On July 10th, Palan abandoned Bear Town, which was about to be fully conquered by them, and headed east.
The whole army was asked to march forward with the fastest speed, but they still couldn't reach Blackwood City before the undead.
On the evening of July 11th, the undead from the Shino Forest had already arrived at the base of Blackwood City.
The undead are not like a human army. Although they are subject to certain command restrictions at night, they are still smaller than humans. What's more, many of those undead soldiers do not perceive the outside world through vision in the usual sense.
They went on the offensive overnight.
The military officer stationed in Blackwood City is Colonel Oludan, a captain of the Sixth Army.
Earlier, he had already received an order from General Palan, requiring him to defend Blackwood City no matter what, even if it was the last soldier in the battle, until the arrival of reinforcements.
He was very firm on this point.
After attacking overnight, the undead were unable to completely capture Blackwood City. They left 3,000 damaged undead corpses under the city. However, the human legion in Blackwood City also suffered huge losses.
There are only more than 2,000 troops in total, and more than 1,000 soldiers have lost their fighting ability after this night's fighting.
At dawn, the undead retreated. However, the colonel guarding the city still feels fear in his heart when he recalls the fierce battle that night.
These undead are desperate, and there is no such thing as physical exhaustion. They attacked the city frantically, and no amount of casualties could make them retreat.
No shouts could be heard on the battlefield, the silent attacks of the undead, the silent killing or being killed, even some unconscious roars, seemed quite dull under the night.
But in any case, they persisted until dawn.
However, after the undead retreated, within two hours, they made a comeback again.
Obviously, the undead, who have no physical limitations, are much stronger than the human army in continuous combat. After fighting all night, most of the human army would be exhausted, and it would be difficult to gather strength to continue the attack. As for the undead, as long as the energy of the manipulators such as corpse monsters, high-level undead, and necromancers is not exhausted, they can continue to fight until the fire of the soul is extinguished.
The human army, which didn't even rest for two hours, ushered in a very severe test. But this time, they finally couldn't resist.
At ten o'clock in the morning, four hours after the second comeback of the undead, the north gate of Blackwood City fell; at half past eleven, the east gate fell. The undead began to pour into the city frantically.
Although there are still at least six or seven hundred human soldiers fighting desperately against the closed streets relying on buildings, but after losing the protection of the city walls, the fortifications that human soldiers can rely on are difficult for them to continue support.
The rate of casualties of soldiers became faster, and the last line of defense established on the street in front of the city square was about to be breached. And when the time comes, the undead who have lost their barriers will forcefully break into the city square.
And at this moment, almost all the residents of the city gathered there!
However…
Colonel Oludan looked around him. There were only around 700 fighters who could continue to fight, just a little more than two brigades.
Among them, almost half of the wounded soldiers, even those who lost an arm, took up weapons and continued to stand on the front line.
but…
Looking at the mighty undead coming in front of him, Oludan was filled with despair—he knew that he and his subordinates could no longer stop the undead.
"We have kept our promise, and we will fight until one soldier dies later, but things cannot be reversed by manpower now... We are worthy of the kingdom! Fight to the death and let those undead know that even if we die, we are hard Dreyer's warriors!"
Oludan shouted, boosting morale for the last time!
Even though the human army has all sorts of disadvantages in fighting the undead, there is one advantage that it will never lose—if it is against a human army, or even some alien army, if the situation is not good and there is no chance to escape , then in the case of certain defeat, the soldiers and even some middle- and lower-level officers are very likely to choose to surrender.
However, fighting undead and demons is definitely not the case.
Because surrender is also death, and death in battle is also death, why not die bravely and pull a few more backs before you die
Now, Oludan and his soldiers think like this. This is what they planned at the moment, to kill the enemy as much as possible without reporting any hope of survival.
Even, it wasn't just them, behind them, the civilians of Blackwood City who were gathered for protection, there were also some brave warriors who came out from the initial fear, picked up some simple weapons, and stood first line.
However, hope often comes at such moments when people have given up hope.
Oludan, who was fighting bravely, heard the sound of hooves.
At first, he thought it was the skeleton knights in the undead army who launched the attack—although he hadn't seen it yet, he believed that there must be such a unit in the enemy's formation.
However, when he raised his head and took a closer look, he found that it was not.
It was not the sound of horses' hoofs at all, but the sound of camels' hooves.
Here are the reinforcements!
Oludan's eyes lit up! He struggled to pull out the two-handed sword embedded in the head of a black warrior who had just been hacked to death by him, swung forward violently, and after beheading a rushing ghoul, he raised his arms and shouted: "Our reinforcements Come! Soldiers! Warriors! Charge with me! Meet our soldiers! Drive these dirty, stinking undead out of Blackwood City!"
His body, which was exhausted from continuous fighting, seemed to be full of strength once again. He rushed forward with all his strength, swinging the huge sword with both hands continuously, beheading the undead one after another.
The morale of the soldiers under his command was also high! After experiencing despair, when hope appeared in front of them again, everyone burst out with great strength!
They followed their officers and launched a counter-charge!
The undead are still fighting silently. They will not have any psychological fluctuations due to the high morale of humans. However, under the charge of Oludan as the arrow and the camel cavalry behind them, These undead who attacked the center of the city square were still being repelled step by step.
The dawn of victory has come again!