Chapter 1000 War Stalemate

Rosetta stood up from behind the desk, he came to the map not far away, his eyes slowly swept across a series of labels in the border area, and Matilda's voice came from behind him: "Past the In a week, the Cecils have increased their troops in the Winter Wolf Fort four times. At the same time, the control area has extended from the fortress to the Shadow Swamp. Not long ago, they controlled the mechanical bridge in the Shadow Swamp area and let the armored train enter the war zone. The war machines are entrenched like a fortress on the line from Shadowswamp to Winterwolf Hold, putting great pressure on our frontier offensive..."

"It seems that they have made up their minds to be nailed to Winter Wolf Castle... This is a strategic fulcrum," Rosetta nodded, "so we can't rule out the possibility of them suddenly attacking Aldenan."

"It seems so..." Matilda responded, "We have now cut off the railway line from Shadowswamp to the country, and established a new front with Winterhold as a fulcrum, and the mobilization of troops from the country is continuing. The ground gathered there. The Cecilian steel chariots and motorized infantry advance tactics caused us great casualties at first, but after Count Palin Winterhold retreated from the Winterwolves to the rear, he directed the front-line troops to formulate many Effective tactics, and now our transcendental forces have been able to effectively fight those machines...but we still have nothing to do with the two mobile fortresses of the Cecil."

"Palin Winterhold..." Rosetta whispered, "After the fall of Winter Wolffort, he has been questioned by many in the country... Now those doubts have finally quieted down."

"In the battle of Winter Wolf Castle, one of the two main commanders surrendered, and the other evacuated and returned to the rear. No matter how the public opinion led this incident back to China, it finally hit the pride and self-confidence of the upper class that had lasted for so many years. After being seriously injured, Not to mention Andersa who surrendered, Earl Palin Winterhold is said to have evacuated ahead of time unscathed... Many nobles believe that he is even more disgraceful than Andersa."

"It's ridiculous that only those who didn't go to the battlefield at all and didn't know the army were laughing at it, while the real generals knew that it was those two questioned commanders who bought us a moment of respite and adjustment," he said. There was a hint of coldness in Rosetta's tone, but he didn't stay on this topic for too long, and quickly shook his head, "It seems that the kind of war machine called 'armored train' is stronger than we started at the beginning. The investigation is even more difficult.”

"It's technological progress - the information investigated in the previous intelligence is obviously out of date. The armored train was a semi-finished product, and now the Cecils have perfected its weapons and power system," Matilda looked serious Said, "That thing has the firepower of a strategic mage regiment and the protection of a city wall, and can fly back and forth on the track freely, and the entire track is protected by a layer of powerful shields and numerous military stations and sentry towers set along the way, There are also small trains patrolling back and forth on the protective track. According to the description from the Earl of Winterhold, this is a 'dynamic and offensive and defensive' system, and none of our units can deal with it...

"The Cecilians obviously put a lot of effort into designing this set. The purpose of its birth was not to deal with those weak and small countries, but to deal with behemoths like Typhon..."

Listening to my daughter's story,

Rosetta fell into a short period of thought. After a long time, he sighed softly and said thoughtfully: "A moving fortress, which can be attacked, defended and inhabited, is also equivalent to a continuously advancing supply line. If Build a few railways to extend to the wasteland, and constantly set up forward bases under the cover of armored trains, human civilization may even be able to counterattack the wasteland of Gondor..."

Matilda obviously did not expect that her father would come up with such an idea, but she immediately realized the meaning behind this idea, and a surprised expression suddenly appeared on her face: "Father... What do you mean?"

"Gawain Cecil, he does look farther than we do," Rosetta said, but shook his head quickly, "but now is not the time to say that. The key is those trains...they There is a lot of firepower and a long range, which means they can cover the sappers and lay the railway forward while fighting, even if we blow up the mechanical bridge and the railway junction, as long as the Cecils pay the cost, they can Continuing to keep pushing, so we have to figure out a way to deal with that thing."

"...The Earl of Winterhold came up with a plan, but this plan once again faced our shortcomings," Matilda said, "He believes that against this kind of land fortress, using ground troops will face huge losses in any case. , the only effective means is air strikes - the main gun of the armored train can only attack ground targets, although it also has smaller weapons capable of anti-air, but this aspect is far weaker than the ground. As long as it does not face the kind of Lethal main guns, we have a chance to destroy them from the air."

"Air..." Rosetta's eyes narrowed, but her expression did not stretch at all.

"Air superiority is not on our side," Matilda said solemnly. "While we have the largest corps of air mages and griffins on the continent, the Cecils have turned their war machines on their backs. In the sky, Gryphons and Mages are too fragile and slow to face machines - and most importantly, Mages with flying ability and experienced Gryphon Knights are obviously more valuable than those machines, and we can't afford to consume them."

Rosetta pondered and said slowly: "...that kind of flying machine, can it be imitated or researched to find its shortcomings?"

"We shot down a few and the wreckage has been sent to several research facilities under the Royal Society of Mages and the Society of Craftsmen, but it may be difficult to imitate them in a short time. Experts in the field of runes report that they were found on those machines. Another brand-new rune system, completely different from the runes currently used by elves and humans, is somewhat like the legendary dragon language... These runes interact with the special alloys that make up the flying machines to generate power, and now We can neither piece together a complete set of runes, nor do we know how the materials that serve as the base of the runes are produced, and to imitate a flying machine under such circumstances... even if luck is on our side, time is too late."

"Indeed... we are chasing an unfamiliar field from scratch, and we don't have the time," Rosetta said in a deep voice. "In a short period of time, we still have to find a way from the field we are good at... Are there any weaknesses in those flying machines?"

Matilda nodded immediately: "Yes, and the weakness is unexpectedly simple, but it is also very tricky-probably to reduce weight and improve flexibility, those flying machines do not have the same strong armor and armor as steel chariots. High-power energy shields, and their anti-gravity structures are weak against interference due to their lack of protection. Ordinary arcane traps can temporarily disable them. In theory, they only need to go nearby and release a small scale to their power structures. The Arcane Blast of that thing could knock that thing off, or at least temporarily lose control and incapacitate, but..."

"But the premise is that our mages can get close to those things alive," Rosetta said with a blank expression, "that things fly faster, are more flexible, and have stronger offensive capabilities than mages and griffins, so they themselves Weaknesses in strength become irrelevant - no opponent can get close to it, not even catch up."

Matilda was speechless, and Rosetta returned to the map after a moment of silence. He seemed to have forgotten the topic he was discussing just now, and instead focused on the lines that represented military mobilization. And on the arrow, after thinking for more than a minute, he suddenly broke the silence: "The next batch of troops will go to the front in a few days... Count Claremont Dart will lead the reorganized Fourth Army and the last A 'Church Volunteer Corps' to Winterhold."

"Craymont?" Matilda was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted, her face became a little complicated, "He should be the last stubborn stone among the stubborn old-fashioned nobles... In order to destroy your New Deal, he not only Once calling for a call among nobles and mages, but because of his influence, even Hadilon couldn't do anything about him..."

"Palin will have a solution," Rosetta said lightly. "Worst of all, Cecil has a solution."

"...I am worried that the Earl of Dart will simply surrender in the first battle - he probably hates you more than the Cecils, and sending such people to the front will only further weaken our strength. ."

"He won't, he does hate me more than Cecil, but he loves Typhon more than himself... I've dealt with him too much," Rosetta turned slowly, looking at Landing on the foggy Aldenan outside the floor-to-ceiling window, "He knew what I meant, but he would still go to the front line, and then die heroically there with hatred... If it weren't for this war, he would not have under any circumstances. Would do such a thing, but now Typhon is in trouble."

Matilda was silent for a while, and then hesitantly said after a few seconds: "Also, about that 'church volunteer group'..."

"The priests of the God of War want this war, I'll give them this war, those are some mad believers who are about to lose their ability to judge, but at least they can be used for the last time," Rosetta turned her back to Mattie Erda said, the latter couldn't see his expression at all because of this, "They accepted the order happily, let's just... be the last piece of the puzzle that the church can provide us."

Matilda pondered, she seemed to instinctively sense the inconsistency from her father's arrangement this time, but before she could ask anything, she heard a knock on the door suddenly coming from behind.

Rosetta turned to look at the door: "Come in."

The next second, the door of the study was opened, and Diana appeared there in a black maid dress and a black hair shawl. The head maid first nodded slightly to Matilda beside her, then bent down to her master.

Rosetta looked at the lady who had been loyal to the Augustus family for hundreds of years: "What happened?"

"The Cecil technician stranded at the Alder Southern Railway still refuses to continue to provide service, and the consular officer has rejected your offer," Diana said with a deadpan expression. ."

Rosetta pondered for a while, while Matilda looked at her father subconsciously.

The Cecil people who were stranded in Typhon... She also paid attention to this matter for a while. This war came too suddenly, and neither the challenger nor the "declaring" side was prepared. When the border conflict directly escalated into a hot war within 48 hours and cross-border traffic was suddenly interrupted, many foreigners were faced with no surprise. Embarrassing stay. The technicians, investors and state representatives sent by Cecil were stranded in Typhon, and of course the envoys, students and businessmen sent by Typhon were also stranded in Cecil.

The new "international order" of the past two years has brought about this kind of troublesome situation that no one has ever considered or faced. Before, even if two countries with mutual communication suddenly went to war, such a complicated stranded person would not have occurred. phenomenon, because there was no cross-border trade and technical exchanges at that time, and there were no international students and study tours at the national level.

Matilda knows that there are many people who are active in this matter today, some are actively organizing the evacuation and evacuation of the stranded, and some are trying to establish a "wartime passage window" through various means, Aldenand and Sisi. In this situation, Seoul still maintains a fragile, difficult and cautious connection in order to deal with such troublesome things.

During this period, those Cecil technicians who were stranded in Aldernan refused to accept the order of the Augustus family and refused to continue to provide technical services to Typhon. This matter has attracted a lot of attention. Frankly speaking... Mattie Erda even had some admiration for those bold Cecilians.

Most of them are neither knights nor mages. According to the traditional view, they are just civilians, and they do not need to follow the rules of knighthood and nobility, but they are no worse than knights on the battlefield.

A slightly depressing silence was maintained in the study, but in the end Rosetta broke the silence: "Did someone have a conflict with them?"

"No," Ms. Diana shook her head, "according to your order, we have exercised the utmost restraint - the food and drinking water supply in the embassy and the technical staff's living quarters have also remained normal, but now we have banned those Local people come and go.”

After another few seconds of silence, Rosetta finally exhaled and said slowly: "Tell the ambassador that he can leave Aldenan soon, and we will send him out at the end of the Dark Mountains."

Diana glanced at him: "In exchange for our own ambassador?"

Rosetta nodded slowly: "This matter has been arranged - you can just tell it directly."

"And what about the technicians?"

“…If they refuse service, just say no, and tell them that their safety and life in Aldernan will still be guaranteed,” Rosetta said. Extreme townspeople or clueless aristocrats to make an accident. Also, if possible, keep sending people to reach them - in private. Not all of them are warriors of good character and determination, when deals are made in private There will always be someone willing to fall to us.”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

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