Chapter 38: Armageddon in front of the Holy City
On February 11, 4866 in the Bright Calendar, February 13, 4856 in the Goddess of Creation Calendar, and February 9, 4846 in the Juggernaut Calendar, after more than seven months of fierce battles and five consecutive sieges were defeated, another battle of the Brown Empire to recapture the Holy City finally came to an end.
In this war, the Brown Emperor** invested a total of 250,000 soldiers, the largest force that the Eastern Governor's Office could use, and requisitioned 300,000 people as auxiliaries in the country, known as 600,000 troops to the outside world, and the military strength was not strong.
It's just that their enemy, the Creator God Cult Alliance, is not far behind, and the Holy City Kingdom alone has mobilized nearly 100,000 troops, and almost all the adult men of the country have gone into battle. The total number of reinforcements from the surrounding countries and the Holy See also reached 300,000, and the Creator God Alliance also occupied the advantage of defending the city.
In this protracted offensive and defensive battle, the two sides fought bloody battles one after another, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed in the battle.
However, under the desperate persistence of the Cult of Creation Alliance, the first five offensives of the Brown Army ended in failure, and the war was dragged into a cold winter.
Originally born in the warm lands of the south, the Browncoat Army, which is intolerant of cold climates, should withdraw before winter arrives. It's just that at this time, Prince Rade Muhiramo, who led the army, has been red-eyed by successive defeats, and even if he let the army camp in the ice and snow, he refused to retreat, and this chaotic life eventually led to nearly 100,000 brown-clothed soldiers being frozen to death, and none of the horses and livestock were spared.
Finally, in the midst of a dire situation, Prince Rad made a pact with his generals to launch a last large-scale assault and, if the Holy City could not be captured, to withdraw his troops south.
So on a sunny day in February, outside the Holy City, which was still covered in snow and ice, the brown-clothed army once again pushed the siege equipment and drove out of the camp.
However, this time, the Cult of Creation Alliance did not passively defend the city, but instead marched out as a whole and lined up with the city, intending to completely destroy the invading army of the brown-clothed people with a field battle!
Under the weak sunlight, the remaining 150,000 brown-clothed soldiers were separated by a similar number of Creator God Cult coalition forces, and they set up battle formations.
The last bloody battle of the offensive and defensive battle of the Holy City is about to be staged.
Buchen drove the black horse king in white cotton armor to climb a low hill in optical camouflage, while Fei Fei, Ai Ai, and Pope drove the war horse to follow closely behind him.
Moments later, all four reached the top of the mountain.
Under the illumination of the winter sun, the two stood in the ice and snow, reflecting a dazzling metallic glow, and the huge battle array that was grounded and connected to the sky suddenly appeared in front of their eyes.
"My good man, what a big battle!" Buchen opened his mouth and exclaimed, he had only watched some special effects war movies in his previous life, and he never thought that the real army battle would be such a shocking scene.
Much more majestic than the war blockbuster in the United States!
Fei Fei and Ai Ai were also dumbfounded, and they had only seen similar scenes in the movies.
"How many people are going to die in a while......" Ai Ai sighed and said with some sadness. The people who make up the battle array are all fresh lives!
Fei Fei glanced at her sister and pursed her lips, she knew that the old problem of the other party's kindness had been committed again.
However, she is not a soft-hearted person!
"I didn't expect us to catch up." Pop said with a wry smile, he never dreamed that when they returned to the Holy City again, they would be able to witness the final battle of the Holy City's offensive and defensive battles.
"Pope, you don't seem surprised?" Buchen looked at him curiously.
Pope knew what his Engong was referring to, so he hurriedly laughed, nodded and replied, "Don't hide it from Engong, I participated in a Holy City Battle as an auxiliary soldier in my early years. At that time, I was watching the battle from the wall of the camp, and the battle was not much worse than it is now. But at this point, his expression suddenly became a little sad.
Needless to say, they weren't the victors in that war.
And this time, the odds of their brown-clad people still have very few chances......
Even with Buchen's eyesight, he could see that the battle formation of the brown-clothed man was not as strict as that of the Creation God Cult. Judging from the many banners that were towering and looked weak, the morale of the brown-clothed people was actually very low.
But it's normal to think about it, the physique of the brown-clothed man itself is not as strong as the northern white man who grew up in the white mountains and black waters, and he has been frozen in the ice and snow for several months, and people have been frozen to death every day in the past few months, which is a strange thing that the morale can be high.
"Look, Henry! They moved! At this moment, Fei Fei pointed to the battlefield in the distance and shouted.
Buchen hurriedly raised his eyes and looked, only to see that in the sound of the passionate horn, two huge military formations began to advance!
"Are they going to rush to one place?" Don't ask Pope.
Master Pope shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Engong, where is there such a war?" They are moving forward now only to cast the forbidden spell more favorably. ”
"Release the forbidden spell?"
Master Pope nodded and said: "The battle mode of the Western Continent is actually based on the forbidden spell, whoever releases the forbidden spell first and smashes it on the opponent's head will win." However, this is not absolute, a battle of this scale requires at least two or three forbidden spells to decide the winner! ”
At this moment, the horn of the march stopped, and the two armies began to confront each other from a distance of one mile.
Immediately after, the chanting of the forbidden spell that shook the sky sounded in the two armies.
Buchen listened attentively, and the armies of war mages on both sides spit out some obscure scales, which were completely different from the lingua franca of the world (harmony) at this time.
In addition, he suddenly felt a little tingling in his skin.
Buchen raised his hand and touched his face, looking a little puzzled.
"...... this?"
Pope hurriedly explained: "Eun Gong, this is caused by the crazy (harmonious) extraction of various elements in the space. ”
"Is that so?" Buchen turned his head to look at the battlefield again, and a little awe appeared in his eyes.
The effect is so strong that even people can feel the changes in space, and the power of these forbidden spells can be seen!
However, this is only a ban on the military. As for the forbidden spell on the city, the non-ministers dare not imagine what it will look like when it is chanted.
Fortunately, the only forbidden spell in the world has been burned by him......
However, the battle in the Western Continent is not just about speed, and other troops also have to attack in order to delay the release of the enemy's forbidden spell. At the moment when they were not speaking, a phalanx had already been formed in each of the two armies, and they were strangled in one place.
"Does it make sense for them to do that? and can't harass the opposing mage legion. Fei Fei asked, pointing to the two infantry phalanxes that were fighting against each other, with an inexplicable look on her face.
"Miss Feifei." Pop explained, "In a battle of this level, the first forbidden spell can't be stopped. What can really be harassed is the forbidden spell in the future, due to the large number of elements in the surrounding space, from the second forbidden spell onwards, the speed of the forbidden spell release will become slower and slower, and sometimes it is necessary to chant the spell twice before it can be released. Therefore, from the very beginning, both sides had to consume each other's strength as much as possible to prepare for the release of the second forbidden spell that harassed each other. ”
"Oh." Fei Fei said half-incomprehensibly.
At this moment, the powerful cavalry legion of the Holy City Kingdom launched an attack, and they circled out from the flank of their main formation, and crashed into the flank of the brown men infantry formation in a wedge formation!
"Alas!" Seeing this, Pop closed his eyes in agony.
The horses of the brown-coated army had all died of illness as early as last winter, and now there were only infantry groups, no cavalry.
"What a great guy!" However, Buchen did not pay attention to Master Pope's sadness, and his attention was firmly attracted by a figure in the battlefield.
It was a figure of Zhou up and down, along with the war horse under his crotch wrapped in raging flames, he held a horse lance that had been strengthened to more than ten meters long, as the front of the riding formation, rushing forward in the battle formation of the brown-clothed man, and all those who dared to be were killed and smashed by him along the way, and then burned into a pile of coke!
Under the leadership of this Flame Knight, the phalanx of the brown-clothed men quickly melted and collapsed like butter cut by a hot knife!
"The first formation of the brown men has been defeated, and judging by this situation, they should not send a second formation." Ai Ai spoke her mind.
Buchen nodded, in the absence of cavalry to contain the other party's cavalry, the brown-clothed man sent the phalanx out again to find death.
Fei Fei stared at her wide eyes and asked, "Doesn't that mean...... Will the brown man be pressed and beaten? ”
"Yes." Mr. Pope confirmed.
From the very beginning of this decisive battle, the brown-clothed man fell into an extremely disadvantageous situation.