North, Black Forest, Ice Spikes.
More than four months ago, the Kingdom of Norton defeated the Dark Elf Vanguard for the first time at the Ice Spike. Since then, it has been driving straight ahead, and it has almost captured the Kingdom of Pelinde of the Dark Elf.
The battle line moved forward, and the ice peak also changed from the original forward guard post to the rear camp. After many months of construction regardless of cost, it has become a huge war fortress.
On this day, the weather was as bad as usual, the sky was covered with dark clouds, the cold wind was howling, and the temperature was so low that it could make people's ears fall off with cold.
But even in this weather, the guards of the fortress did not dare to take it lightly. Groups of soldiers patrolled back and forth on the outer wall of the fort. The guards on the watchtower on the wall rubbed their hands and stomped their feet vigorously to keep warm, but they never took their eyes off the black forest to the north of the fort.
The black forest is gloomy and cold, and the cold wind blows through the trees, making a sound of "嗖~嗖~". Occasionally, one or two ghost-faced crows will jump out of a certain corner and make a loud "呱~呱".
This forest is like a ghost!
At this moment, dense hooves of horses began to sound in the Black Forest, and the captain of the guard on the fort immediately shouted: "Be alert! Be alert!"
The guards immediately clenched their weapons, and the archers put their arrows on their bows. The eyes of all the soldiers were fixed on the direction of the sound of horseshoes. As long as there was something wrong, they would attack without hesitation.
'Get, get', the sound of horseshoes getting closer, about half a minute later, a team of knights rushed out from the lush forest.
There were a total of 13 knights in this team, and the battle robes on their bodies had been stained crimson with blood, and the knight in the front carried a blood-stained, dying magician on his saddle.
When the team of knights ran to the front of the fortress, the knight in the blue armor at the front raised his sword and shouted: "I am Knight Fekale, open the door!"
Fekale, a knight of the kingdom, a level 6 powerhouse, the commander of the first vanguard army, and his weapon is the holy cross sword. After this sword is blessed with fighting spirit, it will show a bright silver holy brilliance, which is basically impossible to fake.
Seeing the sword, the soldiers of the fortress waited another five or six seconds to make sure that there were no pursuers behind Fikalie, and then slowly opened the gate of the outer wall of the fortress.
'Boom boom boom' The cavalry team rushed across the suspension bridge of the ditch outside the fortress, and then. The suspension bridge was immediately closed, not wasting a second.
Once inside the fortress, Fikale carried the dying magician from Ma'anshan to the knight behind him and said, "Quick, take Arthur to find the priest!"
The knight hugged the young magician and ran towards the temple in the fortress. In his arms, the magician Arthur was cut in the neck, and his head was almost lost, but luckily missed, although the blood flowed profusely. , but this kid still has one breath left.
Fikale continued to gallop his horse for more than 50 meters in the inner square of the fortress, then got off his horse, and then threw the reins of the horse to the soldiers who came up, and he himself ran quickly towards the command hall.
In the command hall, there was a lot of voices, all kinds of voices, generals, adjutants, clerks, etc., were discussing the battle plan in a hurry.
Fikale walked to the door, wiped the frozen blood on his face, and said loudly, "My lord, the vanguard barracks has been breached!"
Suddenly, the hall became silent, and everyone turned their heads to look at him. On the long table in the hall, Duke Abel looked at Fikaliel with a blank expression, and said in a deep voice: "What did you just say? Repeat it! "
Fikalie walked into the hall quickly, gasping for breath, with horror still in his eyes: "In the early morning of this morning, those dark ghosts attacked the cordon of the barracks and stabbed the barracks blind. Then, the Dark Elf Black Fang Legion We were completely unprepared for the sudden attack, and only 13 of the nearly 5,000 soldiers in the vanguard barracks escaped."
Dark ghosts, a kind of terrifying dark elves that suddenly appeared on the northern battlefield. They are as fast as the wind, invisible and powerful. Ordinary swords can't kill them at all. Even if the vitals are hit, it will not affect their actions at all. Ghost!
In the vanguard barracks, only 13 out of 5,000 soldiers escaped, which meant that the entire army was wiped out.
Duke Abel's face was livid, he looked at Fikale with cold eyes, and asked through gritted teeth: "Isn't Canosio? Isn't he also in the vanguard camp? What about others?"
The most infested area by dark ghosts is the black forest around the vanguard barracks. In order to fight against them, Dawn Excalibur is stationed in the vanguard barracks. As the only level 8 fighter in the kingdom, he has indeed formed a certain deterrent to the dark ghosts' actions.
But he only has one person, and the number of dark ghosts is not clear at all. Currently, there are more than 100 recorded. The existence of the Dawn Excalibur only slightly burnt down the arrogance of dark ghosts.
Here, Fikalie's eyes are already red: "I don't know. In order to cover us from escaping from the barracks, Mr. Canoxiu chose to cut off the queen. How is he now... I... I don't know."
The hall became more and more silent, so quiet that even a needle could be heard falling on the ground.
The people here are all battle-tested people who know what it means to be broken. Even if Kanoxiu is invincible in the kingdom by force alone, but facing the army, he can kill hundreds of people at most, and the final result will definitely be death in battle.
In other words, the number one warrior of the Norton Kingdom was almost certain to have fallen at this time.
Silence, still silence.
Three minutes later, Duke Abel stood up, took a deep breath, looked around the generals in the hall, and said coldly: "It's time to shrink the defense line!"
At present, there are 190,000 soldiers in the north, divided into 10 legions. These legions form an arc defense line facing the Black Forest with the ice peak as the center, and the vanguard camp is 100 miles in front of the fortress.
The vanguard camp was destroyed, and there was only a third legion protection left in front of the Ice Spike Fortress, and the situation became a little dangerous.
Originally, if they were defeated in a normal battle, the Norton Kingdom would definitely be able to fight back fiercely on the other side of the battle line and teach the dark elves a profound lesson. However, since the appearance of the dark ghosts, the situation has changed.
These dark ghosts hide in the black forest, elusive, and the scouts of MI3 are no match for them at all, and they are basically a dead end when they encounter them.
The number of scouts in the forest is getting smaller and smaller, and the news of the Kingdom Army is getting less and less. Now, the connection between the various legions is almost cut off by these ghosts, and the connection between each other has become very weak. state of war.
In this case, it is safest to shrink the line of defense and gather strength.
Before, Duke Abel was hesitant, but the destruction of the vanguard camp this time helped him make up his mind.
The generals had nothing to say. Everyone knew that at this point, the battle was basically impossible to fight. They began to formulate orders and prepare to retreat.
Duke Abel said again to a man in a blue-gray leather armor beside him: "Maybe Canoxiu is still alive, I want you to send a search team, and we must find news about Canoxiu."
This man's name is Di Luo, he is from MI3, he is the leader of the scout team, and he is responsible for collecting information on the battlefield. A month ago, he did a very good job, directly suppressing the death hand of the Dark Elf. , but since the appearance of the dark ghost, the situation has been reversed at once.
Now that he heard Duke Abel's order, Dilo frowned immediately, and said in a low voice: "My lord, the Black Forest has been blocked by dark ghosts. If you go to the depths of the Black Forest to search, the only result is annihilation of the entire army."
This is not his cowardice, but the result of many confrontations in the past. In the past half a month, after the scouts entered the Black Forest, the chance of returning alive was no more than 10%. Almost all the news obtained by the Kingdom Army was obtained by the scouts with their lives. .
As a leader, seeing his elite members sacrificed one by one, his heart aches.
Duke Abel was furious when he heard this: "Don't bargain with me, this is a military order! No matter what the cost, find him!"
It's not that he doesn't know the danger of the Black Forest, but other people can die, but Kanoxiu can't. He is not only a level 8 fighter, but also the morale of the entire army.
If even the Sword of Dawn fell, and there were no bones left in the end, what courage would the soldiers have to continue to stay in the north? How can we fight this battle
"As you wish, Your Excellency the Duke." Dilo could only accept the order. He quickly walked out of the hall and began to arrange the search and rescue work.
But after ten minutes, he hurried back to the hall.
"Why so fast?" Duke Abel was still angry.
Di Luo walked up to the Duke and said in a low voice: "My lord, Her Royal Highness Princess also requested to join the search and rescue team. I can't decide, so I came to ask for your opinion."
"..." The Iron Duke opened his mouth, wanting to refuse, but in the middle of speaking, he found that everyone in the hall was looking at him. Obviously, everyone heard it.
After hesitating for a while, Duke Abel spoke with difficulty, his voice trembling: "Let her go, don't take special care of her, it's important to search and rescue Canoxiu."
His daughter Annie is only a level 4 assassin now. In the past, this was already a good power, but facing the black forest blocked by dark ghosts, it is basically the same as sending her to death, but he couldn't stop him from watching his daughter go to her death. This is the tragedy of a commander in chief.
After saying this, Duke Abel stood up: "I'm going to rest first."
He turned and left the command hall, and everyone watched him leave in silence. At this moment, the hard-tempered Iron Duke seemed to have suddenly aged ten years, and his gait was a little staggering.
"Diro, nothing can happen to Her Royal Highness," the Duke's adjutant whispered.
"I'll do my best." Dilo smiled wryly, the situation was already out of his control.
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The vanguard barracks was completely annihilated, and Dawn Excalibur's life and death were unknown. These news were not concealed for long. When the search and rescue team left the Bingjianfeng Fortress, almost all the tens of thousands of defenders in the entire fort knew the news.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the fortress was extremely suppressed. Although the main force of the army was not lost, the morale of the army plummeted. At this time, the Black Forest was no longer a place to make achievements. It had become an abyss, an abyss that devoured life.
Not half an hour after the search and rescue team left, a figure in a black cloak walked out of the forest south of the fortress. It was Link.
Link, who had just arrived, knew nothing about the current battle situation.
He looked at the majestic fortress in front of him, and couldn't help admiring: "In just half a year, such a large war fortress has been built, and the efficiency is really high."
He speeded up and walked towards the gate of the fortress.