The grand strategy of the nomads is the same no matter where they are. Rely on mobility to hit the enemy's weak points, and rely on cruelty to destroy the enemy's will. Therefore, the nomads in the lost land can also play games such as slaughtering the city and not sealing the sword for three days.
This method is effective against ordinary countries and ordinary cities. The cowardly group of people within the enemy will choose to actively help because of the tragic situation of the example before them, and disintegrate their own people from within, just looking for a way out.
But for the magic tower, this trick is not so easy to use.
A tower can support twenty people to death, and the tower owner has absolute authority; in the face of war, the tower owner does not rely on people to fight, but relies on the magic tower to fight. Therefore, anyone who dares to show cowardice in front of the tower master and make surrender remarks will be killed directly. He will never say any nonsense and can save one person's food rations.
Therefore, for the party that wants to attack the magic tower, there are only two options left: hard attack and food deprivation tactics.
If you want to surround and kill the people in the tower, you have to consider that the attack range of the magic tower is tens of kilometers (km), how many troops are needed to completely surround them, and how much price they have to pay to destroy the magic tower. The surrounding area of the tower turned into scorched earth, and most importantly, how long will it take for the magic tower to run out of food?
If the tower owner dares to do something extraordinary, he can spend several years with one person and one tower fighting an army of hundreds of thousands. For example, treating his apprentices as emergency rations or something like that...
Therefore, for those lord forces who are interested in targeting the magic tower, they rarely choose encirclement tactics. Because it consumes huge manpower and material resources, it is very likely that the expected results will not be obtained. After all, as long as one tower owner survives, the opponent can maintain complete combat effectiveness.
If you attack hard, there is no magic tower that cannot be broken. But before the goal can be achieved, the person giving the order must first be prepared to sacrifice a lot. Facing a war fortress, there is no easy way out.
In the aggressive war launched by the Suritan Empire, its cruel behavior after it invaded the enemy's country aroused dissatisfaction with the owner of the magic tower who was in the enemy's territory and favored the enemy's country, so he refused to surrender to the empire.
As the saying goes, when the emperor is angry, the earth will be red for thousands of miles. This situation will also happen in the lost land. It's true that many people died this time, but tens of thousands of corpses were left behind by the attacking soldiers. The Magic Tower is full of resources, but only has five people. The tower master, his wife, and the three students include one official magician and two apprentices.
In order to kill the chickens as a warning to the monkeys, the Great Khan of the Suli Tang Empire ordered to kill all the prisoners. Although there were only five of them, tearing them alive was not enough to relieve the army's anger; then he tore down the magic tower, leaving not a single stone behind! Such cruelty indeed made the owner of the second magic tower that the army came into contact with voluntarily surrender and promise not to be an enemy of the empire.
What followed was the most puzzling order in this war, which came from the mouth of the Khan of the Golden Family: Trap and kill, knock down the tower, and leave no stone behind!
The original intention of the tower owner in surrendering was just to let the conquering army pass by. He would break away from the position of the invaded country and no longer interfere in any war actions of the empire. Just like the Magic Tower that was originally in the Sulitang Empire, the two parties were at peace with each other. But in the end, the bodies of him, his students, and family members were pierced by wooden stakes and stood on the ruins of what was once the magic tower.
No one's position as tower master is guaranteed. There must be a bloody accumulation in the early stage, and it may even be the result of several generations. Although the completed magic tower cannot become a legacy that can be inherited by one's own family or one's own students, the magicians who built the tower view their contributions to the world from a higher perspective.
Magicians believe that the magic tower that goes deep into the wilderness is a refuge for travelers and a vanguard guarding civilization. Each additional magic tower can protect more people in an area and open up an extra inch of land in the wilderness.
Under such a premise, anyone knocking down a magic tower would be like touching the nerves of the entire magician group. If it is the kind of magic tower built in the city to serve the noble lords, then forget it; if it is the kind of magic tower that hangs alone on the front line against the monsters, or goes deep into the wilderness to be knocked down, it is simply a crime. It has become a taboo for the entire magician community.
Regardless of ideals, a magic tower is the foundation of the tower owner, the last fortress, and the burial place destined for him. If it's about rules and morality, then forget it. But threatening a tower owner with blood will only release the beast in their hearts. Anyone who can become a tower master was once a ruthless person.
Therefore, after the tragedy of the second tower, almost all the magic towers in the Suritan Empire rebelled. The magicians used tower magic unscrupulously, bombarding the tribesmen left behind by the empire, as long as the other party entered the attack range of the magic tower. A large and most powerful group of empires and magicians in the contemporary era instantly entered a state of all-out war.
The nomadic army hardly needs supplies from the rear, but that does not mean that they will cut off contact with the rear. When the Khan of the Golden Family learned about the fire in the backyard, he was so proud that he could not choose to compromise, but instead launched a high-profile and relentless counterattack.
The army used for invasion in his hands divided into attacks, knocking down magic towers one after another. We must let the world understand that compared to magicians, they are the real rulers of this world!
Such a move did not make the tower owners choose to surrender. Instead, the Magic Tower, which had no intention of confronting the Sulitang Empire, also embarked on a hostile path. Even the Golden Khan Court was destroyed by the magic tower of the branch headquarters of the Dushanbe Division of the Magician Association.
It is unknown whether the soldiers who stayed behind wanted to disarm the magic tower, or whether the magicians used tower magic to brutally kill women and children, so the Khan Court launched a counterattack. In short, the most brutal battle in the Northern War took place at the Dushanbe Division Headquarters of the Golden Khan Court and the Magician Association, which were originally interdependent.
The attack magic used by the tower is all strategic level, which means wide-area attacks. There is no way to distinguish soldiers from women and children. Not to mention that for nomadic people, anyone who can mount a horse or hold a bow can be regarded as a soldier. There is no way to strictly distinguish between soldiers and civilians, and they can only be distinguished based on age and gender.
Therefore, the Golden Khan Court, which was mainly composed of women and children, with a few elite troops left behind, was completely destroyed by the magic tower of the district headquarters. Perhaps in the counterattack launched by the Magician Association, this was not the war with the largest casualties in the Suritan Empire, but it was definitely a turning point in the fate of the northern empire.
The final result of the war was that the Suritan Empire broke away from the entire magician group. The two magician association districts in the empire, Dushanbe District and Ashha District, were destroyed, and all magic towers in the territory were bulldozed.
The price paid by the secular government was that an empire powerful enough to sweep across the Lost Lands almost fell apart. The authority of the Golden Family was no longer there, and the leaders of various places were almost independent. Even the hawks among the remaining four empires believe that there are only four empires left in the land of Lost, so why are there five?
The biggest reason for all this is that for a powerful regime, the magic tower that was built at a huge cost failed to bring them any war dividends.
The magician's collection? Can this be compared with the wealth of an empire? Even if the degree of preciousness is even worse, what about the quantity?
food? A magic tower can provide enough food for a dozen people at most, even if it lasts for a year. If you put them in the army, it won't be enough to fill your teeth.
population? In other words, women and children... just the few kittens in the magic tower were all captured. Can they compare to so many dead soldiers?
Conclusion: Attacking the Magic Tower without any reason is a losing business for a country.
The Suli Tang Empire's high-profile invasion made all the countries in the world tense up, and even military offensive and defensive alliances began to form under the table. The result is that the most powerful country in the modern era has fallen hard, and it seems that it is still unable to get up.
All the nobles, generals and kings who were paying attention to this war, for the first time raised the loose organization of the Magician Association to an equal status with them and faced it seriously. Because it’s impossible not to do this. An empire that is so powerful that no one dares to look directly at it has been crippled by the masters.
Only then did everyone notice what kind of existence the magic towers that were dotted all over the Lost Continent looked like. For rulers who intend to invade and annex other countries, negotiations with the Magician Association have become an unavoidable threshold.
The most damning thing is that even if the association makes a decision, there will still be a considerable number of tower owners who do their own thing and do not obey orders. The association does not have absolute authority over the tower owners, any more than the king does over the noble lords everywhere.
It was also the first time since the Northern War that representatives of the powerful regimes in Midland sat together in order to negotiate a way to get along with the Magician Association. This includes clarifying the territory of X ten kilometers (10 kilometers) around the magic tower, and taking a neutral stance and not interfering with the rule of nobles everywhere. There is also a clause that the tower owner has the power of life and death in the magic tower, which was also clearly recorded during this period.
These agreements seemed like the nobles recognized many of the powers held by the owners of the Magic Tower, but they invisibly stifled the development of the Magic Tower in terms of power. Of course it's not that the masters couldn't understand the nobles' calculations, but they still accepted it. After all, most magicians would rather focus on studying magic and are not so keen on operating power. These agreements can be regarded as each taking what he needs.
In short, since the saying "I come, I see, I conquer" has never existed in Lost Land, it is unlikely that it will ever exist in the future. Because there is no force that can ignore the magic towers standing everywhere and invade others at will. And the likes and dislikes of the lords are not like ordinary people, who can be influenced by some inconspicuous righteousness.
And in the same situation, if it were left to those empires or forces that had left a great reputation in history, would they be able to break through such a predicament?
Countless military scientists, generals commanding troops, and those who wear crowns or crowns and have noble blood all have the same understanding: impossible. Not even the dark army that once ruled the land a thousand years ago could do it.
