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The originally beautiful shores of Lake Santa Kana have been completely changed, with goblins and lizardmen burning the saplings of the trees in the area day and night, so that the sky over the northern shore of Lake Santa Kana has been covered with a thick layer of haze, and the ground is even more scorched, burning with unquenchable flames. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The lakeside fortress built on the scorched earth was still being built, and almost every village, every stronghold, and even the Trian military fortress within a radius of more than a hundred miles of the fortress was in ruins. Except for the fortress of Diefend, on the east side of the unfinished fortress, and the camp of Diefend, built behind two terraces to block access.

Over the course of a dozen days, small forces of goblins and lizardmen continued to launch surprise attacks on the Desco Terrace and Camp Difender behind the Guardian Terrace.

Instead of allowing these monsters to figure out the distribution of forces up and down the Desco Terrace and the Guardian Terrace, the tentative attack encountered many traps laid by the Mates warriors and suffered heavy losses.

The boulders that fell unnoticed on the terraces on both sides of the road, the cold arrows that fell from the terraces from time to time, the path between the two terraces was full of pitted spears, the bushes were full of stumbling ropes, and even the tree snakes coiled in the trees, it seemed that what they saw on these two platforms had become the presence that frightened the little monsters who were tentatively attacking. Wave after wave of tentative attacks for dozens of days had caused them to flee in fear and wailing, without touching the fence erected outside the Diefonde camp.

"Easy victory!" The warriors in ambush on the two terraces high-fived each other in celebration. "All the traps I laid were stepped on by these rookies!"

However, the bad news beyond the mesa continued to reach the hands of Dividend's commander Mart, and the stronghold of Raqqa west of the northern shore of Santa Kana Lake was destroyed, and even the Niermont at the southern foot of the White Snow Mountains was not spared, and the monsters invaded like a dark storm that swept across the continent, like an ugly spider reaching out its evil arthropods in all directions.

On the Desco Terrace, a warrior slashes off the lizardman's head, which is trapped in a tree and cannot move.

"Ah, the monsters' attacks have become a little ferocious!" The rest of the warriors looked at their chief in confusion.

"Hurry up and set traps! Don't be lazy! "The soldiers on the two ground are extremely busy.

Mart had learned about the situation of Yafen from the military information sent to him, and Count Culotsius transferred almost all of Yafen's forces to the Red Mountain and its foothills to prevent the monsters from attacking. This means that the Fortress of Difender does not have any reinforcements at all. The only people who stood in the way of the ugly spider's stretching of its evil arthrops were him at the camp of Diefonde and the army of Earl Yafen stationed at the Red Mountain and its foothills.

"You have to plan for it as soon as possible." Mart thought to himself with a solemn expression, and he had always had a very uneasy premonition in his heart, although he had laid a pitiful ambush on the Desco Terrace and the Guardian Terrace, and he had also used the traps he had laid to defeat the tentative attacking monsters.

But bluffing is a bluff after all, and Mart himself already feels that danger is imminent without strength to back him, and although the risky tactics have achieved temporary success, they are not a long-term solution.

As the commander, Mart knew in his heart that since the monsters knew how to attack tentatively, they would definitely send more troops to invade after many failures, and when the traps he set could not stop the swarming monsters, all the Diefendh warriors he brought with him would definitely not be able to hold on to this humble camp for long.

"I'm risking the lives of my warriors now." Mart muttered to herself, then turned to look at the warriors standing beside her, who also had uneasy expressions on their faces, even as his gaze met and they stood up straight.

In the distance of the camp, the rumbling of rolling stones sounded again, along with a noisy howl and the occasional whining wolf or two.

More sounds, from far to near.

"Archers! Bow and arrow! Outside the tent, the shouts of the warriors were heard, "Prepare for the fire!" ”

Inside, the warriors reached out and grabbed the handle of their swords, and the slight clanging sound of the sheath clattering against the warriors' leg armor.

As soon as the bell rang for the door of the big tent, it turned out to be a soldier officer who raised the curtain and rushed into Mart's tent out of breath: "Your Excellency, Commander! We just repelled a wave of invading monsters... There are a lot more monsters attacking this time than before! Thanks to the help of Goddess Arcana, the rolling stones of the Desco Mesa and the Guardian Mesa smashed their leaders and drum-beating trolls. It was only when they rushed forward that they stepped on many of the traps we had patched, and the remaining two or three hundred goblins and lizards retreated about a hundred paces away! ”

"It looks like this place can't withstand the next wave of offensives." Mart sighed and made a decision immediately, "You go and immediately pass on my order, let the chiefs stationed in the Desco Terrace and the Guardian Terrace lay as many traps as possible in their place and then retreat to the Difender Fortress along the way, but do not remove the banners." In addition, the soldiers in the camp prepared more fire-starting things inside and outside their tents, and evacuated immediately after they were ready! Do you understand? ”

"Got it! Your Excellency, Commander! The soldier officer turned around and quickly left the camp.

"The guards in the tent. I will leave with you, but we will be the last to go. Mart's face was serious, he had made up his mind, and when he vacated the camp for the invading monsters, he would give them a warm gift, "Feed the horses, keep enough fire, prepare bows and arrows, and we will stay in the camp and wait for them to arrive." ”

Two crescents rose in the sky, and the wanderers and guides turned the sky a dreamy purple. The starlight shone brightly on Marte's tent. Mart was not sleepy, he walked out of the tent in his thick robes, and only looked at the western sky, where a thick black curtain covered the starry sky.

Under the dark curtain, the scorched earth wilderness on the northern shore of Lake Santa Cana was filled with restless roars, and the unbuilt walls were surrounded by dazzling fires from the burning woods.

Beneath the barriers, black shadows gathered in the defensive barricades surrounded by rocks, and they held high their strange weapons that flickered in cold light, and knelt down towards the shadows in the southeast, shouting and making strange noises.

With a terrifying howl of wolves, its thick door made of shadow wood suddenly opened, and the black shadows that had been kneeling down before rose from the ground one after another, and poured out of the shadow wood gate with chaotic steps, and the fire from the surrounding woods finally illuminated their eyes.

The dark night without eyes and faces, the dark yellow and strange lizard eyes, and the flickering and cloudy troll pupils next to the blood-red bull's eyes. The light reflected in all the eyes was full of deep malice and murderous intent.

The last thing to push out of the Shadowwood's giant door was some bulky equipment.

Through the flickering firelight of the surrounding trees, you can still vaguely see the appearance of these instruments. The skull-shaped battering ram is hidden under a thick plank, and there is no doubt that it is a dead man's head rush made by the goblins.

The sound of the wheels rolling followed, and the wheel-mounted apparatus with a skull strapped to the front and a long wooden projectile arm containing animal skeletons in its throwing bowl looked like a trebuchet made by the Trians, but with a more sinister shape.

In the night, the sound of horses' hooves came from the direction of the Guardian Mesa.

"Phew!" The mounted sergeant jumped off his horse, cries of terror echoing through the empty Diefonde barricade camp.

"Don't panic, speak slowly." Mart walked briskly over to the mounted sergeant he had sent to investigate. Even Mart had already guessed what it was.

"Your Excellency, Commander! We probably stabbed a hornet's nest at noon today! The enemy who fled back to the newly built 'scorched earth ramparts' must have figured out the details of our camp, and they poured out of that place in Lake Santa Cana. Now the monster army has driven to the ruins of the lakeside village. It's not far from us! The mounted sergeant was out of breath and terrified.

"Dumping?" Mart gasped for the night breeze, goosebumps all over her body.

"Yes, I vaguely saw that they were carrying a lot of heavy siege equipment, and I can't count how many of them were so dense with moving heads—all monsters. They filled a field with torches in hand! The mounted sergeant shivered, though he didn't feel cold at all in his cotton armor.

"Listen..."Under the night sky, the faint sound of drums came from the path between the two fields.

"Cave trolls!?" The mounted sergeant finally swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Soldier, I want you to go back and forth between the Desco Terrace and the Guardian Terrace at once, where you can light a beacon fire and light our flag?" Mart's gaze was like frost in the night.

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander. It's just—" The mounted sergeant hesitated.

"Just when everything is over, return to the assembly point outside the camp. My guards and I will be waiting for you outside the camp. Mart looked at the wanderers and guides in the sky, "The sooner it is done, the safer it will be." If you don't return at the moment when the wanderer and the guide intersect, I'll assume you're dead. ”

"Yes!" The mounted sergeant rolled over his horse and quickly disappeared into the night.

There were also several neighing horses from inside the Diefend's camp.