Chapter 397: War of the Dead
More than three hours later, the scout leader Histan returned to Li Ran's side and made a final reconnaissance report to Li Ran. At the same time, Li Ran ordered the troops to start eating, but this time it was no longer the food cooked by the villagers, but pieces of dry and hard meat and instant food, but this is the kind of food, everyone eats it very carefully and seriously, even the usually delicate mage silently ate the last bite, because they all know that this may be the last meal they eat.
After everyone finished eating, it took a while for Li Ran to order to move forward, and in less than an hour, a cemetery of the dead appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
The outside of it is similar to a normal territory, except that there are white bones stuck in the wooden walls from time to time, even the gate, and several large animal jaws are embedded in the middle.
Maybe the army had already attracted the attention of the other party, only to see a lot of soldiers standing on the wall, in addition to a large number of skeleton archers, there were dozens of undead witch corpses, and on the high platform in the middle stood a thirteenth-order vampire count, in addition to the two tall dark warriors, there were dozens of high-level vampires.
After a while, the vampire count stood up and said, "Honorable hero, what is the reason why you have brought these people into the world of the undead and disturbed our eternal sleep, do you know that you are blaspheming the god of the undead and disrespectful to Archduke Rhaenys"
At this time, Li Ran frowned slightly, he didn't expect that the other party was really the master, but the current situation was irreparable.
Accompanied by the leader of the Frost Elephant Mastiff and the three Zeriramo orc captains, Li Ran slowly walked to the front of the battle formation, looked at the other party and said loudly, "I have no intention of offending the god of the undead. I don't want to offend Archduke Rhaenys, but your men are attacking my people for no reason. Their hands are stained with the blood of our warriors, though they belong to you after their deaths. But as their lord, I want justice for them when I was alive! They must also ask for an explanation for their living parents, wives and children! ”
Li Ran's words were vibrating and sonorous, giving himself enough reasons to find a reason, and even more greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers who were still a little uncomfortable just now, and they glared at each other angrily.
Pulling out a silk scarf from his cuff and wiping his hands, the vampire count smiled and said, "Is it just for a few remnants?" I'm afraid it's just an excuse for you to be insatiable."
Li Ran shouted: "As a lord! As long as it is my people, even if only one dies at your hands, that is enough reason for me to send troops! Even if it costs me my life! I too will become the undead to find justice for him! ”
After speaking, without waiting for the vampire count to reply, Li Ran shouted and ordered everyone to enter a state of war. At the same time, hundreds of sulfur steel golems came out of the crowd behind him, followed by more than 200 elven archers and more than 100 mages.
After reaching the attack range, let it go with a shout from Tang Shi! The elven archers took the lead in attacking, and the rain of arrows aimed directly at the undead witch corpses on the wall, while more than twenty archmages burned the wall of fire at the gate, and more than a hundred mid-level mages also began to attack.
The vampire count obviously didn't expect Li Ran to say that he would fight, and hurriedly ordered a large number of skeleton archers to go up the wall, but their range was completely incomparable with that of elven archers, and most of the bone arrows could not reach each other at all. Even if there were those strong skeletons that could barely reach the target, they would not be powerful.
What's more, Li Ran had prepared before, mixing most of these elven archers and mages in the middle of the tall sulfur steel golems, so most of the arrows that were barely shot were only shot at the sulfur steel golems, and few happened to hit the elven archers and mages.
At this time, Li Ran's elven shooter attacked several rounds. The undead witch corpse as the main target suffered heavy casualties, and the skeleton archers, who were low-level troops, naturally suffered a lot of casualties. Although the advantage of their special body size made them not afraid of ordinary archers, Li Ran and these elven archers shot out of the enchanted arrows made by the craftsman hall. Whether it's a skeleton archer or a necromancer's corpse, once it's grazed by an arrow. will be attacked, and spell effects will be applied. So a little bit of work. Hundreds of skeletal archers and witch corpses fell.
Not to mention the mage's attack, whether you choose the air bomb technique or the lightning ball of long-distance attack, except that you only hit the wall because the distance is too far, as long as you touch the skeleton archer, it will naturally be one by one.
With the long-range attacks of the two sides, the territory side had a clear advantage, and with Li Ran's order, fifty one-eyed slingers also went out, and Zhou Xun hurriedly ordered the convoy that pulled the stones to follow closely to the left and right. Li Ran asked them to target the city gate, which had been burned by the archmage for a long time, and after only a few rounds of attacks, the gate of the cemetery of the dead collapsed under the attack of huge stones.
Seeing this, Li Ran did not choose to attack immediately, since the long-range duel had an advantage, then expanding this advantage was the key, as the giant warrior also shifted the target to the skeleton archers and undead witch corpses on the wall. Above the fence is even more of a mess.
However, the use of long-range attacks by the giant warriors is very laborious after all, even if they have just eaten a full meal, after only a few rounds of attacks, the boulders thrown by these giant warriors have not reached the longest distance, and the accuracy of the head has also begun to deviate, Li Ran asked them to retreat a few steps back at this time, and stood behind the sulfur steel golem.
However, it was these rounds of attacks by the giant warriors that further established the advantage of Li Ran's side in the long-range duel. The other party's vampire count saw that it was not good, the ranged troops were suppressed by the other party, and the city gate had been opened again, it was really unwise to still defend it, at this time, he also didn't care about elegance, and shouted to order all the skeleton warriors and walking corpses to go out of the city to fight, and at the same time gritted his teeth and sent three hundred seventh-order vampires. How can they crush their opponents with numerical superiority?
Next, the vampire count was not at ease, and even prepared the dark knights to leave the city, ready to use them to deal the final blow to the opponent while he was tired of coping.
However, his purpose was obviously not achieved, and the slow-moving skeleton warriors and walking corpses were besieged at the gate for a long time, and the giant warriors attacked the many round boulders left behind by the city gate, causing these thoughtless troops to go around for a long time, and some of them even tripped and fell together.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Ran ordered the elven archers to continue to control the few skeleton archers on the wall, and the sulfur steel golem even engulfed the archmage and the mages to venture forward twenty meters, aiming at the skeleton warriors and walking corpses at the gate of the underground cemetery. For a while, the flames flew and the ice blades flew, killing a large number of skeleton warriors and walking corpses walking in front, and these fallen corpses made it even more difficult for the same kind behind to travel.
In just two or three hundred meters, the skeletons and walking corpses that you pushed me were chaotic and became the live targets of the mages, during which the vampires wanted to break through several times, but they really had no confidence in the face of the hidden boulders in the hands of the giant warriors. The only quick attack launched by dozens of vampires failed to break through even the mage's attack, and all of them were killed by the subsequent attack of the giant warriors.
The other party actually had so many mage troops, and there were dozens of high-level archmages among them, in the face of such an attack, the vampire count was obviously a little overwhelmed, so he had to add three hundred zombies again, anxiously waiting for them to rush over as soon as possible on the stage.
The zombies with stiff skin had a certain defense against spells, but they couldn't get past it for a while, and finally when they rushed to the front, most of the skeleton warriors and walking corpses had already fallen. There are only about 1,000 left.
Seeing that the other party rushed to less than a hundred meters, Li Ran decisively ordered all the personnel to move forward, and the mage and the elven archer exchanged targets. At the same time, a deafening cry sounded behind him. Li Ran smiled slightly, Zhou Xun really lived up to expectations, and released the ankylosaurus beast and the bison herd at the right time.
6 Rank 12 Ankylosaurus and 30 Rank High Bison. After rushing out, it quickly unfolded, forming a blockade net nearly fifty meters wide, overturning all the undead troops at a distance of fifty meters from Li Ran's troops.
At this time, nearly 200 elven archers began to bend their bows and throw, scattering the rain of arrows towards the undead troops, and the mage troops also began to accurately attack the skeleton archers and undead witch corpses on the wall after advancing.
With the cooperation of Lie Xi and Tang Zhi, Li Ran brought the role of the ranged troops to the extreme, in addition to solving more than 500 skeleton shooters on the other side, he also eliminated a large number of low-level skeleton warriors and middle-level walking corpses.
At this time, Li Ran gave several orders, only to see that after the charge of the bison and the armored dragon beast, hundreds of immovable sulfur steel golems finally began to act, and behind them, followed by the giant warriors who picked up the melee weapons in their hands, Cao Dayong and Zhang Debiao also led hundreds of Modo berserkers and executioners to rush out. (To be continued......)