Lord of War

A skeleton stood close to the wall of the fortress, its whole body bent against the wall, and then lifted the shield in its hand and placed it on its own skull. Immediately afterwards, a very unique bone material sprayed out from its body and stuck to the walls around the city wall, forming a solid bone layer that looked like bones stuck to the walls.

Immediately afterwards, the second and third skeletons quickly followed.

They were very close to the first one, and the round wooden shields in their hands overlapped each other, avoiding the exposed gap.

As more and more skeleton soldiers approached the city wall, a wooden shield ladder was quickly built on the edge of the entire city wall.

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

I saw a skeleton soldier jumping onto 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 "stairs" at the bottom, the height of the second skeleton is obviously not high. It looks like it is squatting, but its sturdiness is not necessarily inferior.

And as the second ladder gradually formed, the new batch of skeleton soldiers no longer climbed to the third floor, but approached the first floor, and then pierced the first floor with the rusty sword in their hands. The body of the skeleton soldier directly followed the whole arm through the ribs. The wooden shields in their hands are placed on the front wooden shield, not simply against it, which prevents the wooden shields of the second row of skeletons from creating a gap.

As the two skeleton soldiers approached, the powdery substance secreted by the bones on their bodies quickly stuck them together tightly.

The area of ​​the stairs has been enlarged.

People standing on the city wall could see this scene clearly just by lowering their heads a little.

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

With the expansion of the ladder area, new skeletons will soon climb to the third floor, and then start to build the third floor ladder.

In this way, whenever a level of height is built, the stairs of the next level will immediately follow and expand.

But in just ten minutes, a bone staircase with a height of six floors has been built under the entire fortress wall. The stretching range is as far as 20 to 30 meters away. And this is not the end, there are still a steady stream of skeleton soldiers rushing towards the city wall, and the skeleton archers are still hiding in the group of skeleton archers and shooting those bone arrows at the city wall. Because one of them was accidentally killed in battle, he didn't dare to step forward at the moment.

Compared with those that can be sacrificed and consumed, even though the Skeleton Mage is only at the third level, it is very difficult to summon the materials-not all the summoning magic of the undead can summon the Skeleton Mage, and certain auxiliary materials are required , and the deceased must have certain magical talents during his lifetime.

Otherwise, even magic apprentices or magicians who have stepped into the silver realm can still only be ordinary skeletons or corpses.

This vanguard force was able to gather so many skeleton mages, and there were even many skeleton mages among them, which probably accounted for a quarter of the entire southern undead army. And on such a large scale,

It is simply an unbelievable thing to use it as cannon fodder. If it cooperates with the troops of the regular army of the undead, 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 is that the construction of the bone ladder is getting faster and faster, relying on less than 20,000 steel wings-although there are 50,000 regular army formations with steel wings, there are less than 20,000 people who specialize in bow shooting skills. With 20,000 people, other people or a guest archer is just responsible for the blind shooting of covering strikes, but it is obviously impossible to achieve precise shooting—the speed of building ladders cannot be restrained at all.

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

Just now, because he wanted to pay attention to the construction speed of the bone ladder, he leaned out a little bit, but was wiped by a stray arrow from his cheek, leaving a bloodstain. Although the injury was not very serious, the bone arrow shot by the skeleton archer contained a certain amount of toxin. Although emergency treatment had been carried out, Abaza still felt a little numb in his cheeks.

"If the loss continues like this, they will use the skeletal units." Levi glanced through the gap in the shock shield, and then said, "Should we just let them build the bone ladder like this?"

All eyes were on William.

But there was an intoxicated smile on William's face again: "Let it go? How is it possible... It's just that it hasn't had much effect yet, just wait. Let the main combat force of the bow army be put on those archers Whether it's bones or skeletons, shoot them all in volley."

Although Abaza didn't understand the reason, he still nodded and began to give orders.

Soon, the center of gravity of the counterattack from the steel wings was adjusted. Originally, the bow and arrow shooting of the war bow troops was to find the skeleton archers as much as possible, and then several people around them worked together to solve it directly with a powerful shot, but now, because they no longer care about the pile of skeleton archers, which one is the skeleton archer? , so the dense rain of arrows covered the blows, and soon these skeleton archers suffered a lot.

For a moment, the undead army that had already suppressed the arrow rain at the top of the city was immediately suppressed again.

But what everyone didn't expect was that after the undead responsible for long-range combat were suppressed, the construction speed of the bone ladder was much slower. In the previous ten minutes, a six-story staircase was built, but now it took another twenty minutes, but only two floors were built again.

Alisa's eyes lit up, and she looked at William with radiance.

"Is this a suppression tactic?" Levi asked in a low voice.

"En." Alisa nodded, "And it's a very precise strategic push-style suppression.... I have been observing the key nodes of the opponent's bone ladder before. I originally thought that the key should be those skeleton mages. As long as I can Restricting their summoning speed, the construction speed of this bone ladder will be slowed down, but I didn't expect that the most critical place is not here."

Levi nodded, already understood what was going on.

But Abaza didn't understand. He touched his head and asked humbly, "Your Highness Levi, why is that?"

The strong in the legendary realm are all called His Highness to distinguish the huge gap between the sanctuary and the legend.

Of course, this is also the reason why they are not very familiar with each other.

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

"Because of the offensive." Levi said, "The offensive was suppressed before, so those skeleton soldiers can charge without any scruples. But now the opponent's offensive is suppressed by us, so they have to bear more force damage. But those skeleton mages dare not continue to move forward, so once the skeleton soldiers at the front of the battle line suffer losses, they cannot continue to summon because of the casting distance."

"To put it simply, it is the general trend." Alisa added.

Abaza nodded half-understood. He really didn't understand the key point, but it didn't matter. As the most intelligent and witty member of the void barbarians, Abaza has always liked to think, so when he has free time, he will go back and think about the key points.

"So, can we hold it?" Abaza asked again.

"I can't hold it." This time, it was Alfred who answered the question, and even he could clearly see the key to the problem.

Perhaps the construction speed of the bone ladder is now restricted, but it is only restricted. The number of the undead army of 300,000 is not a joke. Maybe others don't know it, but Alfred, as a senior commander, knows it all too well. The current strategic reserves in the fortress are not particularly sufficient, although the rear is already in emergency. Mobilization and transportation, but before these logistics troops actually arrived, the steel arrows in the fortress were only about 500,000 after all, and this was the amount of supplies calculated after the gathering of many troops.

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

"Tenth floor." In just such a short time of communication, the construction speed of the bone ladder suddenly increased a lot.

Continuous shooting for more than an hour, no matter how high the endurance of the void barbarian is, the strain on the arm muscles will almost reach the limit. The fingers of many void barbarians were even bloodstained by the bow strings, and the forearms of a larger part of void barbarians were already swollen and red.

"When will Hitler's priests arrive?" William also saw the problem.

"It is estimated that there is still more than a week's journey at the very least." Alfred replied, "However, when the war broke out, Dwight had already led the Scarlet Knights out of the city to meet them. It is estimated that the travel time can be shortened to about three days."

"I can't wait." William shook his head, "Abaza, let the steel wings stop shooting. If you continue to fight like this, your army will be completely useless."

Abaza gritted his teeth, his face turned ugly: "Stop shooting!"

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

"Yes! Lord William!"

"Let's get on with it!"

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

"Your value lies not only in this long-range suppression." William said in a deep voice, "The enemy will soon finish building the bone ladder, and then they will definitely attack the city wall. Now you are the only ones who can fight hand-to-hand on the city wall , Black Wings, Thunder Lion, and Cecilia's Guards. Oh, yes, Miss Angel's Frost Legion is also fine, but...do you want a group of women to protect you?"

"No!" Many people refused.

"Our Void Principality does have a strong military capacity, but our founding time is too short, so the legion is not strong enough." William said lightly, without ignoring his own shortcomings, "The troops gathered in the fortress are indeed The pride of our Void Principality, but how many people are there after all? Not counting Miss Angel’s Frost Legion, we don’t even have a hundred thousand people. But in front of us is just a cannon fodder legion of the undead army, there are already more than thirty Wan Zhiju, do we have a lot of people?"

Everyone was silent.

"So, I have to treat one of you as three people, or even five people, or ten people." William said in a deep voice, his tone was calm, but the content of the words once again cheered up everyone's hearts , "To use you so thoroughly, the only thing I can think of is to put you all in the best condition... Now let you put down your bows and arrows, not to let you stop fighting, but to make you ready to deal with the next Fight to the death."

"As I said before, we don't have any reinforcements." William said in a deep voice, "Why? Because those wild tribes haven't been rectified yet, Hela is still sitting there, and there are even many despicable people I plan to make trouble while our elites are gathering at the front.... I am here, I can only tell you that since you are all the pride of my Void Principality, even if you all die here, you must maintain With your pride!"

The steel-winged soldiers finally lowered their bows slowly.

But their morale was not low at all, instead it was like a volcano about to erupt.

Thinking of those people in the wild tribe, William also had an evil fire in his heart.

After feeling Sean's danger before, William and Cefanio dealt with a large number of people ruthlessly, which really shocked many people. But what they didn't expect was that when the troops started to pull out the camp, the people from these wild tribes started to make trouble again. As a last resort, William could only let Hela rush over from the canyon fortress to sit in charge, and left Nolo and the Silver Bean Legion to protect Hela's safety.

As for Alexis' killing spree, William is naturally aware of it, and the elders in the inner circle who have followed Sean for a long time are also aware of it.

But it was precisely because they knew it well that they all knew that even if Hella really finished rectifying the wild tribe, they still had to be wary of those ambitious people from other forces who had no regard for the overall situation. The most typical thinking of these lunatics is that even without the Duchy of the Void, they can still defend this bone invasion, so they should take advantage of the Duchy of the Void's current weakest time to divide the interests of the Duchy of the Void and bring the entire barren land back into Their management has once again become their back garden.

That was why William said they would have no reinforcements.

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

What's more, even if Hella really ignored the rear and forced all the legions of the wild tribe to come to the wild fortress to support, it would take close to a month at the earliest. If it was really impossible to do anything but give up the wild fortress, William would certainly not stick to it so mindlessly. He will choose to stick to it now because they have lost contact with Sean for a long time. Although I don't know where Sean went, what is certain is that Sean finally returned to the Wild Fortress.

Therefore, regardless of the considerations, William must defend the wild fortress, at least for a month.

But he is also very clear that these troops in the fortress are the real confidence of the Void Principality, so even if the Void Empire's vitality is greatly damaged by this, it is impossible for all these troops to be buried here. As long as these troops are still there, the Principality of the Void will eventually become an empire one day. But if all the confidence and strength are 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 a month.

In William's heart, he already had a plan: if he gave up the rear, let Hela send reinforcements over immediately, maybe it could last for three months. But if he was pinched back and forth, he might really fall.

Alas, I hope Sean will come back soon. 〖To be continued〗【】