Phoenix Grand Lord

"Uncle, what's going on with you? How did it happen?"

Pace, who rushed to the dense forest, looked at the defeated remnants of Eppard's army in shock, and asked angrily: "I haven't announced that the siege has begun, and you are charging without permission? You are fighting without declaring this?" Doesn’t it make me, the commander-in-chief, very disgraceful?”

Eppard said helplessly: "Pace, it's not that we want to seize the lead and go to war undeclared, but that guy Luo Wei is so disrespectful and doesn't even say hello, he just shoots crossbows at us! Our people were completely unprepared, and that’s why we suffered heavy losses!”

"Lovina boy, are you going to fight without declaring it?"

Pace sneered, "Humph, very good! His reputation is ruined! This gives me more reason to attack him. However, even if he strikes first, you cavalry should not be like this because of your strong mobility." Right? They say your army is the strongest besides my father’s direct army, but I think it’s not worthy of the name.”

Being ridiculed by Pace, Eppard's old face suddenly lost his composure, "Pace, it's not that I can't do it, it's that boy Rowena who has a secret weapon!"

Aipard pointed to the body of the pig iron armored cavalryman who was pierced on the ground by a spear and crossbow outside the dense forest and said: "Look, Luo Wei's crossbow is so thick and long! And as for us, let alone Luo Wei It’s less than one-fifth as long as it is thick!”

Pace squinted his eyes and looked at Rowe's crossbow, and then sneered, "What is this? This kind of thing is just a gadget in front of the catapult. I hit it with a huge stone cannonball, and his sentry tower and ballistae are all gone.

"Uncle Eppard, just stay behind me. I heard that you are about to marry a wealthy businessman's widow in Marigold Town, so you must not get hurt. I still want to attend your wedding banquet. ”

"Hmph!" Eppard heard Pace's sarcasm and said with an annoyed look: "Pace, I advise you to be careful. Rowe is not that easy to deal with! If you take it lightly, you will pay the price. ”

Pace said arrogantly: "I am a genius level 4 magician in the empire, and he is a waste who has not even awakened. Do I need to be afraid of him?

"Not to mention anything else, just saying that he attacked you with a weapon like a crossbow, he is already very stupid.

"Since he has such high-penetration weapons and equipment, why don't he wait until I deploy the catapult in front of him before using it on us?

"Now that we know the range of his crossbow, wouldn't there be nothing he can do if I deploy a catapult in the dense forest?"

Eppard hesitated slightly, "That's right, Luo Wei made a serious mistake."

Pace smiled arrogantly: "So, a fool is a fool! A waste is a waste! Uncle Eppard, just stay with me and watch how I direct this battle.

"I will make Luo Wei understand what real war is.

"Give me the order to go down and ask Joe to speed up the escort of the catapult!

"When the catapult arrives, deploy it in the dense forest below me!

"You guys, take the people and cut down all the trees around here, so as not to block the range of the catapult."

"Yes! Master Pace!"

The lord soldiers immediately took action and started cutting down trees.

Pace's command is quite remarkable.

At least, he knew the range of the crossbow gun on the sentry tower, so he did not rush the catapult into the range of the crossbow gun.

With the range of the catapult, 200 Kilometers is no problem at all.

The catapult brought by Pace is still a Warcraft beast sinew catapult. It relies on the elasticity of the beast sinew to swing the catapult arm, so the range is only 200 Kilometers to 300 Kilometers.

In fact, there are also heavy-duty catapults in Regan's world, but those catapults are much larger than ordinary animal sinew catapults and move more slowly.

Only when attacking a fortified city can it be possible to use a heavy catapult with a range of 500 kilometers.

Marigold is only a barony. Although it can be equipped with catapults, it will never dare to equip 500 Kilometers with heavy catapults.

To deal with a small manor like Merrill Valley, an ordinary animal sinew catapult is completely sufficient.

While Pace was waiting for the catapult to be in place, on the sentry tower on the left side of Merrill Lynch Valley, Luo Wei also used his feather insight to overlook the scene of the Lord soldiers logging.

Luo Wei immediately deduced that Pace wanted to place the only siege vehicle in this cleared area.

Luo Wei opened his eyes, took out a pen and paper from his magic pocket, quickly drew a sketch of the dense forest, and marked the target area and distance scale on the sketch.

"Little James!"

"Here, sir!" Little James quickly ran to Rowe, waiting for Rowe's order.

Luo Wei ordered: "Take this sketch and go to the location where we hide the ballista truck in Youdeng Mountain and give it to the tenth commander there and ask him to adjust the ballista according to the direction shown in the sketch. Also tell him that he will follow the sentinel's instructions later. Controlled by the semaphore on the tower.”

"Yes, sir!" Little James went to convey the order like a gust of wind.

Annie couldn't help but asked curiously: "Rowe, how do you know the specific location of Pace's catapult? Also, what is a semaphore?"

Before Luo Wei could speak, Charizi explained: "Semaphore means using flags to convey orders. In this way, orders can be conveyed very quickly and there is no need for the herald to run back and forth."

"Use flags to convey orders?" Annie was surprised to hear this.

After all, in Regan's world, only noble lords can have flags that symbolize their identity, and different families have different flags in size, shape, and material to show their family background.

But Luo Wei regarded the flag as a tool to convey orders!

This seems very unseemly, but it is also very bold.

Anne didn't know whether to laugh at Luo Wei or admire Luo Wei for a moment.

Chariz said proudly: "My husband has been training the captain of the ballista to know the semaphore since the day he started building the ballista cart. Specifically:

“The red flag is launch, the black flag is stop.

"The yellow flag is an adjustment. Waving the yellow flag to the left will cause the crossbow's sight to shift 1 degree to the left. Waving the yellow flag to the right will cause the crossbow's sight to shift 1 degree to the right."

"Oh——." Annie asked with a serious face: "What if we need to continue to adjust?"

Chariz said with a smile: "Of course, just keep waving the yellow flag, including adjusting forward and backward. It's the same logic."

Anne couldn't help but admire and said: "This is very suitable for conveying messages in fleet operations at sea! My father's fleet has many ships, and it is basically impossible to communicate with each other. When transmitting important orders,

It is often necessary to use magic messenger crows. With this semaphore tactic, it is really convenient-except it is not decent. "

Luo Wei pretended to be annoyed, "Charlize, this is our military secret, and you just told Annie like this?"

Charlize shrugged indifferently, "Anne is not an outsider. You two hug each other every day. Besides, sir, you show her naked every night. Isn't it better for you to be naked?" A set of semaphore tactics?”

Anne suddenly felt ashamed, "No! It's not like that! Charize, please listen to my explanation! I am the daughter of a dignified earl, and I want to be a decent lady! Luo Wei! Please say something!"

Luo Wei said confidently: "Real decency is to never explain!"