Chapter 900: Breaking the Cauldron and Sinking the Boat
This kind of power struggle is not only a secular struggle, but also a faith struggle.
The Killing Lama, led by the Skanbukh national teacher, has been operating by the side of Yamen Khan for more than ten years and is deeply rooted.
Their purpose was very clear, that is, they wanted to make Yamen Khan their killing Buddha.
Although their murderous Buddha is suspected to be another face of the murder god Bal in the Karatu subcontinent, it does not mean that these murderous lamas can easily accept their followers of the murder god.
Believers in the same church, because of differences in beliefs and understandings, may kill each other, let alone suspected of different faces, and the doctrines are very different, only the killing characteristics are relatively similar.
If they had taken refuge in the past at that time, even if Yamen Khan gladly accepted it, those murderous lamas would have desperately suppressed them, and life would definitely not have been easy.
When the Yamen Khan was in the most difficult time, they took refuge in it, and their nature was different.
Not only will they be taken more seriously, but they will also take the opportunity to link Yamen Khan with the former murder god Baal, so that their return is just around the corner.
This is evidenced by the fact that these priests regain their ability to cast spells - when the gods die, the priests who believe in them will lose their ability to cast spells (the life dice are not affected).
There are only two ways for them to regain their ability to cast spells, and one is naturally to pin their hopes on their gods, hoping that he will return to the gods.
The other is to turn to other gods and receive the corresponding spell-casting abilities from them.
Most priests choose the latter, especially those who have the right to do so, even if they usurp their predecessors and get themβHirek, the god of conspiracy, is a prime example.
Only a very small number of them continue to hold out for a variety of purposes.
These are not simple fanatical believers can summarize clearly, and the reason why many people insist on sticking to it is not because of the fallen gods, but for their own reasons, and often that is the most fanatical and unshakable.
The Skanbukh National Master's eyes flickered a few times, and the smile on his face became kinder, and he responded: "Since the archbishop has already made what he said so clearly, if I disagree, it will be too petty.
Okay, just do as the archbishop says, and let's get through this together.
After all, once Tian Khan makes any mistakes, your and my calculations will be in vain. β
If you want the other party to lead the army of the undead into battle, you must give him the corresponding promise guarantee.
"It's best if the national teacher can understand this truth." Umrant no longer hesitated, "Saving people is like fighting fire, I will immediately send someone to drive the army of the undead, and strive to break through the city defenses of Typhram City as quickly as possible and send you into the city." β
General Batumih took the opportunity to pat his chest and promised: "As long as you can create the right fighter, our army will inevitably be overwhelmed." β
Compared to the Umrant and Skanbukh national teachers, he has the purest mind, he just wants to follow the Yamen Khan, lead the Tukans to move forward, and lay down the empire that belongs to their Tucans.
So that their descendants will no longer have to suffer from the unpredictable weather of the endless wilderness, and there will no longer be the tragic phenomenon of cannibalism.
This was the closest they had come to their dreams, and he would not give up until he had to.
After the Toucan triumvirate reached an agreement, the turmoil continued, but it was far less serious.
The army of the undead, who had completed the three-sided encirclement of Tyfram had come up in a mighty manner.
They have only one tactic - the Sea of the Dead.
The Tucan's army of the undead is dominated by skeletons, zombies, and skeleton knights, all of whom are dead creatures without any intelligence and can only carry out the simplest commands.
Although the priests of the god of murder led by Umrant can drive this army of the undead, they are not the same as the Yamen Khan himself, and cannot do more refined command.
"Steady, steady, steady, do what I command."
"Everyone checks their bows and arrows and prepares to light the fire."
"Sing the name of the Lady of Strategy, and victory will be ours."
The priests of the Lady of Strategy ran back and forth on the city walls, repeating the same orders and slogans.
There are far more morale-boosting elements than commanding operations.
Although Tefram was made up of mercenaries, the quality was much higher than expected, and most of them were professionals and had a lot of combat experience.
When you think about it, it's not surprising.
The city of Typhram is not a place of war, but it is not a place of peace.
The wealth here has attracted them to a large number of prying eyes, and these mercenary city guards are only tasked with defending the city in times of war.
In non-war times, many of them have to devote themselves to a series of combat tasks such as suppressing bandits, guarding trade routes, escorting goods, and exterminating pirates.
It's just that they lack experience in large-scale operations.
This piece is made up by the exclusive sacrifices of those scheming ladies.
On the eve of the great battle, the walls of the city of Typhram fell silent until a high-pitched command was heard.
"Ignite, crossbow, release!"
Airplanes! Airplanes! Airplanes!
A terrifying bowstring trembled through the walls of Typhram.
There were no less than a thousand ballistae and ballistas on each wall.
This was the result of Gavin and his orders to evacuate two-thirds of the way.
The more city defense equipment is not the better, once it begins to hinder the deployment of the city defense army, the gains outweigh the losses.
The rulers of the city of Typhram have fully demonstrated their ability to make money in this matter.
Not only are there a lot of city defense equipment here, but there are even some enchanted automatic ballistas and ballistas, which can condense magic ammunition on their own and aim and shoot automatically.
Those rich merchants will stop at nothing to protect the city.
Even if Gavin took over the defense of Typhram and proposed a plan to please the gods, there were still proposals to pay for the pirates of the Fallen Star Sea to fight for them and protect Typhram.
This ridiculous suggestion was directly rejected by Gavin.
This is purely to ask a group of hungry wolves to guard a group of fat lambs, for fear that before the tigers rush in, the hungry wolves will eat the lambs first.
These ballistas shot rockets from the city's defenses, tearing apart the night sky as they pierced through a large number of enemies, allowing the defenders on the city walls to see what was going on outside.
Everyone couldn't help but gasp.
Everywhere the eye can see, there are dense green eyes, or the bones of Bai Sensen, or zombies that are frozen and blue.
The power of the city defense ballista to shoot rockets is not amazing, it can easily pierce through several skeletons or zombies, and even set some directly on fire.
There are not many of them, and the entire outside of Tyfram City is densely packed with burning points.
But compared to the sea of the undead of the Tucans, it is a little inadequate.
This also proves the ferocity of the Tucans, who not only slaughtered the Sesks along the way, but also turned them into tools.
If they can't hold Tyfram, the same fate awaits them.
But can they hold it?
"Don't panic, don't mess up, they're just a group of undead monsters with no intelligence, and they don't carry siege equipment, it's difficult to break through the double defense line of the city defense puzzle and the city wall."
"All archers prepare, put on the holy water arrows, listen to my orders, release, release, release."
The exclusive priests of the Lady of Strategy, while calming the emotions of those city defense mercenaries, gave the order again.
Countless arrows were launched into the air at the same time.
Ahh......hhh Whoop......
Whether it was a skeleton soldier or a zombie, they all let out an unconscious roar of pain, and where those arrows landed, white smoke was spitting, and many of them walked and walked, poofed, and fell to the ground, unable to get up again, and became dead again.
No matter what kind of undead spirits, the most important thing is the immortal energy composed of the entanglement of negative energy and remnant souls in their bodies, which is commonly known as soul fire.
The soul is immortal, and the undead are immortal.
This gives the undead a number of properties.
Both skeletons and zombies are highly resistant to piercing attacks, often full of arrows, and can stagger at enemies.
But their shortcomings are also fatal β they are extremely afraid of positive energy.
Because the positive energy will neutralize the negative energy in the soul fire and directly extinguish it.
It was no secret that Yamen Khan had assembled a large army of the undead, and Gavin was naturally well prepared.
A large number of holy water arrows are one of them.
The Holy Water Arrow is not an oil-soaked modification like a rocket, but a custom-made special arrow.
Their arrows were not ordinary arrowheads, but fragile glass bottles filled with holy water.
Upon hitting the target, the vial shatters, spilling the holy water inside, unleashing a purification attack.
The effect is the same as splashing or smashing the target with a holy water bottle in your hand.
The only difference is the holy water content.
In order to facilitate the launch, the holy water bottle on the holy water arrow naturally cannot be made into a bloated pot-bellied bottle, but adopts a slender structure, and the holy water contained in it is only one-tenth of that of an ordinary holy water bottle.
In other words, the Elixir Arrow hits a target with one-tenth the lethality of a regular Elixir - related to the Elixir contained in the bottle.
More precisely, it has to do with the positive energy contained in it.
The more positive energy there is, the greater the impact on the undead or negative energy creatures.
This refers to ordinary holy water arrows, and the holy water arrows launched from Tyfram City are no less lethal than those of holy water bottles, and even have flammable properties.
Because these holy water arrows are not filled with ordinary holy water, but holy light spirits from the Hammer of Justice Monastery.
Spirits contain ten times more positive energy than water in the same unit, and high-concentration spirits are also flammable.
That's the best use of Holy Light Spirits.
The benefits of the Holy Water Arrow are also obvious, and its attack range is not comparable to that of the Holy Water Bottle.
Especially in this kind of large-scale city defense, in the case of ten thousand arrows fired at once, the lethality is quite amazing.
The undead who were not afraid of life and death fell in pieces.
"Catapult ready, put on the holy bucket, put."
In terms of lethality, it is the catapults that are the most lethal.
What they threw out was no longer a boulder or a loose stone, but a sealed wooden barrel, all filled with holy water that had been prayed and blessed by priests, and guided by positive energy.
These barrels were not converted from water barrels, but were looted from all over the city, and they were of various sizes.
The big one is as tall as an adult and can hold three or four hundred catties of water.
The small one also reaches the waist of an adult, and it is very easy to load a hundred catties of water.
In order to maximize their lethality, these holy buckets are also stuffed with flutter bombs, the cheapest version of the weak flutter bomb.
Their role is not to blow up enemies, but to detonate them when the bucket is thrown over them.
As you can imagine, the undead below fell again in pieces.
Without any shelter, these middle and low-level undead could not withstand the destruction of this holy water rain at all.
"Victory!"
"Victory!"
"Victory!"
The devastating scene brought about by the targeted tactics made the city walls resound with cheers one after another, which greatly enhanced their self-confidence.
No matter how many enemies there are, if they can't even touch the city walls, it's just a dish.
These low-level undead lacked the means of long-range attacks, and there was no way to pose a threat to the walls of Typhram.
In a short period of time, it is a live target.
"Without the divine power of my lord, the power of these undead cannon fodder is greatly reduced, if you continue to fight like this, you don't have to wait for dawn, they will be exhausted, while the enemy's supplies are endless, these holy waters, even the lowest-level priests can make them in large quantities."
Umrant's brows furrowed, "National Teacher, General, do you have a way to tear through the opponent's city defenses and send them into the city?" β
This army of the undead was originally intended to cooperate with the actions of the Khan of Yamen.
In the world, there is no city defense that can stop the Khan of Yamen, who carries the power of terror and killing.
With a single blow, he would collapse the city's defenses and walls at the same time, and the undead would be able to flood in and easily drag the entire city into hell, causing endless carnage.
But now Yamen Khan is trapped.
This tactic is missing the most critical link, and it will naturally be scrapped.
"Many of our methods also have to rely on the Heavenly Khan to be able to exert the maximum power, and now if we want to exert the power of the killing lamas to the extreme, we can only stimulate and strengthen their power through large-scale killing sacrifices, which will take time to prepare." This is not an excuse.
Although he did not deal with the bishops and priests of these murder gods, he also had a clear sense of the severity.
The complete loss of this army of the undead under the walls of Typhlam would greatly weaken Umrant's influence in front of the Khan of Yamen.
But what's the point of doing so if the Khans of Yamen are all gone?
"Please also ask the archbishop to wait and let the undead get out of the way, and I will organize the Tucan warriors to storm the walls of Typhlam with the military spirit, and see if it works."
General Batumih said roughly, "This trick was forced to be used by Prince Hubadai in Moshantil City before, and now the one who commands the defense of Typhram City is the same person who commands the army of the Lythman Kingdom.
This person is the chosen person of the goddess of strategy, proficient in strategy, and his style of action is interlocking, I am afraid that he has already formulated a strategy to deal with it, and there is no way to do wonders. β
"Then it's a two-pronged approach." Umrant said with an extremely cold expression, "Murder and sacrifice all the remaining slave soldiers to strengthen the strength of the killing lama."
It's a matter of success or failure.
We will lay the foundation of endless greatness.
Defeat, and our grand plans will be aborted. β
"Okay, just follow the archbishop's plan." General Batumih agreed without thinking about it.
When it comes to their position, decisiveness is a necessary quality.
As long as they can win the final victory in the war, not to mention those slave soldiers, even if it is a Tucanian, they say that they can give it up.
The current situation is obvious, without using unconventional forces, no matter how large their numbers are, there is no way to gnaw the hard bone of Typhram in a short period of time.
Under normal circumstances, this kind of big city is forced to surrender voluntarily by besieging the city for a long time and forcibly running out of food supplies.
It's not uncommon for months to take years.
This trick is not good for Typhram City.
Because the other side is a port city, one side faces the sea, and there are many excellent harbors.
Unless they have the power of the sea to cut off their sea supply lines.
Now the Tucan people can't afford it, and the reasons are still multiple.
They had little left of their baggage.
The coalition forces of Faeron will arrive at any moment.
Trapped in the kingdom of the Lady of Strategy, Yamen Khan was also caught in a tough siege.
There is no need to meet all three conditions at the same time, as long as one condition is met first, that is, when the Tucan army is in a desperate situation.
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Under the cover of night, it was not only the three giants of Toucan who were whispering and plotting.
When the Khan of Yamen was trapped in the kingdom of the Lady of Strategy, the shadows around the Tucans seemed to become restless, and it seemed that countless figures were using his cover to do tricks.
Especially the slave soldiers of the Tukan people, the undercurrent is even more surging, when the Yamen Khan is trapped, many thoughts that were originally afraid to move, like weeds, grow wildly in their hearts.
As long as the IQ is slightly normal, you can detect that the Tucan army is now a volcano that erupts at any time, once it erupts, it will not only burn everything around it, but also destroy itself, especially their slave soldiers, who bear the brunt.
Although those Tukans have never regarded them as human beings, they have at least regarded them as wealth in the past, and they will not be consumed easily unless they have to.
As their westward march continued, the Khan of Yamen became more powerful and more insane, and not only did the murderous lamas answer their call, but even the Tukans seemed to be influenced by him, becoming more bloodthirsty and ruthless.
Especially after the wound of Lake Asen, Yamen Khan ran all the way to the evil god, fear and anxiety were accumulating in the hearts of these slave soldiers, because they were afraid that they would follow in the footsteps of those weak slave soldiers and become the object of murder and sacrifice, and their souls would be enslaved by Yamen Khan for eternity, and their bodies would continue to be their puppet tools.
Yamen Khan was trapped, and they could be said to be a mixed bag.
Hey, they wished that the Khan of Yamen would be completely wiped out, and helped them remove the boulder that was pressing on their heads.
Worry, those Tukans will inevitably do whatever it takes to rescue the Khan of Yamen, and the situation of these slave soldiers has become extremely dangerous.
At this moment, many slave soldiers and officers welcomed their own secret visitors, but the way they visited was a little strange. (End of chapter)