large spear refining force, which is extremely money-burning.
A mature medium-sized city-state, that is, the kind of city-state with a population of one million and an extremely high proportion of 30% cultivators (of course, even a medium-sized city-state with a population of one million cannot reach the level of a perfect 300,000 cultivators), among all 300,000 practitioners, it may be possible to find a warlock professional with a qu, or even more, but it is not easy to find a professional with all the qu being wood-type warlocks.
To put it bluntly, one of the 300,000 cultivators in a single city-state can find a Qu Wood Warlock cultivator, and among the medium-sized city-states with a population of one million, there are almost two, and at most three.
No matter how you calculate it, it is impossible for the "Iron Childish City" to be among them.
Even if they are not warlock cultivators, but the Wood Spirit Clan, which is extremely easy to form a Wood Spirit Army, it is the same.
Because the Wood Spirit Clan is a rather exclusive race among all the Spirit Races in the Neno Continent, and they basically only live in the major "Forest Alliance", such as the "Dragon Sen Alliance", an alliance dominated by the Spirit Race in the Dragon Blood Great Forest. The Wood Spirit Clan rarely appears in Terran-dominated territory.
Of course, if a certain city-state has established a "friendship" with a certain Wood Spirit race, that would be a different matter.
But as far as the "Iron Childcare City" in the memory information is concerned, Ning Yuan doesn't think that the other party will hook up with a certain Wood Spirit Clan.
From this, Ning Yuan speculated that the Wood Spirit troops should not be the troops that originally belonged to the "Iron Childcare City".
Let's look at the "large gun-refining" troops. Refining guns, especially large-scale refining guns, was a new thing that had only appeared for a few hundred years in Fan Xiu's era.
That's right, unlike other gas refining technology products, which usually change from large to small, refining guns are an "outlier" from small to large.
The refining spears of the Nino Continent were originally toys for cultivators, but they were just things that mortals used to deal with beasts and intimidate those timid fierce demon beasts.
Until a cultivator refiner had a whimsical idea to refine the spear by refining the treasure weapon.
Although the refining gun was originally powered by source stones, it basically activated ammunition in a mechanical way. It is fast and powerful for mortals, but it is only for mortals.
For cultivators, even if they are just preparatory cultivators who have condensed the "Qi Seed", as long as the refining spear of mechanical kinetic energy does not hit the vital point of death, it will only make them injured. And mid-level cultivators who step into the "Sea of Qi" will be able to rely on their improved reflexes to dodge this mechanical kinetic energy of refining spear ammunition.
However, this changed after the appearance of the refining spear, which uses the power of runes as the active energy.
The cultivators found that this kind of refining spear, which uses the source stone as the energy source and is activated by runes, can threaten the cultivators of the military level in the hands of mortals. And if it is in the hands of a cultivator, such as a cultivator in the middle of the military rank, it can even pose a threat to a cultivator who has just entered the husband level.
This discovery intrigued those practitioners and began to study it, and the subsequent discovery completely changed the fate of the "toy" of refining guns. It also led to the birth of a new subclass among late-stage cultivators.
The name of the new subclass is "Gunner".
That major discovery is the popular "caliber is justice".
It has been found that under the same material, the larger the caliber of the refining gun, the more and more advanced runes of the same kind are engraved, and the power under the same ammunition will produce geometric differences.
Whether it is the superposition of the same kind of rune or the change of caliber, the large-scale refining of the gun has become an inevitable choice.
However, although the gun refining thing is good, there is a shortcoming, this thing is extremely expensive. This is especially true for large-scale gun-refining units of the standard.
In Fan Xiu's era, the refining gun had not yet realized the production line operation, and could only be refined individually by the skilled workers of the refining workshop.
Of course, with the memory and information digested by Ning Yuan, it is not that the "Iron Childcare City" cannot afford to raise a battalion of large-scale gun refining troops, but that raising such a force is not worth the loss for the "Iron Childcare City".
Based on the available intelligence, it is unlikely that this large spear-refining force is also the original unit of the "Iron Childish City".
In fact, there is a more direct evidence that these two troops are not the troops of the "Iron Childcare City", that is, from the "Iron Childcare City" battle reports that have been circulated in the past, there have been no "Wood Spirit Troops" and "Large Gun Refining Troops". Even the siege beast troops did not appear.
All available intelligence indicates that only the Destroying Mountain Lux is an elite unit cultivated by the "Iron Childcare City" itself. Moreover, in the information that has been circulated for so many years, the "Iron Childcare City" has only trained a little more than two brigades of mountain-destroying wrestlers, and so far it has not even been satisfied with a mountain-destroying wrestler song.
Since the Wood Spirits, Refining Spears, and Behemoth Troops are not the troops of the Iron Childish City, where did they come from? And why did he temporarily join the "Iron Childish City" to participate in this already disparity war?
Then let's go back to the original question again. With such a luxurious lineup and military strength, why did the "Iron Childish City" go to such great lengths to lure the army of Xiuyuan City out of the city?
Faintly, Ning Yuan already had a guess.
One of the purposes of the "Iron Childish City" or the force behind the "Iron Childish City" is undoubtedly "Xiuyuan City", but it is very likely that what the other party wants is not a dilapidated "Xiuyuan City", but an "intact" "Xiuyuan City".
This is the immediate purpose of this war.
So what is the deeper purpose?
Ning Yuan remembered the letter for help sent by Fan Xiu in the memory information, his heart was cold, and his scalp was faintly numb.
An "intact" "Xiuyuan City".
A request for help has been sent.
The purpose of the "Qin" alliance.
This ambush that is not in the calculations.
A "line" scurried up.
Ning Yuan's heart was heavy.
I remembered what the herald had just said, and the pursuers had surrounded them on three sides.
Since it is an encirclement, why not completely encircle?
Even if it is "three missing one", why do you leave the side to retreat to the city?
"It's really undisguised." Ning Yuan sneered mockingly in his heart.
However, because of the other party's undisguised attitude, although Ning Yuan was in a heavy mood, he also had some vague thoughts.
Although he said a lot, only a few breaths had passed, and the herald was still half-kneeling on the ground, looking at "Fan Xiu" with his fists clenched.
While deducing the feasibility of those vague ideas with "Yan Yan" in his consciousness, "Fan Xiu" said to the herald:
"You go and inform Vice General Zhao to gather all the remnants of our army's scouts, and I have an order to issue it."
After speaking, he turned to look at the map on the low table, and said calmly: "Go, I'll come out later." ”
"Yes." When the herald heard the calm and calm voice of "Fan Xiu", the despair in his heart eased slightly, and he got up and saluted and ran out of the tent.
At this time, the shouts of killing in the front camp of the camp had faintly approached the middle camp.