Section 222 The First Ambergris War (2)
Thanks to the timely reports from Jackson and Melinda, Fiji City was not caught off guard.
Edgar didn't care that Jackson wanted to kidnap his daughter at this time, and quickly ordered to prepare for battle.
Fiji City is only a port city on the west coast of the Emerald Continent, and the number of High Elves does not exceed 30,000, but since all adult High Elves can become soldiers of warriors and mages, there are at least 15,000 people in Fiji City who have official soldier qualifications.
Now registered, Edgar's standing soldiers composed of high elves are eight thousand, and there are five thousand reserves in the city, if even the elderly elves and elves who are close to adulthood are allowed to participate in the war, then it is not impossible for Peiji City to dispatch 20,000 elven warriors.
After hearing that the Sea Clan was about to attack in a big way, Edgar showed the courage of the High Elves, and he personally led the official troops to meet the attack, and then prepared to let Melinda temporarily take the position of his lord of the city, and issued an urgent call for the lord, activating the reservists, who were called from all over the city, commanded by Melinda, to guard the city of Fiji.
He personally led a large army to meet the enemy, but he also had to beware of a small group of Sea Clan sneaking into the city to wreak havoc, and the time was urgent, he didn't need to wait for all the reserves to be called up before meeting the enemy, if the enemy was really too strong, then Melinda and the reserves could also appear as reinforcements.
However, Melinda insisted on going to war with her father, and in the end, she had no choice but to let Lombana temporarily take over the responsibility of guarding the city.
In this way, the High Elves of Fiji City intercepted the Sea Clan who landed on the shore in time.
In this battle, the number ratio of the two sides was very different, and the number of the High Elves was eight thousand and one. It is about a little more than two brigades of the old system of the Terran army. There was not a single division under the new army system, and the number of Sea Tribes attacking was endless. The total number is at least 100,000 or more, and there are also high-ranking sea clans such as the Weir and Shaq as commanders.
Fortunately, the strength of the Sea Clan on the shore was weakened, which made the strength of the low-level Sea Clan on the shore only slightly stronger than the ordinary infantry of the Terrans, and the actual combat power was not as good as the heavy infantry of the Terrans.
And the combat power of the High Elves is amazing, they are fifth-order creatures themselves, and the most terrifying thing is that they are both demonic and martial arts. This makes them face the sea clan on the shore, even in the melee can easily defeat ten enemies, if it is a heads-up, the low-level sea clan can only use his life to kill a high elf to consume his magic and physical strength.
As soon as the battle began, a huge number of Sea Clans rushed to fight with rudimentary weapons and spears or knives sharpened from fishbones.
The High Elves began to fire arrows at least two hundred meters away, slaughtering the enemy with a rain of arrows under the command of their respective squad leaders.
The short two hundred meters became the life and death line of the sea tribes, and a large number of sea tribes turned into corpses and fell down before they could get closer, and the unique blue blood of the sea tribes flowed like a stream, emitting an unpleasant fishy smell.
But life is the least valuable in the ocean. Unless you're a high-level Sea Clan.
In just two hundred meters, at least thousands of corpses fell from the Sea Clan. But in the end, they were able to rush to the formation where the High Elves were attacking.
Once they get closer, the elves' rain of arrows will not be able to exert their full power.
However, the Shaq commander of the Sea Clan was still a little early in joy, and when the Sea Clan who rushed to the front rushed close, the High Elves did not hurry to meet the battle according to their respective division of labor.
A group of the most courageous elven swordsmen, armed with swords and intricately painted shields, bravely confronted the enemy and held them back.
They cast spells for themselves with different auxiliary spells, some of which were the power of the brute bull that increased their strength, and some of which were the patience of the bear, which made each of them increase their strength slightly, and almost instantly wiped out a team of sea clans.
The High Elf warrior at the back changed his flat shot to a projectile, shooting sharp arrows at the sea tribe in the rear, so that although the accuracy was far less than just now, anyway, now the sea tribe is crowded, and almost every sharp arrow can penetrate the body of a sea tribe when it falls from the sky, and sometimes it is even skewered.
Other High Elves began to cast spells, chanting incantations led by several apparently elven mages, and a wave of "bullet rain" composed of various low-to-mid-level spells sent some of the Sea Clans who had surpassed the first group of elven warriors into the abyss of death.
This wave of combo strikes gave the Sea Clan a head-on blow, completely crushing the first wave of the Sea Clan's attack, and regaining space for the High Elves' rain of arrows.
Then the group of elven warriors who were in charge of jumping out to block the attack immediately returned to their main formation, drew their bows and arrows again, and the second round of arrows rained away.
So far, the Sea Clan's attack has only narrowed the distance to the High Elves by fifty meters after costing more than 5,000 lives.
The Shaq commander in the rear let out a roar, not pity the dead cannon fodder, but be ridiculed by the Welts who came with him.
Then the Welts who came with them appeared, and three Welts, who were more than four meters tall, rushed forward with huge iron anchors with moss, and the devil knows from which wreck they had excavated.
The appearance of the Welt felt the pressure on the High Elves, the Wills and the Shaq are both high-level warrior tribes in the Sea Clan, the adult Wils have the strength of the seventh to the eighth order, and the Shaq also have the strength of the seventh order, but the latter is better at commanding group battles, and the Willes are recognized warriors.
The three Wilses rushed towards the High Elves in a ridiculous position, like children who had just learned to run, but it was not surprising at all, the low-level sea tribes did not have the ability to shapeshift, and even bounced forward with their tails or fins on the shore;
Although the posture was ridiculous, the momentum of the three Wils, who were above the seventh order, rushed and smashed the iron anchor in their hands at the same time, and this momentum was also amazing.
A large group of low-level sea tribes also took the opportunity to rush behind the three huge bunkers, and the High Elves once again released a rain of arrows to snipe.
The Wil swung an iron anchor and flew the arrows that came at him, but there was still an inverted Will commander who turned into a hedgehog under the thousands of bows and arrows, after all, each arrow was shot by a fifth-order creature who was good at archery.
The inverted Wil's man was hit by hundreds of arrows. Even if its defense is close to that of a dragon. There are also small holes all over the body. Blood kept pouring out, but he still hadn't fallen, and his vitality was amazing.
Although the second Welsh commander was not so miserable, dozens of arrows were fired at the knee of one leg, and these arrow wounds were so concentrated that the wounds were connected together, almost forming a bloody hole, making him lose the ability to move forward.
Only the third Welsh was barely injured. Relying on three Welles to act as meat shields, the High Elves' rain of arrows did not have the initial effect.
Then, although the chanting of the spells of the High Elves also carried away a large wave of Sea Clan who rushed up, but in the roar of the third Will Lord, hand-to-hand combat inevitably began.
The battle was a bloody battle, and the High Elves demonstrated their superb combat skills and the art of killing.
They engage in a scuffle with the Sea Clan, who seems to have succeeded in separating the High Elves at great cost. But it soon became apparent that this division did not have much effect on the High Elves.
Even if it is divided by the enemy with dozens of times the force. Small battlefields were formed, but the warriors of the High Elves also fought back sensitively. They are not limited to form, they use the terrain flexibly, or hold a sword in their hands, or chant a spell in dodge, and even draw their bows and shoot arrows at unimaginable speed in a leap, and they don't look at the results, and when they land, the bows and arrows have been magically retracted, transformed into swords and shields.
And even if they are divided, as long as any two elven warriors in the battlefield are in close proximity, they will skillfully form a cooperative trend, as if this tacit understanding is natural to them.
Only on the divided battlefield led by Commander Willish or Shaq himself, the High Elves will be hit hard, the former has an amazing defense, ordinary High Elves are difficult to break through, only mid-level attack spells or multi-person combined attacks can form a threat, but there are too many cannon fodder guards around the opponent to count.
Melinda was also separated, she dodged the attack while looking for her father and Jackson, because of her participation in the war, Jackson also insisted on participating in the war, and for the sake of him being a mid-level mage, the High Elves equipped him with leather armor and a mahogany wand, allowing him to participate in the battle.
But there were corpses and bloody companions everywhere, and only in the very center did she faintly see Edgar's tall figure, who was like a millstone that attracted many sea people, and he and his five hundred guards attracted at least a third of the enemy, including a Welsh commander.
But Jackson was never found, and Melinda couldn't help but cast a shadow on her heart.
Jackson was still searching for Melinda with desperate eyes, and his location was originally followed by the elven mages.
Among the high elves, they can become mages specially, not like ordinary elven warriors, and they usually become high-level mages in the end, which is not difficult for the talent of elves, but it takes time and tempering, but the life of high elves is far longer than that of humans and orcs, and it is common to live for three or four hundred years, so whether it is the cultivation of spells or alchemical experiments, they can follow the principle of caution advocated by the druids.
And the mages of the Terrans, except for the legendary mages, will never be willing to follow this damn cautious principle, because it means that you may need to spend several times as long as others to collect all the materials you need, not because the materials are limited or difficult to mine, but according to the principle of caution, to avoid excessive destruction of nature and exceed the upper limit of the plane's regeneration.
The High Elves have a long life, so they can do this, and they are appreciated by the druids, but for the short-lived species with a life span of only a few decades and a little longer than a hundred years, of course they will not follow it, which is a contradiction.
Pei Ji City is just a port city, there are less than ten full-time elf mages, only two of them are high-level mages, and the others are middle-level mages, although after a few more decades, maybe they can also advance to the high level, but now they are not.
Of course, full-time elven mages and general elven warriors still have a great advantage in spellcasting, and the spell-casting ability of general elven warriors is mostly a single magic attack or auxiliary spell, while elven mages have deliberately tended to use magic as a dedicated development path since childhood, their combat skills are relatively weak, but they are much stronger in magic cultivation. Even if you don't reach the advanced level. It can also perform some area attacks that are rare in Tier 5 or 6 spells. It's just that the power is not as strong as the seventh-order, for example, the mid-flame strike technique of the fifth-order spell, although it is only the fifth-order, but within the effective range of the straight-line spell, the actual damage is stronger than many sixth-order single spells, but the straight-line range is limited, and because it can only attack in a straight line, it is easy to be predicted and defend or dodge.
However, the group spells of these mid-level elven mages plus those two high-level elven mages still caused terrible casualties to the Sea Clan. Each group damage of a high-level elven mage will cause at least a thousand casualties, while a mid-level elven mage only needs to cast a powerful spell with a straight-line attack effect such as Flame Strike, which will cause at least hundreds of casualties.
In the area where Jackson was divided, all the High Elf warriors sacrificed their chances to dodge and defend these elven mages and Jackson with all their might, building a fortress with their lives to increase their chances of casting spells, because they knew that every time the mages cast a spell, they would take away many times the life they caused.
But even so. Although the High Elves have caused great damage to the Sea Clan, the madness of the Sea Clan has also made every High Elf who participates in the war feel a trace of fear.
Because in the face of such huge casualties. These sea tribes are still attacking one after another, and Jackson and the elven mages have been drained of their magic with their lives.
The doubts between Jackson and the High Elves were not solved until later, for the simple reason that faith was true.
Since Alemke became a god and lifted the kingdom of God to ascend, there is a legend among the sea tribes that they will enter the sea god kingdom after death, which makes these cannon fodder sea tribes even more fearless of death.
Jackson screamed, his shoulder was slashed by a bone knife, and the blood flowed profusely, and when he fell, he still didn't see the figure he wanted to see the most, but only saw those hateful sea tribes rushing towards the elven mages whose magic had been exhausted, and the elven mages drew their short swords, they had no shields, so they fought to the death with the enemy.
Jackson didn't die, and it was Commander Shaq who captured him, and it was he who personally led the team to attack the defensive circle of the elven mages.
"You're a Terran mage, why do you want to help them?" Commander Shaq asked in a lingua franca with a Sea Clan accent.
Jackson didn't answer, he just rolled his eyes into weariness.
But instead of killing him, the Shaqs ordered him to be led to the rear.
In the rear, Jackson knew why he hadn't died, because in the rear of the Sea Clan, on the seashore near the coast, he saw two familiar people, Jimenez and Bernadotte.
Jimenez and the others were surprised and surprised to see Jackson, there were a few other people around them, who seemed to be guarding them, and Jackson later learned that these people were the secrets of the Kingdom Department of Security Affairs.
"Why are you here?" said Jackson, surprised.
"Of course we're here, the High Elves will drive us back at the first order, but we still have a lot of assets here, and we want to take back the property that belongs to us. Bernadotte was so excited that he almost jumped, he and Jimenez had suffered enough these days, and the two pampered men, who were not much stronger than ordinary people, had to sit on the terrible sea bats and follow the large army of sea tribes from the sea.
God knows the six gods as they sit on the sea bats and fly away, and they swear that there will only be this time, and there will never be a second time.
And the bloody battlefield just now made them even more frightened, Bernadotte vomited and vomited, Jimenez also turned pale, and the guards around him were even more unhuman, they didn't have half a word of comfort, just watched them.
As for why they came here, as Bernadotte just said, they were here to get their property back.
Of course, they can't get it back by relying on these Sea Clans, but on the kingdom's side, a certain cabinet minister secretly met with them and promised that as long as they were willing to take this risk and act as a guide for the Sea Clan's attack on Fiji City, when the kingdom recovered the Emerald Continent in the future, their assets would not only be returned in full, but also get additional convenience.
Bernadotte and Jimenez for their own wealth, and also for the future, their careers have developed smoothly and have entered the rich class, but they were brought by the High Elves to do this, if they don't get back the investment in the Emerald Continent and cooperate with the Centaurs, their wealth will shrink by at least half;
People die for money, and birds die for food, so with a heart, the two money-grubbers have taken unprecedented risks to experience this fantasy journey.
"What about you, why are you here?" Bernadotte asked rhetorically.
"Are you helping the High Elves?" Jimenez judged in shock.
"Yes. Jackson wanted to say something, even to explain why he was helping Elves, but he felt tired again and shut up.
"Sir, why are you helping the High Elves, when you return to the country, the Ministry of Security will talk to you, and until then, your freedom will be temporarily restricted. The secret guard next to him said.
It's a small episode on the battlefield, but it's the parting of a pair of interracial lovers.
No more than three thousand meters away, Melinda still persists in her search for Jackson, unaware that he has lost his freedom and will be taken away from the continent until many years later.
The battle lasted for half a day on the west coast, with casualties on both sides, more than half of the troops in Fiji City were killed and wounded, and the casualties of the Sea Clan were more than ten times that of the High Elves, and two Welsh commanders were killed and one was seriously wounded, and the Commander of Shaq was also severely injured by a high-ranking elven mage before he died.
The two sides were decided, and when Melinda's younger brother Lombana arrived with the already assembled reserve army, plus a temporary force formed by other tribes in Fiji City, the Sea Clan reluctantly retreated.
On the way from the coastline to Peiji City, the High Elves left behind more than three thousand corpses, while the Sea Clan corpses numbered tens of thousands.
However, the war did not end, it only began, and this was only the first half of the West Coast Lure War, which was the prelude to the whole battle.
Jackson lay on the sea bat, and was taken by the secret guard with the forbidden magic ring, he lost all his physical strength and magic power, he couldn't resist, and even his voice was banned, so he left with the retreating sea tribes.
He couldn't help but burst into tears.
On the back of the sea bat, Bernadotte temporarily forgot about the fear of the sea beast, and was shamelessly asking with a smile.
"Dear Mr. Kingdom Secret Agent, we have already done what we should do, but it is these sea clans who are not doing their best, so that we have no chance to play a role, it is not that we are not doing our best. ”
Originally, it was planned that if the Sea Clan attacked the city, he and Jimenez would act as guides, but the Sea Clan was repulsed outside the city, so naturally there was no chance.
The secret guard glanced at the obscene fat man and replied lightly, "We don't blame you. ”
Bernadotte didn't care at all about the lives of the Sea Clans, he only cared about one thing, "The conditions that Lord Guerra promised us before. ”
"Don't worry, of course your lord's words count, as long as you go on this trip, at least in the future, your assets here will be returned to you. Mr. Secret replied politely, "Of course, if the kingdom can win." ”
Jackson was a little dizzy because of the blood loss, but in a trance he still heard the words of the secret guard.
I couldn't help but be shocked in my heart, my motherland was going to attack the Jade Continent?
On one side is his home country, and on the other side is his lover.
Melinda, Danger.
Then he lost consciousness.
Another secret guard withdrew the hand that knocked him unconscious, "That way he'll be honest and cause us less trouble." ”
When the Sea Clan's colony of sea bats and a large number of Sea Tribes left, a black-robed man appeared next to the corpses on land. (To be continued.) )
PS: Regarding the problem that the monthly pass does not show up, I asked the editor, and he will report it to the technical department to see what is going on.