Chapter 33: Deliverance (1)
Before dawn, Hart was kicked out of the floor. When he opened his eyes, it turned out to be his old father, Christine. He struggled to climb onto the seat as he struggled to swallow the vomiting sensation in his stomach.
"Are you sober?" asked Christine.
Hart nodded, and began to look around the messy council hall, "Oh my God, how did my people all fall here?"
"Have you ever drunk the Yankees, that's their forte!" Christine said disdainfully, "I was expecting you to hold out to the end, but I didn't expect you to disgrace me!"
"Don't talk about yourself!" said Hart, shaking his head, "Every time you toast, you always have a small piece in your cup...... Are you going to keep fish in a cup? I just don't want to expose you!"
"At least I'm still awake!" Christine glared, "Wake you people up to town, today's show is about to start again!"
Hart staggered to his feet and began to kick the sleeping generals one by one. Of course, Gabriel and Lucifer were among them.
There were stains of blood left in the square. Hart was surprised and asked, "What's going on, did there be an enemy in the city last night?"
"That's what they did!" Christine said, pointing to the ghost dragon hovering in the sky, "They fly there day and night, and if they see an opportunity, they will fly down and sneak attack, and everyone will be exhausted!"
"These abominable thieves!" Hart spat hatefully, "aren't you going to set up an ambush in the city to attack them?"
"Does your father still need you to teach you about war?" Christine said contemptuously: "Don't forget who taught you tactics! They have been attacked by us a few times, and now they are obedient and no longer willing to fly down easily!"
Gabriel and Lucifer followed, looking around.
What about Renesa and Jasmine, where did they both go?
Tanan also struggled to get to the top of the city. He was pale and looked weak.
Hart and Tanan don't have a good relationship, although Tanan has been a guest at his house when he was in the Lost Lands. Christine always asked him to call him Uncle Tanan, and Hart always used excuses to walk away.
Although Hart knew that Tanan was a long-lived elf, he was as young as he was, and it was so embarrassing to call him uncle!
Gabriel and Lucifer went to Castle of Diothos Banda with Tanan, Guzi, and York to save people, and they were very affectionate when they met. A smile also appeared on Tanan's pale face.
"Ressa, where's Jasmine?" Gabriel stood beside her.
Renesa didn't speak, didn't even look at him. Gabriel tugged at her sleeve.
"What are you doing? I don't know where she's gone?" Resa waved her hand away angrily, not forgetting to glance at him.
"Renesas, what's wrong with you?" Gabriel said inexplicably.
"What's wrong with me?!Why don't you ask yourself what's wrong?" Ressa staggered to the side.
I didn't seem to have done anything yesterday, but I only remember what happened before I drank!" Gabriel touched his head.
Lucifer was still looking around on the walls.
In the distance, the whine of trumpets and the beating of war drums were heard.
Here they are again! a vast expanse of black pressing, with almost no end in sight.
"About sixty thousand soldiers!" Hart estimated.
"Good eyesight!" Leo looked at Hart approvingly, "If you were in command, how would you fight?"
Hart observes the various units of the enemy. He was surprised, "What about their skeleton warriors and zombies? As far as I know, these types of troops are the vast majority of the undead army! And now we see almost all of them are soldiers above the third level!"
Hart has begun to worry about the fate of the castle. Although the number of soldiers on both sides is equal, spearmen and longbowmen account for the majority of the castle! These first- and second-class soldiers are not very capable of close combat, and only when all arms cooperate can they wield sufficient combat power. With just one glance, Hart could almost conclude that the undead army was at least twice as strong as the defenders in the castle!
General Leo said, "Skeleton warriors and zombies have been wiped out by us outside the Great Wall of Ice and Snow by 40,000. According to Linda and Geima, Helena, the witch of the Tulaone Forest, successfully intercepted the undead troops who were entering the customs and eliminated most of the Witch Kings. Because of this, their forces now lack sufficient long-range attack fire support, and although they have made two tentative attacks, they have been repulsed by us, and now they do not dare to force the siege. But they still have a strong offensive capability, and we have no advantage in field battles, so now we can only rely on the city walls and smash each other with trebuchets. ”
Hart looked at the trebuchets pushed out of the enemy formation, like mushrooms after the rain, and said worriedly: "They have so many trebuchets, the city wall will be smashed sooner or later!"
"Yes, every stone thrown will smash a wall brick, and we have to keep repairing it, but the city has plenty of stone and plaster. ”
"Looks like they've added a few more trebuchets today!" Observing it, Christine came to a conclusion.
"yes, it looks like they've not been idle. ”
Two undead heroes ran out of the enemy line. More precisely, an undead hero, a giant beetle.
"See that beetle? That's the Prince Regent of Erathia, the Venerable Chosen One!" General Leo sighed, "He comes out every day to challenge himself and then goes back in full swing." ”
"Ahh......h How did he become like this?" exclaimed Hart, Gabriel, and Lucifer, and Ressa burst into tears.
The other side has already begun to call out!
"Leo, I heard that you are also a great hero, why have you become a coward now? come out and fight me! If you are afraid to beat me, then well, I will beat you with one hand!" cried the Beetle.
"Guzi, are you crazy?" Hart leaned out of the wall and shouted to the outskirts, "I'm Hart, I'm here for you, Gabriel and Lucifer are here!"
"And me!" Resa said as she hurriedly wiped tears from her eyes.
"Yes, do you remember the girl Ressa who accompanied you on your journey of atonement against those borderless islands?
"What a mess, don't get close to me!" the beetle shouted, "I don't know you, come out and let me beat you!"
Hart was angry: "Well, then you wait! If you decide to swing your sword at your friend, then I'll do as you wish!"
"Don't be stupid!" Christine grabbed Hart, "He's lost in his nature, it's useless to be angry with him! Don't you see Tanan? That's the result of fighting him!"
Tanan's face turned red! Brother has always been imitated, never overlooked, but now it is used as a negative teaching material for a father to teach his son!
But what's the solution! Who says they can't beat a beetle?
Leo coughed, and then said, "Let's hit him with a trebuchet the old way!"
"Trebuchet ready!" the order immediately reached the trebuchet position.
The Beetle wielded greatswords, hammers, and axes in a jumbled hand, listening to the whine of blades slicing through the air.
"What the coward was just called, come out quickly, and let my axe taste the blood on your neck!"
The beetle staggered back and forth between the falling boulders. He was already enraged and began to scold.
The trebuchets of the army of the undead immediately began to fire back, and the boulders smashed on the walls and walls, and the entire city wall trembled!
"Looks like this is the case again today!" General Leo said, "Hart, please come with me, I have an important task for you!"
Leo led the group down the walls. Pointing to the towering cliffs on either side of the castle, he said to Hart, "Pay attention to the terrain around you. ”
"Are you worried that someone will climb over these snowy mountains and copy our back?" Hart said, "As far as I know, no one can climb over this snowy mountain, and the cold wind and ice will quickly take away the body's body temperature, and finally turn into an ice sculpture!"
"But they're not people, they're undead!" said General Leo, "In the Ice City, they used a large number of skeletons and zombies to attract our ideas, but the main army marched east along the Great Wall and made a detour into the pass. I'm afraid they'll use the same trick now!"
"Do you need me to defend the castle's flank?"
"Yes! The castle's rear flank defenses are relatively weak, as the castle was designed to protect against threats from the north, not from the territory of Erathia. ”
"I don't really understand...... My father told me that the city defense facilities should be considered in all aspects, and there should be no dead ends!"
"Yes, from a purely military point of view, your father is not wrong at all, but from a political point of view, he must be wrong! Think about it, if I strengthen the city defense of the southern city, what will Kendal think if he finds out? He will definitely think that I have the idea of rebellion, and will even send troops to attack me!"
"But he is no longer the king of Erathia, and His Majesty is much more sensible and merciful than he is!"
"The higher a man's power and status, the heavier his suspicions will be! He will think that all the people in the world are thieves, so he will shrink into a ball like a hedgehog, and from time to time give a blow to what he thinks is an enemy!" Leo patted Hart on the shoulder and said: "You are a person who has not been corrupted by power, and because of this, you will not understand that political struggle is actually bloodier than the real battlefield!"
When the ghost dragon hovering high in the sky saw this small group of people, several of them immediately swooped down. The group of people struck one after another, and the ghost dragons immediately flew back into the air under the pressure of bows and arrows and lightning.
"You'll have to keep an eye out for these abominable thieves, they won't miss a chance to sneak up!" Leo put away his bow and arrows.
"Is there anything else you would like to command?" said Hart.
"The food, fuel, ordnance and medicine in the castle are already insufficient, and I hope you can send some troops out to procure them!"
"This is easy to do, I came this time, and I also have hundreds of thousands of gold coins that have not been used up by the treasury bonds. Hart turned his head and shouted, "Gabriel, Lucifer, you guys come here!"
Gabriel and Ressa immediately arrived, and Lucifer came over with his arm around Jasmine's shoulders.
Jasmine was found by Lucifer at the foot of the city, where she was squatting under the base of the wall and shivering.
"Take your cavalry brigade to the nearest castle to buy food, fuel, ordnance, and medicine!"
"Yes!" Lucifer hurriedly agreed. Gabriel immediately looked at him dissatisfied.
The two brothers didn't think the same thing at all, Gabriel was a newborn calf who wanted to go into battle immediately, and Lucifer just wanted the scared Jasmine to stay away from the damned undead.
Leo was clearly pleased with Hart's mobility. He nodded and said, "Before you go out, go to the armory and medical center in the city first, and the most urgently needed things will be purchased first, and then send someone to deliver them immediately!"