The Odin Grand Canyon where the Northern Fortress is located is only the largest gap between the Odin Grassland and the Andis Mountains, but it is not the only one. There is no shortage of various mountain roads and trails, but it is not suitable for large-scale marches.
In the past, Sean didn't pay much attention to these small gaps. That was because the Yongye Army's development focus in the Andis Mountains was around the Jacob River Basin and the Andis Inland Lake.
Except for a very small number of stubborn mountain people, those who could migrate were all relocated.
After the Jacob River resumed its flow, the Yongye Army had a large area and a sparsely populated area. It concentrated the population, which not only facilitated management, but also concentrated efforts to develop production.
Even if those Odin orcs enter the Andis Mountains through those small gaps, most of them will retreat on their own after finding that there are no suitable plunder targets.
The Odin Orcs have no shortage of territory. The possibility of changing their living habits and settling in the mountains is very slim. They are more likely to plunder wealth.
When you find it is unprofitable, you will naturally stop coming back.
Occasionally, there are those who try to settle here, but they just bring food to the Yongye Army, and are either killed or surrendered, and eventually become part of their population.
But Narentoya's Empire of the Undead is different.
Wherever they go, they bring death and destruction, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
The tribe headed by Prince Iribis is proof of this. At the beginning, they dreamed of establishing a country with Narentoya where the living and the dead coexisted for mutual benefit and common development.
This kingdom did not last for two years and came to an end with the death of a large number of living people.
Those undead who have broken the law of life and death are out-and-out law breakers. When they gather in large numbers, the breath of death they carry can directly change the surrounding environment from the law level, making it no longer suitable for living people.
Survive.
If a living person stays in that kind of environment for a long time, there are only two possibilities, either they die and their bodies are controlled by them, or they become one of them.
Naturally, the Yong Ye Army leaders must guard against them to prevent them from infiltrating on a small scale and using biological and chemical weapons such as viruses to cause large-scale destruction to their subjects.
This is not the conjecture of the Eternal Night Army leader, but their special forces, which have secretly wiped out a large number of fanatical undead advance troops.
Those fanatic advance troops of the undead are a group of out-and-out religious lunatics.
Fanatic belief in the goddess of night and winter has filled their souls with fire.
They believe that they are the chosen ones and the forerunners, and the meaning of their existence is to transform this land according to the will of the goddess of night and winter.
One day, the goddess of night and winter will use her supreme power to open the Kingdom of God and let this land become part of the Kingdom of God. They will be reborn there and achieve eternal life in the true sense.
Of course, this information was not tortured from the mouths of those fanatical undead advance troops.
They became undead because they were afraid of death.
Their fanatical belief allowed them to overcome their fear of death.
When they conquered their last fear and were fearless, how could they reveal the information about their gods?
But if it falls into Sean's hands, there is no need for them to speak in person.
It is more convenient to use the runes to purify their soul fire and read their memories directly.
It can not only ensure the accuracy of intelligence, but also provide additional income from the power of law.
The advance army of the fanatical undead will not only target the Eternal Night Army leader, but also the Byron Alliance.
Over the past four years, they have been there, exploiting people's fear of death and secretly cultivating cult followers.
It's just that the effect is not ideal.
There is already a Holy See here.
If the Empire of the Undead does this, it is equivalent to dividing the cake of the Holy See.
This is what touches their reverse scales.
Not to mention, their teachings themselves go against the nature of human existence.
Being labeled as a cultist by the Vatican and sparing no effort to hunt him down naturally became a matter of course.
Compared to the Broken Vein Defense Line guarded by the Strachey Family, the northern defense line led by the Yongye Army is shorter.
To the west of the Northern Fortress lies the Roof of the World, Sansett Peak. The mountains here are high and dangerous. Even the undead from the Undead Empire would find it difficult to climb over here. Putting a few observation towers here is enough.
Already.
The northern defense line is mainly east of the Northern Fortress, adjacent to the Kogel Steppe and Barzin Steppe, and extends to the junction of the Kentana Icefield.
In order to make full use of the mountainous terrain, the Yongye Army leaders set aside at least 20 to 30 kilometers to as many as hundreds of kilometers in many areas as defensive buffers. This is equivalent to losing tens of thousands of square kilometers in vain.
Territory out.
The biggest advantage of doing this is that the defense line of the northern fortress has been increased from 520 kilometers to 350 kilometers.
The number of defensive gaps that need to be established for small and medium-sized fortresses has been reduced from eighty-three to fifty-two, and the number of soldiers who need to be stationed has naturally also been reduced.
war.
Especially when it involves two forces and millions of lives and deaths.
The gains and losses of one city or one place are somewhat inconsequential.
As long as we can achieve the final victory, no matter how much we lose, we can regain it.
If you advance vigorously at the beginning but lose the last battle, all previous victories will be false.
After so many years of training, the ruling class of the Yongye Army has already understood the truth deeply.
The northern defense line built by Yongye Army Leader is different from the Broken Vein Defense Line.
Whether openly or covertly.
On the bright side.
A defensive line fortress built on the mountain is a must.
Not to mention artillery.
The arsenal directly under the Firearms Bureau of the Yongye Army, with sufficient raw materials, can produce at full capacity the number of artillery pieces that go beyond equipping a Jiangmen Port and Explorer fleet.
The real bulk was transported to the northern defense line and given to the major armies.
However, artillery is not the main force of the undead army that defends the undead empire, but the round pillars standing on the city wall are.
These round pillars are nothing else.
It was the medical tower that the Yong Ye military leader originally researched and prepared to use to treat the undead virus.
It was only the countermeasures of the plane laws that greatly reduced the threat of the undead virus. This plan was aborted halfway, and the medical tower lost its use.
However, the hard work spent in the beginning was not wasted.
Based on the planar laws to counter the undead, Sean adjusted the magic circuits of the medical towers, turning them from life-saving equipment into destructive weapons specifically targeting the undead.
This kind of tower has a new name - purification tower.
Although the Purification Tower is like sunlight, it is difficult to directly kill the undead, but it can weaken them to a great extent.
In addition, the purification tower also has a unique function-early warning.
Normally they operate at low power consumption, emit soft light, and can even be used as street lights at night.
But once undead souls enter its envelope, it will immediately emit blazing light and burn them.
Since the establishment of the purification tower defense line, the number of fanatical undead advance troops of the Undead Empire infiltrating into the Eternal Night Army has been greatly reduced.
The real strength of the Yongye Army's northern defense line is their hidden line.
Most people think that the Northern Fortress is the final stop for the magic tractor led by the Eternal Night Army, but this is not actually the case.
The Northern Fortress is just a stopover on the way. It is also connected to another line. The main body of this line is located directly below the Northern Fortress.
In other words, the northern defense line led by the Yongye Army was built based on this magic tractor subway.
Needless to say the benefits.
The Northern Fortress is a whole.
The arrival of the magic subway means that the energy transmission pipelines have arrived, and they have entered the online state. Facilities such as the purification tower that require the use of magic energy are all online.
Once an abnormality occurs, the General Control Department located in the consciousness space of the Northern Fortress will monitor it immediately, including if there is an outage. The General Control Department will also immediately notify the nearest checkpoint to send people to check the situation.
Not to mention the convenience of material transportation.
Even transporting troops and military supplies from Brisan would not take more than a day.
And since possessing the earth-burrowing artifact, the earth-burrowing purple insect.
The entire Yongye military leader was like a hamster, starting to dig holes frantically to hoard all kinds of military supplies.
Except for Sean, no one knows how many magic warehouses the Yongye Army has built under the northern defense line and how much military supplies it has hoarded.
As the core of the entire northern defense line, the northern fortress is naturally the top priority.
Now it is definitely worthy of being called a fortress. The front wall, which has been built many times, is already thirty-three meters long.
The height alone makes many enemies despair and give up preparations to attack it.
Not to mention that the rebuilt city wall is by no means a brick and earth wall in the ordinary sense, but is integrated with the mage towers of the northern fortress and has special effects.
As for its special functions, very few people know because it has never been fully operational since it was built.
Not to mention the purification towers and forts, they were densely packed all over the city.
This carefully arranged northern defense line was the confidence that Sean and the others had to follow their own pace when they first heard that the Undead Empire had invaded the south, severely damaging the East China Sea Fleet, and then returning for reinforcements.
Although the leader of the Yongye Army attaches great importance to the southern invasion of the Undead Empire, from top to bottom, they are far from panicking.
At this moment, the leaders of the Yongye Army are still considering not simply relying on the northern defense line for defense, but attacking, counterattacking, and finding ways to repel or even completely defeat them.
"We have discussed the matter of defense many times. I would like to emphasize here for the last time that the magic subway is the key to the entire war. As long as we ensure that our magic tractors are unobstructed, no matter what the undead legions choose to attack, At that point, they will face our entire garrison. Under normal circumstances, it is definitely not that easy to break through the defense."
Sean's fingers traced the line belonging to the magic subway, paused slightly, and then said, "But everyone should not take it lightly. After all, there is a supernatural being standing behind them. I wonder if he can use some
It is beyond the conventional means we imagined, so before that, we have to test and block them as much as possible!
And the Undead Canopy has become our first problem in stopping them.
If we can't find a way to break through their undead canopy, let alone launch a counterattack, our army will probably become the raw material for them to transform undead soldiers if they penetrate deep into it.
Therefore, I led the craftsmen in our territory to design this tank!"
Sean waved his hand again, and another holographic projection appeared in front of everyone.
This is a two-wheeled carriage, but what is dragged on it is not a carriage, but a pillar. Its shape is 70% similar to the purification tower on the city wall, but it is a miniature version.
"Is this a mobile purification tower?" Marshal Diklong's eyes lit up and he said, "This is a good idea. When the time comes, taking the purification tower deep into the canopy of the dead will not only provide lighting, but also speed up the soldiers' light system.
The recovery speed of combat skills can even weaken the combat effectiveness of undead soldiers. It really kills several birds with one stone, but I don’t know how many of these tanks have been manufactured?"
"Time is a little rushed, and only a hundred units of this Holy Light Chariot have been produced!" Sean replied, "If the effect of this chariot on the Undead Canopy is confirmed, the arsenal can produce it according to the situation. If it is fully used,
It is not difficult to produce a hundred vehicles per month."
"Then what are you waiting for?" Marshal Di Kelong said impatiently, "The Guards Corps is the best candidate to test this kind of tank. It's better to hit the sun than to choose another day. Let's set out immediately to give their arrogance a hard blow.
, let them know that we are not powerless to fight back, and we should have some scruples when moving forward!"
"The front leg of the Guards Corps has just finished fighting in the Donau Plain, and the rear leg has moved to the northern fortress for continuous battles. Now it has just come back, and it has not even had time to eat hot food. The Guards Corps used this period
It's too frequent, and this war with the Undead Empire is going to last for who knows how long. Isn't it suitable to keep them in a state of high fatigue?" A trace of hesitation flashed across Sean's face.
"This is why the lord is only suitable to be a lord, not a general!" Marshal Dikron laughed loudly, "Not to mention the Guards Corps, even for the ordinary legions, what does this running mean? Support?
They have a thousand days to use them at this time. If there is any mission, Lord Lord, just give your orders, and I will grasp the appropriateness."
"Since the Marshal said so, this task belongs to you!" Sean nodded and did not argue with Marshal Dixon on this matter.
Sean himself knew that he was not really qualified to lead troops in a war.
He understands the principle that kindness does not control soldiers and justice does not control wealth.
But after so many years of training, I still haven't been able to harden my heart.
In this aspect, not to mention his daughter-in-law Princess Sophia, even Countess Angie Beina cannot compare.
If they were thrown into an ordinary political environment at the same time, Sean would definitely be overwhelmed by them and suffer a lot.
However, this kind of character also has its advantages.
That is to allow the marshals and generals below to give full play to their talents without any worries.
Especially people like Marshal Dikron are like a fish in water. The more opportunities he is given, the bigger the situation will be and the more surprises he will bring to people.