Chapter 1666: Low morale
The envoys of the Sulitan Empire left without any injuries, including his retinue.
The two empires have their own pride, and they will not do anything to a small emissary.
The elves trust the tower master 100% - mainly the other ,——, and the elves will do whatever he tells him. But superfluous things will never be done.
The reason why the elves are so cooperative is, of course, the credit of the World Tree. The boss of his own family is so enthusiastic about that magician, almost to the point of responding to requests. Even if you don't stammer, don't make trouble for others. If someone sues their parents, no one should think about it.
And Fin's attitude is still indifferent. Not to mention that the magic tower can be used, there are three Marine Legions, five Airship Legions, and Elf cooperation; Even if she was left alone, it would not be a problem to defeat that 500,000-strong army, it would just take some time.
However, the non-commissioned officers of the two empires of Gwana and Haider did not have so much confidence.
The people who came here, including the Commander, were not those who were very familiar with a certain mage and his background forces. They are relatively pure soldiers, with a noble status at most. To put it bluntly, it is just a chess piece in the eyes of the big guys.
Coupled with the common sense that the construction cycle of the magic tower is usually more than twenty years. Even though the three-story magic tower was completely inserted in front of their eyes, they still subconsciously thought that this magic tower could not be used as well as it should.
Magic Towers do not function as War Fortresses. In terms of troops, there is a gap of more than ten times with the opponent, and the opponent is not a miscellaneous army of farmers and miscellaneous soldiers. Although it has the advantage of airships, there is no reason to take the initiative.
No matter how you look at it, the next battle is not just a loss, but a death!
An atmosphere of mourning permeated the darkness. Even if the previous fight against demons reached the point of exhaustion, it did not breed them despair. Now that the war has not started, the morale has slipped all the way.
This is the impact of whether there is a righteous name on the morale of the army. Even if you are a powerful army in the empire, you will feel confused about what you are doing is not right, rather than obeying everything unconditionally.
Don't say anything like guarding the Abyss Gate. It is generally accepted that this dangerous passage should be completely closed, and this is the right thing to do. The upper echelons of the empire have their own considerations, but it does not mean that everyone can understand and agree.
What's more, this is still guarding on someone else's territory, and the materials for building the magic tower are still moved from their own warehouse. This whole thing doesn't seem right from any angle.
This is the regular legion that they belong to the empire, and all actions are officially ordered by the emperor and the military department, which allows them to come to the magic array city in front of the Twin Towers of the Gate completely. If it were the armies of other small countries, I am afraid that deserters would start to arise on the way.
However, even if they don't understand the thoughts of the Empire's higher-ups, they have orders to protect the magic tower, and they still have to do what they need to do.
Airships sent high-altitude reconnaissance, which is the proper meaning.
Because they didn't think that the magic tower was finished, they simply didn't go to the tower master to consult. Judging from the limited communication, the other party is not very easy to deal with.
Then it is to build some defensive strongholds around the city of the magic circle that has already been built. This damn city has no walls, and it is not allowed to be changed, modified, even demolished.
Under such limited conditions, no one had the confidence to defend the city. So if you don't change it, you can't change it, everyone is invisibly ready to die in battle.
Some people even began to wonder if they or someone in the legion had offended the upper echelons of the empire. That's why they were sent to such a place of death to carry out a mortal mission.
Although he is a citizen of the empire, he is still under various unfavorable conditions to provoke another empire. If you really think you're beaten with iron, you can't die!
When the atmosphere of mourning spreads to the limit, it will begin to rebound. Don't think that this backlash will be for the better, but in fact it will be the turning point when resentment begins to turn into anger. All it takes is one more spark to detonate this dangerous atmosphere that is no different from a powder keg.
The terrain around the Abyss Gate has undergone a large-scale terrain destruction in order to excavate materials for the manufacture of weapons due to the presence of demons and the Underworld Alliance.
Don't ask why the Abyssal Gate happens to be on a vein of metal. In fact, all kinds of special veins in the lost land are quite abundant, it is just a matter of how deep they are buried.
And there are gray dwarves from the underground world, even if they are close to the mantle layer, they can still dig up and play.
Therefore, before the drones could make a move, the location of the Abyss Gate had been formed like a land island, towering in the middle of a large crater. Only one bridge-like passage has not been dug up, and the rest of the place has been mined to the point where you will not be able to see the bottom when you stand on the edge of the pothole.
Connecting the bottom of the tunnel to the surface requires the use of a lift or a teleportation circle, and you can imagine how deep the Grey Dwarves have dug up.
Of course, Lin couldn't accept that the magic tower standing in front of the Abyss Gate would be turned into an island, and even if the pit next to it was filled with water, it would be completely meaningless. Even though he did that, it was like a moat protecting the magic tower, but where did the magic array city he prepared go?
Therefore, the deep pit that was violently mined by the gray dwarves was naturally filled in by the robots, and the nearby terrain was leveled by the way.
Anyway, all the trees and other things were cut down by the gray dwarves for firewood. If we don't improve the environmental situation at all, it may be a few hundred or even decades from now, and the neighborhood will be transformed by desertification.
Considering that in addition to building a magic circle city, it is also necessary to carry out crop cultivation in the vicinity to achieve food self-sufficiency in the magic tower and the city.
Even if the self-sufficiency rate is not 100 percent, it cannot be completely dependent on external transportation. Otherwise, as soon as the transportation is interrupted, the magic tower will be at the mercy of others. This is also the method used by the vast majority of noble lords to deal with magic towers, although it takes a long time, but it is indeed useful.
In order to meet such needs, the scope of the machine's land preparation is not only the size of the magic array city, nor is it the inherent territory of the magic tower, which is ten kilometers in radius. Instead, it extends outward by two or three times, and the area of light increases about ten times faster.
Although this was originally the territory of the Sulitan Empire, in the two or three years since it was occupied by demons, there have been no living people active here. Everything that could be eaten and caught was all caught, and there were no rats or insects left.
This is a good thing for the robot who is ready to tear down and rebuild. Fundamentally eliminate the possibility of nail households, because there is no one at all.
There may also be noble lords who are entitled to claim land that are still alive, or whose relatives are claiming them in the name of inheritance. But since the magic tower is built on other people's land, the rest of the part can be grabbed if necessary. Someone is completely free of psychological burden.
Therefore, the terrain around the twin towers of the gate on the side of the ground has been polished into a smooth plane by the machines. If it weren't for the sand blowing all over the sky on weekdays, and the occasional afternoon thundershowers would turn the ground into mud and destroy it for a few days, I'm afraid it would not feel like a natural environment at all.
Although the machine people have a warranty for the magic array city, they have repaired it once after it was destroyed by a large-scale earthquake. But for other places it is not so positive. In conclusion, the original hilly terrain near the Abyss Gate was directly transformed into a great plain by the robots.
The so-called Great Plains, tactically, is a terrain that is easy to attack and difficult to defend. This undoubtedly brought a lot of trouble to the commanders of the regular legions, to which the two empires responsible for defense belonged.
Then according to the reconnaissance report of the airship, the army of the Sulitan Empire claimed to be half a million, but in fact it may be only a little more. Because 500,000 is a regular army with a register, but some small tribes follow the autumn wind, and there are civilian logistics supplies, which will not be included in the roster.
Such an army has not already converged in one place, but has converged from all sides and is heading towards the target magic tower. The closest vanguard army, according to the speed that the Sulitan Empire is most proud of, can approach the Magic Array City within ten days, and even launch an attack.
Before the army of the Gwana Empire was mechanized, the army of the Sulitan Empire was quite high because of the horse ownership rate. On average, there are more than three horsemen per person, and everyone is a soldier, regardless of whether they are male or female.
Let this grassland country have the largest number of troops in the whole world, and the fastest mobilization army.
The number of regular legions in other empires was mostly maintained at around ten, and each legion was about 10,000 people. In the case of war mobilization, including the private armies of the nobles, it is possible to pull out several times as many troops.
However, if you want to compare with the Sulitan Empire, no one can compare with this empire that can easily pull out 500,000 troops. Maybe not all of them are elite, but they are all strong armies above the average of other countries.
The tactics of the sea of people, the ability to maneuver at great speed, and the strength of the empire-level war mobilization all impacted the confidence of the armies left by the two empires of Gwana and Haider.
In contrast, what is on your own side. plains that are not conducive to defense; Bare, with no tree resources to build defenses; There are also some empty houses that don't know what to do.
What's more, these houses can't be moved or demolished! The house built by the earth elemental elves, if it is not for the mage, it is not so easy for mortals to demolish with tools alone.
Then obviously let the earth elemental elves come forward to build the city, why don't you pull a city wall by the way and wrap the city. Instead of being as defenseless as it is now, even a wild boar can easily break in.
It means that there are no creatures in this area, and everyone can't hunt or fight tooth sacrifices.
Without the help of the Airship Force of the Haider Empire in transporting supplies, they would not know who to call for it, even if they wanted to collect it on the spot.
And the Airship Legion is still there, which can be regarded as good news. When necessary, this is the best means of retreat.
Even if the Suritang Empire had a way to deal with airships, it was only possible to succeed under limited conditions. If the airship is bent on running, the chances of being left behind are not high.
The only concern is the capacity of the airship, and there is no way to evacuate everyone. And the convoy that originally sent the three legions of the Gwana Empire also returned to carry supplies and follow-up personnel.
The above means that once this battle starts, many people will inevitably die in this place of death where there is no way to escape.