Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 311 Close at hand
The 648th year of the Demon King Calendar.

Mid-November, 8pm.

Inside the Avarus Demon Kingdom Army Camp——

"The vanguard has successfully crossed the river. The Subia Demon Kingdom army must be dumbfounded now."

Wendy looked at the sandbox and leaned back on a fur-covered chair.
"As written in the military manual given to me by the Lord, there is no constant state of war, and there is no constant shape of water. Attack when the enemy is least prepared and take advantage of their surprise."

Although in books of "great truth" such as the Tao Te Ching, Li Chengxi gave the original text directly without any explanation, leaving Viola and the others to figure it out on their own. As long as they didn't come up with cult doctrines, Li Chengxi didn't care.

But we cannot ignore reference books like The Art of War. If we misunderstand their meanings and they take them as the truth, the consequences will be very serious.

Therefore, Li Chengxi not only provided the original text and translation, but also provided battle examples for reference.

Wendy was not interested in other books such as Tiangong Exploitation of Wu, Guiguzi, and Jiuzhang Suanshu, but she had a special liking for books on military strategy. As soon as she saw Sun Tzu's Art of War, she felt like she had found a treasure.

Ao Er Dai was drinking tea beside her and said dissatisfiedly:
"Wake up, stop reading. You're talking as if it's all your own achievement, but it's obviously all thanks to me..."

It was Al'day who predicted the time of snowfall through prophecy magic, and the technology for building a floating bridge was also the idea provided by Al'day.

The technology to build a floating bridge in minutes is simple and nothing more than modular.

Build the prefabricated parts of the floating bridge in advance, and when heavy snow falls and blocks the view, throw them into the water and hammer in the last few nails.

Although it is not very strong, it is enough for the vanguard to cross the river and protect the pontoon bridge, and then people can be sent to reinforce it to allow the main army to pass.

"What do you mean by relying on you? Didn't you also learn your ideas from the divine world?"

“But I designed the drawings for the prefabricated parts!”

Materials engineering is really Oldie’s specialty.

Seeing that they were about to argue, Viola had to interrupt:
"Okay, now that we have crossed the river, our next goal is to capture the Fortress of the Lookout. Wendy, you stay here to command and dispatch, and the others will join me in the siege."

After taking over the Fortress of the Watchers, the Gate City is within reach. And not only must it be taken, but it must be taken quickly to prevent the Subia Demon Kingdom's army from counterattacking.

As for how to quickly capture the fortress, plans had already been made.

To sum up, it’s nothing more than nine words.

In every battle, victory is achieved by using the normal and unusual tactics.

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Unable to stop the Avarus Demon Kingdom from crossing the river, the Subia Demon Kingdom army had no choice but to retreat and defend.

But to be honest, no one from the generals to the soldiers had much confidence.

There are still two days before the agreed reinforcements arrive, so it is basically impossible to expect the reinforcements to arrive in time.

Logically, even though Viola's army was nearly five times the size of the garrison at Fort Lookout, they had fortifications to fall back on.

As the saying goes, if there are ten of them, surround them; if there are five of them, attack them; if there are twice as many of them, divide them.

The defenders can use far fewer troops to resist an enemy force that is several times their size, especially now that there are no high-performance artillery. Facing the enchanted city walls, no matter how many troops there are, they will be helpless.

The 120,000-strong army of the Subia Demon Kingdom had previously stormed the Qihang City, which had only 30,000 defenders. The successive capture of the first two city walls was enough to show how strong the Tiger of the Kingdom was in command, but facing the last and most solid city wall, it was still difficult to maintain the offensive.

It is not a difficult task for 6,000 people to resist 25,000 people by relying on the city walls, especially if they only need to resist for two days.

But as I said, wars these days are all about morale.

The army of the Subia Demon Kingdom had lost all morale, especially when they saw the dense torches outside the city and the light of the illuminating arrows made the enemy's armor emerge in the darkness, which seemed to have aroused ptsd in many people. The general knew this very well, but there was nothing he could do, so he had to hold on.

——Woo!

The horn of attack sounded, and the wind and snow stopped at that moment. The soldiers defending the city could clearly see the torches connected in a neat square advancing towards them. Even standing on the city wall more than ten meters high, they still felt unsafe.

The Fortress of the Overlooker was built on the mountain, with two gates. The Avarus Demon Kingdom army only advanced towards the main gate of the Fortress of the Overlooker, and did not seem to have any intention of surrounding it.

There must be a gap in the encirclement.

As the saying goes, even a trapped beast will still fight, let alone a human.

You can't force the enemy to death, otherwise they will die. They will most likely fight back desperately before they die, causing greater casualties to themselves.

When we leave a way out, the enemy will most likely escape through the way out when they see they are no match for us and will lose their determination to fight to the death, thus reducing the casualties of our soldiers.

Viola's goal was not to kill the enemy, but to capture the Lookout Fortress, so she deliberately left a way for survival.

The generals defending the city were of course well aware that this was also a psychological warfare. The already low morale of the Subia Demon Kingdom's army would not desperately defend the fortress if they had a way to escape.

This is a naked conspiracy, everything is laid out on the table, but you still have to come in.

Everything was unfavorable to the defenders, and the generals knew it, but they were powerless and could only fulfill their duties as soldiers.

He drew his saber and shouted:
"Archers prepare!"

The Avarus Demon Kingdom's army was getting closer and closer, and a rain of arrows was shot over like locusts.

For a moment, my ears were filled with the crisp sound of tinkling, as if raindrops fell on the roof.

The vanguard must be heavily armored shield soldiers. The first wave of arrow rain does not have much lethality, but it is like a fuse, and the siege is about to break out.

The archers drew out their second arrows one after another, preparing for the next wave of arrow rain to kill the main force following the shield soldiers.

But at this moment, a terrible roar was heard from the sky. No matter who heard it, they felt their heart skip a beat.

"Dragon! A dragon is coming down from the sky!"

Someone on the city wall shouted loudly, but it was too late to warn.

The white dragon flew through the low clouds, its graceful figure like a white swan bringing with it the chill of death. It swooped down and breathed out dragon's breath at the soldiers drawing bows on the city wall.

The white dragon's breath was extremely cold, and many soldiers remained frozen into ice sculptures in a state of panic and attempted escape. Ordinary arrows were not even enough to tickle a dragon. Before the crossbow on the city wall could turn around, the white dragon flapped its wings and climbed at a large angle, disappearing into the low clouds in the blink of an eye.

Before the missile age, there was a very practical tactical theory in air combat, which was to convert altitude potential energy into kinetic energy to launch an attack, and then convert the kinetic energy into potential energy to climb after the attack.

This is the so-called energy war.

To put it simply, it is a cycle of repeated dive attack, climb, and then dive attack again.

It can be used not only on fighter jets but also on dive bombers, and the attack and bombing accuracy is higher. Many of the Japanese aircraft carriers were sent to the bottom of the sea by America in this way.

However, the role of the white dragon is actually closer to that of a Stuka bomber. It is not an easy task for a white dragon to destroy the defenders of an entire fortress, but its terrible roar every time it dives brings a strong psychological terror.

At once, many defenders on the city walls raised their heads and alerted the sky. At this moment, a hail of arrows rose into the sky from the Avarus Demon Kingdom army.

They are already very close.

(End of this chapter)