Chapter 129: Assault
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Vera smiled, took the letter from his hand, swayed a little, and returned to her staff.
She snuggled lazily against the wand again, and the demonic flames on her body were also contained in her body, as if nothing had happened.
After opening the letter, Vera gave it a casual look and threw it on the ground.
Valerie relieved herself and stopped observing Raphael.
The dignified Great Wizard, bullying me like this, is it interesting?
Raphael broke out in cold sweat on his forehead, but said in his mouth: "I am so lucky to meet such a beautiful and powerful beauty." ”
Delecy giggled and said, "You wipe off the cold sweat before you are lucky." My name is Derecy, the lord here, and I only ask once, why are you here? If you dare to be honest, I will throw you into the dungeon and study you carefully. ”
Vera said lazily: "Yes, I have to study it carefully, and I actually released the magic without fluctuations, and there is that strange necromancer, even I am curious." ”
Raphael looked at their fiery eyes, and his heart was cold, and he thought about it, knowing that it was the habits of his soldiers that made them discover the abnormality.
It's also my own bad luck, if it weren't for Delecy's high place, it would be difficult to find this.
Raphael continued to talk nonsense: "Actually, I am a cowardly deserter, I am not optimistic about Matz, I am afraid that I will be implicated in the future, so I take my men and pretend to be mercenaries. ”
Vera said, "Oh, not optimistic, why?"
Raphael immediately lowered his eyebrows and repeated the reasoning in a variety of ways, trying to tempt them to rebel.
Teresy giggled and said, "You bastard! Well, you're funny." Well, I will spare you, and for the next three days, every day after noon, you will sing love songs under my castle, and when you have finished singing, call out a hundred times, I, Raphael, am a big fool. ”
Raphael had a dark line on his face, it would be a shame to do so, even though he was thick-skinned.
However, after agreeing first, he said, "Oh, that's what I thought, and now I can get my wish." ”
Vera is always content with Derecy's nonsense, because she herself actually likes to mess around, and Deresy is influenced by her.
Vera thought it was funny, so she said, "Raphael, do what you say, or you'll be hunted down by an archmage, ho-ho-ho." ”
Raphael shuddered, immediately changed his mind, decided to sing a love song for real, and hurriedly bargained: "Ten times!"
Dresy giggled and nodded, and went for a copy of the bard's poem, handed it to Raphael, and said, "Didn't you say that you were a prince? ”
Raphael took the poem speechlessly and took his leave.
As soon as he left the main fort, Raphael arranged for the soldiers to be found, and then went to the equipment shop in the square to buy a harp, and bargained for a large roll of tough alloy strings, as if he was ready to break the strings countless times.
After that, he obediently went into a bar in a square, ordered food and drinks, and tried to sing and recite these damn lyrics while cultivating his mental powers.
Bards, singing either hymns or love songs.
Fortunately, music is a compulsory subject for the aristocracy, and when Raphael was a child, he followed his merchant parents, and he still learned some, and he could basically understand it, and his voice was not bad.
However, Raphael could not play the piano, so he planned to play around a few times.
Valerly's voice suddenly appeared in Raphael's thoughts, and said, "My dear, do you want me to find you some more powerful beings in the necromantic plane, and then let you record their spirit waves, and try to contract them." Your mental power is very stable, and I guess even if you have a level difference, you won't be injured. ”
Of course, summoning the Counterdevour will not summon the mage to the necromantic plane in reverse, but will damage the mage's mental power.
Valery, a traitor to the necromancy?
Raphael smiled and said, "Can you take the initiative to communicate with me?"
Valerie said, "Yes, and your feelings will fluctuate slightly and affect me, just like when you fought with Beverly! I can even feel a little pleasure, but also a little uncomfortable." ”
Fighting? well, sort of.
Raphael knew that this was the change brought about by Wella, so he said, "No need, my dear, it is too dangerous for you to be close to the powerful." And like an ordinary mage, I may not be able to control high-level necromancy. If you can't use my special summoning method, because this summoning technique will give me a feeling of possession of you, and I love it, but I definitely don't want to feel that way with a strange necromancer. ”
Valerie was silent.
At noon, the open main castle, with the beautiful windows on one side of the fort wall opened, and Teresy was leaning on the window with her chin propped up.
For such a beautiful chick, there is no shame!
Raphael comforted himself, gritted his teeth, picked up the piano, and walked towards the castle as a strong man who would never return.
In the square, looking at the snowflakes that began to fall in the sky again, Raphael felt very sad, singing love songs was nothing, but the last big fool, no doubt, would make him the legend of Nilou City from now on.
He decided, to add, "Dear little Sissi, I love you!"
After listening to a few lame love songs, Teresie giggled happily regardless of the crowd below, until Raphael's last sentence came out, and her little face turned red and she said, "Come in the evening." He slipped away and left the window.
In order to avoid trouble, Raphael spent several days in Nilou City.
Gonzas, who was tailgating, didn't know what Raphael was up to, but after seeing Vera for the first time, Gonzhas was very careful to hide, and he couldn't do anything to Raphael anyway until he stabilized the hateful golden thread.
When Teresie was finally satisfied, she let Raphael go, because Teresie and Vera were not involved in the war, they had their own plans and didn't care about anything.
Raphael didn't plan to stay here anymore, the area near the front line had been explored, and there were still some fixed sentry squads going back and forth from time to time to keep on guard, and there were auxiliary brigades clearing snow along the road.
Such an arrangement, of course, did not form a decent cordon, and the Oro cavalry thought that it could be easily penetrated.
After the supplies were replenished, Raphael ordered the team to set off in the valley, but it was still broken into pieces, and it was three or four days to walk until the intended ambush site.
Before Raphael set off, Nilou City happened to gather a lot of material teams, and after these supplies were accepted by Nilou City, Nilou City's auxiliaries were assembled and set off.
The supply line is just a road suitable for transporting supplies, and the Sentinels of Maitz are very lazy, only guarding back and forth along the road of the supply route, only some key towns, there are some fixed defenders, and it is too easy for the Oro cavalry to penetrate this loose line of defense after they are scattered.
A few days later, a thousand cavalry had gathered not too far behind the Rhine fortress and hid in the woods, setting up brown and gray cloth tents to conceal them, and sending out sentinels.
Raphael didn't plan to ambush anyone, he only waited for the auxiliary troops of the Metz side to deliver supplies, and then directly attacked the whole team, even if the auxiliaries came with 10,000, it was impossible to resist a thousand regular cavalry.
He ordered his cavalry to dig pits in the woods, and after looting supplies, they were to hide a batch just in case.
In the vast snow, the Rhine fortress between the mountains and mountains was also covered with a thick blanket, but the cold winter snow did not discourage the Orlan soldiers who were dense at the head of the city, because the snow could increase the difficulty of the attackers.
The Rhine Fortress has been devastated and no longer has the majestic posture it once had.
The gates had already been breached several times, and it was only by means of a makeshift pile of stones and earth that the terrible siege engine had been blocked. Everywhere the wall was patched and patched, like a beggar's garment. Almost half of the houses in the city have been destroyed, and there are now no civilians left in the city, except for the soldiers.
Louis looked at the army that had lost half of it, and his heart was sour, Maitz's attack was so fierce, completely regardless of the cost, the battle was so tragic, in the crazy attack, the elite air cavalry on both sides, after destroying a large number of siege and city defense facilities, were left less than fifty!
The name of the Empire's newborn general has been trampled under the feet of Maitz, and it is a shame to attack and defend the city, almost one-to-one, but Louis feels that he cannot be blamed for this.
First, because Maitz was well prepared, there were too many siege towers, and he was almost fighting a white-knuckle battle; second, because of the long peace and stability of the empire, the generals who were originally stationed in the Rhine fortress boldly coveted ink for many years, and the defensive weapons were either tattered or non-existent, which was completely false.
Although the general's head was already hanging on the city wall, Louis had to bear the consequences.
Louis was in a dark fortress high above the city walls, which would normally be difficult to attack, and he looked at the endless pale outside the fortress, and in the white, there were moving black dots everywhere.
Louis was a little irritable in his heart, and was cursing Maitz, when the drumbeat of attack sounded again in the snow-white and hazy sky.
The drums grew louder and louder, and crystal cannons, giant catapults, ballistas, and ballistas roared.
With a loud whistling, the day's offensive began again, and for many days, Maitz still did not intend to make a truce in the snow.
As if the stars had shattered, the flames flew into the city, smashing the wreckage of the houses into pieces, burning everything that could be burned in the city, and now all that remained were stone houses integrated with the fortress, and these flames also brought great losses to the soldiers defending the wall.
The air horses of both sides flew up again, unleashing powerful magic on each other, and one moment, the breastwork of the Louis army was shattered by the falling stone magic attack of the Maitz air horse, and the defending soldiers fell from a height of thirty meters screaming, and the next moment, the attacking equipment of the Maitz army was destroyed by the terrifying hellfire, and the soldiers operating the equipment howled in flames.
Although the air cavalry on both sides had a tacit understanding to try not to engage in air combat, the loss of the dense flying battlefield and the magic of the mages often patronized them when they were diving.
The poignant and bloody scene is always repeated as the air riders fly up and down.
The siege towers fixed in the distance and the dark bunkers on the walls are all arranged with mages, and they also take action to unleash brilliant and deadly magic.
In a sea of fire, the siege towers began to lean against the walls again, regardless of the cost.
Louis was annoyed as he watched the sky flood with dense intertwined attacks of various ranged weapons, and since the snow, instead of being frustrated, Maitz had attacked more violently.
The city walls are so damaged, how many times can this kind of attack be prevented?
Louis was flustered, called the logistics adjutant, and said, "How is the logistics auxiliary in the rear being built?"
The logistics adjutant said with a little joy: "My lord, it has been completely defended, and according to your attrition strategy, I have already asked the auxiliaries to go to the rear to build a second line of defense." ”
Louis nodded with satisfaction, the passage between the mountains and forests behind the fortress was still not wide for the army, and it could still be defended.
Although his talent and reputation have been hit, the emperor's requirements are very low, as long as he wins, nothing else matters.
Now his losses are not greater than those of Maitz, and when he reaches the plains, relying on the camp to defend and exert the power of the cavalry, Maitz can not set up a large position and calmly build long-range weapons to attack.
His own cavalry is not necessarily worse than Maitz, right? The cavalry can also offset the advantages of those powerful races that Maitz has gathered, so that his own army may not lose more in the fierce battles on the plains.
Besides, not all of these troops sent to him belonged to the emperor, many of them were recruited from the nobility, and perhaps the loss was nothing.
Louis thought, perhaps, Barnik would rather lose his own 100,000 men for evil purposes, such as killing all 300,000 of these nobles, which seems like a good thing.
Yes, that's how it should be! It seems that it is not necessarily necessary to occupy the fortress to defend, what does it matter if you lose a little more!
Louis suddenly became completely calm, and he thought to himself: Anyway, he has made up his mind about this black cauldron, as long as he wins, as long as the emperor's soldiers die less than the nobles' soldiers according to the proportion.
Louis looked out of the fortress again.
The attack of the Maitz army was truly fearless to death.
Louis planned to retreat, in fact, he had already prepared, the supplies in the fortress were sent from the rear every day, and they were not gathered in the fortress, so it would be very convenient for him to retreat.
Louis said: "Inform the airmen, let the airmen go to the fight, consume more of the opponent's airhorses, so as not to use the airhorses to investigate at night, after withstanding this round of attacks by Maitz, build a snowman at night, put on the tattered armor for the snowman, but the action is more hidden, don't let the opposite sentinel find out, we take advantage of the dark night, bring the magic crystal cannon, withdraw, and clear the field." ”
After a large area near the fortress was designated as a war zone, the civilians had already fled with their families and mouths, so where did they have to fortify the walls and clear the wilderness? The adjutant muttered in his heart, but he patted his ass and said, "My lord, this is really a good way!" and he was ordered to do it.
The next day, to the sound of the drums, another round of flaming boulders poured down, and Matz's empty cavalry returned that there was no one in the fortress, and Metz was ecstatic, and with a flick of his cloak and a wave of his hand, he ordered the city gate to be breached.
Hundreds of troll infantry drove a few giant beasts, and with the huge and amazing siege vehicle, rushed to the fortress gate, the gate was long gone, and now the door hole was a wall made of stones, these stones were more than twenty meters thick, completely blocked the city gate, and used earth magic to fix.
The siege vehicle leaned in, the giant tree in the car shook, and the broken magic circle in the alloy dragon-shaped column head at the tip of the giant tree had been activated, and every time it hit, the city gate was shaken by a mountain, and the gravel flew wildly, and under the continuous impact without hindrance, it finally "boomed", and the city gate was broken! The snow resounded like a tidal wave of cheers.
To the south of the fortress, Raphael had already been reported by the sentinels, the convoy had appeared, and the Oro cavalry was excited, as long as this attack was completed, they would have no small feat. ”
After the Oro cavalry had sorted out their tents, Raphael calculated that it would take several hours for the next wave of Maitz's sentinels to pass through here, and there was plenty of time, so he rode his horse and went directly to the main road to sort out the team.
After a while, the formation was complete, Raphael waved his spear, and the cavalry slowly ran through the muddy snow.
After turning a forest to cover it, in the distance, the Oro cavalry saw a transport regiment of auxiliaries, about 3,000 men.
The Oro cavalry began to speed up slowly, but they did not dare to push the wildebeest too fast because of the muddy roads.
The auxiliaries transporting supplies saw that there were cavalry rushing in an attack formation, and needless to say, the fool knew that this must be the enemy.
They panicked.
Although these Oro cavalry did not run too fast because of the heavy snow, the might, and the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, knocked on their fragile hearts like death knocking on the door.
The commander of the auxiliaries was a regular knight, and he contorted his face, thinking about the consequences of escaping, and shouted for a chariot formation for defense.
"Kill!" "Kill!" "Kill!" "Kill!" the Aoro cavalry roared, with an astonishing momentum! "Hula!" They raised their crossbow arrows at the same time.
The heart of the commander of the auxiliary forces was also trembling, and he shouted hoarsely: "Pay attention to the arrows!"
But he was even more frightened by the fact that his men dispersed in a hurry, and where did he still care about his orders.
The commander of the auxiliaries let out a groaning cry of pain, and had to turn and run.
Let's save my life for the time being.
Raphael made a gesture to stop his men from releasing their arrows and asked them to slow down, then raised his arms and made a scattering gesture.
How could two legs outrun a four-legged demonic beast, a hundred cavalry in one, surrounded on all sides, and this chaotic army was driven into a ball after only a while.
Raphael saw that these guys had thrown away their weapons in order to escape quickly, and they did not kill anyone, so he shouted, "Gather the supplies for me!"
In the panic, the supplies were gathered, and Raphael arranged for people to patrol around, and secretly ordered a team of knights to take out a large number of supplies and bury them in the pits dug before, as a batch of emergency supplies.
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