Chapter 373: The Battle of the West Sacred Pass (I)
It did not directly allow the air units to rush forward and pour fire, as in the case of the capture of the cities of Corvo and Bolívar. Illidan lined up his troops and lined them up six hundred meters in front of the West Sacred Pass.
Air forces are not omnipotent, and there is such a thing as a mage tower in Eslazze, which is a mage tower in the mage tower, which can greatly increase the range and coverage area of the spells cast, and even the power of the spells has been slightly increased.
The previous Corvo City also had a mage tower, but the Night Elves' attack was too sudden, and it didn't give the Corvo family a chance to activate the mage tower at all. Ciudad Bolívar is a commercial city, and there is no base camp for great power, and there is no mage tower at all.
But now the West Sacred Pass, where the Night Elf troops are going to attack, is not like before. With three hours of preparation, there were already a sufficient number of mages stationed in the mage tower of the West Holy Pass, and if Illidan still sent the air troops to wash the ground first according to his previous tactics, the Horned Eagle Beast Knight and the Raptor Druid would definitely suffer heavy losses.
Although the combination of the Horned Eagle Beast and the Archer generally has a strength comparable to the gold level, even if it is only an elite level, the spells issued by the Mage Tower combined with the strength of the mages in the tower are not just gold-level strength that can be resisted, especially the Horned Eagle Beast Knight is not a class with high defensive power.
However, the blockage of air power does not mean that the Night Elves have no way to take the pass in front of them. Washing the ground with the Horned Eagle Beast Knight Force is just a tactic to bully people under the huge disparity in strength, and the real strength of the Night Elf Clan is not something that a small West Saint Pass can resist.
Six hundred meters. Even the defenders of the West Sacred Pass have a condescending advantage. The range still can't reach that far. As for the Mage Tower. Generally standing inside the city, looking at the whole city (pass), at most, it can extend the magic to the position of the city wall when the enemy attacks the city wall, and it is still not enough to hit 600 meters away from the pass.
But the distance of six hundred meters was nothing in front of the Night Elves. Even archers have a range of more than 600 meters at the lowest elite level, not to mention the blade carts that specialize in siege and the mountain giants who have long-range attack capabilities.
This is also because it is an expedition, so a large number of Ancient Guardians are not brought. Otherwise, I am afraid that the small West Shengguan will be submerged by boulders in a few rounds.
Even without the Elder Guardians, Illidan's Night Elf forces are still capable of attacking cities. All 300 Blade Throwers are ready to cast the skill of Charged Blade.
The Blade Cart's attack is inferior to even low-level heroes when using a charged blade. According to Yu Fei's estimate, the charged blade allows the blade cart's attacks to reach the level of legend in an instant. If it weren't for the Blade Car's attack, it would be easy to dodge, but it would be equivalent to mass-producing Legendary Strong.
However, despite the disadvantage of being easy to dodge attacks, the Blade Thrower is a good class for sieges.
A few seconds of charging time passed quickly. "Whoosh-" Three hundred sword blades that flashed with cold light flew towards the walls of the West Sacred Pass.
The defenders of the Holy Lion Empire on the city walls only see the enemy camp in the distance. Suddenly, hundreds of unintelligible black shadows flew out. Immediately after, the thick wall beneath his feet. There was an overwhelming cracking sound immediately.
"Boom-" In the shocked eyes of countless people in the pass, the outer city wall of the West Saint Pass actually turned directly into piles of broken stones, and it collapsed directly!
The soldiers who were originally on the city wall, in this sudden change, couldn't react at all for a while, and a small number of screamed and fell off the city wall, and most of them were even directly buried by the wreckage of the outer city wall. This alone caused the defenders of Xishengguan to lose thousands of soldiers.
There have never been hundreds of legendary-level powerhouses on the continent participating in a war, so naturally there will be no situation where the city wall is directly destroyed by hundreds of legendary-level attacks. Only the Night Elves' blade thrower can create this kind of scene.
The entire Xisheng Pass was silent in the midst of this change. Who would have thought that the empire had spent a lot of energy and gathered a large number of mages to use fossils to turn mud and mud into stone to strengthen the walls of Xishengguan, but they were actually directly smashed by the enemy.
I didn't think about it, and naturally I wouldn't be prepared, which made the collapse of the city wall cause heavy losses to ordinary soldiers who were not strong enough to survive in this situation. What's even more serious is that the soldiers of the Holy Lion Empire behind the outer city wall have all lost the barrier of the city wall and are exposed to the Night Elves.
Naturally, Illidan would not let go of this good opportunity to kill the enemy. The archers quickly stepped forward and rained down on the exposed soldiers. Even the Horned Eagle Beast Knights in the air did not hesitate to attack the Mage Tower for the time being, and shot together. Out of the arrows.
20,000 Night Elf archers and 10,000 horned eagle knights caused more than 30,000 attacks. With the heavy use of spectral arrows and scattered shadow shots, 30,000 archers created a momentum of 100,000 elite archers. Moreover, this is still an attack by 100,000 unsuspecting archers.
The number of soldiers behind the outer city wall of Xisheng Pass was less than 100,000. Even if some of the Night Elves' attacks were wasted due to overlapping targets, more than half of the soldiers were lost in an instant.
If it were an ordinary city and army, in such a situation where the city wall was directly destroyed and suffered heavy losses, I am afraid that it would collapse directly. However, Xishengguan is not an ordinary city, and the forbidden army of the Holy Lion Empire is not an ordinary army.
As mentioned earlier, the attack of the three hundred blade throwing vehicles using the charged blade was only the outer wall of the West Holy Pass. As a pass, unlike ordinary cities, Xishengguan has three city walls.
The Charged Sword Skill of the Throwing Blade also needs to be cooled, and ordinary attacks will not be able to create the shocking effect before. For a short period of time, the two remaining thicker walls of the West Sacred Pass became an obstacle to the Night Elf forces.
It is worth mentioning that the mage tower in the West Saint Pass is also located in the second city wall.
Now, the defenders on the second wall have recovered from the previous shock. Looking at the wreckage of the outer walls and the friendly forces wailing under the attack of the archers between the two walls, these well-trained forbidden troops also felt chills.
The archer's attack speed is not slow. Not long after the last rain of arrows fell, the second wave covered the remaining enemies within the collapsed outer walls. After this round, there will be very few defenders left between the two walls of Xishengguan.
Illidan was expressionless, but there was some regret in his heart. The archers' second attack was deliberately slowed down for a while, in order to see if the defenders on the second wall of the West Sacred Pass would come to the rescue of their allies.
If they open the gates of the second wall and let the remaining allies escape, the Night Elf forces will quickly use the Talon Druids as a shock force to infuse the Swiftness Aura and Wind Resist thaumaturgy and charge directly into the second wall of the West Sacred Pass.
Unexpectedly, the commander of the West Saint Pass was quite decisive, and he actually watched his tens of thousands of allies die under the arrows of the Night Elves.
On the city wall, a man in military uniform, who looked noble, was stunned—he was one of the guards of the West Holy Pass. It's not that he doesn't want to save the friendly forces under the city, and he doesn't know how quickly the Night Elf forces will burst out.
He only judged from the previous firepower of the Night Elves that even if he ordered the city gate to be opened and let the friendly troops outside the city wall, he would not be able to save a few of them for a while. In this way, he could only reluctantly give up the idea of opening the city gate, and watched tens of thousands of human soldiers die under the city.
His own careful thinking was not achieved, and Illidan was not discouraged. It seems that he is still not suitable for any conspiracy tactics or anything like that, so he can attack directly.
As soon as Illidan gave the order, the Night Elf forces began to advance forward. After the first wall collapsed, even with the range of the Night Elves, it would take a little further to attack the second wall of the West Sacred Pass. (To be continued......)