Chapter 3 Blocking the Doorway
The minds of the defending generals were in chaos, shouldn't there be only 5,000 flame humanoids left, how could so many flame humanoids suddenly appear outside the city?
Without the time to think carefully, the flame figure gathered near the city gate and began to attack the city, and the flame figure crashed towards the city gate again and again, even if it could not be opened once or twice, the flames on its body slowly heated the city gate. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThere are also many flame figures climbing along the city wall, those bows and arrows are ineffective against the flame humanoid, and the huge stones still have some effect on the fall, but here there are not many defense materials such as boulders on the plain, and gradually the flame humanoid climbs the city wall, and the squad of soldiers crowds on the narrow city wall to fight with the flame humanoid, at first they have an advantage, but the number of flame humanoids is too large, and the water bags that are smashed out are quickly evaporated by the flames outside the body of the flame humanoid who gathered together, The flame humanoids protected by the flames easily overwhelmed the human soldiers.
The fierce fighting lasted two hours, and nearly 70% of the defenders in the castle were killed, and the remaining 5,000 soldiers chose to retreat after the city gate was breached. Thousands of flame figures were wiped out, and the rest began to burn buildings everywhere after entering the city, not chasing the retreating human army.
The castle on the Goria-Romanian border is broken.
More than 5,000 soldiers who had escaped brought the news back to their home countries, and the people in the southern part of Goria were in an uproar and began to move their families to the north. Golia was originally confused by the battle situation in the previous few days, and did not pay enough attention to this flame humanoid invasion, except for the reinforcements of the border castle, the main army did not send over, so the border castle did not hold. Now Goria began to exert its strength, and the three main legions, except for the one close to Torlistine, the other two all moved towards the southern border, with a total of 100,000 soldiers, including 5,000 soldiers with magic armor.
On the other side, the defenders of the castle on the border of Kermania received the news and withdrew the soldiers scattered to the various outposts to the castle, while requesting greater assistance from their own country. After receiving a letter for help and news that the border castle of Goria had been breached, Alice decided to send Truuk's Flame Dragon Legion to take over the defense of the border. Turuk set out in the afternoon with a total of 50,000 soldiers, including 2,000 soldiers in flame magic armor.
Then, in the middle of the canal, with only 10,000 defenders, they all became nervous after learning that the border castle of Goria had been breached, and that there were 10,000 flame figures at that time. Even though it was built on the edge of the canal and had plenty of water, if 10,000 flame figures were to attack it, the defending generals did not think that 10,000 soldiers would be able to hold on. The generals stationed here all appealed to their own countries for help, but Albion, Goria, and Kermania ignored them, and the army sent by Torristeen finally bypassed the sea on the west side of the continent by sea, passed through the canal, and reached the canal fortress in the middle of the canal.
As soon as the defending generals looked at the man, they handed over the command of the little force in their hands.
The person who came was Haotian, who led 40,000 troops drawn from Gramont, Valier, and the Queen's direct legions to arrive here. He was accompanied by Louise, Tiffania, and Aria. The strength of Louise and Tifania does not need to be repeated, and Arya was lifted by Haotian two years ago to remove the effect of [Ancestor's Mercy], and after two years of recovery and training, the strength of Arya who has broken and established can already threaten any Quartet level.
Haotian took over the command of the canal fortress, with a total of 50,000 troops. With no intention of strengthening the defenses, Haotian sent 10,000 soldiers along the banks of the canal and began to sweep the flame figures from the canal fortress east to the fire elf lake. The flame figures, which were once scattered throughout the Romanian region, now seem to be organized, and it is rare to see a lone flame figure except near a few battlefields.
After confirming that there were no flame figures within a kilometer radius from the Canal Castle to the Fire Elf Lake, Haotian began to transfer his forces to the vicinity of the Fire Elf Palace. It turned out that the surveillance castle had become a ruin, and Haotian had temporarily built a stronghold to accommodate 10,000 people, and the houses and everything were made up of tents.
From the time he received the destruction of the Goria Border Castle, Haotian noticed that the number of flame humanoids was 10,000, which means that the number of flame humanoids could be replenished, and where the flame humanoids appeared from, it was naturally the Fire Elf Palace. On the other hand, the attack of the flame humanoid is organized, and the general flame humanoid has no intelligence, but the corps commanders of the Fire Elf Legion such as the Duke of Grent Yanlong and those Fire Elf Legions retain their complete wisdom, and those officers at the rank of captain also have a certain ability to think, this part of the flame humanoid is the brain of the Flame Humanoid Legion, as long as these flame humanoids can be decapitated, the flame humanoids that do not have wisdom and act randomly will only be eliminated one by one by a team of soldiers who are specifically targeted.
Haotian rebuilt his stronghold outside the Fire Elf Palace to monitor and contain the newly appeared flame humanoids. Once the enemy is defeated, you can quickly retreat from the canal to the canal fortress.
Haotian stayed in the stronghold with 10,000 soldiers that night, and the soldiers who kept vigil were 200 people each, a total of 3 people.
Then, in the middle of the night, the stronghold was awakened by the ringing of bells by the night watchmen.
Haotian opened his eyes and walked out of the tent.
"General, look, there."
Two squadron leaders who were keeping vigil rushed over, and Haotian climbed the wooden tower and looked in the direction of the Fire Elf Palace.
A golden-red bridge of light spread across the night, and a group of flame figures wrapped around orange and orange flames poured out from one end of the bridge and walked towards the other.
The number is roughly estimated to be around 1,000.
"Sure enough." Haotian came down from the watchtower and gathered the soldiers.
Torches were lit at intervals in the stronghold, and soldiers who had been awakened from their slumbers received orders from their colleagues and commanders, and one by one they dressed up and gathered in the square in the center of the stronghold.
Haotian didn't bother much, telling the soldiers that they had 10,000 people, and the enemy was a thousand flame humanoids, and then ordered, follow him.
The soldiers let out a roar and blocked the other end of the light bridge as Haotian poured out of the stronghold.
The light bridge is about 10 meters wide, and human soldiers can accommodate about 10 people in parallel, while the tall flame figure can only accommodate 6 people in parallel. Haotian gathered the shield soldiers in front of the light bridge, and the left and right sides of the shield soldiers were pikemen, and behind the shield soldiers were hydration troopers or grenadiers. Thousands of torches were lit near the exit of the light bridge, providing light for the soldiers.
The flame figure on the light bridge walked slowly, spreading out on the entire light bridge, and only a part of it was occupied.
The human soldier's breathing became heavy, his palms sweating, and he stared nervously at the distant firelight. In the darkness of the night, the flame figures gathered together and could only see the light of the fire, but could not distinguish the form within.
"Hydration Packers ready." Haotian made a sound when the flame humanoid was still 50 meters away.
There was a rustling sound.
The flame humanoid is also 30 meters, 25 meters, 20 meters, 15 meters.
The shield soldier at the front could already see the hideous appearance of the flame humanoid.
13 meters, 10 meters, 8 meters.
"Throw!!"
After receiving Haotian's order, the water bag soldier threw five kilogram water bags at the flame figure not far away. "Bang Bang Bang" water bags hit the flame humanoid, a full thousand water bags fell into the front of the flame humanoid queue, the water flowed in all directions, hundreds of flame humanoids turned into soup chickens, and the flames outside the body were temporarily extinguished.
"The shieldmen retreat, the pikemen assault!!"
Haotian's order caused some commotion among the unskilled soldiers, and the retreating ones and the assault ones collided with each other, but two or three hundred pikemen still rushed up to the light bridge and stabbed the flame figures with spears at the flame figures that had lost their flame protection.
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The human pikemen and the flame humanoid collided together, and because of the limitation of the width of the light bridge, neither of them could fully deploy each other, and the advantage of the human soldiers, especially the pikemen, was reflected, and the flame soldiers would also hit their companions when they wielded their weapons, and their movements were blocked. The pikemen, on the other hand, only need to thrust forward, and the pikemen in the back row from the gap between the two pikemen can also be stabbed. Equivalent to 20 spears stabbing 6 Flame Soldiers at the same time.
In the hedge of the narrow road, the flame soldiers and human soldiers were killed, wounded, and overboard. Limit the battlefield to the exit of the Light Bridge, with the lake below, where human soldiers can swim back to shore if they fall overboard, and Flame Humanoids who fall into the water are death.
Haotian observed those flame figures, and when the flame figures that were extinguished were almost dried, Haotian gave an order.
"The pikemen retreated. The hydration bladders are ready, and the shield soldiers are ready for the onslaught. ”
Most of the pikemen retreated, and some of them were killed by the flaming figures that were added behind.
After the pikemen retreated, the shieldmen filled the gap and raised their shields in front of the bridge.
"Hydration soldiers, put it." The next wave of flame figures surged up, and the hydration bladder was replenished in time.
Then the flames were extinguished, and the steaming flame figure collided with the shield soldier. Even if the flame humanoid is tall and powerful, it is difficult to break away.
"Pikemen, attack."
The shield bearers were at the front, and the pikemen on either side were holding spears more than three meters long to stab the nearby flame figures.
However, the middle part of the light bridge is out of reach of the flame humanoids, and the elimination efficiency is limited.
Haotian thought slightly: "Shield soldiers, the 20 columns in the middle retreat slowly. Pikemen, fill in the gaps in shield soldiers. ”
The shield soldier had blocked the bridge of light, but now the middle one retreated, forming a concave shape, and a part of the flame figure was placed in the gap between them. Then the pikemen stabbed through the shield men with their guns. As a result, the contact surface between the human soldier and the flame humanoid is larger, and the killing efficiency is higher.
"The hydraulists are ready, ... Haotian always paid attention to the state of this flame humanoid.
The stronghold is on the edge of the lake, the water source can be said to be endless, and the water bag soldiers are also rotated in three shifts, and the water bags are used up. There are also some free people who jump into the lake to salvage the water bags that have been thrown out, and keep the number of water bags at all times.
After an hour of fierce fighting, all the flame figures were annihilated. After counting the casualties, there were only more than two thousand, all of them were shield soldiers, pikemen and other direct confrontations who were killed by the flame humanoid because of lack of strength or something; And none of the hydration soldiers died.
After winning a small game, Haotian collected his troops and returned to the stronghold, and the soldiers who kept vigil still had to keep vigil.