088 Counteroffensive

"Damn! Remove! ”

On the high ground north of the western watchtower, Sigru waved the axe in his hand fiercely, standing on this high ground, he saw all the battles in the western watchtower, he originally looked at the situation was good, and he was ready to take a few henchmen to receive the fruits of victory, but after seeing the skeleton army that suddenly appeared, he hesitated. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It was this hesitation that allowed him to save his life, not to lose all his net worth, but also to lose the opportunity to turn defeat into victory in the end.

However, he hesitated, although the strength of Sigru, who was already in his forties, was still at the peak, he had long lost the enthusiasm that he had dared to fight hard, otherwise, when the mage group entered, he would have brought his own personal guards into the battlefield and completely crushed the opponent's fighting spirit.

However, now that everything is over, the opposite side has slowly gathered the soldiers, reformed the formation, and surrounded a circle of skeletons outside the city.

Sigru gave one last look at the western watchtower, then turned and walked away with a face full of reluctance.

"Boss, the Grey Swamp Fortress is this...... Belch! ”

One of his henchmen approached Sigru and raised his hand to the west, but before he could finish speaking, his head was cut off by an axe, and his head rolled twice on the ground, his already stiff face still full of doubt.

"Boss, this ......"

"My subordinates don't need idiots, let's go straight and go to the north."

"Do you need to inform the brothers in the fort?"

"Notification?" Higru gave a cruel smile, "Wouldn't it be better to let them attract Xue Man's attention for us?" ”

Looking at the cruel smile on the face of their boss, several henchmen suddenly felt a chill in their hearts, and an invisible barrier gradually formed between them and Sigru......

The next morning, after a short night's rest, Sirika gathered her guard and prepared to return to Herder Manor, bringing more troops with her, and taking the Grey Swamp fortress in one fell swoop.

"Sawyer, thanks to you this time."

Cerica nodded to Sawyer, and the warriors behind her also saluted Sawyer and the others, if it weren't for Sawyer and Rick yesterday, these people would probably have to stay here forever.

"Nodia, wait for me to bring the army to avenge my brothers!"

Looking at the sad face of Nodia on the ruins of the city, Sirika walked up and patted him on the shoulder, softly comforting the man who seemed to be beaten with iron.

"Don't worry, I'll tear them apart with my own hands."

Nodia nodded, her tone full of bloody killing intent.

Sighing again, Sirika turned on her horse, waved her spear, and left the western tower with most of the army.

In yesterday's battle, although Rick's skeleton destroyed the enemy's spellcaster force and turned the situation around in one fell swoop, the losses on the snowman's side were still heavy.

Silica, Nodia, and Ah Ye are out of strength, and it will take at least three days of cultivation to recover, and the doctor will overdraw his mental strength, and it will take almost two days to slow down, Rick simply passed out directly, and he didn't know how long it would take to wake up, compared to them, the little injury suffered by Sawyer and Filina was not a problem.

The losses of the soldiers were even more heavy, more than half of the five hundred Hedel guards brought by Silika, more than 200 people were killed in battle, nearly 100 were seriously wounded, and the others were also wounded, although the Xueman garrison remained in the rear, but due to the advance of the "monster" Barrow, the whole army was wiped out, and only two priest squads survived.

More than 100 of those killed in the battle were killed at the hands of Barrow, and if it weren't for the poisoned arrows that Sawyer gave to Becky, the outcome of this war would not have been what it would have been.

After everyone sent Silika away, the western watchtower was completely empty, but fortunately, the skeletons summoned by Rick did not collapse, and after he fell unconscious, he was temporarily taken over by Eastrak, and the hundred skeletons were distributed around the watchtower camp to serve as a temporary guard force for the western watchtower.

When everything was arranged, everyone was completely relaxed, but the next moment, an unbearable soreness poured out from every corner of the body, and everyone in pain couldn't help but gasp cold.

But after seeing the distorted expressions on the faces of the others, everyone laughed again, and when they laughed, the corners of their mouths twitched in pain, and then they laughed and twitched again, and a happiness called being alive filled the whole camp.

After three days of repairing the western watchtower, and near noon on the fourth day, Sirika finally arrived late with a large army, along with a team of more than 200 engineers.

There are more than 1,000 troops brought by Silika this time, although they are not elite troops like the Huder's Guard, but they are at least the best in the regular army, and even more than half of the grassroots officers have reached the standard of elite troops!

After resting at the western watchtower, the troops went directly to the Ash Swamp Fortress, and the size of more than 1,000 people even scared off two saber-toothed tigers foraging for food.

And one step ahead of the big army, it is Rick and his skeleton troops, skeletons are creatures, as reinforcements in the fight to the death, they may be able to increase morale a little, but they can't go with the human army on the march normally, which will definitely lower the morale of the human army, after all, the undead will always be rejected by the living.

Rick was joined by Sawyer, Ah Ye, and Istak, after all, Rick had just woken up from a coma last night and was still a little weak, while Firina had left the doctor in the camp to care for her because her wounds had not yet fully healed.

Towards evening, Sawyer's team finally arrived at the Grey Swamp fortress, and instead of giving the order for a siege, he led his troops around the fortress for half a circle, playing 'missing' under the nervous eyes of the robbers in the fortress.

Half an hour later, Celica also came with a large army, and the size of the thousands of men frightened the robbers' thighs for a while, but they still held their bows and crossbows on the walls of the fortress.

"The number is not right, the number of enemies guarding the fortress is between four hundred and five hundred, it should be the remnants of two other large bandit regiments that have taken over here."

With just a glance, Sirika could determine the approximate number of enemies in the fortress, and with the information she received from the captives, the current situation was clear at a glance.

"Otherwise, I'll take someone to attack it directly!"

Nodia frowned, his gestures full of anger, he hadn't forgotten that his brothers had all died at the hands of this group of miscellaneous.

"Wait, trust Sawyer."

Sirika stretched out her hand to stop Nodia, the battle a few days ago was too big a blow to this Nord man, and now only her words could calm Nodia a little.

"Okay."

Nodia nodded, took two steps forward and shouted, "The people inside listen to Lao Tzu!" Give you ten minutes, lay down your arms, come out and surrender! Otherwise, kill! ”

A bandit who looked like a leader at the head of the city sneered and was about to refute, but he saw Nodia's blood-red eyes, his throat choked, and he couldn't say anything about the cruel words that came to his mouth.

There was silence on the city wall for a while, and many people secretly put down the bows and crossbows in their hands, glanced back at their respective leaders, and raised them slightly, but they were not directly aimed at the army under the city as before.

"The other side has lost morale, so there is no need to worry."

Celica saw the movement on the city wall, and couldn't help sneering, there was a trace of disdain on her cold face, and she glanced back at Nodia, who was becoming more and more murderous, her expression softened slightly, and comforted: "Don't worry, when those leaders are executed, I will leave it to you." ”

Nodia looked at Celica for a while, and then nodded heavily: "Okay!" ”

The waiting time was always tormenting, and only five minutes had passed, but the robbers on the city walls felt that it had been as long as an era.

"You've got five minutes!"

Nodia stood up again and shouted, the sudden sound startled the robbers on the city walls, and several of them even shot arrows out of their hands without paying attention, splashing a few clouds of smoke and dust on the battlements at the head of the city.

And just when the robbers were distracted, inside the fortress, the gate of the castle was quietly opened, the heavy wooden door rubbed against the ground, and the subtle sound was muffled by the robbers' commotion, and no one noticed.

"Don't wait, just surrender."

A clear voice suddenly sounded, and several leaders who had retreated to the rear were about to turn back to see who had bewitched everyone, but they found that they had an extra blade around their necks.

Let's go.

The sound of the wooden bow making contact with the bluestone floor reactivated everyone's minds, and the sound of weapons falling became more and more intense.

The robbers turned around, only to find that their bosses had been kidnapped by a group of skeletons, but it was the skeleton unit that suddenly disappeared before, and behind the skeleton troops, a young man was sneering at the bandits on the city wall.

"Surrender."

The young man spoke again, and the assembled skeletons also moved, and they ran up the city wall with their weapons in hand, and passed one robber after another, and stood all over the wall.

When the robbers passed by the skeletons, although their faces were hideous, they did not dare to do anything at all, and if they did it now, they would definitely die, and if they surrendered, they might be able to spend the rest of their lives in prison.

In front of the castle gate, although several bandit leaders were no longer hostaged, they still did not dare to move, because there were still three skeletons in front of the young man, although they could only block their own people for a moment, but it was enough for the young man to hide in the castle.

"Now, I'm giving you one last chance, a chance to be innocent."

The young man sneered again and spoke, but the information revealed in the cold words made the robbers on the city wall boil, and the young man raised his hand and pointed directly in front of him, and continued:

"Whoever kills one of them, not guilty!"

Several bandit leaders seemed to be thrown naked into the ice field of Wintercastle, their bodies instantly stiffened, and they turned back slowly like a machine, only to find that their former subordinates had a wolf-like look in their eyes, which was the desire to kill......

The shouting and killing in the fortress only lasted for half a minute before disappearing, the gate of the fortress was opened, and the robbers came out in a line, the first few with their heads in their hands, but with a strange joy on their faces, looking strange and terrifying.

Behind the robbers were Soya, Rick, and Ye, who were greeted heroically as soon as they appeared, while Sirika and Nodia looked calm, with "I knew it would be like this" expressions.

As for the previous skeleton troops, they were taken away by Istak, leaving through the sewer exit at the back of the fortress, and brought all the way back to the altar near the West Dirt Slope, Rick had already transferred control of the skeletons to Istak, and the bones of Le Estak were clicking, these skeletons were much stronger than the ones he had summoned himself.