I hope you will forgive Xiaojiu! The Holy Dragon Empire occupies most of the area of this continent, and relies on the Heavenly Danger Tianqi Mountain Range to isolate the alien race in the bitter cold land of the north. At the same time, the only gap in the Tianyan Mountain Range, Fengshen Pass, built the Yumen Pass fortress to guard the territory of the empire. Beyond this Jade Gate Pass, there is a vast expanse of wasteland. In order to prevent aliens from driving straight through the plains, and also to serve a warning role, dozens of beacon towers of different sizes and shapes were also built on this plain. These beacon towers are as short as more than ten meters, and the highest is even as high as more than 30 meters, separated by more than ten miles, scattered around the plain.

At this time, on a medium-sized beacon tower at the front of the plain, the soldiers stationed here in charge of guarding were chatting or roasting fires in groups by the battlements, looking leisurely and relaxed. However, it is no wonder that they are not at war, after all, the alien race has not waged war for nearly a thousand years, and at most, some scattered orcs have come here to harass dozens or hundreds recently, and they were quickly shot back by the soldiers on the city wall.

And the supreme commander in this beacon tower was looking at the map in his study, not knowing what to think.

Suddenly, something strange happened!

First of all, a soldier with good eyesight stood on a high lookout and saw the dust in the distance, so he pointed to the distance and shouted, "Look, everyone! There seems to be a lot of things over there!" As soon as he shouted, everyone moved, picked up their weapons, and stood on the battlements and looked into the distance. After a few minutes, the flying dust approached, and only then did all the soldiers see what it was, the strongest attacking class of the orc clan - the elephant soldiers!

Elephant soldiers are an extremely strong orc army, all of which are composed of giant elephants with a height of more than ten meters, and these giant elephants generally carry a huge catapult on their backs, as well as more than a dozen orc soldiers. Catapults can throw boulders and destroy buildings, and soldiers can be thrown to climb the walls, and together with the hooves and tusks of giant elephants, elephants have become a nightmare for human soldiers.

And this elephant soldier has dozens of heads, followed by a large number of orc armies!

The soldiers defending the city were panicked, they had not fought a battle for a thousand years, who had ever seen such a big scene? At this time, the commander who had been staying in the study came out and was also taken aback when he saw this scene. However, he quickly calmed down, because he knew that he couldn't panic, if he panicked, the soldiers below would definitely blow up the camp!

The commander forced himself to calm down, and quickly calculated in his mind that there was an infantry battalion of a thousand infantry, as well as a hundred escorts and several cavalry squads in the beacon. If the death war is absolutely over, and this news must be passed on to the other beacons and emperors!

The commander immediately made a decision and shouted: "The infantry battalion is going to the city! The archers and crossbowmen are on me! Aim at those monsters and fight hard, the personal guards! Send people to light wolf smoke and release carrier pigeons! In short, if you have any means of communication for me, you must notify the other beacons! All the cavalry will go out of the city and disperse for me, and the first and second teams will be dispersed for me, and one person will go to a beacon tower, and you must notify them! The third team will return to the fortress! Notify the military headquarters, and say that the alien race is coming to sneak attack, and quickly! Move!"

With that, the commander also took the hanging sword from the wall, climbed the wall, looked at the approaching enemy, sighed, and turned his head to look at the galloping cavalry and the burning wolf smoke, and his heart was full of absoluteness. He knew that he and his infantry battalion were probably going to be buried here, and that the only task now was to drag this large number of enemies here, as long as possible!

The commander drew his sword and shouted: "Fight for the Empire!" The soldiers also understood what the commander was thinking and their own fate, but death, it was also worth dying!

"Fight for the Empire!Long live the Holy Dragon Empire!" shouted the soldiers as they raised their weapons in their hands. Then, with the sound of ballistas and bows and arrows breaking through the air, all the soldiers on this beacon tower, their faces full of solemnity, but with a little pride, began their first and possibly final battle divinely!

"Boom, boom, boom!" Suddenly, dozens of huge black shadows flew in the distance, which turned out to be huge stones thrown by the catapults carried by elephant soldiers. The boulder weighs several tons, and with the impact of the long-range projection, the bricks and tiles of the city wall will fly sideways the moment it comes into contact with the beacon tower.

"Hell, spread it all out for me!, don't be a target!" the commander roared and pushed away several soldiers who were stunned in place.

And when he turned around, he saw his adjutant, a young man, who had been hit by a stone bullet and had fallen off the wall.

On the city wall, soldiers were hit in at least a dozen places. And other places that were hit by stone bullets were also flying stone chips. Many soldiers had to raise their shields to block the flying stone chips. But there are still many people who have been scratched.

"Bastard!" the commander looked at the soldiers who had died tragically, scolded angrily, pushed away a soldier who was operating the ballista, and pulled the machine hard, and then a faint red light appeared on his hand, and then slowly injected into the giant crossbow. That red light was clearly the standard warrior version of the dragon god's power! Yes, he was a fourth-order peak Great War Master, and he was only one step away from entering the realm of a fifth-order Battle Venerable.

"Die!" the commander pulled the trigger, and the giant arrow with the power of the dragon god burst out at an unparalleled speed, leaving a reddish trail in the sky, directly crossing the kilometer, and hitting a giant elephant. Hearing only a "boom", the giant elephant's whole body exploded, and together with more than a dozen orc soldiers on its back, it became the first group of orcs to die on the battlefield.

After firing this crossbow arrow, the commander also took a few steps back, gasping for breath. Obviously, the kilometer-spanning blow wasn't easy for him either. He shouted as hard as he could, "Don't panic, calm down! Those monsters are nothing." The archers listen to my orders, put on the iron ridge arrows, cover the shots, and the crossbowmen concentrate on a giant elephant, and stop them for me, and must not let them rush to the front of the wall!"

Although the soldiers had never been on a real battlefield, they were able to come to the outermost part of the border to guard the outermost of the border with well-trained soldiers, and after seeing the commander bombard the giant elephant, they were also inspired, courageous, and no longer afraid.

The infantry were all nervously transporting rolling stones, fire oil, and other defensive equipment to the walls, while the archers drew one iron spine after another from their quivers. These Iron Spine Arrows are made entirely of black iron, which is longer, heavier, and more lethal than ordinary feathered arrows, but also more difficult to control, so they are not accurate. However, such a large-area coverage shot, the accuracy or anything is not too important.

And the dozens of giant crossbowmen on the city wall had already formed groups of several and began to divide their labor to shoot at a giant elephant.

"Release!" the commander ordered, and the archers on the wall simultaneously shot the iron-ridged arrows attached to the bows. Suddenly, a rain of arrows flew towards the elephant soldiers like locusts. In an instant, blood splattered in the orc camp and suffered heavy losses. However, more than a dozen elephant soldiers rushed to the city wall in the rain of arrows. Although these giant elephants have been shot like hedgehogs by the rain of arrows, they are thick-skinned and cannot die for a while. Seeing that the attack was under the city wall, it had begun to ram the city wall frantically.

The commander knew that if the elephants were allowed to take the city walls, they would lose their last defenses and be wiped out in the face of thousands of orcs. "Quick, concentrate your attack, archers!" the commander ordered, and the archers understood, drew their iron ridge arrows again, and stood on the battlements and fired wildly at the giant elephants below.

"Boom, boom!" As the archers fired strongly, the elephants finally fell one after another. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Finally killed this terrible group of elephants. And the orcs in the distance didn't give them a chance to breathe at all, and charged directly towards the beacon tower!

"Archers!" shouted the commander. But this time, only a few iron ridge arrows were shot sporadically. It occurred to the commander that the Iron Spine Arrows had run out. Without the commander's command, the archers drew their ordinary feathered arrows at the same time, forming a rain of arrows one after another, blocking the charge of the orcs.

However, after all, the lethality of the feather arrow is not as good as the iron spine arrow, and although the orcs have losses after a round of shooting, it is not so great. They soon reached the walls of the beacon tower and began to climb. Originally, the smooth city wall was difficult to climb, and Rao is no matter how good the orcs are at climbing, they can't find the force point. However, after the elephant soldier collided like this just now, there were many gaps and depressions, which greatly facilitated the orcs to climb.

"Rolling wood, oil, quick!" The equipment prepared by the infantry finally came in handy, and in an instant, rolling stones, logs, and oil poured madly downward, and the first wave of orcs rushing up was quickly defeated. But soon, the second wave, the third wave, wave after wave of orcs seemed to climb upwards without stopping. Although the lethality of the Rolling Wood Stone is large, after all, the number is limited, and after repelling several waves of orcs, the Rolling Wood Stone is finally exhausted. And a new wave of orcs is already about to climb the city wall.

The commander's heart sank, and he understood that the real fight had only begun now. The commander raised his sword high: "Fight for the Empire! Long live the Holy Dragon Empire!" The soldiers also took out their weapons, and at this moment, whether they were infantrymen, archers, or officers, they all drew their weapons, and their hearts were full of death!

"Kill-" The commander's voice spread throughout the beacon tower with the power of the dragon god, and he took the lead, with a fiery red dragon god power on his sword, and slashed fiercely at an orc who rushed up. Suddenly, this beacon tower was full of blood.

......

The commander slowly pulled the sword out of an orc general's body and sat down on the ground. He didn't remember how many waves he had repulsed, only the constant fighting. He had at least a hundred wounds on his body, seven of which were serious, and his lower abdomen was pierced by a spear thrown desperately by an orc, and a small section of his intestines flowed out.

The battlements had long been destroyed by the repeated bombardment of catapults, and the walls were full of cracks. But fortunately, these beacons were built according to the first-level military standards of the Empire, and they were extremely strong, so there was not much problem with the main body.

The soldiers also suffered heavy casualties, and the army was almost completely wiped out. More than a thousand people have fought so far, and less than a hundred remain. And on the city wall, there are already corpses all over the field, some orcs and some humans. Even the floor was soaked in blood and slippery.

One word, tragic!

The commander stumbled to his feet, tore off a piece of clothing, and simply bandaged the bleeding wound. Then he actually laughed, and smiled comfortably, because he did, and he succeeded in delaying the orc attack.

The Commander felt a lot lighter all of a sudden. He supported himself with his sword and walked to the edge of the city wall step by step. In the distance, another orc from the Iron Fang formation rushed over. Behind them, dozens of giant elephants followed, and nearly 100 boulders were thrown from afar. One of them, heading straight for the Commander's front door, closed his eyes, as if hearing the sound of a boulder breaking through the air......

"Mission, done!" was the commander's last thought.

"In the 982nd year of the empire, foreign races launched a strong sneak attack, and more than ten beacon towers on the periphery of the border suffered a devastating blow, and nearly 30,000 soldiers and officers were killed in battle, and none survived. ”

—Annals of the Empire, Vol. XVII, Chapter 68, Section 3