Section 19 Sudden

Damn engineers! They don't know how to fight at all! Mante complained in his heart and looked at the wine glass reluctantly.

The measurement work was finally completed, and Mante grabbed the wine glass in his hand. However, when he tried to do this, he found that the cork of the kettle had been re-stuffed. When he was holding the cup, Feiwen stuffed the kettle directly.

"Let's go," said Feiwen, "report the measurement results."

Compared with Mante, Feiwen seemed full of energy, and he didn't look at the wine glass at all, and he seemed to have never smelled the wine at all. Although the dwarf was good at wine, if an engineer's enthusiasm for engineering technology did not exceed his enthusiasm for drinking, then he would not deserve to be an engineer. Even if he joined the Engineers Association, he would be kicked out sooner or later.

He couldn't wait to understand what this new concept of defense system would play.

A roar suddenly came from the sky. Feiwen stopped and saw a gyro helicopter flying crookedly from above his head, and it flew slowly and lower and lower. It was clear that the thick black smoke was rising from the helicopter.

"Mechanical failure! The piston is damaged!" Feiwen immediately came to the conclusion with his unique engineer's eyes. "Hurry, let's go and help, and I hope the pilot has time to land!"

They immediately rushed over there. When they climbed to the top of a hill, they happened to see the final scene of the helicopter flying in a crooked trajectory: the helicopter fell down at a very fast speed, and with a "boom", it fell down a slope and rolled all the way until it fell into a small mud pit formed by snow. Black smoke rolled, but fortunately no flames were seen.

The two looked at each other and quickly ran to the other side. Fortunately, before they arrived, they saw a dwarf leaping out of the flight machine while cursing. Because of the mud pit, he was covered in mud, jumped out of the helicopter and ran a few steps, and sat on the ground.

"Damn the machine!" The pilot cursed and seemed to be nothing serious.

"The beard is on! It looks like he is fine." Feiwen exclaimed.

It should be said that he was lucky. All of these helicopters were reconnaissance aircraft. The dwarf's gyro helicopter was originally equipped with a light cannon and cooperated with corresponding ammunition for ground attacks. However, in order to increase the flight speed and air stagnation time of the plane, Master Ashrufate removed all the weapons on the plane. If not, it would not be an unsuccessful landing at this moment, but an air explosion.

The pilot had already seen the two compatriots rushing over. However, he looked obviously exhausted and did not stand up, but sat in place and waved at them. The two good friends quickly rushed to the front.

"How is it?" Feiwen asked this colleague with concern - all the pilots are members of the Engineers Association, without exception. "Old guy, take out the wine quickly."

After a glass of wine fell to his stomach, the pilot's expression seemed to recover a lot. He put down his wine glass, exhaled a long breath, and wiped the mud on his head.

"It's okay, I just run out of strength and can't run anymore," said the pilot. "But there is an urgent matter, I must report it to the master immediately. I found a migrating ogre tribe on the west side."

"The beard is on! Ogre tribe?!!" Mante screamed. At this critical moment, how could another ogre tribe appear? In fact, strictly speaking, ogres are usually neutral. They do not belong to either side, and they will not participate in any battle without any benefit (of course, self-defense exception). If the ogres decide to commit to a war, then either they accept employment or they find a good opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

However, ogres are indeed very powerful. The emergence of an ogre tribe is enough to change the power balance of a war. If the ogres accept a mercenary contract, they will immediately become dangerous enemies or reliable friendly forces.

Furthermore, since ogres usually have fat bodies, this leaves them almost immune to cold weather. In fact, ogres adapt to the colder than any other race.

Not only Mante and Feiwen saw the helicopter fall due to a failure, but more dwarves have appeared at this time. Several of them are familiar to Feiwen, which means they are members of the Engineers Association.

"Mante, take care of him." Feiwen calmed down, "I will immediately return the surveying and mapping data to the master and tell him the news."

"I'll wait for you to come back?" Mante asked in confusion.

"No, there is not so much time to squander. Old man, when you confirm that he is fine, you must immediately help dig a pit at the construction site in the north."

...

"Master, the goods you specially requested have arrived." A soldier reported.

"I understand." Ashu Rufat waved his hand and signaled the other party to go out.

On the surface, the great casting master Ashu Rufate was at the center of his camp, staring at a battle map and meditating. But in fact, he was talking to Carrie.

Due to the huge "building battlefield" plan, almost no one left in the Dwarf Legion's camp at this time. Even if Ash Rufat sometimes said something unconsciously, he didn't have to worry about any idle people hearing it. He could discuss future battles with Carrie with peace of mind.

"Very good, the rune stone we're looking for is delivered." Carrie replied.

Humans, elves and even green skins have mastered the skills of magic communication. Of course, the dwarves are not behind in this regard. Although they lack the affinity of magic winds, they cannot directly use magic to communicate, but they use rune technology to make up for this shortcoming. Through rune technology, the dwarves can easily create communication rune stones for long-distance communication.

In terms of effect, rune communication is between direct casting and using a messenger scroll. The communication rune stone cannot conduct magic communication infinitely like a real magician (just he has enough energy to cast spells), nor will it be consumed at once like a messenger scroll. Under normal circumstances, a communication rune stone can be used five or six times, and then it will be damaged.

But Carrie decided to make up for this shortcoming this time. Through her knowledge and technology that far exceeds the level of development of this world, Carrie plans to transform this communication runes into semi-permanent so that they can last a long time.

Ashu Rufate felt that this technology could be directly imparted to the dwarves, but Carrie believed that this would greatly improve the strength of the dwarves. At the same time, a great caster and part-time rune craftsman were also too eye-catching, so the plan was abandoned in the end.

"Carrie, do you really think this is OK?" Ashu Rufate looked at the map. Of course, he was not looking at the map on the table in the center of the room, but Carrie appeared in his eyes, a very clear picture. The picture was very detailed, even the tiniest details were marked.

Although the peninsula is a mountainous area, it can naturally be divided into several different areas due to factors such as the direction of the mountains. Ashurufat led his army into the peninsula area, and at present, only one of the green skins was cleared out. However, this was a success achieved by using a rare canyon terrain, which was an opportunistic method. On the one hand, this tactic is of course to take advantage of the winter time, and most of the green skins were curled up in their nests for winter, and lured the green skins into the death trap in batches and annihilated them. On the other hand, it was also because of the green skins' belligerent nature, which made them fooled if they teased them a little.

However, after repeated blasting, the terrain of this canyon has undergone tremendous changes and can no longer be used. There is no such good terrain in the entire peninsula area.

In other words, the next battle must be fought. Unfortunately, the Avengers' Legion's strength is indeed insufficient. In the next battle, even if the casualties ratio is one to ten, the Green Skin can exhaust the Avengers' Legion.

This is the benefit of military strength. Just like Ashu Rufate, he could pave a path to final victory through countless failures.

It is precisely because of this that Carrie proposed this combat plan. Since she could not find a favorable terrain, she might as well build one by herself. It just so happened that there was no shortage of engineers among Ash Rufate's subordinates, and in terms of excavation and construction, no one in the world can claim to be better than the dwarves.

The battlefield Carrie is going to build is not a strong city (just like those cities that Ash Rufate once participated in), nor is it a trench or trap, but an unheard of new ideas. It circles the entire area occupied by the dwarves and arranges it into a three-dimensional battlefield with countless traps.

At that time, the dwarves no longer need to arrange troops to fight head-on with the enemy, but instead give full play to the advantages of long-range firepower and troop dispatch, divide the entire battle into hundreds of battlefields, and then concentrate superior forces to gallop across various battlefields, and peel off the entire Green Skin Legion with zero orifices.

This is Carrie's idea.

"Carrie, why do you think Greenskin will come from here? They just need to go around in circles and avoid our trap from here?" Ashu Rufate asked casually, pointing to a subtle arrangement on the map.

"With your experience and IQ, I'm afraid I can't understand the complex theories and logic behind it. I can only explain it in a superficial way. In fact, this is a psychological thing... For example, if a person encounters a high wall while walking, that kind of wall that is not impossible to climb, but has certain difficulties, and the length of the wall looks limited. Then his first reaction is to climb over head-on, or try to go around?"

"It should be around..."

"...Yes, laziness and risk avoidance are the instincts of every creature. When there is a choice in front of you, if there is no other factor, any intelligent creature will instinctively choose a safer way. This is the so-called risk pursuit and risk avoidance..." Carrie popped up a lot of nouns that Ashu Rufate didn't understand. Now Ashu Rufate no longer asks Carrie any explanation of terms. Although Carrie will no longer say "you do not have relevant authority", she will say "you don't need to know this".

"But...what if there is an unexpected emergency?" Ashu Rufat asked.

"What kind of emergencies do you mean?" Carrie said sarcastically. "Is there any sudden thing that can change an instinctive choice that has evolved through countless generations? You still believe that I will entrust everything to me and I will help you. Although I lack data on such backward wars, it is not difficult to organize them."

A chaotic voice came from outside. Ashu Rufate turned his head and saw a dwarf appearing at the door of the room. He recognized the other party. The dwarf was named Feiwen, a senior member of the Engineers Association, and a famous master of artillery.

"Master," yelled Feiwen. "Helicopter reconnaissance discovered an emergency: an ogre tribe appeared nearby."
Chapter completed!