Chapter 68: War
"Woo ......"
The desolate sound of the military trumpet sounded loudly under the hurricane pass, and the banners gathered under the pass, and then reorganized according to the march.
The vanguard elite of the Fengdu army has arrived.
"Mage Regiment, prepare for spell cover!" The Fengdu army didn't intend to give the defenders any chance at all, almost as soon as the army was put in order, the military order to attack was directly issued. With an order, one after another the order flags were lowered, and the mage regiments directly under the various legions that had long been ready to go began to cover with spells.
Bone spear!
Destroy the flames of miè!
Mayhem!
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The overwhelming spell strikes instantly covered the hurricane pass. Before the mage regiment directly under the First Legion in the city could even react, the defenders of Hurricane Pass were severely defeated by this sudden attack.
"Warlock Regiment, unleash the summoning spell and prepare for the puppet assault!" After the ferocious spell overlay, without stopping, the second military order was issued.
A sizzling sound rang out in the open space between the two armies outside the city, and cracks began to form in the ground, and the air around them fluctuated violently.
As the largest pass between the two empires, Hurricane Pass has been the scene of numerous wars over the course of a thousand years.
In this land, there is no shortage of undead and bones.
Generally speaking, spell materials like this that seem to be public are equal opportunities for the warring parties. Anyone can use it, and anyone can drive it. Therefore, whether it is the Fengdu Empire or the Black Pupil Empire, they all let the corpses and spirits of these soldiers who died in battle bury and wander here.
However, this situation is different today.
Because, the strength of the Black Pupil Empire is completely incomparable to the Fengdu Empire. The elite army of Fengdu Forward, which has transferred the warlock regiment directly under the four major legions, is more than four times the number of warlocks of the Black Pupil Empire's defenders, not to mention, the average quality of warlocks is far behind the warlock group of the first legion of the Black Pupil Empire.
As a result, there was no need for knights to rush and kill, and just with these summoned puppets, the defenders of the Black Pupil Empire were exhausted.
The ground was densely packed with skeletons, armed with broken swords, and in a slightly better preserved way, there were even longbows and arrows. Under the effect of the skeleton summoning technique, these skeletons that broke through the ground emitted a cold white light, and the sea of skeletons under the hurricane pass wall was almost submerged by these skeletons.
The warlocks of the First Legion, the skeletons and zombies occasionally summoned, were powerless to resist in the face of the huge sea of skeletons, and they struggled weakly for a moment before being overwhelmed by the tide.
And that's not even the scariest of all.
There is a black ribbon in the middle of the white sea of skeletons, this is not a real ribbon, but an army of zombies summoned from the dead space.
Under the command of the Warlock, the army of skeletons cleared the middle, leading to a thoroughfare that closed the gate, and these thick-skinned, invulnerable zombie legions were in charge.
"Drink...... Roar ......"
A furious roar shouted from the mouths of the zombies, and with a tyrannical affection, they attacked in the direction of the city gate. It's slow, but no one can ignore them.
If these guys are allowed to break through to the city gates, what will be the end, close the walls, even ordinary soldiers understand.
"Quick, quick, prepare firewood, hurry, don't let them get close!" At the head of the city, the officers were shouting desperately, although the soldiers had a lot of dissatisfaction in their hearts, but in the face of these summoned dead spirits, no one was in the mood to care about other things at this time.
All kinds of fire-stirring things were thrown to the city gate by the soldiers in an instant, and even those noble officers forgot their identities at this time, and carried out these things they thought were cheap in a panic.
When they saw that they were almost there, the torches were thrown down, and in a short time the flames that rose to the sky burst into flames, turning the entire vicinity of the city gate into a sea of fire.
Both sides practice the law of death destruction, and everyone knows the power of these dead spirits, and naturally knows how to deal with them.
Zombies are powerful, thick-skinned, and invulnerable, but they are slow and afraid of fire.
Sure enough, the forward of the zombie army was instantly chaotic, although the warlocks were desperately urging, but they were unwilling to move forward.
"Haha, block, block! Hey, don't stand and watch! Keep throwing firewood, you can't let the fire go out!" The officers at the head of the city immediately smiled when they saw that the arrangement had worked.
"Don't worry about it, go on, the skeleton army continues to storm the city! Flood, we can also drown this hurricane!" The zombie army was frustrated, and the Feng general was unmoved.
"Whirring ......"
The warlocks are not out of the question, although they have not fought for many years, but these warlocks spend most of their time studying historical wars every day in addition to studying spells and medicines.
Since the zombie army has no way to break through, it is necessary to use ghouls to disturb the defenders at the head of the city, so that they have no intention of throwing firewood again, and when the fire is small, then let the zombie army advance.
So, with the sound of whistling, one by one, the ghouls roared from the air to pounce on the defenders near the city.
Sharp arrows rushed towards them, but the arrows came as if they were struck through the void, and in an instant, the sharp claws of these ghouls tore through the bodies of the soldiers.
Screams began to spread across the city, and the noble officers fled the city in panic before the ghouls pounced, watching the slaughter of ordinary soldiers.
Once the defenders near the city were slaughtered, the ghouls began to pounce on the walls on both sides.
In war, the most feared thing is to cause a negative chain reaction. This point, whether it is the era of cold weapons or the era of hot + weapons, is no exception. At worst, morale will be reduced, and at worst, the army will collapse and be defeated.
The massacre at the head of the city, if the warlocks of the First Legion could rescue it as soon as possible, there would never be a way for the ghouls summoned by the Fengdu army to slaughter unscrupulously. Originally, if those noble officers did not flee from the battle, they could also organize the sergeants to form a military formation to effectively resist the massacre. However, none of this happened, so it was only natural that the tragic situation arose.
At first, the defenders on the wall may not have had time to pay attention to such a scene, but now the ghouls came to slaughter, and even if they didn't see it, they found the dead silence on the city.
Even the Warlock Regiment finally realized that something was wrong and began to deal effectively with the ghouls, blocking the ghouls' attack. The morale of the defenders on the city walls inevitably dropped dramatically.
Outside the walls, the Skeleton Legion had no ladders or other siege equipment. However, the undead spirits, who are not afraid of death, have even more terrifying siege methods.
The sheer number of them can ensure that their assault can be effectively sustained.
Rows of skeletons fell under the city wall, and the skeletons behind them were superimposed on them, and the endless sea of skeletons swooped down layer by layer, and after a short time under the wall, a hillside was formed, and the top of the slope was closer and closer to the wall.
If you look down from above, you can see the full picture. And this picture is by no means what the defenders want to see.
In the all-out attack of the elite vanguard composed of the Fengdu Empire, on the ancient battlefields everywhere, a continuous stream of skeletons broke through the ground and advanced towards the Hurricane Pass, forming a white slope under the wall, layered on top of each other, and surged towards the wall. Like the waves crashing on the shore, more and more white skeletons are gradually about to flatten the battlements of the city wall.
Before the army outside the city, the warlocks summoned more and more zombie armies, and then there were the summoned necromantic knights, who seemed to be waiting for the slope of the Sea of Skulls to reach the city, and then they would launch an assault and crush the defenders with one blow.
"It's over!"
"The people of Fengdu are attacking!
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Seeing that the slope formed by the sea of skeletons was about to flatten the battlements, and the skeletons that rushed from behind could already clearly see the black flame in their eyes, this kind of terrifying picture was not at all something that these recruited recruits from the First Legion could bear.
As more and more recruits were frightened, all kinds of wails and screams made the morale of the army more and more shaken, and it was not far from the collapse of the army.
He Ruhui stood behind the city wall, listening to the wails on the city wall, and became more and more convinced in his heart that this war was about to be defeated, and the price was the end of this old empire.
"Ha, I still want to hold on to the reinforcements, let alone a day, I can't even block an attack, Hermione, a greedy pig, wait for his vault to be buried!" Shaking his head, He Ruhui turned around and left, this time, he no longer put the survival of the empire in his heart, he wanted to save his body and plan for himself.
"Those who disturb the morale of the army will be killed!" shouted the general of the First Regiment on the wall, leading the personal guard regiment to try to stabilize the morale of the army.
However, the collapse of the army was no longer something they could prevent.
Truth be told, in the decades since Hermione presided over the military affairs of the First Legion, the First Legion has corrupted at an incredible rate. From top to bottom, eating empty salaries, reselling military funds, embezzling military funds, and all kinds of things, the noble officers of the First Army from top to bottom quickly made a fortune. However, it also made the First Army from a strong army of 200,000 people to an empty frame with only 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers. Just these sixty or seventy thousand people, including the knights, mages and warlocks they dare not reduce, the remaining ordinary soldiers are less than 50,000.
Now, the Great War is coming, and at a critical juncture, Hermione forcibly recruited more than 100,000 strong men and quickly filled the First Legion. But everyone knows how much combat power these recruits can have.
Needless to say, in addition to issuing some settling-in allowances, Hermione didn't even pay his military salary, and it was a fluke that this recruit didn't blow up the camp at the first time.
The people of the pro-corps had just killed a few recruits who took the lead in escaping, and the recruits above and below the city wall were completely blown up.
"Kill! These old men only know how to kill us! Made, after all, it is a death, let's kill these old men and ask the people of Fengdu to take credit!"
"Yes, kill them, and if we want to send them to death, then no one will live!"
"Kill Hermione!"
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All kinds of shouts filled the sky, and the more than 100,000 recruits forcibly recruited by the First Army were completely agitated at this time. Because Hermione is unpopular, and the noble officers of the First Legion are angry and resentful, there are naturally some reasons for the encouragement of people with intentions.
Anyway, whatever the reason, the chaos in the hurricane pass is already doomed.