In the middle of July 836 in the Julian calendar, the three-way army of the human alliance gathered outside the city of Ryde, plus the volunteers organized by the nobles of the various liberated areas. More than a million troops surrounded Ryder City from three sides, laying a net of heaven and earth.

The only west that left Ryder City to face the sea, there was also a combined fleet of Ruman and the Elven Kingdom cruising back and forth on the sea.

The entire city of Ryder is equivalent to saying that the besieged water is impassable, and it has become an isolated island.

The great empire of De Rossi, which had only been glorious for a few months, fell into a storm. Like a candle in the wind, it can be extinguished at any time.

A million coalition troops twenty miles away from Ryder City set up a grand camp that was hundreds of miles long and several miles wide around Ryder City.

The huge camp was like a wide and majestic river, completely cutting the plain where Ryder City was located in two.

As far as the eye could see, there were tents of all colors, and the earth was covered like stars.

Countless flags fluttered in the wind, obscuring half of the sky.

In the camp, there are mountains of swords and seas, guns and halberds like forests, horns, and golden drums.

Soldiers dressed in various costumes shuttled back and forth through the camp, and the dense crowd of human heads was like droplets in a river, and it was impossible to count.

The evil aura formed by the army of millions soared into the sky, like the raging waves of the sea, extremely terrifying.

The road leading from the east to the camp was also completely occupied by supply convoys transporting supplies, and the people worked day and night like a swarm of industrious ants.

From time to time, there would be a war fortress of Maple Leaf Danlin roaring over the head of Ryder City, at a height of two or three hundred meters above the ground. Drop bombs in Ryder City.

At this time, there was no longer a war fortress of the undead in the sky.

The Maple Leaf Danlin people completely dominate the sky.

They hovered over the heads of Ryder City arrogantly. Aim for the city's ornate royal palaces. They even joked with each other to see who could blow down the beautiful hall.

They used powerful artillery fire to vent their long-standing frustration of passively responding to the war.

Although Ryder City is known as the capital of the De Rossi Empire, this empire is hastily pasted out of paper, and it has only been established for a few months, so it has no background at all. In the past, it was just the royal city of a small fourth-rate country. The walls are no more than a few feet high, and the population is no more than 300,000 at most.

This shabby place can't afford to build a magic tower at all, plus it has taken refuge in the demons. Naturally, there were no magicians to help.

In fact, it did not have any anti-aircraft firepower.

In front of the Maple Leaf Danlin people, it is as tender and delicious as a stripped little fat sheep.

To the east of the city was the camp of the Ruman Expeditionary Force, and the tent of the Grand Duke Julius was far away from the gates of Ryder.

Lorraine and Leo, as well as Chairman Leo's most loyal little brother, Uncle Xiaobai, squeezed into the dense crowd in front of the big tent.

When the people around saw Lord Lorraine and Chairman Leo, it was like a brain-dead fan seeing an idol star, they let out a hula and greeted Lord Lorraine enthusiastically at the same time.

Under their hospitality, Delorraine and Leo could not move an inch, but they had to greet them politely.

It's the hottest season of the year, even though Ryder is close to the sea. The cool sea breeze blows from the west, but the temperature below the sun is still unbearable.

But the people outside the tent of Duke Julius did not seem to be afraid of the heat at all. Standing outside in the scorching sun.

They are local volunteers who have come all the way with the coalition army, and they openly say that they are here to help the people of the occupied areas who are still under the rule of the demons and are living in dire straits, and they came voluntarily out of righteous indignation.

In fact, it was forced by the Archduke Julian and Lorraine to come under their orders, and the Lord of Lorraine used this trick to prevent them from quickly regaining their power and status in the newly liberated area.

When the demons attacked, these grandsons were all scared, and then they took their gold and silver with their fine, and the big wife and little lover slapped their butts and ran away. They completely abandoned their responsibility as noble lords to protect the people and lands under their rule.

Later, the lord led the army to start a bloody battle with the demons, and these dogs and cubs hid in the rear, drinking and beauties all day long, eating nonsense, and shouting 'Tight in front, tight in rear.' Then he smiled proudly: Let those stupid 13s fight for themselves~!

That's fine.

The key is that after these grandsons poured too much cat urine, they actually learned to make poems from those dead and plague students, and they were all old and elders. It also claims to be Gothic culture, representing the revival of classical decadentism.

This is too much to ignore Lord Luo's great family, philosophers, and thinkers.

His Majesty Pope Hillelia was also furious immediately, seized an opportunity, and went to the literary prison for a while, slaughtering a few dog things, and then they were a little more honest and no longer made poems indiscriminately.

Later, Lord Luo led the army to counterattack.

Under the iron heel of the coalition forces, those territories were regained one by one.

As a result, the grandsons saw the bargain, and ran over, shouting for the lord to hand over to them the territory he had shot down with a knife.

Second Master Lei has a very vivid evaluation of them: this is a bunch of stupid 13~!

However, the coalition forces were as helpless to them as the Allies were to France Dai Xiaole in the late stages of World War II. After all, they are also on their own side, and they can't be ruthless. Otherwise, the other allies will see it, and it will be very detrimental to unity.

But for them, the lord will definitely not let them go. Otherwise, the lord would really be stupid.13

Under such circumstances, the lord immediately waved his pen, learned the old tricks of the coalition army against Dai Xiaole, and transferred all of them to the front line, asking these noble lords to make their due contributions to the cause of human liberation.

When the coalition forces shed their blood and died to liberate their homeland, there was no reason for them to refuse to fight for the coalition forces.

The nobles, though reluctant, knew very well that their territory was liberated by the coalition forces, and that the coalition troops were stationed on them.

In the face of the murderous and domineering Grand Duke Julius and the sinister and cunning Lorraine, he must not bow his head and obey obediently.

In the territory of the coalition forces, you have to obediently listen to the coalition forces. In particular, the boss was a butcher general named Julius. It is said that the old rascal has a hundred and thirty-seven ways to make people die without knowing it.

Hence it. The leaders of these volunteers were all extremely dedicated, and every day they were answered by the Grand Duke Julian, and even if they had nothing to do, they could not leave, and they had to stay until noon.

After Lorraine and Leo struggled out of the crowd of hundreds of nobles, most of the clothes on their bodies were soaked with sweat, and the little white uncle stuck out his tongue even hot, and glanced at the crowd behind him in horror, and he would not follow him to suffer next time he killed it.

Chairman Leo pinched his sweat-soaked clothes and shivered. He muttered, "I don't know if I thought I owed them money." These guys, it's so annoying. ”

Lord Lorraine shrugged and said, "No matter how much you hate them, you can't let them go." ”

"I know, we're going to rely on this one that pinched their eggs. Chairman Leo smiled and said, "I won't get along with profits." ”

The two of them walked into the big tent as if they were like them, and they instantly felt a burst of coolness and took a comfortable breath.

In the corner of the tent, a huge block of ice was placed to drive away the heat in the tent.

Xiao Bai screamed, rushed to the front and stuck his nose into the ice bucket, and played comfortably. He simply crawled on the ground against the ice bucket, and it seemed that he was not ready to leave here.

Then. Outside the tent there was a muffled roar of artillery, and Lorraine glanced back, only a faint cloud of smoke could be seen, and the artillery position was at least three or four miles away.

Archduke Julius held up his glasses and looked at them carefully for a moment, then put down the binoculars and looked at Lorraine and said, "What do you think we will launch a general attack tomorrow?"

Lorraine was suddenly startled, hurriedly shook his head, and said, "It's not okay, it's too urgent." ”

Grand Duke Julius pursed his lips and said, "There are only fifty or sixty thousand Semitic troops left in the city, and we will join forces with a million troops, so I think it will be easy to take Ryder City." ”

Lorraine looked at the west, his expression was stern, and he said slowly, word by word: "There is also a high priest of the dead in the city. ”

Archduke Julius was stunned for a moment, slapped his head, and muttered, "I almost forgot about this guy." ”

Then he showed a distressed expression, the Grand Duke was not afraid of fighting at all, even if there were ten times more Semitic people on the other side, the Grand Duke was confident that they would not be able to stop him.

But for the undead high priest, the first strong man under the starry sky, Archduke Julius was helpless, and he didn't know how to deal with him, at least the trick of besieging with soldiers didn't work.

Even if his own soldiers attack it, maybe that guy will have some strange spells, and he will slaughter all his own people with one move.

What's more terrifying, it's not impossible to turn them into zombie soldiers and fight them back.

Grand Duke Julius sighed and said with extreme displeasure: "Is it just because of one person, our million-strong army is powerless. ”

Lorraine nodded heavily and said, "The Undead High Priest has this qualification. ”

The title of the strongest under the stars and the person closest to God is by no means in vain, no one knows how powerful the High Priest of the Undead is, but it is not false that he can block an army of millions.

The elders of the dragon clan once solemnly warned Lorraine that it was useless to deal with the high priest by relying on a large number of people.

Grand Duke Julius turned his head to look at Mares, who was sitting in the corner leisurely sipping cold wine, and said, "Aren't those masters you found good?"

Archduke Julian is also very curious about these masters found by Lorraine, but these people seem to be very vigilant and rarely come into contact with people.

The Grand Duke said that he only knew about their appearance on the battlefield, and other than that, he knew almost nothing about these handsome and messy young men.

Mares hunted the lich and exchanged the lich's life box for a bonus, which was only known to them and never mentioned it to outsiders.

The soldiers could see that they were all about putting a spell on the battlefield from time to time, blowing the Lich's poison gas, or acting as scouts.

Lorraine shook his head and said affirmatively: "They can't do it either, although these people are powerful, but they are still far from the high priest." ”

Grand Duke Julius frowned and said, "Then what should we do?"

Lorraine flattened her mouth, shrugged her shoulders and said, "I can only wait." ”

"If that guy doesn't leave for the rest of his life, we will wait here for the rest of his life? Hundreds of thousands of people eat and drink, even if we Ruman can't afford it. Grand Duke Julius shook his head in distress and said, "You have the most ghost ideas, think of a way." ”

"The Semitic continent is his foundation. Lorraine said, "I think he'll always go back." He's going to be nailed here and not gone. Let's open up a second battlefield. Killed the Semitic continent and cut off his roots.

Although we can't attack the undead high priest, he can't kill it, so let's slowly consume it. ”

Grand Duke Julius thinks that what Lorraine said is very reasonable, the undead high priest is the high priest in Semit, where there are nearly 100 million Semitic people ruled by him, and he can mobilize troops in Semitic to create war fortresses.

On the human continent. He's just a peerless master hiding in a turtle's shell.

They could surround Ryder for a year or two, and then the Semitic people in the city would starve to death, and there would be only a bunch of lichs left, and how big a wave could they make?

It's a big deal to find tens of thousands of priests stationed here, singing hymns around Ryder every day, annoying and annoying the high priest to death.

"As for the military expenses...... Lord Lorraine glanced at the volunteers outside the tent, and the corners of his mouth showed a smile that made people want to hold their wallets, and said leisurely: "Let's liberate them and regain their territory, and these guys will also get a share of the military expenses." ”

The leaders of the volunteer army outside the tent felt a cold wind blowing at the same time. I couldn't help but shiver, and then looked at the sun above me suspiciously.

Such a poisonous day. Where did this wind come from?

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Emperor De Rossi, dressed in fine clothes, walked alone in the ruined hall, his long sword encrusted with gems dragging on the floor, making a "swishing" sound.

The palace he had spent a lot of money on was now bombed to the ground.

All the windows were shattered in the violent explosion, and shards of glass spilled all over the ground.

The roof was blown through by several bombs, half of it collapsed, and the other half was crumbling.

On one side of the palace, the walls had collapsed, leaving only a few pillars standing alone, and the marble floor was completely submerged in rubble.

However, the coat of arms of the De Rossi Empire on the wall facing the gate is still clean and intact.

Maybe one more bomb and the palace will collapse.

Emperor De Rossi stood in the middle of the former bustling palace and looked left and right, recalling the scene that was once filled with music, wine and guests, and a smile appeared on his lips.

But a close-range explosion pulled him back to reality, and there was no one in the ruined hall.

All the nobles who once surrounded him, flattered him, and praised him are gone.

Long before the Archduke Julius was killed, they all ran away, and they didn't say hello to the emperor, said goodbye or anything, and secretly ran away.

Not only the nobles, but also the palace guards, servants, musicians, and even cooks and gardeners all disappeared.

Then his beautiful mistresses, the women who had spent the moon before the moon, swore by the sea, and talked sweetly, also disappeared.

Along with them, there was also a large sum of gold and jewelry of Emperor De Rossi.

The Semites now control Ryder's defenses, and they treat the human nobility equally, and they can leave the city as long as they have enough money.

Of course, there are many small people, such as squires, servants, who cannot be as rich as the nobles.

At such times, as long as they looked for the small advertisements posted in the corners, they would always find someone who had the means, and there were Semitic soldiers willing to provide this kind of service.

Spend a few gold coins, change into a Semitic military uniform, and follow a group of Semitic soldiers out of the city.

This kind of work is done by Semitic soldiers, but the first to start this business, and the most reputable and market share, is the Caribbean Fourth Division.

If you can't get out, people will refund the original price, which is very conscientious and praised by the people in Ryder City.

The feeling of rebellion and separation made Emperor De Rossi very angry, and he sent his men to hunt down the traitors, and then hanged the captured nobles in front of the lower palace gates, listening to their dying pleadings and cries laughing.

But soon Emperor De Rossi also became numb, and the guards he sent out to arrest people also fled, and fewer and fewer returned, so that the Janissaries around him could not form a regiment until now.

Looking at the prosperity in front of him, Emperor De Rossi took a deep breath, everything happened too fast, and his heart had not reacted until now.

"Majesty, majesty~!" An anxious shout came from the rear, and the emperor's loyal court manager ran over, pulled up the emperor's majesty and ran to the tunnel, saying: "Danger, why did you come out alone." ”

Emperor De Rossi was dragged away by his own chief like a puppet, and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, how many times has this emperor saved the day, just a little bomb." ”

At this moment, a loud explosion was heard from behind them, followed by the sound of the building collapsing, and the hall finally collapsed without support.

The splashed bricks fell from the air, crackling and falling on the two of them, and Emperor De Rossi's face changed, and he suddenly accelerated, pulling his chief steward and rushing into the tunnel.

Several war fortresses hovered slowly above the lower palace, as if to check their results, and flew away with a swagger after a few minutes.

After the bombardment, Emperor Derossi walked out of the tunnel with the dust falling from his body, and looked at the dust-shrouded hall with a calm face, not knowing what he was thinking.

A lich walked briskly, with a hovering fortress of war overhead, and they didn't dare to fly in the sky now, and they were likely to be hunted down by a group of clerics.

He came to De Rossi's side, and said in a hoarse voice without a trace of emotion: "His Majesty the Emperor, His Majesty the Divine Throne is called." ”

Emperor De Rossi reflexively beckoned back, but no one handed over a small bag of high-quality magic energy crystals, he was stunned for a moment, smiled awkwardly, but still said with grace: "Yes, I'll go now, dare to ask the master, what is it for?"

"You'll find out when you go. The lich spoke stiffly, turned and walked away.

Emperor De Rossi watched his black figure disappear and scolded in a low voice, "Feed the unfamiliar dog." ”

Then he straightened his clothes and walked towards the palace for the most part. (To be continued.) )