Chapter 326: The Battle of the Greystone Fortress (Part I) (5400 Words)

Li De stood on the wall named the gray stone fortress and looked into the distance, his expression was a little solemn, as if he was waiting for something to come.

The underground world was dimly lit, as if a veil had been cast over the eyes.

In the wetland in front of the Greystone Fortress, the half-human-tall twisted vegetation had been cleared by the army.

The dark ground, which looked like a corpse rotting, was filled with a disgusting smell of rotting plants.

The wind blew from afar, whistling away from the cave behind him, and the sound was like a demon whispering.

The gray stone fortress where Li De was located was the main fortress, with walls 35 blades high and 15 blades thick, which was large enough to accommodate a large number of troops to defend it.

Every 30 or so blades of the castle wall is a 10-blade-high, gray rock tower, divided into three floors, each with a dense array of shooting holes, which seem to be daunting at any moment to design deadly arrows from inside.

Through the gaps, it is faintly visible that behind each shooting hole is a repeater designed and manufactured by the Magic Industry Research Institute.

Most of these modified war machines are controlled by the warriors of the King's Blade, and the rough-widden orcs don't like this kind of delicate work, and rushing to bathe the blood of their enemies on the front line is what the irascible warriors love to do.

The bolts of the baby's arm are forged from the pure gold of the low hills, and the blood grooves recessed on all sides are both lethal and aerodynamic, and the easy to break but extremely sharp metal is the best item for forging arrowheads.

Because of the high cost of pure gold, few people are willing to take it so wastefully.

But the City of Dawn, with a rich mine of pure gold, has never been stingy in this regard.

The grade of these arrows mixed with pure gold has reached the perfect ★ level, and even a monster with thick armor can't bear it.

At this time, almost except for the passage for people to walk, the city tower was already full of such expensive crossbow arrows.

In addition to the repeating crossbows, the catapults behind the towering city walls were also surprising.

These catapults are painted with strange green symbols, and even the switches and various artifacts are in the shape of pointed ears, revealing a strong goblin style.

The strange catapult is a size smaller than a normal catapult, and the droppers are not loaded with boulders, but on the size of a human head, assimilated with green symbols and pointy ear pull rings.

Goblin catapults, which are the product of the Grey Mountain Ground Spirits, differ from regular catapults in that their only function is to drop their alchemy bombs.

The 3-blade-long and 1.5-blade-high miniature catapults in front of them have a staggering 800 blades at a throw distance.

It's 300 blades farther than a normal catapult.

Moreover, the power of the alchemy bomb is not comparable to that of ordinary stones.

This was the second line of defense of the Greystone Fortress.

In addition to this, there are twenty tall towers built behind the walls of the fortress.

These towers are about 10 blades higher than the city walls, and they are separated from the towers on the city walls.

And these towers are the third line of defense of the greystone fortress.

Caster.

Each tower is manned by a team of twenty spellcasters, providing powerful fire support for each section of the wall, and the towers are carved with magic circles that allow mages to regenerate their mana faster.

The twenty towers are not just mages, but are accompanied by more powerful and long-range repeaters.

These repeaters of perfect ★★★ quality have a range of 1,500 blades, which is 300 blades longer than the 1,200 blades of a normal repeater, and they are equipped with perfect ★★★ arrows.

There are even three towers in the core area each with a transcendental-level repeater, each equipped with 20 arrows of the same transcendental level.

These costly superfluous repeaters have one goal in mind, to hunt down those mighty monsters.

The tower's firepoint consists of a high-quality repeater and a spellcaster.

After these three lines of defense, at the entrance to the underground world, the originally narrow passage has been widened and rebuilt, and now it has become a huge passage with a height of 20 blades and a width of 50 blades.

The distance of about 500 blades in this passage was originally an underground space with a width of 1,000 blades, but the construction department re-widened it based on this, and now this irregular underground space is more than 1500 blades in length and width.

This huge space was used by the Tibetan soldiers, and in the eight months of Li De's absence, the number of breeding farms had expanded to 10, and based on this, the number of magic bats had also increased to 6,000.

Of these, 4,000 are assigned to Daybreakwings, 2,000 are paired with human soldiers to become Whisper Knights, and the other 2,000 are equipped with the third version of the bomb-carrying armor, Air Force Three, which is used as a bombing unit.

At this point, the Wings of Dawn were all in place under Ollie's command, and as soon as Li De gave the order, these army of people who chose to devour them would smash the enemy with the most ruthless iron fist.

Next to the Tibetan room, the Ministry of Construction built a full 10 warehouses to store supplies through an underground passage that extends in all directions.

Food, weapons, armor, alchemy bombs, crossbow arrows and other logistical supplies were neatly placed according to strict classification, and these reserves were enough for 10 fortresses to consume for a month.

Thanks to Li De's emphasis on the underworld, the City of Dawn has been building these military facilities during the eight months he has not been around.

And after three years of development, the current City of Dawn has reserved a group of talents that can be reused.

In particular, the intelligence command center and the think tank, these two large staff organizations can often fill in the gaps and give very good plans.

That's why there is this amazing scene in front of me.

"Your Majesty, everyone is ready."

The level 18 orc king Karp stood behind Li De and respectfully reported, the huge lion head had been protected by a sturdy transcendent helmet, revealing only a pair of cold eyes.

The tone was deep and solemn.

"At present, there are a total of 20,000 orc warriors stationed in the underground world, 10,000 on the front line, and 10,000 warriors in the cave as a supplement."

Li De's deep black eyes continued to look into the distance, and he nodded slightly and did not speak.

He was waiting, waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

The tactics executed this time were not complicated, luring the cave spiders to attack, relying on the edge of the gray stone fortress to kill the cave spiders to the greatest extent.

The initial strategic goal is to kill as much of the living force of the cave spider as possible, and obtain enough death power for the burial ground to hatch bronze eggs.

Of course, this was only the beginning of the plan, and his ultimate goal was to occupy the Magic Crystal Vein.

However, the number of cave spiders occupying half of the plane is too terrifying, and if it is so reckless, then the consequences are only unpredictable.

Daybreak City is not yet capable of crushing cave spiders that use half of the plane as their nests, especially if it is not clear how many high-level cave spiders there are on the other side.

Therefore, the role of the Greystone Fortress is to lure the opponent's high-level combat power to attack, so as to hunt down those high-level cave spiders that may pose a huge threat to the Dawnbreak City army, and prepare for the next step of the Dawnbreak City army to attack the magic crystal vein.

Cave spiders can quickly hatch ordinary spiders in batches, but high-level combat power above level 15 is not so easy to grow.

The biggest role of Greystone Fort lies in Li De's opinion.

But once this plan is carried out, then Greystone Fort will become a well-deserved meat grinder, and the two forces will face each other in the most direct way possible.

On one side is the primitive and ferocious, occupying half of the plane with an infinite number of cave spiders, and on the other side is the highly developed city of dawn with super magical research and production capacity.

Suddenly, Li De's eyes narrowed slightly.

A gray line appeared at the end of his vision, like a sandstorm sweeping in from afar, enveloping the entire wetland.

The wind in the air carries a fishy smell that makes people panic.

The cave spider is coming.

After a few moments, the closer the line got closer to the greystone fortress, the stronger the stench became, and the expressions of all the soldiers had become solemn, the arms of the shields that held the long knives were slowly taut, and the muscles were as distinct as if they were watered with steel.

Particularly striking is the mid-air movement of a 16-bladed beast in steel armor flying wildly in front of a sandstorm of countless cave spiders.

Castro, the newborn king, a behemoth in extraordinary armor plays a key role in this seduction.

Hiss~hiss~

After reaching the distance of a thousand blades, the cave spider's mouth began to roar in the air with a piercing sound like a sharp knife slicing through the glass.

The orc warriors in dwarven armor on the city walls only felt a strong pressure coming towards them, and with the sound that sent chills down their spines, everyone finally saw the gray line clearly.

Spiders, incomparably gigantic spiders.

These newly transferred orc warriors had all seen cave spiders that had been specially captured to introduce them to their weaknesses and show them how to kill them before they were mobilized before the battle.

But seeing hundreds of thousands of giant spiders running and roaring on the ground is still a heartfelt shock.

At this moment, there are even human soldiers who have never been on the battlefield to feel their hands tremble unconsciously, which is an instinctive reaction of the body, which is uncontrollable at all.

The Greystone Fortress is built on the edge of the Underworld, on the edge of the Underworld, with the wetlands in front of it being the outer area of the silt swamp, and the ground is flat.

When this land with wide eyes is full of hideous and terrifying cave spiders, the impact of that sight is enough to shock people's hearts, and even a determined warrior will have a huge psychological pressure when they see such a scene.

Especially when everyone is standing on a high place, they can see this scene intuitively, which adds to that feeling.

The cave spiders were like crazy, screaming from their mouths, desperately chasing Castro.

The distance of the thousand blades passed in an instant, Castro suddenly increased his speed, and a wave of air exploded directly behind him, and he flew at supersonic speed and instantly came to the city wall.

Brush~ At the moment of flying to the city wall, the steel monster's body suddenly turned into a mini bat.

Then he instigated the bat wings and flew to Li De's side with two sharp little claws carrying a broken dry eggshell.

The queen egg, the cause of the fury of cave spiders.

Li De stretched out his hand, and the egg of the spider queen, which had already broken and dried up, glanced at it, and then threw it behind the city wall.

The life force has long been devoured by the bronze eggs, and the only use of these eggshells is to provoke the transcendent ghost-faced spider.

Castro flapped his wings and stopped on his shoulder, his tone tinged with excitement.

"Master, I felt the breath of that transcendent spider in the spider's nest**......"

The way to lure cave spiders is so simple and crude, after losing all of his eggs, the transcendent spider went crazy the moment Castro approached the cave spider's nest with the eggshell.

"Everyone, get ready to fight."

Li De ignored Castro and looked at the cave spider that had entered the 500-blade range of the graystone fortress, and the cold tone resounded throughout the fortress under the amplification of the magic power.

"Goblin catapult, put."

Li De stood on the city wall above the city gate and commanded, this is the core of the entire city wall, and it is also the place where you will face the edge of the cave spider.

As the military order was issued, the human soldiers who were controlling the goblin catapult behind the city wall immediately pulled the buckle, and the bowstring that was extremely tight at the wrist flicked violently, and the bowstring burst out with huge force in an instant, throwing the alchemy bomb that had been pulled open on the dropper.

Bang~Whew~

With the sound of breaking the sky, the alchemy bomb pulled out a high parabola, flew directly over the 35-blade-high city wall, drew a long arc in the air, and smashed down in the center of the surging cave spider with a whirling sound.

Bang ~ Bang ~ Bang ~

In one round of projectiles, hundreds of alchemy bombs exploded.

Thundered~

It was like a rolling thunder explosion above the nine heavens, the heavens and the earth were collapsing, and huge sound waves exploded on this wide ground.

Boom~

The first alchemy bomb bombed in the most dense area of the cave spiders, blazing brightly.

Ahh

Five or six cave spiders were directly torn apart by the alchemy bomb, and a strong corrosive green slime flowed out of the corpse, dripping on the ground and making a sizzling corrosive sound.

This is not fun, hula~ The shock wave after the explosion was like an invisible giant hand that directly lifted off more than a dozen cave spiders around, and the sharp arthropods of the cave spiders were torn apart by the air wave like straw.

The green slime instantly made the damp ground gurgle and bubble.

Bang ~ Bang ~ Bang ~

The continuous explosion sounded like a giant hammer bombarding ants on the ground, and a large area was emptied as soon as it was hammered.

The fierce momentum of the originally fierce and uncountable cave spiders was directly suppressed.

The scene looks like the scene of an ancient god recorded on the church frescoes, and it is shocking.

But hundreds of alchemy bombs were far from destroying countless cave spiders, and the fish that slipped through the net became more and more crazy after the explosion.

Especially after approaching the gray stone fortress and sensing the breath of the spider queen's egg, it is even more daunting and fierce.

The green eyes were tinged with a little scarlet.

Murderous intent is pervasive.

No matter the cost.

Crazy Shock.

On the battlefield in front of him, the first cave spider rushed to the bottom of the walls of the Greystone Castle, and the monster, covered in fluff and like a demon crawling out of hell, climbed up the walls without the slightest hesitation.

But to the surprise of the murderous cave spider, the rough-looking walls of the Greystone Fort were so slippery that it couldn't climb up at all.

Even the arthropods covered with fluff can't borrow power.

Seeing this scene, the corners of Li De's mouth curled slightly, in order to prevent spiders from climbing the city wall directly, the Daybreaking Mage Tower spent a huge amount of money on all the city walls to solidify the greasy magic of the second ring.

Cave spiders can climb on rock walls mainly by relying on the hairs on the arthropods that have an adsorption effect, and the greasy technique just restrains the characteristics of the other party.

Bang~ The bowstring is bouncing in my ears.

Arrows with a lethal aura pierced the cave spider's head from the city walls, and the level 9 cave spider did not survive for more than three seconds.

The human archer's gaze was cold at the moment.

After several expansions, the King's Blade now has an army of 3,000 men, and that's in addition to the 2,000 Demon Knights.

By the time the population exceeded 100,000 in winter, the number of human troops on King's Blade had reached 5,000.

1000 thousand of them were trained as archers.

At this time, the graystone fortress with a capacity of 3,000 men had 500 archers.

When the enemy has not stormed the walls, they will be the most indifferent hunters, hunting down all the enemies who come to them.

Whining~

With the sound of the bull's horn behind him, the cave spider's attack reached its first climax.

After a few or even a dozen rushed to the city wall, they began to stack up, trying to rely on a huge number to stack up the city wall.

Countless cave spiders are like tidal waves sweeping across the sky, crazy and violent.

The 10 greystone forts are like reefs by the sea, which seem to be in danger of collapsing at any moment under the attack of strong winds and waves.

The orc warriors wearing full body armor finally came into contact with these monsters of the underground world at this time.

The spear in his hand pierced wildly through the cave spiders who had just managed to climb the walls, and these underground monsters were attacked with the most ferocity as soon as they showed their heads.

The burst of power of the strong orc warriors can easily tear the bodies of these spiders, like stabbing chicks, and the number of cave spiders rushing up the city wall in a short period of time is all to deliver food to the orc warriors.

And at this time, the various lines of defense, which had been hidden for a long time, finally opened fire.

First of all, the towers on the ramparts, the arrows that showed a hideous chill in the shooting holes burst out after the strings of the repeaters were taut.

Boom~

Whew~

The deadly crossbow bolts resemble the roar of a demon, and the dense cave spiders below don't need any aim to be the best target.

呲拉~poof~

The sharp arrows forged from the pure gold were like the sword of creation that tore through the heavens and the earth, preventing the cave spiders from being mercilessly pierced in front of them.

Nothing can hinder the penetration of the bolts.

A chain of seven cave spiders was blasted apart by the first bolt fired, and the last bolt pierced deep into the ground after passing through the head of a cave spider, and the tail of the arrow was not even visible from the ground.

All the 10 greystone fortresses were firing almost simultaneously, and thousands of wrist-thick crossbow arrows formed a rain of arrows that were thrown in unison.

Puff~Puff~

The cave spiders that had already climbed under the city walls and had almost completely blocked the ground were instantly torn apart by the rain of crossbow arrows.

Fragments of stumps were scattered all over the ground, and green blood flowed like rivers.

The dense cave spiders were instantly emptied of a large area.

A minimum of 5,000 cave spiders were killed in this round of repeater attacks.

Hiss~

But the heavy loss did not make the cave spiders back down, and behind all the cave spiders, a scalp-making sound was remembered, and the cave spiders, who had been a little hesitant, went berserk again.

Unlike the last time, the second batch of cave spiders that came to attack and kill were already mixed with a large number of level 10 ghost-faced spiders, and even Li De clearly sensed that there were still level 15 ghost-faced spiders in it that could not be counted......

Whining~

With the sound of a horn in the graystone fortress, looking at the denser cave spider swarm in front of them, all the warriors felt that the real war was about to begin.......

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