Chapter 45: Breaking Through 3
readx;โ Hehe. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Roland looked at the two puppets in front of him, and couldn't help but show a helpless smile. Although he had already prepared for the fifth wave not to be easy, it was when he saw the fifth wave of enemies that he was deeply stimulated by this test. There aren't many enemies in the fifth wave, just two puppets, but these are two puppets that have reached the middle level of the orange halo, and that's not all, it's still two puppets made of all iron. The weapon is a sword and a shield. From the actions of the previous two puppets, Roland already knew that the movement ability of this wave of puppets was more flexible than the previous four waves, and from the metal color of the body, it could be seen that the puppets of these two planes were much stronger than the previous ones.
Without waiting for Roland to see too carefully, two sounds of breaking the air came rapidly from far and near, only to see a crossbow arrow behind each of the two puppet shields in the distance, and after seeing Roland, he flew towards Roland without hesitation. When Roland dodged these two arrows, the two puppets had already run in front of Roland, and the two large knives had already slashed down at Roland. After dodging this blow in embarrassment, Roland had to pay attention to the two puppets in front of him. You must know that the puppets were able to wait for their arrival at this distance before, and now although there is the interference of two crossbow arrows, the speed is still much faster than before, and the attack is much sharper.
"Ding!" a crisp metal crash slowly wafted through the empty room. During the battle, Roland finally found an opportunity to stab the sword in his hand into the chest of one of the puppets, but looking at the metal iron plate that had not changed except for a little scratch, Roland was completely speechless, how can this make people play, Roland couldn't help but scold in his heart.
After dodging the puppet's attack again, Roland began to silently observe the two puppets, since he could let these two puppets come out, it means that he should be able to deal with the past. As the battle continued, Roland kept observing the two golems. The chest and back were first abandoned by Roland, and the two places looked like they were a combination of a single piece of metal. The next thing is the head and limbs, but from the metal that reflects the same light, Roland can't find a good way for a while, and as he continues to fight, Roland obviously feels that his physical strength has decreased, and it is impossible to have enough time to think as before.
The two puppets are still tirelessly launching fierce attacks on Roland, slashing, shield strikes, etc., and because they are faster than the previous puppets, when Roland goes around behind one puppet, the other puppet can always think of Roland in time to kill, and does not give Roland any time to rest.
"Huh?" After turning a corner, Roland looked at the puppet in front of him and let out a tone of understanding. Maybe it's because the previous battle made him not pay enough attention to observe, after repeatedly checking the two puppets, Roland found that it may be because of the use of metal, although the armor is much higher than the previous puppets, but the same unit weight is increased, in order to reduce the consumption of energy, so the two puppets are overall "thinner" than the previous ones A lot, and because of the increased flexibility, their limb joints are also treated much more delicately than the previous puppets, although the internal structure of the limb joints is not exposed, but it is only covered with a layer of leather. You must know that although the outer part of the puppet has very strong armor, the internal structure of the puppet is not very strong, first, it is not necessary, and second, the cost of the puppet made in this way is too high to outweigh the loss.
Paying attention, Roland began to slowly look for the right moment, and as he dodged a puppet's side slash, Roland slashed at the leather of the puppet's elbow.
"Damn, what kind of skin are you wearing?" looked at the leather that the sword did not cut, but only left a shallow scratch, Roland was completely speechless, although the sword did not use much strength because of the timing, but it was not so effective at all, right? But this is the only weakness that Roland can find.
"TND, I can't even break a piece of leather. Looking at the scratch, Roland said hatefully. Due to the small size of the leather guard, Roland did not find an opportunity to attack the joints again. For a moment, the sound of metal clashing echoed throughout the room.
"Rub!" Due to the long battle, Roland's physical strength gradually began to not stand up, and in this trance, I saw two puppets slashing down to Roland at the same time, one left and one right, and saw that he could not dodge when Roland lay between the legs of a puppet with a shovel step, and at this time, Roland took the opportunity to use the sword in his hand to slash at the leather of the knee joint of the puppet, only to see that the originally intact leather was chopping a crack under Roland's full strength, and the puppet was constantly changing shape under the movement of the puppet. Of course, this is only the first step, and it is necessary to destroy the structure of the puppet to completely incapacitate it, but at least it gives Roland some hope.
After receiving the affirmation, Roland's original exhaustion was also swept away, and after several efforts, the leather on the upper limbs of the two puppets had been completely destroyed by Roland, and when Roland once again slashed towards a joint that had lost the protection of leather, he saw that the puppet's arm was obviously much sluggish. With the goal and hope, the rhythm of the whole battle gradually began to be in Roland's hands, and it didn't take long for the two puppets to be unable to move, although the energy core of the two puppets was not destroyed, but their limbs were already scattered around. When the two puppets were disposed of, I saw that the abyss that had been lying in front of me slowly disappeared. But when he saw the scene in front of him, Roland was still shocked.
After the darkness of the abyss disappeared, what appeared in front of Roland's eyes was a huge "sand table", said sand table, because Roland could not find how to describe everything in front of him. Roland had thought about a lot of situations that could be encountered in the second level, but the truth was still beyond his own imagination. What appeared in front of him was a stone stele, which surprised Roland, only to see a "mountain range" lying horizontally behind the stone tablet in front of his eyes, "mountain range" In a semicircle, in the middle of it is a huge city, in front of the city is a fortress, and at other points there are several passes, whether it is a city or a fortress or those passes, which are covered with various defensive equipment, and on which there are many small golems stationed on it, and in front of the mountains is a large army surrounded in front of the fortress, the same golems, but the number of colors is different. The remaining half of the room was completely filled with such a "sand table", and the entrance door was at the back of the city.
From the introduction on the stone tablet, Roland knew that the requirement for this level was to command the army in front of the fortress to capture the city. The difference between the puppets under the stele is also explained on the stele, different colors correspond to different strengths, the red one represents the red halo level, the orange one is the orange halo level, and so on, and the one without color is an ordinary soldier. Each one-star golem represents a ten-person squad, a two-star one, and a non-one-star one, which can be exchanged at will, but the total number does not change. The defenders had a total of 30,000 troops, while the attackers had only 50,000. But in terms of color, there is not much difference in the number of elite personnel on the two sides, but there is a big gap in the composition of several layers, the defender uses the red halo as the main frame, the orange halo as the backbone, and the ordinary soldiers fill the entire army, while the attacker has a much higher ratio of red halo and orange halo. Victory is not only conditional on the elimination of all defending troops, but also on the control center in the palace at the rear of the city. And the so-called control center is a core of energy. Looking at the mountains and cities in front of him again, Roland walked around the stone monument in front of him and walked towards the battlefield.
The moment he entered the battlefield, Roland found that the mountains and cities that were clearly visible outside could now only see the mountains and the fortresses there and the army under his control. Although it is surprising, after such a period of trial, it did not affect Roland anything. Roland didn't immediately push the army, and although the mountains were larger than those seen before, they were also much more detailed than those seen before. After carefully observing the place where he was about to attack, Roland returned to the place where his army was. Judging from what I have just observed, although the whole mountain range is not as steep as the Blair Mountains, there are not many places that can provide a large army to attack. There is a fortress and four passes in the whole mountain range, for unknown reasons, Roland can't see the defense in the mountain range, but from the outside observation, the defenders are mainly fortresses, but a large number of troops are also stationed in the four passes, the fortress defenders are about 10,000, and the four passes are about 1,000 each, and all the places are dangerous. In this way, even if a small force passes through the mountains, it will not be able to enter the city or help attack the fortresses and passes.
After thinking for a long time, Roland didn't think of any effective way to easily pass through the mountains, and finally Roland had to first command the troops to launch a tentative attack on the place where the fortress was located, saying that it was tentative, and Roland was no less, with the cooperation of sword and shield soldiers, archers, catapults, city vehicles, well blocks, etc., a puppet army with a number of two thousand launched an attack on the fortress in the distance, but left five or six hundred "corpses" Later, Roland had to withdraw his troops, because Roland found that the defensive equipment that he thought was set up on the fortress could be used, but he saw that with the attack of the troops, the trebuchets on the fortress launched a fierce counterattack against the attacking troops, and after losing several catapults and wells, Roland could only reluctantly give up the attack, and as a defender, he only lost one or two hundred soldiers, and the loss of the city defense equipment was minimal.
After the first attack was thwarted, Roland remobilized his forces. I saw a force of about 10,000 people starting from Roland's camp and marching towards the farthest pass from the fortress, but when this force arrived, Roland was choked, only to see that the original defensive force of about 1,000 had increased to about 3,000 at this time, so that the original plan of rapid attack was shattered again.
"Nima, these puppets still know reinforcements, I'll wipe them out. At this time, Roland scolded towards the pass in the distance.
If the plan fails, Roland has another plan. I saw Roland commanding the 10,000 puppet troops towards another pass, because the pass was close to his side, so Roland pretended to retreat, but when this force arrived at the location, I saw that the pass was also full of reinforcements. Roland did not let this force back, but sent a force of 10,000 people from the large camp to launch a fierce attack on the fortress, this attack was not the previous tentative attack, once the attacking force rushed to the head of the fortress, but did not last long before being driven down by the enemy, as the attack continued, Roland found that the defenders of the pass did not decrease, and the defenders of the fortress were constantly increasing. In a ruthless attack, Roland ordered the 10,000-strong troops to attack the pass, and finally lost 3,000 soldiers and a large number of siege equipment in the attack on the fortress, Roland had to stop the attack, and at the same time ordered the troops who were far away to return to the camp, this attack, Roland lost 4,000 troops in the total attack, as well as a large number of siege equipment, while the defender lost almost 2,000 soldiers, and most of the defensive equipment where the fortress was located. As the assault ended, the room slowly darkened, as if night had come, and his battalion and the enemy defenders in the distance lit lanterns and torches. Roland also has to mention that the designers of this venue are impressed, everything is like a real big battle. After a long time of fighting and mental exertion afterward, Roland knew that he needed a good rest at the moment, and this second level was not as easy to pass as he imagined, so let's talk about it when he recovered, Roland thought.
But the opponent did not let Roland have enough time to rest, not long after entering the settling, Roland was woken up by a sound of killing, opened his eyes and saw a light cavalry puppet force in his own camp repeatedly rushed to kill, although his side of the regular patrol troops, but at this moment the enemy rushed out of the orange halo level, and Roland was not ready to prevent night attacks, so at this moment I saw this puppet force as if into no man's land, although Roland woke up and was controlled, but the huge loss made Roland very angryใ This raid Roland lost 5,000 troops, while the enemy left only more than 1,000 corpses. At the same time, Roland also received a notice that the logistics of the army attacked by grain and grass were insufficient, and the army's combat strength had dropped by one percent. By the end of the first encounter, Roland had lost almost 10,000 troops and a large amount of supplies. The enemy only lost about 4,000 troops, although all the losses in the night attack were orange puppets, but in general, Roland suffered a large loss. After the night attack, Roland knew that he had to treat this battle as if it were a real war, not a game, or he would lose badly.
After arranging everything, Roland began to think carefully about this war. In terms of numbers, there was not much difference between the two armies, but after this battle, the gap was even smaller, the time and place were favorable, needless to say, the enemy still had the advantage, but even the people on their side were almost gone. The only consolation is that most of the defenders of the enemy fortress have been destroyed, because supplies such as catapults can be replenished, although each supply is limited, but it is still much better than the trebuchets on the fortress, because it cannot be replenished. All fighters win with the right combination, this is a sentence that the Prince of Ceylon repeatedly said when Roland followed the Prince of Ceylon to learn the art of war and strategy. In the past, when learning the art of war and strategy, the Prince of Ceylon mainly cultivated Roland's overall situation and grand strategic thinking, and every time he acted in the sand table, it was also a big battle, but when it came to the detailed war, Roland had less contact with each other, which was also one of the reasons why Roland commanded the battle so poorly this time. In the face of the current situation, this sentence did suddenly enthusiastically in Roland's mind, and now it is the right coincidence, but the Qi Luolan in the victory is at a loss. Gradually, Roland regarded himself as the commander of the opposite side, and at the moment he was in the city or fortress of Roland, there was a strong army outside, and he was not their opponent in the plain battle, although he had natural dangers, but there were many places to defend, as long as the enemy broke through one of the places, then the army in front was useless, and the city behind was also equal to no defense. In order to cope with this situation, you must be prepared, and at the same time, you need a mobile force that can be ready to reinforce the areas that are under the enemy's key attacks. 30,000 people, 10,000 fortresses, 1,000 each of the four passes, or at least 5,000 for the defense of the city, then there are about 10,000 mobile troops. Although their own losses today are huge, the same enemy losses are not very small, and the mobile forces are less than 10,000, and there are about 7,000. At this time, as the commander of the defender, he should also urgently ask for a chance or firmly hold on. Thinking of this, a kind of clarity slowly emerged in Roland's mind.
When the room was lit up again, Roland began to command his troops. Roland first sent a force of 5,000 men to each of the four passes, stationed there, ready to attack. As expected, when his troops arrived, reinforcements appeared on each pass, although the number was not large, one thousand per pass, but Roland knew that the mobile troops on the opposite side were not many at this time, only about three thousand. After that, Roland lived up to his expectations and launched an attack at the same time towards the enemy's defensive place, but this time Roland replaced the attacking puppet with a non-star one, that is, a puppet that only represents one person, and the offensive scene of the overwhelming puppet is extraordinarily spectacular, and as expected, the defensive equipment on the fortress is not as sharp as before, although the other party has replaced a batch of catapults that can be supplied, but after all, it is much worse. With the catapult's counterattack, Roland's puppets continued to decrease, but finally rushed to the city wall to launch an effective attack, but the strange thing is that Roland's attack surface is much larger than the area that the fortress can cover, although this situation also exists in the actual attack, but it is much smaller, Roland's coverage is too wide. At the same time as the fortress attacked, the troops on other fronts also attacked at the same time, and with the beginning of the attack, the defending enemy also began a fierce counterattack, each attack Roland sent not many troops, but after replacing with a starless puppet, it looked spectacular, with the start of various defensive equipment, Roland saw that his attacking puppets continued to fall on the way forward. The attack was like a wave, wave after wave in the direction of the enemy, from the light of the room until the room was dark again. When the day's attack was over, Roland had lost a total of 15,000 golems, and as a result, the defending enemy had lost about 7,000 golems plus all the defensive equipment. After calculating that the enemy still has about 20,000 puppets left, and he still has about 26,000, which is not much different in terms of quantity. Looking at the fortress in the distance, Roland did not feel any frustration, but instead showed a faint smile on his face.