Scales of Eternal Order

The Rust City was once glorious. At that time, it also had a reminiscent old name-“Stainless Steel City”.

The origin of this name is from the meteorite iron outside the city. Legend has it that once a god died and turned into stars and fell in this area, so that the subway was densely covered with sand.

The high-quality iron sands that were collected all over the place, coupled with the mining pits with a large amount of coal unearthed around, made this place slowly the city of iron smelting at the time of the United States.

Various instruments and weapons made of meteorite are not only soft and hard in texture, but also have the extraordinary characteristics of corrosion resistance and rust resistance. These local specialties are sold to the cities of the United States through the endless caravans, in exchange for wine, grain, spices… and other goods, as well as more iron forging practitioners who come to settle and work here.

At that time, the “Stainless Steel City”, also known as the City of Blacksmiths, was the “City of Gods Gifts” that many American emperors yearned for.

But after hundreds of years of mining, even if it was really transformed by the Spiritual God body, the meteorite iron sand around the city was also mined. In the beginning, it was possible to rely on the accumulation of blacksmith resources to purchase iron ore from other places and maintain ironware sales after reprocessing.

But when people discovered that the steel creations of the “Stainless Steel City” would also rust, several high-quality iron ore deposits were discovered in other places in Meidiqi. The city is involuntarily going into decline. After losing a large number of valuable skilled craftsmen, the “stainless steel city” has gradually become a “rust city”.

The bluestone bricks that used to be purchased from other places at a large price have been weathered and damaged, and can only be repaired with red clay bricks mixed with the roots of Achnatherum splendens. The defenders of the City Guard leaned on the patched battlements, waiting boredly for the next change of guard.

In the vast desert, the air is stagnant, like a prismatic mirror. A group of people driving a mule cart seemed to follow Time Freeze. Although they could see the movement, they were barely close. The guards on guard took turns counting the number of vehicles, but were always at odds.

That was the coal transportation fleet. Since losing the flagship product of “stainless steel”, the rest of the industry in Rust City can only rely on underground coal mines. On the contrary, every day there will be merchants or official purchase teams from other cities who buy coal from other cities. The former buys a limited amount, while the latter pushes down too much price. Unlike the previous ironware sales, there are huge profits. The family property of Rust City It is getting thinner.

“It’s the caravan of old camels, twenty-five carts, haha, I won the bet. You will stand on guard for me tomorrow.”

The closer the convoy, the guards soldiers who lost the bet cursed twice in a low voice, and they hurriedly worked with others to pull the arm to lift the city gate, so that the purchase caravan could enter the city for business. While doing the work underneath, he wondered whether he would go shopping for some new grain brought by the caravan soon, and fill in the bottomed rice noodle tank at home.

The breeze blew suddenly, disturbing the flag on the city wall and making a “hunting” sound. “Good luck, old Camel, the wind started as soon as I entered the city.” The guard who was familiar with the caravan boss and won the bet congratulated him. There are only two types of weather in the desert, windy and windless, and when the breeze comes up, it can be said that a terrifying dust storm will swept across it after a while.

The shadow of flying birds appeared on the horizon-this is normal. When the birds feel the sandstorm is approaching, they will instinctively look for the city as a safe haven. The guards guarding the city exchanged glances between each other–after standing guard for a while, they secretly “borrowed” the crossbow to shoot two birds and fight the teeth.

The grey goose can be roasted directly, the feathers of the red-breasted black goose can be collected and sold for money, and the bone forehead of the hard-headed white goose is also very valuable…I am thinking about how to classify different catches. , The older guard captain suddenly jumped from the root of the wall of the watchtower at the head of the city and looked far away from the pergola.

“It doesn’t seem to be a flying bird, it’s a bit too big. Ah…the enemy attack!”

The old rusty city was aroused by the alarm, things have remained the same, but people have changed The guards whose scenes are already familiar still can’t ignore the real “White Cloud Cang Dog” carrying Dengyun wings.

On the order of the General General, the Heavenly Dog clan launched a surprise attack on Rust City. This city, which has no sense of existence in Mediqi, is a strategically important place that cannot be abandoned in the eyes of the Wasang people.

Except for the flagship flying boats of the Elder’s Council family with a large number of anti-gravity floating arrays attached, most of the ships connected in series are huge balloons sewn with leather that has been refined by alchemy agents. Lift to the air. And to fill these balloons, you need to use a special burner to continuously heat a huge amount of air.

Stepping on the springboard passages erected on both sides of the ship’s side, hundreds of tall and strong slaves used their backpacks to send coal into the furnace without interruption. In order to supply the consumption required by the burner, the tandem ships suspended under the balloons had to set aside several ships to store fuel.

According to calculations, these reserves are still not enough to support the air fleet’s attack on Beit, the capital of Medici. Therefore, to capture the Rust City first to obtain sufficient coal reserves for replenishment has become the key to victory or defeat.

At the same time, Celestial Hound Race is also used to test the aerial assault tactics, and to test whether this new war mode is feasible.

The war in the Ash World, whether it is field battles between the two armies, city offense and defense, or maritime hegemony, is actually still in a more primordial form. The Wasang people have the ambition to become the master of All Heavens Myriad Realms slaves. After a lot of contact with foreign land, they naturally gradually compared the deficiencies of the Ash World War Mode——

Although it is more primordial than it is The “ceremony war” (two parties scheduled time, agreed place, various sects one person or army compete for victory) requires a lot of advancement, but it still has not escaped the barriers of “hammer anvil tactics”.

On land, the main force of the opponent’s front is dragged with wearable infantry like an anvil, and elite troops such as cavalry are used to repeatedly attack the opponent’s formation like a hammer; in naval battles, The specially-made warships fight with the opponent’s fleet, and then the battleship equipped with long-range attack weapons will repeatedly attack the opponent’s ship in a single column or horizontal formation.

The battle in the air is mostly entrusted to riders riding flying mounts such as eagle horses and griffins. As for attacking from the air to the ground, only relying on weapons such as bows and lances can not achieve effective three-dimensionality. Blow. At this time, in order to cooperate with Celestial Hound Race’s aerial assault, the Wa Sang Craftsmanship Workshop also prepared some new weapons for them.

“Pay attention to the flying height, don’t waste your energy and shoot at the defender with the arch of your foot!”

“When you find the target, immediately release the falling flame!”

“Alert squad, pay attention to searching for the wizards that have launched, and once found to launch an attack on their own!”

Celestial Hound Race retelled the words confessed by the General General’s tactical staff in a vivid manner, without appearing noisy.

The spiral wing sounded loudly, and the squad members in charge of the guard scattered out looking for the caster who might pose a threat. The remaining Heavenly Dog pilots flew forward quickly with their patriarch.

When using the “flame strike”, there was still a little situation-because of the first throw of this alchemy bomb containing white phosphorus, a Heavenly Dog accidentally rubbed it on the body. Fortunately, his painful screaming and tragic fall caused other clansman to increase their attention, and most of the other clansman’s falling flames bombed the governor’s mansion in Rust City.

Presumably, with the large army, the alert squad specially used to deal with the guarding mage is quite smooth. The city tax of Rust City can only support a small number of spellcasters to stay here, and the most powerful one is just a senior gray robe mage who is applying for advanced black robe certification.

When the city was attacked by Heavenly Dog troops, as soon as a wizard wanted to take a flying carpet into the air to defend against foreign enemies, he received continuous bow and arrow sniper—compared to the ordinary person, Heavenly with bird claws Dog can control the cloud wing, one hand hold blade, and use a special foot arch to shoot.

During the deduction before the engagement, Wasang’s tactical staff considered dealing with the mages. The Heavenly Dog of the alert squad not only received long-term sniper shooting training with the foot bow, but also each distributed three enchanted armor piercing arrows with the “anti-protection arrow stone spell” attached before departure.

The unprepared Medici casters were hit hard just as soon as they met these well-prepared strong enemies. Several precious gray robe mages died in succession due to the enchanting armor piercing arrows. The white-robed apprentices driving the flying carpet died down one after another, and quickly looked for opportunities to land before they escaped alive.

The governor of Rust City is the same as the Aigu of Spat City. It is rare to be the Pharaoh Bloodline Prince and also the governor of the city. But unlike Igu, his family has been living in this city for several generations. It is precisely because of the important value of the “stainless steel city” that his ancestors were entrusted by the pharaoh to supervise and manage this place.

At this time, the governor’s mansion has been guarded by flames, and the soldiers of the guards who rushed in could not rush in to rescue. And after the “flame strike” this kind of alchemy bomb exploded, it could burn for a long time on its own. All mortals contaminated with this kind of alchemy flame: the guards, Court Eunuch, the governor’s family, etc., are all the same as the careless Heavenly Like Dog, it turns into a human torch howling in pain.

Attempting to extinguish this alchemical flame with water will not only backfire, but also generate even more deadly poisonous smoke. Only by using a large amount of sand to isolate the air can it be completely wiped out. The rust city mages, who were unable to lift off to resist the Heavenly Dog troops, hurried over, mobilized the spell power stored in the obsidian magic orb, and began to prepare to open a path with earth and stone cushions.

The harsh “weng weng” sound dropping from the sky, the Heavenly Dog troops fiddled with the joystick and adjusted the speed of the cloud wing. Wrapped in a special asbestos robes in a hurry, these Heavenly Dogs are incarnation as agility fighters and rushed towards the center of the governor’s mansion with a short blade.

Unsurprisingly, a family of rust city governors was kidnapped and chose to surrender directly. And the first order he “issued” was to arrest the guarding wizards in the city, and the result was naturally a tumultuous jump-after breaking a few white-robed apprentices, the wizards climbed up the poisonous warrior scimitar Snake, the little devil who climbed on the shoulders of the guards… With the help of the Illusion Technique spell trick, the mage who escaped into the city defended the fort and stood firm.

It’s just that put up a desperate struggle, and soon afterwards, the arrival of the Wasang Airship fleet marked the complete change of hands in Rust City. Heavenly Dog’s aerial assault and beheading operations have created a precedent in the form of war in the Ashes world. A large amount of storage coal that was originally to be transported by merchants was quickly loaded into the cabin by a large mechanical bucket hanging down from the airships, and the airships of Wasang collected sufficient “rations.”

However, the gains of the Wa Sang Empire in this air combat attack led by General General are compared with the losses in the financial crisis that was prepared by the Great Victory across the ocean. It can be regarded as a “Pyrrhic victory”.

From this perspective, the last factor that affects the trend of the two “battlefields”-Izumo City’s Admirer Abe Common and Rust City’s Prince Governor, the former is more important than the latter.

It is the so-called “commoner can also be proud of the prince”, as the title.