Three hundred and eighty-ninth chapter short-term calm
In the endless snowfield, a human city is particularly eye-catching, becoming the only mottled spot in the thousands of miles of frozen white world.
The smoke of war has not yet dissipated. The corpses of snow giants and humans are piled up in layers around the snowfield city. The large areas of snow are completely dyed red by blood. The interlaced corpses and mottled blood stains are dyed on the white background.
A cruel picture.
"Quickly, quickly, carry this person back to Miracle City!"
"There are still people alive here, carry them back quickly!"
"The iron horse here can no longer be used. It has been completely deformed and must be replaced immediately!"
"Hurry up and push the snow giant's body out!"
"One, two, one, get up!"
A team of soldiers lifted up the body of a seven-meter-long snow giant.
In the snowfield city, everyone has been busy since daybreak. The outer positions need to be cleaned up. Most of the various horses and ground thorns have been destroyed by the snow giant. Many corpses are still hanging on the horses. Although on the snowfield
There is no need to consider the problem of corpses stinking for a long time, but it is impossible to let a pile of corpses pile up on the battlefield like this.
The soldiers gave priority to collecting the corpses of their own dead soldiers. The battle scene with the snow giant was very tragic. Many corpses had no human shape at all. They could only be identified by dog tags and put into the collection bag, and then brought back to Miracle through the teleportation array.
He was sent to the city to be returned to his family.
Originally, the use of the teleportation array required a certain amount of consumption, and it seemed to have no practical value when used to transport corpses. However, an army with a strong sense of belonging would usually attach great importance to the corpses of its comrades, which itself is also a kind of
A means to unite people's hearts.
It is easier to deal with the bodies of the snow giants. Those who died outside the battlefield, when the snow giants came to collect the bodies at dawn, Snowfield City did not do anything to stop them. They were allowed to be collected by the snow giants, but the bodies accumulated in the defense line
Of course, it is impossible for the Snow Giant to come in and clean up a large number of corpses. They can only carry them out one by one, and then the Snow Giant himself sends people to collect the corpses. The whole process is quite harmonious, there is no phenomenon of mutual attacks, and both parties have a tacit understanding.
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Some damaged equipment must be replaced and fixed as soon as possible. Equipment specially built to block the snow giants, such as large iron horses, are continuously sent over from Miracle City after being built to replace those previously destroyed by the snow giants.
, not only replacement, after yesterday's battle, the Griffin Legion also summed up its experience and strengthened some weak points discovered during the war so that it could withstand a few more rounds of snow giant attacks in the next battle.
"How much was the loss yesterday?"
"The Griffin Legion suffered around 15,000 casualties, of which more than 7,000 were killed and more than 2,000 were seriously injured. I am afraid that less than half of the remaining wounded can be treated and continue to fight on the battlefield."
Rhodes had a heavy look on his face when he reported the casualties of the Griffin Legion to Richard. Yesterday, a total of seven flag regiments of Griffin Legion soldiers were deployed on the outer front, totaling 35,000 people. The casualties in yesterday's battle had exceeded three points.
First, with such heavy casualties, even Rhodes, who was accustomed to fighting, could not not feel a little moved in his heart. After all, this Rhodes now was the Rhodes when he was a human, not the fallen Rhodes.
Maintain the courage and kindness of a knight.
"Has the rotation of the troops been completed?"
"Well, the 1st, 3rd and 4th Banner Regiments, which suffered serious losses, have been arranged to return to Miracle City for rest today. The 90th and 10th Banner Regiments and part of the Dragon Army will take over the defense line."
The army that had been severely damaged in the battle had to go back to rest and replenish its troops in the last month before it could regain its combat effectiveness. Now relying on the teleportation array between Miracle City and Snowfield City, this battle turned into a battle for Richard.
The troops whose combat strength was damaged went back to rest, and the troops waiting to recuperate in Miracle City quickly came up to fill the gap.
"Tomorrow, when all the troops are familiar with the outer front, we will mobilize the five flag regiments and let the Silver Wings Legion join the battle. We will extend the current front three hundred meters to build a defense line."
"Yes, sir!"
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"call…"
Standing on the snowfield city, Richard breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the battle line below which had basically been reorganized.
The snow giant night attack he was most worried about did not happen, and the Griffin Legion had one night to adjust and strengthen the defense line.
Otherwise, with the current strength of the Snow Giant, if it continues to launch attacks, the already damaged outer front must be abandoned, and the shield function of the energy tower can only be activated to slow down the energy and gain some time to adjust. No.
As a last resort, Richard does not want to use the power of the energy tower. Although the shield function is powerful, the cooling time is also extremely long, so it can only be used in the most dangerous times.
Now that the Snow Giant King has not shown up yet, if a few large tribes are forced to activate the energy shield, the subsequent war will be even more difficult to fight.
Although he won the first battle beautifully, Richard knew very well that the Snow Giant was not weak. The Snow Giant Royal Court had not entered the arena yet. The real battle would be when the Snow Giant Royal Court paid attention to it and ended the fight in person.
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Snow Giant Camp
"Are we just going to surround them and let humans continue to strengthen their defenses?"
"Hu Lier, there is no place on the snowfield where humans can get supplies. If we surround them like this, they might not be able to survive after a while."
"Yes, Master Hu Lier, I don't think we need to attack at all. We just need to trap these humans in the city. If they are willing to stay in the city, then we won't let anyone out. Here
On the snowfield, let’s see whether they can hold on longer or we can hold on longer.”
"No, their number seems to be increasing. I'm afraid there is some way to connect to other places that we don't know about."
"this…"
"How is it possible? This is the core of our snowfield, with a radius of thousands of miles. Apart from us snow giants, there could be no other forces anywhere."
"I'm afraid there are still some humans hiding in the city and they come out at night."
The snow giants kept looking for excuses as reasons not to attack.
In fact, to attack a strong city and the defenders are determined to fight, siege is indeed the best way. Cut off the city's supplies and besiege it for a year and a half, and it will basically collapse.
But Snowfield City is obviously not an ordinary city. Snowfield City can obtain a steady stream of material and manpower support from the North through the teleportation array in the city. It seems that it is facing a small Snowfield City, but in fact, behind it is the entire Northland.
The land's manpower and material resources are supporting it. Snowfield City is now a city that is not afraid of being besieged.
The snow giants are actually not stupid. Everything about Snowfield City, from the way it appears to the troops defending the city and their inexplicable ability to teleport, is weird.
Including Hu Lier, the leader of the Snow Wind Tribe, few snow giants believe that this human city can be besieged to death. If it were an ordinary city, it would be impossible to build it on frozen soil like the snow field. The Griffin Legion
When we started to lay out the outer front, we couldn't even dig long trenches, so we had to use ground thorns and iron horses instead.
It's just that they are not stupid. All the tribes were stunned after today's test. If they really want to attack by force, they cannot afford the losses. Even the three major tribes do not have the prestige to drive away big and small.
If you vassalize the tribe and die, your reputation will be ruined in the snowy plains.
The only family in the entire snowfield that has the prestige to drive a large number of snow giants to attack the city regardless of casualties is the family of Wangting Tate.
The support from the Royal Court has not yet been seen, and even because the time is too short, there is no clear verbal order. Not to mention small and medium-sized tribes, even large tribes like the White Wind Tribe are not willing to risk their own tribes.
Anyway, the construction of a city on the snowfield by humans is the responsibility of the entire Snow Giant family, so why should they be allowed to suffer huge losses alone?
Now, except for Hu Lier of the Snow Wind Tribe, most of the snow giant leaders are actually pretending to be confused. Today's loss really makes them feel a little sad.
This is exactly the disadvantage of this kind of tribal alliance. The bottles and cans of each family are private property, and it hurts to break one. Even though they know that delaying it will only give humans time to strengthen their defense, no one is willing to go again.
Qiang came to the fore. Even Hulier of the Snow Wind Division did not insist after mentioning it. He was asked to use the Snow Wind Division as the main force. Of course, he refused. The expected loss had exceeded his bottom line.
However, precisely because the Snow Giant only besieged and did not attack, Richard and Snowfield City gained valuable time to defend themselves. Pairs of soldiers came out of the teleportation array and were reinforced in various positions. A large number of iron horses were fixed more densely.
On the outer defense line, the entire Snowfield City began to look like a hedgehog.
