Chapter 941

The red sun rises in the East.

Eboden harbor.

"Sneeze!"

Lucian, who was immediately behind Lauren, suddenly sneezed, frowned and rubbed his nose.

"The weather turns cold. Be careful of catching a cold, Lucian." the black haired wizard turned his head and smiled at the gray pupil boy wearing only thin armor: "if you are seriously ill now, I have to send you back quickly."

"You'd better worry about yourself, Lord Loren."

Lucian, who was "concerned", snorted ungratefully and wiped his nose with his thumb: "I used to be a Ranger in duanjie mountain fortress and glacier wasteland. This weather is almost the same as at home for me."

"... it's probably said by that guy again. Last time it was..." the gray pupil turned his head and whispered.

The dark haired wizard who lost his voice and smiled shook his head and turned his eyes to the sea level - a cloudless sunny day, light water mist floating on the calm sea, like a sapphire wrapped in gauze, pure and elegant.

But on this pure sea, an irresistible storm is brewing.

Winter is coming.

Eboden is a seaport city in the north. The gem River, which originates from Saxony, passes next to the city and flows into the fog sea - the advantage is that it has extremely developed airline traffic, and the city is adjacent to water on both sides. There are both ocean ports with deep water and embankments for inland ships.

The disadvantage is that although the fog sea will not freeze in winter, the gem river will; The coastal sea surface diluted by the water of Baoshi river may also freeze.

Once frozen, all ports in eboden will be frozen for at least three months until next spring; This is not over, because the river water in the spring flood season will not melt, but break ice - the only end of any ship berthing at the port of eboden at this time is that the ice hit back and forth will become a pile of broken wood.

In the past, every winter was a big headache for eboden; Now Loren is eager to freeze the sea - as long as the sea freezes, the Azores fleet will not be able to land in eboden in three months.

In three months... Loren could hold the city with natural danger without doing anything, and the imperial army would assemble in eboden and stand by and confront the Azores along the river and the coast.

Unfortunately, the midsummer of this year is so long that winter comes too late. There should be no chance to wait until the eboden port is frozen.

But it's still worth looking forward to.

"If only it could start freezing in a week," whispered the dark haired wizard.

"What?" Lucian, who didn't respond, was stunned.

"The enemy's movement." Loren changed the topic: "have the scouts and lighthouses along the coast still got nothing?"

"Nothing was found; not to mention the fleet, not even a fishing boat... Although there can be no fishing boats this season."

"There remained but a single one. The small boats that Eboden had left were make complaints about the coast, but nothing was done."

"But because of this, you can look at the sea and be stunned here, calmly arrange the defense deployment and design the next defense plan."

With the corners of his mouth raised, Lucian inadvertently glanced at the eboden wall behind him.

Under the city wall, the imperial Legion soldiers are working with the urban defense army of eboden to build simple fortifications around the fortress tower with horses and boards, and then dig trenches behind the fortifications.

They divided each team of 100 people into three teams, divided their work and worked together. They stacked a layer of wood boards every half foot, and stacked them according to the standard of compaction of loess and gravel, so as to build the simplest two meter high and half meter thick wall; Each wall can stand about two rows of people up and down, wide enough to house half a hundred people team.

Not only that, the walls are not arranged side by side, but in a group of three, one behind and two in front, and the walls on both sides of the front row have a slight inward arc; Then take three groups as one side, the same front, two back... And so on.

Different from the normal offensive and defensive war of battle array confrontation, it is difficult for both the offensive and defensive sides of the harbor landing war to fight with a neat and unified front. Once the war starts, it will inevitably evolve into a scuffle; This small and many small "single-sided fortress" defense chain will tear the battlefield apart.

In this way, it is difficult for the enemy to quickly pass through the battlefield and gather forces to attack the fortress and wall near the harbor; The defenders on the city wall can take advantage of this opportunity to aim stone catapults and heavy crossbows at the "wall line" and kill the enemy in large numbers.

Behind each wall, there is a trench two people deep and slightly narrower than the wall, and then insert barbs into it to pour asphalt - so that because the width is smaller than the wall, the defenders can retreat calmly, but the attacker is not necessarily.

Once the asphalt filled trench ignites, it can temporarily curb the enemy's offensive momentum. It can not only give full play to the projection troops on the city tower, but also give the retreating defenders enough time to complete the reorganization, rather than a sudden collapse.

As for eboden... Although she is a commercial port, it does not mean that she really has no means or preparation to defend against foreign enemies... In fact, as early as the birth of eboden, she began to have a defense plan for the port and coast.

"Although there are many coastal fortresses in eboden, only three are really important." looking at the wall behind him, the black haired wizard seemed to be talking to himself and raised three fingers:

"First of all, nature is the circular fortress guarding the harbor, which is also the top priority for us to defend the coast, because there are a large area of open land and sand beach in front of her, but it is condescending, so all temporary fortifications are prepared for her."

"The second is the high tower close to the city wall. Once the enemy invades, the lighthouse deep in the harbor will be lost. This high tower is the only commanding point of the whole battlefield and will certainly become the target of the enemy."

"As for the last..." the black haired wizard frowned slightly, and his eyes moved from the sea level in front of him to the gem River in the West:

"It's the ancient castle hanging outside on the other side of the gem river."

The grey pupil boy looked down Lauren's line of sight and couldn't help frowning.

In the city, the wall of eboden doesn't look so strange, but once you stand outside the wall, it looks very abrupt.

The whole eboden can be said to be built along the coast and along the river, but only at the sea mouth of the gem River, a fortress was built on the other side of the river, and she was forcibly connected with the walls in the north and West, just like an extra triangle.

In order to connect the fortress with the city wall, eboden also made great efforts to build two huge steel gates under the city wall. Therefore, the city wall at the connection was made very thin. It is said that the city wall is more like two bridges, one before and one after blocking the sea entrance of the gem river.

Why build such a thing... Lucian scratched his head in great trouble.

Not to say that the eboden people knew that they would be attacked by the Azores sooner or later hundreds of years ago?

"When the castle was built, of course, it was not used to guard against the Azores." the black haired wizard narrowed his eyes and gave a mocking sneer at the corners of his mouth:

"On the contrary, she is used to guard against the Empire."

Empire?

"Yes, more accurately, it's the imperial capital - or any merchant ship from the upper reaches of the gem river." seeing the confused eyes of the gray pupil boy, Loren nodded:

"Two walls or gates sealed the best berthing port along the river and the only deep-water port on the gem River... Eboden firmly controlled the control of ocean trade and the dominance of inland trade in this way."

"But now, we can turn around and use her against the Azores."

As soon as Lucian's eyes coagulated, he immediately understood the key.

Yes, as long as we make good use of this fortress, we can keep the enemy's fleet out of the gem River - so that the rear can continuously send materials and reinforcements without considering security issues.

The city of eboden doesn't have to worry about being attacked on both sides. It just needs to arrange all the troops on the front line of the coast.

At the same time, because the lower reaches of the Baoshi River are the sea entrance, the current is relatively fast, so the enemy's ships cannot park or go upstream against the current, attack the relatively thin gate, and can only aim at the ancient castle and the walls on both sides.

But this means that the enemy will be exposed to the attack range of projection weapons on the city wall. At the same time, because large ships can't berth, only small boats can continuously transport a small group of troops to land and attack each time.

"Not only that." the black haired wizard suddenly shook his head and looked meaningfully at the circular fortress of the harbor behind him. The index finger of his right hand moved back and forth between the two Castles:

"Pay attention to their position. Do you find anything wrong?"

Location?

Lucian raised his eyebrows and looked back and forth for a long time, but he didn't find the problem said by the black haired wizard.

The dark haired wizard just looked at him with a bad smile.

"Not yet?"

"No, nothing." the frowning gray pupil scratched his head a little embarrassed: "what exactly are you talking about... What's wrong with the position and position?"

"Look again, try again. You're about to find out!" Lauren "encouraged" with a bad smile: "come on, I believe you!"

Lucian turned black and frowned even more.

Looking at his incredible eyes, Loren had to sigh and point to the left and right: "don't you find that the positions of the two castles are almost parallel, and they are close to the coast, a distance from the inner city wall?"

The grey pupil shrugged his shoulders, then tilted his head to look at him, saying then?

Loren had to sigh again and looked at the sun above his head and the flags on the two Castles: "well, there's another minute."

"One minute, one minute what?"

The dark haired wizard ignored him, but looked up at the sun and counted down silently in his heart.

A minute later, Lucian, who had not yet understood, heard a startling noise.

"Boom --!!"

The notes played fiercely, accompanied by the huge waves rolled up on the flat bottom!

At the moment when the sound burst, not only Lucian, but also the soldiers on the city wall and under the city wall grew up in surprise.

Lauren opened his arms and faced the sea. The corner of his grinning mouth made a very proud arc.

The grey pupil boy with wide eyes spent half a minute to find out what had happened from the "roaring" voice.

A chain... Or a "curtain" made of steel, is gradually rising from the sea level, so abruptly in front of him.

Right in front of the whole coastline!

And the two ends of the chain are on two fortresses!

The cracked waves churned and fell on the shore like a shower. The black haired wizard and Lucian standing on the shore were wet from head to foot.

But Lauren still smiled.

"Iron rope blocking the sea - a shameless but useful tactic." Loren took a deep breath and his eyes were bright: "as long as the two fortresses have not fallen, as long as the chain is still across the sea... Azor's fleet will never get close to the coast of eboden!"

"Of course, they can wait until the sea freezes... Such a long chain must be extremely easy to break in cold winter; but once frozen, their fleet is even more impossible to get close."

"We don't have to keep it for a month. We just have to stick to it until the cold winter comes!"

This time, Lucian was completely stunned.

"One thing, Lucian, you're right - that is, I didn't promise connord to become the commander-in-chief of eboden without preparation." Loren looked back at the gray pupil and said slowly:

"Similarly, after the disaster of the ocean fleet, eboden did not really think of any preventive measures - this is eboden, a city of wealth and wisdom, with the top technology and brains of the whole empire and a group of the best craftsmen."

"Here, the problem that money can solve... Is not a problem."

Lucian was stunned for a minute before he woke up.

"This, so to speak... You and Emperor connord and the Dukes said that you could only hold eboden for one month. You deliberately..."

"I said that on purpose. Of course, it is true to some extent - after all, we don't know how the enemy will attack the city." Loren nodded and looked at him naturally:

"How can you make a conclusion about something you don't know?"

"..." Lucian.

Overlooking the morning fog gradually dispersed and the sea level covered with golden light by the morning light, Loren, who was in a happy mood, raised his mouth: "in a word, this battle will be very difficult, but it is by no means that there is no chance to win."

But grey pupil doesn't want to hear anything from him now.

The messenger who hurried from one side took the letter in his hand and pouted his lips. Lucian said in a very cold tone: "consul corona, the Legion commander sent by the Empire and a group of generals have arrived at the tower. I want to discuss with you about the next deployment as soon as possible."

"Then let's hurry over." Lauren smiled disapprovingly:

"It's time to give them some confidence that they can see victory."