Chapter 157: A Chaotic Front
Just as the Isttalon garrison was relieving itself, the Earthwalker Legion's offensive changed again. (For the latest chapter reading, please visit)
The gigantic diggers abandoned their acid-spitting ranged attacks and crawled out of the ground to pounce on the walls. They devoured everything they went with their bloody mouths open, including the walls and the soldiers on them. Their gigantic bodies have become walls of protection against human bows and arrows, and they would rather be shot as hedgehogs than provide cover for the Earthwalker forces behind.
This spirit of self-sacrifice must be a heroic story to sing and cry for humans, but it is nothing more than a traditional tactic for the landwalkers. These improvised mass-produced units were not self-conscious at all and simply unconditionally obeyed the orders of their commanders as expendables.
As soon as the Legion of Local Walkers committed a full-fledged assault with real regular troops, humanity was immediately plunged into a bitter battle.
El's axe split the skull of a spider knight, narrowly avoiding the onslaught of the Mantes raiders lying on its back, kicking it off the ramparts. He wiped a handful of sticky green blood from his face, and looked around, seeing that the walls on the north side of Isttalon were all in the midst of a scuffle.
Isttalon's human armies are not unexperienced in fighting with the Earthwalker Legion, and they are also somewhat familiar with the Earthwalker Legion's combat style. In the battle sequences of the Earthwalker Legion, the mass-produced units that have been temporarily hatched are as expendable as the bows and arrows stored by humans.
In the last Redstone Ridge War, the battle between the humans and the landwalkers for several days was actually a competition of attrition, and the regular troops of Langaria barely entered the battlefield, and the knights of the human side also kept their entire formation. The war was nothing more than an insignificant friction for both sides, so the peace talks that followed went exceptionally well.
According to El's prediction, if the current Groundwalker Legion wants to capture Isttalon, the commander of the opposing side will definitely send a large number of mass-produced troops to attack the city day and night, consume the human defense force while waiting for the opportunity to find a flaw, and wait until the human army shows fatigue, and then use regular troops to break through the city wall in one go.
Theoretically, this was the safest tactical plan, and Istalon was attacked on both sides, and was unable to launch a counterattack at all, so he could only respond passively. Any clear-thinking commander, even someone like El who has been promoted in the line of fire, knows what choice to make.
However, the Earthwalker Legion resolutely launched a frenzied all-out general attack. (For the latest chapter reading, please visit)
Various regular Earthwalker troops, including the Spider Riders, formed in small squads and mixed with the waves of Flame Hounds, launched a massive attack on Isttalen. All sorts of strange insects rushed under the walls under the cover of the gigantic digger's body, and engaged in a fierce battle with the human soldiers.
Because of their lives in the underworld, the Earthwalker Legion rarely has the ability to fly, except for reconnaissance troops. However, there are many regular troops with strong climbing and bouncing abilities, and the tall walls of Isttalon are not a problem for them.
The real trouble was that these regular forces did not receive any specific orders other than to attack with all their might.
The combat method of the Ground Walking Legion is very focused on tactical coordination, and in order to adapt to various battlefields, dozens of combat units are often deployed in the legion. The soldiers of the regular units directly under the corps are accustomed to obeying the specific instructions of the commander in war, such as when to enter the battlefield, what targets to choose, which troops to cooperate with, how to retreat, and so on.
However, due to some unspeakable reasons, this time the front commander was forced to give the order for a full-scale attack, but he did not expect that this order would put the regular army fighters who strictly followed the order into a chaotic situation.
It was like a human army of mercenaries, security forces, garrisons, and knights huddled together, and the chaos could be imagined.
The walls of Isttalon may seem wide, but they can only accommodate a limited number of troops. When hundreds of spider knights jumped on the walls and fought the human soldiers, there was no place for it. In the fighting, the unlucky people on both sides constantly fell from the wall, and most of them were squeezed down alive. Standing inside and outside the city walls, the humans and Earthwalker warriors who stared at each other and couldn't squeeze in were all anxious but helpless.
The Landwalkers first found a solution to the problem by using the Diggers' body to build a ladder outside the walls, allowing the Flame Hound to climb the walls, and after a brilliant series of self-explosions, both the enemy and the enemy suffered heavy losses.
Under the unreasonable orders of the front-line commanders, the weaknesses of the Landwalker Legion were also clearly exposed. The mass-produced troops hatched by the War King Worm are too targeted, and once the battle situation changes, it can easily become waste. The self-detonating flame hounds, which were designed for siege purposes, were not at all suitable for coordination with other troops, so they had to retreat and stand by. The human soldiers quickly filled the void in the walls, and the landwalkers ascended to the top of the city again, and the battle returned to its original entanglement
After a brief period of confusion, the regular troops of the Earthwalkers finally showed their due posture with their previous combat experience, and began to perform various tricks. The winged ones fluttered up and flew into the air, and the ones that could dig holes began to dig the roots of the walls, in short, each showed that they could climb over the walls and attack the interior of the city.
But on the human side, the blocks behind the walls have already been laid out with layers of barricades. In fact, only the inner city of Isttalon was a real military fortress, and the outer city that developed later was designed as a defensive zone from the time of its construction, even more complex than the fortifications on the city walls.
Even if the Groundwalker legions climb over the walls, they will have to face the Isttalon veterans who are sharpening their knives.
El climbed to the top of the tower and looked around, and found that the battle was raging as far as the eye could see, and the Earthwalkers had invaded the eight cities on the inner side of the city walls, engaged in bloody hand-to-hand combat with the human reserves. Almost all of the buildings have been turned into battlegrounds for the two sides.
He looked up into the distance, and saw that the dark canopy of the sky that shrouded the east was also approaching little by little, and it might not be long before it engulfed the city, and Isttalon was on the verge of falling.
A flash of light slashed across the edge of the wall, and Palanti clutched her shoulders and flew back below the tower, where a massive insect warrior strode toward her with a battle axe the size of a door panel.
El asked Palanti to go back to accept the family inheritance before, originally hoping that she would evacuate directly, but she didn't expect the little girl to be stubborn and run back alone. I don't know what she inherited that could directly raise her strength to the Silver High Rank, but even so, her strength couldn't turn the tide of this war.
There is also no shortage of silver-rank powerhouses in the Earthwalker Legion, and with their strength enough to kill places that El and Ahmed can't take care of, ordinary human soldiers can't resist at all. The big insect warrior in front of him was the most rampant, relying on the strong protection ability of the carapace on his body, he was not afraid of the bow and arrow shooting of the same rank at all, and he stayed here to contain Ahmed in turn.
El's eyes froze, and he opened his bow and shot an arrow at his eye, Ahmed is good at fast arrows with a short bow, and he is naturally lacking in power, while the dragon's tooth pulley bow used by El is just the other extreme, paying attention to stability and ruthlessness. Even if he couldn't shoot through the skin of the Obsidian Fabricated Titan, at least it could do effective damage to monsters like the Purple Demon God, and he didn't believe that this stupid big man was also immortal.
I don't know if it's too much confidence, the insect warrior didn't mean to dodge at all, he just subconsciously turned his head, and the whistling long arrow snorted through the collarbone under his neck and pierced out from behind.
The Worm Warrior looked at the arrow on his body in disbelief, and instead of a half-pained expression on his face, he showed a twisted excitement. He grabbed the handle of the half-piece of the arrow that was exposed, snapped it into pieces, and laughed.
"This arrow is strong enough, but it is not enough to kill Lao Tzu! no matter how much you poor worms struggle in vain, there is no point in your highness, long live Your Highness Langa Akalian!"
"It's embarrassing to be called a bug by a bug, don't you bed bugs have a little self-knowledge?" El scolded, drawing his axe and jumping from the tower, slashing at the head of the bug warrior.
"Good time! Let me meet the strong men of the human race! I am Lilwater, the front-line commander of His Highness Ranga Akalian!" The Bugman Warrior laughed and raised his axe, not noticing that Palanti was secretly standing up against the wall and took a deep breath in his direction.
A deafening roar of a male lion suddenly sounded in the ears of the insect warrior, and a huge sound wave shook his head blank and shook involuntarily. El took advantage of the opportunity to kick over the great axe in his hand, which slashed at his thick neck, splitting it in half.
"Damn, you shameless!" Lilwater howled angrily, and he jerked his neck, gripping El's axe tightly, before reaching out to grab El's body. El grabbed the handle of the axe and flipped over to hang on his back, patting himself on the chest, and the little Langa, who was in touch with him, sprang out and stung Lilwater with his scorpion-like tail.
Lilwater let out a scream that was even sharper than Palanti's lion's roar just now, and he almost had half of his head cut off by El and didn't react, but he couldn't stand a plot from little Langa, and couldn't care about El anymore, covering his head and rolling all over the ground in pain.
As a royal bloodline of the Earthwalker, Little Langa was born with the innate ability of the upper class, and was especially effective against the attacks of ordinary Earthwalkers, just like the dragon's innate suppression of wurmmon.
El patted little Langa on the head in appreciation, and then kicked the idiot front-line commander of the Earthwalker Legion just in time for Lilwater to roll to the edge of the wall. (Go read OM) (Jiangsu.com)