Chapter 427 The War Machine that Works Again

Gawain's long-awaited news finally arrived.

After receiving the information from Amber, he glanced at it quickly, and couldn't help but smile: "The remaining nobles who escaped have all arrived at the Rock Fortress, just as we expected, they can only temporarily take refuge in the Rock Fortress. , the Holy Spirit Plain did not accept them. And the fortress is currently in a state of isolation and no support from the royal family and the Holy Spirit Plain."

Amber felt incredible: "The people in the capital really gave up the rock fortress so easily? That's a rock fortress!"

"They didn't give up, but had to put it on hold for the time being," Gawain explained happily, turning the information to ashes, "The Eastern Front Army led by Duke Silas Loren is the most powerful army in Anzu. The eastern gate of the Holy Spirit Plain has been broken through in a short period of time, and they have taken root in the important town in the eastern part of the plain. As long as they lay down a few key forts, they will be able to drive straight to Saint Sunil along the King's Road. The purpose of the eastern rebels It is clear that they are here to subvert the Second Dynasty, and for the people in the capital, this is the biggest threat."

Then Gawain paused, and after a brief thought, he continued: "But they definitely don't want to give up the rock fortress, what are the people in the capital thinking about? I can probably guess that they will use the rock fortress' solid city wall. And soldiers to resist and delay, the rock fortress lies in the gap between the mountains between the southern border and the Holy Spirit Plain. The unique terrain makes it almost impossible to be besieged. Cecil's army can only attack in the south, while the rock fortress can be attacked from the north. The Holy Spirit Plain has been continuously supplied with supplies. At the beginning of its design, this fortress was built to withstand a long-term high-intensity attack, so in the view of the capital, this will be a long-term war. As long as the rock fortress can persist Long enough, the royal family will be able to take a sigh of relief from the crisis in the east, and the army in the west and even the mountain army in the north can go south to support."

Amber blinked: "So we have to knock down the fortress before the capital reacts."

"Go and call in Byron, Philip, Soldrin, Hetty, yes, and Rebecca too." Gawain nodded, "The half-time for the aristocratic remnants is over. already."

After a while, Cecil's military commander, interior director, and technical director came to Gawain's study.

Before Gawain spoke, they had guessed the reason for being called here, and Rebecca was still looking around curiously after entering the house: She usually rarely has the opportunity to be called by the ancestors to attend military meetings, this girl thought I don't know what's the use of participating because I don't know anything about this, but it doesn't prevent her from becoming extra happy.

Byron looked at Gawain expectantly: "Lord, are we finally going to attack the Rock Fortress?"

"Why do you look so happy?" Philip next to him couldn't help but mutter, "I didn't realize you like fighting so much before."

"Don't mention it, I promised Pea and I would bring her gifts after the Rock Fortress was knocked down. It's been almost half a month since the cowhide went out."

"Cough cough," Gawain interrupted the communication between the two language art workers with a light cough, and then nodded slightly, "As Byron said, the intermission of this war is over. Philip, preparations for the north how was it?"

The young knight stepped forward: "Lord, we have been transporting various light and heavy artillery components and industrial parts to the Carroll area for the past two weeks, and using the existing magic net in the Carroll area to build an arsenal and manufacture weapons and ammunition. , At present, there are 16 Justice Railguns and 127 Persuader Light Railguns on standby in the northern region.

Ammunition is plentiful. Another 2,000 soldiers of the 1st Combat Corps and 2,000 soldiers of the 2nd Combat Corps were on standby in the north. "

"That's enough." Gawain nodded slightly. In order to receive the land of nobles from all over the southern border and maintain the basic order of several control areas, he must leave a certain army in the southern border to maintain the situation, and he did not use traditional The siege tactics of a sea of ​​people came to attack the rock fortress, and the troops currently assembled in the northern region were sufficient in his opinion.

Then he looked at Soldering: "Can the Iron Rangers now participate in actual combat?"

"Recruits always see blood," replied the high-ranking ranger. "They've been waiting for this day for a long time."

"Very good, there are tasks suitable for you," Gawain nodded, "your task is to cooperate with our inner response in the rock fortress."

After explaining the task of the Iron Rangers, he turned to Hetty: "About food reserves and recent propaganda work"

Gawain confirmed the situation in the territory one by one, and assigned each person's tasks, but he never mentioned Byron's affairs. After a while, the middle-aged knight who came from a mercenary finally couldn't bear it any longer: "Lord, What about me? What is my mission?"

Gawain looked at Byron, and pondered for a while: "You do have a task, and it's very important, but I have to confirm another thing Rebecca, how is the progress of the rainbow device on Kamel's side? already?"

"Rainbow Device" is not a final name, but just the name of an ongoing project. Although this project belongs to Carmel, Rebecca is the highest person in charge of the entire Magic Technology Research Institute. well-informed.

Hearing Gawain's question, Rebecca, who was a little distracted, suddenly came back to her senses, and then showed a slightly distressed look: "It's still an energy-gathering structure with such a big problem of heat dissipation, and the accumulated heat can't be exported in time. , We are trying to use the ice and snow magic array to forcibly suppress the temperature of the energy-gathering structure, but the cooling ring before the base material of the ice and snow runes that can run stably under strong interference conditions has not been found."

"That is to say, apart from the heat dissipation problem, the Hongguang device has been able to operate?"

Rebecca nodded: "Yeah, both prototypes can run, but they don't run for a few seconds."

Gawain nodded slightly, then turned around and looked at the huge map hanging on the wall of the study.

The rock fortress is indeed completely different from the "stone fortress" in most parts of the southern border. It is a fortress in the true sense, a fortress armed with powerful magic technology, it has a layer of powerful magic barrier, and this layer of magic barrier It can also absorb the magic of nature to continuously repair itself. As long as its operation cannot be interrupted, the effect of the cannon bombarding the fortress will be greatly reduced.

According to Carmel, the rainbow device, which relies on pure magic to damage the target, is a more suitable weapon for dealing with the magic shield than the magic crystal cannon, so in any case, he hopes to use this new weapon when attacking the rock fortress.

In his mind, surveillance images from high-altitude satellites appeared.

The topography of the rock fortress and the surrounding area of ​​the fortress was clearly presented to him "in front of his eyes". He saw the Dorgon River rushing down from the Holy Spirit Plain all the way to the south, and the mountain pass in front of the rock fortress was divided into two, and one flowed into the mountains. , one is injected into the southern border and becomes the life artery of the southern border: the Baishui River.

Gawain turned around and looked at Rebecca: "Maybe we can broaden our minds, the heat dissipation problem is not so difficult to solve."

Rebecca didn't turn the corner all of a sudden because her geography teacher was negligent in martial arts, so her geography grades were not very good, and naturally she couldn't think of what Gawain was thinking: "Do you have an idea?"

"We can use river water to cool the device. I have seen Kamel's prototype and talked to him a little bit. This solution should be feasible."

Rebecca was stunned, and her eyes slowly brightened: "Oh! That's a good idea! I'll go back and discuss it with Master Carmel!"

Gawain smiled, then put his hand on the table in front of him, and his eyes slowly swept over everyone on the scene: "There is one more thing, this time I will go to the front line in person."

As soon as this sentence was said, the people at the scene looked at each other, obviously they really didn't expect this.

Although in this era, it is normal for noble lords to go to the battlefield in person, but there was no Gawain on the battlefield where the Crushed Stone Ridge was bombarded and the Baishui River blocked. It was only when the aberrations attacked the city before that Gawain personally went to the battlefield twice. In other words, Gawain had no habit of leaving the territory except when defending the homeland. His attitude and self-positioning towards this were always clear: the ruler should sit in the rear and do as little as possible to charge into the front line.

Therefore, everyone was accustomed to thinking that the ancestors would also stay behind this time, and they never thought that Gawain had plans to recruit in person.

"A well-functioning government council can maintain order during the lord's brief absence, and I believe Hetty can take care of the rear while I'm gone, and the army left behind can also defend against the threat of the Dark Mountains," Gao said. Wen explained his thoughts, "Attack on the rock fortress will be a very important battle, even far more important than the 70,000 rogue army against Earl Hosman, which determines whether we can obtain a stable and unimpeded battle. The basic plan of disturbing, in any case, I will not allow any accidents in this battle, so I will personally go to the town."

Gawain paused when he said this, and then said: "And there is a more important meaning, the original intention of the establishment of the rock fortress, each of you should know."

Hetty looked at his ancestors with a complicated tone: "In order to lock the Cecil family in the south"

"So, when the rock fortress is broken, I must be on the battlefield."

Symbolism and facade engineering, Gawain himself may not care about these, but the basic rules and public opinion of this era care about these.

That being the case, on such a major event, Gawain didn't mind "symbolism".

This pre-war meeting continued until late at night, and when it finally ended, Amber was already yawning, she looked at Gawain who still seemed very energetic, and couldn't help but pouted: "I really don't know what your brain is used for. Yes, there are always so many ideas"

"Just treat it as if you were complimenting me," Gawain said casually, then got up and walked towards the door, "I'm going to talk to Tyr next, will you come with me?"

Amber froze for a moment: "Is it appropriate for you to find someone in the middle of the night? You must be sleeping."

Gawain turned his head and glanced at Amber: "Do you think there is a difference between day and night for Tyre? When should I find her, it's not her place to sleep!"

Just like what Gawain said, Tyr, the sea monster who has left the sea, basically has only one thing to do on the shore. When Gawain and Amber came to her room, the mermaid lady was turning her belly and drifting. In his own big pool, it looks like it's dead. To tell the truth, this saltwater fish really has too many problems with the style of painting. Not only does the walking posture not recognize the six relatives, but also the sleeping posture is arrogant and domineering. The maid who changed the water also took a long time to get used to the fact that this "Miss Mermaid" turned her belly, not dead, but backstroke

It was very difficult to wake Tyr up. Amber went forward and tossed for a long time. The fish was still soundly asleep. In the end, Gawain was hesitating whether to jump up and smash the salted fish spirit up. Tyre finally woke up.

As soon as Miss Mermaid opened her eyes, she saw Gawain and Amber standing in front of her, she was shocked, she turned over and slapped Gawain with a sullen face: "Why don't you knock on the door!"

"Nonsense! We just blew up the door outside, and you're amazing if you wake up!" Gawain wiped the water off his face in annoyance, and turned to look at Amber who was hiding behind him for the first time, "You Did you know that we almost poured boiling water into the pool just to wake you up?"

"What is boiling water, it's not like I haven't been near the underwater volcano," Tyre cast a glance at Gawain, "Tell me, what do you have to do with me at night, say it's night now?"

Tyr looked around as he spoke, and when he saw that it was indeed dark outside the window, he was sure that it was night: "It's really night, so I just fell asleep."

"You fell asleep last night!" Gawain said with his eyes wide open, and began to deeply doubt whether it was a mistake for him to find this saltwater fish, but he still explained his purpose, "I'm here to find this fish. Are you telling you that we are going to attack the Rock Fortress."

Although Tyre slept most of the time, she still knew that Cecil was fighting outside, so she was not at a loss at the moment, but just showed a hint of confusion: "So what?"

"Are you interested in taking a look?"

Tyre was stunned for a moment, and then the fish tail swayed gently in the water, while rolling up the water, he said calmly: "You forgot what we said at the beginning, I can tell you about the deep sea, you can use it in those Help when the so-called aberrations attack the city, but I won't intervene in the battle between you humans, this kind of thing is too boring for me."

"Of course I remember, and I didn't plan to let you participate in the battle between humans. I just asked you to help bring something to the north, and then you can just watch by the side."

"It's that simple?" Tyre looked at Gawain suspiciously, "I know, you are very cunning, have you dug a hole?"

Gawain did not answer Tyre's question, but reminded: "Aren't you interested in magic technology on land? Haven't your sirens encountered a bottleneck in your own technology system? Maybe you can see the magician in the rock fortress. What you are interested in will be the collision site of traditional human magic technology and Cecil's magic guidance technology. I believe that even for an advanced civilization like the Kraken, this level of technological collision is worth seeing of."

Tyre's eyes changed slightly, and she seemed to be a little tempted, but after a while she shook her head slightly: "To be honest, I still want to sleep more."

"I thought about it carefully, Julu Amoen is so big, it's not impossible for you to take a few bites"

"make a deal!"

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