This power struggle is not only a secular battle, but also a battle of faith.
The Slaughter Lama, headed by the Grand Master Scanbuch, has been operating beside Yamen Khan for more than ten years and is deeply rooted.
Their purpose is very clear, which is to make Yamen Khan their killing Buddha.
Although their killing Buddha is suspected to be another aspect of the murder god Baal in the Karatu subcontinent, it does not mean that these killing lamas can easily accept their followers of the murder god.
Members of the same church may kill each other because of different understandings of beliefs, not to mention suspected of having different appearances. The doctrines are very different, and only the killing characteristics are relatively similar.
If they had taken refuge at that time, even if Yamen Khan accepted it happily, those killing lamas would have tried their best to suppress them, and their life would definitely not have been easy.
They took refuge with Yamen Khan when he was in the most difficult time, and their nature was different.
Not only will they be taken more seriously, but they will also take the opportunity to connect Yamen Khan with Baal, the former god of murder, making the return of their god just around the corner.
This is evidence that these priests have regained their spellcasting abilities - when the gods die, the priests who believe in them will lose their corresponding spellcasting abilities (their life dice will not be affected).
There are only two ways for them to regain their ability to cast spells. One is naturally to place their hope on their own gods, hoping that he can return to the throne of God.
The other turns to serving other gods and obtains corresponding spellcasting abilities from them.
Most sacrificial priests will choose the latter, especially those who are the successors of the corresponding priesthood, even if the other party has usurped the previous god and obtained the corresponding priesthood - Cyric, the god of conspiracy, is an example of this.
Only a very small number continue to stick to it for various purposes.
These are not things that simple fanatics can summarize clearly. The reason why many people insist on persevering is not because of the fallen gods, but because of their own reasons. Often that is the most fanatical and unshakable one.
Grandmaster Scanbuch’s eyes flickered for a few times, and the smile on his face became more kind, and he responded: "Since the archbishop has made it so clear, if I continue to disagree, it will seem too petty.< br>
Okay, just do as the Archbishop said, let's get through this difficulty together first.
After all, if Tian Khan makes any mistake, your and my plans will all come to nothing. "
If you want the other party to lead the undead army into battle, you must give him corresponding guarantees.
"It is best for the national master to understand this truth. Umrant no longer hesitated, "Rescuing people is like putting out fire. I will immediately send people to drive up the undead army, and try to break through the defense facilities of Teflam City as quickly as possible and send you into the city." "
General Bartumih took the opportunity to pat his chest and promised: "As long as you can create a suitable fighter plane, our army will definitely press forward." ”
Compared to Umrant and the Scandinavian Masters who had their own evil intentions, his thoughts were the simplest. He just wanted to follow Yamen Khan and lead the Tukan people to move forward and build an empire that belonged to them.
So that their descendants will no longer have to suffer from the unpredictable weather of the endless wilderness, and there will no longer be the tragic phenomenon of human cannibalism.
This is the closest they have come to their dream. He will never give up easily unless it is absolutely necessary.
After the three giants of the Tukan people reached an agreement, although the turmoil continued, it was far less severe than before.
The undead army that surrounded Teflam on three sides surged up in mighty force.
Their tactic is only one - the sea of the dead.
This undead army of the Tukan people is dominated by corpse-like undead such as skeletons, zombies and skeleton knights. They are all dead creatures without any intelligence and can only execute the simplest orders.
Although the priests of the God of Murder led by Umrant can drive this undead army, they are not the same as the personal control of Yamen Khan, and they cannot make more refined commands.
“Steady, steady, steady, listen to my orders.”
“Everyone checks their bows and arrows and prepares to light the fire.”
"Praise the name of Ms. Strategy, victory will definitely belong to us."
The exclusive priests of Ms. Strategy ran back and forth on the city wall, repeating the same orders and slogans.
Building morale involves far more than directing operations.
Although Teflam's city defense army is composed of mercenaries, their quality is much higher than expected. Most of them are professionals and have rich combat experience.
If you think about it carefully, it’s not surprising.
Although Teflam City is not a place of four battles, it is not a peaceful place either.
The wealth here has attracted a large number of peepers for them. These mercenary city defense troops only shoulder the responsibility of defending the city during war.
In non-war times, many have to devote themselves to a series of combat tasks such as suppressing bandits, guarding trade routes, escorting goods, and exterminating pirates. It is normal to have rich combat experience.
It just lacks large-scale combat experience.
This area is completed by the exclusive sacrifices of those strategic ladies.
On the eve of the war, the walls of Tefram City fell into silence until high-pitched orders were heard.
“Light the fire, shoot the crossbow, let go!”
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
The terrifying bowstring trembled and resounded through the walls of Tefram City.
There are no less than a thousand ballistae and ballistae placed on each city wall.
This was still the result of Gavin and the others ordering people to evacuate two-thirds.
The more city defense equipment, the better. Once it starts to hinder the deployment of the city defense army, the gain outweighs the loss.
The rulers of Teflam City fully demonstrated their money making abilities in this matter.
The city defense equipment here is not only numerous in number and variety, but some are even enchanted automatic ballistas and ballistae, which can condense magic ammunition on their own and automatically aim and shoot.
Those businessmen and wealthy people will do whatever it takes to protect this city.
Even though Gavin took over the city defense work of Teflam and proposed a battle plan to invite gods, some people still proposed to pay pirates from the Fallen Star Sea to fight for them and protect Teflam.
This ridiculous suggestion was directly rejected by Gavin.
This is simply to ask a group of hungry wolves to guard a group of fat lambs, lest the hungry wolves eat the lambs before the tigers rush in.
The missiles fired by these city defense ballistae vehicles were all rockets. While penetrating a large number of enemies, they also tore up the night sky, allowing the defenders on the city wall to see clearly what was happening outside.
Everyone couldn't help but gasped.
Wherever he looked, there were dense green gazes, white skeletons, or zombies turning blue from the cold.
The power of the rockets fired by the city defense ballistae is amazing. It can easily penetrate several skeletons or zombies, and even set some directly on fire.
The number is not small. The entire city of Teflam is covered with dense fire burning spots.
But compared with the Tukan people’s sea of the dead, it’s a bit unsatisfactory.
This also verified the ferocity of the Tukan people from the side. They not only slaughtered all the Cesk people along the way, but also turned them into tools.
If they cannot defend Tefram, the same fate awaits them.
But can they hold on?
“Don’t panic, don’t be chaotic, they are just a group of unintelligent undead monsters, and they do not carry siege equipment. It is difficult to break through the dual defense lines of the city defense lock and the city wall.”
“ All archers are ready, launch holy water arrows, listen to my orders, release, release, release.”
Ms. Strategy’s dedicated priests gave the order again while calming the emotions of the city defense mercenaries.
Countless arrows shot into the sky at the same time.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh commandion?
Many of them fell to the ground with a pop as they walked, never got up again, and turned into dead things again.
Regardless of any kind of undead, the most important thing is the immortal energy composed of the entanglement of negative energy and residual souls in their bodies, which is commonly known as soul fire.
The soul fire is immortal, and the undead soul is immortal.
This gives the undead many characteristics.
Both skeletons and zombies are very resistant to piercing attacks. They are often able to stagger towards the enemy even when their bodies are covered with arrows.
But their shortcoming is also fatal-they are extremely afraid of positive energy.
Because the positive energy will neutralize the negative energy in the soul fire and extinguish it directly.
It is not a secret that Yamen Khan has formed a huge undead army, so Gavin is naturally well prepared.
A large number of Holy Water Arrows is one of them.
Holy water arrows are not oil-immersed and modified like rockets, but a customized special arrow.
Their arrows are not ordinary arrows, but a fragile glass bottle filled with holy water. After hitting the target, the glass bottle will shatter and the holy water inside will splash out, launching a purifying attack on it.
The effect is the same as holding a holy water bottle and directly splashing or hitting the target.
The only difference is the holy water content.
In order to facilitate the launch, the holy water bottle on the holy water arrow cannot be made into a bloated pot-bellied bottle. Instead, it adopts a slender structure, and the holy water contained in it is only one-tenth of the ordinary holy water bottle.
In other words, the lethality of a holy water arrow hitting a target is one-tenth that of an ordinary holy water bottle - it is related to the holy water contained in the bottle.
To be more precise, it has to do with the positive energy contained inside.
The richer the positive energy, the greater the impact on those undead or negative energy creatures.
This refers to ordinary holy water arrows, and the holy water arrows fired from Tefram City are no less lethal than the holy water bottles, and are even flammable.
Because these holy water arrows are not filled with ordinary holy water, but the holy light liquor from the Hammer of Justice Monastery.
Under the same unit conditions, spirits contain ten times more positive energy than water. High-concentration spirits are also flammable.
This is the greatest use of Holy Light Spirits.
The benefits of holy water arrows are also obvious. Its attack range is not comparable to that of holy water bottles.
Especially in this kind of large-scale city defense, when thousands of arrows are fired together, the lethality is quite astonishing.
Those undead souls who were not afraid of life and death were falling down in droves.
"Prepare the catapult, put on the holy water bucket and release it."
The most lethal ones are those catapults.
What they throw out are no longer huge rocks or loose stones, but sealed wooden barrels, all of which are filled with positive energy that has been prayed and blessed by priests. of holy water.
These barrels were not modified from water barrels, but wine barrels of various sizes that were collected throughout the city.
The big one is as tall as an adult and can hold three to four hundred kilograms of water.
The small ones can reach an adult’s waist and can easily carry hundreds of kilograms of water.
In order to maximize their lethality, these holy water buckets are also stuffed with flutter bombs, the cheapest version of weak flutter bombs.
Their function is not to blow up the enemy, but to detonate in the air when the holy water bucket is thrown over the enemy.
As one can imagine, the undead below fell down in pieces again.
With no protection, these middle and low-level undead cannot withstand the devastation of this kind of holy water rain.
"Must win!"
"Must win!"
"Must win!"
The devastating scenes brought about by targeted tactics caused cheers to ring out from the city walls, which greatly enhanced their self-confidence.
No matter how many enemies there are, if they can't even touch the city wall, it's just a plate of food.
These middle and low-level undead lack long-range attack methods and cannot pose a threat to the city wall of Teflam City.
In a short period of time, you will be a living target.
“Without the power of our Lord, the power of these undead cannon fodder is greatly reduced. If we continue to fight like this, they will be exhausted without waiting for dawn, but the enemy’s supplies are endless. Even if these holy water Even the lowest level priest can produce it in large quantities.”
Umrant's brows knitted together, "National advisors, generals, do you have a way to tear apart the opponent's city defenses and send them into the city?"
This undead army was originally used to Cooperating with Yamen Khan's actions.
In the secular world, no city's defenses can stop Yamen Khan, who carries the power of terror and killing.
He only needs one blow to cause the city's city defense locks and walls to collapse at the same time. These undead can then take advantage of the situation and pour in, easily dragging the entire city into hell and creating Endless killing.
But now Yamen Khan is trapped.
This tactic was missing the most critical link, and it was naturally useless.
“Many of our methods must rely on the Heavenly Khan to exert their maximum power. Now if we want to maximize the power of the killing lamas, we can only stimulate and strengthen their power through large-scale killing and sacrifice. , This requires time to prepare." This is not a shirk.
Although he has no dealings with these bishops and priests of the God of Murder, he can still distinguish the priorities.
This undead army was completely destroyed under the walls of Teflam, which would certainly greatly weaken Umrant's influence in front of Yamen Khan.
But if Yamen Khan is dead, what is the point of doing this?
"Please also ask the Archbishop to wait a moment to let the undead move out of the way. I will organize the Tukan warriors to use the military souls to attack the city wall of Tevram to see if it will work."
General Batumikh There are details in the rough, "Prince Hubadai was forced to use this move in Mosantir City before, and the person who is now commanding the defense of Tefram City is the same person who is commanding the army of Leatherman Kingdom.
< br>This person is the chosen one of the Goddess of Strategy. He is proficient in strategy and has a coherent style of action. I am afraid that he has already formulated a response strategy and there is no way to achieve a miraculous effect."
"Then use a two-pronged approach." Umrant said with an extremely cold expression, "Murder and sacrifice all the remaining slave soldiers to strengthen the strength of the killing lama.
Success or failure depends on this one move.
If we succeed, we will establish endless great achievements.
Failed, our grand plan died. "
"Okay, just follow the Archbishop's plan. "General Bartumih agreed without thinking.
For people in their position, decisiveness is a necessary quality.
As long as they can win the final victory of the war, let alone those slaves Soldiers, even Tukan people, can give up if they say they can.
The current situation is obvious. Without the use of unconventional forces, no matter how large their numbers are, they will not be able to take down the hard nut of Tefram in a short period of time.
Under normal circumstances, this kind of big city will besieged for a long time, and the food supplies will be exhausted, forcing the enemy to surrender.
It is not unusual for it to take several months or several years.
This move is not easy to use against Teflam City.
Because the other side is a port city, one side faces the sea and has a large number of excellent ports.
Unless they have the sea power to cut off their sea supply lines.
Now the Tukan people cannot afford it, for multiple reasons.
Their baggage is running low.
The Faerun coalition will arrive at any time.
Yamen Khan was trapped in the kingdom of the God of Lady Strategy, and was also caught in a difficult siege battle.
It is not necessary for the three conditions to be met at the same time. As long as one condition is met first, it will be when Tukan's army enters a desperate situation.
......
Under the night, it was not just Tukan's three giants who were whispering and planning.
When Yamen Khan was trapped in the divine kingdom of Ms. Strategy, the shadows around the Tukan people seemed to be becoming restless, and it seemed that countless figures were using his cover to carry out secrets. thing.
Especially for the slave soldiers of the Tukan people, the undercurrent was even worse. When Yamen Khan was trapped, many thoughts that he originally did not dare to move grew crazily in his heart like weeds.
Anyone with a slightly normal IQ can detect that Tukan's army is now a volcano that can erupt at any time. Once it erupts, it will not only burn everything around it, but it will also be devastated. Especially slave soldiers like them will bear the brunt.
Although those Tukan people have never regarded them as human beings, they at least regarded them as wealth in the past and would not consume them easily unless they had to.
As their westward march continued, Yamen Khan became more and more powerful and his behavior became more and more crazy. Not only did the killing lamas respond to their call, but even the Tukan people seemed They are all being influenced by him, becoming more bloodthirsty and cruel.
Especially after being injured at Asen Lake, Yamen Khan ran all the way towards the evil god. Fear and uneasiness were accumulating in the hearts of these slave soldiers because they were afraid of following in the footsteps of those weak slave soldiers. , became the object of murder and sacrifice, the soul was enslaved by Yamen Khan forever, and the body continued to become their puppet tool.
Yamen Khan was trapped, and they could be said to have mixed feelings.
Hi, they wished that Yamen Khan would be completely wiped out and help them move away the boulders pressing on their heads.
Worry, those Tukan people will do whatever it takes to rescue Yamen Khan, and the situation of these slave soldiers has become extremely dangerous.
At this moment, many slave soldiers and officers received their secret visitors, but the way they visited was a little strange. (End of this chapter)