Chapter 717: The First Air Transport
Observing the enemy's actions from the magic screen, Elisa's face was calm and calm.
He has already done everything that should be done, and then, only the real battle between the two sides is left.
Armed with a magic longbow, he personally led a team of his most elite soldiers to garrison one of the halls of the fortress.
This hall is the gateway to many places within the stronghold, and it is the gateway to the location of the Centaur Fountain, and no matter where the Entagrean army eventually enters the fortress, it will inevitably pass through here.
The square layout of the hall, with its numerous portals and several upper and lower corridors on both sides, allowed Elisa to build a number of fortifications where cross-fire could be fired, and once the Entagre Army appeared here, it would be greeted by a rain of arrows from the elves from all directions.
Elisa moved his headquarters to one of the fortifications in this hall, and he used this action to inspire the soldiers by telling them his determination and belief in living and dying with the fortress, and at the same time, he also regarded this place as his own death place, because if the Entagre army broke through this place, it would mean the complete loss of the fortress, and once the fortress was lost, his fate would be decided, and when the time came, he would have nothing to think about but death.
The Entagrean army was rapidly approaching the city of waterfalls from the sky, approaching the fortress, and from the magic screen, Elisa noticed that the enemy was just as Malodia had expected.
At least 3,000 Negan dragons appeared in the sky, black dragons, red dragons, these dragon warriors wearing the iconic dragon chain mail of the Entagri army, so conspicuous in the air, following the dragon war set off by the dragon queen Moriel, Negan dragon once again flew over the forest of Turalea.
Along with the Negan dragons, there are nearly 100 fairy dragons with transparent wings and beautiful purple scales, which is an extremely ironic phenomenon, because in the dragon war, these fairy dragons were on the side of the elven kingdom and helped the elven kingdom against the Negan dragon army, but now, they have changed their stance and launched an attack on the elven kingdom together with the Negan dragon.
In addition to the dragons, there are also angel warriors with a pair of iconic white wings appearing in the sky at the same time, these powerful creatures that were supposed to protect the Erathia Empire, but now a considerable part of them have turned away from the Erathia Empire and switched to the emerging Entagre Empire, and soon became the backbone of the Entagre army, the same battle, they are not willing to fight for the Erathia Empire, but they are willing to fight for the Entagre Empire.
This situation has been difficult for Alisa to understand, he doesn't understand what these angel clans think, the Entagri Empire, is it really good?
To Elisa's little pleasure, the number of Angel warriors was not as large as the Negan Dragons, only a thousand, maybe even less, from the magic screen, he could not count too accurately, only a rough estimate, it seems that as Malodia guessed, the enemy is based on the Negan Dragons as the main force of the flying force, the original tactics did not allow them to invest more Angels in this battle.
This is a good sign, Alisa has seen with his own eyes how strong these angel warriors are in the last battle, if there are many angels coming, it is really not good news for the defenders of Waterfall City.
The strange fires flickering in the sky from time to time indicated that the demon warriors of the Krigan clan had also participated in this battle, and after discovering this, Elisa, who had just been happy because of the small number of angels, couldn't help but feel a tense in his heart.
The demons' racial ability is teleportation, which is a very convenient skill combined with their good strength and skill, making them a terrifying existence on the battlefield, and making them shine in the battle, because with teleportation, they can always ignore the enemy's defense line and easily kill into the enemy's hinterland and rear, in the last war, Elisa did not suffer at the hands of these red-skinned guys.
Their appearance means that the defenders of the City of Falls will face even more pressure.
To Elisa's annoyance, he couldn't tell how many of them there were due to the arrogant movement of these Krigans around the sky, which had an impact on the morale of the defenders of the City of Falls, and many elven soldiers who were watching the sky from the windows and through the shooting holes pointed at the actions of the Kregans, and let out low exclamations from time to time.
The soldiers behind Eliza who noticed the presence of the Kregans through the magic screen also made some commotion, and began to whisper something.
"There's nothing to worry about, after the Battle of Doom, the Krigan people will be destroyed, the Krigan clan will be almost wiped out, the elite will be lost, and the people who have fled to the Entagri Empire are just some remnants of the good guys, there are not many of them, and the combat effectiveness is not as good as the previous Orf army, and the Ntagre army is just using them to bluff"
Sensing the commotion of the soldiers, Elisa sighed secretly, then turned to the crowd and said this.
The calmness and composure he showed quieted the soldiers.
After asking the herald to relay his words to the soldiers throughout the fortress, Alesa turned his attention back to the magic screen.
Aside from dragons, angels, and demons, which shouldn't have been there, in the skies, there are of course more of them than Negan's unique flying classes, the Harpy and the Scorpion.
The Harpy has always been the main force of Negan's flight department, and this time is no exception, the number of Harpy troops appearing in the sky is more than 20,000 people, and the number of poisonous scorpions is also quite a lot, Elisa estimates how there are nearly 10,000 heads, with an army of 100,000 troops, the proportion of such flying troops is already a bit high, not to mention that there are so many strong war races among them.
All this shows how much the Ntagrei army attaches great importance to flying troops and air supremacy.
In terms of strength alone, the two warring sides are only between them, Elisa still has more than 40,000 elven warriors stationed in the fortress after Malodia left with a part of his men, and the number of the attacking Entagri army is more than 30,000 and less than 40,000.
But if you add the condition of being stationed in a strong military fortress, the advantage of the Entagri army is not so obvious, because this battle, the main part will be focused on attacking the inside of the fortress, which greatly reduces the role of the dragons of the Entagri army in the battle.
Moreover, in the battle in the small space in the fortress, the agile body and flight advantage of the harpy and the poisonous manticore, were greatly limited, so that the soldiers with the largest number of soldiers in this attack of the Entagre army could not exert their full combat effectiveness, while the elves could rely on the fortifications and defense lines built in advance, and block the enemy's path with bows and arrows in their hands, and they had an advantage in numbers, so as long as the elves had a way to block the elite warriors of the enemy's angel clan and demon clan, Then this battle is definitely worth fighting.
It is still unknown who killed the deer.
Thinking back to Malodia's original analysis and making such a judgment on the current battle situation, Elisa's fighting spirit became even higher.
He believed that under such conditions, it should not be a problem for him to hold the fortress for four or five days, and he felt that it was not impossible for him to hold on for ten or so days
"Elissa-sama, what do the enemy dragons seem to be clinging to?"
Elisa was in a daze, and the whisper of the elven mage beside him who manipulated the Magical Eye summoned him back to reality.
"What's going on?"
Unable to comprehend what the other party was talking about, Elisa turned his head to look at the other party, only to see that the other party was pointing at the magic screen with his slender fingers.
He looked back again, only to find that he didn't know when, the picture on the magic screen had been given to those Negan dragons by the other party, and the picture was also enlarged by the other party as much as possible.
Although it was still not very realistic, Elisa could still vaguely see that each of the dragons that appeared on the screen was firmly grasping something black, rectangular, and shiny with metallic luster with their strong hind feet and front paws.
After looking at it for a while, Elisa still didn't see what it was, and then, without any clue, he quickly thought of something: "Could it be that the weapon that the other party wants to throw down to destroy the fortress?" ”
As soon as he thought of this, he hurriedly asked the elven mage beside him to use his magic eye to re-observe the enemy's dragon troops, and then he found that many dragons were grasping such a rectangular and small thing under him.
And judging by the flying posture of the dragons, these things obviously have a bit of weight.
While he was wondering, another of his cronies reminded him loudly: "Lord Eliza, could that be the strange car that the enemy used to transport supplies as mentioned in the intelligence?" Didn't there be information last time that the enemy was using a special cart to transport supplies, and that the dragons could easily use its design to help with loading and unloading? ”
Alisa was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then remembered that there had indeed been a report on this before.
"Won't it?" After a long period of distraction, Elisa finally determined that although he had destroyed all the rocks around the city of Falls according to Malodia's arrangement, it seemed that the enemy did not give up, and even took the trouble to transport the materials they needed to launch an air attack.
"Pass the order, everyone do their own cover, the enemy may start the airdrop attack" Hurriedly gave the latest order, Elisa gritted his teeth and stomped his foot, "These bastards, do you like to throw things from the sky so much?" I'd like to see what you've brought and how many times you can throw it away."
The ruthless Elisa didn't know, but this time, he was wrong.
What the dragons of the Entagrean Army were holding were indeed the special containers used to transport supplies in the Entagrean Army, but what was contained in the boxes was not some stones or other things used to be airdropped, but the soldiers of the Entagre Army, the most elite and warlike soldiers in the ground forces who were carefully selected by Christine himself among the 100,000 troops who attacked the city of Falls.
The reason why famous generals are famous generals is because they can always think about what their opponents can't think on the battlefield and put it into practical action, and then turn the tide of the battle as much as possible to their advantage, Christine is a famous general, so even if the defenders of the Waterfall City responded greatly beyond his expectations, he quickly thought of countermeasures.
Although Malodia's plan succeeded in stopping the advance of Christine's army, this tactic, which was almost self-harming to the Elven Kingdom, also completely exposed the weakness of the defenders of the Waterfall City to Christine.
After judging that the enemy was not as strong as he imagined, and that he had to use such tactics to delay time, Christine immediately did not hesitate, he let the ground troops move on their own, avoided the fire and detoured to try to continue the advance towards the city of the falls, and then personally led most of his flying troops to launch a surprise attack on the city of the falls.
And he didn't just bring flying troops.
The enemy didn't want his army to appear in the city of the falls, so he did the opposite, sending as many soldiers as possible to the city of the falls to attack the enemy.
Inspired by the dragon convoy that Jian Chen had assembled, the whimsical Imperial Lieutenant General gathered and emptied all the shipping containers in his army, and then loaded them with his elite soldiers.
As for how the ground troops are going to transport the materials that are taken out of the containers, Christine can't care about it at this time, whether it is carrying it or carrying it, there is always a way anyway, the top priority is to capture the city of the falls, and everything is based on the battle as the highest priority.
Then he concentrated a total of nearly a thousand containers, 100,000 troops of supplies, the number is quite amazing, but unfortunately not all the supplies are shipped in this special container, otherwise, Christine can get more.
Nearly a thousand containers, each loaded with fifteen heavily armed soldiers of the Entagre Army, and then transported by more than 3,000 dragons in rotation, in this way, Christine brought about 15,000 more soldiers to the city of the falls.
It even included 2,000 Imperial warriors from all races.
These are 2,000 powerful warriors whose combat power is comparable to that of an archangel or an archdemon.
In addition to this, there are thousands of heavily armed dwarven warriors.
The dwarves are known for their ability to attack fortifications, and one of the best ways they fight is to use their short stature, superb martial arts and superior brute strength to engage in hand-to-hand combat with their opponents in a small space.
Moreover, the hill dwarves who joined the Entagri Empire lived in the forest for countless years before they rebelled out of the Elven Kingdom and entered Baildus, and they were also good at forest warfare, and they were also familiar with the terrain of Turalleone.
It is precisely because of the presence of these dwarves that the army of the Ntagri Empire, which has little experience in jungle warfare, can move so freely in the forest.
In addition to the Imperial Warriors and the Heavy Dwarven Warriors, Christine of course brought with him a large number of the main forces of Negan's army, the Medusa and Minotaur soldiers.
The Medusa clan is good at archery, hand-to-hand combat ability is also good, and has the racial ability of petrifying enemies, and the combat effectiveness is very good, while the Minotaur clan is a famous combat race, and their hand-to-hand combat skills have made them occupy a very important position in Negan's army since a long time ago.
In addition to these warriors who arrived on the battlefield on the earliest, most primitive and rudimentary dragon plane in the history of the Elasia continent, the mage troops of the Entagre Army certainly did not miss this battle, and hundreds of mages of various races rode on poisonous scorpion lions specially prepared for them, and also came to the sky above the city of waterfalls.
Although the number of poisonous scorpion lions that can carry people is quite rare, but the Entagre army has already come up with a solution, Chen Jian followed the example of the Mongols on the earth back then, and equipped his magicians with several stronger poisonous scorpion lions, so that they can ride in turn, so that not only can greatly improve the mobility of the magicians, solve the flight problems of the magicians, but also allow the poisonous scorpion lions to play a role in protecting the magicians, and further improve the battlefield survivability of the magicians.
In the same way, Christine used nearly 10,000 poisonous manticores on his hand to transport 2,000 more soldiers to the city of waterfalls, with more than 20,000 harpys guarding them.
As a result, Christine actually had 17,000 more troops than the enemy expected, and in this battle of Waterfall City, the Entagre army not only far surpassed the opponent in terms of quality, but also had a considerable advantage in quantity.
Then, when the elven defenders of Falls City mistakenly thought that the enemy was trying to throw something at their fortress, the dragons took a moment to gently drop the containers carrying friendly troops in a clearing outside Falls City.
Then, under the stunned gaze of the elven soldiers inside the fortress, the ground troops of the black-pressed Entagre Army rushed out of these containers.
Although the air trip was a unique and painful experience for the soldiers, many of them vomited as a result, some even stood unsteadily when they stepped out of the container, and some of them were bruised and swollen because the improvised aircraft did not have proper protection in them, but they still came.
They came to the City of Waterfalls, to this battlefield that would seriously affect the future fate of the old power of the continent and the pattern of the continent of Erathia.