Chapter 625
In this raid on Fenris Island, the Clover Guild Warband had less than 3,000 warriors, no auxiliaries, and no reserves.
With such a scale and team structure, it is another wave of play, and it is generally not favored by people.
Theoretically, it would be difficult to fight a super-first-class enemy like the Scourge Legion, or to conquer the island fortress guarded by old bandits.
When crossing the water, they were killed by weapons such as bed crossbows and earth cannons, and when they crossed the city wall, they were killed by the defenders who were waiting for work and had the advantage of the terrain...... How many people are left? What about morale?
Before the Falken Kingdom Army joined, there had been a great failure in the landing operation.
The coalition forces were eager to destroy the enemy and organized a landing operation of nearly 10,000 people, but suffered heavy losses under the curse spells of the Scourge Legion, a rain of arrows from white bones, water monsters, and flying monsters.
The Scourge even deliberately let some of the coalition forces land on the island, so as to hang the coalition forces and achieve the goal of continuously destroying their living forces.
The coalition forces were in a dilemma, unable to move forward, and reluctant to accept the 'results' that had been obtained by a lot of sacrifices, until the casualties were shocking, and they realized that they had been hit.
Then, it turned into a breakout battle. Just like the situation when Uther and Arthas were caught in the trap and broke through, the people on the shore wanted to meet them, and it was difficult to make them stronger, and when the Scourge Legion saw that they were about to run, they naturally opened their firepower, and the sky and water jointly strangled them, and the situation was terrible.
Later, the commander who commanded the campaign committed suicide with guilt, but this did not help much to restore the morale of the army, except to prove the incompetence of the commander.
Since then, no one has mentioned the landing on the island, but some people have whimsically asked if the Falken Kingdom could drive the ironclad ship against the current into Lake Dalong and bombard it with naval guns.
The civil construction tactics that the elves came up with were put forward in the context of a lack of urgency, and then they were adopted. Since it is not possible to solve the problem quickly, then it is a steady step by step, and the general trend is on the side of the coalition forces.
Lake Lordamere is about the same size as Lake Daron, except that Fenris Island in the central area does not have the dangerous terrain of Keldaron, but is a large semicircular roundabout, of which there are three large islands, and the rest are reef-level.
Even so, it was still difficult to quickly cross wide waters and deliver enough troops and siege weapons.
When Terenus learned that the Scourge that had launched the night raid on the Northstream Fortress was from Fenris Island, he roared and scolded the lord for being ungrateful, treasonous, and anti-human.
Why did the king, who had always seemed so calm, lose his temper?
Because he has almost no way to take there.
The current situation of the Lordaeron Kingdom is very embarrassing, even to deal with the natural disaster fleet killed by Northrend, it is only through crowdfunding under the banner of righteousness that it has gathered enough military strength and materials, where is there still the spare strength to open another Keldaron siege-level battlefield?
But the profound lesson before has made him understand that the more anxious he is, the more likely he is to have big loopholes and be targeted and exploited by the enemy.
So he was angry and anxious, and he couldn't understand how the kingdom, which seemed to be full of flowers a few years ago, suddenly became so full of holes.
Then I heard that the Clover Guild Warband had attacked Fenris Island.
To be honest, Terenus was quite happy to see it, and was secretly grateful to Kane.
A king's gratitude is sometimes worth something, sometimes it's not. This time it is worth it, because Kane does not come out, and Terenus can only give up his old face in the end, Terenus estimates that with Kane's wisdom, he understands this.
Thankfully, after a cursory understanding of the size of the Clover Guild and its plan of action, Terenus was still quite worried.
The number is insufficient, it is still a lightly armed army, even with the help of the power of the Dalaran mages and novel vehicles, the difficulty of crossing the lake has been successfully completed, but there are still fortified cities and street battles, the Scourge Legion's will to fight is very tenacious, and when it comes to the last soldier, Terenus is very suspicious that the flesh-and-blood humans can defeat those heartless puppets in terms of will. And even if the will is as strong as iron, there is still an overall strength ratio there, one can fight dozens of them? Could it be that the combat power in Kane's hands is all heavenly soldiers and generals?
And the subsequent instant battle report told him that he was not a heavenly soldier, but it was almost the same.
The Clover Guild Wargroup dares to go to war, and it is really sure, not a forced operation at any cost in desperation.
In a word, excellent professional quality, coupled with the right tools and tactics, then you can conquer everything.
Let's not talk about crossing the water, just say that this is the opening of the city gate. It's not a big bomb with a round head and a big brain, and it's not a pile of things under the city gate.
That's too inefficient.
The house used an arcane ring cut bomb attached to the city gate.
When activated, the bomb radiates light to the periphery, forming arcane dots of light at the end of the ray.
The arcane point of light is the real point of the explosion, and this bomb can be adjusted according to the actual situation. Like this blast door, it is three in one, and the position setting of the Olympiad light point has also been adjusted.
The explosion wasn't loud, and the scene was far from spectacular or grandiose, but it worked out very well.
The gatehouse did not cross, the city gate did not collapse, but an inner door was opened on the original door, as if a flash door was cut open with a powerful laser cutting machine, and the heavy door panel collapsed, and the sharp knife troops who had been prepared immediately rushed in.
There are also some warriors, long before the city gate is opened, they have already relied on magic to grab ropes, and they have climbed over the city walls and entered the city first.
These were Assassin warriors, known internally as fanatics.
All of them are rebellious, but the technology is really high.
Their weapon configuration is a machete or hand axe + magic fire.
It's easy to talk about the cold weapon if it doesn't have it, but the fire gun is a bit interesting.
In fact, it's okay to say that they are magic wands, but they are more foolish, the threshold for use is extremely low, and ordinary people can use them.
The weapon is currently being sold in small quantities in order to be used by more users, feedback information, adjustments and improvements.
The most intensive use of this weapon was carried out by the Freemasons of Northrend.
The Cold War continued, and there was still a suspicion of land reclamation, and armed conflicts were frequent, making it an ideal weapons testing ground.
The Magic Fire Bolt equipped by the fanatics of the Clover Guild Warband is a professional standard weapon with Holy Light energy as the core, and the shooting effect is like a shotgun, with a cone-shaped spray and powerful melee power.
One of its major features is that it recharges itself after launching, so it doesn't need to be reloaded.
The fanatics wear several guns, and they can calculate the charging time of each firebolt well, and use it with combat skills, from time to time they draw guns from different positions on their bodies to shoot, as if the firepower is unlimited, and it is difficult for opponents to predict how they will shoot next time.
The fanatics who fly the eaves and walk the wall are not just cool and handsome wave warriors, they not only have instant communication, they can know each other's location, cooperate with each other, or from time to time concentrate on a big job. There is also a flare gun, which can call fire support from time to time.
And in conjunction with it, there is an array of magic cannons laid out outside the battlefield.
The Dragonmen, as well as the Mages of Dalaran, have been doing this since they completed the construction of the portal.
The magic cannon array is like a complex three-dimensional magic array with a large fireworks launcher placed in it, which is the kind of fireworks pier with many tubes one by one.
Another difference from ordinary magic arrays is that dozens of meters in the air above these arrays, there are dense clouds of arcane energy, which are constantly tumbling and rolling, condensing but not dispersing.
Whenever someone called for fire support, a magic cannon would shoot projectiles into the air. When the projectile is fired into the arcane energy cloud, it does not penetrate, but instead appears above the head of the target marked by the flare gun, and then falls vertically like a lightning strike, exploding. ITS POWER IS EQUIVALENT TO THAT OF A 150MM HOWITZER, PLUS HOLY LIGHT DAMAGE.
With this 'head cannon', the fanatics have the ability to attack fortified positions or hit targets in clusters.
Such a troop, such a dispatch, naturally Tyrenus and the others were stunned, and many people had a feeling that their eyes were suddenly brightened, it turned out that the battle could still be fought like this!
In fact, this kind of tactical system of light raids, but with heavy firepower and precise strike capabilities, is not as difficult to achieve as imagined, and the main thing is the ideas and concepts. In contrast, the tactics of this world are indeed monotonous and rigid, and there is a feeling of holding high technology and fighting old-fashioned wars.
Naturally, the Scourge on Fenris Island also noticed the magic cannon array, after all, the glowing arcane energy cloud in the air was still very conspicuous.
The Scourge also has an online IQ, which quickly connects it to the kind of 'Holy Light Thunder Cannon' (as they are called) used by the fanatics.
In the face of such a threat, it is natural to try to solve it, otherwise this battle will not be able to be fought at all, and as soon as the soldiers are concentrated, they will be bombed, and they will not be the opponent of the experienced and well-equipped Clover Guild Warband fighters with diverse tactics at all.
So they sent a handful of gargoyles and scourge bats to try to destroy the magic array with plague bombs.
As a result, he encountered the Clover Guild's Arcane Explosion Mosquito head-on and suffered heavy losses.
The air power of the Scourge Legion Tyranus has always been weak, because even in this world, if you want to cultivate a large number of air combat units, you need a large enough blue sky pasture. To put it simply, flying also needs to be contacted.
The Tyranus branch is latent and grows, raising a large number of empty beasts that are easily exposed.
Kane naturally didn't bother with this, but he was dismissive of the aerodynamic structure of the world's mainstream Empty Warcraft.
In his words: it doesn't fit in with the aerodynamics of the building, and it all makes up for it with the elements.
This kind of empty beast, which relies half on wings and half on magic, is indeed dazzling, and it is also in line with the environment of the high magic world, but it does not satisfy Kane's appetite.
Kane believed that elemental power was not a generalized constant.
There is no need to get out of this world, there are many areas that lack this kind of power, or are full of repulsive elemental power, therefore, these empty beasts often look powerful and domineering, but in fact, the scope of application is very narrow, including dragons, there is also this kind of problem.
The elemental power that facilitates flight is the wind element (qi).
In opposition to this is the earth element.
The earth element is the most widely distributed and abundant elemental force in this world, followed by fire, and water is about the same as wind.
This makes the empty beasts often suffer from the embarrassment that the landed phoenix is not as good as the chicken.
What's more, in Azeroth, the elementals are on the side of the Elder Gods.
In this context, Kane is naturally unwilling to compromise, investing energy and capacity in a product project that has no future, and can only be regarded as excessive at best. The cards in his hand lack air combat power, which is also a big reason.
Lack is not the same as none.
Kane was naturally well aware of the importance of air power, and so the Arcodium Mosquito came into being......