Pivot of the Sky

But they waited, waited, waited until midnight when the moon was empty, still did not see the Salem Legion. Finally, there was a reward for the scouting, Salem Legion propelled all the way and started a torch on the road. The vision was like a fire dragon, but after 30 miles out of town, the formation suddenly turned back! Philistines waited in the middle of the night.

The general next to them asked: "Sir Legion Commander, they suddenly retreated at night, perhaps sending a scout to discover that we are waiting in line, do not dare to engage, chase or do not pursue? ”

Felix glanced at him and said, "How? Do you want me to chase 50 miles in the middle of the night? This distance just doesn't catch up, and by the time we get downtown, we'll be one day and one night without a break! Return to the barracks and send a guard at all times. ”

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In the basement lobby of the fortress, Raphael continued to speak to Link through the subpoena of two magic arrays, listening only to Link laugh: “Philistine's entire army was standing in the cold wind for the middle of the night, finally unable to survive to go to sleep. It's a little far away. They can't go back to Enrique. Back off three miles and set up the camp. ”

Raphael laughed bitterly: "It's a bad fight. It's definitely not a formal method of warfare. Who made the plan? Not like Lord George. ”

Link laughed, “I led the tribe in the mountains many years ago to hunt the fierce herds of beasts, that's what I did, I can't fight them hard. ”

Yunmeng laughed around Rafael: "I knew it was your idea to keep people from eating and sleeping well. ”

LINK: “Whatever happens, the fortress has to hold, otherwise it's all talk. Rest well, I'll take care of it in the middle of the night. ”

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The Salem Legion seemed to have foreseen Philistines attacking the fortress first on the road, and it was impossible to take it down in a day. They left the city early in the morning to set up a battlefield, and then returned to eat. When the sun was about to set, we lined up to leave the city, set up a platform for a fortress for night reinforcements, walked halfway back and went back to sleep, and tormented Philistines enough.

The soldiers, who had been tired for a day, finally took a break, and Philistines sent patrols to take turns. By the second half of the night, everyone was sleeping perfectly, the fortress where Link was in the distance suddenly glowed, and the magic battle opened and launched a huge screen covering the surrounding area, a city door opened, and General Warnani led a team of well-coated cavalry rushed out.

Hundreds of other soldiers appeared on the walls of the city, sounding the battle and sounding the trumpet, murderous shouting directly into the clouds, deafening. The castle came out of a 100-strong cavalry, led by General Warnani of Ammon, a clear armored samurai with no less combat power than a giant warrior, but an elite among the elite of the Salem Legion.

The Giant Legion had long been on alert, and Philistine had ordered to keep an eye on the fortress. The wary Giant warrior quickly pulled out his weapon and rushed to battle. In a hurry, a man backed up, and the torch was all over the ground. Such a huge movement of course struck the sleeping soldiers in the battalion. They took up their weapons and armored themselves and drilled out the tent. Philistines urgently assembled a cavalry team to rush over.

At first glance, Warnani shook up a large group of horses, and they pulled their horses and walked toward the fortress. The giant warrior in the rear chased outside the castle and suddenly there was countless sharp rays of light in the air. It was a counterattack launched by the Great Enemy of the Divine Arts. In an instant, dozens of enemies had been defeated and the cavalry from the city had escaped into the fortress under the cover of the Great Enemy of the Divine Arts.

Immediately after that, the light of the great array suddenly disappeared, and the four fields were darkened again. Link's tactics were not to rush over to reinforce Raphael, but simply to keep the Giants from sleeping properly, but it was also a great adventure to attack out of town, so they sent all elite cavalry. The battle was modest, with more than 20 enemies suddenly slaughtered and eight cavalry lost by Link, and the door closed silently.

Philistine's nose was all twisted, and he finally got a little bit clear of Salem City's tactics, which was to use these two fortresses to defend himself from the powerful magic array, to hold back the legions of troubled giants, and let him drain his fighting power here. It consumes not only war materiel for siege, but also the strength and morale of soldiers. Giant warriors are tough, but they are not iron fighters. Needing rest also requires the encouragement of victory, and cannot be constantly held hostage.

The next morning, the generals of the Giant Legion all negotiated military affairs in Philistines' large accounts. From yesterday's battle, the other party was very rogue and did not want to set up a battlefield to win or lose. The main purpose was to persevere, restrain, consume, and attack. But Philistine aims to capture and conquer the city of Salem. The logistical cost of the Assyrian kingdom's overthrow of the plateau is too great and must be resolved quickly once a major legion is launched.

There are three choices before Philistine:

The first is to continue to attack the fortress where Rafael is located, the Infantry triumphed for the first time, encroaching on the vitality of the enemy and uprooting the strategic stronghold of Salem City. But the fortress's guard force was unexpected, the day's onslaught did not take down, and a small fortress built such a magical battle, not only presided over by a great magician, but also able to summon a horrible monster, even a girl jumping out of the city wall is a great warrior, it seems deeply unpredictable!

If it consumes too much fighting power when attacking a fortress, it will be impossible to continue attacking the city of Salem for a short period of time, even giving the enemy a counterchance. What is the most difficult thing to determine at this time is how much more it will cost to break that fortress?

The second option is based on the hypothesis that it is likely to be much easier to attack another fortress, assuming that the fortress is all battle-elite and that they happen to encounter the strongest fortress. But what happened late last night clearly proved that another fortress was also guarded by the Great Battalion of Divine Arts, which was also presided over by a great magician. As to how strong their guards are, it is unclear how to strike without a onslaught, and perhaps another fortress will strike better, reversing the strategic posture if the occupation succeeds.

The third option is to strike directly at Salem City. If Salem puts the most elite forces in both fortresses, the Castle's defenses are inevitably thin. Philistine and Russon were unanimous in their judgment that the city of Salem could not have the same magical formations as the two fortresses.

For a city like that to build a theological battle of that size, it would take a hundred years of operation to invest countless human and material resources. Only one kingdom can afford the consumptions that were fully opened during the war, and without enough great magicians and clergy to take turns presiding over the battle, it will not work at all. So it's probably easier than attacking these two fortresses to pull the siege under Salem City, taking over a section of the city wall and storming into the city.

The generals spent the morning discussing how these three options should be traded and eventually decided to concentrate on attacking the fortress where Rafael is. The reason is simple: they have already paid a great price, and perhaps they could have just broken the great array of magic in the fortress, at which point giving up is tantamount to giving up. The continuation of the attack on the fortress presupposed that the fortress could not be reinforced, and Philistine immediately developed a combat plan.

The ranks of the Giant Legion include cavalry, chariot soldiers, knife shields with shuttle guns, bowmen and stone throwers. Their cavalry is small because giant samurai are too tall to withstand giant samurai riding long distances. Chariot fighters are the main group of fighters in their line of battle because Enrique lacks enough horses to pull cars, so the number of tanks is limited.

Stone throwers are long-range combat forces, mainly used to attack walls and fortresses, and can also bomb army formations. Archers mount arrows on tanks at high altitudes and are one of the tactics used to attack the city. As for the large number of knife shield soldiers that can be used in all occasions of battle, giant warriors are able to pick up heavy shields and wave long knives while each is equipped with a shuttle gun that can be thrown remotely during battle.

Philistine divided the Giant Legion into two parts, with more than a thousand cavalry and knife shield men in two battle formations between the two fortresses, on the one hand to prevent Rink's fortress from being attacked and, on the other, to guard against counter-attacks in the direction of Salem City. The rest of the crossbowmen, chariots, stone throwers and hundreds of elite knife shields were concentrated outside Rafael's fortress in an effort to break them.

Philistine did not start fighting immediately, the battlefield was calm the next day, he sent soldiers to rotate his guard, most of the rest were resting in place, had tormented the day and night, many soldiers had not even slept properly.

Just at the time of the general meeting, in return for the scouting, Salem Legion went out of town again, this time much more than yesterday's movement, pushed forward in the out-of-town line, the drums of war shouted and murdered constantly, as if they were really fighting with who. They had 10,000 arrows when the tank stormed, and then sent someone to pick the arrows that had been fired at the ground and rearrange them. The tank in the back came out with a knife shield, so that alternating fights were similar.

Felix heard the news stunned and shouted at the table: "Shit, I can't believe I'm playing the army at this time! Why 'd you go so early? Are we done here? We're not going downtown? ”

Lu Sn frowned: “For the people of Uyghe, this is the best time to play the queue. Soldiers are endangering themselves, unlike serving hard labour in normal time and space. But the commander was bold enough not to rush into battle with us? ”

Philistine scolded: "They had no intention of engaging. As soon as our army moved, they must have returned to the city. They wanted to fight a defensive battle relying on Kingston. Yesterday's out-of-town queue was a cover, trying to disturb us without rest. Playing the army line outside the city today is to provoke me to give up my fortress and move forward. I can't afford this! Pass the word, as long as they don't push 30 miles from the city, we ignore it. The whole army rests today and will continue to attack that fortress tomorrow. ”

There was no fighting on the day, and the Giant Legion was on standby for rest. If Philistine did not expect it, the Salem Legion played an army formation outside the city. When Philistine did not meet him, he returned to the city at dusk and did not march forward to reinforce the fortress.

In the basement hall of the fortress, Raphael's face sinks like water, saying to Cloud Dream: "The Legion of Titans has not moved a thing this day, like closing a punch before punching, and tomorrow will surely launch the fiercest offense. This is the key World War I, casualties must be significant, tomorrow you need to take the samurai to the city wall, be careful. ”

Cloud dreams are also a little nervous: “If you can't stand it, send a signal to Link in advance, and Link and George will attack from two directions to cover our breakthrough. ”

Rafael shook his head: “If that is the case, the entire battle plan will be destroyed. In any case, try your best to protect it tomorrow. I have a bunch of sacred stones here. You hand them over to the magician who assisted the city guard, and the battle must remain intact.” He reached out and grabbed it empty-handed, took out a large leather pocket, opened it and looked at it, it was full of ordinary magic stones.

Cloud Dream exclaimed: “You're quite ambushed. How dare you hide so many magic stones that I don't even know? ”

Rafael smiled lightly: "This is not Sarem City State. Have you forgotten where I came from? I am also one of the heirs of the vast aristocratic family with prominent status in the Kingdom of Hati, and this is the majority of my property. Another part of it was given to me by the teacher, Song Yee, who said that key moments might be useful, and really let the old man get it right. I kept it in a space ring, which was also given to me by my teacher. ”

Yunmeng took Pipo over and said: “I will make it clear that these are your personal wealth. When the war triumphs in the future, Iso will pay you back even the principal interest! There are spare stones, but the magician who helped you run the battle won't be able to survive? ”

“War is the same cruelty for both sides," said Raphael. "Philistines take a day to rest the attacking soldiers, and the wheezing timing of this day is even more important for our magicians. Rest tonight and prepare for the battle tomorrow! ”

Cloud dreams looked at him, his eyes couldn't hide his admiration, and suddenly his teeth burst out laughing: “Philistine really attacked the wrong fortress, he didn't know you were here. One only knows that the battle of the Amun God is invincible, but forgets that the great magician of the Kingdom of Hati sings like a god. His old man is only less fortunate than the Amun God. You are the proudest disciple of Gore and have participated in many wars with your teacher. Today you are a high priest in the State of Syria. It's too clever to let you hold a fortress. With your talent, you can be the commander of a great legion! ”

Raphael shook his head: "Don't flatter me, I'm too far behind my teacher, who sent me here to take the exercise. Since it was an experience, I had to face a difficult test, and I volunteered to defend this fortress. ”

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On the third day, one of the worst wars in the Duke Plains finally broke out. Philistines assembled all the crossbowmen and throwers, and yesterday urgently dispatched fire rocks and large arrows from the city state. This tough battle of defense is a test of the will of both sides. The Giant Legion has been attacking with fireflies since the morning, consuming the defensive power of the Fortress Magic Array.

Rafael did not run the full resistance, but simply extinguished the flames on the stone balls, which crossed the walls and fell into the fortress. He did his best to protect the weaknesses of the walls from falling apart by fire. Under the roaring flights of firestone, Russon commanded the formation of the clergy to cover the knife shields as they attacked the city on the long ladder. Giant crossbowmen also stood on high platforms, pushed forward and approached by chariots, arrows in the air shooting at the guards on the walls of the city.

Half a day after the fierce battle, the magicians who helped Rafael to run the Great Array were tired after repeated rotations, although they remained intact. By the afternoon, a giant knife shield had finally rushed against the city wall, first of all by the former commander of the Giant Legion, the Seventh Great Samurai.

Six of the fortresses were Ammon's own guards, now general of the Salem City leader, and Cloud Dream led six generals into a fierce battle against all the city's reserves. Rafael could only launch a great battle to stop more reinforcements from rushing into the city, while Russon led the clerics of the Giant Legion and arranged a battle against the Magic Battalion to break through the gap in the city.

Cloud dreams formed the original shape of the Ironclad Beast on the city wall. Hard scaled arrows were hard to enter, and it was inappropriate to sweep the claws and long tails. Hu Fat struggled to resist the cloud dream, and a mixed battle formed on the city wall. The fierce battle was fought until near dusk.

Due to the siege at the gap where the defensive magic array was torn apart, it was not possible to deploy too much force. Philistines concentrated all the archers under cover, and the knife shields took turns attacking, paying the price of more than two hundred casualties on a hundred foot wall. As for the soldiers guarding the city, more than two hundred were also killed, and the rest were wounded, only slightly or heavily. Almost all the stones in the battalion were used up by the trolleys of the Giant Legion, including the one that had just arrived from Enrique yesterday, and there were few arrows left for the Giant Crossbowman, who, in the end, became the cleric's shield knife shield for the battle against the city's flesh.

Why does Philistine have to pay so much? Because in the end he had already ridden a tiger. There was always an idea in his mind that had already hit that level, and the fortress was about to be taken down, just one more wave of attack, like the last straw that had crushed the camel, but the camel could not be crushed.

That's what he thought in the morning, that's what he thought in the middle of the day, and it ended up at dusk, and there were no more flint and heavy crossbow arrows available. Within the walls of that fortress, all the less solid buildings were smashed, but the walls were still there. Philistine also saw his disadvantage, and if the magic array could not be broken to open a gap in the wall, it would be costly for the Knife Shield to drive a long ladder to battle in the city.

He tried to reverse this disadvantage, but never succeeded. By the end of the day, the power of the Fortress Theological Array had been reduced to the weakest, only to unite the defenses of the front of the city wall, which was protected by death. The offensive defense was eventually swept down the city by Yunmeng's tail, and the former commander was seriously injured and all the giant warriors who stormed the walls of the city died.

The Giant Legion's plan to take over the fortress failed, and the Iron Armored Beast, transformed into a cloud dream, was also scarred. In the final moments of the fierce war, four more giant armored beasts climbed the walls to help the cloud dream fight together, thus barely stabilizing the situation.

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