Chapter 52 - The Capture of Tra Canyon

"Is this the Baharet Fortress in the Terra Gorge? Why does it look like it's not as good as Fort Mordred? Looking at the Baharet Fortress stuck at the entrance and exit of the Terra Canyon from a distance, Raman Rath asked with some confusion. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Compared to the Fort Mordred they had stationed and defended before, the fortress in front of them was almost a relic of a prehistoric era, with cracks and moss on the walls, and it didn't look like a strong fortress to rely on at all.

"Unlike us in Mirakaiza, there are very few civil wars within the Alpha Empire, so it is rare for elves to come and repair these ancient fortresses. However, it would be child's play to conclude that this fortress is not good based on its appearance alone. There are still 30,000 or 40,000 Efa ragtag troops waiting for us in this fortress! After explaining to Ramanrath, Hamir looked at Lu Ming and Winsland, the two men in charge of giving advice.

At this moment, the two of them were carefully observing the situation on the walls of the fortress of Baharet with binoculars.

"The number of enemy troops is about 30,000 or more, and less than 40,000. The weapons are average, the armor is of medium quality, it is better than the armor of our country, but that's it. There were no cannons or magic cannons on the city walls, and the only large-range attack should be the magician's spell. It's just that the elves of Alpha all have amazing archery skills, and if they forcibly attack this fortress, it is likely that there will be great casualties. Coupled with the fact that most of our army is cavalry, it is not suitable for siege, so we can only rely on priests and magicians to bombard the fortress with miracles and magic, so that the elven defenders have to surrender. After a moment of careful observation, Winsland gave a little of his opinion on the attack on the fortress.

"I agree with you, it's too difficult for our troops to storm the city." Looking back, he glanced at the soldiers on his side, and saw that almost 90% of them were cavalry, and there was no way to take them out to attack the city, so he agreed with Winsland's opinion very much, and felt that if they wanted to take this fortress, they only had to use miracles and magic to launch a large-scale bombardment on the top and back of the city wall, forcing the commander of the Alpha side to give up resistance and choose to surrender instead.

However, he did not let the Lamanrasi and his men give the soldiers an order to start a full-scale bombardment of the fortress of Baharet, but chose to wait for a while before starting the bombardment.

This was because he was waiting for Traxis to seduce some of the strong, but few elven armies, and annihilate them in one fell swoop, so that they could be attacked by these small forces after the bombardment began.

However, he waited until noon and did not get any information about Trix, so they were able to launch a bombing at this time.

Because the time was just the time for lunch, and Lu Ming and the others did not attack as soon as they arrived here, the Alpha soldiers in the Baharet Fortress were not on high alert, but because they underestimated the enemy, they felt that Lu Ming and the others would not attack the city and went to lunch.

This is a godsend, how to do it if you don't grasp it well!

So when Lu Ming and the others found that the Alpha soldiers on the walls of the Baharet Fortress had dropped a lot, they immediately gave the order without hesitation and started bombing!

Suddenly, pieces of thunder guns and fireballs were shot out by the soldiers under the command of Lu Ming and others, and fell straight on the heads of those elven soldiers who underestimated the enemy, so that they couldn't even fight back!

After fighting with many armies of the Alpha Empire, Lu Ming and the others had the deepest impression of Alpha's army that was arrogant and underestimating the enemy. The combat effectiveness of Aifa's army has always been not bad, but it has the bad habit of looking down on people, so that Lu Ming and others can often take advantage of their character of looking down on people and get a lot of results.

But the results obtained this time were far from meeting Lu Ming's expectations.

Under the indiscriminate bombardment of miracles and magic, Alpha's defenders activated a strange magic array, creating a huge energy shield out of thin air, enveloping the entire fortress of Baharet in the shield. Relying on the defense of the shield, these Elves of Alpha no longer need to worry about the bombardment of miracles and magic, and they also hide in the shield very cheaply, in front of Lu Ming and others, and don't care about the corpses of their companions, they bite all kinds of food, taunting Lu Ming and others.

Seeing this, several officers who were not very good-tempered were immediately so angry that they wanted to lead their soldiers and charge the fortress.

But before they could ask for battle or go out directly, Lu Ming summoned the phantom of the black-robed woman, and together with the illusory shadow of the black-robed woman, he shot a crystallized soul spear and hit the shield of the fortress of Baharet.

I saw that the crystalline soul spear slammed into the light blue shield viciously, causing ripples on the shield, and finally disappeared.

On the surface, Lu Ming's attack, like the attack of others, did not work, but in fact, some small cracks had already appeared in the place where the shield was hit by two crystalline soul guns.

This crack is difficult for ordinary people to detect, but for the knights of Yugsotus, who are accustomed to playing with long-range attacks, it is too much of a piece of cake to perceive the abnormality in energy.

Therefore, as soon as they noticed that there was a crack in the shield, they knew that it was possible for them to break through the shield with the attack of the others. As long as they strike at the same time and attack the same place, they will surely be able to shatter the damn shield!

Therefore, needless to say, just a glance from Raman Las, all the knights of Yugosotus took the talisman and the Blue Flame Sword and began to chant, ready to give the Alpha soldiers of the Baharet Fortress a surprise that was not happy!

As Raman Rath was the first to throw the Giant Thunder Spear, the knights of Yugosotus also threw the Thunder Lance, following closely behind Raman Rath's Giant Thunder Spear, and all of them hit the same point at once!

With the sound of lightning and thunder, a very visible crack appeared in the shield of the fortress of Baharat. The crack grew from a little bit bigger at the beginning, slowly, slowly, by the continuous bombardment of the thunder gun, becoming bigger and bigger, and finally it was completely broken by another huge thunder gun from Raman Lassy, allowing the thunder gun to pass directly through the crack and bombard the soldiers on Ifa's side!

Seeing this, the other troops of the Mirakesa Kingdom Army were immediately demoralized, and they followed the example of Yugsotus, attacking a certain point on the shield with siege weapons such as thunder guns or ballistas, and tearing a hole there in order to attack the defenders.

Perhaps thinking that if this continued, they would definitely die, and the elven defenders of Baharet Fortress did something that surprised Lu Ming and the others very much. They actually opened the gates of the fortress of Baharet and chose to fight face to face with the Mirakesa army!

This was really unexpected by Lu Ming and others.

gave up the fortress, which was still strong, and instead chose to fight face-to-face, iron and blood, as if he wanted to fight against the water and fight a way out before he died!

However, it is also necessary to see the situation in the last battle. When the ratio of troops and weapons and equipment are similar, the side that is at a disadvantage with fewer people chooses to fight against the water, and with the determination to die, boost the morale of its own side, and perhaps defeat an enemy that is one or two times more than its own side.

But if the other side is cavalry, the weapons and equipment are better than their own, and the morale is high, then fighting against the water is a joke.

The elven garrison had more than 30,000 elves, of which 80 percent were infantry and archers, less than 6,000 cavalry, and the rest were logistics or healing personnel.

Relying only on these people to defeat the Mirakaisa army, which has nearly 30,000 cavalry, is really a bit of a fool's dream.

When infantry meets cavalry, many times it suffers. And the weapons and equipment of the Mirakaisa army are more than better than those of the motley army composed of militias, plus more than half of the knights on the side of the Miracaisa army are semi-French warriors who can use the magical power of miracles. Then, when the distance was close enough for the defenders to be able to reach the Mirakesar army, the Mirakesa army's extremely sharp blades inflicted heavy casualties on the Alpha army.

The sharp blade easily severed the weapons in the hands of the Alpha soldiers, causing them to be slashed by the long sword in terror. Only a few officers with weapons entwined with thunder were able to fight these knights. But the number of these elven officers is too small, and the things they can do are too few, and they have no effect on this battle situation at all!

Soon, the defenders of the fortress of Baharet were defeated. Except for the soldiers who were killed by the thunderstorm at the beginning, in the end, only 3,000 elven defenders surrendered, 5,000 elven defenders fled, and the rest all resisted desperately, preferring to die rather than surrender.

Looking at the earth stained red by the blood of his own soldiers, the elven commander stood on the walls of the fortress of Baharet and laughed maniacally.

"Hahahahaha~!!" He laughed wildly, and he laughed with grief.

When Lu Ming and the others all looked at him, he suddenly smiled and said with tears in his eyes: "I have long known that the Netherworld Church is a scourge. It's a pity that those fools only think about their own interests one by one, and ignore the empress and the country. Well, now that the Dark Church has chosen to betray us, they have begun to take weapons and kill us noble elves. The army is dragged, the empress is dragged, no elves will come to our rescue, no elves will come to our aid. And my daughter has already died at Eldridge's table! Now, Mirakaisa guys, do you think you've won? No! I tell you! You guys didn't win!! ”

Suddenly, a strange device appeared in his hand, and the moment he yelled from Lu Ming and the others, he pressed the special rune on the device.

Then I heard "boom~~~!!!!!!!!! With a bang, the entire fortress of Baharet was blown to ashes along with himself.

Covering his ears, which were shocked to the tinnitus by the sound of the explosion, Lu Ming looked at the Baharet Fortress, which had been turned into ruins, and felt that his heart was dripping blood.

Although the explosion did not hurt anyone else or the elves except the elven commander, the Baharet Fortress, which was obviously in its possession, was inexplicably blown up, which was really infuriating.

However, it is quite acceptable that part of the foundation and area of the fortress of Baharet have been preserved by the magic array buried under the fortress, and only the workers need to be recruited to work overtime, and it should be possible to rebuild the fortress before the elves can defeat the dark church and draw their hands to fight it.

Moreover, the number of magicians in Lu Ming's troops, the rebuilt Baharet Fortress should be many, many times stronger than the previous fortress!

In addition, Miral's puppeteers were able to act as craftsmen and workers to help build the fortress. In general, although it is very angry, it is actually earned. Compared with the thunderstorm bombardment just now, Lu Ming had already seen that the walls of the fortress that had been in disrepair for a long time had been blown apart, and one of them had collapsed directly. There is simply no way to let them defend here for a month or two, and the elves may fight back. So if it blows up, it blows up, and it's nothing, at least the fool forgot to blow up the supplies that were placed in the place protected by the magic array......

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At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Trisis and other elves came to this side of the Terra Canyon with their troops and joined Lu Ming, Raman Rasi and others.

"Are you alright, my lord? We were a few kilometers away, and we all saw flashes of explosions! As soon as they saw Lu Ming and the others, Trixis and Efrat were very worried and asked about the safety of everyone.

"The explosion was big, but we were far away from the fortress, so we were fine except for a few injuries. It's just that there are also flashes of explosions in the northwestern part of the Dragon's Back Mountains, which makes us very worried that the commander of the Alpha army over there has also blown up the fortress in the same way as we encountered this. Sitting in his military tent, Lu Ming said with some concern.

Trisis and Efrat looked at each other, and then told the not-so-good news.

"My lord, in fact, there were explosions not only in Baharet Fortress and Ballaret Fortress in the northwest, but also in several other canyons!"

As soon as he heard this, Lu Ming couldn't help frowning, and said, "The elven clan blew up all the fortresses stuck in the canyons of the Dragon's Back Mountain Range, is this to delay time, and after they clean up the secluded church, they can fight back against us?" But with the strength of Eldridge's guy and the group of deadly believers under his command, it is absolutely impossible for the upper echelons of Alpha to solve them in a short time! ”

Thinking about it, Lu Ming suddenly looked at Trixis and Efrat and asked, "Have you encountered a small group of elite troops of Alpha along the way?" ”

"Nope. Along the way, we did not encounter a small group of so-called elite troops, except for some militia who had been forced to fight against us by the nobles of Alpha. It's like they're deliberately avoiding us, which makes us very incomprehensible. ”

Hearing this, Lu Ming immediately asked his guards to call Winsland, Raman Lass, and Kemias, and took out a map, carefully checking the terrain and the location of the city on this side of the Dragonspine Mountains of the Alpha Empire.

After looking at it for a while, Lu Ming used a magic pen to mark a few points on the map.

"What's wrong, Lu Ming? What's wrong? After Winsland and the others arrived here, they asked Lu Ming with some confusion.

Lu Ming handed them the map, and said at the same time: "Alpha's small elite force has not moved until now, something is not quite right, so I checked the map, and it turned out that their task is likely to activate several teleportation magic stations that have been closed by us, so as to attack us from the inside and outside at the same time!" ”