Lord of War

The first round of arrow shooting eliminated thousands of skeleton soldiers on the spot.

But this number is simply an insignificant number for more than 300,000 undead cannon fodder. It can even be said that the number can be ignored at all, especially these skeletons that were smashed into bone fragments on the spot are just the most ordinary skeleton warriors.

Although there are more detailed divisions of skeleton fighters, they can basically be classified into three types: skeleton swordsmen with swords, skeleton spearmen with spears, and skeleton archers with bows and arrows, which can be summarized as short-range and medium-range and three types of distance. Because it is a unified form of resurrected undead, it has a relatively consistent configuration in terms of body shape and weapons, and there are very few special situations. After all, it is only a second-level undead creature, and it is not worth the waste of minds of those necromancers.

However, only skeleton swordsmen and skeleton archers appeared on the battlefield at this time. Perhaps because they knew they were going to attack the city, they did not see skeleton spearmen.

In field battles, spearmen are far more lethal than sword soldiers, but in siege warfare, unless it is an occupation battle that has already entered the city wall, spearmen are not suitable for the environment of siege warfare at all. .

After the first round of arrow rain's covering blow, more undead creatures stepped on the corpses of their companions and continued to charge.

But this time, the real war begins.

The undead army that stretches out is completely equal to the length of the entire fortress city wall, but different from the city wall, they have a greater thickness. And after suffering the loss of the first wave of arrow rain covering strikes, the undead vanguard has undergone some slight changes-this change seems to be nothing special, but the ones rushing to the forefront are no longer Skeleton swordsman, but a lower-level skeleton soldier.

This is a first-order skeleton creature. Their body bones look a little gray and yellow, as if they are severely deficient in calcium. There are even cracks in some places, and even the weapons in their hands are rusty. It can't kill people at all. But in contrast, they have equipment that other undead creatures do not have-shields. This round wooden shield that doesn't even have iron skin may not be able to block a powerful arrow shot from the soldiers with steel wings, but it is enough to weaken the power of the arrow's covering blow.

"Don't worry about those skeleton soldiers!" Although Abaza hadn't entered the golden realm yet, he was no longer the stunned young man he was back then. He could tell at a glance that these skeleton soldiers did not pose any threat at all. If it weren't for the position of the skeleton-type undead creatures, he didn't even want to waste precious arrows on those skeleton soldiers.

"No." It was Levi who objected this time.

He returned the bow and arrow plug in his hand to Abaza, and explained: "In other places. We may ignore these skeleton soldiers, but absolutely not in the city defense battle. Because these guys are the attackers of the undead army." The city ladder, once these guys build a road against the city wall, the skeleton cavalry behind will be able to charge."

"Charge?" Abaza was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "Then let them come."

Then, the entire Iron Wing soldiers laughed.

Levi is a new commander who just joined the Principality of the Void, so he didn't know that the most famous achievement of the Iron Wings was blocking the group charge of the most famous cavalry regiment in the Kingdom of Dabiang. Perhaps other foes will throw their steel feathers at the mouse,

But the only cavalry charge that made countless infantry troops change their faces. But it's the last thing they need to worry about.

Levi didn't understand why these people laughed so happily.

Alfred stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "Steel wings, called steel, do you think it's just a nice word? What their legion is most afraid of is charging. Whether it's cavalry or knights, It makes no difference to them."

Just as Alfred and Levi were talking, the steel-winged archers had already shot two more rounds of arrow rain. But after all, they did not completely let go of those skeleton soldiers, but began to restrict their attacking pace in a targeted manner. However, the main force of the attack was still slightly further behind, and those undead creatures were the real main combat force of this vanguard army. .

"Two-thirds benchmark!" A scout issued a warning.

The vanguard of the undead army is already close to the two-thirds mark.

"The second and third columns of the war bow troops cover and shoot alternately!"

Abaza raised his right hand. With a sudden swing, the archers standing in the second row no longer shot at full range, but began to alternately cover and attack the undead creatures close to the second mark line with the archers in the third row. Only the archers standing at the forefront still kept shooting at the farthest undead creatures with full strings. However, since the second column, which was supposed to shoot alternately, gave up the farthest shooting, the combat efficiency is naturally not as good as before.

But this time, all the steel-winged archers standing on the city wall began to shoot, covering a wider attack area, which naturally increased the threat to the undead army a lot. Almost every moment, thousands of undead were smashed into bone fragments by the powerful arrows. Most of them were directly shot through the skull by an arrow, extinguishing the fire of the soul.

But even so, for this army of undead, it is still completely unable to shake it.

And as more undead troops flocked to the front line, skeleton archers also began to appear in the line of sight of the Iron Wing soldiers.

But facing these skeleton archers, no one took them seriously.

The Duchy of the Void may not be particularly familiar with the intelligence data of the undead, but they still have some understanding of the most common knowledge about the undead: skeleton archers, second-level undead creatures, the effective shooting distance is less than 100 meters, and the best killing distance is 30 meters to sixty meters. In other words, the so-called skeleton archers are not much more threatening than a hunter holding a hunting bow.

Standing on the 30-meter-high city wall and defending the city, the skeleton archers were even 300 meters away from the city wall. In the eyes of the iron-winged archers, these skeleton archers were no different from live targets. So there is almost a tacit understanding. The arrows of all the steel winged archers avoided these skeleton archers, because all the void barbarians, including Abaza, thought it was the problem of the commander of the undead army. Get your skeleton archers in line soon.

If the undead army attacked the city wall. Then let these skeleton archers advance under the city wall, then it may pose a certain threat to the city defenders.

As for now?

No one paid attention to it at all.

The distance between the two-thirds pole and the half-chord pole is only about a hundred meters.

So when the army of undead crossed two-thirds of the benchmark, they naturally pushed the front line to the position of the half-chord benchmark. This location is only about two hundred meters away from the city wall. If it is a real siege battle, then the attacker will generally start desperately rushing forward after reaching this position, and then try to start fighting against the defenders on the city wall-everyone who has fought in city battles knows that the more It is close to the city wall, especially in the last hundred meters. This kind of fighting between the offensive and defensive sides will be more bloody and tragic.

But when faced with an army of unconscious undead, the situation naturally seemed extremely strange.

All the undead creatures did not make any final crazy charge, but still maintained their tepid rhythm and slowly advanced. The defenders of the Iron Wings naturally wished that the undead army would continue to do this, because they would have more time to shoot. This may not be able to truly eliminate the undead creatures that attacked the city, but at least it can weaken the number of these undead armies to a certain extent.

Facing the army of undead who had entered the half-string benchmark, Abaza didn't say anything, but made a tactical gesture.

Soon, several heralds began waving command flags to signal.

The next moment, another third of the steel-winged soldiers who hadn't climbed the city wall also began to take down their bows and arrows. Then nock. With a wave of the command flag, all the void barbarians immediately let go of their right hands and shot the arrows from their bows.

The dense arrows drew a parabola from the fortress, and then shot at all the undead army that crossed the half-string pole. Under the double force, these undead soldiers quickly received a more fatal blow than the fortress wall-although the coverage of this wave of arrow rain was much smaller, and even the accuracy was much worse, but in terms of penetration, But it far exceeds the attack of the city wall defenders.

The continuous rain of arrows, under normal circumstances, would have been enough to bring the enemy's morale close to collapse. Even if it is a general death tide war. Or the bone invasion war is enough to let the undead commander know how difficult the fortress is. It is definitely not something that can be swallowed by a mere cannon fodder army. The best option is to retreat and re-establish a strategy: or change to another place to attack. Or mobilize the regular army sequence of the undead.

However, the army of cannon fodder in front of them seemed to have no understanding of the principles of war. It was still just a brain attack, completely ignoring the casualties and consequences.

In just ten minutes, from the advance of the undead army to the present, although the skeleton troops at the forefront are only a few hundred meters away from the city wall. But the casualties of this army of undead cannon fodder have also exceeded 30,000 from the initial thousands of skeletons.

Even the entire Skeleton Sea can feel its obvious weakening and reduction.

"The situation is wrong." William frowned slightly.

"Undead army cannon fodder, it is impossible to have such crazy aggressiveness." Levi also discovered the problem, "Our arrows have been used up tens of thousands, even if every three arrows can only kill one skeleton, the enemy will at least More than 30,000 were killed."

"This is not an ordinary temptation, but it is consuming our strategic materials!" William said in a deep voice, "If this is the case..."

"Whoosh!"

A sharp arrow polished with an arm bone suddenly struck William through the air!

I saw a sudden silver glow in the air—Levi reacted immediately, and swung his sword out to intercept the arrow.

But the next moment, sharp piercing sounds sounded one after another.

In an instant, the soldiers with steel wings at the forefront quickly fell down like harvested wheat. Many unlucky ones fell directly from the 30-meter-high city wall to the ground; while most soldiers were directly hit on vital parts, such as throats, eyes, etc., only a very small number of soldiers with steel wings were lucky. She managed to escape this wave of sudden catastrophe, but only suffered minor injuries.

"Skeleton Archer!" Lai defended William and quickly retreated to the rear.

"Lie Dun!" Abaza's voice sounded at the same time as Levi's shout.

Without any hesitation, the Iron Wing soldiers standing at the forefront gave up shooting and quickly picked up the impact shield next to them to protect themselves. This method of not hesitating in the order allowed the soldiers of Iron Wings to survive the next disaster-the sound of clanging collisions sounded at a speed not inferior to that of the arrow rain before Iron Wings.

"Damn it!" Abaza let out an angry roar. "When did the undead become so cunning! Those skeleton archers are hidden among the skeleton archers. There must be at least 20,000 of them!"

If the skeleton archer is just the most common type of archer in the human army, then the skeleton archer can be regarded as a strong archer who has upgraded the archer unit. Skeleton Archers are far stronger than Skeleton Archers in terms of shooting power, penetration, and range. Undead creatures that have reached the fourth level already have a shooting distance of more than two hundred meters, and the arrows they use are special bone arrows, which allow them to enjoy a certain degree of damage bonus.

If Levi wasn't around William just now. It is very likely that a wave of conspiracy attacks will cause the entire fortress to lose its supreme commander.

But the current situation is not too favorable for the Iron Wings side.

More than 20,000, perhaps more skeleton archers, began to launch a fierce counterattack when they reached the half-chord pole position 200 meters away from the fortress wall. But in this kind of counterattack, they did not stop, but continued to advance towards the front of the front line. With the advancement of these skeleton archers, their attacks became more and more fierce, and it could even be said to be completely suppressed. Lived the steel feathered shot on the city wall.

They are not afraid to exchange lives with the Iron Wing Soldiers. But Abaza couldn't issue such a mindless order that was basically an act of death. He could only take advantage of the slight pause of these skeleton archers, and ordered the second and third rows of war archers to launch a counterattack. Even though he had known for a long time that they couldn't stop the undead army from advancing without caring about losses, Abaza still felt very angry when they were really suppressed and couldn't slow down the undead's progress.

While the skeleton archers launched a counterattack, it seemed to be a signal of attack for the entire undead army.

The skeleton mage who stayed in the distance and didn't move at all, finally started to move forward again at this time. Every time their staffs fell to the ground, a black ball of light would shoot towards the ground ahead, and soon, those skeletons that were not seriously damaged would be reassembled again.

Although this spell has a lot of flaws. These skeletons can only be turned into the lowest skeleton soldiers, but when everyone on the city wall saw these skeletons that had been eliminated once climbed up again, they still felt depressed in their hearts.

Alfred clenched the tomahawk in his hand, his face looked very gloomy: "These damned bone dregs...William. Let me attack!"

"Are you going to die?" William sneered mercilessly. "With such a scale, even if you, Clover, and Abaza all rush up, it won't help. The enemy is just forcing us out of the city. Why satisfy the opponent's tactics? No matter how many these skeleton soldiers are, they can't play any role on the battlefield. If they really attack the city wall, they will be broken with just one shot, so they are just consumable materials."

"Summoning skeleton soldiers in front of the battle is just to weaken our confidence and morale." Levi also added that in terms of dealing with the undead army, Levi, who was born on the floating island, can definitely be regarded as a professional professional staff, " They are just the materials used to build the ladder path... The real trouble is those skeleton mages. I bet there must be some skeleton mages mixed in."

"Abaza, order all the steel wings. Except for the reserve team to keep covering strikes, the war bow troops on the city wall don't care about other undead. If they want to build ladders, let them build them. You just need to find the right opportunity to give the opponent's skeleton mage Come on hard." William said lightly, there was no urgency on his face, some were just calm and calm, if it wasn't for the fact that the blush on his face hadn't faded completely, no one would believe that he was still in a state of excitement. Status, "Since these skeleton mages dare to enter our attack range, then there is no need to be polite to them."

"I see!" Abaza's voice was a little excited.

He couldn't figure out too many reasons, but he knew that skeleton warriors and skeleton soldiers were worthless at all. If he could shoot arrows at those damned skeleton mages, then the value would be great. But for those skeleton archers who killed many of his brothers, if he had the chance, he didn't intend to let it go.

Soon, Abaza found an opportunity to shoot and kill a skeleton mage who was too far forward on the spot.

This immediately caused a panic among the entire group of skeleton mages, and many skeleton mages retreated one after another, not daring to step forward. And such a move undoubtedly annoyed the skeleton archers, and their attacks suddenly became more ferocious.

But this time, no one felt worried. Instead, there was a burst of laughter.

The morale that was slightly low was quickly restored again.

However, those skeleton soldiers rushing to the front finally arrived at the city wall.

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[To be continued "". 】