Chapter 333: The Battle of Silver Pine City
While the Novgorod was in full swing for its sailing experiments, a major event occurred in the city of Silver Pine in the northeast of Erathia, which shocked the mainland. The occurrence of this incident has had a profound impact on the situation on the entire continent.
Silver Pine City is a city with a long history. It is located on the right bank of the Yum River, the border river between Erathia and Eri. This huge river, which runs through almost the entire territory of Erathia, has brought great wealth and vitality to Erathia, not only carrying 90% of the inland river transportation in Erathia, but also watering the Great Plains of Erathia, which can be said to be the source of life for the whole of Erathia.
Many cities in Erathia were built along the Yum River. A bard once said that if there was no Yum River, there is a good chance that the history of Erathia would have been rewritten. Although this is an exaggeration, it highlights the importance of the Yum River in some ways.
Silver Pine City is no exception. As a city located on the right bank of the Yum River, in addition to serving as a transit point for shipping, it also plays an important role as a border city between Erathia and Eri.
In the early days, because the relationship between Erathia and Eli was relatively good, and the caravan roads were opened, the city of Silver Pine, which was built between the two countries, was originally built as a trade staging station. Cities are built entirely on the model of commercial cities.
However, more than a hundred years later, due to the influence of ideas and certain things, the relationship between Erathia and Eri gradually drifted apart, and the trading routes of Silverpine City were also affected to a certain extent. The urban use of Silver Pine City has also slowly transformed from an ordinary commercial city to a defensive fortress city.
Tall city walls, towering arrow towers, diamond-shaped fortresses, huge crossbows, rivets and steel gates, huge steel gates, anti-aircraft arrow towers and emergency cellars, underground tunnels. Huge military buildings are slowly being built, and a hideous hedgehog is slowly forming.
The elves on the opposite side didn't make any superfluous moves.
Of course, the elves don't have any superfluous actions, not that the elves are big-minded and unwilling to build border cities because of a little thing.
There are two reasons for this phenomenon, one is that most of the elves live in a tribal or family situation, and there seems to be no other main city of elves except for the elven main city of Rivendell, which is built next to Danjiao Road Lake.
Second, the main dwelling of the elves is the exquisite tree houses built in the forest made of rattan, which are either hung on trees or placed on the ground, and the high ground is scattered and exquisite.
Although these treehouses are very beautiful and insect and waterproof, they are far worse at dealing with the attack of war equipment. As a result, the elven city is defenseless. Even though it's beautiful.
And this social structure and architectural characteristics make it impossible for even elves to build a city on the border. In addition, there is a lack of forests with sufficient construction standards on the border, so there is only one city on the border between Erathia and Erri.
Although Silver Pine City has been transformed into a defensive border fortress for nearly a hundred years, the strong commercial atmosphere in the city still lingers throughout the city and refuses to disperse.
In the early morning, the early vendors set up their stalls early and spontaneously formed a morning market to wake the city from sleep. At this time, the soldiers who had gone out for morning exercises had just finished their morning training, and the citizens who helped in the shops in the city had not yet gone to work, and at this time, it was the most idle time in the whole city. Whenever the weather permits, the people of Silver Pine City will always gather at their doorstep to chat and spend the most leisurely time of the day together.
It was a fine morning, and just as the citizens of Silverpine City were gathering in front of their homes to chat as usual, an arrow with a sharp whistle rose into the sky and exploded.
As the arrow rang out, teams of Pegasus Knights rushed into Silver Pine City from all directions at great speed. The elves riding on the white-winged Pegasus rode the pegasus soaring through the sky, and as they continued to draw arrows from their quivers and shoot them at the crowd running in all directions below.
I saw a sharp arrow pass directly through the body of a strong man and shoot directly into the abdomen of the opponent.
When the strong man was about to remove the sharp arrow from his abdomen and clean up the wound by the way, suddenly, the arrow of this sharp arrow was engraved with explosive runes, and the shaft of the sharp arrow was also engraved with transformation runes. This makes the strong man feel like a dead man. Although it was indeed difficult for him to recognize these arrows with his own knowledge, the majestic power of the arrows did not need to be worried about by the strong man again.
Because, the rune arrow that had absorbed enough energy flickered red and then turned into a burning fireball with a bang, and then blasted a huge wound on the man's body. The wound was so huge that it almost blew the body into two sections.
Terex, the lord of Silverpine City, stood in front of his window, watching the Pegasus Knights slaughter the civilians with impunity, much to his horror and anger. What is surprising is that the elves actually launched a sudden sneak attack, which is quite inconsistent with the elves have always advertised themselves. The furious ones are that the elves are abusing civilians like never before.
Although the city lord of Teris was extremely puzzled at this time, he couldn't understand why the elves he had studied for most of his life suddenly changed his style of painting today, which was simply a disaster for all commanders.
For example, Nagumo Tadaichi has always used Halsey as his main combat opponent, but when he was in Midway, he was suddenly replaced by Splens, and this sudden change of opponent was obviously something that all commanders did not want to see. Because no matter how well he had prepared before, then he had to face a task of re-understanding.
Although the city lord of Teris was a little flustered at this time, he still made the most correct decision. He quickly sounded the alarm bell of the City Lord's Mansion.
As the alarm bell rang in the City Lord's Mansion, the civilians and soldiers of Silver Pine City, who had been panicked by the raid, ran towards their positions as if they had found their backbone.
Ordinary civilians are running in the direction of their own cellars, which are a sharp weapon against this kind of air cavalry. The soldiers, on the other hand, moved closer to the nearest fortification. They either climbed to the top of the tower, climbed to the top of the wall, or stood on the top of the fortress. They either raised their bows and arrows, or loaded their long crossbows into the grooves of their bed crossbows, and began to shoot vengeful arrows at each of the Pegasus knights who rushed into battle.