Section 220 The Flower of Evil (2)
Sid's second attack was much more fierce than the first.
First of all, the mages in the legion participated in the battle, Sid had two high-level mages under his command, and a mage squad, with fifty or sixty mages from the lowest to the middle ranks, and the two high-level mages were the main and deputy captains.
When a mage who is less than a high-level fights the enemy alone, even if the attack power is considerable, and even a few can threaten the high-level warriors, they are still vulnerable, and the defensive spells they master have limited effects, and their mental power often forms a bottleneck. Unless you concentrate on mastering defensive spells like a summoner, but summoners are partial to defensive spells, and they can often only rely on the strength of summoned beasts in attack, and they are weak.
Therefore, mages below the high level like to join certain teams when they go out on adventures, so that they can combine with fighters who are good at melee combat, and they can cast spells to the fullest, bringing hurricane-like destruction to the enemy.
The mages in the legion are like this, with ordinary morale, even warriors of rank in front of the attack, or defense, they can calmly cast spells from a certain distance.
Sid's mages were divided into three parts, the two high-ranking mages casting spells independently, and all the remaining mages forming a team to cast spells.
Under the chanting of magic power, the two high-level mages each cast two high-level spells, respectively, the high-temperature fire cloud, dark vortex, and frost-cutting blade that attacked Bofeng City, and the last time was a small earthquake, which caused the walls of Bofeng City to shake a little, but in the end it still did not collapse, although after that, under the continuous throwing of trebuchets, there was still a breach there, causing a more bloody battle.
In addition, the spell-casting team composed of mid- and low-level mages each used their best spells, under a certain command, to choose a direction to smash all kinds of low-level spells like a storm, and their spell threat was certainly not as good as that of high-level mages. But the victory is swift, the damage caused is no worse than the ultimates of the two high-level mages, and the victory is much more sustainable, and the two high-level mages have to stop and swallow the potion to recover their magic after casting a large-scale high-level attack spell that consumes a lot of energy.
With the help of magicians and siege engines, this wave of attack of the Sixth Legion was a far cry from yesterday's failed quick attack. This is the true strength of the official Legion of the Empire.
At the same time, it also caused great damage to Bofeng City, in the end, although Bofeng City got the musket, Solomon also tried his best to help them get the geographical advantage, defend the city, and the enemy was willing to take the initiative to attack the city, but under the attack of the mage, the militia of Bofeng City was killed and wounded.
After all, although they received some military training, the time was too short, and the first day of fighting was a bit of an advantage. On the second day of the battle, when the enemy charged again, they fought so vigorously that many of them forgot the words of the instructor during the training, and simply stood up and shot at the approaching enemy on the walls in groups.
This did kill and wound more enemies, but it also became a living target for the mages, and where the fire clouds, vortexes, and ice blades attacked, the people of Bofeng City fell like mowing grass.
Most of the wide-area attack spells are high-level spells above level seven. These spells are not as powerful as single spells of the same tier in high-tier spells, but they are best used on the battlefield. It is possible to harvest the lives of ordinary warriors in large quantities.
Sid watched this step happily, and his hand that was clenched in the sheath couldn't help but loosen slightly.
It wasn't just the mages who were fighting, but more than a dozen Matthew priests were also involved in the battle.
Several of them could use the Gospel Aura to cast on the siege of the city, a manifestation of the power of faith, and the Legionnaires under the aura of Legionnaires regarded their faith as religious. will be stimulated by the power of the aura, and the more firm and devout the faith, the more the aura will stimulate his potential and increase his combat effectiveness.
Other priests perform healing techniques that have a restorative effect, although they do not save everyone. But the inspiring effect is huge, imagine a warrior who is about to die with the enemy, in the desperate struggle to find that the enemy has fallen to the ground unwillingly, and he should have fallen, but at the last moment by the priest a healing technique to save a trace of life, how inspiring is this?
This effect will cause many of the charging warriors to be a fluke and no longer afraid to engage in hand-to-hand combat, especially in the breach of the seismic-damaged wall, where Sid's men stormed the walls until the Blood Griffin's axe warrior Richy and the hunky Poppy appeared and forced them back with a group of reinforcements.
"Hold on, hold on!"
The city wall that had been washed by spell blood was empty, and there were too many casualties at one time, and those who were lucky enough not to die also hid in the wall building next to it.
This gave the attacking side an opportunity to take advantage of, and with the help of the mage assist regardless of casualties, they finally climbed the siege ladder to the city wall.
Luckily, Khorin arrived just in time, and with his immediate guards, he engaged in a melee battle with the first enemy to rush up on the city walls, and after a while, several of his other companions, Koki, Lida, Nafia, and Lily, also appeared one after another, crushing the wave of attacks of the Imperial army.
Immediately afterward, the high-ranking members of the Blood Gryphon Squad also launched a counterattack, realizing that even with muskets, a weapon that greatly enhances the combat power of ordinary people, they are not able to fight against the mages of the enemy.
Although defending the city can give the militia of Bofeng City a certain geographical advantage, the location is relatively rigid, which just brings great convenience to the attack of the mages.
At this time, the two high-level mages temporarily extinguished the fire due to the consumption of mana, but the other team of low-level mages took turns to cast spells, and if they continued to cast, they would suppress the defense of Bofeng City, and the enemy would soon climb the city wall for the second time.
The only way is to counterattack, disrupt the passive situation and rhythm in front of you, avoid greater losses, and then see who can hold on.
However, Kehorin also knew that the militia training time in Bofeng City was too short, and in addition to relying on the muskets in his hands to defend the city, he might not be able to win the field battle.
Fortunately, the Blood Gryphon also has a mage like the Dark Demon Envoy Pruss, and it's not that they don't have the power to fight back at all.
Pruss first spent nearly half of his magic to cast a Shadow Dome, a sixth-order spell that could create a dark area that affected his external vision while not affecting himself, and this spell used to be his favorite to use when working with Lily.
However, the magic required to perform this time is more than ten times that of the past. Because the area should be expanded as much as possible, it will help the militia.
The effect of the Shadow Canopy will greatly reduce the attack effect of those mid- and low-level mages, because the spells they cast are either monolithic or small-area attack effects, relying on joint tilting attacks in the same direction. The formation of a covering kill is not like the attack spells of the two high-level mages, which are originally attack effects in a large area.
After being affected by the Shadow Canopy, to see through the canopy's vision, you need to have a high-level Eagle Eye or a homogeneous spell effect to ignore it, and most of the mages in the mage squad must not have mastered it, and their attack is equivalent to throwing stones into the darkness.
The Blood Griffon's counterattack didn't stop there, as Prus then cast a poisonous cloud spell under the Shadow Canopy to fight back against the Imperial Army.
Although this spell is not a high-level spell, it is a rare large-area attack among mid-level spells, and it is far more powerful than the cloud of confusion in second-order spells. First of all, the range is much larger, and secondly, the Cloud of Confusion has a slight psychedelic effect and is mainly supportive, while the Poison Cloud is highly poisonous.
The poison of the Poison Cloud Technique is certainly not very effective against high-level players or enemies with strong vitality, but it is just right to use on the battlefield at this time.
Even if you can't be poisoned on the spot, it is inevitable that the poisoner's combat power will decrease.
Thankfully, the priests brought by Sid were there, and they reacted quickly, performing purification and detoxification techniques to eliminate the effects of the poison cloud.
But this also gave the defenders a chance to breathe. Even after a few moments, the two high-level mages regained a certain amount of their magic power, and each cast a large-area attack spell for the third time. But the war also became offensive and defensive for a time.
In the second round of the defensive battle, the two sides devoured each other like two fierce beasts, and it was not until night fell that Sid was unwilling to order the troops to retreat.
This time the casualties on both sides were far heavier than on the first day's battle, with one brigade of the Imperial Army almost canceled, another light infantry brigade also lost more than half, and the rest were also full of light and serious casualties.
Bofeng City is slightly better. This is slightly better, in fact, the number of casualties is not necessarily less than that of the Imperial Army, and the two attacks by enemy mages with range spells are very heavy, and the casualties are mitigated by the shadow canopy behind them.
It's a little better, but fortunately, Bofeng City can still replenish the abundant manpower. Most of the young men in the territory of Bofeng City were in the city at this time.
Therefore, on this day, although the Imperial Army has regarded Bofeng City as a subject that needs to be treated officially, rather than the contempt at the beginning, on the surface, Bofeng City still has a slight advantage.
But Khorin has already seen the hidden worry of the battle behind, that is, in today's defensive battle, his side suffered too much under the attack of the enemy mage, although the blood griffin also has Prus, but after Pruss has cast the shadow sky many times, the magic power has not been continued, if the intensity of the battle after that is still as fierce as today, Bofeng City may only be able to hold on with human lives, and the casualties will be greatly increased at that time.
Although others like the Demon Sword Envoy Ko Qi and the Evil Sword Envoy Nafia also have a certain amount of spell casting ability, the part of their fusion rank that belongs to the mage is mid-level, and the spell abilities they master are mostly to cooperate with themselves, lacking a wide range of attack spells.
When Kehorin was struggling, his buddies were eager to help him.
Lily and Bericina decide to go to the enemy camp by night to assassinate the enemy commander and help Bofeng City survive the current level.
Coincidentally, Sid's side also decided to send a special attack team led by Dorian and composed of rank people to infiltrate the city, if it can be assassinated, assassinate, if it can't be assassinated, see if it can raid the city gate, Sid will personally take charge of the army, if he can open the city, he will not hesitate to attack at night.
So this night was also a chaotic night, Sid was attacked by two assassins, even with the strength of his high-ranking rank, he was almost injured, because one of the shots was a shadow blade killer, and the other was a half-spirit creature, if he hadn't slept at all, and had been waiting for the results of Dorian's night attack, maybe the loss would have been greater.
As a result, two Assassins were wounded and fled in response to his counterattack, which made him furious.
Dorian's special attack team infiltrated the city and found that it was impossible to assassinate Kehorin, so they raided the city gate, but Kehorin and they had already been on guard, in addition to the superficial guards, the evil sword made Nafia have been leading the team to secretly guard.
As a result, Dorian and the special attack team composed of the elite of the army also suffered a big loss, either being shot and killed indiscriminately, or being killed by Nafia and them, and even Dorian himself was sniped by Max and fled back to the camp with arrow wounds. (To be continued......)