Chapter 1667: Defense Preparations
Before receiving the Emperor's order, none of the legions of the two empires of Gwana and Haider stationed in the Twin Towers of the Gate left.
Although the front-line commander has the right to act cheaply, he retreats in a hurry before the battle is fought, and after returning to the army, he can directly go to military trial. After all, the order they received at the beginning was to settle in the Magic Array City to assist in the defense of the Magic Tower.
The Gwana Empire silently selected the seeds to be kept by each legion, so that they could leave in the airship of the Haider Empire at the most critical moment.
The Haider Empire's side is not relying on all-airships, thinking that they can run whenever they want. In the face of an empire as an opponent, there must always be someone to break the back, and there are arrangements for retreat. At these times, airships are the most vulnerable, and how to arrange defense is also a top priority.
The two imperial armies with this realization still used the resources at hand to arrange a loose line of defense.
Specifically, it is to shrink the army into the inner circle of the Magic Array City. Arrange obstacles on the roadway to form a barrier. Then, cooperate with the shooting position and the magician position to form a crossfire network, and prepare for a street battle with an endless stream of enemies.
Of course, the outer ring of the city was not directly abandoned, but a certain number of suspicious troops were arranged. In addition to delaying the enemy's attack, it also has a certain reconnaissance mission.
Elves...... Play back to their respective tactics during the period of the Turtledove Alliance, the most headache for the human noble lords and wealthy merchants, and scatter them into pieces and scattered into this small city. All the houses are places for them to hide.
All kinds of harassment and guerrilla tactics, combined with their ability to strike from a distance, no matter how many troops enter the city, once dispersed, they will become the target of their hunting.
Unless the houses are demolished all the way and the past is suppressed, this magic array city that has not yet fully functioned will become a nightmare for the army. Fortunately, the 'cannon' is still in the maze, but it has not yet become a conventional weapon of war.
The human side has no opinion on the elves' plans, and they have never thought of commanding this group of long-lived races. Unless they are from the elven kingdom and have been trained by the regular army, these lone rangers, who are no different from rangers, are difficult to integrate into the army battle formation.
And on the side of the Sulitan Empire, the vanguard army arrived early. And after seeing the defensive posture of the city in front of him, he did not hesitate to march and start a trial.
But advance fast and retreat fast. Before they even touched the inner perimeter, the defensive line composed of the regular armies of the two empires was blocked by the elven guerrillas. The mobility of the horses was minimized in urban street fighting, and the advantage was lost.
Realize that this dense structure has become the best shelter, hiding the elves' whereabouts. The vanguard of the Sulitan Empire tried to set fire to the house, intending to burn it down. But the buildings produced by the earth elemental elves, how can they be so easy to burn.
If the building is mainly made of wood, then one burn is a piece. Fueled by the wind, ruining the city in one fell swoop is not a problem.
However, the houses in the Magic Array City are all reinforced concrete structures, and they have not yet begun to move in on a large scale. This means that the interior of the house has not yet been renovated, and there is no high-quality fuel to burn.
As a result, this vanguard army almost ran out of fires and ignition materials for the army, and failed to really burn down a room. In the end, the only choice was to withdraw and wait for the arrival of the follow-up army.
On the side of the Sulitan Empire, the follow-up troops arrived at the periphery of the magic array city of the Twin Towers of the Gate one after another. After learning about the situation of the forward army, they did not choose to attack at the first time, but waited for the whole army to assemble with an attitude of encirclement.
It stands to reason that in such a tactically refueling tactic, and directly at the enemy's door, the defenders should take advantage of the fact that the army has not yet arrived, and fight a few waves of victories to boost morale.
The Sulitan Empire also knew that there was such a possibility, so what they did was somewhat of a way to sell flaws and seduce people. If the commanders of the two empires, Gwana and Haider, couldn't help but take action, then their position in the negotiations afterwards would be even more fragile.
However, the armies of the two empires still shrank around the city, and the suspicious troops on the periphery did not risk being exposed to slaughter one or two soldiers. The elves will never appear as long as the opponent does not enter the city street fight.
This kind of shrinking posture made the generals of the Sulitan Empire angry. Although they are not afraid of street fighting, if they can fight in the field, they can have a greater advantage. The other party seems to know this, so he simply ignores any seduction.
During this period, the two of them, who were the owners of the twin towers of the Gate, of course, were not idle, just waiting to watch the show.
The magic tower is built and the energy pool is online, but that doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. In the words of a certain crosser, that is, the hardware is perfected, and the next part of the software should be improved.
Even if you don't build the software on the program side, you can still use the old method to control the magic tower and play its full function. But the program itself is meant to be integrated and made more convenient.
The same thing can be completed with one click and half a day of busy work, without considering the problem of wasting time, and the coolness of the perception is also poor.
As for the overwhelm of the army...... Whether it is Lin or Fen, the idea is the same as Fen's before, and the things that can be solved by themselves are not to worry about with the magic tower in hand.
And also because of the magic tower, things should be simpler and easier to deal with. What's the point of using tools if they're more cumbersome and tiring than not using them? It is absolutely impossible for Lin to let himself fall into such an embarrassing realm.
So in order to achieve the effect of talking and laughing, the tree is in ashes, so it is very important to integrate all the functions of the magic tower and use the program to carry out a certain degree of automatic judgment and simplification.
Although this period is busy, the advantage is that as long as you are busy for a while, you can have a long period of relaxation. After that, some revisions, modifications, upgrades and revisions should be carried out slowly.
It's like your own flashing technique, but in fact, the core spell model is not complicated. But as an auxiliary calculation, it was several times the scale of the original spell model, or even dozens of times, and finally obtained the ability to launch a flash at the heart of his heart.
So during this time, Lin and Fen were almost deaf to foreign affairs. As long as the Sulitan Empire did not attack, they didn't care what the group of people guarding outside the tower was going to do. Anyway, it's just to concentrate on writing the program software for the magic tower.
The architecture established in the past during the era of the Great Sage's Tower can be transplanted to the Twin Towers of the Gate, but it is far from enough.
Although during the time in the Holy City of Estari, there were some refinements to the programmatic architecture used for this building, but it was not for the Magic Tower. There are many functions that only magic towers have, and they were not used in the past, and of course they have not been considered, or even written.
Now that it can be used, although it seems a little rushed, one has to wonder why the two magicians didn't prepare in advance.
The actual situation is that someone was so busy that he flew up some time ago, how could he have time to sit down and be a code farmer seriously. You know, the work of a coder is not like a mobile game, which can be done in fragmented time. Even if you don't fast and bathe for three days and three nights, a full period of time is still needed.
And Finn ...... Well, she's not busy, but she's lazy!
Besides, what they want to do is not something that can be done by imagination, and the basic structure is already there. And there is no physical reference, so naturally it is impossible to conduct simulation tests. So it's not that you don't want to make progress, it's that it's hard to make progress.
Perhaps, in the case of sufficient old references, the parameters required for the simulation program can be established. But what's the point? Popularize the program for the Magic Tower? Sell it for money? Build a super-hard empire in the maze! The four-color flag dominates the world?
This kind of thing, whether it is Lin or Fen, has never thought about it. If they can really intervene, they must choose to cover things up. If no one knows, no one knows, and they just regard these as their killer features at the bottom of the box.
What an international joke, transform all the magic towers in the Lost Land to a level with the level of the Great Sage's Tower! How much I can't think about it, I directly turn on the switch of the hell-level difficulty.
Therefore, the two of them coincidentally chose to start the improvement of the software after the hardware of the twin towers of the door was complete. It's not a way for one person to be in charge of a tower, but two people to work together to tackle the magic tower on the maze side that is now facing a crisis.
As a mirror design of the twin towers of the door, although there are some differences between the maze side and the abyss side, it is not too big. There are commonalities in the software used to control the magic tower, with only slight differences that need to be adjusted.
Since I don't plan to do something repetitive, let's work together to get one tower done first, and copy and paste the other tower, at most a small change or two.
The two people who have this realization, the progress is naturally rapid. And there are physical objects that can be tested, and if there are any bugs in use, it is more intuitive, and it can be corrected immediately.
Just outside, the defenders were panicking, and the attackers, who were exerting pressure, did not know that they were about to face catastrophe, so they moved slowly.
Although the Suritang Empire was skilled in being a powerful country, none of them expected that this time of pressure would also give the two magicians a gap to operate.
If the Twin Towers of the Gate are still the original appearance after the energy pool is ignited, no matter what attack is to be launched, it will require a charging time and aiming action. In this case, even if the operator's hand speed is so fast that only an afterimage remains, there is a certain upper limit to the connection of continuous operation.
However, after completing the programmatic processing of various matching tests, it can be regarded as basic performance. It is really to the extent that elementary school students can press the button and hit the nuclear bomb into the sky.
Although the more one-click functions are done, it is a very troublesome thing to remember which shortcut corresponds to which function. But for Lin and Fen's memory ability, these are trivial things.
In the past, when he was in the Tower of the Great Sage, Lin also used to put a ring on his knuckles. There are eighteen rings in total, with different dot sequences representing different functions. Today, of course, there is no need to use such troublesome methods to control the magic tower.
It's a bit exaggerated to use brainwave control or something. However, combined with the foundation of the forum, that is, the secret key transmission method of the eight powers, in the words of a certain traverser, it is a sealed package in the Internet, and the magic tower can be controlled without contact.
Such convenient technology is the reason why Fen is willing to do so many things with someone.