18th century total war

Chapter 404 Battle of Ottawa
On the plains outside Ottawa, the capital of the Kingdom of Canada, criss-crossing barbed wire and trenches cut the entire plain into pieces, and every highland was placed with artillery or hand-cranked Gatling machine guns imported at high prices from the Europa Empire.

Tens of thousands of Red Shirts, wearing new red military uniforms and white helmets, were assembled and deployed in positions more than ten miles away.

This is the entire regular army assembled by the former British royal family and now the controller of the Kingdom of Canada!
It even included the militia guarding the area around Ottawa.

After being driven from the British Isles to Canada, the British royal family lost its last fulcrum in England, and its military strength also declined like a cliff.

Originally, Britain wanted to maintain its navy, so it had no money to expand its army. The regular army only had a few tens of thousands of people.

The current Kingdom of Canada has money but cannot expand its army. The sparsely populated Canadian region, even with a large number of immigrants from the British Isles, cannot cobble together more than [-] regular troops.

Of course, the Canadian royal family does not need to expand the army, anyway, they can't beat the Europa Empire...

However, the Kingdom of Canada never expected that they did not wait for the aging Emperor Li Wei's last American expedition, but instead waited for an alien army, a group of handsome and outrageous alien elves!

The Kingdom of Canada is undoubtedly much luckier than the United States of America next door. The Elf Gate to the Otherworld that descended on the Kingdom of Canada did not appear in the capital of Ottawa, which gave the Kingdom of Canada enough time to mobilize troops and deploy the defense line of the capital.

At first, when the Canadians discovered the beauty of the elves, they thought they were kind-hearted people, and they tried to resolve their disputes peacefully.

As a result, the proud elves thought it was an insult to themselves, and directly slaughtered the two nearby human cities!

The elves are different from the orcs in that they do not rely on the labor force of the slave society. World Tree can manufacture elves in large quantities as the basic labor force of the elves.

Moreover, due to the long lifespan of adult elves, many elves are skilled craftsmen. As the saying goes, if you live long enough, you can learn everything to the point where practice makes perfect!
This has created the social ethos that the elves need to make themselves. The entire elves are very dependent on magic. From the perspective of humans, the social customs seem very primitive and backward.

They don't even live in cities and tribes, but make their homes in the trees of the jungle!

The elves do not have the habit of living in large groups except around the World Tree, and the World Tree has a strong control over the elves, and they can even conduct spiritual communication over long distances, so as to issue orders to gather all the elves' forces!
The elf queen is more like a servant of God serving the World Tree.

Therefore, the place where the elves descended is in a deep forest in Canada. The elves are not as obsessed with the land as other races, and their desire to conquer is not very strong. The reason why they wage wars is to establish that the elves are a high-level ethnic group. the concept of.

This is a bit of a "heavenly kingdom" character...

Compared with the orcs, the elves seem to be peaceful on the surface, but deep down in their hearts, they look down on the new world humans who can't even practice and magic.

In the Arigado Empire, there are at least strong men like Merlin and Alensus, which makes the elves feel jealous, but after arriving in the new world, all the weak human bodies make the proud elves completely treat the human race here like ants The presence.

Any underage elf who doesn't have much fighting skills can easily overthrow a strong human adult with his bare hands!
Of course, the elves who had just arrived also paid a price for their arrogance. Many elves warriors were killed by guns.

Even the Canadian royal family felt helpless. They really didn't want to fight, and they wanted to reconcile with these handsome races over and over again, even at the expense of cutting half of the country (most of Canada is deserted anyway).

However, those elves insisted on avenging their clansmen and kept the diplomats of the Kingdom of Canada away.

If it weren't for the fact that the elves are a civilized and civilized group, killing foreign envoys would be bad manners, and there would be no benefit. None of the diplomats in the Kingdom of Canada would want to go back alive.

Where the elves went, not a single living person survived.

Even more ferocious than the orcs!
At any rate, the orcs would catch humans as slaves everywhere, but the elves made all the people into soil fertilizer, transported them to the jungle where the world tree was buried, and used them as nourishment for the world tree.

Although the elves don't eat people, the corpses of intelligent creatures have always been the fertilizer that World Tree likes very much. This is why the elves have not divorced from the mainstream society in the Makabaka continent from beginning to end.

They need to go to war and hunt for the world tree!

The various ethnic groups on the Makabaka continent are more evil than each other. It is not difficult to understand why the wars on the Makabaka continent continue...

The elves and orcs have never been able to become staunch allies of the human race, probably because one of them likes to use humans to feed war giants, and the other likes to use human corpses as plant nutrients.

General Edward, the commander-in-chief of the Canadian Army responsible for defending the Battle of Ottawa, stood at the height of the headquarters with a sad face, looking out to the distant horizon.

Unlike ordinary officers and soldiers who have little understanding of the elves, Edward, who is a high-ranking member of the Kingdom of Canada, knows how strong the enemy they are facing this time!
In fact, almost all the high-level officials in Ottawa in the rear have left by boat to some small island colonies under the control of Britain.

Only the king of Canada is left here to stabilize people's hearts!
Of course, there are also cabinet ministers who stayed with the Canadian king, all of whom are well-known names.

These people can't leave. Once they leave, the defense of Ottawa, the capital of Canada, will collapse in minutes!

Everyone knows the lesson of the Spanish Kingdom being taken over by Li Wei's Black Dragon Legion in the battle of the capital Madrid. When the country is in crisis, the head of a country must sit in the capital to command and calm people's hearts, so as to have a glimmer of hope.

At that time, the Kingdom of Spain was still capable of fighting against Li Wei, but because of the Spanish royal family's greed for life and fear of death and their stupid minds, a large number of Spanish elite troops became prisoners of the Black Dragon Legion without firing a single shot...

However, for the Kingdom of Canada, which has a constitutional monarchy system, the death of the king and the cabinet will not cause chaos in the entire country.

What's more, the king of Canada and the cabinet ministers who stayed to guard the capital did not have to die with the capital.

The main forces surrounding Ottawa are all outside the city, and there are only a small number of police and militiamen in the city to maintain order. If the battlefield outside the city fails, the king and the cabinet still have a chance to escape by boat.

After all, the enemy is an elf who will not leave a living. Those high-ranking cabinet ministers and kings can stay to appease people for the sake of national justice and fight a resolute battle to defend the capital, which is already worthy of the Canadian people!
However, General Edward was very worried. Although he had the opportunity to retreat, he was too close to the front line, and he was not sure that he could escape to the nearest port!
After all, the elves have flying units...

Not long after, the red shirt soldiers wearing white helmets on the front line felt a slight tremor on the ground in the trenches, as if an earthquake had occurred.

However, everyone was in the trenches in the wilderness, so it didn't cause too much panic, and the trembling on the ground wasn't too great.

Until, a gigantic tree that seemed to stand upright came into everyone's field of vision...

"Oh my God!
what do i see !

A tree has grown two legs and he is walking towards us! "

"There are many smaller trees behind that big tree. Are we at war with plants?
Isn't it said that the elves are all handsome?
I still want to take a prisoner to have fun..."

"Look, everyone, there is a stone man taller than that big tree!
My God, it's a hundred yards high..."

The Canadian soldiers on the front line were shocked, and the militiamen used to make up the number had a large-scale riot, which required continuous suppression by the gendarmerie and officers to stabilize.

At this time, the breech-loaded cannon imported from the Europa Empire at a high price and eliminated by the Imperial Guards roared, giving the Canadian army a reassurance that its morale had dropped sharply.

A round of high-explosive bombs exploded around the ancient war tree, the dryad group, and the war machine forged by World Tree himself-the giant on the top of the mountain.

A cloud of dust was thrown up.

The giant on the top of the mountain is made of boulders, and it is taller than the largest dragon in the Arigado Empire when it stands up!
And because the mountaintop giant is solid, its vital head position is too high and difficult to hit, so it is difficult to kill.

However, in a new world without magical energy, even the world tree can hardly continue to manufacture mountain giants. This thing is like the Chimera two-headed giant beast enshrined by the elves. One dies and one less...

Of course, the World Tree is best at healing and extending life. If the corpses of the mountain giant and Chimera are pulled back to the World Tree, there is still a chance to be resurrected.

As for the ancient war tree, it is a towering giant tree enlightened by the world tree. It is not only the place where the elves live and multiply, but also the main fighting force of the elves.

The ancient war tree has the ability to control the tree demon, and the dryad is actually a war weapon made by the ancient war tree.

Why do elves love the forest environment?
It is because in the forest, there are soldiers from the elves everywhere!
In the first wave, only the ancient war tree, the tree demon and the mountain giant were densely packed, and none of the real elves could be seen.

The elves have already suffered from human firearms. The bodies of the elves are as soft and fragile as humans. Getting hit by a bullet is not a joke. Naturally, they dare not charge forward like they did in the Makabaka continent.

Using ancient war trees and mountain giants who are not afraid of bullets, together with dryads that only need water of life to create, attacking the human army can minimize losses.

After all, there is no magic energy in the new world, and the high-end combat power of the elves has been abolished. Now the elves hardly dare to use magic. Once the magic power in the body is exhausted, it will be a huge problem to replenish it.

Although the water of life can replenish magic power, the water of life is an important war preparation material for the elves. Its main function is not to replenish magic power, but to save lives and heal the wounded and create war machines such as dryads!

Even the world tree attuned to the ancient tree of war needs a lot of water of life!

Naturally, it is impossible for the World Tree to allow the elves to use the water of life to replenish their magic power. That would be a huge waste!
Therefore, except for the mountaintop giants, ancient war trees, and tree monsters that are specially used for war, the other elven troops are hiding behind to prevent being bombarded by the artillery of the human army.

A grenade exploded in the crowd of dryads, and each explosion could overturn at least one or two dryads.

These dryads are all ordinary trees. Although they are taller than humans, they are vulnerable to grenades.

The elves can give trees life, but they can't enhance their vitality, and they can't even give them wisdom.

Even the ancient tree of war, the wisdom obtained when being enlightened by the world tree is only equivalent to that of a human child, and it takes a long time to learn to enhance its wisdom.

Therefore, the ancient war tree that has just been enlightened has no IQ at all, it is just a big fool.

Only those ancient war trees with a long history can reach the normal elf IQ and command the brainless dryads to fight.

As for the giant on the top of the mountain, it is a pure war machine, with stones all over its body, and it is impossible to wear a brain...

However, the mountaintop giant has good fighting instincts, coupled with a body of stones and a huge body, it is the absolute main force of the elves on the battlefield.

The vitality of the dryads is not strong. In fact, after their roots are separated from the ground, their health has been declining, and it is far less hard than when they took root in the ground.

After being cut by the air waves and shrapnel of the grenade explosion, the trunks of many dryads were cut off like dead wood, and they were easily ignited by the high temperature generated by the explosion!

As a result, the little tree demons charging on the battlefield turned into burning tree men one by one. Their poor IQ made them have no concept of death, and they forgot to avoid their comrades...

Many dryads were obviously not ignited, but the burned dryads got close to their bodies and ignited their dead branches!
After watching the scene of the dryads "cannibalizing each other" under his command, the ancient war tree with slow but extremely fast pace immediately stretched out its towering branches and pulled those dryads who had been ignited aside.

A deep ravine was drawn across the land, separating the intact Dryad from the burning Dryad.

The number of artillery pieces of the Canadian Army is not many, and naturally there are not many dryads lit. The ancient war tree quickly put an end to the war games that the dryads ignited each other...

As for the giant on the top of the mountain, he is not afraid of flames at all. Only when the cannonball hits his torso will a piece of rubble fall to the ground, causing moderate injuries to the giant on the top of the mountain.

The air waves and shrapnel from the explosion of ordinary grenades are like scratching an itch to the giant on the top of the mountain.

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(End of this chapter)