Chapter 268: Despair
Why did the enemy storm only one wall? It's just to prevent the city from falling into a desperate situation and escape through the secret passage with all your might. Why didn't the enemy storm the line of defense after capturing the city walls? The purpose is to allow the residents and soldiers to enter the castle willingly, rather than fighting to the death. Why, in the extreme absence of anti-aircraft means, did the manticores attack as if they were perfunctory? It is to make everyone feel a little oppressive and enter the castle quickly. All of the enemy's goals are based on a strong sense of oppression, not despair.
The werewolves were the vanguard of the city, just to get the swamp monsters to climb the wall quickly, and the pressure of the war mammoth outside the city gate forced the commander to give up the first wall, because they knew that the secret passage was within the first wall, and that was the only place to break out. After taking the city walls, the attacking troops turned into ordinary marauders, and it was precisely because of this that Kirov and Gila were able to calmly enter the fortress with their soldiers. And the War Mammoth and Marauder Champion attacked the Berserk Knights just to speed up the progress of emptying the outer city and collect some interest, even Mutu before the start of the war was to make Petrolev take it lightly, if it was Ufrik at the beginning, I'm afraid Petrov didn't give the order so hastily, of course, the most important thing is the confidence that Holden gave him, but he didn't know that everything was planned.
All these weird things together all point to something that must be done in the first battle of the Chaos Legion invasion in history, sacrifice!
After returning from the Empire, Petrov began to search for all the information about the Chaos Army, and although the details are hard to find, some information can be obtained from various legends and very few books, among which the Sacrifice and the Chaos Hell Cannon are the most mentioned. So when the blazing artillery burst into the sky, Petrov understood that today the entire Slagokhov fortress would not survive all of them.
"My lord!! My lord!! Jira shook Petrov vigorously, finally pulling him out of his fear for a while.
"Quick! Out of town! Out of town! We can't stay in the fortress. Petrolev said loudly when he came to his senses, and then immediately stood up and beckoned the soldiers to run down the wall. Hundreds of magic cannonballs bombarded the fortress walls and castles all the time, the raging fire burned wherever it fell, whether it was metal or stone, all could be ignited, the smell of burning had already permeated the entire fortress, burned alive, smashed to death by rubble, and the people who were blocked in the room and smoked to death I don't know how many, no one went to save them, because there was nowhere to escape in this dense artillery, Petrolev then realized that when he was in the empire, he overheard the misery and precious Mithril in the Great Wall, At that time, he had mocked the extravagance of the upper echelons of the empire in his heart, and now he realized how ridiculous his ignorance was.
"Kirov! Kirov! Open the gates! We're going to rush out!! Gila rushed down the wall and called out to Kirov, but no one answered him except for the shouts and explosions in the sky.
"Leave him alone, open the city gate and quickly organize defense, and let the knights evacuate to the south gate with the residents! Flee in the direction of the Empire after leaving the city! Petrov then followed, and after stating the general goal, he continued to gather the soldiers and residents. After hearing the voice of the lord, the panicked people began to rush to the city gate like grasping a life-saving straw, and it was better to open the door and fight with the enemy if they were blown up or burned alive, but until Petrolev returned to the city wall in a large circle, the city gate was still closed, and everyone was piled up here to rely on the city wall to avoid artillery attacks, but even so, there were still several huge stones standing quietly around, and the blood oozing from the ground and the convulsive body exposed outside all stung Petrov's nerves.
"Jira!! What are you doing!! Hurry up and open the city gates!! Petrolev angrily pushed away the crowd, and the first thing he heard was the sound of "jingling bells". "What the hell are you going to do!!"
"Your Excellency..... We did our best...... But this city gate can't be opened!! Gila stood on the periphery of the heavily armored knight and turned her head with a crying voice and red eyes.
Petrov looked up at this time, and at first glance he saw the familiar faces that had been distorted and inhuman-shaped on the city gate, this was not Kirov, who else could this be, except for him There were dozens of soldiers on the entire city gate, if it weren't for their heads hanging on the city wall, they wouldn't be able to see where their bodies were, because the entire city wall was sealed with a thick layer of metal, and these metals were the armor on their bodies and the materials that blocked the city gate before, and now they were all integrated with the city gate, and the soldiers were able to smash them with tools, The gates did not move.
Metal magic! Chaos Mage!! Petrov felt a wave of dizziness and was immediately supported by the people around him. Metal magic is a very learned magic, the entire continent, and only the empire's Byrshaze, a legendary powerhouse that suddenly appeared, has completely mastered metal magic, although he opened the mage tower, but until now I have not heard of anyone returning from learning (of course, that is because Petrolev does not know), because metal magic is the specialty of chaos mages, only a very small number of humans can step into that metal world, and only a few of them can learn a thing or two, so metal magic has always been extremely powerful, but never became mainstream, they were usually just a support skill for a powerful alchemist.
"I can't wait here to die! I still have children, I still have parents! No! I can't die!! At last someone in the crowd had a nervous breakdown, and after talking to himself frantically, he rushed out of the way, and after rushing up the city wall, there was no sound, and there was a second person, and compared to the fire and explosion inside the wall, it was as quiet as heaven outside the wall.
What if you can't die if you jump? Can't die, find a place to hide, what if you survive? Countless people who had this glimmer of hope began to lose their minds and become insane.
"Stop them!! Soldier! Stop them!! By the time Lev reacted, it was too late, and even many soldiers joined the crowd, no one wanted to die, everyone wanted to live, but this place that should have been the strongest and safest was like a slaughterhouse, even if there was only one percent hope, everyone would not give up.
"My lord!! What are we going to do?! 'Gila had already collapsed when he saw Kirov fixed to the city gate, he had no idea, and now he could only hope for Petrov, but in the face of this annihilating enemy, what could Petrov, a small lord, do? Even if the gates were wide open and everyone could follow the plan, how many would be able to get out? If you abandon the city in the first place, you may still ......
Petrov's head suddenly sobered up when he thought of this, yes, if he had evacuated at the beginning, even if there were some losses, he would not have blocked the whole city here, Holden! Problematic! If he hadn't suddenly become so talkative, promising that support would arrive the next day, he would never have taken his soldiers to stick to a city that had run out of food!
Defeat is not terrible, death does not matter, even the prince of the empire who is now attracting worldwide attention is only today after being saved by the previous monarch of Bretonnia, but betrayal is absolute! Absolute! Unforgivable things!! Read the latest chapters, stay tuned