Chapter 1482： ?The enemy advances, I retreat, the enemy retreats, I enter

In the Hogwarts arena, scattered high walls and dug trenches are all around at this time, full of various obstacles that may be encountered in actual combat, and many magical creatures are hidden in it.

When the candidates were preparing for the exam and the exam was not yet started, the candidates’ parents in the auditorium above the practice venue occupied the most favorable position for watching the competition—the parents’ examination of the wizards, which is about future career choices. I attach great importance and care, but due to the examinations of herbal medicine and astronomy, I cannot go to the scene to watch. Only examinations such as ancient magic have enough space to accommodate parents and have enough appreciation.

Therefore, this kind of combat course was initially resisted by some parents who were worried about the safety of the little wizards, but after a whole semester, people are now accustomed to this kind of activity, and they are more deeply influenced by Hogwarts and others. The welcoming of residents has become the most popular activity after the traditional sports Quidditch.

So now everyone doesn't care about the working day. They put down their work and gather here to cheer for the candidates.

The audience was disappointed and the parents of the candidates were relieved that Mr. Allen Harris was not allowed to take the test of confrontation between the tests, but he was directly awarded an O—no one would think that doing so was shady. In fact If you don’t do this, it will be too dark for other candidates...

In the stands, Sirius and Arthur of the Order of the Phoenix were sitting side by side. Before the start of the game, everyone had a handheld TV in their hands and chatted together—this kind of gadget that recently added a video call function has made wizards more. Many bowers.

"Arthur, Harry and Ron are about to graduate, Ron, have you asked him?" Sirius cocked his legs and looked sideways at Arthur. "Harry originally wanted to be an Auror. But in the recent situation, you know that no dark wizard has messed up. Ginny seems to persuade him to continue playing Quidditch after graduation, and want to join the same team after graduation next year."

"Molly has always hoped that the children will enter the Ministry of Magic. George and Weasley have been annoying her for a long time... I myself hope that at least one child in my family can inherit my business, you know, the manufacturing industry recently. Very busy." Arthur touched his bald forehead and smiled happily. "Ron's grades must have disappointed Molly. He has no talent for making things... Forget it, the most important thing is how they choose. …But the relationship between Lavender and Ron has always been good. Although this little witch is a bit...too enthusiastic, it’s not bad to get married first..."

"Also about Harry and Ginny. When Ginny graduates, they should also hold a wedding. I will do it at that time. I will definitely make Ginny satisfied with the ceremony." Sirius suddenly lowered his leg, "I count us like this. The relationship between the relatives is one step closer."

Although he agrees with Harry, he always feels that his baby has been taken away like this. The other godfather still looks awkward and unwilling to Arthur. Turning his eyes, he pretended to ask casually: "What about you? Sirius, I listen. Moss Diggory said I ran into you and Josephine..."

"Don't talk nonsense! Who knew that guy would hide in the toilet cubicle for so long..." Sirius blushed when he realized that he had leaked his mouth again, and then forcibly changed the subject, "Your workshop is busy because of the tight front lines. What? The Department of Fantastic Beast Management and Control is also recruiting a large number of werewolves to the front line. Tonks is a little worried and thinks about it, but Josephine guarantees that Remus has not been arranged to the front line..."

"So the frontline really encountered some trouble? It seems that although we have almost occupied their entire territory, things are not as easy as the news says..." Arthur lifted his glasses and displayed on the map displayed on his Magic TV. Signed, "Even the floating city left London to move to the United States is definitely not for any reason to declare occupation and show off... This shows that the difficult fortifications of the Rocky Mountains, the last US position, have caused us trouble..."

"Eh? You don't know? Then I shouldn't have said..." Sirius glanced around and hesitated, and finally reached out and arranged a closed earplug to listen around, "Arthur, you know that Remus and I still have Tonks has the means to contact, Josephine did not hide from me... They didn't want to hide from me if they wanted to come to Irving, but you didn't ask more, I told something, don't tell anyone... Albert, they are in the Rocky Mountains. I have some trouble nearby..."

Then, Sirius, who was born in Gryffindor, reminded Arthur of Gryffindor not to talk nonsense from time to time, while letting him tell him about the kingdom's army in the United States.

After the troops of the United Kingdom successfully occupied almost the entire territory of the United States, some of the pioneer troops began to march towards the defensive circle established by the Magic Congress of the Rocky Mountains, and then these wizards who played a few downwind wands were on American soil. Encountered fierce resistance. .

Because the terrain here is composed of many small mountains and the topography is very complex, American wizards dug large and small caves inside these mountains during this period of time to secretly build defense projects.

After entering the Rocky Mountains, the fleet of the United Kingdom was attacked by these United States in various ways.

Especially the large floating warships in the form of sail battleships with the largest tonnage. Their goals are obvious. They cannot be used in the mountains with complex terrain and trees. More than one ship has crashed between the mountains. Although the passengers on the ship Most of them used phantom shifting or shock absorption curses or even cloaks to land safely, but the traps and guerrillas of American wizards on the ground still caused the magic kingdom to suffer the first relatively large loss after the war.

When the small and medium-sized floating ships behind the vanguard come over, the squid ship is only more flexible than the sail battleship. Although between the mountains, the squid-shaped warships can also use their tentacles to clean up the lush trees and vines, but in the face of various strange traps that the United States has long laid, these ships have also lost a lot, especially those tentacles that are very easy to be caught. The trap is blown up-and once the tentacles are lost, they do not return to repair but continue to sail. This long and narrow pontoon is not much better than sailing battleship pontoons in terms of maneuverability.

Although the smallest model of the floating ship, the Nautilus is agile enough to sail freely in mountains and forests, it is also too small to withstand too much damage and cannot be too far away from other large ships, so it can perform tackling operations alone.

Moreover, these American wizards cleverly did not adopt the traditional unified command for each defensive point. Instead, they delegated power to each major defensive area, giving them autonomy, and in the major defensive area, they delegated power to the small defense under their jurisdiction. Area.

This undermines the beheading tactics that the United Kingdom has been good at and demonstrated before-because there is nothing particularly important for the United States.

Even if the Magic Kingdom conquered a defensive area, it would have little impact on other defensive points. As long as they are still there, they will soon wait for the kingdom's army to leave and then run back or simply establish new temporary strongholds.

Unlike the Muggles, for wizards, as long as they are not rich in magic power, they are almost effortless to build something—though the defense of this kind of stronghold certainly cannot be done with those who have been captured. A lot of magical fortifications have been prepared for a long time, but it is more than enough to provide refuge and temporary base for the guerrillas.

After the United Kingdom arrested a few prisoners, no important information was revealed. UU read but understood the reason why the information could not be obtained.

The President of the Magic Congress of the United States Piqueley ordered the separation of combat personnel and transportation personnel, which also played a significant defensive effect—because although a temporary flyway network was established at each defense point, it was handed over to transportation personnel who did not participate in the war. , Once there were traces of the United Kingdom army nearby, they immediately stopped transportation and stayed in other strongholds.

The main ones outside are Aurors and hitters serving as guerrillas. They are not allowed to use the fireplace. They just use Apparition to escape and wait for their door keys to work and return. They themselves don’t know that the door keys will take them. Where to take it, naturally, I don’t know the names of other strongholds.

This ensures that even if the guerrillas participating in the war are arrested and used by the United Kingdom’s army of Panthera and Veritaserum, there will be no risk of leaking other base areas, and the United Kingdom’s army will therefore not be able to use their caverns. The fireplace uses their Floo network.

In short, after the initial smooth sailing, the United Kingdom’s fleet fell into a passive manner and lost its original speed of occupation after facing the guerrilla warfare ambush, which is almost considered as the tactics of the American wizards. Only a little by little carpet search began to pull out the defensive strongholds of American wizards one by one.