Act 190 The Battle of the White Lion XIII

The first wave of fighting broke out quickly, but Sherut's attack was seriously hindered. After shooting an arrow at the southern section of the sea cliff fortress wall without success, they quickly exposed their target, fell into siege, and had to retreat. , the battle line once retreated to the midway point between the main city wall of Port Fatan and the Sea Cliff Fortress. Delphine re-invested two teams of Harbor Guards into the battle, and was able to stabilize the position. ＊,,

In the southern section of the city wall of Sea Cliff Fortress, Knight Commander Sok, who had just had a false alarm on the city wall, also discovered that the undead's attack was blocked. "It seems that the previous attack was still discovered -" he immediately realized this. , the intention of these Harbor Guards was obviously to recapture the Haiya Fortress, but they obviously did not realize that there were so many enemies in the Haiya Fortress, and now the opponent was still resisting stubbornly, presumably to buy time for the friendly forces in the rear to deploy defenses.

When did the fighting will and tactical literacy of the Fatan Port Guards become so high? He couldn't help but be a little surprised. This was not to say that he knew much about these local garrison troops that were not even second-line legions in the past, but it was a general understanding that as the elite of the empire and the vanguard of the White Legion, Sok Of course he has the right to look down on the brothers in these places. The level displayed by the Hong Kong Guard today was obviously beyond his expectations.

After two teams of fresh troops were put in, the situation on the battlefield suddenly turned tilted again. Sherrut and his colleagues once captured the bottom of the southern section of the sea cliff fortress. They even climbed up the rock to climb towards the city wall. They launched two attacks, but unfortunately they were repulsed by the corpse witches and skeletons on the city wall.

This is not surprising. Since the terrain outside the Haiya Fortress is very narrow, it only becomes open and flat again near the second half of the sandbank. However, Sherut and his colleagues firmly guarded Haiya. On the small road, the undead's superior strength cannot be used at all, and the Hong Kong Guards are certainly not worth mentioning in front of the White Legion. But when facing the same number of weak skeletons, they had an absolute advantage.

But the corpse witches quickly mobilized skeleton archers from behind, changing the situation of the battle once again. A row of skeleton archers lined up fired downwards from the southern wall of the Sea Cliff Fortress, and a dense rain of Hellsteel arrows rained down. Time caused Xue Lut's team to suffer heavy losses, and the other two teams were also very different. The morale of the Hong Kong Guards, which had just been rising, immediately dropped to freezing point, and they retreated almost all the way to the main city wall of Port Fatan.

Seeing this scene on the city wall, Baron Ludwig couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed on his face. Although he was not the military commander of Fatan Port, the Harbor Guards were directly under the lord of Fatan City. Seeing the embarrassment on the battlefield, He almost couldn't help but want to take over and curse at these guys as the Hong Kong Guards fled back, but when the words came to his lips, he remembered who was the commander here, so he had to swallow the curse words back in his stomach with a sullen face.

Delphine was much calmer than him, as if he had expected it. She quietly watched the scene below the city and ordered: "Load the arrow."

Her voice was not high, but the herald faithfully passed on her orders one by one. The soldiers in the front row on the city wall stepped back, and the back row immediately revealed two rows of archers holding longbows. , Archers are a rare product in Warnd.

They are almost all professional soldiers or mercenaries, and crossbowmen are common in the general army. Even the heavy crossbowmen were much more numerous than the archers, and the archers did not have several years of training. It is impossible to go to the battlefield at all, but a mere port guard in the empire actually has a team of professionally trained archers. Its strength is evident, and it can't help but make people sigh. In fact, Marjorie and Oni learned that there was When such a detachment of long archers was formed, the expressions on their faces were a little strange.

In Warnd. Archers almost always use magic bows, because the investment in training an archer is far greater than building a magic bow. Longbowmen who use magic bows far surpass crossbowmen in terms of range, accuracy, and projection density, and they Enchanted arrows can also be used, when using enchanted arrows. The power of the longbow far exceeds that of the heavy crossbow.

The archer opened his long bow at the command, and the arrow clusters on the bow shone with a faint golden luster, and the marks on them were obviously poured with holy water. Rows of long bows were raised in the rain, and the arrows were accurately pointed at a certain shooting angle. This is also where magic bows far surpass heavy crossbows. They are waterproof. Ordinary bows and arrows will lose their power due to moisture, but magic items Then there is no such concern.

The herald looked at Delphine aside, who nodded coldly.

"put!"

"put!"

"Release!" Commands sounded, and at that moment, the entire city wall lit up slightly, as if a dark golden line was flashing at the same time. It was the cold light caused by the arrows coming out of the string. There seemed to be a white line moving forward in the rain curtain, with a sharp roar, as if a strong wind was blowing in the face, and a rain of arrows had already started falling on the sandbank.

Logically speaking, the lethality of arrows against skeletons is limited, because the arrows can easily pass through the pores of their bones. Even if they are lucky enough to hit the bones, they can only break one or two ribs and do nothing. The impact is too great. Only by being lucky enough to break the tibia and neck can effective damage be achieved, but in the dark night, the chance of this is really too small.

But this rain of arrows is different. When each arrow approaches a skeleton, a strong holy light is emitted from it. The struck skeletons are like melted butter, and the arrows pass through their bodies, leaving behind In the next huge cavity, there was even a golden flame burning at the broken bones. Even in the rain and snow, the flames did not extinguish at all. Instead, they burned more and more, turning each skeleton into a ash.

For a moment, a golden sea of ​​fire seemed to rise on the dark battlefield, and the sea of ​​skeletons under the main wall of Port Fatan was burned out of a blank area without warning.

"Ready for the second round," Delphine ordered, and she called, "Marjorie."

"exist!"

"Get ready to attack. I ask you to lead three teams of White Lion Guards to drive the undead army back to the southern section of the sea cliff fortress wall and launch an attack on the fortress!"

"Yes!" Marjorie replied without hesitation.

At this time, the archers in formation have completed their second round of attacks. On the battlefield, it takes twelve seconds for a trained heavy crossbowman to reload, but a well-trained archer only needs one-third of this time. , another golden arrow rain fell on the heads of the skeletons, and the skeleton army of several small groups under the city wall immediately became sparse.

But they didn't collapse. The most troublesome thing about the undead army is that it has no morale, especially the low-level undead. Although they lack intelligence, they do not feel fear and naturally will not retreat easily.

At this time, the city gate slowly rose, and Marjorie led the White Lion Guards to kill them out.

"The archers changed to enchanted rockets. Prepare for the third round of shooting, requiring coverage of the rear section of the undead army to cover Marjorie's assault." Delphine calmly gave the order.

"Miss Delphine, why do you need to change rockets?" Count Olkons said anxiously: "The attack effect of the sacred arrows is very good, and there are still several bases in the ammunition storage. Rockets have no effect on skeletons!"

Delphine glanced at him and replied in a bad tone: "Am I the commander or you, the commander, act according to my orders, light the torch-"

The moment the main city wall of Port Fatan lit up. Suoke knew that today's sneak attack was over. He saw torches and braziers being lit one after another on the section of the city wall five hundred meters away. Under the light of the torches, the walkways on the city wall were filled with soldiers. , the archers of the Hong Kong Guards stood neatly in two rows.

When the archer fired the first two rounds of arrows, he frowned slightly and glanced around subconsciously, but when the third round of arrows flashed with fire in the rain curtain. Suoke finally felt relieved. It seemed that the priests of the Temple of Flame in the city had not been gathered at the first time. The plan was executed well. The previous sacred arrows should have been stored in ammunition. According to the intelligence, the Hong Kong Guards' enchanted arrows should not have too many stored ammunition. As for the sacred arrows, there were even fewer. After all, this area had been there before. But there has never been any record of being attacked by the undead.

But the attack was inevitably repulsed, followed by a hail of arrows. He saw an unfamiliar army coming out of the city of Port Fatan. The combat effectiveness of this new force was not weaker than that of the Hong Kong Guards, and even exceeded it by many. The opponent's equipment seemed to be between light and heavy infantry, but its actions were different. Extremely flexible. The assault was so explosive that several skeleton squads were unable to withstand such an offensive, and were soon forced back to the sea cliff path.

This is obviously not an ordinary army, the "White Lion Army", a term immediately comes to mind. Duke Ambnar made a thorough arrangement before attacking Port Fatan. Intelligence work is of course essential, so Sock knows it very well. What are the details of the Eruin people stationed in Fatan Port.

Of course, even Duke Ambnar didn't know the difference between the White Lion Legion and the White Lion Guard in that small kingdom, and he just confused the two hastily.

The sneak attack was discovered and the offensive was blocked. Unsurprisingly, the battle that had taken the lead turned into a head-on confrontation. However, this was not beyond Suoke's expectations. In fact, being able to capture the Sea Cliff Fortress so easily was already within his expectations. In addition, it may even exceed the expectations of Duke Ambnar, the commander-in-chief of this battle. It is impossible for the Harbor Guards and the Eruin to use the low main wall of Port Fatan to trap them. The thing is to break through the city gate in one go and then throw the undead into street fighting.

Of course, it would be best if there was no street fighting.

He very much hoped that once the city wall fell, the enemy troops who had lost hope would surrender, but judging from the intensity of the resistance at this moment, it seemed that this wish would be in vain.

Suoke naturally attributed it to the fact that the eldest son of the emperor was in the city——

But he is not very worried, because the undead are cannon fodder, and no one will feel any heartache even if they are all consumed here. Using the undead to consume the blood of the Eruins and the Hong Kong Guards in street fighting is obviously a problem. Good deal. As for the White Army, Suoke knew very well that they had only one enemy - he suddenly turned around, and the valley behind him was dark, but he knew that tens of thousands of undead armies were clustered there, and in a farther direction , is a hilly area in the Golden Needle Valley.

I don’t know if Erich and the others are already in place.

He frowned silently.

…

Port Ovehin, inside the Fortress of Konwy——

With a creak, the door of the room was pushed open by the attendant: "Your Excellency, Sir Eirich and his gryphon brigade have arrived at the predetermined area. Sir Bernd and his Silver Wing Knights also sent a magic message three minutes ago. , said it was ready——"

Duke Ambnar withdrew his gaze from the stone hole window: "Where is the Buga fleet?"

"No movement yet."

"How is the battle in Fatan Port going?"

"Observations from the frontline showed that the sneak attack was successful. The undead advance army captured the Sea Cliff Fortress in one fell swoop. However, the enemy's resistance was fierce and the battle line was deadlocked under Fatan City."

Duke Anbunar frowned slightly: "There is no sea cliff fortress. Those Eruin people will not be able to defend it for a long time. I will ask the Madara people to work harder. You go down and inform Eirich and Bernd to do whatever they want at any time." Be ready to attack."

Earl Brill looked at the closed door again and turned back: "Old man?"

"Don't worry, old friend, it's not a big problem." Duke Ambnar glanced at the black smoke-filled bone staff suspended in mid-air: "I have already sent people to investigate. In a few hours, Marjorie and his men were Contact was lost in the direction of the Golden Needle Forest, and a fake bone staff was also missing. A mouse must have sneaked in."

"It's okay?" The former frowned slightly and asked uneasily.

"It doesn't matter, the situation on the front line is excellent. The Buga people would never dream of our plan, and we don't blame them. I'm afraid no one in this world would think that Her Majesty the Queen has reached an alliance with Madara. "Duke Anbunar was in a good mood: "Madara's offensive was more successful than imagined. Without the Eruin people in the sea cliff fortress port, what could they do to save their lives? The poor Earl was killed by Buga A man becomes a spearman without knowing it, but the empire will not have mercy on him. "

He walked to the count's desk, picked up the flint on the desk and scratched it with an iron piece to light the pipe. Then he lifted the pipe and took a puff, squinting his eyes and sighing deeply.

"The rats that sneaked into Owyhin must be Yankee scouts. Don't worry, someone will take care of them."

"It's not like you, old man, to boast before the outcome of the war." Earl Brill seemed to be infected by this emotion and also laughed: "Where is our prudent Lord White Duke?"

"This war has already come to an end, Brill," Duke Ambnar shook his head and said, "It is impossible for the Buga people to declare war on two empires at the same time."

"Having said that," Earl Brill reminded: "Don't forget that the Bugas still have a fleet here -"

"Yes," Duke Ambnar replied without hesitation: "So what we are waiting for is their fleet."

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