How to Save Humanity After Transmigrating into a Villainess Princess? Chapter 175 : The Past

If Elashia's expectations were correct, this battle would primarily be hand-to-hand combat in the later stages.

The disaster level of the [Beast Tide] would continuously escalate over ti.

At first, the armies of various lords could handle local magical beast attacks themselves, but in about a month, the Imperial Guard would be necessary to deal with them.

But soon, the long-range weapons in the Imperial Guard's hands would also beco useless...

Finally, there would be two waves of extrely terrifying [Beast Tides]. Those two [Beast Tides] would be massive in number while also having frighteningly strong individual strength.

At that ti, neither hand crossbows nor heavy crossbows would be useful. Among Elasia's long-range weapons, only Magic Crossbows with explosive effects would still be useful.

However, when that ti truly ca, Magic Crossbows wouldn't be very useful either.

Magic Crossbows had a range of one kiloter, but needed a full five minutes to cool down.

If fired while ignoring the cooldown ti, there was a high chance of causing a "barrel explosion."

So no matter what, they had to wait for those five minutes to pass before continuing to fire.

But five minutes was completely enough for magical beasts one kiloter away to charge to the city walls!

Moreover, Magic Crossbows produced considerable recoil when fired. If used on city walls, they had to be fixed to the walls.

Among the magical beasts, there would be Suicide Bugs that could self-destruct. They could blow up both the walls and the combat units on them just by rushing to the base of the walls and exploding.

So Magic Crossbows would only have one chance to fire.

After firing, the Magic Crossbows had to be quickly dismantled and taken to the rear, or they would very likely be destroyed.

In short, these Magic Crossbows would have far greater effect in the Iron Empire than staying in Elasia.

Now she could only hope that the Iron Empire's victory would co a bit earlier.

Elashia thought for a mont and decided to express her thoughts in a way that would be easier for Candice to understand.

"Aunt, you're the Grand Princess of the Iron Empire. When Elasia and the Iron Empire fought a hundred years ago, you must have experienced wars with Elasia, right?"

"Do you rember what the original purpose was when Elasians designed Magic Crossbows?"

Hearing Elashia's question, Candice asked sowhat puzzledly:

"Elasians' original purpose in designing Magic Crossbows?"

Elashia nodded.

"If the history books aren't wrong, you should have been among the first Iron Legion mbers to witness the ergence of Magic Crossbows, right?"

ntioning this, Candice couldn't help but begin reminiscing about the past.

At that ti, Alexandra hadn't staged her coup yet, and Candice was still the Second Princess of the Iron Empire.

Elasia was then a super-large country spanning the central mountain range, often fighting with the adjacent Iron Empire over territory and resources.

But since Elasians posed much less threat to the Iron Empire than the demons did, the relatively capable Alexandra was sent by the old Iron Emperor to the north of the Iron Empire, defending against demon attacks with the most elite Iron Legion.

The much inferior Candice engaged in competition with Elasia alongside an Iron Legion with relatively weaker combat power.

The Iron Legion she was with had roughly twice the number of the Elasian Imperial Guard, and the Iron Armor Army capable of using [Qi] was three tis that of Elasian knights.

But even though they were much stronger than the Elasian Empire in numbers and combat power, Candice and her forces couldn't actually gain any advantage over the Elasians.

The Iron Empire's army had no way to deal with Elasian cities whose tech tree completely countered the Iron Empire.

At that ti, the Elasian army, which had no external threats besides the Iron Empire, was completely an "Iron Empire Counterasure Force."

Because their army's combat power and numbers were far inferior to the Iron Empire, Elasians took a clever approach, choosing to use long-range weapons to offset the differences in numbers and strength.

So Iron Empire siege forces would face arrow storms as soon as they approached Elasian cities.

But similarly, Elasians at that ti also had no way to deal with Iron Empire cities.

Because the difference in hard military strength was too great.

Iron Empire forces protected by city walls left Elasians' bows and crossbows with nowhere to strike.

So although Elasians and the Iron Empire were constantly at war, neither could overco the other.

This balance was maintained for a long ti, until the Elasian Empire devoted national resources over decades to master Magic Crossbow technology.

The ergence of Magic Crossbows imdiately put the Iron Empire at a great disadvantage.

Previously solid walls and fortresses seed like jokes when faced with the intense explosions brought by Magic Crossbows.

The powerful Iron Armor Legion was like a toothless tiger before Elasia's new technology—powerful but unable to use that power.

If they fought outside the city, Elasian arrow storms would keep Iron Legion soldiers from raising their heads.

But if they defended the walls, the walls would soon be destroyed by the intense explosions from Magic Crossbows.

Without the protection of walls, Iron Empire soldiers would directly face the Elasian Imperial Guard's storm-like dense arrow rain.

Candice and the legion commander, suffering consecutive defeats at the hands of the Elasian Imperial Guard, had no choice but to imdiately request reinforcents from central command...

Thinking of this unpleasant mory, Candice smiled bitterly.

"Of course, I rember very clearly... we were beaten by the Elasian Imperial Guard with no ability to fight back."

"Even when the old Iron Emperor sent reinforcent troops, it was useless... we still couldn't even get close to the Elasians..."

"Eastern cities fell to the Elasian Imperial Guard one after another. We all thought the Iron Empire would be destroyed by a small country far inferior to us in size..."

Elashia smiled and nodded.

"I've also read about that period of history in history books."

"Ever since Magic Crossbows with terrifying explosive effects were developed, the balance between Elasia and the Iron Empire was imdiately broken."

"Many people thought Elasians would soon achieve victory against stronger opponents."

"Until... 'that woman' ntioned in Elasia's official history books appeared."

When Elashia said "that woman," Candice smiled slightly.

"Your Majesty, 'that woman' refers to Alexandra, right?"

At that ti, the Iron Empire's eastern cities were continuously conquered by Elasians, and even the most important "Impregnable Fortress" in the east was lost.

The most important treasure in the Iron family's ancestral instructions, which must never be lost, was thus lost in the chaos of war.

Seeing Elasians about to approach the Iron Capital, the old Iron Emperor hurriedly recalled Alexandra, who was fighting demons in the north.

Alexandra was also shocked upon learning of weapons like Magic Crossbows.

However, she imdiately thought of a way to deal with enemies possessing such explosive weapons.