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There is another detail. As the only kingdom that has fought against the First Army, it did not reveal the intelligence it had collected to the kingdoms that formed an alliance with it.
In other words, the Kingdom Alliance did not know about Zhang Mu’s First Army and the magical weapons equipped by the First Army.
This made Zhang Mu extremely surprised.
King Lagu is by no means a fool who acts on impulse and fails to consider the overall situation.
As long as King Lagu informs the Kingdom Alliance of the magical weapons, they will be able to greatly reduce their losses with preparation and can also cause even greater casualties to Lake.
After that, it would be much easier for Lagu to attack Lake alone.
However, the opposite is true.
Zhang Mu touched the back of his head, not understanding what King Lagu was doing.
After thinking for a long time, he figured out some ideas.
King Lagu...is he planning to unify the surrounding areas?
If this is the case, then all the bizarre developments become normal.
Assuming that the magic weapons are exposed and known to everyone, then based on the paper strength comparison, the Kingdom Alliance has an absolute advantage.
Even if he was defeated, Lake was unable to counterattack and could only passively defend.
Magical weapons are indeed very powerful, but the Kingdom Alliance gave up on assembling soldiers on a large scale and instead dispersed into small groups led by professionals to cause chaos everywhere. It is very likely that Zhang Mu will only be able to defend the isolated city with his elite troops in the end.
A stalemate or one-sided situation is obviously not what King Lagu wants to see. If it delays too long, the distant empire will join the war.
Therefore, King Lagu, who had experienced the combat power of the First Army, chose to cover up the news of the magic weapons, intending to let both sides fight to a loss.
King Raghu must have been impressed by the mysterious weapon that annihilated Raghu's 30,000-strong army in the Silent Forest.
With it around, the unaware Kingdom Alliance will fight in the conventional way, gathering a large army to attack, and one can imagine what a miserable end it will be.
On Lake's side, Lagu, who didn't know that Zhang Mu had a portal, concluded that a large number of magical weapons would be consumed.
Even if there is no bottom, it will surely be tight.
At this time, if Lagu enters the field again, victory will be easy.
Of course, Lagu also took into account that the reserves of mysterious weapons were still sufficient after the alliance was destroyed. This was not difficult to infer, as we could just look at the frequency of use of mysterious weapons in the later stages of the war.
If there are still many, Naragu will lie low and wait and see what happens next, and change the plan as appropriate.
After figuring it out, Zhang Mu smiled and just wanted to say to King Lagu, "I'm full."
What do you mean?
Don’t send it.
Zhang Mu set up a trap in his mind almost instantly.
Don't you want to see us both lose?
Ok.
Half a year into the war, I gradually reduced the frequency of thermobaric bomb drops, deliberately creating the illusion of a shortage of reserves.
Well... there's no need for the final battle. I'll lead a few saints into the battle, and while I'll destroy the enemy, I'll get seriously injured. Can you bear to sit there and do nothing?
Once you come in, don’t even think about leaving.
The king looked at the strange smile on Zhang Mu's face and shuddered unconsciously. He quickly interrupted him and talked about the elf army.
The army was very large. According to intelligence, it was probably one-third of the entire elf race, and there seemed to be a saint among them.
Because the mage-level Griffin Knight Captain sent back the message before his death.
You know, the Griffin Knight Captain's mount is also of the wizard level, and was conducting reconnaissance in the sky. If it weren't for the intervention of the Saint level, he would never have died.
Knowing that a powerful force was heading towards Lake, Zhang Mu was not worried.
The gods said that Lake deserved to die, and this scene was foreseeable.
"How long will it take them to get to Lake?" Zhang Mu asked.
Perhaps the calm tone of voice calmed the king's anxiety, and the king calmed down: "The army will not march too fast, but they seem to be carrying the "world",
The warriors only had swords for self-defense, and no siege equipment or armor was seen.
Without the need to carry weights, I can increase my speed a bit, um... maybe in a year."
"Hiss..." Zhang Mu sucked in a breath of cold air, "It will take another year to transport the supplies to the 'world'. Are they so idle that they come all the way to attack Lake?
I remember my senior sister said that elves don't believe in gods, when did they become so pious and follow the gods' true words? "
The king smiled bitterly and said, "I am also curious about this. Besides, Lake and the elves are very far apart and there has never been any friction between the two sides. It is unreasonable for them to come."
"Not counting high-level professionals, how strong is the army?"
"Uh... Mr. Zhang Mu, you know that the number of elves is very small compared to humans, right?"
"I know that."
"The elves are few in number but they occupy a rich forest. Even the Empire dares not invade them."
"Then?"
"Elves are apprentices as soon as they reach adulthood."
Damn it?
Sitting up straight, Zhang Mu asked in astonishment: "Doesn't that mean that this army of elves are all professionals?"
"Yes."
Zhang Mu felt that things were getting tricky.
He is not afraid of any army of ordinary people, no matter how many of them come.
Lacking the magic power to enhance and protect the body, the only fate for ordinary people in the face of magical weapons is to be slaughtered.
It’s different for professionals. Once their strong physique gets close to the army, even the First Army equipped with magical weapons will suffer heavy losses.
This is not the most terrifying thing. If this group of elves arrives at the border of Lake and learns about the magic weapons, they will disperse and fight guerrilla warfare...
The king looked at Zhang Mu's frowning brows and said cautiously, "I thought you knew, didn't Avril tell you?"
"She might have thought that the teacher had introduced the elves to me." Zhang Mu shook his head and brought the topic back on track, "Now is not the time to discuss this.
How many elves are there in the army?"
"About forty thousand."
"Forty thousand... You said that all their soldiers are professionals. What's the approximate level range?"
"According to the elves' rules, one must at least be an apprentice to join the army."
Therefore, the most optimistic scenario is that an army of 40,000 apprentice professionals rushes towards Lake in a menacing manner.
However, it is obvious that this army cannot be composed entirely of trainees.
"One year from now..." Zhang Mu was silent for a moment, then stood up and walked out. "Let's put it aside for now and deal with those allied kingdoms and Lagu first. Otherwise, there's no need to discuss what will happen one year from now."
After leaving the palace, he walked towards the military camp outside the city, thinking in his heart how he could destroy the elf army.
It is not that difficult to deal with this army of elves, but it is obviously not easy to deal with if you say it is easy.
The key point is the timing of the attack.
When the elven army arrives near Lake, they will definitely collect intelligence first, and the existence of magical weapons cannot be concealed.
I think as long as the legion commander is not an idiot, knowing that Lake has a weapon of large-scale killing, it is inevitable to divide the troops.
If they succeed in dividing his forces, Zhang Mu will have no way to deal with it and will surely be defeated.
Also divide troops to pursue?
The mobility of an army equipped with magical weapons is far inferior to that of a professional team.
In a field encounter, it is difficult for our side to quickly set up heavy firepower such as howitzers.
By the time it was set up, the professionals on the opposite side had already broken through the firepower network.
Moreover, the battle of two sides running around is not a conventional positional battle. With the teams on both sides crisscrossing each other, it is very likely that the artillery units in the "rear" will encounter the embarrassing situation of running into the enemy.
Moreover, the enemy forces were scattered, and weapons such as thermobaric bombs would have difficulty inflicting significant casualties.
As the fighting continues, the enemy's intelligence will gradually improve, and they will definitely organize teams of high-level professionals to specifically sabotage or even seize missiles and rockets.
Therefore, Zhang Mu quickly identified the necessary conditions for victory, which was not to allow the elven army to enter the country and split up.
The only way to do this is to wipe them out before the elves learn about the missiles.
Among the 40,000 professionals, there is one known Saint-level one. Even if we do not consider the possibility of more Saint-level ones, it should be difficult to accomplish the goal in one battle with only thermobaric bombs.
Thermobaric bombs kill by high temperature and creating a vacuum environment, and these two have very limited effects on high-level professionals.
In this way, even if he launched a saturation attack and caught the elves by surprise, he could only destroy most of the elves. The rest could still cause great trouble to Lake, and he also exposed his thermobaric bomb.
So... I need a more powerful weapon, one that can destroy the elves with one blow, and that can only be... nuclear weapons.
Zhang Mu narrowed his eyes slightly.
Supernormal is no longer a secret on Blue Star. Except for those backward areas where televisions and mobile phones are luxuries, almost everyone knows about it.
Using shadow magic to steal a nuclear bomb at this time... It's okay, but it's not very decent. It's not very decent for the entire supernatural world.
He could indeed create a new superhuman and give him the identity of a thief who stole nuclear weapons.
But if this happens, Mr. Gao, Immortal Xu, and Dumbledore will be extremely embarrassed.
An excuse must be legitimate and reasonable and will not arouse suspicion.
Zhang Mu had an idea in mind, so he quickened his pace and rushed to the camp outside the city to inspect it. After making sure that everyone was training hard, he called out the portal and returned to Blue Star.
He then transformed into Mr. Gao and appeared at Neo's villa.
The old man has been very busy lately.
We must not only pay attention to the construction progress of the school, but also mobilize resources to start the spacecraft project.
In the past, mobilizing resources was the easiest part, but now it has become a problem.
The assets and power of several major families were taken over not long ago. Although it is a bit absurd to talk about "loyalty" these days, those families have been operating for many years and have cultivated many loyal fans.
They seemed to have abandoned life and death and were only trying to mess with Neo.