The first wave of fighting soon broke out, but Xuerut's attack was severely blocked, and after firing an arrow at the southern section of the walls of the Sea Cliff Fortress without success, they quickly exposed their target, fell into a siege, and had to retreat, and the battle line retreated to the halfway point between the main wall of Port Fatan and the Sea Cliff Fortress, and Delphion rejoined the battle with two teams of the Harbor Guard.

In the southern section of the walls of the Sea Cliff Fortress, the knight captain Sock, who had just had a false alarm on the city wall, also noticed that the undead's attack was blocked, "It seems that the previous attack was still discovered-" He immediately realized this, these harbor guards obviously wanted to retake the Sea Cliff Fortress, but they obviously did not realize that there were so many enemies in the Sea Cliff Fortress, and now the other side was still resisting stubbornly, presumably to buy time for the rear friendly forces to set up defenses.

When did the fighting will and tactical literacy of the Port Fatan Harbor Guard become so high? He couldn't help but be a little surprised, this is not to say that he knew much about these local garrisons in the past, which were not even second-line legions, but a general understanding, as the elite of the empire, the vanguard of the White Legion, Suoke is certainly qualified to look down on his brothers in these places, and the level of the Hong Kong Guard today is obviously a little beyond his expectations.

After committing two squads of fresh troops, the situation on the battlefield suddenly turned back to the bottom of the southern section of the Sea Cliff Fortress, and they even climbed the mountain rock to launch two attacks on the city wall, but unfortunately they were repelled by the corpse witches and skeletons on the city wall.

This is not unusual, due to the narrow terrain outside the Sea Cliff Fortress, it will only become open and flat again near the second half of the sandbar, but Xue Lu and his colleagues are firmly guarding the Sea Cliff Path, and the superior forces of the undead cannot be used at all, and the Hong Kong Guards are certainly not worth mentioning in front of the White Legion. But in the face of the same number of weak skeletons, it has an absolute advantage.

However, the corpse witches quickly mobilized skeleton archers from behind, and once again changed the tide of the battle, a row of skeleton archers lined up from the southern section of the sea cliff fortress wall to shoot downward, and the dense rain of dark steel arrows caused Xuerut's team to suffer heavy losses for a while, and the other two squads were also similar. The morale of the Harbor Guards, which was just rising, immediately dropped to freezing, and they almost retreated all the way to the main walls of Fatan Harbor.

Seeing this scene of Baron Ludwig on the city wall, he couldn't help but feel a little unbearable on his face, although he was not the military commander of Port Fatan, but the port guard was directly subordinate to the lord of Port, seeing the port guard who fled back from the battlefield, he almost couldn't help but want to scold these guys on his behalf, but when the words came to his mouth, he remembered who was the commander here, so he had to swallow the dirty words back into his stomach with a gloomy face.

Delphien was much calmer than he was, as if he had expected it. She quietly watched the scene under the city and ordered, "Get on the arrow." ”

Her voice was not high, but the herald faithfully passed on her orders, and the soldiers in the front row of the city wall stepped back, and the back row immediately revealed two rows of archers with longbows, archers were a rarity in Vainde, they were almost all professional soldiers or mercenaries, crossbowmen were common in ordinary armies. Even the heavy crossbowmen were much more numerous than the archers, and the archers did not have several years of training. It is impossible to go to the battlefield at all, and there is a professionally trained archer detachment in a port guard in the empire, and its strength can be seen, and it can't help but make people sigh, in fact, Marjorie and Oni have a somewhat strange look on their faces when they learn that there is such a detachment of longbowmen.

In Vaughnde. Archers almost always use magic bows, as training an archer is far more expensive than crafting one, and longbowmen who use magic bows far outperform crossbowmen in range, accuracy, and projectile density, and they can also use enchanted arrows, when using enchanted arrows. The longbow is also far more powerful than the heavy crossbow.

The archer opened his longbow at the command, and the feathered arrows on the bow shimmered with a faint golden sheen, and the top was drenched, apparently poured holy water. Rows of longbows raised in the rain, arrows pointed precisely at a certain angle, this is also a place where magic bows far exceed heavy crossbows, waterproof, ordinary bows and crossbows will lose their power due to moisture, but magic items do not have this concern.

The herald looked at Delphien to the side, who nodded coldly.

"Put!"

"Put!"

"Put!" An order sounded, and at that moment, the entire city wall lit up slightly, as if a dark golden line flashed at the same time. It was the cold light brought by the feather arrows coming out of the string, and there seemed to be a white line advancing in the rain curtain, with a sharp sound, as if a gust of wind was blowing in the face, and a rain of arrows had fallen on the sandbank.

It stands to reason that the arrows are only as lethal to skeletons, because the arrows can easily pass through the holes of their bones, and even if they are lucky enough to hit the bones, they can only shoot one or two ribs, which will not have much impact, and only if they are lucky enough to shoot the tibia and neck, they can produce effective damage, but in the dark of night, the chances are too small.

But this rain of arrows is different, when each arrow approaches the skeleton, it emits a strong holy light, and the skeleton that is hit is like melting butter, and the arrow passes through their bodies, leaving a huge cavity, and there are even golden flames burning at the broken bones, even in the rain and snow, the flames do not extinguish the momentum at all, but burn more and more, turning a skeleton into ashes.

For a moment, a golden sea of fire rose on the battlefield in the darkness, and the sea of bones under the main walls of Fatan Harbor burned out a blank space without warning.

"Prepare for the second round of shooting." Delphien commanded, and at the same time she shouted, "Marjorie." ”

"In!"

"Prepare to attack, I ask you to lead three squads of the White Lion Guards to drive the army of the undead back to the southern section of the Sea Cliff Fortress wall, and launch an attack on the fortress!"

"Yes!" Marjorie replied without hesitation.

At this time, the archers in the line had already completed the second round of attacks, and on the battlefield, it took twelve seconds for a trained heavy crossbowman to reload the arrows, but a well-trained archer only needed a third of this time, and another golden rain of arrows fell on the skeletons, and the skeleton army of several squads under the city walls immediately became sparse and stretched.

They didn't collapse though. One of the most troublesome things about the army of the undead is that there is no morale, especially the low-level undead, although they lack intelligence, they will not feel fear, and naturally they will not retreat lightly.

At this time, the city gate slowly rose, and Marjorie led the White Lion Guards to kill out.

"Archers for Enchanted Rockets. Prepare for the third round of shooting, which is required to cover the rear section of the army of the undead and cover the Marjorie assault. Delphien calmly gave the order.

"Miss Delphien, why change the rocket?" Count Orcons was anxious: "The attack effect of the Holy Arrow is very good, and there are still several bases for stockpiling, and the rocket has no effect on the skeleton!" ”

Delphien glanced at him and replied in an unkind tone, "Am I the commander or your commander, do as I am told, and light the torch—"

The moment it lit up on the main wall of Port Fatan. Sock knew that this was the end of the day's attack, and he saw that torches and braziers were lit one after another on the section of the city wall five hundred meters away, and in the light of the torches, the walkways on the wall were covered with soldiers, and the archers of the port guard stood in two rows.

When the archer shot the first two rounds of arrow rain, he frowned slightly, and subconsciously glanced around suspiciously, but the third round of arrow rain flashed in the rain curtain with fire. Soke finally put his mind at ease, it seems that the priests of the Fire Sanctuary in the city were indeed not assembled at the first time. The plan is well executed, and the previous Holy Arrows should have been stocked - according to the intelligence, the Hong Kong Guard's enchanted arrows should not have too many bullets, and even fewer Holy Arrows, after all, there has never been a record of being attacked by the undead in this area before.

Still, the attack was inevitably repulsed, followed by a rain of arrows. He saw a strange army come out of the city of Port Fatan, this new force was no weaker than the port guards, and even much more, the opponent's equipment seemed to be between light and heavy infantry, but it was extremely agile. The assault was full of explosiveness, and several skeleton squads couldn't resist it at all in the face of such an attack, and they were quickly forced back to the sea cliff path.

This is obviously not an ordinary army, "White Lion Legion", a term immediately popped into his mind, the Duke of Ambunar had made a thorough arrangement before attacking Fatan Port, and intelligence work was of course essential, so Sok knew very well what the Eruin people stationed in Fatan Port were.

Of course, even the Duke of Ambunar didn't know exactly what the difference was between the White Lion Legion and the White Lion Guards in that small kingdom, and he only hastily confused the two.

The sneak attack was discovered, the offensive was thwarted, and the battle that had been the lead turned into a head-to-head confrontation without surprise, but this was not beyond Sock's expectations, in fact, it was beyond his expectations to take the Sea Cliff Fortress so easily, and it may even be beyond the expectations of the commander-in-chief of this battle, the Duke of Ambunar, the harbor guards and the Eruins could not be trapped with the help of the low main walls of Fatan Harbor, and what they all had to do was to break through the city gate in one go, and then throw the undead into street fighting.

Of course, it's better to have no street fighting.

He hoped that once the walls fell, the enemy army, which had lost hope, would disarm and surrender, but judging from the fierce resistance at the moment, it seemed that this wish should be in vain.

Sok naturally attributed it to the reason why the emperor's eldest son was in the city.

However, he was not very worried, because the undead were cannon fodder, and no one would feel the slightest heartache even if they were all consumed here, and it was obviously a good deal to use the undead to consume the blood of the Eruin and the Hong Kong Guards in street fighting. As for the White Legion, Thork knew that they had only one enemy - he suddenly turned around, and the valley behind him was dark, but he knew that there were tens of thousands of undead armies clustered there, and farther away, the hilly areas of the Golden Needle Valley.

I don't know if Erich they have moved in place.

He frowned silently.

……

Port Ovehin, inside the fortress of Convey-

With a creak, the door to the room was pushed open by the chamberlain: "Lord Duke, Sir Erich and his brigade of griffons have arrived in the predetermined area, and Sir Bernd and his Silver Wing Knights sent a magic message three minutes ago, saying that they have been prepared-"

The Duke of Ambunar withdrew his gaze from the stone hole window: "What about the fleet of the Buga? ”

"There's been no movement yet."

"How's the battle going in Port Fatan?"

"Observations from the front line show that the sneak attack was successful, and the undead advance army captured the Sea Cliff Fortress in one fell swoop, but the enemy resistance was fierce, and the battle line was stalemate under the city of Fatan."

Duke Ambunar frowned slightly: "There is no Sea Cliff Fortress, those Eruin people will not be able to defend for a long time, I will let the Madala people work harder, you go down, inform Erich and Bernd to be ready to attack at any time." ”

Earl Brill looked at the reclosed door and turned his head: "Old man? ”

"Don't worry, old friend, it's not a big problem," Duke Ambunar glanced at the bone staff suspended in mid-air and black smoke: "I have already sent people to investigate, Marori and his men have lost contact in the direction of the Golden Needle Forest for a few hours, and there is also a fake bone staff missing along with it, presumably a rat has sneaked in." ”

"It's okay?" The former frowned slightly and asked with some uneasiness.

"It doesn't matter, the situation on the front line is very good, the Buga people would never have dreamed of our plan, and they don't blame them, I'm afraid no one in this world would have thought that Her Majesty the Queen had reached an alliance with Madara," Duke Ambunar was in a good mood: "Madara's offensive is even more successful than expected, no one in the port of the Sea Cliff Fortress has anything to do with the Eruin to save their lives, that poor Earl, he is not aware of being used as a spearman by the Bugas, but the Empire will not pity him." ”

He walked over to the Earl's desk, picked up the flint and scraped the iron on the desk, lit the pipe, and then took a puff of the pipe, squinting his eyes and sighing deeply.

"The rats that infiltrated Ovekhin must be the scouts of the Yankees, don't worry, someone will take care of them."

"It's not like you, old fellow, boasting about Haikou before the war is concluded." Count Brill seemed to be infected by this feeling, and also laughed: "What about our cautious Lord Shiro? ”

"This war has come to an end, Bril," said the Duke of Ambunar, shaking his head, "and it is impossible for the Bugas to declare war on both empires at the same time. ”

"That being said," reminded the Count of Brill, "but don't forget that the Bugas have a fleet here—"

"Yes," replied the Duke of Ambunar without hesitation, "so what we are waiting for is their fleet." ”

…… (To be continued......)