Fortunately for Bruce and Miledy, the walls provide them with strong protection, and the armor on their bodies is also a better full-body armor.

But Aang was shot like a hedgehog, with at least twenty sharp arrows on his chest, front and back, the deadliest of which came from the neck, where he shot a piercing.

"Anger!" Bruce yelled and was about to pounce, but Anger pushed him out with all his might.

His eyes were blood-red, and the blood from his mouth stained the thick beard on his chin red, and he cried out hoarsely: "Take him away, take him away, take them home, don't let me die in vain!"

Then he went back with a full body of sharp arrows.

After watching Aang cut down a dozen steppe people and drowned in the reddish-brown crowd, Bruce was dragged into the cave by Milady's big hand.

In a fit of rage, Cheka cut off Ange's arm and chased him to the dark entrance of the cave, only to take a cursory glance, and in this short period of time, his men were reduced by nearly 300.

Before he could get in, he suddenly felt a chill on his body, and hurriedly sat down on the ground.

Sure enough, a steel arrow flew out of the darkness with a whistling sound, and shot through the chests of the four steppe aduns in a row.

Bruce looked at the result with regret, it was their last alloy armor-piercing arrow.

He and Milady hid in a cave chamber more than ten meters behind the entrance of the cave, and at the same time let several warriors smash the stones on the cave wall, hoping to block the hole with gravel.

Unfortunately, the stone here is very hard, and the axe and broadsword in his hand have smashed countless sparks on it, and only a few small cracks have appeared in the cave wall.

After investigating the truth, Chika commanded his men to get in.

It's not that he doesn't feel sorry for his subordinates, ordinary steppe warriors are not only useless when they enter, but they will also block the hole because of the accumulation of corpses.

Only because he has already discovered the difference in this small army.

Judging from their weapons, armor, and personnel strength, they are by no means ordinary Wards, and maybe they will be the heirs of some big man in it.

Kill or capture these Wards and dedicate them to Ogga, believing that countless Avented warriors will be added to his ranks first.

The entrance to the cave is very small, and the passage is very narrow, which makes the grassland Ah Xun, who is not strong in a single body, suffer very much, because as long as Milady alone guards the entrance of the cave, it is enough to destroy any invading enemy, and it is quite a momentum that is difficult to open.

After a few minutes of stalemate between the two sides, Chika finally got anxious and personally brought someone in.

At this time, Bruce's wild lion roar was not ready, and the pressure on Miledi suddenly increased.

At this moment, there was a commotion behind the crowd of steppe wolves, and they dodged to both sides, and before they could dodge, they were smashed into rags by a huge beast dragon.

It was Herman, who struggled to his feet after the Cheka was gone, following the smell of the Cheka towards the center of the battlefield.

First it staggered, then it took small steps, and finally it turned into a rampage, for it smelled the blues in its direction, and his unwilling roar.

The two huge wounds were bleeding incessantly, especially the knife in the neck, which almost decapitated it and almost exposed the neck bone.

Despite his blurred vision, Herman used the last of his strength to rush forward, crashing countless enemies along the way.

Eventually, it saw the striking armor of the Cheka who had burrowed into the hole.

Shortly after entering the cave, Cheka made a move with Milady, and the scimitar in his hand almost flew out.

Before he could adjust his posture, he heard a huge beast roar from behind him, and then his whole body was squeezed against the hard cave wall, and his chest was still a little cold.

He looked down, and it was an iron-blue horn that pierced his body and nailed it to the cave wall.

Chika struggled in vain to remove himself from the horns, but the shattered organs quickly made him lose all his strength.

At his last glance, he saw a young man as strong as a lion, wielding a huge axe that was glowing cold, and slashing at his head.

"Herman!"

With a kick of Cheka's head, Bruce threw himself in front of the sideburns, clutching its head and crying.

The huge body of the sideburn beast stuck the entire cave, and the rock walls outside were also scattered into pieces and collapsed, and the gaps on all sides were also filled with the corpse of Steppe Axun, and the people outside would not think about coming in for a while.

Herman's mouth was red with saliva and blood foaming from his nose as he struggled to open his eyes as he struggled to open his eyes and look at the boy in front of him who had been with him for ten years.

It snorted softly, just as it had done when it was a soft, naughty little beast as a child, and reached out its wet tongue to lick at his hand, and closed its eyes forever.

Pulled by Miledy, Bruce let go of his hand and retreated deeper into the cavern, turning back from time to time until the head disappeared into the darkness.

After passing through a narrow stone cave, they finally broke the two stone pillars that were responsible for supporting them, completely sealing off the way they came.

With the remembrance of their deceased companions and the yearning for life, the group walked into the dark depths of the cave and embarked on a long cave journey that they will never forget.

Far away in the city of Gaokan in the southeast of the empire, there are some people who pay more attention to the news of another person.

"Great, Phil is fine. This is the best news Catherine has ever received from Brad in recent times, and she can't help but call out Philip's nickname that she hasn't used for a long time.

When Paul's bad news was confirmed, Catherine fell ill, and the assassination a year earlier had left her physically debilitated, and she had been suffering from minor illnesses for the past year.

When she heard that Philip was in the wilderness, she felt that it was dark in front of her eyes and fell to the ground.

The two little princesses have also grown up a little, especially her sister Emma, who has grown a lot since the accident a year ago.

Her sister ran away, her brother disappeared, her mother fell ill, and her father fought to the death on the front line, but she took care of her sister like a little adult, waiting at her mother's bedside every day.

There was no frustration or panic on her face, and even if tears secretly wet the pillow in the dead of night, when she woke up the next morning, the servants of the house would always see her warm and calm smile.

And little Isabella is also a lot more sensible, following her sister's example, waiting in front of the bed to take care of her mother.

This made Jane, who was a grandmother, not knowing whether to be happy or sad, and secretly wiped away her tears.

To this day, the Marquis of Noore has received a message of eagle feathers from the depths of the mountains, and it is a group of three.

Forced by the blockade of the sky by the steppe people, old Ivan used three five-meter-long Sky Lords to travel together to deliver the news.

"This stinky boy is always not worry-free. Matthew grumbled, but anyone could tell he was relieved.

Ever since he led more than 4,000 people to the Red Moon Pass, everyone had noticed his deep face, until it finally brightened at this moment, as if the ice and snow had thawed.

Matthew was temporarily promoted to brigade commander with the title of baron, and directly took command of Red Moon Pass.

To be honest, Marquis Noe was very decisive after hearing that his old friend Brad's two own grandsons were all trapped behind enemy lines, and he was very bold in selling this favor.

This was originally the defense area of the Panshi Division, but how could the old fritter Willy be ignorant after receiving the order from the military department, everything was taken by Matthew, and he was also carried a severe punishment on his back.

Besides, Matthew brought the elite of the lineage, and the second-class troops in these first-line divisions under Willy, whether it was in terms of equipment or personnel quality, there was no comparison at all.

Even the four teams that have been replenished one after another are all led by the team leaders who are ranked lower in their respective brigades, even if they are not convinced, they do not have the capital to resist Matthew on the surface.

In other words, if you want to hold the Red Moon Pass, you have to count on Matthew, no matter how much the follow-up dignitaries want to supply supplies, Matthew's existence is much better than them.

So the cooperation of several people is very pleasant, and the division of labor is also very clear.

Matthew's men were divided into two parts, and his main team was made up of good shooters and scouts, and they were on the city walls.

The 2,000 men of Earl Brad's immediate guard were all heavily armored infantry, serving as winners and losers and reserves at critical moments.

Unlike the eastern defensive line, which resembles the Great Wall, the southern border has a lower alert level and defensive structures.

It can be seen from the fact that there are only two lines of defense here, not three, and there is no main line of defense.

However, this also means that from the beginning of its establishment, the standard of design and construction of Hongyue Pass is much higher than that of the outpost camp of the eastern defense line, similar to the second line of defense there.

It's just that there are not enough people, but once something happens, it is enough to accommodate several times the personnel and materials.

This is due to the steeply elevated terrain and more complex ground conditions in the southern border region.

The terrain of Red Moon Pass is a bit flattering, which is also the idea of all the outpost camps when they were set up.

The 30-meter-high and 300-meter-wide wall towered between two high mountain ridges, firmly blocking the way north.

Of course, the steppe people can choose to climb over other hills along the long border, and with their huge military strength, they can do it, and there will always be a suitable one.

But the insidious Ward's hillsides along the border are covered with low, thorny bushes that are dry and hard at this season, rich in oil, and can light wildfires all over the mountains with a single fire.

Of course, this is not to say that all borders are impassable, and for the vast Wardsman Empire, it is a joke.

There will be roads that are passable, but they are not suitable for a large group of people to traverse.

Even if the lives of the steppe people are no longer valuable, if the losses in the process of crossing are too large, for example, more than half of the troops will inevitably be lost, or the number of people passing through the unit time is limited, then this kind of passage is basically of no strategic value.

If it were not a last resort, the front-line commander would not have chosen such an offensive line at the risk of a mutiny in the army.

In addition to natural checkpoints such as the Red Moon Pass and the Tieyan Pass in the west, the Wardsman Empire has set up permanent huge border walls in the southeast and northeast, as well as dozens of similar medium and high-risk gaps along the southern border.

It is said to be a side wall, but in fact it is not a wall, but a kind of rejection, made of reinforced concrete stone pillars eight meters long and one meter thick, and then these stone pillars are buried in the ground intersecting.

The southern line of defense had only three platoons because of the large number of gaps and the absence of the threat of steppe people, while the eastern line of defense was a full five.

It was impossible to destroy these rejections by brute force, and the only way to do so was to climb through the narrow gaps or build a wooden ladder to climb over them, not to mention that there was a trench thirty meters wide and ten meters deep between every two rows of rejections, which was covered with sharpened wooden spikes.

These seemingly heavy civil engineering tasks are not too much of a burden for the strong Ward warriors, although they are not easy to say, but they are definitely not too much of a burden, and they can even be used as daily training subjects to boil the soldiers' bodies.

At present, this long border has been accumulated from generation to generation, and now it has finally played its due role.

There are small fixed sentry posts behind each side wall, and the sentries patrol the side wall at a half-hour rate, and if they find something wrong, they will immediately light wolf smoke to warn them.

Whether it is a ridge, a rejection of horses, or a trench, the only purpose is to artificially slow down the speed of the enemy's passage, and in this slow process, a large force sufficient for the rear line of defense calmly inflicts a devastating blow on these enemies.

In order to cross these horses and trenches in large quantities, the siege equipment needed to be ten kilometers away to find usable large timber and transport it over the mountains and mountains, which was time-consuming and laborious.

As long as it takes half a day, the Ward people can set up a series of combined convenient camps in the corresponding area, which can be dismantled and transferred at any time.

After being entangled with the Wards for countless years, the Prairie people have long known these routines, and before they have an absolute superiority in troops, they will naturally no longer try to find a gap, and then be consumed by the Wards like a refueling tactic.

So now they are smarter and choose to break into the military fortress, concentrate on attacking a little with a huge population advantage, and try to raze Hongyue Pass to the ground.

"Wood throwing, release!" With the angry shouts of the officers on the city wall, more than a dozen logs twenty meters long and one meter thick were thrown out of the city.

Directly smashed into the crowded queue of the steppe people from a high place, and there were countless upside-down blades on the log, and with the process of dragging and rolling backwards, crushing countless figures, and suddenly a piece of space was emptied within twenty meters outside the city wall.

The steppe people, who were lucky enough not to die, fiercely cut the rope that was arm thick and tied to the tree, in a vain attempt to leave the log so that it could be transformed into a wooden ladder for siege.

They were very sad, this place was different from outside the eastern border, and due to the impact of Philip's kidnapping, Gokan City realized that these half-breeds living under their noses could cause great trouble, so they used a beat-and-pull method to divide a considerable number of mature half-bloods.

Instead of paying the pitiful taxes of these mestizos living within a dozen kilometers of the border, they often give them some benefits and even jobs, which is to use their demographic advantage to cut down all the huge trees within five kilometers of the border, and exchange these high-quality timber for all the necessities of life.

So now these steppe people had to transport the prepared siege equipment from five kilometers away, and then destroy it under the long-range crossbows and trebuchets that the Wards had the upper hand over, and so on.

Fortunately, if you ignore the difficulties caused by distance, the quality wood here is almost inexhaustible.

The war has been going on for nearly five days, but there has been no progress at present, and nearly 150,000 grassland children have been lost under that city wall, including more than 20,000 elite children of his own tribe, including his 18-year-old nephew.

As the commander of one of the two vanguard armies of the Southern Offensive, Schüle himself was the leader of a medium-sized tribe of a million men, and stood out from a dozen of his rivals to win the favor.

The abominable thing is that this newly opened road is full of lofty mountains and mountains, and the road is difficult to navigate, and only three people can be parallel at the same time in some dangerous areas, which makes it impossible for them to gather troops at a faster pace.

He regretted a little, he shouldn't have used the tactics of fueling so hastily, allowing those Wards to run in the troops so quickly and get into combat mode.

He himself knew that an offensive of an average of three to fifty thousand soldiers per day could not be called too much pressure on that Xiongguan.

However, he was also embarrassed, and the livestock they brought with them on this expedition were not much, and all the limited transportation capacity was used to gather troops, so that the camp of the half-bloods was swept away.

Originally, the mountain was dug down, just to sneak attack, and the news of the blockade of the strong wall Qingye had been done well, but it was still noticed by these damn Wards.

He had to adjust his tactics and launch a surprise attack on Hongyue Pass in advance, wanting to swallow the outpost in front of him.

But the commander on the opposite side did a very good job of preparation, and did not leave him any chance at all.

Moreover, the worms he brought were also recognized, and they were damaged in front of the city wall, and they did not have the desired effect.

He didn't expect that just a few days later than expected, and not being in line with the Eastern Front, would allow these Warders to discover the fatal flaws of the worm and fall short.

As long as they are hammered in the tanks buried in the ground from time to time, the few intellects of these worms will defy the orders of the insect tamers, desperately retreating or burrowing out of the ground.

It would be even better if a fire was burned in front of the position, and the worms would burrow deeper into the ground and get out of the hands of the insect repellents.

What made him even worse was that a few days ago he found that the defenders on the city wall had suddenly become more powerful, whether it was ordnance or the force of the soldiers, they were a lot higher out of thin air, and those sharp bows and crossbows would always attack the key parts of the battlefield, and the tactical literacy was very high.

Even if he hadn't used that terrible box crossbow yet, the damage it caused was already terrifying, and his team of 10,000 men was exhausted in less than an hour.

This is by no means the defenders of the southern defense line, but the elite of the descendants of the four masters of Gaokan City, and Xu Le is very sure of this.

It's just that the open space in front of Hongyue Pass is only three or four hundred meters wide, and he can only deploy a team of 20,000 people at most at one time.