Buck put down the lookout goggles in his hand when he heard Ernest's words, a wicked smile slowly appeared on his face, and said to the surrounding commanders with a mocking look: "Chief Ernest's suggestion is good, when the battle begins, where the fighting is fiercest, send their troops to wherever they are!"

Ernest's eyelids couldn't help jumping wildly when the officers around him laughed and said "yes", and quickly approached Buck and whispered, "My lord... If the Mage Tower causes this to happen..."

"Even if it goes to His Majesty the King, we will take care of it, this is just the most conventional order. Buck leaned against the wall and looked at the mages who were still busy building fortifications in the distance, and added, "Of course, those mages have privileges, so remember to protect their lives when the war begins." ”

"Understood, Boss!"

"Don't worry, sir. ”

The surrounding officers agreed in a chaotic manner, and Ernest had to smile helplessly.

Buck then said, "If I'm right, the Undead Legion will deliberately drag out the battle until after the night generals, so... Stop building fortifications from the afternoon onwards and let the precious mages rest. He looked around the camp and looked at the Beiyin Forest in the distance, "Let the army laborers chop up more wood, I need enough campfires to light up this area at night!"

...

The scorching summer sun slowly sets under the erosion of time, and the blue sky slowly loses its daytime brilliance under the cover of darkness.

Night falls again, and the cycle of the day is complete.

As Buck expected, the necromancers of the Undead Legion in Broken Bones deliberately controlled their large legion, intending to attack after it was completely dark.

Around eight o'clock in the evening,

Buck, who was patrolling the city walls, suddenly stopped, and the nearby soldiers also entered a state of combat readiness in an instant. Outside the simple earthen walls, under the pitch black night sky where there was barely anything visible, piercing screams and low roars began to be heard.

"Prepare for war!" Buck attached himself to the battlements, subconsciously looking into the distance, but under the pitch-black deep sky in front of him, there was nothing but endless darkness.

"Don't panic!"

Buck patted the faces of the sailors beside him and whispered.

The soul-stirring screams in the darkness challenged the limits of the soldiers' hearing, and slowly disintegrated their already strong hearts.

"You are now immediately back to your respective detachments, and the soldiers need to see you. Buck dismissed the various detachment leaders who were around him, and ordered the herald who followed him: "Tell the attic flag bearer to inform General Nemero that the flanks are on alert, and the heavy cavalry corps can wait for the opportune to move." ”

"Your Excellency, you should return to Command as soon as possible. Prost. Ernest whispered in Barker's ear.

"Wait!" Buck glanced at Ernest and stared at the dark night sky outside the line.

The screams and dull roars of the undead continued, and the ground shook slightly from the movement of the army, and Buck controlled his breathing, keeping himself in a calm state of mind, quietly waiting for the undead army to arrive.

Ten minutes...

Twenty minutes...

As time went on, the atmosphere on the defensive line became more and more solemn.

Buck remained calm, the screams and growls in his ears getting closer, only to make his uncontrollable tension disappear.

The flag officer in the attic of the watchtower desperately waved the flag in his hand to report the time to the whole army...

Half an hour passed...

The shaking of the earth disappeared at this moment, and a cold that could penetrate the bone marrow made Buck shiver in the heat of the night.

"Illumination!" Buck quickly walked away from where he had been for half an hour, and ran as fast as he could, towards the nearest watchtower attic.

Just as Buck climbed the tower attic, countless 'illuminations' rose from behind the city walls, cutting a beautiful arc in the sky, falling into the dark night sky outside the line and exploding.

The dazzling light breaks through the night sky and illuminates the dark earth...

In the slightly dim light, the originally empty land six or seven hundred meters away from the defense line was crowded with countless disgusting ghouls and skeleton warriors, their pale blue eyes flashing like summer fireflies under the faint light of the 'illumination technique'.

It's just that there are a lot of these 'fireflies', and it feels as if as long as there is no place within the visual range, there is nothing they can't cover!

After nearly ten minutes of calm, the huge undead army began to move from side to side... But it was only moving left and right, and there was no rush to attack the city walls.

"They're lining up!" Ernest muttered to himself.

"The shield men are in front, the archers are in the back, and the auxiliaries are covering on the left and right. Buck responded, "When the Old Imperial Knights trained, the instructors would teach their cadets like this. ”

"You're still knightly trained?"

Buck shrugged, "As long as you have money, you can buy a knight's allegiance, and that's how the old empire was at the time. ”

"So, the fall of the empire is doomed. ”

Buck turned his head to look at his assistant, put away his lookout glasses, and said, "Our enemies have a master tactician, and if they continue to confront each other in this way, our morale will plummet, and even if these monsters don't attack, we will collapse ourselves." ”

"Do you have any ideas?" asked Ernest subconsciously.

"At the current distance, unless we set up a more sophisticated catapult..."Buck turned his head to look at the simple catapult in the light behind him and shook his head, "with our current attack, we won't be able to hurt the other party at all." ”

Buck shrugged helplessly, picked up his lookout glasses and looked at the incoming troops moving vaguely on the northern defense line, and said, "But I believe the elves can do it." As soon as he said his words, the sentry next to him immediately reminded: "General, the flank watchtower prompts that General Nemeiro has asked you to return to the headquarters immediately." ”

...

On the brightly lit earthen wall in front of the coalition forces, a squad of elves with longbows replaced the original defenders, and behind them a hundred mage apprentices carefully carved magical runes into the arrows lined up.

"Focus!" an elderly elven ranger sternly reprimanded, not only restoring the entire group of elven rangers, but also startling the sailors who were watching the excitement from a distance.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"

At the same time as the sound of breaking the sky sounded, the arrows shot by the elven ranger pierced the night sky with a cyan glow, and suddenly rose high at an extremely fast speed with the momentum of piercing the sky.

The arrows seemed to pierce the sky, as they sank into darkness as they ascended.

"Roar"

The undead legion, which had long since quieted down, suddenly let out a low roar and scream.

In the night, a row of flames in the undead legion's formation was unusually conspicuous, and the deadly flames were spreading in a burning manner.

"Keep preparing!" the older elf roared again, and a row of arrows burst into the air again. Soon, the undead legion's formation was once again attached to a row of flames, and quickly spread in all directions.

It was only at this time that the surrounding naval officers and soldiers reacted that the flames attached to the undead legion were caused by this group of elves.

Amid cheers and whistles, the older elf shouted again, "Keep preparing!"

The arrows with a dazzling blue light rose into the air again...

This was repeated six times, and the original vigor of the elven rangers of the entire squad had long since disappeared, and the mage apprentices behind them who were responsible for outlining runes on the arrows directly fell to more than twenty people.

"Hum... Hum..."

Another squad of Elven Ranger had just climbed the city wall when a long horn sounded from the undead legion's formation.

The 'Illumination Technique', which was twice as large as before, rose into the air a moment after the horn sounded, and the earth, which had been silent for nearly an hour, began to tremble again due to the movement of the huge army formation of the Undead Legion.

"Prepare for battle!" the officers shouted at the top of their lungs.

The silent defense line of the city wall began to operate under the military orders of the flag bearers of the guard towers, and the soldiers were stirring the gears vigorously next to the heavy crossbows at the important defensive points, and the crossbow arrows with the thickness of their arms were erected as quickly as possible, and the laborers near the improvised stone throwing in the rear were also doing pre-battle adjustments.

The two thousand crossbowmen at the front of the earthen wall checked the magic arrows and ordinary arrows in the quiver, and after confirming that they were correct, they took out ordinary arrows and put them on the bow and arrows under the order of the officer to adjust the shooting angle.

The navy equipped with magic guide equipment was arranged on both sides of the crossbowmen, and they clutched the most advanced magic weapons in the continent in their hands, waiting for the undead army to approach with nervousness...

500 meters,

400 meters,

300 meters,

The sound of the gears turning continued to echo, and the catapults in the rear took the lead in attacking. Because there was no time to prepare the Rolling Stones, and only the most ordinary stones could be projected, the damage caused by this wave to the Undead Legion was not great.

The fearless army of the undead did not hold up the flying stones at all, and they continued to advance at the same speed as they had started, and when they advanced to a certain distance, they were greeted by rows of heavy crossbows fired from various defensive ports.

The arrows of the crossbow arrows that flashed with cold light flashed a little bit of fire when they pierced the air, and the moment the red magic rune was activated, the crossbow arrows fell into the military formation of the undead legion, penetrating countless ghouls and exploding in the military formation with a "boom".

The explosion lasted for a long time, and the officers on the city walls cheered as the flames rose into the air. This is a crossbow arrow of the Navy's trait in the Kingdom of Kruria, which is covered in magic crystal powder and is made in a process similar to that of a magic guide device.

This crossbow bolt was imagined by Buck and made by the Kingdom Chengnan Laboratory.

Buck never dreamed that for the first time, the weapon he imagined would be used on land rather than in naval battle.

Although the magic crossbow bolts caused a massive attrition of the ghouls in front of them, the undead warriors still advanced towards the city wall defense line with firm steps without fear.

This time, they were greeted by arrows that seemed to be near the boundless, accompanied by re-erected throwing attacks by catapults in the rear, and from time to time the erected magic bolts fell again into the massive army of ghouls.

Ten minutes later, the huge army of ghouls arrived under the city walls.

Due to the lack of troops, Buck did not set up a defensive line on the perimeter of the city walls, so the war could only revolve around the offensive and defensive battles of the city walls and the tug-of-war on the flanks.

The most conventional and brutal offensive and defensive war begins...

The earthen walls were not very high, so the undead legions did not set up ladders, and countless ghouls grabbed each other and climbed towards the city walls, and the skeleton archers in the rear constantly interfered with the soldiers on the city walls with bone arrows. On the right, a large number of ghouls with missing arms and legs gathered together to form a huge sarcoma that seemed to slosh, rolling towards the mage tower navy stationed there.

"Attack with fire! Attack with fire!"

"Tar! Prepare tar!"

The officers at the front of the city wall shouted as they raised the tar jars and smashed them down, the swarthy oil quickly covering the bodies of the ghouls clinging to each other.

The sailors looked at the ghouls close at hand, looked at their palpitating faces, and eagerly pushed down the fire oil burning in the iron basin next to the city wall, and the fire quickly spread from one point to all sides, covering all the ghouls attached to the city wall in the blink of an eye.

But the flaming ghouls did not stop climbing, and their movements were not affected by the flames attached to them, and they stubbornly wanted to climb the walls!

On the flanks, in front of the defensive positions of the mage towers navy, there were only a few towers and horses. Buck knew that this line of defense would not have time to be completed, so he immediately changed his thinking, turning the fortified walls into huge pits and having the mage apprentices bury countless magic traps.

Countless ghouls stormed the line, as easily as expected, falling into a deep pit, being strangled by countless traps, and then burned by fire.

In the attic of the tallest watchtower in the middle, Buck leaned against the watchtower fence and watched the battle along the entire defensive line with a lookout glass.

At this moment, although it was his own side that was now in the upper position in the battle of the city wall, Buck showed no sign of joy.

"The undead are attacking more fiercely than we thought, and we're attrition too fast!" said Chief Ernest's worried face, "It's only the ghouls who are in charge of the attack now, and we've done our best." ”

"Offensive and defensive wars are more about attrition, we are consuming combat readiness resources, and the undead legions are consuming their cannon fodder troops. Buck whispered calmly, and the fire shone on his face, shining on his confident eyes, making Ernest, who was looking at him next to him, unconsciously more confident.

"That's true, but..."

"Didn't the Mage Tower promise to give priority to our logistical supplies?" Buck interrupted Ernest, "then don't be polite to them, and tell the brothers to kill the enemy as much as possible, and don't worry about supplies." ”

"What if the Mage Tower doesn't keep its promise?"

"They'll keep the promise!"

"What if... You know, those old guys in the Council are a hundred times more cunning than the flying fish in the sea, and even a grain of sand is clearly marked for the things in the Mage Tower!"