This seemingly uncomplicated question seemed to stump Sophia.
The answer she gave was very, very heavy.
"My queen, are you kidding me?" Such an answer certainly did not satisfy Reggie. "How much does it weigh? One hundred pounds, one thousand pounds, or two thousand pounds?"
Sophia was also a little dissatisfied: "How could I know such a thing? I'm not a craftsman, and I'm not a dragon slayer!"
Reggie thought for a moment and decided to ask another question: "Can one person push a chariot?"
"No." Sophia's answer was simple.
"Where are the two people?"
"I understand what you mean," Sophia shook her head. "Not even two people can do it. If you want to move the dragon-slaying chariot, you need eight people to push it together, or two oxen to pull it."
Reggie said: "In other words, this kind of tank is not good at mobile combat?"
"Mobile combat? That is absolutely impossible!" Sophia felt that Reggie's question was ridiculous, "Only by locking the wheels and letting the chariot stop firmly on the ground can they draw the crossbow, and they have to do it
There are many things, such as adjusting the height, changing the direction, etc.”
"It's exactly what I thought." Reggie showed a familiar smile again, which made Sophia feel a little disgusted, but also made her feel an inexplicable sense of security.
The Dragon-Slaying Crossbow, like all heavy weapons in the Middle Ages, has amazing power, certain precision and extremely poor maneuverability.
The amazing power comes from the material and craftsmanship of the weapon, the certain accuracy comes from the professional warriors, and the extremely poor mobility comes from the harsh conditions for using the weapon, which also includes cumbersome calibration procedures.
Mastering the characteristics of the dragon-slaying crossbow, Reggie's three tactics can inflict fatal blows to the enemy.
Now it’s time to test the feasibility of these three tactics.
The first tactic is air channel.
Let Dolanor ride in a hot air balloon and open a passage directly to the ground at an altitude of more than 500 meters. Through this passage, Reggie can use white phosphorus bombs to directly attack the enemy.
But this idea was rejected by Sophia.
"Is Dolanor the pathbreaker wizard?"
"Yes."
"He can only open channels on land or water, not out of thin air. The path opener is a wizard above the clouds. Don't you know anything about him?" It seems that the path opener wizard is very famous, Sophie
Ya also has some knowledge of his witchcraft.
"Those are worldly ideas," Reggie looked at Sophia with disdain, "Dora Nor has never flown into the sky, how do you know he can't do it?"
Sophia did not continue to argue, Reggie directly called Doranor to start the first round of testing.
He released the hot air balloon on the wall of Hanmaple Fortress, and then flew into the air with Natalie and Doranor.
Dolanor vomited for a long time on the hot air balloon, which Reggie expected.
After he finished vomiting, Dolanor expressed his helplessness about Reggie's plan, and gave Reggie a very philosophical message: "Master, there is no need for roads here, because there are roads everywhere."
Reggie conducted an in-depth analysis of this sentence and finally came to the conclusion that everyone, including Reggie himself, had a certain degree of misunderstanding about Doranor's witchcraft.
To be precise, Doranor's witchcraft is to move solid obstacles along a fixed line within a certain time range. Moving obstacles on land is equivalent to opening up a path, and moving rocks in the ocean is equivalent to opening up a path.
route.
Because his witchcraft is very suitable for opening roads, he is called the Pathmaker, but in fact Doranor cannot create roads.
Tactic one, failure.
The second tactic is parachute.
Reggie made a small parachute out of canvas and tied an iron bucket filled with sand to the parachute to replace the white phosphorus bomb.
This time, he and Natalie once again came to an altitude of 500 meters. Reggie dropped the iron bucket with the parachute attached to it. Under the influence of the parachute, the iron bucket fell slowly. Reggie asked Natalie to control the wind direction.
Ensure that the iron bucket can accurately land at the target location.
Reggie firmly believed that with more practice, Natalie would be able to hit accurately.
Unfortunately, Reggie's idea failed again. The reason for the failure was Natalie's magic limit.
Natalie's spells will be seriously weakened as the distance increases. One hundred meters is the limit of the spell. She cannot control the wind direction beyond one hundred meters. The poor iron bucket was blown into the sea by a gust of east wind and replaced with white phosphorus bombs.
The result is the same.
Tactics two, failure.
Reggie was somewhat frustrated because he still knew too little about wizards and elves.
The first two tactics are relatively easy to implement, but the third tactic will test your comprehensive ability.
Reggie called it a strong wall and a clear field.
Sophia doesn't understand the ancient Eastern idioms, nor does she understand Reggie's tactical intentions, but she must cooperate with Reggie to complete a patrol mission.
At dawn the next day, Reggie took Sophia on the hot air balloon. He bypassed the enemy camp and flew northwest.
Sophia's reaction when she boarded a hot air balloon for the first time was similar to the others. No matter how calm she pretended to be, she ended up vomiting all over the place.
After vomiting, she was shocked. This was her first time overlooking the land of Bayer Country from the air. She excitedly lay down next to the hanging basket and looked down, excitedly introducing the forests and rivers she was familiar with to Reggie.
"This is a village, do you see it?"
Reggie looked down with his binoculars. His attention was not on the village, but on a group of carriages on the village road.
"I seem to have seen the military flag of Bayer Country," Reggie handed the binoculars to Sophia, "I think this is the carriage delivering food to Sean."
Sophia quickly gave the answer: "Yes, they are those who transport military rations. In winter, only a few thousand pounds of food can be collected from one place. If you want to ensure sufficient military rations, you must continue to transport food."
Reggie smiled and said, "It seems you also realize the importance of supplies."
Sophia sneered and said: "I have been laughed at by you, don't I know how to learn? Do you want to attack this food transport convoy?"
"There's no rush," Reggie shook his head, "Let's see where Sean's camp is first."
Reggie marked a mark on the map, then ordered Natalie to increase the flight altitude, and flew with the carriage for a full half day, until at noon, Reggie finally saw Sean's camp.
Although he was mentally prepared, when he saw the densely packed dragon-slaying crossbows in the telescope, Reggie broke out in a cold sweat.
What shocked him even more was that several dragon slayers raised their heads, discovered Reggie, and fired crossbow arrows at Reggie.
The huge crossbow arrows rushed towards the balloon. According to Reggie's visual inspection, the maximum range of the crossbow arrows exceeded three hundred meters.
The astonishing number of weapons and high awareness of precautions made Reggie completely give up the idea of directly attacking the enemy camp.
After returning to Hanmaple Fortress, Reggie opened the map, and with Sophia's cooperation, marked all the surrounding roads with Sean's camp as the center.
"My queen," Reggie said, "starting from tomorrow, you need to send three cavalry groups to guard these three important roads and burn all the food and carriages passing here."
"Everything?" Sophia frowned, "Are you not even sparing the civilians' food and carriages?"
"This is war, my queen!" Reggie was a little dissatisfied with Sophia's attitude. If this were in Shattering Snow City, Sophia would not care about the difference between civilians and soldiers, and she would definitely carry out an indiscriminate attack.
"Remember, it's just burning the grain wagon," Reggie warned again, "I didn't force them to kill people, but don't think about taking the grain back, they must burn it on the spot, remember?"
Sophia was silent for a moment and said: "But you said before that if a soldier leaves the camp, it is equivalent to falling into Sean's trap."
"Yes," Reggie said with a smile, "I deliberately let your cavalry fall into a trap. Only in this way can I lure Sean out of the camp."
Sophia shook her head and said: "I don't understand. Sean has much more cavalry than I do. Do you want my cavalry to die?"
"Don't worry, they won't die." Reggie took out a grenade. "I will give them the necessary equipment and life-saving magic weapons."