Chapter 922: The Enemy Who Came From Nowhere
Baron, Baron Pullman, was worried. He received orders from the Duke that he could command the brigade alone and face the incident at his own discretion.
There is nothing hidden above, and the space barrier may never disappear.
He wanted to ensure that five hundred people guard the castle, no, more than five hundred people, he also brought more than a dozen technicians, several of them, and some sorcerers who are proficient in calculations.
There is a lot of raw coal in the warehouse below the castle, because it was originally a transit station, and I wanted to transport materials at the seaport for construction. There are several similar transit stations.
A small planting factory is underground, and the supply of 500 people is enough.
My own brigade is full, and there are engineering robots in the logistics team, so the maintenance of the planting factory is not a problem.
There is no alchemy factory, but the factory parts can be replaced by the size of a workshop.
But, how many years can it be supported?
Pullman was not really desperate, but he had to consider his soldiers. You must know that staying in this narrow space will make people go crazy.
When I was training, there was a similar space in the illusion.
Let soldiers get used to loneliness and make them trapped in extreme environments. But that is an illusion of adjusting the flow of time. It is not particularly real. Soldiers are only used to the dilemma of three to four months at most.
If you can't hold on any longer, you can't hold on anymore. This is nothing you can do about it.
Not long after, the people in the command of the squadron came to the upper floor of the castle, Baron Pullman said: "It's a bad news, the space blockade, I don't know how long it will be lifted."
No one said anything. The command of the squadron was the core of the entire brigade, mainly spell casters. The number of combat mages was large and they were more calm in the face of difficulties.
"I plan to stay at the castle for a long time and send robots to explore the surrounding areas. Then, our castle has no illusion, and everyone will feel very uncomfortable. Over time, the situation may get worse and worse."
"We're trying to create a illusion?" said a magician.
"No, you have the highest level here, how many levels?"
"Level thirty."
"Look, our brigade has only one epic mage. The illusion created by relying on your strength is not low, right?"
“It won’t be too expensive.”
“What about the operating costs?”
The magician stopped talking. Yes, it was not a problem for him to refine the illusion, but the cost of maintaining the illusion would be very high. Anyone can create the illusion, so why don’t other great nobles train soldiers in this way?
The nine academies only use illusion to train mages, but they cannot train mercenaries in the academy.
Because of the cost, only the illusion created by the Duke himself can reduce the cost of using it. It is true that a lot of raw coal and crystals are stored in the lower layer of the castle, but it is really not enough to maintain the operation of the illusion array.
Another great magician said: "Or, we will only create a super small illusion. Anyway, I know the underlying magic language. It is guaranteed to be very small and cannot be used for training. It is just to go in and enjoy food or something. It is used as a reward for soldiers."
"This is OK," Baron Pullman said immediately: "Then everyone hurry up and find a space underground to refine a super small illusion."
He had trained on Xiahe and knew how important the soldiers' psychological factors were to war.
Baron Pullman should be glad that his supplies are sufficient, and he can also consider the soldiers' minds that there are not so much raw coal in some small fortresses, nor are there any manpower and materials to refine illusions.
In addition, the seeds of all crops in Xiahe’s planting factory are not processed technically. In other words, if you collect the seeds yourself, you can plant the next batch.
These crops are carefully selected and seed degeneration will not happen within a hundred generations.
"Sir, all weapons have been inspected and are in combat readiness." A soldier ran up to report.
Baron Pullman nodded and sent an order to let the soldiers leave the castle for the last time, patrolling around, and exploring every inch of land within the space.
The castle is located on the south side of the Great Wall. Eight squads were dispatched, two squads in each direction, carrying a large number of robot warriors.
The space left for Baron Pullman is very small, with a radius of fifteen miles.
Of course, his baron lord was not that big at the beginning, but the baron lord had communication with the outside. The five hundred people blocked in this space feel completely different.
Baron Pullman ordered all magicians to compile books or extract materials directly from their personal equipment.
The communication equipment of the magician itself is like the intelligent computing core of the technology world, and there are many messy things stored. They are usually closed because the magicians don’t know what the use of those things is.
Let the soldiers read and study, this is Baron Pullman's choice.
In addition to technical books, there are also some literary works such as dramas, novels, poetry, etc.
In a few days, the people in the command of the squadron surrounded Baron Pullman and they quickly executed the orders issued by Baron. With the Baron, the team had a backbone. For the first time, Pullman felt that he was so important and as the leader, he was responsible to the people below.
He was calm because there was a special mark in the order given by Fire Crow One. When the things he encountered exceeded the strategic level marked by the Duke, he could contact the Duke.
In other words, Duke Asra was not completely isolated from the news, but contacting him once was too expensive, so much more than he consumed all the supplies in the castle. He could understand this. He was a level 25 magician himself and understood that it was almost impossible to break through the space barrier.
However, such a strong space barrier is not easy to maintain, and it should disappear on its own, right?
My own task is actually not to protect the fortress, but to ensure that before the space barrier disappears, let your soldiers survive well and not have any mental problems.
The Great Wall line, Pullman's situation has been repeated.
Basically, fortresses are stationed at least one brigade. There are also smaller fortresses, and there will be two squadrons, which is one hundred people.
These fortresses have the ability to provide simple supplies to the passing army, so although the raw coal stored is not as large as Baron Pullman, the quantity is also quite large, and it will not be a problem to support it for several years.
The purpose of building a fortress was to store materials.
Because there are demons everywhere, the army of mobile combat is impossible to carry enough things with you, so there must be a supply point every once in a distance.
"Master Baron! Discover the enemy!"
A magician shouted loudly. The upper floor of the fortress had been used as an early warning office, and the baron's resting place was next to the office.
In the office, there is a small fantasy array, but it is either an entry-level or a brigade command center.
The robot soldiers were still patrolling the periphery, and an army suddenly appeared in the north of the Great Wall.
"What is that!" a magician shouted.
"It's a goblin!"
"Gogun? Goblin from another world?"
"No, I look at it, why does it look like the one described in books?"
Baron Pullman came to the office and looked at the scene sent back by the robot. The team in the distance was wearing strange armor and riding in Guli's strange chariots. Behind the warriors were huge magic muskets. Even if they were not compared with their body shape, the magic muskets were quite conspicuous.
"Advance the Great Wall!" Baron Pullman issued an order, calling two squadrons to enter the top of the Great Wall from the north gate of the castle.
The castle is twenty-five meters high, and the Great Wall is twenty meters high, with a small drop
The castle itself is part of the Great Wall system. It is not easy to enter the castle from the Great Wall, and it is considered when building it. However, the Great Wall itself is a transportation road and a defense system. It is not a problem to regard the Great Wall as the first line of defense.
The flying robots rise rapidly. These goblins have magic muskets. The precise attack distance may not be very good, but the range of killing is still very large, and they may be able to shoot people to death hundreds of meters away.
Baron Pullman's brigade can only repair robots and cannot manufacture them independently. If the calculation core is destroyed, the robots in this unit have disappeared from the organization. There are more than 5,000 robots in the entire brigade, but the backup calculation cores are only one hundred of those in Baron Pullman's hands.
He was not worried about the more than 200 goblins, but where did goblins come from in the closed space?
If these two hundred goblins can appear, more enemies can come.
The soldiers from the two squadrons stood on the Great Wall and looked at the goblins approaching in the distance, and were a little nervous. They were all considered veterans, because of the strange enclosed space recently.
Baron Pullman said: "We save magical projectiles, precision shooters, and use technological muskets to test them to see if they can cause effective damage to them."
Because he was sure that there was a goblin in front, Baron Pullman did not intend to communicate, but was directly prepared to attack.
There are artillery in the castle, but large magical projectiles cannot be produced here, or the production speed is extremely slow, and it depends on the magician to complete it bit by bit.
As a supply point, the castle mainly supplies energy rather than ammunition.
Since the space was closed, even the power generation center on the lower floor of the castle has reduced the power generation by 90%, only maintaining lighting, air purification and circulation, planting factories, and robot charging projects. At night, light control was implemented.
The power generation center in the magical world has no waste of demand and electricity generation.
Baron Pullman was very careful and never thought that he would get out of trouble in a short time, so this battle could not be wasted too much. New projectiles cannot be refined by magicians' manual work. The structure is too complicated and requires magical machinery from a large alchemy factory.
What the magician can make by hand is old-fashioned projectiles.
Since it is made by hand, don’t consider the output. If there are too many enemies, everyone may have to consider hand-to-hand combat in the future.
Chapter completed!