Hongfeng's city-level shield closed.
A dense and thin energy barrier shrouded the plain city. The powerful magic power was drawn from the magic power focus of the city's underground, and through the channeling and projection of the rune array, it turned into a barrier stronger than rocks. As the barrier closed, artillery fire from the plains rained down on the city wall.
The ear-piercing scream sounded like the howling of a banshee at midnight, and the metal warhead wrapped in a light blue air mass drew bright arcs in the air, continuously bombarding the shield of Red Maple City, causing large swathes of Explosion flashes lit up continuously on the surface of the shield, like a skyfire storm—the shield of the city trembled violently under the impact of the explosion, and layers of ripples continued to spread from the attack point, but no matter what, the shield still succeeded. Withstood the first wave of Cecilian attacks.
It stood above the city, blocking all shelling, and a low hum echoed in the outer city. It was the sound of the underground magic facilities being fully activated.
On the city wall, a crystal cluster commander showed an expression as if he had survived a catastrophe. Looking at the shield that was bursting out with large flashes of light, he let out a long breath: "Block it!"
However, Heaton glared at the commander: "Idiot, the battle has just begun!"
The dark priest didn't relax at all because the red maple shield blocked the "sky fire" of the Cecils. On the contrary, he knew that the battle had just begun—he even knew that the fall of the Rock Fortress was the It started with their city-level shields blocking the Cecilian attack.
After a period of understanding, he has mastered many characteristics of the Southern Legion. He knows that the devices that can project explosions and beams are not like traditional magic props. Their cost seems to be quite low, so that damaged equipment can be replaced and replenished in a short period of time. Their disadvantage is that they are rigid and single, and they can only release fixed spells. The device makes up for this shortcoming...
Facing such an enemy, the traditional "fortress tactics" are a dead end.
The red maple shield blocked the Cecils' first round of attack. For Heaton, its greatest significance was to give him a chance to continue fighting.
"Immediately summon the godly army in the south, let them return to Hongfeng, and attack the Cecil's rear," Heaton said to the subordinates beside him, "Let Korod come back immediately, and destroy Cecil from the east. The position of the Er people... "
Heaton quickly arranged the order, but before he finished speaking, several other strange screams suddenly came from the sky on the west side—
The screeching sound was louder than the ordinary "Skyfire", and there was a creepy buzzing in it. In a moment of stupefaction, he felt several extraordinarily strong impacts hitting Hongfeng West. Side barrier! !
Boom, boom, boom! !
The shield above the west side of the city erupted with dazzling glare in an instant, and the entire city wall trembled in front of these powerful shocks, and after these several powerful shocks, there was a continuous, shocking sound. The low and frightening humming sounded like a powerful energy flow was gathering, washing away the barrier on the west side of the city.
Those warships of the Cecils! !
They even secretly moved to Hongfeng? What time is it!
Heaton was furious, because he clearly remembered that those warships were still in the fertile forest area when the last information came. How fast were those ships? !
"Notify Greem immediately, let him find a way to stop those ships! Even if he uses his own head to stuff them into the 'magic cannons' of those ships!"
"yes!"
After the new order was issued, Heaton didn't feel relaxed at all, because he suddenly realized that the Cecilian army seemed to be completely different from what he expected.
This army is not a royal army, not a noble corps in the east, and it has no intention of following the rules of war at all—the chariots are attacking Hongfeng from the front, and the bombardment from the Gorgon River is constantly bombarding the barrier on the west side. The attack method from land and water at the same time has never been thought of by anyone. It is like a pincer that is constantly being clamped, and it has strangled the neck of the city.
This was not a probing attack, the Cecilians aimed to completely destroy the city in a short period of time.
…
In the eastern part of Hongfeng, in the huge stone city that has been completely reduced to ruins, blood has already stained the collapsed city wall.
Day and night of fierce battles stained this ancient city with blood. The knights and soldiers of the Mountain Legion relied on the only remaining walls and main castle in the castle area to build a temporary line of defense and repelled another attack from the enemy. .
Countless distorted and swollen monsters fell to death on the courtyard and steps of the boulder castle, and countless brave and fearless knights also fell in front of the shrinking defense lines. The land is getting narrower and narrower, and now even the bravest warriors are stretched to the limit.
The shouts of killing in the castle area gradually weakened. The surviving soldiers and the last knights were relying on the broken wall to guard the defense line of the inner courtyard of the castle. Arrow's shooters have picked up their swords and are ready for the final hand-to-hand combat. Victoria, who still has a small amount of mana left, is standing in the center of the inner courtyard, watching the situation outside the wall through the eyes of the mage.
Countless huge shadows are wandering among the ruined walls, those twisted and mutated monsters are regrouping their hands, preparing to launch the next round of attack—or maybe the last round of attack, and her exhausted warriors have reached the limit of human physiological structure .
She even saw the commander of those monsters, an extraordinarily tall crystal cluster monster—that monster had never been on the battlefield before, showing full caution and caution, but now it appeared in the castle area, it was a well-thought-out plan Performance.
Those monsters have decided that victory is theirs... and it seems that they are.
Victoria firmly shook the platinum staff in her hand, slowly calming down the disordered breath caused by excessive casting, and seized the time to recover a little mana. She calculated that the monsters would attack in a few minutes, and calculated that she would be able to attack in just a few minutes. You can recover some strength in a few minutes.
But suddenly, an unexpected chaos spread from among the monsters.
Victoria saw those swollen and distorted giants start to be restless at the same time, pushing each other in the chaos, and then raised their heads at the same time, looking in a certain direction outside the city. The extraordinarily tall monster had a frightened and angry expression ( Although it is unbelievable, those monsters actually retain human-like expressions), surrounded by a group of subordinates, climbed up a certain section of the nearby city wall, and looked towards the direction of the Gorgon River.
After a few seconds, those monsters gathered so quickly and retreated from the castle area! !
The movement outside the inner court soon attracted the attention of the knights. A knight standing guard on the tower watched the movement between the inner court and the outer wall of the fort in astonishment, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Those monsters have retreated!! "
The same shout soon came from another post: "Those monsters retreated, they really retreated!"
Victoria walked out of the crowd in a daze, unable to figure out what happened for a while, but after a short thought, she suddenly came to her senses—
Someone is attacking Hongfeng!
Apart from this reason, she couldn't think of why those monsters would abandon the castle that was about to be captured at such a critical moment.
After realizing this possibility, what rose in Victoria's heart was not only the peace of mind of waiting for reinforcements, but also thought of something she should do:
The group of monsters in Boulder City couldn't be allowed to return to Hong Feng—she had to find a way to keep these monsters, at least the most elite part of them, even if it was temporarily delayed.
She doesn't know who successfully broke into the polluted area, doesn't know who is attacking Hongfeng, she doesn't even know if the other party is a reinforcement, but she has no choice but to believe that it is a reinforcement, and then Under this premise, do everything possible to cooperate with the opponent's actions.
Victoria shook her platinum staff, and then took out a unique pale gold snowflake-shaped talisman from its close fitting place.
There is a layer of faint streamer floating on the surface of this talisman, and the light and shadow flicker, as if there is a frozen world bound on the surface of the talisman.
She originally thought that she would not be able to use this, but she did not expect that an unexpected turning point came. In order to seize this small turning point, she thought it was necessary for her to rely on the power of her ancestors—
The sharp horns of the talisman pierced the palm, and the blood of the Wilder family was soaked in the light golden snowflake surface. Victoria exhaled softly and spit out a word:
"Cold disaster."
Outside the castle area, Cloade was gathering his crystal cluster army. The urgent order from Red Maple City and the shattered breath from telepathy made the transformer upset—only a little bit, maybe it would only take a few hours, and in the end It won't take more than a day, and it will be able to take that small castle and crush that stubborn "Queen of the North" and her poor mountain army. Dare to procrastinate.
Because Hongfeng's situation is critical, even so critical that it may break the city at any time.
If Hongfeng falls, if all the high-ranking priests in that city are killed, Cloade and his subordinates will inevitably lose their minds—the plan of the headquarters of the order has not been completed, and the "final disobedience" of the Grand Priest The ceremony is still in progress, and all the evil individuals, including Cloade, can only be counted as unfinished products. If there is no upper node to share the pollution from the will of the gods, a transformed individual like it cannot survive independently.
So it had to rescue Hong Feng, and the Dean Heaton who didn't know how to fight at all.
"Let you take a breath," Cloade looked back at the castle angrily, "I will soon..."
Its movements and thoughts are still at this moment of turning around.
A pale white halo quietly spread along the castle area. Wherever the halo went, everything quietly froze.
Including the Mountain Corps, including Victoria, including the Stone Castle, including Clorod and its cluster army.
The entire castle area turned into an ice crystal.
…
The main force of the Cecilians was well into the field—there were more chariots than expected.
One after another, they appeared on the horizon like a swarm of steel bugs. They were arranged in a loose attack formation, firing continuously as they marched, steadily approaching the city wall of Red Maple City.
The bombardment from the Gorgon River paused for a short time, but it resumed ten minutes ago. The men and horses ordered to stop those warships had obviously failed, and in the bursts of loud bangs, the high-ranking priest of the Death of All Things Society We gaze upon this hellish spectacle—
The chariot was moving forward. There was no cavalier battalion shouting and charging, no infantry phalanx ordered to die, and no chaotic slave troop. Heaton could not see any element of the battlefield he knew, he could only see Till those cold steels are advancing— march, shoot, keep marching, keep firing...
The three troops that came out of the city to meet them had all been wiped out, falling under the continuous shooting and burning flames, while the Cecils' offensive was still maintaining a steady advance.
They are like some kind of machine, like some kind of tight-fitting and unshakable gears, they are running, moving forward, crushing all things that stand in front of this machine, it has nothing to do with glory, noble righteousness and blood mission, The only reason this machine pushes forward is because "pushing" is its mission.
Heaton suddenly remembered what he had said—
Abominations are cold weapons of war.
However, compared with the steel released by the Cecilians, this weapon may be too mild.
"Master," a priest exclaimed loudly, his voice almost drowned in the continuous explosions, "the shield is about to fail!!"
"Use up all the magic power reserves, and hold on, Cloade will arrive soon," Heaton said quickly, "When Clode and his elite arrive, everything will be fine, and they will attack the fortress from the east. The flank of the Syl... ”
"Master, Cloade, he..." Another priest holding a crystal ball hesitated to speak, "Clode's mind disappeared..."
"Damn it!" Heaton cursed in a low voice, he felt his voice trembling a little, but he still tried to maintain rational thinking, "Don't worry, the shield can last, let all the casters recharge the shield—we Can hold out until the southern legions come back and they will attack the Cecilians from the rear... ”
That's right, the situation has a turning point. Although the Cecils' "Sky Fire" is powerful, it can't destroy the city's shield in a short time, including the three powerful warships. You can simply give up that area and shrink the shield projection range to the main city... In this way, Red Maple City can last for a long time, enough to last until the godly army in the south returns to help...
Heaton comforted himself in his heart, but suddenly, an indescribable palpitation rushed to his heart, interrupting all his thoughts.
Along with the palpitations, there was also a deep and terrifying voice from high above
"Come and pick it up—"
Heaton raised his head in astonishment, and saw a huge shadow passing by the clouds in the distance, and countless black things were falling from the sky with a sharp whistling sound...