Farmer's proverb: "Auspicious snow heralds a good harvest."
Farmers who work on their fields all year round are looking forward to heavy snowfalls that practitioners in other professions cannot understand.
Heavy snow, especially early snow, is extremely important for farming!
First of all, the insects that damage crops actively engage in various "warm-up exercises" in the autumn to prepare for the long-term plan of passing on the family line. However, when the heavy snow arrives, it will directly kill the adult insects, and it will definitely not happen the next year.
Insect plague; secondly, snow can make overwintering crops go dormant early, and snow water can also moisturize the roots of crops. There has always been a saying in rural areas that one good snow will last three years.
In fact, the people who look forward to snow the most are not farmers who are dedicated to taking care of the land, but soldiers.
——"Sun Fei's Art of War"
Chapter 7 Jade Broken Plan
The Marquis of Linhe was in a very happy mood when he left Hamburg.
As one of the best officers in the empire, the Marquis knows a common sense in military use: a stupid general can defeat an army commanded by two excellent generals at the same time. Similar battles are common in history. The better the general, the better the general.
The more they have their own completely different style of military use, this style
Not only will it infect the staff and officers around the general, but even the troops under his command for a long time will form their own unique characteristics. Two equally excellent generals may have completely different command of the same battle due to their different military styles.
Coupled with the taboos of many military strategists, it is difficult not to lose the battle.
A military organization like the Little Mercenary Group that has risen rapidly in just a few years. Every battle it has experienced can be said to be pulling chestnuts out of the fire and pulling out teeth from the tiger's mouth. After such tough battles, it is very difficult to grasp the fighting style of the Little Mercenary Group. Maybe the sword will be gone.
Words like erratic and erratic can be used to describe it. It is precisely because of this that the only person who can perfectly command a unit with a distinctive personality like the small mercenary group to fight, except for a few chief officers of the small mercenary group, is the late Chi.
General Han Feng.
Therefore, Lin He made up his mind to hand over Hamburg City to Amy, Daqingshan, and Horns, while he chose to take command from the inside.
Internal operations have been going on since the generation of Viscount Fan. The so-called internal operations have only one meaning in the northern war zone - to remove nails.
When the founding emperor enthroned the ministers, almost all the northern mountainous areas were allocated to the founding fathers from the staff, internal affairs and other fields. Among the four major families in the empire, the Delaware family and its retainers system had a total of more than 80,000 acres of fiefdom in the northern mountainous area. And the empire
Like all nobles, in order to defend against thieves, most nobles built large and small fortresses in their own territories, among which the larger fortresses were no smaller than medium-sized cities.
Fan Zijue once mobilized 40% of his troops to demolish nearly 10 fortresses. Unfortunately, the cost was quite heavy - after all, these fortresses had been operated for more than three hundred years, and there were almost no defensive blind spots.
Lin He was quite confident - using three dragon knights to conquer the fortress was definitely overkill. In fact, it was indeed the case. After Lin He left Hamburg, he quickly eliminated all kinds of people in the mountainous area at a rate of almost one per day.
the fortress,
Under the coordinated operations of the three giant dragons, several strong fortresses that were said to be as good as Hamburg became history in Dragon's Breath. More fortresses chose to surrender. Groups of immediate family members of those who surrendered to the enemy were dismissed.
Executions were carried out, and more suspects were thrown into black jails.
Just when the Marquis was having a great time, the two fantasy beast knights sent by Amy finally found him. Like everyone else, when Lin He heard that Fanos actually created a tower in the sky of Hamburg City,
The floating city was used to attack, and the Marquis subconsciously opened his mouth...
In mid-February of the summer of the 6th year of the Magic Calendar, Lin He returned to Hamburg with two dragon knights as quickly as possible. When he experienced an attack from the floating city, he, like Amy, waited like a farmer.
The coming heavy snow will make every day feel like a year.
Speaking of which, many things in the War of the Gods were quite helpless, such as famous cities. In the continent of Eminor, there are many famous cities that are difficult to conquer because of their dangers, such as Scambrai, Hamburg, Uru, Lionheart City, etc. It is sad.
What's surprising is that none of these cities survived the War of the Gods and were all conquered, and Hamburg, which was known as the number one among them, was repeatedly conquered! On the contrary, some cities in remote areas with only earthen walls survived.
Every other day, the ice city like a small mountain rises slowly with the bright sunshine in the east, and the big rocks fall like raindrops. The only good thing is that this floating city itself is already very heavy, and it is impossible to
To carry real stones, only the water dragon and the ice mage can work together to create ice projections. Since all buildings in Hamburg City are made of granite, there is still a big gap between the quality of ice and granite.
.Otherwise, the city of Hamburg would have ceased to exist on the first day the floating city rose.
Even for ice cubes, when the quantity reaches a certain scale, quantitative changes will inevitably lead to qualitative changes. Countless ice cubes continue to shake the joints of the city bricks. When the floating city took off for the 17th time, the solid city walls of Hamburg finally could not bear this.
Continuous impact, collapsed in the angry wailing!
It was not just the city wall that collapsed, but also a 40-meter-wide foundation with three large steps under the city wall. The blue granite pushed the cold soil layer downwards like mud, and flowed out for a full two hundred meters at the farthest point.
!
The moment the city wall collapsed, the hearts of Lin He, Amy, Da Qingshan and others almost collapsed at that moment. Amy and Da Qingshan both saw an unprecedented paleness on each other's faces. Without the ten thousand-year-old rock masonry
With a complete city wall, does the city of Hamburg still dare to call itself the strongest city in the world? Even if the city is filled with catapults, can it withstand the enemy's attack?
Without the catapult and the city wall, the entire war fell to the enemy at this moment.
The empire lost Fort Khan and could still choose another place to fight; General Lin He lost Fort Khan and had a chance to make a comeback in the Western Theater; however, the small mercenary group lost Hamburg, and these nearly 10,000 mercenaries...could it be...
...The good luck that has always accompanied the small mercenary group has left resolutely since yesterday?
At that time, Moramon, who was supervising the battle at the foot of the mountain, was just about to order the ground troops to invade Hamburg, but was immediately stopped by Dahino who arrived in time.
Of course Dahino is not merciful, nor does he sympathize with the city of Hamburg. Attacking the city now? Isn't that the spokesperson of a fool?!
Once the ground troops are thrown into urban street fighting, the floating city will lose all its aggressiveness. Can the combat effectiveness of Fanos soldiers in the ice and snow be compared with that of a small mercenary group? Are you kidding? Probably except for the Silver Snow Wolf mercenary group, there is no such thing.
No one dares to challenge a small mercenary group in a snowfield war. Isn’t this using his own life to resist the enemy’s spear? Moreover, six people are invested in an siege.
When he arrived at the ten thousand-man team, he was now facing a little fox like Amy. Would he devote his maximum combat power to a duel? If that was the case, then he was not Amy. He was just afraid, so he simply showed weakness to the enemy.
Simply open the door and let the Fanos soldiers in, and then surround these soldiers from the outside. If that is the case, the floating city... there will be no need to exist.
In addition, there is no need to attack now. Once a pure brick city wall with a rice-shaped structure like Hamburg City collapses, if you want to repair it, you need to at least tear it apart and rebuild it. Otherwise, it will be unrepairable. Should we invest in ground troops at this time?
The attack will not have a positive impact on the subsequent war; also, the lethality of the floating city is quite large. I believe that with every attack, the enemy's combat power will be reduced sharply. If the enemy is completely defeated before attacking, the effect will be ineffective.
Would it be better?
Of course Jiang is too old. After listening to the analysis of the marshal, Moramon felt a layer of sweat on his head. None of the senior officers of the Western Expeditionary Army had suffered heavy losses under Amy. Only the officers of the Western Expeditionary Army could not imagine it.
things, but there is absolutely nothing that Amy cannot do. Moramon is indeed a little afraid of what he just did.
Seeing the enemies at the bottom of the mountain surge up like a tide and then recede like a tide, Amy and Daqingshan looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Both of them immediately guessed the reason for this coming and going, and even guessed the last one.
The order must come from a cunning commander like Dahino.
For the city of Hamburg, the war has reached a point where there is no rice to cook.
After Earl Linhe hurried back, he tentatively launched dragon knights and more than ten fantasy beast knights into the air, hoping to eliminate this hidden danger. Unfortunately, Hamburg City could not compete with its opponents in terms of quality or quantity.
In comparison - at the moment of the war, Renoir has stayed in Dahino's camp for nearly 20 days. The combat power of the high-level sacred dragon is beyond the comprehension of ordinary dragons, especially those four.
The high-level dragon was oppressed by the might of the high-level sacred dragon. In addition, there were three magisters and numerous high-level priests on the floating city, and their understanding of magic was not inferior to that of the dragon. In the Dragon Knight
In the war with the magisters, the Eudemons Knights were nothing like that. They were not even equivalent in combat power. The Elf Elders could not control the dragons, otherwise, they might have changed the war.
In any war, strength is the foundation above all else. When the strength is extremely different, all wisdom becomes worthless.
The cunning Amy, the thoughtful Da Qingshan, the distinguished Lin He and many powerful officers in the empire's ace army, facing the floating city that is slowly moving in the sky and constantly creating ice cubes, only four words can describe it.
Their mood: helpless!
Fortunately, most of Hamburg City has two-story buildings, and the lower level is mostly under the ground. After the huge ice blocks flattened the upper level building, the half-standing ruins and ice blocks reorganized into a stable structure.
It is even as thick as 2 meters. Therefore, except for the heavy casualties in the first battle, most of the combat power of Hamburg City was effectively preserved.
After the city wall collapsed, senior officers such as Lin He, Da Qingshan, and Amy held a one-night pre-war meeting, and finally had to formulate a relatively passive strategic idea, nine words: "Show the enemy weakness, exchange space for time."
It's really dramatic. Not long ago, in a secret conversation between Renault and His Majesty the Pope, the two kings' strategy for dealing with the arrogant Chi Aotian Army was exactly these nine words.
The most important thing about this strategic idea is to show the enemy's weakness - it must make Dahino think that the combat power of Hamburg is greatly weakened, and the soldiers and civilians in the city are suffering heavy casualties. Only in this way, Dahino will not speed up the attack on the city, and can he do his best to attack the city.
Possible delay. In order to create this illusion, Amy and Daqingshan personally led the elves, blocking swordsmen, and magic swordsmen to attack at night, repeatedly attacking Dahino's camp, and even ordered
Burning the forest. With the continuous attacks of the floating city, such night attacks became less and less frequent, and the scale became smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared. At the same time, the city of Hamburg began to strictly implement light control. In the later period of the city of Hamburg, there were no lights at all at night.
——It’s like a dead city. In addition, the stoves are constantly being built to reduce the amount of smoke. In short, all of this will only make Dahino come to the conclusion that the city of Hamburg suffered heavy casualties.
Trading space for time, at this time, what Amy and others are looking forward to most are two things. The first is the comeback of Mr. Lu'er. During the battle of Kelesit, Lu'er was jointly attacked by the magister and the high-level priest. He was seriously injured and had to
Escape to the Dragon Realm to recuperate. Time in the Dragon Realm is much slower than in the mortal world. It is estimated that Green
It will take a few days to raise the child. As long as Lu'er appears, Renault's dragon will not have any advantage and is very likely to destroy the floating city in one fell swoop; secondly, even if Lu'er does not come back in time, then as long as it can
As autumn enters, the cold air will become Hamburg’s biggest force.
Come to think of it, Dahino didn't know the climate of Hamburg City at all. In normal years, Hamburg City would have continuous snow after autumn, and it would be quite cold on the ground - otherwise why would the houses in Hamburg have one floor underground? Only underground can reduce cold air.
invasion. Living in tents or wooden huts, there was no way to withstand the cold current. Most of Dahino's men were Fanos soldiers from the extreme south.
In the days that followed, Daqingshan, Amy and others lived their lives almost counting their fingers.
In fact, the implementation of Hamburg's strategic thinking has been very effective. Not only was Dahainuo convinced, Renoir rode a dragon to hover over the city of Hamburg at low altitude several times, and even guided the dragon to fire its breath, causing the city of Hamburg to
There was very little response. Everyone believed that it was only a matter of time before they invaded Hamburg.
This error in judgment, in addition to Amy's first-class acting skills, the floating city's excellent attack power also increased the wrong judgment of Fanos' senior officers - no one has ever used such a jaw-dropping weapon in war.
Everyone, including myself, was deceived by its huge appearance. No one believed that anyone could survive being attacked by such a sharp war weapon.
It was also under this circumstance that Renault went to attend the inauguration ceremony of the temple with great confidence.
Before Renoir left, Dahino made a very confident promise that before autumn, he would send troops to directly take over the iron ore. In the eyes of the Marshal, there is no need to mention the word Hamburg anymore. It has long ceased to exist.
As for the officers in the city, Dahino can definitely capture them without guarantee. After all, most of these officers are fantasy beast knights and dragon knights. If they are determined to escape, especially at night
There is no way to escape.
In Dahino's calculations, from March 10th to 15th in the summer of the 6th year of the Magical Calendar, the floating city will use the "Jade Crushing" attack in the last attack - that time, the entire floating city will be full of magisters and priests.
, it will no longer be equipped with any other siege weapons. When the floating city enters the sky above Hamburg, the magisters and priests will all leave the floating city on their own through levitation.
In the end, when the effect of the floating technique disappears, the floating city weighing tens of millions of tons will rise from the sky and completely bury the entire Hamburg! No matter how many troops there are in Hamburg, even if they cannot be killed, the ice cubes broken into tens of millions will be destroyed.
Once the sun shines and the north wind blows at night, the entire city will inevitably be sealed into a big ice mass. Without air, no race can survive!
In Dahino's plan, there is no big difference between getting Hamburg in Year 6 of the Magical Calendar or getting it in Year 7 of the Magical Calendar. The most important thing is to get this city without causing too many casualties to his subordinates -
―After all, this is a foreign continent. Only by maintaining good combat power can we have more space. This has always been Dahino's command idea.
Amy, Daqingshan, and Lin He could not have imagined that there would be such a vicious plot waiting for them in the world. They made a fundamental mistake - they thought that Dahainuo would care about this as much as they did.
Iron Base cares about this eternal city. They have no idea that Dahino, including all the senior officers of the entire Western Army, has long been extremely bored with this city. What they like is an iron mine that continuously provides weapons.
, rather than a fortress that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.