Volume 3 Blood and Fire Chapter 200 Tiffany (Part 2)
Before approaching the city, Julius will be separated from Ilosu and others. After all, Julius still needs to take the body of the powerful man of the Holy Church to the palace of Grand Duchess Maria to report the situation, and he will leave at the city gate.
Tiffany's Imperial Guard will take over the security work.
Eloise and others did not want to be involved, so they asked the druids of the War Eagle clan to camp outside the city, while Eloise and Yekaterina took their maid Jenny into Tiffany to wait for Julius
After handling the affairs, send them the exit certificate.
A group of three people walked down the mountain.
Another distinctive feature of Tiffany is that it has many city walls. The city is divided into several pieces by the walls.
Historically, Tiffany has experienced naval invasions from the southern Kingdom of Hydera and attacks by natural forces such as hurricanes. The thick city wall has blocked the city from complete destruction.
At the same time, due to the extremely rapid population growth of Tiffany, it needs to be expanded every few decades, and the old city walls are replaced by new ones.
Several centuries have passed, and the original ideal city has become an old city surrounded by many buildings.
Walking through the bustling suburban residential area, Ekaterina murmured to herself: "It seems that in a few years, Tiffany will have to expand again."
After passing through the city gate, this peculiar city appeared in front of Elos and others.
Elos has indeed never seen such a messy city. It is different from any city he has ever visited. There is no straight road here. The streets seem to be roads carved out at will, diagonally and triangularly.
, T-shaped ones can be seen everywhere.
The buildings on both sides of the street are also extremely messy. Next to a tower that is tens of meters high, there may be an extremely simple low-rise bungalow. In front of a group of neat and beautiful buildings, there may be two or three dilapidated ones, as if they are temporary structures.
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The buildings along the street are also hung with all kinds of signboards. These signboards are of all kinds and strange shapes. When you stand among them, you feel like you have entered another world.
It is this messy city that has a unique prosperity.
The streets are full of pedestrians walking around, and it can be seen from their clothes that many of them are travelers from foreign countries.
Among these foreign people, the Cyril people are the largest in number. These people from Cyril are extremely wealthy and walk leisurely and contentedly on the land of the Crimson Principality, as if they are born with a sense of superiority.
In addition to the Sirials, the ones that are more commonly seen are the merchants from Batoria or the knights who choose to become mercenaries.
The closer you go to the center of the city, the more prosperous and noisy you get. After all, those old towns have been around for two centuries, especially the heavily surrounded old town. The real ideal city does look like a city in a dream.
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Its beauty, its elegance, and its comfort are definitely no less than those of Waldenhofer and Coulomb. However, compared with the solemnity and splendor of Waldenhofer and the magnificence and crystal clear of Coulomb, the beauty here is more
Elegance is closer to nature.
This ideal city was obviously inspired by the ruins of the high elves by the founding father, Archduke Benjamin. He moved the world of the high elves to the human world, harmoniously uniting the plants and buildings.
The city itself seems to be a masterful work of art.
However, what makes Eloise regretful is that this city that embodies the ideals of Archduke Benjamin itself has deviated from the ideals of Archduke Benjamin.
At the gate of Tiffany City, poor and shabby people were blocked by guards. Only well-dressed people or people riding carriages could enter this ideal city.
If it weren't for the emblem of the Patrick family left by Julius, I'm afraid that the seemingly dusty Ilosu and others would have been turned away.
What surprised Eloise even more was that when a double-row carriage engraved with the family crest of the crimson principality passed through the city gate, the descendant of Archduke Benjamin, who built this ideal city, actually felt at ease.
Look at all this.
He also asked the city defense army to drive away the poor people, and also sent guards to beat those who were unable to move due to poverty and hunger and blocked the carriage's way into the city.
After hearing the respectful address from the city defenders, Eloise knew that the person sitting in the carriage was the second son of Grand Duchess Maria.
The behavior of these descendants who deviated from the ideals of Archduke Benjamin was taken for granted, which made Eloise feel deeply disappointed.
With a hint of deep disappointment, Eloise paid attention to Tiffany's city defense. This was also Eloise's instinct as a soldier.
City defense is the lifeblood of Tiffany, and it is also the basis for its resistance to foreign invasion, because the eastern part of the Crimson Principality has a long coastline and is basically undefendable.
Historically, with the support of the Holy Empire, the navy of the Kingdom of Hydra landed on the coast several times, and then fought all the way west to Tiffany. In the end, they were defeated at the gate of Tiffany, allowing the navy of the Kingdom of Hydra to return without success.
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More than sixty large arrow rests were built on the high city walls, with giant dragon-hunting crossbows on them, all equipped with magic arrows that can assist in guiding arrows.
A giant catapult is placed at the back of each arrow rest, and the projectiles placed in the stone trough next to it weigh one ton each.
However, compared with these giant crossbows and giant slings, what is more effective is the team of magicians stationed here.
They manipulated magical defensive weapons called the Sea King's Halberd, and the huge Sea King's Halberd was placed in the center of the city wall.
Walking to the stone steps, I looked up at the steps, which were not very high. The steps were covered with guards holding halberds, guarding the huge metal pole in the center of the steps.
The long metal pole is placed on a movable seat that can rotate in various directions. Its surface is covered with complex magic patterns and spells.
"That thing is called a magic cannon. It was originally a magic weapon equipped on battleship-level battleships. It is a precious treasure left by the high elves. It is also the most powerful magic weapon so far. There are not many in the Albrex Empire."
Ekaterina explained for Elos.
The charr does not have this kind of strategic magic weapon because the number of magicians in the charr is few. In recent years, with the help of Archmage Nielas Elan, the charr has established a system for cultivating magicians.
, this time increasing the number of casters.
However, according to the ratio, there is still a big gap between it and the three major empires.
Considering the strategic level magical weapons, under the restrictions of the Albrex Empire, it was impossible for Charles to possess them, so Elos didn't recognize the big killer in front of him.
Legend has it that a full-power blow from this magical weapon can penetrate the defense of a legendary dragon.
The disadvantage is that it consumes too much magic energy and requires the guidance of at least one gold-level mage. The energy stored in it can only be used for a few shots in a battle.
The original intention of the High Elf Empire to develop magic cannons back then was for warships to fight against some large sea monsters at sea and to target enemy warships. The power was naturally sufficient.
Moreover, gold-level magicians are not considered high-end combat power in the high elf empire. They are extremely numerous. Therefore, even if the magic cannon has been around for thousands of years, no human empire has completely brought it to scale. In the final analysis, it is human beings.
The number and proportion of magicians are too few compared to the High Elf Empire back then.
I really don’t know how the human coalition defeated the high elf empire with a large number of magicians.
However, the most authoritative record is that the human coalition drove a large number of slaves and cannon fodder troops to attack first, causing the mages of the High Elf Empire to consume a lot of magic power, and then sent out elite troops to make the final decision.
Although this battle was successful, it was extremely cruel.
Although the cannon fodder troops sent as bait previously exhausted the magic power of the elven mage troops, only a few survived. In this battle, more than 100,000 human coalition forces died, far exceeding the number of high elves who died in the battle.
Human beings are sometimes timid and cowardly, and sometimes they are tough and fearless. When faced with life and death, they naturally burst out with a bloodiness that is not found in the favored races such as the high elves.
That day, one-fifth of the High Elf Empire's army suffered casualties. Their commander could not bear the losses and ordered a retreat.
The cannon fodder troops used as bait were almost completely wiped out, but they still fought to the death.
For this reason, the commander-in-chief of the human coalition, the Knight King Richard of Batoria, blamed himself extremely after the war: This great victory was piled with blood, and it was a victory piled by cannon fodder that he was originally not optimistic about!
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