Section 222 The First Ambergris War (21)
What Solomon and the others see is a Black Rock dwarf being attacked by a High Elf guerrilla warrior.
It was the experience of the servants of Asturias in the pursuit of the High Elves, and it can be seen that the elven squad fighting against the Black Rock Dwarves was very clever and attacked from a great distance.
Everyone looked at the video that was imported into the magic brain, and the magic brain in front of them was equivalent to the function of most of the elf magic chess, but it also strengthened the derivation and simulation of combat, including the latest function, which can import the image of magic collection and recording into it.
Looking at this video, everyone's brows slowly furrowed, because the Black Rock dwarf in the picture suffered a big loss under the attack of the elven team.
Generally speaking, if it is an ordinary archer, depending on its strength and archery skills and the material of the bow and arrow in his hand, if it is a Terran or a first-order creature using a bow and arrow, whether it is a firing distance or the damage it can cause is definitely lower than that of a musket, and a second- to third-order creature such as a lizardman archer can already match or approach the range of a musket in terms of range, but this is not that the range of the musket itself is lower than theirs, but if the creature using the musket is a low-ranking creature like a human or a black rock dwarf, their eyesight and reflexes are lower than that of the lizardmen, but even so, the damage of the musket is still far superior to the arrows fired by the lizardman archersAs for the long-range shooting of fourth- and fifth-order creatures, taking the High Elves as an example, when they are physically strong, they can achieve the first firing range beyond that of the musketeers, which has been confirmed by the elven archers led by Feanor when attacking Mochizuki City.
There were many reasons why the High Elves suffered a big loss in the ground battle for the defense of Mochizuki Fortress, and it was not only musketeers on the battlefield at that time. There is also fort artillery from the fortress and naval artillery support from the harbor. And both of these as long as there are enough shells. It's the equivalent of thousands of high-level mages casting small area attack spells incessantly.
On the musketeer side, there was also one of the biggest disadvantages of the High Elves at that time, that is, the number, although the High Elves had a starting advantage when they were physically strong and had enough magic power, but on a large-scale battlefield, especially when the musketeers of the multinational coalition went forward and charged, the starting advantage was only to cause some damage at the beginning, but when the opponent smoothed out this distance difference. The damage of the musket combined with the number of minions magnified the advantage, on the contrary, when the High Elves faced a tide of enemies, their physical strength decreased and they became more and more at a disadvantage, and the initial advantage in range was easily wiped out by the blood and lives of the minions, so the High Elves did not lose at all.
But in the video in front of us, the attack of this High Elf team can be said to use its own advantages to the maximum, let's take a look at how they attack.
The Dwarven Musketeers could not immediately counterattack the enemy after being attacked, and had to close a little closer to get into the Musket's limiting range, and even if they were within the Musketeer's range, the Dwarven Musketeer's accuracy was a problem. That's enough time for the High Elves to shoot a round of arrows first.
In the Battle of Mochizuki Castle, this was not a problem at all. Because the advantage in the number of servant troops is too great, the enemies that can be consumed by the high elves' range advantage will not play much role in the overall situation, but the battle in front of them is different. In the battle screen in front of him, although the High Elves only have a squad, the dwarven musketeers only have the strength of only one battalion, which is several times the strength of the opponent, but just one to two rounds of arrow rain with this range difference is enough to kill one-sixth.
Then when the dwarven musketeers approached desperately, and the distance between the two sides was narrowed to a position where the muskets could return fire, the high elves cast a smoke spell, there should be no high-level mages in this elf squad, but the smoke spell is only a low-level spell, after a number of high elves cast it, the smoke is connected together, although it does not have an attack effect, but it has an area effect effect, and the elves' bodies are not in the smoke.
The low-level spell of the smoke spell is not difficult to crack at all, a wind spell or to dispel the smoke can be solved, but the Black Rock Dwarves can only rely on the natural wind direction.
Under the cover of smoke, the High Elves have low-light vision, while the Black Rock Dwarves do not, and the accuracy of the two sides is very different, and with the help of smoke and low-light vision, the High Elves can solve some of the musketeers.
At this time, the distance is close to the shooting of the dwarven musketeer, and the smoke is something that even if the dwarf does not have the ability to actively disperse, the natural wind direction will not completely help the elves, and the wind is dispersing the smoke.
But the High Elves then began the real battle, firing each other with a flicker of spell aura, casting defensive spells or hazy spells that reduced the damage of the musket or affected the shooter's accuracy, which was equivalent to another round of first-mover advantage.
In the end, the High Elves, who numbered only one-sixth of the Dwarven Musketeers, were able to destroy their enemies in less than a third of their own damage.
If the High Elves' damage exchange ratio for multinational coalition forces in the Battle of Mochizuki Castle can reach this level, then the damage of the coalition forces will be greatly increased.
Before the war against the elves began, Solomon had shouted in the council that he would not hesitate to shed the last drop of Fadel's blood, which was both a firm determination to influence the council to agree to the war against the elves, and a secret reminder of the difficulties that the war might encounter.
However, in the defense of Mochizuki City, the process of achieving a huge victory did not seem very difficult, which made the morale of the countries high again, not only Titania was like a chicken blood after the war, including the Saxons and Aurora who were defeated by the elves counterattack before, but also attributed to the frustration of the legendary powerhouses with superior numbers at that time of the High Elves, of course, they also thought that their muskets were inferior to Tai in terms of quality and quantity. Therefore, after the war, the Saxons purchased a large amount from Titania despite the displeasure of the Church of Light, while the Aurora people expanded production at home, and at the same time secretly purchased from Asturias through the Rose Bank.
However, since the defense of Mochizuki City, although the countries have continued to occupy the neighboring cities of the High Elves, the Elven Court has not carried out large-scale counterattacks in the process, but the elven warriors from all over the country have still formed guerrilla squads and some allies to conduct guerrilla warfare. And it brought a lot of blows to the countries.
The video I just watched shows that. In constant guerrilla warfare. The High Elves have gradually found some of their enemy's weaknesses, and they know that they can't stand up to a large army of servants, so they only target lone enemies or convoys that escort supplies between captured cities.
Judging from the operations just now, they have a set of mature and effective combat modes for the operations of small units.
"Judging from the footage just now, I think the High Elves are fighting at the squad level, whether it's our servant army or our native army that has been trained for a longer time. Even the orc musketeers were unable to fight with the same number of men, and they used their strengths and the weaknesses of their enemies to reduce the threat of muskets by increasing their lethality. Klautz said slowly, as the Minister of International Trade, he did not have to attend this meeting in person, but when the Asturias convoy was constantly attacked, to a certain extent, it was also a little related to him, the Minister of International Trade, and everyone knew that in the elven chess battle of the Academy of Magic, in addition to Duke Solomon was an excellent chess player, Krautz was also the same. He even defeated Duke Solomon once in the early days, so he and Duke Solomon were invited to this military meeting.
"I agree with Duke Cleuze. Solomon nodded as well. "In squad-level combat, the biological rank of the elves is far above that of our ordinary warriors, and it is the increased lethality of the musket that makes this single advantage less obvious, but it is still there. We were able to achieve the great victory of Mochizuki Castle because we were more prepared in the early stage, and the combination of magic research and industry brought us an overall advantage. In addition, there is another very important reason, that is, in the battle of the Great Legion, we have far surpassed the High Elves. ”
To Solomon's words, the participants all nodded slowly, and it was needless to say that Perseus and Beth Hall had experienced it themselves, and even Clotz had to agree.
In a large-scale war, if there is no direct intervention of high-end combat power like the legendary powerhouse, and the gap between ordinary combat power is not so large that the own side can be unscathed, then it is the result of overall comparison.
Aside from the more preparations made by the multinational coalition in the war and the influence of muskets, the High Elves have indeed lagged far behind the Terrans in the battle of the Grand Legion, which is an indirect impact of industrial production on the military, because the large industrial production itself requires a high degree of organization, and the battle of the Grand Legion is difficult to be smooth without sufficient organization.
The culture of the High Elves itself pursues individualized natural, artistic, and spiritual orientations, and they are also indirectly influenced militarily.
When fighting, it is easier for them to organize a common attack in shooting, but they are very capable of doing this in magic; the native armies of Asturias and Titania are strictly trained and use neat movements repeated many times to achieve attacks, while the High Elves are easier to cooperate in shooting because the speed of shooting is about the same, but even the casting is neat, not to mention that it can't be done, even if it can be done, not many elves realize this necessity, because they have been aware of it since childhood, magic is personalized, if in order to pursue the unity of casting speed, it is completely suitable for the genius to stop and cooperate with the fool。
The High Elves' talent in magic has made them far less than the Terrans and Orcs in terms of population base in the weakened era, but they still have a large number of top-level combat powers, even in terms of the number of high-level mages, not to mention the enemy, not to mention ordinary warriors.
But in large-scale operations, they faced highly organized corps that had withstood the influence of industrial production, and their weakness became apparent.
Of course, it is not impossible for the High Elves to improve their organizational skills, but this must have a certain premise, that is, the so-called famous generals.
In fact, a famous general can't change the difference between industrial warfare and non-industrialization, but creatures like the High Elves must have enough prestige to be subdued by almost everyone if they want to be more receptive to orders in large-scale combat and achieve overall cooperation.
With such a famous general, it may still not be able to change the general trend, but at least it can make the High Elves lose in the battle of Mochizuki City less ugly.
Calanhill can't do this, Oliver, who is regarded as the most proficient in strategy and tactics among the ten elven kings, is not there, but even if he is, I'm afraid it's still a little worse, in the history of the High Elves, the Archer who created Paradise Lost has such qualifications and abilities.
Because he once led a large army composed of high elves into the dark region to pursue the divided compatriots dark elves, in the environment of the dark region, he was able to win again and again, this is definitely not only relying on the elves' own combat power, because there is no shortage of biological tribes in the dark region that can compete with them, such as Solomon's current underground allies, as well as the chaotic evil eye clan and so on.
But in the current squad-level battle, the High Elves regained their vitality and slowly found an effective way to fight, and this way of fighting happened to be very suitable for the situation in front of them, the elves used guerrilla methods to resist the invaders, and they dispersed into many squads.
If every squad were to attack like this, the search forces needed to be sent out would not be enough, and the High Elves would be hiding once the scale was large.
Compared with the wilderness and the vast mountains and forests, the troops of the countries are still insufficient, and geographical familiarity is also a very big problem.
"I'm sure you've all seen the problem, but it's actually bigger than we thought. When this happened repeatedly, the reconnaissance and search forces of various countries have expanded in size, and increased the number of strong people, but the elves are also very cunning, either hiding, or sometimes they will have multiple forces to try to unite to attack us, a military operation in Titania, with a decoy force to lure the elves out of the squad to encircle and suppress, but they acted as predators in the back of the troops plus the bait troops but collided with several high elf combined guerrillas, and the result was that both sides did not please. "That's the way it is, what we need to talk about is how to deal with it, whether we need to change our strategy." ”
"Is the previous strategy still being executed?" said Solomon in a deep voice.
Perseus nodded: "It's ongoing, our fleet has gone to the west coast, and the sea tribes should also take action when they see that there is a advantage to take advantage of, and on this side of the east coast, Titania is attacking, and the Aurora people have also sent their ships out." (To be continued.) )