After approaching the Rock Fortress, Philip's army was attacked several times, both at night and during the day, and as Byron lamented, the nobles had finally begun to learn how to fight a real battle, but they had learned it late.

The commanders of the Rock Fortress were able to devise attack plans based on the old army - they imagined the Cecil Combat Corps as another noble private regiment with powerful magical equipment, and deduced the discipline of the Cecil, the way they marched, the way they camped, and the speed of command and response on this basis, and then developed various attack plans based on them, and the results were naturally not suspenseful.

Knight Philip admits that the commanders of the Rock Fortress were indeed actively fighting, but unfortunately they failed.

On the 57th of the month of Fire, on the hottest day of the summer, the banner of the Cecil Combat Corps entered the small plain area south of the Rock Fortress, a day earlier than initially expected.

The enemies in the Rock Fortress seem to have finally given up on their initiative, and as the Cecil people get closer and closer, they begin to shrink into the fortress, and the large and small strongholds, cantonments, and watchtowers around the fortress are all abandoned, and they are burned before the Cecil arrives, and when Philip's knight sets foot on the plain, his camp is even a woodland that has been burned clean by the enemy.

In the new base camp, Knight Philip left the barracks and rode around the newly established camp, he looked to the north, and between the rolling mountains, he could already clearly see the towering walls of the Rock Fortress - the walls were deep and dark, but there was a fantastic layer of magical light floating in the sunlight, and at the top of the fortress you could see several huge mage towers in operation, the huge runes floating on the top of the towers and the walls below were intertwined, a sight that was really hard to see in the barren and deserted south.

Knight Philip turned his head again and looked at a hill behind the camp, where the shelling positions were located.

The Technicians are transporting the main cannon components to the hill and assembling them into fixed siege batteries, aided by temporary magical effects such as weight reduction, and the heavy "Justice-I" Orbital Accelerator Cannon will be installed quickly enough to pose a lethal threat to the first wall of the Rock Fortress, while the few remaining heavy and light guns will be advanced by the 2nd Corps to the northwest after the heavy artillery positions have been established, and will be erected on Heights 2 to form a more complete and dense fire coverage.

Advancing positions with artillery covering, advancing position by position, is what is described in the Lord's General Knowledge of Artillery, and it is also the most basic and effective part of the technique of using fire, and although it was the first time that Knight Philip had put it into practice, he knew that it would be fruitful.

The Rock Fortress is already in the sight of the Cecil, in other words, the Cecil people are now also under the nose of the Rock Fortress.

The distance between the two sides was a bit too much, at least, in terms of the range of the Justice-I orbital accelerator cannon, Cecil's army was a little closer, and Knight Philip knew the cannons he had at hand, and if the conditions were right, those cannons could even hit enemies outside of line of sight - as long as the trajectory was calculated, which means that he could attack the rock fortress directly on the edge of the hills, without stepping on the plains.

But in this battle, he didn't have to pull the distance so far, and he couldn't pull the distance that far.

Returning to the tent, the young knight looked at the military map that hung in the tent - the map drawn by the lord himself was surprisingly accurate, on the map he could clearly see the Rock Fortress and his location, as well as the terrain around the Rock Fortress, and he saw that the Dolgon River, which had descended south from the plain of the Whitsundays, had passed through a pass on the west side of the Rock Fortress, and had split in two there, with the tributary of the White Water River flowing all the way to the southwest, and was best suited for the warships to anchor. What became a point of attack was an open area in the western part of the plains.

This area had to be completely within the support of Cecil's corps, so it was necessary for Knight Philip to push his position into the plains, while also establishing a second high ground closer to the White Water River, and he did not think that this distance was inappropriate - how far could the trebuchet fire? How far can the mages throw a big fireball?

To put it mildly, he pushed his position half further, and the defenders of Rock Fortress could only stare dryly.

The curtain of the tent was lifted, and a young female knight wearing silver-white magic armor and carrying a molten sword at her waist walked into the tent. The scouts have returned, and the perimeter is safe! ”

Philip sighed, "They're really watching us set up a position here......"

The young female knight, Margarita from the Kant region, couldn't help but say, "Their reaction is actually quite normal. ”

Philip glanced at Margarita - he was more impressed by the female knight, the old Kant, Wald? Mr. Perridge admired the young lady very much, and he knew that Margarita was a knightly genius like himself, but because of the short time of allegiance to Cecil, the young lady had some ideas belonging to the traditional nobility that had not yet been transformed, but Philip did not care much about this.

"Why did they react normally?" Philip asked casually.

"Relying on a strong fortress and magical barrier to protect yourself, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack behind the city wall or waiting for a change is a fixed idea of many nobles, especially when the active attack is not effective," Margarita stood up straight, she wanted to try to leave a good impression of Kant's knight in the heart of the commander from the "lord's circle" in front of her, "They can take the initiative to attack a few times is actually beyond the norm, and if a few attacks are frustrated, it is impossible for them to continue to let the soldiers out of the city to meet the enemy, So you can only hide behind the city walls, which is a reasonable choice. ”

After a pause, Margarita continued, "In most cases, the siege of fortresses and fortresses is protracted, and the commanders in the Rock Fortress must think the same way, as long as the magic barrier can hold up, they don't mind what we do outside, just like Forty years ago, Sousteborg was besieged, and the enemy besieged it for three years, and the lord of Soust was still unscathed, but most of the soldiers besieging the castle fled, and finally the lord of Soust waited for reinforcements, and the enemies besieging the castle had to retreat - presumably, The people in Rock Fortress must have the same idea. ”

Philip nodded thoughtfully, "I see......"

Margarita looked at Philip with some curiosity, "Sir...... Sir, don't you know this? ”

Her doubts are very reasonable, Philip is also an orthodox noble knight, no matter how decaying the Cecil family was, it still has its own castle, how could Philip knight, who grew up in such an orthodox environment, not understand the basic rules of these nobles to fight?

In the face of the female knight's question, Philip had nothing to hide, and confessed, "I know the truth, but the Cecil people have never been like this in war, and it has not been like this since the lord returned to the world." ”

"Oh?" Margarita's eyes widened, "Cecil...... How was the war fought? ”

Knight Philip replied calmly, "Facing head-on, if it is not necessary, try to avoid being besieged and falling into a passive defense situation, anyway, as long as you kill all the enemies on the battlefield, the castle will naturally be safe." ”

"This ......," the female knight was dumbfounded, "what a brave ......"

"It's not because of bravery, it's because there's no way," Philip said, "If Cecil is besieged, there will be no one to help, and once we are blocked in the castle, it will be over." ”

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while, but this embarrassment did not last long, and Philip Knight quickly took the initiative to change the subject: "According to the original plan, the first test launch will be carried out before dusk - to cheer up the dinner party at the Rock Fortress." ”

The female knight immediately saluted, "Yes, sir!" ”

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The giant sun slowly moved in the sky, and finally approached the mountains on the west side.

On the first highland, the technical soldiers are completing the assembly and commissioning of the last "Justice-I" orbital acceleration gun.

"Technicians" are soldiers born with the continuous emergence of various magic weapons, also known as "guns and artillery bachelors" or "battlefield mechanics bachelors", they themselves are well-trained soldiers, but they also have mechanical knowledge and magic technology knowledge beyond ordinary soldiers, these battlefield mechanics are equipped with special magic terminals, which can use the assistance of the terminal to release simple spells such as weight loss and traction, and can also use the engineering components in the magic terminal to assemble, weld and adjust and repair weapons and equipmentTheir appearance symbolizes the continuous development of the specialization of Cecil's magic guide armament.

When the last Justice-I orbital accelerometer was commissioned, fifteen minutes were still before launch.

The sun was falling towards the mountains to the west, the bright light of the sky gradually dimming and orange-red, and the steel behemoths crouching in the gun emplacements were gradually coated with a golden-red glow.

Wald, who is already middle-aged, or even middle-aged or elderly? Knight Perridge stood on a rock platform next to the shelling position, holding his monoculars to his eyes, watching the movement of the Rock Fortress in the distance.

The mid-level knight himself actually has excellent eyesight, but after all, it can't be compared with spells like the mage's eye, but with the help of the "telescope", he can see as far as those mages.

He could see that on the walls of the Rock Fortress, several knights were walking around, and many soldiers were defending on the battlements, and those who were walking around could obviously see a little bit of the situation on this side, and they would occasionally stop and point at each other and talk to each other.

It's so far away, and the telescope looks like it's in front of you, but this feeling can't be experienced with "extraordinary eyesight".

Wilder? The knight of Perridge did not know what those who walked around the distant walls were talking about, but he didn't care either.

The appointed time has come.

The old knight took down the binoculars and personally commanded those powerful "magic weapons" to fire for the first time.

Just like he had said to Margarita last time, the knights of the Kant Command had come in handy after all.

The rune trigger was pulled down forcefully, and a huge amount of energy instantly poured into the gun mounts of the giant cannons, using the magic energy to relay the obelisk transmission, and the magical energy from the Carol Collar Demon Net drove these terrifying weapons to roar, accompanied by a sharp sound, the heavy magic crystal cannonball rushed out of the acceleration track under the wrapping of a cloud of pale cyan air mass, and rushed towards the Rock Fortress in the distance.

For the southern nobles in the fortress, the familiar voice has finally arrived.

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