Chapter 892: War of Attrition
The Winged Humans are a race that values bloodline very much.
Ordinary winged people, whose wings have degraded and lost the ability to fly, are the worst bloodline of the winged people, and above them are the skywing species whose wings have not yet degenerated, and the skywing species is the holy wing species.
According to the level of the bloodline, the Holy Wing Species can be divided into the Four-Winged Saint-Wing Species and the Six-Winged Saint-Wing Species.
However, the influence of bloodlines on a winged person is limited to their talent for cultivating divine arts.
As the top-level divine arts, the reincarnation technique, the judgment light wheel, and the god's punishment can only be learned by the most noble six-winged holy wing species, while the lowest-level winged people can only use some of the simplest low-level divine arts, and so on.
But divine art is one thing, ability is another, even the worst bloodline of the winged people, there is a possibility of a top talent with five stars of intelligence.
Therefore, in Gabriel Rainne Agatha's wingman civilization, many officials and even important ministers are actually ordinary wingmen.
At this time, they received a summons from the priest, and they all wore white priests' robes and gathered in the temple hall.
Then, with the sound of wings flapping, a heroic female knight wearing the armor of holy light arrived belatedly.
After entering the temple, she walked briskly past the priests on either side of the column, then fell to one knee and bowed respectfully to Gabriel Agatha, who was seated on the throne.
"Michelle, see my lord!"
At this time, it is the captain of the Knights Templar, Michelle!
The Knights Templar is a legion directly under Gabriel Rainne Agatha, and it is also the only legion among the three ace legions of her Winged Civilization whose leader is not the six-winged Saint Wing.
Michelle is a four-winged saint-winged species, but don't think that she is a four-winged, so her strength is weak.
Due to the limitations of her own bloodline, Michelle was unable to perform some top-level divine arts, but even so, the four wings behind her had completely transformed into a dazzling golden color under her hard cultivation, almost the same as Michael.
This shows that her divine cultivation is stronger than the original individual Six-Winged Saint Wing Species!
Of course, in addition to this, more importantly, Michelle, as Gabriel Agatha's henchman, is also a top character with four stars of bravery, four stars of intelligence, and five stars of command!
Although his individual strength has not reached the strategic level, he is a well-deserved top general!
While signaling Michelle to excuse himself, Gabriel Rainne Agatha directly passed the battle report in his hand.
After the priests, including Michelle, read all the contents of the battle report, she said in a deep voice: "Now that the strong enemy is pressing the border, threatening the safety of my divine kingdom, I need to recruit more troops to repel the enemy!"
Hearing this, one of the Heavenly Wing Priests, who had a white beard, hurriedly walked out in two steps and said quickly, "My lord, after years of war, the Kingdom of God has requisitioned too many troops, resulting in a significant drop in the number of young and middle-aged Winged people in the Kingdom of God, and even the productivity has been greatly affected. Now, if we recruit and deploy troops, the development of the kingdom of God will not be guaranteed, and at the same time, the production of logistical supplies will also become a huge problem!"
The words of this Celestial Wing Priest can be said to be true, and Gabriel Rainne Agatha also knows it in his heart.
Before Xia Qi came in, her winged army had been pressing on the solemn western border, putting pressure on the garrison there.
But Solemn is a player in the Gold Rank, and even though Gabriel Rainne Agatha is the first in Silver, it is obviously far from threatening him.
The only thing that can be done is probably to contain a part of the solemn forces, and at the same time distract the other party, unable to concentrate on dealing with the three golden rank bosses of their Thor's hammer.
And in order to do this, Gabriel Rainne Agatha has paid the price of at least a million troops over the years!
At the same time, the internal development of the Wingman civilization has collapsed by half, and the productivity is about to fall to the bottom.
After this all-out war is fought, even if they can win,
It would take nearly a hundred years for her Wingman civilization to fully recover, to say the least.
If she wants to recruit troops again, you can imagine how difficult it is, how much pressure she has to bear, and what price she pays.
After thinking for a moment, Gabriel Agatha's eyes fell on the Celestial Wing Priest.
"I am naturally aware of your concerns, but I have no choice now."
At this point, Gabriel Lane Agatha paused, and then spoke again, "Regarding the problem of logistical supplies, I will ask my allies in this battle to help solve it. Now, answer me, how many troops can be requisitioned?"
Under Gabriel Rain's gaze, the Celestial Wing Priest only felt the pressure on his body increase dramatically, and in the end, he could only bite the bullet and report a number.
"Up to 100,000."
"Then conscript 100,000 soldiers!"
As he spoke, Gabriel Agatha's gaze quickly fell on Michelle.
"Michelle, you will take care of the recruitment and training."
"Yes!"
After ordering a series of things, Gabriel Rainne Agatha, who signaled everyone to retreat, quickly opened the system interface, and then sent a message to the three bigwigs of the alliance.
Next, she needed some support.
In the face of the great enemy of solemnity, it is estimated that it will be no fun to let the three bigwigs of their Europa transfer troops over.
However, some material supply support is not a problem.
Sure enough, after receiving her news, as one of the three golden rank bosses, he directly responded to the matter.
He also said that he would send a fleet of supplies to bring supplies over from the sea.
It's just that, in order to avoid the solemn troops, he is afraid that he will have to take a little detour, and it will inevitably take a little more time.
In the next period of time, the high-frequency harassment and raids of the winged army also made Xia Qi realize that the opposite side was beginning to consume his troops.
This style of play has always been difficult to deal with.
After all, after crossing the border, in terms of familiarity with the surrounding terrain, who can surpass the opposing wingmen, the opposite attack and harassment tactics are simply handy.
Unless Xia Qi can go straight to the opposite border fortress and forcibly drag the battle into an offensive and defensive battle, it is possible to change the current situation.
However, from the border line to the fortress, there is actually a long distance, and the winged people on the opposite side have clearly calculated this section of the road, wanting to make Xia Qi and his army uneasy, and at the same time greatly slowing down their marching efficiency.
If this rhythm continues, when the time comes, even if they are pressed outside the fortress and the soldiers who have been attacked and harassed all the way by the winged troops, I am afraid that they will not be in the state to attack.
In the face of this situation, Xia Qi undoubtedly needs some means to deal with it.
Seriously, this is not the first time he has encountered this kind of tactical play, he has been marching and fighting for so many years, and he has accumulated a lot of experience in this kind of thing.
With an order, the army found an open terrain and camped in place.
Under normal circumstances, camping in such a secluded position would have been a foolish decision, but it is not the right time to do so.
Coupled with the fact that the opposing wingman troops are familiar with the terrain of their territory, they will probably be found by the attacking forces wherever they hide.
In this way, it is better to find an open terrain to stop in a generous way.
Although there is no cover to cover it, at the same time, in this open terrain environment, if the enemy attacks them, they can also see them at a glance in all directions, and the success rate of the opposite attack can be greatly reduced.
Today's Wingman civilization makes it clear that they don't want to fight head-on with them.
Therefore, when Xia Qi's camp was swinging like this, the opposite side was a lot more settled.
For the next three days, Xia Qi didn't let the army move, and was tossed by the opposite side for so long, taking advantage of this opportunity to let the soldiers rest well, and adjust their schedules by the way.
On the evening of the third day, the army marched out!
Winged people do not have night vision, and when they act at night, they are affected by light and vision, and their combat effectiveness is declining.
In comparison, although Xia Qi also has many troops that do not have night vision, and when they march at night, their marching efficiency will be reduced a lot, but on the other hand, he also has a lot of orc troops with night vision.
Therefore, the night action, no matter how you think about it, he takes advantage.
In this way, in the following days, Xia Qi's army camped and rested in a place with a wide field of vision during the day, and at night, they began to march at night.
The sudden reversal of the work and rest of the Great Xia army caught the winged people off guard for a while, and even lost the initiative for a while.
In order to regain the initiative, on the third day of the overnight march of the Great Xia army, the attacking troops on the Winged People's side finally could not sit still, and then launched an attack at night.
As a result, the troops under Xia Qi's command with night vision capabilities were attacked head-on, defeated and fled.
Maintaining this rhythm, the army of Great Xia advanced while dealing with the attack of the Wingman troops, and after ten consecutive days of night marching, it reached the periphery of the border fortress on the Wingman side!
From a distance, the border fortress of the Winged People civilization is quite medieval style.
Of course, this fortress obviously can't really be as easy to fight as a medieval fortress.
did not approach easily, Xia Qi, who was standing in the middle of the military formation, beckoned, and with a heavy pace, the elephant giant artillery unit directly rolled out the artillery formation.
It seems that Xia Qi is planning to fire directly here, so that the border fortress of the Winged People Civilization can taste the power of this long-range attack.
[In view of the general environment,
After years of development, the giant cannon in the hands of the elephant man giant artillery is also advancing with the times and constantly developing.
Both the power and the range have been greatly improved compared to those years.
Xia Qi didn't intend to be polite to the other side, and directly signaled to the elephant giant artillery to replace them with armor-piercing shells.
In the next second, in the roar of earth-shattering artillery fire, a round of armor-piercing shells carried a screaming sound, and directly bombarded the border fortress of the Wingman civilization in the distance.
And at the moment when those armor-piercing shells approached the fortress, Xia Qi only heard a series of explosions in the distance, and the shelling that should have hit the fortress barrier was actually blocked in advance by a layer of shield that appeared out of thin air!
This is one of the defenses of the Winged People civilization, and on top of their border fortress, there is a super huge protective shield that covers the entire fortress building!
As soon as an enemy attack is detected, the shield will open to force the attack down.
Xia Qi also learned about this news from the information provided by Ares a long time ago.
So now in the face of this situation, he is not too surprised.
An order was issued, directly signaling the elephant man giant artillery unit to continue firing.
Xia Qi wanted to see if the defensive cover on the opposite side was harder, or the firepower of his elephant giant artillery unit was more fierce.
Compared to those elemental weapons that consume magic crystals at every turn, cannonballs are really too cheap for Xia Qi.