twenty-nine

As the night wore on, the guards on the defensive line had assembled behind the battlements, and under the leadership of the officers and lieutenants, they were waiting for the enemy array that was already looming beyond the firelight in the valley. Guderian was in the middle of the line with the 30 soldiers assigned by the second lieutenants and Lanardo, responsible for the rescue mission within 200 meters. The ensigns were a little nervous, but behind Guderian, who was calm and calm, they still forced themselves to suppress these emotions.

Battle, in anticipation of the sound of the trumpet.

Countless strange shouts rushed into the firelight like a tide from the dark night outside the firelight. They wield a variety of weapons and wear only rudimentary leather armor. Kobolds, Guderian had seen such a class for the first time. Their red eyes glowed bloodthirsty as they charged. Campfires lit in the distance on the valley were crushed by charging enemies. Rushing ahead of these charging kobolds were groups of fifteen heavily armored minotaurs, five of whom carried huge ladders, and ten minotaurs who guarded the front and sides with huge shields. The sound of charging footsteps and shouts was deafening in the valley. The soldiers of the defensive line, who had long been accustomed to the sound of the enemy, were not panicked despite their solemn faces, and were methodically preparing to stop the enemy from climbing the wall - adding fire to the hot oil that had been boiling for a long time, carrying the stacked stones and logs to the battlements, the bed crossbow had been wound and aimed at the minotaur carrying the ladder, the crossbow team was full of bowstrings ready to be thrown, and the mages in groups of three were preparing spells to destroy the ladder......

"Sixty degrees in elevation, shoot!"

When the enemy entered more than a hundred meters away, the human crossbowmen and officers on the city wall gave an order! Immediately, the sound of bowstring vibrating and arrows piercing the air echoed densely and rapidly across the defensive line. Soon after, in the next moment, a dense shadow of arrows fell from the sky a hundred meters away, nailing down a large area of enemies rushing ahead, looking from afar like the petals of a withered flower in a storm.

The arrows of the crossbowmen kicked off the prelude to the human defense line. As the second wave of projectiles continued to knock down enemies from seventy meters away, the bed crossbow and the mages attacked. Countless crossbow arrows as large as children's arms and fireballs the size of skulls shot straight out, so that the minotaur group that rushed ahead of the group lost almost more than half of their sight in Guderian's field of vision. Those exploding fireballs were like brilliant fireworks, illuminating the already bright battlefield even brighter. Unfazed, the kobold continued to charge at the corpses of his teammates and kindred. It seems that the death of teammates and fellow citizens has brought them even more violent bloodlust and excitement. The ladders that were not destroyed by the fireballs, and the remaining minotaurs continued to charge after being attacked by the bed crossbow and fireballs. The arrows thrown at them were almost ineffective, and they were heavily armoured.

Under the onslaught of the crossbow teams, the bed crossbow formations, and the mages, the enemy fell in pieces. It's just that compared to the number of kobolds charging like a tide, it's just a rolling wave. The enemy, however, raised the huge ladder to the stone wall, and the hand-to-hand soldiers began to meet. After the ladder was brought up, Guderian realized that these ladders were made of fine iron, and they were not at all cut by ordinary ice blades. The human soldiers did not try to knock down the ladder, the huge ladder was supported by the minotaurs, and the strength of a few soldiers in a limited position was not enough to overturn and knock it down, not to mention that the crazy kobolds had already climbed the ladder like ants.

In the orders of the officers and lieutenants, the warriors threw boulders, logs, and hot oil under the walls, and the mages threw various spells behind the guards of the guards. The explosion of the fireball ignited the hot oil and logs, and the kobolds and minotaurs under the walls were screaming endlessly. The intermittent fire strength temporarily blocked some of the enemies who wanted to climb the ladder, and without the ladder, the enemy did not have no way to climb the city. The minotaur with the giant shield took something like an anchor from his body and smashed it into the battlement in the wall, followed by a long iron chain, from which the kobold climbed up frantically. Because there were too many enemies hanging and the iron anchor was heavy, there was no time to drop it. Moreover, there are also archers among the kobolds who are shooting wildly. Although these arrows were scattered in formation, they still posed a great threat to the human warriors who were exposed behind the battlements.

After the kobolds who were charging frantically after the waves of enemies were defeated and repeatedly climbed the stone wall, between the light and the darkness of the valley, the enemy's regular troops appeared.

Every 100 meters, there were ten catapults, a squadron of drow archers and dozens of minotaurs, and a cart of rolling stones the size of a human head or something. After the catapult appeared, the Minotaur array and the mage queue also appeared. The attack announcing the enemy's regular forces was launched from the Drow mages and the dwarf mages.

Countless fireballs were hurtling in the sky and smashing down on the way behind the stone walls of the defensive line. Along with this, there are countless rolling stones.

"Shield!"

"Shield!"

"Protect the mage!"

"Crystal Cannon Ready!"

On the defensive line, the officers and lieutenants of the human race are roaring. The warriors stood under the earthy yellow shield that rose from the defensive line, the mages with huge shields, and the warriors who guarded the ladders and anchors. The enemies under the stone wall also crossed the burning line under the wall in the magic attacks and stone throwing attacks of the allies in the rear, and even more frantically climbed ladders and chains to attack the humans.

The fireball exploded on the earthy yellow shield light curtain, and the violent shock wave after the explosion still hit the soldiers through the light curtain, knocking down many soldiers. The boulders pierced through the light curtain, smashed into the passage of the defensive line, smashed into the shield, and smashed into the human warriors. For a moment, there were one or two gaps in the defense. The kobold who stormed the stone wall, the minotaur finally found an opportunity to appear in the passage of the defensive line.

"Get them down!" Guderian led the ensigns and his soldiers toward the breached line, ignoring the falling boulders and exploding fireballs.

"Aim at the catapult array!

"Full blessing of the shield!"

"Crossbowmen snipe climbing enemies and shoot freely!"

Orders rose and fell on the defensive line. The scarlet light pierced the kobolds, attacking the catapult array. The magic crystal cannons of the upper and lower lines of defense were fired. The scarlet light roared through the enemy's catapult array, and the exploding catapult array relieved the soldiers of the defensive line. But after the three artillery pieces, the enemy's catapult array still had a scattered presence.

With the appearance of the Drow Array and the Minotaur Array, the kobolds with red eyes who were still charging at the human defense line automatically moved out of the way. The Drow array stopped sixty or seventy meters outside the stone wall, and the Minotaur array divided a part of the shield guards on the side, and the rest continued to march towards the stone wall. The mage team composed of Drow mages and dwarf mages accelerated the charging and channeling of the magic array, and the sky above the valley was filled with fireballs flying towards the human defense line. The scattered catapults, not regrouped into arrays, were calibrated several times and were simultaneously speculating on the magic crystal cannons and bed crossbow platforms of the human defense line in place. The kobolds under the stone wall were already densely stacked dozens of meters away, and the human crossbowmen could shoot a string of them casually even with their eyes closed. The stacked kobolds stopped frantically climbing ladders and chains, and suddenly fell silent and looked at the team of minotaurs coming from the aisle.

The gap in the defensive line had been re-plugged with the help of Guderian and the various firefighting teams, and suddenly felt loosened after the kobold stopped climbing. The human soldiers know that the hardest and most dangerous battles are coming. The human bed crossbow platform was bombarded by enemy catapults and magic, and the soldiers wielding the bed crossbow were unable to make a limited attack, so that the minotaur array reached the ladder without hindrance. The human crossbowmen couldn't do any effective damage to them in heavy armor, and the mages couldn't pull out their hands to attack them - just look at the earthy yellow shield as it lit up under the fireballs to show how hard they could hold up.

"Hot oil! all fall and set off!" After many nights of fighting, humans have long had a way to deal with it. Pots and pots of hot oil were poured down from the docks and ignited. For a moment, the kobolds and minotaurs were forced to retreat ten meters away. At this point, the Drow archers began to throw. A large number of feathered arrows pierced through the magic shield and spilled onto the passages of the defensive line, forcing the warriors to retreat behind their shields to defend the ladders and chains. The human crossbowmen regrouped and fired back at the Drow array from halfway up the mountain. However, a sudden gust of wind swept away all the feathered arrows thrown by the human crossbowmen, and although they still hit the dense kobolds, they were unscathed by the drow array.

At the same time, thunderclouds gathered over the battlefield, and countless thunder snakes illuminated the sky as if it were day.

"The enemy's high-end power!" Guderian knew, and the enemy's archmage appeared.

Natasha, dressed in crimson, also floated fifty or sixty meters above the defensive line, and four or five fireballs surrounded her. Guderian looked in the direction that Natasha was facing, and only then did he see the enemy archmage shrouded in a black cloak floating a hundred meters away from Natasha. With Guderian's eyesight...... I also faintly saw Natasha's white legs looming under the floating red dress...... I couldn't help but quickly withdraw my gaze and pay attention to the Minotaur array that was about to storm the defensive line.

The battle in the sky began as expected. The fireballs and lightning that flew everywhere were clearer than the countless fireballs that the enemy mage array had triggered and channeled. The figures of Natasha and the black cloak shifted, and only the spell that rang out and went on constantly.

After the battle in the sky began, the Minotaur array under the defense line finally launched an assault on the defense line. All of a sudden, countless gaps in the defense line were opened, and those kobolds who were already full of anger and madness finally landed on the defense line from the gaps!

"In groups of ten, plug the gap back!" Guderian ordered. The ensigns and soldiers behind him consciously rushed towards the gap in the defensive line in charge. The soldiers who defended the ladders and chains could not defend themselves under the drow arrows. So the defense line fell into a fierce and frantic battle. There are no more orders or queues, and we are fighting each other. The enemy's catapults and mage formations also stopped attacking, and the drow array no longer fired in a dense and unified manner. In addition to chaos on the defensive line, chaos is chaos, and only racial distinctions can distinguish friend from foe.

Guderian's sword didn't know how many kobolds and minotaurs he had killed, and more and more kobolds and minotaurs were surrounded by his enemies because of his bravery. So many soldiers and ensigns who followed him were forced to retreat more than ten meters away, unable to support at all. Guderian was in a gap in the ladder. For every enemy Guderian killed, two enemies came up from the ladder......

Except for swinging his sword, parrying, swinging his arms, and kicking, there was no extra space around Guderian. The armor on Guderian's body did not know how many enemy attacks it withstood and was full of potholes, and even one or two huge depressions had already injured his body. Guderian's eyes were enemies besides enemies. You can't kill you can't kill it, and you can't go away. The blade curled, the helmet fell off, and he snatched the kobold's meteor hammer and machete and continued the fight. Unconsciously, he used the power of controlling the blood, and the more he wielded the blade, the more he aroused endless power. The enemy's movements were so slow and flawed in his eyes, and the strong body and huge weapons and armor of the minotaur were also so weak and vulnerable.

...... The endless fierce fighting on the defensive line finally changed after the battle in the sky came to an end. After all, the black cloak did not dare to move forward too much - the bed crossbows on the mountain defense line were not decorations. Natasha landed on the defensive line, and the nearby mages immediately rallied. And with Natasha's arrival, the first to retreat are the Minotaur and the Drow array outside the wall. And soon the trumpet of the enemy's retreat sounded. Only the kobolds, who have lost their minds due to bloodlust and madness, continue to storm the defenses.

When Guderian wielded the first meteor hammer and sword to kill all the kobolds in a circle, Natasha's fiery red figure and the smirk on her face appeared in front of him.

Under the long, messy golden hair stained with the blood of the enemy, Guderian's cold and fierce face finally relaxed, and he threw away the meteor hammer and sword, looked around, and then smiled awkwardly at Natasha. At this time, what came to Guderian's mind was the pair of long white legs under the fiery red robe that he had seen when he looked up earlier......

The ensigns, who had followed Guderian, also assembled, and although they were wounded, there were no losses. Of the soldiers Lannardo had sent to serve as firefighters, only a dozen or so had gathered. The warriors were exhausted after the battle, but they still carefully held on to the defensive line. The cleaning of the battlefield, the disposal of the corpses, Guderian did not look any further. Natasha also said hello to Guderian and returned to the mountain defense. Guderian took the ensigns and firefighters to Lanardo to hand him over. Evra also came down with the soldiers of the mountain defense line to replace the soldiers who had just finished the battle. Everything is going in order......