Chapter Twenty-Six: The Destruction of the City of Thoth
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Outside the city, the Golia army survived the cold night with each other, and although no one froze to death, the soldiers were not in good spirits. Even the commander looked dark and languishing.
In the city, the Torlistine defenders, who had a good night's rest, were in good spirits.
The Duke of Warriel commanded the local army in the city to run back and forth, deploying the allocation of materials to defend the city. After a day of fierce fighting yesterday, there was not much material left for the defense of the city that Gramont had saved when he went out of the city to meet the battle, and the city gate was already in tatters, and could be breached at any time, and he would fall into a situation of head-on confrontation with the enemy.
Lady Karina has been cultivating for a day, and although her magic power has not returned to the state where she can release [Fourth-level Magic] again, it is not a problem to use some low-level magic to command the mage troops to fight.
At about nine o'clock, the sun rises in the sky, and the sun shines brightly, and people are warm.
Commander Goria bathed in the sun, feeling warm and his frozen body slowly recovered. "Pass the order, the whole army prepares, and the siege will begin in half an hour."
"Yes." The herald went down with the commander's orders.
Goria's remaining 30,000-odd troops slowly began to operate, shield-raised, and ready to go.
It was easy to see what was going on outside the city, and Duke Variel prepared the defenders, leaving a thousand troops at the side of himself, Lady Karina, and the mage's troops. If the gates were breached, he would have his guards retreat with the mage troops while the other defenders were stalling.
Half an hour later, the Goria commander issued the siege order.
"Rush." "Kill." "Victory belongs to Goria." "For His Majesty's Majesty."
The defenders on the walls were not to be outdone.
"Hold on." "Block them." "For Her Majesty's Majesty." "For Toristine."
First of all, the Goria troops rushed forward against the rain of arrows from Torristin's archers, and many soldiers fell in the way of the charge. After touching the city wall, at the gate is a demolition soldier holding explosives buried under the city gate and detonating it, surrounded by shield soldiers guarding it. The city gate had already been blocked, and behind the gate was a heavy pile of stone and wood, so that it could hold on after a day of bombardment. In other positions, the swordsmen threw their claws at the five-meter-high wall, and climbed up.
The one meter behind the hook and claw was mixed with wire and steel wire, which was difficult to cut, and during this time, the Goria soldiers took out twelve points of strength to climb up, one hand grasped the city wall, some were cut off by the nearby defenders and fell to death, and some successfully climbed up, pulled out their long knives and fought with the nearby Torristeen defenders. More and more Goria soldiers managed to climb the city walls, some of them gathered back to back to fend off the Toristine soldiers besieging from all sides, and the subsequent Goria soldiers continued to replenish from the gaps opened by their predecessors.
In this area where the Gorian soldiers are huddled, Toristine's magical attack will be ushered in.
[Fireball], [Wind Blade], [Rock Spear], etc., fall or rise from the center of the enemy cluster, disrupting the enemy formation, and the surrounding Toristine soldiers swarmed up again, killing the Goria soldiers with random knives. At this time, the value of magic is not comparable to the number of kills of one or a few first-level magic.
This is the most tragic meat grinding ground, the Goria soldiers are desperate, the Toristine soldiers are fighting to the death, and in the width of the city wall five meters thick, the soldiers are densely packed with two ant colonies to bite each other, and they continue to die. At least 15,000 or 6,000 soldiers from the two countries were left on the 1,000-meter-long and five-meter-wide frontal wall, and the blood soaked in them dyed the original blue bricks gray and black overnight.
"The Torlistine army isn't as weak as we thought."
Commander Goria sighed, then his tone turned cold.
"But that's the end of it. Chiyan troops, give me a hand, smash that wall at all costs. ”
"Yes, sir."
The remaining 900 Chiyan troops came out of the rear army array, and when the two armies were in a stalemate at the city wall, these 900 people moved to a distance of 200 meters from the city gate, and the archers in the city noticed the unusual movement and shot arrows in this direction.
The shield soldiers around the Red Flame Army raised their shields to protect the Red Flame Soldiers.
"All the players have it, the goal, two hundred meters in front of me as the center. Preparation!! ”
The leader of the Red Flame Army shouted.
A blazing heat rose from the red-glowing armor of the nine hundred people, and the air was faintly distorted. The shieldmen in the range showed uncomfortable expressions, and some even fainted to the ground.
The nine hundred men were simply distributed into triangular cones, and fireballs with large heads flew out of the enchanted armor, crossed the formation in a forward and upward direction, and rained down on the walls of [Thoth] City.
The fourth-level magic [Heavenly Fire Burning City] also has a similar effect, but a single fireball is more powerful, and the number is far less than nine hundred, but under the control of the releaser, the power of dozens or even hundreds of fireballs can be completely integrated to form a super single attack; It is also possible to drop dozens of fireballs together to injure enemy troops; It can also hit a fireball in stages to chase down a single enemy. In many ways, the [Heavenly Fire Burning City] is better than these nine hundred fireballs, but sometimes the huge accumulation of numbers can also produce qualitative changes.
Orange-red fireballs fell across a distance of two hundred meters towards the walls of [Thoth] City, and in the middle of the way, fireballs aimed at the same direction collided and converged in the air, forming fifty or sixty large fireballs of different sizes with a diameter of three meters and a diameter of one meter. Then the enlarged fireballs collided and converged in the air, forming three super fireballs with a diameter of six or seven meters and a super super fireball with a diameter of twelve or thirteen meters.
The blazing red light caught the eye of all the soldiers of the two armies who were fighting.
In the next moment, three super fireballs, one large and three small, slammed straight into the walls of [Thoth] City.
"Boom-boom-boom-!!"
A huge explosion resounded in the sky, and the blast wind generated by the explosion blew away the soldiers of both armies hundreds of meters around, and the flames of huge energy engulfed everything in the center of the explosion when it exploded.
The battlefield fell silent.
At the point where the super fireball landed, a thirty-meter-long section of the city wall was blown up, leaving a huge gap, and the soldiers of the two armies on the city wall turned into ashes in an instant.
Commander Goria was also frightened by this power, he originally just wanted to blow a gap of five or six meters. However, in the end, he was the commander of 50,000 soldiers, and his heart was firm, and he quickly stabilized his mood.
"Now, the city wall has been broken, and the whole army has it, rush me!!"
"Oh oh oh" "Kill, ahhhh ”
With the astonishing power of nine hundred fireballs, the morale of the Gorya soldiers soared, and they swarmed from all over the plain to the breached gaps with their long knives and spears.
Duke Wariel was also frightened when the explosion occurred. The loud sound that rushed to the sky, the earth was trembling and the fire was rising. It almost made him suspect that the magic power had reached the fourth level.
Lady Karina gave a judgment in her heart with the eyes of the [Quartet]. At first, 900 fireballs were all once lacking in power; The power of the one-meter-diameter fireball that appears in the second stage is about 4 degrees, and the power of the three-meter-diameter fireball is about 8 degrees; In the third stage, the power of the fireball with a diameter of six or seven meters was about 16 degrees, and the power of the fireball with a diameter of twelve meters was about 32 degrees, both of which were at the level of third-level magic and third-level mixed magic.
Now the four mainstream [Fourth-level magic] in the world are all all attacks, and in terms of individual damage, the power of third-level hybrid magic is close to the strongest. For example, the combination of [Wind King's Hammer] and [Flame Explosion] at the third level, or the combination of [Eye of Storm] and [Turbulent Impact] under the royal bloodline. Now there is another one, a super fireball that combines hundreds of fireballs.
Both commanders were shocked in their hearts, and the Toristine soldiers below were even more devastated. As the Goria soldiers poured in through the gap, the Toristine soldiers, though still holding on, had lost faith in victory.
By the time the Duke of Wariel came to his senses, about 2,000 of Goria's soldiers had poured into the walls through the gap, and the follow-up soldiers were still being replenished.
"Alas—the tide is gone." Duke Variel sighed, then regained his senses.
"Guards, send out five hundred people and leave with Madame and the magicians of this academy."
"Yes, Lord Duke." A thousand elites surrounded him, escorting thirty magicians to leave through the back door.
"Sir, what about you?" Lady Karina asked.
Duke Variel smiled kindly.
"I'm going to take the rest of the army with me, and I'm going to cut off the queen for you. Besides, my soldiers are still fighting, how can I, as a commander, run away alone? ”
Lady Karina stepped forward and grabbed Duke Warier's hand.
"I'm not leaving, I still have magic and I can fight. Just let me stay with you, sir! ”
The Duke of Warriel slashed Lady Karina in the neck with a sudden slash, and Lady Karina fainted with wide eyes.
Duke Variel hugged her.
"I'm sorry, ma'am, I can listen to you for everything else, but this is not the only thing."
The Duke of Warriel leaned over and kissed Lady Karina's noble forehead.
"Okay, take Madame away, if Madame is missing a hair, I won't forgive you."
"Yes, Lord Duke."
The leader of the guards took over the mistress and escorted the academy mages to begin their retreat.
Variel turned and walked towards the city gates, the remaining five hundred guards following him closely.
"I am the Duke of La Warrière, the city is broken today, I should advance and retreat with all the soldiers and fight to the end!!" Duke Warriel drew his sword from his waist and raised it high, using wind system magic to send his voice out.
Then the Duke of Wariel led his guards to the vicinity of the gap where the battle was most intense.
The depressed will of the Torristeen defenders was ignited by the commander's example and courage to kill the enemy.
"Kill." "For the sake of the Duke." "For Her Majesty's Majesty." "Kill." "Fight to the end, fight to the end!!" "Kill!!"
The Toristine army became tenacious and tenacious again, and fought with the enemy at the gap and on the city wall, even if it was broken through the defense line by Goria for a while, it was soon beaten back by the Toristine army, which was not afraid of death and wounding.
While the casualties of the two armies were growing, five hundred guards and thirty-one mages left the city of [Thoth] through the back door. Students of Toristine nationality such as Kishu and Cordivar were very sad, and students of other nationalities were also a little depressed. The previous battles they participated in had ended in victory, and even gave them the illusion that nothing could be done as long as they had them, but this defeat made them very sad that Duke Variel could only evacuate after being left behind.
It was like a fire burning inside of Kishu, if I could be a little stronger, if I could cast the [Golden Golem], I would be able to kill and injure more enemies. Damn it.
The fierce battle ended at two o'clock in the afternoon, and Torristeen was almost completely killed, leaving only thirty or forty soldiers who had been subdued and captured, and the Duke of Warrier, who had been physically protected by five hundred guards.
Commander Goria, led by his men, saw the unconscious Duke of Warriel under the hill-like corpse.
"My lord, this person is still angry, and he seems to be a nobleman with a lot of status, what are we going to do?"
Commander Goria crouched down and took a closer look, surprised.
Duke of Wariel?! He didn't retreat.
No wonder Toristine's soldiers fought to the last moment, adding to the many casualties of our troops.
I lost so many soldiers. The commander stared at Duke Variel, raising murderous intent.
However, the commander is a nobleman of Goria after all, and the nobles are allowed to be ransomed with ransom when they are defeated and captured. Although it is nothing for him to kill the Duke of Wariel now, it may be better to exchange him for a sum of money to replenish the army's material consumption.
"Pull him out, wash him and take care of him. He was probably worth half a million gold coins. ”
"Five hundred thousand!!" His men were astonished, staring at Duke Wariel as if they were looking at a mountain of gold.
The Commander took care of the matter and walked around the city he had taken, but the smell of blood was very emotional for him.
An hour later, the men who had gone down to count the casualties rushed back.
"Report to my lord, there are 5,000 people left in Meng Hu's army, 2,000 left in the family army that was absorbed, and 12,000 left in other local armies."
The Commander nodded. The McCann family's surrender is no longer a climate.
"Disperse the McGhan family's surrender army into various local armies, and cancel this establishment. Everyone stop to rest, take out all the grain, rice and wine in the city, and relax. ”
"Yes!!" His subordinates went down with some excitement to pass on the order.
The commander was alone, recalling the two days of fighting. The Toristine army, which was more than 20,000 and less than 30,000, caused 31,000 casualties to our army, and if you want to drive straight ahead, you probably can't do it. Next, attack Tony [Tory], or set off for the interior of Torlistine? Do you want to wait for reinforcements, or do you want to be quick and attack quickly?
Ah, trouble, don't think about it today, just relax.
"Hey, Guard, bring me wine."