This tactic, known as the "Golem Airdrop Technique," is essentially based on the current Ling people's skill in "standardized production of Golems."
Under the protection of the elves, the Ling people will ride on the Hippogriffs and land about one kilometer away from the enemy camp.
Then they would use the cheapest stones and clay available locally to make golems, making them as large as possible.
Afterwards, the Ling people will control the golems to encircle the camp according to the number of entrances and exits, and the elves will ride on Hippogriffs and shoot arrows from the sky to destroy the siege equipment that will threaten the golems, so that the tall golems can block all the entrances and exits of the camp without any suspense.
Finally, the Ling tribe will release the smaller golems onto the battlefield, letting them climb up the walls along the bodies of the large golems and enter the camp. They will then leave them with magical instructions to move freely, and then directly escape on their Hippogriffs.
This was a tactic that was originally based only on the "theory" stage and had not been tested in any practical way.
However, under Naluga's strong self-recommendation, Theresa's encouragement and the whisper of "I need an ally too" for some reason, Yang Hao in the Monster Forest still chose to approve Naluga's somewhat dangerous move.
Then naturally, good results were achieved.
After all, to put it bluntly, the army of the parish cannot be compared with the military camp.
If it is in the military district's recruit camp, those recruits who only have a sword will know to prepare more secret doors when building the camp, and when installing the city defense equipment, they will know to hide the equipment or install a strong enough "zenith" to defend against enemy projectiles.
Then the parish camp can be called the novice village in RPG games - to put it bluntly, the soldiers in the parish are essentially the soldiers of the novice village.
They just openly installed the city defense ballista on the tower without any cover except for the guardrail! Directly!
(It would be strange if this wasn’t targeted.)
Even Naluga, who knows the least about tactics and strategy, knows this common sense after being exposed to it for so long. Why don't these soldiers understand it at all
Not only that, except for some NCOs and instructors who were training, there wasn't even a single priest or a single crusader in the recruit camp...
Even though everyone knows that you are planning to let a bunch of cannon fodder die, you should at least pretend to do it, right
Confused, Naluga went to another recruit camp with the help of Hippodrome and repeated her previous steps.
This is more like a game than a war.
The two parties in the game are Naluga and Naluga's golems, and the target of the game is the new recruits of the parish.
During this time, Narujia remembered Yang Hao's advice to her: create enough wounded, but don't kill them all. She let the golems step on the soldiers' arms and legs, but not kill them.
She did her best to create more wounded people, and even slightly adjusted the logic of the golem's self-service operation, so that the golem would avoid the wounded soldiers who fell to the ground screaming but unable to move, and instead hurt those soldiers who could still move freely.
As a result, by the night of the 15th, there were not many casualties in the attacked camp of the Northern Expeditionary Force, but there were thousands of serious injuries and disabilities.
These thousands of people, after the parish priests and the crusaders rushed over to deal with the golems, could either be slaughtered directly for meat or just kept alive.
It was a good idea to slaughter them and eat the meat, but there were just too many people - even if all the slaughterhouses in the camps were operating at full capacity, it would take several days or even weeks to kill thousands of pigs, not to mention the thousands of wounded soldiers who were fortunately only injured in their legs and feet
If you're planning to raise one, that's even more impossible—the Cult of Light has shield magic, courage magic, tranquility magic, unrivaled spears of light, illumination magic for nighttime lighting, and even high-level forbidden magic that can destroy a piece of the surface...
However, in the magic system of the Church of Light, there is no magic related to "healing".
Not at all. So unless these wounded soldiers are treated by magicians, there is no way they will ever recover.
But why would the magicians from the Roman Empire come to the diocese now? In the Roman Empire, the two professions are incompatible. If they meet on the street and don't fight on the spot, it's already considered polite. You still want them to come and help us treat the wounded
You might as well say that the Red Cross doctor from His Majesty the Regent is willing to come and treat our wounds free of charge - yes, that's right!
Isn't there the Red Cross?! That is, where are the doctors
The bishops remembered the industry of the regent that they had united to suppress, and they placed their hopes on those doctors who could save lives - it would have been better if they had not looked for them. Once they did, the clergy of the entire Roman Empire felt a chill in their hearts.
In the entire Roman Empire, not to mention doctors from the Red Cross, even nurses couldn't be found.
Those who could run had already run away, and those who couldn't were basically persecuted and killed. The one who came closer was a doctor named "Joseph" - but the last place he appeared was the massacred town of Kagad.
The bishops of the Church of Light were all confused: What was going on? Why was it that every time we wanted something, it was either gone or rotten? Why was this
They sighed heavily and finally came to a conclusion:
These disabled animals have to be slaughtered in batches, but they still have to be kept alive before being slaughtered.
Otherwise, the morale of the army will be unstable. At that time, let alone whether the Northern Expeditionary Army can bring victory to the diocese that determines the stability of faith, it will be a big question whether they can maintain their organization and not flee before the expedition...
Under these circumstances, the parish battled wits and courage with Nalujia's harassment tactics for more than ten days.
In July, more than 20,000 people were injured in the 300,000-man army. In the end, the diocese could no longer hold on, and simply placed the priests and the crusaders in various camps before Nalujia gave up the idea of continuing the harassment.
But the priests and the crusaders began to stand by in the camp, and it was Yang Hao's other knife's turn to work.
Previously, Yang Hao had mentioned to Arthur about improvements to the howitzer Golem.
Now it is July and the improvement of the howitzer Golem is indeed complete.
Arthur risked going bald and worked with the elves to improve the structure of the Golem howitzer, so that the howitzer fixed on the Golem's shoulder had a buffer mechanism while being able to withstand greater chamber pressure and use more gunpowder. In other words, it could fire the shells farther.
Not only that, Arthur also extended the barrel of Golem's howitzer.
If the barrel of the howitzer Golem was short, thick and pointed at the beginning, the barrel of the improved howitzer Golem is now long and thick.
Stronger metal, a barrel structure with a buffer mechanism, a longer barrel, and more gunpowder used during loading—
The direct result of this is that the new model of howitzer Gorem can already fire shells up to 5 kilometers away!
But if the shell can only fly five kilometers before falling to the ground, it is actually of little significance.
Although this might cause a blow to the morale of the soldiers in the bombarded camps of the Northern Expeditionary Force, Yang Hao did not forget that his goal was to cause more "wounded" people in the parish.
To this end, he specially found a "rest time" when Arthur was not visited by the female elves to discuss for a long time. Finally, they came to a conclusion: since we have not yet solved the problem that the shells made of explosive ore sculptures are prone to explode in the barrel instead of exploding at the target location, why don't we lower the standards
"As long as it can burn, isn't it good enough?!"
"Yeah! As long as it can burn!"
Do what you say!
The two men immediately started working in front of Weiya, the nun, and Fen and others who "accidentally passed by", and finally completed the improvement of the new shells before July.
This is a special shell called an "incendiary bomb." Unlike a stone bomb, an incendiary bomb will shatter the moment it hits the ground, scattering the oily liquid that has absorbed a lot of heat when it was fired and is close to the flammable point, igniting it directly.
Although these incendiary bombs are not as good as stone bombs, hitting a house will cause real damage, but the damage caused by incendiary bombs to unarmored units and wooden buildings is really high!
The entire Northern Expeditionary Force camp was built mainly with wood, and "burns" have been a serious injury that has been difficult to treat since ancient times, let alone burns caused by being splashed with boiling oil.
Although the Church of Light has a magic called "Suffocation" that can extinguish oil fires, "Suffocation" cannot heal those who are severely burned.
Now, in front of everyone, the pastors were once again faced with a dilemma: to save them, there was no way to save them. To feed them, these people who were burned by oil could not even get a few pieces of good meat if they were sent to the slaughterhouse, and feeding them for more than half a day would be a sheer waste of money!
But if you don't keep them around for show, even an army of fanatics may mutiny, not to mention an army of ordinary believers...
Now that's a problem - Bishop Stephen originally thought that he could avoid further increases in casualties by sending priests and crusaders to camp in various camps, but he never thought that the elves would develop such evil weapons!
"Devil! Devil! Devil!"
He was so angry that he cursed and threw the account book in his hand to the ground. But soon wisdom regained the upper hand.
Bishop Stephen sat back in his seat panting. He looked at the map on the table and the camp that had suffered several inexplicable "fire rains from the sky" attacks. He was lost in planning.
Why were only those few camps attacked? Why were the camps further back with more people not attacked
Why don't those Hippogriff Riders fly around with men anymore and just scout from the air
Why is it that when all camps are attacked, the rain of fire does not fall directly into the camps, but is adjusted to a certain extent before it can be shot into the camps from the wasteland? Why can we always hear a rumbling sound before the rain of fire falls
All kinds of doubts piled up in the bishop's heart, and unknowingly, he ignited an emotion called "passion".
He suddenly felt that this war was very interesting. Just like exploring the purity of a little boy, he had to gradually open his heart. Bishop Stephen suddenly felt that he seemed to have grasped something.
Something that can launch rain of fire is definitely not as easy to "transport" or "manufacture on-site" as those stone puppets.
Considering that the camps that were attacked were all peripheral camps, Bishop Stephen made a bold judgment: the enemy came directly from the Monster Forest on foot. And if there were no accidents, they should be extremely slow and heavy units, just like the heavy counterweight catapults needed for siege.
The Hippocampus Knights in the sky did not come here to investigate the distribution of our troops. Their actual goal was to observe the "landing point" of the rain of fire fired by something and then report it so that the troops in the rear can make adjustments!
For a moment, Bishop Stephen seemed to grasp some possibility.
He paced back and forth in the room with his hands folded, talking confidently, and his eyes seemed to be filled with countless fantasies brought about by fantastic ideas.
Was the enemy's weapon that launched the rain of fire a ballista? No, it couldn't be. A ballista couldn't fire so straight, and it wouldn't make a loud rumbling sound.
Is that something like a trebuchet? No, that's even less likely - if it was the size of a trebuchet, it would have been spotted by eye long ago.
What on earth is that? What on earth is that
Bishop Stephen was deep in thought. Unconsciously, he seemed to have regained the passion he had when fighting against the barbarians.
His hands were itching, and the handsome boy would never appear in his mind again. His throat was extremely tight, and the desire to crack the enemy's secrets was constantly invading his nerves, which were already full of holes due to his faith.
What on earth is this? Think about it, Stephen, think about it carefully - what kind of things can the elves and demons come up with
It is impossible for the elves to cut down trees on a large scale to make ballistas and catapults, and the demons simply don't have the technology to do so...
What on earth is that
"What on earth is it?"
Stephen bit his nails nervously and didn't even notice that his teeth had cut his fingers.
What is it exactly
"What on earth is this? Think about it carefully. In the attacks before July, those stone puppets, stone puppets..."
Accompanied by the nails being bitten directly.
A flash of inspiration suddenly occurred to Bishop Stephen.
right!
Stone puppet! It's a stone puppet!
Perhaps other bishops could not come up with a conclusion even if they racked their brains, but Bishop Stephen came to his own conclusion based on his past military career!
The advanced types of those stone puppets have the ability to launch rain of fire!
“Think about it carefully. Those puppets can use weapons that ordinary humans and creatures cannot use. Even if they are simply throwing rocks, they can throw them at a distance that ordinary crossbows cannot throw—but their accuracy is very poor.
So what if, what if there is some improved model of puppet that has the ability of accurate long-range shooting, and can throw the "rain of fire" into the sky at a high angle like an archer, and then let it fall into our camp... everything makes sense!
Whether it was the confusion of the Hippogriff Riders observing from the sky, or the puzzlement of why only the outermost camps were attacked, or the loud noise every time fire rained down - all of this could be explained!
What attacked us was a group of puppets! And those bulky puppets needed to be approached before being thrown, and the sound could be directly transmitted to the attacked camp, which meant that their range was not as far as I thought!
Not to mention that their initial shots were not very accurate, so they naturally needed the help of the Hippogriffs in the sky to observe the landing point...
It's like observing the trajectory of a fire arrow in the night from the top of a hill to determine whether it can hit the enemy's formation. So that's it, so that's it!"
Having solved the puzzle, Bishop Stephen immediately fell into a state of ecstasy.
He was so ecstatic and overjoyed that he even forgot to deploy the troops for a moment - but fortunately he remembered it in the end.
"Someone, come here and pass on my order! Have the priests and the Knights of the Skitarii take part of the army to patrol regularly outside the camp, away from the forest!
Tell them to be careful of any stone golems! Also, I need them to test the power of those "booming" weapons. I want to see what kind of weapons killed my priest and left only his lower limbs!"
Bishop Stephen, who had regained the joy of the battlefield, issued his orders in a high-handed manner.
On the other side, Yang Hao and Fen led the elves and demons to transform the terrain in front of the Monster Forest to prepare for the subsequent decisive battle.
According to Finn's understanding, as long as the number of believers pouring in at one time can be limited, then whether it is the impact on the priests or the believers, as long as the number is reduced to a certain level, it will naturally have a great impact on the subsequent battle.
So Finn's plan was to "construct" three different paths outside the Monster Forest, dividing the entire battlefield into three parts, and using obstacles and cliffs to prevent the believer armies and priests in the three directions from cooperating with each other.
"Although this may be self-deception, if we can really force the enemy's army to attack in three directions, then our frontal pressure will be less."
Finn smiled as he pointed at the ground not far away where cracks were slowly appearing with the help of the ancient elf tree.
The Elven Ancient Trees are free-roaming treemen in the Elven Forest. Although they move slowly, their power is real.
Of course, this also means that the departure of an ancient elven tree will inevitably cause the territory of the Elf Forest to shrink.
Finn did not hesitate to shrink the Elf Forest in order to allow an ancient tree to stand out.
Thanks to the great help of this ancient tree, Finn will be able to complete the shaping of the open area in front of the Monster Forest in less than two months.
She planned to create a horizontal "canyon" in front and shape three entrances and passages on the Monster Forest side.
In this way, the believers' army had to attack from below first and then from above, using the disadvantageous "upward attack" to fight against the golems and demon swordsmen who served as line-defending units.
Behind the line-holding units, the naturally grown trees are the best vantage points and cover—the elves' shooters can easily shoot at the enemies below from the trees.
Most importantly, the believers in the three channels were separated and unable to help each other.
In addition, the elven wizards worked hard and wasted the regional magic to create the "isolation" magic in the open area. Although it is not clear what effect this magic will have on priests, it should be feasible to at least interfere with the range of influence of their divine spells.
But then again...
"Your Majesty, do you really think... that the diocese will fight us in the end instead of giving up the invasion?"
Fen turned around and asked Yang Hao who was in deep thought.