Chapter 608: The futility of leading the way
After about an hour and a half, the Leader finally found two roads that had been destroyed.
The destruction was not complete, and there was no huge trench or earthen wall in the middle of the road.
But it is precisely in this way that people can see the hope of climbing, and then make useless attempts.
One of the soldiers happily climbed up, but before he had climbed two steps, he fell straight down and rolled nearly ten meters on the mountain road before crashing into a tree and stopping.
He didn't die immediately, but no matter how he looked at the injury, he had to be carried back to recuperate, and now everyone could only put him aside first, and then continue to think about how to climb.
At first, others thought that the first soldier's bad luck was just that he was too careless and took the blame.
As the Berandu team behind shouted for the first to get a reward, the second challenger soon appeared, but he also quickly slipped and fell.
Of course, this one was a little careful, and after falling, he only broke his foot.
A third man appeared soon to appear, looking well prepared, with a short sword in his mouth and a rope on his shoulder, and some of the parts of the armor that were in the way of movement as the first two climbed and climbed upwards.
It took him about twenty seconds to climb up, and after shouting that it was safe to go up, he tied one end of the rope to a nearby tree and threw the other off.
The soldiers below climbed up the rope, and with the help of the rope, it was much safer, and even those who were not so good at climbing could gradually go up.
Next, it was necessary to carry some weapons and armor that were difficult to carry during the climb, and the people at the bottom made simple baskets out of a shield, and hung these weapons and equipment, and the people above worked together to pull them up quickly.
Then there was the sound of horses' hooves.
"Be careful!"
"Damn—"
"Wow!"
Then, the guy who had climbed up first appeared in the field of vision of the people below, as if he wanted to climb down quickly, but his neck burst into a burst of blood, and the man fell to the ground, and he was no longer breathing.
Then, another grenade dropped from above, blasting the ground open, knocking down three people below.
This series of processes is extremely fast, and when the people below react and shoot arrows upwards, they can only hear the sound of horses' hooves in the distance.
"What the hell!" the soldiers below cursed, but there was nothing they could do.
Since this side is easy to be discovered by the enemy, why not take the other way?
However, by the time they got to the other side, the same fate had already happened.
Soon, through a magic mirror, this message was transmitted to the Beran camp in the rear.
Originally, they also wanted to use multiple cavalry as messengers to send messages back and forth, but they might even be bombarded by gunfire shotguns on the way, which was too dangerous and unreliable, so they had to use this prop.
Of course, the communication function of the magic mirror consumes a lot of energy, and it is not something that can be done by finding a random place to charge it like a mobile phone on the earth.
After listening to the report, Zagmer couldn't help but curse twice, and then said hatefully: "This damn mountain road is equivalent to a layer of outer city!"
"So, let's try it with the methods of a serious siege?" Vytautas gave a pertinent suggestion.
"It's too inefficient to build siege engines on the spot, if you transport them here...... There will be great losses on the way, and it will be the people of Beran who will die. Zagmer thought about it, and then simply made a decision, "Anyway, do both together, this is the safest and fastest!"
Let's build as much as we can, and we'll ship some of it over!
As for manpower...... Let those guys who shouted the loudest battle before go out!"
At least so far, Zagmer's authority has not fallen to a certain level, and his will remains an undiminished order within Beran's army.
And since the military leaders who had been strongly seeking war before did not have the face to break their promises and gain weight, they naturally had to bear these losses.
However, there are hundreds of people under their command, and there are dozens of people at the least, so it is no problem to lose a little manpower.
In addition to this, Zagmer also ordered the cannon fodder to do some other work.
He has been mentally prepared, this attack will definitely not happen overnight, there is a good chance of delaying until the night, so naturally he must prepare accordingly in advance.
At this time, Luo Ming sat on the top of the tower, unhurriedly watching the movements of the enemy troops below with a telescope.
At the same time, the towers in the Iron Fire City also put up special flags through wooden frames to convey a message to his side.
As for Ariana, at the moment, she was looking down from the stronghold on the other side, passing on the information through her connection to the main body.
For a while, Luo Ming had a cross-cutting perspective that could be called a trinity, whether it was the Belan people or the cannon fodder of the leading party, what they were doing couldn't escape his eyes at all.
For example, now, some Belan people are transporting siege equipment to this side, and they directly use their war horses to drag the siege equipment loaded with trucks, and they still dodge some of the bullets and shells.
Some of the cannon fodder were building siege equipment, while others began to dig earthen walls and trenches under artillery fire, and they also laid logs on the river and inserted wooden stakes at the bottom of the river to prevent Luo Ming's ships from killing them again by water.
In this way, it is almost as if they have become the defender, cautious. But I have to admit that this is indeed much stronger than when I had too much confidence before.
"Hehe, it seems that I have grown a lot this time. Luo Ming sighed in admiration.
The enemy is not stupid, Zagmer is a veteran of many years of war, although he has been deflated in the face of information asymmetry, but as long as they understand the situation, it is entirely possible to find a strategy to deal with it.
Therefore, the advantages of information asymmetry will always be lost gradually.
Even if no enemy knows the specific principle of artillery, they can at least guess its range, accuracy and other data, and then find a way to dodge or defend against it
But Luo Ming is not afraid of this.
War itself only produces attrition, and this is true. But studying technology for the sake of war, doing something under the pretext of war readiness, or grabbing profits after victory, can make war profitable.
Every time Luo Ming uses the advantage of information asymmetry to win, although the advantage itself will be eroded little by little, he will take advantage of the east wind of victory to grab enough benefits, or push the situation to evolve in a favorable direction.
When we grow stronger and the overall situation is decided, even if we do not rely on the advantage of information asymmetry at all, we can still solve the problem and solve the enemy by relying on hard power.
Now it's no exception - from the time Lormin survived the initial attack and repelled the enemy, the Berans had run out of chance!
All of this they do is useless!
It's just that Luo Ming naturally won't be kind enough to remind him, and he still wishes that the other party would sink deeper into the pit he dug and then wake up.