Chapter 587 Instinct and Knowledge (1)

Crancia, the northern frontier counties.

The gray and dim sky flashed once, and then the faint sound of thunder came from the distant sky, and the misty drizzle slipped down like silk threads and fell to the earth, making everything in the field of vision become hazy.

The continuous dark-colored mountains are shrouded in mist and rain, and the cold waves are repeated. In this early spring season, the human body feels even colder.

Since the army of the Principality of Black Rock invaded the territory of Crancia, many passes have been lost. Although there were moments of successful defense, they were still few.

After the halberd faction defeated the bowhunting faction, the mercenary leaders still failed to reach a unity, but each formed their own faction, fighting openly and secretly.

Seeing this situation, the Frost and Frost United mission also simply gave up the idea of ​​integrating them, and instead supported equipment, weapons, and money according to the number and strength of their subordinates, allowing them to attack Crancia from all directions.

So these halberds each recruited soldiers in their territory, replenished them, and then flooded into Crancia from all corners like locusts. The complex and changeable terrain in the mountains also gave them more room to maneuver, wandering around and looting border counties and provinces.

Ironfelt, Nedshire.

On the solid gray city wall, soldiers were nervously observing the forests and mountain roads in the distance in the watchtower, always watching out for a group of enemies suddenly rushing out of them.

The rainwater fell on the stone bricks on the city wall, splashed with water, and then flowed into the lower part of the city wall along the grooves on both sides.

A foot in black leather boots stepped on the steps, splashing a burst of water, and then the pull bolt of the thick wooden door of the watchtower was lifted, and several figures with hats and rain scorpions walked into it.

"How is the situation?" The figure took off the hat on his head and stood on the wall beside him.

"Report to Captain Bard, no trace of the enemy has been found for the time being."

"Well." Bud nodded, and then walked to the wide window with a few people beside him, overlooking the gray world outside.

"It seems that the Black Rock did not march in the rain. The rain made the mountain road muddy and difficult to navigate. It can be regarded as a temporary relief from the enemy's offensive." An old man beside Bud said so.

"Furthermore, rainy days can also greatly weaken the effect of the musket in the opponent's hand."

"Our overall military strength is several times less than the opponent's. Otherwise, it would be a very good opportunity to attack." Bud said.

After a few years of studying in the military academy, he is no longer the superhuman who only used brute force before.

"Has the intelligence department estimated the number of opponents now?" He turned his head and looked at the thin figure on the other side.

"Ahem...they don't know the exact number, but there are about 500,000 in total. Many of them were recruited on a temporary basis, not called the army, but more like robbers." The figure's clothes From the collar, you can see the corners of the bandage. It seems that he was injured some time ago and has not yet healed.

"It's hard work, Xie Suo." Bud patted the back of the player next to him, and then looked at the mountains in the rain and fog in the distance.

"Unfortunately, there are only about 180,000 defenders in our towns combined. Most of them have to guard the city to protect the villagers who have migrated in. Only about 30,000 can go out to fight. And scattered everywhere, it is difficult to defeat in one fell swoop.”

Since the attack of the Principality of Black Rock, several of its main elite troops have circled around the big city, and the rest of the various small troops have been looting and destroying local buildings and villages.

In order to protect many vulnerable villagers, local officials had to relocate many people to large towns for centralized protection. As a result, the army was scattered, and it was difficult to go out of the city to fight.

As the thunder died down and the rain stopped, the sky briefly brightened, and then the sun gradually sank into the horizon.

And just when everyone thought that Heiyan would not take action today, sparse footsteps and moving sounds gradually came from the mountains and forests outside the city. Immediately afterwards, an emergency bell began to sound in the city, and soldiers were awakened, rushing towards the city wall with weapons, waiting in battle.

When the swaying vague figure slowly approached, the sergeant guarding the city saw a black rock soldier wearing scaly plate armor, holding a thick and large square wooden shield made temporarily, and approaching the city.

And with the sound of the group's armor rubbing and colliding, towering siege machines also loomed at the end of the field of vision.

Although there are not many technicians in Heiyan Principality, but with the support of alchemists from Frost and Frost United, they took advantage of the rainy weather these days to cut down a lot of trees, and under the guidance of the alchemists, they built a solid piece of wood. 's well.

In this way, the war machine is like a large mobile watchtower, with a 2-layer platform for a hundred people to stand on, and a metal sheet on the top and surrounding to prevent shooting.

Mu Lun squeaked and spun on the rough road, making a sour sound, and on the well stood soldiers with muskets, the height of which was even higher than the city wall.

"Aim, let it go!" One of the archers on the city wall ignited the rockets in their hands, and then shot at the huge wells that were approaching in the dark.

The flames flew across the sky, leaving afterimages on the retina, and then landed on the shelter on the well. Unfortunately, it had just rained recently, and it was extremely wet. Now these rockets cannot ignite the well.

At this time, the fire on the well lantern lit up continuously, and the rapid and dense shooting sounded, directly knocking down the soldiers guarding the city wall one by one.

Even though many defenders had shields in their hands, those sophisticated alchemy creations still shot powerful lead bullets into them, penetrating the hard shields and armor, and killing the soldiers behind.

"Bastard!"

An officer guarding the city sees this

The scene, his eyes reddened, he picked up the longbow at his hand, put a feather arrow on the string, the deep magic began to wrap around the arrow, and then blasted out, passed by in the air, and shot into the air. the forehead of a musketeer and killed him.

He shot arrows one after another, knocking down a musketeer, but this action also attracted the attention of the enemy.

"Target him and shoot!"

There was a burst of shouts from the well, and then the sound of intensive shooting sounded, a short fire flashed, and hundreds of lead bullets slid through the atmosphere and shot at the officer.

Most of them fell on the surrounding walls due to accuracy problems, and small pits were carved out, and dozens of them were also shot on the officer's body.

The iron pieces flew, and the flesh was minced. The huge impact of the bullet made the officer tremble. He leaned against the city wall behind him and slowly slid down, and fell to the ground in a pool of dark red blood.

Such scenes are constantly being staged on the city walls. Although a small number of bowmen are fighting back, it is difficult to cause damage due to the protection of the enemy's armor and siege machinery. At the same time, the Black Rock soldiers were condescending, and kept firing in rotation, alternating back and forth, relying on the powerful power of the musket to kill the soldiers of Crancia.

Even though the fine armor on Crancia can protect a lot of bullets, without the assistance of powerful attack weapons, many soldiers can only be beaten passively, and finally they are penetrated through the gaps and weak parts of the armor and die on the city wall. .

boom--

A loud noise came from under the city wall, and then the bricks splashed, and a city wall collapsed, revealing a small gap.

Relying on the explosives provided by Frost and Frost, under the cover of Jing Lan, the walking Heiyan soldiers blew up a section of the city wall and began to pour into the city.

"Bad!!"

The high-ranking officers in command at the rear felt a chill in their hearts, but at the moment there was no good way. They could only send soldiers to brave the enemy's artillery fire and push forward to block the gap.

The soldiers of Heiyan poured in from the gap with high halberds, and fought with the Crancia soldiers who came to besiege. For a time, the two sides began a life-and-death tug of war under the city wall. The sound of musket shooting has never been interrupted. Small balls of light rose up in the hands of the Frost and Frost Union mages, and then fell under the city walls, illuminating the enemy, while their own side was hidden in the dim darkness, constantly. Attacking the defenders on the wall.

The shouts, the symphony of gold and iron, and the shattering of lead bullets were intertwined under the orange firelight. In this cold night, both sides were red-eyed, and many defenders wounded by lead bullets were still trying their best to slash and kill these robbers and bandits who were approaching their homes, and the pain and hearing were gradually blurred in the fierce battle.

The blood flowed along the barrel and hilt of the gun, it was slippery, thick and sticky, but there was no time to wipe it at the moment. Everyone could only use their remaining strength to slash at the ferocious enemy in front of them, until finally their brains and vision were blank. fell to the corpses piled up on the ground.

Under the cover of muskets, Heiyan's soldiers began to break through the garrison's containment and slowly entered various lanes. They smashed open the doors of every house, looted their belongings, and set them on fire.

Hot sparks floated up in the city, dispelling the cold of early spring, and cries sounded all over the city.

Bud took the long sword and the knights around him to fight the enemy in the street, and then shouted loudly, causing the residents of the city to keep retreating to the military school in the center. Although it was a school, it was also a small fortress. It's the only place where it's safer.

Swah——

A metallic trill flashed past, the sound of ripping armor. A Heiyan soldier knelt down slowly and fell to the ground, revealing a huge gap in his abdomen.

"Can you hold on?" Bud put away the sword in his hand, looked at the enemies that kept coming in the distance, and asked his comrades behind him without looking back.

"It's alright...hs...Thank you, Commander." The knight resisted the pain of the torn wound and insisted on gritting his teeth. He grew up in this mountain and forest since he was a child, and now in order to protect his younger brothers and sisters in the rear, this pain and sacrifice is nothing.

"it is good!"

Bud responded, and at this moment he would not say any words of comfort. The reality is like this, sometimes it doesn't change according to people's wishes, but so what, people still have to fight hard and protect the precious things in their hearts.

"Hahaha—that's really interesting."

A mage stood on the city wall, looking at the countless fallen corpses and fighting figures below, and let out a cheerful and smug laughter. Since the invasion of Crancia, the opponent has been defending, making it difficult for them to start, and today is considered to be out of breath.

And just as he raised his staff and was about to release several fireballs into the enemy's formation, a screeching sound of breaking through the air was fleeting.

Immediately, his movements stopped, and his eyes looked in disbelief at the half axe blade emerging from his chest. The warm blood slid from the axe surface, and its bright and clean blade reflected silver-white light in the firelight.

He fell slowly, his proud face slammed on the dust and blood-stained city wall at this moment, his body twitched and struggled, and in the end, only the sound of killing was heard from afar, gradually clear.

Its voice is distant and desolate, like an ancient lonely beast walking on the moonlit night.

Through the vast grasslands and borders, groups of well-armed orc warriors finally arrived in the territory of Crancia.

Facing the city that was about to fall, its leader, the Great Chief, screamed in the sky, and then, under the command of his shouts, one by one, the orcs wearing armor and holding battle axes rushed to the enemy line.

The group of figures under the moon is like a black and noisy ocean, and the sharp battle axe waving among them is like the reflection of the silver moon, and there are waves on this black ocean.

Stamped into mud and wetlands with broad feet, they cut through woods, grass

The ground, the road, the small river, and the enemy line outside the city.

The musketeers who were shooting the soldiers in the city on the well had to turn their guns to attack the orc fighting group that was attacking from behind.

However, the orcs in the mountains and the mountains were horrific. Facing this sparse shot, they were as painless as mosquito bites. They clamored and rushed into the enemy line, slashing the heavy tomahawks on the head, directly slicing the Black Rock soldiers in half.

In the face of these tall orcs who need to look up, watching the tragic death of their teammates on the battlefield, the Black Rock defenders under the city are horrified and terrified. Many recruits flee directly, while a few veterans keep retreating, hoping to rely on the well and the city wall to resist opponent's attack.

The situation of the battle was also reversed in an instant at this moment.

"Damn!"

Standing on the well lantern, the high-level mage who was supervising and supporting the battle gritted his teeth and spat out these two words.

"Send a signal and let the soldiers in the city return to defense." Although he was very unwilling, he had to do so at this moment.

"Yes." A mage apprentice stretched out his arm, and then a special magic missile rose into the sky. When it was flying, it made a long whistle, and then bloomed in the sky, bursting out crimson sparks. night sky.

After seeing this signal, the Heiyan soldiers who were looting and wanton slashing in the city were very puzzled, and many people began to complain.

"What the hell, what are these master masters thinking?" A soldier pulled the crying woman he had just caught in his hand, resentful in his heart.

"Never mind, let's catch a handful first." Another soldier smashed open the wooden box in the house with the halberd in his hand, and then picked up the scattered things in it, looking for valuable objects.

"I work hard for them, not to find guilt for myself, but to make a fortune." He muttered and then kicked over a dead Crancia soldier next to him and rummaged through him.

"Look at their good armor, why don't they have any money on them."

And while the city was still unaware, the battle outside the city became more intense.

Huge fireballs emerged from the sky, and then smashed into the enemy formation below under the control of the mage. The battle situation has reached this point, and they can't care about preserving the magic.

But it is a pity that most of these orcs who can rush ahead are elites. The digital shaman shook the wooden staff in the army, and the fireballs in the sky also burst, turning into scattered sparks and dissipating in the air, leaving only a hot wind blowing towards the orcs.

At the foot of Jing Lan, an orc chief who held a giant sword high shouted, and slammed the wide giant sword in his hand, bringing a strong wind, and directly cut off the thick supporting feet of several of them.

The temporarily constructed war machine fell slowly with the sound of squeaking and pulling teeth, and the musketeers above also spilled out of the night sky like dumplings, fell into the dark enemy formation below, and were chopped to pieces by tomahawks .

"No!" A mage shouted in horror, ready to fly and escape from the battlefield, and then he was hit by several flying axes, and his head fell from the city wall with blood.

"No...don't come here." A musketeer sat in the corner holding a musket, and was terrified at the savage orcs rushing in front of him. But it was soon overwhelmed by a wave of black.

Just before the Black Rock soldiers in the city were aware of it, a group of orc reinforcements entered the city. Under the leadership of various leaders, they rushed into the alleyway and slashed the Black Rock soldiers excitedly and high.

Compared with humans, orcs are much taller, they are bloodthirsty and aggressive, but they have been trapped in the grasslands for hundreds of years and have been suppressing the blood in their hearts, but this war has been greatly stimulated.

Originally, many young orcs were still slightly dissatisfied with joining Crancia, but now after the outbreak of the war, the voice of opposition has gradually disappeared.

Rather than quietly farming and grazing, they are more eager to fight to win glory, dignity, and everything.

Under the cold moonlight, groups of orcs from the grassland recklessly used their brute force to defeat enemies armed with halberds and muskets, until there were no more Black Rock soldiers in sight.

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