Chapter 55: The Dilemma
"The reason why war is cruel is because he never harms one side alone, and I only really understand the truth of the saying 'mercy does not command the army' now, especially when I witness all this......"
- Leo's Diary
The horn sounded on behalf of the retreat signal, and in the somewhat desolate voice of "Woo~~Woo~", the soldiers who attacked the city were mostly retreated intact under the cover of Storm Wings and the Noldor Elves, and only 14 Knights of the Dawn suppressed most of the enemies under the leadership of Ardalian. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
But... There are always surprises for so many people...
Seeing the retreat of the army of Stormwind City, the enemy troops on the city wall first erupted in cheers, and then after a chaotic commotion, they actually carried out several corpses of the champion swordsman who died in battle from the city wall, and just in front of everyone, they tore off the armor and helmet on the corpse, and after looting it, they cut off the head of Chiluo's corpse, and finally threw the headless corpse with a spear and threw it down the city wall.
Finn watched this terrifying scene with tears in his eyes, but his arm tightly grabbed the impulsive Keith, "Shut up Keith, don't be impulsive!" I swear in the honor of knighthood that these people will be punished, but, not now! "Let go of your hand and point at the enemy troops on the city wall who are making all sorts of insulting gestures and gestures similar to peeing," these don't need to be known to adults, otherwise they will only interfere with their judgment. Finn's tone was cold.
"Yes, I get Finn." He nodded and said no more, but there was no trace of emotion in the eyes of Keith as he looked at the enemy soldiers.
In a tent in the camp, Rhodes, who was thrown down the city wall, was lucky to pick up a life, and was rescued by his companions when he retreated. Boy, why is it like this every time I see you... Ahem~haha".
Rod twisted his neck a little with difficulty, and looked at Itsev with a sad look in his eyes, "Damn, big bear, you don't have to rush up to hand-to-hand combat, I'm almost hurting to death, and you're still gloating... Oops! ”
"Okay, you just talk less, this time it's your kid's life, the armor absorbs a lot of impacts, and if you break a little bone, you can escape the catastrophe, and you can honestly rest and watch us in the next battle!" Squatting down and putting the water bladder in Rod's mouth, Itsev comforted his angry partner.
Not to mention them, Leo was in the camp at this time looking at the casualty data just counted with a depressed face, less than half a day of siege time, the champion swordsman with high hopes was killed more than 20, more than 100 were injured, of which more than one-third were seriously injured, and almost a quarter of the combat power of the champion swordsman was cut off in the first battle.
Stormwings suffered minor losses without being directly involved in the battle, with only a few casualties of varying severity, and the forces of the two lords, Lester and Tron, suffered heavy casualties, losing more than 100 soldiers together.
Although these casualties were exchanged for the loss of more than 1,000 enemies, according to the proportion of battle losses, it was not easy for the Stormwind army to be the attacker, but it was still in response to Leo's words before, they couldn't afford to exchange, even if he could exchange ruthlessly, he couldn't take White Moon City after heavy losses, and the dukes and nobles only needed to spend a little time, and they could forcibly recruit or recruit an army of equal numbers, and quantitative changes would lead to qualitative changes at some times.
A few days have passed slowly, and while Leo and everyone are constantly discussing countermeasures, they are also desperately digging deep into the memories of the original earth in their minds and trying some special means, but the results are not too good.
First of all, the soldiers were arranged to divide into small teams at night, constantly lighting torches to create a siege atmosphere, or pretending to be a sneak attack in the dark to deliberately create noise for the defenders to discover, trying to use such methods to reduce the enemy's morale and affect rest, and two days after the start of the work, the Duke of Orlando responded again under the advice of Amanda.
The defenders of White Moon City were divided into several parts, and under the leadership of knights and nobles, they were guarded in batches, and the numerical advantage could completely allow the rest of the soldiers to stay away from the city walls without interference, and in the end, Leo's method affected the normal rest of his soldiers.
After failing to do so, Leo remembered the siege vehicle in the original game, but the siege vehicle that was finally built was too slow, and was suppressed by the dense rain of arrows before it could get close to the city wall.
During this period of time, there were a few days when Leo even had the idea of being close to the nameless river in White Moon City, and in the end, because he and none of his other subordinates knew hydrology, he had to give up the lofty idea of flooding White Moon.
In addition, what kind of archery on the city wall to divide some nobles, with money to tempt soldiers to defect, etc., all Leo can think of tried all the methods, but none of them worked, and finally the irascible Leo even wanted to send the knights to break the castle of all the pro-dukes and nobles in the northern territory, and then threaten them with their family relatives.
Fortunately, this bad idea was persuaded by Lester and Finn, so that Leo did not do anything stupid, otherwise even if he attacked White Moon City, he would become a public enemy of the entire continent and would not be tolerated by all the nobles of the ruling class.
Rubbing his cheeks vigorously with both hands, staring at the red and swollen eyes that had not rested well for many days, Leo asked the people around him in a hoarse voice, "Now I really can't think of any way, if you still have ideas, please talk about it quickly, otherwise if it is delayed any longer, I'm afraid I can only order the withdrawal of the army......"
At this time, he didn't just say it, he did have the idea of withdrawing the army in his mind, first, in the passage of time, the envoy from the imperial capital may have already set off, not to mention that if there are too many losses here, not only will the control of his own forces drop a lot, I am afraid that even Stormwind City, which is safe at the moment, will be targeted by some people who are watching from the sidelines.
After a long silence, Ardalian, who had barely spoken at the meeting, stepped forward, "Let me try it with the Knights of the Dawn?" My lord. Lord Noldor whispered a suggestion.
He shook his head with a wry smile, "If this was useful, I would have let Finn and them join the war a long time ago..."Frowning, Leo looked at the Dawn Knight Leader beside him and said, "No offense, my friend, even if the Knights are punished, there will be a lot of losses if they attack the city, not to mention that there are only 14 of you now......"
The corners of Aldalian's mouth were slightly raised, and he habitually gave Keith next to him a mocking side face, "No, my lord, I'm afraid you misunderstood what I meant, how can our noble elves compare with those who have more muscles than brains!" Ignoring Keith's threatening movements, he continued, "My idea is to take my people and use our archery skills to constantly harass those idiots, anyway, if there are enough arrows, we will shoot dozens or hundreds of them every day, and I am afraid that in a few days these miscellaneous soldiers will collapse and become uncontrollable." ”
"Huh?" In addition to reducing the enemy's morale and strength like peeling fruit, if the harassment of the Knights of the Dawn can reduce the defenders on the city wall as a result, then as long as a little flaw is exposed, Leo dares to use the Knights of Punishment to lead a surprise attack to completely crush the resistance.
After discussing a few words with everyone again, and seeing that even the angry Keith had no opinion on this, Leo made a decision, "Okay, my friend, it seems that you can only try it with your method for now, pay attention to your own safety, I will personally lead the soldiers in the back to be ready at any time." ”
"As you wish! Your Excellency, soon your enemies will truly see the horror of the Noldor..."After bowing slightly to Leo, Ardalian ignored the rest of the crowd and walked straight out to gather his people.