Philip followed Matthew to the city wall and looked into the distance.

There was a loud rumble in the dark wilderness, and the dull rhythm seemed to hit the heart directly, and even the sand and dirt on the walls were shaken to restlessness.

Burning fireballs streaked across the night sky and landed two or three thousand meters away, dispelling the darkness there, revealing corpses and several huge figures all over the ground.

"Oh my God, what's that?" a young warrior shouted involuntarily, causing everyone who saw the dark shadows to chuckle in their hearts, and cold sweat oozed from their hands that clenched their weapons.

The Southern Grassland Daxun Mingge is also very conflicted in his heart, so far, they have mobilized more than 20 million troops on several fronts, and they have almost mobilized the combat power of the western grasslands and the southern grasslands close to the border.

Although the Wards behind the defensive line suffered heavy losses, their resistance was extremely tenacious, coupled with the limitations of the terrain, they could not form a huge wave of attacks, so that their side was always consumed in the refueling tactics and did not open any passages.

As a miracle soldier, the Southern Front Army led by him was extremely valued by Tianxun Ollinger, and he himself made a solemn oath in front of the totem of the god Langdo, to bring the glory of the god to the rich land in the northwest.

But the reality is cruel, and a series of accidents frustrated his plan step by step, so that in just over half a month, he actually fell into a dilemma.

It's all because of the stupid and arrogant Alpine Wards, and it's all because of the young man who rode the legendary unicorn.

Now his strength is only a little more than a million, which is no longer enough to take care of both ends, so he can only choose one direction and make a desperate bet.

Or return to the south, and reopen the Bishan Pass should be the most rational choice, but if you want to gather enough troops to go north again, you don't know when to wait.

His men told him that the temperature in the steppe would soon plummet, and that failure to make decisive progress before the stormy snow would put a huge strain on his logistics.

In fact, he is under a lot of pressure now, the soldiers have not eaten enough for several days, and can only chew less salt and tasteless ostrich meat every day, and the lack of trace element supplementation has made many soldiers begin to have mild symptoms of night blindness at night.

On the other hand, Tianxun Ollinger's expectations also brought him a lot of pressure, and now the whole front is in a stalemate, they need a breakthrough, even a small breakthrough will bring a series of chain reactions.

So, after hearing about the heavy losses of the Sky Knights, Minger gave the order to attack overnight.

And this time, he was well prepared, he had wasted too much time for the arrival of these giant beasts, hoping that everything would be worth it.

"Whew!"

The flaming rocket struck the thick armor covered in long hair and gravel pine resin, bursting countless sparks that broke into two pieces.

The giant beast also let out a roar of pain from the steel arrows piercing under its skin, and swayed its body violently, almost throwing Ah Xun off its back, but fortunately, the pace of the charge was not affected, and the thick fangs on its head looked even more hideous in the light of the fire.

Bear beast, Philip gritted his teeth, that special size and appearance made him recognize this kind of overlord in the mountains at a glance.

In the distance, there were two big, three, and five bear beasts, and the two big ones were much bigger than the ones he had encountered before, even from a distance, they looked like a mountain peak, and they seemed to be able to trample the Red Moon Pass into powder at any time.

This is due to the fact that the gap in the Bishan Mountain Range is too narrow and twisty to pass through with its terrifying size, otherwise Hongyue Pass would have to face another huge siege beast long ago.

These bears, more ferocious than fear, were Mingge's new favorites, and it took them a full ten days to capture and control them in the depths of the mountains.

If it weren't for his fifth-level animal control talent, as well as those dozen or so well-refined Horcruxes, this giant beast, which was far more terrifying and irritable, would definitely not be so easy to control.

Five were enough, and the Red Moon Pass in front of them was far less solid and tall than the walls of the eastern defensive line.

Philip and his father Matthew glanced at each other, both realizing the seriousness of the situation, with the current state of Red Moon Pass, they simply could not withstand the full force of this majestic beast.

Philip turned and walked backwards, looking for traces of Arthur's mother and son, and putting on his own patched armor, and his broadsword was recovered.

It's a pity that even if two legendary unicorns are tied together, the strength of the flesh alone may not be the match of a bear beast.

Glancing back at his son's back, Matthew took a deep breath and shouted, "Don't keep your hands on the two that have the largest saturation attack of all trebuchets and siege crossbows."

The rest of the fighters, as planned, retreated to the second line of defense. ”

With that, he nodded at his old friend Albert.

Albert ran down the wall with his guards, not knowing what to do.

Matthew urged the soldiers to pack up and evacuate, while directing the long-range attack force to take turns striking at the two bear beasts.

The head-sized stone hit the bear beast's body with little significance, but it smashed over the grassland army that followed behind.

Thick crossbow spears made of refined alloy whizzed through the night sky, plunging into the bear's shoulders and heads one after another.

In addition to the bears' own mud and sand armor, the steppe people added heavy plate armor to their chests and heads, which emitted a deafening roar with each impact of the ballista.

But this also made the vast majority of ballistae useless, and only the use of cross-fire left striking wounds on their front paws and shoulders.

The ballista was much more powerful than Philip's previous cluster of steel arrows, and the bear beast that rushed to the front looked badly wounded and began to shake, but was not critically injured.

The pain only made them rage, and with a seeping roar, they slammed headlong into the wall.

"Blow the trumpet, the whole army retreat!" said Matthew, shouting hoarsely, and the whole man ran quickly towards the city.

Before he could finish the last few stairs, he felt a loud bang behind him, followed by a shaking of the heavens and the earth.

The crumbling city wall of Hongyueguan, which was already full of cracks, was finally overwhelmed and completely collapsed.

The stone steps under Matthew's feet shattered, and a huge shockwave smashed into his back, sending him flying and crashing into the brick rubble.

The wreckage of a whole brick wall pressed down on him, his armor deformed and twisted, and Matthew fainted after feeling the darkness in front of him.

"Father!"

Philip rides Arthur down from the sky and tries to find Matthew's trail in the sky of soot.

He was in the sky just now, and Arthur unleashed his stunt, but the golden light arrow only blinded the eye of a bear beast, bursting the metal plate armor on its head, and failed to stop the giant beast's charge.

There is no way, the difference in size is too great, in this big mountain, theoretically only an intact adult King Kong Demon Lion can resist the savage collision of this giant beast head-on, and it will inevitably be seriously injured.

After realizing that something was wrong, Philip was a step too late to save Matthew even if he flashed several times in a row.

He was a little annoyed, the victory in the evening had made him a little too greedy, and he really didn't know how to face Catherine if something really happened to his father.

Finally found Matthew in the ruins, fortunately, the prosthetic leg was completely scrapped, and the pieces of masonry and stone also supported each other to form a small angle, which was not compacted on him.

The wall that was opened before he fell unconscious allowed Matthew not to suffer much damage, but he was stunned, and the back of his head was also smashed, and blood flowed from behind his ears.

Philip picked up his father, tied him to Arthur's back, and patted Arthur on the neck and said, "It's up to you, man." ”

Arthur took the two of them into the air, and retreated behind over countless broken walls, although the take-off was a little clumsy, but the speed was not slow at all.

The hundreds of soldiers in charge of operating the long-range weapons were relatively calm, and the first wave of shock did not sweep here, at this time they also poured fire oil on trebuchets and bed crossbows, and then climbed into their mounts and fled for their lives.

As soon as they entered the second line of defense eight hundred meters away and closed the city gate, they saw that the original Red Moon Pass had been occupied by countless black shadows, densely packed like a group of demons dancing.

The two bear beasts one after the other, using their fangs to pick up the obstacles blocking the road, squeezed a city wall with a slight squeeze, and smashed the huge gantry crane with a wave of their giant claws, and slowly walked through the Red Moon Pass to the rear.

The steppe people who followed cheered as they picked through the ruins, looking for all the instruments they could use.

The soldiers on the second line of defense looked at the ruins not far away, and they all felt uncomfortable, because they spent countless efforts and sacrificed their lives to hold on to the current Red Moon Pass, but now it has become a paradise for the grassland people.

"Ready, put!"

Matthew was unconscious, and his old friend, Albert, who was also the brigade commander, waved his arm and took command.

A dozen ballistas with flames and smoke landed at the back door of the Red Moon, setting it on fire.

The flames expanded into walls of fire at an incredible speed, and then spread forward along the walls, making a continuous thumping sound along the way, exploding hundreds of large and small flames.

When the great serpent composed of these flames converged on the front city wall, the ruins of the original Red Moon Pass were already a raging sea of fire.

This was the last gift that Matthew and Albert left to the prairie people, and a large amount of dry firewood and charcoal were secretly piled up in all corners of the Red Moon Pass, which were poured with fire oil and connected by Albert when he left.

Originally, they wanted to leave these methods to the more powerful Axun group, at least to leave a profound lesson for the steppe people.

But the plan did not change quickly, and the steppe people, who had made up their minds, launched a desperate attack without leaving them a chance, and in just one wave, they captured the already dilapidated city walls.

The two largest bear beasts had already reached two-thirds of the way inside, and the first of the next three had just stepped into the Red Moon Pass.

"It's a pity!" Philip thought, Minger was very careful and cunning, these vanguard troops were not his direct Axun regiment, just some ordinary cannon fodder.

In less than two minutes, smoke, flames, and screams reverberated over the Red Moon Pass, and the entire level was like a giant torch, lighting up the entire sky.

Even standing 800 meters away, Philip could feel the heat rushing to his face, and his face suddenly secreted a layer of oil and sweat.

When the fire and explosion appeared, all the steppe people scrambled backwards, hoping to escape.

But the huge bears and beasts at the entrance were crowded there, and the surging crowd was blocked.

The two bears that had entered the pass were so large that the explosion caused the burning oil to pour on them, clinging to the armor condensed with mud and grease, and burning violently.

Smoke also came out from all directions, irritating their fragile nasal passages.

The metal plate armor soon turned red, scorching the skin underneath and emitting a meaty aroma.

The two bear beasts let out a frightened roar and struggled forward, hoping to break out of the fire as soon as possible.

The first bear was slightly lucky, there were not many places on its body that were ignited, only the shoulders and hind legs were on fire.

It scurried forward, smashing half of the wall out of the flames, and continuing to run towards the second line of defense under Minger's control.

The flames ignited the pine resin in the armor and spread over it, and in an instant, the entire beast was encased in flames, like a legendary lava beast.

It was getting slower and slower, but it was still coming this way, and the violent vibrations hit everyone's hearts like a hammer.

500m, 400m, 300m......

The Flame Behemoth is getting slower and slower, but it's also getting closer, and everyone knows what the outcome will be when they hit it head-on.

The newly built city walls are five meters higher and two meters thicker than the original ones in Hongyue Pass, and are built to the highest standards, only slightly inferior to the walls of Gaokan City.

But no one is confident that there will be any cracks on it after a hard blow, after all, the time is too rushed, and the construction is relatively hasty.

"Get out of the way!"

At this moment, Albert drove away from the crowd and walked over with a four-meter-long and calf-thick riding spear in his hand.

Philip noticed that it was a rare black riding spear, without a trace of wood on it, and was made of black smelting alloy throughout, with beautiful patterns on the head and handle.

The advantage is that it is extremely hard, and the disadvantage is that it is extremely heavy.

If it weren't for the heavily armed knight after the awakening of the third-level power, he wouldn't have enough strength to lift such a heavy cavalry spear, let alone continue to fight.

I saw Albert take a deep breath and start his awakening, and his already tall and fat figure suddenly became more bloated, and the soft lines on his face became harder.

The armor of the whole body creaked and groaned, as if the muscles that were unwilling to be restrained were about to burst out from below, and the whole person suddenly became larger.

It turned out to be a natural ability of muscle control, and it was really domineering, even more powerful than a simple power awakener.

"Drink!"

Albert raised his spear on his shoulder, ran more than ten steps, flung his arms five meters from the city, and threw his beloved spear at the running flame beast with a loud shout.

"Buzz!"

The special construction of the rifle was not intended to be used as a tender, and the sound of tearing the air sounded particularly terrifying.

What's even more terrifying is the effect, at this time the flame behemoth has rushed to a place less than 50 meters away from the city wall, and Philip can already clearly see the ugly face on the opposite side that has become crazy because of the pain.

The spear slammed into the bear's head, burrowing through the brow bone, and then crushing the hard skull along the way, twisting the brain into a mess of mud, and the whole head was gone.

Before the flame beast could even howl, it fell to the ground and rolled over.

The burning grease was thrown away with a violent tumbling, and many of them were thrown onto the city walls, causing everyone to dodge.

The corpse of the bear beast finally stopped because of the huge momentum, and it was not until it was less than ten meters away from the city wall, leaving a deep ditch full of flames on the ground, and the city was full of joy and jumping.

Philip looked at Albert's somewhat detached figure and gave a thumbs up, this is the real horror of the Ward warriors.

Looking at the entire continent, even counting the Twins and the New World, there are only a few mid-level warriors who can use their own strength to defeat this kind of bear beast charge head-on before the fourth-level awakening.

At least ninety percent of them are in the three major Ward empires.

Albert, who accepted the congratulations of his subordinates, began to think of a way to dispose of the corpse of the bear beast, and such a large lump blocking here was very detrimental to the next step of the city defense.

Only then did Philip remember that there was another bear beast, and he flew Arthur to the ruins of Red Moon Pass to reconnoitre.

The other giant beast did not have the good fortune of its companions, and although its upper body went out of the back door, it did not resist the damage of the flames and smoke, and fell there, blocking the collapsed back door tightly.

The scorching heat and smoke forced Philip to fly a little farther away.

It is not known how many steppe people were killed in this fire, but at least it will not be less than 10,000 people, and the slightly smaller bear beast that had just entered the front door was unfortunately set on fire.

Although he withdrew in time and extinguished the fire, he was lying on the ground and wailing, and a giant beast that had lost its sense of sight and smell was no longer a problem.

There are still two bears left, and when the fire is extinguished tomorrow morning, we will have to think about how to kill these two big guys.

Suddenly Philip remembered something and looked around.

The intense light of the fire darkened the night sky around him, and he couldn't see anything at all, but Philip had a faint feeling that something was watching him, and it was full of malice.

Philip's estimate was a bit wrong, and the fire burned until noon the next day, and a large number of wooden buildings were burned to charcoal and ashes, so that the temperature of the entire ruins did not cool down for a long time.

Matthew had already woken up, and there were no more serious injuries except for the one in which his prosthetic leg was broken again and the wound on the back of his head, and it was not until Philip confirmed with Bishop Nalan that he was relieved.

McGee's unexpected death had left a shadow on him before, and he had to think about it a little more.

Even in private, Philip talked to Paul and Chand, and quietly made a little adjustment in the formation of the pro-guards, those old brothers who have not awakened, as well as Gerard and Farry and others, have the protection of an awakened person by their side.

The other person Philip didn't care, but he couldn't take care of it, he could only use this clumsy method to give those old brothers who had been following him more chances to survive this cruel war.

At least it gave him more courage to face their families in the future.

As for Duke, Philip even quietly told Afu to take care of her more.

He is not perfect, he also has his own weaknesses, and he also has a selfish side, and there is no absolute fairness in this world.

The new defense line is still called Red Moon Pass, but the soldiers who have been sticking to it stubbornly call it the New Red Moon Pass.

The body of the burning beast had been cut and removed before dawn, leaving only a black carbon trail in place.

Philip played with the so-called Horcrux found from the corpse, which was like a round ball, and its entire body was as green as emerald.

Even after burning in the fire all night, it still did not leave any stains or damage, and it was cool to hold in your hand.

Philip has not yet mastered the skill of spiritual power exploration, so he can only secretly hide this thing and go back and study it slowly.

At this time, he didn't know how this kind of Horcrux was made and what the principle of use was, but he simply thought that as a Horcrux of the grassland Daxun Mingge, this should be a very precious treasure, at least through its control of the huge and tyrannical bear beast has been seen.

Everyone was silently preparing, ready for the next attack of the steppe people, they knew that this was the final decisive battle, and today and tomorrow might decide the final outcome of the entire defensive battle on the southern front.

All the follow-up soldiers were concentrated here, and if you add the two teams of cavalry and the wounded, there are nearly 16,000 Wardsmann soldiers gathered in the city.

Among them, the strongest combat effectiveness is the supernumerary heavy armor team that arrived early in the morning from Tieshan Town.

Philip hesitated for a long time between leaving or staying, and finally chose to leave, he alone can play a very little role here, but leading his team to harass outside the customs may make the grassland people throw a mouse, and involve energy.

So Philip took advantage of the dawn of night to leave, not seeing the less than two thousand extraordinarily tall reinforcements sent by Tieyan Pass, otherwise he would have felt very familiar.

It's just that this time, the giants are all wearing standard full-body armor, wrapped in heavy steel armor from head to toe, even their mounts are no exception.

And in their hands, the giant axe of the whole color of the plate gate, like a god descending from the earth, is murderous.

This was all made by Moran in the town of Tuotieshan, and even Moran sent his deputy to personally lead the team.

As the original site of the Red Moon Pass gradually cooled down, everyone was on the lookout, even the grassland people waiting outside the pass.

At the front, sure enough, there were two huge bear beasts, as well as two elite Axun regiments of 10,000 people.

The brave wins, and both sides of the battle send the strongest and last warriors.

In a deep canyon in the mountains outside the Red Moon Pass, or in a narrow crack in the middle of a mountain, a group of people were walking mechanically, their expressions numb, their limbs stiff as if they were sleepwalking.