Chapter 5: Encountering Vampires
The limited-time mission has changed from occupation to serious injury or killing, so Zhang Hao does not need to face these massive army of dead and then attack the city. It seems that this is where the difficulty of the task is really removed. The vampire army does not have long-range troops, but it has a powerful air force, so Zhang Hao does not dare to let the mages fly directly over.
After a while, Leon returned with the knights, "Your Highness, we have explored, most of the kilometers outside the city are bones, not only human but also a large number of unknown creatures, in addition to many hidden caves, we did not dare to explore closely." ”
"Caves? It's right not to investigate, you may not be able to get out if you go in, Captain Len, let's go rest and rest first. Zhang Hao knew that what he was about to face was not only the army of ordinary dead, but also all kinds of ferocious monsters, and looking at this posture, the number would not be small, Zhang Hao regretted it a little, but since he took the task, he couldn't retreat, and the unified empire couldn't be destroyed again because of the vampires, Zhang Hao knew that chaos was the ultimate enemy.
The task after the change is neither difficult nor difficult, it is not difficult that the task can be completed as long as Heinrich is killed, and it is rare how to get close to Heinrich, he doesn't know where Zhang Hao is, which is very embarrassing.
After everyone deliberated, it was decided to probe the bottom first, the Deathclaw Legion marched forward in formation, the Cheetah Knights were in the back to protect the back row, the griffin knights and halberders were in the middle of the two wings of protection, the artillery and long-range troops were in the center, and the steam tanks were lined up in the forefront, leading the melee troops with shields to walk in the forefront and slowly advance, the dilapidated city did not need any siege equipment at all, there were no gates, and the vampires did not care about the dwellings of other creatures except for the castle where they lived. Of course, the other creatures don't care, they don't need a warm room, a large soft bed, and fine food, after all, they are just a pile of white bones or a rotting corpse before they are summoned, and as for other monsters, the corpse is their food.
Just when the army was about to approach the range of corpses, there were suddenly bursts of bells in the city, endlessly, and then the army stopped advancing, the artillery was rapidly deployed, and the artillerymen skillfully loaded ammunition into the artillery, facing the vampire's skull sea or zombie sea tactics, the giant cannon was not very effective, so Zhang Hao brought more hell-level artillery.
"Welcome to the world of the dead, distinguished guests, please allow me to show you the welcome ceremony that I have been preparing for a long time, I believe they are both grand and stylish, I hope you enjoy it~" Heinrich's voice came slowly from the tallest tower in the city, the black magic amplifier is a huge bell, which has an oversized unclean magnet, which was made by Heinrich and Herman, and Isabella and his wife were carried from Dunkenhof Castle by Heinrich when they went to attack the dwarves, The purpose was not only to defend, but also to prepare for the capture of the Western Silvania region.
With the sound of the bell and Heinrich's voice, countless black smoke emitted from the white bones all over the ground, stiff movements, slow figures stood up one by one, now if you don't fight, when will you wait? The fire magic was the first to ignite in the closest place to the claw of death, and with the help of the sky spell, the fire in the sky quickly moved in the direction of the city, and everywhere they went, the cannon fodder that had just woken up for a while really turned into flying ashes. Immediately after that, the artillery except for the cannon began to frantically output into the distance, and a large area of bombardment covered the open space in front of the entire city.
In the face of powerful destructive power, these low-level skeletons and zombies can't hold even a round, and lie down again before they get up and move, except for the sound of explosions is the sound of bells, there is no other sound, no screams of pain, crying, the whole battlefield looks extremely weird, the artillery is divided into three segments of time to fire, in order to ensure the duration of artillery coverage.
"Pay attention to the side of the city and the sky!" Zhang Hao has not relaxed his vigilance before the war, this white bone zombie is not only on the city side, but surrounds the entire city like a moat, and the range of the artillery is at most just hit the city location, no matter how far it goes, not to mention the casting range of the mage, 100 meters is the longest casting range, so the empire is specially equipped with sky mounts for them. But at this time, all the mages gave up all the Pegasus, and on it were Zhang Hao, Baier Shaze and a group of affairs officials, and you and Teucer stayed behind to command the battle, and Lilith continued to sit on the wool and control the Light Magic, but now was not the time to fly into the city.
Under the constant bombardment of artillery and the magical attacks of the mages, the entire clearing in front of Taranhof has been scorched, and even the arched caverns have been leveled. The cannon fodder from both sides of the city, staggering and walking unhurriedly towards the location of the claws of death, the artillery targets naturally shifted to both sides, and at this moment the ground in front of the army was suddenly lifted, and the huge monsters in their hands held improvised weapons made from the leg bones of unknown creatures, and crawled out of the ground with a roar, they had bodies about the same height as ordinary people, but stronger, sharp claws, protruding sharp teeth, hairless bodies, and a terrifying roar from their mouths. Tomb ghouls, this is Heinrich's main army, unlike Herman's simple necromancer, Heinrich is a lich lord, once known for his powerful and death-defying army of ghouls, and the first to come out are just ordinary ghouls.
The gigantic ghouls drooped foul saliva from their mouths, and the moment they appeared on the battlefield, they frantically rushed towards the army of Deathclaws, and with them appeared the dire wolves, their mouths protruding more forward than ordinary wolves, their huge sharp teeth shining with a chilling light even when there was no sunlight, and they quickly jumped out of the bottomless underground cavern in groups, and then split into two strands, encircling the sides of the claws of death, without any equipment reinforcement, they could only deal with the light armor troops.
But how could the mages and ranged troops let them hit the flanks of the military formation so unscrupulously, all kinds of slowing down magic were thrown at the head of the dire wolf brigade that had not yet run out of range, as long as they hit a slowdown magic, then other magic didn't want to escape, and the natural tomb ghouls were also illuminated by the way, and the long-range troops who had not been able to intervene in front finally began to show their might, and the front row still squatted down with all the shields, opening up all the vision, so that the musketeers and crossbowmen behind them could shoot as much as they wanted, dense barrage, Allowing the unarmored Tomb Ghouls and Dire Wolves to fall in droves in no time, the Empire's rogue tactics have made it difficult for the Vampire army with no ranged troops.