Green Monster Epic

Outside the Thorns Fortress, the Storm and磐石 (Panshi) Legions' commanders, who had just retreated from the front lines, frantically rushed towards the safety of the central army camp. Before even lifting the felt curtain of the tent, the lion-like roar of Murray, the three-meter-tall ogre commander, erupted.

"Marshal, why did you issue the order to retreat at this moment?!"

"The warriors of my legion had already gained a foothold on the city wall, and now they've been withdrawn by this order. If we want to charge up the city wall again, who knows how many more warriors' lives will be lost!!!"

It's no wonder that the officers of Murray's and the other legion felt dissatisfied. Commander Albard had dispatched two of the ten elite legions early on to participate in the siege. Although this had led to a significant breakthrough in the battle for a time, these two legions had lost more than half of their warriors in the short siege operation lasting a few magic hours.

If these sacrifices could be exchanged for a victory on the battlefield, or at least maintain the current advantage of breaking through the city defenses, that would be acceptable. But who would have thought that the central army camp, which should have been sending reinforcements to the city to stabilize the hard-won situation, would suddenly issue an absurd and even muddleheaded order to retreat, completely returning the city defenses to the defending elves.

This meant that the sacrifices of the previous two main legions and the dozen or so legions supporting them had all been in vain.

Inside the spacious central army camp, Albard, the gnome commander who had been sitting守 (shou) at the magic sand table for more than ten days, showed no expression and did not respond to the two officers' insubordinate behavior. He simply turned his gaze to a section of the dilapidated city wall on the sand table and said coldly, "Send the signal!"

"Yes!"

The gnome signal officer standing behind him responded firmly, bypassed the two burly commanders, and rushed out of the camp gate, transforming into a majestic giant eagle and soaring into the sky.

Bang! Bang! Bang!!

Soon, three clusters of beautiful fireworks of different colors lit up in the sky, lingering for a long time. And shortly after these three clusters of magic flames rose, several roars far louder than thunder suddenly rang out from the direction of Thorns Fortress. At the same time, the earth began to tremble violently after the roar, as if an unusual earthquake had suddenly appeared on the battlefield, but soon the earthquake disappeared without a trace and returned to calm.

The anger in the eyes of the two commanders who came to question him gradually disappeared at this time, because they saw on the conspicuous magic sand table in the hall, in the lifelike projection representing Thorns Fortress, six or seven mushroom clouds suddenly rising from the east, south, and west walls where the Northern Coalition Army had been fighting fiercely for many days. Although the rising smoke momentarily shrouded the location of the explosions, the fragments of the city wall that splashed everywhere and the cracks that spread along the mottled city wall all indicated that the elven fortress's defenses were suffering a huge blow.

Before the smoke rising from the base of the city wall could dissipate, there were new changes on the sand table: a dozen huge earth-type and wood-type summons, as well as siege hammers and other war weapons remaining in the central army, were dispatched, taking advantage of the smoke on the front battlefield to obscure the eyes and ears of the city's elven army, and quickly launched a new round of attacks on the city walls at those explosion points.

As the wind-type magic used by the elves to disperse the smoke cleared the air, revealing the hidden scene of the explosion under the smoke, the faces of the soldiers on both sides could not help but shake.

Of course, the moods of the two sides' soldiers were completely opposite.

At the locations where the three mushroom clouds appeared, a large section of the city wall, which was originally tens of meters high, suddenly collapsed. In some places, because the thickness of the city was sufficient, although 5-6 meters of city bricks were cut away in the explosion, it barely maintained the integrity of the entire city wall and could still barely be used as a defensive structure to resist enemy attacks.

However, there were also three explosion points where the city wall, which was more than ten meters thick, was cut off from the middle, and gaps of varying sizes appeared. Through these gaps, one could vaguely see the orderly elven buildings inside the city.

The largest breach was on the southern city wall, which had been the most fiercely fought and suffered the most damage in recent days. The explosion point was chosen at a location that had already suffered repeated blows from several earth-type summons and had already developed many cracks. At the same time, the most explosives and alchemical materials were placed there, blasting out a huge gap of more than fifty meters wide.

Such a huge gap, even if the elves in the city exhausted all their resources and spared no expense to repair it, could not be completed in a short time.

Moreover, the huge Northern Coalition Army outside the city could not sit idly by and watch their actions!!

One by one, huge earth-type summons strode forward with heavy steps, constantly waving their heavy and powerful arms and lower limbs during the charge, clearing away various obstacles remaining along the way. The elven spellcaster teams, after overcoming the initial shock and shaking off the dizzy feeling in their brains, also began to recast dispelling magic and high-power destructive magic to destroy those summons that were rushing towards the city, and once again competed with the Northern Coalition Army's spellcaster teams.

"..."

Having witnessed this sudden change, the two commanders no longer had any anger or sorrow in their eyes, but rather a few more points of awe and gratitude. If Albard had not ordered them and their remnants to retreat from the city wall, they would inevitably have been affected by this massive explosion, and it was even possible that the entire legion would have been annihilated.

It turned out that Albard's true purpose in sending two main legions to launch a desperate attack at all costs was not to arrogantly believe that they could capture this solid fortress that had been managed by the elves for thousands of years, but to use the fierce and powerful siege actions of the two main legions and a dozen auxiliary legions as a cover, so that the tribe's secret weapon cultivated for many years—the alchemical engineering gnome team—could calmly deploy explosive points at the base of the dilapidated fortress city wall, thereby blasting open the city wall of this solid fortress in one fell swoop.

Now it seems that the effect is remarkable. The elven commanders would never have imagined that engineering alchemy, which has never been popular in the wilderness and which basically no natives are willing to learn, would become the key to victory or defeat in this siege.

And if you want to train a professional engineering unit that can blast through city walls on the battlefield without being discovered by others, the effort, energy, and resources invested in it are only known to Albard and a few other Green Field executives.

Now, appearing for the first time, this team has created huge results, and has lived up to Albard's expectations.

"Order: The Death Scythe, Frost Blade Wolf Fang, Iron Blood Lion and other legions, attack immediately!!!"

"Target: Important strongholds in Thorns Fortress!!!"

The earth-type and wood-type elemental creatures summoned on the sand table were successively eliminated by the elven spellcaster teams on the city wall, but they had already cleared a wide road straight to the breach in the city wall for those who came later during the charge. Albard, who had been waiting for this moment, did not hesitate for half a moment and immediately issued the final order to attack the city.

"Yes!!!"