Chapter 881: Second-rate troops
Xia He's worries are still reasonable.
In February, in the mountains south of the Great Wall, a large number of demons suddenly appeared, rushing straight to the mine occupied by the aristocratic coalition army. Fire Raven No. 1 was discovered early, and the aristocratic army quickly shrank back into the city at the foot of the mountain for defense, and the loss was not large, but the number of demons exploded strangely, and it seemed that there was a posture that could not be defended.
You must know that in this city, there are twenty battalions of troops, and a battalion of five thousand people in the noble legion, which is one hundred thousand people.
Therefore, it makes sense for Xia He to regard this aristocratic alliance as a second-rate army, and it is Xia He's own main force, relying on the defense of the city, if there are 100,000 people, no matter how many enemies there are, it is not a problem to hold on for a few months.
Now that it has only been three days of fighting, the aristocratic coalition has begun to ask for help.
Among the coalition forces, there are more than twenty legends, but in the face of the surging demons, there is really no way.
The legendary mage would go out every day to kill a group of demons, and retreat when thirty percent of the magic power was left.
But they are not mages, they are all the same as Xia He, they have complex and powerful magic. Many legendary mages, after unleashing a few powerful spells, have to retreat.
As for using low-level magic to slowly manipulate the demons, these mages' skills may not be good.
Xia He was a little depressed, because on the side of the mountain city, he had already given a lot of high-level equipment, many of which were withdrawn from the main army, such as some high-level mechanical and magic constructs.
These 100,000 people, plus nearly a million robots, are all asking for help?
However, the matter of the Void Demon Clan has not been resolved for a day, and Xia He will not be in danger for a day. The city at the foot of the mountain, the city weapons can't deal with the Void Demons, and he won't let Nietzsche II take the risk.
The hardware of the Nietzsche Legion has kept up, but the number of legends is still not as good as that of other main legions.
The large number of demons is not a problem, and the request for help may be because the demons have adopted a death raid tactic, that is, they continue to send troops to attack, which will cause huge pressure on the defending side.
On the side of Yamaguchi Castle, in addition to Nietzsche's legion, the strength of one legion has been replenished in recent months, plus the five battalions that were originally left behind, a total of thirty battalions and 150,000 people.
It was Cotton Jack who stepped in and ordered Yamaguchi Castle to mobilize twenty battalions to support.
In addition to the twenty battalions, Nietzsche's regiment sent another standard battalion and a flying battalion to support.
The war with the demons is irritating, but fortunately, there are no small cities inhabited by ordinary people in the New World, otherwise they will have to be defended one by one, and they will definitely not be able to prevent it. At most, it will cause a huge loss of strength to the demons, but the city will also be destroyed.
In the New World, all the cities were militarized towns, and all the people who lived there were soldiers.
Therefore, if the demons attack the Ice Maple Continent, everyone has to find the main force of the demons for a decisive battle, and they can't let it land, otherwise it will be a disaster.
Professional soldiers have an absolute advantage over the demons, but non-professional soldiers, fully armed, are just a tie with ordinary demons, and civilians can only be slaughtered by demons.
The Demon Worm Forest has been opened up, purified, and the demons who attacked the mining area did not advance westward, and the reinforcements passed through the Demon Worm Forest, opened the way with chariots and flying troops, and in one go, they slaughtered into the city surrounded by demons.
Xia He has been observing the battle situation and feels strange, the soldiers in the city, relying on the city, feel that they can't withstand it, how can the reinforcements easily kill it?
If you want to say that it's not a trap, you don't believe it.
But if you abandon the city, the demons will attack Yamaguchi Castle from the Demon Worm Forest to the west. Without the mining city staring at the back, the demon clan must be attacking easily, and there is no need to worry about the back at all.
It's a trap, and you have to get over it.
Besides, there are many cities occupied by the aristocratic coalition of Xiahe in the east, and the scale is not large, if the demons abandon this mining city and go east, those small places will not be able to withstand this crazy attack of the demons.
Originally, I thought that the demons in this area had been almost cleaned up, but it seemed that there were still secrets in the mountains.
Xia He calculated that the five worlds he occupied, no matter which one, would be completely destroyed in the face of this kind of invasion of the demon race, and it would not take a hundred years to become a new demon world.
This reinforcement brought a large number of construction robots, as well as the drawings provided by Cotton Jack.
In addition, a lot of scorpion-shaped robots have been sent, which should stabilize the situation.
The wall of the mining area is 30 meters high, with a step of 10 meters.
The two lower layers of the city are all robots for defense, and the top layer is only human soldiers. The city was built extremely strongly, and some demons who were four or five meters tall frantically hit the city wall, but they only made some holes.
In the middle of the city, there is a large magic furnace that generates electricity, and the batteries of the cyborg warriors can be replenished as long as they are not damaged. The two floors below the city wall, with rooms behind them, are actually used to recharge the mech warriors. There is no access to the inner city on these two levels, and the robots will continue to fight on them until they are destroyed.
After the reinforcements arrived, Cotton Jack gave the order to defend the city, and all the city gates were completely closed.
The aristocratic coalition didn't despair much, after all, more than 100,000 people came, and with a powerful air force, this time the supplies were quite large, and the pods under the six-pointed star airship were full.
There are also legendary mages, and fresh food is also brought in the huge space equipment.
In the cold underground in the middle of the city, fresh meat is frozen, and it is not a problem to support it for months. The soldiers' hearts relaxed a little, and it was said that this kind of support, which would arrive regularly, was airdropped by a six-pointed star airship.
The new reinforcements also built towers against the city walls, arranged magic arrays on the ground, and continued to strengthen the fortifications.
After the flight battalion delivered supplies, the flying battleship dropped a wave of incendiary bombs outside the city, and after losing all of them, it escorted the six-pointed star airship away.
Yamaguchi Castle isn't far from here, it's just a demon insect forest across it.
The flying battleship wanted to fly over, and it had just accelerated. The flying battleship was dispatched to escort the six-pointed star airship.
Forty aristocratic battalions, one main standard battalion, so many troops, if he can't hold the city, Xia He has nothing to say. At the beginning, Xia Ye guarded the small castle, so there were only a few people.
Nietzsche's regiment sent the sixth battalion, the battalion will be a legendary mage, and the lieutenant will be a legendary warrior.
The number of legends in Nietzsche's legion is not as many as others, and the standard battalion sent this time is the most powerful one in the hands of Nietzsche II, in addition to the two battalion generals, there are three legends sitting in the town.
Another flying battalion began to throw incendiary bombs at the demons outside the city every day, which could relieve the pressure inside the city.
The incendiary bomb is not too efficient against the demons, but it will make it impossible for the demons to gather dense forces, and can only disperse to attack the city.
Once it's not so dense, it's not scary, and the musket in the hands of the robot can slowly shoot the demons.
Xia He observed for a whole day, but he didn't find any problems, this is the problem. Anyway, he won't send the main force, the second-rate army of the nobles, as long as the number is enough, it can also deal with the demons.
I even built a tower, theoretically, if the demons don't expose their hole cards, then they can't break the city at all.
Although it is a featureless city, as long as there is a purified magic array, so that the soldiers can move safely, the combat effectiveness can be guaranteed.
The battalion general of the 6th Battalion did not take over the command, he just watched the data from the makeshift tower, and did not even command the army in his own hands. This battalion was stationed in the city, and it did not go up to the city to assist in the defense.
After reading a lot of data, this battalion general found a small problem, the quality of the soldiers of the noble legion is still not good. In the face of the surging demons, the soldiers shot too often, and they were all shooting at overclock.
Under normal circumstances, the magic musket designed by the Duchy can only be activated once a second, and there is a control device on the gun, if this speed is exceeded, the damage to the gun will become greater, and even cause the consequences of being unrepairable.
After three days, the muskets of the noble legions were too damaged, and many of the soldiers were left with only secondary weapons.
No wonder the panic is terrible, it turns out that this is the reason.
In the main legion, if the supreme commander does not give an order, no soldier will turn on this device and shoot overclocked.
Even if a squad of five people acts, and the squad leader doesn't say anything, the soldiers will only shoot at a maximum rate of one shot per second. For a technological weapon, this rate of fire is pitifully slow.
However, for magic weapons, this magic musket is perfect.
In fact, each time the magic projectile is fired, it is re-enchanted through the ballistic, which has additional lethality.
Soldiers have more problems, such as the standard situation, only accurate marksmen, are allowed to shoot at a distance of more than five hundred meters, ordinary soldiers, preferably a distance of one hundred meters to three hundred meters, all depending on their own techniques.
But these noble soldiers began to attack at a distance of a kilometer.
Theoretically, the killing distance of the magic musket must be more than a kilometer, but the problem is that the accuracy is gone, and if you can't hit the demons, they are all minor injuries. The consequence of this is that even if the demons are injured, they can still rush to the head of the city, causing more pressure on the robot warriors.
The old robots used ordinary muskets, which became more powerful the closer they go, and then the plasma guns, which were all within 50 meters of attack.
The battalion commander of the sixth battalion is also helpless, these things, the soldiers of the noble coalition army, are not untrained. But when they saw the endless influx of demons, these people panicked. Even they are battle-hardened.
The biggest problem is that before this, the most difficult battles were completed by Xia He's main forces. When Xiahe's main force withdrew from the New World, the soldiers in the hands of the nobles had not really grown. What they are best at is to fight with the main force.