Chapter 801 Opportunities and Costs
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Hai Ning 1988
Chapter 801 Opportunities and Costs
"I can't see it, you've observed carefully and listened carefully."
Seeing Snape's rare interest in the battlefield dungeon, Anduin took the initiative to explain it.
"The reason why you think that when the two sides are fighting, the defensive side will have a great advantage. Apart from the fact that they have a lot of equipment to restrain the offensive side, it may also be because they have a considerable geographical advantage."
"That's right." Snape nodded, and then looked in the direction of the screen, "Look, not to mention the walls occupied by the defenders and the defensive equipment that can be used for a long time, the resurrection point is much closer than the attacker. "
"After the attacker is revived, if he wants to reach the city wall again, he has to advance at least 100 meters, and he has to withstand the opponent's firepower. As for the defender...they support their own city wall, and the distance is less than 50 meters. The route is safe and convenient. "
"From this point of view, it is true." Anduin did not deny the opponent's point of view, "But this disadvantage is not irreparable. Didn't you see that the attacker has such a convenient device as a temporary resurrection point?"
"But their fragile devices can be easily destroyed. That's what the defenders did before." Snape retorted, "So I always feel that the attackers can't compete with the defenders at all except for the cheaper armaments." confrontation."
"So you are more optimistic about the defensive side?" Anduin didn't answer directly, but just asked with a smile.
"Hmm..." Snape nodded without hesitation, "The defenders were only defeated because of wasting armaments and supplies. Now Wood has obviously learned his lesson, and now the two sides have opened up a big gap. The way I see it, the attackers are at the end of their ropes."
"I see." Anduin nodded slightly, and then said seriously, "It seems that you don't have much experience in this kind of large-scale battle."
"How?" Snape raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then put on an expression of listening attentively.
"This kind of battle with a large number of people is completely different from the usual one-man duel, especially among the wizards."
Anduin took out his wand and continued to speak slowly.
"With such a small wand, a wizard can turn water into wine, rock into sand, and cut through steel with little effort."
"And in war, they can fully embody the destructive nature of wizards, and let dozens of wizards gather together, and their power is even more astonishing."
"So in front of wizards, the so-called terrain and distance advantages are actually not too big of an impact. The reason why these children fight so hard is mainly because their own level is too young."
"Can they be considered young?" Snape rolled his eyes speechlessly, "Those little wizards are now stronger than many adult wizards, okay?"
"Having said that, there is still a long way to go before they become real soldiers, at least in terms of tactical diversity." Anduin said lightly.
"In wizard wars, the decisive factor is actually the winning conditions of both sides, and these conditions will directly affect their opportunity costs!"
"Opportunity cost?" Snape frowned in confusion. To be honest, he didn't understand what Anduin meant at all.
"That's right, it's like in this battlefield dungeon." Anduin pouted towards the big screen, "The biggest obstacle for the defenders is actually that the failure conditions are too simple."
"As long as the attacker can break into the enemy's command post and occupy it for a period of time, it can win this stage."
"Around this goal, as long as the wizards on the attacking side are given enough time for trial and error, they will always be able to grasp the chance of victory."
"In this kind of offensive and defensive battle, even if the defensive side wins a hundred times, it doesn't mean much. As long as the offensive side can seize one opportunity, even if they can't completely control the situation, they can still win the final victory."
"So that's how it is." Snape suddenly realized, "So you set a time limit for this, and you are actually increasing the cost of trial and error for the attacker? But if they fail to seize the opportunity within the limited time, they will Completely defeated."
"Yeah!" Anduin nodded, "No matter how strong the defender's city wall is, it is meaningless in front of creatures like wizards. Even if it is simply filled with human lives, the city wall can be destroyed in one attack after another. for flat land."
"Wood and the others are obviously aware of this, so they didn't think about relying entirely on this seemingly solid level from the beginning. Instead, they accumulated advantages for themselves by widening the resource gap."
"So, from a strategic point of view, the defensive side has the upper hand in this confrontation." Snape nodded knowingly.
After Anduin's explanation, he also had a clearer understanding of the battle between wizards.
But soon Snape looked at Anduin with slightly surprised eyes. The longer he was in contact with the other party, the more he felt that Anduin was unfathomable.
This guy in front of him doesn't seem to be very old. Why does he have such a deep understanding of war? He didn't participate in the wizard war back then. Where did he get so much theoretical knowledge?
Shaking his head violently, Snape suppressed these doubts in his heart for the time being, and then asked Anduin curiously, "Since this is the case, if you were to command the attacking party, how would you break the situation. "
"With the current staffing, there are actually many plans." Anduin grinned, "If I use the safest means, I won't let my wizards attack rashly at the beginning."
"Instead, I will direct everyone to dig a trench leading directly to the city gate through earthworks, and dig to both sides at a distance of 50 to [-] meters from the city wall to extend a front-line position that can accommodate all troops."
"With the support of Transfiguration, it only takes 10 minutes to complete the corresponding work, and there is no need to worry about the opponent's interference during the period. After all, this is outside the opponent's attack distance. If the defenders immediately attack the city wall, they can wait for work with ease. Turn offense into defense."
"Then find a safe place on this front and deploy a temporary resurrection point. In this way, the problem of the resurrection distance will be easily solved?"
"Ah? Can it still be like this?" Snape was dumbfounded when he heard the words, "Then what if the defenders use lava cannons to attack."
"wrong!"
Before Anduin could reply, Snape retorted, "Such an attack will not have any effect. Using expensive shells to kill the enemies in the bunker is a complete loss-making business, and the attacker is even happy to see it succeed."
"That's right." Anduin saw that Snape had learned to infer other things from one instance, and nodded with satisfaction, "And this tactic can actually be extended, such as sending a small team to focus on underground excavation and directly dig a tunnel. Underground tunnel to enemy headquarters."
"The main force is entangled with the opponent head-on, destroying the city wall on the one hand, and covering the underground troops on the other hand." Snape took the conversation and added on his own.
Immediately afterwards, he couldn't help but take a deep breath. This kind of tactic is too insidious. He originally thought that the two-way attack from the ground and the air would already be very oppressive. Who would have thought that he could attack from the ground? .
Although the two people in the conversation were far away from the crowd at this time, there were still some little wizards around them. After hearing what Anduin was talking about, they all held their breath and pricked up their ears to eavesdrop. .
Anduin on the side didn't care about everyone's actions, but continued, "And under the long-term high-pressure battle, there is another factor that must be taken into consideration, and that is the consumption of physical strength and magic power."
"In this siege battle, in order to defeat the enemy at a relatively low cost, the defenders did not use a large number of armaments, which led them to exchange their own magic power for the number of resurrections of the enemy. Not worth it."
"In a situation where resources are dominant, it is the right solution to properly use armaments for defense and balance everyone's consumption. I don't know when Wood will realize this."
Snape nodded slowly, and then refocused his eyes on the screen, "It seems that the direction of this battle is still confusing. Look, Percy and the others are making another move!"
Sure enough, as soon as Snape finished speaking, the attacking wizard on the screen immediately started a new action.
It's just that Percy didn't seem to understand the idea of attacking from the ground, they still chose to break through from the front.
It's just that the attacker did not rush forward blindly as before, but repeated the same trick, using a matte amulet similar to a smoke bomb, to pave a passage from the front that could not clearly see the internal situation.
Facing this familiar old tactic, the defenders had nothing to do for a while. After all, the first 50 meters was beyond the range of the spell. It would be a waste of ammunition to attack with a lava cannon or ballista with a longer range. Now he can only quietly watch his opponent move.
Fortunately, the defenders had already completed the repair work on the city wall during the vacuum period of the previous attack. The walls on the first floor were all patched up, while the walls on the second floor were transformed into a hollowed-out state on the upper half.
Because the opponent had shown them the power of aerial bombing before, the main force was not deployed on the top floor as it was at the beginning, leaving only a part of wizards operating anti-aircraft weapons.
After the black mist channel gradually spread close to the city wall, the wizards on the defensive side finally couldn't help it, and they tentatively began to shoot magic spells into the smoke.
However, most of the magic spells shot had no response, as if a mud cow had plunged into the sea. Only a few magic bullets responded with a 'poof' sound when they hit something, but the sound didn't sound like hitting a wizard.
After discovering this, Wood did not sit back and watch the opponent continue to approach, but ordered to release a few tire snakes that could automatically detect the enemy and self-explode, letting them explore the truth for his side.
This kind of attack was indeed effective. Not long after the tire snakes rolled in, they exploded one after another, and many wizards hiding in them were shaken out of the range of smoke by the huge impact.
But seeing such a result, Wood and the others felt that they were at a loss. The price of these self-explosive snakes was not cheap, and it was too wasteful to kill less than ten people after releasing a few.
But there is obviously something tricky in that smoke, if the other side is allowed to continue to approach, it may cause serious consequences.
So the defense decided to release a self-explosive snake every few seconds. Anyway, the smoke can last for a few minutes. As long as it can prevent the opponent from approaching, it is understandable to waste some resources.
And after the attacker discovered the opponent's intentions, it was not that they hadn't thought about preventing those self-explosive snakes from entering the black mist, but in the black fog, the wizards on the offensive side could not see the situation clearly, so they had to go out if they wanted to destroy the self-explosive snakes. range of smoke.
But how could the wizard on the defensive side agree to such a thing, as soon as they saw someone showing their heads, they would immediately shoot out several spells, so that they would be killed on the spot before they had time to act.
After the attacker discovered this, he also knew that he could not continue to approach. If this was a bomb that came in, no one could resist it.
So, whether it was the wizard in the dungeon or the people watching the live broadcast outside, they heard a dull bang bang sound, as if some giant creature was running fast.
But soon everyone figured out what was going on. It was a poisonous horned beast with big eyes, more than four meters high, and a horn on top of its head!
The poisonous horned beast rushed out of the smoke when it was about thirty meters away from the city wall, and slammed into the city gate in the middle.
Facing this scene, the wizard of the defending army immediately launched a counterattack, trying to stop the running monster with a spell, but the opponent had already made a long run-up, and its huge size made it unable to stop at all down.
The next moment, the poisonous horned beast stabbed its sharp horns into the city gate, and at the same time there was a puffing sound, and the deadly liquid in the sharp long horns was poured into the city gate.
Immediately afterwards, what everyone saw was a violent explosion, and the power of this explosion was not comparable to the previous high-altitude bombing.
The entire city gate, including the three-meter-wide walls on both sides, was blown away on the spot, and a huge gap four to five meters wide was directly blasted into the entire city wall.
And that poor Poison Horned Beast was also blown into white light by the explosion caused by itself. This was completely a one-time suicide attack.
What followed was naturally Percy's all-out attack. They had already spent a lot of resources for this wave of attacks, and they seemed to be desperate.
However, the defenders are obviously not vegetarians. They have earned so many merits, and their combat power after exchange cannot be underestimated.
Soon, four three-meter-high stone soldiers walked out of the city wall. They held the same huge melee weapons and blocked everyone's way with slightly stiff steps.
At the same time, the self-explosive snakes and lava cannons that everyone had seen before also appeared one after another, and launched a double blow from far and near to the attacking soldiers who were about to rush into the gap.
(End of this chapter)
"I can't see it, you've observed carefully and listened carefully."
Seeing Snape's rare interest in the battlefield dungeon, Anduin took the initiative to explain it.
"The reason why you think that when the two sides are fighting, the defensive side will have a great advantage. Apart from the fact that they have a lot of equipment to restrain the offensive side, it may also be because they have a considerable geographical advantage."
"That's right." Snape nodded, and then looked in the direction of the screen, "Look, not to mention the walls occupied by the defenders and the defensive equipment that can be used for a long time, the resurrection point is much closer than the attacker. "
"After the attacker is revived, if he wants to reach the city wall again, he has to advance at least 100 meters, and he has to withstand the opponent's firepower. As for the defender...they support their own city wall, and the distance is less than 50 meters. The route is safe and convenient. "
"From this point of view, it is true." Anduin did not deny the opponent's point of view, "But this disadvantage is not irreparable. Didn't you see that the attacker has such a convenient device as a temporary resurrection point?"
"But their fragile devices can be easily destroyed. That's what the defenders did before." Snape retorted, "So I always feel that the attackers can't compete with the defenders at all except for the cheaper armaments." confrontation."
"So you are more optimistic about the defensive side?" Anduin didn't answer directly, but just asked with a smile.
"Hmm..." Snape nodded without hesitation, "The defenders were only defeated because of wasting armaments and supplies. Now Wood has obviously learned his lesson, and now the two sides have opened up a big gap. The way I see it, the attackers are at the end of their ropes."
"I see." Anduin nodded slightly, and then said seriously, "It seems that you don't have much experience in this kind of large-scale battle."
"How?" Snape raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then put on an expression of listening attentively.
"This kind of battle with a large number of people is completely different from the usual one-man duel, especially among the wizards."
Anduin took out his wand and continued to speak slowly.
"With such a small wand, a wizard can turn water into wine, rock into sand, and cut through steel with little effort."
"And in war, they can fully embody the destructive nature of wizards, and let dozens of wizards gather together, and their power is even more astonishing."
"So in front of wizards, the so-called terrain and distance advantages are actually not too big of an impact. The reason why these children fight so hard is mainly because their own level is too young."
"Can they be considered young?" Snape rolled his eyes speechlessly, "Those little wizards are now stronger than many adult wizards, okay?"
"Having said that, there is still a long way to go before they become real soldiers, at least in terms of tactical diversity." Anduin said lightly.
"In wizard wars, the decisive factor is actually the winning conditions of both sides, and these conditions will directly affect their opportunity costs!"
"Opportunity cost?" Snape frowned in confusion. To be honest, he didn't understand what Anduin meant at all.
"That's right, it's like in this battlefield dungeon." Anduin pouted towards the big screen, "The biggest obstacle for the defenders is actually that the failure conditions are too simple."
"As long as the attacker can break into the enemy's command post and occupy it for a period of time, it can win this stage."
"Around this goal, as long as the wizards on the attacking side are given enough time for trial and error, they will always be able to grasp the chance of victory."
"In this kind of offensive and defensive battle, even if the defensive side wins a hundred times, it doesn't mean much. As long as the offensive side can seize one opportunity, even if they can't completely control the situation, they can still win the final victory."
"So that's how it is." Snape suddenly realized, "So you set a time limit for this, and you are actually increasing the cost of trial and error for the attacker? But if they fail to seize the opportunity within the limited time, they will Completely defeated."
"Yeah!" Anduin nodded, "No matter how strong the defender's city wall is, it is meaningless in front of creatures like wizards. Even if it is simply filled with human lives, the city wall can be destroyed in one attack after another. for flat land."
"Wood and the others are obviously aware of this, so they didn't think about relying entirely on this seemingly solid level from the beginning. Instead, they accumulated advantages for themselves by widening the resource gap."
"So, from a strategic point of view, the defensive side has the upper hand in this confrontation." Snape nodded knowingly.
After Anduin's explanation, he also had a clearer understanding of the battle between wizards.
But soon Snape looked at Anduin with slightly surprised eyes. The longer he was in contact with the other party, the more he felt that Anduin was unfathomable.
This guy in front of him doesn't seem to be very old. Why does he have such a deep understanding of war? He didn't participate in the wizard war back then. Where did he get so much theoretical knowledge?
Shaking his head violently, Snape suppressed these doubts in his heart for the time being, and then asked Anduin curiously, "Since this is the case, if you were to command the attacking party, how would you break the situation. "
"With the current staffing, there are actually many plans." Anduin grinned, "If I use the safest means, I won't let my wizards attack rashly at the beginning."
"Instead, I will direct everyone to dig a trench leading directly to the city gate through earthworks, and dig to both sides at a distance of 50 to [-] meters from the city wall to extend a front-line position that can accommodate all troops."
"With the support of Transfiguration, it only takes 10 minutes to complete the corresponding work, and there is no need to worry about the opponent's interference during the period. After all, this is outside the opponent's attack distance. If the defenders immediately attack the city wall, they can wait for work with ease. Turn offense into defense."
"Then find a safe place on this front and deploy a temporary resurrection point. In this way, the problem of the resurrection distance will be easily solved?"
"Ah? Can it still be like this?" Snape was dumbfounded when he heard the words, "Then what if the defenders use lava cannons to attack."
"wrong!"
Before Anduin could reply, Snape retorted, "Such an attack will not have any effect. Using expensive shells to kill the enemies in the bunker is a complete loss-making business, and the attacker is even happy to see it succeed."
"That's right." Anduin saw that Snape had learned to infer other things from one instance, and nodded with satisfaction, "And this tactic can actually be extended, such as sending a small team to focus on underground excavation and directly dig a tunnel. Underground tunnel to enemy headquarters."
"The main force is entangled with the opponent head-on, destroying the city wall on the one hand, and covering the underground troops on the other hand." Snape took the conversation and added on his own.
Immediately afterwards, he couldn't help but take a deep breath. This kind of tactic is too insidious. He originally thought that the two-way attack from the ground and the air would already be very oppressive. Who would have thought that he could attack from the ground? .
Although the two people in the conversation were far away from the crowd at this time, there were still some little wizards around them. After hearing what Anduin was talking about, they all held their breath and pricked up their ears to eavesdrop. .
Anduin on the side didn't care about everyone's actions, but continued, "And under the long-term high-pressure battle, there is another factor that must be taken into consideration, and that is the consumption of physical strength and magic power."
"In this siege battle, in order to defeat the enemy at a relatively low cost, the defenders did not use a large number of armaments, which led them to exchange their own magic power for the number of resurrections of the enemy. Not worth it."
"In a situation where resources are dominant, it is the right solution to properly use armaments for defense and balance everyone's consumption. I don't know when Wood will realize this."
Snape nodded slowly, and then refocused his eyes on the screen, "It seems that the direction of this battle is still confusing. Look, Percy and the others are making another move!"
Sure enough, as soon as Snape finished speaking, the attacking wizard on the screen immediately started a new action.
It's just that Percy didn't seem to understand the idea of attacking from the ground, they still chose to break through from the front.
It's just that the attacker did not rush forward blindly as before, but repeated the same trick, using a matte amulet similar to a smoke bomb, to pave a passage from the front that could not clearly see the internal situation.
Facing this familiar old tactic, the defenders had nothing to do for a while. After all, the first 50 meters was beyond the range of the spell. It would be a waste of ammunition to attack with a lava cannon or ballista with a longer range. Now he can only quietly watch his opponent move.
Fortunately, the defenders had already completed the repair work on the city wall during the vacuum period of the previous attack. The walls on the first floor were all patched up, while the walls on the second floor were transformed into a hollowed-out state on the upper half.
Because the opponent had shown them the power of aerial bombing before, the main force was not deployed on the top floor as it was at the beginning, leaving only a part of wizards operating anti-aircraft weapons.
After the black mist channel gradually spread close to the city wall, the wizards on the defensive side finally couldn't help it, and they tentatively began to shoot magic spells into the smoke.
However, most of the magic spells shot had no response, as if a mud cow had plunged into the sea. Only a few magic bullets responded with a 'poof' sound when they hit something, but the sound didn't sound like hitting a wizard.
After discovering this, Wood did not sit back and watch the opponent continue to approach, but ordered to release a few tire snakes that could automatically detect the enemy and self-explode, letting them explore the truth for his side.
This kind of attack was indeed effective. Not long after the tire snakes rolled in, they exploded one after another, and many wizards hiding in them were shaken out of the range of smoke by the huge impact.
But seeing such a result, Wood and the others felt that they were at a loss. The price of these self-explosive snakes was not cheap, and it was too wasteful to kill less than ten people after releasing a few.
But there is obviously something tricky in that smoke, if the other side is allowed to continue to approach, it may cause serious consequences.
So the defense decided to release a self-explosive snake every few seconds. Anyway, the smoke can last for a few minutes. As long as it can prevent the opponent from approaching, it is understandable to waste some resources.
And after the attacker discovered the opponent's intentions, it was not that they hadn't thought about preventing those self-explosive snakes from entering the black mist, but in the black fog, the wizards on the offensive side could not see the situation clearly, so they had to go out if they wanted to destroy the self-explosive snakes. range of smoke.
But how could the wizard on the defensive side agree to such a thing, as soon as they saw someone showing their heads, they would immediately shoot out several spells, so that they would be killed on the spot before they had time to act.
After the attacker discovered this, he also knew that he could not continue to approach. If this was a bomb that came in, no one could resist it.
So, whether it was the wizard in the dungeon or the people watching the live broadcast outside, they heard a dull bang bang sound, as if some giant creature was running fast.
But soon everyone figured out what was going on. It was a poisonous horned beast with big eyes, more than four meters high, and a horn on top of its head!
The poisonous horned beast rushed out of the smoke when it was about thirty meters away from the city wall, and slammed into the city gate in the middle.
Facing this scene, the wizard of the defending army immediately launched a counterattack, trying to stop the running monster with a spell, but the opponent had already made a long run-up, and its huge size made it unable to stop at all down.
The next moment, the poisonous horned beast stabbed its sharp horns into the city gate, and at the same time there was a puffing sound, and the deadly liquid in the sharp long horns was poured into the city gate.
Immediately afterwards, what everyone saw was a violent explosion, and the power of this explosion was not comparable to the previous high-altitude bombing.
The entire city gate, including the three-meter-wide walls on both sides, was blown away on the spot, and a huge gap four to five meters wide was directly blasted into the entire city wall.
And that poor Poison Horned Beast was also blown into white light by the explosion caused by itself. This was completely a one-time suicide attack.
What followed was naturally Percy's all-out attack. They had already spent a lot of resources for this wave of attacks, and they seemed to be desperate.
However, the defenders are obviously not vegetarians. They have earned so many merits, and their combat power after exchange cannot be underestimated.
Soon, four three-meter-high stone soldiers walked out of the city wall. They held the same huge melee weapons and blocked everyone's way with slightly stiff steps.
At the same time, the self-explosive snakes and lava cannons that everyone had seen before also appeared one after another, and launched a double blow from far and near to the attacking soldiers who were about to rush into the gap.
(End of this chapter)
