Chapter 388: Withdraw
On the Xiahe side, plus the baron's people, a total of 400 guns were gathered, and the four walls of the old city were not very big, and one city wall had 100, so the firepower was not too sparse. And the undead are limited by the streets, and it is not like facing the outer city walls, which can attack every inch of the position.
Especially in the east, outside the old town, there are also dense stone houses, all over the alleys, and the undead can't do it if they want to move quickly.
This strange urban structure, as Baron Leon said, was prepared by the rebels to resist stubbornly.
The baron stood at the head of the city, completely shocked by Xia He's magic.
A headless horseman approached the wall, and he used his shield to block a dozen shots, and the skeletal horse under his crotch wore an iron mask, and there were no magic bullets to shoot through it. The mask still had an eyepatch on it, and the Headless Horsemann approached the wall, and the warhorse ran almost straight up.
The soldier exclaimed, and in almost a second, the Headless Horseman had climbed the city.
In his hands, wielding a battle axe, the smell of decay permeating his body, and a blue-purple head hanging from his own waist.
Xia He was depressed, and the baron's warriors didn't pounce on him at the first time.
The soldiers of these local nobles are much worse than the subordinates of the princess and the prince of the county.
On the contrary, Professor Raphael, who had always made Xia He uneasy, lost a purification technique as soon as possible. Purification is normal for this potentially epic-level undead creature, but it has a very special attribute that can interrupt the skills of evil creatures to a certain extent.
Raphael himself was a spellcaster of the epic realm, and a purification technique fell on the headless horseman, and the red light flashing on the edge of the headless horseman's battle axe blade suddenly dissipated, and he slashed at a soldier's shield with an axe, and the powerful force knocked the soldier flying.
Only then did the people around react, and the magic spear roared, shooting at the headless horseman's body.
The warrior's mask that flew out fell, blood oozing from his mouth and nose, and he was a little confused. If it weren't for Professor Raphael's magic, he would have split his shield with a person.
"I'm going to deal with him. Abigail lifted the shield and the meteor hammer.
"Go ahead. ”
Xia He didn't stop him, Abigail didn't come for a vacation, and he had to work hard.
Abigail's face was full of excitement, and she took a leap and rushed behind the Headless Horseman. The Headless Horseman slashed his axe, the air exploding, and the axe arced like a meteor towards Abigail.
Abigail raised his shield and forcibly blocked it.
The eardrums of the soldiers around him felt as if they had been torn apart, and their heads were buzzing. The Headless Horseman's battle axe was blocked by the shield, and Abigail's amber eyes narrowed, and the meteor hammer slammed down.
The meteor hammer shimmered with a mysterious golden light, and the headless horseman went to stand with his axe sideways, and a second loud bang was heard, and the knight was hammered off the back of his mount by Abigail, straight up.
It was an unreasonable angle, and Abigail laughed even harder, stepping forward, one foot on the back of the skeleton warhorse, and the shield swung upward. The headless actually flew high again.
The golden light seeped into the Headless Horseman's body, and the Headless Horseman only felt that his soul was about to boil.
Power!
Isn't this damn place devoid of gods?
Abigail would give him a chance to regret it, with one foot force, the skeleton war horse under his feet made a click, and the bones of his entire body began to spread cracks. The meteor hammer slammed into the Headless Horsemann again, this time directly hitting the head of the Headless Horsemann's waist.
A dull sound...... Burst!
The Headless Horseman's entire body became limp, and a crystal fell out of his body.
Divine power beats, and then obtains soul crystals. It's a powerful magician, and it's not known to the outside world. The gods also need souls, but they don't dare to be so naked, otherwise the believers will run away.
Fighting the undead is also something that the gods love to do, it is much easier than waging a divine war, and there is also income.
Abigail took the soul crystal, opened his mouth and blew on the fallen corpse of the Headless Horseman, which burst into flames.
This is the destruction of the corpse, so that no trace of magic can be seen from the corpse.
She's been clever enough to have an epic mage from the Arcane Empire on the spot.
Seeing that Abigail was the same as the female tyrannosaurus, Professor Raphael said to Xia Hedao: "Principal, I'll go to the west to have a look, there is not much pressure over there, but I'm afraid that there will be a mistake." ”
"Go ahead and watch your own safety. ”
Raphael summoned four lecturers and went around the walls to the west. Things were better to the west, the streets outside the walls were too narrow for the undead to charge in groups.
Xia He watched Abigail come back, dropped the shield on the ground, and took out a new one.
"What is your skill called, I haven't seen it. ”
"I don't have a weapon in my hand, so I have to use a powerful skill, which is called a trade barrier. ”
"Trade barriers?"
"To isolate the enemy's strength, it is better to suffer your own losses than to let the enemy die. If the enemy is dead, I will not have to bear the losses. ”
"What if the enemy doesn't die?"
"Each bears the damage multiplier. ”
Xia Hexin said, this is too unreasonable, why do you eat it all if you win, and if you lose, everyone will be unlucky together? But the priest has a patent, who makes the gods stand behind the family.
In the spellcasting system, all kinds of magicians are very balanced, but only the magicians are there, and there are always some unreasonable things there that make you indignant.
However, among the Daomen, those powerful weapons and equipment for the disciples are the same, there are Jin Xian or Da Luo Jin Xian standing behind him, then it can be unreasonable.
Actually, you can also learn this trick. Abigail said.
"Do you think I'll learn?"
"It's not a big deal. ”
"I don't want to do that kind of thing, trade barriers...... Hey. ”
The undead's attack, the rhythm is like that of humans, wave after wave, every time a certain amount of troops are invested, and if you feel that you can't rush to the city wall, you will give up and accumulate strength for the next time. This cost savings are huge, but Xia He is uneasy, because the undead have never known how to save costs.
The undead below level 5 are cannon fodder that can be sacrificed at will.
Now these undead, first-level ones have begun to equip helmets and masks, and the difficulty of directly attacking the soul fire has increased a lot.
Round iron helmet, if the angle of attack is not right, once or twice will definitely not be able to break the defense.
The magician is okay, the attack is accurate, either adjust the angle to the best, or attack the neck of the undead and shoot the head directly. It is much more difficult for ordinary soldiers to attack.
However, how could four hundred magic muskets hold all places.
Undead were constantly rushing up to the city, being pushed back by the soldiers. Human soldiers are in teams of ten, gathered together, and when they push forward, one or two soldiers will burst out. At the head of the city, there were bone foam and rotting minced flesh everywhere, and Xia He had to release the cleaning technique to avoid the soldiers being accidentally poisoned.
The soldiers were tired faster than Xia He expected, and the rhythm of the undead became stronger and stronger, and even Xia He felt the pressure.
If it goes on like this, it will only be a matter of time before the city is broken.
The original plan to keep it for one day was a complete failure. In the previous year, when Xia He returned to Stormstorm Corner, he created a large number of talismans and scrolls that could be stored for a long time, but they were all placed in Stormstorm Corner and handed over to Freya to deal with.
Xia He originally thought that he would not need so many weapons.
Who knows, when I encounter the undead again, this undead is really ghostly, and the empire is also incompetent, and even the passage of the underworld has not been completely blocked, let alone cleaning up the undead stranded in this world.
Could it be that the army of the Empire intended to do so?
Xia He didn't dare to go out like this, and swept around again, the projection of the three-headed monster, last time it was a parallel import, and it will be difficult to say next time.
In the final analysis, there is still a way out, and Xia He has no idea of fighting.
Without a strong bunker, the soldiers at the head of the city would not continue to fight, and no one could see hope.
"Retreat into the bunker. Xia He said to Baron Leon.
"Marquis, don't you hold on?" Baron Leon, though he could see the soldier's mood, felt that it would not be a problem to hold on for another hour or two. Reinforcements from the empire would arrive at any time, and if he waited for reinforcements on the city walls, it would mean something different to him.
"Leon, you can't leave anything to chance when it comes to war, unless you have no way back. ”
"Yes, Lord Marquis. Baron Leon said with a humble heart.
Xia He did not let his people break off this time, but instead sent the soldiers of the academy to the bunker first. Outside the bunker was a big house, a three-story stone building, and the upper two floors Xia He called back all the imps who were still wandering outside and arranged them on it.
In the center of the first floor is the entrance to the bunker, which is actually quite wide and the interior is not cramped.
There were soldiers who were still carrying stones, piling them up in the windows, and magicians casting magic fixations to form bunkers. Now the defense has become simpler, as long as the windows and doors are placed with magic muskets, equipped with magicians, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
However, if the people inside want to leave, they must be rescued by a large army outside, otherwise they will be trapped and die underground.
After Xia He arrived, he let most of the soldiers go underground, and the entire floor, a thousand people seemed a little crowded. Because a lot of defensive facilities have been added to the inside of the hall, various stone pillars, magic pillars, and square stones more than a meter high on the raised ground.
All the arrangements are designed so that the human soldiers can easily adapt to it, and if the undead kill them, they will not be able to directly attack the entrance of the bunker.
The surrounding streets and alleys were set up with barricades, and Xia He stood at the gate, watching the soldiers behind retreat one after another.
Baron Leon said, "My lord, how long can we hold on to the ground?"
"How many more do you have?"
"More than 200 were killed in the battle, and there are still 2,900. ”
"I still have more than one hundred and fifty people, we are a military force in the early 3,000s, how long do you think we can hold it. These undead are no longer sent to death in vain, and they are fought in a very orderly manner. ”[.]