Discord's attack, Tovey's chest was cut open by a sharp sword, and Leon's attack was matched with more and more gnolls, even experienced witchers felt the danger.

Perandon is also tricky here, the terrifying giant snake can smash him with a random flick of its tail, and his attack is a little painless for the giant snake.

Fortunately, he is the most experienced witcher, and the power from the bloodline makes him sensitive enough to know what to watch out for next.

"Shhh...... Roar! The giant snake's body twisted, and the smell of the giant mouth made Perandon pause, but he still dodged before it attacked, and several gnolls couldn't dodge, and were swept dozens of meters away by the strange force, falling to the ground.

Some of the centaurs were frightened and trampled on the serpents fleeing to escape the wrath.

"Tovey!" Perandon yelled, "Take his ring!" ”

The battle between Tovey and Leon was still in the midst of a brute fight, and with the unbridled use of their strength, each other's swords could slash sparks, and the cracked cracks in the blades fell to the ground in pieces.

Among humans, only a true knight has the ability to confront a seasoned witcher, but unfortunately the knight did not lift his spear or control his horse!

Leon's bottom-up slash was dodged by Tovey, and the warlike witcher's eyes were like torches, his sword was held in both hands, and the whole person turned back like a wind! The speed of the sword was unusual, and it brought Leon's scream of surprise and pain.

Tovey's whirling slash slashed Leon's right hand with precision, and his palm fell to the ground along with his sword.

It all happened in the blink of an hour, and Leon could have reacted at every turn, but Tovey had already cut a piece of fabric from his clothes and wrapped his severed hand in his hands.

"Damn humans! That's my stuff! The serpent angrily ignored the entangled Perandon and swooped over with its long body. Tovey hurriedly began to run, and the barbarian soldiers around him scattered in all directions to the screams, dodging the onslaught of the Lord of Shadows.

The Shadow Lord's massive body looked even more terrifying after walking straight, and some trees that were no thicker than waist were staggered.

Tovey dodged the impact of the giant snake several times, but he was still hurt, and the whole person was swept up by the air current, flying out more than ten meters away, fortunately, the person threw the package in mid-air, and the next moment the huge snake's head swallowed the package in one bite, its long tongue rolled out of the package, and a corner was revealed, revealing two palm-sized potatoes, and the vertical pupils of the Lord of Shadows were only cold.

……

The inhabitants of Shadow Alley can feel the chaos and don't know what is wrong, there are many gnolls of the Lord of Shadows missing from the streets, and some goblin merchants are vigilantly gathering their minions to protect their wealth.

The intelligent creatures of the forest are even more restless and hidden, and the predators no longer hunt.

The two witchers ran out of the forest, whistled, and waited for a while before the figures of the two horses appeared, Tovey's grinning in pain, Perandon's heavy breathing stopped abruptly, and the forest behind him neighed dangerously again!

"Hurry up and go Tovey!"

The two horses galloped, and without the whips of Perandon and Tovey, the two sturdy horses ran as fast as they could, until the tremors in the forest subsided.

—— The prelude to the war between Meicheng and Horadona has completely begun——

Thorn Castle is a fortress built by Meicheng in the easternmost part of the Southern Plain, and there are more than 500 soldiers stationed in it on weekdays, but at this moment, there are more than 8,000 soldiers wearing iron armor in the entire Thorn Castle!

In addition to the two professional legions supported by Meicheng, there are also hundreds of people. Compared with the tens of thousands of barbarians outside, the defenders of less than 10,000 men are obviously not equal.

The barbarians' thousands of tents looked from the walls of the fortress, countless beast flags were sounding, and some nomadic wolf riders sometimes gathered, and sometimes turned into two columns to patrol around the Thorn Fortress.

Trolls have destroyed human villages, and the wizards of Horadona run vast armies.

The requisition of the Grand Duke of Meicheng Mefal gathered more legions, and 20,000 heavily armed Kellid soldiers under the leadership of the Grand Duke himself attacked the new lands.

The people of Meicheng gathered on both sides of the road, and there were already soldiers on the main road to maintain order, and there were hundreds of thousands or more of them, making the road very crowded.

Mefal was pale, so he put on a silver mask, and a silver armor, and a gray and black drape embroidered with some beautiful patterns, and he rode on his black horse, and the hooves of his horses trampled on the gravel-paved road, splashing patches of water.

"Victory!"

"Capable lads, fight this battle well!"

"Invincible Grand Duke Mefal, the gods bless you with another triumphant!"

……

The crowd cheered in waves, many with excitement on their faces, but some with numbness and despair on their faces, and they were silent.

Cheering for Mofal's force were young men who admired force.

And the silent staring at all this was mostly old women.

War can be the glory of one person, and it is enough to become the sorrow of countless people.

Hundreds of magnificent golden plum flags painted the magnificence, and some of the accompanying priests and bards walked slowly with their heads down.

Tall and mighty knights, noble armor carved with all kinds of beautiful patterns, and the ladies of the various Meicheng families prayed and waved to several of the elegant knights.

Before the cold arrived, the coughing of Mephar began to lose restraint as the troops left the city, and the priests began to chant the Holy Spirit Blessing Charm for the Grand Duke, the sound of which followed the march of the army.

Merfar ordered a part of the cavalry to go first, and within three days of the army's advance, there were reports of battle on the front, one after another, which began to be placed in front of him, and the barbarian legions at the Thorn Fortress began to attack!

It can be seen from the blood stains in the corner of the battle report that the defenders of the Thorn Fort are fighting hard, and Horadona lacks heavy armor and siege equipment, and only relies on the battering ram, and in the face of such a strong fortress, he is also more than willing to fight.

The advance of the beast flag, the horn of war sounded, and the change in Merfar's expression made all the Meicheng generals feel the pressure.

After Mefal opened up the territory for the principality, the expansion of the territory required more garrisons, and the empire was also paying high military expenses and conscriptions for the war, and Meicheng now had just over 30,000 professional soldiers with reinforcements from Danton.

And Horadona alone has nearly 100,000 of the two barbarian legions! There is also the troll army of the terrible troll king Quitch, and even if the army is led by Merfar himself, it still makes people feel powerless.

What's more, Mofal's body seems to be very weak, which is worrying.

"The Third and Fourth Legions will be led by Lord Fiataberin to the aid of Castle Thorns, and I will lead the other legions through the Redstone Valley, across the Tribulus River, and attack the rear of the Barbarian Legion."

Merfal's decision made everyone break out in a cold sweat. Crossing over to Hordona to kill it? If it weren't for the wizards of Horadona to pay attention to the arrangement of guards, only one of the two barbarian legions appeared, and the other did not know the location at all, divided the army of six or seven thousand, and forcibly surrounded the enemy several times their own with more than ten thousand people......

Fight more with less, in the history of Qatar, there are many famous generals who have defeated opponents who are several times their own troops, but it is a war between people, there are too many variables in Khordona, trolls with obvious individual advantages, wizards who are good at tricks and powerful spells, and strong and fearless barbarians......

Count Fiataberin, a veteran general of the Duchy of Meicheng and the most experienced general in Meicheng, said after a silence: "I will defend the Thorn Fortress and wait for reinforcements to arrive." ”

The other generals saw that Fiataperin did not go against the will of the Grand Duke, and naturally they would not come forward.

The knights of the 3rd and 4th Legions of Meicheng, holding aloft the banner of Meicheng and the Legionary flag, separated from the main army, and General Fiataberin, led his retainers, and brought the legion to part ways with Mefal in the road.

And when Fiatabelin arrived at the Castle of Thorns with the 3rd and 4th Legions, the rhythm of the Barbarian Legion's attack was interrupted, and the city wall, which was less than ten meters high, had already been opened in several gaps, and the city gate had already been destroyed, and the defenders managed to block it.

Reinforcements can't get into the Thorn Fortress and launch a charge! The charge of the seven thousand armies of the two legions seemed too small in front of the barbarian legions.

The knights are armed with riding spears, and at the forefront, the knights are the most powerful force in this world, and a qualified knight can easily kill ten ordinary soldiers.

And these hundreds of knights, like invincible divine blades, easily broke the formation of the barbarians in a hurry, and the tall war horses stepped on the barbarian warriors who were poked to death by their spears, making all enemies feel fear.

"Roar!"

With a deafening roar, the barbarians harnessed a giant wolf as big as an ordinary horse, and the wolf-riding barbarians also rushed over with battle axes and long knives, strangling with the Terran knights.

The infantry marched forward, holding a round shield in one hand and a four-foot-long spear in the other! The archers in the rear followed closely behind the shield soldiers, and the two legions formed eight phalanxes side by side, and the generals led by the corps commander rode horses in front and shouted slogans to boost morale.

These professional soldiers have been baptized by many wars, and the recruits have long since become usable fighters, and they have the best standard weapons in the world in Qatar!

The greed for blood, the temptation of money, and the thirst for military exploits made the eyes of these soldiers bloodshot.

"Guys from Kellid, this fight isn't for Kellyd, and it's not for the coins that are used to get drunk! If you don't survive, you'll die here! Count Fiataberin, carrying the golden plum banner in one hand and his sword at his waist in the other, shouted in front of the two legions: "Follow this banner to the way home!" All of them! Follow me! ”

His voice was hoarse, the war horse under his crotch shook his head uneasily, the old earl, who was not strong, was the first to charge with the banner, and his retainers did not hesitate to join him, and the two legions launched an attack, and the sound was thunderous!

Someone shouted: "Cut off the heads of those barbarians!" ”

Someone held on to the slightly larger iron helmet while running, following the steps of his comrades: "For Meicheng!" For glory! ”

The sound was chaotic, drowned out by the sound of a torrent of lunging.

Fiataberin held high the banner, pointed the way for the legion, brandished a sword in one hand, very heroic!

The Barbarian Legion reacted with a battle cry, a charge, a fierce collision between the two sides, a roar and a scream of pain.

The Barbarian Overseer swung his great axe and slashed a knight off his horse, his delicate armor slicing through to reveal flesh, and the knight flipped twice off the ground in pain, dodging the attacks of several barbarians, and drew his sword to kill one of those who stood in his way.

"Poof!"

The greatsword pierced through the knight's back, and the knight coughed up blood in disbelief, the pupils in his eyes dilated rapidly. The corpse was ripped out of the body of the giant sword and thrown aside.

Much larger than the Barbarian Overseer, and also indicating his identity, this is the king of the barbarians!

His appearance drove the barbarians on the battlefield crazy, and Raton Volcano was a king, but in the minds of the barbarians, he was the strongest barbarian warrior.

The wolf riders roared excitedly, and the Barbarian King, wielding his greatsword, slew a knight who had been killed again, splitting the knight in two with a single sword, and the horse was also killed in a cry of sorrow.

The knights were also afraid of such battles, they were too weak compared to the power of the Barbarian King, and the wild war cry made the horses uncontrollable.

Fiatapelin was in control of the battle, his retainers crowded to protect him, and the roar of the Barbarian King frightened his mount, but he was able to control the reins in time. He summoned his bravest retainer, the Yellow Knight, Milan, who was fighting.

"Milan! Kill him! ”

Fiataberin's order, Milan did not hesitate, pulled the reins of the war horse, raised his horse and charged towards the target.

The Barbarian King was locked onto his target, and unhurriedly raised a round shield from the ground that belonged to a knight, and when Milan's cavalry spear stabbed him, he swung it hard and missed the head!

The Milanese knight was also knocked from his horse by the strange force, but he got up quickly, drew his sword and missed the Barbarian King's attack, and the huge iron sword slashed into the ground, splashing dirt.

Strangled together on the battlefield, the two elite legions of Meicheng faced the barbarians who were several times their number, and they appeared tenacious and tenacious, and the defenders of Thorn Fort also put down the sling, and under the siege of the fortress, under the attack of several days, the two legions of Dandong City and Meicheng had already been broken, and nearly 10,000 defenders had 4,000 people under the fortress, and began to rush to the aid of the Fiatapelin army in the battle.

A column of archers prepared bows and arrows, and with the strong push of the infantry army, from time to time they shot a burst of feathered arrows, and under the indiscriminate attack, some Meicheng soldiers would also be killed, but they deliberately shot arrows far away, and more barbarian soldiers were attacked.

The Barbarian King alone killed more than ten knights and dozens of Meicheng soldiers. Milan was also defeated, grabbed by the cuirass and head, dragged out of one of his spines, and died in agony.

"Boring battles...... I'm tired of it! The tall barbarian howled in Qatari, and several sharp arrows burst through the air, shooting at his shoulders and chest, a little armor blocked it, this pain only made his eyes bloodshot, rushed away a few barbarian guards who took the initiative to protect him, knocked away the Meicheng soldiers who were in the way, and easily stabbed the Dandong soldiers with large shields to death with a single sword!

Count Fiataperin gritted his teeth, grabbed a two-handed sword, and shouted: "Soldiers of New Home! Protect the archers with me! ”

Xinhe Mei is his personal guard legion, a town legion of no more than sixty people, originally to protect Fiataberin, was attacked by the barbarians when he charged, and there were only twenty people left at the moment, all of them were wounded on their faces, thighs, and chests, but they were summoned by the earl, returned to the earl's left and right to gather, and followed him to stop the barbarian king!

Raton's strength was devastating, and the head of the tallest Terran soldier on the battlefield could only reach his chest, and he was too strong for the Dandong soldier's huge steel shield to resist his giant sword. The exaggerated sword slaughtered the shield guards wantonly, and the bow and arrows and the axes, swords, and spears of the soldiers of Meicheng did not make him afraid.

Blood splattered in midair, and Raton pinched a Dandong archer with one hand and raised it high, a sword swing at his waist, and all the bright red organs slid to the ground at once, following the blood. The terrible scene caused many of the shield guards to flee in fear, but they could not escape, and Fiatapelin arrived with twenty soldiers, and the superb swordsmanship was used to execute the frightened deserters.

The archers scattered in all directions, and in just a few moments, Raton Volcano killed more than a dozen people, and their huge physiques were bathed in blood, like demons that had broken through the seal of the abyss.

"Damn it! Throw a spear! Fiataberin shouted, and the three long-haired hands threw their spears at a distance of only a dozen meters, and one of them missed, but the remaining two spears pierced Raton's left arm, causing him to let out a roar of pain.

The soldier clenched his heavy shield, and the five shield guards slammed into Raton, causing him to stagger backwards, and his red eyes did not have time to look down on these weak soldiers, and a rapid bowstring sound, twenty or thirty feathered arrows drowned him.

But Fiataperin was not able to kill him, and the Barbarian King fell to his knees and roared madly, summoning the barbarians around him.

The wolf riders abandoned their fighting knights and rushed at their king.

The surrounding infantry was scattered by the giant wolf, and the king of the barbarian tribe was seriously injured, but he was still able to hold the giant sword in one hand and kill several heavily armored infantrymen, his body was covered with blood, and a little armor broke and fell to the ground.

Fiataberin's soldiers began to crumble, the reinforcements had already lost at least half of them, and although the barbarian legions suffered more casualties, the base was even greater, and tens of thousands of barbarians wielded tomahawks and knives, reaping the lives of their soldiers.

Fall back! There must be a retreat!

The remaining noble knights began to break away from the battle group, Meicheng's army was difficult to maintain the array, and was constantly torn open by the savage wolf knights, under the order of Fiataberin, the whole army began to retreat, and the archers output several arrow rains, shooting many barbarians who caught up, but more Meicheng soldiers were retained and killed.

Meicheng's reinforcements were defeated! In less than four or five hours of fighting, only two thousand, four hundred remained, of the more than seven thousand soldiers and the defenders of the fortress, and the knights were already exhausted with horses, and only one hundred and twelve escaped, and the whole army was scattered, and only after escaping for dozens of miles came to a halt.

In the garrison that followed them out of the Thorn Fortress, there were only lightly armed archers, and those Dandong shield guards gave up their heavy shields, and they couldn't pull off their heavy armor, so they were chased and torn apart.

There was no doubt that the whole battle was lacking in detail, and Fiatapelin did not expect that there were so many wolf horsemen in the army of the barbarians, and the elite knights were outnumbered by them.

Raton even killed dozens of soldiers with one enemy and one hundred, and even disrupted the rear deployment, making Fiataberin's army fight in chaos.

"Damn it! My army is gone! Fiatappelin! Commander! You are responsible for their lives! Every roar was a roar, and there were less than five hundred men left in the Third Legion, so it was no wonder that Warren, the commander of the Third Legion, was so angry.

He believed that reinforcements should rely on the watchtowers around the fort to deter the besieging barbarians within range of the archers of the fortress, but his advice was not taken up by the count.

Fiataberin could still keep his calm, frowning and a little annoyed: "I will be responsible, my defeat has caused the two principality legions to suffer heavy losses, but the reinforcements can't rely on the Thorn Fortress, I also have my reasons!" You have to carry out my orders! ”

"Reason? My lord, I want you to know that we have lost the defenders to Fort Thorn! In a few days, if Raton Volcano attacks again, it will fall! Warren said angrily, and he slammed his fist on the wooden table.

Once the Thorn Fortress falls, the barbarian legion's forces will be able to advance directly into the principality, penetrating hundreds of miles, destroying some villages, and leaving several western towns to fight on their own.

Never before in the history of Plum City had a barbarian army set foot on that land, let alone the strategy of breaking through behind enemy lines.

Once Mefal is discovered, he is surrounded by a complete detour in the enemy's hinterland.

Merfal was the only Grand Duke of Plum City, and had no successor, once he died in battle......

No one dares to imagine whether the deterioration of the current situation will affect the safety of the entire Qatari empire.

Fort of Thorns.

The defenders were trapped in the ant-attached siege of the city, and the barbarians were driven to climb the walls, and were killed by a rain of arrows, and their corpses fell under the walls, and everyone inside the fortress kept running up the walls, replacing the archers with sore arms, even the women, who had to hold on to the stones to smash the barbarians.

It was a tug-of-war of perseverance until dusk, when the day's offensive ended.

On the second day, the barbarian legions launched an even more frantic battle, using the shields of the Meicheng army, and the stormy attack made the entire fortress wall defenders almost crazy.

The Barbarians have always had a dispute with Qatar, only death and survival, and the Barbarians once built a magnificent main city, with a huge population and land in the Qatari world, but they were defeated in the war with the Empire.

Hatred, so that the Qataris could not surrender in the war with the barbarians!

On the fourth day, the trolls who were even more terrifying than the barbarians arrived, the tall trolls appeared on the battlefield, almost destroying the not very tall city walls, and the city crossbows on several watchtowers could not stop it, and several trolls violently destroyed a small section of the city wall that had already been broken by the battering ram, and the collapsed city walls poured into the barbarians.

The news of the fall of Fort Thorns reached Count Fiatapelin on the sixth day, and he led the remnants of the Third and Fourth Legions to mobilize and gather soldiers from the towns of Cammy, Fibrey, and Mars, but fortunately, the rich City of Plum ensured the army's inventory, and some of the people were conscripted for war, relying on the prestige of the Earl and the nobles in the army, they were armed, and the legion once again had nearly 8,000 men, but the combat effectiveness declined very seriously!

"It is necessary to stop the inferior army here, relying on the two sections of the walls of Fibre, so that they cannot encroach on the rest of the territory of Meicheng." Captain Warren explained his idea that holding the town of Fibrey was able to threaten the barbarian legion of Raton Volcano, who was once the hinterland of another Grand Duke, and spent a lot of money to build the city wall, so that in addition to the town with a population of nearly 30,000, there are two sections of stone walls.

Relying on the stone wall, even if you face thirty or forty thousand barbarians, you can fight.

Warren's idea now is to try to maintain the situation as best he can, and leave everything to the main force under the command of Merfar.

The other generals also expressed the same opinion, whether it was the town soldiers or the militia of nearly 2,000 people, the combat effectiveness was too poor, and only by gathering in one place and defending the only town with high defense could the course of the war be changed, as for the other towns in the west, they could only temporarily inform the barbarian army of the possible arrival and persuade the local population to evacuate.

These opinions were agreed by Fiataberin, and the craftsmen gathered to begin to fortify the city, and the local merchants of the town of Fibli were asked to free three or four hundred slaves to help the craftsmen raise the walls.

The equipment for defending the city was the most important, and all the sixteen city crossbows in stock were moved to the stone wall, so that the entire first section of the wall had a total of thirty-eight crossbow machines.

Fiatabelin wrote several proclamations and orders were issued by the knights to several other towns to defend and dissuade the local population.

Only one of Raton's two barbarian legions appeared, and when they went out to suffer casualties, there were still more than 27,000 troops, like a black cloud pressing down on the city, and the terrifying wolf pack knights were running wild on the plain!

On the fifth day of the fall of Thorns, the wolfriders finally arrived at Fibrey and began to search the surrounding territory, but two days earlier, the nearby villagers had already been evacuated into the town.

The barbarians of Horadona raised their banners on the ground, and tents showed their numbers.

Fiataperin and his generals appeared on the city walls to stabilize the morale of the army, and the new soldiers of the legion were not afraid of the barbarians, only the militia needed the general's pacification.

Barbarians joined the besieging barbarian armies in the woods, and wooden watchtowers were built around the fence.

Raton Volcano's tall, muscular figure appeared in the rear of the barbarian legion, his bare chest covered with all kinds of wounds, and as soon as he appeared, he immediately launched a large-scale siege.

On the first day of fighting, more than 400 people were killed and more than 200 seriously wounded, although the Barbarian legions suffered three times as many casualties as on the side of Fibley.

The next day, the city gate was almost breached, but the crossbow on the city wall managed to destroy the battering ram, and the barbarian warriors could not take it back.

The two sides were at a stalemate, and Fiatapelin was determined to defend the town of Fibli, this was not the time to discuss whether to retreat, and in his opinion, this was the place where Merfar was able to cross the river through the Redstone Valley to fight back against the barbarian army of Raton.