Chapter 1676 Attack on Loess City
Hu Sang stood at the top of the city and looked at the enemy's artillery fire on the sky shield light screen. He was very angry and helpless: "Damn it, these pirates don't even cross the river. Just bombard the city with cannons, It doesn’t hurt our attack, nor our defense. Will the city’s shield be able to hold on at this rate?”
Leiche asked the officer in charge of the city’s defense system: “How long can our magic shield last?”
The Huangtu City garrison officer said unoptimistically: "After a day and a night of operation, the 16 base arrays in the city that support the entire defensive shield show signs of being overloaded. In addition, the consumption of magic crystals is also very large. Level 4 I don’t have many magic crystals, but that’s not the current problem. What I’m worried about now is that the magic array can’t bear the burden and may be in danger of being paralyzed at any time.”
Leiche felt a sudden shock. Surprised: "How could this happen?"
The officer said: "The city's protective shield in Huangtu City has not been used for a long time. It is usually just for routine maintenance. The enemy suddenly attacked, and there are...some places that are really difficult to perfect."
Hu Sangda Angry, he grabbed the officer and shouted: "Are you city officials and city guards lazy and embezzling the annual financial budget?"
The guard officer panicked: "Huh?" General Sang, General Hu Sang, it's okay. The city's protective shield has been in existence for more than two hundred years, and it has experienced several wars. However, the city's protective shield has only been stabilized in the past hundred years. Maintenance and reconstruction were still sixty years ago. It’s not that we don’t take good care of it, it’s really impossible.”
“Hu Sang.” Lei Qie pulled his brother away. He knew that the garrison officer was telling the truth. Generally speaking, the city defense shield that protects the entire city must be rebuilt every 10 to 20 years to ensure operational effectiveness. However, due to Midgart's national strength, there are really no talents in the country who can rebuild the city's protective shield. Even the protection system of the royal city and capital is built by hiring foreign magic engineers, and the asking price is usually extremely high. Midgart's national system The quantity is small and the financial resources are weak, so it is difficult to perfect in this aspect. In many places, we can only make a fuss, but there is no way to pay attention to it.
The circular magic shield in mid-air flashed a few times, showing signs of failure. The officers in the city all looked gloomy. They all knew the result of waiting.
Reich ordered to the garrison officer: "Hurry up and repair the magic array, and make sure it lasts until night."
"General Reich, what are you going to do tonight?" Barbara asked anxiously.
Leiqie looked at the direction of the bombardment: "There is only one chance."
The magic shield in Loess City still did not last until dark. At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the shield was destroyed by magic. The Yanqiancrack cannon and Skyfire trebuchet were defeated, and the sky above the city fell into an unstoppable situation. Calasias saw that the enemy city's shield was broken, and continued to let the magic rock thousand crack cannon bombard the city wall, and the skyfire trebuchet destroyed the defense measures in the city. Artillery fire fell from time to time in Loess City. For a while, the people in the city were panicked, and many people abandoned the city and fled south.
At night, Reich personally led two thousand elite troops out of the city from the south, crossed the river from the east, and went around to the flank of Calasias' army to attack the camp. During the fierce battle, Barbara and Husang each led three thousand troops, and Magic The division set up a temporary bridge by the river and attacked Calasias head-on.
The two sides fought fiercely for several hours at night until three o'clock in the morning. Seeing that they could not achieve greater results, Lei Qie fired a signal flare and evacuated with Barbara and Hu Sang respectively. After dawn, the battlefield was counted, and a total of about two thousand soldier corpses were counted, more than half of which were left behind by the Midgard army.
Calasias ordered Kate's troops, who had rested for half a night, to launch another artillery bombardment. The 30-meter-thick reinforced city wall on the north side of Huangtu City was bombarded indiscriminately by the Magic Rock Thousand-Crack Cannon, shattering the glass and leaving no traces. The magic rock cannon and sky thunder tower protected by the city's protective shield can only be destroyed by the opponent and have lost their effect.
The soldiers who had had some breakfast began to cross the river, preparing to attack Huangtu City. The special force led by Predator Rose under Calasias built a magic bridge on the river. The flame swordsman Keton, as the vanguard, built a magic bridge from the middle and landed first. Then the two troops crossed the river from the left and right wings.
At this time, Midgard's cavalry appeared, divided into several groups, and fought with the troops of Keton and others who were crossing the river. Under such circumstances, the Magic Rock Thousand Crack Cannon could not attack the Midgard cavalry, and the two armies immediately fought to the death for several kilometers north of Huangtu City and south of Honghe River.
The flame swordsman Keton was wearing a cloth flame soul ghost armor, with blazing fireworks igniting on his body. His scattered hair was whipped in the fire, and was burned into strands of flame. Holding swords in both hands, he walked out of the flames. Before they even made a move, the oncoming enemy troops were so frightened that they lost their courage when they saw this man. Then, both sharp swords came out at the same time, and the flaming sword blades slashed through the waists of the two cavalrymen. The sword edge penetrated the bodies of the two men with a flame shadow, and a gap was cut out of the armor, and green smoke came out. The mounts of the two cavalrymen were still running, and the upper half of the body of the owner on their backs had rolled off the beast's back.
Keton's double swords are not treasures, just ordinary sharp blades, but the flame soul ghost armor on his body is an intermediate treasure, which has a name in the treasure house. This piece of cloth armor can absorb the owner's magic power and generate flames, greatly increasing the owner's fire power.
The blade of the sword was waved, and the two blades were flying like butterflies. With the knight's martial arts of Butterfly Flame Shadow, countless people and beasts became the dead souls under the sword. This is also because the strength of the Midgard cavalry is too poor. The strength here refers not only to strength, but also to the gap in combat skills. In a small country and a small land, the things taught in the academy are limited. Some of the martial arts, magic, and combat skills that can be learned at any time in the academy of a big country may have never been heard of here. This is like a high-level warrior who has been trained in the desert since childhood. Even if his strength reaches a high level, his martial arts skills may be very limited. On the contrary, in good schools, you can learn countless martial arts moves, and when used in battle, you can often better utilize your strength. The academic school has the advantages of the academic school, and the practical school also has the strengths of the practical school. However, the grassroots officers and soldiers trained by a small country like Midgard do not have the combat experience of the practical school, nor do they have the various martial arts moves of the academic school. , even if you are already a high-level warrior or high-level knight, what you have learned is probably still simple and superficial moves such as splitting the air and lightning stab.
While Keton was killing everyone, someone finally stopped him. The King's Banner Guards are the elite around Queen Midgard. Each one of them is a cavalry, and each one is a knight or a mage. In the cavalry team, the king's flag was rolling, and in the moving formation, two female generals were eyeing him. It was Barbara, the commander of the first army of the king's flag, and one of several deputy generals.
Barbara and her lieutenant fought against the flame swordsman Keton on the undulating loess slope. The three of them were all using swords, and the fight was inextricable. The monsters roared and fought, going back and forth. Fighting each other to the peak of their powers, only instinctive consciousness is left to make moves. Suddenly, Flame Swordsman Keton's moves changed from quick attack with sword style to pressure with force.
"Fire... pull out the mountain~!"
Although it is an intermediate knight skill, this move is very powerful. After Keton stepped back a few steps to gather strength for 1.5 seconds, he drew out both swords and moved the sword forward. The fierce flames streaked across the ground of Huangshan Mountain. When the two swords were raised, there was a bang. The loess burned into magma by the flames turned into a stream of flames and erupted, like a volcanic eruption with two swords drawn out, impacting the generals Wang and Qi.
"Uh-huh..."
Wang and Qi were knocked into the air, turned over and retreated, and Flame Swordsman Keton's moves changed instantly.
“Enakiri~!”
People are like wind, flames are like shadows, the figures move quickly, and the two swords cut directly into the two generals. This move came so fast that the two generals were tumbling in mid-air. They had no time to gather their strength and could only forcefully block it with their swords.
There were two more female screams of pain, and the deputy threw out a pool of blood, which flew to the ground. Barbara fell to the ground and took seven steps back, with blood spilling from her mouth.
These two moves instantly change from fast to slow, and from slow to fast. They are unpredictable and smooth when used. However, there are far more enemies on the battlefield than just the two opponents in front of you. The enemies must have an advantage in numbers. Just when Keton made these moves, two streams of water flowing from behind hit him. At the same time, a ground bug emerged from under the loess and pounced on Keton's back, biting his neck with its complex mouthparts.
Keton was torn apart by Difuzao's mouthparts and was in severe pain. The acid droplets oozing out of the mouthparts caused strong corrosion in the torn flesh on the back of his neck. As Keton howled in pain, the Flame Soul Ghost Armor absorbed the master's magic power, and the flames suppressed by the water surged again, trying to burn the invisible things behind. Unexpectedly, with the fire, the ground bug became even more excited. Its mouthparts inserted under the skin and chewed his bones and flesh crazily. Four pairs of insect legs clung tightly to his ghost armor.
"Uh... uh ah~! It's the ground..." Keton threw down a sword, grabbed the strange insect at the back of his neck, pulled it out, and tore his neck bones and flesh together. It came out in a big piece and threw it aside.
As soon as this slowed down, the enemy's offensive also came up. The front sword, the back palm, and the magic on the right attacked successively. Keton was beaten forward and fell back, spitting blood from his mouth, until his guardian came to rescue him. So that it won't be worse.
The Flame Soul Ghost Armor on Keton's body can greatly enhance the power of his fire knight, and his protective ability is not bad. He almost died just now, so he quickly regenerated his luck and imitated the power of elementalization, and swung out a single sword with his left hand. Use sword moves to push away the attacking enemy soldiers.
More and more troops are crossing the river and landing, and Black Knight Volo, riding on his War Millet Shadow Pellidon, also leads reinforcements. The vanguard crossing force slowly passed the most difficult moment. Although Midgart still had the numerical advantage on the scene, the situation was quietly changing.
In fact, at this time, the gap between the Midgard Army and the troops under Calasias was not big in individual combat strength. The Midgart Army even had a slight upper hand and had a numerical advantage. However, after more than half a year of discipline training, the soldiers under Calasias were able to effectively carry out the orders issued by their superiors. The noncommissioned officers command the squads, and the lieutenants command the squadrons. Down the layers, every order from the superiors can be carried out better. Overall, these troops of Calasias are not at a disadvantage. On the contrary, they are vaguely driving the direction of this battlefield and affecting the direction of the battlefield. The enemy's forces move with you.
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(End of this chapter)