The news that Gawain has been waiting for has finally arrived.
After receiving the information handed over by Amber, he took a quick look and couldn't help but smile on his face: "The remaining nobles who escaped have all arrived at the Rock Fortress, just as we expected - —They can only take temporary refuge in the Rock Fortress, and the Holy Spirit Plain has not accepted them. Moreover, the fortress is currently in a state of isolation and has no support from the royal family and the Holy Spirit Plain."
Amber felt incredible: "King. Are the people there really giving up on the Rock Fortress so easily? That's the Rock Fortress!"
"They didn't give up, but had to put it aside temporarily," Gawain casually turned the information into ashes. , explained happily, "The Eastern Legion led by Duke Silas Loren is the most powerful army in Anzu. They have broken through the eastern gate of the Holy Spirit Plain in a short period of time and have taken root in the important town in the eastern part of the plain. , as long as they lay down a few more key fortresses, they can march straight along the King's Avenue to attack Saint-Sunil. The purpose of the eastern rebels is very clear. They are here to overthrow the Second Dynasty and target the people in the royal capital. "Say, this is the biggest threat."
Then Gawain paused, and after a brief thought, he continued: "But they are definitely not giving up the Rock Fortress, the capital. I can probably guess what people are thinking - they will use the solid walls and soldiers of the Rock Fortress to resist and delay. The Rock Fortress lies in the gap between the mountains between the southern border and the Holy Spirit Plain. Its unique terrain makes it almost impossible to be attacked. During the siege, Cecil's army could only attack in the south, while the Rock Fortress could receive a steady stream of supplies from the Holy Spirit Plain in the north. At the beginning of the design, this fortress was built to withstand long-term and high-intensity attacks. From the perspective of the royal capital, this will be a long-term war. As long as the Rock Fortress can hold on long enough, the royal family will be able to breathe a sigh of relief from the crisis in the east. By then, the army from the west and even the mountain army from the north can move south. Provide support..."
Amber blinked: "So we have to knock down the fortress before the royal capital reacts..."
"Go and get Byron, Philip, and Suo Delin and Hetty are called, and by the way, Rebecca is also called." Gawain nodded, "The intermission for the noble remnants is over."
A moment later, Cecil's military commander, the internal affairs manager, and the technical manager came to Gawain's study.
Before Gawain spoke, they had guessed the reason for being summoned here, and Rebecca was still looking around curiously after entering the room: She usually rarely had the chance to be called by her ancestors to join the military. The girl couldn't figure out the use of participating in the meeting because she knew nothing about it, but this did not prevent her from becoming particularly happy.
Byron looked at Gawain expectantly: "Lord, are we finally going to attack the Rock Fortress?"
"Why do you look so happy?" Philip couldn't help but muttered, "I didn't realize it before.You like fighting so much. "
"Don't mention it. I promised Wandou that I would bring her a gift after I defeated the Rock Fortress. It's been almost half a month since I blew it. "
"Ahem," Gawain interrupted the exchange between the two language arts workers with a few coughs, and then nodded slightly, "As Byron said, the intermission of this war has already begun. Finish. Philip, how are the preparations going in the north? ”
The young knight took a half step forward: “Lord, we have been transporting various light and heavy artillery components and industrial parts to the Carroll area in the past half month, and using the existing equipment in the Carroll area The Magic Network is building an arsenal to manufacture weapons and ammunition. Currently, there are sixteen 'Justice' rail guns and one hundred and twenty-seven 'Persuader' light rail guns on standby in the northern region, with sufficient ammunition. 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 take over the land of nobles from all over the southern border and maintain the basic order in several control areas, he must leave a certain army in the southern border to maintain the situation. Moreover, he does not want to use the traditional sea of people siege tactics to attack. In Rock Fortress, the troops currently assembled in the northern region are sufficient in his opinion.
Then he looked at Solderin: "Can the Iron Rangers participate in actual combat now? "
"The new recruits have to see blood," the high-ranking ranger replied. "They have been waiting for this day for a long time. "
"Very good, there is a mission suitable for you," Gawain nodded, "Your mission is to cooperate with our internal response in the Rock Fortress..."
Wait until the explanation is completed After the Iron Ranger's mission, he turned to Hetty: "About food reserves and recent propaganda work..."
Gawain confirmed the situation in the territory one by one and assigned everyone's tasks, but But he never mentioned Byron. After a while, the middle-aged knight with a mercenary background finally couldn't help it anymore: "Lord, what about me? What is my mission? "
Gawain looked at Byron and pondered for a moment: "You do have a task, and it's very important, but I have to confirm another thing first... Rebecca, Camai How is the progress of the rainbow installation over there? "
"Rainbow Device" is not a final name, but just the name of an ongoing project. Although this project belongs to Kamel, Rebecca is the highest ranking person in the entire Magical Technology Research Institute. The person in charge, she knows the progress of the project very well.
Hearing Gawain's question, Rebecca, who was slightly distracted, suddenly came back to her senses, and then showed a slightly distressed look: " It's still a heat dissipation problem... With such a large energy-gathering structure, the accumulated heat has no time to be discharged. We are trying to use ice and snow magic arrays to forcibly suppress the temperature of the energy-gathering structure, but so far we have not found one that can stabilize it under strong interference conditions. The running ice and snow rune base material - the previous cooling rings were quickly burned out. ”
“In other words, except for the heat dissipation problem, the Hongguang device is already operational?”
Rebecca nodded: “Yes, both prototypes can run - they just can’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 the same as the "stone" in most places in the south. "Fortress" is completely different. It is a real fortress, armed with powerful magic technology. It has a powerful magic barrier, and this magic barrier can also absorb the magic power of nature to continuously repair itself. As long as its operation cannot be interrupted, the effectiveness of the giant cannon in bombarding the fortress will be greatly reduced.
According to Kamel, the rainbow light device that relies on pure magic power to damage the target is more powerful than the magic crystal cannon. A weapon suitable for dealing with magic shields, so no matter what, he hopes to use this new weapon when attacking the Rock Fortress.
In his mind, the surveillance images from high-altitude satellites appeared. < /p>
The terrain of the Rock Fortress and the surrounding areas was clearly presented before his eyes. He saw the Dorgon River rushing southward from the Holy Spirit Plain, splitting into two at the mountain pass in front of the Rock Fortress. One flows into the mountains, and the other flows into the southern border, becoming the life artery of the southern border: Baishui River
Gawain turned around and looked at Rebecca: "Maybe we can broaden our minds. The heat dissipation problem is not that difficult to solve..."
Rebecca did not turn around for a while - because her geography teacher was negligent in martial arts, her geography scores were not very good, naturally. He couldn’t imagine 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 about it. This solution should be feasible. "
Rebecca was startled, her eyes slowly brightened: "Oh! What a great idea! I'll discuss it with Master Kamel when I go back! "
Gawain smiled, then put his hands on the table in front of him, and his eyes slowly swept over everyone present: "There is one more thing - I want to go there in person this time front. ”
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 figure of Gawain on the battlefields of the gravel ridge bombardment and the Whitewater River blockade. Only when the aberrations attacked the city before, Gawain personally went to the battlefield twice - in other words, except when defending the homeland, Gawain has no habit of leaving his territory. His attitude and self-positioning towards this have always been clear: rulers should sit in the rear and do as little as possible to go to the front lines to fight.
So everyone is still used to it. I thought that my ancestor would stay behind this time, but I never thought that Gawain had any plans to conquer personally.
“A well-functioning government office can maintain order during the lord’s brief absence. I trust Hetty to keep an eye on the rear while I'm gone,The army left behind on the mainland can also defend against the threat of the Dark Mountains," Gawain explained his thoughts. "The attack on the Rock Fortress will be a very important battle, even more important than the 70,000 men who fought against Count Horsman. The miscellaneous army, this determines whether we can obtain a stable and undisturbed basic base. In any case, I will not allow any accidents in this battle, so I have to personally take charge. "
Gawain paused after saying this, and then said: "And there is a more important meaning - the original intention of establishing the Rock Fortress, each of you should know it. "
Hetty looked at her ancestors with a complicated tone: "In order to lock the Cecil family in the south..."
"So, when the Rock Fortress was broken, I have to be on the battlefield. ”
Gao Wen himself may not care about symbolic meaning and facade engineering, but the basic rules and public opinion of this era do care about these.
In this case, in such an important event, Regarding the incident, Gawain didn't mind the "symbolism".
The pre-war meeting lasted until late at night. When it finally ended, Amber was already yawning, and she still looked very nervous. The spirited Gawain couldn't help but curl his lips: "I really don't know what your brain is made of, you always have so many ideas..."
"Just think of it as your compliment. Gawain said casually, then stood up and walked towards the door, "I'm going to talk to Tyr next, will you follow me?" "
Hubo was stunned for a moment: "Is it appropriate for you to go find someone in the middle of the night? He must be sleeping..."
Gawain turned his head and glanced at Amber: "Do you think there is a difference between day and night for Tyr? When do I find her, it’s not her time to sleep! "
Just like what Gawain said, Tire, a siren who has left the sea, basically only has to sleep on the shore. When Gawain and Amber came to her room, this A mermaid lady is floating on her belly in her own large pool, looking as if she is dead - to be honest, this saltwater fish has too many problems with its style. Not only does its walking style look unrecognizable, but its sleeping posture is also different. Arrogant and domineering, it took the maid in charge of changing Tier's water in the lord's mansion a long time to adapt to the fact that this "Mermaid Lady" was not dead when she turned her belly, but was swimming on her back...
It was very difficult to wake Tire up. After Amber stepped forward and tossed the fish for a long time, the fish was still sleeping soundly. In the end, when Gawain was hesitant to go up and use a jumping chop to wake up the salty fish essence, Tier finally woke up.
As soon as Miss Mermaid opened her eyes, she saw Gawain and Amber standing in front of her. She was immediately startled, turned over and flicked Gawain's face with water: "Why didn't you knock on the door? "
"Nonsense! We just blew up the door outside and if you can wake up, you are considered awesome! "Gawain wiped the water off his face rather unhappily, and turned to look at Amber who was hiding behind him for the first time, "You know we both went into the pool just to wake you up.Have you poured boiling water? "
"It's nothing to boil water. It's not like I haven't been near the submarine volcano before," Tire glanced at Gawain. "Tell me, what do you want to see me for at night? It's night now. Bar? "
As he spoke, Tire looked around. When he saw that it was indeed dark outside the window, he was sure that it was night: "It's really night... Then I just fell asleep..."< /p>
“You fell asleep last night! "Gawain said with eyes wide open, and began to deeply doubt whether he had made a mistake in coming to see this saltwater fish, but he still stated his purpose of coming, "I came to you to tell you something—— We are about to attack the Rock Fortress. "
Although Tier slept most of the time, she still knew that the Cecil Territory was fighting outside, so she was not at a loss at the moment, but showed a trace of confusion: "So? ”
“Are you interested in taking a look? "
Tier was startled for a moment, then the fish tail swayed gently in the water, and while making splashes, he said unhurriedly: "Have you forgotten what we agreed on at the beginning - I can Telling you about the knowledge of the deep sea can help when those so-called 'aberrants' attack the city, but I will not intervene in the battle between you humans. This kind of thing is too boring for me. "
"Of course I remember, and I don't intend to let you participate in the battle between humans. I just asked you to help carry something to the north, and then you can just watch from the side. ”
“Is it that simple? Tyr looked at Gawain suspiciously, "I know that you are very cunning. Have you dug the hole well?" "
Gawain did not answer Tyr's question, but reminded: "Aren't you interested in magic technology on land? Didn’t you Kraken encounter a bottleneck in your own technical system? Maybe you can see something that interests you in the Rock Fortress. It will be the collision site of traditional human magic technology and Cecil's magic technology. I believe that even for an advanced civilization like the Kraken, this kind of The degree of technical collision is also worth watching. "
Tiel's eyes changed slightly, and she seemed a little tempted, but after a moment she still shook her head slightly: "To be honest, I still want to sleep more..."
"I If you think about it carefully, the giant deer Amorn is so big, it is not impossible for you to take a few bites..."
"Deal! "
Gawain & Amber: "..."