Chapter 321: The Progress of the Times
Xia He's heart is not afraid of the Arcane Empire, but introspection. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info He reflects on himself and can't get carried away.
Being born in the Shenzhou World does not mean that he is a Dao Palace Golden Immortal, and he can despise the characters of this world.
The Arcane Empire is such a behemoth, and when it is said that it turns around, it turns around, and immediately makes a battle method similar to that of a goblin, and they have their uniqueness. When this tactic matures, the empire will invest it in the half-elf empire, I am afraid that it will be destroyed.
Magic guns are expensive, and that's because they are made less.
If the demand is huge, the same as the armor of an ordinary soldier, then the cost will plummet. Countless alchemy laboratories will find ways to reduce costs, and there are countless alternative materials.
In ancient times, a set of knight's armor could be thousands of gold coins. Nowadays, the armor of a hundred gold coins is considered a fine product.
If the empire is mass-produced, it can be cheap, and it is even magic defense armor.
Xia He recalled carefully that he had never seen a few regular troops in the Green Forest Continent, only the private soldiers of the nobles. Compared to the Arcane Empire, it is indeed slightly inferior. The gap between the private soldiers exists, and the regular army can be imagined.
The assassination of the king of the county became a joke, but the other party dispatched eight small airships and nearly a thousand cavalry. Such a force is prepared to be just frontal.
"Your Highness seems to be prepared. Xia He pondered in his heart, how to deal with such an army, and said unnutritious words casually.
"It's Your Majesty, not me. "Snowvis didn't dare to take credit, his army was waiting on the edge of the ice field. These people were all sent by Juno III. With a number of people in their early 500s, even if the other party is 3,000 people, I am afraid that they will not be defeated.
Snowvis himself was a little surprised, the advantages of this tactic are really terrifying.
Xia He thought to himself, do you want to build a floating airship yourself? But if you fight for financial and national strength, you are not an opponent of the Arcane Empire at all.
The only hope is for Freya to create a flying class.
In the Shenzhou Empire, this is not a problem at all, Shenzhou has powerful spaceships, as well as sword cultivation that can fly at supersonic speeds.
The ambushed team tried to counterattack, but the king's team fought and walked, and this situation lasted less than half an hour, and the enemy finally collapsed and fled in all directions.
Immediately, three hundred knights chased after them and shot them one by one with magic guns in the back.
There is not much difference in the speed of the mounts between the two sides, and once they are caught, the side with ranged attacks will take advantage.
Xia He couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and said to the king of Lilac County: "Your Highness, do you want to capture the prisoners?"
"What prisoners, did you catch them the last time you were attacked?"
Xia He shook his head, let alone a captive, in the souls of those people, nothing was tortured, all of them were dead soldiers who had been cultivated since childhood, and they had no contact with the outside world at all. They exist to carry out this kind of task.
Not only that, but the souls of these people are also magical, and the simple torture will collapse.
"I'll assume that they're all involved, and that the corpses will be preserved, and that they will look like northerners. Asla, let's come here, not to negotiate with them. ”
Xia He was awe-inspiring, the royal family was going to make a move against the Northland, and the king of the county came to force them to tear off the veil.
That is, the situation is worse than you think.
The carriage of the king of the county ran back and forth at high speed, and he didn't feel bumpy, this is the northland, and the condition of the road is not too good. Xia He thought in his heart that he had to be worth at least 10 billion yuan before he was willing to build this kind of car for himself.
Now I can save it, and I usually can't even use the evil unicorn.
The empire has accumulated too much wealth for so many years, this is not a low-level world without spells, things like food have a way to be preserved for a long time, and it is normal for things to be produced that will not be bad for hundreds of years.
The legends of the empire will also go to other worlds to obtain resources.
If you want to conquer this world, you can't even become an immortal.
It's still too weak on its own.
"Asla, you don't have to worry, Your Majesty knows that you don't have many soldiers, this time you go to Woods Fortress, the number of soldiers I promise you will not be discounted, and the magicians are all above level twenty, and there will be no less than ten magicians in the epic realm. ”
"So much!"
"If there aren't many magicians, you won't be able to hold the fortress at all. The knights cultivated by the nobles, if they did not have the blessing of magicians, they might not even have twenty percent of their combat effectiveness. There are some things that I don't have to hide from you, the royal family has formed a mage army for so many years, and the number has always been more than 20,000. These magicians are best at assisting knights in combat. ”
Xia He's lips moved, but he didn't say anything.
Snowvis smiled and poured himself a glass of wine, and Xia He simply took the bottle and drank the homebrew.
"Do you want to ask, how much does it cost to raise so many magicians?"
"Yes. More than 20,000 magicians, the daily consumption is a headache. Xia Hexin said, I am still going to organize a group of no more than two hundred mages, counting on these two hundred people to conquer the world?
"Not everyone, they are all magical geniuses, the academy of the empire, how many students graduate every year? many people, they can't reach the realm of legends in their lifetime, they can only kill time, reach level thirty-nine, and then die of old age on this threshold. However, this is their highest pursuit. ”
"The highest pursuit?"
"Without the Empire, they wouldn't even be able to reach level thirty-nine, and their lifespan would be in their early hundreds at most. ”
Xia He suddenly realized that because in the Shenzhou Empire, there would be a similar existence, and if he couldn't cultivate the Tao, he would go to the empire as a thug. Their income is certainly not as good as that of formal Taoist priests, but the wealth of the world is still available.
Eat and drink well, and the materials for cultivation are provided, not the best, but they can allow you to maintain your life.
"This kind of magician, you don't have to provide them with too good things, what they have to learn is also auxiliary magic, and live and die with knights. Their support abilities may be even higher than those of normal war mages. And among such people, there are occasionally some people who break through the realm and reach epic. ”
"There are more than twenty or thirty thousand such people in the empire, right?"
"Well, some big nobles will also train similar mages. Among the people who attacked us this time, there was this. But they can run fast and unless we chase after them with great effort...... Even if you chase it, you can't catch up with it all. ”
Xia He knows more about the empire, these things are not written in the books.
The knights chased for more than an hour before they returned, and the people sent by the emperor tried to collect as much loot as possible, because these were all their private property and had nothing to do with the county king.
In this battle, the enemy dispatched thousands of men, leaving behind more than 500 corpses, nearly half of whom died.
War horses alone, there were two hundred left, then armor equipment, and a few magicians were killed, but unfortunately there was not much wealth on his body, even the space ring, which was the smallest kind, and the magicians sent by the emperor felt that it was too shabby.
Xia He didn't care about this, he pointed to the miniature magic cannons recovered on both sides of the carriage, and asked, "Is this thing specially coming to fight airships?"
"No, the Empire usually uses a magic heavy crossbow to attack airships below a kilometer, this thing is expensive and expensive to use, but it has a fast rate of fire and a small size. Usually it is mounted on a combat vehicle, just in case. However, there will be ranged magic guns in the future, and this kind of miniature magic cannon will be less useful. ”
Xia He nodded, the empire's magic cannon, compared with the goblin era, has obvious advantages. That is, the accuracy is very high, and a little drop in power is acceptable. After all, it's not a legend, and no one can stand it. When used to fight airships, accuracy is the most important.
When attacking the city, it is better to use magic cannons than magic ballistas, anyway, in order to cover the things at the head of the city, to provide fire support to the attacking soldiers, the density is the most important, and it has to be cheap.
The magic cannon is a bit outdated.
Xia He was convinced in his heart that the empire had a lot of experimental weapons, and they did not use them. Because if there is no war, there is no point in making these things in large quantities.
In other words, if you come up with some weird gadgets yourself, it won't attract the attention of the Empire?
"Asla, actually, after taking the fortress, you can see a lot of drawings, how to arm your three thousand soldiers, don't rush to conclusions first. ”
"Your Highness said yes. ”
In the carriage, the atmosphere began to be harmonious, and Xia He couldn't feel the sissy breath from Snowvis, and felt that someone might be malicious slander.
After the cavalry charge, no one came to assassinate the county king, which disappointed Snowvis a little.
The emperor prepared a lot of means, but the nobles of the Northland only tried it for a while, and then gave up continuing.
Snowvis is not close to the big city, and the road is camped in the wilderness, anyway, there are many magicians, and it is not hard. Three days later, they came to the edge of the ice field, and Xia He saw a large camp in the distance.
On the plains, tents stretched, and I am afraid that the size of the camp was more than 10,000 people.
A group of iron horsemen galloped out of the camp, their hooves muffled, and stopped before the group, and one of the knights at the head shouted: "Your Highness!"
Snowvis stepped out of the carriage and looked up, and the knight jumped off his horse and took off his mask.
"Thank you for your hard work, how is it on the ice field?"
"It was already cold, but it wasn't snowing, and the roads that had been cleared before could be used. ”
Xia He and Medirli also got out of the car, and looked at it from a distance, and the number of knights who came out to greet them was exactly five hundred. All knights are in the same suit, except for the color of the badge that represents the rank. In the center of all badges is a tiny purple lilac.
The armor of these five hundred knights, each of them, was terrifyingly heavy.
Long and short weapons, all enchanted, and the mount under the crotch is the magic deer that Xia He has seen. This should be a royal mount, and Princess Angelina's knights also use this mount.