“Report, the Sutton Legion has attacked our disguised machine gun fortress.”

In Dron Castle, the movements of the Sutton Legion have been reported immediately.

“Are our soldiers injured?” asked Figesin.

“No, all the soldiers in the fortress have been successfully teleported out and have destroyed all the equipment in advance.”

“That’s good.”

Most of the soldiers arranged in the fake positions were recruits from the local area. After completing the recruit training, they had only experienced one or two exercises and had no actual combat experience.

Although the tactics for dealing with Sutton’s raid had been rehearsed many times, they were still afraid of making mistakes in a tense situation.

Every soldier is a child of his parents, and the loss of any one of them is a disaster for the family.

So every soldier is precious.

Therefore, all soldiers in the fake position are equipped with teleportation scrolls, which is an extremely luxurious practice.

Besides ideological education and organizational structure, another major difference between the Northern Legion and the old-style army is the attitude towards grassroots soldiers.

Never treat grassroots personnel as disposable consumables, exchange trust for trust, and there will be no need for a supervision team.

“Prepare to activate the city defense array. The main force of the King’s Army should begin the attack soon.”

“Yes!” The messenger immediately began to convey the order.

At this time, Drogo, the only “idle dragon” in the combat command center, who was playing solitaire by himself, spoke.

“Do we need to activate the city defense array?”

He felt that it was totally unnecessary as there was a plain surrounding Dronburg.

The great plains, the cavalry, and the charge into the artillery fire coverage area, the scene was too brutal.

“It won’t be used when the war starts. It was deployed just to make King Sutton VII think we’re panicking. He tested the grenade jamming method he thought was effective and got a successful result. Then, by the same token, he would think we got this result. What the Northern Legion should do when they find that the grenades are useless will meet his expectations.”

Figsin explained, “Of course, we panicked and used all the means we could. So I not only activated the city defense array, but also set up several trenches outside the city to let them see that we were urgently deploying defenses. This gave them enough confidence to dare to mobilize all the main forces at once, so that they wouldn’t have to hunt down the remaining soldiers later. We had to do the whole show. You taught me that.”

Drogo fiddled with the playing cards and fell into self-doubt. What was going on? Why did those who learned from him inevitably develop in the direction of “dirty hearts and rotten lungs” in the end?

Is it because he is not a good role model?
He is clearly a moral role model, a good red dragon.

“So, is the ‘magic gift pack’ for the Royal Army ready?”

“Of course I am ready,” Drogo replied. “You can doubt my enthusiasm, but you can’t doubt the workaholics at the Institute of Deep Research.”

The spell grenades that are about to cover the Royal Legion with firepower are not just random attacks on those with high damage. The type of spells fired in each round and in each direction are strictly arranged.

In order to achieve the best results, multiple project teams at the Shenzhen Research Institute opened the exam at the same time.

Make adjustments again and again in the simulation spells specially used to simulate the effects of artillery fire.

In fact, the requirement that Drogo gave to Party A was to ensure almost complete annihilation.

As a result, the enthusiasm of the Party B team was too high, perhaps because the simulation spell had a built-in ranking function and came with scoring.

The day after the mission was issued, a plan for total annihilation had already been devised, but they were not satisfied at all and began a fierce battle for the top spot.

First, they changed from annihilating the enemies to annihilating only the first batch of enemies charging as a deterrent. As for the remaining captives, the living ones were more useful than the dead ones. The strong and healthy soldiers, even if they were not well educated, would be great to be sent to mine.

After this goal is achieved, they start to compare who has lower costs.

The scene made Drogo think for a moment that he was watching a group of “corrupt officials” playing a “bridge-building simulator”.

In order to ensure stability in the final practical application, Zhuo Ge forced them to set a minimum cost line and not allow them to go cheaper than that line.

Saving money is indeed good, but they are not so poor that they need to be so stingy. After all, it is a war, and it would be bad if things were too cheap and something went wrong.

What’s outrageous is that after several groups reached the lowest cost line, they began to compete to see whose design was more “beautiful”.

Drogo didn’t know how they defined the “beauty” of this thing.

Anyway, he himself was the kind of dragon who never thought formulas were elegant or beautiful, and he couldn’t get along with these pure-blooded science people.

But in the end, Yuno’s mentor, Professor Moore, and his team of goblin brothers successfully won and received unanimous praise from everyone.

According to their internal evaluation, it “meets all requirements while showing a special aesthetic that goes beyond the popular aesthetic habits, but at the same time allows people who see it with their own eyes to feel the elegance and strangeness from the inside out without the need for theoretical knowledge.”

It’s as if you’re reviewing some modern art.

They even invited Fulin to be a guest judge to judge from a purely artistic perspective.

She also gave high praise, such as “the high integration of art and technological pioneers”, “using magic as a pen and the sky as a canvas to find a delicate balance between technology and expression”, “showing the grandeur of a grand ceremony through the splendor of a moment”…

Drogo was stunned by what he heard.

I watched the simulation effect several times, but couldn’t see what was special about it.

I can only admit that I am a “rough guy”.

But Fulin sneered at him, saying that he was at most an “old” person.

Drogo was furious and vowed to let Flynn see how powerful he was. However, he fell into the trap of the cunning golden dragon. Although he had a slight advantage in the short burst, unfortunately the enemy dragon recovered too quickly.

I used all my skills to kill the boss, but who would have thought that the boss would be resurrected in the second stage.

Finally, with Fulin’s playful smile, Drogo insisted that he lost narrowly because he was careless, and this incident was also recorded in the story of the tortoise and the hare…

———

At night, King Sutton’s army arrived at the city.

They didn’t even set up camp, but directly formed a battle formation, with no intention of engaging in a war of attrition with the Northern Legion.

Sutton VII understood that although the other party only occupied the northern border and some towns in the south, its industrial production and magic item manufacturing capabilities were stronger than all other places in Sutton combined.

Only agricultural production is a little poor. The climate in the north is really not good, and there is not enough arable land.

But they don’t have that many people to feed.

Therefore, if this drags on, the consumables on our side will only become less and less, while the enemy’s weapons may even become more and more.

How terrible.

King Sutton VII didn’t understand why such a “monster” appeared in his country.

Because it is so terrifying, he must deliver a fatal blow to the “monster” while it still has weaknesses. This is his only chance of winning.

He knew very well that in addition to being far superior to his own industry, the other party was also technologically advanced. The countermeasures he had found would probably become ineffective again in a short time.

So there is no time to waste.

“Your Majesty, our troops have been marching for a day. Do we need to rest for a night so that we can go into battle in the best condition tomorrow?” asked the subordinate.

“Stupid!” Sutton VII cursed directly, “Didn’t you see? They are stepping up their defenses. This proves that they also know that we can defend against grenades, and they have no way to solve it for the time being, and they haven’t even set up their defenses. This is when they are most vulnerable, and this is our best chance!”

In the distance, you can see heads moving in the light spots providing illumination under the city of Dronburg. The northerners are digging a line of defense to limit the cavalry. It is very likely that they started digging after learning that grenades are ineffective, otherwise it would not be on this scale now.

Sutton VII made this judgment confidently.

Everything was going as he expected.

At this moment, he saw light begin to emanate from the walls of Dronburg, and a translucent protective shield gradually rose and closed over the center of the city.

Tall stone statues jumped down from the city wall. Their bodies were modified by people from the Northern Territory. They all carried machine guns.

Seeing this scene, Sutton VII finally couldn’t help but laughed out loud.

The city guard formation of Delon Castle is indeed very powerful and worthy of praise throughout the continent.

But for them, it is not the case at all.

Because of what happened during the founding war, they were unable to capture Fort Delon after a long siege and could only rely on siege to consume the city. The battle was ugly and the losses were huge.

The Sutton royal family then conducted hundreds of years of research on the city defense array here and came up with a solution that only they knew.

In fact, the Sutton royal family has studied all the military strongholds in the country and the trump cards of various nobles.

They have been on guard against rebellion by these nobles.

It is not easy to be the royal family that commands all the nobles.

For this reason, other dukes have been watching the situation. Although they are reluctant to support the royal family, they dare not directly turn to the North.

On the one hand, the North’s policies were almost equivalent to digging up their ancestral graves. On the other hand, they were also afraid that if the North lost, the royal family would still be the royal family, but they would be on the wrong side.

It is much easier for the Sutton royal family to deal with them than to deal with the North.

The Seventh Generation rode his horse to the front line, his golden armor shining brightly and his brocade cloak looking majestic.

He drew out the royal ancestral sword, and a row of magical runes on the sword emitted light.

Actually, he is a bard by profession, and he is from Yiwen Academy. He can use a sword, but not much. He uses the sword mainly for momentum, and he does not need to chop people with his own hands.

For a monarch, being a bard by profession is indeed a little embarrassing.

But when he was a child, he only had some talent in this area, but it was not very high.

Now he has become a bard close to the legendary level, purely due to the top-level resources.

This is also the reason why the royal family can always produce high-level, even top-level extraordinary people.

As long as one’s talent is not unprecedented, resources are more important than talent.

Since childhood, I have been taught by the best teachers. Not just one, but a group of them. They teach me one-on-one. If I want to know any secret knowledge, I can look it up in the National Library. If I need to do any experiment, I can waste rare materials…

If Elsa were given these conditions, she would be able to become a high-level illusionist, instead of stopping at level two at the age of nineteen and being “persuaded to drop out” from the Repin Academy.

King Sutton VII raised his sword and delivered a mobilization speech.

“Warriors of Sutton, look at your enemies! They are already panicking, even using the old city defense array that they defeated. Can those broken stone statues stop our charge?”

“cannot!”

“Under our feet is the land of our ancestors and the homeland of our compatriots, but the enemy is committing brutal atrocities on our precious homeland! Countless good people with dignity are being brutally killed by them!”

King Sutton VII was also an expert at telling lies with open eyes, and no one knew how he could justify such atrocities and murders.

Maybe the few nobles who were not respectable and were made respectable by Drogo were good people with dignity.

“But now, the fear belongs to them! Our shields are engraved with oaths, and our swords have drunk blood!

“Today, we are not fighting for our king alone, but for our homeland and for countless compatriots!

“Let the howling wind bear witness to our courage and dignity!
“Follow me to crush the enemy! Glory and sword go hand in hand!”

The long swords collided with the spears of the knights in the front row one by one. As expected of a bard, he was good at adding buffs before the battle.

The royal army is full of fighting spirit.

“Now, warriors of Sutton! Attack with all your forces!”

Amid the passionate roars, thousands of cavalrymen rushed out.

Although the number of several thousand sounds a bit small, these are heavy cavalry. Several thousand is all that Sutton can afford. No other noble can afford this number.

As long as the cavalry at the front can break the northern border’s defense line, the rest will be left to the tens of thousands of infantry behind them.

The iron hooves galloped like thunder, they were covered with enchantments cast by the Mage Corps, and faced the high-temperature elemental streams shooting at them.

Under the targeted enchantment, the elemental flow only left shallow traces and failed to cause effective damage.

In the charging troops, Sutton VII quietly fell behind. He was the king and he couldn’t really be in the front row, what if something unexpected happened?

Hiding in the middle of the team, he could vaguely see that the soldiers on the northern defense line began to retreat.

They were afraid too.

I thought these northerners were really fearless warriors as the legend said.

It’s just an unreliable rumor.

Then he heard the thunderous sound of cannons coming from the city walls.

The excitement and joy in his heart could no longer be suppressed, and beneath the mask, Sutton VII’s face was almost broken with laughter.

Sure enough, the enemy had no other capabilities except guns and cannons.

He took out the rune stone from his arms.

This is a magic item used to interfere with grenades, and each cavalryman is equipped with one.

A grenade that cannot be deployed is just a lump of iron that can kill ordinary people, but it has no effect on fully armed extraordinary people.

Sutton VII’s smile became more and more arrogant.

I had another fantasy, a fantasy of the iron cavalry breaking through the northern border, capturing the damned Figsin alive, and beheading her.

No, a traitor doesn’t deserve the guillotine, she deserves to be hanged.

And he himself became a great king, successfully restricted the rights of other lords, and led Sutton to unprecedented prosperity.

In history books, he is mentioned on par with King Sutton I…

Hey, that’s not right. What is that magic circle unfolding in the sky?
He thought he was seeing things at first, but more and more magic arrays unfolded above his head.

The layers upon layers look like exquisite paintings.

Where is the talisman? Isn’t the talisman activated?
Before he could figure out what was wrong, lightning and fireworks came down from the sky, like a divine punishment. (End of this chapter)