Chapter 624: The Fall (4)
The Burning Legion used the Evil Cannon, bombarding the Margeth's defense day and night on the fifth night.
The moon is bright and the stars are scarce, and the temperature is suitable under the breeze, which is a rare good weather.
After such a long period of bombardment, the frequency of the two evil cannons was finally reduced, and the bombardment of the two evil cannons was replaced by two evil cannons in turn, and the Marge's defense line at this time looked even more dilapidated than it was two days ago.
According to the plan of the Burning Legion, after the final continuous bombardment tonight, they will stop using these two evil cannons that will quickly bankrupt them, and then the demon army, which has been recuperating for several days, will launch an unprecedented ferocious attack.
Strive for a one-time attack on the Macita defense line that has blocked them for more than a month, and kill all the cowardly humans who can only hide on the city wall and after various defensive offensives.
In order to boost the morale of the demon cannon fodder and make them more fearless in tomorrow's battle, the top brass of the legion once again distributed a large amount of captured liquor and various unknown jerky obtained from the occupied area.
Even, there are succubi, which have always been high-level demons, and only qualified to enjoy them, also appeared in large numbers, among the cannon fodder demons, they used their extremely seductive bodies to perform even more tempting dances.
This is simply a grand carnival for these lowly cannon fodder demons, with food, drink, and addiction, and they feel that all this is so beautiful and happy......
And then there was this time of revelry for the whole legion, and the humans who had been cowering in the Marge's defenses did something they absolutely didn't expect.
The defenders concentrated all their cavalry troops, led by the knights and cavalry units numbering more than 300,000, and suddenly slaughtered out of the defense line and killed the camp of the demon army stationed behind the defense line.
The unprepared demon army couldn't make much resistance at all, so it was killed into the camp by these cavalry troops, and then after repeated impacts, the cavalry troops finally tore out a passage several miles wide in the continuous camp of the demon army.
Then, the hoplites in logistical carriages, desperately whipping their horses, arrived here in time, and they used the tower shields and heavy spears they carried to build a thin line of defense on both sides of the open passage.
Fortunately, in order to provide logistics supplies for the tens of millions of troops in the Maqi defense line, an astonishing number of carts and horses were concentrated here, and it was in this way that continuous reinforcements arrived here in horse-drawn carriages and joined behind the heavily armed soldiers, making the originally thin defense line gradually thicker.
After the temporary strong defense line was formally established, several shiny fireballs were shot into the sky, and the scene after the explosion of the large fireballs made it clearly visible within a radius of dozens of miles.
Immediately, after receiving this signal, the black pressure infantry phalanx several miles away trotted towards the passage in an orderly manner, and the dense footsteps gathered together, so that they could be heard clearly even far away.
"Hurry up, move a little faster, and the ones behind you will follow quickly. "Military judges with conspicuous strips of red cloth wrapped around their arms, one standing every hundred meters or so, brandishing their swords and loudly reminding the troops passing through here to speed up and not to delay precious time.
Now it was just the suddenness of the night raid that caught the Burning Legion by surprise, and when the Burning Legion reacted and launched a counterattack, with their strong field combat capabilities, the troops on both sides of the passage would pay a great and staggering price.
Sure enough, within a few minutes, a huge Doomsday Guard, who was ten meters away, flew into the sky with a loud, incomprehensible demonic voice from his mouth;
"Demon, die!" a legendary-level heavy shield warrior, with a dazzling fighting spirit, also rose from the ground, bravely greeted him, and after the two quickly approached, they fought hard without any tricks.
Then the legendary shield warrior, faster than he charged, flew back a long way, and it was clear that he was no match for the Doom Guardian.
Fortunately, at this time, another legendary mage rose from the ground, and he worked closely with the shield warrior to attack and defend, which was able to withstand this doomsday guard.
The Doomsday Guard's attack was like blowing the horn of the Burning Legion's counterattack, and countless demons who had been interrupted by the carnival rushed in a rage, pounced on the steel forest of spears behind the shield of the hoplite tower.
One side desperately wants to fight a bloody way out and escape from here, and the other side resolutely refuses to let go, these big fat meats that have almost reached their mouths, as soon as they start fighting, the two sides enter the most tragic fight......
At this moment, life has become the most worthless thing, whether it is a human or a demon, every minute, every second is killed by each other in large quantities.
But in general, it was the human side that suffered more casualties, even if the heavy infantry put up a tight battle line, and there were archers and magicians in the rear, constantly supporting with long-range attacks, they were still beaten with a casualty rate of two to one.
However, in a very short time, the few rows of soldiers in front of the thick formation had almost lost all casualties, and Marshal Franz and others had already anticipated this when formulating the breakthrough plan.
Amid the hoarse shouts of the officers on the scene, the hoplites in the rear row, with the grief and indignation of the heart of death, filled the positions of their comrades who had died in battle, and immediately after, new infantry units reinforced the defensive line.
At the same time, the cavalry troops cruising on the periphery of the defense line also fell into a desperate battle with the outflanked demons......
With more than 4 million people breaking through, such a large number of people, even if there is a passage several miles wide, it will take a long time to completely evacuate.
Finally, after the sun rose the next day, about 2.3 million lucky people broke through the Burning Legion's army and escaped from the Machita's defense, which was about to be reduced to hell.
Nearly 1,700,000 people died here in one night, their bodies strewn in every corner of the wilderness, their blood intertwined with the blood of demons, completely staining the land red.
The demon army stationed behind the Macita defense line did not choose to chase and kill those human armies that broke through after dawn, but cooperated with the main force in front of them to launch a general attack on the Marchita defense line.
Three days later, when the last bastion in the line was set alight by the order of Marshal Franz, who was staying inside, the Marquetta Line, which was said to never fall, ceased to exist.
Accompanying the burial of this architectural marvel of the Wills were more than seven million Allied defenders, from the commander-in-chief of Marshal Franz downward, and about two million demons.