My Magic Age

The Nibru spiders built a huge spider camp on the coast of the swamp sea. The camp occupied nearly ten kilometers of the swamp sea coast. The entire camp was banana-shaped on the southern edge of the Black Forest. The white spider web completely covered the entire camp. The spider camp was surrounded by a dense mangrove forest. These dense mangroves were entangled together. Even the best jungle rangers would have a hard time walking through them, not to mention the constructed knights in our legion riding heavy armored war horses.

Zach and Ernestine's army camped in the forest area on the swamp coast east of the Nibru Spiders. Large white tents were connected together. There were nearly 100,000 soldiers from Durva Province and Salta Province, including nearly 28,000 construct knights, and nearly 30,000 knight followers. The rest were infantry soldiers from the logistics and material regiment. Such a large expeditionary force had an extremely large logistics supply line. When passing the Durva camp, you could see carriages coming from the depths of the jungle one after another and continuously entering the material warehouse at the rear of the camp.

Zach's main military material warehouse was not built in the military camp next to the battlefield. In the later period, the material regiment had another very hidden large material warehouse in the valley of the Black Forest more than ten kilometers away.

There is an open area of ​​nearly a thousand meters on the side of the Durva camp facing the Nibru spider camp. This is a battlefield that Zach deliberately cleared out. When the battle starts, it allows the construct knights to have a distance to charge. However, there are hundreds of road-blocking horses made of sharpened giant wood on the Durva camp side, and on the spider camp side, large pieces of sticky white spider silk spread out from the dead woods and occupied a large area of ​​grass. From a distance, it looks like snow in the northern province in winter.

The Spider Camp was built in a lush mangrove forest. To the north of the mangrove forest, a mangrove forest with a width of nearly five kilometers has now completely withered. Large leaves have fallen, and the entire mangrove forest has withered and died, forming a large dead land. A large number of giant spiders are lurking in this dead forest. Mangroves are typical trees with well-developed root systems. A large number of mangrove roots are connected together. It is not impossible to open a road from the north mangrove forest to approach the Spider Camp, but it will inevitably be discovered by the giant spiders in the mangrove forest. Once the spider warriors are alert, it will become extremely difficult to open a road from the north mangrove forest to attack the Spider Camp.

Only on the west side of the Spider Camp, where the Black Forest and the Swamp Sea are connected, there is a wide passage of hundreds of meters, which can bypass the dense mangrove area.

Before we arrived at the Spider Camp, Deborah and Ledie had already explored the terrain here and knew that nearly 600,000 spider army were all crowded in this small spider camp. They have been waiting for the dry season here on the shore of the Swamp Sea.

Unfortunately, it is still the rainy season, and the water level of the swamp sea has been high. The spiders send some spider scouts into the swamp sea every day to find a way to escape, but until now, the Nibru spiders are still trapped here. In fact, no one is more anxious than this group of Nibru spiders, but their way home is flooded, so they can only wait here very awkwardly.

Zach and Ernestine's idea is to concentrate their forces on the eastern battlefield to fight a war of attrition with the Nibru spiders, forcing the spiders to retreat westward along the coast of the swamp sea. Nearly 600,000 Nibru spider warriors gathered here. Any mistake on the battlefield will lead to the fatal backlash of the Nibru spiders. Therefore, Zack and Ernestine agreed that we can slowly erode the opposite Nibru spider army with the powerful combat power of the construct knights, and since we are not superior in terms of manpower, it is the best choice to open up the battlefield on the open land east of the spider camp.

Moreover, they did not agree that I would cut off the last retreat of the Nibru Spiders. They were also afraid that if the Nibru Spiders, who were trapped in a desperate situation, fought with us in advance, it would be unknown which side the balance of victory would tilt towards.

So when Zack and Ernestine heard that I was going to take people to block the hole on the west side of the Spider Camp, their faces changed color for a moment, and they quickly pulled me and Earl Desmond into the military tent. We stood in front of the sand table that Zack had made temporarily and began to explain our battle plan. Obviously, Zack and Ernestine intended to be conservative.

But for me, I didn't want to prolong this siege battle for too long. The War Ancient Tree planned to force these Nibru Spiders into the swamp sea, so it was impossible to leave an opening on the west side of the Spider Camp, otherwise these Spider Warriors would definitely retreat along the west coast of the swamp sea. They would not choose to enter this swamp sea if there was a way to survive.

Then Zach and I did some deductions on the sand table. What Zach and Ernestine were most worried about was that once the Nibru spiders decided to counterattack, we would not be able to defend our side. After all, no one could tell how many spider commanders were hidden in this Nibru spider army. The construct knights were slightly better than the Nibru spiders in the front battlefield, but this did not mean that we could stop the counterattack of the spider warriors.

I pondered for a moment and said to Zach: "I have a way to prevent the Nibru spiders from counterattacking."

Turned around and asked Kalancuo who was following me: "How many spare flamethrowers can you draw?"

Kalancuo thought seriously for a while, then raised his head and replied: "Fifty."

The flamethrower is a weapon obtained from Hextech blueprints. It was not easy to make the flamethrower with various alternative materials. With the metal softener and curing agent, the forging process has become much simpler. Recently, the dwarf blacksmith workshop in Xinliu Valley has been helping me improve various weapons. Some pipes and hydraulic devices in the flamethrower are easier to make, especially the pressure cylinders made by the dwarf craftsmen, which are many times better than before. Especially recently, after the old dwarf craftsmen improved and optimized the production process, a new batch of flamethrowers began to be equipped in the hands of orc warriors.

Because the previous flamethrowers were often burned by the scorching high temperature in battle, the flamethrowers I prepared in the underground warehouse of Xinliu Barn basically maintained more than 100 units. Kalancuo mentioned 50 flamethrowers, which fully considered the situation on the battlefield. If you want to use flame devices to form a wall of fire on this battlefield, then at least 50 flamethrowers must be deployed on this hundreds of meters wide position.

I waved my hand and said to Kalancuo: "Okay, then let your orc warriors take out 50 flamethrowers and allocate 200 barrels of kerosene. We will help Zach set up a firepower network here."

Kalancuo immediately agreed: "Okay, I'll prepare it now."

After that, she turned and walked out of the big tent. I quickly added to her: "By the way, don't forget to prepare some heat-resistant clothes..."

Then I talked about these flamethrowers with Zach, and I didn't expect Zach to have heard of them. Zach said that he first heard about the flamethrowers before the outer city of Tanton fell at the end of last year. At that time, a group of infantry soldiers from the Trum stronghold in Tanton City talked about this magic weapon.

Soon Kalancuo returned with a group of orc warriors. These orc warriors placed thirty flamethrowers outside the big tent and carried two hundred barrels of corpse fire oil. This is the maximum number of flamethrowers currently equipped by the orc warriors. The rest are stored in Xinliu Valley. They have to wait for me to open the portal to Xinliu Valley before they can use the reserved flamethrowers.

Seeing the expectant look on Zach's face, I asked Kalancuo to find the orc warriors to demonstrate on the spot, and told Zach not to rely too much on these flamethrowers. There is a kind of big-bellied spider with a body full of acidic solution on the Nibru spider people. They are definitely the nemesis of these flamethrowers. As long as they self-destruct on the battlefield, the acidic liquid in their bodies will quickly extinguish the fire.

The orc warriors of the flamethrower team were naturally very skilled in operating the flamethrower. At first, the young lieutenants who had some contempt on their faces gradually became serious when they looked at the orc warriors with gray skin, rough hands and ugly faces. The orc warriors seemed to be reciting the rules. They had to give a brief description of each action they demonstrated. Although their imperial language was not fluent, at least others could basically understand it.

Bernd, who was serious and somewhat dogmatic, compiled the steps for operating the flamethrower into a rule and required all orc warriors to recite it proficiently. Bernd was always worried that the orcs would use the flamethrowers recklessly, but fortunately, Kalancuo implemented this point without compromise, so these orc warriors could use the flamethrowers very standardizedly.

The young lieutenants did not understand the power of the corpse fire oil, and seemed to be a little disapproving of the orc warriors' cautious use of the flamethrower.

Ernestine saw Kalancuo was silent and explained the operating procedures to the orc warriors one by one without any expression, so he coughed lightly and asked the young lieutenants to listen carefully and take notes of some complicated steps.

The young lieutenants were very convinced by Ernestine's words, and they followed his instructions.

It was not until Ernestine and Zack whispered that Kalancuo looked at Ernestine deeply.

The best place to test the power of the flamethrower is of course the battlefield. This flamethrower is no secret to the Nibru spiders, so when Zach ordered a group of longbow archers to enter the battlefield under the protection of heavy infantry and slowly approach the spider camp, the Nibru masters on the opposite side immediately became alert. The longbows in the hands of these longbow archers can throw falling star arrows up to 600 to 700 meters. When this group of 300 longbow archers are about to approach the center of the battlefield, the Nibru spiders sent a team of spider warriors to quietly walk out of the camp.

Draw the bow and release the arrow.

A dense rain of arrows shot at the group of spider warriors. This kind of provocation probably happens every day. At this time, if the Nibru spiders do not move, they will have to hold up their shields to withstand the rain of arrows, or they will have to retreat back to the camp. Otherwise, this kind of arrow with a certain amount of black iron falling from the sky is still quite powerful, at least it can penetrate the weakest part of the shell of those spider warriors.

So usually when facing these longbow archers, the spider warriors would launch a charge to force them to retreat. Sometimes these spider warriors would also throw a round of black iron spears at the opposite side, which would usually threaten these longbow archers. However, in recent times, the longbow archers were protected by a group of heavy armored infantry holding tower shields, so the power of the thrown black iron spears was very limited.

And for the spider warriors, once they throw the black iron spear in their hands, the most embarrassing thing is to pick up the weapon on the battlefield, otherwise the spider warrior will have no weapons to use in the next battle. take. Therefore, spider warriors generally do not throw the weapons in their hands. They often charge the longbow shooters, and it is the same this time.

Listing the horizontal formations does not require many spider warriors, a few hundred are enough.

Raising the black iron spears in their hands, eight legs as sharp as sickles advanced alternately. The spider warriors charged like knights. They once again faced a wave of arrow rain. No spider warrior fell, but some Many spider warriors had some arrow shafts hanging on their bodies, and they continued to rush forward.

Six hundred meters, five hundred meters, four hundred meters...one hundred meters, but in the past, the longbow archers had already retreated under the cover of the heavy armored infantry, and then a group of armored knights would rush up. , but this time the longbow archers did not retreat...

However, what awaited these spider warriors were four long fire snakes.

The longbow archers changed their formations one after another and let out the fire-breathing devices. They saw four fire snakes rolling towards the spider warriors. The spider warriors were unable to dodge and were caught by the fire snakes. They jumped from the fire snakes. When he rushed out, he was covered in flames and tried to rush into the camp of the longbow shooters. However, after the body wrapped in flames ran forward for more than ten steps, the spider warriors fell on the battlefield one after another and became Piles of blazing flames.

This tentative battle ended in piles of burning flames.

The bodies of the spider warriors burned for a long time before the flames were extinguished.

Zach and Ernestine finally looked at these fire-breathing devices seriously, and they no longer had any objections to the encirclement strategy I proposed.

The tree spirit warriors are the best herders in the forest. Unfortunately, they cannot graze the dead trees. However, nearly 20,000 tree spirit warriors, led by the ancient war trees, surrounded the dead mangrove in the north of the spider camp. On the periphery, this move of the dryads scared the giant spiders in the mangroves to retreat. Although the real battle had not yet begun, the depressing atmosphere on the battlefield had already spread.

The construct knights in Durva and Salta provinces were a little dumbfounded when they saw me leading the army around the mangroves and preparing to be stationed in the dense forest to the west of the Nibru spider camp. Originally, these construct knights were planning to clear an open space for us to camp, but the knights saw me leading the legion directly through the edge of their camp, bypassing the large mangroves in the north, and heading west of the spider camp. Walk away...