Chapter 602: Indiscriminate Bombardment (2-in-1)
After the complete destruction of the Blood Hill, the undead's will to resist in the Ascikrin Mountains seemed to be disintegrated under the 'Doomsday Thunder'.
Beyond the Hill of Blood, continuing the battle to the west, the resistance of the undead army became minimal.
Part of their main force was destroyed by Levi's cannon in the Blood Hill. And the rest, it seems, are retreating in great strides, and have no desire to continue to fight against humans.
With all the way to victory, the human coalition will reclaim the entire Ascikrin Mountains sooner than expected.
By the end of April, the war in the Ascikrin Mountains had come to an end, and the undead had completely withdrawn from the area.
It is worth mentioning that in the process of recovering the entire Ascikrin Mountains, they also rescued one person - Kane, the 'Sword of Heaven'.
This guy, who led thousands of paladins earlier, came to the Blood Hill to assist in the defense. As a result, the fortress was breached in one day, and almost all of the more than 2,000 soldiers in the original garrison died cleanly, and none of them survived, all of them were transformed into low-level zombies, and a few officers might have the opportunity to become ghouls or something.
And the thousand paladins he led also died, all of them died in the battle of the Blood Hill, and he was the only one who survived.
Fortunately, those undead continued to move westward at a relatively large pace, and they didn't have time to deal with the corpses of those paladins, otherwise, there would probably be thousands more black knights in their military array.
Kane, who was rescued, has a rather miserable image. This paladin didn't look like anything else, in fact, it was not easy for him to survive the two months that the Ascikrin Mountains were completely controlled by the undead.
There is a clear polarization in everyone's perception of Kane's loss of the Blood Hill in one day, and the fact that more than a thousand paladins died under his command.
For the kingdom's military and the demon hunters, this is nothing. With two or three thousand people, resisting the attack of tens of thousands of undead, and daring to have the courage to fight a bloody battle in the Blood Hill, it is already very remarkable, and it is impossible to expect people to be able to win the battle despite the huge disparity in strength.
Within the Holy Cult Army, the direction of public opinion is very different.
The loss of more than 1,000 paladins in World War I was almost the largest loss of the Holy Cult in recent decades. Not to mention, Kane was still defeated.
You must know that under the previous St. Bouron City, the paladins they lost accumulated in a few days, but there were not so many. Even if the timeline is pushed back further, the Paladin's losses have not reached this level in the battle that was recognized as a very tragic battle to exterminate the headquarters of the cult 'Prison Tower'.
Kane, who led the Holy Cult in its biggest defeat, suffered a very delicate treatment within the Holy Cult.
What's more, after the Blood Hill was breached, both the Holy Cult Army and the soldiers of the original garrison were all killed, and Kane was the only one who survived, which gave people infinite room for reverie.
Although, the upper echelons of the Holy Cult would not have felt that the battle was lost because of Kane's mistakes, and there was no evidence that Kane survived because of the Fall, or because he had some kind of deal with the undead. But no matter what, someone will always take the blame for this defeat, and there must be an explanation for the strange eyes of those grassroots soldiers of the Holy Sect Army.
Thereupon...... Kane was temporarily relieved of his duties under the name of Investigation.
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On May 3, the human coalition officially decided to continue its advance west of the mountains.
They will invade the heart of the kingdom of the dead.
As soon as they stepped into the territory of the realm of the undead, the human soldiers, including those Holy Cult troops, felt very uncomfortable.
Everything here is very different from the world of the living.
The sky is always gray, and there is not a single vegetation to be seen above the desolate earth. Occasionally, a withered forest is seen standing in the dark earth. The twisted limbs of the trees were bare and without a single leaf, and they looked seeping.
The day after marching into the realm of the dead, the human army conquered seven villages.
It is worth mentioning that in the realm of the undead, there are also human beings.
Of course, these humans are all living in captivity with vampires.
Vampires are a special kind of undead, they can actually not eat or drink, it doesn't matter, but they love to suck human blood, and that is the supreme delicacy for them.
In order to meet their own needs, of course, they also divided villages in some places and raised some human beings for them to feed.
At the same time, the creation of a new army of the undead, with the blood of the living, the flexibility of the living, and the body of the living, are all very good raw materials.
For a living person, there is a fairly complete utilization process in the realm of the undead, ensuring that there will be no waste from every inch of flesh and blood of the body and even to the soul.
Even, some vampire aristocrats felt that the blood of the raised humans tasted bad, and they also invented some special ways of 'farming'. For example, building a village, making it look as quiet and peaceful as a paradise, and raising a group of humans who seem to have grown up in a normal environment, and there are any distinctions such as 'nobles' in it.
When the time comes, go in and harvest, and all the humans who are harvested will become a very popular high-end commodity among vampires.
All in all, the human beings living in the realm of the undead are not too much to describe with the words 'pigs and dogs are inferior'.
Every human warrior who realized this gradually accumulated a huge anger in his heart, and his morale became high.
Humans have invaded the land, and the undead are no longer as easy as they used to be.
On May 7, a battle broke out between the two sides around a vampire castle with a total of 30,000 troops, and the final result was a great victory for the humans.
Subsequently, in half a month, the human alliance army fought successively, showing that it advanced to the position of approaching Fort Conrad in one go.
This is the capital of the Kingdom of the Dead and the home base of the Conrad family. If it weren't for the fact that the logistical supplies were really unable to keep up, the humans would have already taken the capital of this undead country.
But the supply problem was quickly resolved.
At the end of May, seven empty ships came in the sky. Three war airships, one from the Royal Government, one from the Holy Cult, and one from the Witchers. The other four civilian airships served as transport ships, bringing a large amount of food and supplies such as weapons and ammunition.
The strength of the human alliance, after such a long battle, has increased instead of decreasing!
This is ready to attack the capital.
And in this process, Prince Conrad, who has never come forward, finally can't sit still.
He sent a request for peace talks to the Human Alliance, but Levi and Pope Samir rejected it.
Subsequently, the human coalition launched an onslaught on Fort Conrad.
Three war airships, in the middle of the air, fiercely dropped a lot of firepower on Fort Conrad. At the same time, the heavy artillery, which had been pulled from the Asikrin Mountains, was also in place and opened fire on the castle.
Countless shells were thrown into the castle of Conrad. And above the sky, from time to time, civilian airships fly from the rear, carrying a large number of artillery supplies.
In between, the undead have also tried to infest the human air supply lines.
A skeletal dragon, with a flight of undead transformed from flying monsters, and some ghosts, suddenly appears in the skies above the Ascikrin Mountains, as airships from Westdum pass by, and attacks in the hope of destroying the human army's logistical supply lines.
But they were not able to succeed.
Escorting a war airship played a rather important role. It was the kingdom's military's 'Deep Space' war airship, although there was no elemental-level powerhouse on it, but the three main cannons all had the power to threaten a strong enemy, so that the skeletal dragon could not fully exert its own strength.
After sending out a distress signal, the Deep Space escorted four other transport airships, stangling with the undead air forces as they struggled to fly towards the human coalition outside of Fort Conrad.
And they finally managed to get the help to come.
The three elemental powerhouses arrived at the battlefield on the Demon Hunter's war airship, the 'Cloud Hunter'.
Seeing the undead air force in a bad situation, I wanted to run at that time.
But it was impossible for humans to let them go, and the two war airships immediately launched a pursuit.
Although, in the end, because those undead in the air can scatter and flee, and there are only two human war airships, there is no way to wipe out the enemy. However, at least the leading bone dragon was not able to escape, and the two main cannons hit by the 'Cloud Hunter' were seriously injured, so the elemental powerhouse shot and killed it.
Although the infestation of the undead air force was not without results - they also took advantage of the chaos to destroy a civilian transport airship, but they themselves suffered more losses and blows.
And the human coalition army, which has grown wise from one trench, has also paid more attention to the protection of its own logistics supply lines. In the process of transporting supplies, the subsequent transport airship will not only have a war airship to escort it, but also a strong element as protection. The chances of the undead wanting to succeed have become even fewer.
After the logistics supply was more secure, the bombardment of the ancient fortress of Conrad by the human coalition army became more ferocious.
The castle of Conrad was bathed under human fire for a week and a half! The entire Fort Conrad was bombed to such an extent that it is even difficult to count how many shells were fired into the castle in the past ten days.
But no matter what, it still stands on this land.
I have to say that this nest of the Conrad family is still strong enough. This sturdiness doesn't just come from the defense of the building itself, but also from the undead. Through the magic circle, all kinds of undead put their own power into it, and combined with the fortress to resist the bombardment of artillery fire.
Of course, this price is that many undead souls are scattered because of this.
However, he was beaten so badly that Prince Conrad never had the intention of coming forward. For a time, the humans thought that Prince Conrad had abandoned the castle?
In order to prove this, Levi also repeated his old trick, and under the escort of Madeleine and Wang Ande, he soared into the air and sent a 'doomsday thunder' towards the castle of Conrad.
This move reached the concept level of a wide range of attack skills, and instantly caused a huge amount of damage to Fort Conrad.
This castle is far stronger than the fortress of the Blood Hill, and there are black magic circles and countless undead to protect this castle. Therefore, even if it was forced to take a 'doomsday thunder' from Levi, it would not be razed to the ground all at once.
But this is enough to prove that Prince Conrad is definitely not here, otherwise, it would be impossible for that element-level vampire prince to sit back and watch Levi easily launch a bombardment of his city.
In this case, Nabina can fight boldly with confidence.
Subsequently, Pope Samir did the same.
When he and Levi launched an attack on the ancient castle at the same time, the power of the two conceptual powerhouses was not so easy to block.
On May 26, the year 448 of the Pioneer Calendar, Fort Conrad, the capital city of the Nation of the Dead, was officially breached by the human coalition forces.
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It is true that Prince Conrad, who is feared by humans, is indeed not in the castle, but he is not too far away.
To the west of Fort Conrad, fifteen kilometers away, two black dots flew in the sky.
This is none other than Prince Conrad and his most loyal subordinate, Duke Edward.
"The humans went in." Edward said, "Can we let Marquis Julia withdraw with our team?" If they don't withdraw, it is estimated that there will be no chance, and their task has been completed very well. ”
"Hmm." Prince Conrad nodded and said, "I'll leave the matter of contacting Julia and them to you, let me release that monster......
"That monster ......" Edward shuddered at the thought. He couldn't help but ask, "Your Majesty, what do you say...... Can this group of humans deal with that monster? ”
Prince Conrad was silent for a moment, as if even he was not sure of answering this question exactly.
Eventually, he could only shake his head and say, "I don't know, but no matter what, this is a major defeat for our bloodline. Whether the monster wins or the humans win, we're going to have a hard time retaking this place for many, many years......"
"Alas......," Edward sighed heavily.
On the other side, the humans, who still didn't know anything about what happened next, were happily rushing into the ancient castle that they had been bombarded for almost half a month.
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The two chapters were sent together.