Catherine thought about it for a moment and said: "Architectural design cannot be done behind closed doors. You must see more and learn more in order to build a better one.
I will organize several relevant professionals to take you there. Stop by the major cities and take a look, especially Waterdeep, the Pearl of the North. It is the largest city in Faerûn, with a population of millions.”
The stone giant sculptor couldn’t wait to ask: “When will we set off?”
This is something he has only dreamed of. Previously, he was bound by the tasks of the Council of Death Chiefs and had no freedom in this regard.
“Give me three days.” Catherine was going to select a group of strategic priests to specialize in civil engineering.
This is also an important part of war, especially for the strategist lady.
The priesthood she involves is not limited to conquering cities and territories and defeating enemies.
Logistics operation and construction is also an extremely important part.
"Okay, I'm waiting for your good news." Domingo nodded with satisfaction.
He has been waiting for hundreds of years, not less than these three days.
Doing something that interests you is not a burden, but a pleasure.
After sending Domingo away, Catherine took the initiative to contact Gavin again and said: "The Council of Death Chiefs has penetrated the Giant Plains deeper than I expected. We cannot completely do as he wishes. He harvested all the souls easily.”
Although her insight into the Council of Death Chiefs is not as deep as Gavin’s, as the official chief elector of Ms. Strategy, she was vaguely aware of something.
“What are you going to do?” Gavin asked.
“To King Urkluna, as long as they are fully prepared, even if they are defeated, there will be no large-scale harvest.”
Catherine has already thought of a strategy, "This will kill two birds with one stone.
Not only will it frustrate the plans of the Council of Death Chiefs, it will also cause greater chaos and create more opportunities for us.
< br>The Trolloc tribes that have lost their foothold in the Giant Plains can only invade to the north. They are enough to disrupt the situation on the Dragon Coast and even cause the city alliance there to fall apart. Separation.
Such a city alliance has always been very fragile. At critical moments, they will do their best to protect their own property instead of fighting for others."
"Just do it. , I will do my best to support you." Gavin affirmed Catherine's plan, "But the plan in this regard should not be too detailed.
At present, eating the Giant Plains is our limit, and it is not yet time to start a full-scale war against the Dragon Coast Cities Alliance. "
"I understand. "Catherine responded clearly.
"Then start taking action! ”
As Gavin’s war order was officially issued, the roar of war drums resounded through the Giant Plains again.
Before the full-scale war broke out, various rumors were flying all over the sky.
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The ordinary monster tribes got the news that Blood Gorge City had joined forces with the Troll Demon tribe to carve up the entire Giant Plains.
Blood Gap City sent troops against the Jackal Queen, while the Trollocops tribe attacked the small tribes and prepared to completely annex them.
There is also news that in the dark area below the Giant Plains, there is a dark force dormant, eyeing all the creatures in the Giant Plains. They may rush out of the darkness at any time and launch fatal attacks.
For a time, everyone in the Giant Plains was in danger, and even the Troll Demon tribe became a little hesitant in its actions.
The war first broke out between Blood Gap City and the Jackal Queen.
"Haha...that idiot Blood Claw, if they are huddled in the Blood Gorge City, I really can't do anything to them.
Now that they have taken the initiative to run to the Giant Plains, then I will let them see it. Who is the real owner of this grassland? People.
Use wolf tactics and kill them all.
As long as you destroy them, I will lead you south to attack the wealth there. It will all belong to us.”
The first one to launch the attack was not the hobgoblins of Blood Gap City, but the Gnoll Queen.
This Gnoll Queen is a bit taller and stronger than ordinary large Gnolls. Her behavior is very similar to the Gnoll King, greedy and violent.
Passive defense has never been the character of their jackals.
The offense is.
They have no danger to defend, and they are not engaged in production and construction. Those who have poor tents are good.
Many gnolls don't even have tents and live in the open air, almost like uncivilized beasts.
The tactics they adopted were exactly the same as the Gnoll King’s Gnoll Army.
Countless gnolls and their vassal monster tribes, in the form of war groups and tribes, attack the enemy from all directions at the same time, and win the war by defeating more and less.
This trick works very well in the beginning.
The monster tribes surrounding the main army of the hobgoblins simply cannot withstand such a large-scale violent attack.
If the casualties were slightly heavier, they would have the possibility of collapse.
“The enemy crumbles before our shield, the enemy lies down under our sword.
The enemy’s homeland is conquered by us, and the enemy’s descendants are enslaved by us.
Shura Field! Victory belongs to us.”
The hobgoblin heavy cavalry following the monster tribesmen sang the hobgoblin war song and roared at the entangled enemies. Rushed over.
They can't tell which monsters are friendly forces and which monsters are enemies. They treat them all equally and directly penetrate them with their spears or directly step on them.
"Queen, I can't beat you, I can't beat you at all... Wow... the equipment of the hobgoblins in Blood Gap City is too sophisticated... our weapons can't break through their armor at all... their weapons can cut us. , just like chopping vegetables..."
"The paralysis attack of the ghouls is also greatly less effective against them, because their claws cannot break through their armor at all. ...We can't attack their bodies...If we don't think of a way, we will be defeated..."
"Mother, my jackal war group has been wiped out...We can't defeat it, we can't defeat it at all. But..."
This is an absolute crushing on the equipment level. The simple weapons in the hands of those monsters, even natural weapons, are simply impossible to break through the dwarves' armor made of steel.
Or they are harvested in patches, like straw.
Or they will be defeated and flee towards the rear.
At this time, the mobile and flexible hobgoblin wolf cavalry stuck closely to them, driving the jackal war group like a flock of sheep, allowing them to attack other monster tribes or jackals behind them Human battle groups are used to achieve greater results.
They are hobgoblins who have received the adaptation and education of strategic sacrifices. Their understanding and application of strategies and tactics far exceed those of ordinary armies.
The entire battlefield is their chessboard, going back and forth to merge, intersperse, divide, and outflank until they are finally eaten.
After hearing the series of bad news coming back from the front, the Jackal Queen not only did not show any fear, but instead showed a strong greed and excitement. She let out a unique Jackal giggle and said: "What a bullshit believer of the Goddess of Strategy, they are still Didn't they fall into my trap? The better their equipment, the better. From now on, they belong to It’s mine... The sacrifice call is activated.”
“Dear Father God, God of Fury, please listen to the call of your people, accept the blood food offered to you, and send down your holy army. Completely destroy the enemy..."
Countless gnoll demon priests began to offer sacrifices and pray around the bloody altars.
Since the Gnoll Queen calls herself the queen of the Gnoll King, her tribal race naturally believes in the devil and the devil, and through sacrifices, she summons his demon army to come to the material plane and coordinate with them in battle. Nature is a necessary means.
Ouch...
A huge, well-equipped Abyss Jackal appeared on the altar out of thin air, howling in excitement.
But this excitement did not last long and was interrupted by a flock of black-winged kobolds, as dark as a flock of birds.
A large number of flutter bombs were dropped from the sky.
The Abyss Gnolls, Gnoll Demon Sacrifice and Demon Altar were all blown up and turned to pieces.
Reinforcements from Colossus City have arrived.
Previously, it was an equipment dimensionality reduction strike.
Now it’s time to reduce the dimensionality of the troops.
Those kobolds are indeed very weak on the ground. Not to mention the jackals, even the hyenas can chase them all over the world.
But in the air, even throwing a stone may kill someone, let alone explosive weapons with strong acid corrosion.
Especially useful for destroying the enemy's remaining morale.
The gnoll war group that had originally hoped to summon the demon army and lead them to launch a full-scale counterattack completely collapsed. The army was defeated like a mountain.
There are figures running around like jackals everywhere.
“We only kill gnolls and ghouls. As long as you cooperate with us to attack gnolls and ghouls, we will forget the blame. One gnoll head can avoid death penalty, and two can get military merit... ”
The big goblins were shouting loudly as they rushed forward.
This kind of pardon is especially useful when the enemy has completely collapsed.
Most monster tribes follow the Gnoll Queen to fight, completely fearing her powerful force and cruelty.
Many people have hatred for them instead of loyalty.
Now that my life is threatened, I can fight back against the wolf man without any psychological burden.
To be more precise, they are more cruel than the hobgoblins, because their own lives are at stake.
Many people of the same tribe fought over a jackal head.
The hobgoblins headed by the Bloodsworn Warlord didn't care about them at all, and just rushed forward with a rumble. The main force of the six legions finally completed the encirclement of the main force of the gnolls where the gnoll queen was.
The number of this Jackal army is only ten thousand, but it is the foundation and essence of the Jackal Queen, and her greatest support.
These jackals are extremely ferocious, even deeper than the abyss jackals.
Either they are full of animality, or they are covered in bone spurs.
The only thing they have in common is that they are huge, with a height of at least three meters, reaching a large size, and many even break through to five meters, reaching the category of super large size.
This situation occurs not only because of the special laws of the Giant Plains, but also because they really have the blood of Yeenoghu, the god of jackals, in their bodies.
Double blessing led to the current situation.
"If you want me to die, you have to pay the price with blood." The Queen of Jackals howled wildly, "Attack, attack them all, tear them apart for me, the King of Jackals. In the name of Nogu!"
Even in a desperate situation, the Jackal Queen still did not change her ferocious nature, and gave an order not to retreat, but to attack.
She herself took the lead and rushed out. As she charged, her body bulged and grew larger at a speed visible to the naked eye, and her eyes were bloodshot and red.
Violent and huge.
The Gnoll Queen is also a divine choice of the Gnoll King.
The double-headed fine gold flail hit the large hobgoblin heavy armored cavalry that was charging head-on.
Bang! Bang! laugh! laugh!
The unstoppable large hobgoblin heavy armored cavalry were as soft as tofu in front of the violent jackal queen.
The large, one-piece cast heavy armor several centimeters thick on his body was easily cut open, including most of his body.
The Gnoll Queen used her claws with her backhand, and another large hobgoblin heavy armored cavalry, including man and mount, was knocked away on the spot and fell heavily to the ground. Even if he was not dead, he temporarily lost his combat effectiveness. , there is no way to join the battle in a short period of time.
"Ouch!" The Jackal Queen roared in protest, her body covered in blood adding to her power.
Anss...
People around them suddenly fell on their backs, and countless horsemen stood up, either directly overturning the knight on their back, or rushing left and right and bumping around.
The momentum is fierce.
The Gnoll Queen's special ability is activated.
Those knights may have the ability to resist this special ability, but the mounts under their crotches cannot. They are just cavalry and not professional knights like death knights or paladins.
The latter has formed a fighting partner with his mount, and can overlay his professional level and will on his mount to help it fight against this psychic ability.
Heavy Charge is unmatched when dealing with ordinary monsters.
But when dealing with those high-level monsters, the effect is not as powerful as imagined.
It is not just the Gnoll Queen who possesses the ferocious aura. The Abyss Gnolls who rushed up behind her and her direct descendants all have this ability to a greater or lesser extent.
They are all the same as the Jackal Queen. After killing one or two enemies with the most brutal means, they suddenly activate this ability at the center of the enemy.
This ability is a kind of psychic ability. It is sent and received in the heart, which can be permanently turned on or completely restrained.
The benefits of doing this are obvious.
It can further enhance control and frighten the enemy through naked killing.
It can also maximize its effect. It is a close-range ability, and the covering range is usually the visible range of the enemy. Although it can also be effective for those who cannot see them, the effect will be greatly reduced.
Click! Click! Click!
The violent animal species following these abyss gnolls passed by them one after another, throwing a hobgoblin knight off his horse, and faced them with a frantic plan. Scratching, tearing and biting, the thick steel armor also squeaked and was severely deformed by their bites.
"The shadow aircraft is dispatched."
Katherine, who has been observing the entire battle situation from high altitude, threw out another trump card.
A terrifying roar sounded at the same time, and more than a dozen shadow aircraft, which had been floating in the sky like ghosts, swooped down at high speed and plunged towards the area with the densest concentration of enemies.
Boom! boom! boom! boom! Boom...
The shadow aircraft just jumped on its head and directly launched a jet attack.
A large number of bone fragments are sprayed out in a cone shape, and the attack distance is just right, which does not reduce the lethality and maximizes the coverage.
Then an extremely terrifying scene occurred.
Twenty-eight circles of death with a diameter of fifty meters suddenly appeared on the battlefield.
In each circle of death, there is no one who can stand at all. One by one, they are all lying on the ground. The blood is like a small fountain, coming from the corpses that have been severely injured or just died. It spewed out, dyeing everything around it blood red.
The shadow aircraft is an out-and-out dimensionality-reducing blow to these descendants of the abyssal jackals.
Their simple armor and natural fur cannot withstand the drilling and shooting of bone fragments strengthened by negative energy. Once they hit, blood holes will be drilled into their bodies.
And this is just the beginning.
With the recoil of this jet, the fourteen ghost aircraft leveled themselves almost simultaneously and entered normal flight status. Skeleton bombs were ejected from the short and thick belly compartments towards the back. The jackal army smashed over.
Boom...
The sound of explosions sounded again. Every time a skeleton bomb landed, it would create a death storm.
Countless bone fragments were scattered everywhere, and the gnolls fell in pieces like wheat under a sickle.
Although the Skeleton Bomb is quite powerful, its lethality is not as brutal as the Skeleton Jet.
Because the human wall on the inside will resist most of the bone fragments to a certain extent, if a lucky person uses his companions as a shield, he will even suffer very little damage.
The previous spray from top to bottom was an out-and-out head-on attack, and the bone fragments were evenly distributed. Unless there was a shield and the head was raised overhead in time to block part of the attack, it would be very difficult. There is no chance of survival.
Faced with this kind of aerial attack, the jackal army simply numbed its claws and did not know how to deal with it. The enemy had terrifying lethality, but they did not even have a chance to encounter the enemy.
Even in a violent state, these gnolls began to become restless.
Being violent does not mean being fearless.
But the second bombing they expected did not appear. After those ghost aircraft penetrated behind the jackal army, they fell silently, and then a large amount of black mist spewed out from above, covering Cover yourself.
Seeing this scene, the Jackal army that was on the verge of collapse suddenly became energetic. There was no need for the Jackal Queen to give orders. The Jackals behind immediately changed the direction of attack and rushed towards the Shadow Aircraft with great force. , determined not to give it a chance to take off and launch another attack.
Boom...boom...
Before the counterattacking gnolls could get closer, one after another roar came from the darkness.
What followed was densely packed bone fragments, which hit the jackals who counterattacked head-on. The denser their formation, the more people died.
After landing, the combat effectiveness of the shadow aircraft is indeed greatly reduced, but that does not mean that it is not at all. Its powerful attack power is still there.
Moreover, being knocked down and actively landing are two different concepts. They are now flying close to the ground and can take off at any time.
Now it is more like using myself as bait, luring those jackals to attack them in groups to maximize their damage. (End of chapter)