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St. Peter's Castle is located on the border of the Bantu Empire, with a flat river in front of it and penetrating into the southern part of the vast continent, and in the back, with the Ural Mountains in the background, it guards the Ural Gorge from the Bantu Empire to the Deira Empire. For thousands of years, in order to pass through the southern part www.biquge.info of the continent, the Holy See has used St. Peter's Castle as a springboard, and spent a lot of materials and manpower here.

The entire castle is built on a hill, and it is more of a giant level than a large castle. The tall walls rise from the ground, all made of the black Ula iron ore unique to the Ural Mountains, which is strong and wear-resistant, and has not been worn out for thousands of years, and the tall magic towers pierce the clear blue sky, and as long as the energy such as hedron and monster crystal nuclei is sufficient, the attack range is as high as 1,500 steps. The whole castle is majestic, like a behemoth, stuck in the exit of the Ural Grand Canyon.

The castle has a large population, with a permanent population of more than five million, and the number is even more staggering if you add in the mobile merchant groups, mercenaries, adventurers, etc. The city has complete supporting facilities, with many taverns and hotels, a huge St. Peter's Church, a barracks with many soldiers, and the headquarters of the famous Ural mercenary group on the mainland.

If the Basilica is the base of the Holy See in the south, then St. Peter's Castle is the springboard and material center of the Holy See in the south. Strategic materials such as weapons, armor, and food from the north of the Draa Empire were transferred here and then continuously delivered to more than 100 churches and countless strongholds of the Holy See in the south.

The missionary elder of the Holy See, Doreac, once proudly said that even if there was an unprecedented natural disaster on the continent [***], even if no food could be bought, the inhabitants of St. Peter's Castle would survive five years on the supplies they had stockpiled. Feeding millions of people for five long years, even if Doreak is a bit exaggerated, you can imagine how huge the materials stored in the castle are!

In order to protect St. Peter's Castle, the Holy See has more than 80,000 permanent troops here. Since the Monster Leader launched a surprise attack and quickly destroyed one church after another, the remaining people of the Holy See in the south have basically shrunk here, and the number of Guardian Knights and Magicians of various names together has reached an astonishing 120,000, and if you add the large mercenary groups supported by the Holy See such as the Ural Mercenary Regiment, the soldiers who can fight are as high as 150,000.

The tall walls, the powerful magic tower, the abundant supplies, and the army of up to 150,000 people all add up to make St. Peter's Castle as impregnable as an iron bucket. Whether it was the soldiers defending the city, the fanatical believers, or the missionaries and triatologists who had fled from all over the south, none of them believed that the Warcraft Territory could still take this fortified city, and the high-ranking members of the Holy See, such as the high-ranking Pope and Elder Webb, were no exception!

They believed that as long as they narrowed their sphere of influence and concentrated all their forces to hold St. Peter's Castle, they would not only be able to withstand the massive attack of the Dark Guild and the Warcraft Lord, but also protect the last fortress of the Holy See in the south, and even launch a deadly counterattack against the enemy army at a critical moment. Inspired by Cardinal Carell, the soldiers were demoralized, as if they had seen the dawn before darkness, full of confidence in the majestic St. Peter's Castle.

After a full ten days, after lightning swept through more than 100 churches and hundreds of small strongholds of the Holy See in the south of the mainland, Yang Ling led his army to the Ural Mountains and came to the majestic St. Peter's Castle. As long as this castle is destroyed, the power of the Holy See in the south will be completely crushed!

"Yang Ling, do you have any good way to break the city?" Looking at the majestic St. Peter's Castle, Cruyff shook his head helplessly.

"You say, apart from the strong attack, what other good way can there be?" Looking at the team brought by Elder Cruyff, Yang Ling shook his head and smiled bitterly, "If you bring 180,000 elite dark soldiers, there will be no problem in capturing St. Peter's Castle, but if you bring such more than 10,000 old, weak, sick and disabled, I'm afraid it won't be enough for others to stuff their teeth!"

In order to move forward quickly, the Dark Great Elder led a large army to raid the base camp of the Holy See through small paths, and although many strongholds of the Holy See were uprooted along the way, the hard-boned St. Peter's Castle was handed over to Yang Ling. Although Elder Cruyff led a team to support, there were only more than 10,000 people, and what was worse was that they were either newly recruited recruits, or they were old and sick guys. Raising flags and shouting is almost impossible, counting on them to fight bloodily, and storming the majestic St. Peter's Castle!

Unlike the Steel Horn Castle, St. Peter's Castle has countless stored materials, and the magic tower has formed a magic cover with an astonishing range under the full operation, which greatly shields people's spiritual power, and Yang Ling can't teleport in through witchcraft such as Earth Escape and Wind Escape after trying a few times. In addition to the strong attack, he couldn't think of any good way to break the city for a while.

"This"

Looking at the more than 10,000 soldiers behind him, Cruyff smiled awkwardly. He also wanted to break through St. Peter's Castle, destroy the springboard for the Holy See to enter the south, and completely eradicate their power in the south, but in order to concentrate his forces on raiding the base camp of the Holy See and deal a heavy blow to the other side, the Great Elder had taken almost all the elites he could muster. In a hurry, more than 10,000 recruits and wounded soldiers were mobilized to support, which was already the limit of the Dark Society.

"My lord, St. Peter's Castle is heavily guarded and has many soldiers, and it is definitely not a rational choice to storm it. Seeing Yang Ling's brows furrowed slightly, General Asnamo stepped forward to express his opinion, "The subordinates think that the upper strategy is to send people to blend in, use the magic teleportation array to quickly transport troops, and break through from the inside of the castle; the middle strategy is to lure out the soldiers defending the city and eliminate their main force through field battles; the next strategy is to issue a war mobilization order and gather all the soldiers who can go into battle to attack!"

"Okay, Asnamo, you test the strength of the castle first, and if you can't get in, try to lure them out to fight in the field!" It is naturally best to be able to lure out the main force of the other party, otherwise, if you forcibly attack the city, I am afraid that even if you win, you will have to pay a heavy price.

Ashnamo was wise and brave, quickly took the order and left, and soon led the soldiers into action. First of all, send people to infiltrate St. Peter's Castle as best they can, hoping to attack from the inside of the castle. Unfortunately, after learning the news that Yang Ling led the army to kill, Cardinal Archbishop Karel ordered the wall to be cleared, and no one was allowed to enter or leave. Only people who are confirmed to be inside the Holy See can be hung from near the city gate through hanging baskets, and ordinary people cannot enter the city even if they spend a lot of money.

I couldn't do it, so I had to change the way!

Ashnamo successively sent a dragon-blooded warrior riding a two-legged wyvern and a soldier riding a horned eagle to approach St. Peter's Castle in the hazy moonlight, hoping to sneak in and find a remote corner to build a magic teleportation array, and quickly teleport troops to the castle. Unfortunately, there was a mage on duty at intervals on the city wall, and the drac-blooded warriors and the horned eagle warriors could hide from the patrolling soldiers, but they couldn't hide the magician's detection magic, and they were discovered from far away. Immediately after, he was killed on the spot by the magic tower's terrifying lightning and fireball attack magic.

Even when the Dragon-Blood Warrior rode around the walls of the city on a bipedal wyvern and swooped down like lightning from the sky, he was quickly spotted by the mage's detection magic. The sky of the entire St. Peter's Castle has been covered by heavy detection magic, not to mention the large magical beasts, even the small flies that have always been unable to fly in!

In desperation, Asnamo had no choice but to send his soldiers to attack, with the assistance of the Warcraft army, to clear the Holy See's eyes and ears and patrols on the periphery of the castle, and then go to the castle every day to provoke, hoping to lure out the main force of the defenders. Unexpectedly, Cardinal Archbishop Karel was more cunning than an old fox and calmer than an old cow, and strictly forbade the soldiers to go into battle without authorization, leading the army to shrink their heads and remain motionless like turtles. No matter what the provocative soldiers did, they just didn't fight, and even when they saw the fugitive missionaries and cathar knights being brutally pursued by the Warcraft Leader soldiers, they were unmoved.

Although the steel knife is sharp, there is no way to start when you encounter a thousand-year-old turtle!

After the upper and middle strategies did not work, Ashnamo could not think about it, so he had to concentrate his soldiers to launch a tentative attack. It's a pity, once again in vain!

The more than 2,000 Dark Knights who charged into battle were shot into hedgehogs by an overwhelming rain of arrows before they could get close to the city walls; the heavy carts were halfway pushed by a rain of meteorites from the sky, smashing the soldiers and their carts to pieces; and the invincible magic crystal cannons and dragon bone chariots were destroyed one by one by the ranged attack magic of the magic tower before they could exert their might. Although the magic crystal cannon is amazingly powerful, the ultimate range is only more than a thousand steps, which is just a cut shorter than the range of the magic tower, and cannot pose a deadly threat to the city wall. The same is true of the keel chariot, after more than 1,500 paces, its power has been greatly reduced, and it cannot pose a mortal threat to the city gates and defenders.

I can't teleport in with my escape technique, I can't get in in disguise, and I can't get close to the strong attack, what should I do?

After trying his best to stay near St. Peter's Castle for three whole days and couldn't find a way to break the city, Asnamo was at a loss, Elder Cruyff was sad, and Yang Ling couldn't find a good way to break the city. According to the news from the front, the army led by the Dark Great Elder was also entangled by the main force of the Holy See, and the battle entered a stalemate. What's worse is that, according to reliable intelligence, the Holy See's reinforcements are coming from all over the continent, and if we don't solve the battle quickly, the stalemate will become more and more unfavorable to the Dark Association and the Warcraft Lord!

What to do?

Looking at St. Peter's Castle, which was as airtight as an iron bucket, Yang Ling frowned, looked at the Ural Mountains behind the castle, and thought hard about how to break the city.

(To be continued)