The smell of blood and corpses, spread by the strong wind, pointed the way for the monsters to attack.

After the initial shock, Huggins gradually regained his composure, calmed down, looked at the approaching "war beast herd", and began to observe the situation on the battlefield.

Seven bat monster birds, four poisonous gas iron crocodiles, and eleven bone spur wolves, these barbarian war beasts were different from the mutated beasts he had seen in the northern frontier in the past in terms of appearance, size, and combat effectiveness. To make a comparison, it's like putting a lion and a wild cat together.

When did the barbarians have such terrifying combat power?

From the point of view of advantages and disadvantages, our biggest reliance is the location of the fortress, so the bat monster bird that can fly over the city wall is the highest priority target.

In Huggins' "keel", there was a rattlesnake wagging sound, and one command after another vibrated through the sound waves, and came to the mind of every commander: "The heavy infantry moves forward to form a shield wall, the longbow regiment and the crossbowman team shoot behind the shield, the cavalry troops dismount to protect the snipers, and the attack targets are prioritized to lock on to the monsters in the air!"

The herd of war beasts was getting closer and closer, the bat monster bird rushed to the front with its ability to fly, the bone spur giant wolf ran fast in the middle, and the last one was the heavy gas iron crocodile.

Huggins calculated the distance between the strange bird and the fortress, and after making sure that the latter had entered the firing circle, he gave the order for a long-range strike.

The longbow and crossbow, combined with the advantage of a tailwind, allowed the arrows with great kinetic energy to travel through the air, piercing the body of the strange bird like a rainstorm. Immediately, three of them were shot down from the sky and fell to the earth with a terrible wail.

The surviving four dodged two waves of aerial attacks with the help of nimble aerial evasion, and flew to the top of the city wall, first using a dive attack to try to attack the weakly protected crossbowmen in the back row.

Relying on the dense formation and mutual support, the dive attack of the four strange birds did not cause many casualties, and only one unlucky soldier was caught by them and thrown off the wall. The Knights of the Twilight West relied on the blows of spears and bows and arrows to bring only two strange birds back into the air.

The remaining pair of strange birds, no longer approaching the city walls, instead circled around the fortress, occasionally smashing into the soldiers' formations with clumps of green acid. The precise strike of the successor sniper directly pronounced the death sentence of the last two bat monster birds.

Eleven giant wolves with bone spurs then came to the city, these monsters covered in sharp bone spurs were three meters long, their claws and teeth were like sharp blades made of steel, and they could easily pierce into the stone walls of the city wall. Their actions surprised everyone, and these monsters began to climb the city walls with their four claws.

Led by the commander, the heavy infantry began to attack, and they went to the battlements and smashed down the stones and logs that had been prepared, while the longbowmen and crossbowmen climbed the two towers, relying on the towering arrow towers to form a crossfire on the bone spur wolves on the walls.

One mutant beast after another fell under the walls, but there were still three lucky ones, with their nimble bodies and agile movements, who climbed the walls. It was these three bone spur giant wolves that slipped through the net that brought a lot of casualties to the Twilight West Knights.

The giant wolf stood on the city wall, raised his head to the sky and howled, and then shook his body violently, and the bone spurs all over his body detached from his body one by one, like hundreds of long swords shot in all directions.

Screams rang out over the walls, and the hoplites were pierced through their shields by bone spikes, pierced into their helmets, pierced through their chests, and fell in one fell instantly. The crossbowmen on both sides of the turrets also stopped attacking for fear of accidental injury, and only the successor snipers continued to provide fire support to the heavy infantry.

Melee Inheritors and Elemental Inheritors rushed to the forefront, with the former resisting the attacks of the Bone Wolves head-on with the abilities of Metal Skin and Regeneration, the latter supporting with Flame Breath, Cryo, and Sonic Shock, while the Heavy Infantry put down their short weapons such as swords and flails and raised their repellents or city breakers for mid-range support.

Under the coordinated attack of multiple wings, the four bone spur giant wolves dodged to the edge of the city wall with full of wounds, and were strangled together and left off the wall.

Only the last monster remained, the four gas crocodiles.

The crossbows on the towers did little damage to the large mutated crocodiles clad in a layer of steel armor, except for the clanging sound of collisions, only negligible traces.

Gas crocodiles can't fly or climb walls, but they pose a greater threat to the fortress with every step of the way, using their iron horns and massive bodies to repeatedly ram the fortress's gates.

The vibrations caused by each impact made even the soldiers on the city wall unable to stand, and almost fell down.

Huggins issued an order to the Knights, and the soldiers, led by their commander, used falling rocks, rolling logs, and throwing spears, but were unable to inflict substantial damage on these massive siege beasts.

Huggins, who was anxious in his eyes, put down the iron cover of his helmet, walked down the city wall, came to the middle of the knights who were ready to go, and raised his arms and shouted: "Knights, get on your horses! Let us prove our valor and fearlessness to the Father and the Son with our spears and horses under our crotch!"

Slowly turning along the gate winch, the huge iron gate slowly opened, the heir knights clenched their spears and shields, and the xenomorph warhorses scraped the ground excitedly and neighed quietly.

The terrifying face of the monster outside the city gate gradually appeared in front of everyone.

Huggins exhaled deeply, he put the spear flat, the knight's shield to protect his chest, leaned forward slightly, kicked his feet hard into the horse's belly, and shouted loudly: "Knights of the Twilight, for glory!

Torrents of steel swept out of the gates, colliding with the hordes of war beasts like heavy hammers smashing into red-hot anvils.

Sparks shoot everywhere, and iron scales scatter.

A poisonous iron crocodile near the city gate was tossed to the ground by the powerful impact, and then the sharp spear cut through the soft belly, and died in a whirlwind of pain.

The remaining three giant crocodiles turned around and rushed to the side of the Knights. The huge and heavy body slammed into it, pushing several knights and horses out of the distance of more than ten meters.

Charging into the open, Huggins used the Hive to contact the knights, using the inscribed ring to run around a semicircle, repointing the head of the charge at the remaining gas crocodiles.

The monsters swooped down in the face of the approaching attack, and a large amount of toxin-laden gas was sprayed into the air from the holes in their bodies.

As soon as the knight and the horse approached, they immediately felt dizzy and nauseous.

"Hold your breath!" Huggins ordered, "The first wing is responsible for overturning these war beasts, the second wing is responsible for piercing their abdomen, and everyone should not stay within the range of the poison gas for more than five seconds!"

With a concerted charge and well-trained cooperation, the remaining three gas crocodiles eventually died at the hands of the knights.

Huggins took a look at the disemboweled, and ordered his subordinates to return to the fortress with the wounded. When he returned to the walls again, he was greeted by cheers and praises from everyone.

"Sir, we've defeated these monsters!"

"Heavenly Father is above! Honor belongs to the Knights of the Twilight West!"

"Let these bitche-raised barbarians learn what true power is!"

Huggins took off his helmet, took the towel from his entourage, brushed the parasite limbs from his head, wiped the sweat and blood from his face, and breathed a long sigh of relief.

While the people were still basking in the joy of victory, the watchtower's sentry once again issued a warning: "The barbarian army has returned!"

The black-pressed enemy army returned to the camp and looked at the Knights of the Dusk West on the city wall.

Throwing the towel to his subordinates, Huggins looked at the army on the opposite side and said with a sneer: "Your war beast has died under my gun, I want to see what other tricks there are?!"

At this moment, the army of barbarians and silver rings walked out of the lonely horse.

A young man of seventeen or eighteen years old left the camp on a white horse and came into the midst of the two armies.

He was a burly, bronzed complexion, with well-defined and deep features, a white bearskin bib on the lower half of his body, and a heart guard on his left chest on the upper body.

Huggins watched as the man approached slowly, and whispered to himself, "Is this the 'Vicious Dog of Curland'?"

Riding to a distance of less than a kilometer from the fortress, the barbarian man untied his stiff bow from his back and took out a long arrow wrapped in an oilcloth from the quiver at his waist.

Huggins watched the other man's actions carefully, and the doubts in his heart slowly grew.

What does this guy want to do?

Suddenly, a strange smell in the air interrupted his train of thought.

Huggins followed the source of the scent and looked below the city walls, where the corpses of the four poisonous gas crocodiles killed by the Knights quickly decomposed, and a large amount of gas was dispersed into the air.

The Vicious Dogs of Kuran pulled out the flint and steel, lit the tarpaulin on the arrow, and put the long arrow on the bow, slowly filling the bowstring.

It turns out that the front of the barbarian army is a decoy, and the war beast herd is also a decoy, and the real purpose of the enemy army is to send these giant beasts full of explosive gas to the bottom of the city wall!

Huggins, who finally understood everything, felt as if his scalp was about to explode, and he shouted to the unknown knight soldiers around him, "Get out of the wall!

Boom!

The sound of the bowstring cracking in the air rang out.

The world seemed to enter slow motion, the flaming arrows slowly spun forward, Huggins roared loudly with all his strength, and the faces of the soldiers of the Twilight Knights began to show signs of panic, and everything began to move towards the established trajectory.

Two seconds later, the rocket plunged into the beast's body, and the explosion tossed over the walls and the earth, engulfing the entire line of defense with soaring flames. Blood and limbs fell around the fortress like a torrential rain, and when viewed from the air, it looked like a huge "flesh mill".

The ancient trumpets of the barbarians sounded over the battlefield, and thousands of warriors let out bloodthirsty battle cries, a force that destroyed everything, rushing towards the crumbling walls of the North Stone Fortress.