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Chapter 826
The Maginot Line doesn't dare to brag about anything else, but at least its defense is passable.

Small fortifications, can't stop your catapult, can't you also stop your bow and arrow?

Under the protection of high-quality and complete fortifications, more than 99% of the garrison troops, whether they are players or indigenous troops, can not be shot by bows and arrows.

The ruthless firepower of bows and arrows that the empire was proud of was only a lot of thunder and rain in this battle. Although the momentum was huge and the firepower output was dense, the lethality it actually caused was very limited.

If the arrows were shot with this efficiency, the empire would shoot 10 arrows, and the amount of damage that could be caused would probably be only a few hundred.

It can be said that the empire's arrow rain had very limited damage to the defenders of the Maginot Line. This seems to be the failure of the empire?
Such a large-scale epic bow and arrow attack can only cause so few casualties, it's just pitiful!
Of course, both the Duke of Ravenna, the commander-in-chief of the empire, and other generals have also noticed this.

They have all seen that the super-large-scale bow and arrow strikes that the regular imperial army is proud of did not receive very good results when targeting the defenders inside the Maginot Line.

The real killing output is very limited, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there is a lot of thunder and little rain.

But even so, the empire is still completely acceptable to this situation.

Because the Duke of Ravenna's strategic intention at the beginning was to use the rain of arrows to cover the advance of his large troops, as long as his archers could suppress the brave men inside the Maginot Line.

Provide a better advance space for your main force to advance, and you have achieved the mission goal.

It can even be said that the casualties caused by the rain of arrows will be relatively small, which itself was expected by the Duke of Ravenna.

From the beginning, he didn't expect to kill a large number of fortress defenders with just bows and arrows.

Because everyone knows that the defenders hiding in the fortress and protected by a solid city wall are hard to be shot by ordinary archers, let alone cause fatal damage.

To be able to suppress the long-range firepower of the defenders, it is enough to cover the approach of the main force.

In the process of advancing large forces, the current situation can be said to be acceptable to both sides.

The braves used all kinds of soft control magic to greatly change the terrain of the battlefield, effectively delaying the progress of the main force of the empire.

A complete imperial army is often divided into several pieces by the terrain to move forward.

Cutting the neat battle line into pieces will consume their extra stamina and disrupt their advance and siege deployment, causing them to suffer greater casualties in the ensuing battle.

At the same time, Flynn also took advantage of the excellent defensive capabilities of the Maginot Line to withstand the terrifying and intensive arrow rain from the empire, and retained a large amount of vitality for himself.

Under the blow of such a large-scale arrow rain, the strong Maginot line of defense was at least successful, avoiding its own defenders, and paying more casualties during the long-range strikes by the archers in the early stage.

So Flynn's side is naturally quite able to accept the current battle situation.

The same is true for the empire, because although they were a little uncomfortable under the large-scale soft control magic in the process of advancing.

But it's just uncomfortable, a little bit uncomfortable, not to the point of hurting muscles and bones.

At the same time, because the archers in the empire's mixed army suppressed the long-range firepower of the defenders inside the Maginot Line, this made the main force of the empire encounter long-range damage during the march. Also very small.

Almost all frontal troops successfully advanced to the front of the Maginot Line at a cost close to zero casualties, approaching the city.

As long as this main tactical goal can be achieved, then some other small episodes in the middle are not a cause for concern.

The Duke of Ravenna is very sure that after his main infantry army reaches the front of the Maginot Line, it will quickly destroy the main defensive force of the Maginot Line defenders with ruthless thunder force and tsunami-like offensive.

At least they can quickly occupy most of the Maginot Line of Defense, thus laying a solid foundation for the overall victory of the battle and the subsequent attack on the Iron Hill Kingdom.

Soldiers are coming to the city!

The army of the empire finally came to the walls of the Maginot Line, fortresses, towers, and bunkers.

This time, the real soldiers are approaching the city.

Among them, the frontmost force was an elite Golden Horn Legion of the Empire.

The legion wore black armor, and all their helmets were said to be made of gold, but in fact they should only be plated with golden horns.

The Black Helmets and Golden Horns, this unit is the first dead warrior of the empire.

At the moment when the siege was launched, the Black Helmets and Golden Horns shouted in unison, announcing to everyone that they would bring the defenders inside the Maginot Line,
Terrible death!And the blow of dimensionality reduction is about to come!

After the leading troops, the Black Helmets and Golden Horns, shouted and raised their arms.

Near them, those wearing black armor and their helmets shining with golden light, and the other empire's first legions also let out high-pitched shouts.

"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!"

Immediately, all the soldiers bowed their bodies and raised their shields, and gathered under the city wall.

A large number of imperial soldiers began to attack a large fortress in front of the Maginot Line. This fortress looked very rough from the outside. After all, it was built in a hurry, and there was no time to beautify it.

But as a fortress, its defense capabilities are already very complete.

The overall shape of the fortress is a square, and there are specially designed protruding parts on the four sides to serve as additional shooting holes and defensive positions.

The material of the fortress is the strongest stone transported from the Iron Hill Kingdom, and it has been specially bonded and reinforced. Let alone archers, even heavy-duty trebuchets, hitting the city wall with one shot, are often Only one mark can be left.

Because of the powerful and continuous suppression of the bow and arrow firepower of the empire, the troops guarding the major fortresses of the Maginot Line can usually only shoot bows and arrows or output magic in those relatively safe shooting holes.

In this way, the resulting firepower output is quite limited.

The sporadic arrows shot from the shooting holes, even if shot by the most elite brave men, can only cause quite limited damage.

In a large-scale legion battle, this little firepower is simply pitiful.

(End of this chapter)