Chapter 1482 ?

In the arena of Hogwarts, scattered high walls and dug trenches spread all over the surroundings at this time, full of various obstacles that may be encountered in actual combat, and many magical creatures were hidden in it.

When the candidates are preparing for the exam and the exam has not yet started, the parents of the candidates in the auditorium above the practice field occupy the most favorable viewing position. However, due to the fact that examinations such as herbalism and astronomy cannot be watched on site, only examinations such as ancient magic have enough space to accommodate parents and are sufficiently enjoyable to watch.

Therefore, this kind of combat course was resisted by some parents who were worried about the safety of little wizards at first, but after a whole semester, people are now accustomed to this kind of activity, and it is deeply affected by other Hogwarts students. The welcome of the residents has become the most popular activity after the traditional sports Quidditch.

So now, regardless of the working day, everyone put down their work and gathered here to cheer for the candidates.

To the disappointment of the audience and the relief of the parent candidates, Mr. Alan Harris was not allowed to take this kind of confrontational exam, but got an o directly. Doing so will be too dark for other candidates...

In the stands, Sirius and Arthur of the Order of the Phoenix sat side by side. Before the game started, each of them held a handheld TV in their hands and chatted together. Bow-headed people.

"Arthur, these two little guys, Harry and Ron, are about to graduate. Have you asked Ron?" Sirius crossed his legs and looked sideways at Arthur, "Harry originally wanted to be an Auror. But in the recent situation, you know that there are no dark wizards making trouble, Ginny seems to persuade him to continue playing Quidditch after graduation, and wants to join the same team after graduation next year."

"Molly has always wanted the children to go to the Ministry of Magic. George and Weasley have irritated her for a long time... I myself hope that there will be at least one child in the family to inherit my business. You know, the manufacturing industry recently Very busy." Arthur rubbed his bald forehead and smiled happily, "Ron's grades will definitely disappoint Molly, and he doesn't have much talent in making things... Forget it, the most important thing is how they choose ...But the relationship between Lavender and Ron has always been considered good, although this little witch is a little...too enthusiastic, but it is not bad to start a family first..."

"There is also the matter of Harry and Ginny. When Ginny graduates, I think they should also hold a wedding. I will do it at that time, and I will definitely make the ceremony satisfactory to Ginny." Sirius put his legs down suddenly, "This counts us The kinship relationship between them is one step closer."

Although he agrees with Harry, Arthur always feels that his baby is being snatched away like this, and the other godfather still looks a little bit unwilling, his eyes rolled and he pretended to ask casually: "What about you? Sirius, I listen. Mos Diggory said he ran into you and Josephine..."

"Don't talk nonsense! Who knew that guy would hide in the toilet cubicle for so long..." Sirius blushed when he realized he had slipped his tongue again, and then forcibly changed the subject, "Your workshop is busy because the front line is tight What? The Department of Management and Control of Fantastic Beasts is also recruiting a large number of werewolves to the front line. Tonks was a little worried and thought about it, but Josephine assured that Remus was not assigned to the front line..."

"So the front line is really in some trouble? It seems that although we have almost occupied their entire territory, things are not as easy as the news said..." Arthur raised his glasses, and looked at the map displayed on the magic TV in his palm. Gesture, "Even the floating city left London and moved to the United States. It is definitely not for the purpose of declaring occupation and showing off its might... This shows that the defenses of the Rocky Mountains, the last position of the United States, have caused us trouble..."

"Eh? You don't know? Then I shouldn't have said it..." Sirius looked around a few times and hesitated,

Finally, he stretched out his hand and arranged an earplug to listen to the surroundings, "Arthur, you know that Remus and I and Tonks have a way to contact, and Josephine didn't hide from me... I thought Owen and they didn't want to hide from you, but you didn't." Ask more, let me tell you something, don't tell others... Albert and the others encountered some trouble near the Rocky Mountains..."

Then, Sirius, who was born in Gryffindor, reminded Arthur of Gryffindor from time to time to stop talking nonsense, and at the same time told him the situation of the Kingdom's army in the United States.

After the troops of the United Kingdom successfully occupied almost the entire territory of the United States, some vanguard troops began to march towards the defensive circle established by the Magic Congress of the United States in the Rocky Mountains. met with fierce resistance. .

Because the terrain here is composed of many small mountains and the terrain is very complicated, American wizards dug large and small caves inside these mountains during this period of time, and secretly built defense projects.

After the United Kingdom's fleet entered the Rocky Mountains, it was attacked by the United States in various ways.

Especially the large floating battleships in the form of sailing battleships with the largest tonnage, they have obvious targets, and they can't be used in the mountains with complex terrain and trees. More than one ship has crashed between the mountains, and although the passengers on board Most of them used apparition or shock-absorbing spells or even cloaks to land safely, but the traps and guerrillas of American wizards on the ground still caused the Magic Kingdom to suffer the first relatively large loss after the war.

And when the small and medium airships behind the vanguard came over, the squid ship was only more flexible than the sail battleship. Although among the mountains, squid-type warships can use their tentacles to clean up the lush trees and vines, but in the face of various strange traps that the United States has already laid, these ships have also lost a lot, especially those tentacles that are very easy to be attacked. The trap is blown up and once the tentacle is lost, it does not return to repair but continues to sail. This kind of narrow airship is not much better than the sailing battleship airship in terms of maneuverability.

Although the Nautilus, the smallest model of the floating ship, is agile enough to navigate freely in mountains and forests, it is also too small to withstand too much damage and cannot be too far away from other large ships, so it can carry out attack operations alone.

Moreover, these American wizards cleverly did not adopt the traditional unified command for each defense point, but delegated power to each large defense area, gave them autonomy, and delegated power to the small defense areas under their jurisdiction in the large defense area district.

This undermines the decapitation tactics that the United Kingdom has been good at and demonstrated before because there is no place that is particularly important for the United States.

Even if the Magic Kingdom captures a defensive area, it will have little impact on other defensive points. As long as they are still there, they will soon run back after the Kingdom's army leaves or simply establish a new temporary stronghold.

Unlike Muggles, for wizards, it is almost effortless to build something, as long as it is not rich in magic power. A lot of magical fortifications were prepared, but it was more than enough to provide shelter and temporary bases for the guerrillas.

After the United Kingdom captured a few prisoners, they did not interrogate any important information, but they learned why they could not obtain information.

Picquely, chairman of the Magic Congress of the United States, ordered the separation of combat personnel and material transport personnel, which also had a significant defensive effect because although temporary flyway networks were established at various defense points, they were handed over to transport personnel who did not participate in the war. Once there were traces of the United Kingdom army nearby, the transportation work was immediately stopped and stayed in other strongholds.

The outsiders mainly have Aurors and strikers as guerrillas, but they are not allowed to use the fireplace, they just use apparition to escape and then wait for the portkey on their bodies to work and return. They don't know that the portkey will take them Where to take it, naturally I don't know the names of other strongholds.

This ensures that even if the guerrillas participating in the war are captured and used Legilimency and Veritaserum by the United Kingdom army, there will be no risk of revealing other bases, so that the United Kingdom army cannot use their caves. Fireplaces use their Floo mesh.

In short, after the initial smooth sailing, the fleet of the United Kingdom fell into a passive position and lost its original destructive occupation speed after facing the tactics of the American wizard, which was almost regarded as the guerrilla ambush of the enemy advancing and retreating. Only a little by little carpet search began to pull out the defense strongholds of American wizards one by one.