One hundred and eighty-ninth Sura launched
The battle continued to the end, and most of the Nibenai Templars who had teleported into the iron ore through Guò had already retreated. They came here to sow chaos and weaken the defenders. Now that the purpose of creating chaos has been achieved, there is no need to stay and take risks. One by one, they disappear into the glowing white portals, or fade into the deep night on their black wings.
The remaining soldiers and guardian mages in the iron ore took advantage of the brief lull to repair some of the fortifications and heal the wounded. As for the ordinary merchants or miners who were lucky enough to survive, they were already frightened into a frightened bird. They tried to escape from here, and the Cotander Division did not stop them.
Muhadi rode the Grey Scaly Bird and watched from a tall sand dune not far outside the iron mine. He watched as the crowd of moving ants came out of the crumbling walls of the iron mine. From a distance, the people fleeing from the iron ore look like black threads, and like rats fleeing from a collapsed house. The grey-scaled bird beside him was restlessly scraping the sand of the ground with its claws, and begged for food with its huge beak to Muhadi's arms.
Muhadi touched the scales on the grey bird's neck, then pulled out a piece of jerky and fed it to it. The gray-scaled bird happily bit down on the jerky and swallowed it whole. This animal has no teeth and eats everything in one piece. The structure of their jaws and throat allows their bones to dislocate themselves in order to swallow huge amounts of food.
Although the dark red sun has not yet fully risen, the sky is already brightening and the temperature in the desert is starting to rise. In the other direction of the iron mine, the main force of the coalition army appeared, most of them under the black shadow banner of Nibennai Witch King, and Yuric's scimitar lion banner can also be seen in a few pieces, and the rest are the banners of the vassal armies, which are small and sparse, and they can't even see what the pattern on it is. Judging by the dust they stirred up as they marched, they numbered between five and seven thousand. There are no bulky siege towers, most of them are cavalry.
Because it was the Templars of Nibenai who first planned the strategy to create chaos, they were the most prepared and the first to move. Eurek City has the largest number of people, so after they are now in Nibenai City, they have also followed up to prevent the wealth in the iron mine from being swallowed by one side. However, the army of Ankara City did not appear at all, and the witch king of Ankara was the most famous for his greed for money, and it was strange that his people did not follow.
There were several Templars patrolling back and forth in the air, but the Psimancer was not worried about being exposed. Now the vicinity of the iron mine is full of refugees, and he is only a two-person ride, which is not eye-catching.
The caravans and adventurers who were slow to flee were out of luck, and the coalition divided a vanguard of several cavalry to intercept the merchants halfway. They swept past the fleeing people like a wind, wielding scimitars to cut down those who dared to resist. Then go around and slash again. In the end, they dismounted and robbed the valuables and enslaved those who survived.
Like a meat lizard, hundreds of allied cavalry surrounded a large group of fleeing merchants and miners. These merchants may belong to some of the larger merchant families and have their own guards. They took up arms and formed a loose formation, trying to fend off the coalition forces. One of the merchants seemed to try to come out to negotiate, but was killed by an arrow, and his body was left unattended.
The cavalry of the coalition showed superior military qualities, and they unhurriedly compressed the space guarded by these caravans, but they were not in a hurry to attack. The cavalry, like old hunters who have mastered the initiative, feints from different directions from time to time, making the defenders scramble for a while, and continue to consume the body of the prey.
The guards of the caravan returned fire with arrows, and the coalition cavalry returned with a rain of arrows. Obviously, the Witch King's minions have much better bows, and they use metal arrows extravagantly, so they have the upper hand in counterfire. Even if a few cavalrymen were occasionally shot, their armor would prevent the arrows from penetrating.
When the defenders were exhausted, the coalition cavalry swooped down on the corpses like long-awaited scavenging birds. The screams could not be heard from Muhadi's location, but he could imagine the scene there, which he had experienced too much when he was in the tribe.
Killing and naked violence are the most commonly spoken languages in the desert.
Next, the siege began.
Muhadi watched the siege with interest, and he knew the ways of war on earth. From the Middle Ages to the World Wars, from Trajan to Jomini, he dabbled in everything. But the war in Attath is clearly a little different from that on Earth. Due to the existence of mages and mass destruction spells, the coalition forces did not dare to use the dense formation of the Renaissance on Earth to attach to the city walls, but instead used a skirmish line similar to that of World War II, moving wave after wave of impact.
The slave soldiers rushed to the front, using them to drain the spells and will of the guards. Some of the pre-set traps were touched by the slaves, and then immediately torn to pieces by the power of magic, leaving no bones left. But more slaves were driven to the front, fearing the Witch King and his minions far more than death. In their minds, the whip was far more terrifying than the steel and magic of their enemies.
The defenders were much smaller than the besieging side, and most of them were exhausted from the previous night's battle. So it didn't take long for the slave soldiers, after paying thousands of corpses, to climb the walls of the iron mine and engage the defenders in hand-to-hand combat. At this time, the casualties of the defenders began to soar in large numbers, and from time to time wounded slave soldiers fell off the wall with the defenders in their arms, and they all perished. Outside the city walls, a new round of personnel transfers was nearing completion, and the Templars and a small number of elite soldiers in the coalition were about to be dispatched.
By this time, the defenders had already taken advantage of the situation and began to retreat into the most desperate struggles of the buildings and mines. And the total number of coalition forces rose to almost 10,000 people, who reorganized their formations and prepared to enter the iron mines.
The Psychic Warlock doesn't plan to see it to the end, and when the poison gas is activated, there will be a staff stored in the wind-making spell to blow the poison gas into a large area. It's not necessarily safe to stay here.
After being knocked unconscious by him, Medici lay across the back of the Greyscale Bird like a sack of wheat. To prevent her from escaping again, Muhadi removed the joints from her shoulders. She was tied to the Grey Scaly Bird's saddle with a rope made of lizard tendons.
He wasn't familiar with the terrain in the area, but Tyr was an obvious target. Muhadi looked in the direction of the vegetation around him, grabbed a handful of sand and let it slip down, observed the direction of the wind, and quickly found the right way.
From here to the city of Tyre, the army only needs to walk for two days, and a lone traveler can reach the city in more than a day if he is good at surviving in the wilderness.
The Grey-scaled Bird was slower than the horse, and Muhadi rode the bird out of a palesan when he heard a terrible loud noise coming from behind. The voice was muffled, like some kind of gigantic monster roaring angrily. The sand on the ground shook slightly, and the insects lurking in the ground and the birds resting nearby moved in horror, crawling or flying, fleeing from the location of the iron mine.
With the Tyre Iron Mine as the center, a shock wave mixed with poisonous gas swept through the surrounding area within thousands of feet. The volcano, which had been silent for a long time, expelled some of the high-pressure gases that had been sealed in its body, like a giant burping, and then fell into a deep sleep again.
Muhadi felt a breeze on his face and knew the trap had moved. Judging from the situation just now, the coalition forces are bound to suffer heavy losses, but more difficult battles are yet to come.
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