Chapter 46: The Factors That Determine War
After communicating with Camilla Magus, Xu Yi had to admit that with the power of the military magic machinery produced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce now, it was impossible to kill the Magister head-on.
However, Camila Magus also admits that these military magic machines can still pose a certain threat to him, so as long as he takes the right approach, he can actually compete head-on with Magister-level mages for a while, and even hope to force the other party back.
The key to this is that military magic machines can attack non-stop as long as they are well supplied.
And no matter how powerful the Magus is, there is a limit to the magic power.
If the suppression of the Magister is maintained all the time, then the final result will inevitably be that the Magus will be defeated due to lack of mana.
But here's the problem...... How do you suppress a magister?
Compared to the current stage of military magic machines, the Magister is able to use extremely powerful magic, and most importantly, has incomparable flexibility.
If unprepared, the Magus can easily burst into a powerful force in a short period of time, but it is difficult for the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Escort, equipped with military magic machinery, to immediately burst out with more powerful attack power to suppress the Magister.
If it was an encounter, it was very likely that the Magister would be able to take out an entire team of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Escort at his fingertips, and then retreat unharmed, seeking another opportunity to attack, but the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Escort had no choice.
"Don't think about being able to confront the Magus head-on, if you're really worried about those Magus in the Candela Empire, think about how to defend against their attacks first. As long as you can defend. Then the role of the Magister is actually very limited. Ultimately. There are too few Magisters. It is not really a substitute for the army. "Camila Magister finally gave Jian yƬ.
"Hmm...... That's true, that's right. But...... I don't like to be too passive. Xu Yi spread his hands.
Camila rolled her eyes, "Do you still want to take the initiative against the Magus?"
Xu Yi smiled helplessly: "Okay, it's that I'm thinking too far." However, now that the Ruerson Kingdom is doing this actual battle for me, I can save a lot of effort. ā
Camila Magister was stunned for a moment: "I thought that your kid was really helping the Luxon Kingdom this time, but it turned out that he was just letting them be experiments?"
"You can't say that. Xu Yi smiled and shook his head. "The Kingdom of Luxon is a barrier between the Duchy of Stantin and the Candela Empire, and it is also beneficial for our Chamber of Commerce to be able to keep them. ā
"Then why don't you use this reason to convince those guys in the Chamber of Commerce? Do you have to make a lot of people secretly speculate about whether there is a conflict within the Chamber of Commerce, and guess that you, the president, have lost control of the Chamber of Commerce?"
"Because I found a problem, other than me. It seems that everyone thinks from the bottom of their hearts that the Candela Empire is simply invincible. ā
"Nonsense, that's the Candela Empire, why do you think that such a small country as the Ruerson Kingdom can defeat them?"
So I was too lazy to convince them with words, and hoped that the kingdom of Ruerson would prove my point with facts. Grandpa, what do you think?"
Magister Camilla pondered for a moment and nodded, "I thought the same as them before. But after training with the escort team a few times during this time, I feel ...... I'm afraid that the kingdom of Ruersun really has any hope of winning. ā
"Really, right?" Xu Yi smiled, but his face suddenly collapsed, and he said gloomily: "But the problem is still with the Magister." The most powerful in the kingdom of Luxon are the great magicians, if the Candela Empire sends out a magister. I'm afraid they'll be hard to resist. ā
Camila Magister laughed instead and patted Xu Yi on the shoulder. comforted: "Don't worry, at least in the early stage, the Candela Empire will not send out a magic master?"
"Oh?"
"Archmages and mages of the rank of Grand Mage and above are not allowed to participate in wars that invade other countries, otherwise they will be removed from the Wizards' Union. This was one of the principles of the Wizards' Guild at the beginning of its existence. Magister Camilla explained.
"And this rule, that's great!" Xu Yi's eyes suddenly lit up, and he squeezed his fist hard. "If that's the case, I'm 100% confident that the Ruerson Kingdom will win this war!"
Camila Magister sighed, a somewhat complicated expression on her face.
Before Xu Yi, this kid, didn't come up with these military magic machines, everyone on the continent firmly believed that the main factor that would determine the outcome of a war was actually which of the two sides had the more powerful magician.
But now that there is a military magic machine, Magister Camilla is extremely sure that the winner of the war will be which of the two sides has the more powerful military magic machine.
And the role played by magicians in the war is probably much weakened.
In this way, the status of magicians on the continent is bound to be affected very strictly.
To put it pessimistically, if you don't do it, the magician will lose the transcendent status that has existed on this continent for thousands of years.
As a traditional magician, Magister Camilla couldn't help but feel a little lost in this possible impact.
However, when he saw Xu Yi's sunny and confident face, Camila Magister couldn't help but laugh.
Although it is very likely that the magicians have lost their previous high status on the continent because of this guy, but also because of the appearance of this guy, the magicians find that they have another path to choose in front of them.
Compared with the impression of powerful but destructive power left by magicians in the past, if Xu Yi's current path is planned, the impression that magic brings to people is probably more convenient, and the impression given by magicians should make people respect from the bottom of their hearts rather than fear.
Magister Camilla liked this transformation very much, so despite the slight disappointment in his heart, he still sincerely hoped that Xu Ye would be able to achieve his ideals.
This kind of support has nothing to do with Steele, it is purely because of his appreciation and recognition of Xu Yi.
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In the autumn of 3789 in the continental calendar, a war broke out in the southwest of the Sainz continent and attracted the attention of the entire continent.
The war was fought between the Candela Empire, one of the continent's two major empires, and the Ruerson Kingdom, an inconspicuous small kingdom on the continent of Sainz.
Originally, according to almost everyone's inference, the difference in strength between the two sides was extremely large, and the Candela Empire was bound to easily crush the Ruerson Kingdom without giving the other party any possibility of counterattack.
The only suspense is just how long the kingdom of Ruersun can hold out.
However, the course of this war was not what everyone expected.
At the end of September, the Candela Empire officially declared war on the Kingdom of Ruerson, and immediately gathered three legions with a total of 50,000 soldiers to attack the Kingdom of Ruerson.
The kingdom of Ruerson then accepted a declaration of war and amassed 20,000 soldiers at the border between the two countries to defend against it.
On 27 September, the first contact fighting took place between the two sides on the border between the two countries.
As a result, after a day of fierce fighting, the Candela Empire lost more than 3,000 soldiers and was forced to retreat, while the Ruerson Kingdom lost ...... Zero.
On 28 September, fighting broke out again on the border between the two countries.
This time, the Candela Empire learned the lesson of yesterday and launched a huge offensive of more than 30,000 men at a time, intending to crush the army of the Kingdom of Ruerson in one fell swoop.
However, the final result of the battle was another great defeat on the part of the Candela Empire, with 7,000 casualties.
There was also damage on the part of the Ruerson Kingdom, but it was negligible.
On October 3, the Imperial Army of Candela, which had rested for five days, launched another attack on the side of the Kingdom of Ruersun, committing all its forces to more than 40,000 in battle.
At the same time, the Ruerson Kingdom also invested all its forces to contend with it.
In the end, after three days of continuous fierce fighting between the two sides, the Candela Empire continued to suffer heavy defeats, losing more than 10,000 troops.
For the first time, the casualties of the Ruerson Kingdom exceeded 1,000.
It's just that compared to the losses of the Candela Empire, the casualties of thousands of people are also negligible.
So there were three battles in ten days, and the Candela Empire invested a total of more than 50,000 troops, but in the end it suffered a staggering more than 20,000 casualties, while the Ruerson Kingdom invested a total of only 20,000 troops, and the final casualties were only less than 2,000!
Such a disparity in the proportion of casualties shocked all those who followed this war.
Although before the war, there were also speculations that the Candela Empire might have suffered a small loss because it was too light on the enemy, but now the Staggering Casualties on the Candela Empire's side is far from being a small loss, and it can be said to be a big defeat.
On the contrary, the army of the Ruerson Kingdom displayed a strong fighting force that shocked everyone.
Facing 50,000 enemies with 20,000 outnumbered and being able to inflict such low casualties on the enemy and inflict such high casualties on the enemy is simply subverting everyone's common sense.
No matter how elite the army of the Kingdom of Ruersun is, it shouldn't have such exaggerated results, right?
If all the countries and people on the continent paid attention to this war before, just because the continent had been calm for too long, and the sudden outbreak of a war would of course become the focus, then after the three battles between the Candela Empire and the Ruerson Kingdom, everyone's eyes on this war became more focused.
And among these attentions, the most contained is doubt.
What is it about the army of the Kingdom of Ruersun that it can have such amazing combat effectiveness? (To be continued......