Although he promised Laclaus that he would not act rashly, Mantein still wanted to end the war with his own strength. This is not only related to the face of the Virgil Kingdom, but also related to the confidence to bargain with Dalaran in the future. In the past six months, in order to fight against Maltan, he has made too many concessions to Dalaran.

Under Mantein's stern orders, Dorman had to attack the castle of Radre again after giving his soldiers a light lunch. After a fierce quarrel, Cethra and the others still did not come up with any effective methods, and finally could only follow the advice of the old Duke Gimonry, using a large frontal and wavy offensive method, and at the same time transporting the corpses of the dead soldiers as much as possible during the battle, reducing the chance of resurrecting those undead.

The limited amount of holy water was allocated to the assault teams used to fight for the walls, and they were mainly composed of the elite of the Guards, mainly the fourth-order royal guards, and these heavily armored infantry not only had great strength, but also the equipment on their bodies was specially made by the Virgil family, which gave them a greater advantage.

In addition, Dorman did not hesitate to lose a large number of siege equipment, risking destruction, and pushed the bed crossbow to a distance of less than fifty meters outside the city wall, at this distance, the thick siege crossbow arrow could completely tear apart the opponent's body as long as it hit, regardless of whether he was a human or an undead.

Catapults were also required to be fired in batches at a certain frequency, and since no more than twenty stone projectiles were fired at a time, it would be a great waste for Maltan to activate the magic barrier, and if not activated, the projectiles would clear the way for the assault team attacking the city walls.

After a multi-pronged approach, the afternoon offensive turned fierce. The attacking force, mainly the Fifth Legion, would throw in four phalanxes at a time, storming the walls with continuous waves of attacks and erecting siege ladders. The assault teams mixed with the attacking forces were responsible for fighting for control of the walls, and the heavily armed royal guards who managed to climb the walls could easily carve out a no-man's land on the walls, and a large number of soldiers poured into the walls.

Steyr, who was in command of the defense, also immediately made a change. On the one hand, he used the limited number of catapults and bed crossbows in the city to concentrate on attacking the siege machines designed in close proximity, while he himself patrolled the entire city wall with some high-level undead, and whenever a part was breached, this heroic skeleton knight would immediately appear in front of the human soldiers and drive them off the wall.

In the last attack before sunset, the commander of the Fifth Legion, Calva, even personally led the most powerful offensive of the army, and under the cover of the four phalanxes, this heroic knight with three hundred royal guards and almost the same number of knights (of course, the knights who left the warhorses), after paying a heavy price, managed to reach the top of the city. But they are facing the undead elite who have been waiting for a long time, with the fourth-order death messenger-for-tat, more than two hundred corpse witches at the same time to release the death cloud to the city, coupled with the strong strength of the two heroic undead Steyr and Enrique, if it were not for those knights who once belonged to the Spinh family to fight desperately, I am afraid that Calva, the only remaining direct descendant of the Spine family, would have left his life in the city.

In less than five hours, the royal army paid the price of nearly 20,000 dead and wounded, and still did not capture the city walls. Such a heavy loss made Mantein almost faint.

"The Second Army still has 10,000, the Third Army is a little better, and it can still dispatch about 18,000 people, the Fifth Army has lost too much, including the corps commander Calva, more than sixty percent of the dead and wounded in battle, and only less than 7,000 people are still available. The Sixth Army did not participate in the battle this afternoon, and was still fully manned. The Guards lost almost a thousand men, all heavily armed guards and royal guards. "Dorman reported to Mantein in his tent on the results of the battle so far, "Of the 37 catapults damaged, only two of them can be repaired, and they will not be used until noon the day after tomorrow. More than three hundred bed crossbows were destroyed, and the recovered parts could only be used for repairs, not to assemble new ones. There was nothing wrong with the supplies, but more than half of the holy water had been consumed, and the various potions and bandages were being consumed faster than we had previously estimated. ”

"I don't want to hear you complain about that! I just want to know how much the kingdom's army has reaped at such a great cost. Mante knocked impatiently on the table.

"Very little. The enemy has the advantage of the city wall, and almost all of this afternoon's attacks are defended by low-level undead, and the only thing that has been confirmed so far is the loss of the castle's defenses, with eleven arrow towers destroyed, and more than seventy percent of the catapults and bed crossbows destroyed, in addition, the necromancer and the corpse witch were also killed by Calva's last attack. Dorman said with a sad face, to be honest, if these results were changed in the last camp war, it would be like no results, and Dorman, who was in charge of the command, would definitely be stripped of all his duties and driven home to farm. Just kidding, the death and wounding of more than 20,000 soldiers turned out to be only in exchange for such a thing, which general would be satisfied. "In addition, although it is difficult to count, I think the number of low-level undead in the castle has lost at least about 50,000, even if the other party deliberately replenishes some with corpses, this number can be reduced by another 10,000 at most."

This kind of exchange ratio is absolutely impossible to appear in the real world, in the era of cold weapons, the exchange ratio between the defender and the attacker is generally more than one to five, so there is a saying in Sun Tzu's Art of War that "ten rules surround it", but in the world of Entagre, due to the gap in the strength of individual soldiers, when the attacker invests high-level troops at any cost, the defender's loss in quantity is destined to be greater than that of the attacker.

But in terms of overall strength, exchanging low-level soldiers for the enemy's high-level soldiers is cost-effective no matter what.

The total strength of Martan in Radre's Castle is at least nearly 200,000, and 50,000 low-level undead are not a big loss at all, but for the Kingdom Army, more than 20,000 people are incapacitated in one day, which is very uncomfortable, even if those injured can recover after treatment, but the loss of morale, equipment, and spirit is enough for them to be unable to enter the battle sequence in a short time.

With the necessary reserves and the army to stop Maltan from escaping, Dorman had at most about 60,000 troops at his disposal, and he had little hope of capturing Radre Castle with this strength.

Mantein is also well aware of this, and now he can only maintain enough pressure on Radley Castle while waiting for reinforcements from the Kingdom of Minus to arrive. Compared with the Virgil Kingdom Army, the Minas people, who have been fighting and killed on the border with barbarians all year round, are undoubtedly more effective than the Kingdom Army, a "security force".

"Before the reinforcements from Minus arrive, you'll have to force that lich out of his hole cards! Dorman, I think you should know that even after this war is over, the kingdom of Virgil cannot be said to be truly safe. For half a year, the damned lich of Maltan has completely exposed the weakness of the kingdom to the sun, and once the war is over, how will the neighboring countries treat us? What will those aristocrats in the country think? Will there be any enemies of the kingdom who will repeat such despicable deeds? ”

What Manteine meant, Dorman knew very well. During this period of time, the weakness of the Virgil Kingdom hidden under the glossy exterior can be said to be exposed, if it were not for the other kingdoms busy supporting the expedition of the Holy See of Light, it was too late to attack the Virgil Kingdom, I am afraid that the kingdom is now full of mountains, and the nobles are in their own affairs.

Only by showing the combat effectiveness of the kingdom's army as much as possible in this war and killing Maltan in one fell swoop, can the Virgil family use this to deter the nobles in the country, and with the support of Dalaran, pay some price to dispel the coveting of Virgil by other kingdoms, so that the kingdom can restore peace and have a chance to continue to exist.

"I see, Your Majesty! Tomorrow I will continue to attack and destroy as many of the castle's defenses and war equipment as possible, but it will be very difficult to take the walls. ”

"Do your best!" Mantein said helplessly.

Just then, a herald ran in and shouted, "Commander! The undead, the undead have launched a surprise attack! They rushed out of the castle, there were too many of them for the vigilant troops to stop! ”

The faces of the two changed greatly, no one expected that on the first day of the battle, Maltan couldn't wait to launch a counterattack, it seems that in the daytime offensive and defensive battle, the weakness shown by the kingdom army made this lich feel that he had a great advantage.

"Order the Sixth Legion to launch a counterattack immediately! Report the situation to Duke Dimonry and Lord Swift at the same time! If that lich dares to come out of the castle, now is our best chance to destroy him! ”

Since the arrival of the two Legendary Warriors in the camp, they have been hiding their aura, not daring to let Maltan detect their presence, only in this way can the arrogant lich leave the castle and use his great strength to repel the attack of the kingdom army, and now, the opportunity has come.

Before it was completely dark, a great war began again, and the lives of soldiers were so cheap that neither humans nor the undead had any intention of stopping.

The loud screams continued throughout the first half of the night, and Martan finally did not appear on the battlefield, and the undead who launched the attack were mainly composed of soldiers from the Kingdom of Minas, and most of them were low-ranking soldiers, numbering more than 30,000 people. The Sixth Legion could have settled the battle in two hours, but in order to lure Maltan out of the castle, Ninri still delayed the end of the battle until midnight.

Boom! Mantein slammed the table: "Martin, coward! What about our losses? ”

"Because it was defended with the help of the camp, the damage was very small, less than 2,000 people. Truth be told, I'd like to see a few more counterattacks like this, but Maltan doesn't think it's going to be such a waste of troops. After killing more than 30,000 undead, Dorman's face was slightly happy, "But you can't relax in the second half of the night, the undead don't need to rest, and the night battle has almost no effect on the undead, if Maltan continues to harass him, the soldiers won't be able to sleep, and tomorrow during the day will naturally not be able to attack." ”

"Let the knights patrol around the camp, if they encounter a small group of undead to harass, let them solve on the spot, if they find a large number of undead attacking, the strength of the knights can also allow them to come back safely to warn." Naturally, Mantein could not sit still, so he could only let the precious cavalry troops serve as a guard at night, and it was estimated that they would not be needed for the daytime attack tomorrow anyway.

On this plain outside Ladre's Castle, the two sides come and go, sneak attack, harass, fight back, deceive, and it can be said that each side shows its strengths.

And in the Krk Fortress, two hundred and seventy kilometers away from here, a tragedy was being staged at this time.

In the dark night, the gargoyle flapped its wings and looked down at the fortress at its feet from hundreds of meters in the air. At this time, the Krk fortress had long since fallen into a deep sleep, and even the soldiers patrolling the walls were much less, and they were all tired and yawning.

I don't know why, the province of Baria, which had begun to gradually calm down, actually had undead attacks in many towns during the day today, and in the worst place, thousands of undead rushed out of the small waterways of the towns, causing great panic and destruction to the city. Captain Canning, who was stationed in the Krk fortress, had to send a large number of soldiers to those towns to exterminate the undead, which led to a significant decrease in the number of soldiers in the fortress.

"Hey, hey! Stupid humans! Today seems like a good day for me! "The heroic gargoyle Bonk Creek flew above the heads of those gargoyles, and according to the plan, he would lead a whole thousand or nearly a thousand gargoyles to launch the first wave of raids on the Krk Fortress, targeting mainly those watchtowers and city gates.

"Attack!" Bunker let out a low roar from his throat, and the sound sent the gargoyles hovering in the air to turn around as if they were arrows, flying down from the sky and shooting at their targets.

"Ahh What is it! "Monster! It's a gargoyle! It's the undead! "Quick, sound the alarm! Sneak attack! It's a sneak attack! ”

Loud and chaotic sounds rang out throughout the fortress, and the soldiers standing guard on the watchtowers didn't even see who the enemy who was attacking them was. Due to the lack of mages and the large number of troops stationed in Krk's fortress, no one thought of setting up guard magic on those watchtowers, and by the time the soldiers finally rang the alarm, Bunkrek and his men had cleared the patrols on the walls and began to gather men to take the gates.

"Don't panic! All the soldiers immediately gathered at the gate of the barracks, and the officers immediately returned to their posts! "Captain Canning, the highest-ranking man in the fortress and one of the three heroic fighters left behind, didn't have time to put on his armor, grabbed the long sword from the weapon rack, and rushed out of the command post, shouting orders to the soldiers around him who were running around like headless flies.

Finally someone lit the torches, and under the light of the fire, the soldiers began to slowly calm down.

However, no one noticed that a strange shadow was approaching Canning along the corner, and as the human warrior raised his hand to boost morale, a cold dagger reached out of the shadows and stabbed into Canning's vest.

Vidara emerged from the shadows and grabbed Canning's sword with her other hand as she tried to fight back.

The last sight the commander of the Krk fortress saw before he died was a glamorous ghost in fine costume, floating in the air, opening his mouth slightly, and a soul-piercing howl spread out in all directions.