Chapter 1229 The Fortress in Danger

Two cold moons were in the sky, the night wind was chilly, and the cold moonlight shone through the clouds that appeared and disappeared, reflecting a large fortress standing at the foot of the mountain.

This is the Iron Stone Fortress, one of the important towns in the northern border of the Pars Empire, and an extremely important link in its long border.

"Report to the general, they are about to attack!"

On the towering walls of the Iron Stone Fortress, a scout captain rolled and crawled to the front of a middle-aged burly general. The moonlight reflected his pale and frightened face and a line of blood on the ground.

He was hit by an arrow in the knee, but he still faithfully performed his duty of reporting the enemy situation.

"This general has seen it. Although I really want you to go down and rest, every bit of combat power is extremely important now."

The middle-aged burly general nodded slightly, indicating that the priest should simply bandage the scout captain's wound.

The general's name is Brell, a Pars border noble who has been stationed here for generations. His position is deputy legion commander and the current commander-in-chief of the Iron Stone Fortress.

After arranging the scout captain, Brayle took a deep breath and walked to the observation tower on the edge of the city wall.

On the other side of the dried-up moat below the city wall, countless dense human figures were approaching rapidly from the horizon in a disorderly formation, making waves of fierce murderous aura rush to the face, making people tremble in their hearts.

Listening to the increasingly clear and dense footsteps, Brayle forced himself to calm his mind and continued to observe.

The cold moonlight reflected the sharp blades that had been unsheathed, and also reflected the ferocious wolf heads with scarlet eyes, waxy fangs, and covered with gray-green fur.

"Is there at least 50,000 jackal army? And judging from the equipment, this is an elite force of jackals, mixed with at least one main legion."

Bryle wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and looked around him.

There were only two thousand old and weak soldiers standing on the fortress wall, all of them were trembling, and there was not even a longbowman who could pull a heavy bow.

Several wrinkled old magicians were even carried to the turret, trying their best to inject magic power, but from the shaky appearance, it was obvious that they could faint at any time.

An irrepressible breath of despair was spreading wildly on the wall. Although these weak Pars soldiers still held their posts, the fearful eyes that could not be concealed had already explained everything.

This was destined to be a battle that could not be won.

Even if the Iron Stone Fortress was strong, it was still difficult to stop the siege bridge cast by the jackal magicians. This was a 25-fold difference in combat power.

"I didn't expect the other party to choose to launch an attack at this time. It seems that the other party has discovered the fact that the fortress is empty."

Brell clenched his fists, and dense beads of sweat had already flowed down his forehead, covering his face with determination.

As an important town on the northern border of the Pars Empire, the Iron Stone Fortress has three battle-hardened main legions and three ordinary legions stationed there, which was originally enough to easily deal with the jackal army, and even had the ability to annihilate it.

But now, the main force here has long been transferred to participate in the war of annihilation against the Cold Flame Kingdom. After the defeat of the Unfallen Fortress, it was urgently transferred to the west to defend the iron hoof of the Iron Hand Islands.

"According to the letters from the generals on the front line, some legions should have been withdrawn under the coordination of Her Royal Highness Princess Cecilia and Commander Barnett. Unfortunately, before the deployment was implemented, these two big men were both removed from their command authority for unknown reasons. Their whereabouts are still unknown, and even the Chief Mage Antonio has disappeared without a trace."

Brell gritted his teeth, and the veins on his forehead were exposed.

If some legions were withdrawn, the situation would never have reached the current irreversible point.

The cruelty and greed of the gnolls are well known. The five legions of gnolls are enough to easily raze this Ironstone Fortress to the ground. Behind the fortress are villages that are almost all filled with the elderly, the weak, women and children.

The most important thing is that once the Ironstone Fortress falls, the news of the lack of troops here will undoubtedly spread rapidly in the outer domain.

By then, not only the gnolls, but also other barbaric races such as lizardmen, orcs, wild boars, etc. who have always coveted this land will surely invade in large numbers. I am afraid that this land will soon become a purgatory of blood and fire!

"General, what if we ask for reinforcements?!"

Beside Brayer, a young staff officer stepped forward, widened his eyes and said: "If there are reinforcements, this fortress will never fall. Even if it falls, we can fight to the death to buy time for the reinforcements, otherwise this land will be devastated!"

"Reinforcements? Where can I get reinforcements?"

Brair shook his head helplessly and sighed heavily.

Although he was at the border, he had a lot of knowledge about the current situation in Pars because his family members were on duty in the imperial capital.

After Cecilia and Barnett both disappeared, His Majesty the Emperor issued a series of incredible orders, preparing to march into the Kingdom of Grimm to assist the Temple of Light in destroying the allied forces of the Kingdom of Cold Flame and the Iron Hand Islands.

However, before the exhausted army had assembled, the terrible incident of countless roots raging occurred.

Although those terrible roots soon subsided, it was said that His Majesty the Emperor also fell into a coma, causing chaos in the imperial capital.

In such an abnormal situation, how could reinforcements come to help?

As for the surrounding fortresses, they also had few soldiers and generals. It would take some time for them to arrive, and even if they arrived, they would not be able to stop such a large-scale wolf army.

"General, what do you mean..."

Hearing the strangeness in Brell's words, the young staff officer's already pale face was even more bloodless, and the staff in his hand almost fell to the ground.

"Need I say more? We have to fight to the death."

Brell drew out the two-handed sword behind him, and a resolute and determined face was reflected on the shiny broad sword.

He raised his sword and encouraged loudly: "Brave soldiers, behind us is not only the land of the Pars Empire, but also the border of the human world. We must not let these brutal and greedy aliens step into it!"

"Even if we die, we must make these bastards who covet the human land bleed on the spot!"

Brell's voice resounded through the sky and the earth, roaring: "The human race only has brave warriors who died in battle, but no cowards who escaped!"

Hearing Brayer's encouragement, not only the old and weak soldiers around, but also the pale young staff officer and the scout captain whose bandages were bleeding were all excited and tightened their weapons.

"Archers and magicians, get ready, let those upright animals taste our power!"

Under Brayer's command, the entire fortress quickly entered a combat state, and morale also rose a lot.

While Brell and others were waiting in full battle array, the densely packed jackals under the city wall had already formed their battle array and were ready to launch an offensive.

"From the aura on the city wall, are there only about 2,000 human soldiers? The information about the emptiness in the city is indeed true. Such a ridiculous lineup actually tried to stop my 50,000 troops. It's really courting death."

At the core of the jackal army, a jackal leader with black fur and scars on his face sneered and said with contempt: "Order the front army to start the siege. This leader wants to see these stupid humans torn apart with his own eyes."

Under the order of the jackal leader, a giant catapult was pushed out from the loose front army of the jackals. The launching grooves of the catapults were all loaded with stone bullets with rising green mist.

It is not difficult to see from the color that it is obviously blessed with a corrosive spell that can penetrate armor and even flesh.

Behind the catapults, tens of thousands of gnoll light infantrymen holding round shields and short knives all showed their fangs, and some were even drooling, obviously ready to go.

"Are there hundreds of giant catapults?"

On the city wall, Brell looked at the enemy's formation, his body almost stiffened to the point of being unable to move.

Even though they occupied the high ground, they only had a dozen magic cannons that had not yet been fully charged, and a thousand ordinary archers with limited range. Not to mention the wind magicians who increased the range of arrows, even the wind magic arrows were all taken away by the main force, and they could not reach the enemy's catapult position at all.

However, the enemy's catapults could easily cover the entire city wall, which undoubtedly meant that the enemy would not even leave them a chance to resist.

After all, this fortress was only equipped with a buffer defense barrier, and with the current extremely limited number of magicians, it could not play any defensive role at all.

For a moment, an irrepressible despair suddenly surged into the heart of the middle-aged Pars general. Facing a giant stone bomb of this scale, an ordinary shield was nothing more than a joke.

And around Brell, the Pars soldiers were even more pale, and some of their legs even began to tremble. What they faced was undoubtedly death.

"The breath of despair, it is a pleasant breath of despair, it is really delicious."

The corners of the jackal leader's mouth rose, and his slender wolf nose sniffed, and then he laughed.

His blood-red wolf eyes shrank, and he waved his big hand and said: "Fire, kill those human races, let them and the villages behind them all become our stomachs!"

As the jackal leader's voice fell, hundreds of giant stone bombs with a radius of more than one meter were ejected, whistling directly towards the towering iron stone fortress wall.

The sound of the high-speed flying through the air was like the sickle swung by the god of death, shaking the hearts of every soldier including Brell.

"Hahaha, arrogant human race, your doomsday has come!"

The gnoll leader's mouth was full of sharp teeth, and his laughter became more unscrupulous.

Hearing the leader's laughter, the other gnolls also followed the wolf howl, with murderous intent boiling on their faces.

Facing the corrosive stone bullets that were close at hand, just when Brell and others raised their shields in vain and were ready to die in battle, a shining absolute defense barrier suddenly rose up and covered the entire fortress.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A violent collision sounded, and one after another stone bullet surrounded by green mist had already hit the translucent barrier wall fiercely, and the broken stones scattered, stirring up waves of energy.

However, despite the shocking sound of the stone bullet, as the momentum gradually faded, the sudden absolute defense barrier remained intact, and even the light did not dim at all.

"What is this...?!"

After seeing this scene, Blair, who had survived the disaster, opened his mouth wide and could not believe his eyes at all. He had only seen such an indestructible absolute defense barrier on the walls of the imperial capital!

But what is certain is that this sudden absolute defense barrier obviously saved their lives!

"General, look!"

Before Brell could figure out what was going on, the young staff officer's surprised voice rang out.

Looking in the direction of the young staff officer's finger, Brell was surprised to notice.

I saw that under the city wall, a tall figure appeared at some point, facing the 50,000 jackal army alone.

Around the tall figure, a translucent purple energy barrier surrounded it out of thin air, appearing even deeper and more mysterious under the moonlight.

"A fifth-level strongman? Could this be the strongman who saved us?"

Brell had become incoherent, his eyes wide open and said: "This is definitely not the strongman of my Pars Empire, who is he?"

Just when Brell was puzzled, the soldiers around him began to cheer.

No matter who he was, he obviously saved everyone present, and even the countless human race behind the fortress!

Needless to say, it was Lei Xiao who was at the foot of the city, and the caster of the absolute defense barrier was naturally Xiao Jie.

And the reason why Lei Xiao appeared at the foot of the city in person was only one reason, that is, to test his current strength.

"Gnolls? I have heard that this is a very fierce race, and it can even force Qiduo and Mia's Zhuyue tribe to move away from their residence. Then let me take a good look at how capable you are."

Lei Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly, and Odost appeared on his palm in an instant.

As Lei Xiao's mind moved, one after another dazzling lightning struck the sky, and went straight to the opponent's camp.

Accompanied by a series of deafening explosions, when the dust stirred up by the lightning gradually disappeared, the hundreds of giant catapults and the dozen rows of gnoll soldiers behind them were all destroyed, leaving only one deep pit after another still emitting thick smoke.

Since all this happened in a flash, by the time the jackal leader reacted, not only were the giant stone bombs blocked, but the catapult troops were also completely wiped out!

"Who is that person? How dare he stand in front of my army alone?"

The jackal leader's face suddenly darkened, and he said with murderous intent: "Human, no matter who you are, you and this fortress must be destroyed today!"

After that, the jackal leader waved his hand, and thousands of jackal soldiers stared at Lei Xiao with bloodshot eyes and attacked him together.