223 Invasion of the Undead (1)
"This is it, hurry up and rush in, rush in and bring me back to life! I can't wait any longer! ”
There was a loud noise in his ears, but Arthas didn't even change his expression in the slightest, just quietly looked at the mountains in the distance, the strong fortifications under the mountains, and the elves behind the fortifications.
He thought of the man, the man who took away the woman he loved, what was it called?
"Kayla Orsen."
Arthas's lips moved, and he uttered the name that he would never forget.
"I wasn't your match at the time...... Hopefully, this time, you'll still be able to sabotage my plans. ”
Arthas glanced coldly at the undead behind him.
Countless undead souls formed a sea of undead behind him. Among them, the most are skeleton soldiers and skeleton mages, which occupy almost all of the Sea of Skulls, more than three million, and there is no end in sight.
The rest are some ghouls, gargoyles, and other mid-level undead, whose strength is relatively good, equivalent to the middle-level powerhouses of other races, and because the undead are not afraid of death or cannot be completely killed, they are a few points stronger than the average mid-level powerhouse.
There are about a hundred thousand such guys, and there are more ghouls, more than a hundred thousand. And the gargoyle, the full fight is not more than 20,000, but this is not easy, the gargoyle is an air force type monster, the combat effectiveness is not worse than the griffin at all, very powerful.
And in the end, the strongest class in the army of the undead is a stitching monster called Abomination, this big fat man has a very disgusting appearance, and it is stitched together with several different strengths. The hypertrophic skin is covered with traces of sutures. There are also maggots that constantly wriggle on their bodies. Definitely has the ability to make you vomit at a glance.
These various kinds of undead formed an army of undead, bustling, almost covering the entire northern part of the Eastern Plague Lands.
Arthas retracted his gaze, stretched out his hand to his waist, grasped the blue-white hilt, and slowly pulled out the long sword at his waist with a slight force in his arm.
The body of the sword is densely covered with special patterns. As he drew his long sword, a cold aura that was enough to freeze people's bones was slowly released, mixed with the power of death, making the surrounding undead suddenly become restless, especially the skeleton soldiers, and the soul fire in their eyes and chest burned violently.
Without saying a word, Arthas raised the Frost Sorrow in his hand, looked at the distant fortifications, and the long sword fell suddenly.
Roar -
Countless undead roared at the same time, forming a wave of overwhelming sound, and the sound rolled towards the fortifications. The elves on the fortifications couldn't help but turn a little whiter.
In the roar. The undead pulsated slowly, at first, but as time went on, they grew faster and faster, until they were all running wildly.
The ground rumbled and trembled, and millions of undead attacked at the same time, a terrifying momentum that elves rarely saw. Especially the young elves, their bodies couldn't help but tremble.
"Steady!"
The captains of each brigade and the squad leaders of the squads were more calm in the face of such an offensive. Behind the soldier, he stared at the sea of undead with a stern face, and scolded loudly.
As the orders were quickly delivered, the nervous and frightened elves finally settled down, the warriors clenched their weapons and shields, the priests prepared for healing, the archers raised their longbows, and the magicians began to mobilize their magic.
"Put!"
As the undead entered the firing range, the exact same orders were delivered.
All the archers, almost instinctively, let go, their bowstrings humming and trembling, and sharp arrows burst into the sky, then sliced through the air in parabolas and fell towards the army of the undead.
It's true that the High Elves are famous for their archery, but with so many enemies and undead who are difficult to kill, their archery skills have lost their former value, and they can only inflict as much damage as possible with the simplest projectiles.
The arrows fell like a storm, the momentum was swift, strong as rain, and the undead at the head of the line were suddenly shot over by the arrows, as if the waves were blocked by the embankment, and the momentum of the undead army's attack was slightly blocked. But in the next second, the waves rolled again, and no one cared about the undead who fell to the ground, not even their "comrades-in-arms". The undead in the rear continued to rush forward without the slightest hesitation.
This first wave of arrows is just a test, on the one hand, to measure the distance, and on the other hand, to see how strong the undead are against the arrows.
Now that the first wave has been shot, the results have also come out, except for a few undead who were shot in the vital parts, such as the cervical vertebrae, such as the joints of both legs, the other undead, even if the head was shot through, did not pause in the slightest. At this moment, the faces of all the elves became ugly, and if the archers' attacks did not work well, then their overall attack effect against the undead would be greatly reduced. After all, the number of mages is relatively small, and the priest is also responsible for healing, the paladin has just appeared, and the warrior ...... Casualties are inevitable in close combat, and if there are casualties, they will feed back to the undead legion, so it would be best if you could use long-range means to destroy these undead. And long-range means, in terms of long-lasting attacks, or archers are more suitable.
The magician's magic power is limited, and the recovery is relatively slow, and the effect of prayer in such a large-scale battle is minimal if you do not form a legion group to cast spells.
"Magic ready!"
But now is not the time to hesitate, the undead have already rushed forward, and the archers' attacks cannot be stopped whether they are useful or not, even if they can't make these guys lose their combat effectiveness, it would be good to stop them a little. In the first round of attacks before, the undead who were not directly knocked over also stopped slightly due to the impact of the arrows. It's a very short pause, but it's better than nothing.
The mages began to prepare for their magic, and streams of flames gathered in their hands, and the mages raised their palms high, and the flames became more and more ferocious. Blazing sword. Unleashed a wave of heat.
"Put!"
With a shout of order.
The magicians waved their hands almost simultaneously.
"Flame Blast!"
Hundreds of huge fireballs the size of human heads flew out of their palms. Falling into the army of the undead and exploding, hundreds of fiery red flowers were formed in an instant. The power of magic is much stronger, and the center of the explosion, whether it is a skeleton or a ghoul, is being steamed in an instant, and the undead near the center are also burned into ashes by the powerful flames. Even the outermost undead were pushed away by the force of the explosion. Especially those skeletons, their bodies were scattered almost instantly, turning into pieces of white bones scattered on the ground, although they could not be regarded as death, but they also lost their mobility, no different from death.
But in the final analysis, the number of mages is still limited, and now the defense line is only so small, and a few hundred mages can be gathered to block the defense line, but as long as the undead keep attacking. The day when the line of defense will be broken sooner or later. It's inevitable, the elves need to rest. But the undead don't need it, they can guarantee a 24-hour uninterrupted attack, but the elves can't guarantee 24-hour defense. It can only be rotated, so sooner or later the defense line will be breached. One can only hope that before all these defenses are breached, the undead will have suffered heavy losses and have to retreat. Otherwise, even the High Elves are really no match for these guys.
The undead did not stop at the magic.
And after two rounds of shooting and one round of magic attacks, the guys finally rushed to the front.
The gargoyle also flew through its mouth and began to attack the elven defense line condescendingly.
Fortunately, these guys are relatively fragile, especially the wings, so they are not as open as those skeletons in the face of the dense rain of arrows like fish.
When the skeletons rushed to the fortifications, the entire line trembled violently. The skeleton at the front was directly squeezed by the fortifications and the companions behind, and turned into broken bones all over the ground. These guys rushed so fast that they slammed directly into the copper wall, directly smashing their own bodies together. But that doesn't matter anymore, and the skeletons below have begun to climb frantically upward. The twenty-meter-high fortifications look very tall, but in fact, in front of this endless skeleton, it is not impossible to break through, but because the enemies are all skeletons, it is relatively simple.
These skeletons only need to keep stepping on their companions in front of them to climb forward, and in just a few minutes, a large gentle slope has been formed, and the gentle slope is composed of countless skeletons, and the skeletons on the top layer can easily climb towards the top of the fortification.
The defending elves did not anticipate this situation and were taken aback.
"What are you doing in a daze, knocking these skeletons down!"
The commanders came to their senses as quickly as they could, shouting loudly.
The elves just woke up from a dream, and the paladin, who had just appeared not long ago, stepped forward neatly, and raised the giant sword in his hand.
"Judgment!"
As the greatsword fell, a golden energy hammer fell from the sky and landed heavily on the gentle slope of the skeleton.
In a burst of "popping" cracking sounds, the gentle slope that had just formed was directly shortened, and countless undead shattered and fell, and the momentum of the attack was slightly blocked.
"Flame Blast!"
The mages then unleashed the magic again, and one fireball after another fell, smashing into the gentle slope, and one after another flames burst out on the gentle slope, countless skeletons were blown away, and the entire huge gentle slope was slashed down one layer by another. But this is just the beginning, a series of attacks. Even more than a thousand undead were not destroyed, and in the distance, the Sea of Skulls still had no end in sight, and it turned out that the elves were actually facing an enemy that was even more powerful than they imagined. 、
Arthas stood on the top of the hill in the distance, looking at the battle below, his face expressionless.
Gargoyles attack from the air, being targeted by archers, in the face of the attack of the rain of arrows, from time to time a gargoyle will fall, but gargoyles are not vegetarians, their claws and fangs, can easily tear the elf's body apart, the only good news for the elves, is that these killed elves, there is no sign of transformation into undead.
On the ground, the combined forces of paladins, warriors, magicians, and priests launched a powerful attack on the undead, and the undead suffered heavy casualties, but the undead did not have their own thinking, they did not know what it meant to be afraid, as long as Arthas did not give the order to retreat, they would continue to attack until they all died.
The war has only started now, and the powerful undead don't need to rush into the battlefield, such as banshees, lichs and abominations, etc., these high-level undead are very powerful in combat, but the number is relatively scarce, Arthas thinks very well, just use ordinary low-level undead to consume these lines of defense, high-level undead are of course to be used in the most important places, such as attacking Silvermoon City, such as attacking Sunwells.
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On the other side, Silvermoon City also got the news that the undead had begun to attack. At the same time, they also got detailed information about the skeletons, such as the joints are very fragile, for example, the defense is low, for example, the body is light and easy to climb, for example, the fierce is not afraid of death, etc., except for the fierce and death-threatening Orson specifically mentioned it, he knows the other news, but he can't say. After all, he had never been in contact with the undead before, he had never been in contact with skeleton soldiers, and it was a little strange to look at it as a person who had never been exposed to these things at all.
He could only resist this urge to provide more information, and let the soldiers on the front line confirm the specific number of these undead little by little.
And the battle situation on the scene was also transmitted to the headquarters through a special sound transmission array, the headquarters of the headquarters was in the Silver Moon Council, and the front command headquarters was on every line of defense, and the communication between the headquarters and the front command was made by the sound transmission array. This kind of magic circle is very difficult to arrange, even if it is a high elf, this kind of magic array cannot be casually laid in a non-special period, only in a special situation like this undead invasion.
The battle situation on the front line appeared in front of each lord, and when they saw that the front line was difficult to defend and that they had lost more than a hundred clansmen, everyone's faces became stern. The strength of the undead was beyond their expectations, and it had only been a long time, but in an instant of half an hour, there had already been more than a hundred damages. Although the undead damage is more, the creation of undead warriors is more than a little easier than that of elven soldiers. A one-to-one ratio of huàn can make a high elf drip of blood in distress, not to mention that it is far from reaching the ratio of one to one hundred.
And this is the convenience of their fortifications, if on the plains?
"We have to change our strategy."
Kael'thas said with a stern expression, and the others nodded in agreement. (To be continued......)
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