Chapter 527: Defending Blackwood City
On the 10th of July, Paran abandoned the town of Angry Bear, which they were about to conquer, and swung east. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The entire army was instructed to march as fast as possible, but they were still unable to reach Blackwood before the undead.
On the evening of the 11th of July, the spirits of the undead from the Four Wild Forests had already arrived at the city of Blackwood City.
The undead are not like human armies, and at night, of course, they will be subject to certain command restrictions, but they are still smaller than humans. What's more, many of those undead soldiers are not perceived by the outside world through sight in the usual sense.
They launched an offensive overnight.
The military commander stationed in Blackwood City was a wing commander of the Sixth Legion, Colonel Oludan.
Earlier, he had already received orders from General Paran to defend Blackwood Castle until reinforcements arrived, no matter what, even to the last soldier.
He was very determined to follow through on that.
After attacking overnight, the undead were not able to completely capture Blackwood City. They threw three thousand damaged corpses of the undead under the city, however, the human legion of Blackwood City also suffered huge losses.
There were only more than 2,000 troops in total, and after this night's fighting, more than 1,000 soldiers lost their ability to fight.
At dawn, the undead retreated. However, the colonel defending the city, still fearful when he recalled the fierce battle of this night.
These undead are dead, and there is no such thing as running out of energy. They attacked the city frantically, and no amount of casualties could make them retreat.
There were no shouts to be heard on the battlefield, and the silent attacks of the undead, the silent killing or being killed, even some unconscious roars, seemed quite dull under the night.
But in any case, they held out until dawn.
However, after the undead retreated, it was only two hours before they made a comeback.
Obviously, the undead who have no physical limitations are much stronger than the human army in continuous combat. After fighting all night, if the human army is most likely exhausted, it is difficult to organize the strength to continue the attack. As for the undead, as long as the energy of the controllers such as the corpse demons, high-level undead, and necromancers behind them is not exhausted, they can continue to fight until the soul fire is extinguished.
The human army, which had not even rested for two hours, ushered in a very severe test. And this time, they finally had no way to resist it.
At ten o'clock in the morning, four hours after the second return of the undead, the north gate of Blackwood City was lost; At half past eleven, the east gate was lost. The undead began to frantically flood into the city.
Although there are still at least six or seven hundred human soldiers who are leaning on the buildings and sealed streets, it is difficult for the human soldiers to continue to support them after losing the protection of the city walls.
The rate of casualties among the soldiers became even faster, and the last line of defense that had been built in the streets in front of the city square was about to be breached. And when the time comes, the undead who have lost their hindrance will burst into the city square strongly.
And at this moment, almost the entire inhabitants of the city are gathered there!
However......
Colonel Oludan looked at the soldiers around him, who could continue to fight, there were only about seven hundred, only a little more than two brigades.
Among them, almost half of the wounded, even those who lost one arm, took up arms and continued to stand on the front line.
But......
Looking at the undead in front of him, Oludan was filled with nothing but despair - he knew that he and his men could no longer stop the undead.
"We have kept our promise and fought until the next soldier, but now it is no longer something that can be reversed by manpower...... We are worthy of the Kingdom! Fight to the last and let the undead know that even if we die, we are Hindlaire's warriors! ”
Oludan shouted, one last morale boost!
The human army defeats the undead, even though there are thousands of disadvantages, but there is one advantage, but it will not be lost - if you deal with the human army, or even fight with some foreign armies, if you see that the situation is not good, and you don't even have a chance to escape, then in the case of inevitable defeat, the soldiers and even some middle and lower-level officers are very likely to choose to surrender.
However, fighting the undead and demons will never be.
Because surrender is also death, and death in battle is also death, why not die bravely, and before you die, pull a few more cushions?
Now, Oludan and his soldiers think just that. That's what they plan to do at the moment, to inflict as much damage as possible on the enemy without any hope of survival.
Even, not only them, behind them, the civilians of Blackwood City who were gathered to protect them, there were also some bloody warriors who walked out of the initial fear, picked up some rudimentary weapons, and stood on the front line.
However, when people have lost hope, hope often comes at such moments.
Oludan, who fought valiantly, heard the sound of horses' hooves.
At first, he thought it was the skeleton knights of the undead army who had attacked—although he hadn't seen it yet, he believed that there must be such a class in the enemy formation.
However, when he looked up and took a closer look, he found that it was not.
It wasn't the sound of horses' hooves at all, it was the sound of camels' hooves.
It's reinforcements!
Oludan's eyes lit up! He struggled to draw his two-handed greatsword embedded in the head of a black warrior who had just been hacked to death, and after slashing forward, slashing the rushing ghouls, he raised his arms and shouted, "Our reinforcements are coming!" Soldiers! Warriors! Charge with me! Meet our warriors! Drive these filthy, foul-smelling undead out of Blackwood City! ”
His body, which had been exhausted from continuous fighting, seemed to be full of strength again. He rushed forward with all his might, swinging his greatsword in both hands, slashing one undead after another.
The soldiers under his command are also in high spirits! After experiencing despair, when hope reappeared in front of us, everyone burst out with great strength!
They followed their commander and launched a counter-charge!
The undead were still fighting in silence, and they would not have any psychological fluctuations due to the high morale of the human race, but under the charge of Oludan as the arrow, and under the pressure of the camel cavalry behind them, these undead who had attacked the center of the city square were still repulsed step by step.
The dawn of victory has come again!