Chapter 319: The Battle on Two Fronts
The loss of the corpse group is twice that of the player, especially the desperate counterattack of the Silver Fox at the end, which caused it to suffer heavy losses, and a total of nearly 10,000 plague corpses were wiped out.
But that's not as much as half of the corpses that Locke has received from them, let alone the thousands of more powerful player corpses that have been added.
The trend of corpses is increasing instead of decreasing!
After the battle, the corpse tide did not turn back to pursue Yang Hao and the others, but unswervingly moved eastward, where the main force of the Third Corps was located.
At this moment, the news of the total annihilation of the Silver Fox on the left has spread among players and NPCs.
The combined forces of the Ling Tian Corps and the Hanxiang Corps on the right flank, fearing the tide of corpses, stopped their advance and sent a large number of scout horses, each of which must have an earth-based sculptor player, who is responsible for detecting the underground.
Sure enough, hundreds of miles ahead, they found a plague corpse lurking underground.
This made the Tianxiang coalition army shocked, and when they were hesitating whether to retreat, the corps commander Erry Merk ordered them to join the army, avoiding the entanglement in their hearts, and moving closer to the Chinese army with unprecedented efficiency.
At this time, Erimerk's Third Regiment was stationed in a small town called Hammertown.
The Office of Political Affairs was temporarily converted into a command post, and Erry Merk was listening to a report from his adjutant.
"From Locke in the west, to Blackwind in the east, half of the Ramoc region has fallen. A total of 150,000 soldiers and civilians in the occupied area were completely killed, and all but a few died completely. ”
Although the Ramok region is not as stable and prosperous as the Craigie region, it still has a population of five or six hundred thousand. These populations were densely distributed in the northernmost part of the city of Ramoc, but there were also many inhabitants in the south, and many of the sons of these inhabitants were in the army.
Now that their families have been killed, there is no peace after their deaths, which deeply stirs the hearts of the soldiers. If it weren't for the tight lockdown of the news, and the soldiers in the city of Ramok still kept in the dark, a turmoil would have been indispensable.
The current Third Corps encountered such a problem, and some of the soldiers who lost their families were emotional, and in order to stabilize them, Erry Merk had to hold still.
He sent two teams of 5,000 mercenaries to guard the two flanks to prevent the corpses from continuing to spread northward, but as soon as they came up, they were hit head-on, and the left flank was directly annihilated!
Realizing the power of the zombie tide, Erimerk decided to shrink his forces and recruit more mercenaries.
"At present, we have received news from the front that about 50,000 corpse monsters in the direction of Locke are coming straight towards our army; There was also a large group of corpses in the direction of Black Wind Town, attacking from the flank. ”
After the adjutant finished his report, he sat down with a solemn face, the current situation was completely different from what he imagined when he went out to fight, but he did not waver in his heart, because his hometown was not far behind him, under his protection!
Erry Merk looked at the generals present, all of them looked like they were at home, and they were actually afraid in their hearts, and said:
"I wanted to take the initiative to attack and destroy the enemy, but now I am cowering in the town, passively defending, and things on the battlefield are really changing rapidly!
Ladies and gentlemen, judging from the current situation, at least 100,000 ghouls are approaching us, and tens of thousands more are missing. But everyone, I dare say that we will win this battle!
We're on the perils of the walls, we're fighting to the death, and we're armed with mercenaries who can use sorcery!
What about the other party? The other party is just a group of monsters who have no brains and don't understand arrays, and I can't think of any advantages the other party has other than a larger number.
Our Third Corps has been in battle for a long time, and we are not afraid of the fierce orcs, will we be afraid of just a few corpses? ”
"Don't say more, general, whoever is afraid is a mud monster!" A big man with a red face and a beard knocked on the table, his eyes still staring at a small white face sitting opposite.
"What do you mean, madman Jerry?! General, please send my troops to the front line! The little white face was also a violent temper, and immediately stood up and asked for his life.
"General, too..."
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Seeing that the morale was available, Erimerk nodded in satisfaction, and after arranging their respective defense zones, he drove them all out of the room.
Looking at the map alone, Erry Merk's expression was solemn, completely lacking the confidence and calmness just now.
The five- or six-meter-high city wall makes no difference between having and not in front of the crazy corpse monsters, and its greater role is to calm the morale of the army.
The witchcraft that mercenaries rely on to become famous has also been overcome by the corpse king, and the corpse tide knows how to ambush and sneak attack, and the way of the battle formation is slightly strategic.
In fact, this battle is more likely to lose for your own side, but there is no way out, only a battle to the death.
Thinking of this, the corners of Errymerk's mouth hooked slightly, and he got up and walked out, there were still many preparations to be made before the war.
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Yang Hao had already returned to the village with the rescued players and militiamen at this time.
Immediately, it was reported that a large number of plagued corpses had been found in the back of the village, numbering in the tens of thousands.
Yang Hao thought to himself: This should be the back hand arranged by the Corpse King, there are more than 4,000 civilians in this village alone, and they are excellent reserve soldiers.
Now that the road ahead is dead, Yang Hao may be the opponent of 100,000 plague corpses no matter how against the sky! Now the only way out is to defeat the corpses in the rear and open the way to the Craigie area.
He calculated the strength he possessed, more than a thousand players with low morale, belonging to different camps, and more than 500 militia riders with low combat power.
Hey, there's still a long way to go!
"This brother is a wolf warrior?" Duan Tianming suddenly spoke, as soon as he arrived in a safe place, the commanders of each battle group were eager to count their losses, and only he stepped forward to talk.
"Yes, don't look at it, I'm the one. This time it wasn't our wolf warrior's group action, and I just happened to run into it. Yang Hao scratched Volibel's neck, he was annoyed now, and he didn't want to speak.
"Ha, the wolf warrior is really extraordinary, and one person can affect the battle situation, which really makes me envious." Duan Tianming pretended not to hear the indifference between Yang Hao's words and praised him.
"Duan Commander Liao praised, if you have something, just say it." Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, Yang Hao said bluntly.
"Brother, I just want to know what we should do next? The security is only temporary, and we are still surrounded by a horde of corpses. Duan Tianming's expression was solemn and worried.
"There is no other way, there is still a tough battle to be fought next, if you win, you live, and if you lose, you die."
"How can we win?"
Yang Hao turned his head and looked directly at Duan Tianming.
"As long as you listen to the command, I promise to win!"
"But I..." Duan Tianming wanted to say something, but he still stopped.
These people have a complex relationship, each has their own thoughts, and can still unite in a desperate situation, but once they settle down, all kinds of problems emerge one after another.
There are even people who are calculating whether they suffered a loss when they broke through, and whether they were cheated by others...
It's so unbelievable!