For several months, Cordes had not noticed that Benjamin had infantry guarding the crossbowmen. Because when attacked, the opponent always feels like he is in a dense forest after two or three rounds of arrow rain, and never carries out a frontal attack! Therefore, these elven archers and marksmen should rely on maneuver and concealment to ambush and sneak attack their own soft underbelly, and if they are tough, they are definitely not their opponents.

But Curdes was wrong, and Benjamin still had his killer weapon in mind. Now that his space was so suppressed, he had to use the five hundred battle dwarves he had hidden in the snow. The combat power of the battle dwarves is not comparable to that of the spearmen, let alone in the woods, the strong infantry of this forest country, with super defensive capabilities, and also magical resistance that can make magicians desperate. Benjamin placed five hundred dwarves at the front of the camp in the dense forest on either side, and he wanted to teach the arrogant Curdes a profound lesson.

Before the soldiers who were braving the rain of arrows approached the crossbowmen, they saw a number of dwarves suddenly appear in front of them, each holding a shield in his left hand and an axe in his right, to keep the rushing soldiers within the best range of the crossbowmen.

The battle dwarves intercept, the crossbowmen shoot and suppress, the two cooperate with each other, such a standard formation finally eases down the opponent's offensive, although the number of battle dwarves is not much, but all of them are rough and thick-skinned, they do not seek to kill the other party, as long as they hold on and do not let the opponent get too close to the crossbowman, the rest will be solved by a crossbowman. Several of the opponent's charges were easily intercepted by the dwarves within range of the crossbowman's attack, unable to cross a single step.

The opponent's crossbowmen also pressed up and began to shoot at the dwarves in the position, but these hastily formed crossbowmen positions formed too limited the suppression of the dwarves, let alone shoot from the back! Benjamin immediately commanded the elven archers to suppress the opposing crossbowmen, and the battle dwarves' positions were handed over to the sharpshooters. Let the elf archer deal with the opponent's crossbowmen, whether it is range, accuracy, or speed of shot, which are beyond the reach of the crossbowmen, and it is a top-down downward attack, after two rounds of arrow rain cover the past, the opponent's crossbowmen almost fall into despair.

It was not easy for the army of Curdes to find the main force of the opponent, how could it be easily let go? Although his own army suffered heavy casualties, the commander of the army still ordered to bite the opponent tightly and immediately sent a signal for help.

If the ground troops are reinforced, it will take half a day to a day without the fastest, but the griffin army is much faster, which is the only trump card that Curdes can use against Benjamin.

But Benjamin had the foresight to have already attracted the attention of most of the griffons by another team he had arranged earlier, and had left the area far away, and it was impossible for reinforcements to come in for more than an hour. Benjamin can easily deal with ground troops alone or against griffins in the air, so he can't let himself fight hard with the other party on the ground while there are griffin troops in the air to disturb him.

A dozen or so griffons arrived on the battlefield after more than half an hour and immediately entered the battle. But after all, the number is too small, even if a dozen griffin armies are combined into a single force and attack one or two places, they will be shot by the elven archers, and they will not be able to get close at all, and they will be wiped out in an instant.

"Retreat!" After waiting for reinforcements for a long time, the enemy general finally couldn't hold on after more than half of the casualties, looking at the corpses all over the mountain and listening to the wails that resounded through the mountain, angry and frustrated, he had to give up the strong attack position, slowly retracted, formed a defensive shield formation, and slowly retreated back.

"Free pursuit for half an hour!" Benjamin ordered, "Don't follow too closely, be careful of the opponent's counterattack, and disperse and retreat to Camp 4 in half an hour!" ”

The opponent's defensive formation, although slow to retreat and passively attacked, did not break up after all, and such a formation was able to effectively take the initiative to attack with bows and arrows.

Benjamin's troops did not chase after each other, their tactics were based on the premise of ensuring their own survival, but they did not engage in a war of attrition with their opponents, the strategic goal had been achieved, and there was no need to risk chasing too closely. The opponent left more than 5,000 corpses, and he was able to calmly retreat, which shows that it is definitely not a rabble.

Although Benjamin's army also had more than 400 dead and wounded, this battle caused Curdes to completely withdraw from the mountain forest, no longer dare to send a large army to encircle and suppress, and abandoned many strongholds, and stubbornly guarded the base camp on the west side of the New Jersey Mountains, and did not dare to act rashly.

Curdes, who received the battle report, burst into a rage and shouted angrily: "Higg, Simak, Benjamin, if you have a kind of situation, come and set up a position with me, and fight a fair battle one-on-one!" ”

……

The first rain of the summer finally fell on the Luojia River Plain.

For nearly a month, Higg, who had returned to the Roga River Plain, had been busy, first setting up a teleportation array in the Silent Forest, then teleporting the dwarven craftsmen to Bavarian City, and then sending thirty officers to the Silent Forest. In order to facilitate his defensive deployment in the Luojia River, Xige established a teleportation array in the eighteen major cities in the Luojia River Plain.

Lan Xian'er left the thirty-six officer guards she had brought to Dolma City by her side, formed a new guard battalion, and carefully selected more than a hundred recruits from the new battalion, formed a new guard battalion of 200 people with these thirty-six people, and handed them over to the two new officer leaders of Mevo and Siscori for personal training.

The Arad coalition also began a fierce summer offensive at the fortresses of Ovara and Giscol, and the two fortresses were divided into two forts. Due to the standoff in the southern battlefield, neither side was able to change the current situation for the time being, so Arad focused his attack on his own backyard - the northern battlefield. The existence of the Fifth Army made Arad sit on pins and needles, and the strategic goal of unifying the north was delayed for several years, which made Arad very annoyed!

During the blockade of the Fifth Army last year, Arad sent a coalition of one million troops and succeeded in capturing the base camp of the Fifth Army, forcing Habaisa, who was stationed in the fortress of Kuba, to break away from the Fifth Army. However, Arad was not able to completely destroy the Fifth Legion, and after losing the Roga River Plain, the battle became deeper and deeper. The total strength of the Fifth Army is now less than 200,000, and Arad continues to reinforce 150,000 from the 3rd Theater and 150,000 from the 4th Army, continuing to oppress the Fifth Army with a force of 1 million.

But the Fifth Army is different from the past, with the rich Luojia River Plain behind it, which is fully capable of supporting this army, and the barriers on all sides of the Luojia River Plain have also become the hope of the Fifth Army Corps.

The attack of the Arad coalition army was not to completely recklessly send soldiers to the two fortresses, but to rely on their own baggage forces to deliver a destructive blow first. Heavy catapults, ballistas, constantly pouring large stones and * towards the fortress of Ovara and Giscol, so that the soldiers guarding the fortress could not show their heads at all, the siege vehicles under the cover of the shield array, slowly drove towards the fortress gate, and the cavalry troops behind only waited for the gate to be breached before launching a charge, and at the same time prevented their siege vehicles from being countercharged by the opposing cavalry.

The fortress of Ovara garrisoned by Corincha had nearly 70,000 defenders, all of whom were elite troops, but the configuration was extremely unreasonable, and 30,000 were cavalry. The cavalry units were of little help to the defenders of the city, except for the deterrence of counter-charges.

And Shante, the new commander of the Gisko Fortress, originally thought that he would not suffer too fierce attacks, so there were only 50,000 troops stationed, of which 20,000 were cavalry, and most of this army were relatively chaotic troops, which was very resistant to the arrival of Shante, the new commander, and it was undoubtedly a major test.

Both forts were flanked by steep peaks and numerous cliffs, and it was impossible for Arad to bypass them. Therefore, these two fortresses must be attacked on the frontal battlefield of the Arad coalition army, so that the large army can enter the Rodja River Plain. However, the cities of the two fortresses were too high to be forcibly ascended by using ladders, so there was really no other good way for the Arad coalition army to do so except to use siege engines.

A large number of large stones were smashed on the walls by heavy catapults, and the tall walls were so scars that the Arad coalition did not give the Fifth Army a chance to repair the walls at all. But many of these stones fell in front of the city gates, blocking the advance of siege engines, and Arad's coalition forces had to risk losing the lives of many soldiers to clear the military obstacles scattered along the road.

"Master Altai, you now know why I invited you here!" Higg, Blue Fairy, Shante, Altai and Noah stood on the gate tower of the Gizcoll fortress, braving the attack of the opponent's stone rain to inspect the pass, "If you don't come, you will regret it for the rest of your life!" ”

"Arad's heavy catapult is amazing!" Altai sighed, "But this kind of catapult maneuverability is too poor, the accuracy is too poor, it takes thirty or forty people to operate a catapult of this kind, and it also needs to use livestock to pull large stones to throw, although it is powerful, but it is not very suitable for a large number of troops to be equipped, Arad has really made a bloody investment this time!" ”

With a bang, Higg waved his hand, and a bolt of lightning shattered a boulder that smashed into everyone, and then said to Altai, "Now is not the time to discuss the cost of the other party, since Arad has already made a bloody investment, if we have no countermeasures, this fortress will be smashed by the other party sooner or later, and we will all be buried by stones!" ”

"You're trying to figure out how to deal with catapults?" Altai asked suspiciously, "But what can I do in this moment?" ”

"The maximum range of the opposing catapult is more than 400 kilometers, but the accuracy of that distance is too low. Now we have no means of countermeasures, the opponent's catapult moves forward every day, and if it reaches a range of two hundred meters, the accuracy will be greatly improved, and our fortress will be in danger! "It's not that our warriors aren't brave enough, but the other side doesn't need people to attack the city at all, and we don't have a chance to make head-on contact with the opponent." Although there were no large-scale operations during this time, even so, for so many days, there were dozens or hundreds of casualties every day, the barracks were destroyed, and the city pass was also in danger, and now the morale of the officers and men of all battalions was low. ”

"You don't have any way at all, let the other party strike, let the other party gradually move forward?" Higg asked.

"At first, we could use catapults to fight back, but our catapults were all light, although the range was more than 300 meters, but the stone bullets thrown were too small, and the threat to the other side was limited, and under this blow from the other party, now our catapults are broken, smashed and smashed, and there are only a few left, so the other party is even more unscrupulous! Even if the catapults are rebuilt to fight back, people's catapults are scattered, but our catapults are concentrated in the city, and we will only be smashed! "The ruined walls had no chance to be repaired, and even though we had organized several adventures to repair them, they were smashed again the next day, and they were all useless, and the enemy laughed at them!" We have also held several officer meetings to solicit solutions, but we have no concrete good measures! ”

Higg sighed and said, "Only ask for opinions from officers? How is that enough, we should solicit a method from the whole army and the whole people that can deal with the catapult, No matter who it is, as long as the method is effective, the general will be crowned with a bounty of 100,000! Each soldier has to say his own way, and the captain, captain, centurion, and thousand-commander summarize and report it layer by layer! I don't believe it, after being smashed for so many days, no one will have a way to deal with these things! ”

Shante shook his head and said, "Even if there is a way, I'm afraid it's too late!" The city is broken in the past few days, Marshal Higg, I can't hold on for long, let's think about what will happen after the break as soon as possible! ”

Higg said angrily: "Even you, the chief general defending the city, said that the fortress would be lost, how can you tell your subordinates to unite as one, how can you keep their morale from dispersing and morale?" ”

Shante hurriedly said: "I'm also telling the truth, so that the marshal can be prepared, save temporary panic, and affect the overall situation!" ”

"Behind us is the Great Plains, there is no danger to defend! There are no more reserves left in the Luojia River Plain! "I have nothing to prepare for, I never thought I would lose the Giscoll Fortress!" The Arad coalition army is just looking for a breakthrough, and then the army will enter the plain and sweep, we can retreat here, but the 70,000 men of Korincha and the 40,000 men of Simak will be divided and annihilated one by one! General Shante, have you thought about the consequences? ”

"Teacher Higg, what you said is true?" Shante was about to speak, but heard Noah excitedly ask, "Can you really be a general?" ”

"Is Mr. Higg joking?" Higg smiled, "As long as you can figure out a way, I'll make you a little general!" ”

"I seem to have a solution!" Noah said with a smile.

"What's the solution?" Except for Shante's disdain, everyone was surprised, because whether it was Higg, Blue Fairy, or Altai, they all knew this demon too well, and the three of them had never dared to underestimate this little guy who was only fifteen years old, and even if something earth-shattering happened to this demon, they would take it for granted.

"Repeater Chariot!" Noah said leisurely.