Chapter 1061: A war on a different level

Catherine thought about it for a while and said: "Architectural design cannot be done behind closed doors. You must see more and learn more in order to build a better one.

I will organize several relevant professionals to take you to various major cities to take a look, especially Waterdeep City, the Pearl of the North, which is the largest city in Faerûn with a population of millions. "

The stone giant sculptor couldn't wait to ask: "When will we set off?"

This was something he had dreamed of, but he was previously bound by the tasks of the Council of Death Chiefs and did not have this freedom.

"Give me three days." Catherine prepared to select a group of strategic priests to specialize in civil engineering.

This is also an important part of war, especially for the strategist lady.

The priesthood she involves is not limited to conquering cities and defeating enemies.

Logistics operation and construction is also an extremely important part.

"Okay, I'm waiting for your good news." Domingo nodded with satisfaction.

He has been waiting for hundreds of years, not less than these three days.

Doing something that interests you is not a burden, but a pleasure.

After sending Domingo away, Catherine took the initiative to contact Gavin again and said: "The Council of Death Chiefs has penetrated deeper into the Giant Plains than I expected. We cannot completely do as he wishes and allow him to easily harvest all of them." soul."

Although her insight into the Council of Death Chiefs is not as deep as Gavin's, as the official chief elector of Ms. Strategy, she is vaguely aware of something.

"What are you going to do?" Gavin asked.

"Give it to King Urcluna. As long as they are fully prepared, even if they are defeated, there will be no large-scale harvest."

Catherine had already thought of a plan, “This will kill two birds with one stone.

Not only will it frustrate the plans of the Council of Death Chiefs, it will also cause greater chaos and create more opportunities for us.

The Trolloc tribes that have lost their foothold in the Giant Plains can only invade to the north. They are enough to disrupt the situation on the Dragon Coast and even cause the city alliance there to fall apart.

This kind of city alliance has always been very fragile. At critical moments, they will do their best to protect their own property instead of fighting for others. "

"Just do it, I will do my best to support you." Gavin affirmed Catherine's plan, "But the plan in this regard should not be too detailed.

At present, eating the Giant Plains is our limit, and it is not yet time to start a full-scale war against the Dragon Coast Cities Alliance. "

"I understand." Catherine responded clearly.

"Then let's take action!"

As Gavin's war order was officially issued, the roar of war drums resounded throughout the Giant Plains again.

Before the full-scale war broke out, rumors were flying.

The ordinary monster tribes got the news that Blood Gorge City had joined forces with the Troll Demon tribe to carve up the entire Giant Plains.

Blood Gorge City sent troops to attack the Gnoll Queen, while the Trollocops tribe attacked the small tribes and prepared to completely annex them.

There is also news that there is a dark force dormant in the dark area below the Giant Plain, and it is eyeing all the creatures in the Giant Plain. They may rush out of the darkness at any time and launch a fatal attack.

Suddenly, everyone in the Giant Plains was in danger, and even the Troll Demon tribe became a little hesitant in their actions.

The war first broke out between Blood Gap City and the Gnoll Queen.

"Haha...that idiot Blood Claw, if they are huddled in Blood Gorge City, I really can't do anything to them.

Now that they have taken the initiative to run to the Giant Plains, I will let them see who is the real owner of this grassland.

Use wolf pack tactics and kill them all.

As long as you destroy them, I will lead you south to attack Blood Gorge City.

The wealth there will all belong to us. "

The first one to launch the attack was not the hobgoblins of Blood Gap City, but the Gnoll Queen.

This Gnoll Queen is a bit taller and stronger than ordinary large Gnolls. Her acting style is very similar to that of the Gnoll King, greedy and violent.

Passive defense has never been the character of their jackals.

Offense is.

They have no danger to defend, and they are not engaged in production and construction. Anyone with poor tents is good.

Many gnolls don't even have tents and live in the open air, almost like uncivilized beasts.

The tactics they adopted were exactly the same as those of the Gnoll King's Gnoll Army.

Countless gnolls and their vassal monster tribes, in the form of war groups and tribes, attack the enemy from all directions at the same time, and win the war by defeating more and less.

This trick works very well in the beginning.

The monster tribes surrounding the main army of the hobgoblins simply cannot withstand such a large-scale violent attack.

If the casualties were slightly heavier, they would have the possibility of collapse.

“The enemy crumbles before our shield, the enemy lies down before our sword.

The enemy's homeland is conquered by us, and the enemy's descendants are enslaved by us.

Shura field! Shura field! Victory belongs to us. "

The hobgoblin heavy cavalry following the monster tribe vassals sang the hobgoblin war song and rushed towards the entangled enemies.

They can't tell which monsters are friendly forces and which monsters are enemies. They treat them all equally and directly penetrate them with their spears or directly step on them.

"Queen, we can't defeat them, we can't defeat them at all...Ah...The equipment of the hobgoblins in Blood Gorge is too sophisticated...Our weapons can't break their armor at all...Their weapons are just like chopping vegetables..."

"The paralysis attack of the ghouls is also very ineffective against them, because their claws can't break their armor at all...They can't attack their bodies...If we don't think of a way, we will be defeated..."

"Mother, my gnoll war group was completely wiped out...We can't defeat them, we can't defeat them at all..."

This is an absolute crushing at the equipment level. The simple weapons in the hands of those monsters, even their natural weapons, can't break the dwarfs' steel armor.

Either they are harvested in large pieces, like straw.

Or they are defeated and flee to the rear.

At this time, the mobile and flexible earth elf wolf cavalry came closely, driving the wolf war group like driving a flock of sheep, letting them attack other monster tribes or wolf war groups behind to achieve greater results.

They are earth elves who have received adaptation and education from the strategic sacrifice. Their understanding and application of strategy and tactics far exceeds that of ordinary troops.

The entire battlefield is their chessboard, back and forth, interweaving, cutting, encircling, until they are finally eaten.

Hearing the series of bad news coming back from the front, the Gnoll Queen not only did not show a fearful look, but on the contrary, she was full of greed and excitement, and gave a unique giggle of the Gnolls: "What kind of shit are the followers of the Goddess of Strategy? Didn't they fall into my trap? The better their equipment, the better. From now on, they belong to me... The sacrificial summon is activated."

"Respected Father God, God of Violence, please listen to the call of your people, accept the blood food offered to you, send down your sacred army, and completely destroy the enemy..."

Countless Gnoll demon priests began to offer sacrifices and pray around the bloody altars.

Since the Gnoll Queen calls herself the Queen of the Gnoll King, her tribe naturally worships the demon god. It is a necessary means to summon his demon army to descend on the material plane through sacrifice to cooperate with them in the battle.

Aww…

A huge, well-equipped Abyss Gnolls appeared out of thin air on the altar, howling excitedly.

But this excitement did not last long, as it was interrupted by the black-winged dog-headed men that were like a flock of birds.

A large number of flutter bombs were dropped from the air.

The Abyss Gnolls, the Gnoll Demon Priests, and the Demon Altar were all blown to pieces.

The reinforcements from the Colossus City have arrived.

Previously, it was a dimensionality reduction attack on equipment.

Now it is a dimensionality reduction attack on troops.

Those dog-headed men are indeed very weak on the ground. Not to mention the Gnolls, even those hyenas can chase them all over the world.

But in the air, even throwing a stone can kill people, not to mention explosive weapons with strong acid corrosion.

It is especially useful for destroying the enemy's remaining morale.

The Gnolls, who had been counting on the demon army they had summoned to lead them in a full-scale counterattack, completely collapsed.

The defeat was overwhelming.

Gnolls were everywhere running around.

"We only kill gnolls and ghouls. As long as you cooperate with us to attack gnolls and ghouls, we will forgive you. One gnoll head will save you from death, and two will earn you military merit..."

The hobgoblins rushed forward while shouting loudly.

This kind of pardon is particularly useful when the enemy has completely collapsed.

Most monster tribes followed the Gnoll Queen to fight, completely fearing her powerful force and brutality.

Many of them had hatred for her, not loyalty.

Now that their lives are threatened, they have no psychological burden to fight back against the gnolls.

To be more precise, they are more brutal than the hobgoblins, because it concerns their own lives.

Many people from the same tribe fought each other for a gnoll head.

The earth elves headed by the blood-sworn warlords ignored them and just rushed forward. The main forces of the six legions finally surrounded the gnoll main force where the gnoll queen was.

This gnoll army has only 10,000 people, but it is the foundation and essence of the gnoll queen, her greatest reliance.

These gnolls are extremely ferocious, deeper than the abyss gnolls.

Either they are very beastly, or they are covered with bone spurs.

The only common feature among them is that they are huge in size, at least three meters tall, reaching a large size, and many even broke through to five meters, reaching the category of super-large size.

This situation is not simply due to the special laws of the Giant Plains, but also because they really have the blood of Yenogu, the god of gnolls, in their bodies.

The double blessing has led to the current situation.

"If you want me to die, you will have to pay the price with blood." The Gnoll Queen howled madly, "Attack, attack all of you, tear them apart for me, in the name of Yeenoghu, the King of Gnolls!"

Even though she was in a desperate situation, the Gnoll Queen still did not change her brutal nature, and issued an order to attack instead of retreat.

She herself rushed out first, and as she charged, her body bulged and grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, and her eyes were bloodshot and red.

Violent and huge.

The Gnoll Queen was also a chosen one of the Gnoll King.

The two-headed adamantine flail smashed heavily at the large hobgoblin heavy cavalry that was charging head-on.

Bang! Bang! Swish! Swish!

The unstoppable large hobgoblin heavy cavalry was as soft as tofu in front of the violent Gnoll Queen.

The several centimeters thick one-piece cast large heavy armor on his body was easily cut open, including most of his body.

The Gnoll Queen backhanded a claw, and another large hobgoblin heavy cavalry, including the man and the mount, was knocked away on the spot and fell heavily to the ground. Even if he was not dead, he temporarily lost his combat effectiveness and could not join the battle in a short time.

"Ah!" The Gnoll Queen roared in protest, and her bloody appearance increased her power.

Hiss...

People and horses were thrown to the ground all around, and countless war horses stood up, either directly flipping the knights on their backs or rushing around.

Fierce momentum.

The special ability of the Gnoll Queen was activated.

Those knights might be able to resist this special ability, but their mounts could not. They were just cavalrymen, not professional knights like death knights or paladins.

The latter had formed a combat partner with their mounts, and could cover their professional level and will on the mounts to help them resist this spiritual ability.

The heavy charge was unmatched when dealing with ordinary monsters.

But when dealing with high-level monsters, the effect was not as strong as expected.

It was not only the Gnoll Queen who had the ability of fierce momentum, but also the Abyss Gnolls who rushed up behind her, and her direct descendants, who more or less had this ability.

Like the Gnoll Queen, they all used the most brutal means to kill one or two enemies, and then suddenly activated this ability in the center of the enemy.

This ability is a kind of mental ability, which can be activated permanently or completely restrained.

The benefits of doing so are obvious.

It can further enhance the possibility of controlling and deterring the enemy through naked slaughter.

It can also maximize its effect. It is a close-range ability, and the coverage range is usually the enemy's visual range. Although it can also work for those who can't see them, the effect is greatly reduced.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The violent beasts following closely behind these Abyss Gnolls passed by them one by one, pounced on the earth knights from their horses, and scratched and bit them frantically. The heavy steel armor was also bitten by them and squeaked and severely deformed.

"Shadow aircraft dispatched."

Catherine, who had been observing the entire battle situation from high altitude, threw another trump card.

A terrifying roar sounded at the same time. More than a dozen shadow aircraft that had been floating in the sky like ghosts swooped down at high speed and plunged into the area where the enemy was most concentrated.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom...

The shadow aircraft actually launched a jet attack directly.

A large number of bone fragments were ejected in a cone shape, and the attack distance was just right, which neither reduced the lethality nor allowed the coverage to be maximized.

Then an extremely terrifying scene appeared.

Twenty-eight death circles with a diameter of up to 50 meters appeared on the battlefield in an instant.

In each death circle, there was no figure that could stand. One by one, all of them were lying on the ground. Blood gushed out from the bodies that were severely injured or just dead like a small fountain, dyeing everything around them blood red.

The shadow aircraft was an absolute dimensionality reduction attack on these descendants of the abyss jackals.

Their simple armor and natural fur could not withstand the drilling of the skeleton fragments strengthened by negative energy. Once hit, blood holes would be drilled in their bodies.

And this was just the beginning.

With the recoil of this jet, the fourteen ghost aircrafts almost simultaneously leveled themselves and entered a normal flight state. One after another, skeleton bombs were ejected from the short and thick belly compartments and smashed towards the wolf army behind.

Boom...

The explosions sounded again one after another. Every time a skeleton bomb landed, it would roll up a death storm.

Countless skeleton fragments were shot everywhere, and the wolfs fell in pieces like wheat under a sickle.

Although the power of the skeleton bomb was not bad, its lethality was not as brutal as the skeleton jet.

Because the human wall on the inside would resist most of the skeleton fragments to a certain extent, if there were lucky people who used their companions as shields, they would even suffer little damage.

The previous spray from top to bottom was an absolute head-on attack, with evenly distributed bone fragments. Unless there was a shield and the head was raised in time to block part of the attack, it would be difficult to escape.

Faced with this kind of air attack, the jackal army was completely paralyzed and had no idea how to deal with it. The enemy had terrifying lethality, but they didn't even have the chance to touch the enemy.

Even in a violent state, these jackals began to become restless.

Violence does not mean fearlessness.

However, the secondary bombing they expected did not appear. After the ghost aircraft passed behind the jackal army, they fell silently, and then a large amount of black fog gushed out from above, covering themselves.

Seeing this scene, the gnoll army, which was on the verge of collapse, suddenly became energetic. Without the gnoll queen's order, the gnolls behind immediately changed the direction of attack and rushed towards the shadow aircraft with great momentum, determined not to give it a chance to take off and launch another attack.

Boom... Boom...

Before the counterattacking gnolls rushed close, roars came from the darkness one after another.

Along with it came dense bone fragments, which hit the counterattacking gnolls head-on. The denser their formation, the more people died.

The combat effectiveness of the shadow aircraft after landing was indeed greatly reduced, but it did not mean that it had no power at all. Its powerful attack power was still there.

Moreover, being shot down and actively landing are two concepts. They are now flying close to the ground and can take off at any time.

Now it is more like using themselves as bait to lure those gnolls to attack them in groups and maximize their own killing. (End of this chapter)