Chapter 144: Battle Plan
Naturally, this thousand suspended carriages could not be as luxurious as the one captured by Emperor Shi Tian.
Most of them are only used for transporting goods, and more than a hundred are used for riding.
But despite this, these vehicles are also very sophisticated, all of them are cast of stainless steel, and they are inlaid with magic metal magic arrays, there are no wheels, they float on the ground out of thin air, and they are not affected by the terrain on the ground, and they can fly smoothly.
Each carriage is more than two meters wide and four meters long, and has a circular roof that is more than two meters high, which looks very wide.
But in fact, their interior space is much wider than it seems, at least about three or five times larger than the shape of this car.
In particular, the exclusive vehicles of those magicians and masters not only have a space of about 100 square meters, but also are luxuriously decorated, and are divided into several single rooms, with bedrooms, living rooms, and even kitchens and bathrooms.
It's basically the same as a single room in a high-end hotel, except that this single room can also be moved at high speed anytime and anywhere.
The reason why the Fa Ye has such treatment is because their physical strength is too weak to be suitable for long-distance marches, but their role on the battlefield is too great, so they must be carefully served.
Generally speaking, even an ordinary suspended carriage for transporting goods is a treasure of the lower bronze level, and the suspended carriage for transporting the master is a bronze medium or even a bronze upper level treasure.
As a large-scale transportation treasure, the value of the suspended carriage is several times higher than that of ordinary bronze-level treasures.
The value of these 1,000 suspended carriages alone is staggering.
But despite the fact that this thing is expensive and has no combat ability, it is still an indispensable item.
Because the army traveled a long distance, the most important material was military rations, which had to be carried sufficiently.
In this team, there are more than 30,000 human warriors, each of whom consumes five kilograms of food per day, which adds up to 150,000 kilograms.
There are also 6,000 horses, at least 10 kilograms of soybeans, as well as green salt and other supplies.
Because these are excellent war horses, they must eat high-quality concentrate feed, otherwise their combat effectiveness will be affected.
6,000 horses is more than 60,000 kilograms of consumption. Combined with the consumption of human warriors, the daily consumption is more than 200,000 kilograms, more than 200 tons.
It is worth mentioning here that under normal circumstances, the amount of food eaten by human warriors is not so large, and two kilograms per person per day is enough.
But the problem is that they can't just rely on their own two legs for a long-distance march in the dungeon, so if they have to walk 10,000 kilometers, they don't know how to reach the Year of the Monkey!
Therefore, when the human infantry marched, they were blessed with various spells, so that they could march for several hours in a row at a speed like a galloping horse, and they could march a thousand kilometers a day.
However, this way of marching, in addition to the consumption of mana, is also very serious to the physical consumption of the warriors themselves, so every time they receive the blessing of casting spells and march thousands of kilometers, the warriors will become extremely hungry, and the amount of food will reach more than twice the usual amount.
So each person was able to consume five kilograms of military rations in one day.
In addition to military rations, there is also the same weight of clean water, and in the dungeon, there is no way, you can find drinking water anytime and anywhere, so you have to carry some drinking water.
This mage can use spells to make some military rations and water, but this is a waste of mana, and the mage is not very productive.
Don't expect a hundred mages to easily meet the needs of tens of thousands of troops.
Therefore, if you want to march and fight in the underground world, you must have an extremely large capacity to transport materials.
Not only do you have to use it a lot, but you have to move it quickly, at least to keep up with the speed of the daily march of thousands of miles every day.
In addition to the shortage of materials, the underground world is also characterized by difficult roads, not only potholes, full of cracks and bumps, but also encountering obstacles from time to time.
In this case, all wheeled vehicles are not suitable, so hovering carriages are the best choice.
Basically, the lords of the underworld, each of them must have a hovering carriage logistics force.
It can even be said that the number of suspended carriages directly determines the amount of military rations, which also determines the number of troops that can be dispatched at one time.
If there weren't enough hovering wagons to transport supplies, the army would be dispatched too much, and it would be almost like looking for death.
Emperor Shi Tian is also an old man, so after seeing the other party's formation, he immediately realized that the biggest weakness of these guys was in these thousand suspended carriages.
As long as they can get rid of all the food, they must withdraw their troops, and if they can't, they will starve to death.
However, the importance of logistics and supply is not only known to Emperor Shi Tian, but also to the leaders on the other side.
Therefore, these thousand suspended carriages are focused on protection, not only are all the mages here to deal with emergencies, but even the most elite cavalry has a whole two thousand troops protecting the suspended carriage team one after the other.
In this case, it is not easy to sneak up on them.
Emperor Shi Tian originally wanted to use rocket artillery to sneak attack at a long distance, but after he told Yaslian about this method, he immediately encountered opposition from the other party.
Yaslian told Emperor Shi Tian that he must not underestimate the master, especially the silver-level mage, who has already entered the hall and has very strong spiritual power.
Although the range of rocket artillery has increased, it can be fired at a distance of more than a dozen kilometers.
But the magic fluctuations at this distance are already able to alarm the silver mage.
And it takes tens of seconds for rocket artillery to reach the target from launch.
In this process, the silver mage is enough to gather his own team of mages, and then start casting spells to protect himself.
The power of rocket artillery is only bronze. And the mage group led by the silver mage collectively cast protective spells were enough to resist the indiscriminate bombardment of hundreds of bronze high-ranking magic.
Obviously, in this case, the long-range sneak attack of rocket artillery basically has no effect, at most it is just a waste of other mages' mana.
In desperation, Emperor Shi had no choice but to think of another plan.
Fortunately, Emperor Shi Tian was cunning and cunning, and soon had a flash of inspiration, had a new battle plan, and obtained Yaslian's approval, so he hurriedly issued the battle order.
Three days later, Lord Doug's army was marching rapidly across an endless plain land.
This is a relatively rare terrain in the dungeon, and there is a natural flat road surface on the stone ground full of potholes.
Although the army is blessed with spells, it can also travel on uneven stone ground.
However, if you walk on a flat road, you can still speed up the march and reduce the physical exertion.
So before you know it, the whole team is moving forward along this naturally formed path.
This is the fifth day of the army, and it has been more than nine hours of walking, and even with the blessing of the power of magic, the 30,000 soldiers still feel very tired.
Even the cavalry were listless and completely unrefreshed.
The five-day rapid march, coupled with the safe passage of the road, and the fact that the enemy was a rookie this time, these circumstances added together, and unconsciously filled the entire army with a feeling of paralysis and carelessness, feeling that they could easily march and then win easily, anyway, at least they would not be attacked on the way.
This is no longer the mentality of the army, even Lord Doug himself thinks so.
However, just as today's march was coming to an end, suddenly, an unexpected happened.
Rumble~
With an earth-shattering bang, a series of explosions suddenly occurred under the convoy of hovering carriages, each of which set off a fireball several meters in diameter.
The terrifying shock wave tore apart the hovering carriages and lifted them away, and the cavalry on the left and right sides who were used to protect them were directly blown into a blur of flesh and blood, and corpses were scattered all over the field.
And those ruptured suspended carriages also began to burst one after another, and a huge amount of materials gushed out from inside, scattered all over the ground.
Although the space of the suspended carriage is relatively large, it is impossible to fit tens of thousands of troops for a whole month.
Therefore, these materials must be processed with a spell shrinkage, a bag of 50 kilograms of noodles, after using the shrinkage, it will become the size of a peanut, although the weight remains the same, but the volume is much smaller.
In this way, a horse-drawn cart could be loaded with thousands of bags of flour.
In this way, with only a thousand hovering carriages, the needs of the entire huge army can be guaranteed.
However, when the hovering carriage was torn apart by the power of the spell, the items blessed with the shrinkage were shocked by the power of the magic, and the effect of the shrinkage was eliminated and restored to its original size.
As a result, a large amount of flour, rice, corn and other materials were scattered everywhere, almost piled up into small mountains.
Immediately afterward, it suddenly rained heavily in the sky, which strangely covered most of the convoy of hovering carriages.
Sticky raindrops drip down on the grain, and then make a strange sizzling sound, and the water-stained grain immediately turns black and spoiled.
This was true not only of the food, but also of the knights who had escaped the disaster, whose armor was hit by raindrops, and immediately rose with white smoke, and then began to soften and even melt.
At this time, the first suspended carriage at the front, which was also not affected by the explosion, suddenly started, although the magician flew out of it, she directly shouted: "If you are not dead, quickly assemble and release the dispersal technique, this is not ordinary rain, this is acid rain technique, someone is going to destroy our military rations!"
The hovering carriage that the magicians ride in is not only comfortable and gorgeous, but also has very strong protection capabilities, so despite the surprise attack, their vehicles only rolled badly, but they were not completely destroyed, and they protected the magicians inside.
So this sneak attack did not kill any mage, after hearing the leader's order, they didn't care to wipe the dust and blood stains all over their bodies, and quickly stumbled out of the carriage, and then gathered around the mage's water basket.