Chapter 122: Pirates and Naga's Sneak Attack
Blood flowed beneath the Thor Mountains, and as the war dragged on and the Imperial hoplites joined the battlefield, the battle was completely deadlocked. The heavy infantry replaced the cavalry with heavy casualties as the main combat force on the battlefield, and the Eagle Knights no longer launched the suicidal collective charge like before, thus changing the style of courage and indomitability, and instead cooperating with the magicians on the battlefield to harass the battlefield on both sides of the waist and abdomen, they are like wolves on both sides of the magic army, ready to pounce on their belly defense line at any time, ready to pounce on them and bite them when they are slack.
The Magic Legion has already invested five legions on the battlefield, and this is the first time since the establishment of this ace army that so many troops have been invested in the same battlefield on such a large scale.
But if these four powerful ace legions want to crush the Eagle Knights and the heavy infantry, it is still not very difficult, but the Emperor ** Regiment has changed its tactical play, no longer fighting to the death with the magic legion, but using the offensive strategy of frontal confrontation with the infantry, harassment on both sides of the cavalry, and magic auxiliary attack.
The Magic Legion has been battle-hardened and is willing to fight a war with their opponents, they have put one and a half legions of magic swordsmen to compete with the opponent's heavy infantry on the frontal battlefield, and at the same time arranged a powerful magic array and two legions of magic swordsmen on both sides, and the last remaining people are placed at the end, ready to support and guard against the cavalry's outflanking attack.
This kind of tragic attribution battle is the appetite of the magic army, they are not extremely mobile troops themselves, these powerful magic swordsmen have the terrible force of all-attack and defense, they are like giants wielding hammers, each blow slowly dents the opponent's formation, and consumes the opponent's strength little by little.
The Magic Legion, on the other hand, relied on its own powerful magical defense and armor protection, with very few casualties, and the battle situation was in a stalemate, tilting towards the Magic Legion very slowly.
This stalemate lasted for a day, until it was dark and nightfall, and then the two sides were separated.
Tang Jie, Fiona, and Octavier took advantage of the darkness to slip down the Thor Mountains.
The so-called easy to go up the mountain, difficult to go down the mountain, when Tang Jie and his party went down to the foot of the mountain, it was already noon the next day, and the magic army and the emperor ** regiment fought fiercely again.
This time the battle was even more intense than the previous day, especially the speed at which the support and attack transitions between the mages on both sides were dizzying.
From the very beginning, the magicians of the Emperor ** Regiment used earth magic, causing the earth to collapse or collapse, resulting in a flaw in the front line of the Magic Legion, and the magicians of the Magic Legion quickly arranged a magic forbidden area around the legion to block any magic from entering this area, and the magic legion entered a fully defended situation.
Seeing this situation, the magicians of the empire began to release auxiliary magic for their warriors, but as soon as their chanting spell sounded, the magicians of the magic legion immediately revoked the magic forbidden area and frantically released a round of thunderbolt-based thunderball magic, dealing a heavy blow to the heavily armored infantry in front.
The magic warriors in front of the front took this opportunity to push the battle line one step further, swinging their long knives, and the full defense instantly transformed into a full attack.
Tang Jie was at the foot of the Sol Mountains, far away from the battlefield, he could feel the tragic murderous aura approaching from a distance, and the shouts of killing shook his hair and skin, making his heart awe-inspiring.
He, Fiona, and Octavier waited in the distance for the battle to end, and then took advantage of the chaos to re-infiltrate Mozambique.
But in fact, this war was much longer than he imagined, and the chaos in Mozambique City far exceeded Tang Jie's expectations.
The war between the Magic Legion and the Eagle Knights lasted for five days, and the Emperor ** Regiment was injured more than half, but it was still a puzzling battle to the death.
By the fifth day of the war, the war had finally become known to most people about the war beneath the Sol Mountains, and rumors began to circulate in the streets of Mozambique under the motives of the Kelsman family.
In the case of the magic legion sending as many as five but still unable to defeat the strong enemy, many merchants and travelers of Mozambique chose to leave this prosperous magical capital, and then, due to the departure of these merchants, a large number of goods were sold at extremely low prices, a large number of shops closed, countless goods piled up but no one cared, and countless ships left Mozambique every day, and people everywhere panicked.
The disadvantages of Mo Sanbik's over-reliance on foreign chambers of commerce and merchants came out in an instant, and the seemingly prosperous business system of this magical capital was on the verge of collapse in just two days.
The elders of the Supreme Magic Council were almost in a mess, some of them thought that they should immediately send the last remaining magic legion to the battlefield to support, while others thought that if the last remaining magic legion was sent, it would inevitably lead to the emptiness of the garrison in Mozambique, which would put Mozambique in an extremely dangerous situation.
The magician who advocated support stamped his feet and roared loudly: Mozambique has fallen into an extremely dangerous situation, everything in front of him is caused by the fact that this battle broke out outside the city not far from Mozambique, and it cannot be solved in a short time to achieve victory, as long as the battle is won, everything will be solved!
The mage, who did not advocate support, waved his magic wand and retorted loudly: four magic legions would be enough to settle the battle, but it would only take a little longer. The problem of Mozambique City is not a problem at all, what we need to do now is to quickly quell the chaos in the city!
The two factions quarreled back and forth, but no one came up with a specific idea, and finally Harris made a final decision with a gloomy face: send the remaining magic legion stationed in the city out of the city to quickly resolve the battle outside the city, and at the same time, the city issued an emergency war order and an emergency conscription order, and selected a large number of magic warriors with combat experience and systematic training from the magic guards and magic apprentices to form a temporary eleventh magic legion, and through the remaining magic guards to carry out strict military control in the city, severely crack down on illegal traders who maliciously sell goods, and carry out military blockade of all ports and city gates。
I have to say that most of the magicians in the Supreme Magic Council are academic or practical magicians, they may be proficient in magic, maybe proficient in combat, but their understanding and control of politics and economics are too far from Harris.
To some extent, this has also created a situation where Harris is alone.
When Harris's order was given, the heavily armed magical warriors were armed and a makeshift magical legion was re-formed. The combat effectiveness of this magic legion is far from comparable to the ten legions with extremely rich combat experience from the first to the eleventh, but they are absolutely competent if they are used to replace the regular legions to garrison and assist in the defense of the city.
Harris's idea was satisfactory to both those who advocated support and those who did not, and with the implementation of military control in Mozambique, merchants who maliciously sold goods were arrested and imprisoned, and the security and business environment in the city was immediately improved.
All the magicians were celebrating and looking forward to the low-hanging victory beneath the Thor.
But what none of them expected was that at the moment when Harris's military control order was issued, two merchant ships flying the flag of the Noah's Continental Chamber of Commerce slowly docked at the port of Mozambique.
The two ships had a deep draft, which quickly caught the attention of the Magical Guards in the harbor, who came forward to investigate and found that the two ships were laden with a large amount of food and that there was nothing else wrong with them.
After careful inspection, the magical guards let the two ships into the harbor without paying further attention.
But they did not find that although these two ships were full of food, the number of sailors on board far exceeded the number of sailors of normal merchant ships, and these sailors were all powerful, their eyes were cold, and the long knives on their waists were mostly serrated scimitars.
Moreover, the captain of both ships was a one-eyed dragon of medium stature with an eye patch on his head.
If the Magical Guards were careful enough or well-informed, they would be surprised to learn that this one-eyed dragon was none other than none other than the most feared pirate king in the Kadra Seas: Tony Ark!
"Captain Tony, those guys are gone!" a burly first mate stood next to Tony Ark, looking at the departing Magic Guard.
"Thanks for the reminder, I think I have one eye left, I'm not blind!" Tony Ark smiled, fingers twitching the handle of the scimitar at his waist.
The captain's words made the pirates around him who disguised themselves as chamber of commerce sailors grin, one by one showing their yellow and black teeth, and their faces were hideous.
"Send the order down and let the guys sneak into the city, get into their respective positions, and activate it as soon as you hear the reserved signal!" Tony Ark had a smile on his face, but his voice was cold and chilling.
Soon, nearly half of the pirates disembarked from the merchant ships, disguised as ordinary chamber of commerce sailors, and quickly dispersed into all corners of Siss.
When night fell again, Tony Jacker and his men climbed to the top of the harbor bridge with the help of hooks.
Taking advantage of the cover of night, these fierce and ferocious Kadra pirates quietly and quickly killed the magical guards on the flyover.
Then the Kadra pirates began to destroy the magic circles on the flyovers at a rapid pace.
One of the reasons why Mozambique is known as the Mighty City is that it has a powerful magic shield and countless magical attack posts to protect the city.
Anyone who wants to invade Mozambique must first pass through the shielding and blocking of the magic shield, followed by the numerous magic guards on the flyover.
But now, the Imperial legions were not far from Mozambique, and the city's permanent military forces were almost completely emptied, and the port overpass fell at a jaw-dropping speed under the sudden attack of the Kadra pirates.
One after another, the magic attack posts were destroyed, and the sound of explosions when the magic posts on the overpass were destroyed suddenly woke up the sleeping and panicked city.
Soon, a large number of magical guards and magicians rushed towards the harbor and the overpass.
Tony Ark smirked and ordered his men to blow the conch in his hand, and then brandished his serrated scimitar to lead the pirates on a rampage across the overpass.
"Woo......"
A low trumpet sounded in the thick night, shaking the air and shaking the starry sky.
The magic guards and magicians who rushed to the port were horrified to find that outside the sea surface of the harbor's protective cover, the sea level was constantly rising, and a shocking wave rose out of thin air, and then rumbled towards their heads!
With a "boom", the huge wave smashed on the magic cover above the port, shaking the whole city violently, and the magic cover in mid-air suddenly lit up in the dark night, and colorful ripples spread everywhere.
This huge wave smashed on the magic cover, and immediately shattered into countless waves, but then these waves fell into the sea, gathered again, and gradually formed the appearance of a person.
This huge water element was more than thirty meters high, and it swung its fists and smashed at the magic cover one after another, and the magic cover in the middle of the air was vibrated one after another to release a halo of magic light.
Seeing this, the magic guards and magicians rushed towards the magic bridge like crazy.
This is because the Magic Bridge not only has a magic circle that can increase the strength and speed of the magician, but also a magic circle that maintains the magic cover.
The magic attack post can be lost, but if the magic array of this magic cover is lost, then this huge water element will set off a terrible tsunami, and the port of Mozambique will be swallowed up and flooded in an instant!
The notoriety of the Kerkadela pirates is not in vain, Tony Ark himself is also a powerful eighth-level sword fighter, and the magicians floating in the air dare not release their magic for fear of damaging the bridge and the magic array on the bridge, under the crazy impact of these pirates, these magic guards who want to rush back to the bridge are beaten back by these pirates who are extremely good at hand-to-hand combat.
The battle on the flyover lasted less than ten minutes, and due to the lack of the support of the magic array magic power, the magic cover above the port of Mozambique finally collapsed under the ferocious attack of the huge water elemental!
Before the magical guards and magicians who had arrived to support the harbor could express their shock, they were immediately swept away by the ensuing stormy waves.
Even the magic guards and pirates on the overpass suffered with it, and a huge wave washed the magic guards on the overpass clean, and many of them fell from the sky to the ground, killing many of them.
There are also some pirates who are experienced in sea storms and waves who curled up in a ball at the first time, hiding under the stone pillars of the overpass, and clinging to the pillars tightly, so that they were not washed away.
Tony Ark was one of them, he got up from the overpass soaking wet, and shouted instructions to the remaining pirates to continue destroying the other magic arrays, while he jumped down from the skybridge dozens of meters high, fell to the ground like a meteorite, and smashed a small crater with a bang.
"You bastards, you know how many of my buddies were killed in that instant?" Tony Jacker turned to the dark and undulating sea behind him, roaring loudly.
The dark and surging sea slowly revealed a group of black pressed figures, their figures squirming forward one by one, and when their bodies were completely exposed to the sea, the eyes of the magic guards who were swept away by the stormy waves widened, and they shouted in horror: "Naga, it's the Naga! Damn, go and report to the Supreme Magic Council, the Naga are attacking us!"
The Naga are the most mysterious of the three races created by Tira, the god of the sea.
When the sea god Tira was in charge of the sea, he created the three major races of sea fish, sea dragon and Naga, but in the pursuit of the sea god Tila by Raphael, the god of the sky, the sea dragon clan and the sea fish clan were all wiped out, and only the Naga tribe was left with the three major sea races participating in the god war.
This mighty race, skilled in magic and hand-to-hand combat, lives in the deepest depths of the ocean's sea, rarely surfaces, let alone landstruck, and some sailors who spend their days afloat on the sea never see the true face of the Naga for the rest of their lives.
Unlike the Sea Fish, the Naga have a beautiful appearance and the ability to change freely, and if they are examined by human aesthetics, they are deservedly ugly.
Without exception, they are all human-headed snake bodies, with thick serpentine bodies below the waist and abdomen, and they rely on the powerful scales below their abdomen to propel themselves forward, these scales are extremely hard to resist the high intensity of magic and fighting energy, equivalent to a layer of natural armor covering the Nagas.
The only difference between them and snakes from the waist down is that on the tail, the Nagar have a fishtail, while the snake does not.
The Naga people are in the shape of a human from the waist and abdomen upwards, but most of them have blue-black skin because they live on the bottom of the sea all year round, and the skin is covered with a layer of fine fish scales, which are much more delicate than the fish scales on the tail below the waist and abdomen.
The males of the Naga are invariably exceptional warriors, most of them are over two meters tall, armed with tridents, extremely powerful, extremely adept at hand-to-hand combat, and most awe-inspiringly, they are naturally proficient in advanced water magic, not only driving terrifying tsunamis, but also summoning huge water elementals to help them fight.
Compared with the males of the Naga tribe, the females of the Naga tribe are much more delicate, their tallest figure is only one meter six, and the fish body below the waist and abdomen is also much more beautiful, and even some of the Naga females are almost no different from humans, but the fish scales on their faces and the hard horns on their heads make them look very terrifying.
Although these females of the Naga tribe do not have strong scale armor protection or strong hand-to-hand combat abilities, they are proficient in all kinds of auxiliary magic, and are able to cast powerful negative magic to afflict their enemies in torment and pain.
After destroying Mozambique's magic cover, the Nagas landed ashore, their massive serpentine bodies rattling the hard ground of the harbor with a rustling sound.
One of the male Nagar people at the head heard Tony Yak's loud roar, and the fins on either side of his cheek flapped for a hissing sound, and then his voice hummed, "Captain Tony, stop complaining! If you have time to complain, you might as well spend your time on the rich treasure plundering of Mozambique!"
Tony Yak smirked, "That's right!" With a wave of his hand, he led his pirates to roar along the harbor towards the bustling streets of Mozambique.
The pirates sent by Tony Ark to all corners of the city took advantage of the darkness and began to set fires everywhere.
The terrified magicians and the inhabitants of Mozambique fled in panic, they didn't know who the enemy was, they didn't know what was going on, why the indestructible Mozambique was breached!
The pirates were desperately trying to create chaos and fear in the chaos, and they didn't even have to wield their own scimitars, and these panicked magicians who almost "bombed the camp" began to kill each other because they couldn't recognize the enemy.
For a time, Mo Sanbik was in flames, shouting and killing, and the prosperous magic capital **** fell into the abyss of blood and fire!
As Agatha had predicted, the scheming Chryza XVI would not send his best troops to their deaths.
This terminally ill old man, unable to get out of bed, unable to even take care of himself, used his barely able to think and turn his brain to play a huge game of chess, pressing step by step!
He used his elite Eagle Knights to take the initiative to pose an offensive posture under the Thor Mountains, and this treacherous and cunning emperor expected that Harris had successfully placed the magic queen Fiona under house arrest and secretly transferred back to the three magic legions.
Sure enough, as expected by Kriza XVI, the stubborn Harris wanted to take the opportunity of defeating the Eagle Knights to build momentum for his ascension to the throne, so he chose to take the initiative to attack.
And Harris's response hit the heart of Kriza XVI, and then the old emperor's back hand unleashed one move after another, each blow hit Harris where it hurt the most, forcing him to breathe.
The Kadra pirates are nothing more than a pack of wolves scattered by the smell of blood and treasure, and if they are given enough good, they will roar and attack Mozambique, as well as the Naga.
In the agreement conspired by Kriza XVI, the pirates will divide the civil wealth of the city, the Naga will possess the various treasures and artifacts of the magicians, and the Emperor ** team will completely occupy the land of Mozambique and the wealth of the Supreme Magic Council!
Kriza XVI's airtight, two-pronged strategy was a great success, and the empty Mozambique allowed the pirates and Nagas to drive in and nearly fall.
However, on this huge chessboard, no one expected that an inconspicuous small chess piece would suddenly come out of the air from the middle of the road......
Tang Jie looked at the blazing Mosanbik from afar, and said in a deep voice to Fiona who was stunned beside him: "Let's go, it's time for us to play!"