Chapter 13: The Art of War

Placing the wounded and dead elves, Hypatia made a beeline for her study. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Her room was filled with thick and old books, and the things recorded on them were densely packed and illegible, but Hypatia looked at them carefully, page by page.

Marven also picked up a copy when he saw it. I found out that these books are related to history, recording all kinds of things in history.

Maybe you can find a solution to the demons! Marven thought of this and read the book carefully with Hypatia.

In the room, the originally quiet and peaceful atmosphere was suddenly broken, and an elf hurriedly ran in.

"General, a group of demons escaped from our hunt and rushed out of the Eternal Forest. The elf was covered in blood and panting, and ran all the way to it quickly.

"What!" Hypatia's book was slammed against the table, and the gaze in her eyes was majestic and heavy.

If the demons escape, how many innocent lives will be injured is the reason why she is not strictly guarded, and she is responsible.

"Send more people to hunt down those demons, and then strengthen the guards!" Hypatia gave a cold order, she was very calm, even if the situation was very bad now, she did not panic in the slightest.

Ma Wenduo glanced at her twice, and couldn't help but sigh that this elven general was very calm, not only with a kind heart, but also with extraordinary wisdom and responsibility.

"Yes!" the elf stepped back.

Hypatia hurriedly put the book back in its original place, she looked at Marven and said, "You're here, I'll go and see the situation." ”

She couldn't help but leave immediately, Marvin paused, and then immediately turned his attention to the books.

Thousands of years ago, the world was divided into several races that coexisted peacefully, and over time, the wisdom of the races has been greatly improved and evolved, and they know what to possess and lose, and they know to believe.

Each of their races lived together, occupying their own territory without interfering with each other, and later they fought each other for territory, forming various states and alliances.

Until the birth of a race called the Demon Race, they are cruel by nature and do many evils, which arouses the anger of each race.

Later, the Dark Horse King came out, he led the army to crusade against the demons to protect mankind, and was sealed on the side of the demons......

These histories are recorded in books, but the records are not very clear, and Marven can only understand them simply, not deeply.

Sealing Formation! That sealing formation, everything should have been good, why did it suddenly become weak, there must be some unknown reason for this, a reason that they don't know.

Marven carefully poured the book, thinking about the seal in his mind, and still had no progress after thinking about it for a long time.

He wanted to help Hypatia with something, but he couldn't help anything, and the feeling of powerlessness was really frustrating and uncomfortable.

After having a headache for a while, Marven casually pulled out one of the heaviest books, hoping to find more clues.

Taking it over and seeing that it had nothing to do with the sealing circle, Marven turned two pages in disappointment, but just as he was about to put the book back, the contents of it aroused his interest.

On the blue cover is written a few large golden characters "Introduction and Tactical Characteristics of the Human Legion", which is actually a military book.

It's no wonder that, as a general, Hypatia inevitably had to read some military books.

Anyway, being idle is idle, read some first, and then say, Marven reopened the heavy book...... Years later, when he became a great commander, he confessed that it was this book that opened his path to fame......

This book is mainly about human armies, and Hypatia should have read it often to study her opponents, and she has left a lot of notes in the book.

"Human Army Formation...... Heavy Infantry ...... Cavalry...... Archer...... Hmm, Heavy Knight!" After a quick glance at the previous paragraph, the introduction of the Heavy Rider caught Marven's attention. At first, almost all of his companions were killed by the knight's spear.

"Heavy knights, the strongest main force known to mankind, ......famous for their powerful assault capabilities" in the book details the situation of heavy knights, among human beings, often only warriors with high martial arts have the opportunity to become heavy knights, among them, knights who have reached the realm of fighting spirit are awarded the title of paladin, as a symbol of honor, becoming a heavy knight, especially a paladin, is almost the lifelong pursuit of all human warriors.

"In war, heavily armed knights with high martial arts skills are often the key force that determines the victory or defeat of the battlefield......" The book gives a high evaluation of the heavy knights, Marven deeply agrees, at the beginning, the church only sent a paladin and a dozen heavy knights, and easily defeated more than 130 of them, although they were trained by Aite, all of them were brave and tenacious, and they were not afraid of death, although they had nearly ten times the numerical advantage, and they also captured a lot of Francis's weapons and equipment, in the end, they were defeated without suspense, and were almost slaughtered......

Thinking of the paladin's terrifying combat power, Marven still shuddered.

With the awe of the heavy knight, Marven continued to read it, and the rest of the content made his eyes shine, and the book even introduced the method of dealing with the heavy knight!

Marven was overjoyed and hurriedly turned the book.

Another main branch of the ------- is the heavy infantry, which is also composed of skilled warriors, who are also very well equipped, not only have a set of armor that is comparable to the knight's armor, but also often equipped with a shield that is almost a man high, this large shield is called a tower shield, made of stainless steel, with excellent protection, and many of their weapons are designed for cavalry.

In the battle, the heavy infantry lined up in a strict and dense formation, marching forward neatly, the whole earth trembled with the sound of their footsteps, their tower shields were neatly arranged, forming a copper wall and iron wall, their heavy spears stretched straight ahead, the dense spears were clearly layered, and the murderous aura was exposed, it was simply an insurmountable gun forest!

A phalanx of heavy infantry strong enough to withstand a frontal charge from any cavalry, even the Paladins!

Marven held his breath and continued to read, in addition to introducing some specific tactics of heavy infantry, he also introduced the world's strongest heavy infantry------- dwarven heavy infantry!

Dwarves are born warriors and metallurgists, and they create heavy infantry Mithril armors with materials, design, and workmanship that far surpass those of human hoplites!

In terms of combat effectiveness, the strength of the dwarven heavy infantry is definitely not below the heavy knights, and the high-level dwarven warriors even have a record of defeating the human paladins!

Sophisticated weapons, superb martial arts, iron-like discipline, and a spirit of not fearing death have earned the dwarven heavy infantry the title of "King of Melee Combat", and even the wild and bloodthirsty beast wolf cavalry are in awe of it!

It seems that this heavy infantry is really the best choice to restrain the heavy knights, Marven fantasized in his heart, if he and Aite also had the sophisticated equipment of the dwarven heavy infantry, maybe they could really fight the heavy knights of the church, or at least, they would not have been defeated so badly.

However, at the end of this text, a red cross is drawn, which is obviously left by Hypatia, which shows that she does not agree with this statement.

Hypatia wrote a large note in her delicate handwriting, and Marven continued to read it with curiosity and doubt.

"Heavy knights, strong armor and spears, excellent mobility, and strong men. In sixteen words, she accurately summed up the characteristics and advantages of the Heavy Rider.

"Heavy infantry, especially dwarven heavy infantry, is indeed powerful in frontal combat, and it can even be said that it is unparalleled in the world...... However, combat effectiveness is not the only criterion for measuring the strength of war, and the disadvantage of mobility is the greatest weakness of heavy infantry......"

Marven couldn't help but nod, Hypatia did make sense.

"The excellent combat effectiveness of the elite heavy infantry can allow them to win against the hoplite knights in skirmishes, but once a large-scale battle breaks out, their mobility disadvantage will be exposed, and the knights can choose to attack their relatively weak flanks instead of fighting the heavy infantry phalanx head-on, or make a bold strategic detour to cut off their rear supplies, and once the supplies are completely cut off...... Marven read softly, "no matter how strong the heavy infantry phalanx is, it will collapse without a fight!"

This also explains why the Dwarven kingdom is still strategically on the defensive against humanity after a series of victories in the wars against the Human Empire...... Because, they simply don't have the capital to fight a decisive battle with the human legions, although the strength of the dwarven warriors is better than that of the heavily armed knights!"

After reading this paragraph, Marven couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his forehead, even such a strong dwarf heavy infantry couldn't really restrain the hoplite knight, wouldn't the hoplite knight be invincible in the world; Marven swallowed a mouthful of saliva and continued to read Hypatia's notes, he faintly felt that Hypatia must have some way to restrain the hoplite knight

"Human heavy knights also have a lot of weaknesses, first of all, in order to ensure the ability to protect, the armor of the heavy knight is often mixed with a lot of mythril, making the whole set of armor extremely heavy, which increases the burden of the war horse, ordinary horses can hardly bear this terrifying weight, therefore, in order to ensure the impact and mobility of the heavy knight, humans can only use mutant horses with Warcraft blood as their mounts......"

"And the number of horses with the bloodline of Warcraft is relatively rare, and the cost of raising is large, so it is difficult for the human Heavy Knights to form a large scale, and once there is a large-scale battle damage, it is difficult to replenish the ...... in a short time."

"In the human realm, with the exception of a few major empires, most countries have very limited heavy knights, and some small countries do not even have a single heavy knight. ”

"Human metallurgy and forging technology are far inferior to dwarves, so they often use too much magic to improve the performance of the armor when building battle armor...... As a good magician, Hypatia is well aware of the effects of this type of armor on the release of magic, in fact, not all metals have an insulating effect on magic, but this shoddy magic armor has a strong interference with spell casting.

"The number of human mages is relatively small, and humans are more inclined to concentrate the use of a small number of mage troops to increase the effect of long-range cluster strikes, and the consequence of this is that the coordination between the mage group and the heavy knights is not strong, and the mages often only apply some auxiliary magic such as the Abrahamic shield to the knights, which cannot better cooperate with the battle of the heavy knights and strengthen their already weak long-range attack capabilities......"

"And most of the Night Elves have some simple magic, and when it comes to magical ranged attacks, the Night Elves have their own unique advantages......"

Magic is indeed a unique advantage of the elves, almost all elves have the talent to learn magic, plus the elves live much longer than ordinary humans, so they have more time to delve into those advanced magic.

"The mobility advantage of the heavy knights is only relative, except for a very small number of super strong people among the paladins, the mobility of the vast majority of heavy knights is not as good as some well-trained light cavalry, therefore, the mobile unicorn cavalry in my elf clan can be mixed with some excellent magicians, so that the mixed legion can have a double advantage over the heavy knights in mobility and long-range attacks, and then adopt reasonable guerrilla tactics to gradually annihilate the human heavy knights!"

The following text focuses on some tactics and tricks against the heavy knights, Marven can't help but be amazed after reading it, the seemingly powerful heavy knights are by no means invulnerable in the eyes of Hypatia!

Marven was deeply fascinated and fascinated by it......

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and someone was coming.

Marven thought it was Hypatia who had returned, so he hurriedly walked out and opened the door, but he was greeted by several other elves, still familiar faces.

"Yo, I can meet the lowly Xia pig anywhere, it really blinds my eyes. Alan Jin said out loud in a weird voice, he looked at Marven with a disdainful look, the shadow of the last time he apologized to Marven is still remembered, and a resentment is still gathering in his chest and has not dissipated.

Nuren, who was following him, also stepped forward and said, "Why are you still here?"

"It's inevitable that you've been a guest for too long, don't you want to leave?" Alan King looked at Marven, completely with a haughty and disdainful look, looking at Marven like an ant.

Marven clenched his hands and released them after a moment.

"General Hypatia is not here for the time being, you can come back to her later. Marven said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

These two people are elves and subordinates of Hypatia, Marven doesn't want to entangle with them, and the entanglement is not as direct as strength.

The enjoyment of the mouth does not mean anything, for so many years, Marven has long been accustomed to these words, strength is the most important thing, isn't it?

"General Ranger isn't here, why are you here?" Alan King stared at Marven with suspicion and questioning in his eyes.

Marven replied with an unchanged face, "I have permission from General Hypatia to read here." After speaking, he raised the book in his hand to sign.

"Haha, haha! It's so funny to read a book here!" said Newron immediately burst out laughing, full of sarcasm.

"Hmph, I actually used such a childish thing as reading a book as an excuse, and a lowly Xia pig appeared in the room of the ranger general, the meaning of which is really intriguing. Alan King spoke meaningfully, looking at Marven as if he wanted to see him through.

Marven snorted coldly and said, "I didn't expect that there are such cautious people in the elf clan, just reading a book, and they can also involve so many ideas, they are really two elves with ideas." ”

If you don't do it, it doesn't mean that Marven will be bullied by the two elves like this.

"Huh, you actually said that we are careful, do you know that lowly Xia pigs are not allowed to appear here, so that our ideas are all fake. Alan King was terrified.

He took a bite of a Xia pig, and the ugly words lingered in Marven's ear, Marven's hand was clenched, and he held back his anger.

"If that's the case, you can just ask General Hypatia. Marven said coldly, unwilling to explain too much.

"General Hypatia is very protective of you. Nuren said dissatisfiedly, a lowly Xia pig is also worthy of Hypatia's maintenance, I really don't know what this crazy woman wants to do.

Hypatia is not defending Marven, but just appreciating, Marven's strong and unyielding and indomitable temperament is appreciated by her, Marven also appreciates Hypatia's intelligence and wisdom, the two appreciate each other, they are not understood by the world, but they cherish each other.

"I really want to throw you out, while we are busy dealing with the demons, you are enjoying peace here. If Hypatia knew that he had an opinion about Marven again, she would definitely teach herself a lesson, and Alan King simply put aside Hypatia and said a few words to teach Marven a lesson.

"What a shameless race, cowardly and cowardly, and with the Ranger General defending you, will you be able to enjoy yourself here?" Nullen scoffed.

Marven took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and scolded him, and even talked about his race one after another, arousing anger in his heart in addition to the impatience to be strong.

"If you're all right, come back to General Hypatia later. Marven said coldly, and closed the door with a bang, and if he faced these two elves again, he might not be able to help but fight.

Alan King and Newren glanced at each other and looked at the closed door.

"This Xia pig is really terrible. Nuren was dissatisfied.

"Hmph, there must be a reason why the Ranger General defends the Xia Clan so much!" Alan Jin said fixedly.

Nuren's eyes lit up and he asked, "What is the reason?"

"How do I know!" Alan King snorted and paced away, "and I'll find out why." ”

Why? What is the reason? For example, Hypatia is in collusion with the infidels...... Thinking of this, the gaze in Alan King's eyes became even fiercer.