Chapter 378: Battle of Xisheng Pass (Part 1)

I didn't let the air force rush up and pour down firepower as they did when they conquered Kervo and Bolivar. Illidan lined up his troops in a row, 600 meters in front of the West Saint Pass.

Air forces are not omnipotent. In Eslaze, where magic civilization is developed, there are things like magic towers. Mages in the magic towers can greatly increase the range and coverage of the spells they cast, and even the power of the spells has been slightly improved.

Kervo did have a magic tower before, but the night elves' attack was too sudden, and the Kervo family didn't have the opportunity to activate the magic tower. Bolivar is a commercial city, and there is no headquarters of any major forces there, so there is no magic tower at all.

But now the West Saint Pass that the night elf troops are going to attack is not like before. With three hours of preparation time, enough magicians have already been stationed in the Mage Tower of the Western Pass. If Illidan still follows the previous tactics and sends air troops to clean up the area, the Hippogryph Knights and Raptor Druids will definitely suffer heavy losses.

Although the combination of Hippogryphs and Archers generally has the strength of the Gold Level even if they are only Elite Level, the spells cast by the Mage Tower combined with the power of the mages in the tower cannot be resisted by just the Gold Level, especially since the Hippogryph Knights are not a type of soldier with high defense.

However, the obstruction of air power does not mean that the Night Elves have no way to deal with the pass in front of them. Using the Hippogryph Knights to clean up the area is just a tactic of bullying people under the huge disparity in strength. The real strength of the Night Elves is not something that a small Western Pass can resist.

Six hundred meters, even if the defenders of the Western Pass have the advantage of being high above, the range still cannot reach that far. As for the Mage Tower, it is usually located inside the city, overlooking the entire city (pass). At most, it can extend the magic to the position of the city wall when the enemy attacks the city wall. It is still beyond its ability to reach 600 meters away from the pass.

However, a distance of 600 meters is nothing in front of the night elves. Even archers, at the lowest level of elite, have a range of more than 600 meters, not to mention the siege-specialized glaive throwers and mountain giants with long-range attack capabilities.

This is because it is an expedition, so a large number of ancient guardians were not brought, otherwise the small West Saint Pass would probably be submerged by boulders in a few rounds.

Even without the ancient guardians, the siege ability of the night elf troops under Illidan is still not to be underestimated. All three hundred glaive throwers began to charge, preparing to cast the skill of charged blade.

When using the charged blade, the attack of the glaive thrower is inferior to that of even low-level heroes. According to Yu Fei's estimation, the charged blade allows the attack of the glaive thrower to reach the legendary level in an instant. If the attack of the Glaive Thrower was not easily dodged, it would be equivalent to mass-producing legendary warriors.

However, despite the disadvantage that the attack is easily dodged, the Glaive Thrower is still a good troop for siege.

The few seconds of charging time passed quickly. "Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh--" Three hundred sword blades flashing with cold light brought a trail of afterimages and flew towards the wall of Xisheng Pass.

The defenders of the Holy Lion Empire on the wall only saw hundreds of dark shadows that could not be seen suddenly flying out of the enemy's camp in the distance. Then, the thick wall under their feet suddenly made a sound of collapse under the heavy load.

"Boom--" In the shocked eyes of countless people in the pass, the outer wall of Xisheng Pass actually turned into a pile of rubble and collapsed directly!

The soldiers who were originally on the wall could not react at all in this sudden change. A few of them screamed and fell off the wall, and most of them were even buried directly by the wreckage of the outer wall. Just this one blow caused the defenders of Xishengguan to lose several thousand soldiers.

There had never been hundreds of legendary warriors participating in the war on the continent, so naturally there would not be a situation where the city wall was directly destroyed by hundreds of legendary attacks. Only the night elves' glaive throwers could create such a scene.

The entire Xishengguan was silent in this incident. Who would have thought that the empire had spent a lot of energy and summoned a large number of mages to reinforce the Xishengguan city wall with rocks into mud and mud into stones, but it was directly smashed by the enemy.

Without thinking, there would naturally be no preparation, which caused the collapse of the city wall to cause heavy losses to ordinary soldiers who were not strong enough to survive in this situation. What was more serious was that all the soldiers of the Holy Lion Empire behind the outer city wall lost the barrier of the city wall and were exposed to the night elves.

Illidan would naturally not miss this good opportunity to kill the enemy. The archer troops quickly stepped forward and poured arrows on the heads of these exposed soldiers. Even the Hippogryph Knights in the air temporarily ignored the attack of the Mage Tower due to the distance and shot arrows together.

20,000 Night Elf Archers and 10,000 Hippogryph Knights caused more than 30,000 attacks. With the extensive use of Shadow Arrows and Scattered Shadow Shooting, 30,000 archers created the momentum of 100,000 elite archers. Moreover, this was the attack of 100,000 archers who never missed their target.

The number of soldiers behind the outer wall of West Saint Pass was less than 100,000. Even if some of the Night Elf attacks were wasted due to overlapping targets, more than half of these soldiers were lost instantly.

If it were an ordinary city and army, they would probably collapse directly when the city wall was directly destroyed and suffered heavy losses. However, Xisheng Pass is not an ordinary city, and the imperial guards of the Holy Lion Empire are not ordinary armies.

As mentioned earlier, the attack launched by the three hundred glaive throwers using the charged blades only destroyed the outer wall of Xisheng Pass. As a pass, unlike ordinary cities, Xisheng Pass has three walls.

The charged blade skill of the glaive throwers also needs to be cooled, and ordinary attacks cannot create the shocking effect of the previous ones. In a short period of time, the remaining two thicker walls of Xisheng Pass became an obstacle for the night elf troops.

It is worth mentioning that the mage tower in Xisheng Pass is also located at the second city wall.

Now, the defenders on the second city wall have recovered from the previous shock. Looking at the remains of the outer city wall and the friendly troops wailing under the attack of archers between the two city walls, these well-trained imperial guards also felt cold all over.

The archers' attack speed was not slow. Not long after the last wave of arrows rained down, the second wave of arrows covered the remaining enemies in the collapsed outer wall. After this round, there were only a few defenders left between the two walls of Xisheng Pass.

Illidan had a blank expression on his face, but he felt a little regretful. The archers deliberately slowed down the second round of attacks a little to see if the defenders on the second wall of Xisheng Pass would rescue their friendly forces.

If they opened the gate of the second wall to let the remaining friendly forces escape in, the night elf troops would quickly use the claw druids as assault troops, bless them with the aura of swiftness and the magic of controlling the wind, and rush directly into the second wall of Xisheng Pass.

I didn't expect that the commander of Xisheng Pass was so decisive that he watched tens of thousands of his friendly forces die under the arrows of the night elves.

On the wall, a man in military uniform who looked noble had bloodshot eyes - he was one of the defenders of Xisheng Pass. It's not that he didn't want to save the friendly troops under the city, nor did he know how fast the night elf troops would burst out.

He just judged from the previous firepower of the night elves that even if he ordered the city gate to be opened to let in the friendly troops outside the city wall, he couldn't save many of them at once. In this case, he could only reluctantly give up the risky idea of ​​opening the city gate and watch tens of thousands of human soldiers die under the city.

Illidan was not discouraged by his little tricks. It seems that he is still not suitable for any conspiracy tactics, so he should just attack directly.

At Illidan's order, the night elf troops began to advance forward. After the first wall collapsed, even with the range of the night elves, they needed to move forward to attack the second wall of Xishengguan.