Chapter 641: Maginot Line (Medium)
With the war between the Great Empire of the Sun and the Great Empire of Divine Light, and even the war alliance between the Great Alliance of the Sun and the Great Empire of Divine Light, it is very likely that it will break out after the end of the pope election of the Great Empire of Divine Light, and Sun Lin must prepare for the upcoming battle of the world.
As the main battlefield of this battle, Sun Lin has decided to set it up in the Great River Basin in the Northwest of the Central Continent, the Inland Sea Coastline of the King of the Western Regions of the Central Continent, the forest at the junction of the Western Regions of the Central Continent and the Southern Regions of the Central Continent and the desert of the Southern Regions of the Central Continent, of course, the reason is not because of Sun Lin himself, but because of the Great Empire of Divine Light and the Great Griffin Empire that is very likely to become his allies, these two empires want to send their armies from the Central Continent to the Northwest Regions of the Central Continent and the Western Regions of the Central Continent. There are only these four places where troops can land, and among them, the coastal line from the Great River Basin in the northwest of the Central Continent to the Bona Territory of the Central Continent will become the Maginot Line in Sun Linkou, of course, due to the terrain, the Maginot Line is divided into the Upper Maginot Line and the Lower Maginot Line.
The so-called Haute-Maginot Line refers to the cities on both sides of the Great River Valley. The Ottoman Imperial City is composed of three areas, and due to the natural terrain on both sides of the Great River Basin, Sun Lin decided to send the Xiyi First Fleet and the Second Fleet to guard the Ebenua Islands when guarding the Ebenua Islands, and send a Griffin Knights of the Sunset in the airspace to support, Sun Lin will not stay in any regular troops belonging to the Sunset Empire to garrison the Upper Maginot Line.
This is partly due to the natural defensive terrain on both sides of the Great River Basin, but partly due to the allies of the Sunset Empire: the Vampire Empire and the Spider Empire, which have re-formed the Death Test, will defend the Maginot Line in place of the Sunset Army.
Among them, the Vampire Empire, which is the earliest hardcore ally of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets, will send about 10 vampire hoplites, 4 vampire bat knights, air cavalry legions including the Demon Bat Knights, plus 3 vampire knights whose combat effectiveness is extremely strong whether they fight on horse or dismount. Of course, the Nightmare Knights were not sent because they were the vampire royal guard, but despite this, the Vampire Empire also sent about 170,000 troops.
Although there are no ranged troops among these troops, it is not a big deal, because the ranged troops have been replaced by another allied unit, and the ranged troops of the Vampire Empire themselves are not very strong, so the pure melee troops of the Vampire Empire are okay in Sun Lin's heart, and most importantly, the soldiers of the Vampire Empire have very little need for food. Therefore, Sun Lin almost didn't have to bear the logistics of these vampire warriors, which could be regarded as a compensation for the vampire empire not to bring the most suitable ranged troops for defensive warfare to the Maginot Line.
In addition, as a neighbor of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets, the Spider Mother of the Dark Dynasty also sent a full 50 regiments, which is equivalent to 500,000 troops! Such a bold approach. It simply made Sun Lin feel moved after receiving the handwritten letter sent by Mother Spider: among the 500,000-strong legion, the Spider warriors included 3 atavistic spider warrior wargroups, a total of 200,000 people. Furthermore. Since these 20 legions have been buying the kind of super-heavy plate armor specially designed for the Spider Clan warriors from the Sunset Empire until now, but in fact it is the Super Heavy Plate Armor that the Sunset Empire has been cheating the Spider Warriors of iron ore for a long time, so Sun Lin is confident that before the arrival of August tomorrow, these 200,000 Spider Warriors will be equipped with sophisticated battle armor, making the combat effectiveness of these 200,000 Spider Warriors double as a whole.
In addition to the 200,000 Spider warriors, 150,000 Minotaur warriors, 50,000 Harpy warriors, 50,000 Medusa archers, 30,000 Evil Eye warriors, and 20,000 terrifying manticore knights were sent by the Spiderwood: ridden by the cavemen, although the cavemen had lost sight due to their long underground life. But their perception is top-notch, and they are so strong that they can sense their surroundings by virtue of the direction of air flow within a radius of 100 meters, so the Manticore Knight's dodge ability is even stronger than the Griffin Knight's dodge ability. It's not a griffin speed mount.
Among them, 150,000 minotaur warriors are comparable to the existence of strong orc warriors, although the figure of the minotaur warriors is not as strong as the minotaur warriors of the orc clan, but the minotaur's three-plate axe technique can definitely make any human warrior who goes head-to-head with him feel a headache, even if it is a swordsman from the great empire on which the sun never sets.
And 50,000 harpy warriors and 20,000 manticore knights will form an extremely terrifying defensive network in the air with the bat knights of the Vampire Empire and the griffin knights of the Sunrise Empire, whether it is the warriors of the angel clan or the griffin troops of the Griffin Empire, or all of the two to raid here, as many as 130,000 air cavalry will also give these air cavalry troops a headache, not to mention that in the northwest region of the Central Continent, there is also a special hunt and killing air cavalry, with extremely strong combat effectiveness, The number of spider troops reached 200,000.
As for the 80,000 underground long-range troops, they will form an extremely terrifying firepower network on both sides of the great river basin to deal a head-on blow to the invading enemy. Of course, because this long-range force is really not enough, Sun Lin chose to transform this area and call it the reason for the Maginot defensive line.
In the renovation plan of the Macedonian defense line, due to the natural terrain of the large river basin, in Sun Lin's view, if the enemy sends troops to attack from here, then the troops sent should be mainly air combat troops, supplemented by landing troops, so Sun Lin will now be due to the popularization of No. 1 artillery, the accuracy of artillery began to improve, and No. 2 artillery is about to be developed and mass-produced around November and eliminated by the Sunset Army, a total of 1,000 naval battles. The Scorpion Crossbows were all put into the Upper Maginot Line, and it was expected that 500 Siege Giant Crossbows would be installed in this area, and the Upper Maginot would be an improvement in defensive weaponry.
In terms of defense facilities, since the Upper Maginot Line will use 13 coastal cities, including the Ottoman Imperial City, as the key point of transformation in the interior, and the land route between these cities, that is, those mountain roads dug on the edge of the cliff, it is too difficult to move forward, so Sun Lin decided to use a large amount of black powder and the ability of the spider warriors to dig holes while clearing all the villages built on the edge of the cliff, and at the same time, use a large number of black powder and spider warriors to dig holes to destroy all these mountain roads, so that all 13 cities will lose their land together. Turn all 13 cities into cliffs that prevent soldiers from moving forward. Of course, while destroying these mountain roads, Sun Lin also asked the Spider warriors to start digging holes in the cliffs, making a tunnel connecting the cliffs where the 13 cities were built. In this case, even if the attacking side captures the city, they can only choose to continue to take the next city on the ship, and then the soldiers will be able to recapture the captured city through the tunnel, and if the attacking side finds out that the tunnels exist, it doesn't matter, because each tunnel will be equipped with thousands of kilograms of black powder kegs, waiting for the arrival of the attacker's soldiers.
The above is the preliminary transformation plan of the Upper Maginot Line, and it is also the first defense plan of the four defense lines set by Sun Lin, and the second is the defense plan at the junction of the forest area between the western regions of the Central Continent and the southern region of the Central Continent: because Sun Lin believed that the direction of attack of the enemy's main force in the early stage would be the coastal defense line of the Western Regions of the Central Continent, and in the middle and even later periods, the junction between the Western Regions of the Central Continent and the Southern Regions would be the direction of the enemy's main attack. Therefore, this area will be the second most garrisoned area of the 4 regions where the sun never sets army.
In this area, Sun Lin temporarily set the number of guards in this area at about 300,000, including all the longbow troops of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets, the Xiyi troops and the orc troops that are now beginning to expand in large quantities.
As for the third plan, it is the junction of the forests and deserts in the southern region of the Central Continent, where the centaurs were located before. The reason why there are no heavy troops here is because Sun Lin believes that the cavalry troops of the attacking side in the future are very likely to land along the coast of the Blackstone Dwarf Kingdom, and then pass through this desert and the southwest region of the Central Continent, which is the only one of the many Central Continents in the Middle Continent region that does not border the King's Inland Sea, and finally raid the 3 Duchy regions. Therefore, Sun Lin decided to put all the cavalry that Sunset had, including 100,000 Cuman cavalry, 12 Sunset cavalry regiments, and 50,000 hired centaur soldiers, a total of 270,000 cavalry, all here.
Maybe the 270,000 cavalry is not enough in the eyes of the attacker, but because most of the 270,000 cavalry are light cavalry, or light archers, and the most important thing is that these archers also have long-range weapons that can penetrate heavy plate armor, so in fact, Sun Lin thinks that as long as these 270,000 cavalry are used well, then even if the enemy cavalry is twice as large as himself, it is not enough to be afraid.
After that, Sun Lin put forward four defense plans, the most important of which was the construction plan of the Maginot Line. (To be continued......)