Chapter 753: Rivalry
In legends, weather is often used to predict what will follow.
A sunny day is a big day for heroes to set off, and the castle in the clouds has become a symbol of conspiracy, which is the climax of the plot, and there are always a few thunderbolts on a sunny day, even if there are no clouds in the sky at that time.
The reality is not so dramatic, the Holocaust is often in the scorching sun, because at that time the view is the most abundant, the real conspirators tend to live high in the beautiful manors, when the weather is at its worst, there is no chaos, everyone is nestled in their own warm homes.
But sometimes, there are situations where mortals have no choice, and for those of us who are full of ambition, we suffer the worst luck.
There is already a lot of rain at the intersection of spring and summer, and the rainy season in Bair is almost now, and the area we are going to is the place where the dragoon emperor Helent made his fortune - the Rainy Night Fortress.
Dark clouds covered us, and the sudden storm not only blocked our progress, but also obscured our vision.
It has been a week since he left the royal capital of Bayer, and the "multinational coalition army" with Bayer as the main force has started the second undead crusade battle.
After less than two days, the weather had become very bad, the torrential rain had slowed down the Legion's journey considerably, and the casters could not read the mysterious power from the dark clouds, so it was only possible that they were too unlucky.
Knights and nobles on weekdays can not talk about their image, but on the battlefield, the military orders are like mountains, and they are very uncomfortable.
The golden armored warrior at the front looks majestic on weekdays, and when the sun shines, it looks like a golden warrior.
The weapons and armor coatings inlaid with enchanted adamantite gold are not only for aesthetics, but the combined prices far exceed those of the same volume of gold. They can ignore normal arrows.
Their standard weapon is a heavy spear nearly two meters long. A tower shield. It's also an expensive texture coated with adamantite, and there's a master-level mage enchantment.
The spear has the sharp brilliance of "sharp" and "armor-piercing", and the thick tower shield also has the pale yellow brilliance of "anti-demon" and "solid", and the tip of the spear also has spiral magic patterns, and the cross lion emblem on the tower shield is a royal gift.
The unsightly dragon helmet showed only its eyes, and the full coverage of the pure gold plate armor made it stronger than the mountain giant. The armor is typical of the use of the style, and the only decoration is the dragon scales that can be used as ramming horns and stabbing knives.
The Royal Dragoons, the name of this class, are familiar but have a long history, and they were called so back then, and they have continued like this.
Although the name has Dragoons, don't get me wrong, they are pure infantry, the weight of that armor. Even a juvenile earth-walking dragon that can be domesticated cannot carry it.
And being able to control this equipment can only show that these warriors are too powerful. The average combat power level was high enough, ten years ago, this was the terrifying existence of a group of golden peaks of all members.
An extra job can illustrate their specialness - one of the Royal Knights.
The Royal Knights of various countries have always been the country's signature and strongest troops, they are firmly grasped by the royal family and the royal family, not only as a guard, but also as the last sharp blade to defeat rebels and foreign enemies, the strongest military of Baier is obviously the dragon knight, but the royal dragoons of 13,000 people, even in the face of the dragon knight will not have the slightest fear.
Why is it used? Unlike Orlan, whose family background is not thick enough and is still forming his own new royal knights, there is no need to compare with Lan Guo, who is mixed with miscellaneous cards as the royal face, the old empire Baier's family background is thick enough, and the three royal knights of "Dragon King's Shield", "Baier's Wings", and "Milan's Whip" are at the peak of the entire human world in terms of history, strength, and even individual strength.
Well, it's just that in the human world, after all, there are dragon knights in Baier, and it's not fair to compare the average combat power of dragons with mortals.
However, the Dragon Knights were originally the "Wings of Bair" at the head of the three Royal Knights, and being able to juxtapose them and make the proud dragon not be unhappy and take the initiative to provoke has already proved the confidence of the other two Royal Knights.
The advantage of human beings lies in the balance between quantity and quality....... which is the so-called mass production and modelling of troops.
Elven archers and mages often have very different abilities, and enough years have allowed them to have their own specialty, and skirmishers are their specialty.
The human warriors are full of calculations, only a few years, more than ten years of training cycles, but as long as they practice the path that has been repeatedly verified by their predecessors, the growth rate will be several times that of other races, although this "free-range" warriors of other races will have a relatively single ability, but with special equipment to make up for shortcomings and enhance advantages, in the battlefield that can exert combat effectiveness, the strength will not be much worse than the hundred-year-old warriors of other races.
At least, even the most elite hundred-year-old pigtailed warriors of the dwarves did not dare to rush into the battle formation formed by the royal dragoons.
With excellent defense and attack, and a selection of elite fighters, these sluggish heavy tanks are invulnerable bloodthirsty meat grinders when they get close.
Tailor-made martial arts and cultivation paths, specially tailored and sophisticated equipment, and tactics for the use of troops in exchange for lessons and lessons are the reasons why humans can build strong troops in batches.
Perhaps the use of "mass production" to describe it is a bit derogatory, then the use of "inheritance" also means.
The smelting and purification of armor technology, the enchantment manufacturing of magic alchemy, and the accumulation of countless processes, technologies, and industries have led to the royal armor, silver horse armor, and wind-chasing spears.
The inheritance of martial arts and tactics is more direct and obvious, the teacher teaches the apprentice, the inheritance from generation to generation, the predecessors of the knights record their combat experience and proud martial arts and the experience of using weapons, and what is worth promoting will be widely spread, and then the younger generations will take the "stunts" of the predecessors as the basis to learn, and deduce and create new "stunts"
Passed down from generation to generation, this class and knight will naturally become stronger and stronger.
The older the history of the knights, the more powerful the martial arts passed down in them, not because they have any ancient secret recipes and stunts, but through years and actual combat polishing, the originally rough martial arts have become wonderful and extremely practical. All kinds of auxiliary cultivation methods have been worked out. Walking to is pure royal road.
Those skills that I have figured out in the deep mountains and old forests. It seems to be perfect and gorgeous, but once they fight each other, they are far inferior to the practical skills of Pu who have been tempered thousands of times.
What is called inheritance, this is it, learning from generation to generation, generation by generation, future generations stepping on the shoulders of predecessors to continue to move forward, naturally getting stronger and stronger.
The golden royal dragon knight is said to be as old as Bair. Each centurion has a knightly title that can be passed on, and once his children die in the line of duty, they can choose to inherit their noble titles and positions, and it may be that a piece of armor has been passed down for seven or eight generations, and has been repaired and enhanced by several masters.
Young children know what kind of person they want to become when they are born, touch a gun at the age of three, practice a shield at the age of five, and select at all levels before they can become a qualified golden dragoon.
One gun, one shield, one attack and one defense, it's simple. But it's really hard work.
Among all the high-level troops, they are probably the least equipped and the simplest, but they serve as the "Dragon King's Shield" to guard the entire royal family of Baier and Milan. They are among all the human knights, both in history and strength, they can be ranked in the top ten.
In this generation, they even have a vague tendency to challenge the "Wings of Bayer" of the First Knights of Bayer, of course, the Dragon Knights ten years ago.
Among the three royal knights of Bayer, the "wings of Bayer" of the Dragon Knights are only the nominal royal guards, and the "Whip of Milan" of the whole cavalry is transferred to guard the border and invade the outside world, and it cannot be drawn at all, only the shield of the dragon king is stationed in the royal city, which is the most trustworthy trump card in the hands of the emperor.
And this time, Helent can be said to have smashed all her belongings.
Of the 13,000 people in total, 11,000 came this time, leaving only the most basic veteran instructors and trainees within three months, and even the recruits who had completed the initial one-year training were all recruited.
The phalanx of heavy infantry walked on the road without the slightest human sound, only the sound of heavy footsteps caused by the huge weight.
"Fight to the death, don't retreat."
It's their battle manifesto, and it's their style, as always.
For them, only by retreating will the battle be chaotic, and their weaknesses will be exposed, as long as they do not retreat and the formation is not chaotic, even if they fall, their compatriots will take revenge.
The sound of uniform footsteps would merge into one, and the terrible sound was whipping the earth, like a group of Titans advancing in silence, but at this time, due to past training and strict military discipline, their appearance was probably the most miserable.
The sudden rain made the five fingers out of sight a real scene, and the battle-tested soldiers were not confused, and still worked hard to maintain the phalanx formation in the torrential rain, one after the other, without any chaos.
The unconventional defensive armor also makes their weight more unconventional, and it is really uncomfortable to step on a pit in the quagmire, if this can be barely endured, then it will be even more unbearable.
The rain was so heavy that the water went through the cracks and vents in the armor, filled it up, and then it flowed out of the cracks....... well, like a sprinkler that sprayed all the way.
"What if I really want to voice them? For example, the classic song 'A Good Man Has a Safe Life' every morning. ”
"Hold back, or you won't be dragged out and killed."
I don't know how they feel right now, but I feel bad in galoshes filled with water, and I feel cold just thinking about it when I think about it in a metal can, and then filling it with water, and walking with a tin can to stay in formation.
"....... Heloise, do you think if I throw a soap, no, a banana slice in front of their formation, and I fall one or two, will I fall a big piece in a row, like a bowling ball."
"It's useless, their boots are enchanted with acceleration and anti-slip...... But it's hard to say about such a heavy rain, you can really try it, you can't get up if you fall now, it's so funny to die from a banana peel, you can make headlines for the little goblin. By the way, you can ask Jonny for leave from the 'Omnibox' over there, and his triumphant spell is to change the original greasy spell into a malicious group banana peel. ”
Although he knew that mages had always been more idle than anyone else, he was able to devote himself to developing this kind of spell, and this archmage was really idle.
Unlike the Bair soldiers who want to die to save face, I am now in the ranks of spellcasters in the Land of Mages, drinking coffee and watching the rapid march in the rain outside.
In order to preserve the caster's absolutely unreliable physical strength, as an unspoken rule of the battlefield. The caster doesn't care where he goes. As long as the conditions are not too harsh. Metropolitan carriage above treatment.
When the rain was so heavy that they couldn't even see clearly, the mages stopped without hesitation and sat in the carriage to watch the others march.
It's good to drink tea and coffee and chat like me, some of them directly played the Gwent card, some started to do spell experiments that looked very powerful, some of the archmages who were proficient in the space system simply opened the portal and slipped away, and some summoned the beasts and began to perform and have fun with the beasts....... although the performance was relatively normal. But I think this look is a little familiar, maybe this is another sad believer, maybe we should approach him from behind, and drag him out and beat him to death.
Honors for military personnel? Mil-spec? Spellcasters have long been accustomed to ignoring them.
And if this team was only Bayer, or a combined team of Bayer and the Mage Country, Bayer's royal dragoons would not be so hard.
Who doesn't know that heavy movement in the rain is likely to lead to wind chill, but sometimes, the military is holding on to a face, especially the so-called allies who compete in private.
Not far from the golden heavy infantry, a group of soldiers were also slowly advancing.
And it seems that the innate competition with the golden dragoons. The dragoons were golden hoplites, and they were silver hussars. If the royal dragoons took the simplest road, the equipment of these light cavalry was outrageously complex.
"Orlan is really rich, and the White Wolf Guards have all changed their outfits again."
The White Wolf Guards are the royal knights of Orlan, and they are also the trump cards that Orlan has given high hopes to catch up with other super empires.
The armor of the White Wolf Guards back then was Misilore Mithril alloy, although the texture was lighter, it could provide more than ordinary heavy armor defense, and it was extremely resistant to demons.
"I've been tricked by you."
"Ahem, how can this be called deception, I'm just a military exchange, how can a normal military exchange be called a deception."
The White Wolf Guards of the year, Misilore's Violent Dragon Lance, Violent Throwing Spear, and Critical Sword are all extremely high-quality alchemy props, and you know that these things can be exploded when you hear the name, and a white wolf knight is a mobile powder magazine, which is the crystallization of Orlan's highly alchemy technology.
If the Royal Dragoons are legendary warriors who have come out of ancient epics, then the White Wolf Guards are a new class of troops that keep pace with the times.
Compared to back then, their equipment has been greatly updated, the long exploding dragon lance is only equipped by a few of the most cutting-edge knights, and the appearance of the throwing spear and the long sword is unrecognizable, at least from the obvious Olivia's box, I can see the shadow of magic technology in it.
And each of them brought at least three backpacks and small bags, in which the magic fluctuations were very obvious, it should be some new toy.
But the biggest change is still their vehicles.
Although the White Wolf Guards were originally a class that relied on alchemy props and drugs to fight, and did not rely on the strength of the mount itself, it was really unexpected.
The Royal Dragoons were silent and heavy footsteps, but the roar of the motors of the White Wolf Guards never stopped.
If that's all there is, I'm not so surprised.
Between the iron horses, there was the Iron Tortoise, which was about three meters long, with five wheels of various sizes, and a heavy iron sheet protecting the fragile heavy artillery crossbowmen, and although the speed of movement was really embarrassing, I found at least four cannon muzzles on it.
"It's a tank!"
It's crude, but I'm sure it's no different from the original tank in terms of design concept, all of which are cloaking the power locomotive in iron and allowing people to attack safely inside.
I don't have boring ideas and hints, whether it is the wisdom of people in that world, the wisdom should not be underestimated, with the engine technology of the iron horse, others will naturally develop mechanical chariots, not to mention that the chariots of this era have not withdrawn from the stage of history.
Oran's terrible shipbuilding and alchemy industry is enough to turn any ridiculous idea into reality.
There are a lot of such "tank turtles", almost one for every ten knights, and in addition to this, there are also large chunks dragged by carriages, which I can't see wrapped in oiled paper, but guess they are also powerful weapons.
Bayer, who inherits history but strives to innovate, and Oran, who started as a nouveau riche but seized the opportunity of the industrial revolution to develop by leap and bound, both sides have long had a sense of competition, and now the royal knights representing various honors on behalf of the two sides have met, and they have naturally fought together.
Modern machinery is very likely to have problems in bad weather, not to mention those semi-finished products in Orlan, along the way I saw three iron turtles smoking and extinguishing the fire, directly anchored, stuck in the quagmire and couldn't get up, and finally many iron turtles were dragged away by several white wolf knights.
Neither side said anything, but everyone knew that they were already more energetic, and no one could bear to stop first.
"Soldier......."
I shook my head helplessly, I'm not easy to deal with as a guest army, anyway, it's still far from the battlefield, so let them play casually.
"Really, it's still like a group of children when it's so old, if the undead come at this time, then it's not fun......... Okay, Heloise, put that eggplant down and I'll shut up. ”
"Enemy attack!"
The shrill screams shattered all peace, and I silently took Heloise's eggplant and stuffed it into my mouth ....... (to be continued.) )
PS: What, the amount of two chapters, it's a bit of making up for it