Chapter 156: The Game of Genting (1) (Those who voted are all cuties)
The most senior mage in Rusty City has finally been granted the authorization needed to advance to the Black Robe—and a letter of recommendation stamped with the seal of the "Treasure of the Pasha" to ensure that he can go to the Magic Academy of Beit to further his studies.
In Quith's opinion, this deaf mage does have this qualification. Being able to complete both spell casting action and spell model construction at the same time with just gestures without using spells for stabilization proves that this person has a solid theoretical foundation.
Moreover, he also has two indispensable talents to become a master magician:
Good enough luck - when the U-Sang captured Rusty City, he fell into a dwelling because he had been wounded by a bow and arrow, and escaped before he could retreat into the fortress of the mage;
Keen insight - while hiding and waiting for rescue, he saw that an attacker was accidentally injured by a weapon he was carrying and burned in flames, so he quickly gathered the fallen body that had not yet been burned and presented it to Laiquis as a "greeting gift".
"This is the Tengu, a humanoid race native to the U-san. Originally, they did not have the ability to fly, and they were able to raid from the air, thanks to the power of these mechanical creations. ”
The wounded gray-robed mage stepped back, and the young blue dragon in human form examined the remains of the attacker wrapped in a wrapperskin with a temporary spell attached to it, and explained it to everyone present.
Breaking a piece from the remains that had been burned to the marrow, rubbing it slightly, a fleeting yellow flame ignited in the air. After discerning the smell of a thin layer of white smoke in the air, Quis was sure that the throwing weapons used by those men contained a large amount of white phosphorus.
Snead, his spell advisor, joins in, but the half-lich doesn't seem to be interested in corpses, instead caring about the metal backpack that Tengu's corpse carries. Tear off the tin coat above, and the structure inside the backpack can be seen at a glance:
Small steam furnaces, efficient heating devices with small amounts of spell enchantments and alchemy materials, various mechanical linkages......
With a little imagination, it can be concluded that it was with the help of these mechanical parts that the high-pressure steam was turned into the power to propel the propeller into rotation, and the Tengu was equipped with "wings" that returned to the sky.
Quest, who was more familiar with the characteristics of the tengu, immediately remembered the onomatopoeia talent of this creature, and the three young blue dragons heard the red dragon's low roar before, and it was probably very likely that it came from the throat of a certain tengu.
"We can't afford to sit idly by...... I mean, you'll have to find a way to take the initiative, like gather the mages and set up a thunderstorm in their path, or summon enough flying lions or something...... Oh hell, you can't let those guys who attacked the city of Medici just swagger away!"
The speaker who uttered this long series of long sentences containing a large number of tone particles was the Pasha of the province where Rust City was located, and while Quest received the same news from the "Hearer", the highest governors of all the provinces along the way received the same message.
The Pasha was related to the Archon of Rust by marriage—his daughter was the wife of the surrendered prince, but the fury and anxiety of the governor of the province were betrayed by her thin face and the constant shaking of her well-groomed mustache on her chin.
Unlike the "stick-bearded", who was eager to make meritorious service to make up for his failure to defend his territory, the great force of the Utič Marshal U-Tsang, who had just rushed to the front from the city of Beit to unite the military forces between the provinces, caused the Pharaoh to send a military commander of the Medici to carry out a comprehensive defense. After directly recruiting dozens of black-robed mages, this veteran of the battlefield who led his guards to hurry in by using a combination of teleportation spells and flying carpets had a different judgment from that Pasha.
It seems that the Big-bellied General's work skills on the map are inherited from his old commander, but the Marshal of Medici uses a more sophisticated spell sand table. The spellcaster in the accompanying guards embodied the virtual mountains and rivers in the council hall of Rust City, and the old marshal in gray cloth clothes placed him in it, and walked from Sparter City to the location of Rust City.
"In windless conditions, the distance of seven hundred and thirty-four Palesan takes ten hourglass hours, so the speed of the U-Sang airship is about eighty-two hourglass hours per hourglass. This speed is a little slower than the speed at which the flying carpet can fly at full strength, but it is still more than I had estimated. ”
He walked to the route that marked the gradual shrinking between the Usang Air Fleet and the city of Beit, and the phantoms of several cities along the way immediately displayed a large amount of information about the guards sergeants, the mages of the garrison, and the city archons. After redeploying the marching armies that had been withdrawn from the northern port cities one after another, several ways of rapidly increasing the number of troops in these cities were found.
"Originally, I wanted to rely on the high mountains on its march, mobilize the casters, build temporary defensive fortresses, and intercept them step by step. However, the speed of the Usang people was still a little too fast, and it was estimated that setting up those fronts would eventually become a tactic to add fuel to. We must find a way to slow down the airship's action first, and then find a way to complete the battle. ”
After listening to their judgment, Quis couldn't help but glance at his spell advisor. According to the Marshal Medici, "slowing down the airship" was the "main thing" in the whole plan, and there was no doubt that they would find a way to persuade him to let the Blue Dragons chase after him.
But he didn't know that this idea was just wishful thinking. Not to mention whether they have the same face as the five-colored dragon queen, even if they want to lure Quest, except for the Great Vishur and the Pharaoh, I am afraid that no one in the United Kingdom can come up with something that can make the young blue dragon particularly attractive - after all, Quest is not the kind of fool who only likes to count coins, but he has made an unprecedented ancient dragon act of exchanging soul prisms for silver and making cannonballs to bombard the Tanari demons out of his own pocket.
Moreover, the plan of "finishing the work in one battle" is simply difficult to establish. The U-Sang military operations have clearly been tried to escalate the mode of warfare, while the design of the old marshal of the US imperialists is still stuck in the inherent thinking of "hammer anvil tactics".
Maybe in terms of age, even if you add the accumulation of your previous life, you don't have as much as this veteran of the battlefield, but thanks to the experience of the "keyboard warrior" career and the tragic airdrop baptism of the "Hell Paratroopers" in the lower realm, Quisi actually feels a little familiar with this kind of "blitzkrieg" combat concept of the Usan.
In comparison, although they all used large-scale teleportation spells to "airdrop" behind enemy lines to fight, the bloody battle against the bottomless abyss led by the Evil Dragon Council and the Five-Colored Dragon Queen was more like a "great in-depth operation" at the strategic level, and the general Usang was still limited to a "blitzkrieg" on the tactical level.
The former is to use the assault force to first break through the enemy's defensive line blockade, and then stabilize the channel coordinates, and then concentrate the Aphneras Devil Legion and the Evil Dragon Army to attack in an all-out way, with the ultimate strategic goal of destroying all the demons in the "Sour Mist Canyon" plane, and even pulling the entire plane into the Bato Nine Prisons;
The latter used the advanced mobile force of airships to break through the ground blockade, but the purpose was not to annihilate all the living forces, but to direct the attack on the Beit capital of Medici. There are two prerequisites for them to dare to act like this, one is that the U-Sang must be prepared to attack the city of Beit from the air, and the other is that they have the same effective countermeasures in the face of the air volley of the Medic.
Even if the army of the Usang Empire was certainly not as sharp as the demons of the lower realm, if it was able to use such tactics that surpassed the level of the Ash World era, its overall strength was indeed not to be underestimated.
Part of the plan of the old marshal of Medici was correct. It certainly doesn't make much sense to have the cities along the route send armed forces to volley at all levels along the way they must go. This was also easily detected by the Usan, which caused them to turn around and attack the cities that were poorly defended.
However, it is wishful thinking to rely on the dragon's nest dependents to attack at the tail so that the Usang airship can slow down and fall into the death trap of the temporary air defense fortress built by the Medici.
Not to mention whether they can deploy an "aerial maginot line", but even if it can be achieved with the help of a large number of spellcasters, the history of the last life of Quest has proven that this static defense method cannot effectively block the dynamic assault in the form of "blitzkrieg".
If the young blue dragon had the ability to mobilize a large number of dragons to fight like the Evil Dragon Council, under the attack of the giant dragon, a creature that ruled the sky, the airship fleet of the Wosang people would naturally be vulnerable.
However, at this time, there were only a dozen young dragons and young dragons left in the dragon's nest - there were still some young dragons and dragon eggs to be hatched, and looking at the number of Tengu troops attacking Rust City, it was estimated that there were more preparations for the Usan people.
Unless Questi is stubborn and reckless, it will be a boring "food delivery" move to chase after him.
If you compare this game on top of Genting to a gambling game, and open your hole cards before waiting for a cheating opponent like the "Usang people" to put all the chips on the table and buy them and leave your hand, then even if "your surname is high" enters, you can't guarantee that you will lose money on the spot.
In fact, it was the "long-bearded" Pasha who said a more feasible solution in his anxiety: let the casters of Medici start to arrange spells that affect the weather, and the thunderstorm may not be guaranteed to shoot down the enemy 100%, but the cold air can definitely make a trip-
"In addition to the flagship airship, the largest number of Usang expeditionary corps are airships that rely on huge balloons to provide lift. Its raid on Rust City to loot coal revealed that this weapon requires a large amount of fuel reserves.
Once exposed to cold air, the balloon will first become shriveled due to thermal expansion and contraction, and it will inevitably consume more coal to maintain a sufficient altitude to fly. In the cold air, the efficiency of the furnace equipment will also be reduced, and the consumption of coal will increase exponentially.
Under the pressure of fuel, it will not only be slowed down, but it may also be desperate to attack unplanned cities to get more coal. Ambush in the coal-producing fields of Medici, once the U-Mulan airship lands at altitude, it becomes a tiger with teeth and claws removed......"
In order to prevent others from "tiring" to lobby him, Quest preemptively stated his plan.
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