Lord of War

  A skeleton stood close to the wall of the fortress, bending the entire body against the wall, and then raised the shield in his hand and placed it on his skull. Immediately afterwards, a very unique bone material was sprayed from its body and stuck to the walls around the city wall, forming a solid bone layer, which looked like bones stuck to the wall.

   Immediately afterwards, the second and third skeletons quickly followed.

  They are very close to the first one, and the round wooden shields in the hands overlap each other to avoid the exposed gap.

  As more and more skeleton soldiers approached the city wall, a layer of wooden shield stairs was quickly built up along the edge of the city wall.

  As more and more skeleton soldiers flocked to the city wall, the scale of the formation of this ladder became faster and faster. And with the gradual formation of the first ladder, more skeletons began to be no longer satisfied with the construction of the first ladder, but began the construction of the second ladder.

  I saw a skeleton soldier jumping on a wooden shield, repeating the previous action, leaning his body against the wall, and then began to stick to the city wall. But compared to the bottom “staircase” as the foundation, the height of the second skeleton is obviously not high. It looks like it is squatting, but its firmness is not necessarily inferior.

And with the gradual formation of the second level of stairs, a new batch of surging skeleton soldiers no longer climbed to the third level, but approached the first level, and then penetrated the rust sword in their hands through the first one. The skeleton soldier’s body, the whole arm directly followed through the ribs. The wooden shield in their hands is placed on the front wooden shield, not simply against it, so that the wooden shields of the second row of skeletons will not create gaps.

  As the two skeleton soldiers approached, the powdery substance secreted by the bones of them quickly adhered tightly.

  The area of ​​the stairs has been enlarged.

  The person standing on the city wall can see this scene clearly as long as he lowers his head a little.

  This is the unique war art of the undead family-the ladder of bones.

  As the area of ​​the stairs expands, new skeletons will soon climb to the third floor. Then began to build the third level of the ladder.

  In this way, every time the height is built one floor, the steps of the next floor will follow and expand immediately.

  It only lasted more than ten minutes. Under the entire fortress wall, a six-story bone ladder had been built. The stretched out range is even more than 20 to 30 meters away. And this is not the end, there is still a steady stream of skeleton soldiers rushing towards the wall. The bone archers still hid in the group of skeleton archers and shot those bone arrows against the city wall. On the contrary, because of the accidental death of one of the skeleton mages, they did not dare to step forward at this moment.

Compared with those that can be sacrificed and consumed, even if the skeleton mage is only Tier 3, it is very difficult to summon the materials-not all the undead summoning magic can summon the skeleton mage, and certain auxiliary materials are required. , And the deceased must possess a certain magical talent before his death.

if not. Even magic apprentices or magicians who have stepped into the silver realm. Still can only be ordinary skeletons or undead like corpses.

  This vanguard force can gather such a large number of skeleton mages, and there are even many bone mages among them, which may have occupied a quarter of the entire southern undead army. And such a huge scale, just used as cannon fodder to consume, this is simply an incredible thing. If it is a unit that cooperates with the undead regular army sequence, it is enough to destroy the entire first-class kingdom.

  No one knows what these undead creatures are thinking.

  The only thing that can be known. That is, the construction speed of the white bone ladder is getting faster and faster, and it only relies on steel wings less than 20,000–the regular army formation of steel wings has 50,000. However, there are less than 20,000 people who specialize in bow shooting skills. Others or cameo archers are only responsible for blind shooting of covered strikes. But if you really want to shoot accurately, it is obviously impossible— It is impossible to control the construction speed of the ladder.

   “Their speed has increased.” Abaza wiped the blood from his left face.

  Because he was going to pay attention to the construction speed of the White Bone Cloud Ladder just now, his body protruded slightly, but he was wiped from his cheek by a flowing arrow, and a blood mark was drawn. Although the injury was not very serious, the white bone arrow shot by the bone archer contained a certain amount of toxins. Although emergency treatment had been carried out, Abaza still felt a little numbness in his cheeks.

  ”If they continue to lose like this, they will use the skeletal unit.” Levy glanced through the gap in the impact shield, then said, “Shall we just let them build the bone ladder like this?”

  All eyes are on William.

But there was a fascinating smile on William’s face: “Let it go? How could it be possible…. It’s just that there is not much effect yet, wait a minute. Let the main combat force of the bow troops be placed on those archers. On the body, whether it’s bones or skeletons, all give me volleys.”

  Although Abaza didn’t understand the reason, he nodded, and then began to order.

   Soon, the center of gravity of the counterattack from the steel wings was adjusted. Originally, the bow and arrow shooting of the bow troops was to find bone archers as much as possible, and then a few people next to them worked together to solve it directly with a powerful shot, but now, because I don’t care about which skeleton archers are in their hands anymore. , So the dense rain of arrows covered the blow, and these skeleton archers soon suffered.

  For a while, the undead army that had already suppressed the arrow rain in the city was immediately suppressed again.

  But what everyone did not expect was that after the undead responsible for long-range operations were suppressed, the construction speed of the Bone Ladder was much slower. In the previous ten minutes, a six-story staircase was built. At this time, more than twenty minutes have passed, but only two floors have been built again.

  Alyssa’s eyes lit up, and her gaze at William looked bright.

   “This is, suppression tactics, right?” Levi asked in a low voice.

“En.” Alyssa nodded, “And it is a very precise strategic push-type suppression…. I have been observing the key points of the other party’s white bone ladder. Originally, I thought that the key should be those skeleton mages, as long as they can Limit their summoning speed, and the construction speed of this white bone ladder will be slowed down. But I didn’t expect that the most critical place is not here.”

  Levy nodded, already understood what was going on.

  But Abaza didn’t understand. He touched his head and asked humbly: “His Royal Highness Levi, why is this?”

  The powerhouse of the legendary realm. All are called His Royal Highness. To distinguish the huge gap between Sanctuary and Legend.

  Of course, this is because they are not very familiar with each other.

  Like Rena and Xuefanio, although they are also true legendary powerhouses, generally no one calls their Highness. Dwight, who came from the cavalry regiment, still called their head and envoy or saint, while Alfred and other old people called them Rina and Xuefanio.

“Because of the offensive.” Levi said, “The previous offensive was suppressed. So the skeleton soldiers can charge without scruples. But now the opponent’s offensive is suppressed by our counter-suppression. Therefore, they have to withstand more force. Damage. But those skeleton mages did not dare to go forward, so once the skeleton soldiers at the front of the front were lost, they could not continue to summon because of the cast distance.”

   “To put it simply, it is the general trend.” Alisha added.

  Abaza nodded, seemingly understanding, he really didn’t understand the key here, but it didn’t matter. As the smartest and witty person of the Void Barbarian family, Abaza has always liked thinking, so when he has free time, he will go back and think about the key to it.

   “Then. Can we hold it?” Abaza asked again.

  ”Can’t hold it.” This time, it was Alfred who answered the question. Even he can clearly see the crux of the problem.

  Perhaps the construction speed of the White Bone Ladder has been restricted now, but it is only restricted. The number of the 300,000 undead army is not a joke. Perhaps others don’t know it, but Alfred, as a senior commander, knows that the strategic reserves in the fortress are not particularly sufficient today, although the rear is already in emergency. Mobilization and transportation, but before these logistics units actually arrived, there were only about 500,000 steel arrows in the fortress after all, which is still the number of materials counted after the assembly of many troops.

  But war is not a digital game. It is impossible to say that a steel arrow can solve a skeleton, and the physical exhaustion and muscle strain of the soldiers must also be considered. Combining various factors, even if these 500,000 steel arrows can really be consumed in this battle, as long as they can eliminate 100,000 skeletons, they can already be regarded as a major victory.

   “Ten floors.” After such a brief exchange, the construction of the White Bone Ladder suddenly increased a lot.

  For more than an hour of continuous shooting, no matter how high the endurance of the Void Barbarian is, the strain on the arm muscles will almost reach the limit. Many of the Void Barbarians’ fingers had blood stains worn out by the bowstrings, while the forearms of a larger portion of Void Barbarians were already swollen and red.

   “When will Hitley’s priestly troops arrive?” William also saw the problem.

   “It is estimated that there will be more than a week of travel at least.” Alfred replied, “However, when the war broke out, Dwight had already led the Scarlet Knights out of the city to greet him. It is estimated that the travel time could be shortened to about three days.”

   “Can’t wait.” William shook his head, “Abaza, let the steel wings stop shooting. If you continue to fight like this, your unit will be completely abolished.”

   Abaza gritted his teeth, his face looked a little ugly: “Stop shooting!”

   “Master William, we can still hold on!” A soldier with steel wings roared, but he refused to put down his bow and arrow, but shot another arrow.

   “Yes! Lord William!”

   “Let’s continue!”

  The steel-winged war archers clamored, but no one was willing to put down their war bows.

“Your value is not just in this long-range suppression.” William said in a deep voice, “The enemy will soon finish building the bone ladder, and they will surely attack the city wall by then. Now you are the only one who can engage in hand-to-hand combat against the city wall. , The black wings, the lion of thunder, and the four legions of the Cecilia Guards. Oh, yes, Miss Angel’s Frost Legion is also possible, but… do you want a group of women to protect you?”

   “No!” Many people made rejection sounds.

“Our Void Principality does have a strong military capacity. But our founding time is too short, so the army is not strong enough.” William said lightly, without ignoring his shortcomings, “The troops gathered in the fortress are indeed The pride of our Void Principality, but how many people are there after all? Not counted as Miss Angel’s Frost Legion. We are even less than 100,000. But in front of us is just a cannon fodder Legion of the Undead Army. There are already more than 300,000. Ju, do we have a lot of people?”

  Everyone is silent.

“So, I have to treat each of you as three people, or even five or ten people.” William said in a calm tone, but the content of the words once again made everyone’s hearts look uplifted. “I want to use you so vividly. The only thing I can think of is to keep you all in the best condition…. Now let you put down your bows and arrows. Not to stop you from fighting, but to prepare you for the next Fight to the death.”

“I have said before, we have no reinforcements.” William said in a deep voice, “Why? Because the guys from the wild tribes have not been reorganized until now, Hela is still sitting there, and there are even many scumbags. I plan to make trouble while our elites gather on the front line…. I am here, I can only tell you that since you are all the pride of my Void Principality. Then even if you all die here, I will keep you up. proud!”

  Soldiers with steel wings. Finally slowly lowered the bow.

  But their morale is not low in the slightest, but like a volcano about to erupt.

  Thinking of the people in the wild tribe, William also has a wicked fire in his heart.

  After feeling the danger of Sean before, William and Xuefanio dealt with a large number of people ruthlessly, which really shocked many people. But they didn’t expect that when the troops began to set off, the people of these wild tribes began to make trouble again. As a last resort, William could only ask Hela to rush over from the canyon fortress to sit in town, and leave Noro and the Silverside Legion to be responsible for protecting Hela’s safety.

  William knows the murder of Alexis, and the old people in the inner circle who have followed Sean for a long time also know it.

  Ke is also clear, so they all know that even if Hela really rectifies the wild tribe, they must beware of careerists from other forces who are disregarding the overall situation. The most typical idea of ​​these lunatics is that even if there is no Void Principality, they can defend this bone invasion. Therefore, they should take advantage of the Void Principality’s weakest time to divide the Void Principality’s interests and reintegrate the entire wilderness. Their control has once again become their back garden for whatever they want.

  This is why William said they will not have reinforcements.

  Being able to arrange Hitley, the saint of the Temple of Life, to the wild fortress is already the biggest fight.

  What’s more, even if Hela really ignored the rear and forced all the Legions of the Wild Tribe to come to the Wild Fortress to support, it would take nearly a month at the earliest. If it is really unreasonable and can only give up the wild fortress, William of course will not be so mindless. He would choose to stick to it now because they and Sean have been out of touch for a long time. Although I don’t know where Sean went, it is certain that Sean will return to the Wild Fortress in the end.

   Therefore, regardless of the consideration, William must guard the wild fortress, at least for a month.

  But he also knows very well that these troops in the fortress are the real confidence of the Void Principality, so even if the Void Empire is greatly injured by this, it is impossible to let all these troops be buried here. As long as these troops are still there, then the Void Principality will eventually be able to become an empire. But if all the confidence and strength are all buried here, then the void empire plan is really just a joke.

  If the undead army’s offensive strength remains unabated, it can only last for one month.

  William’s heart already had a plan: if he gave up the rear, hela could send reinforcements immediately, which might last three months. But if it is flanked back and forth, I am afraid it will really fall.

  Alas, I hope Sean will come back soon. (To be continued~^~)