Came to the cavalry team at the foot of the mountain, and learned about the situation with the small demon troops stationed in the local area and the people who supported the lord.

After a few battles, only a third of the original 600 skeleton soldiers had been defeated, and the armed civilians who supported the territorial army had also suffered casualties, while the dwarves entrenched in the mountains remained unmoved.

This was not the first attack of the first territorial army, but in the extremely unfavorable terrain conditions, the skeleton soldiers who were not afraid of death and wounded were completely ineffective, and were shattered by the mine defenses constructed by the dwarves.

In the face of complex mountainous terrain, especially various mines that are difficult to find and destroy, the Lich's magic is not as effective as it is on flat ground.

The dwarves are short in stature, familiar with the terrain, never go out on a large scale, scattering and scurrying around, more difficult to catch than rabbits.

The mountains were originally natural fortresses, but in addition to occupying some advantages in perception and early warning, the demons were still powerless to deal with these gopher-like dwarves.

In addition to the geographical advantage, the dwarves also have inexhaustible minerals and exquisite craftsmanship, and have been using the blacksmith workshops in the mountains to make weapons.

There were iron ore in the mountains, and countless trees, and the dwarves forged them day and night, and hundreds of large crossbow arrows alone were laid out, making it difficult for those below to break in, and becoming a living target from all directions.

The dwarven leader of the mountain, Iwasu Zakir, has won several battles and openly provoked the lord's army, declaring that he will never surrender to the demons.

Not only that, but they also want to recruit more clansmen and people who oppose the demons, starting from the local area, to establish a dwarven kingdom across the entire Wind Whistling Mountains, and become a new force in the kingdom on the continent.

According to the Lich's report, they believe that there are at least seven hundred and eight dwarves and a comparable number of bandits in the mountains, and they have formed an alliance to form a force that is the most difficult bone to gnaw in the rebellion of the territory.

Because they have been rampant in the local area for many years and have robbed all the residents around them, this group of guys has a lot of money and it is difficult to be trapped and die in a short time.

What's more, they not only accumulated a lot of supplies, but also planted crops in the mountains, hunted and raised animals, and became self-sufficient.

This kind of place is condescending and located on the border, and if it is put aside, I don't know what will happen in the future.

In fact, seeing that the lord's dispatch this time was all cavalry, the local lich was fine, and those mountain people who had been driven out of their homes all showed frustrated expressions when they saw that the reinforcements they were looking forward to were like this.

Cavalry is certainly a noble and powerful class, but the mountains are not flat, so how can they have a chance to charge?

Seeing that his target was actually a mountain range that could not be seen at a glance, Jana, who was originally riveted to make meritorious contributions, also had a little headache.

I'm not a goat that is good at living on cliffs, so how can I hunt down this group of hidden guys hiding in the cave?

"The dwarves in the mountains have always been a neutral race, how can they fight alongside bandits?"

By this time, Ninia had not simply considered the method of warfare, but asked the older mountain people about the situation here.

It must be said that whether it is in the plains or in the mountains, the beautiful face and kind temperament are welcome, and seeing this beautiful female knight so earnestly, the old people in the mountains talk about the reasons why the local situation has become so good.

Cana really admires Ninia's sincere and serious attitude, she not only listens carefully, but also skillfully notes with pen and paper, like a good student who loves to learn.

This is also trained by the demons?

This is another old-fashioned story of the poor people out of the bad water, but the previous inaction of the demon clan is also an important reason for the worsening of the problem.

To be sure, the Coastal Territory is not a mountainous territory, and many places are flat, so just a part of the Wind Whistling Mountains stands out from the crowd in a small territory.

The Howling Mountains are located in the western part of the territory, but the main body is not located in the territory, the mountain range originates in the eastern edge of the kingdom of Skava, passes under the dense forests of the western realm where the elves live, and terminates in the coastal territory of the demons.

The reason why it is named "Whisking Mountains" is because in legend this place was

Jing is a windy place, not only is it difficult for creatures to climb, but even trees cannot take root, and countless stones are stripped out of the mountain, turning the mountain into a barren land.

Later, this mountain range, which caused all the races to complain, was sanctioned by the gods, and the wind that continued to flow all year round was calmed, and the beautiful mountain was now peaceful and beautiful.

In these mountains, there were Herodian mountain villages, monasteries of the hermitages, magic towers of the mages' guilds, hunting lodges of the elves, mines of the dwarves, and summer pastures of the nomads.

Adding to the fame of the mountains is the legend of the arrival of the Silver Dragon four hundred years ago, which built a nest on the peaks of the Coastal Territory to protect the people of the Territory by making offerings.

Of course, this is just a legend, and after a long time, there are no human witnesses who have seen the silver dragon in the territory, so that this guardian dragon only exists in legends and celebrations, and the traces of reality have long been gone.

In the years leading up to the rebellion in the Coastal Territory, many nomads and bandits moved into the mountains as a haven and fortress nest due to the sloppy reign of Count Dacoolas of the "Red Wings".

Compared with the old inhabitants of the mountains, this group of lawless creatures is more aggressive than the ordinary mountain people, not only taking the mountains as their own property, but also seizing the territory and resources of other mountain people everywhere, and seizing large areas of mountains with their ruthless methods and murderous style.

Of course, the other inhabitants were not willing to sit idly by, but on the one hand, they were not good at fighting, and on the other hand, they were too scattered and easily broken by each other, so many of them were either captured as slaves of the gangs or fled and lost their homes.

In the end, only a dwarven tribe that had lived in the local area for three hundred years did not surrender, this tribe did not lack weapons, and there were mining strongholds and mining towns, although there were many bandits, they could not help them for a while.

However, bandits are bandits and will never fight in a dignified manner, and they use the negotiation as an excuse to insidiously detain the tribal patriarch "Hammer" Demara and his son during the meeting, demanding that the rest of the tribe be exchanged for gold or an alliance.

The bandits' luck was really good, the younger brother of the dwarven patriarch "Iwasu" Zakir, a careerist who had long been watching the position of the patriarch, he agreed to the bandits' request, and after being opposed by the clansmen, he led the bandits to invade the mine town at night.

With the help of the enemy's strength, Iwasu slaughtered the clansmen who opposed him and were loyal to the patriarch in one fell swoop, controlled the rest of the clansmen who dared to be angry and dared not speak, openly colluded with the bandits in everything, stirred up trouble in the mountains, and harassed and destroyed everywhere.

This scum among the dwarves is very good at construction, not only making the mining town more solid, but also forcing them to strengthen the fortress regardless of the life and death of the captured mountain people.

Over the course of a few years, more mountain forts were built and caves were built to make the area a dwarven castle.

Later, under the pretext of inviting the gang leaders to see the new weapons, Iwasu set a trap and caused a production accident, burning them all with molten iron in the foundry room.

This time, the poor dagger saw that Iwasu had the upper hand, and he annexed the bandits with both soft and hard methods, thus becoming the number one scourge of the Wind Whistling Mountains in his territory.

By the time Vincent took office, Iwasaki's poisonous hand had spread to the villages below, relying on strong weapons and solid armor, armed bandits looted and burned everywhere at the bottom of the mountain, robbed gold coins, and constantly captured people up the mountain as slaves, and forced the people below to deliver supplies to them.

This endless destruction did not come to an end until the lord's army reappeared, but the large group of skeletons looked terrifying, and it was still too difficult to enter the mountains to suppress the bandits.

After listening to the situation in the mountains, Ninia fell into deep thought, and Schiff also turned his slender and flexible eyes, thinking about the plan of battle.

Only Jana's blood pressure soared when she heard this, and she couldn't help but ask to fight.

"These dwarves are really evil, if you dare to come out, I will trample them all to death!"

Shiv gave her a blank look, the dwarves were almost exhausted in their evil, how could they come out in front of the cavalry to die......

"You

What do you think so? I know they won't come out, and of course the prey won't come out if they don't seduce," Jana looked at the others, revealing a confident expression, "You don't have a good way anyway, right?" Why don't you try my idea?"

"Even if you want to ambush or volley, find a suitable spot," Schiff said, looking at the map and scratching his head, "we will inevitably end up in the mountains, where the enemy knows the mountains better than we do."

Looking at the rudimentary map, Ninia pondered for a moment, and did not immediately decide how to fight.

"The mountainous areas have never belonged to that group of scum, the advantage is just their illusion, the master said that in difficult times, we must learn more from the local people with an open mind, and unite the majority of people to win."

The territorial army did not take any action that day, but consolidated the camp below the mountain and made a posture of long-term confrontation.

The skeletons were no longer giving away heads, and instead a large number of low-level monsters with concealment abilities went into the mountains and were ordered to conduct reconnaissance in all directions.

Ninia also brought together many mountain people who had lived in the mountains for a long time and had to flee down the mountains.

"Everyone, I want to understand the enemy's situation, and I need you to provide information," Ninia said politely to everyone, "Intelligence alone is not enough, I want to use everyone's help to make a sand table before specifying tactics."

The current map was drawn by the locals at random, and was not only crudely distorted, but also extremely lacking in detail, and the leader of the group could not understand the lich even if he had intelligence.

What is a sandbox? This question lingered in Cana's mind, but as the deputy of the cavalry unit, she was embarrassed to ask random questions in front of everyone, exposing her ignorance.

Fortunately, this problem is not only her, but also confusing for others, the people here themselves know the situation in the mountains, and they don't even need a map to walk into the mountains, let alone think about any sand tables.

"It's a technique I learned from my master, and it's very useful in battle, especially in places where the terrain is complicated and the situation between friend and foe is unknown," Ninia told everyone what she thought, "Now go find some of the materials I said, and we'll make a sand table together."

A lot of clay and fine sand, long planks, blue-green dyed sawdust, paper, cloth of various colors, string, nails, and a whole bunch of other messes......

Although they didn't know what these things were for, people still showed their talents and went everywhere to find materials - anyway, the lord was not only a bandit, but also willing to pay for it, which was nothing.

Next, while Ninia sent people to find materials, she explained the role of the sand table to several important subordinates under her command, which gave Shiv and Jana a a lot of knowledge.

The military sand table is mainly an upgraded version of the military topographic map, which can be placed on the plane of the military topographic map in three dimensions.

The vivid and intuitive three-dimensional situational awareness is undoubtedly of great significance to the battlefield commander, and when the sand table in Ninia's mouth gradually emerged in people's eyes, everyone realized the convenience brought by this sand table.

The enemy's area of activity is not a plain, but a complex mountainous area with undulating heights, and it is difficult to get a full view of it from the front, so this sand table is quite troublesome to make, and it needs to be refined little by little according to the memories of the mountain people.

As the commander, Ninia didn't focus on the details, the mountaineers knew every inch of the land here, and it was up to them to use the scientific methods given to them by the lords to help them better build accurate models.

First of all, on a huge temporary table, the frame of the sand table was made, which was made of stones and wooden boards, which was two meters long and one meter five wide, and looked extraordinarily large in front of people.

The inside of the tray frame was covered with moist sand, and the surface was leveled with straight wooden boards to build a basic plan for the entire sand table, and then Ninia personally measured it with a ruler, and divided the sand table into a grid with a thin line running through the entire sand table, and marked it with a number.

Next, it is the most crucial step in making the sand table - stacking the landforms, and Ninia patiently guides people to pile up each mountain and valley like a child playing with mud

Many sticks of different lengths have been inserted according to the predicted height, and people only need to shape the mountain according to their impressions.

Schiff, who has a bright brain and a certain amount of education, calculates the height of the mountain according to the scale, and depicts the changes in the shape of the mountain's top, saddle, slope, etc., which is not just a fool's errand, nor does he completely listen to the information of the mountain people, but also combines the narrative after a bird's-eye view of the high-altitude Harpy.

It took a whole day to get all the nearby peaks in shape, but fortunately the work itself was new and interesting, so everyone was very enthusiastic about participating.

Because she was too big to help much, Cana, who could only watch the whole process, looked at the sand table with a large scale and had a new understanding of Ninia's talents.