Chapter 16 Half-day Attack and Defense

Unless there is a traitor in the city, or a big traitor with a heavy army, who breaks out at a critical moment, and attacks inside and outside, it is difficult to quickly capture this fortified city.

The old housekeeper saw that Chenxi on the side was also full of questions, and simply stopped selling Guanzi, he stretched out a finger and shook it, and said very firmly: "It's not a day." To be precise, the first attack launched by the demons in the early morning, after three rounds of attacks, the pass fell just after noon. ”

Normer and Dawn suddenly opened their mouths wide and looked dumbfounded, apparently stunned by the true answer.

"How did the demons do it? With so many large bed crossbows and catapults, and so many high-level magicians and warriors, in terms of overall combat power, they are far stronger than the average large army with a complete formation. Besides, the attributes of the four main generals of the Terran race are well matched, how can a defensive expert of Yishui not be able to withstand it for even a day. Could it be that there was a traitor inside, and he fell under the combination of elbows and armpits?"

Dawn was the first to ask questions in disbelief, and she was nine points sure of her guess.

"There are no traitors. ”

"There really are no traitors. In the face of the great enemy of life and death and the scourge of extermination, no one would be stupid enough to believe that the rumored demons who have always been brutal will be kind to the humans who take the initiative to take refuge in them. Even if the defenders who can make an exception and be lenient with surrender, will they still be equally tolerant of the defenders' families and clansmen? You know, for the demon clan that is regarded as the aggressor, the Terran countries have demonized them early before the war began, and they have been widely publicized, so who dares to be so naïve?"

Plitander first reiterated his conclusion very firmly, and then slowly explained, "According to the research of some historians, it is this propaganda of demonizing the demons and dragons, as well as the practice of all-out hostility, that intensified the already sharp contradictions between the two sides and prompted the outbreak of war. ”

"Back then, in the face of the invading demon army, all the soldiers in Guancheng issued a sacred oath to fight to the last soldier. Speaking of which, in this battle, if it weren't for the 'doorman' who was responsible for leading the overall situation of Xiongguan, the Terran Holy Rank Knight Manuel died too early, and the other three Holy Rank leaders were also martyred one by one in a short period of time, causing the elite soldiers of Guancheng to fall into a passive situation of fighting on their own, and it was indeed impossible for the Demon Clan to capture here in more than half a day. As for the naïve idea of relying on bribing traitors to switch and surrender, in the heart of the strong man who once commanded the vanguard of the Demon Clan's coalition army, he has always been very dismissive of conspiracies and tricks, and even if there is a possibility of implementation, he will not adopt it at all. ”

Chenxi became even more curious after hearing this, and she hurriedly asked: "In this case, what caused Manuel to die early, did he make the mistake of impulsively going out of the decisive battle?"

It's all called "the doorman who attacked", maybe it was really an impulse, and the attack led to a fiasco.

What the girl asked was exactly what Normer couldn't figure out.

The girl and Normer agreed with the idea that the defenders of the city were united in their determination to die generously, and as they passed through the doorway, they were deeply shocked by the countless traces of fierce battles above the walls, and the images of the defenders fighting to the death quietly appeared in their minds. According to the description of the old housekeeper, this tragic scene occurred after the main general was killed in battle and the city gate was breached, and the soldiers who lost their unified command spontaneously rushed to the city gate, desperately resisting the demon vanguard who flocked into the city, until the last moment of the bloody battle to death.

Thousands of years of time have great power, the wind and sand in the sky can erode the skin of the city wall, and the cold wind can carry away the strong smell of blood, but all this cannot bury the loyalty of the Terran defenders who sacrificed their blood and bravery. The countless knife marks, hammer marks, and gun holes that penetrated deep into the wall confirmed that the defenders had fulfilled their solemn oath at the cost of their lives!

So, why did the four Holy Rank Guards, who had just started the war, as the commander of the Terran garrison and who were guarded by many elite soldiers, die on their own positions so quickly?

It's incredible.

"Of course not. They are not fledgling young people, and they are easy to get enthusiastic. The old butler said to the girl gently, "Please come with me." ”

After speaking, Plitander did not explain any more, and the old god walked to the center of the entire city defense with a suspicious Dawn and Normer.

It was noon at the moment, and the sun was hanging high in the middle of the sky, generously radiating heat to the earth, and the warm sun shone in all directions, dispelling the cold of late autumn and warming all things.

At noon, it is the highest temperature of the day in this late autumn season, standing at the top of the Xiongguan that is more than 100 meters high, overlooking the inside and outside of the city, the heart is particularly open-minded, and it coincides with the nostalgic time, this situation and this scene makes people suddenly heroic, there is a kind of strong and intense, the impulse of the sky is long.

However, Normmer suppressed the urge in time, because he saw that there was someone else above him.

The old butler led the two of them to the top of the city wall from the staircase on the left, and more than a hundred meters away from them, a group of people stood on the edge of the battlements of the city wall, gathered in a group, listening to the tall man in the middle, pointing at the valley outside the gate from time to time. Roughly counting, there are about more than ten people in this group, all of them are wearing white cloaks, if you are not wrong with the posture and style, they should be from a certain aristocratic house in the mainland, and they want to take advantage of the crisp autumn season to visit the ancient battlefield of "Visigothic Gate".

From where the group stood, it was clear that they had come up the staircase on the other side.

Normer secretly screamed "lucky", fortunately he saw them in advance with his sharp eyes, if he couldn't help but howl just now, he was afraid that he would be laughed at, saying that he was not stable enough.

The boy and Chenxi have always admired nature, and they don't like to be overly constrained by aristocratic etiquette, and his face is still a little thin, if those people standing far away are also nobles, and they pay more attention to etiquette norms, it is really possible that the accountant is more likely to criticize the boy's behavior.

Teenagers don't want to come across as frivolous.

Walking to the middle of the wall, where the ruins were broken, Plitander pointed to a place where the ruins of the former castle tower were, and said, "Look at the stele on the ground." ”

Normer and Dawn fixed their eyes, surrounded by the dilapidated wall, a large area of ground was vacated in the center, inlaid with a black marble stele, the stele body was about 30 centimeters higher than the ground, the stele faced the sky, and a line of large characters was engraved on it, the handwriting was simple and timeless, heroic and extraordinary, it was an ancient script that is rarely used today.

"O dear passers-by, tell the Visigoths: I, Manuel the 'Doorman' of the Attack, am laid to rest here according to their wishes. ”

Dawn whispered.

This kind of difficult and ancient writing is difficult for the intelligent and erudite girl, she recited the sentence on the stele completely, and the clear and delicate voice adopted the way of recitation, making this originally poetic sentence more charming.

It turned out that the place where the old butler took the two of them was the cemetery of the Holy Order Manuel, and this piece of solid black marble was the tombstone of the leader of the Terran defenders. The remains of the martyrs who died defending the human race and their homeland were not transported back to their hometown for burial, but forever left in the place where they held and died.

A simple and poetic epitaph could not be more apt to illustrate Manuel's pure heart, full of his deep affection for his home and country, and his infinite loyalty to the human race.

Perhaps, in the long years, every night, the soul of the hero will appear on time on the top of the city wall, looking at the valley road outside the pass, fulfilling his oath and duty to defend the border.

Plitander said to Dawn and Norma with a slight sigh: "A thousand years ago, after Manuel died, the leader of the Demon Pioneer Legion buried his body in the place where he fought bloodily, and also wrote an epitaph with his own hands. Although he is an enemy, the Holy Order of the Demon Race respects and appreciates Manuel quite much. ”

Normer nodded, the two armies fought with their own masters, judging from the way he treated Manuel's body with respect, the vanguard leader of the Demon Coalition was also a bright and well-known hero, and he did not insult Manuel because he was the leader of the enemy army, but solemnly buried the Holy Order of the Terrans.

He was an enemy in his life, and he wrote it off after his death. If it weren't for the hostility, maybe the two of them would have become good friends for life.

Dignified and upright, frank and open, this is the mind and courage that a commander of the first army should have.

"That's the way it was," the old butler looked at Dawn with kind eyes, and continued to tell the story of the past with his magnetic baritone, "On the morning when the demon army attacked here, the well-prepared and well-trained Terran defenders, under the command of Manuel, who was extremely good at defense, relied on the various defensive equipment arranged in the city, and gave the demon vanguard great damage. ”

"The catapult is responsible for striking the outermost enemy, the bed crossbow is responsible for shooting at the coalition forces within a range of 150 to 200 meters, the elite soldiers armed with strong bows and crossbows are concentrating on dealing with the demons within 100 meters, and as for the high-level magicians and marksmen and other strong human beings, they will pick out the backbone forces such as the small leaders of the demon army and snipe the grassroots officers of the enemy army in batches and layers, which is enough to make a large number of ordinary soldiers lose their command and be at a loss. ”

Depicting the situation that day, Plitander pointed to the outside of the city, drew a circle to indicate the approximate range, and continued: "Relying on the ferocious firepower in all directions, the defensive attack on the Terran side covered a considerable part of the vanguard of the demons. Only the first round of attacks caused heavy casualties to the vanguard of the demon clan who transported the siege equipment, and a large number of soldiers fell in front of the trench of the wall, according to post-war statistics, nearly a thousand elite soldiers were killed on the spot. ”

Reality is better than ideal.

The magic shield is not omnipotent, even if there are sufficient magicians to support and replace it, it is no problem to cover the safety of the guards during the march, but there is no way to attack it, you must open an opening, otherwise your own bows and crossbows and spells will not be able to pass through the shield and suppress the firepower of the city head remotely.

Moreover, the idea that the charging soldiers had to leave the range of the protective shield and rush forward in the face of the condescending blows from the top of the city, and that each soldier had a full-time mage to provide him with a magic shield for protection was a dream.

With so many powerful magicians in existence, what other cities do you need to attack, it is enough to directly smash Xiongguan with countless fireballs.

Seeing that the robe around him had suffered heavy casualties, but he couldn't even break through the trench and push the siege equipment to the edge of the city wall, the demon alliance suddenly made a big uproar, and their eyes were red when they were more and more frustrated, and they rushed up even more desperately. Wave after wave of offensives, like a storm crashing on the shore, slammed into Xiongguan, splattering more blood sparks. ”

"After a fierce battle for half an hour, the Terran legion defending the city perfectly embodied the strong army style of advancing and retreating freely and cooperating tacitly, and gradually defused the rapid offensive of the besieging side like a raging tide. When Mingjin withdrew his troops, the Demon Coalition had left more than 3,000 corpses behind. The first round of the complete offensive was declared a failure. ”

Plitander raised his head and pointed to the top of his head, and said, "Seeing that the firepower of the defending side is too fierce and too targeted, a large number of his own soldiers are really dead, and they died before they even reached the head of the city. The Demon Vanguard adjusted its strategy in time and sent the strongest in the army to fight instead. As a result, whether it was the griffin warriors who attacked from the air or the Beamon behemoth that attacked on the ground, they were all dealt with by Manuel's specially deployed team, not to mention the same heavy casualties. Even Beamon, who is known for his rough skin and thick flesh, has an amazing defensive power, and has nearly twenty casualties. ”

Dawn couldn't help but stick out her tongue, very surprised.

It's so powerful, the Beamon Giant Beast can be called the existence of a heavy chariot, thick and thick, infinitely powerful, and the speed is not slow, after the transformation, it can not only maintain a relatively clear mind, but also have the combat effectiveness of giants, so the Beamon Legion has always been known as the number one impact force in the Demon Alliance.

It is said that the most powerful Beamon is close to the Holy Rank after his transformation, of course, it is only said that it is very close to the strength of the primary level of the Holy Order, even so, it is already a very terrifying powerhouse, think about such a high-level powerhouse in the formation of an attack on the spot Almost twenty were killed and disabled, and the level of defense shown by the Terran side is enough to go down in history.

After two rounds of offensives, corpses were everywhere, and both sides undoubtedly fought real fire.

In the face of the Demon Pioneer Legion, which has suffered heavy defeats one after another, how should we adjust the offensive strategy and change the unfavorable situation?