Chapter 111 Can You Hold It?

General Dardanelle stood on a protruding rock on the top of the mountain, holding a telescope, looking at the camp of the Lampari Kingdom army in the distance at the foot of the mountain, with a serious expression.

The army of the Lampari Kingdom has been stationed at the foot of the mountain for two days, but there has been no movement, which is really strange.

However, General Dardanelle did not dare to take it lightly. After all, he is now leading his legion to guard the most important pass leading to the northern provinces of the original Candela Empire. Expose to the army of Lampari Kingdom.

Based on the current comparison of the strength of the two armies, if the army of the Lampari Kingdom cannot be blocked at such an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack pass, and let them flood into the northern plains of the Kandela Empire, it means that the Maro Empire had a hard time controlling it before. The territory is completely lost.

However... can you hold it?

General Dardanelle looked up at the sky and smiled wryly.

Compared with the Maro Empire, the military combat magic airship of the Lampari Kingdom can be said to be much better in all aspects, so that when the two armies confront each other, the Lampari Kingdom always holds the air supremacy. On the one hand, it can only be restrained everywhere.

In order to regain the disadvantage of air supremacy, it is said that discussions within the empire have begun to discuss restarting the magician corps system, bringing the powerful magicians accumulated over the years in the empire back to the battlefield, and relying on them to deal with the magic airship brigade of the Lampari Kingdom.

On the face of it, this proposal is not unreasonable.

Although the power of the magic airship is great, it is not as flexible as it is because of its size.

If you use a powerful magician to deal with it, relying on the in-depth research and understanding of the magic space by the magicians now, it will not be like when you first encountered the magic airship of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, because the simplest magic element space lock will not cause any damage. If there is no power to fight back, then there is hope to contend with it.

But in reality, the feasibility of this proposal is extremely low.

First of all, because of the "Continental Magician Peace Treaty", few magicians of the Maro Empire would be willing to take the risk of violating the contract and rejoin the Maro Empire's army to fight for it. Because it is very likely that they will lose all opportunities for skill assessment in the future, and then lose all opportunities to work in other chambers of commerce, research institutes and other places.

It is indeed the duty of the magicians of the Maro Empire to serve their own country, but no one is willing to do it at the expense of their own future.

Secondly. Even if the magicians are willing, the Maro Empire itself may not be willing.

Re-recruiting magicians into the army and joining the war with the Lampari Kingdom is a clear violation of the "Continental Magician Peace Treaty", and the Maro Empire will inevitably be accused by all countries on the entire Sainz continent.

This is only more unfavorable to the current situation of the Maro Empire.

Not when it is absolutely necessary. The Maro Empire is absolutely unwilling to adopt such an approach with endless troubles.

Besides, even if you really do this, you can only regain part of the air supremacy at most, but it is difficult to completely suppress the magic airship brigade of the Lampari Kingdom army.

As for gaining an advantage and defeating the Lampari Kingdom by virtue of this, it is basically impossible.

Otherwise, even if the Maro Empire tries to be blamed by other countries, it will definitely insist on doing so.

The Candela Empire has been killed, and if the Lampari Kingdom is completely defeated, the Maro Empire will be the most powerful country on the Sainz continent. none of them.

At that time, this convention and that convention will not matter at all.

But it was precisely because they did not have this confidence that the Maro Empire could not make this determination.

In the sky in the distance, several black dots flew rapidly.

General Dardanelle didn't need to look closely at all, and he knew that it should be another batch of logistics supplies transported by the cargo magic airship of the Lampari Kingdom.

In the past two days, he has seen similar situations four times in the past two days alone, which shows how frequently the Lampari Kingdom transports supplies.

But after seeing this situation here, General Dardanelle's doubts deepened.

Since the Lampari Kingdom is so extravagant that they use cargo magic airships to quickly transport logistics supplies, it proves that their desire to attack should be very strong.

But they waited at the foot of the mountain for two full days without any movement. what is going on?

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, so no matter what you do, you should race against time.

Any little bit of time is precious, but the army of the Lampari Kingdom wasted two days here, which is simply a major decision-making error.

Unless...they are brewing some kind of conspiracy.

Think here. General Dardanelle put down the binoculars irritably, snatched a huge magic talking box from the hand of the guard beside him, and connected a communication.

"Hey, Hannicher, how's your side?"

"It's okay." A calm and steady voice sounded from the magic communication box. "What? Is there something wrong with you?"

"It's better if the situation is better!" General Dardanelle snorted. "These damn Lampari people have been stuck at the foot of the mountain for more than two days. They didn't do anything. What the hell are they trying to do?"

"Maybe they're just trying to stop you."

Like General Dardanelle, Hannicher on the magic communication box is the head of a certain garrison regiment of the Maro Empire Imperial Army. Now they are respectively commanding a regiment, each guarding two places that originally belonged to the Candela Empire.

Because the two have a good relationship in private, and the guards are not far apart, Dardanelle often communicates with Hannicher.

"Why stop me? The empire is not ready to counterattack, unless they want to counterattack us." General Dardanelle muttered. "But looking at them now, they don't look alike."

"Obviously, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce wants to cooperate with the guys from the Candela Empire to make some troubles in the west and south, and the Lampari Kingdom is cooperating with their actions." Hannicher's tone was still indifferent.

"I really don't know what the hell the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is doing. If they really want to take away the territory of the Candela Empire from the mouth of the empire, they can send the guards out to snatch it openly. Why bother to beat around the bush Why have you tossed about so many things? It's a trouble to death." General Dardanelle's tone was full of disdain. "It is said that Xu Yi, the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, is the wisest person. I think he is completely confused now."

"If you don't understand anything, then obediently shut up and watch." Hannicher's tone finally changed a bit, but he was unceremoniously reprimanding General Dardanelle. "There must be a reason for what President Xu thinks about, but it's just that he can't see it now."

General Dardanelle sighed helplessly: "Well, you are a loyal supporter of Xu Yi, I really shouldn't talk about this topic with you. Speaking of it... Hannicher, if you are not our Marlowe The people of the empire, I am afraid that they have simply voted for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?"

"If you know enough about Chairman Xu, you will definitely admire him as much as I do." Hannicher's tone was very solemn. "But this does not mean that I will choose to join the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. And now is not the time to discuss these issues with you. The empire asked us to guard these two places in order to stabilize the area in the north that originally belonged to the Candela Empire. After properly digesting this area, I believe there will be further actions. As for now, let the Lampari Kingdom and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce toss in the south."

"Of course I understand. It's just that being blocked by people on the mountain and unable to go out like this is really uncomfortable." General Dardanelle complained.

"If you think you can win the fight, then I have no objection to you taking someone to fight." Hannicher said coldly.

"I'm not crazy yet." General Dardanelle muttered and hung up the communication decisively.

The communication with Hannicher didn't have any real meaning, it was just for General Dardanelle to relieve the restlessness in his heart.

He often does this kind of thing, and Hannicher has long been used to it, so in fact, neither party talked too much about it in the communication, it can only be regarded as nonsense.

Seeing General Dardanelle put down the magic communication box, a personal guard came over and handed him a form.

"General, this is the latest combat readiness report that has just been compiled."

General Dardanelle frowned, finally sighed, and took the form.

Although he had already been mentally prepared, General Dardanelle still felt a dull pain in his head after seeing the situation on the form.

Compared with yesterday's statistics, the combat readiness of the legion has indeed become worse.

The form clearly shows that just yesterday, two magic cannons failed, one of which was directly unable to launch the magic circle, and the other was cracked in the barrel, making it impossible to fire at all.

At the same time, among the magic shells in reserve, after a day, thirteen shells were newly found to be completely useless.

In addition, thirty-seven magic repeating guns had various failures, a magic tank's tracks fell off, and even more than a hundred eggs in the warehouse disappeared for no reason...

The accumulation of all kinds of bad situations made General Dardanelle so upset that he couldn't help kicking a tree next to him.

"Damn it, are those guys from the Logistics Department eating shit!"

Small problems such as the lack of more than a hundred eggs can be ignored directly, but the various new armament failures and losses that occur every day make General Dardanelle unbearable.

The military magic mechanical armament of the legion under him is already at a disadvantage compared to the Lampari Kingdom, and there are still so many non-combat losses every day. If this continues, there is no need for the Lampari Kingdom to fight. I can't hold on anymore.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help cursing loudly in his heart at those guys from the Logistics Department of the Maro Empire Military Headquarters.

Except for the five imperial guards directly under the imperial family, when the Logistics Department equips the garrison under his command with armaments, it will always be short of money and make some deductions.

Now the soldiers under his command are equipped with all kinds of military magic machines, not only in quantity but also in quality.

However, he also knew that sometimes the Logistics Department could not be blamed. (~^~)