LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 358 Du Kecao
One month later, the province of Barua.

The [-] troops of the Noxus Empire have gathered in Tivasser, a small seaside city located just outside the Wuji Mountain.

The tranquility of the small town was completely crushed by the iron hooves of the empire. Amidst the noise of people, horses neighing, drums and horns, there were sub-dragon dogs, bloodthirsty dragon lizards, and flying devil birds. The roars of countless monsters and ferocious beasts resounded throughout the wild .

Steel ballistas, city-breaking catapults, mortars, cannons, alchemy rockets, all kinds of terrifying war weapons were displayed in front of the array, aiming at the Wuji Mountains, which was already a scene of wasteland.

And outside this port, on the calm sea surface, there are more than a dozen steam iron armored battleships as huge as mountains, with turrets like forests, and with the flag of the Noxus Empire hanging high.

This is the main fleet of the Noxian Navy, led by Admiral Dukkor.

Surrounded by land armies and blocked by sea fleets.

The Wuji mountain area, no, it can be said that the entire Balu province has now become a jeopardy.

The leader is stuck in the ground, and the position of the base is completely exposed. From the perspective of the Noxus generals, unless Goddess Janna takes action in person, they probably won't last long.

Either he was quickly flattened by the army, or he escaped in a hurry before the front of the soldiers, there was no third possibility.

But the fact is just the opposite.

"The specific location of the leader's base has been ascertained by scouts a month ago."

"The imperial army has 10 people, and the total strength of the leaders of Zaun is only 1. Even if they give up Zaun and move all the soldiers to Ionia, and count the soldiers they recruited in Ionia recruits, the enemy’s total strength cannot exceed 2.”

10 vs. 2, the advantage should be mine.

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"The empire's [-] troops gathered in Balu'e and attacked the mountains with all their strength for a month. Why have they only blown up a few hills and didn't even break into the mountain gate of Wuji Village?!"

"General Lester—"

"Please also explain, how have you directed this past month?"

At the battle meeting where all the generals gathered, a middle-aged man took the seat and questioned Lester in a stern tone.

From his handsome face with sword scars and white temples, but still charming, as well as his elegant demeanor revealed in his gestures, which can't be concealed even the soldier's evil spirit, we can see:

There is a high probability that this general was born in a certain aristocratic family in the empire, and he is a man of the red and black banner of the Immortal Fortress.

And that's exactly what happened.

"General Du Kecao." Lester respectfully called out the general's name with a smile on his face.

Du Kecao's ancestors have been honored for generations, and what is even more commendable is that the Kecao family has abided by the spirit of the Noxus Empire's powerhouse for generations, and did not relax the education and training of future generations because of the power of the family. honed.

Therefore, almost every generation of the Kekao family's patriarchs are elites of the empire, deadly assassins, brave warriors, respected heroes, and generals who guard one side.

Du Kecao did not humiliate his ancestors.

He is the leading assassin master in the empire, and one of the few in the old aristocratic faction. He is comparable to Darius in terms of qualifications, combat exploits and abilities, and he is a general who has won the hearts and minds of the generals.

And Darkwill traveled thousands of miles this time, and transferred Du Kecao from the western battlefield of Demacia to the easternmost battlefield of Ionia, in order to let him, as a representative of the old aristocracy, personally command This is the war of the Noxian Empire against the leaders.

After all, the Ionian Front was originally under Swain's full command.

The generals of the former Ionian Front Army, such as Leicester, were basically Swain's protégés.

Now the empire is at war with the leader in Ionia, but Swain has always maintained a weird peace with the leader in Piltover.

Of course, the old aristocratic faction can't rest assured that they don't send someone like Du Kecao as the supervising general.

As soon as Du Kecao arrived in Ionia, he saw the embarrassing scene of the empire's [-] troops attacking the mountain for a month without any progress, so he immediately had an opinion on the former commander, General Lester.

Not just opinions, but skepticism.

One hundred thousand elites spent ten months and couldn't take down a small Wuji Village. Lester's command performance cannot be described as incompetent.

This makes people wonder whether he received the remote control command from his teacher Swain, just like Swain who is hanging up in Piltover now, deliberately working without effort.

"General Du Cocao, I have really tried my best." Lester was also helpless.

Swain did tell him to preserve his strength as much as possible, but he didn't tell him to fish in water.During his one-month attack on the mountain, he really didn't release any water.

"It's not because our army doesn't work hard, but the enemy army has technology!" Lester complained, while explaining: "If you observe the front line for two more days, you will know that the firepower of those leaders is too strong, let alone ten Wan Dajun, even if there are another [-], we will not be able to fight in!"

"Oh?" Du Kecao frowned slightly.

The [-] imperial army is no match for the leader's firepower
Not only did this remark sound unbelievable, but it also seriously violated his military common sense as a Noxus general.

"Firepower? General Leicester, you mean... Those leaders have blocked the empire's [-] troops from the mountain with just long-range technological weapons?"

Du Kecao couldn't understand it.

In his cognition, firearms, artillery, rockets, although these technological weapons have certain power, they are only a foil on the battlefield after all.

What really played a decisive role in the war had to be the swords and spears left by the ancestors, the bow and horse riding and shooting, and the empire's invincible legion of extraordinary people.

"General, we have to analyze specific issues." Lester said: "If the two armies are facing each other in the plains, then Zaun's firearms troops will definitely not be able to stop a round of charge of our dragon lizard knights. "

"But this is the Wuji Mountain."

"The terrain of the mountains is rugged, not only the cavalry is ineffective, but also the army is difficult to deploy. Although the number of [-] troops is large, the number of people who can participate in the attack on the mountain is only a few thousand at most."

"Why?" Du Kecao frowned when he heard this: "General Leicester, don't I know soldiers?"

As a veteran honed in actual combat, he certainly knew that the mountainous terrain was not conducive to cavalry and monster combat, and the limited width of the battle line was not conducive to the deployment of large armies.

This will indeed seriously affect the combat power of the imperial army.

"But the rugged mountain terrain will also seriously affect the shooting range of the leader's firearms troops."

"How could they block the empire's [-] troops with mere technological weapons?"

Cannons and other powerful firearms are blocked in the mountains, making it difficult to use them flexibly.

And if you adopt guerrilla tactics, use small-caliber mortars, bazookas and other gadgets to attack at close range.
Sorry then.

When you get close enough to sneak up on the imperial soldiers, these muscular men can already shoot you through with bows and arrows.

Moreover, with the pitiful power of the small rocket launchers and mortars, it is still a question of whether they can break through the extraordinary fighters of the empire.

"General Du Caucao, you don't know something."

"The firearms used by those leaders are not artillery at all, nor are they rocket launchers, rocket launchers—"

"These bastards." Lester revealed his true feelings and cursed aggrievedly: "Those bastards are using drones!"

"This..." Du Kecao thought deeply, "you mean, the plane?"

That's right, the "Blue Bird 1 UAV" that suppressed Amistan at the beginning has now been widely used in the Balua battlefield.

The navigation of this kind of drone depends entirely on the blue bird incarnation of the goddess Janna, and the technical requirement is that it can fly, and the cost is extremely low.

And while it's cheap, it's surprisingly powerful.

The maximum ammunition load of this UAV can reach two tons, and in the current close combat situation, it can also free up load and add more explosives by sacrificing range and reducing fuel.

More than two tons of explosives fell on the head, let alone those elite soldiers who were still in the range of mortals, even those extraordinary fighters with rough skin and thick flesh, might have to die on the spot.

The key is
"Not only is this thing powerful and accurate, but it doesn't even need a human to drive it."

"The army attacked the mountain several times, but every time they didn't even see the shadow of the enemy. They didn't even capture a mountain, but they were blown up to death by the suicide drones that fell down from the sky."

"Also, this damn drone's attack range is extremely far."

"Take off from Wuji Village, even the city of Tivaser, which is more than ten kilometers away, and the barracks we are in are completely within their attack range."

The voice just fell
boom! ! !
There was a loud bang of thunder above everyone's head.

Du Kecao was startled, thinking that the leader had already entered his barracks.

Lester and the others were very calm: "It's okay, General Kekao."

"This is the news that the drone was intercepted by our army's air defense mage."

"Those leaders would launch a few planes into our barracks every day, and we are all used to it."

Kekao: "."

It was like being clocked in by the enemy at work, directly attacking the barracks in front of an army of [-].

The imperial army was not only powerless to fight back, but even got into the habit of being beaten, and new arms such as "air defense mages" were born.

Who is beating whom?
"I see." Du Kecao sighed lightly.

Although he was very dissatisfied with the battle situation, after this understanding, he also understood that the army's setback this time was indeed not a crime of war.

Du Kecao is also keenly aware that the leader's "blue bird guided suicide drone" has completely changed the traditional mode of warfare.

The war mode of Runeterra has progressed from cold weapons for hundreds of years in one fell swoop, and has entered the threshold of information-based warfare beyond visual range.

The enemy has the advantage of land and weapons. In this case, attacking the mountain without thinking is to use up human life to consume the opponent's ammunition and steel.

Human lives in Noxus were worth little, but soldiers' lives were.

The lives of these elite soldiers were exchanged for a bunch of cheap rags and scraps of iron. Whether the exchange was worthwhile or not, even if it was exchanged, the Noxus Empire would have to suffer from vomiting blood.

"What about us? Where are our firearms?"

Du Cucao tried to find a way to deal with it.

Leaders have firearms, so doesn't Noxus have firearms?

Noxus not only has, but far outnumbers the leaders.Even, many of the artillery and rockets of the Noxus army were imported from Zaun.

In terms of the scale of firepower, Noxus should be stronger than the leader.

"If it is not feasible to attack the mountain directly, then use cannons to open the way first." Du Kecao said.

"General." Lester questioned immediately: "Cannons can't deal with drones!"

"I didn't ask you to use cannons to deal with drones." Du Kecao said coldly, "I asked you to use cannons to set fire to the mountain and razed the entire mountain to the ground."

"Wuji Village is deep in the mountains, surrounded by dense trees. The fire will wipe out all life, and it will cause the balance to break and the evil spirits to invade. When the fire spreads, I don't believe that the leader can stay inside."

Du Kecao's trick is very vicious, and it sounds really feasible.

But Lester said, "No, General Kekao."

He had already tried this trick.

结果
"As soon as our incendiary bombs were fired, they were blown back by a gust of evil wind. Not a single tree was set on fire, but many of our soldiers were injured and a lot of guns were lost."

In the face of leaders, Noxus' long-range weapons are equivalent to waste products.

"Even if we don't use artillery and send soldiers into the mountains to set fires, the ignited flames will be quickly blown out by the strong wind."

"Even because of the reversal of the wind direction, the fire sometimes turned around and burned the soldiers we sent to set the fire on the spot"

Lester poured bitter water one after another, and he did use all the tricks he could use:
"I originally wanted to gather a group of wind elemental mages and take control of the wind on the battlefield from the wind leader..."

With [-] elites, there are hundreds of wind elemental mages that Leicester can gather.

However, it was such a group of powerful extraordinary forces that came before the leaders.
"Our mages are simply no match for leaders."

The goddess of the leader of the wind, but the incarnation of the wind.

How could these human beings who control the wind element beat the god of the wind element?
Wanting to rely on the wind elemental mage to break the situation head-on, this is really a bit of a joke.

"." So, Du Kecao was also silent.

He could tell that General Lester had indeed tried his best.

Conventional combat methods seem to be useless in front of this group of leaders.

The [-] army was useless at all, but instead became a burden that made the logistics cry, scolded the finances, and wasted money and food in vain.

It seems that it can only use the last resort.

In the extraordinary world, the most unpretentious and most practical and efficient trick——

Gather all elite fighters and high-level mages to form an assault force composed entirely of extraordinary powers, and then F2A.

Extraordinary powers have always been the armor-piercing cones of the imperial army, as long as the cones are heavy and hard enough, they can pierce through everything.

Rugged terrain?

Our mages can fly into the sky, warriors can leap [-] meters, and they also have flying mounts.

Sharp firearms?
Our mages have shields, and warriors have thick blood bars.

As long as the superpowers of the whole army are assembled to charge, it's only a short ten-kilometer mountain road. Are you afraid that you won't be able to attack?

Du Cucao was talking about his thoughts.

"I can't attack!" Unexpectedly, Lester sighed again.

But this time, there was even a little fear in his eyes, a little bit of shock.

"A few days ago, I tried the method you mentioned."

"I assembled 500 elite fighters and 300 high-ranking mages to launch an assault. They are all battle-hardened, powerful soldiers who are not afraid of interception by enemy drones."

"In the beginning, the attack went well. But later"

"What's wrong?" Du Kecao frowned.

"Later." Lester replied helplessly: "We realized that we were facing far more than just leaders."

As he spoke, the figure of a young girl flashed in his mind.

That girl had already left a huge psychological shadow on Leicester in Presidium more than a year ago.

It was only the first time that the opponent entered the battlefield, and he and his teacher Swain's tens of thousands of troops were beaten and defeated.

And now, he actually saw her again in Wuji Mountain.

"We are facing Irelia, the Presidian Rebels."

"There are also the Shadow Stream Sect, the Balance Sect, and the Vasayas"

Ionia has prominent rebel forces, and almost all of them have come to help.

So even if it is only about high-end combat power, the leaders will not lose to the imperial army now.

"This..." Du Kecao immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

It turns out that without knowing it, the leader has hooked up with the local forces in Ionia, and even invited such heavyweight reinforcements.

From this point of view, the [-] troops of Noxus really have nothing to do with these leaders hiding in the mountains.

"If you have to say it." Suddenly, Lester whispered: "It's not impossible for us."

"Oh?" Du Kecao looked over.

"The method General Urgot used," said Lester cautiously.

"You" Du Kecao's face sank.

Lester didn't need to remind him of this method, he had already thought of it.

Leaders are a bunch of bad guys.As long as Noxus continues to slaughter the city, they will definitely come down to save people.

In this way, Noxus turned from the offensive side to the defensive side, completely offsetting the leader's geographical advantage.

Lester knew that this trick was easy to use, but Urgot's death was not far away. He knew that whoever continued to slaughter the city would be the leader's number one enemy.

In order to preserve his strength, he is not willing to make such a move.

But well.
"General Kekao, you think about it" Lester encouraged Du Kekao without hesitation.

He didn't have the guts to be the first bird himself, but he did have the guts to encourage Du Cocao to do his dirty work.

Not only is there, but it is huge.

He wished that Du Kecao of the old aristocratic faction would be targeted by the enemy now, and he would suffer both losses from the leader and Irelia.

Lester thought so, however.
"Enough!" Du Caucao just replied with an unhappy face, "I'm not Urgot, and I'm not you."

Although he is a master assassin and imperial general who has killed countless people, massacring civilians is not his fighting style.

Many generals in Noxus have massacred records, but he never did.

"Then how do you plan to deal with these leaders?" Lester asked.

Du Cucao fell into deep thought and remained silent.

"General?" Lester tentatively asked.

"." Du Kecao was still thinking.

"This..." Lester wanted to ask again.

And at this time, Du Kecao replied: "I have my own way."

As he spoke, he did not explain too much to Lester, but ended the meeting hastily after some chatting.

After the meeting was over, Du Cucao avoided the crowd and returned to the camp.

At this time, he heard his order to the adjutant beside him:
"Call Katerina and Tyrone—I have a secret mission that needs to be given to them."

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