Chapter 50: In front of Black Cliff City
The height of summer is coming to an end, the temperature is no longer getting higher day by day, but staying in a stable range, and there are fewer heavy rains, which means that there are fewer warm and humid airflows in the south.
The elven army and the few remaining orcs and dwarven armies have arrived at the entrance of Black Cliff City, which is what Essalivan told everyone when she returned, that the Zerg had built a huge underground city here, and that it was likely that another demon was inhabited by it.
Abdul-Jabbar looked down with his wounds.
It was a city of flames, spiraling down stairs like a dwarven bunker city, but much deeper and several times larger than a dwarven bunker. What's more, it's no longer a built city like a mine, it's a base camp for an army of dungeons.
Turning over the dead wood and rotten roots, the vision became clearer, and even the dense black spots on the passages in the city could be seen. Not surprisingly, they're Zerg.
The task of raiding Black Cliff City can no longer enter from the trail like Esalivan did, because this time Jabbar brought a large number of troops, at least 20,000 people, only by storming from the main passage of the main gate, can the legion pass safely, if everyone enters from the steep cliff, then once the Zerg finds out, as long as they send flying locusts and other flying units to disturb the attack, the coalition forces will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.
But entering the dungeon from the front means that the Zerg will be discovered early.
And now, it seems, has been discovered......
"Great Chief, bugs...... The bugs are here again. ”
The orc guards in charge of the reconnaissance mission came back to report, and the situation on the elves' side was the same, the insect swarm had discovered the movement of the allies early, and they may have been gathering troops before, and now, all the zerg troops in the city may have been assembled.
"Arthur, I'll leave it to you on the elves' side, I'll take my men up first and cover us. ”
Although there were not many people left in the tribe, Jabbar still wanted to go. Hadrian left 20,000 orcs as his last hope, and now, all the warriors who went to the front line will be bloodied until the last drop of blood is shed. Orcs never surrender.
"Roar. ”
With the last of his rage, the orc chieftain, who was still wounded, led the remaining more than 2,000 orc warriors to rush to the gates of Black Cliff City.
The dense swarm of insects struck again.
Although the number is not as impressive as it was in the Valley of the Thunder, it is still much more than the Coalition forces.
Flying locusts flew through the air in swarms, making a buzzing noise, and the insects poured out in large numbers, and these lowest units of the Zerg, like the position of the laborers among the orcs, were not regular armies at all, but only temporary coolies. But there are just as many of them.
All the remnants of orcs, humans, and dwarves once again fought against the swarm at the bridgehead of Black Cliff City......
It was a narrow passage, the width of the front was only enough for a dozen orc warriors to pass through, but on such a narrow bridge deck, all the orc warriors and the Abbaden swarm engaged in bloody hand-to-hand combat.
Below is a bottomless abyss, where the heat of magma is constantly rising, almost a city of hell.
"Roar. ”
Jabbar rushed to the front, and the storm hammer wielded gorgeously, with ancient power, and the warhammer smashed the insects in front of him one by one, smashing them. This legendary warhammer has changed hands several times since its birth, and finally returned to Jabbar's hands, but the injured orc Great Chief can't use the warhammer very well, and his physical strength has not fully recovered?
Ullah used the dwarven spear to kill the enemy, and one by one the worms were pierced in the abdomen, face, and chest. Disgusting Zerg juice splattered everywhere, spilling on the helmets of the dwarven warriors and onto the leather armor of the orc warriors. There are not many human armies left, and the remaining three hundred human infantry, led by Leo, contribute their last meager strength.
The swarm was also making the last resistance and struggle, almost a battle of trapped beasts, because all the passages to the outside world in Black Cliff City were blocked, at least according to the coalition forces.
However, the dwarven king Ulla has repeatedly warned the elven coalition that the Zerg's underground transportation network is very developed, which is difficult for us people in the surface world to predict.
But no one wants to listen.
The battle was fierce, the coalition forces advanced with difficulty, and the insect corpses were once again piled up on the bridge deck, and the flying insects that were constantly disturbing from the air were shot down one by one by the elven archers in the rear. When it fell into the magma, there was a terrifying scorching sound. However, the Allied soldiers could not hear it, because the underground magma layer was so far away from the bridgehead that the crowd could only see the little red light below, but did not know the exact depth.
Finally, after two hours of advancing and fighting, the coalition army arrived at the gate of Black Cliff City, the scene in front of them was shocking, the unquenchable flames burned above the city gate, and the entire city wall was made of pure obsidian, but unlike the obsidian on the ground and in the mine, the obsidian here seemed to have been specially processed, and the walls were baked red.
But the Allied soldiers didn't have time to care about this, the insects were about to enter the city, the gate was closing, the disgusting insects ignored that their own kind were still outside the city, and forcibly closed the city gates, many reptiles, ground insects were squeezed by the huge stone gate, they were disemboweled, and all the insect juice was squeezed out, but the black insect swarm was still desperately burrowing inside.
Such a disgusting and terrifying scene surprised all the orcs and dwarves present. If it were orcs, humans were squeezed like this, and I was afraid how bloody the scene would be. But in the world of orcs and humans, there will be no such scenes, and every companion is worth saving, and it will not be as cold-blooded as bugs.
Raphael led the Wood Elf archers on the ground to shoot arrows at the bugs on the walls, trying to stop the Zerg guards from closing the gates.
But with little success, and a few minutes later, the gates were closed.
All the orc warriors, the dwarven infantry, were under the city walls, blocked their way, and the next moment, countless ground thorns rose from the ground in front of the city gates.
This attack without warning caused all the Allied soldiers present to panic, and the number of soldiers who were pierced through the body continued to increase, blood and internal organs flowed from the broken bodies of the soldiers, and the scene was full of wails.
"What's that?"
The sudden appearance surprised even Jabbar, who had never seen such a scene after countless battles.
"Zerg mage. That's what we call them. ”
Dwarven King Ulla said.
"Zerg and magicians?"
Obviously, this answer surprised Jabbar and Leo, who had previously thought that the Zerg only had melee combat-type buggers, but now it seems that this is not the case. The Zerg have their own wizards, but they are very few in number, negligible, and there may only be a few in a population, or special populations may be needed to have this type of troops.
The scene was bloody, and in desperation, Jabbar had to order the troops to withdraw first, and he had already lost five hundred warriors, and he could not be killed or wounded any longer, and the orcs were already fighting for nothing. (To be continued.) )