Chapter Ninety-Three: Encirclement and Counter-Encirclement
"We must defend the siege net, the soldiers of the alliance are still fighting bloodily in the city, and we must ensure that their rear is not attacked by demons!"
On the front battlefield of Oakington, Illidare and the Alliance forces fought hard with the Shadow Council and the demon army, and in the rear, outside the Alliance's fortifications repaired in advance, a large number of demons were trying to pass through the siege network and flank the Alliance and Illidaray coalition forces with other demons in Oakington. In order to stop the demon's plan, Ronin and Winlessa volunteered to stay on the periphery, holding this line of defense and blocking the demon's encirclement of the Outer Realm coalition forces.
Outside the walls, there are patches of demonic soldiers, and on the walls, are the soldiers of the alliance with firm faith. This siege and counter-siege campaign unfolded on the vast plains of Oakington.
With the spells cast by the mages of Dalaran, fist-sized hailstones rained down from the sky and smashed into a flaming demon with devastating force. At the same time, the Alliance crossbowmen and elven archers on the wall were working at the same time, and Winlessa initially ordered the ranger archers of Silvermoon City to shoot at the command, until finally, the order to shoot uniformly was changed to free fire.
The number of demons who died beneath the walls was increasing, especially the imps, who had almost become cannon fodder for the demon army, and their status in the Burning Legion was very low, even lower than that of slaves in the human and orc worlds. These small and low-fighting demon vanguard army almost became a stepping stone for the demon army to advance. Their corpses were piled up under the walls built by the Alliance, layer upon layer, until they formed a thick corpse mat that allowed the demon guards in the back row to step on their corpses.
Outside the entire ring wall, almost all of them were filled with demons. Just as the large forces of the Alliance and Illidan surrounded Oakington, within the walls, the Alliance army and the Illidaray warriors would kill them and close the demon portal at all costs. Outside the walls, the demon army frantically stormed the outer defenses of the Alliance and Illidan, and they also wanted to break down the defenses and keep the portal at all costs. The entire Oakington battlefield was crowded with demons inside and out, and the battlefield tended to be white-hot.
A demonic guard screamed and climbed the wall, and Ronin had no room to dodge, and behind him were the corpses of more than a dozen Alliance soldiers, who could have tripped even if they took a step back. In a moment of crisis, the archmage gripped his staff tightly and chanted a brief magic spell as the demonic hammer was about to fall. A blue magic shield suddenly appeared in the path of the demon's hammer falling.
In the next second, the flaming warhammer and the blue magic shield collided head-on, sparking dazzling sparks. The Demon Guard clearly didn't expect a human mage to be able to block their own hammer blows at close range. It drew its hammer and roared for the next round of attacks. But he didn't want to, the human mage in front of him was one step ahead of him. Luo Ning recited the ice incantation again in a very short time, and a faint layer of white frost condensed at his fingertips. I saw that the next moment, the demon's burning war hammer struck again, however, Luo Ning's ice finger had already completed the energy accumulation, and in just a heartbeat, the powerful ice spear technique was sent out from the mage's fingertips, and it pierced the magic shield and shot through the demon's chest at once.
With a splash of blood, the demon guard collapsed in terror, its steely body kneeling in front of Archmage Ronin. Where he was shot in the chest, the cold energy was spreading. Ronin, on the other hand, didn't bother to waste any more mana, he held the staff in both hands and used pure physical strength to knock the demon guard's head and knock it to the ground.
Beneath the walls, werewolf leader Jean is leading his melee troops against the demon army. It's just that the horrific scene happened again. I saw the demon commander who led the Burning Legion to attack the Alliance's defenses launch a terrifying magic attack. If in the human world, the power of magic can kill a person, a group of people, then in the world of demons, a spell can kill an entire army! Compared to the spells of demons, the spells of humans and elves are simply weak, like children playing with fire.
I saw that under the low groan of the demon leader, a tornado composed of flames quickly formed, and its strength surpassed that of all the mages present, and even Luo Ning felt powerless. This flaming tornado advanced on the battlefield at a terrifying speed, and everywhere it went, the grass and trees turned to ashes, and no one could resist it.
Like a brilliant storm of flames, it hit the Alliance's siege net.
No one dares to stand in its way, because that would be a mantis arm as a car, hitting a stone with an egg. The scorching heat will burn human bones and flesh to the ground.
"Spread out!"
Moments before the firestorm struck, Jean and Ronin shouted the order to retreat almost simultaneously. The Alliance warriors, who were battling the demons, had to flee for their lives in a state of embarrassment. The next moment, with terrifying flame energy, the flame tornado crashed head-on into the Alliance's siege net fortifications under the manipulation of the demon leader.
The sound of the walls collapsing could be heard in the air. There was also the cracking sound of countless timbers being burned, and the scorching firestorm instantly opened a large gap in the Alliance's siege net fortifications.
The Alliance soldiers, who didn't have time to retreat, were burned beyond recognition, spilling flesh and blood from the air with sparks.
However, this firestorm is not over yet. The flame tornado seemed to have eyes, and after destroying the human wall, it quickly changed its direction and blew towards the crowded area again.
The Demon Commander let out a maniacal laugh. In his eyes, the ant-like humans and elves were burning, and they couldn't hold back the Legion's wrath anyway. It was the Fury of Fire from Sargeras. The Burning Legion will surely pacify the world.
The scorching flame tornado was accelerated, and the howling wind kicked up the dust, scorching the soil and gravel, and they were lifted into the sky, and the Alliance soldiers caught in it turned into flaming humanoid flames in an instant.
No one thought that the demon's attack would be so terrifying. They screamed and fled, their weapons scattered all over the ground. Demon Guardians and Hellhounds, on the other hand, are not afraid of the Demonic Flames, as they were born from the flames of hell, and the heat only makes them more excited.
"Tremble, mortal, tremble in the flames of the Legion!"
The demon leader let out a taunt, as if with a slight wave of his hand, the Alliance and Illidare's vaunted siege nets would be wiped out.
"Your resistance is pointless."
After manipulating a flame tornado to destroy an entire human squad, the Demon Lord let out a smirk of laughter.
However, he didn't see that in the crowd, a red-haired mage was staring at it with a determined gaze. It was a pair of eyes that had endured the vicissitudes of time, he had seen the fall of dragons, the demise of demons, and the world shattering.
Luo Ning held the staff in his hand, and in the midst of the scattered crowd, he recited a powerful and ancient incantation, and for a moment, above the head of the demon lord, a dark blue ice vortex began to form......