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Naya quickly compiled the battle reports of each ministry and sent them to Liuyun's hands. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

By dusk, when the enemy retreated, the coalition forces had more than 3,000 soldiers killed and nearly 5,000 wounded, and the main casualties occurred in the fierce battle in which the orcs forced their way across the Frostwind River. The five knights who participated in the battle lost a total of more than 300 knights, three dragons, nearly 500 knights were wounded, and ten dragons were injured. And the enemy's losses are relatively much greater. According to rough estimates, the coalition forces have destroyed tens of thousands of undead and orc soldiers, and ten black dragons.

"Are all the wounded settled?" asked Liuyun.

"All were transferred to the rear in time. Naya nodded.

"What do you think of the results of the first day's battle?" Liuyun asked again.

"If you look at the data alone, this result is acceptable. The enemy's offensive was not as strong as we thought, and the losses of the coalition forces were not too heavy. But ......"

"But what?" asked Liuyun.

"It was the first day and we had thousands of wounded and it put a lot of pressure on the rear. I fear that as time goes on, there will be more and more wounded and our logistics will be under tremendous pressure. If these wounded are not treated in a timely manner, it will be a great blow to the morale of the coalition forces. Our enemies, on the other hand, have no such pressure at all. Naya was worried.

"You're quite right. These wounded could not return to the battlefield for a short time, and in fact our losses were about the same as those of the other side. Even more heart-wrenching, my Order has also suffered casualties. Liuyun sighed. The six major knight orders all have well-trained warriors, and the soldiers cannot be replenished in time after being damaged, so it can be said that one dies one less than one.

"If the Knights don't go into battle, the coalition forces alone won't be able to hold the mound. ”

"It seems that only if I personally lead the Knights into battle, can we effectively avoid an increase in casualties. Although he had scruples about the Demon Lord, Liuyun decided to go to the battlefield himself.

"Yun, I think today's battle has a strange aura. You have to be careful. Naya looked at him and said worriedly.

"I also felt something was wrong, but I didn't know where the problem was. Liuyun smiled bitterly.

"I think the crux of the matter is. Why is the Demon Lord fighting a war of attrition with us. It is not easy for the dark forces to regain their strength, and this style of play is quite disadvantageous for them. Naya reminded.

Liuyun fell into deep thought.

"Boss, something is wrong!" Shui Han suddenly broke into the room and said with an anxious expression.

"What's the matter?" Liuyun chuckled in his heart.

"As the soldiers cleaned the battlefield and buried the fragments of the dark creatures, all the bits and pieces came to life and launched a frantic assault on the officers and soldiers. In just a few minutes, we lost hundreds of people. Shui Han said in a deep voice.

"Let's go, let's take a look!" Liuyun's face turned cold.

The three of them soon came to the battlefield.

The sky was filled with stumps of dark creatures flying, chasing and attacking the coalition soldiers. All around, the screams of the coalition soldiers were filled. Someone was stuck in the chest with a bony hand. Someone was bitten by an orc's head, someone was blinded by a broken bone, someone had their head cut off by an arm that flew by a knife...... The battlefield in the night has become a killing ground for Shura, and the terrified coalition soldiers have become the objects of slaughter.

"Brother Liuyun. Suppress these monsters with the light of hope!" Xiao Ka, who was unleashing life magic everywhere to attack the fragments of stumps in the air, suddenly shouted when he saw Liuyun.

The flowing clouds immediately flew into the air, and the Natural Divine Armor radiated a dazzling multicolored brilliance, illuminating the entire battlefield. The flying fragments of stumps fell to the ground in the light, and the battlefield quickly returned to calm.

"Send the wounded to Changfeng City, then gather these things and bury them!" he commanded loudly.

"What the hell is this? What the hell, I turned into this ghost and came out to hurt people!" he scolded angrily as he looked at the dark creature parts that had been thrown into the pit by the soldiers.

"Xiaoyun, we're still careless. These miscellaneous pieces have killed hundreds of soldiers and injured thousands!" Said heartbrokenly.

"We have to be a hundred times more careful! The Demon Lord's control over the dark power can be said to be extreme, and the tricks are endless, which is impossible to guard!" Liuyun smiled bitterly.

At this moment, a Sand officer hurried over. Brings new bad news.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the troops of our army deployed along the river have been attacked by orc soldiers and suffered heavy casualties. Patriarch Ishana is leading people to deal with the aftermath. ”

"Orcs?" Liuyun listened with a headache, "where did they come from, and what about the casualties of the troops?"

"Those who climbed ashore from the river should have fallen overboard during the day's fighting. The sentry spotted them, and we sent our troops to surround them, but they rushed straight into the pile of soldiers and exploded. A few hundred orcs, and we have suffered thousands of casualties. The officer said. He still had some fear in his heart when he thought of the terrible scenes when the orcs exploded.

"Pass my order, the Hurricane Knights and the Thunder Knights will each send half of their troops to closely monitor the enemy situation in the Demon Tomb and the surrounding area, and must not give the enemy any opportunity to take advantage of!" Liuyun Tie blushed and gave an order.

At this moment, a crisp burst of gunfire broke the silence of the night, and the bridgehead erupted with fire, and the battle began again after a short gap.

Under the cover of night, the Dark Legion once again launched an attack on the mound. The short retreat of the enemy seems to be for the sake of these two waves of sneak attacks. After completing the sneak attack, they immediately made a comeback, and the Demon Lord had no intention of giving the coalition time to rest.

"I seem to understand now why the Demon Lord is fighting a war of attrition with us. Looking at the enemies surging up from the Frostwind Bridge, and at the river that was gradually frozen up, Liuyun frowned.

That night, the enraged commander of the coalition army personally led the six knights into battle, and fought a fierce battle against the orc army that had been forced to cross again. Relying on the two skills of the goddess blessing of the nature god armor and the light of hope, Liuyun slaughtered everywhere, wantonly harvesting the lives of the orc soldiers. However, when he was enjoying the killing, the orcs began to retreat, and the mages by the river directly thawed the ice on the river, causing many orcs to fall into the river, and forcing the Flowing Cloud and the Knights to withdraw from the battle.

The enemy began to deliberately avoid Liuyun and his knights. As long as Liuyun and the Knights were not there, they immediately attacked, and as soon as Liuyun and the Knights appeared, they quickly retreated. This shameless style of play made Liuyun and the Knights exhausted and exhausted.

By the early morning of the next day, the coalition forces in the mound had to rotate again. And Liuyun and the six knights, who hardly had any time to rest, fell into a series of bitter battles.

"It seems that the enemy is trying to drag me and the six knights alive!" The morning breeze was blowing, and the flowing clouds on the city wall looked at the undead soldiers who kept pouring across the Frostwind Bridge, and their hearts were very heavy.

In this world, there is only one army that can fight day and night, without any logistical support, and can even turn fallen soldiers into weapons to kill and wound the enemy, and that is the Dark Army. Any opponent in front of such an army will run into great trouble.

Coalition casualties are mounting, and the unexpected can happen at any time. He and the six knights have now become the core force of the mound's defense. But this is not a long-term solution, he and the Knights are flesh and blood, and it is impossible to stay on the front line of the battle all the time. As long as he slacks off a little, the enemy may deal a heavy blow to the Demon Tomb, and by that time, the Demon Lord will reappear, and the situation will be difficult to manage.

"It seems that we can only fight with the enemy like this for a few days first!" Liuyun let out a long sigh without a good solution.

"Just received a piece of information that may explain why the enemy is fighting a war of attrition with us!" Naya said as she hurried to his side with a gloomy face.

"What information?" asked Liuyun.

"There is news from within the Kosling Empire that the Demon Lord has sent several armies to capture civilians in the empire and send them to the city of San Royo. Naya replied.

Liuyun felt a chill in his heart when he heard this. It turns out that the enemy is not afraid of attrition, but while consuming, he is replenishing his forces.

At this moment, he finally understood the Demon Lord's intentions: he just wanted to trap him alive in the Demon Tomb through a war of attrition. This is the easiest way and the most effective.

"What are you thinking?" asked Naya softly, seeing him silent for a long time.

"This is definitely bad news!" Liuyun sighed, "but we can't muster the strength to deal with the army he left behind in the empire right now. ”

Guarding the pain, the risk of attacking is even greater, and under the mound, a painful tug-of-war and war of attrition is inevitable. But if it continues like this, the outcome may not be optimistic.

"It's better to order Lieyang and Reak to postpone the attack on the capital of the Koslin Empire, and go all out to search for the dark army operating in the empire. Naya suggested.

"Alright!" Liuyun nodded, "Order them, as long as they find the dark army, they will defeat me at all costs!"

"Good!" Naya turned to leave.

In the days that followed, the fighting was not interrupted for a moment.

Liuyun led the six knights to crisscross the battlefield and repelled the attack of a ** enemy. Lao Ka also led the magic guide group and started a magic battle with the dark elf mage. And Xiaoka's help made the battle of the magic group achieve brilliant results, eliminating nearly 100 dark elf mages at a small cost, and achieving the most gratifying small victory for Liuyun since the beginning of the war.

However, the Coalition casualties were mounting, the wounded soldiers were being sent to the rear, and the pressure on Liberty City was increasing. Sophie and her people, along with the doctors of the Free City-State who had been improvised together, worked tirelessly to treat the wounded, but the growing number of wounded soldiers gradually overwhelmed them. Some of the soldiers with minor injuries were sent to the surrounding cities to recuperate after a brief treatment.

"What the hell is the goddess doing?" Liuyun finally couldn't bear it anymore, found Mengyue, and asked angrily, "Is she going to watch the people of the coalition army die, and then fight the demon lord alone?"

"Liuyun, I am the goddess, I have always been there. Mengyue looked at him and sighed lightly.