"Put away the water bag by yourself! You can only fetch water at noon and evening every day! If you leave the team without permission at other times, you will be punished by military law!"

Listening to these words, Boragon involuntarily glanced at the heads stuck in the lance in the distance. Everyone was silent, and it was clear that no one wanted to be the next to be beheaded.

After eating, the work as a prisoner of war continued. Their task was simple: to pile up as much loose dirt as possible on both sides of the road, so that the road puppets could strengthen the road next time.

Bolagon, who had never done heavy work, soon had blood on his hands, and in the afternoon, when he was almost exhausted, he realized that his men had reached the banks of the Bordeaux River.

In front of them, the huge bridge built by the Everta Engineering Company seemed to silently mock Bolagon's decision to "cross the river and tear down the bridge" - because the width of the bridge deck in front of them reached ten meters, and the huge timber used on it was estimated to be thousands!

It had been only three days since he had torn down all the bridges, and in a single day Evta's army had built a wooden bridge that was stronger and wider than all the bridges combined.

The combat effectiveness of frontal soldiers cannot be compared, and the ability to overcome obstacles cannot be compared... Seeing trucks full of supplies whizzing past him, Boragun felt even more desperate at this hundred-fold efficient mode of transportation. He did a rough math himself. The other side has a truck loaded with things, and in the traditional way, maybe four to six horse-drawn wagons can be hauled for a long time. And the speed is often slower than a person on a muddy road...

He used to think that fighting a war was about the equipment, courage and strategy of the commanders and soldiers, but the commander of Evta directly shattered his concept of war with the item "logistics"...

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

As he spoke, the overseer suddenly began to swing his whip vigorously, and the crackling sound made the tired prisoners of war look up, and Boragon looked back at the other side of the bridge, and saw that a large number of trucks were about to cross the bridge—they were much wider than ordinary trucks, and those who were still standing on the side of the road were in danger of being hit if they did not dodge.

Quickly moving a few steps to the side, Boragon stared blankly at the truck larger than the Earth Dragon, which drove past him, and the astonishing caliber of cannon barrels behind the truck was chilling—when he was defeated and captured two days earlier, Evta's infantry did not charge, but only fired two rounds of artillery from a distance before the thousands of troops were completely destroyed.

He remembered very well that the kind of hedron cannon with a power comparable to that of a high-level magician was far inferior in length and caliber to the behemoth in front of him.

Boragon suddenly understood how the cities of Donkel and Suvara had been breached - the so-called city walls, in the face of such weapons, what defense power was there?

If it was just one or two, maybe this kind of thing could still be called a "killer feature" to use at critical moments. But Boragon stood there for a full twenty minutes, for there were forty-one double-barreled gun carriages passing in front of him!

That's eighty-two cannons.

Boragon was really dead at the moment. If he had thought that as long as the elite troops of the royal family had enough mages, they would be able to offset the advantage of Ivta's hedron cannon. But after seeing so many "war machines" appear on the front line, he has completely stopped thinking about anything about the "royal counteroffensive".

It's easier to dream about it?

After the rumbling trucks passed, the temporarily flattened road inevitably deformed, so the overseers immediately asked them to work hard to refill the dirt on both sides of the road. It didn't take long for the re-passing roller golem to flatten the road quickly, and Boragon was already numb to this efficiency - he even had the illusion that if Evta's nobles had been so strong, it seemed that the other party had not unified the kingdom of Karen because they were troublesome, not because they couldn't defeat it, right?

He held the shovel blankly, but he didn't know that on the huge trucks that had just passed, there was Sodrol, the commander of the current Evta's troops.

After the disintegration of the troops led by Bolagon, the war has ended the first stage of the "blitzkrieg" and entered the second stage of the "main showdown".

Over the course of ten days, the Blitzkrieg allowed Evta's forces to advance three hundred kilometers south from the Temple, gaining all the way, and crushing the enemy's main force after crossing the Bordeaux River. Such a record does sound amazing, but behind it is a miracle that Roddy has done his best to ensure logistics.

If the entire front is counted from the last transportation point of the "Holier City-Par Ling" to the current first line of the city, the total length of the front line has reached more than 1,500 kilometers. This is like a leather band that is extremely tight, and if you move forward, it is easy to break down.

Therefore, Sodrol, who arrived in the city of Layena, did not immediately venture in to capture more towns, but steadily began to consolidate the thickness of the current front, so as to ensure that such an advantage would not be recaptured by a possible sneak attack by the enemy.

"Report to the commander! The barracks in front of the South City Gate have been set up!"

"Just drive over there. ”

More than forty huge trucks could not have entered the city of Layena, because even if they could enter through the city gates, the narrow streets inside would not be enough for such a war machine to turn around or turn. Therefore, Sodrore directly gathered his army directly under the southern city wall, and did not look like relying on the city wall to defend at all.

Because he knew that the way Ivta's army fought was completely different from those armies in the past.

The engineering company has planned its camp as always, and under the city wall, 5,000 combat troops have been stationed in order. Forty-two double-barreled gun wagons stopped under the walls and aimed their barrels at the south.

Because the city of Layena is located on the high ground of the region, the effective range of heavy artillery reaches two kilometers. If projectile, it can even pose a threat to the enemy at a distance of five or six kilometers.

This distance was unthinkable in the era of cold weapons.

However, Sodrore's preparations did not stop there, he did not sit in the mansion in the city like other nobles and commanded, but went directly to the barracks center outside the south gate. The camp tent that was exactly the same as Par Ling had been set up, and he directly led the staff team, took a sip of water and began to list the next battle plan.

The images and reports of the Falcon reconnaissance plane were unfolded one by one, and one of the staff members pointed to a dense dot on it and said, "The Pit Viper Cross looks premeditated, and their soldiers are finally starting to move." ”

"This group of guys suffered a lot of damage from attacking the Temple, and they started assembling two weeks ago, indicating that they had been planning to loot while the fire was raging. ”

Sodrore glanced at the map, made a rough judgment, and at the same time stroked his hand, inferring the direction of the other party's travel: "They should want to cut into the battlefield from the southeast, but I estimate that those old slippery heads will definitely not be stupid enough to be cannon fodder in the first batch of attacks." ”

"Commander, they have a lot of cavalry, and the mobile forces that these horses can arm are conservatively estimated to be more than two thousand. ”

"It's a bloody investment," Sodrol frowned, "is it a warrant, or is it simply because the royal family has given them some reassurance?"

These are all problems that the intelligence services need to solve, and although Sodrore is confident in the combat effectiveness of Evta's troops, the enemy is not all fools. The success of the "blitzkrieg" was only possible if the enemy was not sufficiently prepared. Now that the other party has gone through all the preparations for war, even if the generation gap between weapons and equipment and war methods has been widened, as the commander, he will still not underestimate any enemy.

The magicians of the royal family are not straw bales, the royal knights are not straw bales, and although these religious lunatics have been defeated repeatedly in recent years, they can compete with the "Rosicrucius" in the kingdom by relying on more than just brainwashing skills.

"Commander, will the dragons intervene in this war?"

After all, the staff members are younger, and in their opinion, the only real threat is the dragons. As long as the dragons can stand by and watch, this war is nine out of ten.

But Sodrol didn't say the answer they were expecting, and said in a low voice: "All plans are based on the premise that the dragons may intervene in the battle. ”

This sentence made the staff members nervous suddenly, and the originally relaxed expression on their faces disappeared: "Commander... If the dragons intervene in the battle, in what form will they affect the situation of the battle?"

"Large-scale spells, air strikes, and possibly decapitation tactics. ”

Sodrore calmly said these three points, "This is a judgment based on the strength of His Excellency Kardashian. ”

"So from now on, everyone must be prepared to face the battle of the dragons, and don't think that standing behind the front line will rest easy. ”

"Yes! Commander!"

After all the staff members stood upright, someone finally couldn't help but ask, "Commander... So how do we deal with the dragons' attacks?"

"The Prime Minister has said that the best defense against air strikes is trenches and underground bunkers, so when you arrive at the battlefield, you should take all the defenses you can do. ”

He turned his gaze to Lannis Town on the sand table and nodded: "The rest, it's up to the Prime Minister to deal with it." ”

At this moment, Roddy, who had arrived all the way from the temple to Lannistown, was indeed thinking about the "dragon attack".

It took only two hours for Kardashian's message to reach her from the imperial city. The dignified dragon clan actually put down his body to engage in intelligence, and it is estimated that no one will believe it when he says it. Roddy didn't expect her to come up with such important information so quickly - apparently, the dragon family still didn't label Kardashian as "Elson".

And the information carried by this simple piece of parchment did affect all of Luo Di's subsequent layouts in terms of grand strategy: he did not expect the dragons to be so determined to intervene in the battle.

The Dragon Legion's combat prowess is impossible to judge, but it is certain that it is more difficult than the armies of the Royal Family and the Viper Cross combined.

How to deal with the intervention of such a high-level force in the war of mankind?Sitting in the temporary headquarters of Lannistown, he kept filtering all the possibilities and hole cards in his mind - but before he could figure out the exact way, his dragon slayer mark suddenly reacted, and a soldier suddenly came to report outside the door...

"Report Prime Minister... Someone outside the barracks asked to see him. ”