Chapter Ninety-Six—The Battle of the Capital
After several days of marching, the coalition forces of Deucalion came outside the capital of the Duchy of Yaru. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Standing on the city walls, watching the Diocalion coalition forces outside the city build their camp and build siege weapons, several bishops of the Evil Spirit Church fell into a panic.
At this moment, they had no more hostages to use to order Pan, and the army in the city was not enough to resist Dioculion.
If you want to abandon the capital and run away from the allied forces of Decalion, you will encounter the armies of Tartarus and Styx head-on, so to speak, you can't escape, and you can't flee.
The dilemma caused the Evil Spirit Church to fall into chaos and split into two factions. One faction advocated staying in the capital, relying on the walls protected by the magic circle to resist the Diocallion coalition forces. Moreover, most of the combined forces of Decalion were heavy cavalry and were not good at siege warfare. The motley army of almost 7,000 in the capital was already able to resist the Diocalion coalition army until the invasion of the Alpha Empire. As long as the time is delayed until that time, the three principalities of Erepos, Tartarus, and Styx will naturally retreat.
The other faction believes that it is time to divide into dozens of detachments and flee in all directions from the capital. Using a dispersed strategy, a small group of people are used as bait, and most of them are far away from Kalksa. In this way, even if some people are slaughtered, the Evil Spirit Church can be saved. Thus re-emerging in Kalksa.
Although most of the believers of the Cult of Evil Spirits have chosen the latter, wanting to flee and let synchronization become a bait to attract the firepower of the Diocalion coalition forces. In the end, however, the bishops of the Church of the Evil Spirits chose the former, and most of them chose to stay behind to fight against the Diocalion coalition.
For this reason, they also deliberately mobilized a ragtag army in the capital, so that it is best not to abuse themselves according to the teachings of the evil spirit church in recent days. Get ready for the battle that follows.
Some of the soldiers, because of this order, had doubts about the Evil Spirit Church.
Because masochism and torturing others are the teachings of the Church of Evil Spirits, and now in order to survive yourself, you are asking us believers to give up the teachings and fight for you, why is that? Even on the battlefield, the Church of Light has never let believers give up its teachings.
Obviously, these so-called believers do not distinguish the difference between the regular church and the cult they believe in.
But in any case, the first battle of the city began in the evening.
The total number of the allied forces outside the city was more than 5,000, while the number of its own inside the city was 7,000. Although it is said that these 7,000 people are all miscellaneous troops, they cannot be compared with [Pan] who was sent out before and defeated the Diocalion coalition army with heavy losses. But with their strong walls, countless arrows, and boiling oil and the like, these ragtags were still very confident in this battle.
"Everyone get ready with bows and arrows!" "Priest prepare!" "From the logistics department, go and transport the arrows!"
Listening to the shouts of several low-level troops, the ragtag army of believers in the cult of the Evil Spirit Church immediately took action, and they all drew their bows, ready to give a large and a half a large and a small lesson to the Decalion coalition army that was preparing to attack the city.
However, the Decarion coalition did a very strange thing. Before the battle began, the Diocalion coalition chose to send out almost a hundred men first, shaking something outside the range of their bows and arrows.
Seeing this, the cultists and the miscellaneous army of the Evil Spirit Church couldn't help but look at each other, not knowing what Diocalion was doing.
Many people were still there to discuss what the people of the Decalion coalition were doing.
"What exactly are they doing?"
"Prayer, maybe?"
"Pray to their god of light?"
"I don't know. Still, it looks like a prayer. ”
"Shall we pray too?"
"Stupid! Our faith in God will not accept our prayers! Only when we torture others or abuse ourselves will our God give us strength! ”
"You guys don't make a noise! Look at the people on Dioculion's side! ”
"O God! Is that a spear of light? ”
In the midst of the conversations of the soldiers of the motley army, the more than 100 people of the Decalion coalition suddenly had an extra throwing gun in their hands that emitted a strong white light.
And while the motley armies and the Cult of Evil Spirits were shocked by the spears of light, the men of the Decalion coalition threw spears of light in the direction they were......
"Not good!"
"Get cover!"
"Run!"
With the spear of light thrown, the motley army and the people of the Cult of Evil spirits were thrown into a riot.
The walls were protected by a magic array, but they didn't.
So when the Diocalion coalition threw the spear of light, a desire called 'survival' kept whispering in their ears: "Live......
Such an army was already in chaos just when the first projection of the spear of light from the Diocalion coalition was disorganized.
Compared to these people, those people in the Decalion coalition are very calm, the first round of spears of light thrown, has not fallen, the second round of spears of light, once again thrown by those people!
The spear of light fell high in the sky, and without saying anything, it fell directly on the heads of these motley troops, killing many of them in an instant.
Quite a few people were hit by the Spear of Light, and their whole body exploded. Fragments of minced meat, blood, brains, and internal organs were splattered everywhere. What's more, many soldiers of the miscellaneous army also saw a fleeing soldier, who was affected by the attack of the spear of light, and after his head was blown up, he ran out more than ten meters before he fell heavily and died completely.
Although such an attack is nothing to the miscellaneous army and the people who are taught by the evil spirits, such an attack has brought great damage to their morale.
It can be said that those priests of the Decalion coalition army have exhausted their spiritual power, and they cannot kill all the people on the city walls. But the Deucalion coalition was able to use the priests to demoralize them. Moreover, at this moment, there are already quite a few places on the city wall that are in chaos. If the Decalion coalition began to officially attack the city at this time, it would be an extremely fatal thing for the Evil Spirit Church!
However, it was foolish for the Decalion coalition to use cavalry to attack the city. Therefore, instead of attacking at this perfect time, the Decalion coalition forces chose to continue to project a few more rounds of spears of light, and then switched to the home field of catapults.
The Catapults of the Decalion coalition did not project a large single stone, but a large number of small stones.
Doing so will allow the catapult to do zero damage to the walls, but it will be able to kill and injure both the Cult and the mottag army that obeys the orders of the Cult.
It can be said that from the beginning of the battle to the present, the Diocalion coalition has not lost a single person at all!
And the Evil Spirit Church has been dying!
Knowing that this would not work, the Cult of Evil Spirits sent several death squads to forcibly destroy the catapults of the Diocalion coalition forces.
Unfortunately, the death squads of the Church of the Evil Spirit didn't even touch the side of the catapult, and they were surrounded and killed by the knights of the Decalion coalition.
In desperation, the people of the Evil Spirit Church could only provide the soldiers on the city wall with a special shield that [Pan] did not take away, so that they could rely on this to survive and prepare for the next battle.
However, this has also made many of the evil spirit church's own people dissatisfied. Because in their opinion, those big shields are what they use to save their lives, and they should not be given to those worthless ragtag armies.
For this reason, infighting almost broke out within the Evil Spirit Church, which made the bishops feel very headaches.
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Sitting in the conference room of the Grand Duke's Mansion, which was originally the Grand Duke of the Principality of Yalu, the bishops of the Evil Spirit Church were meeting to discuss what to do next, so that they could delay the time until early summer, when the Alpha Empire invaded Mirakesa, and let the Diocalion coalition retreat without a fight.
"Everyone! Now our evil spirit church is in danger of extinction. Therefore, I, Marca Azterz, Archbishop of the Evil Church here, I beg you to put aside your prejudices against each other for a while, and to come up with a solution for the future of the entire Evil Spirit Church! Sitting in the seat where the Grand Duke should have sit, Archbishop Marka of the Evil Spirit Church said to all the bishops of the Evil Spirit Church present.
As soon as he finished speaking, one of the bishops, a masked bishop, stood up and said to everyone: "I believe you all already know the current situation. The headquarters of our Evil Church is in this city, so we must not abandon it. But relying only on those ordinary armies, it is impossible to stop the onslaught of the Eresian side. Therefore, I, Tertiz Moorta, feel that we need reinforcements to be able to hold this city! ”
"So, does the Bishop of Morta have any good allies?" Some of the bishops of the Cult of Evil Spirits looked at the previous bishop with some curiosity.
Bishop Morta raised his head haughtily and said with a smile, "Before the arrival of Erebos' army, I had already sent several people who were willing to help us. In addition to Alpha and Dak Efa on this continent, and Tortis, the nation of the Dark Dwarves, there are also people from other continents or other worlds such as Little Lund, the Capital of Karma, and the Sacred Song Orchestra who are willing to support us. ”
Hearing this, the only young man among the bishops stood up and said to Bishop Morta: "Leaving aside whether these forces have bad intentions, the mere fact that they cannot support us is enough for us to give up on them!" ”
"Maybe the countries of Alpha, Dak Effa, and Tortis can't support us in time, but relying on the magic array blueprints left by His Highness Amani, we are fully capable of summoning the people of Little Lund and the Capital of Sinful Karma and the Holy Choir!"
Hearing the words of the Bishop of Morta, the young bishop immediately retorted: "Well, what if these three parties betray us? In addition, they are not followers of our evil spirit church, so what if they refuse to obey the orders of our evil spirit church for the benefit of their own forces? ”
When the Bishop of Morta heard the young bishop's questioning, instead of being angry, he laughed and said, "Hahahahaha...... Bishop Verona Kazra, your words are interesting! You're going to ask what we're going to do if they've betrayed us!" ”
As he spoke, Bishop Morta's expression suddenly became very gloomy. He smiled coldly and said, "What we need now is cannon fodder, not soldiers!" ”
As soon as they heard this, all the bishops of the evil spirit church present fell into silence, secretly wondering in their hearts whether it was worth it or not. In the end, everyone unanimously decided to deliberately use the idea of Bishop Morta to summon a large amount of cannon fodder through the method of summoning to delay time.
However, when the bishops of the cult of evil spirits came out of the conference room, several bishops followed Bishop Morta, except for the bishop who, like Bishop Kazra, had some concerns about summoning cannon fodder, did not join their small circle.
However, now that the matter of summoning cannon fodder has been decided, they will not stop or destroy this plan.
It's just that I don't know why, Bishop Kazra has always been a little uneasy in his heart, and it is this uneasiness that makes him meet a person, or a ghost!
Coming out of the conference room, Bishop Kazra went straight back to his room, ready for a good night's sleep, and when he was refreshed, he went on to meet the future of tomorrow. Whether that's good or bad.
However, as soon as he returned to the room, he saw a dark blue, transparent man standing in his room, looking at him coldly.
"My name is 'Velol' and I'm a ghost." The ghost spoke in a cold voice to Bishop Kazra.
Hearing this, Kazra couldn't help but be surprised, 'Velol' was a great man who developed the Evil Spirit Church from a small cult more than 20 years ago, although his death method was a little suspicious, but he was a saint of the Evil Spirit Church anyway. Even now, there are many people who worship this great man.
What Bishop Kazra didn't expect, however, was that Vellore's next words turned out to be: "I want you to quit the Church of the Evil Spirits." ”
"Why?" Bishop Kazra looked at Vellore in disbelief, not believing that the great man who had made the Church of Demons strong would say this.
"The Evil Church is completely different from the Evil Church I used to be. It has gone from being an organization that protects the nation from the oppression of the Church of Light and the Wolf Pack Council, to a bloodsucking worm that gnaws at the Motherland. That's not what I and the sages of the Cult of Evil Spirits want to see! ”
The words of the "......" of Vellore silenced Bishop Kazra.
At this time, Vellore then said, "The reason why I want you to quit the Evil Spirit Church is because you are different from those old diehards who have been brainwashed by Evennes! You know the doubts, the words of the two royal people who doubt Evennes and Amani! This is very important! Because the Evil Spirit Church was turned into a monster by these two bastards! ”
"But ......"
"Listen to the child, you have the ability to serve the country, and you should also give up the evil spirit church that has decayed, and you should not be burned down by fire with the evil spirit church. Now the Duchy of Erepos, Deutkalion, Yugsotus, and the undead are outside the city, and [Pan] is also led by the Minor Grand Duke to kill here. Even if you can summon cannon fodder, what can you do to ensure that the cannon fodder will keep you going until the Alpha invasion begins? ”
“......”
"Kid, the fact that the capital was destroyed by fire is a fact that cannot be changed, you should leave here now and go to Kalksa."
Looking at the ghost of Vellore, the great man of the Church of Evil Spirits, Kazra struggled inwardly. On the one hand, it is the teachings of the sages, and on the other hand, it is more than ten years of faith, and it is difficult for Kazra to part with both sides......
But in the end, he made up his mind......