Chapter 706: Shanopa's Strategic Intelligence
"We'll talk more about that when we get there." Gavin sold the off.
Since he had brought the Wandering Dwarf King, the young bronze dragon Ewindsa could not take her, leaving her here to grind her teeth with her old enemy.
Before Gavin arrived at Colossus City with Jiharin, he sent an order to Shanoba through the ghost herald, and was fully prepared to make a big deal about Dong XZ, who was not suitable for exposure to outsiders, and even Jinbao, the village chief of the dwarf village Quirosse, was also informed.
"The weeping dwarf lives up to its name, and to make such a masterpiece requires not only extraordinary casting skills, but also a unique geography, which is difficult for a city to replicate."
Ghishalim's face once again swelled with unconcealed sadness, "We dwarves have created countless glorious cities, only to be buried forever in the ground, or to be occupied by monsters and become their lair, which is the greatest curse that our dwarves carry. ”
This wandering dwarf king is far more sentimental than ordinary dwarves because of his life experience, especially when facing those dwarven cities that were once lost.
It is false that he does not feel the slightest feeling about these former dwarven cities turned into kobold lair.
"The patriarch is too pessimistic, what I see is the opposite of yours, in my opinion, these ruins are a testimony to the glory of the dwarves, if they have not even been brilliant, how can they leave such shocking ruins?"
Gavin expressed his opinion, "In this world, there is no race that has flourished for a long time, and giants, dragons, and elves have all stood at the top of history, and now they are also in decline. On the contrary, the dwarves have been silently creating their own glory, the Giant Dynasty and the Dragon Generation, the Elven Age, and still the present, throughout history, only the Dwarves have had this unique experience, and there is no semicolon. ”
"For you to say that, it's because I'm too pessimistic about things." Giharin laughed and said, "What exactly did the General say earlier? Can you say that now? ”
"Before I say that, let me introduce you to a person, this is the village chief of Jinbao, from the village of Quirosey, and is a top gem maker."
Gavin led Giharin to a large rock mural where a long-handed, short-legged dwarf was already waiting.
Before he could introduce Jiharin's identity.
Jin Bao, the head of the dwarf village, had already greeted him, and said with a smile: "Old man, I didn't expect to see you here, when was the last time we met?" Half a century ago? Or was it a century ago? ”
"You know?" Gavin was a little surprised.
"It's not just acquaintance, three centuries ago, when we were young men, we took risks together." Jinbao smiled and said, "I just asked you to find a high-level blacksmith, but I didn't expect you to invite a legendary blacksmith in a big way, since you invited him to repair the heart of the mountains, I am more sure." ”
"Repair the Heart of the Mountains, have you found the Heart of Regeneration?"
"All the noble trolls here have been killed by General Gavin, how can the heart of regeneration still run?" Jinbao dragged Jiharin to the rock mural and said, "This is your dwarven rune, help me interpret it and see if I interpret it correctly ......"
"Your interpretation seems right on the surface, but in fact it is outrageously wrong, how could a dwarf imprint the method of making an artifact on the wall? Even if there is something that is definitely misleading or riddle-in-nature, this is a three-layer rune, and at least two other runes need to be fused together to decipher the meaning correctly. ”
"I see, no wonder I always feel that this matter is a little too simple, there is always something missing in it, the reason is here, go, I'll take you to see other murals, when did you dwarves become so cunning and actually play this hand."
"How can this be called cunning? This is just the most normal means of secrecy, I'm afraid that if the three-layer runes are cracked later, what I get is only encrypted codeword, and there must be a corresponding code annotation. ”
"You can't be the code word annotation you are talking about, right?"
"Yes, this is the code note, where did it come from?"
"Of course, it's the heart of regeneration, which is engraved on it."
"That's right, definitely."
"So, the keys are in our hands, and all that's left is to find the treasure."
Since the two of them knew each other, Gavin saved trouble, and he didn't need to introduce the situation at all, so the village chief of Jinbao dragged Jiharin to explain the ins and outs of the whole thing.
The heart of the mountain, the largest treasure in this dwarven city, is a magical treasure forged by the dwarves, and even if he is a dwarf holding the most critical heart of regeneration, the difficulty of restoring it is not ordinarily high, and the difficulty will be greatly reduced with the help of the dwarven blacksmith.
Seeing that the two were caught up in the exchange of restoration techniques, Gavin took the opportunity to deal with his own affairs, and asked Shanopa, who had gone and returned, "Is it possible?" ”
He asked if Shanoba's dragon breath could be made into a dragon's breath flutter bomb, after all, he was only guessing before, and the specific results still needed to be tested in the field.
"Yes." Shanopa said happily, "In this way, we have another effective means of defense and offense, which is a perfect match for my Blackwing Escort, which can carry out aerial bombardment." ”
"Aerial bombardment, the Black Wing Escort is not the best choice, their size itself is not to prepare for flight, there is no advantage in flying speed in the air, let alone carrying a large number of bulky dragon's breath flutter bombs, they are more suitable as an air escort, used to protect those air combat units that are more poor at flying.
What is really suitable as an aerial bombing unit is the kind of super large size that can carry a large number of dragon's breath tremor bombs, as well as the corresponding air combat units, and carry out large-scale aerial bombardment beyond the range of the enemy's forbidden air range. ”
Gavin, who has seen the development model of air warfare on the earth, is absolutely forward-looking in this regard.
It's just that he didn't think about developing fighter jets or the like, the technical content of that thing is too high, and it's not easy to use, after all, it's the ultimate use of things, and the operator himself is not strong.
All it takes is a control spell for the enemy to use this powerful combat tool for themselves and turn it against themselves.
It's something he's been doing a lot lately.
Feren has many choices of her own, and dragons are just one of them.
All forbidden magic, including the powerful Mystery Enchantment, has a shrouded range, and most of them are hemispherical in their core.
As long as it is outside the shroud of forbidden sky magic, it will not be affected in any way, which opens up the possibility of high-altitude bombing.
Of course, this is temporary.
Originally, this pattern was presented purely because Faeron air combat was generally used as a means of surprise attack, or in the medium and short range, and aerial bombardment was rare.
Once this mode of warfare reveals its hideous features, all kinds of defensive means will certainly spring up like mushrooms after a rain.
War has many drawbacks, but one thing is recognized, and that is that it can advance the science and technology of a world, whether creative or devastating, physical or magical.
But if you take the lead in a certain aspect, you can definitely eat a large wave of benefits, during World War II, Germany just ate the benefits of tank technology, which laid a solid foundation for their blitzkrieg, and laid half of Europe in just a few months.
Gavin and the others now occupy an absolute lead in the field of flutter bombs, and with this alone, they dare not think of defeating half of Faeren, but if they can rely on their advantages in this aspect, they can shine in the fight against the Tucan nomadic army and win brilliant achievements, it is definitely possible.
After all, the strength of the Tucan nomadic army was mainly on the ground, the terrifying number of steppe cavalry, not in the air.
Building a formidable aerial army will be what he'll need to do in the coming months, and Colossus City is an important part of this, with the Queen of the Kobold and the Dragon Dog's ability to help each other shine.
Her ability in this area has become well-known.
There is no need for her to go out and take the initiative to collect it, those ownerless kobolds in the Troll Mountain Range, the Giant Plains, the Giant Running Mountain Range and the Snow Flake Mountain Range are all dragging their families and rushing here, and they can't stop them.
Isn't the kobolds willing to serve the dragons and swear allegiance to them just to gain greater power and tap the dragon's blood in their bodies?
Surrendering to the dragon, the change is real, but it takes time to accumulate, and it often takes several generations of kobolds to be able to see it.
As long as those kobolds themselves have a certain potential, as long as they come to the Colossus City and join a mutual aid here, they have a chance to awaken the dragon vein, dragon blood template, and maybe even dragonization.
In addition, the rule here is more benevolent and lenient than that of most metal dragons.
How did those kobolds not flock to it?
In just two months, the number of kobolds in Colossus City has skyrocketed tenfold, inside and out, all of them are busy, and their Wang Ming is everywhere.
The iron ore here has not only begun to produce, but it is already several times that of the black well, and it will not be long before it will increase several times on this basis.
The black shaft is completely self-proclaimed, and everything needs to be built by itself.
The Colossus is ready-made.
Although there is no automated ironmaking production line here, there are abandoned dwarf railroad tracks, and the mines are large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of kobolds to mine at the same time, and the large-scale use of flutter bombs naturally produces amazing output.
Because of the cooperation agreement reached between Gavin and the mayor of Raymond, the mayor of Retabun, the iron ore here is not worrying about sales.
Now the outside of the Colossus is full of heavy trucks waiting to load iron ore, and the front foot will be pulled away when the front foot goes out of the mine.
The section of the road between Colossus City and Rita Bun City has become the busiest in the entire Conquistador's Path, and it will be the most priority to use paving.
In the case of limited manpower, it is natural that where it is most needed, construction will be the most priority.
After listening to Gavin's description, Shanopa's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly said: "Listening to what the lord said, I thought of a suitable person, when I went to the Giant Run Mountain Range to collect the kobolds, I once met a cloud ray in the Giant Plains.
It is said to call the Giants Plains home, with the herds of beasts here as its main food source, and we can try to capture it as our aerial carrying platform. ”
"Cloud ray!" As soon as Gavin heard the name, a unique image of a behemoth suddenly appeared in his mind.
This creature is one of the most majestic flying creatures in Faeron, and when they reach adulthood, they have a body larger than the primeval golden dragon, starting at least twenty meters.
If it doesn't swoop down to hunt for food, it looks like a cloud floating in the sky on the ground, and it looks like a ray swimming in the sea, hence its name.
When they reach adulthood, in the air, except for those adult dragons, they are invincible, and large flying creatures such as birds, vultures, pegasus, spiny-tailed lions, griffins, etc., will become its food.
Most of the time, they still prey on the wild beasts on the ground, after all, their size is too large, which makes their speed very slow, and as long as those flying creatures do not die on their own, the cloud rays will not be able to catch up with them.
This super-giant magical beast is a perfect match for the Dragon's Breath Tremor Bomb, and it can be transformed into an aerial bombing platform to bombard the ground indiscriminately.
"Good, good, good." Gavin excitedly hugged Shanoba and circled around a few times, "You are responsible for sending someone to follow that cloud ray and find out all the circumstances of it, is it a single one?" Or is there a family ethnicity? I was responsible for drawing up the battle plan and trying to capture and control it. ”
There are not many of these special magical beasts in Faerun, and they are often hard to come by.
Since you have encountered it, you can't let it go.
"Also, I've found a group of wyverns in the Troll Mountains, and I want to try to use my wyvern transformation abilities to capture them for our use.
It's just that there is a powerful Wyvern King among them, and every time I appear, he will lead the Wyvern group to chase me down, and I still need the help of the lord in this matter. ”
Shanoba's second line of Ren Du was completely opened up in Colossus City, and he completely figured out his precise positioning.
Ground combat capabilities, no matter how the kobolds develop, they can't compare to the big goblins in Bloodgorge City.
Even if it is the auxiliary ability that the kobold is best at, he has no advantage over the dragon oak collar.
The flying class was a big gap in Gavin's hands, and she was directly positioned in that direction.
Therefore, in recent times, she has spared no effort to tap the potential of kobolds in this aspect, and at the same time, she is also trying her best to search for wild resources in this area, and the Wyvern is undoubtedly her best target.
"Then gather all their information and take them down the next time we come to fight against the cloud rays." Gavin didn't have a hot head, so he took Shanoba to trouble the wyverns.
Bombardment and capture are completely two different concepts, and special strategies and capture methods must be prepared.
Capturing them is only the beginning, how to tame them and let them be used for themselves is the ultimate goal.
But both the cloud ray and the wyvern are untamed creatures.
The latter, in particular, is notoriously short-tempered, sometimes even above the colored dragons, after all, dragons are highly intelligent creatures, and even evil dragons can negotiate.
Wyverns are somewhere between intelligent beings and beasts.
You say it's a beast, and they possess the cunning and arrogance of intelligent creatures.
You say they are intelligent creatures, but they are as reckless and aggressive as wild beasts, and they are easily deceived by some stratagems.
Faeron is not without Wyvern mounts, but there are very few of them, usually starting with eggs or cubs, and it takes a lot of effort and blood in the process.
Neither Gavin nor Shanoba is ready to spend more than ten years cultivating and domesticating the Wyvern, but is ready to take the adult knife directly.
If you can't figure them out by ordinary means, you can use magic.
If magic can't do it, start with special abilities.
They now have a lot of options at their disposal, such as the Dragon Oak Mother Tree, and don't forget how Gavin controlled the young Red Dragon Roderick and the Black Dragon Maiden Shanoba.
It is estimated that Shanoba thought of this method before he hit the idea on the Wyvern group.
"In order to welcome the arrival of the lord, we have specially prepared the entire dragon ascension ceremony, would you like to join the lord?" Shanoba asked.
"Just go as you have been, and if there is a need, I will naturally join in." Gavin did not hide the dragon ascension ceremony of the Colossus from the village chief of Jinbao and the patriarch of Jiharim.
Instead, they were directly invited to the highest point of the Colossus City to watch the event, because it was the best opportunity to show their strength.
In particular, the stronger the self-strength, the closer the two sides will be, and the greater the possibility of cooperation.
"The Ascending Dragon Ritual?" Every fold on Jiharin's face showed a deep doubt, "Do kobolds still have this custom?" ”
Dwarves are far more likely to encounter small things like kobolds than ordinary people, after all, the living areas of the two sides are highly overlapping.
Although kobolds are not naturally hostile to dwarves like they hate dwarves, the relationship between the two sides is definitely not good.
Dwarves have a deeper prejudice against kobolds, because many dwarven cities have been entrenched by such small things after they are abandoned.
Therefore, their understanding of this little thing is far above that of ordinary people.
"It's unique to the Colossus, and you'll get to see the unique Dog Barking Dragon Dance in a minute." There was a complexity in the expression of the village chief of Jinbao that could not be concealed, he had obviously seen this kind of scene more than once, and he was shocked every time.
He's seen the growth of the Colossus with his own eyes, and looking back on it now, it's a little incredible.
Compared to goblins, the number of kobolds is still relatively small, and even gnomes that overlap with their living area are not very likely to see kobolds.
But here in Colossus, they are constantly coming, and new faces are joining every day.
Especially when the kobolds found out that their safety on the path of the conqueror was absolutely guaranteed, the road turned directly into the kobold river, and all the kobolds around it converged and surged along it, and the Colossus was their destination.
At this rate, all the kobolds in the surrounding mountains will come here, and it will be very easy to break through 100,000 in just a few years.
Even if it is 100,000 rats, it will be a terrifying existence, let alone 100,000 kobolds, this will become the largest kobold city in Faerun.
For a gnome who is naturally hated by kobolds, it is definitely not a good experience to go in and out of this kind of city.
At best, Shanoba could suppress those kobolds from attacking them, but he couldn't completely change this innate hostility, as it was the god of their race.
"Let's get started!" Gavin nodded at Shanoba beside him.
(End of chapter)