The Grey Keep, Winterless.

Roland sat at his desk, answering a call from the front lines of the Fertile Plains.

Of course, it is not entirely accurate to say that it is the front line, in terms of the attenuation speed of the signal, at most it is enough for the call between Wudong and Changge, before the continuous amplifier was invented, this is also the limit distance of hand-cranked telephone communication.

But that doesn't mean there is no way to break through that limit.

The easiest way to do this is to have Leaf act as a "relay", and in the heart of the forest, her consciousness can cover the entire controlled Hidden Forest, meaning that the speed of transmitting messages is even faster than that of lightning flying at the speed of sound. As long as the front line hits a leaf, and then the leaf calls and relays it to Roland, in a sense, it can be regarded as real-time communication.

"The situation is going well so far," said Ye Zi in a suppressed voice, mimicking the tone of an iron axe, "as you might expect, the devil has launched several sabotage attacks on the railroad tracks since then, but the impact on logistics has not been significant. Without the Spider Demons, they would have to parachute near the tracks, displace them by brute force, and have to evacuate before the Black River can get close - and without having to replace the rails, the engineering department will soon be able to fix the damaged tracks. ”

"It looks like the armored train is doing its job. ”

"Indeed, Your Majesty. Whether it's a mobile rescue or a railroad maintenance, it can be used as a small fortress. The only regret is that the number of trains is still too small, and if I can, I would like to have a set of Black River numbers arranged between each station. ”

"It's easier than you want," Roland grinned, "In addition to the armored trains, the freight trains also have to continue to be produced, and this part of the work is still inseparable from the witches, and it is good to have two of them now." Go ahead and push the front forward and try to complete the general offensive by midsummer. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. ”

The leaf urn replied angrily.

In fact...... You don't have to imitate even the nasal voice.

Roland coughed twice, "By the way, the devil has not yet launched another large-scale attack?"

He was really nervous for a while when he was woken up by a nightingale in the middle of the night a week ago, and was relieved when Anna told him that the loss was not great, and that Edith had come forward to calm people.

In fact, combat in a low-light or low-light environment has always been the weakness of the First Army, and the failure to observe the target will lead to a significant decrease in the killing efficiency of thermal weapons, while tracer bullets have never been mass-produced, and target designation largely relies on the ability of witches. Unexpectedly, the devil's first active attack was chosen at night, not only to thoroughly touch Sylvie's magic eye, but also to realize the essence of the gun attack, to take a scattered formation, and even to crawl forward. Fortunately, the enemy always lacked weapons capable of fighting it, and the First Army did an excellent job of carrying out every requirement of emergency combat training, otherwise the result would not be very easy to say.

"If it had been an attack like the last night raid, there would have been no signs of it," Ye relayed, "Miss Sylvie would have taken an hour or two a day to inspect the places ahead of the track, and she would have taken the Magic Ark or the Seagull to scout from time to time, and it had been safe, at least so far. ”

"What does the General Staff say?"

"They believe that there are two possibilities, one is that they have sensed the change in our side and cannot repeat the old tricks, and the other is that the devil has limited forces and cannot plan two large-scale attacks in a short period of time. ”

"Really?" Roland said thoughtfully. In addition to the opponent's amazing learning ability, the other thing that worried him the most in the last attack was the high-level devil as an assaulter.

And this is not the first time this has happened.

Now that I think about it, since the first high-level devil was met behind the snowy mountain, Neverwinter has dealt with this kind of specially evolved devil four times. You must know that hundreds of years ago, high-level devils existed as generals of large armies, and the Federation only had a chance to kill the enemy after dispatching the Holy Blessing Army and defeating the enemy head-on. But now, their status has dropped significantly, and their frequency of appearances has increased dramatically, which is really not good news.

An extraordinary army like the Divine Punishment Army, which has no brute strength, can also be specifically targeted, and if a group of high-level devils with various abilities break into the camp, then they can really only pray for the blessing of the gods.

Since there is no specific target, Roland can only think of a universal response - such as the unremitting pursuit of more powerful firepower, and the complete obliteration of the enemy before they can start an operation.

"The devil will not sit idly by and watch their foothold on the fertile plains be threatened by humans, and will continue to be on guard not to give the other side any chance. ”

"Understood!" Ye Zi raised his voice, and then returned to his usual tone, "Your Majesty, Iron Axe has hung up the phone. ”

"Whew......" Roland exhaled softly, "So who's next?"

"It's the Minister of Construction, Carl Van Burt. ”

He was a little surprised, with enough materials and manpower, there should be no difficulties in the project, "Take it in." ”

"Your Majesty," the leaves mimicked Karl's voice again, although it was not as difficult to distinguish the real as the echo, but under the ensemble of the swaying branches and the friction of the leaves, it actually looked like it, "The construction team has been in some trouble lately, and I think it may need the assistance of other departments in the Administration Department." ”

This girl...... It can't be an addiction.

The Minister of Construction's report was very simple, and after the night attack, many workers were frightened and their morale was significantly lowered. In addition, the construction of the railway was a long project, and many foremen found that their subordinates were lax. Carl wanted to do a shift swap or gather relatives to meet to boost morale.

It's almost impossible to do this whole thing, after all, not everyone is willing to take risks in pursuit of high remuneration, so Roland focuses on the second method, "Relatives? I remember that more than seventy percent of the workers who applied to build the railroad were migrants, and many of them did not have complete families. If the polarization is too obvious, it will only cause worse effects. ”

"I've considered that, Your Majesty. Ye Zidai replied, "The railway engineering team issued a handover contract before departure, and I think that the person named in the deed may be used to replace the relatives." Since he is willing to entrust everything after sacrifice to the other party, he must be an extremely important person in his mind, and in a sense, it is not an exaggeration to be regarded as a relative. ”

"It's a viable option. Roland thought for a moment, "Then so be it, I'll arrange for Barov to do it." ”