Chapter 376: Annoying Magical Message
It was extremely easy to capture Kervo City. Even without using ground troops, the night elves' air force alone easily defeated Kervo City's resistance.
In addition to the huge gap in strength between the two sides, the suddenness of the night elves' attack was also a major factor in the easy victory. The people of Kervo City had no idea that the night elves, who had been blocked by Marshal Spindu to the west of Inno Pass, would suddenly appear in the heart of the empire and attack them.
After capturing Kervo City and plundering the city's resources, the night elf troops did not stay for long and soon continued to move eastward. About a hundred kilometers ahead was their next target, Bolivar City.
If Yu Fei had to say what he hated most in Eslaze, it would be magic communication. This function developed by magicians made the suddenness of the war completely invisible - perhaps this is also the reason why there are so many unspoken rules in the war in the human world of Eslaze.
After all, if you can't destroy a country in a surprise attack, or if you have an absolute advantage in strength, it's not a simple matter to completely destroy a country after the enemy gets the information through magic communication and resists.
For the night elves, the existence of magic communication is even more disgusting to them. With the existence of the Father God, the night elves don't need magic communication to communicate very conveniently. Magic communication, to a certain extent, offsets this convenience of the night elves.
However, compared with the barrier-free and casual communication between the night elves, magic communication actually has many defects. First of all, magic communication requires a powerful magician to start; secondly, starting magic communication will consume some magic materials.
The most important thing is that magic communication is not instant. The farther the distance, the later it will be to receive the magic communication. Of course, this delay is not too exaggerated, otherwise it would be better to deliver the information as fast as possible. The transmission speed of magic communication is generally between three and five times the speed of sound.
After the night elves captured Kervo, the following Bolivar City, West Saint Pass, and even the Holy Imperial Capital would surely get the news soon. After all, although the resistance in the city was quickly eliminated, there must have been magicians who secretly sent magic messages to other places.
In fact, the night elves are not without a way to limit magic messages. For example, the domain formed after Illidan activates his ultimate skill, Demon Transformation, will block the connection between the inside and outside of the domain. Magic messages will be useless in the face of domain skills.
Among the troops sent by the Dark Night Empire, only Illidan and the fairy dragon Ysera have domain skills, and these two domain skills are big moves with a long cooldown time. Even if the two big moves are used in Kervo City and Bolivar City respectively, blocking the news that the night elves have entered the heartland of the Holy Lion Empire, it will be exposed when attacking West Saint Pass.
At that time, Illidan and Ysera, without big moves, will obviously weaken their combat effectiveness a lot, which will be a bit of a loss. So after some consideration, Illidan decided to directly capture the city of Kervo, instead of using his demon transformation to block the city and massacre it.
Anyway, even if it is exposed, the Holy Imperial Capital can only fight with the power it has now. Whether it is the imperial guards originally stationed not far from the imperial capital, or the millions of troops assembled, they have already left the heartland of the Holy Lion Empire to the west of Inno Pass to "annihilate" the invasion army of the Dark Night Empire. It is absolutely difficult to return to support for a while.
In this case, it is better to retain strength and use all the strength to attack the Holy Imperial Capital. Yu Fei has been to the imperial capital of the Holy Lion Empire before, and he can vaguely sense how many strong people there are in the Holy Imperial Capital. If the two heroes of the Night Elves' invading force are not in the strongest state to fight, there may be some danger.
Since the existence of the Night Elves has been exposed because of the hateful magic transmission, the next thing to do is to march and blitzkrieg, and try to give the Holy Lion Empire as little time as possible to react.
Still with the double bonus of the Swiftness Aura and the Wind Control Magic, the night elf troops rushed to Bolivar City at a lightning speed. However, one problem that the night elves had to face was that the archer troops became the weak link in the team.
Except for the archers, the other arms, the Hippogryph Riders, the Raptor Druids and the Fairy Dragons are all flying units, so their movement speed is naturally very high; the Huntresses and the Fawns are equivalent to cavalry, so their speed is naturally very fast.
Even the Claw Druids and the Mountain Giants, one can transform into a Wind Wolf and move forward quickly; the other looks bulky but has a height, so it can go a long way with one step, and its movement speed is not slow. The Glaive Throwers, which were originally the slowest, were all lifted up by Furion's flying magic, and they were the fastest ones.
Only the archers, although they were extremely sensitive as night elves and moved several times faster than ordinary humans, were much slower than other arms in the night elf army.
Finally, it was Maiev who came up with a solution. Previously, when crossing the Inno Pass, the Hippogryph Knights and Archers used a transfer method, and this method can still be used during the forced march.
Anyway, the Hippogryph Knights are the second fastest in the army after the Glaive Throwers blessed by the flying magic and the Raptor Druids transformed into Storm Crows. They can fly forward for a while to put down the archers and then go back to pick up the lagging archers in batches.
In this way, with the night elves speeding up the march in every possible way, a hundred kilometers were covered in just one hour. Looking at the city of Bolivar in the distance, which had its gates closed and was on guard, Illidan showed a scornful smile and directly ordered the entire army to attack the city, without any intention of letting the troops rest.
As a night elf army trained from various ancient trees, it is difficult for them to feel tired. Even if they have just made a forced march, they can still be thrown into the battle immediately. Bolivar City is the weakest of the three obstacles before the Holy Imperial Capital, and the night elves do not need to be more careful.
Obviously, there are indeed fish that have slipped through the net in Kervo City and sent out annoying magic messages, allowing Bolivar City to prepare for the battle in advance, which greatly reduces the suddenness of the night elves' attack.
However, under the huge gap in strength, the so-called battle preparation of Bolivar City is almost the same as not having it. The air force still goes first, and the ground force follows in to clean up the battlefield.
Compared to Kervo, the trouble was that the gates of Bolivar were closed because of the advance preparations, which prevented the night elves' ground forces from advancing.
Of course, this was not a big problem. Bolivar, located in the heart of the empire and a commercial center, did not have very strong walls. Illidan was too lazy to even go through the city gates, so he directly ordered the mountain giant troops to cooperate with the glaive throwers to flatten the walls of Bolivar.
Amid the rubble and smoke, the night elf troops entered Bolivar as conquerors and began to plunder unscrupulously.
Compared to Kervo, the resistance of Bolivar was much weaker. After all, most of the people in this city were branches of the Chamber of Commerce or the family, and there were not many strong people. But on the contrary, the relatively weak Bolivar brought much more benefits to the night elves than Kervo.
As a commercial center near the Holy Imperial Capital, the resources in Bolivar were beyond the imagination of Illidan and even Yu Fei. A large amount of magic crystals, magic cores, and even gold that Yu Fei originally despised flowed into the space rings of the night elves.
It should be mentioned here that because only one space ring can be worn, the space rings in the hands of several heroes in the army were soon filled up - even if they had replaced them with the largest capacity they found.
In desperation, Illidan could only let some of the elven dragons hold the space rings to load the spoils. As an air unit, the elven dragon can temporarily shift phase when in mortal danger, so it is the safest in the war.