Chapter 284: The road is tortuous
The six knights who attacked Am, the main class of troops were paladins, supplemented by priests.
The priests of the Continent of Feren are slightly different from those of other magical planes, wearing heavy armor, holding giant shields, and using blunt weapons such as maces, war hammers, and clubs.
Only the Mystic Fire Knights who serve Misra have the Mage Regiment, but the number of Mages is not large. The low literacy rate of the Faren Continent limits the overall number of mages, and learning magic is a long process, and it takes almost a lifetime to become a high-level mage.
Young mages are mostly low-level mages and magic apprentices, and they often reach middle age by the time they become intermediate mages.
Compared with the difficulty of mage leveling, the training of the holy warrior is much easier, the faith is pious enough, and the combat skills are honed every day, and young people can also become intermediate holy warriors, and when they reach middle age, they are likely to become high-level holy warriors or even legendary holy warriors.
Paladins can cast a level 3 magic on themselves, improve their own attributes and those of their teammates, and can also remove various negative states and perform simple healing.
The army composed of holy warriors far exceeds the army composed of warriors in the traditional battlefield of the Faren Continent, and the alliance of the six knights can be described as a powerful force that cannot be ignored in the Faren Continent, and few countries can compete head-on.
However, in the bridge area of Ascatla City, the powerful paladins were under machine-gun fire, and because they had no effective means of long-range attack, they could only use their flesh and blood wrapped in iron armor to use refueling tactics and consume human lives to break through the defense line.
Charging through a rain of arrows and strafing with a machine gun were two different things, and the paladins who thought they could carry the machine-gun bullets with their bravery and loyalty were killed on the spot.
The mages of the Mystic Fire Mage Corps were tempted to use their magic to blast the gatehouse away, but they didn't have enough distance to cast their spells, and if they got too close, they would be sniped by sniper rifles.
The mages tried all kinds of methods, using stealth, flight, mirroring, material mirrors, stone skins, simulacrums, projections......
I was going to protect myself with defensive spells and illusions, and quietly approached to cast high-level magic, but when a high-level mage who tried to do so was hit by a sniper rifle in succession, was smashed into a sieve in the air, and fell headlong, no mage dared to try again.
The effective range of the sniper rifle is 800 meters, and the casting distance of the mages, even if they have the ability to increase the range of the spell, increase the casting distance by 50%, and the farthest is only more than 600 meters, and the distance is farther, and the perception of the mages cannot locate the target at all.
The knights' huge shields could not block the heavy machine gun bullets, and the knights' corpses crossed the bridge area, and after several rounds of decisive charges were repulsed, the soldiers whose morale plummeted had to retreat even if the priest blessed the "Lifting Technique" and "Blessing Technique".
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Next to the hand-cranked Gatling gun, stood two men in hooded trench coats, one human and the other a dark elf.
Luo Feng was holding a sniper rifle and was looking around with his scope, he had just shot the high-level mage who had used stealth and illusion to try to sneak into the casting range.
With eyes that can see through all illusions, Luo Feng is the nemesis of illusionists, and the magic of manipulating light and shadow to confuse people's senses has no effect on him.
It's just that other snipers don't have such abilities, and in the red magic and red magic, they haven't developed the ability to directly crack the illusion spell.
The Illusionist has a lot of restraint on the Sniper for the time being.
However, in the future, it may not be possible that with the progress of science and technology, the development of electronic technology, the development of thermal imaging, infrared imaging, electromagnetic wave induction and other technologies, the light and shadow illusion can only be blinded for a while, can not distort its other physical properties.
Invisibility can make the mage invisible, but it can't block the heat radiation and human magnetic field emitted from his body.
"Mr. Bredrow, these weapons are indeed powerful." Holding a telescope, Trist observed the tragic scene of corpses strewn across the bridge area, and said with mixed feelings: "However, in just one hour, we have already used up the ammunition that took months to make. If the enemy's morale had not been worn down too much, and he insisted on attacking a few more times, we would not have been able to hold it. ”
Putting down the binoculars, Trist looked worried: "This has also revealed our strength and aroused the vigilance of the enemy, if the surface kingdoms unite to enter the dark region and launch a full-scale attack on our base area, what should we do?" The production efficiency of weapons and ammunition is far from the speed of supply and consumption, and the base areas cannot be defended. ”
"Comrade, the road is tortuous, the future is bright, you must have confidence, how long the red flag can be fought, it depends on the people, not on the weapons and ammunition."
Luo Feng said in a deep voice: "That's right, in the near future, the base area of the dark region will usher in an unprecedented crisis, and after the surface countries wake up, they will send a large army into the dark region to carry out crazy encirclement and suppression of the base area.
The frenzier the encirclement and suppression, the more they reflect their fear of us. As long as we can survive the encirclement and suppression and thwart the enemy's several encirclement and suppression, the situation will gradually turn around, and the road ahead will become smoother and smoother. ”
Trist frowned, still worried, originally he only wanted to liberate Morsobly, but now this goal has gradually changed, Bredrow subtly, changed Trist's original intention.
It seems that the liberation of the Faeron Continent is not a fantasy.
However, the thought of facing the encirclement and suppression of the entire continent made Trist feel suffocatingly stressed.
The Red Army's combat effectiveness is very strong, but it is difficult to last, and the ammunition produced by the base arsenal working overtime cannot withstand such consumption.
If the enemy encircles and suppresses the base area again, the rear is no longer stable, and once the arsenal is discontinued, rifles, machine guns, and mortars will become scrap metal.
Bledrow thinks the future is bright, but Trist feels that the road ahead is getting harder.
Luo Feng saw Trist's worries, and said patiently: "Don't be discouraged, if the alliance forces of the surface countries really enter the dark region, it will be difficult for us, but it will be even more difficult for the enemy." And if we can grow stronger in the struggle, the enemy will only gradually weaken, and one day the strength and weakness will be reversed. ”
Trist cast him an inquiring look.
Luo Feng said slowly: "The dark region environment is complex, and the surface army has far more difficulties to overcome than us, among the underground races, monster races such as the Eye Demon and the Heart Flayer will not reach any agreement with the surface army, and will only treat them as invaders. It's hard to say whether the Dark Elves, the masters of the Dark Regions, will tolerate the surface races operating in their territory, and I bet that even if they don't stop them, they will quietly cause trouble for them. ”