Chapter 250: The Battle of Thorn Mountain (7000 words)
Garros. Destroyer of the Worlds: Stamina +40; Strength +55; Spirit +20;
Garros. The Destroyer of Worlds is made of Titan Adamantine and Void Source Iron, which contains runes left over from ancient times, which can greatly increase the user's strength, and this increase will become stronger as the battle time increases.
Effect: All targets hit by you will be damaged by shadows, flames, and corrosion, and when the battle is completed, the runes in the sword can also release the skill Death Descending, damaging all enemies within a radius of ten meters; In addition, due to the material, this sword has a certain cutting effect.
Although Garros. The birth of the Destroyer of the Worlds was not so earth-shattering, but in terms of attributes, Garros. The Destroyer of Worlds is definitely an artifact, and even Twilight feels that the attributes of this weapon have surpassed the Guardian's Sword of the Teacher, New Sein.
With Garros in his hand at the moment. The worlds are ruined, and a sense of flesh and blood comes to mind, and Twilight thinks about others like Mogg. Copper Hammer and the others must not have felt this way when they got this sword.
After a short period of use, Twilight discovers that the sword contains eight runes, three of which are red for burning, three black for Death Shadow, and two green for corrosion.
Twilight feels that these runes together should represent the power of the Destroyer of Miè to dominate Garros, and there may be other runes, but it is estimated that they have long since disappeared with the shattering of the Destroyer of the Worlds, and before she knows it, Twilight already has two artifacts on her body.
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The day before Twilight got her weapon, a roar of pain and rage rose to the sky on a snow-covered arctic ice field, and a figure wearing black armor with a large skull on its chest, holding the sword of Danas, appeared.
After more than ten days of resistance, Tegrissa's holy light belief could not resist the necromantic magic of the demon lord Tanariel after all, and the most powerful thug of Tannariel in the future, Death Knight Tegrisa appeared.
Two days later, the griffin knights who had gone to the Northland to reconnoiter sent back the news that a large number of undead disasters had appeared in the Northlands, and according to the report of the griffin scouts, if the marching speed of the day was maintained, it would take three days for the army of the dead to enter the Thorn Mountain!
Getting the news, Twilight finds Mogg. Copper hammer.
"Patriarch Mog, I think you should persuade the women, children and children of the clan to withdraw first, otherwise you will be dragged down by the clansmen at that time, and you will not be able to leave if you want to."
Listen to Twilight, Mog. The copper hammer was silent: "Okay, I'll deal with this matter."
Twilight didn't have much more to say, and the women and children were still stubbornly staying here with their families, and that was Mogg. The Copper Hammer thing.
Shortly after Twilight left, several griffons soared into the sky and headed north, the Mogg Hammer telling those who still stubbornly thought it was safe to stay here to see the scale of the undead scourge for themselves, and after the griffons flew back, the dwarven women, children, and children descended the cast-iron peak and headed for the middle of the kingdom of Darius.
Seeing this, Twilight sighed, so that at least the dwarves of the Kingdom of Darius would not be nearly wiped out due to the undead natural disaster, and it could be regarded as saving countless lives!
Reinforcements from the Kingdom of Darius had arrived two days earlier, and in addition to the 10,000 soldiers of the First Legion and the 10,000 soldiers of the city of Thorth, they also brought countless barrels of explosives and a thousand-man mage army that Darius could assemble to the maximum extent.
This time, the task of directing the battle fell to Isdar, and to be honest, Isdar's conductor Twilight had seen it, and it was really not good.
The world of the Epoch is a world of swords and sorcery, and in this world, the combat power of individuals can undoubtedly develop to an unbelievable situation. A hero-level powerhouse can often change the situation on the entire battlefield with the power of one person, and even determine the success or failure of a battle or campaign!
The creed of the supremacy of power has been handed down since ancient times, which has led the creatures of the Era to believe that they are strong enough to overwhelm any intrigue and ingenuity. And the role of the so-called strategy and tactics is that even those battle-hardened veterans will inadvertently ignore and ignore! People have become accustomed to overpowering their opponents with their own strength!
Of course, this also has something to do with the kind of overlord-level monsters that often appeared in ancient times that could crush a qiē with their brutal strength, and strong strength can change the tide of a battle, which Twilight also thinks, but it can't ignore the art of command, and it is precisely in the course of war history in the era world. The art of command in war is really neglected.
In Twilight's opinion, a true commander can be counted on one hand.
The founder of Darius, Danas the Great is counted as one.
Now Twilight's subordinate Alberta counts as one.
The later revivalist of the Sun Elves counts as one.
Princess Daris Sonaka counts as one, but Sonaka talks about grand strategy.
In addition to these people, the command style of the other so-called battlefield veterans or wise commanders is generally to set up a frontal position, then charge, kill, and finally welcome victory or death! Therefore, the entire era world is generally in a high position, and it must be strong, but strong strength does not mean that the command is smart, and in the long run, this has caused a deformed development route.
Although Twilight is not a history buff, nor is she from a professional background, but no matter how you say that Twilight is also a Celestial Empire, in the era of the information explosion before the time travel, he has heard a lot of those real war arts of his ancestors thousands of years ago, 'Qi Zheng complements each other' This is one of the essences left by the Celestial Empire, and it is also the concept of war that Twilight has always pursued.
Thinking of this, Twilight spread out a map of Thornshan, first drawing the area where the Darius and Dwarven forces were deployed, and then began to think about the deployment of troops in the direction of the undead's attack.
With the situation of the three-way town of Thorn Mountain, they have no other way but to stick to the road, and they don't even think about the things that are facing them head-on, and thinking about the offensive means of the undead natural disaster, Twilight is big for a while.
One hundred and fifty thousand!
This number is definitely a small number compared to the peak of the Scourge Legion, and even the Kingdom of Darry was able to make up more than 100,000 soldiers at its peak, but after a series of battles, the Kingdom of Daris has long been different from what it used to be, it can be said that it is the sunset of the West Mountain, and now it is the greatest support to send 20,000 reinforcements to Twilight and others.
If it was during the attack on the Northland, these people might be enough, because those undead were all cannon fodder, but now it is different, at least a small half of these 150,000 undead are elite soldiers of Darius, which makes the quality of the Scourge Legion greatly increased, and there is also this new high-level class of death knights.
It can be said that this Cataclysmic force led by Tegrisa and Valgalio respectively is definitely different in combat power compared to those cannon fodder-level undead who killed in the Northland before! Although it still has a large number of cannon fodder flooding the Scourge Legion, its elite power can be said to have begun to take shape!
On the other hand, Darius's troops, more than 6,000 Hammer of Justice paladins, this is the absolute main force, followed by 7,000 dreadnoughts, 10,000 First Legion, 10,000 Sostandine troops, plus the dwarves provided 2,000 griffin knights and 9,000 ground troops, adding up to a total of 40,000 heads.
40,000 against 150,000!
If the number of top powerhouses is not less than the undead natural disaster, there may still be hope of winning this battle if it is operated well, but the most important thing is that there are not many top powerhouses, and the most important point is that the appearance of the two princes who once belonged to their own side has a huge blow to the morale of the soldiers.
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Before the arrival of the Undead Scourge, the arming of the Three Forks had been completed, and the original dilapidated walls of the town had all been reinforced and heightened, and with the help of favorable terrain, the Undead Scourge could only attack the Three Forks Town from two frontal directions.
With the undead scourge day and night, two days later they have entered the Thorn Mountain, only to see the undead scourge passing by, the earth is polluted, the original golden land has turned gray, the emerald green trees have also been defeated, the sky is those ugly bat-like gargoyles and the undead griffins mixed in the middle, like a black cloud covering the top, covering the sky, forcing the dwarf griffin knights to go out have to retreat, and on the ground are countless crazy roaring zombies, skeletons, Ghouls and stitching monsters that smell foul are everywhere. Boundless!
"This is truly a catastrophe for the living." Feeling the evil aura coming from afar, looking at the black and oppressive undead natural disaster, the old dwarf Colkin's beard trembled a little and said.
Although I have been prepared for a long time, I will not be afraid when I am tired, painless, emotionless. When the Walking Dead soldiers who only survived to kill and eat came to the city, it still brought great pressure and fear to the human and dwarven soldiers, and most of them thought that if they died, they would probably become one of them, and the result was obviously terrifying!
If the undead legion is intimidating, then those undead griffins make the dwarves feel painful, and then when the two princes of Dreyus and Tegrisa came together and walked dozens of meters in front of the human position, it made all the Darius soldiers feel a kind of anxiety and despair, even their prince became an undead scourge, which made the fear in the hearts of many soldiers grow infinitely, which is exactly the effect that the undead scourge wants to achieve.
"Teglisa, I thought you would be a terrible undead too." Although he was prepared, when Teglisa, with pale hair, black armor and death-gray skin, appeared in front of him, Isdar's heart felt as if he had been rubbed hard, and with the pain came anger and sadness.
Tegrisa gently tugged at the reins of the skeleton war horse under his crotch, and took a few steps forward like a noble boy who was playing in the mountains and rivers, looked at Isdar with a pair of gray eyes, and then shook his head with a chuckle and said:
"Isdar, what's wrong with the undead, the undead are immortal beings, are you interested in returning to my command."
"If you dream, I will kill you with my own hands and bring your body to the king's majesty." Isdar roared.
"Tut-tut!" Tegrisa shook his finger with undisguised contempt and mockery on his face, and said with disdainful mockery: "Don't worry, soon I will attack this simple fortification, and then I will show you what power is." ”
Twilight senses the fear and despair that has grown among the soldiers, and Twilight starts the war and roars, "Teglisa, it is your greatest mistake to abandon the light and go to the darkness, you will pay for your mistakes, and the Scourge will surely fall into the sand."
"Oh, who am I so ashamed of, it's Twilight, I happen to lack a commander under my command, but this position has always been reserved for you!" Tegrisa turned to look at Twilight
"It's not my choice to be a lackey who lives worse than death, it's a traitor like you and Dreyus." Twilight laughs and laughs, without a hint of fear of the undead in his words, and his actions invisibly infect some of the other soldiers around him.
Twilight's words hit Tegrisa's sore spot, and Teglisa said with a cold face, "Hmph! I really don't know what gives you the confidence to dare to talk to me like this, but...... None of that matters anymore! Soon, your life and soul will be mine! I'm going to let you witness my glory in pain!"
Teglisa's voice became more and more cold and unforgiving, and at the end, Twilight couldn't help but feel a chill rise behind her, Twilight knew that she was being remembered by Tegrisa, and he couldn't help it.
At this time, watching Tegrisa drive the skeleton war horse towards the undead disaster, Isdar also felt the fear and despair among the soldiers, he had to be encouraged, only to see Isdar pull out his big sword and roar:
"Brave soldiers of Darius, show your courage, this is a battle for the survival of the kingdom, behind you stand all our people of Darius, you are fighting for these people, and the Light will always be by our side! Remember, we are never alone!"
Isdar's inspiration was first echoed by the Knights of the Hammer of Justice.
"The Light is always with us!"
Then the Dreadnoughts and the soldiers of the First Legion shouted along, and finally led all the soldiers to shout.
"The Light is always with us!"
"The Light is always with us!"
Looking at Isdar standing at the forefront, this is the role that a leader should play, and Isdar stabilized the hearts of the soldiers at a critical moment.
"Looks like your plan has failed, Valcario!" In the Scourge of the Dead, Afra smiled at Valgalio.
"Hmph, it's only temporary, those soldiers have already been affected." Valgario said with a somewhat gloomy face.
Afra was about to continue talking, but saw Tigrisa striding back, only to see Tigrisa glance at Valgario and Afra, and then ordered in a loud voice with an expressionless face:
"Scourge Corps, forward! Nothing is left behind! ”
Tigerissa's order made Valgaro's face change, he should be the supreme commander of this undead army, but because of his injury, a large part of the command of the Scourge Legion has actually fallen into the hands of Tigerisa, only to see that under the order of Tygrisa, the Scourge Legion began to howl and roar and approach the human position, these crazy and bloodthirsty undead Scourge seemed to tear all the creatures in front of them to pieces.
"Oh, Lord Valgario, it looks like you're going to be taken power." Afra didn't think it was exciting enough to continue to mend Valgario, making Valgallo's already gloomy face even more gloomy.
At this time, in the face of the overwhelming influx of the Cataclysmic Legion, everyone felt a kind of pressure, whether it was the human soldiers or the dwarven warriors, they all held the weapons in their hands tightly at this moment, although they still had fear in their hearts, but now they were no longer as confused and anxious as before, they had strengthened their confidence in fighting, and some of them were just to defend their homes and protect their relatives behind them.
The Scourge Legion is coming to the city!
Darius and the dwarven soldiers, ready for battle!
The entire battlefield was full of pre-battle slaughter, and the undead scourge was getting closer and closer, and it seemed that it had entered the range of two hundred yards, but at this time it was the air cavalry that took the lead, and the two thousand griffin knights against countless gargoyles and undead griffins.
By the time the first griffin fell, the undead scourge on the ground had already entered the range of the shooters, and the battle began.
"First Legion shooters, let those filthy scum taste your power, don't spare your hands, shoot me." With the words of the commander of the First Legion, thousands of arrows flew out like a black cloud and fell into the endless crowd of undead.
"Guard shooter, one hundred and fifty yards in front of the target, three rounds of projectiles!" The garrisons of Soth City began to fire under the orders of their Ninth Order Commander.
"Fearless shooter, covered shooting in front of the target." Emilio shouted orders to the dreadnought shooter behind him.
"Dwarven brothers, let those ghosts taste the power of our muskets." The dwarven leader Marand brandished the axe in his hand and roared, only to see a continuous burst of gunfire, and the skeletons and zombies in front of them fell to the ground one by one, even the ghouls evolved from those zombies were inevitable.
In the Anno world, muskets have always been the standard equipment of dwarves, and dwarves have musket mastery in the profession, but muskets are not very popular among other races, and more people think that crossbow arrows are better than muskets.
In the face of the continuous blows of human archers and dwarven musketeers, pieces of undead were shot, but among the undead there were also skeleton mages who kept firing magic arrows at the human position, but these skeleton mages would be killed by the human mages on the wall as soon as they appeared.
Several waves of arrows and muskets came down, and tens of thousands of undead were killed and wounded, but these still couldn't stop the undead who didn't know what to fear.
Seeing that the undead had already entered the range of 100 meters, the Darius soldiers' resistance was certainly not tight, and they saw that ten bed crossbows were ready, and each arm-thick crossbow arrow was tied to a barrel of explosives.
Without hesitation, Isdar quickly waved his arm, and the soldiers who were already ready immediately lit the fire line on the explosive barrel, and then the crossbow was shot with a string sound.
I saw ten giant crossbows flying flat into the dense group of undead, and stabbed to the ground after piercing a series of undead, and before the surrounding undead could react, the explosive barrel tied to the giant crossbow exploded, and suddenly all the undead in the surrounding meters were emptied in a scream.
Soon a second round of giant crossbow bolts flew out again, and the Darius Archers and Dwarven Musketeers kept their hands on it, right next to the Dwarvens' Cast Iron Peak, and they had enough arrows to squander.
Although there are few explosive barrels thrown out in a row, the effect achieved in the dense undead natural disasters is not small, at first these explosive barrels Twilight wanted to use the griffin knight to drop, a carpet bombardment, but when she thought of the undead overwhelming gargoyles at every turn, Twilight gave up and tied the explosive barrels to the bed crossbow instead, after all, even if the bombing force is cheating and the theory is advanced, it is nonsense without the support of air supremacy. It can only be regarded as a piece of paper talk. There is no practical point, and it is clear that Twilight they do not have air supremacy.
As the main air force of the Scourge Legion. Gargoyles can only be singled out from the back, but once they reach scale with fangs and claws, it will be a nightmare for other aerial creatures, and Twilight has seen thousands of gargoyles kill an adult dragon and tear it to pieces!
The undead natural disaster did not know fear, under the order of their master, they roared and continued to advance, just fifty meters before entering the human position, only to hear a boom, a huge trench six or seven meters wide and more than thirty meters long appeared there, a large area of undead caught off guard.
These cannon fodder-level undead don't have much wisdom, but they can't see that there is a trench in front of them and go inside, so naturally they turn their heads to find a way to go, but in this way, they immediately obstruct the road of the undead disaster behind, and form a large-scale congestion on the edge of the trench for a while, which makes these undead disasters a living target for human troops.
Looking at the chaotic Scourge soldiers in the rear, Tegrisa's face flashed with anger, and then he gave orders to the low-level undead in his mind.
I saw that there was a stunned scene then, those undead turned around and jumped directly into the ditch, but Tegrisa wanted to use the undead to fill the trench six or seven meters wide.
Under the order of Teglisa, more and more low-level undead jumped into the trench, and the entire trench was filled with visible speed, but no one noticed that on the edge of this large trench, there was also a small trench half a meter wide, and at the end of this small trench was the human position.
When the entire trench was filled and the army of the undead swooped down on the human position again, a thousand mages sent by Danas V began to prepare to cast spells.
If it is said that the spell that the undead are most afraid of is fire magic, these thousand magicians are divided into ten squads to prepare a hundred people to combine magic.
With the chanting sound getting louder and louder, the rich magic also began to converge in the human position, and after about a minute or so, the vanguard of the undead scourge had already reached the city wall of the three-way town.
Suddenly, I saw six huge fireballs flying out of the town and falling into the group of undead within fifty meters outside, which immediately caused an explosion, many undead just saw the fireballs fall and their entire bodies were lifted away, and many undead were directly turned into ashes, this is not the end, after the six giant fireballs, four pillars of fire rose from the ground, and the undead who had not reacted in the huge fireballs suffered the catastrophe again.
In this way, ten magic spells almost wiped out the undead Scourge that had entered fifty meters in front of the town, and the first wave of the undead's attack ended in failure.
At the back of the army of the undead, Teglisa's face was still gloomy, but the aura around him became colder and colder, and he was obviously angry to the extreme.
"Keep attacking, corpse wagons ready."
Under Tegrisa's orders, the army of the undead slowly advanced towards the human defense line at the three forks again.
"Afra, I don't want you to let you watch it, can't you even disturb the enemy to cast spells?" Tegrisa's grim eyes looked at Afra.
Listening to Taglisa's cold words, looking at Tagarisa's eyes full of murderous intent, Afra trembled in her heart and hurriedly said coquettishly: "Oops, I know, I was wrong just now."
Afra can ignore Valgario, but not Tegrisa, because she sees in her prophecy that she will die at the sword of Tegrissa, so she has a heartfelt fear of Tegrisa Afra.
Looking at the undead catastrophe that pounced again, the arrows and muskets of various troops continued to shoot at them, and the giant crossbows with explosive barrels were also shot out in turn, but at this time, three hundred meters away, one by one plague bombs were thrown at the human defense line by the undead corpse throwing vehicle, and from time to time a corpse full of plague was thrown over, but these corpses were immediately burned by Twilight to order the mages or purify the paladins and priests, and for those plague bombs, The only way to do this is to have the priest purify it before it spreads.
Compared to the first attack, this time someone was quickly injured by the plague bomb, but the most deadly thing about the plague bomb was the virus lurking in the body, which would test the hundreds of military priests that Isdar had applied for.
Seeing the undead scourge once again carrying the arrows and explosive barrels of humans and dwarves to the front of the trench, at this time the magic troops were under the order of Isdar to prepare magic again, but this time the magic was definitely not as strong as the last time, and the magic of the same strength as before was not something that could be sent at will if you wanted to.
Soon, those Darius mages found that the magic gathering speed this time was obviously not as fast as the last one, and an old mage immediately noticed that someone was interfering with their spell casting.
The magic didn't work as expected, and Isdar didn't hurry, he waited quietly for the army of the undead to rush under the walls. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the Biquge www.biquge.info (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, and your support. That's what motivates me the most......)