The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

After the military meeting was over, Xu Lai wanted to visit the crimson archbishop. However, looking at the tired body of the eighth-level master from a distance, he sighed and walked towards his tent.

These days, when it comes to fatigue, no one can compare with this group of priests, especially Bishop Duer, the leader of the priests.

The number of mercenaries and rangers sent today alone is as high as hundreds, not to mention most of the low-level infantry, archers, and militiamen who cannot be treated even if all these priests are exhausted to death. them.

However, I don't want to disturb Duer, but it doesn't matter to Pierce. This guy is still his theoretical subordinate.

"What on earth do you mean? Are you going to just walk away like this? Where are the hundreds of thousands of people in Pingfeng Grassland? Are they all going to be given to the orcs?"

Breaking into Pierce's camp, Xu Lai asked a barrage of questions, but he finally knew his identity, and his tone was not too intense, just a normal inquiry.

He felt pity for these common people, but his few words not only showed concern for these ordinary common people, but the most important thing was that all his family property in Xu Lai was also on the grassland.

Even if the Heart of the Castle could be dug out and relocated, not to mention the large amount of basic materials and time lost, let's just talk about how many of the people who have been saved are willing to follow him.

Moreover, the entire grassland cannot stay. If they want not to starve to death on the road, they can only move to Aini's castle. After all, they can get supplies there along the way.

Let’s not talk about it for a moment. Is it just that everyone is a swordsman and others are fish and meat?

Even if Earl Aini could take the overall situation into consideration and leave Xu Lai alone for the time being, Xu Lai didn't think he could really hold on to the continuous attacks of the stronghold camp with these goods.

Just looking at their lack of responsibility at all, one could tell that if one expected them, it would be better to escape deeper into the empire.

Pierce calmly invited Xu Lai to take a seat and told him: "Bishop Duer did not lie, demons, undead, and underground cities are now attacking the empire's land.

The Pope has given us clear instructions to join the battle against the Burning Legion from the rear.

In the current situation, the stronghold is still accumulating strength, and would rather lose its own high-end strength than eliminate our effective strength as much as possible.

We, the Temple Knights, have a total of eight regiments, which add up to no more than 10,000 people. Counting the priests and priests together, there are only about 100,000 people. How can we care about the tens of millions of people in the entire empire.

Reality tells us that if we are reluctant to give up anywhere, we will eventually lose everything.

Now it's time to give up the car and save the coach.

The reason why Bishop Duer and I have stayed here is because we cannot bear to abandon the hundreds of thousands or even the millions of people in the rear until it is absolutely necessary. "

After a pause, Pierce added: "Moreover, the towers and barriers are also under attack, and their reinforcements cannot stay here forever.

The bishop meant that while these reinforcements were still there, everyone could concentrate on escorting all the civilians to the castle behind.

Either..."

"Either what?"

Xu Lai asked.

Pierce's eyes narrowed and he said: "Either we must concentrate all our strength and launch a real decisive battle against the orcs, the kind that will last until the end!"

Xu Lai frowned and said: "However, it is obvious that the stronghold will continue to accumulate strength. They are not sure about attacking the city. They will definitely wait until they have built enough siege weapons before taking action."

Pierce nodded silently, indicating that he also agreed with Xu Lai's opinion.

In fact, the flying corps at the stronghold in the past two days did consciously avoid the Stone Castle and the other two towns, because they were afraid of the Stone Castle and the city defense forces in these two towns.

Seeing Pierce nodding, Xu Lai was suddenly startled and said, "You, you guys probably wanted to take the initiative to attack, right?"

Pierce sighed and said: "This is a losing situation. The only chance to win depends on how Count Aini and the others choose!"

Listening to this tone, the temple and Count Aini should have communicated long ago, but with Count Aini's character, he definitely did not choose such a plan.

But now, Duer just put the problem on the table and forced Count Aini to make a choice.

Once he chooses to continue to defend the city, it is likely that not only the temple knights, priests and priests will have to evacuate, but also Kate's dragon army and elf archers, as well as Thoros and the others who arrived not long ago, will also leave one after another.

"I'm sorry that I didn't tell you such important news until now."

Xu Lai smiled bitterly and said, "I can understand. In fact, we haven't known each other for many days."

Pierce shook his head and said: "It's not that I don't trust you, in fact, our Eighth Knights have also attached themselves to several nobles, I can say that responsibly.

At least for now, you are the bravest and most responsible commander I have ever seen. "

Xu Lai blushed slightly. He was just leading his own bodyguards to charge with these temple knights. To be honest, it seemed that he had not done anything earth-shattering.

"If Count Aini is not willing to make a desperate move, on behalf of the temple, I am willing to do our best to help you eliminate the impact of the war mobilization order.

That means you don't have to stay here after we leave.

You have done what you should do, and what happens next is beyond human power. This can be regarded as a little compensation from the temple to you.

However, if you plan to move your town, we will not be able to continue to provide you with help. We need to rush to the new battlefield immediately after leaving here. "

From this point of view, the situation in the empire is really not optimistic.

But what can Xu Lai do? He has plundered the strength of his entire village, which is only about a hundred people. A small-scale collision can easily destroy all his accumulation.

Two months is still too short after all.

Just like Pierce said, Xu Lai can only resign himself to his fate now.

If you give it a try, you may still have a chance, but there is a high probability that you will be completely defeated.

If he didn't fight, he would probably start wandering around the world from now on. After all, there were orcs in front of him, demons and undead behind him, and dungeon bugs that would pop up from nowhere.

However, in fact, it is not Xu's turn to decide whether to fight or not. He is just a part of this rolling torrent.

Clenching his fists, Xu Lai's heart was filled with something called unwillingness for the first time.

Early the next morning, Xu Lai was woken up by a piercing alarm bell.

He had been sleeping with A for the past few days, so as soon as the bell rang, he rushed out of the tent quickly.

Tahan, who was on duty at the door, reported angrily to Xu Laihui: "My lord, don't worry, this is the sound of assembly, not the bell of battle.

"Assemble?" Xu Lai didn't seem to hear clearly.

Tahan nodded and confirmed again: "Yes, assemble, and the entire army assembles."

"call……"

Xu Lai let out a heavy breath. It seemed that Count Aini had finally made up his mind. He probably knew very well that once these reinforcements left, even if they retreated to the castle, they would definitely not be able to hold it.

However, the human coalition forces already have no advantage, and they still want to take the initiative to attack the base camp. Is it really possible to win?

No matter what, it has reached this point, and Xu Lai can no longer back down.

"Since the whole army is gathering, Tahan, you should also go and gather the troops."

"yes!"

The Knights of the Temple are indeed an elite group. Xu Lai's more than 20 knights have just assembled, and over there, more than a thousand members of the Knights of the Temple have also gathered.

As expected, Count Aini once again sent a messenger to the camp to invite Xu Lai, Pierce and others to attend the military meeting.

Surprisingly, Pierce refused directly. He only told the messenger that the Temple Knights were ready.

Well, since Pierce is not going, Xu Lai is even less likely to go. He directly asked Tahan to put up his pioneer flag.

Looking at the raised side, the knight stabbed away the Behemoth that symbolized the stronghold. All the temple knights received silent encouragement, and their morale gradually gathered.

Unfortunately, the Temple Knights, who were ready, did not have the chance to capture the vanguard this time.

The infantry camp stationed outside the fortress moved first. Countless level 5 heavy shield infantry held their shields high in front, and heavy armored spearmen with terrifying lengths passed through the gaps between the shields.

Although the grassland is rich in knights, the price of advancement for infantry is undoubtedly relatively low. This fully armored infantry regiment can be regarded as one of Count Aini's trump cards.

There are a total of 50,000 heavy armored infantry, including nearly 5,000 level 5 real-life warriors serving as squad captains, squadron leaders, and even captains. They are led by Count Aini's most loyal subordinate, the 25th level Baron Cabin.

On both wings of this heavy armored infantry regiment were also two infantry regiments.

A miscellaneous infantry group composed of various nobles, starting from the third-level light infantry to the sixth-level royal guards.

The other group is composed of militia groups from major villages and towns, low-level infantry, and troops that have been gathered back in the past two days.

These two troops, one is weaker than the other, but the number is higher than the other, especially the last infantry regiment, which has a very high proportion of real people.

What followed them was still not the noble knights, but the archer troops that Count Aini had worked hard to build for the past few days to defend the city.

Count Aini was cruel this time. Since he wanted to take a gamble, he simply sent out all the archers guarding the city, including ballistas and catapult troops.

An army of 50,000 archers, mainly level 5 marksmen, is located on the far left, and another army of strong crossbowmen, mainly level 5 armor-breaking crossbowmen, is located on the far right.

Behind them were hundreds of thousands of low- and mid-level shooters recruited from militia groups and war mobilization orders.

In the middle is the Elf Archer Legion led by Elf Kate himself. They are not many in number, less than 800 people in total, and they all rely on giant dragons to carry them here.

Counting those provided by Xu Lai and those gathered by Count Aini from the private soldiers of various nobles, the total number was only about 3,000.

However, this archer army of less than 3,000 people is the real core.

Except for the archers provided by Xu Lai, which included some fourth-level long archers, the other nobles' private soldiers were all at least sixth-level archer masters.

The group of elven archers were even more perverted. They were all level 7. They were all famous polar marksmen among the elves.

Behind this group of polar marksmen were the knights who came out slowly, including the knights of the temple, the priests, and the archmage group led by Thoros.