"What??! You want to take people out? Are you crazy!!?"
When he suddenly heard that Cuthbert actually wanted to take people out of the city when the enemy was approaching, Morrisgues couldn't even care that the opponent was a "big shot" and "archmage" from the royal capital, and he was subconsciously shocked.
Exhale aloud.
However, compared to Morrisgues's surprise, Cuthbert was obviously much calmer - although the Royal Mage Corps belongs directly to His Majesty the King and generally does not perform any combat missions, most of them come from various places.
They were promoted little by little, and many even did "internships" at Harmondale~
Regardless of his strength or vision, Cuthbert is more than one level better than Morrissey. Therefore, facing the [Dead Souls] and [Vampires] attacking from outside the country, he has nothing to fear.
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"It is not a good idea to close the city and defend it. If we easily give up the tactical choice to the opponent, it will make it more flexible to move forward and retreat at will~
In comparison, it is obviously more difficult to choose larger and freer enemies in the tactical space.
And don't forget, the refugees around the castle have been lured away, but we don't have enough troops in the rear to protect the refugees in the plains.
I remember what Geralt said earlier, one of our goals is to keep the people in the territory, and then continuously add them to our combat system to become our own strength.
If we let the enemies in front of us pass at this time, what if they rush straight to the rear to attack the refugees... It doesn't take more than one or two hundred [Undead], I think they can turn the rear into a hell on earth! Really
By then, do you think Geralt will be satisfied after seeing it?"
"But...but this is easy to say. Where are the manpower in our city for you to allocate to you? The only ones who are more powerful are the new elf archers. But if you take them all away, what if there is someone in the city?
What an accident..."
As the saying goes, you have to throw away when comparing goods, and you have to die when comparing people. Originally, Morrisgues thought that the soldiers under his command were still good...at least compared to those "old soldiers" in southern cities who only bully street vendors and poor people.
Strong, right?
They have to clean up the beasts and wolves here in the north, and they have many more combat tasks than the city guards in the interior of the south~
Especially later, Geralt also took the initiative to requisition all the crossbows in stock, and even recently recruited many village warriors for shooting training, which really added some manpower to the crossbowman group...
However, this "little trick" of my own is completely inadequate compared with the new elf shooters~
Not only are the elves tall and beautiful, but when you get closer and take a closer look, you will find that under their seemingly "slender" bodies, they actually hide explosive power! When those hands actually nock an arrow and draw a bow,
It will make onlookers feel that it is the strong and powerful arm of a real "warrior", rather than some pretty but impractical girly thing...
It was not that Morrisgues had never seen Eli's long-eared elves before, but it was indeed his first time to observe so many regular army-level wood elf archer troops at such a close range.
Under this comparison, the so-called "crossbowmen" who were born out of farmers and rural braves are really unsightly... As for the copycats, Morrisgues felt that it might take three or four concentrated fires to be able to compete with the opponent.
Life and death, and if you rely solely on hand-to-hand combat without weapons...then it's over~
I don’t know if six or seven of my own soldiers can survive in the other party’s hands!!
With this comparison in his mind, Morrisgues subconsciously felt that if Cuthbert wanted to "take people out of the city", he must take away these powerful elf archers... At the same time, he would also be worried that the city lacked such powerful elf shooters.
After gathering the most elite reinforcements, will they be attacked by the enemy in a moment of emptiness...
However, in the face of Morrisgues' worries, Cuthbert just said calmly with a wrinkled face: "It doesn't matter, I'm not familiar with those elves, they'd better stay and cooperate with you to defend the city.
I just plan to take away some mobile rangers and griffons."
"Wha...what? Just a few people? But..."
Originally, Morrissey was worried that Cuthbert would be in danger if he took only such a small number of people out.
After all, there are more than a thousand elite undead of the third and fourth levels coming from the northwest. At least in Morris's view, bringing so many people out to stop the enemy is no different than sending someone to death...
But suddenly Morrisgues thought of another possibility!!
If you are fighting in a well-constructed place with all kinds of urban functions, those gentlemen will naturally not be too anxious. They will only use the teleportation array between cities to escape danger when the war situation is really bad.
land, leaving the rest of the soldiers and people behind.
But here in Kalawa...
Is there a ghost teleportation array? If there was one, why would Cuthbert and the others have to work so hard to come here from the south?
In this way, if the situation is really unfavorable, it is very likely that the enemy will be besieged in the city and have no way to advance or retreat... If the spell caster in front of him simply wants to leave the dangerous place first...
Thinking of this, Morrisgues didn't dare to continue guessing. After all, strictly speaking, this was even a quite serious accusation on the battlefield, and it could completely give the other party the status of a "deserter" and be punished by military law...
But Morrisgues couldn't stop thinking in this direction~
In addition to Cuthbert's decision being too shocking, it was also closely related to the similar behavior of the spellcasters he had seen in his past military experience. In Morrisgues's mind, the only option was death.
Knights who charge, soldiers who hold their ground, but I have never heard of a spellcaster who refuses to retreat...
Even if he is a higher-level battlefield commander, whenever possible, he will give priority to withdrawing the caster troops who are in danger. After all...spellcasters are indeed precious and scarce...
With various thoughts, Morrisgues gave Cuthbert a strange look in the end, and said nothing more. He finally advised the other party to be "cautious" in everything he did, and to make sure that he
Safety and so on - no matter whether the monk is afraid of death or not, at least judging from Geralt's previous attitude, he still values this person very much, so Morrisgues has to express the minimum respect.
Cuthbert never expected that the middle-aged sergeant in front of him would actually have so many things in his mind. Seeing that the other party finally no longer hindered him, he also began to quickly gather his troops - compared to Liu Yifei's previous army attack
, this time Cuthbert was really a small mobile team, bringing a total of four reconnaissance rangers and ten griffons, and then went straight out of the city to kill towards the northwest...
The origin of the undead army had already been discovered, and Cuthbert didn't know what he was thinking, but he actually faced them so openly.
The same road, different people come and see different scenery——
In the previous layout of Kalawa's eyeliners, the players at the forefront were of course the players during the daily plot.
These guys who are not afraid of death and are willing to die are willing to gather at the front line to fight. Liu Yifei has no intention of stopping them. Naturally, he is at the front with the scouts of the undead, killing the stray cannon fodder~
But it is also thanks to the struggle of these "country warriors", otherwise if the sporadic undead were spread, it would have caused the southward invasion of the area actually controlled by the undead party...
After that, the rest of the surveillance work over a large area was handed over to the Griffin Rangers' "Air-Ground Intelligence Network", which is also the standard scout configuration of the Erathian regular army under normal circumstances.
Rangers are generally responsible for the detailed platooning near the stronghold, making sure that no small groups of enemy troops penetrate.
The gryphon can fly high enough, fast enough, and has excellent eyesight. At the same time, it has the monk's [arcane wisdom] to communicate, which can ensure the timely detection of the movements of large numbers of enemies at medium and long distances...
However, such a patrol configuration will eventually have some omissions - for those small groups of elites with special stealth capabilities, it is actually difficult for such a patrol combination to truly contain the opponent... Or in Entagry, where various methods are emerging one after another.
On the mainland, trying to tightly defend the enemy's various infiltration methods by relying on one or two methods is a fool's errand~
After all, there is a huge difference in the cost of those who "prevent thieves" and those who "do thieves". The one who takes the initiative will naturally have a tactical advantage -
For example, as long as the opponents of the undead clan send out strong enough high-level undead, such as [Black Warrior], they can easily deceive most of the undead people who do not have the skills to detect them by playing tricks such as hiding out at night and burying themselves deep in the ground.
A scout for testing abilities.
This is why Liu Yifei always hopes that he can control more spellcasters~
In terms of pioneer reconnaissance, tactical strikes, guard patrols, etc., in fact, mature forces cannot do without the assistance of a sufficient group of spellcasters...
The previous rounds of scouts had gone to the place. Cuthbert now walked out again. About six or seven miles away from Karava Castle, he gradually became aware of the reconnaissance sights that were sneaking and avoiding-or hiding in the bushes.
On the treetops, the undead are invisible, or they are simply buried underground, with even the fluctuations of their own souls suppressed to a minimum...
In short, these weird guys, because each of them is a magical life form, and their own death energy, dark magic power fluctuations are obvious, they cannot be hidden in the eyes of strong men like Cuthbert!
Cuthbert was ostracized and alienated at Standwick because he was "alternative" and "non-mainstream". In terms of complete strength, he was only slightly inferior to the current Jenny. If we only count the curse-type dark spells
In terms of careful study, even Jenny is far inferior to him!
Because this guy's curse-like spell specialization is at the "Control" level (spell casting skills)! The specific [Weakness and Powerlessness] spell that he is best at has already been mastered at the "Master" level (spell skills).
At least in Cuthbert's eyes, undead scouts and these deceitful guys can't hide it at all~
Along the way, several rangers could hear some strange and harsh whines from far and near, which sounded like humans... The level of the sharp whines was not like what ordinary people could make. The key is
...No one along the way saw a living person at all!
This made several rangers feel chills running down their spines, but Cuthbert didn't say a word, which made the atmosphere in the team seem depressing...
Several rangers knew that this trip was difficult and dangerous, and even thought that their lives would most likely be in danger. However, when they really came to the end of the road, Cuthbert only asked the rangers and griffons to disperse to the side to investigate.
Provide yourself with general information support such as the enemy's movements and the availability of reinforcements. In the end... it turned out that Shi Shiran, alone, blocked the path of the undead army, and even allowed his mount to walk aside.
!!
Of course, Cuthbert is not blindly exaggerating~
Liu Yifei did a good job in communicating real-time information on the battlefield, especially since he understood which people he had on hand were truly decisive and who he needed to rely on, so he naturally would not hide important information.
Now everyone knows who the two giants of the opponent are. Even a "pedant" like Cuthbert, who had previously been ignorant of the outside world, understands the horror of the "double legend"...
However, it is precisely because he knows the opponent's abilities and the current situation of the undead party that Cuthbert is even more certain that the opponent will not appear in front of him at the moment!
The enemy has two important rear strongholds that need to be defended, and they have to spare their manpower to sneak attack on a "historic site" where the elves have gathered heavy troops - and Geralt judged that the enemy is likely to try to awaken the sealed corpses in the historical site to expand their troops...
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Undead monsters of high level and above are not ordinary cats or dogs that can summon souls and raise corpses. Therefore, as long as Geralt's guess is correct, Cliffite must at least determine the position of a legendary undead.
So now, what is the probability of another legend appearing?
Cuthbert thought about it, the probability was even lower than 30%...
And the 70% probability is enough to give him the confidence to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight!
To be honest, he actually really wanted to see if there were any other necromancers with more powerful methods when it came to the undead...
The waiting time was not long. Not long after, the vampire group came into Cuthbert's field of vision first. As soon as these guys showed up, Cuthbert understood why two griffins were too late during the earlier investigation.
I withdrew the letter and reported it——
Damn, these undead are actually so insidious. The northern part of the vampires that turned into giant flying bats are all painted with a brown-green "oil"... The color looks a bit uncomfortable, not like grass or green fields.
They are full of vitality, and the sight of them only makes people feel eerie and uncomfortable. However, these vampires also deliberately fly to spread out and lower the flight altitude. Against the background of the plain land, to be honest, the gryphons flying high in the sky are really good.
Not so easy to see through at a glance...
However, the dispersed formation, which was unfavorable to the scouts, now reduced Cuthbert's interception pressure.
I didn't see how he was holding the spell and casting spells. He just took out a strange little powder packet similar to that used by noble ladies from his arms. He held it lightly on his left hand, extended his right hand flat, with the thumb and middle fingers pointing forward, and gently moved his arm.
Draw……
Something weird happened!
The dozen or so large vampire bats that were the fastest and rushed towards them in a skirmish line were unexpectedly unable to scream even in time. It was as if someone had suddenly filled their wings with lead, and their straight wing tips fell down.
, and then the whole body rolled and fell to the ground like a dead snake...
After the vampire transforms into a bat form, its strength, constitution and other attributes are greatly reduced, but it is not likely to be seriously injured if it is dragged on the ground by the inertia of flight for a while.
But it happened that the first vampires to suffer seemed like they were drunk. After falling to the ground, they kicked off their short hind legs and twisted their necks and turned their heads desperately... But none of them could fly again.
of!
Not to mention flying, not even one of them could transform back into a vampire form!
By the time the vampires coming from behind realized something was wrong and slowed down to a stop, thirty or forty "crash" cases had already occurred in the fan-shaped area with a radius of 100 meters in front of Cuthbert!
Among the large vampire bats, the best performing ones seemed to have cramps. They were lying on the ground kicking their legs and fluttering their wings, but none of them could move normally...
While these strange sights shocked the vampires, they also forced them to change back to their normal form, and then tentatively entered the "weird area"... However, after discovering that there was no strange feeling, each of them howled loudly and directed towards the person in front of them.
Cuthbert pounces!
Not only do vampires move like ghosts in human form, but at least they are not slow at all. After being rushed within fifty meters, it is a bit dangerous for most mid-level spellcasters, let alone the ones in front of them.
We still faced an endless stream of hundreds of vampires!
However, Cuthbert is not cowed at all. Haven't you turned back into vampire form? My weak curse that targets living muscles will not be able to work on your undead bodies... But after losing the protection of bat form, you
Have you forgotten the shortcomings of the undead?
What light monks are best at...or at least what they can do well is, of course, their master's light spells!!
The next moment, a dazzling light as bright as the sun suddenly burst out from Cuthbert's free right hand!
The magic radiance that radiates out like a cluster carries a strange power that is far more terrifying than ordinary sunlight. For vampires with fourth-level standard strength, as long as they are not seriously injured, ordinary sunlight will only make them feel uncomfortable.
It's just sad, at least it won't produce any damage-level effects.
However, those vampires whose fronts were illuminated by the radiance of Cuthbert's spells, whether they were on their bodies or in their clothes... the worst thing was the ones whose heads and faces were illuminated. They felt as if they were being burned by fire, and quickly became ill.
Black, charred...and then quickly smoked and burned!
The lethality of this move is a bit fierce. The key is that the vampires accidentally hit the muzzle of the gun, and more than ten "torches" appeared on the spot. For a while, they fled in all directions like ghosts howling like wolves...
