In Runeterra, Demacia is more or less a country that is good at fighting and has a lot of war experience.
This can be seen from Demacia's "formal promotion path".
But generally, they fight defensive battles, so in terms of military technology, the Demacian Army is very experienced in how to defend, especially in garrisoning a city.
Therefore, after seeing the city of Nashrame with his own eyes, Jarvan IV already knew very well how difficult it would be to attack this city forcefully.
If he had no other choice, Jarvan IV would never choose to storm the city wall.
So, here comes the question, since it is difficult to attack by force, what should we do to capture Nasramei?
When he was in a dilemma, Tariq gave his own idea.
"There are many unknown secret passages buried underground in Shurima, and perhaps there are also around Nasramei. This can be an opportunity for us to attack."
After hearing Tarik's suggestion, Jarvan IV thought about it and felt that it made sense.
Then give it a try!
In the past few days, the Demacian army was stationed in and out of the camp every day. In addition to cooperating with the dragon and bird knights, it was also covering up the digging of Tarik and the engineers at the back.
To be honest, this kind of digging like a headless fly is a bit of a gamble, and it is hard to say whether it will succeed.
Taric's perception of the ancient ways of Shurima is also very vague, relying entirely on intuition - after all, he does not understand Shurima architecture and cannot judge logically, so he can only rely on feeling and guessing.
So, after seven consecutive days of digging, the Demacians did not gain any substantial results except that the engineers were exhausted and a few soldiers were bitten by the scorpions and snakes dug out.
It wasn't until the eighth day that Tariq, who chose to start construction on the edge of the southern oasis of Naslam, found a building whose main body was buried under the yellow sand.
Tariq didn't know that this building was a checkpoint for the water pipeline outside Nashrame during the Shurima Empire.
But this did not prevent him from immediately reporting the surprise to Jarvan IV.
After receiving the news, Jarvan IV immediately became excited, and the sadness of the Dragon Bird Knight team being wiped out was wiped away - if an elite team could be organized to enter this secret passage and enter the Nasramei City to have a central flowering
…
However, excitement is all the more exciting. Before that, Demacia still has a lot of preparation work to do - even if this passage can lead to Nasramei City, he still needs to prepare a complete combat plan first.
Within the city and outside the city, which side is dominant and which side is secondary.
Is there any support in the city?
Do you want to fight to the end outside the city?
Is it necessary to conduct a feint before a surprise attack?
Next, Jarvan IV still has a lot of things to worry about!
Thinking of this, he ordered Tariq to take some elites into the secret passage and explore along the secret passage without disturbing anyone. At the same time, he began to ask the Lahorak allies if anyone in the city could give them money.
support.
After all, when they sent out troops, the Rakkor priests vowed that they had a unique way to attack the city.
However, considering that this war was the "Foundation War" of the Demacia Empire, it was also the first step for Demacia to expand its influence to Shurima. No, Jarvan IV obviously would not let the Sun Sect become the protagonist, so
Decisively rejected the "good intentions" of the Burning Sun Sect.
We still have to attack the city ourselves.
But now that we have the opportunity to sneak into the city, maybe we can still talk!
Therefore, Jarvan IV took the initiative to find the elders of the Sun Sect who led La Horak and asked them if they could get support if they could break into the city.
To be honest, this request is somewhat outrageous. Although we are friendly forces and allies, this can only represent attitudes and does not go to the level of sharing intelligence. Jarvan IV said this just as a tentative question.
But to his great surprise, Priest Rakkor told him without hesitation that if you can enter the city, we will indeed have reinforcements.
"Nasramei is persecuting our devout Lieyang believers." Elder Lieyang, who has dark skin and long white eyebrows, put on a compassionate posture, "The believers in the city are longing for salvation. If your Majesty's army can
Enter them and they will be your most loyal partners."
With that said, he motioned to his men to hand over a stack of rosters to Jarvan IV, and what was recorded in this roster was the church organization of the Solar Sect in Nasramei.
Jarvan IV was very excited at first after taking the roster.
But as he was excited, he felt something was wrong.
Why does the Sun Sect have this thing in their hands?
Look at what is recorded above, it is almost accurate to the home address and occupation information of every believer!
It is no exaggeration to say that the royal family and lords of Demacia do not have such detailed registration of the civilians under their rule!
(Actually, Jarvan IV didn’t know that Forsbarrow knew more about the registration of civilians than this. Moreover, Forsbarrow’s registration was carried out from multiple angles. The industry associations where civilians work and the neighborhood committees where they live need to reconcile.
, the credibility is quite high.)
Jarvan IV, whose heart moved slightly, asked a few questions casually, as if by accident.
The explanation given by the other party is that this is related to the church's subsidies.
Subsidy?
Will the Rakkor specifically subsidize those who believe in the Sun Cult?
This kind of thing was obviously completely beyond Jarvan IV's imagination. Faced with this situation that he had never seen before, he could only shake his head and give up thinking for the time being.
Unfortunately, the elder of the Burning Sun Sect did not tell him that in addition to subsidies, the Burning Sun Sect also collects tithes from believers, and one-tenth of the believers' fixed income must be given to the sect for the construction of the church.
——There are so many splendid temples of the Agni Sect in the city of Nashrame, which rely on the offerings of these believers.
The subsidies provided by the Burning Sun Sect are focused on attracting people to join the religion. Since giving birth to new children and then educating their own children does not count, many followers of the Burning Sun Sect will also choose to give birth to children with all their strength, and then rely on
Living on the subsidized life of the Burning Sun Sect.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, this information could easily arouse Jarvan IV's unnecessary vigilance, so the elders of the Sun Sect only selected a small part of it to explain, and Jarvan IV
Now that I have gotten the information I want, I can't continue to ask more questions, so I can only leave in a hurry.
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When Jarvan IV returned to his headquarters and began to study a feasible combat plan, Taric quietly entered the water quality monitoring station with a fearless vanguard team.
After opening the door of the water quality monitoring station and venting for a period of time, the heavily armed Tariq and the fearless pioneer warriors finally entered it quietly. In order to avoid accidents, they did not choose to use open flames for lighting. Instead, everyone raised a
Holding a miner's lamp.
These miner's lamps are all second-hand goods, products that have been eliminated by Wazuan - Wazuan has almost given up on mining, and the main urban area has fully realized public lighting at night. The eliminated miner's lamps were first kept in the hands of explorers.
Then he was spotted by the Demacians and became military supplies.
Tariq, holding a miner's lamp, walked at the front, carefully guarding against possible attacks.
In the previous Ningwu Dao, Tarik suffered serious injuries. His left rib was pierced by a strange, disembodied arrow with a corrupt smell, leaving a terrible hole.
The arrow even killed several Demacian soldiers before being nailed to the wall of Ningwu Road and turning into a pool of shadow.
However, thanks to the fact that it was a penetrating wound, after Tariq gritted his teeth and scraped away all the rotten flesh near the wound, this wound that would have been fatal to ordinary people recovered quickly.
Although the wound has completely healed by now, Tariq is actually very clear that he is not really good at it.
But even though the wound had not completely healed, he still chose to come to the battlefield and perform the most dangerous mission - not to show off his strength, but because of a strong sense of guilt in his heart.
In Tarik's view, in Ningwu Dao, if he was not not focused enough during the ambush and was hit by this arrow, then the team could actually organize a counterattack later.
It was precisely because he was hit by an arrow during the countercharge that the soldiers were completely defeated in the end!
Although he is no longer the guardian protoss, Tarik still has a natural sense of mission and responsibility to protect them. When lying on the hospital bed, the scene of the soldiers desperately trying to cover themselves from Ningwu Dao seems to linger.
The nightmare that never goes away is always lingering and vivid in my mind.
In this case, after the superficial wounds healed, he really couldn't lie down for a minute, so he decisively found Jarvan IV and asked for a fight.
Jarvan IV was originally worried, and he sent the best doctors to examine Tarik, but unfortunately, Tarik's physical fitness was so excessive that the doctors did not notice that he was holding on.
In the end, an answer was given that "Tariq has completely recovered", allowing Tarik to participate in the war legitimately.
This time, faced with dangerous exploration and vanguard missions, the experienced Tarik naturally did his part and took the first step.
His steps were very steady, stepping on the dust accumulated over the years, leaving only a clear but not too deep footprint. This meant that he maintained absolute control over his body and was always ready to deal with possible situations.
emergencies.
The monitoring station is very quiet and empty.
This place has been abandoned for who knows how many hundreds of years, maybe even thousands of years. Although there are still some debris in the corner under the light of the miner's lamp, these debris will decay instantly with just a gentle breath.
into slag.
The erosion of time is the most cruel and ruthless. It is like the passage of time, invisible and intangible, but it does exist and is irreversible.
Judging from the condition of these debris, it seems that no one has really walked through this ancient monitoring station.
Tariq quickly led the team through the outer room of the monitoring station, and a door appeared in front of him.
It seemed to be a wooden door, but it was covered with dust and the original color could no longer be seen under the light of the miner's lamp.
Seeing the door, Tariq waved his hand to signal the soldiers to carefully retreat back. Then he stepped forward, took a gentle breath, and grabbed the door handle.
The next moment, without even waiting for Tariq to make any move, without pulling or twisting, the door handle fell off on its own.
Then, the entire door immediately fell off and turned into pieces of wood scattered on the ground, falling at Tariq's feet.
Tariq subconsciously raised the miner's lamp in his hand and shined it behind the door.
A very empty hall appeared in front of him.
The experimental instruments that were once used to monitor the water quality here have long been taken away by unknown generations. Even the easily accessible areas on the walls have obvious marks where someone has specially scraped them with metal tools.
Tariq didn't know the origin of these marks.
In fact, these traces were left by the Nashramites who vacated the laboratory. In addition to the instruments in the laboratory, the pigments drawn by these magic circuits are also very precious, so they specially scraped them.
Come down and take it away.
After carefully looking at the structure of the hall, Tariq finally confirmed that this was an empty hall with an unobstructed view.
There are no enemies.
Slightly relieved, Tariq waved his hand behind, indicating that the soldiers could come in.
The people holding miner's lamps carefully began to explore every corner of the hall, but they couldn't find any door or anything else.
There seems to be no road ahead.
While many soldiers had disappointed looks on their faces, Tariq closed his eyes.
He seemed to sense something.
After a moment, Tariq looked at the thick dust beneath his feet.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Here, scan."
The soldiers quickly took out their tools and began cleaning the area pointed by Tariq.
After scanning, they finally discovered that there seemed to be a downward secret door.
The material of the secret door was exactly the same as that of the entire hall, and the dust on the ground was so thick that no one noticed it until it was cleaned!
Seeing the secret door, Tariq leaned down and touched the handle of the secret door. After confirming that there was a handle, he put one hand on the handle and lifted it hard!
The secret door moved slightly.
There seems to be a force attracting this secret door, preventing it from being opened!
This is a self-locking device at the water intake point of the water quality monitoring station. Normally, if you want to open it, you need to change the magic circuit, and then it can open automatically.
Since the entire magic circuit had been destroyed, and there was no parallel magic network in the waterway, Tariq finally opened the door by using brute force.
As the door was opened, an unspeakable stench quickly filled the hall.
Even if he was as strong as Tariq, who could scrape his own bones to heal the poison without even frowning, he could barely contain his desire to retching after smelling the stench.
As for the Demacian soldiers behind him, they were all crying and almost foaming at the mouth.
Under this situation, Tarik could only reluctantly put down the secret door and lead the team out temporarily to get some fresh air before talking.
However, it was this interesting glimpse that made Tarik realize the end point of this secret door - if nothing else, this thing should have something to do with the sewers of Nashrame.
Tariq was right.
This disgusting passage is indeed connected to the sewer of Nasramei.
