Chapter 485: Puzzled
It does have the capital of self-confidence, and the advantage of military strength is not to mention for the time being. The total number of eight Masters of Magic, as well as the original ones in Fort Deklock, and those who had arrived from other places, totaled eleven Masters of Magic, was enough to make him stand strong in this siege.
Not to mention Fort Dekelock, which is also one of Negan's famous castles that are easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Unlike the ancient Chinese cities with long walls on Earth, castles and cities are two completely different concepts in the world of Erathia.
In this world, a castle is an independent existence from the city, and the castle can be a part of the city, but it can also be built separately from the city, and where there is a city, there must be a castle. However, where there is a castle, there may not be a city, and the city is based on a certain castle, which slowly develops and eventually builds around the castle.
In general, castles are always at a distance from the city, but there are also cases where castles are located inside the city, and Deklock Castle, located to the west of Decloc City, belongs to the kind of castle that is outside the city.
Decloc City was a small village at the time, but thanks to the local transportation advantages, it gradually prospered and eventually became one of Negan's famous big cities.
Although in this area, the terrain is mostly plain, but there is a large freshwater lake, Deklockburg is built by the lake, surrounded by water on three sides, only one side leads to the outside world, but even this side, it was the designer who took advantage of the terrain to dig the moat, this moat connected to the freshwater lake, so that Deklockburg looks like it was built on the lake.
And the owner who built this castle is said to be one of the great lords of the Negan Kingdom, so the scale of the castle is quite large, and then it has been continuously expanded and strengthened by successive owners, and now, Deklock Fort has become a super large castle, and tens of thousands of troops can be stationed in the castle, even if it is squeezed into tens of thousands of people when needed, it is not a problem.
And in the only direction leading to the outside world, the city walls have been thickened and reinforced. Quite impressively, with many turrets, crossbows, and steerable catapults in some positions, these catapults undoubtedly have a longer range due to their height, so that the catapults used by the attackers to attack the city are often destroyed before they reach the effective range.
It is worth mentioning that in order to prevent the attackers from attacking this castle from the air, the defenders of this castle have always had a large number of flying troops, not to mention the harpy and the poisonous scorpion, and there are also a lot of dragons, and this time, in order to defend Deklock, Daxdo directly transferred a thousand dragons from the concubine force, plus the original dragons, and now the number of dragons in the castle has reached more than 1,200.
A fortified castle that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, with a numerical advantage, powerful magical power, and a large number of flying troops, Daiss has great confidence in his ability to defend this castle, even if the intelligence shows that the enemy does not seem to be weak in combat, even better-equipped, and with the assistance of hundreds of Cregan demons, Daiss is not afraid at all, at most he is a little cautious.
In fact, if it weren't for Daxto's repeated advice, he might have gathered all his men and horses to fight the castle and fight the enemy to the death.
So in this battle, he didn't intend to defend passively at all, after finding that the enemy had moved, he immediately distributed the forces he had, and the flying troops began to rise into the air, more than 30,000 flying troops composed of harpies, poisonous scorpions and dragons were like a black and oppressive dark cloud in several directions above the castle, and Days himself, on the side, took 20,000 elite troops mainly Minotaur warriors out of the castle, crossed the moat, and then turned his back to the moat and lined up in the open space by the river, A large number of long-range troops such as Medusa and Evil Eye were placed on the city wall by him, and he defended the city with the caveman soldiers who operated the giant crossbow and catapult, and eleven magic masters were also assigned by him to the city wall or ride a poisonous scorpion lion to mix in the flying troops, ready to use powerful magic to meet the enemy.
Dyce's plan is that if the enemy is really stupid to attack directly, he will first let the magician and various long-range troops on the city wall launch a powerful interception against the enemy, and at the same time use the flying troops to destroy the enemy's air offensive, and when the enemy's position is in chaos, he will take the formation by the moat, and get the 20,000 elites of the long-range troops on the city wall to cover the strong cover, and kill into the enemy's formation with all his strength, and finish his work in one battle.
Days felt that his small hair was perfect, so he was in a very good mood, and even began to look forward to the enemy appearing soon, and a qi mage stayed by his side, monitoring the enemy's movements in real time with his magic vision.
At the same time, among the Alliance forces advancing towards Deklockburg, a group of Alliance generals are also observing their opponents' movements through their magical eyes.
Looking at everything that Days had done, Christine was a little helpless and a little annoyed
So much so that we were underestimated! ”
He said this to Adrid, and the beauty magician obviously agreed with him: "Indeed, but we didn't make a name, and that's normal!" ”
After speaking, both of them sighed a little at the same time, and then looked at each other and smiled.
They lamented that it had been many years since they had this feeling of being despised and wanted to be back then. When they were still following Catherine in the empire, they were as beautiful as they were on the battlefield, as long as they became famous, which opponent was not frightened, and which one was like this guy on the other side, who was fearless, and even dared to line up outside the castle with a big grin, ready to counterattack at any time.
The laughing thing is that they will test the feasibility of a novel tactic that everyone has come up with in this opponent.
Compared to the two veterans on the battlefield, Pitt and Orison are a little nervous, both of whom are experiencing such a big scene for the first time.
Bruce was inexplicably excited, and for this guy who was bent on washing the stigma of the Thor's troll clan on the battlefield, the more the better.
Moryl was cautious. Originally, with her vision, her experience, and her former identity, a battle of this scale could not arouse her much interest, but now it is different, the alliance is Chen Jian's alliance, and Chen Jian is her beloved man.
Now the strength of the alliance is still a little weaker, and it is not easy for the alliance army to have the current atmosphere, so she wants to try her best to reduce the losses in this battle, retain more strength, and add more chips for Chen Jian's great cause, and she knows that if she can die fewer people. Jian Chen, that soft-hearted guy, will definitely be happy.
So she's now fully focused.
Following her command, the Coalition ground forces marched in a large phalanx toward Fort Derklock, only to stop when they were about to come within range of the magic attack.
In this battle, the coalition forces were not responsible for launching the first round of attacks, not the ground troops, but the flying forces.
With a number of more than 10,000 people, the flying troops composed of harpies and poisonous scorpions drawn from each main battle legion were led by the dragon legion. Led by Moriel, who was riding on a black dragon, broke away from the main formation of the Alliance Army, kept raising his altitude in the air, and flew in the direction of Deklockburg.
This situation puzzled the leading general of the defending side, Minotaur Days.
He couldn't figure out what the other party's intention was in this arrangement.
Use more than 10,000 troops to fight hard with more than 30,000 troops on your side? What gives the enemy such confidence in their flying units?
Days stared at a pair of bull's eyes and looked at it carefully for a long time. Still didn't figure out the other party's intention to do this, in the distance, the enemy's ground troops did not attack with the flying troops, but stopped in place, that is, they refused to enter the magic range, and the farthest range of the attack type magic could not hit, Medusa and the evil eye These ranged troops could not attack, and the same was true for catapults and giant crossbows.
Moreover, he found that the flight altitude reached by the enemy's flying unit was inevitably too high, and looking at the appearance of the other party, he even planned to continue to climb high. What's going on, don't they want to engage in hand-to-hand combat with their own flying troops? Just want to take advantage of the height to observe the situation in the castle first?
But how could anyone send so many flying troops to serve as scouts?
As he could not figure out what the other party's purpose was, Deis cautiously chose to wait and see, he ordered his own flying troops not to attack, so as not to fall into the trap of the enemy and not know that it was not a big mistake to be careful, and to hold on to the city of Decrook, no matter what, there was nothing wrong with it, and at the same time he also ordered the magician to attack the enemy's flying troops. But the result of the attack was to surprise everyone, because the magic turned out to be ineffective.
Eleven magic masters, eleven different types of range magic, none of them have made any contributions.
Seeing those obviously powerful magic dissipate into the air for some unknown reason, one of Dyce's hearts began to beat violently uneasily, and he had a feeling that danger was approaching.
"There are anti-demon treasures!" His eyes were red as he stared at the enemy flying higher and higher in the air, and his eyes almost burst into flames, "Who are they?" How could there be such a rare treasure in your hands! ”
The more he looked at it, the more uneasy he became, and suddenly found that today's battle did not seem to be as easy as he imagined.
So he ordered half of the flying unit to meet the enemy, but at this time, the flight unit of the Alliance Army had climbed to an astonishing height, and it was too late for Dais's order to be ordered, so his flying unit wanted to intercept the other party. It's going to take some time.
Days had never seen a flying unit fly above that height on the battlefield, which made him even more suspicious.
(The second watch, and the third watch!) (To be continued)