Chapter 551: Drowning
Because of the noise all around during the siege, the undead who were charging on the battlefield did not hear the movement of the surrounding mountains. www.biquge.info At this time, it happened to be a general attack, and the vast majority of the undead were used under the city walls - this time the undead army bet on seventy percent of all the troops, firmly surrounded the three city walls, and focused on the weakest areas of human forces, in order to break through the city walls through the suppression of troops.
The undead leader of the attacking side is called Custer, a henchman of the Augustinian faction and a full member of the council with the title of count. The task of "suppressing the rebel forces" felt that Caster could complete it with his eyes closed, after all, the 20,000 men accounted for almost half of the entire Tasman's current gathered forces, and counting the summoned undead, the total number of troops of more than 100,000 was simply easy to deal with the castle in front of him.
After chasing all the way, Custer has thoroughly figured out the details of the other party. And when he saw that the other party had taken refuge in Fort Trak, he was so happy that he wanted to applaud the other party - because he knew very well that these human beings had reached a dead end, and in less than three days, the task of exterminating the "rebel army" would be successfully completed!
"Master Custer, there is a breakthrough in the western wall of the main attack!"
The following information came, and the corners of the pale-faced earl's mouth rose a little, and he waved his hand: "This group of fellows is capable of this, leave two reserves, and all the others are pressed up! I want to see His Majesty's flag planted on the tower before dark." ”
"Yes, sir!"
The large army, which had been standing still, began to divide into groups and rush towards the damaged western city wall - by this time, the trebuchets on the city wall had been damaged by continuous fighting, and because the skeleton soldiers continued to successfully climb the city wall and interfered with the defense of the defenders, the defensive pressure of Kurka and others was approaching the limit.
At this point, only about 3,000 troops remained at Custer's side, and almost all the mages and elites of the army were piled up on the front line in this decisive general attack. The necromancer's spells such as "Acid Poison Arrow" and "Poisonous Mist" suddenly made the defense of the city wall even more difficult, and the city wall was about to fall completely...
It was at this moment that Custer suddenly felt that something strange seemed to the mountain in the distance.
He had heard the muffled sound before, but he couldn't hear it because he was in front of the battlefield, and Custer thought it was just thunder. But as time goes by, there always seems to be some discordant noise in the wind. As far as he could see, he saw what appeared to be a landslide in several places on the surrounding mountains—trees shaking halfway up the mountain, and some of them even began to break and disappear.
Speaking of which, it is very common for Tasman to have landslides due to two years of rain. After the soil is saturated with water for a long time, it displaces and slides, which will be encountered by anyone who has been in the mountainous area. Karst frowned, but didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so he turned his head and continued to focus on the city walls.
At this time, most of the entire western city wall was occupied by skeleton soldiers, and although the figures of the human soldiers tried to rush from the road, they were obviously gradually falling behind due to their lack of combat effectiveness - in the end, they could even be seen personally leading the guards to fight...
"What are you struggling with at this time? It's ridiculous. ”
Custer felt that the situation was settled, and his eyes were no longer fixed on the distant wall, but when he looked to the side, he suddenly frowned—something seemed to be shaking at the foot of the mountain at the end of the view.
He himself is a "death knight" and does not know how to use spells, so he called the mage lieutenant next to him and said, "What is it over there?" ”
The adjutant cast a spell as he said, and after careful observation, he hesitated to reply: "Yes... I think there's no river here. ”
"Water?"
As a commander, he was well aware of the terrain in the vicinity: there were no rivers at all in the basin surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the largest river crossed in the middle of the mountain forty or fifty kilometers away, and would not flood here.
"Well, Master Custer, there's a possibility of this. The adjutant pointed halfway up the mountain and said, "Sometimes dammed lakes are formed on the slopes of the mountains due to changes in topography, and when the rainwater from other lakes, rivers or accumulations reaches a critical point, the water may overflow or burst the banks..."
Tasman had been in this situation before, so the adjutant was on the right track. But Custer's complexion became more and more wrong, he looked left and right, and his eyes quickly locked on the mountainside that he had ignored before—at this time, there were already traces of collapse between the mountains, and the originally tall trees were actually washed out of a "river" tens of meters wide by the current!
And there are five such "rivers" at a glance!
As he spoke, both Custer and the lieutenant saw the floodwaters pouring from several other rivers come into view—Tasman's land had been washed away by the rain for so long that it was now difficult to absorb any water, and it was the flood that had washed down from the mountain that spread and converged rapidly, and soon became a line in the distance!
Everyone knows the principle of "water flows low", and Custer is no exception, his eyes are a little stiff from a distance to his position, and then he looks at Fort Trak, which is at the lowest point in front of him, and his lips tremble and scolds: "Damn! Withdraw the troops! Withdraw the troops quickly!"
He foresaw a very terrible result: if he did not dodge, he was afraid that the attacking army would be completely overwhelmed by this sudden flood!
Although there are many soldiers besieging the city, more than ninety percent of them are under the city wall, and below the city wall is the lowest point of the entire terrain. Not only that, but even Custer himself, who was not far from the castle at this time, was in danger!
He immediately had his men go and inform the attacking troops to retreat, while he himself rushed back with the remaining troops.
On the outskirts of the battlefield, there were already teams that had already encountered the currents - the cavalry units after the "Awakened" charge were washed by the first wave of water just before the flood had completely converged because of the distance. However, at this time, the flood water was no more than the height of the horses' hooves, so the team was still able to barely move to the side despite the struggle.
But the flood water from five directions converged on each other as they got closer, and the current became bigger and faster, and by the time they reached Fort Trak, they swept down a large number of undead soldiers on the spot!
Custer escaped because he was not in the path of the current, he led the guards to run desperately into the distance, and when it was safe to be around, he looked back at the army that had just begun to retreat, and his lips trembled involuntarily: "Who did this... Who the hell did that..."
He had to admit a fact: his main force was probably going to be finished!
In this era, the transmission of military orders was very slow, and it took even half an hour from the time when all 60,000 or 70,000 troops received the order. So when the flood from the five dammed lakes burst in, less than 1,000 of the undead troops, except for Custer's 3,000 troops, managed to escape because they were in a position to avoid the current.
The rest of the troops were swept away, washed and drowned in the surging flood on the spot.
The seemingly unfast flow of the flood was actually encompassing immense power, and no matter how strong the soldier's physical fitness was or how skilled the mage's spells were, they could not last more than a few minutes in the face of this natural power. And the troops who climbed the city wall couldn't go up and down, and caught up with the morale of the soldiers defending the city, and they were suddenly hit by a wave of charges and fell...
"We... That's, that's it, that's winning?"
Standing on the city wall, covered in blood, Kurka gasped, his hand holding the long sword trembled from the loss of strength, and there was still blood left on several wounds on his body, but all the pain was not as shocking as the scene in front of him: tens of thousands of undead were completely submerged by the black flood, and the constantly gathering filthy water was full of struggling figures, but as the water level gradually rose, those struggling figures gradually lost their movement under the surging water waves of the undercurrent.
The undead do not possess infinite physical strength, and they struggle in the flood in armor, and no one can survive this cruel baptism from nature.
On the other side of the city wall, Dasco, who was wearing a hood, exhaled slowly - at this moment, he was really convinced by Roddy: in his cognition, "war" has always been won by manpower, but now Roddy directly slaughtered tens of thousands of undead armies with a "natural disaster"!
The planning, calculation, and execution behind this all made Dasco feel a deep fear.
He raised his head and met the gaze of Kurka in the distance, and the two of them had the same thought in their hearts: never be an enemy of such a guy...
"How do you do that? How do you know that these five dammed lakes can be flooded? How do you know that the undead can place an army here? The dammed lake is not something that can be done by simply blasting, how can you make sure that all five of them will be blown up?"
Kardashian tried her best to control her voice from changing her tone, but these numerous questions clearly told others the fact that she was "shocked" - no matter how strong the dragon clan is, it is a fool's dream to directly destroy the army of seventy or eighty thousand, I am afraid that only the dragon lord can achieve a similar effect with a forbidden spell that has been chanted for more than a few hours, but this lowly human in front of him sentenced the army of the undead to death while talking and laughing!
To do something that is difficult for the dragon clan to do, Luo Di has today's hand, and his status in the eyes of the three dragon clans has immediately risen a big step - although it is impossible to achieve "equality", but when he speaks again, the right to speak has been significantly improved unconsciously.
"I've been on the lookout for suitable dammed lakes for a few months, not just the five dammed lakes that have burst, but six more places where Tasman is suitable for this tactic. There are a few places where the effect might be better. It can even be said that... If these undead don't come, I still have a way to get the water to flood directly to Oldmancius. ”
Luo Di replied with a smile: "As for how to make the dammed lake burst... Actually, it was because I used the 'Trap Circle' that the High Elves used to use to 'lay the foundation'. It allows the soil structure at the mouth of the dammed lake to collapse and then blast it, so that there is enough water to discharge. ”
In fact, Luo Di's psychology has always been hanging, and the reason why he thought of this trick was because there was an old incident in history where "the dammed lake burst its embankment and flooded the undead barracks". This happened because the undead ignored the dangers of the dammed lake, but now... Roddy directly used the method of forcibly breaking the embankment, making the Tasman undead pay an unprecedented tragic price!
Flooded the Seventh Army and burned the company camp. The simple ploy had a surprising effect, and Roddy was naturally excited - but what made him even more excited was the thousands of pages of experience records in the battle log column. (To be continued.) )